Terminal Exchange

Jerry started his driving career with Prairie Farms and left Nussbaum and the road behind after 34 years.

Listen in on the conversation as Jerry talks through the highlights of his career as a driver. From the hours of alone time over the road to the joy of arriving home to his family each week, Jerry reminisces over the years.

Nussbaum is losing an excellent driver to retirement, but Jerry is most deserving of this time to enjoy, rest, and love his family.

Enjoy this brand new video format of Terminal Exchange and watch Jerry and Phillip’s interactions throughout the interview.

Not one for bouncing around, Dennis has only worked for two trucking companies in his life – and we’re pretty sure he only left the first one because it closed. In a time where working short job stints is regular, it’s refreshing to hear of Dennis’s commitment to long-term employment and the relationships built from longevity.

What do we do in this time of uncertainty? Are you panicking and shouldering worry about the future? Are you consuming every piece of information on COVID-19 you can find? 

If the past week or two has left you worn down, helpless, and feeling like a sheep without a shepherd, stop. Listen to this message from Nussbaum Chaplain Jim Revelle. 

Jim gives you six truths to focus on in a time when our attention is being pulled in every direction. Take a breath, press play, and let’s focus on what we do know.

• “The world is flooded with frightening news, and it tends to have this negative momentum.”
• “I’m here to calm your worries, reduce your anxieties, and relieve your fears.”
• “Not every person on TV or radio knows what they’re talking about. And not everyone who’s talking about the crisis is worth listening to. Be selective.”
• “When emotions rule, we lose sight of the big picture.”

• National Emergency Announcement
• WHO Announces Official Global Pandemic
• Stay in Place Order for Illinois
• Pandemics That Changed History

The life-saving

She’s a witness to

She runs marathons,

But where do her

• “There are nights that are super smooth, and

• Boundary

He’s back with even more eyebrow-raising hilarity and deep-rooted

In the slush of

And with so many

From conversations

• “My recommendation for our trainers is bring the

• Hohenfels
• Andy Stanley

Are you settling into an office chair today? Or are you manning the driver’s seat? Our guests are right at home in both places. We welcome Maya Hernandez, Brian Johnson, and Chris Chaney to sit down with us in this episode of Terminal Exchange.

These three drivers turned driver managers are the breath of fresh air you’ve been waiting for at Terminal Exchange. They share a full-circle perspective of Nussbaum from the heart of a driver and the thoughts of a driver manager.

But what brought them into the office? And is there that big of a difference between office work and their first presumptions of it? In one word – yes.

Listen to the driver’s voice – the frustrations of both roles, the eye-opening realizations, and the game of Tetris that is the trucking industry.

Enjoy Maya, Brian, and Chris’s stories from over-the-road to over-the-phone.

• Chris: “This was a great opportunity to be able to come inside and help people with something that I really love doing.”
• Brian: “There were times where, sitting in my truck, I didn’t say it directly to them, but I was screaming at them sitting in that truck.”
• Maya: “As long as we are communicating and keeping those doors open, there is nothing that can’t get accomplished.”
• Maya: “When you call and you think that the planner and your DM have lost their bananas, and they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to your hours. It’s easily resolvable by a simple phone conversation and a good attitude.”
• Brian: “I have no problem routing you outside of Chicago. Because I know it takes one person to screw up everybody’s day there.”
• Maya: “I couldn’t have a job without a driver. The driver could not have a job without our sales team, and our CACs, and our load planners. We all make up this company.”
• Chris: “I have to take care of my people. I have to care for my team. We want our drivers to be successful.”
• Maya: “Thirty-four hours is never enough at home… You have to be a wife or a husband. You have to be a mom. You have to be a friend, and you have 34 hours to be all these different things before you have to go back out on the road again.”

We’re back this week with an even-keel trainer and Road Captain that also can’t be trusted with a taser.

Jeff Jackson inspires with a pep talk on Nussbaum as a company and how proud he is to be a part of it but also spices up the conversation with stories from four years in the Marine Corps and 15 years as a Firearms Instructor for the nearby Pekin Police Department.

We’ll talk trucking (of course), but we’ll also sit entranced as Jeff relives the scary moments of law enforcement alongside the belly-laughing, I-can’t-believe-that-happened funny side of law enforcement.

Have a seat and enjoy this episode of Terminal Exchange with Nussbaum driver, Jeff Jackson.

• “In the squad car – once you get your vest on and all your equipment, you’re kind of crammed in there.”
• “And if you squinted your eyes just right at night, the sand looked like snow… It was the most meaningful Christmas.”
• “I knew I wanted to go into law enforcement since I was four years old. You can’t become a police officer until you’re 21. So, what better thing to do than join the marines, right?”
• “My brother and me, we were actually both over in the Persian Gulf at the same time, too.”
• “I had always wondered if I could do it. I think a lot of people wonder that. Can I drive something that big? That far? Safely?”
• “But, I did taze one of my best friends on accident. That’s a pretty good story.”
• “I told him, ‘I just tazed Baxter.’ And he just starts laughing and goes, ‘Did you give him the full five seconds??’ And that’s when it hit me that I did – that I could have turned it off! And I said, ‘Yeah, I guess I did!’ And he high-fived me.”
• “The first thing anybody notices about Nussbaum is how nice everybody is. It’s like you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

• By Peer Request, AJ Edgington

Jump back in with Mike Stumreiter this week as we buzz through a conversation on he and his wife’s new hobby and small business – beekeeping. It will not bee boring, and the bee puns are actually surprisingly minimal.

What started as a battle royalé with wildflowers turned into a welcoming of 20,000 bees into his eternally flowering backyard.

Enjoy this buzzworthy episode, from the “ah-ha!” moments to the connection Mike makes between beekeeping and trucking. You’ll learn and laugh guaranteed.

• “We went to the store, and it was $8 for a little jar of honey… that one ingredient costs more than the meat we put into the meal!”
• “If we lose bees, the downside is, we lose everything, people.”
• “In beekeeping, ten beekeepers will give you 12 different answers. I go, ‘It’s kind of like trucking!’”
• “I don’t know why we don’t have a truck driver president yet. We know it all. And if we don’t know it all, we will ask another trucker that does know it all.”
• “Each hive had a three-pound package [of bees]. In the three-pound package, there are 10,000 bees.”
• “It looked like an Armageddon of bees. I’ve never seen so many bees in my life.”
• “You want to see a dance that’s never been invented – let me get stung.”

• Ep. 52 // Breaking the Law with Mike Stumreiter
• Ep. 365 “On Beeing” from 99% Invisible Podcast
• Business of Bees Podcast Series by Bloomberg Environment
• Stumreiter’s Goodies YouTube Channel