About: Kathleen Grueneberg

There is no shortage of analysis about driver recruitment and retention.

But I had the privilege of witnessing first-hand how some forward-thinking companies keep their drivers by honoring and respecting the skills and talents they bring to the company success. Some of the biggest and sharpest names in trucking brought their best drivers of all levels of experience to the 2017 Colorado State Truck Driving Championships. Smaller, local operations like RMT Trucking and American Furniture Warehouse competed valiantly against the big national heavyweights like FedEx, Wal-Mart and...

Part II —Lessons learned from the Wal-Mart Tracy Morgan Tragedy

  In our previous article, Rights and Responsibilities, Constitutional lessons from the Tracy Morgan / Wal-Mart tragedy, we discussed the importance of a driver at an accident scene understanding their right to remain silent. We received some very insightful comments from our readers; enough so that we have decided to turn it into a series. One comment in particular came from a veteran safety professional with decades worth of experience both behind the wheel and behind the desk. ...

Constitutional Lessons From the Wal-Mart / Tracy Morgan Tragedy

Kevin Roper made some very poor choices leading up to the early morning hours of June 7, 2014. The consequence of Roper’s choices profoundly and tragically affected the lives of countless people who were involved in the crash on the New Jersey turnpike early that summer morning which took the life of writer and comedian James “Jimmie Mack” McNair and seriously injured actor and comedian Tracy Morgan and several others. Years later, life seems to have moved on.  Perhaps now,...