Voice Of GO(r)D

Voice Of GO(r)D is pleased to bring you a discussion with Dale Prax, founder of  FreightValidate ,  a service and tool to help brokers and shippers deal with the scamming and parasitism epidemic in the North American trucking industry today. From his website - Trust FreightValidate to provide crucial insights into the reliability of carriers and brokers operating in the United States and Canada. O...

Voice Of GO(r)D is pleased to welcome back to the show returning guests Danielle Chaffin and Justin ‘Supertrucker’ Martin in discussion on the ease with which certain bad actors in trucking can be identified and avoided. If you are on FreightX, Danielle and Justin are revealing, on the daily, ‘Chameleon’ or ‘Ghost’ Carriers, and the shell games they play with layers of LLCs, the trade in Motor Car...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast is very happy to bring you the self proclaimed ‘King of Content’, the Doer of The Work™️, lawyer, historian, marketing guru, prolific writer, and former co-host of the What’s Left? podcast, Mr Oliver Bateman. Oliver encouraged me to start this Substack and is one of many who told me I should start a podcast - he has always been very encouraging of this project, and has...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy for the return of the finest investigative journalist in the world of trucking and freight, Clarissa Hawes. Over two decades of writing at both LandLine Magazine, the official media channel of OOIDA, and at FreightWaves, Clarissa has looked deeply into various issues and pathologies within trucking and has done a damn good job in reporting on them. Those who have been...

Voice Of GO(r)D is pleased to welcome back to the show Mr Chace Barber, one of the founders and very public face of Edison Motors, the British Columbia based manufacturer of diesel electric hybrid trucks. In this discussion, Chace updates us on Edison’s move to Golden BC and fills us in on why they won’t be making trucks for the American market anytime soon (Hint - the EPA and US DOT are mewling c...

Voice Of GO(r)D is proud to present a brief chat with Lewie Pugh, the Executive VP of one of America’s oldest and definitely largest driver advocacy organization in the country. I met up with Lewie at MATS 2025 and invited him on the show, and between all of the work and travel he has been up to, he very graciously squeezed me in. We discuss how he got into trucking, how and why he joined OOIDA, a...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast is very excited to bring you a deep dive discussion about the implementation of autonomous trucks on our highways, and the use of human truckers as teaching ‘Guinea Pigs’ in this enterprise. Paulette Nobles is a trucker who just recently left  Hirschbach Transportation  and she joins the show with Mitchel Riesgraf, a driver with  Long Haul Trucking  and the  Truckxedo T...

Voice Of GO(r)D is proud to present Mr Mike Williams, one of Australia’s most infamous truckers and political commentators, and host of the On The Road Aussie Trucking Podcast. Mike has spent a lifetime “On The Road” Down Under, and has also been podcasting about it for a number of years now. You may have seen Mike expounding online in his ‘Minute with Mick’ video segments, or having his advocacy...

Voice Of GO(r)D is honored to bring you Mr Kim Wylie, a veteran trucker from Humboldt, Saskatchewan (yes, that Humboldt) who, like myself, is doing what he can to raise alarm bells about the state of the industry, and offer policy solutions to improve life for all of us out on the road. Working with friend and former guest of the show,  Trent Lalonde , Kim is highlighting issues with training and...

I want to express gratitude and appreciation to all of the listeners of the podcast and readers of this Substack who have stuck with me thus far, and those of you who have tolerated my gravely and monotonous voice for 100 episodes. Without you here, I have no reason to do this, and I thank you for your time and attention. For episode 100 I bring you the man who brought me into this world (well, I...

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring you a conversation with a manager at a Toronto area truck driving school who brings us many observations about what exactly is going on with several problems in the industry. Our discussion ranges from the  CBC Marketplace piece  on scammy truck driving schools, to the now universally acknowledged ‘Brampton Truckers’ meme brought to us by the same guys the CBC wou...

Regular listeners to the Voice Of GO(r)D podcast and readers of this Substack will know that the trucking industry is in a shambles and is likewise facing more pain when the effects of President Trump’s tariffs really take hold. What many of you don’t know is that some Banking Chickens are about to come home to roost, and these chickens also help us to explain why current market conditions have ye...

In my time cruising around Substack, one of the more interesting personalities I’ve come across is a fellow named Wez, aka  Obsidian Blackbird.  who writes “Memories of a Post Grunge Drifter”, a sort of ongoing autobiographical project that winds its way across the end of Generation X and the turn of the new millennium through the eyes of a vagabond Kiwi. Along the way, Wez shows us how the advers...

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring back to the show one of the highest energy maniacs in trucking, Mike Lombard of the Lombard Trucking Podcast, and so many other ventures. Mike has been diving deep into the history of the family trucking brand, and shares with us what he has found in a wide ranging discussion on the effects of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 on the industry, and on the company his p...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast is very happy to bring you a lengthy and educational discussion with Mr Andy Roberts, the long time proprietor of one of Canada’s oldest and best truck driving schools - The Mountain Transport Institute , who specialize in teaching you how to navigate the Rocky Mountains while pulling Super B Trains at 140,000 pounds gross weight. Located in Castlegar, BC, and in busine...

Lawyers are often the butt of many jokes, and in the case of the trucking industry, are thought to be a scourge, given that ‘Ambulance Chasing’ is now a cottage industry in America; you have all seen the billboards which pollute our interstates, and have been witness to the ever increasing phenomenon of ‘ nuclear verdicts ’. I’ve been following an attorney for some time now who appears to be on ou...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast was recently contacted by a representative of the American Communist Party, seeking more information about trucking and truckers, with a particular focus on truckers in Canada. As this podcast is happy to speak with ( almost ) anyone, I was happy to hear from someone on the opposite side of the bottom of the horseshoe to myself, and I thus invited  Timmy  onto the show...

Voice Of GO(r)D is pleased to bring you an in-depth discussion about a problem in North American trucking that gets very little attention, with a man trying to solve it. Evan Shelley is the CEO of Truck Parking Club, a sort of app based ‘AirBnB’ for truckers to find parking. Parking? Parking? What do you mean, parking? Its not guaranteed that truckers can find somewhere to beach their rigs and go...

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring you a conversation with a great writer and thinker on Canada, Avetis Muradyan. Mr Muradyan, originally from Montreal, is an entrepreneur who has worked in medical tech and logistics all across Asia, and is now back in Canada. We discuss his writings on just what is going on with the ruling elite of the country, where exactly Canada is on its current trajectory, an...

Voice Of GO(r)D is proud to present a conversation with Guy Meister, a Nova Scotia trucker whose little daycab R Model Mack sat on Sussex Street in Downtown Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy. Guys act of peaceful protest, of standing around in Ottawa drinking coffee with his fellow countrymen, has now earned him the bizarre pursuit of the Canadian government, who have engaged in a capricious and Ka...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast is extremely honored to have had the opportunity to introduce to you Mr Shannon Everett, of a legitimate trucker advocacy organization called American Truckers United that has been crunching data on the flooding of America’s trucking market with foreign ‘drivers’, and how our political class is allowing and actively encouraging our replacement. ATUs look into the issue...

Chace Barber of Edison Motors returns to Voice Of GO(r)D for his third appearance, and shares with us detailed updates from Canada’s one and only manufacturer of leading edge hybrid drive Big Rigs. Chace discusses the brouhaha with a potential location in Terrace, BC, the new home they will be moving to instead in Golden, BC, why he’s staying in Canada despite all of the roadblocks both province a...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to introduce you to Donald Ward, one of those wonderful autodidacts that can only be bumped into on roads less traveled … or on Twitter. Mr Ward has made a name for himself as an astute political commentator online, though his personal work background is much more interesting - a seasonal salmon fisherman in Alaska, a grain hauler in Eastern Washington, firefighter, f...

The Voice Of GO(r)D podcast did not start out with the intention of documenting the tyranny endured by every day working Canadians at the hands of their government, but here we are, and my latest guest reports from deep within the Saskatchewan portion of the mass Gulag Camp once known as Canada. R.B. Ham is a fellow trucker and man of many talents, and has found himself on the wrong side of a gove...

Howdy, loyal readers and listeners to the Voice Of GO(r)D podcast. Today I’m bringing you an interview I gave to  Grant Martsolf  of  The Savage Collective Substack back in November, where he peppered me with a few questions about the trucking business in general, and asked me why I think that truckers are able to overcome the odds in starting and maintaining families at higher rates than other bl...