Anne S. Ferro, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has taken a ride-along with an actual trucker for two days and described the experience as a "smack in the face." She added that the experience has been "very enlightening" and has given her "a much different and a much clearer view" of the real life challenges that truckers face. Ferro had been challenged at a Congressional hearing in June when a lawmaker asked her "What would be so hard about you actually going and getting hands on experience?" [Article continues here.