I caught just a few minutes of a PBS show tonight after I came home from Ann Arbor, so I went to the web to see the web version of the same piece.  It’s a fourteen month investigation of the trucking industry in Texas, done by The Dallas Morning News, a paper out of Dallas.  It’s a piece in a series that PBS is showing called Expose, Investigative Reports.  The short version is on the web at:  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/episode213/index.html  Click on the “watch episode” tab at the top.  You can view the entire episode by going to the right on the website under “watch more video.” 

I think maybe I could use this as the basis for discussion on a speaking tour.  If I can get permission from PBS and whomever else is out there for the copyright issues.  And we have to focus on what it is we want people to do.  Is it help us fight Mexican trucks?  Get more money from somewhere to hire more state police to do truck inspections, or keep more truck weigh stations open?  Try to get federal legislation through to have onboard recorders required on all heavy trucks? 

Regardless, I got fired up about the issues again.  I need to get a lot of homework done this weekend, and this is something of a distraction.  Still…I sent the producers of the episode an email with questions about how or if I could use it.  Don’t know when I’m going to have time to do this library thing if I get wrapped up in truck issues, but maybe it will all work out together.