Bryan Harvey is frequently reminded that he shares a name with the storm that dumped 50 inches of rain on metropolitan Houston and unleashed the floods that have him working 14-hour days towing water-logged cars.
Even in their despair, some victims have salvaged a smile by posing for pictures in front of the "Harvey's Towing" sign on the side of his red Dodge Ram 5500 flat-bed truck.
More than a week after Harvey slammed Houston, wreckers like Bryan Harvey are still hauling cars and trucks from flooded neighborhoods to dealerships or to vast fields where insurance adjusters can assess the damage.
By Ed Pierce, Fleet Industry Marketer
My just-completed series on “Marketing Scams” resulted in more feedback than usual, and it is heartening to know that several executives are looking more carefully at marketing events to prove their real value.
In my August column, I wrote about a number of executive consulting groups and event companies offering “exclusive” executive events for a limited number of sales representatives to attend. The promise of meeting with key C-level decision-makers seemed too good to be true.
How fast is disruption reshaping the personal-mobility landscape, and what will new value pools look like as the ecosystem evolves?
What a difference a few years makes—the automotive sector is changing, and it’s changing fast. Start-up CEOs have risen as superstars of the industry almost overnight.
Artificial intelligence is poised to become a base technology for every engineering department.
Hundreds of thousands of storm-damaged cars are poised to flood the used-vehicle market following Hurricane Harvey, and now Hurricane Irma is threatening to place even more consumers at risk of unknowingly buying a wrecked ride.
With as many as 1 million vehicles in Texas damaged or destroyed by Harvey's furious floods — and Irma barreling toward Florida — analysts are warning Americans to check vehicle history reports and inspect used cars carefully before buying.
Vehicle history report company Carfax said about half of cars damaged by floods return to the road.
One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management.
By the time they arrive in my classroom, they are two days into the fall term, and I can already see that some of them are barely keeping their heads above water.
I see this lecture as both a reality check and a breath of fresh air. They will never get everything done, but they can get the important things done.