5 Things Truck Drivers Love By Matt Sullivan, Marketing, DAT Solutions Taken from feedback during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, we’ve put together a list of five ways that carriers, brokers, and shippers can show appreciation and respect to a driver, including suggestions from the drivers themselves. Respect the Driver’s Time An extra 15 minutes held […]
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Drive My Way and the REAL Women in Trucking, Inc. are proud to announce a new partnership endeavor that we believe will benefit drivers seeking better employment opportunities. Drive My Way is a woman-owned company that has developed a unique, online, personalized recruiting service that aims to create the best job match possible for CDL truck drivers […]
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Regulations Roundup: New Year, New Safety Ratings By Matt Sullivan, Marketing, DAT Solutions It wouldn’t be a new year without some new regulations, right? The FMCSA is planning another overhaul of how carrier safety is rated, which includes getting rid of the rating system that’s been in place since 1982. Below are some of this […]
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Is Low-Cost Fuel Bad for Truckers? By Peggy Dorf, Marketing, DAT Solutions Diesel prices fell to $2.11 per gallon last week at the pump, as a national average. If your truck gets six miles to the gallon, your fuel cost is only 35¢ per mile. How could that possibly be bad? Lower fuel prices lead […]
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me – it’s who is going to stop me?” ~ Ayn Rand March is Women’s History Month. So there seemed no greater time than now to give some important women their due. They’re the women who were the forerunners in trucking for me and you. When we […]
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Driver Detention Issue Still Rankles By Mark Montague, Industry Rate Analyst, DAT Solutions It’s been a few years since I sat in the dispatch chair or listened to a driver tell stories about delivery delays. Seeing the results and reading the comments on the recent DAT poll about driver detention felt like déjà vu. Nothing has changed! Results from […]
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How to Survive a Buck-A-Mile Backhauls By Mark Montague, Industry Rate Analyst, DAT Solutions Four years ago, I wrote a blog post with a catchy title: “The Death of the Buck-A-Mile Backhaul,” where I explained that carriers could no longer cover costs on $1.00 per mile. At the time, those cheap hauls were going away. In March 2012, […]
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Find Van Loads Fast in These 5 Places By Matt Sullivan, Marketing, DAT Solutions Van spot market volume got a big boost at the end of March, when shippers were rushing to move inventory before closing the books on Q1. The markets have adjusted since then, with rates dipping on most of the top van […]
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Written by Shelley Uvanile-Hesch CEO of the Women’s Trucking Federation of Canada and 2nd Year member of the REAL Women in Trucking, Inc. Shelley wrote recently on Facebook to drivers who frequent truck driver pages to challenge them. These drivers claim that they want results from a driver movement but the majority of them rarely take […]
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It’s summer. That means a lot more fun in the sun. But frolicking in the summer sun is full of hidden dangers. If you’re someone with a CDL trucking job, you have to be even more mindful of them, too. The sun may feel nice beaming on your face, but when it blazes through the […]
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Real Women in Trucking Inc. is hosting its inaugural lady truck driver cruise, and it promises to be an important gathering for women with CDL trucking jobs. The weeklong cruise aims to unite and honor women truck drivers, showcasing their unique experiences on the job. “With the cruise, we’re striving to create more unity among […]
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How to Get the Most Out of Our Free Trucker App By Michael Tupper, Product Manager, DAT Solutions If you use the DAT Trucker™ mobile app for Android, you probably noticed some big changes recently. We redesigned the app to work the same way that most other mapping apps do. More importantly, now DAT Trucker lets […]
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63% of Drivers Are Detained More Than 3 Hours per Stop By Matt Sullivan, Marketing, DAT Solutions Most drivers spend 3 to 4 hours waiting to get loaded or unloaded, according to a DAT survey of 257 carriers and owner-operators. Of the carriers surveyed, 54% of them said that they wait between 3 to 5 […]
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It might be called relay driving or more simply “swapping.” But whatever you call it, those who drive in a relay trucking system have one thing in common: They really like it. Relay drivers say the system has lifestyle benefits that other CDL trucking jobs don’t have. Here’s Drive My Way’s look at relay driving, […]
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“Detention is Killing Us” Say Carriers By Pat Pitz, Marketing, DAT Solutions “Detention is killing us.” That pretty much sums up how carriers feel about driver detention, as related in a recent DAT survey of 257 carriers and 50 freight brokers. Of the carriers surveyed, 84% said detention is one of the top five problems […]
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Driver Detention: How Do We Fix It? By Matt Sullivan, Marketing, DAT Solutions If you feel like you’re wasting too many hours at the docks, you’re not alone. DAT surveyed 257 carriers and owner-operators, and 63% of them told us that the average amount of time they spend waiting for a shipper to get them loaded […]
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MEDIA CONTACT: Kristine M. Gobbo 561-463-0777, Kristine@spectrum-pr.com REAL Women in Trucking, Inc. to Host Inaugural Lady Truck Driver Conference Cruise LAKE WORTH, Fla. (August 16, 2016) – REAL Women in Trucking, Inc. (RWIT) is hosting a conference aboard the Carnival Conquest to unite and honor women in the truck driving industry. The […]
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7 Signs Your Truck’s Engine Might Give Up on You By CAG Truck Capital Trucking is tough. Anyone who knows a trucker is well aware of the long hours and hard work involved in providing for your family. Your truck is your livelihood, and when yours starts creeping towards the million mile mark, it’s easy […]
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6 Steps to Adding a Brokerage to Your Trucking Company By Gary Land, Fleet Compliance, DAT Solutions Do you have shipper customers who need to move more freight than you can service with the current size of your fleet? You could buy more trucks to move that extra freight, but adding a brokerage is another […]
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** Written by Desiree Wood and Elizabeth Geraci at Drive My Way *** The contentious nature of this election cycle and the lack of quality candidates on both sides of the aisle got me thinking about what type of leadership we need to see in the trucking industry to create meaningful improvements. Our country is […]
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