Driver Performance Focused
Professional Driver Performance & Improvement
Earn the status of a QUALITY Driver
These books focus on operational discipline, professionalism, and the performance of quality drivers. Drivers who wish to perform at the top of their profession as quality drivers. Learn what it takes to set yourself apart from the rest of the pack.
The Professional Driver's Performance Playbook
THIS BOOK IS NOT ADVICE. IT IS A SYSTEM - The Professional Driver’s Performance Playbook provides you with a structured way to take control of your career using the same principles that define elite drivers.
The Professional Driver's Companion Workbook
A structured performance system designed to help drivers take control of their daily habits, decisions, and long-term career stability. Built to support The Professional Driver's Playbook, this workbook turns awareness into action through a simple, repeatable daily process.
Reshaping Driver Recruiting
In Driven to Excellence: Skills, Habits, and Strategies of a QUALITY Driver, veteran transportation professional Edward D. Smith draws on 28+ years of industry experience to reveal what it truly takes to rise above the average and build a long-lasting, successful career on the road.
Before You Say Yes
Before saying yes, professional drivers can use a practical method to go beyond the advertisements, take their time, and ask questions that show what the job is really like.
This guide doesn't rank different trucking companies, criticize recruiters, or assure you that you'll end up with the ideal carrier; every driving job involves its own set of trade-offs.
What you want is for you to understand those trade-offs before you leave your job, go through another orientation, and risk your household income.
A New Take on Recruiting
Transportation Professional Development
Understanding Workforce Stability
These books focus on operational discipline, recruiting strategy, retention systems, and executive alignment within transportation and logistics.
Recruiting Reality Check
Recruiting Reality Check is not a hiring manual. It is not a tactical recruiting guide. It is an executive risk document designed for transportation leaders who want clarity before committing to more activity.
Workforce Stability
most fleets are operating without full visibility into the three numbers that are quietly controlling the entire business. Seat Gap Costs, Recruiting Costs, True Cost Per Mile. In Workforce Stability, transportation professional and workforce stability advisor Edward D. Smith reveals how these three connected numbers influence profitability, turnover, utilization, hiring pressure, and long-term company survival.
The Missing Key
The Missing Key reveals the truth you have been looking for. The fact of the matter is that success isn’t found in recruiting harder or blaming a specific department. It lies within the company's HARMONIZATION
Reshaping Driver Recruiting
Starting from scratch, learn how to select the best recruiters and what your recruiting department will need for success. Follow the processes for obtaining QUALITY candidates
Preserving the stories every family wishes they had
Legacy Journals
More than a journal, this is a guided legacy book designed to help fathers preserve the experiences, values, and life lessons that shaped who they became.
A Father's Story
Designed to help fathers preserve the experiences, values, and life lessons that shaped who they became. Through 624 thoughtfully crafted prompts across nine life stages, you'll be gently guided from childhood memories and family traditions to career, military service, marriage, parenthood, personal struggles, hard-earned wisdom, and the legacy you hope to leave behind.
A Mother's Story
Designed to help mothers preserve the experiences, values, and life lessons that shaped who they became. Through 639 thoughtfully crafted prompts across nine life stages, you'll be gently guided from childhood memories and family traditions to career, military service, marriage, motherhood, parenthood, personal struggles, hard-earned wisdom, and the legacy you hope to leave behind.
Deplopyment Reflections
A guided journal designed to help service members preserve the memories, stories, and lessons that often fade with time. Designed to serve as a lasting record of service, this journal is available in a durable hardcover for the long-term preservation of memories, photographs, and personal reflections.
A Veteran's Story
A complete guided military autobiography designed to help veterans preserve the stories, experiences, lessons, and legacy of a lifetime.
Through more than 1,500 carefully crafted prompts, you'll record everything from childhood memories and the decision to enlist to boot camp, military schools, deployments, leadership, friendships, promotions, family life, transition to civilian life, and the years that followed.
The History of Our Family
New Our Family Tree
Our Family Tree was created to preserve far more than a genealogy.
It was designed to preserve a family's identity.
Inside these pages, you'll discover thoughtfully organized sections that help document not only your family tree, but the lives behind every branch. Record family names, ancestors, immigration journeys, military service, occupations, heirlooms, photographs, traditions, family recipes, important places, historical documents, reunions, and the stories that future generations will treasure most.
Whether your family history stretches back hundreds of years or begins with only a few known relatives, this journal provides a structured yet meaningful way to preserve your legacy one discovery at a time.
Inside you'll find space to record:
- Family surnames and their origins
- Heritage and cultural traditions
- Earliest known ancestors
- Immigration and migration stories
- Generation-by-generation family histories
- Military and public service
- Family businesses and occupations
- Homes and places that shaped your family
- Traditions, recipes, and celebrations
- Heirlooms and treasured keepsakes
- Important documents and historical records
- Family photographs with captions
- Cemeteries and memorial sites
- Family reunions
- Legacy reflections
- Letters to future generations
More than a journal...
More than a genealogy workbook...
This becomes a living family archive that can continue growing for generations.
Because one day...
Someone you may never meet will want to know who you were. Give them more than a name. Give them your family's story.
Planning the Day. Preserving the Beginning of Our Family.
NEW: Our Wedding Journey
Most wedding planners help you organize a single day.
This journal helps you preserve the beginning of an entire family.
Beautifully blending practical planning with meaningful reflection, Our Wedding Journey is more than a wedding organizer. It is a guided heirloom journal created for couples who want to remember not only the details of their wedding, but also the emotions, conversations, traditions, and milestones that made the journey unforgettable.
Inside you'll find:
Proposal memories, Engagement reflections, Wedding planning worksheets, Budgets and timelines, Guest lists and vendor organization, Bridal shower memories, Family traditions, Wedding vows, Toasts and speeches, Remembrance pages honoring loved ones, Honeymoon memories, First year of marriage reflections, Anniversary milestones, Letters to future children, Legacy pages for future generations
With more than 440 beautifully designed pages, this journal grows alongside your engagement, your wedding, your first year of marriage, and beyond.
What Every New Leader Must Understand Before Someone Else Depends on Them
The Responsibility To Lead
You were promoted because you were good at the work. Now you are responsible for the people doing it.
Those are not the same job.
Most first-time leaders receive a new title, more responsibility, and perhaps a larger paycheck. What they rarely receive is honest preparation for what follows.
- How do you lead people who were your friends yesterday?
- What do you say during your first conversation with the team?
- How do you supervise someone older or more experienced than you?
- What happens when an employee challenges you in front of everyone?
- How do you correct poor behavior without humiliating the person?
- What do you do after realizing that you were wrong?
The Responsibility to Lead was written for the person facing those questions for the first time.
Drawing from 28 years of military service and more than three decades in the civilian workforce, Edward D. Smith shares the mistakes, achievements, conversations, and lessons that shaped his understanding of leadership. Some lessons came from exceptional leaders. Others came from recognizing the harm caused by poor leadership, including his own failures.
The stories begin in the military, but the lessons don't stop there. They apply wherever one person becomes responsible for others, including restaurants, retail stores, transportation companies, healthcare operations, manufacturing plants, construction sites, public safety organizations, warehouses, and offices.
This book will help new leaders understand how to:
- Begin their first conversation with the team
- Lead former friends without denying the friendship
- Respect experience without surrendering responsibility
- Listen before reaching a decision
- Correct behavior while preserving dignity
- Respond calmly when challenged publicly
- Recognize when anger is controlling the room
- Separate a bad attitude from a person having a bad day
- Balance support with accountability
- Take responsibility for serious mistakes
- Apologize without weakening their authority
- Rebuild trust through repeated behavior
- Ask for help before inexperience harms someone else
- Create an environment where people can tell the truth
This is not a promise that leadership will become easy.
It is an honest guide to carrying the responsibility when the decisions become uncomfortable, the answers are unclear, and someone else will experience the consequences of what you do next.
The title can place you in charge.
Your conduct will determine whether you become worth following.
Strength developed under pressure.
Resilience, Perspective & Longevity
Sharing life stories of adversities, both physical and mental, to help one another find strength within themselves. Along with journals to help share your memories and pass them down to future generations.
Finding Strength
Finding Strength isn't a book about cancer. It's a companion written by someone who walked the same road, created to help patients and families through every stage of the journey.
Different on Purpose
A support book for children and anyone who has faced bullying, and how to overcome negative feelings.
Different on Purpose Classroom Edition
Created this version specifically for teachers and educators for classes on equality and adversity.
My Journey Through Life
Designed for my wife, who writes in her journal every day, to someday pass along her life's story. Over 365 blank pages to use for an entire year.
Business & Travel
Useful Resources
A collection of books based on business services, and travel.
Driver Staffing
Drawing on more than 30 years of transportation experience across recruiting, operations, sales, workforce planning, and driver staffing, Smith provides transportation leaders with a practical guide to understanding when staffing works, when it doesn't, and how to avoid costly workforce mistakes.
St. Martin Sint Maarten Travel Guide
Island Overview, Vacation Planning, Transportation, Accommodations, Weather, Ocean Waters, Beaches, Wildlife/Insects, Navigating the Island, Communications, Energy/Power, Shopping, Banking, Excursions & Fun, Neighboring Islands, Water Activities. Bars & Restaurants, Nightlife, Holidays, Emergency, Health, & Safety, Social Media, Religious Services, and Traveling w/Pets.
Saint Martin / Sint Maarten Travel Guide 26'-27'
Be on the lookout. A whole new revised edition will be coming out soon in July 2026.
Future Books
Place held for my next book.
Author: Ciersten Michelle
Luna and the River of Riddles
Luna and the River of Riddles is a heartwarming debut story about friendship, courage, teamwork, and believing in one another.
Perfect for:
- Classroom read-alongs
- Bedtime stories
- Young animal lovers
- Teachers looking for SEL lessons
- Early readers, while developing confidence
Written and illustrated by elementary school teacher Ciersten Michelle, this imaginative story invites children to explore kindness, curiosity, and the magic of solving problems together.
"Perfect for classroom read-alongs and SEL discussions.”
A big "CONGRATULATIONS" goes out to Ciersten Michelle, who is a new author working with Pen2Paper. We are proud of what she accomplished in her first book.