Isaac Named TMC September Trainer of the Month
DES MOINES, Iowa – David Isaac started at TMC Transportation on Valentine’s Day 2014 and has been in love with the Black and Chrome ever since. The veteran TMC driver spent eight years in the military…
Porter Capital Clients Enjoy Field Day
By Al Muskewitz It has been held under a variety of names over the years, rain or shine, but no matter what it’s been called or the weather, everyone has a shootin’ good time at Porter…
Covenant Introduces Landmark Driving Program for Hiring Veterans
By Wright Media staff CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Appropriately on Veterans Day, Covenant Transport has created a landmark military hiring program it hopes will increase the number of professional drivers on its team with military backgrounds. Operation Victory is…
Great Dane FleetPulse Monitoring System ‘More Than GPS’
By Al Muskewitz Drivers and fleet managers have enough to worry about getting their trucks and loads across the country without having a surprise throw a wrench into the operation. Trailer manufacturer Great Dane is providing…
Report: Operational Costs Rise 7.7 Percent in 2018
By Al Muskewitz The cost of everything seems to be going up these days and the American trucking industry that brings almost all of it to the consumer is not immune to the trend.It cost 7.7…
New Hinge Makes Rocketail Areo System a ‘Better Mousetrap’
By Al Muskewitz Build a better mousetrap, they say, and the world will beat a path to your door. If that’s true, 18-wheelers could soon be lining up at Rocketail LLC bumper-to-bumper for as far as the…
TLD Uses Analytics To Improve Safety
By Al Muskewitz Analytics turned a rebuilt Oakland Athletics team back into a 100-win pennant contender in 2002, made general manager Billy Beane an overnight guru and sparked a revolution that changed the way baseball is…
TLD Promotes Jolly to Safety Manager
By Al Muskewitz Nina Jolly has worn a lot of hats in her 12 years with TLD Logistics Services and late this summer another layer was added to her career onion. Jolly, already the Knoxville, Tenn.-based carrier’s…
Wright Ideas: Communication key to mutual success
The road to success is never a journey taken alone. Teams don’t win championships without all the pieces of the franchise working together for a common goal. A big piece of the playbook is communication. At…
ATA honors Covenant Transport for outreach program
By Al Muskewitz When Covenant Transport chairman David Parker would speak to groups he’d often ask for a show of hands among those in the crowd who had ever encouraged their child or grandchild to become…