Business Webinars

Program Aired: March 16, 2023 2 p.m. ET. Dropping freight rates and rising costs are going to put more pressure on fleets in 2023. Fleet owners need to become increasingly creative to find new ways to reduce cost to protect margins. Recent research by BeyondTrucks found that US trucking companies incur on average $9,700 per driver per year as a result of poor processes and tools. 

Program Aired: March 9, 2023 2 p.m. ET. The newest positioning technology is 100x more accurate than the current market standard. Such advancement promises trucking companies better ways to mitigate risk, reduce liability, and monitor safety. But how does it work in practice? This seminar explores the practical application of precision GPS and discusses fleet safety, accident reduction, and driver management.

Trucking companies today are inundated with fleet data. The constant juggling of system logins, dashboards, and alerts is not only overwhelming, but it’s inefficient and generates higher operating costs.

Program Aired: November 17, 2022. Driver recruitment is inefficient and antiquated. Even the best recruiting teams only hire 2% of the applications they receive. Learn how to multiply your drivers hired and get your driver seats filled faster in this webinar hosted by TransForce. 

Program Aired: November 10, 2022, 2 p.m. ET. Would you believe that in the time it takes to enjoy this webinar, your trailer could be equipped with the KWIK ZIP™ System and new graphics? It's true! The revolutionary KWIK ZIP™ offers ultra-premium, long-term graphics that can be installed or changed out in less than an hour. (10) 53' trailer graphic installations in 1 day? No problem with KWIK ZIP™!  

Program Aired: October 27, 2022

Whether you’re moving goods, storing them, or doing both, your customers expect their products on time and without errors. Any signs of pest activity can have a ripple effect on your business and your employees which is why it’s important to prevent them. Join Orkin entomologist, Ian Williams, BCE, for an educational webinar where you will learn about how costly pests can be for the logistics industry and get proactive tips you can use to help ensure your business operates without pest delays.   

Program Airs: October 13, 2022. Cybersecurity threats extend beyond back offices and to every vehicle on the highway. The COVID-19 pandemic and shift to more remote work has made the trucking industry a more attractive target than ever. Tune into this webinar to learn about the evolving threats and how to avoid a debilitating security breakdown. 

Program Aired: October 6, 2022. MVT Solutions (a subsidiary of Mesilla Valley Transportation) shows how easy it is to improve fuel economy, sustainability, and fleet profitability. The old ways of endless conference calls, laborious and time consuming in-service tests, and frustration have been replaced by racecar engineering and proven success with a group of the biggest fleets in North America.

Program Airs: September 29, 2022. You hear terms like Digital Transformation, Data Science, and Deep Learning every day, but do you really understand what they mean? In this webinar, you’ll learn how these techniques are used to transcend traditional business processes and customer experiences and become equipped with simple concepts to elevate your fleet’s operations.

Program Airs: September 15, 2022. The root of high costs and profit loss in the AP system is manually processing paper. The result of a manual process is costly due to more than just error-prone keying of information. Automating your AP system will expediate the invoice cycle time, reduce processing costs, boost staff-productivity, and more. 

Program Airs: September 8, 2022, 2 p.m. ET. Idle time, whether it’s time spent waiting to load or unload a shipment or in a scale house line up, has significant impacts on your fleet operations. It increases the carbon emissions produced by your fleet, quietly consumes your fuel and personnel budgets, reduces operational efficiencies, and creates bottlenecks along your drivers’ routes. According to SmartWay, a partner of the US EPA, if each driver in a 25-truck fleet idled for only two hours, that fleet would burn 40 gallons of diesel each day, at a cost of over $46,000/year. 

Program Aired: June 23, 2022.

Over the next two years federal regulators are expected to propose new trucking regulations that will significantly alter the world in which professional drivers, motor carriers, and trucks operate. Precisely how these regulations come about – their timing, cost, and content – are strongly affected by politics, the economy and by you, through your comments to the rulemaking dockets.