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Are You Leading Your People, or Just Running a Company?

“Because you own the company, you’re the boss,” said Sinek. “But you’re not a leader until you make it your job to look after others.”

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Truck Driver Safety

Remember that it is not only your job that relies on your ability to be safe – it is also the cars you are transporting, the other people on the road, and your customers that are waiting for you. Being safe is more that just watching the road and following the rules.

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Maintaining Your Truck

The best way to take care of your own truck maintenance is to make sure that you don’t need much of it. You should be able to fix small things when they break on your truck, and you should also know what to do so that you can prevent anything else from breaking or needing […]

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Auto Transport Training Requirements

Shipping cars across the country is not a job that one can start without any prior trucking experience. A driver must meet an employer’s qualifications and have received proper training in order to haul a truckload of vintage corvettes from New York to Los Angeles on a big rig.

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10 Tips for Managing People Well

Acknowledge that managing people is different from your core technical skills, and recognize that people management is essential to your own career growth. If you’re not good at it, work at getting better. Not only will you be a better executive, you’ll also be a better person.

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5 Cheap Ways to Motivate Employees

How do you get people excited about work without paying them more money? It turns out that it’s relatively easy, as long as you understand why money works as a motivator.

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FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index moves higher in August

FTR Associates on Wednesday, Oct. 3, announced that its Trucking Conditions Index for August rose 1.4 points from July to a reading of 5.8. The index is a compilation of factors affecting trucking companies; any reading above zero indicates a positive environment for truckers, while …

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Automotive Logistics Global Conference

On our 2 month anniversary as an official organization, our General Manager, Bill Schroeder, participated with Greg May of the Car Delivery Network as part of a panel where Greg moderated in a session called Dude, here is your car! The conference offered a great opportunity for us to make a formal introduction and announcement […]

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Founders Meeting

Executives from a half-dozen companies within the auto hauler industry reviewed many details from Goals and Mission to potential Products and Services and during the 2nd day this group of “Founders†officially launched the Association by electing Steve Hansen, Executive Vice President of Hansen & Adkins and Kirk Williams, President and CEO of Proficient Auto […]

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