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Dispatcher Jeff Raymond has the raw nerves of a high-wire artist with every movement focused on maintaining a balance of schedules, equipment and personnel in dealing with truckers and responding to the needs of customers.

If a trucker rounding the freeway ramp connecting Texas Highway 225 with Houston’s Loop 610 is greeted by flashing yellow lights, he’s being warned that he is driving too fast and is at risk of placing his rig on its side.

The freeway ramp connecting Texas Highway 225 with Houston’s Loop 610 has been the scene of number of truck rollovers, but a system of radar and laser beams has helped keep big rigs upright on the sharp turn.

A fiery Gulf Freeway crash ended the lives of a 38-year-old Houston man and his three young children last June. The driver of the tractor-trailer involved is serving 60 years in state prison for intoxicated manslaughter.

When opportunity came knocking, Van O’Neal had an answer to fill the skyrocketing demand for truck drivers in Texas.

What’s the biggest human problem in transportation today? Ask big-carrier administrators, owner-operators, recruiters, dispatchers and drivers and the answer will be the same: being away from home.