The inGauge team will be providing an overview of the inGauge Online Benchmarking Service at TCA’s Open Deck Division Meeting next week (October 10th) in Chicago. We will be participating in the Benchmarking presentation conducted by Jack Porter of GPorter Group. To register for the event, please go to the Truckload Carriers Association website.
Alexandria, Virginia:
The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) has made significant changes to its Benchmarking Program and is pleased to announce a joint venture with StakUp Inc. Under the terms of the partnership, TCA will utilize StakUp’s online benchmarking platform for the trucking industry, and will rebrand the service as inGauge™. This exclusive service will utilize over a decade’s worth of data from TCA’s incredibly successful Best Practices Groups, as well as data garnered from StakUp’s existing and growing subscriber base. (more…)
LONDON, Ont. — The management team of StakUp is announcing the formal launch of its Online Performance Benchmarking platform to the North American trucking industry. (more…)
I know from personal experience and talking to many business owners in trucking that they work very hard within their businesses and they find it hard to find enough time to work on their businesses. It is very easy to get caught up in the minutia of the day-to-day task required to keep a business functioning there are many moving parts that all need attention. I ran a small fleet many years ago that grew from three trucks to fifty trucks, over a six years period; I was the main operations person along with being the main salesperson. I was also the goto person for all other major decisions concerning the business. This not only puts a lot of pressure on a person it also leaves a big gap in between being functional in your business with average results and being a high performing company with outstanding results. (more…)
If you’re like most entrepreneurs there are situations that you will find yourself in that eat up a lot of your time and lead you to ask yourself “what has this got to do with trucking
We all have our favourite metrics for helping to translate which way the wind is blowing in our businesses; these metrics are crucial to understanding which adjustments need to be made to reach our respective goals. However, standardizing these metrics across our diverse industry is akin to getting people to tell you which one of their children is their favourite. (more…)
The American Productivity and Quality Center defines benchmarking as “the process of identifying, understanding, and adapting outstanding practices and processes from organizations anywhere in the world to help your organization improve its performance.