“You need friends in business”

“You need friends in business” Jim Ramsay from Hooker Pacific declared to the RTF conference last week. One of my customers put it another way, “transport isn’t our only division, but it is the one with the highest costs and the highest compliance – it is the one we...

Hanging it all out there

Can you have a driver that registers the lowest number of speed events through your GPS system but who is not your safest driver? This is the question that came up at a customer review meting recently. It brought home to everyone that a manager’s intuition is an...

CCS Logistics welcomes John Doesburg

A former senior manager with the NZ Transport Agency has joined forces with CCS Innovation in Logistics. John Doesburg, who held the position of National Manager – Commercial Operators Road and Rail at the NZTA is now an Associate Advisor with CCS Logistics. As...

Still got your fingers crossed?

There are too many truck crashes. The CVIU are saying that trucks are getting faster. The crash stats show that trucks travelling too fast was the leading cause of truck crashes last year. Research and my own personal experience shows that driving closer to the limit,...

In Cab Gadgetry

“Are you crazy – you’re putting iPhones in your trucks???” This was my reaction a few years ago when an operator told me he was sending his drivers out equipped with the first generation iPhones. This was before iPhones were even common place on the street, and when...