Truck World: April 14-16 CANADA'S NATIONAL TRUCK SHOW TRUCK WORLD IS HAPPENING NOW! If you are interested in the trucking, transportation, supply chain, distribution, and logistics industries, you should be at Truck World, happening this Thursday through Saturday. Come visit the company that goes the distance for your career at booth #2552. [...]
Geoff Topping elaborates, “On Wednesday evening, it was my pleasure to join Dan Einwechter in accepting on behalf of Challenger the HR Trucking Award Top Fleet Employer for 2015. Each and every person at Challenger should be very proud of this award. This demonstrates to everyone that we are putting people first and truly moving [...]
I thought I would take a few moments to describe a typical day in operations, and what we spend our time doing here at Challenger. Typically, a morning starts by going through “the numbers” (such as on-time pickup and delivery, total miles run compared to plan, empty miles, productivity per driver and miles per gallon). [...]
Last week we participated in Expocam in Montreal, another great show put on by the folks at Newcom Media. Attendance was great and we got to meet with many potential drivers as well as check out a lot of new trucking technology. It was also interesting for me to see all the different types of [...]
It is that time of year when people start to hit the road and go to more events. I bring this up for two reasons. One is to ask everyone to be careful and two to share a list of the events that Challenger will be attending during this summer season. Please stop and see [...]
In my role at Challenger putting people first is a big part of my Job description. Recruiting is important but so is retention and we as an industry need to keep that in mind. I believe that at Challenger we take this seriously and I can tell you for sure that each and every department [...]
What is the culture like at your Company? At Challenger we believe in our People and know they are the most important part of any company. The culture of a company is based on the people and how they interact with each other. Back in August of 2014, Challenger embarked on a journey to move [...]
I hear and read a lot about communication and the speed that we communicate in this day and age, but I often wonder if faster communication is really better communication. At times, the speed of communication is no doubt important, in an emergency of any kind the faster we share information the better for everyone [...]
Firstly I would like to welcome everyone to the Challenger Blog! We look forward to sharing interesting articles, stories and thoughts on various parts of the Transportation Industry with you via this medium. My name is Geoff Topping and I am the Director of Recruiting and Retention here at Challenger and my contribution to our [...]
Challenger Motor Freight Inc. is proud to announce it will be launching their new blog in October 2014. Stay tuned for more information to come.