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Material Handling & Logistics (MH&L) released its Best and Worst States for Trucking Industry for 2016. They list their top and bottom 5. They don’t talk about each state in the article, it’s more of a slide show than an article. They do talk, briefly, about how they came to their rankings: [Darrin Landau and […]

Commercial Carrier Journal’s Aaron Huff posted a great article Monday about SmartDrive. SmartDrive produces a video-recording, data-capturing, device which video-records what is happening in front of the vehicle and also the driver. In addition, their system can be coupled (as the images in Huff’s article show) to GPS and vehicle diagnostics data. Obviously this has the

This blog has discussed driver fitness/health before, more than once in fact. This is another post in that theme. Transport Topics (ttnews.com) has a great article up about wearable tech and how they are currently used by truckers and what they hold for the future. As a wearable tech user myself (I wear and use a FitBit device) I

Okay, this is a GREAT article. FleetOwner.com’s Sean Kilcarr hit a home run here. In this article Kilcarr highlights an overlooked relationship between transportation/freight and the increasing shift towards an urban lifestyle. I highly recommend that you read my article and the linked one by Kilcarr. According to the 2010 census, the United States is 80.7% urban;

Supply Chain Brain posted an interesting article about California and its efforts to move towards cleaner air while at the same time ensuring business (freight/transportation) efficiencies. It’s easy to pick on California. We are far and away the most regulated state in the union. And sometimes those regulations become burdensome and obnoxious. However, it would be

Former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once reportedly said, “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Actually though, I love statistics. They are facts. Unfortunately, statistics can often be easily manipulated. So it’s with a certain untrusting feeling that I applaud the FMCSA as they commission Virginia Tech University and Washington State University to combine on

I’ve written about driver health before but this great article over at FleetOwner was good enough that I knew I needed to revisit the topic. Benji Burns at one point weighed roughly 350 lbs. As a tanker truck driver, he had trouble getting up and down off his rig. He told himself one day, “You’re going to die, and

More than 2000 drivers who “earned” their CDL through a Florida school have been notified that they need to retest within 60 days or their license will be revoked. A woman affiliated with the school pled guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully produce Florida driver licenses and CDLs in October. This story and others like it highlight

Commercial Carrier Journal’s Jack Roberts penned an excellent piece of fiction about what the future may hold for the trucking industry. In his piece, Roberts profiles an automated truck as it pulls into a truck-yard terminal for some maintenance and servicing before being quickly sent back out on the road for more work. One interesting tidbit

The University of Scranton, Journal of Clinical Psychology reports that only 8% of people are successful in keeping their New Year’s Resolutions. With that in mind I wanted to share a three tips in helping you achieve your 2016 resolutions. Your resolution needs to be specific and measurable. We cannot measure, “I want to be