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The Critical Few: How Steve Saltzgiver Turns Around Broken Fleets in Months, Not Years By Erick Lucas in Driver Safety

The Critical Few: How Steve Saltzgiver Turns Around Broken Fleets in Months, Not Years

Steve Saltzgiver is a four-decade veteran of fleet operations whose career has touched nearly every corner of the industry — …
Recognition Beats Discipline By Erick Lucas in Driver Safety

Recognition Beats Discipline

Picture a driver finishing a particularly difficult shift in heavy traffic, a tight delivery window, and weather that made everything …
The Road Less Calculated: How MileMaker Is Fixing the Routing Problem Fleets Don’t Know They Have By Erick Lucas in Driver Safety

The Road Less Calculated: How MileMaker Is Fixing the Routing Problem Fleets Don’t Know They Have

Mark Lukenbill is the Head of Commercial Operations for MileMaker, the commercial mileage and routing technology that powers Rand McNally. …
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: What a 21-Year Trucking Insurance Veteran Knows About Risk That Most Fleets Don’t By Erick Lucas in Driver Safety

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: What a 21-Year Trucking Insurance Veteran Knows About Risk That Most Fleets Don’t

Kenny Planeta is a third-generation trucking insurance broker with 21 years of experience working exclusively in commercial trucking risk. He …
One Incident Can End It All: What Small Fleets Must Do to Stay Insurable By Erick Lucas in Driver Safety

One Incident Can End It All: What Small Fleets Must Do to Stay Insurable

Derek Legg is a Commercial Insurance Advisor at Levitt Group of Colorado, specializing in high-exposure industries including contractors, landscapers, electrical …
The Visibility Rule: What Drivers Can’t See, They Won’t Improve By Erick Lucas in Fleet Operations

The Visibility Rule: What Drivers Can’t See, They Won’t Improve

The Visibility Rule: What Drivers Can’t See, They Won’t Improve There is a moment in almost every safety program when …

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