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“Why does it take so long to apply and get a job at many of the smaller companies today? I want to work for the company located just down the street. I went to school with the owner’s children and they were good friends. So, I want to work for their parents. Why is it…

Warmer temperatures bring orange cones and construction signs to our nation’s highways. Although these barriers might be frustrating, they are needed to maintain nearly 50,000 miles of interstate highways. How familiar are you with how our roads were designed and how to understand our nation’s interstate numbering system? If you’ve always relied on your GPS…

Why do most companies give you a policy and procedure manual to review and then train the heck out of you when you first join the organization? And why do some companies get you to sign that you have received the policy and procedure manual, even though they may know that you have not read…

I know that your safety department may have told you things like, “Don’t talk to the media” or perhaps they also said, “Protect the scene”, and likely, “Take pictures, lots of pictures”. These previous statements are all true. But what do they really mean? Protect the scene means to make the area safe so that…

If we could find a way To get inside Each other’s mind, If you could see you Through my eyes Instead of your ego I believe you’d be Surprised to see That you’ve been blind. – Joe South Joe South wrote a song called, “Walk a mile in my shoes” and it was recorded by…

I know and have known lots of recruiters and I believe that very few recruiters lie. In most cases, they don’t purposely tell you something they know is not valid. But I do think that there is often miscommunication. An example is the time I told my wife that “I was working out of the…

The Women In Trucking Association was searching for ways to reach the next generation to introduce them to careers in transportation. The idea of a doll was considered, and we reached out to Mattel to see if we could get a truck driver Barbie doll. Since the original 1959 Barbie, Mattel has given her over…

Thanks to your insurance provider, your safety department is one of the most critical areas of your company. It doesn’t matter if your ‘safety department’ is the owner of a small trucking company who also wears 12 other hats or a full-fledged, large company, twelve-person safety department. Your insurance company demands that you have a…