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What do you do when you're a thousand miles from home and you learn of an emergency situation with your family back home?

What if you're under load?

A home emergency scenario is possibly one of the most stressful situations you will face in your career. Suppose you receive a text message about a crisis back at the house, or possibly a Qualcomm message to call home immediately. What do you do?

It may be the toughest test of a traveler's willpower-- to walk past a bakery without being drawn in by the aroma of freshly baked bread. Bakeries in the Heartland-- especially ethnic ones-- have become destinations, particularly at holiday time. Their fame has spread and many ship their goodies nationwide. The family-run bakery continues to use recipes from that era.

But what of radio? While similar changes to ad rates have affected radio, and the actual-content-to-advertising-message ratio has undoubtedly changed somewhat significantly, there hasn’t been a whole lot to challenge radio’s landscape. There is, for example, satellite radio--and while the subscription model has presented some challenge to radio, it’s been more a challenge for listenership than for the entire industry itself.

Generally speaking, parking is something of a standard concern for folks in the trucking industry across the board. To call it a concern, however, might be going a bit too far, especially when you’re talking about well-established towns and/or areas right off the highway. It’s fairly easy to find a place to park in these types of places; a truck stop, rest area, and the occasional Wal-Mart (or similar big box store) will usually do the trick for most drivers.

If you’re in a small town that might not have a truck stop or a rest area in close proximity, however, you might be relegated to the local Wal-Mart. There are some folks who’ll say that some Wal-Marts are less welcoming than others. It’s entirely possible that you might have to put in a bit of a search to find a good place to sleep.

Naturally, I put the question to the EO forum, and as per usual, the folks there helped out with some really great suggestions.

Working with family members presents a set of advantages and obstacles that’s been somewhat widely discussed; at the same time, the situation of working with family members maybe isn’t something that one weighs the pros and cons of when it’s in discussion.

The very concept that Earth has been visited by otherworldly beings is a common thread through human history, but in the United States, it’s something that seems to hearken back to the 1950’s--the era of the “Nuclear family,” a vision of the future that included flying cars, and the not-so-distant memory of an alleged alien crash site in the small town of Roswell, New Mexico. Whether you think an alien ship crashed there or whether you see that as a silly, conspiracy theorist notion that ignores what facts actually exist about what happened in Roswell in 1947 is immaterial; it’s just not about that.

At some point or another, the chance that you’ll have--or have had--insomnia on a short-term basis is high; close to 100%. In addition to that, around 60 million people deal with insomnia per year. Insomnia isn’t necessarily just a passing thing, though. There are a number of different types, causes, and symptoms associated with it that get treated in a number of different ways. In other words, the whole thing can be complicated.

Of course, sleep is important. The DOT and CSA 2010 rules regarding commercial driving recognize this. Perhaps more importantly, common sense recognizes this as well. So, what to do if you’ve got insomnia?

It's an axiom with quite a history, and one with countless subscribers. The Golden Rule appears in numerous religions, and is, as you're aware, a widely-applied principle in the everyday lives of people young and old--we teach it to our children, and remind ourselves of it reasonably regularly. But how often do we think of the Golden Rule as it relates to business?