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How do you track the invisible?
by Avery Vise in Down the Road On New Year’s Eve, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced that it had shut down two affiliated South Carolina trucking operations and the owner-driver of one of them as “imminent hazards to public safety.” The agency’s...
Get Ready to Say Goodbye to Paper Logs
FMCSA PROPOSES MANDATORY ELECTRONIC LOGGING DEVICES. April 2014, TruckingInfo.com - Feature By Oliver Patton After 28 years of proposals, studies, drafts, revisions, legal battles and technological innovations – not to mention an Act of Congress – federal regulators...
Critical Issues in Trucking
Critical Issues in Trucking E-Book.
The awful truth about multitasking
Dear Direct Response Letter Subscriber: When the Winter Olympics were on, my wife watched it devotedly. But she also did social media and e-mail on her laptop at the same time. "You're going to miss the performance," I said while figure skating was on. "I can...
Coming to an Oilfield Near You
We want to thank our new clients in the oilfield services and drilling industries for your business. We are in West Texas, South Texas, Colorado, and North Dakota monthly performing training and implementation of LoadTrek ELD systems. To schedule a consultation or to...
Real-world tips for correcting problems in your CSA scores
DataQs, the online system for correcting CSA scoring, has the reputation of being cumbersome and unpredictable, but there's a way for safety managers to get what they need from it. Call it the ABCs of DataQs. • Act quickly and consistently to fix incorrect...
Why Trucking Companies Fail
Joe White CEO-CostDown Consulting Increasingly, trucking company owners and CEOs are establishing truck driver pay-for-performance (P4P) programs comprised of defined performance goals and bonus pay when goals are met. However, P4P is part, and only part, of a bigger...
Trucking 101: An Industry Primer
Briefing_Trucking 101
Get Ready to Say Goodbye to Paper Logs
FMCSA PROPOSES MANDATORY ELECTRONIC LOGGING DEVICES. April 2014, TruckingInfo.com - Feature By Oliver Patton After 28 years of proposals, studies, drafts, revisions, legal battles and technological innovations – not to mention an Act of Congress – federal regulators...
When Can a Paid Break Become Unpaid?
Many of our clients contract to government entities - which means additional scrutiny from the Department of Labor. If you have drivers that fall under the Service Contract Act, you are required to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act. We have seen increased DOL...