With so many advances in technology I wanted to see if the trucking industry was keeping up. The short answer is a big YES! There are so many programs, tools, and apps available right now it is almost crazy.

The trucking industry, just like every other industry, has taken full advantage of the resources available. All those gadgets, made life easier then ever!

A person could spend a couple weeks and never see everything that is out there. This is both good and bad. It is good because everything that makes life easier benefits us in other areas. Electronic logs can save time, and more accurately record information.

Technology keeps us in contact not just with our loved ones (which is important), but with other drivers, brokers, carriers, and the home base. What is the bad part? Is that there are so many to choose from and it can be hard to find the right one.

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Why download apps?  Main reason will be to save time, of course. Saving a few minutes here or there may not seem like much but it will add up over the course of a year. Think about it this way, if you saved ten minutes a week for 52 weeks, that’s 520 minutes or almost 9 hours! What would you do if you were able to gain the equivalent of one complete workday?

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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) introduced the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) initiative in December 2010.

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This initiative was made to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities of the commercial motor vehicles and to improve large truck and other vehicle safety.

Prime intention with enforcing this (CSA) safety system is to make the roads safer for commercial and public vehicles in other words, to protect employees, passengers, and the driving public.

With the new CSA system carriers receive monthly safety evaluations which entails good or bad safety ratings. When bad safety rating is noticed the carrier and the driver receive penalties for violating these regulations.

Train your drivers to drive safely

The future of your company depends on your employees driving behavior on the road, it effects on your finances, fuel costs, truck maintenance expenses and many other costs.

Drivers are the heart and soul of your company, that is why is so important to Educate your truck drivers about CSA initiative. Train them to drive carefully and to understand the risk when they are on the road.

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Invest in our company’s future, aim to zero employee crashes, train them to be able of making safer and better decisions when they are driving.

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In every play we have main characters and people behind the curtain who are taking care of the total picture to be perfect, from the beginning to the end of the play. Dispatchers are people behind the curtain, link between truck drivers and customers or vendors.

For sure without truck drivers this all system will be impossible to manage but without dispatchers it will be a ticking bomb. This group of people have all the strings in their hands, trust me they know which string to pull to make an ideal performance.

We know that in every group there are individuals who are popping out from the rest. The dispatcher who developed special skills and intuition is prodigy of his kind.

Here are few special things that best truck dispatchers do:

Have a software that helps them.

It is very hard to follow the process only by a manual work, it requires a lot of time a lot of concentration a lot of energy and it can be very hard even for the best ones.

Having a program that can assist with this information’s is one step closer to a well done job:

• keeping records of the truck driver daily steps for errors or violations
• following truckers behavior and keeping him legal on the road
• keeping track of the weather where the truck drivers are or headed to
• determine the best delivery methods and negotiate rates
• identify and evaluate any special needs for each load
• advice to the truck driver for construction areas, accidents, traffic problems or other hazards
• prioritize time sensitive cargo
• keeping up with maintenance
• automatic and accurate IFTA calculations
• customer information
• fast generation of invoices
• recorded miles
• automatically sorted fuel gallons by state
• automatic generation of billing details
• plan for delivering the most profitable routes
• record information of who delivered what to were
• keeping the customers happy
• keep your drivers safe
• possibility of making alerts of traffic problems such as construction areas, accidents, congestion, weather conditions, and other hazards

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In this challenging economic times it is more that ever important to reduce the cost existing in any business. When it comes to trucking business that traditionally operate os low profit margins getting the most out of what you have is even more important.

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So here please take a detail look how you can reduce on really big and important cost (more about general trucking industry costs you can find here: Truck Insurance Cost.)

1. Get Multiple Quotes/Offers

One of the oldest ways to reduce someones price is always showing results. Getting more companies (agents or brokers) in to the biding war always takes the price down to the bottom. The more companies you can get involved the better results you can expect. It is not always easy to do it and in some cases may take you some time, meetings or just phone calls but hey trust me – try it and save money!

• Contact Multiple Truck Insurance Companies
• Give them a deadline to respond
• Tell them that you would like a meeting with them

No matter what they say and how they might behave believe me all the brokers want to work with you. Trucking companies pay a ton of money for the Truck Insurance and it is way easier to sell truck insurance compared to the car insurance. One Truck Insurance policy is worth up to 10 car insurance deals so have that in mind when getting quotes.

2. Negotiate

The best way to get the most out of this situation is to dedicate some time into this process. In ideal situation it would be best if you can start with step #1 at least 2 months before the current insurance expires.

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Over the last period of months there has been a lot of noise about ELD and all the changes to the trucking industry this new set of rules will bring.

There is a lot of time (ELD Mandate – Release Date) for all trucking companies to adopt but as you all know and a lot of you already use – the market is packed with all sort of mobile apps offering in some cases better and in some cases not so good Electronic Log Book solutions.

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Current Situation – E- Log Mobile Apps

I had a very good experience with all of these solutions and police officers were really affirmative when it comes to there new technology. Is there any bad experience with you guys -please share it with us so that we can warn the rest of the drivers.

In 95% of the cases roadside inspections will accept those mobile App solutions installed either on tablet or smartphone as a valid proof of your driving records. In some rare cases they will ask for the print copy but almost all of them will accept if you email them or just fax them the 7 days records of your driving.

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