The Honeymoon Stage Of Trucking Courier Services - What Every Customer Must Know

By Deborah Petersen

A lot of in-city trucking couriers will service a new customer to death in the first few months of their business relationship, but once they feel that they are safe and secure with that customer, they begin to take them for granted and start providing shoddy service. Some couriers believe that since there are so few local courier express companies with a fleet large enough to service their clientèle that they no longer have to worry about competition or they simply no longer care. If you feel that your delivery service is leaving you with a rotten bill of goods, then you are not alone. Please keep reading to learn how you can keep the honeymoon stage alive or find a way to exit what has truly become a dead marriage.

As a customer you may feel that you were once the prize, but you are now despised. Once the honeymoon period is over, you may realize that your courier company is slow to pick up or slow to deliver your goods. This bad service attitude often happens once the courier realizes that the new customer doesn't need their service as much as they had thought they would, hence they are not making much money from them. On the other hand, a courier company that treats all of their customers alike does not care if a customer spends $20 per period, or $2000; they will treat each customer with the utmost respect and provide the same level of service while remaining friendly, courteous, and thoroughly professional at all times.

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Fixing Your Trucking Company's Cash Flow Issues

By Marco Terry

Do you feel that your trucking company is heading straight for a cliff? Do you feel that your trucking company is stuck in neutral? Or worse, do you have lots of slow paying freight bills and not a lot of cash in your business bank account?

Having slow paying clients is one of the worst problems that you can have. Especially when you own a cash hungry trucking company that needs money to pay for drivers, repairs, fuel and equipment. The biggest cash flow issue comes from your slow paying customers that can take up to 60 days to pay your freight bills.

If you are like most owners, your first reaction is to try and get a loan. However, a loan will only cure the temporary problem. What will happen in four months when the loan money has run out? You will be left exactly where you are standing now. Back to square one.

A better solution would be to eliminate the slow payments all together. Note that I did not say that we should eliminate the slow paying clients…..just the payments. What do you think you could do if all your freight bills were paid in two days instead of 30 or 60?

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Trucking truck jobs Available Online

By Maxwell Hurst

In the past, applying for a driver truck job meant looking through the classified ads in the local paper. The advent of the internet has created various trucking truck job sites online making it easier for someone to apply for truck jobs with trucking companies in another state and in even in another country.

It has made the world a smaller place with everything at one’s fingertip and just a click away. Most truck job sites will require a person to open an account, fill in certain information and deposit a resume.

These sites usually ask for pertinent information such as the person’s name, age, address, contact number and social security number.

Other information that will be requested are educational background. Some companies prefer someone with a degree in a certain field or a licensed professional to do the truck job or perhaps a person who possesses a master’s degree.

Employment history is also another thing that has to be mentioned. This includes the truck job description and highlights that you have experienced during your career.

With the information provided, some of these sites offer a service with a fee that will match your qualifications with truck jobs that are available and enable you to apply for that position. Some even promise to make your resume stand out over other applicants giving that person more priority over others but even that is a not a guarantee that one will get the truck job.

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