The Driver's Room
This is an experimental blog to give Richard & Dennis a work place for project ideas around driver advocacy.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
I want to see if you agree with this proposal so we can get started on creating a product to move our ideas forward. I believe this can easily fill an hour and also gives a strong focus to work on and also something that will be easy to get a CDL school to be open to.
All our other ideals will be worked with, but I feel a strong need to have a starting point of a tangible collaboration.
So if you agree with this starter proposal then the next step is to put down in writing what will be said, shared. Once the "script" is written then a video could be made as well as a brochure put together to present to a CDL school.
All our other ideals will be worked with, but I feel a strong need to have a starting point of a tangible collaboration.
So if you agree with this starter proposal then the next step is to put down in writing what will be said, shared. Once the "script" is written then a video could be made as well as a brochure put together to present to a CDL school.
Proposal
A One Hour Presentation
to CDL School Students
Purpose:
To
drive home the fact that when a commercial driver is behind the wheel of their
truck, they are THE BOSS. No one, absolutely no one else can tell a driver how
to drive or to drive in any illegal manner nor when THE driver determines circumstance
make it unsafe to drive.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Getting Focus on Project
On a recent phone call, Richard, and I came up with this focus on our project:
- Audience: Students at CDL schools
- Length of Presentation: 1 Hour
- It will have four sections
- Who's The Boss; the focus here is that when a driver is behind the wheel of his truck no one, absolutely no one can tell him what is safe or how to drive, etc
- A section on Wellness, self care on the road
- to be named
- to be named
Monday, May 6, 2013
Mission Statement Rough Draft
Richard Writes:
The mission of xxx is to help those new to long haul trucking to more fully experience the "Joy of Trucking".
Whereas those new to trucking would like confidential independent advise n direction on various aspects from experienced truckers
1. NOT related to their employer on various situations.
2. On understanding and enjoying Life on the Road.
3. Developing a greater "Wellness " in body mind and spirit
4. Manage road expenses to minimize their costs
5. Be aware of experienced Tricks of the Trade
2. On understanding and enjoying Life on the Road.
3. Developing a greater "Wellness " in body mind and spirit
4. Manage road expenses to minimize their costs
5. Be aware of experienced Tricks of the Trade
The purpose is to assist those new to trucking to more quickly adjust to Life on the Road and develop a satisfying trucking career
.
We will provide an experienced "Friend in the Trucking Business" to all clients thus empowering them to a successful trucking career.
Dennis Responds:
I don't see the website as a vehicle for being out in the world right now. In time yes, but for now it is a place for us to do our work. We can post video and pictures on the site as well.
When I was in college the one thing I learned about writing and criticism was to appreciate. I had one poetry class where the professor tore me up! But I accepted because it was to benefit me. One classmate after the class said he should buy me a beer for what I went though. I ended up doing an independent class with him.
So, in that light here is my feedback to your rough draft on a mission statement:
First of all it strikes me, as a driver, as some sort of MBA executive talking to me and not with me. We are experts and drivers, one and the same. Being expert does not come just from being a driver, but our personal motivations combined make us experts.
Also what you have written as if you are gearing for Life Coaching. To me this could be a spin off, but a bit out of range of putting together a foundation to work from.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Mission Statement
(Rough draft of purpose for project with Dennis & Richard)
I thought we could use bullet points to put down ideas as to what the purpose of our project is to be about. At some point we can then consolidate our ramblings into a coherent Mission Statement.
- to empower driver's, new & experienced
- make safety rules work for us
- to give potential new drivers a glimpse into driving as a career
Monday, April 29, 2013
My Life is The Road
I have been feeling in a low
place, feeling lonely and homeless. However, I am also aware that my life has
been about keeping to myself and not having roots, a home. This is why truck
driving seemed to be the natural thing for me when I started this career.
I have held a longing dream of
having a home base, a bit of land where I could build simple living structures.
But I also haven’t wanted to do this alone. So I have also have held a dream of
a life partner to share my dream of a home base. But I also have strong
reservations about another relationship with a woman!
So I am wondering if I am in
denial of being a wanderer? So maybe it would better serve me to embrace
being a wanderer instead of holding a longing for things I may not really want?
A quick internet search brought
up related terms of; gypsy, bohemian,
nomad, artist, hippie, free spirit, freethinker. All of which I can
identify and very much like.
I found this on the internet:
v If you think that you
are a wanderer
v What is a wanderer? Some wanderers are ETs
who have come from elsewhere to planet Earth for this incarnation or at this
time. Many other wanderers are earth natives who have matured spiritually to
the point of awakening to their metaphysical identity, thereby making the
worldly identity less real, and creating the sense of being a stranger in a
strange land. Both types of wanderers are in the same situation here on Earth
now, in that they often don’t fit in well here, for their inner universe has
shifted, and the “real” world for them has shifted from the earthly world to
the aesthetic and ethical innerness of the metaphysical world.
v Wanderers are each unique and come in all
shapes and sizes, but their likeliest common characteristics are a sense of
alienation and isolation as they make choices of how to live and be, and cope
with a strong and increasing inner knowing that they are here to serve. The
lesson and mission that all wanderers have in common is to give and receive
love. Their common service is to be themselves, in as true and deep a way
possible in each moment, as they are working on this life lesson. The main
mission is a ministry of being, of living in the open heart that is the deepest
self of all beings within incarnation here. They are light anchorers, bringing
light through into the earth planes as they breathe in and breath out with an
open and loving heart. (from L L Research)
Driver Room Blog. This still work??? Sent picture too.
I just made a quick setup for this blog in a matter of minutes. I will spend more time with it and ask other to join in
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