Opinion

The Ultimate Plan to Dealing with Difficult People: A Free PDF Download

by David Benjatschek

Whiners, Lazies, Bullies, Passive Aggressives, Stubborns and the list goes on. How to Deal with Difficult People is frequently a top request in many of the workshops I do. While it may seem there are unique solutions to each type of difficult person, I've found there is an underlying general approach that will give you power in most every situation. I've put it on my website for you to download and use.

You tell me what makes a Great Truck Photo – Congrats to Alain LaCharite for making it into the 2012® Wowtrucks Calendar!

by David Benjatschek

Alain Lacharité and his 2006 Kenworth earned their way into the 2012 Wowtrucks® Calendar while attending the Fergus Truck Show. I had the pleasure of spending a couple hours getting…

Get off the Bench and into the Game!

by David Benjatschek

In High School, I had to read the "classic" existentialist piece by Samuel Beckett entitled: Waiting for Godot. The read was as dry as a scorcher on the Arizona Desert. The storyline, in case you haven't read it is simple: Two guys on a park bench waiting for someone who never shows up.

Freedom 55, who needs it!

Hello all. I hope you are all enjoying a great summer and the trucking is good. I myself have recently experienced a milestone of time; my 55th birthday. I was…

Cargo fraud is on the rise. Here’s how to fight back

Cargo crime is an issue that deserves prime time attention. It could be costing our industry up to $5 billion annually, although that’s just an estimate because until recently disjointed…

Those Crazy Latvians

by Harry Rudolfs

While I was going to university in the early 90s, I snagged this job covering North America (read Toronto) for an English language weekly newspaper, the Baltic Independent, out of…

Want to run nice trucks? Treat your people right, the nice trucks will follow.

by James Menzies

I visit a lot of fleets and I’ve noticed an interesting trend. The companies that run the nicest, most modern equipment are the same companies that have the longest serving…

2 Success Tools for Everyday Life: If you want to be an A-Lister, these B Lists will get you there!

by David Benjatschek

A-listers is a term commonly used for those elite Hollywood stars that make over $15 million per film. While I want each one of you to be an A-lister, I don't share the Hollywood definition of what it means. I think that the Hollywood definition is dangerous to us all because it defines success by monetary income/wealth or the "Stuff" we've accumulated. For me an A-Lister is someone who is simply happy with their life because they are meeting the goals they set for themselves no matter what they are.

Driver Trainers

I wonder sometimes how difficult it is for the person who is just about to make the leap into this industry to get a good start. When I think back…

In Praise of Skid Schools

by Harry Rudolfs

Sharing a couple of wobbly pops with my friend Hartley Nagy the other evening and I was surprised to learn that he’d recently taken a course at a skid school…

The Incredible Power of Authenticity for Business & How Social Media can help you find it

by David Benjatschek

Authenticity. Freedom to be yourself. YOURSELF .... complete with all your glorious strengths and weaknesses. To place yourself in your authenticity is a powerful place for both corporations and individuals. I'd like to spend a bit on why it is so important for companies and how Social Media can be an important tool in finding it. As an example, let me brag on a favorite restaurant of mine in Calgary called Marathon.

ready for the surge

I recently spoke with Greg Laurin on how Conestoga Cold Storage is helping customers meet the challenge of cost containment while preparing for growth. Greg had some very interesting insights…

Heading to Fergus & Rodeo du Camion: The 2012 Wowtrucks® Calendar

by David Benjatschek

My tickets to Ontariio are booked! The government is making sure I can actually take the Air Canada flight booked .. All is good with this photographer:O) Now its just taking in Fergus and Rodeo du Camion, meeting some great people, picking out some winning trucks for the Wowtrucks® Calendar and having a blast! I can't wait to meet the men/women behind the trucks that win their way into the calendar and tell their story ... that is the bigggest honor behind doing the calendar.

Dan Pautler–on the road again

by Harry Rudolfs

Dan Pautler Live I started reading about the Beat writers in 1967, probably when I was 14 or 15. When I read On the Road, what amazed me was…

It’s time that I made time for that!

In preparing for this month’s blog for Truck News I decided to do some homework, so I cataloged every month’s writings by date and subject matter that I have written…