It’s funny how life trains us for a certain role. I am totally convinced that we all have a purpose, and some of us are lucky enough to find it. If you read my bio, you know that I am a career trucker and safety professional. To me, safety is a personal value.
Through my 25+ years of trucking (supervising drivers, hiring and training, owning a small trucking company), and writing about trucking safety and city driving in Ten Four Magazine for ten years, I have become an expert in a field which I created:
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Safe City Driving.
Most people who drive in heavy traffic don’t give it a lot of thought, other than maybe getting angry. The problem is, people look at it emotionally, when they could be taught to look at it logically.
I first published my Ten Keys to Safe City Driving in 2007, in Ten Four Magazine. For the next two years, I sold it on CD as an audiobook. It was a great idea. After all, drivers could listen to the CD while they drive, and see exactly what it was talking about while it was happening.
I got a lot of positive feedback over the next couple of years, and sold tens of thousands of CD’s. After getting a lot of requests for a video, I finally made one in 2009. And, although the video was not as big a hit as the CD financially for me, again, I received a lot of positive feedback.
I wound up doing a lot of radio over the next couple of years, appearing as a guest, being interviewed, and debating aggressive drivers who called into the shows. It was a lot of fun. I always wanted to do radio, and still aspire to have my own show one day.
Then, the requests started coming in for me to come and speak to drivers at safety meetings. Over the past two years or so, I had to turn down more and more speaking engagements, simply because it was too far away to be cost-effective.
I figured out that most companies would pay a few hundred for an important topic like this, but not two thousand. (Which is what it would cost to send me to California, get a hotel room, rent a car, etc.) So, I could only do speaking engagements that were located in my home area- Chicago to Indianapolis.
The bottom-line is this; If you hire drivers, they need to learn these Ten Keys to Safe City Driving, one way or another. It’s very important, and it will make a difference in their lives (and save your company a lot of money and troubles.) So, I invite you to browse the links in this article, and make an informed decision.
If your company is located within my area (Chicago to Indianapolis), I will come and speak to your drivers for only $300. At that meeting, you are welcome to record it on video. Then, you will have it any time you want to show it to new drivers or management. Plus, I’ll give you free access to the MP3’s, so you can burn copies on CD for your drivers to listen to as they drive.
It’s more than an informative talk. It’s a whole safety program, geared toward making our roads safer for all of us. If you are sick and tired of impatient drivers, would like to encourage good drivers, and want to see your company’s accidents go down, give me a try.
Reach me at me@kenskaggs.com or call 574-540-6063.
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