Category: Opinion
By Christian Riddell
While fall means shorter days and fading tan lines, it also presents a palate-pleasing opportunity for filling your dispatch sheets; there’s no…
By Dave Millhouser
Shadow. I had always wanted a manly nickname, and it seems like this one is within reach.
My buddy Titanic (there’s a…
It felt like my bosses would kill me (firing being too gentle).
We were meeting with a big customer who asked what I thought of…
“I am gonna fire that idiot right now.” I heard my boss yelling. I could hear Joe talking across the room to an angry parent…
My new boss Jim and I were on a sales trip in western Pennsylvania. Jim only lasted a few months, and I don’t remember his…
“I know NOTHING!”
You may think I’m talking about myself, but actually it’s a quote from a character in “Hogan’s Heroes,” an iconic 1960’s sitcom.…
A young driver was highballing across Chicago’s west side at the wheel of a semi when his trailer clobbered a low overpass. He was nearly…
If there was a competition for “bus slalom,” my buddy’s weary old 4106 could have contended for the gold.
He’d checked everything: tie rods, bearings,…
We were a “traveling time warp” (description stolen from my pal Warren).
The company I worked for had bought the entire fleet of a transit…