Check Call: Accessibility for all
Inside this edition: Accessibility training for visually impaired freight brokers; California continues to be complicated; and GXO sets the bar high.
Inside this edition: Accessibility training for visually impaired freight brokers; California continues to be complicated; and GXO sets the bar high.
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Driving company culture and personal growth.
Fleet professionals were asked to identify their top struggles and what would help overcome them
FreightWaves’ Mary O’Connell sits down to talk with Scott Watanabe about building an effective training program from the ground up.
Mary O’Connell and Nick Dangles, co-founder at Kinetic, sit down to talk about the importance of training for new hires and existing employees.
WorkHound’s “feedback loop” is an anonymous way for quick driver comments to get into the hands of trucking companies.
Consider the cost of hiring new people, and the value of not just throwing bodies at the problem. Plus, new cross-border regulations and a brief Hanukkah history.
Without clarifying objectives, a company cannot, with confidence or a unified vision, understand where it’s going.
Employees can be “your greatest liabilities if they’re not trained properly,” says Infinit-I Workforce Solutions CEO Jay Wommack. So he is offering a free training video for truckers.
The Truckload Carriers Association, in conjunction with the TCA Profitability Program (TPP), offers a new, virtual, interactive learning experience available to all professionals in the trucking industry. The Truckload Live […]
Intense rainfall in the nation’s heartland Friday, with weekend tropical downpours in Florida.
Ships all over the world are running aground despite having highly trained, qualified and experienced crew. Why?
Commonwealth tries to bring more skilled techs into the logistics, warehouse fold.
Manufacturing leads first-party logistics growth because of the sector’s long-established supply chains. Retail is the next-largest contributor to first-party logistics growth through the impact of e-commerce.
Retention, training, and the capacity crunch are undeniably hot button issues in 2018. In response, SmartDrive and FreightWaves collaborated to distribute a survey to uncover trends in driver incentive programs. The white paper—based on the findings of the survey, which was fielded in Q3 2018—reveals the steps that trucking companies are taking in order to hire and retain qualified drivers and create safer, more profitable organizations.
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The idea behind the new training program is to work with the drivers involved in an incident right away, wherever they are, and not eat up too much of their time.
The transportation industry continues to problem-solve the driver shortage, and carrier-created training programs are on the rise. One such program is offered by Holland, a regional carrier based in Holland, Michigan.
According to Bo Mitchell, there are more than 1,300 deaths per year as a result of “intimate partner violence” and many of them occur in a workplace environment. Two people are killed each day in America in the workplace as a result of a firearm or knife attack.
President Donald Trump’s budget proposal released Wednesday calls for a loosening of restrictions on tolls, more private investment in infrastructure, cuts a critical loan program used by manufacturers to build fuel-efficient vehicles, and reduces workforce training grants that are used to train truck drivers and other transportation workers.