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.
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?
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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