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Charity Champions: Specialized Trucking and a Mission with Joyce Brenny

The Logistics of Logistics

Joyce Brenny and Joe Lynch discuss charity champions: specialized trucking and a mission. Joyce is the CEO & Founder of Brenny Transportation , a Minnesota based trucking company that specializes in the transportation of large, heavy, and bulky items that necessitate specialized handling, equipment, and permits.

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Is your trucking company compliant with Pay Equity Act?

Truck News

Federally regulated employers — including cross-border and interprovincial trucking companies – are required to develop and implement a pay equity plan for their workplace by Sept. Cross border and […]

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If An 18-Year-Old Truck Driver Comes to Pick Up Your Shipment

Talking Logistics

It appears that few carriers are interested in training and hiring truck drivers younger than 21 years old. But that is okay, because it also appears that not many young people are interested in becoming a truck driver anyway.

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Should truck parking bullpens be mandatory for new warehouses?

Overdrive Online

Long Haul Paul asks this question after an uncommonly positive experience with the truck bullpen and a welcoming attitude at C&S Wholesale Grocers in Plant City, Florida. Here, point of view from five stakeholders, from owner-ops to safety directors.

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EROAD’s Guide to Running a Sustainable Trucking Business

Over the last three decades, emissions from new trucks have been reduced by more than 98 percent. In fact, it would take 60 of today’s trucks to generate the same level of emissions from a single truck in 1988.

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Daimler Truck Increases Use of Electric Trucks for Logistics Operations

NGT News

As one of the largest truck manufacturers in the U.S., As one of the largest truck manufacturers in the U.S., DTNA […] The post Daimler Truck Increases Use of Electric Trucks for Logistics Operations appeared first on NGT News.

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WIT Staff Team Visits Peterbilt Dynamic Truck Plant

Women in Trucking

When the Peterbilt truck plant in Denton, TX opened in 1980, it was originally designed to manufacture only 16 trucks a day. Fast-forward today, and the factory is able to produce more than ten times the original amount or trucks each day.

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Harmonizing Sales Visit Plans With Distribution Routes for Best Effect

In large FMCG companies the usual rhythm is that salespeople visit stores to take orders and the orders get delivered the next day by trucks. This means that there are two separate but deeply interacting routing problems to deal with: routes for the salespeople and routes for the trucks.

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6 Ways Video Telematics Improves Driver Safety

Download the eBook and learn 6 ways to improve driver safety by using dash cams on your trucks, along with additional benefits: Save Costs Through Safer & Better Driving. An in-cab dash cam video system can help fleet operators significantly reduce risky driving, costly legal judgments, and insurance costs.

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Building Supply Chain Resilience in the Real World

Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC

It was followed by port blockages and congestion, strikes among truck drivers and railway workers, a major recall and plant closure that led to a disastrous baby formula shortage, concerns about the future of semiconductor availability, turbulence in the ESG investment market, and much more. The pandemic was just the start.