Avery Vise is executive director, trucking research and analysis for Randall-Reilly Business Media and also serves as senior editor, industry analysis for Commercial Carrier Journal. Previously, he was editorial director of Randall-Reilly’s Fleet/Dealer/Aftermarket group and had served as chief editor of CCJ for 10 years. From 1985 to 1998, Vise worked for McGraw-Hill’s Aviation Week Group, covering Congress and the Department of Transportation for publications about the commercial aviation industry. He has received numerous awards from American Business Media and the American Society of Business Publication Editors for his coverage of the trucking industry. Vise is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., with degrees in government and history.
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John builds widgets, and they are selling like iPods. He needs more trucks to avoid either a production slowdown or costly warehousing of his freshly manufactured widgets. Don's trucking company is John's principal carrier. To meet John's needs, Don adds trucks and recruits 50 drivers ...
Transportation requires constant management, often 24 hours a day. Any number of calamities can challenge your ability to continue operating. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires and floods are obvious examples, but even routine challenges, such as power outages, can disrupt your business and lead to unfortunate ...
Congress soon may break the longstanding deal with highway users that built the interstate highway system. Taxes on gasoline and diesel helped create a transportation network that allows for the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. In return for users' commitment to fund ...
Hogan Transports' hands-on approach to fatigue and other safety challenges earns the
St. Louis-based truckload carrier recognition as CCJ's first Innovator of the Year.
In the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 23, Jim Lager ordered two drivers to park their trucks and rest. Carriers shut down drivers ...
The next Truckload Carriers Association audio conference will address the potential benefits of branding for trucking companies. Entitled "Improve Your Profitability by 'Branding' Your Company," the audio conference, which also involves an optional webcast, is scheduled for 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern time on ...
Some of your risks are clear, such as the possibility of a catastrophic accident. But many risks are hidden or less obvious. What are some things that you should be worrying about that perhaps you aren't?
Henry Seaton, a partner with Seaton & Husk and CCJ's ...
In 1981, the science fiction classic "The Road Warrior" foretold a future where gasoline is so precious that its scarcity causes civilization to break down and allows lawlessness to rule the day. It was fantasy, but like most good science fiction it was rooted in ...
Without any fanfare, the U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a mandatory truckload fuel surcharge as part of the major highway bill (H.R. 3) working its way through Congress. The provision was included in an amendment offered by House Transportation Committee leaders that was ...
The bureaucrats at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration really, really don't want to change the current hours-of-service regulations again. Can you blame them?
Consider how frustrating this rulemaking has been already for FMCSA and its predecessor, the Office of Motor Carriers of the Federal Highway ...
The Internal Revenue Service bills itself as an excellent investment of taxpayer dollars since its $10.2 billion budget leads to a return of more than four times that much in enforcement revenues.
Remember a few years ago when everybody was down on the Internal Revenue Service? ...
