Even though our film is out on iTunes and Amazon, we still like to take it on the road and screen it for live audiences. We love the conversations that inevitably follow. Whether it’s for law makers on Capitol Hill, the Intelligent Transportation Society, trucking professionals in Arkansas, insurance organizations, or infrastructure funding experts, we can’t wait to...

Last week’s news that the proposed Advisory Council on Infrastructure was being disbanded added yet another big ol’ pothole in our road to better highways. One of the reasons we decided to make Be Prepared to Stop was because we met a guy named Steve Williams who had been trying for 20 years to get the government to...

On Tuesday this week we had the pleasure of presenting the film at the Irving Transportation Investment Summit. The Texas weather was surprisingly tolerable while everyone at the conference was pleasantly warm and welcoming. The screening was followed by a short but informative discussion moderated by the Administrator of the Texas division of the Federal Highway Administration, Al...

Throughout our journey to make the documentary Be Prepared to Stop, there has been one constant connecting every aspect of our research: commercial vehicle operators. Most people call them truck drivers, but it was pointed out to us that you don’t call pilots “plane drivers,” and engineers aren’t “train drivers,” and controlling an 80,000 pound vehicle on crowded...

We are so pleased to have been invited to participate in the Transportation Investment Summit in Irving, Texas, August 15 & 16. Every year, the City of Irving brings together “… innovative leaders and stakeholders from the transportation, water and economic development industry to convene with government officials at the local, state and federal levels.” It’s basically a...