If your corporate mailroom is has grown into an unmanageable mess of lost information and soaring costs, it’s time to consider turning it over to a specialist. However, for large organizations with scores of employees handling thousands of pieces of mail and electronic documents every day, outsourcing a mailroom is a major project that requires [...]
DOT Trucking Rule is a Dud, Industry Groups Say
Changes in hours-of-service will make roads less safe, reduce productivity and increase costs A new U.S. Dept. of Transportation rule intended to improve safety by limiting truckers’ weekly driving time will likely backfire and make roads less safe, according to two industry groups. The American Trucking Associations and the National Retail Federation have voiced their [...]
U.S. Department of Transportation Bans Hand-Held Phone Use by Commercial Drivers
For quite a while now, many truck and bus companies have had policies banning the use of hand-held cell phones while on the road. But this year, the hand-held ban is now a federal law punishable by big fines. The rule, announced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, went into effect on January 3. [...]
Ringing in the New Year!
Outsourcing Insights wishes you the best for 2012 We’re excited to start a new year at DATAMARK, and we wish our Outsourcing Insights readers the best of health and prosperity for 2012. We’re not the only ones who think the next 12 months will be great—62 percent of Americans are optimistic about what 2012 will [...]
5 Reasons the Smartest Freight Transportation Companies Will Outsource in 2012
The freight transportation and logistics industry has climbed back steadily from the economic downturn in 2009. During that time, many companies implemented outsourcing solutions for the processing of their bills of lading, invoices, drivers logs and other transportation documents. Outsourcing these business processes helped create a competitive advantage for these freight carriers, which are now [...]
Test Driving the “Drive Axle” App
Truckers can scan, send and store freight documents with a smartphone. Because we process millions of freight documents every year, we’re always keeping an eye on new products and technologies that can ease the paperwork burden for truckers and air couriers. We’re interested in in-cab scanning, because the sooner a driver can send a document [...]
Trucking Industry Tackles Driver Shortage
The freight transportation industry is rebounding, albeit slowly, from the 2009 economic downturn. However, a lack of qualified drivers is putting the brakes on growth in the sector. Analyst FTR Associates reports that the industry will face a shortage of 135,000 drivers by the end of the first quarter of this year. In a Bloomberg [...]
Supreme Court to Hear Challenges to Healthcare Reform
Is it constitutional for the U.S. government to require Americans to buy health insurance? This is one of the questions about President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul that the Supreme Court will attempt to sort out during a marathon session scheduled for March 26-28. The nation’s highest court typically sets aside an hour for legal arguments, [...]
El Paso Top U.S. City for Security and Safety
No hurricanes, no earthquakes, no forest fires. El Paso, Texas is a great place to be, especially if you need to keep your business running and your data safe from Mother Nature’s fury. The home to DATAMARK headquarters, El Paso was ranked as the third most secure large city in the U.S. in a Farmer’s [...]
Survey: IT Reluctant to Embrace Cloud Services for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Thirty-three percent of respondents have no BC/DR plan in place Information technology managers are hesitant to make cloud services a part of their company’s business continuity strategy because of concerns about data security and the ability to run mission-critical applications, according to a new report from InformationWeek. As part of the 2011 Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery [...]
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10 Business Process Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2012
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Global Outsourcing Market Breaks Records in Contracting Activity
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Understanding the “Insourcing” Trend
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Mexican Trucks in No Hurry to Venture Into the U.S.
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U.S. Savings Bonds Go Paperless
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Say Goodbye to the PC and Hello to the “Personal Cloud”
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EHR Adoption Rises, but Small, Rural Medical Organizations Lag
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Natural Gas Could Save Trucking Fleets Thousands
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U.S. E-Prescription Market to Reach $205 Million in Five Years
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Can States Legislate Health Insurance Paperwork Away?
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