Posts Tagged ‘February 2019’

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

This year, we’d like to share our hopes for the coming year with eight ways to support the Women In Trucking Association mission to increase the percentage of women employed in the trucking industry. 1  We think more carriers must start monitoring their percentages of female drivers and set targets to increase those levels. They…

I have a question for you. How do we deal with the mass delusion that driver turnover is inevitable when nothing could be further from the truth? Driver turnover is a manageable business challenge like any other. The only thing standing in our way of achieving low driver turnover is the BS that we keep…

Dash Cameras are now under $100. Can they save your bacon in a crash?  Picture this… you are on Highway 401, travelling eastbound.  Your truck is in the right-hand lane of the express lanes and you have lots and lots of following distance. The truck speedometer says that you are moving at 97 kph. Yes,…

Mastering any career or profession takes time. Many have suggested 10 or even 20 years of dedicated learning and application. Given that most employees now change employers multiple times per decade, the difficulty comes in accumulating the proper skill sets over a shorter period of time. People aren’t sticking around long enough to master their…