Traditional working practices are changing and this is for the better. No longer should the sales and marketing teams be a separate commodity, but they should learn to work together and to bring a sense of accomplishment by bringing more clients in.

The key to any small business is to effectively sell your business and products to potential customers, if you can’t do that your business won’t last. There are numerous businesses out there with the dream of making it in the business world; however, if they don’t understand how to market correctly the likelihood of failure is high.

Different organizations are coming together to ask for stability for the Highway Trust Fund, to ensure that the infrastructure has the ability to grow and develop over the coming years. This is a direct message to congress in the hope they will listen. Sixty-two groups including the AMSA are voicing their support for the fund to ensure business growth.

In the moving industry, what makes a great business opportunity is that as the ever-increasing population matures, they could potentially lead to new customers. How many businesses could reflect in this economic downturn that customers they have helped before are now helping the next generation too? This next generation of moving customers has different needs that your business can accommodate.

The changes happening with regard to the driver’s ELD’s, electronic logging devices, and the way technology is used in haulage vehicles is going to be laughable in a few years. There are those who are worried about the costs of implementation of new systems and what it will mean to their business. There are those who are big enough and have enough influence in the market that the transition is part of progress. Then there are those that are fighting the change, who are saying why change something if it is not broken?

With the changing of the technology available and the move in the direction of electronic logging devices or the ELD’s, electronic logging devices, which is currently a new requirement this year brought into use by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the aim for this new regulation is to bring all industries together. While some businesses chose the paper system, others chose technology. This brings both areas together under the requirement for electronic devices to keep their records of duty status.