What a week! The film is now available on Amazon! We hope you’ll watch it soon and start spreading the word about the important issues impacting our infrastructure and the transportation industry. However, unlike many films, documentaries tend to be a marathon, not a sprint. We will continue to roll out the film (soon to be on iTunes)...

Above: Jen Gilbreath (center)   There is an interesting mythology about the inaccessibility of your representatives on Capitol Hill. That the offices of politicians are only available to lobbyists or special interest groups - you know - people with deep pockets, right? Maybe not.   Last week, Marijane Miller and I were at the Capitol Visitor Center in...

One late evening this past January I found myself overjoyed, thanks to a few truck drivers. I was literally pacing around my home trying to figure out who to call to share my joy with. I live on the West Coast and my family is all back East – it was too late to call them!! Who to...

Wreaths Across America is a project whose mission is to place wreaths in veterans cemeteries from coast to coast each year in December. That effort has grown from a small number of donated wreaths transported to Arlington cemetery in Washington, DC, in 1992 to this year’s amazing event involving thousands of volunteers placing hundreds of thousands of donated...

[Photo: Pap in his truck. Inset: Jennifer and Uncle Bob] A few months ago, I introduced you to my grandfather, Pap who owned a trucking company and who showed me that the rules of the road were often good rules for life. I recently spent some time with his brother, my Uncle Bob who worked with Pap. One...

Many of us spend a lot of time behind the wheel.   Over the past year, I have been acutely aware of what goes on while people are behind the wheel on the roads in and around Los Angeles. Not only because of the folks who make my blood boil by cutting off other 4-wheel vehicles and, worse...

Why do a documentary on infrastructure and the freight industry?   This film started for me long before I was born. It started before the interstate highway system. It started with a young boy in the early 20th century who, to help his father’s business, would help secure a pick-up truck full of pallets by traveling across miles spread...