This Memorial Day week it only seems fitting that we say a few words about veterans, and I believe that one of my favorite “courageous veteran” stories is worth repeating. In April 0f 1942, 80 airmen, under the command of Lt. Col. James Doolittle, took off on a mission to bomb Tokyo in retaliation for […]

Those who are students of ancient history (Before I Phones)) may recall the “carriers’ market” of 2004, when capacity was tight and freight rate increases were the order of the day. It was a good time to be in the trucking business. For 10 truckload carriers tracked by BB&T Capital Markets, earnings rose an average […]

While information technology has been a fixture in the business community for a number of years, as the years have passed, new innovations have appeared, and technological advances have been made, good technology has become even more critical. In some respects, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy in that the more information we have, the more […]