It’s been a few months since we checked in with on-road crooner Howard Salmon, so he checked in with us, sending along this picture he happened upon recently, with a pre-emptive answer to the obvious question.
Yes indeedy, he wrote, “I am also sending this to Geico Insurance.”
He caught the gekko, he says, chewing on a piece of some bread he’d been eating while he leafed through a phone book looking for an address. “I opened up to the Geico Insurance page fast as I could,” Salmon says, giving the gekko a little encouragement to get into the right position — “perfect timing, too, you know.”
He’s recently finished footage for two more videos, with a third well under way, too, accompanying songs on his “These Trucks Are Made of Gold” record. “I’ll have a DVD out for the drivers soon enough,” he says, hopefully by the Mid-America Trucking Show.
Read about Salmon’s past music-video exploits.
Editor on one hot seat
Thanks to Allen and Donna Smith of Ask the Trucker and Truth About Trucking Live for having me on their online radio show Wednesday evening. The show’s available in their archives, and if you make it to the end, you’ll hear my response to a sort of “hot-seat” question from the hosts, wrapping a long discussion of driver concerns that, well, the FMCSA Pre-employment Screening Program will be fraught all the same kind of bad information and retaliatory marking-up that so many have seen with the employer-to-employer pre-hire service commonly known as DAC.
“Based on your research and investigation,” Smith asked, “what’s your gut feeling tell you? Will this cost a lot of drivers jobs?”
