Each month NPTC President and CEO Gary Petty writes a column in Fleet Owner magazine that focuses on the individuals, companies, best practices, and resources that make private trucking the force that it is in the American economy. Reaching more than 100,000 subscribers, three-quarters of whom are private fleet professionals, this column provides an excellent forum to communicate the value of the private fleet.
Gary Petty | gpetty@nptc.org | Private Fleet Editor for FleetOwner Magazine
Gary Petty has more than 30 years of experience as CEO of national trade associations in the trucking industry. He has been the president and CEO of the National Private Truck Council since 2001.
Grease Fleet
Restaurant Technologies, Inc. is one of the nation’s leading – and fastest growing – providers of bulk cooking oil management…
Second to None
The corporate slogan for Shaw Industries â “Where Great Floors Begin” â appears on all 3,720 of the company’s trailers.
Marathon Fleet
The Transport Operations group of Marathon Petroleum Company LLC (MPC) operates 134 tractors and 154 trailers throughout the Midwest. With…
Best Fleet by Night
The automotive replacement parts business is demanding and highly competitive. One of the top players is General Parts, Inc./CARQUEST…_x000D_
Bygone Age
It was a pleasure last fall for me to spend a 12-hr. shift with Erwin Deelsnyder, a driver at the…
Behavior-Based Safety
How does a company change an institutional culture for better safety results? The answer lies in both “top down” and…
Best Fleet for the Final Run
With $650 million in annual sales, Indiana-based Batesville Casket Co., a division of Hillenbrand Industries, Inc., is a leading U.S.…
Bright Future
The fortunes of private fleets will continue on the upswing for 2006, with many planning to expand capacities…
Two-Percent Turnover
In a recent webcast on “Avoiding Negligent Supervision,” sponsored by NPTC and J.J. Keller & Associates, panelist Alex P. Jankauskas…
Big Win for Truck Leasing
Among the most unfair anti-business laws are those that impose liability on businesses when the customer does something wrong. Itâs…
Heavy-Duty Dining
Diets of many truck drivers are killers. Truckers, like most Americans, pick hamburger, fries and the like as their food…
Driver Outsourcing
The use of contract drivers continues to be a growth business in the private fleet truck market. Indeed, over the…
30 Years and Counting
When Greg Mathein was hired by SENCO Products, Inc. in the 1970’s, his “marching orders” from the company’s owner were…
None for the Road
In many parts of the country, police crackdowns on drunk driving through checkpoints set up on holidays and weekends…_x000D_
Rolling Billboard
At its Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, NPTC announced that developments were under way for a new membership benefit, the Fleet…
What a Ride
For many who grew up in the ’50s, carnivals represented brightly lurid worlds of forbidden fantasy and adventure. Who can…
Best in Class
This year’s class of Certified Transportation Professionals (CTPs) is exceptional. For the first time in the program’s 12-year history, all…
Crawl, Walk, Run
In the best selling book, âGood to Greatâ, author Jim Collins identified Walgreens as one of 11 companies that had…
The ABC’s of Driver Pay
A few years ago, a growing, high profile private fleet faced a labor crisis. Driver hourly rates and overtime costs…
Bessie’s Longer Rides
Every day thousands of direct-store deliveries (DSD) are made to America’s wholesalers and retailers. These deliveries â so vital to…