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Your Weekly News For the Transportation and Logistics Industry and careers

Your Weekly News and Career Insights For the Transportation and Logistics Industry

Kelly's Resume/Career Quick Tip of the Week

During this unfortunate time of sudden layoffs make sure you have your accomplishments in hand for your resume. The transportation industry has always been known for suddenly releasing someone and the employee is often caught off guard. One of the most powerful parts of a resume is highlighting your accomplishments to show you made an impact. Companies and managers want to hire someone that can make difference and improve performance. Consistently showing improvements in each position is the best way to bolster your chances of getting an interview. Always keep a file at home of recognition, things you improved. projects and anything that you did that was implemented company wide. Especially keep data and KPI’s improvements at home. You might be able to remember putting a successful process in place, but you likely won’t remember specific results. When it comes time to write or update your resume, you will have accomplishments ready to add with numbers you can discuss. When you start in a new position the first thing you should do is know your starting benchmarks and always keep up with your improvements, in a home file.

Transportation and Logistics Industry News

Truckload freight volume drops 39% in the last week

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Natso is proving, again, that profits matter more than truckers by calling on governors to block food trucks from rest areas during the COVID-19 situation.

New tech, data sources speed carrier-broker rate negotiation

TMC: Chlorine Dioxide Effective Cab Disinfectant for COVID-19 Contamination - Safety & Compliance - Trucking Info

A antimicrobial pesticide under consideration as a treatment for bed bugs is now considered an effective disinfectant treatment for trucks whose drivers have been confirmed as COVID-19 carriers, according to the American Trucking Associations Technology & Maintenance Council.

Why do trucking spot rates change daily? - SONAR

Trucking spot rates are determined by the matching of real-time demand with real-time capacity on a daily basis.

How Coronavirus Pandemic Will Change Transportation, Auto Industries | Trucks.com

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Rig Count Overview & Summary Count | Baker Hughes Rig Count

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