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Tag: professionalism
Overdrive Extra
Plenty blame to go around in Colo. tragedy, when the damage is done
Trucker Clifford Petersen on the Colo. disaster: âLetâs build a training program within our industry that the feds will model, because the standards are high, and expectations are even higher. The lives we save may be those of our own families. Those lives may be our own.â
May 6, 2019
Overdrive Extra
What a driver really needs
âAs with so many trucking issues, a look at Abraham Maslowâs hierarchy of human needs brings us back to pay. Without money, the first basic needs, on which the entire pyramid sits, cannot be met. Last year drivers saw movement, but drivers need a sense of pride. How can we bring that back?â
April 9, 2019
Overdrive Extra
ââŚ. the day they put an e-log in my truckâ: A multimillion-miler father still trucking, the son who got out
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the ELD mandate, a conversation with a father who stayed in the industry, and a son who left it behind. Introducing Ohio-based Bill and Lee Wilker.
December 17, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Choose professionalism to define, and create, your value
Choose to be a professional and you will create value, and you will know what your personal value is worth when it is time to ask for a raise, search for a company to call home, or negotiate that contract with the broker or shipper business partner.
December 11, 2018
Voices
Pride and professionalism: âThe difference between a career and a jobâ
Reader Scott Hainline writes in response to Clifford Petersenâs discourse on the pride and professionalism inherent in, among other things, on-highway courtesies once common among truckers. Hainline argues truckers should do better to pass down traditional professionalism to the incoming generations.
November 26, 2018
Overdrive Extra
The chicken-little tactics behind the âdriver shortageâ
Here is a breakdown of how and why the trucking industry continuously responds to the shortage of truck drivers. Some aren't taking the bait anymore.
August 2, 2018
Overdrive Extra
A positive example for Joe Public, and the influence of professionalism
If truckers do not appreciate other truckers, how on earth can we expect Joe Public to appreciate what we do to make their lives easier? Read more on Overdrive.
July 13, 2018
Business
So you want to be treated like a professional âŚ
Defining âattitude,â and Wendyâs talk with a driver/company recruiter with a simple message for truckers: âAll these drivers who want to be considered professionals should stop shooting themselves in the foot by doing things that arenât professional.â
January 3, 2017
Business
The double-edged sword of appointment times
Appointment systems are great if youâre right on time and the facility keeps its appointment ducks in a row â not so if you get held up en route or, God forbid, youâre early. In such cases, professionalism greases the skidsâŚ
September 22, 2015
Business
A tale of two truck stops
âWe so appreciate the ones out there doing it rightâ â like the Pilot in Troy, Ill. âKudos to you and your staff, Kari. Youâre doing good things without even knowing it â and we appreciate you!â
February 25, 2015
Voices
View: Fleets can lead way toward renewal of respect and honor for driving profession
Overdriveâs Jack Roberts answers the question: âWhen did we, as a society, transition from holding drivers in high regard to regarding them as people who drive trucks because âthey canât do anything else?'â
June 23, 2014
Voices
What happened to staying in the right lane except when passing?
Thom Jansen of Warren, Mich., wonders what happened to the old credo, passed to him by his father, that drivers should stay in the right lane except when passing.
October 4, 2013
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