As we mentioned in an earlier post, our film is finished and we're beginning to share it in some private screenings around the country. The first will be this coming Monday, June 13th, at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America conference in San Jose. If you're attending, please join us! More opportunities will be coming up soon. Until you...

  We are very pleased to announce that Be Prepared to Stop will premiere June 13, 2016, in San Jose, California, during the Intelligent Transportation Society of America annual conference!   The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to advancing the research, development and deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to...

Hello, People-Who-Keep-Coming-Back-for-More here at Be Prepared to Stop. How are you? We hope you’re doing well because we’re having a particularly good week and want everyone to be as happy as we are.   It’s finished. That’s right, the film you’ve been hearing about and asking about and reading about for a year is in the can, as...

Finishing a film requires very talented people to join the team throughout the months-long process. (Read these posts for reminders about our key editorial team, Michael and Matt, and co-producer Maggie.) Editors, composers, graphic designers, and actors are all needed to add many subtle (and not so subtle) elements to a film that improve the flow and tone...

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...

One of the key themes of our film centers around the idea that without a reliable supply chain we simply would not be able to have the lives we have. Any trucker will quickly tell you that everything you use every day – food, clothing, gasoline, office and school supplies, furniture, Starbucks coffee cups – it all comes...

We talk a lot around here about how Congress is stuck in across-the-aisle squabbling and can’t seem to stop thinking about getting re-elected long enough to get any work done. So a story in the Los Angeles Times about a group of lawmakers who were actually doing their jobs caught our eye.   It seems that California legislators...

The Congressional Budget office recently issued a new 10-year estimate of Highway Trust Fund spending and revenue. (Stay with us. It’s only boring if you don’t stick around for the upcoming forehead slapping.)   If you were perusing the back pages of the internet in December you heard that a transportation bill passed, providing funding for the Highway...

Well, it looks like we’re rounding the final turn here at Be Prepared to Stop, and in the next few weeks we’ll come to the end of this amazing journey. Even though there’s still work to be done, we find ourselves thinking back to all the people who helped us explore the world of highways and trucks and regulations...

One of the best things about working on Be Prepared to Stop is that every story we hear leads to three more stories, which lead to even more stories. The freight transportation universe is complex, challenging, funny, intimidating, smart, frightening, and absolutely fascinating. We have stayed awake many nights struggling to rein in this multi-dimensional topic, but we...