CHICAGO — Forget JIT and ERP. Carriers can leave future developments of just-in-time and enterprise resource planning to strategic logisticians. The future of trucking and its role in supply chain management systems may be small, open windows.

Forget JIT and ERP. The future of trucking and its role in supply chain management systems may be small, open windows.

The Cummins Signature 600 engine received the 1998 Technical Achievement Award from the Truck Writers of North America.

If you think you’re seeing more tire debris along roads these days, you may be right.

Driving trucks at higher speeds make motor carriers more productive by getting the freight to its destination faster, the thinking goes.

The tire debris task force reported at The Maintenance Council’s annual conference in mid-March that it had collected 28% more pieces of tire from 13 sites across the country than in 1995.

Keep a sharp eye on performance, shorten maintenance cycles and change the oil more frequently. hese recommendations from engine manufacturers could not be repeated enough at The Maintenance Council conference in mid-March.

The president of American Trucking Associations was trying to sell his vision for integration with The Maintenance Council at its annual conference.

Information is a commodity and time is the new currency. If you find yourself agreeing with that observation, then you may be on the way to doing a better job managing for the future, according to the principles set out Daniel Burrus, who specializes in understanding the future.

The president of American Trucking Associations was trying to sell his vision for integration with The Maintenance Council at its annual conference.