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The company accomplished this by utilizing geo-fencing at mills, allowing it to break out pay per-mile on longer trips for example, or assign a flat load rate. Plus, the company assigns a pay structure for loading, including a self-load fee at the mill.
By tracking the time and date a shipment leaves, the company’s fleet-management system can also assign a higher hourly rate or multiplier for shipments that leave after midnight on a Friday or on a holiday. So, by working on weekends and holidays, drivers can earn more. Creative, effective and the drivers love it. They feel they’re earning their money, and that they’re being paid for their work accurately.
As another example of activity-based pay, another customer breaks out pay when drivers must deliver to multiple locations instead of just one, otherwise known as “peddle miles.” As a result of tracking these peddle miles, drivers whose runs are under 30 miles can see upwards of 20% higher pay-per-mile compensation rates then if they made fewer deliveries on longer runs.
A one-size-fits-all pay structure just doesn’t cut it anymore. Through experience, we’ve found that fleets can reduce their driver turnover rate by as much as 20% by implementing well-defined pay options.
With the increasing need for just-in-time parts deliveries at assembly plants and the rise of online shopping, which includes free one-day or two-day shipping, major shippers find themselves under pressure to fulfill orders and complete shipments. That’s another reason carriers need to examine adopting activity-based pay options so they know how long drivers must wait to get loaded or unloaded at distribution centers. And then work with shippers to bill for that time accordingly.
If they don’t, carriers can leave a fair amount of potential revenue from detention pay on the table and risk losing their best drivers.
Jerry Robertson is the chief technology officer and co-founder of BOLT System, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of cloud-based fleet-management software. Before founding BOLT with his wife, Robertson served as vice president at business services software giant Oracle and as a CEO of a supply chain management software producer.
MAHWAH, N.J., July 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- As Champions Tour golfers prepare to tee off later this week at the 3M Championship, Stryker Orthopaedics is pleased to announce its presence at the tournament for a second consecutive year. The tournament, known as one of the most popular events amongst Champions Tour players, will take place at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, MN, and is anticipating the participation of golf's greatest players. Stryker is returning with new and enhanced experiences for fans throughout the weekend with its notable onsite activation, the "Stryker Mobility Zone" – a destination designed to educate golf fans on the importance of joint health.
The 3M Championship is also known as the largest professional sports-related charity event in the state of Minneapolis, and aligns with Stryker's commitment to give back to the community. At the Stryker Mobility Zone, fans will have the opportunity to purchase the Stryker hats brand ambassadors Fred Funk and Hal Sutton wear on the course. For every hat purchased, Stryker will donate 100% of the net proceeds directly to the Fisher House Foundation in support of our military.
As an added component to Stryker's presence at the tournament this year, the company will sponsor the Stryker Health Walk which highlights 7-10 health facts and tips along the course for fans as they follow this year's Champions Tour players.
"Two weeks ago I played my best round of the season and I'm feeling very motivated to continue to play well," said Fred Funk. "It's an exciting time and I'm thankful for making the decision to get a Stryker GetAroundKnee. Otherwise my career may have been over a long time ago."
Funk, a Stryker brand ambassador since 2011, is one of the most recognizable names and personalities in professional golf. During his career, which spans more than 20 years, Funk has won eight titles on the PGA TOUR, including THE PLAYERS Championship 2005, and six titles on the Champions Tour, including the 2009 U.S. Senior Open. Funk underwent total knee replacement in November 2009 and received Stryker's GetAroundKnee. He won the 2010 JELD-WEN Tradition the following season, becoming the first player ever to win a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event after total knee replacement surgery.
"I'm excited to play at the 3M Championship again this year. It's a beautiful course and I enjoy having the opportunity to be face-to-face with fans to talk all things golf, as well as to share my story of how undergoing total hip replacement surgery, twice, has enabled me to continue playing golf at a professional level," said three-year Stryker ambassador and two-time hip replacement recipient, Hal Sutton.
Sutton, whose 14 PGA TOUR victories include the 1983 PGA Championship and THE PLAYERS Championship in 1983 and 2000, has been a Stryker brand ambassador since last year. In 2012, at age 54, after speaking with his doctor and learning about the differences in hip replacements, Sutton made the decision to undergo a total left hip replacement and received Stryker's Mobile Bearing Hip™. One year later, he received a matching Stryker Mobile Bearing Hip on the right side.
Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including reconstructive, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology & spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives. Stryker products and services are available in over 100 countries around the world. For more information, please visit our website at www.stryker.com.
The PGA TOUR is the world's premier membership organization for touring professional golfers, co-sanctioning more than 130 tournaments on the PGA TOUR, Champions Tour, Web.com Tour, NEC Series-PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR China.
The PGA TOUR's mission is to entertain and inspire its fans, deliver substantial value to its partners, create outlets for volunteers to give back, generate significant charitable and economic impact in the communities in which it plays, and provide financial opportunities for TOUR players.
Worldwide, PGA TOUR tournaments are broadcast to more than 1 billion households in 225 countries and territories in 32 languages. Virtually all tournaments are organized as non-profit organizations in order to maximize charitable giving. In 2013, tournaments across all Tours generated more than $134 million for local and national charitable organizations and in early 2014 the TOUR's all-time charitable contributions surpassed $2 billion.
The PGA TOUR's web site is PGATOUR.COM, the No. 1 site in golf, and the organization is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
There was stuff going on in the Trump-Russia investigation that the American people deserve to know.
Robert Robb: There was stuff going on in the Trump-Russia investigation that the American people deserve to know.
Arizona Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain sharply condemned the release of the memo criticizing part of the investigation into ties between the Russian government and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
The memo was produced by the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee, and is usually referred to as the Nunes memo, after the committee chairman, Devin Nunes.
McCain was even harsher. He said the release served the interests of no one, except Vladimir Putin.
Now that the memo is public, these condemnations ring hollow. There was stuff going on that the American people deserve to know. Particularly given how the accusation that the Trump campaign was in cahoots with the Russian government to influence the election continues to dominate and roil our politics.
During the election, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party funded, through a couple of cutouts, opposition research on Trump by former British spook Christopher Steele. Steele wrote a series of memos with sensational accusations that have become known as the Steele dossier.
Steele gave the dossier to the FBI. According to the Nunes memo, the Department of Justice and the FBI relied on the Steele dossier to obtain from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorization to wiretap Carter Page, who had been a volunteer foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. Moreover, the provenance of the Steele dossier wasn’t fully revealed to the court.
Flake wasn’t the only one waving his arms in alarm over the prospect of the Nunes memo compromising secret stuff about the way our intelligence agencies conduct their business. But, in this case, Steele just knocked on the door and said I’ve got some info you ought to take a look at. No cloak and dagger involved.
How does McCain explain this memo?
The Justice Department and the FBI protested that the Nunes memo is misleading in an attempt to prevent its publication. Democrats on the Intelligence Committee have prepared a memo reportedly making that case.
Corroboration of the Nunes memo, however, comes from a source highly inconvenient for McCain.
In early January, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham sent a referral letter to Justice asking that Steele be investigated for lying to the FBI.
Graham, of course, is McCain’s best bud in the Senate, and a comrade in arms about foreign policy and military matters. He also was a judge advocate in the military.
The Grassley-Graham letter was also partially declassified and recently released. It said that the Page wiretap warrant request relied almost exclusively on the Steele dossier with no apparent attempt by the FBI to corroborate its accusations. And that the request alluded vaguely to the political provenance of the dossier, but did not tell the court that it was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.
The criminal referral is about Steele allegedly telling the FBI he wasn’t shopping the contents of the dossier to the press when he was.
Graham applauded the release of the Nunes memo, saying it provided the American people “context” about the Trump-Russia hubbub.
Does McCain think that Graham is just serving the interests of Putin?
The American people deserve to know the truth about Russian involvement in the 2016 election. But they also deserve to know the truth about the origins of the accusation that the Trump campaign was complicit in it and whether the FBI did enough due diligence before launching a full-scale investigation into that.
Coven ready: from Instagram to TV, why are witches so popular?
Occult dramas from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to Strange Angel are a theme of the new season’s TV. Is this a response to the uncertainty of contemporary politics?
And the No. 1 guilty pleasure movie with a semi is "Big Trouble in Little China." Even its most ardent defenders admit that the plot makes no sense. But Joshua Rollins of Boston argues the tale of trucker Kurt Russell fighting off ninjas offers real-life parallels. "Like real life, there is no mythic hero, just a guy surrounded by chaos and uncertainty trying to do the right thing ... and get his truck back." Fair 'nuff.
Tied for second place was a three-time Oscar-winner and the ultimate surfer dude. America's favorite cinematic couple, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, scored for their first outing together in "Joe vs. the Volcano." (Ryan in three roles AND the ultimate in luggage. What's not to like, you asked? Well, there are those orange-soda-swilling natives....) Also taking silver is "Point Break," with Keanu Reeves as a sky-diving, surfing undercover FBI agent.
In third, we have a tale of a young man's struggle to find self-confidence ... and master that blasted crane position. "The Karate Kid," also takes the "Rocky" award for guilt by association, in which the original movie, which actually got decent reviews, is almost irretrievably tainted by the increasingly cheesy sequels.
Some of the entries made me suspect our film critic was trying to sneak in a ringer or two. How else to explain nods for "Destry Rides Again," with Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich? Or "The Trouble With Harry," by that hack, Alfred Hitchcock?
But perhaps the ultimate defense was proffered by Nicole Benkert of West Chester, Pa. "My favorite guilty movie is 'If Looks Could Kill,' starring Richard Greico. I describe it as 'the best Richard Grieco spy comedy of 1991' and have yet to have anybody contradict me."
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WATERBURY, Conn.—Although Shen Yun Performing Arts presented an art form new to him, Connecticut superior court judge Dan Shaban liked what he saw.
“[The] costumes and production were first class, it was excellent all around. We enjoyed it very much,” he said, after he and his wife saw Shen Yun perform at the Palace Theater on March 7.
His wife, Florie, also enjoyed the performance.
“I thought it was remarkable, it was beautiful, the costumes were beautiful, the talent was excellent. I enjoyed it,” she said.
Shen Yun’s hundreds of brilliantly colored costumes are designed by company artists to reflect different historical eras and ethnic groups.
Based in New York, Shen Yun’s four companies evolved from the collaboration of top Chinese artists who came together in 2006 to revive China’s traditional culture through classical Chinese dance.
The performances lead audiences on a tour through China’s vast, rich history with mini-dramas depicting stories of heroes and deities, which emphasize values like courage, bravery, loyalty, and compassion.
Mr. Shaban liked the history he saw in the performance, as well as the values he saw portrayed in the culture.
“I think they, [the values,] are pretty much universal, about respect and honor and cooperation, compassion,” he said.
Both the Shabans said they recommend the performance.
“I would certainly recommend it. Both on a visual level, and a substantive level as well,” Mr. Shaban said.
Looking sharp and feeling dull?
The last two days’ worth of discussions on the state of Rick Pitino’s Cardinals has centered around what’s wrong, how low can they go and can the slide be stopped? Nor does talk of the slump seems like an over-reaction; 1-4 in the last five games is cause for alarm. 1-3 in the Big East is a hard hole to climb out of, too. C.L. Brown, Rick Bozich (both with the erstwhile C-J), Mike Rutherford of CardChronicle and NBN’s contributing pundit, c d kaplan have all penned insightful columns asking the right questions about the red bird nosedive. Is the NIT the best we can hope for in the post-season? Is there a “cancer” on the team, as some suggest? And where does responsibility lie?
We’ll also push away from the Card Criticism Buffet and look at the third team in the Division One community who might be be one win away from punching their ticket to the Final Four. Please join Matt and Mark in this edition of Nothing But Net, while watching the snow float by your window; we have the insights and the beat.
The news that China will lend the Democratic Republic of Congo $5 billion to rebuild its infrastructure in exchange for mining concessions should not be a surprise. It is in the pattern of China's 21st century engagement with Africa.
What Could Be Eating Beijing?
To many casual observers, the Chinese economy is Herculean. Chinese leaders, however, are worried as China is excessively dependent on increasingly scarce natural resources.
A 13-year-old boy, expelled from Aberdeen Middle School in October for allegedly holding a paring knife to the face of another student, lost his bid to get his expulsion overturned.
The student, who is returning to regular classes this fall, wanted his record cleared and Harford County to pay for any tutors he might need to help him make up the lost work, among other things.
The Maryland State Board of Education dismissed on Tuesday a motion to hear the case because it found that the Harford school board had followed the correct procedure in expelling the youngster.
The state board would have heard the case only if it decided that the county school board had done something wrong, including violating the child's constitutional rights.
The seventh-grader, who is black, was expelled in October for allegedly holding a paring knife to the face of another student during a home economics class and also pointing the knife at other students in a threatening manner, according to legal documents filed in the case. The knife was a utensil used in the home economics class.
The boy's case has been closely followed by the Harford County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which had charged discrimination and violations the boy's constitutional and civil rights.
Joseph Bond, president of the local NAACP, said the boy was a victim of discrimination because, he said, white children who were also "horseplaying" with knives did not get into trouble.
"Other students were messing around with the knives, I wasn't the only one," the boy said.
Stuart Jay Robinson, the lawyer who represented the youngster, argued that the boy's case was bungled from the start when school principal Agnes S. Purnell suspended him and recommended to the school superintendent that he be expelled.
Mr. Robinson said he was asked to take the case by the NAACP; he is the legal counsel for the local chapter of the NAACP.
He said he may file for reconsideration of the case before the state school board. Mr. Robinson said he might pursue the case because the boy's predicament illustrates that the county school board, and school boards statewide, handle disciplinary infractions in violation of students' due process.
The child's constitutional rights were violated because Mrs. Purnell called the Aberdeen police to investigate without informing the child or his mother that they had the right to counsel and also that they had the right to remain silent, Mr. Robinson said.
Mr. Robinson said the school system is obligated to inform children and parents of their rights if law enforcement officials are summoned because the family may give information to the school which can be used against them in a court of law.
The boy was taken by his mother to the Aberdeen police station where he was fingerprinted and photographed, Mr. Robinson said. Like most juveniles, except those accused of very serious crimes, he was not arrested and not charged, although the school board could have asked for him to be charged with delinquency, Mr. Robinson said.
Anne Sterling, school board president, said that what the school system does and what the law enforcement agencies do are two different things and that there is no obligation for the school to read a child his rights.
"There is no question in my mind that we acted for one reason: to remove from the school setting a child who by his actions was seriously threatening the safety of children around him," she said.
The boy's mother and Mr. Bond said the youngster was singled out for expulsion because he is black.
"There were other kids in the situation at the same time, as a group they were doing wrong, but only my son was singled out and punished," the mother said. "The way that the school system has stereotyped him . . . really made me mad."
Mrs. Purnell, who is also black, said the charges of discrimination were "absurd." She said 29.5 percent of the students at Aberdeen Middle School are minorities and that the expulsion rate for minorities is about the same percentage.
"The claims by the NAACP are irresponsible," Mrs. Purnell said. "They do the entire community a disservice by not focusing on the facts.
"I asked the child to demonstrate on me . . . what he had done and it was frightening to me as an adult. The . . . teacher in the room, the other children and even [this boy] gave the same story about what had happened," she said.
The youngster and his mother insist that the boy was engaging in innocent "horseplay" when he held another student and put the paring knife to his face.
But Ray Keech, the superintendent of county schools, said such behavior can't be tolerated even if it was horseplay.
"If a youngster in school is in possession of a knife, or a dangerous weapon of any kind, and holds it to the face of another youngster that is a serious matter. We have an obligation to all students and teachers to show that this will not be condoned, even if it was horseplay," Mr. Keech said.
The paring knife standard equipment for home economics.
After his expulsion from Aberdeen Middle School the youngster was enrolled in the county's alternative education system at Bel Air High School. He completed the program satisfactorily and will be entering eighth grade next year at another middle school.
The struggle to uncover the FBI’s conduct in the Trump-Russia probe has made some congressional investigators deeply suspicious of the bureau. But what do those investigators think actually happened in the Trump-Russia affair — at least, what do they think the FBI did?
First, they’re convinced the FBI has something to hide. In the last 12 months, the bureau has, at various times, ignored, slow-walked, resisted and downright stonewalled congressional requests, not to mention subpoenas, for information on the Trump-Russia investigation.
Each time the bureau hunkered down, suspicion grew on Capitol Hill. The FBI seemed particularly reluctant to reveal to Congress not what Russians did, or what people in the Trump circle did, but what the bureau itself did.
When did the investigation start? How did it start? What measures did the FBI, its lawyers and its informants employ? Getting facts out of the FBI has been a long and arduous task.
First to cause serious suspicion was the Trump dossier. Eyebrows were raised when investigators learned that the FBI, at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, offered to hire a former British spy who was collecting allegations about Trump and Russia.

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