Beyond The Truck Podcast with Jerry Curl

Send us Fan Mail  In a world overflowing with noise—tariffs, high costs, negativity, headlines designed to drain your energy, today’s conversation brings you back to center. This episode challenges you to pause and take inventory: Where are you right now? Are you anchored in gratitude, or pulled into worry and anxiety? Professional drivers and families across this industry are navigating some of t...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we break down the strategic framework every high-performing professional—especially professional drivers must operationalize goals, commitments, and standards. Goals give your life direction. Commitments provide the daily disciplines that keep you moving forward. And standards define what you will and will not tolerate from yourself. This episode transforms the...

Send us Fan Mail Family, welcome back to the Beyond the Truck Podcast, where we help professional drivers operate at peak performance, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Today we’re pulling into a critical topic: calories, grams, labels, and the energy system that keeps your truck moving and your body performing. If you’ve ever stood in a truck stop aisle, stared at the label on a drink or sna...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Beyond the Truck , we walk drivers through the critical discipline of reconnecting with yourself, your self-worth, and the daily behaviors that keep you operating at peak performance on the road and in life. This is a strategic reset designed to move you from intention to execution. We break down the fundamentals of personal health ownership: fueling your body w...

Send us Fan Mail Professional drivers carry the nation, yet far too many carry a quiet belief that they’re “just a truck driver.” Today’s episode dismantles that lie and replaces it with truth, purpose, and personal value. In See Yourself as I See You, we walk straight into the heart of self-worth and how it forms, how it gets damaged in this industry, and how drivers can rebuild it with disciplin...

Send us Fan Mail  Pretending or Participating? This is a hard-hitting, high-accountability conversation tailored for the professional driver who’s committed to moving beyond surface-level effort and stepping into a fully engaged, fully aligned version of themselves—on the road, in their health, in their families, and in their legacy. This episode challenges drivers to conduct an honest internal au...

Send us Fan Mail This Thanksgiving, we take the wheel and steer directly into what matters most—gratitude, health, purpose, and the people who keep this nation fueled. In this powerful 60-minute holiday episode, we honor the professional drivers who illuminate America’s highways and sustain our nation’s supply chain. We explore how gratitude enhances physical, mental, and spiritual health, and how...

Send us Fan Mail  In today’s episode, we welcome Dr. Bill Scharf,  a respected industry advocate, and trusted voice in frontline driver wellness. Dr. Scharf brings a decisive message to an industry that often powers through pain: your mental health is not secondary, optional, or “nice to have.” It is a primary driver of your physical performance, your safety, your longevity, and ultimately your he...

Send us Fan Mail This episode explores the science of gratitude as a strategic driver-wellness asset. We unpack evidence-based research—from the American Heart Association, UC Davis, the Greater Good Science Center, and multiple longitudinal clinical studies showing that gratitude lowers stress hormones, improves sleep quality, strengthens cardiovascular health, and enhances emotional resilience....

Send us Fan Mail This episode reinforces a critical mindset shift for professional drivers: gratitude isn’t a holiday slogan — it’s a strategic asset. When you anchor your life in gratitude, you create abundance. When abundance grows, legacies are built. And legacies lead to impact far greater than the miles we drive or the freight we move. Today, we bring the focus back to the fundamentals: appre...

Send us Fan Mail This Thanksgiving week kickoff delivers a high-impact Monday morning message for the men and women who keep America’s supply chain moving. In this episode, we pause to honor the professional driver community—not only for the miles they run, but for the resilience, commitment, and quiet leadership they demonstrate every single day. We shift the focus from the freight to the individ...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Beyond the Truck drills down on a core performance principle every professional driver must master: recovery is the gateway to a true reset . In an industry built on long hours, demanding schedules, and constant vigilance, your capacity to perform safely and professionally hinges on your ability to recharge with intention. We break down the operational essentials—q...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful episode of Beyond the Truck, we sit down with Rodolfo Giacoman, Driver Risk Expert and Fatigue Management Leader at the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA). With over 35 years in the industry, Rodolfo has dedicated his career to one of the most overlooked threats in transportation—fatigue Rodolfo calls it the “silent killer”—as deadly and invisible as high b...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Beyond the Truck, we go deep into one of the greatest operational challenges facing professional drivers today: maintaining strong personal, family, and industry connections in a world without a predictable schedule. Fuel the Bond explores how drivers can create stability in an environment defined by shifting freight, changing hours, long stretches of isolation,...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Beyond the Truck Podcast, we continue our Veterans Week celebration by honoring Navy veteran and professional driver John Pincumbe a man whose life story reflects discipline, dedication, and determination both on and off the road. John served our country with pride in the U.S. Navy, where he learned the structure, resilience, and purpose that would later steer him tow...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s powerful Midday Message on Beyond the Chart Podcast, Jerry Curl steps from behind the mic with a full heart and a message of gratitude. This episode isn’t about numbers, downloads, or charts—it’s about impact. It’s about the men and women—our veterans and professional drivers—who carry the quiet strength of service every mile, every day. Jerry shares reflections from th...

Send us Fan Mail Beyond the Truck Podcast, we continue honoring the brave men and women who have served our nation—those who carried their courage from foreign soils to the open road. Today, we are blessed to sit down with Dan McComb, a proud Navy veteran and professional tank truck driver whose story embodies service, sacrifice, and steadfast dedication. Dan’s dream of becoming a professional dri...

Send us Fan Mail This episode on Beyond the Truck Podcast, we continue to honor our nation’s heroes, the men and women who have served our country and now serve our highways. Today, we welcome Tom nighswonger, an Army veteran whose story is one of resilience, courage, and transformation. Tom’s journey began in humble, challenging beginnings , a childhood that could have easily defined his path. Bu...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful Veterans Week episode of Beyond the Truck, we sit down with Bruce Jones, a United States Marine veteran whose story defines courage, discipline, and lifelong service. From his days as a Marine sniper and ground troop, jumping from planes and protecting his fellow servicemen in Somalia, Desert Storm, and Desert Shield, to his ongoing mission today — serving on Amer...

Send us Fan Mail In this special Beyond the Truck Veterans Week episode, we honor Eric Mihelich, a United States Marine who served eight courageous years on foreign soils, including combat duty defending our nation with honor, discipline, and loyalty. Eric entered the Marines as a young man with no prior experience, choosing the hardest path and persevering through every challenge that came his wa...

Send us Fan Mail Bill McNamee’s story is one of uncommon dedication. He served this nation not once, but twice  both in the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps. When his military career came to an end, his service didn’t. Bill traded the uniform of battle for the uniform of a professional driver, and he’s been serving America ever since this time, on our nation’s highways. Bill e...

Send us Fan Mail This Veterans Week, Beyond the Truck proudly honors the men and women who have served our country, both behind the wheel and on the front lines. In this special Veterans Week episode, we celebrate Professional Driver and U.S. Army Veteran Mike Bedwell, who served from 1987 to 1991. Mike’s story is one of unwavering loyalty, discipline, and dedication—values forged in service and c...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Beyond the Truck, we open Veterans Week with a true American legend  Ron Baird, a 62-year professional driver and proud U.S. Navy veteran. With more than 8 million safe miles behind the wheel, Ron’s journey embodies what it means to serve, both in the Military and on America’s highways. From protecting our nation’s borders to delivering the essential goods that keep o...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Beyond The Truck proudly salutes the men and women who first served our country on foreign soils and now continue to serve every day on our inland roads. Their discipline, dedication, and sacrifice shaped the freedoms we enjoy—and today, those same values fuel the lifeblood of America’s highways. Join us as we honor Professional Driver’s and countless others who traded...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Beyond the Truck , we explore the parallels between the guardrails that keep our rigs safe on the highway and the guardrails that protect our lives off the road. Every driver knows — those rails are there not to limit you, but to keep you alive, centered, and moving forward. The same goes for life. We’ll talk about setting boundaries — your personal disciplines...