Jenny Glasscock

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1 month ago | freightwaves.com | Matt Herr |Jenny Glasscock |Jack Glenn

Matt Herr Monday, March 3, 2025 Is your fleet ready for CVSA’s 2025 International Roadcheck? The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) International Roadcheck is scheduled for May 13-15.
Scaling strategically with shared warehousing and fulfillment

Nov 1, 2023 | freightwaves.com | Jenny Glasscock

Business growth can happen unexpectedly these days due to the rise of ecommerce, the sudden popularity of “viral” products and busier-than-usual peak seasons. To keep up with demand and build customer trust, a company needs to easily scale its warehousing, distribution and fulfillment capabilities. The right logistics partner can help businesses do just that.
Keep the ‘do more with less’ mindset during a tough economic freight cycle

Nov 1, 2023 | freightwaves.com | Jenny Glasscock

The freight market is inching toward recovery, and although everyone has a different prediction of when the turnaround will be felt, the industry’s boom-and-bust cycles indicate that recovery is inevitable. In recent years, the trucking industry has embraced TMS technology due to its ability to provide complete visibility into operations through powerful data insights and streamline processes.
How Voltera Is Reducing Risks To Fleet Electrification

Oct 31, 2023 | barchart.com | Jenny Glasscock

The popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) has grown so much in recent years that, for the first time, a fully electric automobile was the world’s top-selling car during the first quarter of 2023, just 15 years after the same manufacturer released its first electric vehicle. When it comes to the electrification of commercial fleets, however, real-world examples are just starting to emerge as the path toward implementation becomes clearer.
Echo Global Logistics Goes Beyond AI To Drive Value

Oct 27, 2023 | barchart.com | Jenny Glasscock

The trucking industry is increasingly leveraging sophisticated new technology solutions to tackle some of its most pressing challenges. Echo Global Logistics, a top provider of technology-enabled supply chain management services, rejects a one-size-fits-all approach to technology. It leverages a variety of intelligence capabilities to provide shippers and carriers with solutions that meet them where they are in their technology adoption journeys.
Echo Global Logistics goes beyond AI to drive value

Oct 27, 2023 | freightwaves.com | Jenny Glasscock
5 Advantages Of Outsourcing Driver Qualification File Management

Oct 27, 2023 | barchart.com | Jenny Glasscock

Hiring qualified drivers and ensuring they remain qualified to drive is central to a good safety compliance program. Trucking companies must ensure all new and existing drivers are up to code with state and federal regulations governing truck drivers, which indicates they meet the minimum safety and health requirements to operate a commercial motor vehicle. A driver’s record of these qualifications is called a driver qualification (DQ) file.
What’s Behind Rising Insurance Costs?

Oct 27, 2023 | barchart.com | Jenny Glasscock

When carriers think of operational costs, what comes to mind is typically driver wages and benefits, fuel costs, repairs and lease payments. Trucking insurance costs, however, have crept higher over the better part of the last decade and are a growing, yet controllable, expense for carriers. According to the American Transportation Research Institute’s (ATRI) Operational Cost of Trucking report, truck insurance premiums have risen from 6.4 cents per mile in 2013 to 8.8 cents per mile in 2022.
Who’s the happiest driver on the road? — Taking The Hire Road

Oct 26, 2023 | barchart.com | Jenny Glasscock

On this episode of DriverReach’s Taking The Hire Road, guest host Leah Shaver, president and CEO of the National Transportation Institute, chats with Beth Potratz, founder, president and CEO of Drive My Way. Drive My Way is a trucking recruiting platform that has a mission to “empower drivers to live the life they want doing a job they love,” Potratz said. In today’s climate of high turnover, recruiting efforts are often thought about in the short term.
The Hidden Costs Of Manual LTL Shipment Life Cycle Management

Oct 26, 2023 | barchart.com | Jenny Glasscock

The digital era has ushered in innovative technology solutions to complex problems the supply chain has historically faced. While businesses have digitized their operations, too often data remains siloed between various systems and programs. This creates disconnects, requiring manual processes to complete and connect workflows and the resulting communication and information flow to customers.