Huffman Trucking GPS Tracking System BSA/310 August 20th‚ 2011 Huffman Trucking GPS Tracking System Background Huffman Trucking has mobile assets that include 800 road tractors‚ over 2100 trailers‚ and 260 roll-on/roll-off units. Huffman employees 925 drives and 425 support staff across several states. The lifeblood and backbone of Huffman is the efficient and timely pickup/delivery of goods‚ and keeping their trucks rolling on the road fully loaded for the outbound/return leg of the trip
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As pointed out previously‚ Huffman Trucking has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years. Our huge trucking fleet and large number of employees exceed the usual numbers for a privately held trucking company. The growth of our company has become so significant that we must now face the issue of expanding our business. Even though our expansion can be done in many ways‚ our financial team has narrowed down our expansion options to becoming a publicly shared company (through an IPO)‚ acquiring
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Huffman Trucking Initial Risk Assessment Introduction Huffman Trucking is a national transportation company based in Cleveland‚ Ohio. (UOP‚ 2009) The organization has 1‚400 employees and 800 trucks on the road‚ with logistical hubs in California‚ New Jersey and Missouri. The company’s mission reads: “our mission is to be a profitable‚ growing‚ adaptive company in an intensively competitive logistical services benefit environment.” The focus of Huffman’s mission is on stockholders‚ customers‚ regulatory
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The Huffman Trucking Company was founded in 1936 with only one tractor-trailer. The Company grew because of World War II; it boosted the need for carrier services between factories in the Midwest to ports on the East Coast. In 1945‚ the business had grown in size to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. They still have a business with the U.S. Government today. Huffman Tucking Company has been acknowledged as the first major freight carrier to subcontract 100% of its information systems support. The business
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Huffman Trucking Huffman Trucking‚ a major national freight carrier has encountered tremendous growth over the past few years. The company now has over 1300 employees‚ 800 road tractors and 2100 trailers. The company has a diverse customer base and shipping ability. Management has realized that the company’s automated information systems infrastructure is lagging. To solve this problem management has decided to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Customer sales‚ orders‚
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Sustaining Employee Performance HRM 300 Sustaining Employee Performance Huffman Trucking is constantly re-evaluations its employee policies and always looking for better ways to serve employees and customers alike. Re-evaluating key positions within the company such as the Operational Analyst‚ and Truck Driver positions in order to sustain employee performance in these areas‚ are just some examples on how the company constantly strives to continue to be successful now and in the future. The following
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Proposal: SR-ht-003 for Huffman Trucking Proposal: SR-ht-003 for Huffman Trucking Huffman Trucking ’s central maintenance facility in Cleveland‚ Ohio and presently has hubs in Los Angeles‚ California‚ St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ and Bayonne‚ New Jersey. To effectively manage their business‚ it is critical that Huffman Trucking can share information regarding vehicles maintenance with each of its hubs‚ including parts inventory and vendor data. Huffman Trucking needs a solution that would allow them
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Running Head: HUFFMAN TRUCKING COMPANY TELEPHONY PAPER Huffman Trucking Company Telephony Paper NTC 500 Networking Concepts University of Phoenix July 31‚ 2006 Huffman Trucking Company Telephony Paper Communication in a business is the key to success. Interpersonal communication is very important in today ’s often technologically anonymous society. An assessment as to the current Telephone Communication Systems configurations at all four state area locations was made. Recommendations
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Running head: HUFFMAN TRUCKING Huffman Trucking: Database Design and Development Huffman Trucking started out as a single owner‚ single truck and trailer‚ operating in the Cleveland Ohio area back in 1936 doing local contract hauls. Today‚ Huffman Trucking is a National carrier with 1‚400 employees‚ 800 tractors‚ 2‚100 trailers‚ and 260 roll-on/roll-off units‚ operating from 3 logistical hubs located in Los Angeles‚ California‚ St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ and Bayonne‚ New Jersey
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In the file ACC 291 Week 5 Huffman Trucking you will find overview of the following parts: Memo Huffman Trucking Liquidity Ratios Huffman Trucking Profitability Ratios Huffman Trucking Solvency Ratios Business - Accounting ACC 291 Week 5 Huffman Trucking Project Paper Week Five Assignment Project Overview Huffman Trucking is a large organization that provides transportation of goods and services to its customers. In order to better serve these customers and
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