Funding your business does not have to be difficult. Silver Rock Funding partners with dozens of investors to help. The number of small business owners has quickly grown in recent years. More and more Americans have found it lucrative to drop their 9-5 gigs. This growing number of people means there are more people looking
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Trucking company operations can be complicated. There may be a (few) new apps that can make profiting more simple. Uber for trucking companies? Uber is the ride-sharing app that has revolutionized urban transportation. The hugely popular transportation services are available in 473 cities. The company has now expanded its services into UberEats, which connects individuals to
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We’ve all seen the stories: the American Trucking Association estimated that there was a shortage of 30,000 qualified drivers earlier this year, a number on track to rise to 200,000 over the next decade. Trucking companies are turning down business for want of workers. So how did Surry Community College respond? They saw the need for a
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Trucks are still the dominant form of freight transportation in the US. This past century has been one of change, more so than almost any other period of time. One industry where change has been the most dramatic and the most rapid is transportation. Trains replaced carriages, then cars replaced trains, then airplanes replaced cars
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The summer is the busiest season of the year for moving. It’s well known that the summer is the busiest season of the year for travel. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day a whopping 657 million long distance trips are made. At first glance, the summer appears to be a major boom for the hospitality
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Even small biz owners can have big profits Who would have known that J.B. Hunt Transportation Services of Lowell climbed to number 1 in freight services in Arkansas in 2013 after topping the former #1, FedEx Freight? According to a recent article on their rise, they “did it by continuing to emphasize services and not
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