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November 16, 2017

Revisiting Service Disruptors

Innovation, Interruption or Disruption? “Pardon the interruption.” Or: “Welcome to our disruption.” If we interrupted, you were in the middle of a sentence and we chimed in with our statement. Hurricane Harvey was a major disruptor—to life, to business, to […]
November 8, 2017

Traffic Congestion Meets Highway Expansion

Or: The Texas Two-Step. Our past two entries focused on the pitfalls of potholes, followed by the need for constant highway maintenance across the country. This week, we land much, much closer to (our) home. As we’ve proudly noted in […]
November 1, 2017

Maintaining United States Roadways

Funding the Highway Trust Fund.  Following our entry last week on the pitfalls of potholes, we expand the issue this week to highway construction and maintenance in general. Simply put: our nation’s roads provide a lifeline for passenger and commercial […]
October 3, 2017

Rebuilding: Royal Purple Edition

Flooding Raceways with Vehicles.  The impact of Hurricane Harvey continues to have a highly challenging ripple effect. While this is felt most prominently in Texas, other geographic areas also are experiencing the consequences. For example: an estimated one million cars […]