According to the latest stats from the US Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2013, over 2.3 million people were injured in traffic accidents. 32,719 people were killed. 3,964 of those fatalities involved large trucks.   Those are just numbers unless your family was involved. Or if driving on our increasingly dangerous roads is your...

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...

We recently wrapped up a two-week trip to Portland, Oregon, and Little Rock, Arkansas, that included some great conversations with truck drivers, truck manufacturers, and truck company executives. We’ll talk more about those interviews in the coming weeks because you can’t really understand the importance of our interstate highways until you talk with the folks who live and...