What to Do After You Park. Ask any driver: life on the road can be peaceful and enjoyable. And at times it can also be tedious and stressful. Sharon Porter, Team NATCO’s dispatcher extraordinaire, came to us after years of […]
Highlighting Considerations. Last week, we profiled Sharon Porter and how her experience has grown—from her early days of driving to her work as a dispatcher (a position she’s held at Team NATCO for 15 years now). This week, we share […]
Ensuring Trucker Safety. Following last week’s blog on the importance of safe parking lots for the nation’s truck drivers, we share here a main motivation behind the recent push for increased safety. On March 5, 2009, Jason Rivenburg, a part-time […]
Safety for Our Nation’s Drivers. As a companion to last week’s blog on cargo theft, we explore here the state of parking lots for freight drivers across the country. Annual cargo theft in the United States totals more than $25 […]
Legislation for Our Industry’s Best Practices. With a quarter of a century in business, our customers and business associates alike have come to trust our professional instincts. And while we’re quite proud of this, we also wonder: why trust instinct […]
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother. Here’s some trivia for you: one of the top four busiest scales in the nation is just north of Houston—near Huntsville, on I-45—and it writes out one of the top number of violations in […]
Fuel is Just One Factor This week, Transport Topics reported that diesel prices have risen eleven times in twelve weeks—this last time by 6.8 cents a gallon. Still, the current national average of $2.271 remains more than 60 cents below […]