2020 Issue 2

Wayne Walker is a professional driver with over 16 years of safe driving experience with Walmart. Wayne joined the Walmart fleet in 2003 accumulating over 1.25 million safe driving miles, and has served as a Walmart Road Team Captain since 2016.

As Scott Brown considers the future of U.S. health care and insurance, he thinks something is going to have to give because the current situation is not sustainable. He is already seeing clients who are moving in directions that are more radical and drastic than what he has seen in the past.

Is it a waste of money to have a safety program? The answer to that question is a strong “no.” Why? Injuries are expensive even when they aren’t fatal, and if you can prevent them, you have automatically reduced your expenses. That is why the best way to think about the cost of a safety program is to view it as a source of reliable hidden profits.

For the past 15 years, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has been quantifying the trucking industry’s top concerns through an annual survey of industry stakeholders. The 2019 survey generated responses from over 2,000 respondents — motor carriers, professional drivers, industry suppliers and others — all selecting their respective top three concerns and ranking recommended strategies for addressing each.

The American Transportation Research Institute today released its annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America.

Traditionally, when an individual or organization fears change, it has something to do with digital technology disrupting their status quo. Will something autonomous replace my job? What if something is created that puts me completely out of business?

Roger had been working in the industry for more than 30 years by the time he left Super Service, and he could have happily retired, but he wanted to provide jobs for the people he’d worked with. Some of those relationships went back to his school days.

In this issue is an article written by Daniel Burrus about being a “positive disruptor” and how we should focus less on ourselves and more on what we can do for others during difficult times.

Truck drivers need information and preventive measures to stay safe from the COVID-19 virus as they perform their essential work moving goods throughout the U.S. Toward that end, UrgentCareTravel has started an evaluation service, so that drivers can get that help at its walk-in clinics. There are 13 of them, all run by Pilot Flying J.