Voice Of GO(r)D brings you two trucking industry researchers in discussion on a hot topic today that is now being discussed in the wider media, downstream of a major enforcement action in Oklahoma. Danielle Chaffin returns for her third appearance on the show along with Miranda from the very popular and informative Trucking Made Successful YouTube channel, and we dive in to the question of how random migrants from around the world are showing up in America and various states are issuing them CDLs with very little in the way of any identification, verification, or possibility of accountability should anything go wrong.

There is a lot to say about this topic, and more details that won't fit into Spotify's show description character limit, so please head over to my Substack to check out the rest -

https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/no-name-given-on-the-fraudulent-issue

You can go follow Danielle on Twitter/X - https://x.com/maybedanielleee and, if you want, NerdIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maybedanielleee/ and her Substack is great, too - https://www.highwayveritas.com/

You can find Miranda’s awesome YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/@TruckingMadeSuccessful and on Twitter/X - https://x.com/TMSuccessful

In other news - my book is complete! The first round of editing, revisions, and more editing, are all wrapped up, and the manuscript is now in the hands of my publishers at Creed and Culture. They will have a week or two to analyze the manuscript, make any final suggestions or changes, and later this month we should have a final manuscript of the book ready to go. Pre-sales at their website will open in November, and the Hardcover will be delivered to your door in March; or, you can meet me at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, March 26-28 2026, and I will sign a copy for you in person! An E-reader version will also be available, and I will be narrating an audiobook for all of my Road Warrior colleagues to listen to while you are white-knuckling it along the Interstate Mad Max Wasteland.
https://creedandculture.com/books/end-of-the-road-inside-the-war-on-truckers/

Thanks for listening, and please pass this discussion along to your favorite trucker, or US DOT investigator, or State DMV official, or anyone else with the power to fix this problem - its time to start cleaning things up, and attain the Highway Hyperborea that is within our capacity to create.
Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and Strongly Encouraged - [email protected]

Voice of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you Rob Carpenter, trucker, safety expert, writer, and maestro behind the The Tea/Talking Wreckless Substack.

Rob’s current writing project, the 30 Days of Why series, which I highlighted here recently, is one of the best pieces of investigative journalism and deep critiques of the trucking industry I have ever seen, and it is my pleasure to bring Rob to the show to discuss that series, his life in the industry, and so much else.

https://www.talkingwreckless.com/

In the intro you will hear me discuss the latest installments to Rob’s series, which came out after we recorded; I will have to get Rob back on to discuss this two part investigation, because the utterly insane story he highlights speaks to EVERYTHING that is wrong with trucking now, and how multiple system failures, matched with this belief that truckers are just human resources slurry that can be sloshed from country to country, resulted in 9 children being immolated in a totally preventable wreck.

The Safety Tech is not going to save anyone, which is another point Rob and I address.

https://www.talkingwreckless.com/p/the-pruitt-alabama-crash-a-deep-dive

https://www.talkingwreckless.com/p/the-pruitt-crash-part-two-lives-depend

You can find Rob on Twitter - https://x.com/Thewhitesmoke

And on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-carpenter-cds-cdm-e-74500977/

The rough draft of my book is complete - this week sees the manuscript going through the first edit, and then it will be submitted to the publisher and see more tweaks and suggestions from them. I will be announcing when pre-orders will be available in November.

My publisher, Creed and Culture Books, being a new kid on the block, finally got their website up and running here last week, and you should go check it out.

https://creedandculture.com/

Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - [email protected]

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you a conversation with Tamie Sue Stuttle of the advocacy organization Real Women in Trucking, where we discuss many of the usual problems facing truckers, and one in particular that is of import to Lady Truckers.

Due to the intransigence of certain of the biggest trucking companies in the country, and their reliance on a wicked and evil training model, a study examining Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment in the industry was recently cancelled.

As reported on by John Gallagher at FreightWaves not two weeks ago -

The Trump administration has canceled a study aimed at addressing sexual harassment and rape in the trucking industry, according to one of the study’s developers.

“We all put a lot of time and attention into this, and just got an email yesterday telling us not to do any more work, that we’ve been cancelled,” Anne Balay, a member of the working group overseeing the project, told FreightWaves.

“Everyone knows rape and sexual harassment are incredibly common in this industry, and this was an attempt to do an actual study that would have led to suggestions on how to address it and make the industry safer. But it was canceled not to save money – the money had already been spent – but to prevent the results from getting out to the public, ensuring now nothing gets done to change the industry and make it safer for women.”

A screenshot of a notice from the administration states that the decision to terminate the study “is because the government’s priorities have shifted and this project no longer meets our needs.”

As Tamie and I discuss the cancellation, it appears that it is not the governments needs they are concerned with, but those of the members of the American Trucking Association, whose ‘Team Training’ programs would be exposed to the scrutiny they need by this study, and possibly bring this stupid training method, and all of the sexual abuse it leads to for women, into the public eye. And, perhaps, result in it being made illegal - which is the correct action, to our minds.

Tamie and I also discuss various other issues relevant to woman behind the wheel, and every other trucker out on the road, including a recent study from the ATA’s research arm which suggests that more felons be recruited into trucking. What about those convicted of sexual crimes who would now be a problem for women truckers?

You can find Tamie on Twitter - https://x.com/tamiesue2

Tamie’s own podcast - https://truckinwithtamie.com/

The canceled SASH study at FMCSA - https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/research-and-analysis/cmv-driver-sexual-assault-and-sexual-harassment-sash

https://www.realwomenintrucking.org/

Driver Documentary Film

Petition to re-instate the SASH Study -

https://www.change.org/p/reinstate-the-fmcsa-study-on-sexual-assault-and-harassment-in-trucking

The disgusting White Paper from ATRI encouraging the recruitment of dangerous ex-cons and Foster Children into trucking -

https://truckingresearch.org/2025/07/new-atri-research-highlights-evolving-truck-driver-demographics/

Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are always welcomed and strongly encouraged -

 [email protected]

Voice of GO(r)D is very happy to present a short discussion with the CEO of the North American Punjabi Trucking Assocation, Mr Raman Dhillon.
NAPTA is kind of a Member Support organization who provide training, support for members with business development, bulk purchasing discounts, and seek to represent their particular corner of the trucking industry.

I recorded this conversation back in June, before all of the attention which became focused on Mr Dhillon’s community in the wake of this horrific tragedy earlier in August down in Florida. I asked Mr Dhillon to come back on the show to record an addendum to this; he has yet to respond.

This was a useful conversation, where we covered Mr Dhillon’s immigration story to America from India, various topics and problems within trucking, his meeting with former President Biden, and we also touch on issues specific to the Punjabi community and their deep penetration into the trucking business, both in Canada and the United States. You will find that Mr Dhillon is in agreement with the rest of us on many basic and common sense operational rules and approaches for the industry.

In the show we mentioned Mr Dhillon’s interview with Overdrive Magazine, which you can read here -

https://www.overdriveonline.com/regulations/article/15748790/biden-trucking-plan-and-crisis-of-unvetted-drivers-raman-dhillon

I know the wider discussion out there about migration and all of the work permit/work visa scams is pretty heated right now, and I wanted to hear from someone on the other side of that equation than those born and raised in North America; I hope you find some value in that.

You can find NAPTA online here - https://www.gonapta.org/

Mr Dhillon has his own podcast, Punjabi Trucking 360, which is occasionally recorded in English, and can be found on all of the major podcasting platforms.

Thanks for listening!
I’m almost done the book! Pre-sales will be available in November.

Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - [email protected]

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to present you a conversation with brother and sister Michael and Chasaty Rainer, proprietors of Booker’s Dude Ranch, an event facility in the East Texas town of Henderson that is also doubling as an old school truck stop of sorts, part of the Truck Parking Club network of locations which offer an alternative to the ever declining quality and chaotic madness of America’s large truck stop chains.

Michael himself is a lifelong trucker that is still out there on the road, and is well clued in to the challenges facing drivers in 2025, and sister Chasaty is a nurse who takes a holistic approach to the health and wellness of the truckers that are her guests.

If you happen to be passing through that area of the country, and want a quiet place to park, have some decent non-fast food slop, and maybe have a horse riding lesson while taking a reset, you should go check them out.

You can find The Dude Ranch at their own website -

https://www.bookersduderanch.com/

And over on the Insta -

https://www.instagram.com/bookersduderanch/

And Facecrack -

https://www.facebook.com/bookersduderanch

If you would like to hear more about the Truck Parking Club mission directly from its founder, have a listen here -

As Always - questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - [email protected]

I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American Trucker in 2025, due to be published in March 2026. It’s almost done! Stay tuned for news on editing progress.

Voice Of GO(r)D brings to the mic Texas Trucker Jayme and Blake, a pair of representatives from a small trucker advocacy organization called The National Owner Operators Association, whose recent activities around demanding transparency in the dealings between freight brokers and the truckers who keep the country moving have touched off some heated debates in the industry. TNOOA have some very pointed and compelling positions about the ‘race to the bottom’ in the trucking industry, and how that is driven, in large part, by the over-capacity in the industry not only of trucks, but of brokerages themselves.

TNOOA have been featured in several articles by Overdrive Magazine, and have engaged in meetings with various politicians on the question of proposed broker transparency legislation, as well as advising them on other issues and regulation in the industry. Blake and Jayme also describe how TNOOA is not merely working for owner operators, but truckers as a whole. They share various stories of assistance they have rendered our fellow truckers, especially in dealing with parasite complexes such as overzealous local parking officers, predatory towing companies, and the dodgier, scummier elements amongst our friends in the world of brokering, including the Armenian double broker and convicted gangster G-Face.

You can find TNOOA online here - https://tnooa.com/

Jayme and Blake are both active participants on FreightX, Blake from her office while supporting her family trucking business, and Jayme from out on the road, who is a Texas based Owner-Operator doing his level best to help his fellow truckers from his position behind the wheel.

Follow Blake here - https://x.com/Fosfamily

Jayme here - https://x.com/Andersonj2273

TNOOA puts out a quarterly online magazine within their website called ‘The Stand’ which features unique industry commentary from their members.

https://tnooa.com/the-stand-magazine/

Thanks for listening! If you found this podcast episode valuable or entertaining, pass it around to your friends and associates, especially other truckers.

And as always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail can be sent to me directly - [email protected]

I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American trucker in 2025, and its almost done! Find out more about the book here -

https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major

Voice Of GO(r)D has convened something of an emergency roundtable in the wake of this horrific tragedy in Florida last week, as much of the reporting on it that’s out there is weak, inconsistent, politically motivated, and lacking in substantive context and background.

This tragic incident, for those who follow this Substack, or pay close attention to the North American trucking industry, is but one of many in a long line of completely unnecessary and preventable crashes, and the causes of all of these crashes are many, but there are notable through-lines and historical context. The media, along with many online commentators, are trying to pin this on bad immigration policy, which is certainly a component, or the corruption of politicians like Gavin Newsom, which is also a factor, but this is merely to find convenient villains who are a regular feature of life in America in 2025, and to miss all of the other problems; which are, quite frankly, of far more consequence to this incident.

To help describe the view of this problem in its entirety from 30,000 feet, I have invited colleagues and former guests of this show to join me in a wide ranging roundtable which tackles all of the angles of this story, to help you make more sense of it and arm yourself with accurate complaints to make to your relevant authorities.

Shannon Everett is a co-founder and the public face of American Truckers United. He is, like myself, a trucker who comes from a multi-generational trucking family. Shannon now manages an Arkansas based carrier, and his group has done some incredible research into the suspicious and massive increase of CDLs being issued across America over the past 5 years.

You can listen to our previous interview here, and find his very active Twitter here.

Danielle Chaffin is the granddaughter and daughter of old school truckers in Tennessee, and she has been a freight broker and a social worker, but is now behind the scenes at a TMS company that helps fleets manage all of their data. She is also an independent researcher into the industry, and writes the excellent Highway Veritas substack, which I quote here often. You can find Danielle’s previous appearances on this podcast here and here, and Danielle’s prolific and informative Twitter here.

Justin ‘Supertrucker’ Martin is a former trucker and social media operator, who has held many roles behind the wheel, including hauling high security loads for the United States military, mail for the United States Postal Service, and was once the co-host of the FreightWaves podcast ‘Back The Truck Up’. You can find Justin as a guest on my show here, here, here, and here, and his meme-heavy Twitter account here.

For the first time, and for those folks who prefer to watch things online, I have made the video from our roundtable available on YouTube. I’m not a fan of the video format, mostly because I don’t have time to watch almost anything, but if you like an assemblage of talking heads, here you go -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5I5mxcYgJI

I am a few short days away from submitting the rough manuscript for this book, which will likewise describe the insourcing of unskilled and illiterate labor onto our highways, as well as many other issues of consequence during the twilight days of the last American cowboy.

https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major

As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged -

 [email protected]

Voice Of GO(r)D is back and in conversation with Atlanta based attorney Jeremy Citron of Long Haul Law and the Hurt Boss, where we discuss the perception of truckers by the public, and more specifically, members of juries, and how that comes into play when truckers get tangled up in trial. Jeremy also lays out some recommendations on how truckers can facilitate accountability and professionalism and thus more readily protect themselves in such situations. We also get into many issues facing trucking today, and why it is we have so many dodgy operators around.
Jeremy is a thoughtful guy and this was an informative conversation - I hope to get him back again some day. Thanks again for listening!

Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged -

 [email protected]

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast is very happy to bring you a discussion with former MIT Data Scientist Dr. David Correll, whose work within MIT FreightLab, a project of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, examines the mother of all problems in trucking, and the one that begets so many others, DETENTION.

For non-truckers, detention is when trucks are held up for unreasonable amounts of time in the loading and unloading process at customer facilities. Some facility operators are notorious for this, and I have spent days trying to get certain things unloaded, and will share a particularly egregious example in the book I am writing on the fate of the North American Trucker in 2025. (see details below)

Everyone remembers seeing footage of a hundred container ships waiting to be docked at the Port Of Long Beach/Los Angeles during Covid - imagine that this is what its like in many sectors of trucking, except it happens all the time, year in, year out, and has been this way since forever.

Dr. Correll’s research concludes, in his words, that America leaves “40% of its trucking capacity on the table every day” due to this pernicious and seemingly intractable problem, which is the proximate cause of -

- Truck driver churn and retention issues

- Speeding and aggressive driving behavior which pose a saftey hazard on our roads, and has resulted in the imposition of ELDs and other surveillance tech into the lives of truckers

- Shippers being ghosted by carriers who find better facilities to work with

- The wasting of millenia, yes, literally thousands of years worth of valuable human capital. Multiply all of the hours lost times millions of truckers times decades of this problem …. and its probably more than millenia.

- An unnecessary drag on the resiliency of American supply chains.

We had an interesting discussion that covers detention and then connects it to these other issues, and we also discuss possible solutions.

You can read all about it at the following links -
David’s testimony to the Biden ‘Trucking Task Force’ -

https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114233/witnesses/HHRG-117-PW0Wstate-CorrellD-20211117.pdf

David at Medium -

https://medium.com/mitsupplychain/is-there-a-truck-driver-shortage-or-a-capacity-crisis-73a7d7a5bcb

From MIT’s own news site -

https://news.mit.edu/2022/are-supply-chains-stuck-detention-0425

Some FreightLabs research papers for your perusal -

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/130093

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/142935

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/126383

You can find Dr. Correll online

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhccorrell/

https://x.com/DavidHCCorrell

Please enjoy this musical interlude -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7kwFSp7yh4&list=RDc7kwFSp7yh4&start_radio=1

I have written extensively about one of the solutions to this problem, and that solution has been sitting in Congress for 3 years, waiting to be acted upon. Its amazing how a one line bill that doesn’t include new taxes or giveaways to anyone seems to have so much trouble getting out of committee -

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-want-support-working-class-vote-andy-levins-trucker-bill-opinion-1715058

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-proposal-remove-taxes-overtime-almost-perfecthe-just-needs-include-truckers-opinion-1954663

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/pay-truckers-for-their-work/

Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and encouraged, especially if you are being abused by lazy and disorganized cretins holding you up and wasting the only resource you can’t make more of and is the most important thing we have in life - TIME.

[email protected]

I’m almost done the rough manuscript of this detailed overview of what has become of the North American Trucker in 2025 -

https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major

Voice Of GO(r)D is pleased to bring you a light conversation about a heavy topic centered on the question of why the country that is most dependent in the world on highway freight for its economy has such short and light trucks.

Professor Christopher Clarke is an economist at Washington State University, and is a presenter on a new social media channel called Business Explains The World. Their recent video on this question went viral, and as I have spent much of my trucking career outside of the USA pulling longer and heavier trucks than are usually to be found in America, I had to get him on the podcast.

I’ve always thought of the 53’ foot freight box as highly symbolic in that it is built explicitly to max out calories cubes where something like a Canadian Super B Train is built to max out on nutrition weight, and one of these things is healthier for the body economy than the other. Professor Clarke and I go back and forth on this question, amongst others, including the corporate welfare part of the equation where it concerns the production and flooding of the market with ‘drivers’, which is part of the problem here. Higher density trucks require a higher quality level of driver, and if anything this Substack should have taught you by now, it is that the trucking industry in North America in 2025 is very busy chasing the high quality operators out.

You can find Professor Clarke all over -
Twitter - https://x.com/EconChrisClarke
Professor Clarke’s own blog - https://econchrisclarke.wordpress.com/

TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@econchrisclarke
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/econchrisclarke/

As mentioned during the show, I hope to get Professor Clarke on for a longer and heavier discussion about this topic.

As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections, weight loss tips and Hate Mail are strongly encouraged and always welcome - [email protected]

I’m almost done writing a book on the fate of the North American Trucker in 2025

https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major