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Diane and I know Jesse Ventura well. She was his public policy adviser in the 1998 campaign that got him elected and was his General Counsel when he was in office. Her office was two doors down from his in the State Capitol. I was the internet guy that helped get him elected and later served as...

One person's correct policy is another person's over-regulation

OK. That's what the government would do (more regulation) by requiring insurance reporting as you described. What about the other entities you mentioned? Also, what would the drivers do? You left that important component off your list.

What would that look like? What would the insurance companies, shippers, brokers and carriers do exactly?

It would not be an industry-saving solution but it may help some. What keeps you from simply reporting the illegal trucks? You have photos. You seem to know the loads and even the pickup and delivery locations. You could easily provide a detailed report to the state patrols of the states the...

When you are new, it is easy to over-think things like glove quality because you are not yet out there with a sense of what is truly important. It is also tempting to take too much. Example: Work gloves; cheap ones. You can replace them with cheap ones as needed out on the road. One wise...

Indeed you are heading in the right direction. For a number of reasons, plateaus are to be expected. Keep at it. About exercise, start with something small and easy. Some people make the mistake of thinking exercise must be tiring to be good. Not wanting to feel tired, people with this reasoning...

While reading about gluten in my studies today, the above question came to mind. The answer may be gluten sensitivity. Gluten sensitivity varies among people. In some, the body's reaction to gluten is minimal if there is a reaction at all. In others, the sensitivity may rise to the level of...

Excerpt from the article is below. Emphasis IN CAPS is mine. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Highway Patrol faulted a semi-truck driver Friday for a fiery head-on collision with a bus that killed 10, but officials said THEY STILL DON'T KNOW WHY his big rig veered across an interstate median...

Same thing.

If I was a fleet owner who trusts drivers with my trucks, I would do my own background checks and drug screening instead of relying on a carrier to do it. Services that do this are easily found and used. The cost is not prohibitive. In our current business, people occasionally ask us for work...

Guilty until proven innocent? Yes, it is as you say. It is a fact that the truck left the driving surface of the road. That's what the truck did. What did the driver do or fail to do? We do not know. If he dropped dead behind the wheel, he was in control up to the end. A dead man is not legally...

It appears America is on track to learn this the hard way.

Biased reporting evident once again. The piece mentions driver fatigue as a possible factor but then says: "Evans "had sufficient time off," Parsons said. "That day, he had been working approximately eight hours at the time of the collision. But he had between eight and 10 hours of sleep the...

I never liked this idea. Still don't. Rule to mandate speed limiters for heavy trucks sent to White House for approval

Once again, we see the benefits of exercise: "When I asked people what was the best way to prepare for knee replacement I would get similar answers: keep using it as long as you can and exercise it. If you don’t use the muscles then they atrophy; the weaker they are going in the harder it is to...

This news story reports the same thing about your Flying J experience.

The title of this post will surprise no expediter. Not only is trucking among the top-10 most dangerous occupations, the lifestyle carries health risks of its own. This was driven home to me today when I received my blood pressure and cholesterol numbers in my email. The service through which I...

Keep the larger trend in mind of increasing income inequality. As more and more people slip from the middle class into the lower class, the supply of available people to drive trucks grows.

I happened upon a CSPAN broadcast the other day about driverless vehicles. One of the points made was that policy makers need to prepare to deal with unemployed truck drivers. It was interesting to see inside-the-beltway types already assuming that driverless vehicles will become the norm. The...