
While there are some serious fixes that need to happen to make trucking an attractive career for most people, HDT Managing Editor Vesna Brajkovic says she still has a lot of faith in trucking’s charm to bring in the next generation.
While there are some serious fixes that need to happen to make trucking an attractive career for most people, HDT Managing Editor Vesna Brajkovic says she still has a lot of faith in trucking’s charm to bring in the next generation.
U.S. Xpress plans to reduce its carbon footprint 60% by 2035 and double its community involvement by 2025.
How trucking is looking beyond traditional demographics and filling empty seats with minorities and women.
There’s a challenge that’s been haunting almost every maintenance and repair manager for as long as Executive Contributing Editor Rolf Lockwood has been writing about trucking.The shortage of skilled mechanics and technicians is a plague that just won’t go away.
A decent place to work, modern technology tools, and a path for professional growth are three necessary parts of finding and retaining truck technicians.
When it comes to rewarding employees, both context and optics matter. A lot. Senior Editor Jack Roberts takes a bit of a departure in his Truck Tech blog to write about how one successful business owner just lost a valued employee.
With three generations currently in the workplace, practices that help you motivate one generation may not work on another.
Fleets have been struggling with the technician shortage for years, and it doesn’t look like there will be a silver bullet to solve the problem anytime soon. However, there are some things you can do to improve your odds of getting the technicians you need.
The shortage of able technicians is going to bite us if we don’t find a fix. In fact, it already is, says Executive Contributing Editor Rolf Lockwood.
Bad bosses and job duties that don’t meet employee expectations are the two main reasons technicians leave their jobs, according to Dick Finnegan, CEO of C-Suite Analytics, an employee engagement and retention consulting firm.
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