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Six Educational Areas of Focus to ensure you receive information most relevant to your career.
Learn current economic data and its effects throughout the supply chain. You'll be able to bring critical forecasting information back to your teams and executive leadership teams..
There are many ways to reduce serious injuries or even fatalities by supporting comprehensive, system-wide, multimodal, data-driven, and proactive operations and procedures. This panel discussion will feature executives who have specific experience and subject matter expertise in how to minimize risks in your overall operations.
As self-driving truck developers move forward with pilot deployments and continue to lay the groundwork for broader commercialization, there remain a myriad of questions around the realities, benefits, and concerns about autonomous trucks. Executive thought leaders share perspectives on how for-hire and private fleets are starting to add robotic tractors to their fleets for near-future application.
Developing the right corporate culture for your company is a critical factor in organizational success, a key driver of financial performance, and a critical source of a sustainable competitive advantage for companies in the transportation industry. Hear practical advice from executives named to the 2023 Top Companies for Women to Work For in Transportation.
AI is rapidly changing the commercial freight transportation in all areas of trucking strategy and operations by automating time-consuming tasks, gaining insights from vast data, and making informed decisions. Attend this session to learn from experts who are already applying AI in a multitude of practical areas of trucking.
Fraud has always been a part of the industry, however, statistically we are experiencing increased activity from dishonest companies and bad actors, creating lasting damage to people’s bottom line as the market pendulum swings. Learn how to counteract rampant fraud, including best practices and key takeaways from staving off fraudulent invoices, as well as how much money the industry is losing to fraud every year.
In the last several months, much has changed in the world of battery electric vehicles (BEV) and the impact this evolving technology will have on the trucking industry. Get up-to-speed on the regulations, sustainability initiatives across the industry, and product technologies that are creating exciting new momentum for BEVs.
Published every year, the WIT Index is the official industry barometer to benchmark and measure each year the percentage of women who make up critical roles in transportation. Find out where our industry stands on the gender diversity front.
Driving can be fundamentally one of the most dangerous tasks we do. Learn what can cause stress behind the wheel and risky driving behaviors, including how employers can incorporate policies, training and resources into their transportation safety program to address stress, attitudes and behaviors that put employees at risk behind the wheel.
Transportation professionals are in a unique position to make a difference and close loopholes to traffickers who seek to exploit our transportation system for their personal gain. Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT), the sponsor of this session, continues to be a major force in the industry to help educate, equip, empower and mobilize organizations and individuals in the trucking industry to combat human trafficking.
Learn how Navistar has gotten closer to the voice of the customer (VOC) and best practices to incorporate VOC into the quality function, improvement of quality planning, utilization of qualitative data into actionable results, and more.
With all of the uncontrollable circumstances in our industry, you can take responsibility for one factor: your truck. The last thing you need is for your truck to be out of service, damaged, or in dire need of repair. Professional drivers, fleet managers, and operations professionals should attend this session to understand the ins and outs of truck maintenance.
While reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in heavy-duty trucking is a top priority for most for-hire and private fleets these days, the challenge lies in whether companies are taking the right critical steps to meet their goals or simply throwing money at a constantly-shifting problem.
Hear from trucking industry leaders and drivers themselves as they provide answers and perspectives involving the following questions: What challenges do female drivers face when parking that may be different from men? What tips/tricks have female drivers tried to find safe, accessible parking? What solutions exist when it comes to parking for female drivers?