Values Drive Performance

Shared Values Can Lead to Organizational Excellence

We understand you are in business to make a profit. Our Value-Driven® Company modules can help you reduce losses and increase profits by focusing on influencing employee behavior, changing culture, improving communication, and managing risk successfully.

We believe it is everyone’s job to do what they can to prevent losses. We have developed a variety of training tools to help get all employees involved in safety. From seminars and webinars to Self-Service e-Tools and FAQs, we have solutions to fit your operations.

We see “Critical Crashes” as a risk to your company. Our Value-Driven® Driving program focuses on helping drivers do what they can to prevent these types of accidents: rear-end, loss of control, lane change, and run under. All of our driver training programs are FREE to our insureds and can be accessed 24/7 on Great West’s Online Learning Library.

GREAT WEST CASUALTY COMPANY – No matter where the road takes you, you will discover that at Great West, The Difference is Service®.

Eric J. Francis

Step up – Show up

All eyes are on Florida. Politically, economically, and in trucking.

One of the major takeaways after American Trucking Associations’ MCE in San Diego is that industry leaders can’t wait to see what we do next. 2022 was a huge year for FTA. It’s hard to believe that it was just a few months ago we successfully led the fight in a Florida Supreme Court opinion on paid medical damages. We were one of the first (of two) to secure federal funding for truck parking from USDOT. We’ve met with Secretary Pete Buttigieg, FMCSA Administrator Robin Hutcheson, Governor DeSantis, FDOT Secretary Jared Perdue and Florida House and Senate leaders. We’re just getting started.

FTA has big plans for 2023, but to reference the feature article on Board Chair Carlos Currlin, you can’t just talk the talk, we need you to walk the walk. American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) sent out a short survey, asking the industry—from drivers to suppliers, shippers, managers, executives and everyone in between, what the biggest issues are for trucking. We sent it out to you. Do you want to guess how many non-drivers in Florida responded?

39.

Now, not to go all schoolmarm on you, but that just doesn’t cut it. And I know that my last President’s message (and maybe even the one before that) was focused on engagement. Florida is big—800 people move here every day. We’re 22 million+ strong. The state lives and breathes and depends on trucking and what you do.

Our partnerships with federal and state agencies are the envy of others—members can make a call and get solutions before the sun sets. But we’re in trouble if we get complacent. FTA is positioned to be the voice, and face, of tort reform. We’re (as the kids say these days) … influencers.

Step up. Show up. Let’s make history in 2023.

Alix Miller, PhD

Alix@Floridatrucking.org