Welcome back and thanks for reading The Bottom Line! Today I want to talk about the CSA’s “You Talked, We Listened” updates and how they affect you! In late July the folks from the FMCSA sent out a “You Talked, We Listened” email noting some changes they’ve made to their system that make it more [...]

Welcome back and thanks for reading The Bottom Line! I’m going to talk a little about the impending driver shortage and give some perspective on how real this is going to be. One unfortunate fact is that over the last few years many young drivers with little experience just didn’t have success and dropped out [...]

Welcome back and thanks for reading The Bottom Line! Today I want to talk about the BMC 32 Cargo Filing elimination and its effect on our industry. Previously there was a difference between a common carrier and a contract carrier. Common carriers filed a BMC 32 to prove a posted $5000 cargo bond to satisfy [...]

Welcome back and thanks for reading The Bottom Line! Today I want to talk about insurance limits. The current statutory $750,000 limits are quickly becoming outdated. An increase in judgment frequency and an increase in overall cost of judgments is quickly creating a problem for too many trucking companies who have traditionally purchase $1m limits. [...]

Welcome back and thanks for reading The Bottom Line! I’m writing from the American Trucking Association Convention in Phoenix. Sorry to mention it, but the weather is perfect! Anyway, on to business…a big topic this year, as you might imagine, is the implementation of CSA 2010 and its impact on the industry. Over the next [...]

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