The Lombard Trucking Show

Jake Hoffman is the Chief Technology Officer of Gnosis Freight based in Charleston, SC. Gnosis is an industry leader in providing what they call Container Lifecycle Management. Jake joins the show to tell his story as well as Gnosis. Unlike America's highways, Earth's oceans are a lawless frontier, and a deep dive into the absolute magic of how we get products across such vast areas is som...

Meghann Erhart is currently the Executive VP of Relay Payments, a FreightTech company that has streamlined how Motor Carriers conduct fuel transactions, and in the process, eliminate the rampant fraud which has costed the industry millions of dollars. With nearly 20 years in the transportation industry, Meghann has worn several hats, from fleet management of fuel trucks, to going out to the oil fi...

Drew Ellefsen is the CEO of Benefits Management Team, a Health Insurance agency that aims to provide affordable healthcare to those who need it the most. When it comes to truckers, 25% of truckers, especially those small/independent owner/operators, go without health insurance. However even on the company driver side, employer sponsored healthcare can be steep for someone being paid by the mile, a...

Getting to 100 episodes was definitely a milestone I knew I would reach, but whatever happened in between I had no clue what it would be or what it would look like. I bring on some dear friends of mine I've made simply because I started making/posting freight related content. We go into what this show is starting to mean, we recap our time at the F3 Future of Supply Chain Conference, how we ca...

Dani and I crossed paths on tiktok, she makes a lot of videos about her day to day life, especially as she has become a gosh darn professional flatbedder. A fascinating story, motivated by her uncle to start driving she jumped behind the wheel in 2020. Her story resonates with all this show stands for in regards to activism. Her first company started out rough with a few trainers but got better. S...

Santiago Talamantez is a Marine veteran, Former Texas DPS officer working with CMV enforcement, adjunct professor at Midland College, and owner of Safety Compliance Training Company. He joins the show to tell his story. From the invasion of Iraq, to joining law enforcement, and then getting knuckles deep intro transportation. An industry true to the trend, you can never leave it once you join, whe...

Nathaniel Ebel is the Director of Business Strategy with FreightValidate. Born and raised in the Kansas City area, he got into real estate after college, but was lured into the world of logistics by landing himself working as a dispatcher for Universal Truckload. From there his career took him to the brokerage side, and by then was fully immersed. Partnering with Dale Prax, they're launching F...

James Year is an Airforce veteran who spent six years as a loadmaster for C-130's. After his time in service he attended Iowa and then on to Syracuse for his Master's. During a stint with the USPS he opened up his ears to a lot of new information and audiobooks, a lot of which was about the rise of Artificial Intelligence and what its implications might be, especially in transportation. Ja...

Brett is a 22 year old trucker from Central Florida, living in Tennessee now. I came across Brett on my fyp on tiktok where I he was sharing his disdain for lumper services, so I thought why not talk about it a little bit more! Brett talks about his journey into trucking which is a remarkable story that includes the birth of his child WHILE he was in CDL School. We talk about some issues with new...

Driver Eddie aka the Interstate Avocado comes on the show to talk his journey into the trucking industry. We go into some awesome detail regarding his CDL school experience, and what he has crammed into just over 3 years. From some horror stories at CRST to how he now works for an outfit that operates somewhat outside the rule of law. Eddie is a fantastic person, and driver who truly has a passion...

Earlier this summer I made the goal of transitioning off OTR by at least this fall, or by next summer. Getting backed into back in May essentially expedited that process. The time has come for me to get off the road, and I will be selling my truck. The first reason is family, and the second is truly the market. I got into business to grow something, not fight for the status quo. Unfortunately for...

Justin Martin from Freightwaves comes back on the show so we can talk about a new piece of legislation being introduced in the house that once again misses the mark on how problems need to be addressed in the trucking industry. Also, apparently SWIFT Transport has drivers send a qualcomm message for every time they back up? That and more freight nerd banter. Make sure to follow What The Truck on a...

Yellow officially fired for bankruptcy and their CEO has done nothing but play the blame game. A new interview has been out with damning first hand experience regarding the Afghan withdraw. I go into why accountability and extreme ownership matter. I also explain the meaning behind my brands slogan, and how it's a mentality that can you can apply to how you adapt to life's challenges.

Lora Andela, true to her name, is 5'3" and corrals bulls and other livestock and hauls them back and forth around the country. Aligned with New York's history she is of Dutch descent, and was raised in upstate New York near Cooperstown. Homeschooled by her parents she got into college and soon realized maybe this wasn't the path for her and trucking got into her mind. Her story is...

I was driving today and had some raw material floating around my head that I felt like I needed to say. Yellow's absence from the media didn't sit right with me. I'm looking to contact Rep Colin Allred to come on the show and talk transportation as he is running for Senate against Ted Cruz. I show some of my vulnerability in how I struggled with not being my true authentic self, and wh...

- Waymo takes a huge L and is sidelining autonomous trucks -Laredo is the largest land port in North America and is set to get even bigger. US Sen Ted Cruz has put together a coalition of TX politicians to help expedite the expansion of the World Trade Bridge as well as construct three more. -Heartland Express and CFI are doubling down on the CDL Milling Industrial complex and I go scorched Earth...

Recorded LIVE from Laredo, TX, the nail is in the coffin for Yellow. A leaked memo posted by Freightwaves says Yellow has stopped new shipments and will be having a company meeting on Friday. There is just no coming back, so I give my take on their final round up, and why the can was kicked to alleviate the strike. Also got my first boost of clout on the internet as a "Course seller" who...

Joe Seppi is a (professional) flatbedder with the Central Oregon Truck Company, and joins the show to tell his uncommon journey into the trucking world, and also his uncommon journey into being a fellow Mets fan. A Native of the Pacific Northwest, he has worked in waste management, for Coca-Cola, but has truly found his home at Central Oregon. We talk all things trucking, flatbedding, social media...

Jay got his CDL in 2021 and started with Schneider. After quickly realizing the scourge of mega carriers he made his way over to Yellow (YRC) because of the work life balance and benefits. Along the way he started documenting on social media some of toxicity among Yellow's tenured drivers, who all long for the good old days but stay at Yellow primarily for the benefits. Jay and I have a candid...

Coming back onto the show is the Editorial Director over at Freightwaves Rachel Premack who has been diligently following the intense drama brewing over at Yellow. We go into a deep dive into how Yellow got into this situation, who's right and wrong, some possible outcomes, and some general logistics banter. We also touch on how powerful of a statement the Teamsters are making with UPS. A stri...

This was another LIVE episode out of Pendleton, OR where I received intel from a YRC driver that Yellow would be gutting $50mil of benefits from drivers. The Teamsters say that it's a breach of contract and will be announcing a strike. TEAR which is aided by former guest of the show Desiree Wood, is out of money. TEAR would help drivers who were abandoned by bankrupt or criminal Motor Carriers...

It's been a while! I've been motivating drivers to get out and walk when they're not driving on tiktok live, so my recording time has been taken up! I talk CDL Drivers Unlimited, I received correspondence from my Congressman and I'm not buying it and may just have to run for Congress myself! The ridicule is already pouring into comments sections of reposts of my news story, and I&#...

On today's episode I talk with Evan Shelley the Founder and CEO of Truck Parking Club. I met Evan back at the Mid America Trucking show where they had a very active and entertaining booth. You know we take truck parking seriously on this show so I knew we needed to keep in touch. Essentially what Evan has created is an Airbnb for truck parking, circumventing the egregious zoning laws that take...

On today's episode I talk with fellow freight twitter friend Jeff Wynn and his trucking story. Raised on a cattle farm in North Texas, Jeff went a different route in life by going to school to become an architect! He spent two decades working in design, and then he noticed a riff in his industry. At that point a friend told him about what he was doing with hauling cars. Intrigued, he made the...

On today's episode I bring in one of freight twitter's funniest personalities, who just goes under the callsign Goose. He tells his trucking story which started in the construction business. Despite aspirations of being a pilot Goose learned how to truck the old fashioned way by learning on the job and backing trailers up on job sites. Goose has touched every corner of the industry except...