Perspective

There has been a great amount of media attention with the first delivery by autonomous truck by Otto Transportation, which recently took place on Interstate 25 from Fort Collins to Denver in Colorado. While this trip was made with a convoy of State Patrol and Colorado DOT vehicles around it, this event still represented quite an achievement.

In truck and rail tankers and beyond, chemically bonded phosphate ceramics can stop corrosion, improve safety, extend equipment life and minimize maintenance and downtime.

In a time of business growth, trucking companies may find themselves trying to keep up with increasing demands, including fleet management needs. Regardless of whether the business grows organically or through a merger or acquisition, you need to find a way to manage the needs of your business and customers. However, simply adding more vehicles to your fleet isn’t always the right answer. Sometimes, it comes down to “addition by subtraction.”

Yes, incident footage can protect against litigation, but it also can serve as a training resource and improve driver accountability and safety.

Brexit is a term used a lot these days, but what is it really? How could it affect the forwarding community? The answers to those questions are only just beginning to surface.

Today’s brokers increasingly rely on set-off tools as justification for not paying their carriers on valid freight deliveries, giving little or no consideration to the timing of these deliveries when enforcing set-offs. In doing so, they unfairly penalize motor carriers and expose the industry to a divisive practice. It’s time to develop some much-needed changes.

It’s a great honor to be named the National Tank Truck Carriers’ Professional Tank Truck Driver of the Year, because being safe out there is the most important thing for all of us — the drivers, our companies and the people we share the roads with. As a professional driver, I want to share my thoughts about safety on the road — what the risks are and how to avoid them.

Economists often speak of a “regulatory drag” on our economy related to the costs associated with the many regulations passed over the years.

There’s currently a lot of buzz about autonomous, self-driving vehicles, including trucks. And, yes, most truck makers are working on technologies that could make such vehicles viable years in the future.

Receiving the title of chairman of American Trucking Associations is, for many of us in the industry, considered a pinnacle of one’s career. It’s certainly the pinnacle for me.