All Entries in the "FEATURED" Category
Hair Follicle Drug Testing for Trucking Industry
By Sandy Long – / N2N / – There has been a debate going on among trucking companies for several years over whether hair follicle drug testing should be adapted industry wide instead of the usual urine testing. Some companies such as Schneider and CREngland have adapted hair follicle testing as pre-employment and random testing [...]
White House Releases Global Supply Chain Security Strategy
DOWNLOAD NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY The White House has released a report entitled NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY. – / N2N / – International trade has been and continues to be a powerful engine of United States and global economic growth. In recent years, communications technology advances and trade barrier [...]
VIP’s (Very Important Pandas) Arrive in Paris on the FedEx Panda Express
PARIS – / N2N / – FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, safely delivered two three-year-old giant pandas from Chengdu, China, to Paris, France. The pandas, Huan Huan and Yuan Zi, arrived on a specially-chartered Boeing 777F flight known as the “FedEx Panda Express” and [...]
World Trade Organization Issues Formal Invitation to Russia
- / N2N / – On December 16, 2011, trade Ministers approved the terms of Russia’s accession and issued a formal invitation for Russia to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) as its 155th Member, culminating Russia’s 18-year effort to join the multilateral trading system. Russia’s WTO membership will directly benefit U.S. economic interests by [...]
Are Transportation Companies Notorious for Cheating One Another?
- / N2N / – I have an acquaintance who owns a small, non-asset third party logistics (3PL) company. He is constantly complaining to me about how cutthroat the transportation business is and how his customers and vendors are always cheating him out of money. He spends a great deal of time trying to collect [...]
7 Myths About C-TPAT Certification
- / N2N / – As a C-TPAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) consultant I find there are a number of myths, or misconceptions about C-TPAT Certification. It seems that these myths continue to float around the industry because I keep running into them. Here’s a few of the myths: 1) My company is too small [...]
Download Free PDF – All About C‐TPAT Portal Release 65
DOWNLOAD C-TPAT_PORTAL RELEASE 65 UPDATE – / N2N / – On November 12th, 2011 a new release of the C-TPAT web portal will be deployed. The new release adds many new functions for the trade including a rewrite of the “Validation Response” page. Also included is an adjusted scorecard which is viewable after the completion [...]
6 New Free Videos – Exporting to China, Vietnam, India & More
FREE VIDEOS – / – N2N – / – 58 percent of U.S. exporters export to only one market, mainly Canada. Many small and midsized companies that work with the U.S. Commercial Service have found new customers in dozens of markets. Among the emerging markets for U.S. companies are Vietnam, India, Indonesia, China, Taiwan and [...]
Free Download – Updated Private Sector Resource Catalog
pso-private-sector-resource-catalog-3 FREE DOWNLOAD – / N2N / – The Department of Homeland Security’s Private Sector Resources Catalog has been completely updated and reorganized to ensure that you and your organization can quickly and easily find all the resources that you need. The first catalog to be targeted specifically towards private sector partners and encompassing the [...]
Much Has Changed For Women Truckers, But Not Everything
By Sandy Long – / N2N / – There is a lot of talk these days about how to make women more comfortable about entering male dominated fields. Leveling the playing fields so that any job is available to any gender in today’s economy makes a lot of sense; but how does one make anyone [...]
Happy 4th Anniversary Women In Trucking Association!
- / N2N / – May of 2007, Ellen Voie founded the Women In Trucking Association (WIT) with a dream of making the industry better for women and all drivers. After four years, WIT and Ellen Voie have come a long way. With over 1600 members comprised of both drivers, carriers and others in the [...]
UPS Sends Volunteers and Money to Aid Tornado Victims
- / N2N / – UPS (NYSE: UPS) has activated its newly-created Logistics Action Teams (LAT) to support the American Red Cross’s relief efforts for victims of the recent tornadoes in the southeastern United States. Additionally, the company pledged an additional $100,000 to its original $500,000 commitment to the American Red Cross and made a [...]
USA Submits to Blackmail
by Sandy Long – / N2N / – It is amazing that the United States of America bows down to economic pressures from a third world country to allow hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign trucks and their drivers into the country to take freight out of US driver’s trailers. This after the American people, [...]
