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Despite a soft shipping season this year and even through the 2008-2009 recession, we have grown every year. The reason is, our team decided to be fair to our drivers (pay them quickly and pay them a fair compensation) and to treat our customers the way we would want to be treated. It’s not rocket […]

Material Handling & Logistics reported a week ago (I don’t know how I missed this) that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) says, “…on an annual average basis, use of [Electronic Logging Devices (ELD)] should help save 26 lives and prevent 1,844 crashes involving large commercial motor vehicles…” What?!? How? Do they have data that

We live in a CYA (cover your a**) world. Frequently decisions to do or not do something have more to do with the questions, “Will I get in trouble for this?,” or, “Will this make me look good?,” than they do with whether or not something is truly a good idea or legitimately beneficial. Consider

I am so excited to finally bring this blogpost to you all. This past Saturday (Dec. 12, 2015) we, our team at Zion Transport and our families, served lunch to the homeless of San Diego. We’re telling you because you, our customers, made it all possible.   We fed nearly 150 people and gave away

Apparently the federal government is now looking at truck drivers with obstructive sleep apnea. In one sense, kudos to them. If drivers are unsafe, for whatever reason, they shouldn’t be driving. But my follow-up question is also valid, how many truck accidents were there where sleep apnea actually played a role? Here’s the dumb math: There

As the President and CEO of the American Trucking Association, Bill Graves, pointed out, “…we often talk about the impact of the shortage of truck drivers. But we mustn’t forget trucking’s need to have many skilled technicians and mechanics to keep their rigs in working order and their wheels moving.” He’s right, the driver shortage is often

This blog’s first post was on Sept. 14. In that piece I wrote about autonomously-driven trucks. Today I have decided to explore this topic again from a slightly different angle. Ginger Christ asks, over at Materials Handling and Logistics (MH&L) if driverless trucks will take over the industry. And I think the answer is an unmitigated, “yes.” However, in

One of the byproducts of writing this blog is that I have become, or rather, I am becoming rather well-versed in transportation politics. When the DRIVE and STRR acts were being passed by the Senate and House, I was aware of it and aware of some of the problems within the otherwise good bills. When

Leadership experts and motivational speakers often tout the cliché, “The biggest barrier to ‘great’ is ‘good.’” When we want something to be great, we cannot settle for something good. However, when making process-improvements, sometimes the biggest barrier to progress is trying to achieve or find greatness prior to taking the first step. Obviously those two

Material Handling & Logistics (MH&L) reported yesterday that the newly signed Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act is a flawed bill. I agree. I previously reported that there is no such thing as a perfect bill. Michael Collins, president of MPC Consulting, is quoted extensively and says that the bill… …fails to address a chronic shortfall in financing for