Posts Tagged ‘April 2019’

The Over The Road April issue now online! Please Click on the thumbnail above to view!

In the past, spills and accidents were left to dilute with time, not to mention that the government didn’t force many clean ups. The reality is that today, there are much stricter regulations and diligent enforcement is increasing to protect the environment. This now requires trucking firms to have policies and procedures to comply with…

So far, we have talked about setting your retention and recruiting efforts up for success. We have also discussed the platform and how we are going to conduct ourselves through this effort and the importance of knowing where you are in the marketplace on driver wages. The next step revolves around safety. When discussing retention…

Becoming an independent operator requires applying yourself to learn a specific set of skills that will provide a respectable return on invested dollars, time and financial liability (risk). Many things have been written and said about fuel consumption, trip planning etc. but there are many other issues that continue to reveal themselves as critical to…

March was Women’s History Month, so I thought this article should be about the history of the Women In Trucking Association through my experience as the founder. I am repeatedly asked the question of why I started the organization so, here is my story. First, I’ll go back many years to ‘set the stage’. I…