When Lisa Steed purchased FedEx contracting rights for two zip codes, she wasn’t walking into a franchise model with a detailed manual and a support team at the end of a phone line. She was buying a business. What that means in practice, how the structure works, and what the first year actually looks like … Read more
Most people outside the industry don’t know that truck driving has a competitive circuit. The American Trucking Associations’ Truck Driving Championships have been running for decades, drawing professional drivers from across the country to compete in precision driving events that test the skills most people never see unless something goes wrong on a highway. Lisa … Read more
Safety culture doesn’t live in a policy document. It lives in whether a driver calls in a near-miss without expecting punishment, whether a close call gets treated as a learning moment instead of a liability conversation, and whether the systems in place actually support the behavior the operation claims to expect. At Linked Again Inc., … Read more
“People-centered leadership” is one of those phrases that sounds meaningful in a conference room and gets tested immediately on an actual route. In a delivery operation, where drivers are moving fast, timelines are tight, and the margin for error has real consequences, leadership either works or it doesn’t. The team knows within the first few … Read more
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2026 runs September 13 through 19, and for the 38th consecutive year, the American Trucking Associations is inviting the country to pause and recognize the people who keep goods moving across every corner of the nation. More than 80% of U.S. communities rely exclusively on trucks to meet their freight … Read more
