Moving Words – A/R
Timothy Brady “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie The very best A/R financing is to have your moving business fully capitalized so you can afford to do your own financing. But here are a few different ideas on ensuring your cash flow needs aren’t controlled by […]
Moving Words – Conserving Fuel
Timothy Brady “You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” – Ralph Marston It sounds like an old vinyl record with a scratch, but the one area you can make the greatest impact in […]
Moving Words – Myth vs Reality
Timothy Brady “A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” – Alan WattsThe moving industry historically has been better at retaining its van operators and movers; however, since the Great Resignation of 2020 and 2021, the industry has experienced the winds of change. As older, experienced […]
Moving Words – Retention
Timothy Brady “Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.” – Angela Ahrendts (Senior Vice President, Apple) The key to retaining that team of van operators to haul your customers’ household goods or other freight is simple, honest communication. The biggest complaint many truckers have […]
Moving Words – Security
Timothy Brady “At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.” – Jodi Rel What’s the risk to movers that they, or one of their truckers, will become a victim of terrorism? According to the “Commercial Truck Bus Safety Synthesis Program Security Measures in Trucking” report from the FMCSA, a terrorist […]
Moving Words – Opportunity
Timothy Brady “It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path.” – Michael Dell With the moving sector of trucking in a post-pandemic state of changing, there’ll be opportunities opening to bid on specific customers and lanes. In order to take advantage of these possibilities you’ll need to […]
Moving Words – Magnetic Moving
Timothy Brady “Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.” – Travis Kalanick 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? […]
Moving Words – Electric Vehicles Part 2 (Pros)
Timothy Brady “Don’t focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.” – Alek WekIn the first Moving Words blog article for this month (March 2022), we discussed some of the negatives involved with moving your local moving fleet into Electric Commercial Vehicles (ECV). In this article, we’ll discuss the benefits of […]
Moving Words – Electric Vehicles Part 1 (Cons)
Timothy Brady “I think everything has its own pros and cons.” – Anushka Sharma There’s a lot of discussion today on whether it’s time to start replacing some of the vehicles in a mover’s fleet with an Electric Commercial Vehicle (ECV). While there have been several advancements in the technology of the ECV, along with […]
Moving Words – Jargon
Timothy Brady “I think we invent jargon because it saves time talking to one another.” – John Maynard Smith Just like any industry, trucking and moving has its own jargon. My bet is most people reading this list will know the definition of each term listed. And some of you will have a better definition […]
