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CCJ Innovator of the Year: Celadon — Career Ladder
The innovations in customer service benefit Celadon financially, but they also have given the company an edge in recruiting and retaining a younger generation of workers. With the logistics industry growing at 22 percent annually, attracting top talent from within and beyond the supply chain can be a challenge for trucking, which often lacks the […]
March 30, 2015
Business
CCJ Innovator of the Year: Celadon — Systems Approach
From 2013 onward, Celadon continued to take big strides in customer service. It created a Customer Experience group to provide red-carpet treatment to new customers and to existing customers in need of extra attention. The Customer Experience team bridges the gap between multiple aspects of Celadon’s business. The sales and pricing departments interact with this […]
March 30, 2015
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CCJ Innovator of the Year: Celadon — Path to Improvement
About 4½ years ago, Meek changed the hiring standards in Celadon’s customer service operations. Rather than hiring people with experience in truckload, Celadon would hire college graduates with no experience in trucking and train them in the Celadon way. This young educated workforce came with experience in technology and new ideas on how to apply […]
March 30, 2015
Business
CCJ Innovator of the Year: Celadon — Getting Started
As the economy started showing signs of life in 2009, Celadon began to lay a foundation for being more selective of customers and freight. Will and Meek saw that trends in freight volumes and capacity constraints – such as driver demographics, regulations and equipment costs – were headed in that direction. Like many fleets, Celadon […]
March 30, 2015
Business
CCJ Innovator of the Year: Celadon’s History
In 1985, Steve Russell, from Brooklyn, invested $30,000 to found a trucking company after a chance encounter at a toll booth. As a mathematician, Russell always carried exact change to travel as efficiently as possible. This day was different; he had to stop and wait for change and spotted a former colleague in the next […]
March 30, 2015
Business
Carriers fight Oregon court decision classifying owner-ops as employees
Trucking associations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of a carrier appealing an Oregon decision that classified its owner-operators as employees.
March 30, 2015
Business
FMCSA grants hours-of-service exemptions to Oregon loggers, DOE carriers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in recent weeks announced it has granted the Oregon Trucking Associations and the Department of Energy exemptions from the 30-minute break requirement of the 2013 hours-of-service rule.
March 30, 2015
Business
SmartDrive Systems raises $50M in funding
The company says the funding will fuel the company’s global expansion, further propel product innovation and support its growing patent portfolio.
March 30, 2015
Business
Scott Darling to continue to head FMCSA, drops ‘acting administrator’ title
T.F. Scott Darling, chief counsel for FMCSA, will continue to run the agency following the end of his seven-month tenure as acting administrator. But his title will no longer be “acting administrator.”
March 30, 2015
Business
DTNA bullish on 2015 truck market, says future regs should foster ‘free thinking’
During a press dinner at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., Martin Daum, president and chief executive officer of Daimler Trucks North America, shared his company’s optimism for near-term truck sales in North America, saying at the moment the U.S. is one of the few really strong markets in the world.
March 30, 2015
Business
MATS recap: All of CCJ’s coverage of news and announcements from the Mid-America Trucking Show
Here is a recap of all the news, announcements, and happenings from the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS). Read all about it on Commercial Carrier Journal.
March 29, 2015
Business
TrailerTail will be industry standard soon, new owner Stemco says
Stemco’s recent acquisition of ATDynamics, which is known for its TrailerTail that streamlines air at the rear of box vans, has led to a major expansion of its sales force, said Stemco Vice President Bob Montgomery at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., March 27.
March 27, 2015
Business
Volvo truck boss discusses truck strategy at HDMA breakfast
Olof Persson, president of Volvo AB, discussed the company trucking arm’s direction and strategy at the Heavy Duty Manufacturing Association (HDMA) at the 25th Annual Breakfast Briefing at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky Friday. Persson says Volvo has invested $1.4 billion in North American manufacturing since 2002, with $250 million invested in support of its truck […]
March 27, 2015
Business
Shell Lubricants announces development of futuristic ‘hyper-fuel’ concept truck
Shell Lubricants announced March 26 it has partnered with AirFlow Truck Company to develop a hyper-fuel-efficient Class 8 truck and trailer concept vehicle. The announcement came at a press briefing at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky.
March 27, 2015
Business
GreenRoad raises $26M for growth
GreenRoad will utilize the new capital injection to invest heavily in expanding its sales and marketing resources and plans to enhance its driver behavior technology to capture opportunities arising from next generation mobility models.
March 27, 2015
Business
Results are in: TMW Systems releases 2014 benchmarking study
The study offers the latest data and analysis related to rising rates, driver retention, utilization, maintenance cost control, gross margins and other critical performance measures across a broad cross-section of North American carrier and brokerage businesses
March 27, 2015
Business
McLeod Software begins 2015 benchmark survey
McLeod Software has made it easy for its customers to participate in the survey by developing a new report that generates the data needed.
March 27, 2015
Business
Eaton updates transmission range, announces Neutral Coast feature
Eaton is expanding its Fuller Advantage Series transmissions to nine different variants. The company announced the new Neutral Coast Mode to the Fuller Advantage Series and UltraShift Plus automated transmissions. The announcements came during a press conference at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky.
March 27, 2015
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