COVID-19 Complaints Raise Risk for Fleet Managers
Management failures to act or adapt to the times during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to workplace litigation.
February 17, 2021
Management failures to act or adapt to the times during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to workplace litigation.
February 17, 2021
There’s no simple way for trucking fleets to slip the grasp of rising insurance costs — it takes everything from running safely to shopping smartly.
February 17, 2021
HDT Talks Trucking delves into Penske Truck Leasing's experience installing charging infrastructure for commercial vehicles in Southern California.
February 12, 2021
General Motors makes a move that is at once politically calculated and technologically informed.
January 18, 2021
Lessors say they are applying technological and management savvy to bring down the cost and risk of operating trucks and trailers for more customers than ever.
March 11, 2020
Part 4: How 4 Fleets are Diversifying in Disruptive Times – Specialized carrier PGT Trucking launched a “single-source transportation solution for high-volume or complex project cargo.”
February 12, 2020
Part 3: How 4 Fleets are Diversifying in Disruptive Times – Seeing the capacity crunch as an opportunity, Navajo Express opened a brokerage to capture more freight to fill more trucks.
February 12, 2020
Part 2: How 4 Fleets are Diversifying in Disruptive Times: Intermodal and dedicated carrier Midwest Cargo Systems grows by showing customers what it can do for them.
February 12, 2020
How 4 Fleets are Diversifying in a Time of Disruption: J.B. Hunt keeps its eyes wide open for more opportunities to grow, including with its network of small carrier partners.
February 12, 2020
Fleets play their best hand by diversifying into services that can boost business with existing customers and attract new ones.
February 12, 2020
Insurance is one of those things you may not really think about until your business needs it. That is, unless you’re facing skyrocketing premiums or, worse, shrinking access to coverage itself, which is what’s happening to truck fleets.
January 8, 2020
Sometimes an ending is a beginning. Is a single failed drug test or alcohol screening enough reason to terminate an otherwise valued truck driver as a “lifestyle” drug user or "unsalvageable" alcoholic who must never drive a truck again?
December 12, 2019
Nobody likes to be talked at, least of all people who have places to go and freight to haul. Yes, we’re talking about driver orientation meetings — and how to make them memorable for drivers and worthwhile for your fleet.
December 11, 2019
HDT's 2019 Emerging Leaders are being honored for on-the-job accomplishments and winning approaches to managing others that they have demonstrated before reaching the age of 40. They collectively represent a cross-section of trucking operations, ranging from package delivery to dedicated and long-haul transportation.
December 10, 2019
It’s not hard for a motor carrier to set up a brokerage arm— it mostly requires filing paperwork, paying some fees, and arranging a financial bond.
November 22, 2019