My first blog here was titled “Connecting the Dots”. Here are three dots I just had to write about. Fellow blogger Rickey Gooch wrote a blog entitled “When Truckers Cry”. The Editor-in-Chief of HDT wrote a first class editorial “Respect Pays” at the same time my oldest granddaughter was picked as one of the final three winners in a school contest to write a sentence and draw a picture about RESPECT. She has since won that competition. Please click on these links to see the referenced items if you want to:... Read More

I try not to be biased, but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His placement counselor assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy. But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee and wasn't sure I wanted one. I wasn't sure how my customers would react to Stevie.... Read More

What do flight attendants, Starbucks baristas, Disneyland characters and professional drivers have in common? They all have jobs that expose them to nasty people, or as Robert Sutton, author of, The No A**hole Rule, explains, "They just have to take it from demeaning people."... Read More

At DriveCam we review thousands of risky driving incidents every day. Many of these incidents are near collisions and often, only luck separates these incidents from being a crash. Recently, I was reviewing video clips of several near collisions at a client's request to see how many were unavoidable and could merit positive recognition for the driver. There were some, but there were also many where the driver inadvertently placed himself in a situation that increased the potential of a close call. By examining DriveCam's database of more than 15 million driving events, we know that drivers with an avoidable near collision are...... Read More