As I was driving to work listening to CNN HLN, they were running a story about how commercial truck driving jobs are now highly sought after in this economy because "training is only three weeks and starting salary is $30,000." As I was thinking to myself how pathetic it is that that's more than starting pay at a regional and on a par (I think) with CAL first year FO pay, one of the managers for hiring drivers in the story was talking about how they've seen college grads and former AIRLINE PILOTS applying for trucking jobs...who would of known that Goose's words in Top Gun would have been so prophetic... Now, I certainly don't trust the media to get their facts straight on anything, and I know nothing about the trucking industry, but if this story is accurate, I don't know what else better illustrates the decline in fair compensation for what we do, lives hanging in the balance every day, than this does.

Preach on brother Sully while your 15 minutes ticks down..