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The global marketplace depends on commercial trucking, which transports everything from socks and canned beans to heavy equipment and parts for manufacturing. Yet unpredictable oil prices make the business side of trucking especially tricky because fuel costs easily represent the biggest expense in a trucking operations budget. The estimated annual cost for operating a single commercial …

Driver turnover, known as churning in the trucking industry, is a very expensive and time-consuming issue for trucking companies, mainly because recruiting and training new commercial drivers is a huge undertaking. But churning also impacts safety and employee morale. That is, safety data reveals that truckers who change jobs frequently have more crashes than those …