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On the road to loyal customers, wear borrowed shoesWhat has happened to plain old customer loyalty? While marketing sings siren songs of technology-enabled collaboration, why are more and more customers in every industry constantly shifting...

Fleet managers can easily add to the list of painful but unavoidable facts of life that necessary evil known as insurance.That's because right now insurance rates for many fleets are heading straight up, thanks to an unfortunate combination of...

Fighting snow and ice Maintaining Virginia's 56,101 miles of roads requires hard work, patienceWhen ice and snow cover the roads, most truckers know it's time to pull over and wait for the weather to clear. That's not the case for the Virginia...

Though new truck orders are dropping, John Horne, International Truck & Engine Corp.'s chairman, president and CEO, said his company has long prepared for an industry slowdown, which may be a boon to his company's Next Generation Vehicle project...

It's time to put trucking on the candidates' radar screensWhether you like hearing about presidential politics or not, I only get the opportunity to wax philosophical about it once every four years. So please indulge me while I mull over some of...

Some 300,000 school buses, coaches, trucks and tractors are being voluntarily recalled to replace a Bendix ABS controller that could cause brake loss for short periods at low speeds. The EC-17 electronic control unit (ECU) was used on all Bendix...

OEMs could benefit from cross-vehicle technologyYou've probably seen automobile ads that relate "high performance" cars and parts to the commuter specials you and your family drive every day. The question is: Can the innovations in technology...

Hitting the simulators instead of the highwayAll new drivers have to solo. At some point, they have to leave the comparative security of the training environment and get out there on the highway with other drivers to polish their skills in the...

What will you do if freight movement becomes a commodity?Most of us expect e-commerce to change the way trucking conducts business, but we tend to focus on the small, immediate details such as the speed and convenience of Internet access. While we...

Driver standards provide reliable yardstickA standard, Webster's Dictionary tells us, is "something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example."While such strictures sometimes serve as stumbling blocks to progress ...