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Motus: Monthly Fuel and Mileage Trends for July 2024 Cardata’s Road to Vehicle Reimbursement Revolution Fleeting Costs: Transitioning Your Idle Fleet to a FAVR Program Motus Predicts National Fuel Prices to Be 35% Lower This Summer Remote Workers Before and After COVID-19 Your Company’s Idle Vehicle Problem and Potential Solutions The IRS and Your Company’s […]
Trucker Shortage Could Affect Economic Growth
In order to attract and retain workers, trucking companies are hiking pay significantly, offering bonuses and even recruiting people they previously wouldn’t have considered.
Nearly every item sold in America touches a truck at some point, which explains why the challenges facing the industry, have special power to affect the entire economy.
Trucking often competes with construction and manufacturing for workers. Both of those industries have been on a hiring spree lately as well, and unlike trucking, construction and factory jobs typically don’t require additional schooling. To get a commercial driver’s license, an applicant needs to attend several weeks of school, which can cost about $7,000 before financial aid.
Read the article at The Washington Post.
The Benefits of Staying Connected to NAFA Throughout the Year
There are a number of great benefits to staying connected to NAFA throughout the year.
The Essence of America
"The essence of America — that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea — and what an idea it is: that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn't matter where you came from, but where you are going." ~ Condoleeza Rice
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Editor in Chief
Need to Revive Your Workplace? Try Performing CPR!
By Dr. Jan Ferri-Reed
Are your employees engaged or disengaged?
That may seem like an easy question, but employee disengagement is a real dilemma for many managers. By the time they notice employees slipping into poor habits or bad attitudes it may already be too late.
For example take Matt, a manager for a Fortune 500 company with whom I recently consulted. After ignoring many signs that his team was “less than engaged” (i.e., grumbling about assignments, not taking the initiative, subtly sabotaging change efforts, etc.) Matt couldn’t figure out why he was losing his top performers to competitors. Even worse, he didn't realize he could have prevented employee disaffection by simply applying a little “CPR.”
