Moving Words – Micromanagement
Timothy Brady “Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.” – John Rosemond Here’s something to discuss with your van operators. One can have all the needed capital, the right people, the right customers and the opportunity to grow … however, if one micromanages their business, all of the above will […]
Moving Words – Moving Fraud Crackdown
Timothy Brady “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” – Sophocles On April 4th, 2023, the FMCSA announced the start of Operation Protect Your Move, a nationwide enforcement effort on scam movers. The FMSCA deployed several dozen investigators across the nation to crack down on a sizable increase in complaints from consumers of unscrupulous […]
Moving Words – Operational Cost of Trucking
Timothy Brady The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has released the results of its 2023 Operational Costs of Trucking study. The research analyzes a broad range of line-item costs, operating efficiencies and revenue benchmarks by fleet size and sector. Total marginal costs increased to their highest level for the second year in a row in […]
Moving Words – Driving Time
Timothy Brady A study by Forbes Advisor deciphered the National Highway safety data from 2016 to 2020 with the specific intent of revealing highway crash fatalities for each state for each hour, day, and month. Interestingly, it was determined in the study the most dangerous hour to drive in the United States is between 6pm […]
Moving Words – Ambidexterity
Timothy Brady “I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.” Yogi Berra Trucking’s a very interesting business, in which few freight carriers survive and thrive from decade to decade. Think of the trucking companies that ran for 40+ years, but when deregulation occurred in the 1980s, many of those “old” companies didn’t exist by 1990. […]
Moving Words – Best
Timothy Brady “Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.” Tom Landry When the comment’s made that a mover needs to provide value to his/her shippers and corporate accounts, we usually think of the services we provide and how we can add value to them. This is a very important aspect […]
Moving Words – Last Mile
Timothy Brady “All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toll.” Henry David Thoreau We have all heard the logistics term the Last Mile and how it applies to the small package and food delivery business. However, in the moving business we’ve been dealing […]
Moving Words – Friend or Foe?
Timothy Brady “Trust not yourself, but your defects, make use of every friend and every foe.” – Alexander Pope” Many Van Operators have difficulty understanding the complexities of the different discounts in the HHG industry. This causes many of us to distrust discounts. Although household movers no longer use across-the-industry tariffs, each van line now […]
Moving Words – Competing for Talent
Timothy Brady “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan To paraphrase my previous blog, “Insanity” : Doing the same thing the same way while expecting different results currently describes the trucking industry, especially when it comes to driver recruitment and retainment. Admittedly, the moving industry does a far better job […]
Moving Words – Insanity
Timothy Brady “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.” – Lawrence Kudlow Let’s look back at an article I wrote 16 years ago in 2006. Granted, a lot (understatement) has happened in those […]
