TruckNewsTalk

This week it's Part II in our series on trucking women as we talk to MacKenzie Melton, a Safety Director at Garland Trucking in Findlay, OH. It's true that the trucking industry is still faced with a negative stereotypical image by main street. It's not easy encouraging women to join the trucking industry. Our guest MacKenzie Melton was warned that she would raped and killed if she became a truck driver. We talked to MacKenzie and she is perfect fine. But how she suddenly became interested in trucking is interesting, and proves that sometimes it just takes a simple positive unassuming role model. Listen to MacKenzie's story, here and on Trucker Radio 24-7.

Beating a dead horse? Well, maybe two. One is on life support. It's about the alleged driver shortage. According to several people in the trucking industry, we've been told..."no, there's a shortage of QUALIFIED drivers." Where do qualified drivers come from? And if there is a serious driver shortage, what is the trucking industry doing about it in 2023 that's new and more creative than last year...or the decade before? We talk to the President of Transcom Fleet Services, Roy Craigen. We agree that it's long past time to stop talking to each other at seminars, conferences and symposiums and instead, get out there on mainstreet! Talk to the folks.The trucking industry needs salesmen, PR people and promoters. Ladies and Gentlemen...It's SHOWTIME! (and the audience has been waiting for over 10 years)

We talk to the manager of one of the biggest rowdiest noisiest most fun truck shows anywhere and it happens this summer. It been going on since 1981. We wonder aloud if this is a good place to recruit new people into the trucking industry? After, all about 15,000 people who are interested in all things trucking will all be in one place. In fact, it's a tourist attraction. Listen as we talk to our guest, Maxime Boulianne. By the way, you could win a Peterbilt truck. Not a model...a real truck.

Why did so many truck shows vanish? Wasn't a truck show, that included the public, along with food and entertainment, an opportunity to promote the trucking industry? There is a trucking event coming in July that will be a great place to show off the amazing driving skills of proffessional drivers, and in trun show off the trucking industry's high standards. We talk to Dave Henry (aka Crazy Canuck Dave) about the Manitoba Trucking Association's Professional Truck Driving Championship coming up in July. Why not make it a TV event?.

This is a segment from our FINAL Trucker Radio Show, airing on radio stations across Canada, in the USA and UK with our guest, Truck News Magazine Editor James Menzies. James had been a regular on our show for about 12 years or more, reporting on the latest trends and new equipment. James talks about the parts deficit, and he looks back at our 17-year history and the chnages that have occurred in trucking in that time...mostly good and a few, not so good.

CITY-TV reported that the person who cuts your har has more training that some truckers. This is not good for anyone, especially the vast majority of qualified, safe drivers. We all that that "Mandatory Entry Level Training" was going to be the answer to the scourage of bad schools, but it hasn't happened. We talk to PMTC President Mike Millian about the problems and the potential solutions to ensure that all professional drivers are indeed fullying qualifed and professional.

Ellen Voie is the founder of the organization Women in Trucking. Since it's inception, Ellen has been the President and CEO. Now she is stepping down to make way for a new leaders. Stan Campbell talks to Ellen about her early role, her successes, her accolades and awards, and what comes after WIT, including flying her plane.

We feature a conversation with Kate Price, the Executive Director of ACT-Alberta, the Action Coalition on Human Trafficking. ACT-Alberta helps survivors of human trafficking find a path to safety. When you donate to ACT Alberta, you connect victims and survivors to the resources they need to get out of a life-threatening situation. Kate explains the formation of ACT-Alberta and how it has grown into an amazing victim services organization. ACT is an immediate link to a judgement-free safe space where you will get the support you need to find your path to safety.

We talk to Sergeant Andrew Gough of Veterans and Everyday Heros, and Kimberley Biback whois leading the 3000 Burpee onslaaught in order to rause funds for this amazing organization bringing acts of kindness to Canadian Veterans and Every(day) Heroes (Police/Fire/EMS/Corr/CBSA/Nurses/Dispatchers/Animal Welfare). We talk to Sgt Gough and Kimberly about the challenge and how you...al of us...can participate by finfing sponsoers and/or donating. By the way, I needed to know...exactly what is a Burpee? We also hear from a very young supporter. Dont miss this. You can find out more about Veterans & Everyday Heros at www.v-eh.ca

This is the second in our series on sex-trafficking, especially focusing on Canada. Our conversation in this episode is with hit country singer, Paul Brandt, who has scored #1 hits songs in the US and Canada. In 2017, having been emotionally moved by the what he saw in a Dateline news feature and then after a heartbreaking view of what he personally experienced in Cambodia, Paul launched a anti-human trafficking organzation, entitled #NotInMyCity. Since then, Paul has become a leader in the war on human traffickers. His story is compelling and his efforts are herculean. To learn more about human trafficking, take the 20-minute course at www.notinmycitylearning.ca In the meantime, be inspired. Listen to this conversation with Paul Brandt.