TalkCDL Trucking Podcast

UNITED STATES RECRUITING TRUCKERS FROM AFRICA. Did you know that the United States Trucking Industry is now recruiting truck drivers from South Africa. With the struggle to recruit truck drivers, the United States has started a campaign to invite South African truckers to relocate to North America. The US will need One Hundred Thousand extra drivers by the year 2023. One US Transport company was q...

SEMI TRUCK HITS STOPPED TRAFFIC 10 DEAD. On June 19th, along Interstate 65 in Alabama at mile post 138 near the bridge over Pigeon Creek was the location of a deadly scene. Ten people were killed, including 8 children, teenagers and 2 adults, when a semi truck failed to stop at a queue, as the result of a series of accidents. A second semi truck also failed to stop, which also struck vehicles. Ini...

5 DUMBEST DRIVING POSITIONS. How many people actually drive in the right sitting position? From what you see driving down the road, there is not many that have great driving etiquette! We have the top five bad positions to sit in while operating a vehicle, so tune in. Driving is dangerous enough, but when you sit in the wrong position, you can increase you odds in being injured when in a crash. Th...

HOW MANY ACCIDENT WILL YOU HAVE IN A LIFE TIMEyour life time.. Did you know the average person will be in an accident on average, every 17 year? So the average person will be in some form of accident at least 4 times in a life time. According to the car insurance industry, you will have an average of 3 to 4 accidents in you life time. Not every accident will be deadly. Of the ten million accidents...

EATING HABITS SURVEY ON THE ROAD. Check out our latest podcast about what the most go to food while traveling. Tune in and here Ruthann and Troy's spin on this wacky survey. EATING HABITS SURVEY ON THE ROAD National CarriersJJ Keller the truckers friendMDR Cocoon the ap that pays TruckersMolesters, Truck parking scam, Trucking newsTrucking Back In The DayTrucking News With RuthannEATING HABITS SUR...

CHILD MOLESTER OFFERS FREE RIDES IN SEMI. 59-year-old Travis Wayne Vavra lured young children into his tractor-trailer for a chance to see the country on an adventure. He did this by pretending to be a person that cares about our youths and wanting to give children a chance to travel at his expense. He posted attractive posters and fliers at which he transported minors from Texas to California and...

SAM LEGG TRUCKER & KILLER. Sam Legg has been sitting in a mental institution since the early part of 2019. He was deemed unfit to stand trial for the many murders he has been accused of. In fact officials have termed him has being a schizophrenia. Legg has been linked to several slayings across the country by DNA and America is waiting for him to be judged by a jury of his peers. Sam Legg started...

WHEN TRUCK DRIVERS SNAP. It is statistically known, that when pushed too far, a man can go off the deep end. Truck drivers are under allot of pressure to begin with. They were probably in an altered state, say Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, authors of “Snapping: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change.” The communication researchers define snapping as a sudden, drastic alteration of persona...

FLIP FLOP TRUCKERS LEGAL OR NOT? Is there a law that prohibits a truck driver from wearing certain foot attire? The simple answer is "no" it is not illegal to wear flip flops while driving a semi truck. However, if one gets into an accident and the cause is the flip flops, then you may be in trouble and pay a heavy fine. There is no legal rule on what you may and may not use but there is a rule ca...

TOP 25 DEATH ROADS IN AMERICA. To determine which road in America is the deadliest, the data must show the highest deaths per distance per road. The article which American Trucker Magazine posted recently, shows the number one road at one death per mile on the winning road. Most roads like Interstate 10 in Santa Monica , CA to Jacksonville FL which is 2,460 miles is netting .597 deaths per mile or...

TRUCK STOPS RIPPING OFF TRUCKERS. Does America even know what truck drivers are charged for just a bottle of soda at a truck stop? For that matter, do ordinary people know what a truck driver is charged just for every day items that he/she may need? Truckers are many times held hostage by a truck stop. They have no where else to park and shop at an every day normal grocery store, so they are force...

TRUCKING NEWS WITH RUTHANN. Ruthann is back and in the news, oh yeah. Anything trucking this week. Tune in and hear all the latest news that has affected trucking. Panera bread making people wear a mask while the entire restaurant is eating without a mask. Ruthann stopped in most likely for her very last visit to Panera bread and was asked to wear a mask or leave. She glanced around to find that e...

MOLESTERS, TRUCK PARKING SCAM, TRUCKING NEWS. Child molesters are probably number one or at least very high on the list of scumbags on the planet. Give him a Class A CDL and you now have given him an unlimited hunting ground. On May 17th, Said El Bouazzaoui  was chatting with an undercover officer posing as a 13 year old girl using a social media application. Police say Bouazzaoui talked about the...

THE LAZY TRUCKERS OF AMERICA. America is hurting right now and truck drivers that refuse to work are no help. A high percentage of Truckers are still at home collecting money while their brothers and sisters are out on the long road delivering freight across America. This is not only a trucker problem but also a person problem. Ever since the covid-19 issues in 2020, Americans are still trying to...

STATES WITH THE RUDEST DRIVERS. This week on TalkCDL Trucking Podcast we discussed the top 10 states with the rudest drivers. These were based on drivers that failed to yield, failed to stop at a stop sign and most of the very preventable tickets one gets when blatantly ignoring a traffic sign. Which state was number one? Well Virginia of course, but you will have to watch the latest podcast by Ta...

RIPPING OFF YOUR OWN COMPANY. There is a growing rate of drivers that are stealing from their own company. Some are doing whats called "Padding the fuel card"! The way the scam works is, a driver finds a small truck stop that will work the scam with them. The clerk behind the counter runs an extra amount of cash on the card (which never goes in the tank) and then they split to booty. But beware dr...

TRUCKING BACK IN THE DAY. There was a time when trucking meant something to everyone at every trucking company. When a new employee was hired, they were required to go on a trip with a trucker. The plan was to make everyone appreciate what the trucker had to go through on a daily basis. If you never drove a big truck before, you were going to know how is felt to be a truck driver, before becoming...

TWO TRUCKING DUI STORIES. In Nevada a Trucker received 2 DUI's in just 12 days. The worse part of this story, is, That the truck driver was in a commercial vehicle, both times. Julio Perea Ayala a Class CDL holder was arrested twice for a DWI (Driving While Intoxicated), of which he was behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle. Ayala was declared an imminent threat to the public by the U.S. Depart...

TRUCKERS BECOMING HUMAN TRAFFIC. In a recent article by Freightwaves, they ran a report in a trucker that was lured from a foreign country to work in the USA. Once here the trucker alleges he was forced to work illegal hours, ultimately risking his safety and others not he road. The trucker also stated that he was lured with promises of big paychecks but was only paid a fraction of what he was tol...

JOHNNY ACID & MARRIED TO A TRUCKER. We sat down with Johnny Acid this week to talk about his search for a new job. Johnny was suppose to be hired by a very popular tank company but in the end, he was not. As we talked further we discovered that Johnny is getting screwed around with a common practice. Tune in and hear how a very big company is practicing unprofessional hiring practices. Married to...

18 YEAR OLD TRUCKERS & ELECTRIC SEMI'S. There is now proposed legislation that would allow 18 to 20 year old CDL holder cross state lines. There has been for a long time, 49 states that allow an 18 yearly man or woman, to get their CDL (Commercial drivers license) and driver intrastate only. But with the driver shortage and new safety rules that would apply to these young wanna-be drivers, it is m...

UPSTAGING TRUCKING FOR ROCK & COUNTRY INDUSTRY. We sat down with Upstaging Inc. and talked about everything from all the rock and roll plus country stars they have hauled for. What it's like and the perks of being a driver for Upstaging. How long a driver has to be on the road when on tour. What job duties a driver has. We sat down with Deanna Plaggmeyer, a long time driver and now driver recruite...

BAD RECRUITING CALL AND TRUCKING NEWS. Ever wonder how goofy a recruiting call sounds when a recruiter tells a driver everything he wants to hear. Check out the recruiting call from Johnny Acid and how ridiculous the entire conversation sounded. We hope you enjoy this comic stint. Trucking News with Ruthann and Troy Check out some of the latest headlines that are in the trucking industry. Trucker...

TRUCKER JOHNNY ACID AND Fort Worth TX. Yeah that's right, Johnny Acid is officially a trucker. Sounds scary doesn't it? We caught up with Johnny for a quick interview and he hasn't changed one bit. Johnny is still Johnny and if you have sensitive ears, then you might want to skip this interview. We talked to the vulgar Johnny Acid about his new career and some of the antics he has gotten himself i...

Trucking Stuff and Amazon. It looks like Amazon is trying to create its own trucking company by increasing their Owner Operators. Amazon plans to ad hundred's of independent contractors in the hopes they will in turn create their own small trucking companies with in Amazon. Amazon is hoping and banking on a larger trucking business within the Amazon company hauling exclusively for Amazon only. In...