Moving Words – AB-5
Timothy Brady “I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.” -Anna Kendrick Nearly everybody in the moving industry knows about AB-5, the California Independent contractor law that put the vast majority of people who do freelance contracting for many industries into being employees. This could be a game-changer for the […]
Moving Words – Winter
Timothy Brady “The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.” – Unknown We’re in the middle of winter (like I’m telling you something you don’t know). February into March can toss some nasty frozen, cold weather at movers. So are your van operators and moving crews really prepared for the […]
Moving Words – Storytelling
Timothy Brady “I’ll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.” – Vera Nazarian, author If we’d believed the predictions of the future in the mid-1900s, in 2020 household goods would be transferred though space and time as a real-life Scotty beamed the Johnson’s belongings from Memphis to San […]
Moving Words – Cybersecurity
Timothy Brady “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.” – Stephane Nappo The moving industry is no less vulnerable to cyberattack than any other industry. All you need to do is look at the industry’s dependency on the internet to conduct business. While having the […]
Moving Words – Happy Holidays
Timothy Brady “Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young Wow! The holiday season is upon us once again. The season of giving and celebration of life is on the minds of everyone. Movers and van operators are juggling their schedules and loads to land everyone at home for the holidays. We’re all […]
Moving Words – Personal Safety
Timothy Brady “In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson As we move towards the end of 2019, there are a number of things we must bring to mind for ourselves and our van operators: be conscious of safety at all times. Just one moment of inattention may […]
Moving Words – Business Plan
Timothy Brady “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” – Alan Lakein, author When was the last time you read over the business plan you worked so diligently to research and write when you first were thinking of going into the moving business? Business plans […]
Moving Words – Magnetic Attraction
Timothy Brady “A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.” – Howard G. Hendricks What if you could take your moving company to the next level of success by actions which naturally go together, like they were magnetically attracted? Think about it. If you put two magnets on […]
Moving Words – Economics
Timothy Brady “Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.”- Henry Ford With the lower rate pressures being placed on most segments of the trucking industry, what does this bode for the moving industry? Let’s look at what the logistics prognosticators […]
Moving Words – Farming
Timothy Brady “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower Any farmer or gardener knows that without planting seeds, nothing will grow. But there are a whole lot of other tasks that must take place before you put the seeds […]
