The NATCO Blog

Up to 1,200 miles between recharging, which will take 15 minutes. The emissions? Water. That’s clean energy at its most promising potential.

Alternative fuel cell companies like Nikola and Tesla face the same challenges familiar to most industry disruptors, including quality of the product, public perception, and attempts by competitors to quash them.

Or: Wind Can Be a Major Drag. First, the basics: We need fuel to power our trucks and engines to pull our loads. When wind enters the mix, the efficiency of the entire rig can be compromised. Though we’ve studied […]

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 […]

Real Time & Projections Throughout the Industry. Our friends at Truckstop.com maintain a fascinating chart on their home page. Their live feed of postings and rates shows available loads for six types of freight movement, along with total opportunity amounts […]

NATCO on Capitol Hill NATCO was honored to attend last week’s Capitol Hill Fly-In, an annual event sponsored by the Transportation Intermediaries Association. Represented by our VP of Operations Cori Eckley, the 3PL Policy Forum is, according to TIA’s description, […]

Or: We’re Not in Dire Straits. Here’s a good story: The British rock band Dire Straits was looking for its big break in the mid-1970s. The musicians heard a music producer was having a backyard barbecue in Los Angeles. They […]