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Business

California steamin’ — just say no to being nuts

Wendy on one driver’s trailer-retrofit / delivery nightmare: “I’m no fan of California’s prohibitively restrictive laws, but I’m also not a fan of insanity. Just say no to being nuts. Please.”

February 24, 2016

Channel 19

Two views from the independent road

Two views on the KW and Pete of two operators that express what we don’t hear enough — that’s joy, simply put, in memories of the past, satisfaction at a job well done in the present, and hope for the future.

December 3, 2015

Channel 19

‘Takes a village’ on detention

Driver hits the nail on the head at supply chain management conference, speaking in “driver shortage” context: “If we can figure out how to keep that driver moving, the [shortage] numbers aren’t that big of a deal.”…

October 12, 2015

Business

The double-edged sword of appointment times

Appointment systems are great if you’re right on time and the facility keeps its appointment ducks in a row — not so if you get held up en route or, God forbid, you’re early. In such cases, professionalism greases the skids…

September 22, 2015

Business

Why you deserve $64/hour for (every hour of) detention

Calculating a fair detention rate: A majority of operators indicate either total revenue per mile (38 percent) or profit/net income per mile + fixed cost per mile (45 percent) as appropriate benchmarks for detention rates.

September 17, 2015

Voices

POLL: Best way to tackle detention?

Should government mandate, as the Obama administration’s DOT has attempted, that carriers pay detention to drivers, or is continued industry standardization of detention pay the best tack? Something else?

August 14, 2015

Channel 19

Road not taken: Let’s go truck… I mean, er, lumping!

Another “road not taken” here, and it’s an unlikely one, at best. While many operators “lump” something every day, full-time work doing so I imagine is no doubt unappealing to many. The income potential, says Michael Croker, Director of Operations for the Universal Lumpers service, in business for 30 years, is on the quite low […]

January 22, 2015

Channel 19

Thinker-tinkering: Inventors among the trucker set

It’s people like Chris Barbeau, Robert Jordan and others that lend credence to notion of the creativity-inspiring quality of the open road. Keep thinking, keep building, operators.

January 13, 2015

Channel 19

Crowdfunding the DUDAD for a wake-up call at the docks

Truck driver Chris Barbeau’s invention that would provide a fairly simple solution to the wake-up call at shipper/receivers’ docks is shooting for a $30,000 funding goal via a Kickstarter.com campaign.

September 20, 2014

Voices

The scrum over mandatory detention pay

Following the Obama administration’s nod to the notion of mandatory detention pay in its draft highway bill, debate has intensified over whether the federal government ought to be involved in detention at all.

May 30, 2014

Business

Attention to detention: Solutions to the problem of uncompensated time, part 1

Everyone in the supply chain benefits from uncompensated detention time – except the driver. Some see a shift toward hourly pay as a solution; other solutions are explored in this part 1 of a two-part series on detention.

October 24, 2013

Business

‘Trucker appreciation life’

“There are a lot of people out here doing it right…. For the ones who are striving to do it like you should, thank you.”

September 15, 2013