Trucking Companies - These drivers are not robots. They have families and they have lives. Treat the drivers the same way you would want to be treated if you were a driver. Focusing entirely on the bottom line will only be counter productive to your desired result.

If you want to increase driver loyalty, driver retention, better performance and work ethic, treat drivers like your would want to be treated. Increase your profit margins by doing things efficiently including hiring competent people in the office. If family or friends that are employed can't cut it then cut them.

Tell drivers what you expect and when they don't perform after proper warning fire them until you get a good team so that all driver on your team are treated like a winning team member. (That's what you will have)

This doesn't mean not to give drivers with less than perfect records a chance. These people could very well end up being your best employees. When people prove themselves in an interview give them a chance to prove themselves on the job, don't assume from 10 incident on the record or criminal report that a person is not suitable for a position with the company.

Dispatchers - Treat drivers like you would want to be treated if you were a driver. If a driver is responsible and dependable don't give him fabricated appointment times.

You need to care about your job performance just like the drivers need to. I know some of you especially at large companies are college students. Please take your job serious while you are working, you are supposed to learn that as part of your college experience, I don't care what your are going to college for. Always give your employer at least 100 percent, that means trying to be effective with the logistics and relationship building aspect of the job. Thanks.

D.O.T. - Most of us know that you are here to do a job. I talk about it here. Be careful not to take out the bad attitude of the clown of the day on another driver. You know what challenges we face at the shippers and receivers and that we have families at home so do what you feel is right when you are faced with decisions. Most drivers appreciate the job you do and realize that there will always be a few who go to unnecessary extremes to satisfy their own personal needs, please don't be one of them! By the way this is something that needs to change, this driver fatique enforcement checklist is not right. Thanks

Media We understand that you are interesting mostly in ratings first. Keep in mind that the perception you create in the mind of your viewers affects the lives of people.

Take time to publicize many of the positive stories about truckers. There are angles to take to make the story interesting if you have the skills and creativity to do it. Many people would be interested in the details of a trucker's life. You can showcase exceptional drivers and hero's of the highway.

Don't just put the few weirdo's and criminal out of the 3 million drivers on the top news story.

When you cover accidents don't emphasize the truck or the truck driver when you know and have information that the truck was not at fault of the accident.

Too many people take what you report in a literal sense and use it for a foundation from which to think. are Many don't look at the big picture or read between the lines, they take things literal and on face value.

This is why what you feed them has such an impact on what they believe, if you care about people, be more balanced.

You have people scared to drive beside us, wives and overly anxious about their husbands on the road and drivers and the general public has false beliefs about who we are.

By creating these poisonous foundations in the thought process you are crippling the lives of many people and believe it or not you too will be effected eventually as long as you live and interact along with the rest of society.

Let's be more fair and not be misleading in the stories that so many people's lives are shaped by.

Truck drivers are the safest drivers on the road, have less than accidents than cars, and cause less of the accidents that trucks are involved in.

Many of the trucks that you show are involved in accidents for trying to accommodate the poor driving skills or dumb choices by the person driving the car. Include that in some of your reports. Thanks

Well that's enough for now!