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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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Why New Emissions Standards Could Cripple the Trucking Industry with Mike Kucharski

The Logistics of Logistics

Mike Kucharski and Joe Lynch discuss why new emissions standards could cripple the trucking industry. Mike is Co-Owner and Vice President of JKC Trucking , a leader in temperature-controlled transportation industry for over three decades. He holds a degree in business management from DePaul University.

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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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Iowa 80's 45th Truckers Jamboree: Super Truck show results

Overdrive Online

The show featured numerous events, including live concerts, fireworks displays, an antique truck display, Iowa pork chop cookout and more -- in addition to the annual Super Truck Beauty Contest, the results of which can be seen here.

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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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What About the Sisterhood in Trucking?

Women in Trucking

Over the last few years, I’ve read on social media how the brotherhood (and sisterhood) of trucking is long gone and how much trucking has changed. All you needed was some duct tape and zip ties and that would keep the truck running long enough for the driver to get the truck repaired. It’s all about safety.

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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.