By Brian T. Smith
Assistant Sports Editor / Bristol Herald Courier
Published: March 14, 2008

“... I’ve seen unions run things into the ground. Causes where, for the people they’re representing, sometimes as a whole ... I’ve seen where it’s done a lot of damage. I seen it happening right now with General Motors. So, I think ... that a union can be a good thing, if the right people are managing it, if the people have the right intent. But you don’t know that, you know, going into it ... you don’t know that that’s going to happen. I think that we all have so many different agendas and ideas, that, to see them all try to come together as one it would be tough. What I would like to do, I would like to see NASCAR have, like, a quarterly meeting where they bring all the drivers into a room and bring up hot topics, you know, and talk about things. And allow us to vent, allow us to share our opinions, and just listen to us. You know, just going up into the trailer one at a time, and one guy says the exact opposite of when the next guy comes in, I think all it does is confuse them. And, and ... so we’re not going anywhere. I believe communication is key in every business and every team. We’re together with them and we are partners in this whole thing, and I’d love to work with them further on that, but ... I am out of breath doing it individually, because it doesn’t go anywhere.“