HOW TO SAVE THE MOST MONEY ON FUEL
With fuel being one of the highest expenses we have in trucking, knowing how get the best price & save the most money on fuel is key. Jason explains understanding how fuel tax or IFTA impacts how much you actually spend per gallon & shares an app that will simplify figuring it out.
Greg Huggins Blog: https://www.expeditersonline.com/trucking-blogs/fuel-for-thought/
Fuel Tax Maps: http://h.fanapp.mobi/fueltaxmap
IFTA Video Referenced: https://youtu.be/oMcgzs3vb-w...
COUNTRY BOUND MICROFIBER TOWELS REVIEW & GIVEAWAY (giveaway closed)
We had the opportunity to try out a set of 3 microfiber towels from Country Bound. We are very impressed with these towels and are excited for one of you all to win a set too. GIVEAWAY open from June 29, 2018 to July 2, 2018. Winner will be announced on July 3, 2018. To enter you must LIKE the video & leave a comment on the video. GOOD LUCK!!
Check out the towels here: https://amzn.to/2tCXjtT...
BUILDING SHELVES IN THE BOX FOR STORAGE
An easy & inexpensive way to build shelves in the box of the truck for extra storage.
E-Track Brackets we used: https://amzn.to/2tlu8vn...
Expediter of the Year 2018 Finalists: Nancy Hudson
Expedite Expo 2018, which runs July 20 and 21 at the Lexington Center in Lexington, Ky., is the only trade show in the world geared exclusively to the expedited trucking industry. And this year's show will feature the announcement of the winner of the Expediter of the Year award, which will be presented to one of these three finalists: Tim Paxton, Nancy Hudson, and Eric Escobar.
The purpose of this award is to recognize those hard-working, professional and safety-conscious e...
WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT EXPEDITING??
Everyone has their own reasons for getting into expediting. These are some of the reasons we feel expediting is so great....
KEEP YOUR PETS SAFE | Temp Stick Temperature Sensor
As the hotter months are approaching we always worry about being out of the truck & leaving our dogs for long periods of time. Even though we have an APU to run the AC for them you never know when it or the AC could stop running. We recently purchased a Temp Stick to monitor the temperature inside the truck that will alert us if the temp gets above a certain point.
Temp Stick we have: https://amzn.to/2kTF5zB...
3 Big Hurdles to Robo Trucks Ruling the Roads
So much has happened in autonomous vehicle development since Google put its first self-driving Prius on the roads in 2008. And industry consensus is that we'll start seeing highly automated vehicles hit the market legally in 2021-which is only three years from now.
But there are still many questions-beyond the technology's capabilities-that government, industry, and citizens must answer before robots will rule the roads.
Those questions can be boiled down into these three "h...
Reaching The Summit
Reaching the summit of your business goals is often challenging. There are many peaks and valleys along the way....
PLANTRONICS HEADSET WINNER & FUTURE GIVEAWAYS
We have a winner for the Plantronics Voyager 104 Trucking Headset!!
Congratulations to Edgar Gonzalez & thank you to everyone who entered to win....
The ELD Mandate: What Has Been the Impact So Far?
With the rollout of any new rule, you can expect some unintended consequences.
And that appears to be the case with the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate that went into full effect on April 1, after about a three-month grace period.
The regulation was finalized in 2015 with the best of intentions: "to help create a safer work environment for drivers, and make it easier and faster to accurately track, manage, and share records of duty status (RODS) data. An ELD synchroni...