by Aggie Alvarez, on Apr 16, 2018 4:45:00 PM
You will be replaced. Don’t feel bad; it happens to all of us. It’s the cycle of life in the business world. But whether you are taking on a new …
Read Storyby Ellen Voie, on Feb 1, 2018 2:29:00 PM
Remember the book, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” by Robert Fulghum? If you’ve never read it, let me give you a few of the author’s …
Read Storyby Ellen Voie, on Jan 4, 2018 2:37:00 PM
American Author and Management Expert Kenneth Blanchard once said, “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” Too often we hear people complaining about their circumstances, but they don’t …
Read Storyby Sandy Long, on Aug 22, 2017 4:51:00 PM
Perhaps one of the greatest disservices to the trucking industry outside of the old ABC’s 20/20 Killer Truck Drivers segment is how trucking has been portrayed in movies and television …
Read Storyby Ellen Voie, on Jun 27, 2017 2:54:00 PM
In October of 2014, eighty four young girls gathered at Olive Harvey School in Chicago, Illinois for the first Girl Scout Transportation event. These girls heard from a (female) Navistar …
Read Storyby Sandy Long, on May 2, 2017 4:57:00 PM
Sit back in any truck stop or rest area and you may see a vast array of pets, from birds to snakes, brought out of trucks for a bit of …
Read Storyby Sandy Long, on Jan 23, 2017 5:02:00 PM
According to statistics, 79% of all accidents involving semi-trucks are caused by car drivers. Few, if any states, require car drivers to learn during license testing about sharing the road …
Read Storyby Ellen Voie, on Nov 2, 2016 3:01:00 PM
What do the words connect, loyal, and feel have in common? How are they different than defend, lead, and persist? The first three words are identified as being “feminine-coded” when …
Read Storyby Ellen Voie, on Sep 7, 2016 6:11:00 PM
An excerpt from a 1943 transportation magazine has circulated throughout the industry. It has been verified as a true reprint by Snopes, which claims the author is L.H. Sanders, who …
Read Storyby Sandy Long, on Sep 2, 2016 5:09:00 PM
When people think about the trucking industry they think about the jobs of truck driving and perhaps dispatching. They do not know of the many other jobs available in the …
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