After raising three children, working in the human services field for 18 years and driving long-haul trucking for 16 years, I'm currently disabled (temporarily, I'm convinced) and ready embark on new adventures. I've always had a need to see what's over the next hill. I'm not totally new to the writing field as I used to write grant proposals in a previous life. Article-writing brand new, but my emails and letters have been famous among my friends and acquaintances for a couple of dozen years. Since I possess a wealth of useless knowledge-I collect information like some people collect stamps-I can always find something to write about, even if it's simply stating one of my strongly-held opinions.And I have plenty of those.

I firmly believe we 'boomers' will live forever. . .and my favorite quote, author unknown but widely attributed to Erma Bombeck:

Life is not a journey to the grave
With the intention of
Arriving safely in a pretty
And well preserved body,
But rather to skid in broadside,
Thoroughly used up,
Totally worn out,
And loudly proclaiming,

WOW ! What a ride!

My passion is ...

Whatever catches my attention-it changes daily

I know too much about ...

Corporate America & human nature

My parents always told me ...

Do your best

My childhood ambition ...

I wanted to be a journalist

My favorite memory ...

There are too many to pick just one

Why I write ...

. . .because people get tired of listening to me talk

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I read nearly anything-listen to conspiracy talk radio

My first job ...

Washing windows for the neighborhood widows at twelve

My best moment ...

Backing into a difficult dock after watching many men fail at it

My inspiration ...

Anybody who has done what I set out to do before me-I figure if they can do it, I can too!

Business > Business (Other) Recent improvements in the trucking industry

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The trucking industry has changed greatly in the nearly thirty years since de-regulation. In some ways, there have been major improvements. In others, those same improvements have become a detriment to the participants in the game of trucking.

Prior to de-regulation, all trucking was regulated under the Interstate Commerce Commission and each carrier applied for "authority" to haul specific goods on specified routes. Thus, one company might haul household goods between Pittsburg and Chicago, but was not allowed to haul manufacturing products on the same route. Routes were standardized, p...

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