06/04/2014
Good Morning Freedom Leaders.
For those of you who care about peoples lives. For those of you who care about the reputation of professional truck drivers in North America. For those of you who are tired of dealing with the complete lack of consideration from the FMCSA and the DOT.
Moreover the complete failure by a majority of the general public to recognize their hand in the mess; and the larger trucking firms failed leadership with respect to training our youth.
What I would like, is for you to do a bit of soul searching. Then ask this question?
At what point in our lives do we finally stand up collectively and push back?
What we would like to do, is replace those people with Individuals who are educated or have weathered the storms so to speak and stay on task.
However, lets say this is not possible, at the very least we can convince them to consult the people in the "know" before mandates are placed into effect. Our nation has intelligent truckers. They don't think so, but they are out there.
It is time in our country, that those people whom have only College or University degrees with no experience in the field of expertise that they oversee. Step aside and give way to the men and women who "know" our business and what must be done to improve it. So we all can prosper and elevate, clean up the mess from top to bottom.
So much posturing and meandering around wasting time and valuable resource. All the while we all sit idle by and watch death after death--- incident upon incident and do nothing.
The days of writing letters to our representatives and asking our voice to be heard are waning. Personal agendas and special interest groups fuel the fringe safety groups, who are uneducated as it is associated to the trucking industry.
We need to lift a voice high and loud enough that it will no longer be swept aside.
Anyone can write a letter, but it often ends up yet another fruitless piece of paper that gets shuffled to never land.
If we have truckers that want it to change. Then we must build a "Mountain of Courage" that transcends not only trucking but what makes us human.
When we see a death from a truck wreck. It must affect us at the very least in the short term. So that it propels us to act and prevent, for the overall good of everyone, in the long term.
The trucking world is most days a rolling machine of chaos and resentment, anger, and frustration.
In my opinion that is because we have placed everything else in life before the human Being.
When we discard, discount, misrepresent, alienate, push aside, berate, and judge the very aspect of trucking that is the most important aspect of trucking 'People,' this is what has lead to the demise of it all.
Save Lives! It's our job!
BC~ DFF JW
