Life on the Road – Trucking News Blog

Survivor is a strange show. Where players conspire against each other, then ask those same people at the end to give you a million dollars. Survivor: Fiji’s final episode a comment was made by one of the final three trying to convince the others he deserved the million dollars. He said he was only playing the game and all the lying and deception was part of the game, but in real life he was a stand-up guy and he could help children if he won. Some of those people may have been born at night, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t last night.

He didn’t get a single vote. For the first time in Survivor history a unanimous decision was made to award the money to someone that several people say, “played a clean game”. Alliances in Survivor are made, broken and remade and part of the game requires, not telling the whole truth to some, but if someone is lied to or betrayed it’s not forgotten.

Trucking is all about making alliances between brokers, carriers, owners, drivers and customers. We expect everyone to keep their word, have some sort of integrity and stand behind their decisions. If not we should make other alliances, if we don’t we will probably regret it later.

I couldn’t do business with someone if their personal life was screwed up, because the business would be right behind it. And I’ve broken friendships with people that operated their business in what I thought, was down right corrupt.

Does your personal life reflect your business life? Does character matter when you do business with someone? Or is it, just get the job done? I’m not talking about buying tires, I’m talking about someone who you’re going to be having a continuous business relationship with. Can you turn off one persona and turn on another? Can your business be in great shape and your personal life be in shambles? Business or personal life, character matters.