Keyword
productivity
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September productivity highest since March 2011
COLUMBUS, Ind. – ACT’s For-Hire Trucking Index indicates that September’s productivity reading advanced at the highest level since March 2011. “Seasonally adjusted, the productivity reading of 63 was up from 61.6 in August and the 57.3 year-to-date average,” said Tim…
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Fleets frustrated over impact of new rules and regulations on operating costs
TORONTO, Ont. — US and Canadian trucking companies have much in common, including their growing frustration over government interference in their businesses, with seemingly little thought given to the full implications of their decisions. That was evidenced during a panel…
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Risky Business: Making safety pay
Incentive programs with good participation rates can decrease losses and increase productivity
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Trucking may have to double hiring by 2018 to offset productivity losses: FTR
The constricting effects of US regulations on trucking productivity could leave the industry having to hire twice as many drivers by 2018 as it does today, just to offset productivity losses. But Noel Perry, senior consultant with FTR, said that…