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Guest writer Jim Dettore returns to emphasize the importance of training in this week’s blog post: “The Growing Technician Shortage in the Construction, Equipment, Gas Compression, Marine, and Mining Industries.” Training Matters More Than Ever! The construction, equipment, gas compression, marine, and mining industries are all facing a critical challenge: a severe shortage of skilled […]

Guest writer Kevin Landers returns this week to highlight the relevance of cybersecurity in “Cybercrime, AI, and the Equipment Dealership.” It sounds like the beginning of a bad film, but the reality is that the world of digital crime is continuing to develop as technology evolves. The latest and greatest evolution is AI. As AI […]

An article by a Senior Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal is part of our content this week. Read on for Angel Coker Jones‘ report, “Werner’s Tech Leader Talks Cybersecurity.” Ahead of an all-hands meeting, the information security team at Werner Enterprises (CCJ top 250, No. 14) combined all video archives of CEO Derek Leathers and, using […]

Ron Slee brings our skills for retention back to the forefront in “The Key Tool for Business Retention: Essential Tools for Business Retention.” Building and maintaining strong customer loyalty is essential for your company’s sustainable growth. Success depends on keeping your customers engaged with your products and services rather than losing them to competitors. It […]

Today our Founder and Managing Member Ron Slee writes about adapting to our current realities in “Another Business Transition. This is the critical one…and we are missing it.” I have had an interesting and extremely rewarding career in the equipment world. I never dreamt about working in this industry. It just happened.  I was 22 […]

Our new guest writers, Jordan Arsenault and Nick Mavrick bring big data to their first blog post for Learning Without Scars, “How Construction Equipment Dealers Can Succeed (Or Fail) Faster.” Don’t dig for data. Let data dig for you. Big trouble: that’s how we are ending 2024, most economists agree. Inflation, investment bubbles, over-the-top government […]