September 6, 2016
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 […]
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August 30, 2016
Streamlining Complexities. When disaster strikes, a number of people in different industries begin a series of responses, with urgency. When the efforts move from rescue to recovery, the coordination of these efforts is especially important. The recent floods in Louisiana […]
August 23, 2016
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 […]
August 16, 2016
Porter: From Driving to Dispatch. Sharon Porter has worked with Team NATCO for 15 years. She knows both sides of the freight business, from driver’s seat to dispatcher’s chair, and she’s glad to share her secret to success: Patience. “‘Thank […]
August 9, 2016
Revisiting Key Ideas in Transit. Here’s a bit of follow-up to some of the issues we’ve been covering in this space: Cargo Theft. According to our friends at Overdrive Magazine, cargo theft has declined 11 percent this quarter compared to […]
August 2, 2016
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 […]
July 26, 2016
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 […]