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Target recently announced that their supply chain was part of their sales problem in 2015. And they announced that were spending $2-2.5billion to ramp up supply chain efficiencies. Now maybe your company isn’t as big as Target. I get it. But I’ve hammered on this before and I’ll do it again, when shippers try to route […]

Apparently, without the FMCSA, we’d still be driving horse and buggies, rocks would still be soft, and our life expectancy would be something like 45 years…or so it seems after reading some of the benefits the FMCSA claims about how their rules have helped us (“us” being the industry and society at large). On February

I lived in Oregon from age 10 to just after my 16th birthday. Knowing we were getting ready to move, I didn’t get my license until after the move. From Oregon we moved to central California. When we got to California I went in to the DMV to get my license only to find out that

SuperTruck II is upon us. In the first SuperTruck program, the DOE set a goal of 50% increase of efficiency in ton-mile-per-gallon basis. The three teams involved achieved between 50 and 115% increases. This time around the DOE set a more challenging 100% goal in increased efficiency compared to a 2009 baseline. Last time around teams achieved their

As usual, James Jallet has a great piece over at Commercial Carrier Journal (CCJ) where he writes about creating a provision in the work-in-progress FAA bill that would prevent states from creating their own laws regarding driver pay and if/how drivers take breaks. This would have the effect of normalizing truckers’ pay and break provisions. We talked in

George Herbert Walker Bush was elected president after he chanted, “No new taxes!” at the Republican convention back in 1988. Later in his presidency, when he violated that pledge, he failed to win reelection to a second term. When surveyed in 2008, then Senator Obama was identified by the voting public as being the presidential

Twenty-five to thirty years ago, when I was still in high school, compact disks had just started gaining traction in the marketplace. As that was happening we consumers were being told that CDs were so much more expensive than tapes because of industry scale dynamics and the associated production costs. And that once more CDs

I love our country. I hate our country. Yeah, I know… I love the opportunities we have. I love that we give liberally whenever there’s a disaster and people need aid. I love that we have a rule of law rather than a, “I’m in charge and whatever I say goes,” system of law. One

Truck drivers pick up a lot of loads on Thursdays and Fridays and drive over the weekends. So if you’re sharing the road with some of America’s truck drivers this weekend, be courteous and give them space. Remember they take a lot more time and space to turn and/or stop. Frequently, those of us in

Congress, in passing the FAST Act a few months ago, may have inadvertently killed the “34 hour restart rule” Apparently, and according to CCJDigital.com, The restart-specific language in the 2016 appropriations act was only intended to continue the stay of enforcement on two provisions pertaining to the 34-hour restart: The requirement that it include two 1