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Business View Magazine
52 Business View – October
Supply Chain
accounting while completing a college degree
in business. Her role increased after the
education was completed.
Trailiner’s trailers are 53-foot high-cube
reefers that can handle all sorts of products,
and are equipped with state-of-the-art
temperature control equipment. Drivers are
required to attend at least one safety meeting
each quarter, which has allowed the company
to maintain one of the best safety ratings in the
country – and take advantage of some of the
trucking industry’s lowest insurance rates.
All trucks are linked via a satellite
communications network that allows for
monitoring of the location and status of all trucks
and provides a two-way communications link
with all drivers and terminals.
In fact, Edmondson said Trailiner was far ahead
of the curve on staying in touch, even years ago,
and It’s all quite a departure from her early days in
the office, when she’d come in and be greeted by
a giant wall-sized dry erase board crammed full of
driver names, numbers, locations and destinations.
All trucks are being equipped with Rand
McNally’s TND 760 Fleet Edition management
system.
“We adopted the satellite trucking technology in
the late ’80s and early ’90s before there was even
GPS in the truck, and since then we have been able
to maintain some level of text communications
with the drivers,” she said. “That has expanded
over the years.”
