"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." – British statesman Winston Churchill
I have been in the trucking industry for more than 50 years and an associate once commented that I have forgotten more about trucking than most people will ever know.
The funny thing about memory is that almost everyday while reading industry news my memory cells are stimulated with a piece of trucking history that I experienced.
One of the major problems with this industry is that it does it not learn from its history and there are few, if any, history books about it. The books that do exist don’t cover the mistakes that were made.
How can we, as an industry, not repeat the mistakes of the past if our history is not documented? Especially the mistakes.
Here is an example of a big mistake that should have been recorded in the history books. It is an example that was life or death for my customers, and one I had to deal with first hand as a young salesman.
