Tag Archive for ‘Con-way’

Earth Day — Celebrate Your Progress toward Improving the Environment

On Earth Day, it seems quite appropriate to reflect on Con-way’s sustainability efforts and how we fit into the goals (and the politics) of today’s environmental movement. As a framework, we must acknowledge that our primary business is dependent on petroleum and will be for quite some time. As a result, we are not going [...]

Guest blogger NTSB Chairman Debbie Hersman: Hitting the Road with Professional Women Drivers

This blog post by National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Debbie Hersman, originally appeared in  “NTSB Safety Compass” on March 31st. Late on Wednesday, I hit the road on a two-day, four-state journey from Washington, D.C. My final destination is Louisville, Kentucky, and the 2011 Mid-America Trucking Show, the world’s largest forum for the heavy trucking [...]

Finding the Path to Lower Carbon Emissions, Higher Fuel Efficiency through the Rose Garden

Over the course of history, the White House Rose Garden has been the venue for many Presidential decisions which heralded a new direction for our country. Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to participate in one such event that, hopefully, we can look back on years from now and recall as the beginning of [...]

Business to Our Troops: We’ve Got Your Back

Every day, thousands of our fellow citizens are deployed serving in the National Guard or Reserves, playing a fundamental role that protects our freedoms, maintains peace, and provides relief services to communities in the United States and around the globe. It’s a role that will grow as our standing front-line military continues to evolve. Thousands [...]

Distracted Driving: Gotta Text? Pull Over!

I was talking to a Con-way Freight driver the other day and we got on the subject of distracted drivers. It really lit him up. “It’s getting worse,” he told me, shaking his head in despair. “If it’s not someone distracted on a cell phone, it’s somebody else trying to read or send a text [...]

Recognizing Those Who “Stand the Wall”

As we approach the Holiday Season, it’s a good time to remember and recognize those citizen/soldiers and active military who are “standing the wall” for us in countries around the world, protecting our nation and defending us against those who would try to take away those freedoms that so many of our fellow citizens before [...]

Reducing Trucking’s Carbon Footprint

As much as I’d like it to be otherwise, for the foreseeable future, the trucking industry will continue to be virtually 100% dependent on fossil fuels for energy to power our fleets. As such, the industry will remain for some time a significant source of carbon emissions.