7 Logistic Startups to Watch in 2016
The problem of calculating freight rates quickly may just be a thing of the past with some of the great apps available now for carriers. With just a few waves of your pointer-finger, you can optimize your transportation efforts in an ever-increasingly paperless world. And, the Silcon Valley has definitely started to notice. After all, arranging cargo shipments is a $160-billion-a-year industry….(and historically been a huge pain...
How Trucking is Using Big Data to Improve Business
So you think trucking hasn’t evolved since the Smokey and Bandit era of CV radios (and serious mustaches?) Well, think again. The trucking industry is becoming increasingly innovative to connect fleet managers to drivers. In many ways implementing more technology-focused initiatives with analytics use data to gain insight into the normal business flow so that they can better calculate delivery times schedules, improve fuel...
Ready, Set, GOALS: Easy Goals Truck Drivers Should Set
Put the key in the ignition and drive into completing all those secret inner-ambitions. In a job like trucking we see tight deadlines, stressful situations and an excessively tiring line of work can make achieving goals feel nearly impossible. It’s easier to simply say “ain’t no body got time for that” than actually setting milestones for yourself so that you improve the quality of your life. Creating little...
Why We NEED to Invest in Truck Drivers
It seems like everywhere we turn these days we’re seeing an unlimited stash of cash being pumped into advanced dispatch software, designer new rigs that drive themselves, yadda yadda yadda. Money seems to be going everywhere but to the driver’s pockets. Yet, more and more we are putting regulations and stress on the drivers when instead maybe we should be giving them more attention and benefits. It’s time we put our...
Shady DMV Workers Exchanging CDLs for Bribes
If someone offered you $5,000 in exchange for allowing untrained drivers to operate commercial vehicles would you do it? Or, how about, would you bribe someone that much cash to get something you wanted? Hopefully, you have a little higher of moral code than a few bad apples in California. Feds are currently investigating the huge scandal that surfaced last week in a Sacramento, CA DMV when it was discovered that a few employees there...