Tag: small fleets: Page 11

Channel 19

Expediting: Singing the praises with Don Lanier

A chance meeting with expedited driver Don Lanier yields insights into the segment.

October 13, 2012

Business

Computing the owner-operator business — Part 2

Part 2 of this series features explores the landscape for web-based models for trucking management software for small fleets and independents — and the mobile integration on the way.

September 21, 2012

Channel 19

Whence the great rates?

Supplementing reporting on the No. 4 top owner-operator challenge — freight rates — here find an update on the state of pay and further anecdotes, information and perspective from trusted sources.

August 9, 2012

Channel 19

Playing the cards right in driver appreciation

Personal relationships drive good businesses — nowhere is that more true than in trucking.

August 7, 2012

Channel 19

Hours, EOBRs: Adapt or fight?

Owner-operators’ No. 2 named challenge, the unsettled nature of the hours of service regulations and a potential electronic logs mandate, has moved some to embrace change, others to fight for fairness.

August 3, 2012

Channel 19

NASTC’s ‘Daily Fuel Hedge’ and discount program

Two fuel-price fighting tools from the National Association of Small Trucking Companies — their Quality Plus Network of fuel stops offering members cost-plus discounts and their Daily Fuel Hedge.

August 2, 2012

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What’s the worst thing that can happen to a trucking company?

NASTC president David Owen answered the question in the association’s new entrants seminar July 27, 2012.

July 27, 2012

Channel 19

CSA two-punch: Second lawsuit brought

A suit against the FMCSA’s CSA program brought by the ASECTT group alleged unfairness to small carriers within FMCSA’s compliance and enforcement regime.

July 19, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Paccar MX tough-tested with Louisville aggregate hauler

Keith Redden’s retirement dream was to start a trucking firm. “I said if I owned six trucks, I could make a living,” he says. After a start in 2003 with three used Kenworths from a home base in Floyd’s Knob, Ind., across the Ohio River from Louisville, his K Redden Trucking business is up to […]

July 16, 2012

Channel 19

UV protection and FMCSA’s window-tinting clarification

FMCSA said that “truck drivers, fleet owners and managers can install a protective window film with over 70 percent net Visible Light Transmittance (VLT) on the side windows of trucks weighing over 26,001 pounds.”

May 8, 2012

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Could EOBRs solve the detention dilemma?

EOBRs can give owner-operators a powerful tool when dealing with customers and the shipping/receiving facilities relative to detention time. Given that stopped time and location is easily retrievable with the systems, operators now have ready-made documentation to prove detention time to the shipper, beyond just drivers’ word.

May 4, 2012

Channel 19

Colin Stuart’s ‘Working Class,’ shown in Knoxville this weekend

Just as I was wrapping up my time at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show this past Saturday, April 14, what would pull into the lot at Knoxville, Tenn.’s Chilhowee Park on East Magnolia but this stupendous custom 1984 Peterbilt 359, the usually heavy-hauling (he had on a load of pallets Saturday) Working Class of Harvard, […]

April 16, 2012