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Using Effective Rate Management to Boost your Drayage Trucking Business
DrayMaster’s Travis Barnier joins Let’s Talk Supply Chain to discuss effective rate management for drayage truckers and 3PLs Intense competition within the drayage industry is causing trucking companies and 3PL
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Envase Gives Back: Supporting the causes important to our team
We are fueled by people. Every day, we come into work looking for a way to improve the lives of people in our industry. Whether it be our customers or people we haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet, our purpose is to support, guide, and empower individuals in our industry to succeed, not only
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How to recession-proof your small trucking company: A survival guide for truckers in 2022
Four key priorities for recession survival This holds true at any time, but especially when facing the type of recession that is looming upon us. Nothing is ever more essential for your small trucking company to survive this recession than prioritizing these four things: Service your customers with excellence Control your costs Look after your
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The Envase Fuel Card – A saving grace for truckers to survive the cost of fuel in 2022
Fuel? A bare necessity for truckers. The cost of fuel? Activates survival mode. This year the fuel market has unleashed chaos on the trucking industry unlike ever before. Fuel prices have hit mind-boggling highs, with the diesel market hitting its worst crisis since the 1970s. The truckers that keep our country moving are struggling to avoid coming to
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July ’22 Team Member Spotlight: Clifton Holloway
Get to know this month’s Envase Team Member Spotlight: Clifton Holloway, Customer Support Representative at Envase Technologies. Don’t forget to check out our previous team member spotlight to learn more about the interesting people who make up the Envase team! How long have you worked at Envase? What is your job & favorite part of it?
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Driver Retention: The Cost of Drivers Leaving Goes Both Ways
Your Drivers Want to Stay, But Without the Right Tools, They Just Might Bolt. When it comes to trucking companies and their drivers, it’s in everyone’s best interests to keep already-employed drivers right where they are. Yet, despite all the costs associated with changing jobs, many drivers are willing to do so if they don’t
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Envase TMS: The Key to Driver Visibility for Small Drayage Carriers
The independent owner/operator – a driver who is running their own small trucking company from the road – has one crucial advantage: If you and your truck are the whole company, you always know where you are. That is something every trucking company, regardless of size, has to achieve. Driver visibility — knowing where drivers
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From Just-in-Time to Just-in-Case… in an Unprecedented Peak Shipping Season
The 2022 peak shipping season presents challenges like few others have. Even beyond soaring fuel prices, the driver shortage and port congestion are creating bottlenecks across different modes and forcing shippers to scramble for strategies. And that’s before you consider many impacts of the pandemic, one of which was to accelerate the move toward e-commerce
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Envase Gives Back: Supporting the causes important to our team
We are fueled by people. Every day, we come into work looking for a way to improve the lives of people in our industry. Whether it be our customers or people we haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet, our purpose is to support, guide, and empower individuals in our industry to succeed, not only
![truck driving on road with mountain landscape in background](/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/pexels-photoscom-93398-scaled-1-768x512.jpeg)
How to recession-proof your small trucking company: A survival guide for truckers in 2022
Four key priorities for recession survival This holds true at any time, but especially when facing the type of recession that is looming upon us. Nothing is ever more essential for your small trucking company to survive this recession than prioritizing these four things: Service your customers with excellence Control your costs Look after your
![](/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fueling-at-pump-1-768x404.png)
The Envase Fuel Card – A saving grace for truckers to survive the cost of fuel in 2022
Fuel? A bare necessity for truckers. The cost of fuel? Activates survival mode. This year the fuel market has unleashed chaos on the trucking industry unlike ever before. Fuel prices have hit mind-boggling highs, with the diesel market hitting its worst crisis since the 1970s. The truckers that keep our country moving are struggling to avoid coming to
![team member spotlight clifton holloway](/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/team-member-spotlight-july-clifton-1-768x768.png)
July ’22 Team Member Spotlight: Clifton Holloway
Get to know this month’s Envase Team Member Spotlight: Clifton Holloway, Customer Support Representative at Envase Technologies. Don’t forget to check out our previous team member spotlight to learn more about the interesting people who make up the Envase team! How long have you worked at Envase? What is your job & favorite part of it?
![drayage driver with container at terminal](/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/drayage-driver-with-container-in-terminal-1-768x468.png)
Driver Retention: The Cost of Drivers Leaving Goes Both Ways
Your Drivers Want to Stay, But Without the Right Tools, They Just Might Bolt. When it comes to trucking companies and their drivers, it’s in everyone’s best interests to keep already-employed drivers right where they are. Yet, despite all the costs associated with changing jobs, many drivers are willing to do so if they don’t
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