A Broken Driver
I was sitting downstairs late at night watching the sports highlights of the day in my comfy chair. My 13 year old son came into the room bursting into tears. …
Straight Out of Combustion
“Yo …..Hip Hop Truckin’” “Um… well, ah… ah… I am just wanting to find the status of my load” “Well it’s on its way To East L.A. It left San …
Accelerating Your Trucking Business
I went to one of those motivational speaking seminars. The ones where they assemble an all-star cast of leading business thinkers and speakers and transmit a live broadcast to audiences …
Psychic Truck Lines
“Thanks for calling Psychic Truck Lines – that will be $3,495 before taxes” “Um… okay… well… it’s Jim Weir here from Corn Stalk Beverages… and I… “Yes Jim, we know it’s …
The ‘Zigs and Zags’ of Business
“I must have zigged, when I should have zagged’ – Author, In Dispute Up until this morning when I checked the internet, I thought that this line had come …
Fully, Completely, and Tragically Hip
Today I have that New Orleans’ sinking feeling as I listen to My Music at Work, and begin to feel the lament and impending loss symbolized by the last Tragically …
Rebel, Rebel
“Hey B-e-e-e-e-auty… good to see you again… how are you doing, beauty?”. I would be walking through the big basement call center – some 150 seats – at a resort …
As the Wheel Turns: A new 7-degree grade Slope Opera
Like lug-nuts in an hour glass – these are the days of our drives. In the last episode of ‘As the Wheel Turns’. Dispatcher Ken couldn’t locate Winkey Truman, who …
Exiting… Your Trucking Business
“So Doctor……..tell me……..do they have golf courses in heaven?” “Well I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that they have golf courses in heaven. …
On Such an August Occasion
I remember travelling down King Edward Boulevard in Vancouver early one August evening a few years back. As I pulled up to the left turn lane beside me were two …
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