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How To Attract and Retain Truck Drivers in a Hot Freight Market

Blue Grace Logistics

What’s covered in this article: The negative impacts of Covid-19 on the trucking industry. Ways to improve practices in the trucking profession. Technological advances in trucking. The global scarcity of professional truck drivers is evident. It is equally difficult to retain truck drivers. Better Pay.

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Real-Life Strategies for Safety

Women in Trucking

Redefining The Road recently caught up with Jill Maschmeier, Director of Safety and Compliance at NCI and member of the Women in Trucking Image Team, to discuss the company’s best practices. Prioritize Training Education is also critical. NCI provides quarterly web-based training that can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

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International Women’s Day at Jungheinrich

Logistics Business Magazine

It was a relatively new country for Jungheinrich [having previously operated via dealership] and there was a lot of development and training necessary to make people understand our business model and improve the processes to offer the best service to the customers. It wasn’t my job to know how to fix a forklift truck.

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Sit-Down Forklifts vs. Stand-Up Forklifts: Which Is Better?

Conger

This article is all about comparing sit-down forklifts and stand-up forklifts. The training requirements for operators of both. By the end of the article, you’ll be able to decide which one is best for you. Sit-down forklifts are those where the operator is seated and facing forward when driving the truck. And lots more!

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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

GlobalTranz

Since the collapse of the housing market and the economy in 2008, the freight transportation industry has managed to claw its way out of a damaging situation and maintain historically low trucking rates. What’s Driving the Trucking Rates Increase? Reshoring Initiative. Driver Expenses. billion manufacturer TriMas Corp.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

The fundamentals are based on the “Rules-in-Use” from Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System , a landmark HBR article by Steve Spear and H. The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. It is the direction that matters, not the reminders.

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Keeping 3PL services flowing during a pandemic

Kanban Logistics

In this article, we’ll look at some of the things 3PLs are doing behind the scenes to keep your products flowing to your customers. From trucking capacity issues to staffing challenges, supply operations have been impacted, but continue to move. How 3PL services continue to move the supply chain forward.

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