From reductions in accidents to back-office efficiency gains, Mark Haslam, DriverTech CEO, discusses the many reasons carriers are making the move to electronic driver logs. Find out why this once shunned technology is fast becoming table stakes among larger carriers.

Ken Adler, Group Manager, Transportation Policy and Evaluation Group, EPA, discusses the reasons behind the development of the EPA SmartWay Transport initiative. It was developed to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions while improving fuel efficiency in order to strengthen the freight sector. He also explains some of the financing programs and grants carriers can access to help defray start-up costs.

Jack Jones, VP of Truckload Product Development, Transportation Costing Group, explains how using Activity-Based Costing can provide comprehensive insight into the profitability of any carrier’s operations.

Bob Petrancosta, VP of Safety for Conway Freight, explains the three elements he believes constitute a successful Employee Wellness Program, why they went with on-site wellness coaches and the results they enjoyed since implementing the program more that two years ago.

Dave Beasley, Dir. Commercial Tire Sales at Goodyear, gives an in-depth explanation of the financial benefits carriers can achieve by implementing a comprehensive cradle to grave strategy that includes an aggressive retread policy.

In part one of our series on fatigue management, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, CEO for Circadian, a leading expert on managing the risks of human fatigue in transportation discusses the various types of fatigue and stresses the importance of trucking companies developing ways to combat it.