Awards, Branding - Company
Left Lane Associates Named to Canadian Business GROWTH List
Canada’s leading transportation M&A specialist ranks among fastest-growing companies Left Lane Associates, Canada’s leading mergers and acquisitions firm for the supply chain industry, is proud…
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Customer Relationship Managerment (CRM), Front Page
Prepare your fleet for a pandemic pivot
While coaching my kids in minor hockey I was introduced to the concept of pivoting. On the ice, it’s a very effective skating tactic to…
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Front Page, Trucking - Carrier
The promise and shortcomings of autonomous tech
Every truck driver knows what to do when they come to an S-curve: take it easy, accelerate gradually through the turns, and then get back…
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Content Marketing, Customer Relationship Managerment (CRM), Front Page
Should you lease or buy trucks?
When I purchased my first truck 25 years ago, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. The lease I signed for one truck…
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Customer Relationship Managerment (CRM)
How to survive a post-Covid supply chain
Congratulations to Canadians whose collective response to the Covid crisis has been ranked among the best in the world. As we slowly reopen the economy…
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Marketing
Covid-19 shuffles M&A landscape
The Covid-19 crisis has put many trucking companies on the ropes, while also creating a new set of well-liquidated first-time buyers. Because the pandemic has…
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Branding - Company, Health & Safety
Prepare for more trucking industry work at home
There is no sugarcoating the reality that the world is in the throes of a deep recession. Not a trucker on the planet has experienced…
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Branding - Company, Marketing
Now is not the time to isolate your business
With the ongoing freight recession and the chaos triggered by the COVID-19 crisis, you have to wonder how many more blows Canada’s trucking industry can…
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Health & Safety
Lasting benefits will emerge in the Covid-19 fight
March felt like it had 120 days. Most Canadians passed the time social distancing while stressing about health, family and finances. Truckers, meanwhile, have been…
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Communication, Marketing
Fleets need to be disaster-ready as coronavirus outbreak takes hold
Little did I know while writing last month’s column on “potential speed bumps for supply chains in 2020” that we’d start the year on the…
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