Ask Thorn Valley – August 2020

Question #1: “I need your advice please. Currently our company has 133 CDL drivers between 11 locations and we plan to add more soon.  At what point would a company need a full time DOT Coordinator in your opinion?” Answer #1 from Tom Flaten – VP Field...

Transportation Industry News – August 2020

Truckers Against Trafficking DriverReach provides regular live chats on contemporaneous industry issues.  We’d like to share Jeremy Reymer’s post from 8/13/2020 focusing on Truckers Against Trafficking. Modern human trafficking in America isn’t something that comes up...

FMCSA News and Updates – August 2020

FMCSA further extends the COVID-19, this time through September 14, 2020.  Not only that, transporters of basic food commodities have been re-added back to the list, underscoring the government’s concern that the pandemic is far from “over” at this point. EXTENSION...

The Business of Trucking in Today’s New Normal

How does one navigate through the ever-increasing future uncertainty in the world today – let alone try to survive in the US as a Transportation & Logistics business?  It’s always been easy enough to lose margin, and extremely challenging to keep one’s head above...

Online Safer Driving Series

Our Safer Diving Series offers 17 online courses focused on both small and larger (regulated) fleets. Clients pay a single annual fee for unlimited access to all drivers in their fleet. If you are interested in the Thorn Valley Safety Portal, please fill out the form...