First Person
First Person
Intermodal cooperation
Intermodal transport may alleviate many issues facing trucking...
Behind the marque
Sitting in a sun-drenched conference room overlooking Volvo Trucks North America's (VTNA) corporate campus one recent Carolina fall morning, it struck...
Our tools are inventing us
I don't know about you, but I have always tended to think in terms of people using tools to shape their world, not vice versa. But what if the technologies...
Billion-dollar Band-Aid
Our highway bridges and roads are in sorry shape and getting sorrier by the day. Recommendations are pouring in from all sides on how to fix the problem...
Think Tank
All of us who have faith in good old Yankee Ingenuity not to mention the American can-do spirit have no doubt figured we'd somehow slip past the triple...
The tyranny of email
Of all the technology tools large and small that have become a routine part of the business day, email is by far the most insidious. Sure, it presents...
Paying for it
The highway and road networks in this country are in dire need of a makeover, as well as big additions in capacity. The problem is, at the same moment...
Green is gold
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible;...
Splendor in the grass
It is clear that biofuels made from something are going to be a part of trucking going forward, like it or not...
Seconds count
What is one second worth to your fleet? Doesn't sound like much time, I know. But that one second is critical in rear-end collisions, where driver distraction...
Throw out the book
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch- 22, I'm tempted to reply, Who has? Joseph Heller, 1923-1999 That pithy quote by...
Please run for president
It's almost a year until the U.S. presidential election. That means Americans have about ten more months of candidates' speeches, debates, accusations...
