We all understand how stressful it is for any driver to have to go through blizzard conditions … after all LinkeDrive is located in the Northeast, home of the dreaded “Nor’easter”. When really severe weather hits, it is especially important to have a system that can easily identify drivers who may be affected and allows the driver managers or safety managers to get in touch with the drivers at a moment’s notice. The LinkeDrive Driver Performance Management platform is designed…
LinkeDrive Driver Spotlight with TJ Powers
For LinkeDrive’s fourth article in the driver spotlight series, we’re thrilled to introduce you to TJ Powers! TJ is an individual that not only highlights the growth in our owner operator business, but his gains also showcase the positive impact that LinkeDrive products and services can have on an individual! Our passion from day one has been on improving the lives of truck drivers, providing drivers and organizations with innovative and leading-edge products and services to ensure a level…
LinkeDrive Driver Spotlight at USA Truck
For our third article in the LinkeDrive driver spotlight blog series, we are excited to introduce Michael McVeigh from USA Truck! At LinkeDrive, Michael is an admired driver that our team checks in on periodically, as he takes being #1 to the next level. Michael started his career at USA Truck 27 years ago as a student, is currently in the company’s Dedicated division, and has over 2.5 million miles of safe driving. Through Michael’s on-going pursuit of excellence, driven…
BNSF Logistics selects PedalCoach for Supplier Incentive Program
BNSF Logistics selects PedalCoach for Supplier Incentive Program Enables thousands of dollars in savings to drivers annually! BOSTON, Mass. – October 12, 2018 – LinkeDrive®, Inc., a leading provider of mobile solutions for the transportation industry, today announces that BNSF Logistics has selected LinkeDrive’s PedalCoach solution for their Supplier Incentive Program. “We are excited to be offering LinkeDrive’s PedalCoach as part of our Supplier Incentive Program,” shares Lance O’Daniel, Director Pricing & Procurement for BNSF Logistics. “PedalCoach is an intuitive, real-time, in-cab…
LinkeDrive Driver Spotlight at Hell Bent Xpress
For our second article in the LinkeDrive driver spotlight blog series, we bring to you Jamie “Hell Bent” Hagen of Hell Bent Xpress. Jamie started Hell Bent Xpress 8 years ago as an owner-operator with big aspirations, a love for trucking, and a keen focus on fuel efficiency and performance. If you happen to be one of his over 7,000 and growing Twitter followers (Mack Lovin @hellbenthagen, https://twitter.com/hellbenthagen), you know that he is a staunch Mack supporter and is in…
Fundamentals in Reaching Your Organizational Goals
At LinkeDrive, we have the pleasure of working every day with some of the top performing drivers and transportation organizations in the industry, with a core focus of offering solutions in saving fuel, reducing accidents, and retaining drivers. We specialize in providing solutions that cut across organizations, empowering not only your operational teams, but also in providing other divisions in your organization such as HR and Training with the right tools and technologies to put the best programs in place to help you achieve your overall organizational goals. To…
LinkeDrive Driver Spotlight at Arrow Paper
Over the course of the next few months, LinkeDrive will be publishing a series of blogs, focused on the drivers we work with everyday. Our goal is to share a little bit about these individuals, highlighting in some cases the teams and managers they work with, and their overall pursuit of excellence. To launch this series, we wanted to start with our first customer, Arrow Paper, based out of Wilmington, Massachusetts. Founded in 1952, Arrow Paper provides a wide…
Shell’s 2018 Starship Launch from AirFlow Truck, with LinkeDrive’s PedalCoach
Chad Kosterman, LinkeDrive’s VP of Customer Success and Operations, visited the Airflow Trucking Company, for the launch of the impressive Shell 2018 Starship. Chad stood alongside as Bob Sliwa, the President of AirFlow Trucking Company, prepared for the initial voyage of AirFlow’s advanced and precision focused truck. Chad was able to witness LinkeDrive’s PedalCoach working real time with the 2018 Starship. PedalCoach is an invaluable asset and driver tool that will help AirFlow reach new industry marks in best-in-class fuel…
Expediters Online: Heavy in the Throttle
Linda Caffee explaining how PedalCoach is the real-time reminder of just how much one should be pushing the throttles at all stages of a drive. Linda describes her driving habits “as if there is an egg between our foot and the throttle…” and PedalCoach is the tool she uses to make sure she’s not going to crush the “egg”. Take a look at Linda’s post “Heavy in the Throttle on ExpeditersOnline.com along with many other articles she has written!…
CCJ: App developers sharpen focus on driver performance
LinkeDrive’s CTO JD Doyle is featured in this recent CCJ article, where CCJ author Aaron Huff focuses on how PedalCoach and our Driver Performance Management (DPM) platform is creating gamification in the driver scorecard space. The article goes into detail on best practices of what we’re doing to create not only a healthy competition amongst among drivers, but promoting best in class performance throughout your overall organization and RESULTS amongst drivers. This methodology, combined with our patented PedalScore Score, gives companies…