Voice Of GO(r)D

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you a great conversation with Kevin Rutherford, former trucker, owner operator, business consultant, web developer, fuel efficiency nerd, radio host, and renaissance man of all things trucking - of the profitable variety. Kevin shares with us a little of his life story, his call to self improvement, business improvement, and teaching others how to run profita...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to start off 2025 by bringing you an in depth conversation with fellow trucker and previous guest of the show, Lee Schmitt, along with his wife Lisa. Lee has thrown his hat into the ring to become leader of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and we discuss why it would be only natural that someone with over 30 years of experience behind the wheel...

Friend of this Substack and FreightX maven Danielle Chaffin joins this, the last  Voice Of GO(r)D  episode of 2024, to discuss her family history in trucking, her own roles in the business which include an explainer on TMS software and being a regular conference goer, as well as the human element that seems to be slowly slipping away from us all. A wholesome chungus way to wrap up 2024! You can fi...

Voice Of GO(r)D brings you a deep and dark conversation, hot on the heels of the UK Parliament passing an assisted dying law through second reading, between Canadian MAID critic Amanda Achtman, and Jeff Shafer, an American lawyer and scholar who has been investigating developments in legal language which have been used to justify the commercial expansion of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) b...

Two weeks ago, Canada’s ‘public broadcaster’, on their formerly flagship investigative journalism TV program ‘The Fifth Estate’, released a real humdinger of propaganda and lies about the Coutts Four case. Given that the CBC and other regime media in Canada had lied so much about the men involved when they bothered to report on the case at all, they ended up in an uncomfortable situation when Tony...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring an old friend to the show to tell you a little of his life story in forestry and trucking. Nigel Frost is an owner operator based in Tauranga, New Zealand, who hauls logs in and around the Bay of Plenty area of NZ’s North Island. I first met Nigel when I went to work for the same company he contracts his truck to now, Rotorua Forest Haulage, way back in 2003....

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you yet another thoughtful trucker who understands the human connection involved in moving your goods around … and your kids, too; Ryan started out as a school bus driver. Ryan tells us how he got into trucking, his time driving our precious children to school, going through the ringer of being a Lease Operator, and his current gig working for an LTL carrier...

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring you the second of a two part series I recorded with the wonderful  Oliver Bateman Does the Work  of the now defunct What’s Left? podcast on the pathologies of the trucking industry, but this time with UPenn sociologist and author of ‘ The Big Rig - Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream ’ Steve Viscelli, whom  you heard on this show  a few months ago. This...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you Marilyn Burns, Tony Olienick’s lawyer, and Danielle Slettede, one of his oldest friends and longest serving member of the men’s support team. Marilyn tells us about her history in Alberta, including her roles in politics, as she is one of the founding members of Alberta WildRose, her legal career, and how she came to represent Tony in her first ever crimi...

Voice Of GO(r)D brings you an interview I gave to Oliver Bateman of  Oliver Bateman Does the Work  at his now defunct podcast project with Aimee Terese, What’s Left? That show had a great run, and along the way Oliver did a series of interviews on ‘Doing The Work’, where he would talk to regular people with regular jobs, and I was quite chuffed to be the first interview of that series. This discus...

Voice of GO(r)D is delighted to bring you Oversize Load specialist, astute political observer and commentator, as well as the President of America Without Drivers, Mr Scott Douglass. Scott tells us a little about his career moving long, wide and tall loads around America, as well as a dive into the possibilities presented for removing the capricious and evil excesses of the regulatory state from t...

Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring you fellow trucker, author, and FreightX meme philosopher, Benjamin McCulley, aka, Truck Driver - READ WHEN SAFE, which is also the title of Benjamin's wonderful sometimes satirical, thoughtful, and definitely funny book on the trade of truck driving. This quote here should give you an idea of what you will find in his book, and why I invited him on the show -...

Voice of GO(r)D, in conjunction with The Logistics Lounge, is very happy to bring you, at long last, UPenn Sociologist, researcher, and author of 'The Big Rig - Trucking and The Decline of The American Dream', Steve Viscelli. I've been looking to get Steve on the show since before it started, and am extremely grateful to The Logistics Lounge guys in hosting the video livestream for us...

Voice Of GO(r)D is pleased to present you researcher and author Ray McGinnis, who joins the show to tell us about his career in the craft of writing, and his investigations into what has become of Canada over the past few years. And of course, we touch on the case of The Coutts Four. Ray has written a couple of books, and his new one drops on August 20 - " Unjustified - The Freedom Convoy, Th...

Fellow ‘Citizen Journalist’ and Concerned Canadian  Roxanne Halverson  joins the show to discuss her excellent writings, and past careers in TV, the RCMP, and working for the Air Force. Along the way, we learn about how Branch Covidians leaving their masks everywhere almost killed her dog, and she also tells us about her time in Ottawa during the Convoy and then covering various trials that have t...

Voice of GO(r)D is very happy to once again bring you Mr Andy Hickman, aka @Shagbark_Hick, the boondock philosopher, amblin' traveler, and stealth camping enthusiast behind the legendary Hickman's Hinterlands Substack. Since Andy was last a guest on the show, I've finally met him in person, and we enjoyed a very long road trip together last October with writer and 'machine' cri...

Voice of GO(r)D was honored to sit down with Christine Decaire, a lovely woman who, in exercising her rights to peacefully protest against the Canadian Government during the Freedom Convoy, became an example of the use of Lawfare by the Crown against normal people. In weaponizing the judicial system this way, the vindictive authoritarian Justin Trudeau has been able to persecute hundreds, if not t...

Voice of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you one of Canada's most talented and funny online personalities, Mr Josh Bigger, aka The Best Damn Roofer. Josh is a natural showman and entertainer, and gained notoriety for his rooftop videos, where self-effacing humor met his craft; he then went to Ottawa to support the Freedom Convoy, gave a lot of hugs, and then moved on to rightly mocking the suppo...

Voice of GO(r)D is happy to have you join myself and Trucking Twitter personality King Spud for a wide ranging discussion that covers Elon Musk rocket launches, deceleration induced back injuries, Texas Barbecue, Hoods versus Plastic, Simplot Potatoes, and understanding the lingua franca of the road you happen to be on. King Spud/Old Goose Burger is currently going through similar issues with Twit...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you a conversation with fellow writer and logistician Cameron Ritter, author of the upcoming satirical novel, and peak behind the curtain of America's supply chains, "Confessions of a Freight Broker." If you want to find out about the 'Wolf of Wall Street' shenanigans that go in the offices of those who help move our economy around, Came...

Returning guest of the show Donna Laframboise brings us an update on the progress of her book 'Thank You, Truckers!' and we discuss, once again, life in Canada downstream of the Freedom Convoy, the situation with the Coutts Four men, and many of the characters she has met while researching her book. If you missed our first discussion, you can find it here - https://open.spotify.com/episode...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you another academic who has spent a great deal of his life studying the trucking industry, and who also started out behind the wheel. University of Minnesota-Morris Economics Professor Stephen Burks joins the show to share with us the findings of some of his studies, what undergirds many issues in the industry, and stories from his life on the road back in t...

Voice Of GO(r)D was extremely honored to have Hillary and Jamie Hagen of HellBent XPress join the show and share with us the ongoing story of their small trucking company. From how Jamie and Hillary met, to the contributions oft unseen in the background made by the ladies in business, to fuel efficiency nerdery and the necessary relationships with everyone involved to make it all work, this was a...

Voice Of GO(r)D brings you a presentation about the realities of Autonomous (Driverless) Trucks in America, recently given to members of the Greater Houston Trucking Association. Featuring past collaborators of the show James Year, Edward Escobar, and Will Cook, who brought their expertise in studying and documenting the roll out of this technology and answered questions that many drivers in the i...

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you this lengthy and detailed conversation with Lawyer and author Barry Bussey, whose recent book on the Freedom Convoy " 210 Degrees Celsius - 16 Ways the Truckers Ignited Canada for The Long Haul" is an absolute must read. In our conversation, we discuss law in Canada, the many ways in which the government breaks or abuses it for their own purpose...