TalkCDL Trucking Podcast

Trucking Stuff. This week on the show we talked about a cat that traveled in a Peterbilt from Canada to North Dakota. The cat was a stowaway on board a truckers semi. When the truck driver conducted a daily inspection of his rig, he found the black cat named "spooky". Jack Shao an active trucker called the phone number on the kitties collar and the rest was history. The phone call went to a veteri...

Meet the hosts of TalkCDL Trucking Podcast The brotherhood of trucking. This week on TalkCDL. We spoke about the brotherhood of trucking. The brotherhood exists if you are part of it. If you stop to help a trucker that needs you then you are part of the brotherhood. If you dont stop if you can, then you are not part of the brotherhood, Period! https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/07/18/polic...

Trucking Quaaludes & Rioters. This week on TalkCDL we covered many topics. Of course everything is about trucking. We spoke about quaaludes. Do you remember this drug from way back? It has been a long time since it has been mentioned in fact maybe since the early 90's. At one time quaaludes were the downer that most druggies used to bring them down but since has been long forgotten. Until now. A t...

Meet the hosts of TalkCDL Trucking Podcast Truckers are time travelers. Imagine if you will, a life on the road. A life filled with travel and moments that are held in our memories. We can reflect back to many parts in time and our minds make us able to travel through time. As truck drivers we have something most occupations do not offer. We have so many precious moments that can take us away and...

CB'S PLUS TROY SOLVED THE PARKING PROBLEM, YAY. Here is Troy's solution. If every city was obligated to provide a resting area with all the amenities for truckers, based on their volume of inbound/outbound freight. For example if a city has 1000 loads per day coming into their city, they would be obligated to provide 1000 parking spaces free of charge. Truck drivers that are under strict rules and...

Sick of trucking news. Lately the news in trucking is just down right depressing. All you hear is how unsafe it is to go into cities and how there is no freight. Just recently a few truck drivers made the headlines just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A trucker in Minnesota was surprised as he came around a turn and discovered a mob on a bridge he had to cross. This of course being...

Truckers won't deliver to copless cities. Truckers from all over the country are weighing in on the possibility of cites that are defunding the police and they are saying they will not take loads to such places. Truckers have it tough enough without having the law on their side. The title "truck driver" is considered one of the most dangerous jobs in america, so having no protection would take tha...

TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. Trucking companies are responsible for their drivers. We conducted a survey recently in light of the violence in America. We asked truck drivers and trucking companies, what is your policy in situations like we are seeing. The situations we are speaking of are the protests the rioting in just abou...

TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. Trucker drags protester to death. A protester is dead after getting caught in between a Fedex semi truck and trailer. The Fedex rig was pulling a set of doubles in St. Louis when a protest was caught between the two trailers. A video obtained by TalkCDL showed a driver struggling to get out from t...

Trucker Shawn new driver with an old soul. Shawn Dirksen has been driving six months as a trucker but you would swear he's been at it 6 years. Shawn had a boyhood dream of being a trucker all his life. When he got the opportunity to catch his dream, he went for it. In his mid 40's, Shawn is now running the road and enjoying life on the road. Shawn sat down with TalkCDL and put everything in perspe...

TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. NEO Secret trucker. Have you ever heard of a trucking job that involved guns and a badge? We interviewed a trucker that has a top secret trucking job. His job involves trucking across america with a team partner. He is not allowed to post any pictures of his truck or himself in his uniform on any...

Truckers starting a fleet. Many trucking companies have started with on truck. We call them "one truck chuck". But many of these owner operators have figured out a way to go from a one truck operation to a mega carrier in the industry. CDLLife did a story on Erb Transport. A company that was founded in 1959 with a single dump truck. Erb Transport has grown from one truck operation to a a company t...

Brokers Trucking and More. We talked about how the industry is looking hard at freight brokers. How brokers are being accused of ripping off truck drivers and trucking companies. A broker is not under any law that limits him from any certain profit margin but it is pretty sad if in deed they are cutting the profits down to the bone as accused. Trucking companies invest in equipment, insurances and...

D.O.T. GIVES ADVICE TO TRUCKERS & D.O.T.. Recently a truck driver was pulled over in Massachusetts with a faulty wheel on his semi truck. He was missing several lug nuts which is a hazard. He was put out of service and out of danger. There has been several accidents in the past few years involving loose wheels on tractor-trailers. When a wheel breaks free from a moving rig, it can cause major dama...

Truckers Crazy Driving Record. Recently we spoke with a driver that confessed to having a few more tickets than the average. He told us he had upwards of 20 moving violations. As crazy as it may sound, he was serious about his Motor Vehicle Record. Truck Driver with too many violations risk having their Commercial Drivers License suspended for a period. When a truck driver accumulates certain viol...

STORIES FROM THE ROAD 2 WRECKS. What would you do if you witnessed a tractor-trailer run off the road into some trees? Would you stop and render help? Thats what TalkCDL's Cody Jackson did. Just outside of St. Louis MO Cody was driving in his semi truck when right in front of him int happened. A semi truck that was traveling in front of him just disappeared. It least that is what Cody's mind was t...

TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. Calling all truckers we all need you. The world is now getting to see what we all have been saying for years. If you take truckers away, you will have mass manic. Its funny how everyone is out of work except all truckers. The world is being told to stay home except all truckers. Truckers are the l...

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Trucker tax service, advice to truck drivers. It's tax time and for trucking industry, as with other industries, we should look to the experts to help with our yearly taxes. For company drivers and owner operators, finding someone that knows how to save and file taxes properly can be hard. Fortunately for truckers, the is a tax preparer called Trucker tax service. Owned and operated by Jim O'Donne...

Truckers & The Nuclear Bomb. What would you do if the big bomb was dropped today. What would you save? What American icon would you think should be saved for the rebuilding of the United States of America? Special guest Radiolab joined us for a podcast to ask our audience what they would think of saving during a nuclear attack. The answers will surprise you. Not one of them said they would save th...

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TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. Tramadol & The Looie-Ville Truck Show. Truck drivers are already signing up for the new drug clearing house. Ruthann from TalkCDL wanted to make sure every driver understands what registering for the program means. She explained how and when a trucker must sign up and why. The new drug clearing ho...

Coronanvirus and Truckers. Truck drivers all across are asking the question, am I safe from getting the coronavirus? The answer is somewhat simple. As authorities had thought, the virus does not seem to able to survive on surfaces for lengthy periods, meaning, unlike hepatitis which can survive for long periods (up to a week) on surfaces, the coronavirus does not initially appear to have this kind...

TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. TRUCKER GETS CAUGHT IN AN FBI STING . A trucker from Tennessee was arrested after he traveled to Georgia to meet what he thought was an under aged child. According to authorities Seth Weidemann used the internet to try to exploit a vulnerable child for sexual gratification. According to authoritie...

A truck driver is in prison and a dock manager is dead. That was the result of an impatient trucker trying to get unloaded before his appointment. Truck driver Timothy Saunders got into an argument with Thomas Hartman in May of 2019 and it would change their lives forever. The result was Saunders pointing a gun at Hartman and pulling the trigger. One family has lost a member forever and another fa...