Are you a truck driver looking for work as a fleet manager or operator? You’re not alone: on one truck recruitment website alone, more than 212,000 completed truck driver applications sit on their database!
Don’t despair! Just because the job market is competitive, doesn’t mean employment is out of reach. You’re just a couple of strategic moves away from landing your ideal trucking job.
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The Future of Freight
Sep
Flash forward five years, and the trucking industry will be a very different beast to what it is today.
“The big carriers are going to get bigger and fewer,” confirms Duff Swain, president of consulting firm Trincon Group, “while the smaller carriers need to get smarter and more niche-driven.”
Swain delivered this news at a recent conference, where he pointed out what most of us already know: the global economic downturn has not only forced us to rethink the way we do business today, but it’s also forced us to re-evaluate how we’ll operate in the future.
According to American Trucking Association (ATA) President Bill Graves, the main concern carriers face today is the increasing influence of the federal Government. Read the rest of this entry »
The Australian government is implementing new regulations on heavy trucking companies enforcing the use of GPS monitoring. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s quite sad when you hear of skiers going missing after unknowingly wandering off the ski-fields trail and especially when it’s supposed to have been a fun family event. We are just now beginning to see GPS being integrated into ski fields to improve overall safety and also provide the ski fields with useful skier information.
A collection of what we believe are the most amazing truck and bridge collisions that didn’t result in a fatality or serious injury. Read the rest of this entry »
Although new hybrid cars and bio-fuels seem like great alternatives for reducing your fuel consumption, most people either can’t afford to upgrade or simply don’t have access to these new alternatives.
AA Insurance, New Zealand recently held a rally which aimed to show motorists how they can slash their fuel bills by choosing a fuel-efficient car and driving it in a fuel efficient manner. Read the rest of this entry »
