Truck Parking Club: The Clubhouse

Truck Parking Club: The Clubhouse

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Truck Parking Club: The Clubhouse episodes

  • Jordan's Way

    Jordan (Jordan's Way) was a full-time stay-at-home dad who fell into trucking almost by accident, jumping in an automatic day cab to haul corn during harvest because it was the only truck his brother's boss had available. He got his CDL in December 2021, just before training became mandated, and jokes that he was self-taught. He explains working his way up from local cattle feed to tanker to step deck and now running oversize on the detach out of the Oklahoma panhandle, hauling a John Deere 8R the day of the call. He talks about what being his own boss really means (one text message a day, nap when tired, run when he's got energy), the overwhelming reality of parking over the road as a new driver (his first night was spent on an on-ramp), and finding Truck Parking Club off the tags at a lot south of Wichita. He gets into the amenities that actually matter to drivers, a bathroom over showers, DoorDash range, and cameras for peace of mind since he travels with his family, why he's a Kenworth guy stuck in a 2013 Peterbilt 367, his multi-camera Insta360 content setup, and his advice for new drivers: watch what you say out there, and loosen up your grip.

    Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/vWCUgUtwLjU?feature=share
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    40 min
  • FitTrucker1975
    Sean Smith, who posts as FitTrucker1975 and rides a unicycle around the country as Mr. Uni America, is 25 years into trucking with 15 of them pulling tankers. He makes the case that tanker work is the easiest money in the business because there are no docks to bump, walks through the different kinds of tanker freight worth breaking into, and warns that it is never the first turn that rolls you, it is the second. He also explains how he fits workouts into fuel stops, and calls in from Paulsboro, New Jersey ahead of a storm bringing high winds, flooding, and possible tornadoes.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_OwT1GYr_4
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    37 min
  • Truckin With Tereasa
    Tereasa was a behavioral therapist for children with autism and a hair stylist before her aunt, in for a haircut, talked her and her partner into expediting. She explains convincing him to walk away from ten years of construction work, paying their own way through CDL school, and only finding out afterward about the workforce programs that would have covered the cost. They now run expedited freight in a Class B truck for a fleet owner on a sixty forty split, which she reckons pays about what over the road work does for far fewer miles.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxOKNBqYcw
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    39 min
  • OTR Bandit
    OTR Bandit was working a factory job in Missouri with seniority and full benefits when his cousin got into trucking, and he figured he would drive two or three years and quit. More than twenty years later he runs his own authority, having bought a truck after about a year as a company driver and started his own company six months after that. He also gets into the load he lost that morning when a storage facility would not release product over an unpaid bill, the blacklist of shippers he will not take freight from, and why he would rather leave than sit collecting detention.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBuEQ9LnQMI
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    45 min
  • Brandon Colson
    Brandon Colson, who goes by Scooter, grew up on his grandfather's stories about running flatbed across the Midwest and came back to that after trying factory work and cooking out of high school. He explains how a classmate who had become an owner-operator walked him through the modern steps, and how PAM Transport covered his schooling before he passed his class in May 2014. Twelve years in, he talks about bouncing between over the road and local work hauling grain and running for PepsiCo, and why the same route every day makes him stir crazy.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4je6IjfubI
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    40 min
  • King Ace
    Alex, who goes by King Ace, hits 16 years this September, having left a Lowe's job and college in Baton Rouge after hearing enough stories from his brother and a delivery driver at the store. He describes a six month course at Diesel Driving Academy, starting on flatbed at TMC and rating their training highly for new drivers, and the short detours through reefer and beverage delivery before he settled into tankers. Fourteen years on he owns his truck and runs it leased to a carrier around the refineries and plants of the Gulf South, calling in parked at a shipper in Connecticut.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kAgUanXgOU
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    32 min
  • Eddie V
    Eddie V grew up shifting gears from the passenger seat of his father's whey tanker in Wisconsin, but never planned on driving until an accounting degree started looking like ten years of school for forty thousand a year. He walks through six and a half years spent almost entirely at small mom and pop carriers, mostly on step deck, including a year of dry van he gave up on over eight hour dock waits and a stretch hauling jet fuel and propane for his dad. He also explains why he asked for the oldest truck in the fleet, a glider with an older Detroit in it, so he could stay off the dealership lot and keep running paper logs.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChhSoCSduOM
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    35 min
  • Marten Transport ft. Joe Costello & Maribeth Knueve
    Maribeth Knueve and Joe Costello, both senior vice presidents at Marten Transport, talk about how they landed in freight and why neither would leave. Knueve grew up with a flatbed driver for a father and a mother in payroll at a tanker outfit, started in 2003, and joined Marten in 2011 selling into a Northeast market she had never set foot in, later launching the dry van division out of Edwardsville, Kansas with a couple of trucks and growing it toward 400. Costello came at it sideways, leaving a nursing program over a problem with blood and picking logistics because it looked like the smaller pond, and is 18 years in.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ISPiuId67I
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    50 min
  • OffendDOT
    Demetri, who posts as OffendDOT, was waiting tables in Miami when he got his CDL in 2018 with a plan to drive one year, bank the money, and get out. Seven years later he traces a route through a Chicago flatbed job he found via a friend's connection made at a sauna, quitting twice, renting a beat up Cascadia and a reefer trailer with a hole in the wall after the pandemic, and selling his truck, his trailer, and his trucking Instagram account when the war started in Ukraine. He explains how two weeks back as a company driver ended with him walking into a Freightliner dealership in Austin, buying a truck, and opening his own authority a week later.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcXTDV5bsU
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    33 min
  • The Ramblin' Nomad
    The Ramblin' Nomad returns to talk about what the job did to his health and what he has done about it. He describes putting on about 40 pounds once his income doubled and COVID left him with time and money to burn, landing in the pre-diabetic range, then cycling through low carb and carnivore stretches that never held up against 70 hour weeks. He explains the reverse dieting approach of the last eight months that has him eating three to four thousand calories a day, pulled his numbers out of pre-diabetic territory, and left him the leanest he has been in a decade, all from a line of trucks in Plaster City, California waiting on gypsum.
    Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjKQZpsZUms
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    48 min

About Truck Parking Club: The Clubhouse

From the publisher's feed

The Clubhouse is Truck Parking Club's partner show. Michael Lombard, truck driver, triathlete, and Partner Development Manager for Truck Parking Club sits down with the drivers and creators who partner with us out on the road: the people running the miles, pulling into our lots, and telling it straight about life in the truck. Real conversations about the road, the parking, the freight, and everything that comes with it.