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As the trucking industry is bracing for yet another revision to the hours of service rules, I believe it is important to note that private fleets will be the first to make the necessary adjustments in their operations to stay compliant. The number of private fleets that use onboard recorders for electronic logs far outnumber common […]
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Gary Petty, CEO of the National Private Truck Council (NPTC), wrote an op-ed piece about the value of private fleets in the August 6, 2007, edition of Transport Topics. His remarks, based on NPTC’s annual Benchmarking Survey, are very revealing as to the strength and viability of private fleets to meet the changing markets of their […]
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Recently, several technology vendors and private fleets have been promoting their environmental strategies. Perhaps the most notable and ambitious of them all is Wal-Mart, which has a goal to improve fuel efficiency by 25 percent in 10 years. Wal-Mart Canada also announced plans to score different parties–suppliers, carriers, etc.–in its logistics network for their efforts in reducing the overall environmental […]
