Voice Of GO(r)D

Voice Of GO(r)D welcomes back to the show Mr Grant Lawson, an award winning attorney who specializes in seeking justice for individuals and families who have endured a crash involving a commercial truck. In the immediate wake of the  Montgomery V Caribe SCOTUS decision  that came down in May, the spectre of billboard attorneys coming after load brokers and shippers was invoked for their negligence...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you an in depth discussion with Roleigh Martin, a lifelong data systems analyst and inventor, who has written an as yet unpublished book which will be of great interest to many of my listeners. ”The Forgotten Half of The Patent Clause”  advertises itself as a ‘constitutional law litigation strategy and a citizen’s playbook’ and Mr Martin joins the show to exp...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast is delighted to finally bring you a discussion with Mr Cole Stevens of  Stevens Trucking   out of El Reno, Oklahoma. The son of a trucking family, Cole, like myself, is looking around at the state of the industry today and has decided to take action, which now includes running for a seat in the Oklahoma State House. A member of  American Truckers United , Cole has been...

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring you a conversation with two representatives from the Trucking Association of New York, the state level affiliate of the American Trucking Associations. WHAT? I’ve recently become acquainted with Mr Mark Stone, a lobbyist with TANY, and thought to myself, well, why not hear from someone on that side of the ledger? Mark brought along his colleague Zach, vice preside...

Voice Of GO(r)D is proud to bring you a conversation with Mr Stephen Ruhe, logistician and scion of an Ohio trucking family and also the proprietor of a new historical documentary project called Semi Historic, which seeks to examine the early history of the trucking industry in America and find lessons applicable today. https://www.semihistoric.com/ From the website - ” Semi-Historic is my love le...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast is happy to bring you a discussion with an old head in the world of truckin’ podcasts, Mr Bruce Outridge, the empresario behind  The Lead Pedal Podcast  and a  visual artist that works close to his subjects.  Bruce has been involved in the trucking industry in some capacity for decades, starting out as a ‘Bed Bug’ hauler and eventually moving on to hauling other freight...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast is very happy to bring you a great history lesson which addresses the question of what a Canadian is, given the destruction of Canadian identity we see after decades of caustic acid poured on the country by the Trudeau Dynasty and their ‘Post Nationalist State’ nonsense. Lance Audette is a multi generational cattle rancher and can trace the history of his own family as...

Voice Of GO(r)D welcomes back to the show Mr  Rob Carpenter , trucker, consultant, software developer, expert witness, and industry researcher and reporter, amongst so many other hats he wears. A question I am often asked by friends and followers is “How do these small companies employing people with no experience and no training in the trucking industry get insurance?” Rob has delved into that qu...

Voice Of GO(r)D is delighted to bring you a conversation with one of those personalities you find out on the road (or online) that sticks out by telling things like they are, and pulling no punches in describing the reality we live in. One such personality is Axel, a fellow trucker who goes by the handle ‘Financial Physics’ who offers commentary from the cab on the realities of economics, the hypo...

For the first show of 2026 and the fourth season of the Voice Of GO(r)D podcast project, I am very happy to bring you a discussion with Ike Stephens, the empresario behind the highly successful and very popular YouTube show, Bonehead Truckers. Ike has been documenting the decline of the American trucking industry via his hilarious and well done commentary videos, which highlight what happens when...

Voice Of GO(r)D welcomes back to the show Mr Wez, aka Obsidian Blackbird, who has adopted the  Nom de plume  Latimer Redlance for his autobiographical first crack at a book. From the  Amazon purchase link  description - Gutter to the Stars: Memories of a Post-Grunge Drifter is a raw and unflinching memoir that captures a life lived on the edge of three decades and three countries. From the freezin...

Voice of GO(r)D is happy to present in conversation Mr Dwayne Stovall, candidate for Congress from Texas who happens to have a long history in trucking, especially hauling around heavy equipment for the oil industry, and his own construction company. Dwayne has a deep understanding of problems in the business, and brings a lifetime of local political involvement to bear, along with many years of i...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you a long and substantial conversation with fellow trucker and ‘Trucker-Tok’ personality Wolfgang Wendland. Mr Wentland has been documenting the decrepitude of the trucking industry, and the ‘undiscussed in polite society’ consequences and adversity American Truckers are forced to deal with downstream of the mass flooding of our roads with third world incomp...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you a discussion with a friend of the show and fellow author who has just released an excellent new book. Dr. Chris Ellis is a student of preparedness and his latest work, after multiple masters degrees and a PhD (and preparing defense resiliencies via his role in the United States Army) he has written this book which examines our understanding of ‘preppers’...

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 ran...

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 th...

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 stu...

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,...

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 l...

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 poi...

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 o...

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 professionali...

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 tim...

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 rec...

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring you a long overdue interview with Craig Fuller, founder and CEO of freight industry news website FreightWaves, as well as the freight data analytics tool SONAR and Firecrown Media empire. FreightWaves has been of great service to the industry, and employed some of the finest journalists working on trucking, including former guests of this show  Rachel Premack  and...