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| Fighting for The American Trucker with Cole Stevens | 02 juin 2026 | 01:17:26 | |
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.
Cole and I recorded this back in March in anticipation of my recent appearance on Tucker Carlson, where I gave Tucker the breaking news about a lawsuit Stevens Trucking, along with another company in Oklahoma, have launched against some of the same bad actors at play in the recent Montgomery v Caribe SCOTUS decision. Now that Tucker has finally released that episode, I can let rip with this one.
You can find my most recent appearance with Tucker here - https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-gord-magil-060126 You can follow Cole on Twitter - https://x.com/StevensOK26 over on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-stevens-3345329a/
Cole’s Oklahoma campaign FB page - https://www.facebook.com/STEVENSOKHD51 Thanks for listening, and as always, any questions, comments, suggestions, corrections or Hate Mail can be directed to me here - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| On Trucking in New York State, with Zach Miller and Mark Stone of the Trucking Association of New York | 07 mai 2026 | 01:54:20 | |
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. 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 president of government affairs at TANY, and I think we had a very interesting and enlightening discussion on issues in trucking specific to the state of New York, and more specifically, issues facing carriers having to deal with climate zealots and the mandates which plague all of our equipment. My listeners will thoroughly enjoy hearing about the higher level discussions which go on in attempting to mitigate the effects of such mandates; Mark and Zach go into great length on the details.
Later in the show, we touch on Mark’s gig at a Volvo dealer not far from me, and some of the peculiarities of their equipment, and its seeming preparation for autonomous operations. Mark and Zach are great and you should follow them on LinkedIn -
As mentioned in the intro and near the end of the show, I was recently invited to give a presentation on my book and issues facing the American trucker in 2026 at the hallowed halls of Cornell University.
As always, you can get a hold of me with questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail here - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Semi Historic with Stephen Ruhe | 05 mai 2026 | 01:15:19 | |
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.
Stephen gives us an overview of what he hopes to achieve with the project, as well as a few anecdotes from his look into the history of trucking in America, which takes us from its birth in Ohio to the intersection of migration, the prohibition era, the Motor Carrier Act of 1935, and onwards to today, where we find that there is indeed nothing new under the sun. Loopholes and shenanigans derived from the difference between public and private carriers are also highlighted.
Friend of this podcast and FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller was recently invited to write an Op-Ed for the New York Times, and boy does it ever said like a compressed version of what I have been saying for years.
If you haven’t yet, you can order a hardcover, e-reader, or audio version of my book, End of The Road - Inside The War on Truckers from my publishers at Creed and Culture -
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| A Passion for Trucking with Bruce Outridge | 21 mars 2026 | 01:16:20 | |
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. He is now a highly sought after commentator on the industry back home in Canada, and has been running the Lead Pedal since 2015. He has had me on his show numerous times, and I decided to return the favor (finally) with an invite to discuss something he has mentioned in his newsletter quite often as of late, the ‘passion’ required to respect and fix up the industry.
The Lead Pedal is also on Twitter - https://x.com/theleadpedal
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| What is A Canadian? with Lance Audette | 10 mars 2026 | 02:22:14 | |
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.
You can find Lance on Twitter - https://x.com/LaserAud
https://fortissax.substack.com/p/what-canada-can-learn-from-quebec For my American and international listeners who might not know why there appears to be so much discontent in Canada at the moment, another writer here on Substack whom I am a big fan of, John Carter, gives us a status update on the joint. https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-state-of-canada In the show we also reference this interview between Candace Malcolm and Daniel Tyrie, the maestro of the Dominion Society of Canada - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcb_wRy_5xM Lance and I also discussed the Humboldt Tragedy, which looms large as a turning point in recent Canadian history and politics. Just this past weekend, former guest of this show Mocha Bezirgan, The Last Journalist in Canada, released a truly infuriating and deeply moving interview with Chris Joseph, the father of one of the boys killed in that completely unnecessary collision. Mr Joseph tells us how the media have been twisting and omitting the words of many families who have suffered great loss from this incident, and how the government campaign to keep Jaskirat Singh Sidhu in Canada is an affront to the entire country, misses out on what a contemptible figure Mr Sidhu is, and will remove any accountability from the trucking industry when the next tragedy like this takes place. And there will be more, especially from the folks sent here by Narendra Modi for his Profit through Emigration program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjkFW84SXA As always, thanks for listening, pass this around to interested parties, especially any friends or family members still caught under the spell of the CBC, and if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, corrections or Hate Mail, send them directly - If you haven’t already, please check out my book and consider ordering yourself a copy here -
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| Insurance, Liability, and other dissolved barriers to entry in Trucking with Rob Carpenter | 01 mars 2026 | 01:32:53 | |
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.
The first of a seven part series by Rob looking into the insurance side of the equation can be read at FreightWaves, and they are all worth your time.
https://x.com/Thewhitesmoke/status/2025184999821971527
And for those of you into other types of Murder, or Murder Mysteries, if you will, Rob has written about FBI investigations into serial killers who happen to have CDLs. https://x.com/Thewhitesmoke/status/2013764452244455806
Secure your copy today!
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| Economic Alchemy, or Government Sleight of Hand, with Axel of Financial Physics | 26 févr. 2026 | 01:55:40 | |
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 hypocrisy of ideological partisans and government agents, and much else besides. In our conversation we go from his other career as an electrical generator installer and technician through all of the chicanery that animates our economy and the regulatory environment which obscures it all, and to the tragic (to me) sale of his Peterbilt and hanging up of his keys. You can find Axel on Twitter - https://x.com/FinancialPhys
My book, End Of The Road - Inside The War on Truckers is less than a month from publication and it has already sold over a thousand copies on pre-order. Secure your copy today, or come and see me in person at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, March 26-28. https://creedandculture.com/books/end-of-the-road-inside-the-war-on-truckers/
As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Bonehead Truckers with Ike Stephens | 18 févr. 2026 | 01:49:47 | |
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.
Speaking of the book - we are less than 6 weeks out from release, and my book is already doing numbers in various Amazon book categories. As of right now, End Of The Road was number ONE in Canadian Politics, number 13 in Libertarianism, and number ONE in Transportation Industry.
https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/truckers-tikka-masala-part-2-the As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| From The Gutter To The Stars, An International Grunge-Goth-Hustler Journey with Obsidian Blackbird | 10 déc. 2025 | 02:13:22 | |
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.
The book has also been featured here on Substack’s very own book store - https://buybooks.substack.com/p/from-ryan-gosling-to-the-gutter Latimer has written something rare: a true underground memoir that feels like a cross between Fear and Loathing, On the Road, and the diary of a kid who survived the 80s and 90s with nothing but stubbornness, luck, and rage. This is the anti-Eat-Pray-Love, the antidote to polished, pseudo-philosophical memoir fluff. It’s messy, honest, grungy, real. And holy hell, it’s entertaining. And just like Wez’ first time on the podcast, his second go round with me shows us the sense of humor he has developed over a life wildly lived by grabbing those short and curlies and giving it everything he’s got.
https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/post-grunge-drifting-with-wez-aka We went hard for a little over two hours, and Wez takes us back to the beginning, where we come to find out the early seed plantings of adversity, and certain types of deprivation at a very young and tender age, did sprout into the journey that is his life. He pulls no punches on the realities of that adversity, family dysfunction, a certain type of economic deprivation, and the salvation found on the road out of it all.
End of The Road - Inside The War on Truckers Readers in America can pre-order a copy directly from my publisher https://creedandculture.com/books/end-of-the-road-inside-the-war-on-truckers/ And because governments and their postal services around the world are, like everyone else these days, busy keeping the working man poor, unfortunately your best bet outside of America is Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/End-Road-Inside-War-Truckers/dp/1967613028/ For everyone in the Northern Hemisphere - we’ve just started another long cold winter, why not cozy up next to the fire with a hot cuppa and two brand new books from some of the best mouthpieces of Substack?
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| A Texas Trucker for Congress with Dwayne Stovall | 04 déc. 2025 | 01:20:21 | |
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 international business experience from trading in heavy equipment around the world.
And here is a special message from Dwayne to his fellow truckers and Texans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mQioUL0VHg Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are always welcomed and encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com As many of you know, my book on the fate of the North American trucker is complete, and available for presale, so you can have it in your hot little hands this coming March.
Check out my own site at - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/ | |||
| The Truckstops of Babel with Wolfgang Wendland | 02 déc. 2025 | 02:32:49 | |
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 incompetents by the Biden Administration. To say that there is an unsafe (and unsanitary) culture clash happening on the interstates and in truck stops is to put it mildly. That this is happening at all is just another example of our distant and decrepit Ruling Class not giving a damn about the citizens for whom they are supposed to serve.
https://www.tiktok.com/@wolfgangkw2
Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and Strongly Encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Resilient Citizens with Dr./Colonel Chris Ellis | 21 nov. 2025 | 01:50:05 | |
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.
Our conversation winds from resiliency mindsets that lead to community building and through to some of the more negative ideas which cause various of the more political problems we have to be prepared for. All in all a positive and very informative discussion.
He has started a Substack as well, and I look forward to seeing more of his thoughts there very soon.
My book on the fate of the North American truck driver is done - final final final last call editing for the manuscript has been sent back to the publisher, and the book is now being reviewed by some of the best in the business.
As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| NO NAME GIVEN - On the Fraudulent Issue of CDLs with Danielle and Miranda | 04 oct. 2025 | 01:32:41 | |
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 random migrants from around the world are showing up in America and various states are issuing them CDLs with very little in the way of any identification, verification, or possibility of accountability should anything go wrong. There is a lot to say about this topic, and more details that won't fit into Spotify's show description character limit, so please head over to my Substack to check out the rest - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/no-name-given-on-the-fraudulent-issue You can go follow Danielle on Twitter/X - https://x.com/maybedanielleee and, if you want, NerdIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maybedanielleee/ and her Substack is great, too - https://www.highwayveritas.com/ You can find Miranda’s awesome YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/@TruckingMadeSuccessful and on Twitter/X - https://x.com/TMSuccessful
Thanks for listening, and please pass this discussion along to your favorite trucker, or US DOT investigator, or State DMV official, or anyone else with the power to fix this problem - its time to start cleaning things up, and attain the Highway Hyperborea that is within our capacity to create. | |||
| Total System Failure in Trucking with Rob Carpenter | 24 sept. 2025 | 01:41:59 | |
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.
https://www.talkingwreckless.com/ In the intro you will hear me discuss the latest installments to Rob’s series, which came out after we recorded; I will have to get Rob back on to discuss this two part investigation, because the utterly insane story he highlights speaks to EVERYTHING that is wrong with trucking now, and how multiple system failures, matched with this belief that truckers are just human resources slurry that can be sloshed from country to country, resulted in 9 children being immolated in a totally preventable wreck.
https://www.talkingwreckless.com/p/the-pruitt-alabama-crash-a-deep-dive https://www.talkingwreckless.com/p/the-pruitt-crash-part-two-lives-depend You can find Rob on Twitter - https://x.com/Thewhitesmoke And on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-carpenter-cds-cdm-e-74500977/ The rough draft of my book is complete - this week sees the manuscript going through the first edit, and then it will be submitted to the publisher and see more tweaks and suggestions from them. I will be announcing when pre-orders will be available in November.
Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonamail.com | |||
| A Conversation with Tamie Sue Stuttle of Real Women In Trucking | 11 sept. 2025 | 01:15:30 | |
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.
The Trump administration has canceled a study aimed at addressing sexual harassment and rape in the trucking industry, according to one of the study’s developers. “We all put a lot of time and attention into this, and just got an email yesterday telling us not to do any more work, that we’ve been cancelled,” Anne Balay, a member of the working group overseeing the project, told FreightWaves.
A screenshot of a notice from the administration states that the decision to terminate the study “is because the government’s priorities have shifted and this project no longer meets our needs.” As Tamie and I discuss the cancellation, it appears that it is not the governments needs they are concerned with, but those of the members of the American Trucking Association, whose ‘Team Training’ programs would be exposed to the scrutiny they need by this study, and possibly bring this stupid training method, and all of the sexual abuse it leads to for women, into the public eye. And, perhaps, result in it being made illegal - which is the correct action, to our minds.
https://www.realwomenintrucking.org/
https://www.change.org/p/reinstate-the-fmcsa-study-on-sexual-assault-and-harassment-in-trucking The disgusting White Paper from ATRI encouraging the recruitment of dangerous ex-cons and Foster Children into trucking -
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| A Chat with Raman Dhillon of the North American Punjabi Trucking Association | 09 sept. 2025 | 00:54:31 | |
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.
I know the wider discussion out there about migration and all of the work permit/work visa scams is pretty heated right now, and I wanted to hear from someone on the other side of that equation than those born and raised in North America; I hope you find some value in that.
Mr Dhillon has his own podcast, Punjabi Trucking 360, which is occasionally recorded in English, and can be found on all of the major podcasting platforms. Thanks for listening! Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Booker's Dude Ranch - Recreating Old School Truck Stop Hospitality | 26 août 2025 | 00:36:51 | |
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 large truck stop chains.
If you happen to be passing through that area of the country, and want a quiet place to park, have some decent non-fast food slop, and maybe have a horse riding lesson while taking a reset, you should go check them out. You can find The Dude Ranch at their own website -
And over on the Insta -
As Always - questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Broker Transparency and Other Issues in Trucking with TNOOA | 21 août 2025 | 01:37:16 | |
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 pointed and compelling positions about the ‘race to the bottom’ in the trucking industry, and how that is driven, in large part, by the over-capacity in the industry not only of trucks, but of brokerages themselves.
Jayme and Blake are both active participants on FreightX, Blake from her office while supporting her family trucking business, and Jayme from out on the road, who is a Texas based Owner-Operator doing his level best to help his fellow truckers from his position behind the wheel.
I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American trucker in 2025, and its almost done! Find out more about the book here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major | |||
| The Florida Truck Crash - One of Far Too Many - How Did We Get Here? A Roundtable Discussion | 20 août 2025 | 01:37:22 | |
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.
You can listen to our previous interview here, and find his very active Twitter here. Danielle Chaffin is the granddaughter and daughter of old school truckers in Tennessee, and she has been a freight broker and a social worker, but is now behind the scenes at a TMS company that helps fleets manage all of their data. She is also an independent researcher into the industry, and writes the excellent Highway Veritas substack, which I quote here often. You can find Danielle’s previous appearances on this podcast here and here, and Danielle’s prolific and informative Twitter here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5I5mxcYgJI I am a few short days away from submitting the rough manuscript for this book, which will likewise describe the insourcing of unskilled and illiterate labor onto our highways, as well as many other issues of consequence during the twilight days of the last American cowboy. https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Protect Yourself with Professionalism and Accountability with Jeremy Citron of Long Haul Law | 15 août 2025 | 01:03:16 | |
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 professionalism and thus more readily protect themselves in such situations. We also get into many issues facing trucking today, and why it is we have so many dodgy operators around. Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Sitting At The Dock All Day with Dr. David Correll | 17 juil. 2025 | 01:39:55 | |
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.
- Speeding and aggressive driving behavior which pose a saftey hazard on our roads, and has resulted in the imposition of ELDs and other surveillance tech into the lives of truckers - Shippers being ghosted by carriers who find better facilities to work with - The wasting of millenia, yes, literally thousands of years worth of valuable human capital. Multiply all of the hours lost times millions of truckers times decades of this problem …. and its probably more than millenia. - An unnecessary drag on the resiliency of American supply chains. We had an interesting discussion that covers detention and then connects it to these other issues, and we also discuss possible solutions. You can read all about it at the following links -
David at Medium -
From MIT’s own news site -
Some FreightLabs research papers for your perusal - https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/130093 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/142935 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/126383 You can find Dr. Correll online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7kwFSp7yh4&list=RDc7kwFSp7yh4&start_radio=1 I have written extensively about one of the solutions to this problem, and that solution has been sitting in Congress for 3 years, waiting to be acted upon. Its amazing how a one line bill that doesn’t include new taxes or giveaways to anyone seems to have so much trouble getting out of committee -
I’m almost done the rough manuscript of this detailed overview of what has become of the North American Trucker in 2025 - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major | |||
| On Physical Truck Capacity in the US Trucking Market with Professor Christopher Clarke | 15 juil. 2025 | 00:57:03 | |
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.
I’ve always thought of the 53’ foot freight box as highly symbolic in that it is built explicitly to max out calories cubes where something like a Canadian Super B Train is built to max out on nutrition weight, and one of these things is healthier for the body economy than the other. Professor Clarke and I go back and forth on this question, amongst others, including the corporate welfare part of the equation where it concerns the production and flooding of the market with ‘drivers’, which is part of the problem here. Higher density trucks require a higher quality level of driver, and if anything this Substack should have taught you by now, it is that the trucking industry in North America in 2025 is very busy chasing the high quality operators out. You can find Professor Clarke all over - TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@econchrisclarke As mentioned during the show, I hope to get Professor Clarke on for a longer and heavier discussion about this topic. As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections, weight loss tips and Hate Mail are strongly encouraged and always welcome - gordilocks@protonmail.com
https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major | |||
| A Chat with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller | 09 juil. 2025 | 01:12:52 | |
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 Clarissa Hawes, as well as my pals Dooner and Supertrucker and so many other great people dedicated to Making Trucking Great Again. Craig fills us in on his family history in trucking, including his Dad and Uncle at the US Express and Covenant Transport companies, the origin story of FreightWaves, current topics in trucking, and, of course, our favorite people in the world, the American Trucking Association. (sarc) Craig had a bomb lobbed at him by Chris Spear the other day, and Craig has returned fire in kind, which lead me to having to bump this interview up in the schedule; this was recorded two weeks ago before the ATA started up their shit.
https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/a-chat-with-freightwaves-ceo-craig Typically I try not to get involved in other people’s fights but Craig has been nothing but good to me and I think in his heart is trying to do right by truckers; Chris Spear and the ATA, on the other hand, are corporate lobbyists whose grip on media narratives around trucking, and the taxpayer loot they extract from us for their members, are one of the primary causes of trucking being in the utter mess that its in, so to hell with them.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-atas-waning-influence-irks-its-leader And while you are there, have a look around FreightWaves site, the reporting is excellent, and they have so many great people there, including Dooner, JP Hampstead, John Kingston, and Grace Sharkey, amongst others. Craig and I are both writing books at the moment - his is done, and will be out in November, mine is getting there and will be out in March. https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major If you want to help see me through to the end -
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| Vetting and Due Diligence with Dale Prax, Founder of FreightValidate | 08 juil. 2025 | 00:59:37 | |
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. Trust FreightValidate to provide crucial insights into the reliability of carriers and brokers operating in the United States and Canada. Our platform uniquely combines advanced technology with deep industry knowledge, a thorough understanding of 49 CFR regulations, and Public Law 112-141 (MAP-21), along with years of industry experience. We use objective, impartial, and factual data in our FreightValidation process—no predictive analytics, no guesswork, no hypotheticals. Just the facts. Dale fills us in on his history in trucking and freight brokering, and what he has seen over his career, and the nuances of various laws and regulations, how they’re being enforced, or not, usually, and what you can do to beat the ‘Chameleon’ and ‘Ghost’ carriers who are out there putting your freight, and the lives of motorists, at risk. Dale also shares with us his interactions with regulators, and some of the very simple policy suggestions that would greatly reduce the number and impact of these bad actors on the industry. You can also see Dale speaking at the FreightWaves Freight Fraud Symposium https://youtu.be/8dhpPSo-EM8 You can find Dale on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-prax-%E2%9C%85-a6814518/
As mentioned in the Intro, friend and former guest of the show Danielle Chaffin maybe danielle’s thoughts has written a couple of bangers on this subject over the past few days, and you can check them out here - https://maybedanielleee.substack.com/p/hope-trans-llc-knowns-unknowns-and I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American Trucker in 2025 - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major It’s very close to being ready for editing, and if you want to help me get it over the finish line, you can donate here -
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| How To Take Out The Trash with Danielle Chaffin and Justin 'Supertrucker' Martin | 28 juin 2025 | 01:14:01 | |
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 Carrier numbers, and other methods by which they avoid accountability for their unsafe and unprofessional operations. In doing so, they show us how easy it is for shippers and load broker to screen these guys out, especially with a new and easy to use tool developed by our mutual and friend of this show, Garret Makes, simply called ‘Search Carriers’. I’ve been a little behind on getting episodes out - we recorded this over a month ago - but the timing of edit and release today was fortuitous, as yesterday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy appeared on our colleague Timothy Dooner’s show WHAT THE TRUCK? and it was quite a White Pill to discover that Duffy has been taking on criticisms and complaints from FreightX and other social media, and is, in fact, launching investigations into various problems in the industry highlighted by truckers online, especially the Non-Domicile CDL scams identified by our friends at American Truckers United. Check it out! https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dot-secretary-duffy-nationwide-non-domiciled-cdl-audit-elp-enforcement-what-the-truck Also worthy of a look is Danielle’s recent contribution to Freight Caviar regarding Chameleon Carriers - the data she has dug up would be a worthy project for Secretary Duffy’s team to look through - we have a problem here! And LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maybedanielleee/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmartsupertrucker/ Our friend Garret - https://x.com/garrett_makes I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American Trucker in 2025, read about that here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major As always - questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| The Work of Oliver Bateman | 15 juin 2025 | 01:43:41 | |
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.
https://www.oliverbateman.com/ https://oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/ https://x.com/MoustacheClubUS Click here for a list of everything he has ever written - and he is everywhere - MEL Magazine, UnHerd, The Ringer, RealClear Politics, The Washington Examiner, Splice Today, American Greatness, WaPo, American Affairs Journal, The Spectator, VICE, Compact, you name it, he’s probably written for them. https://www.oliverbateman.com/bibliography
https://oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/p/the-work-of-pouring-one-out-for-a A couple of my favorites of his Work -
https://oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/p/the-work-of-a-world-war-ii-submarine Thanks for listening!
If you are of means and want to chip in to help me see it through -
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| Digging in Trucking's Dirt with Clarissa Hawes | 12 juin 2025 | 01:22:19 | |
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 reading my Substack and articles for various publications will have read Clarissa’s work, as I have cited her often.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/author/clarissahawes You can find Clarissa at both Twitter and LinkedIn - If you’ve got a hot tip or a lead on a story for her - clarissahawes@gmail.com And in case you missed it, Clarissa appeared on the show back in August 2023 in a roundtable discussion on fighting freight fraud with Justin Martin, Mike Lombard, and Paul-Bernard Jaroslawski of FreightCaviar - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/avoiding-freight-scammers-a-logistics Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American trucker in 2025 - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major | |||
| Updates and Raw Opinion - Chace Barber Returns and Goes Hard | 07 juin 2025 | 01:14:48 | |
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 cabbages) which leads into some extended editorializing from Mr Barber you typically wouldn’t hear in Edison marketing videos. I’m happy to be an outlet! Chace also answers a few of my questions on regulation vis a vis truck design for a chapter to be included in the book.
https://www.tiktok.com/@_edison.motors/video/7512111442842176824 You can find Chace and Edison all over the internet - https://www.tiktok.com/@_edison.motors https://www.youtube.com/@EdisonMotors In the intro I mention an article that I was asked to provide comment for by a new (to me) Canadian online Business Magazine called The Logic. They’re a subscription based magazine but if you sign up via their website you get three free articles a month so head on over and check this out -
For more links, photos, and other intel regards Edison, head on over to the substack link for this episode - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/updates-and-raw-opinion-chace-barber Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are always welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| A Chat with Lewie Pugh, Executive VP of OOIDA - Owner Operator/Independent Driver Association | 02 juin 2025 | 01:00:21 | |
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, and what OOIDA is, is not, and various issues they are working on. This was recorded a couple of months ago (I know, I’m so behind on getting these out) and since recording, President Trump signed the Executive Order re-enforcing English Proficiency requirements for CDL drivers in America, which you can read about at this piece I wrote for The American Conservative and you can likewise see Lewie, along with Todd Spencer, OOIDA’s Big Cheese, at an announcement about new enforcement directions with Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, down in Austin, Texas recently.
You can find Lewie on Twitter - https://x.com/Lewie_Pugh
As you know, I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American trucker in 2025, which you can read more about here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major Thanks for listening, and as always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Teaching The Robots through Worker Surveillance - On Hirschbach and Aurora and their Guinea Pig Drivers | 01 juin 2025 | 01:40:01 | |
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.
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A cringe video made by Hirschbach in which their own employees celebrate their replacement - Aurora’s announcement of driver back in (for now)
A market research firm pours some water on Aurora -
And finally, AI and automated tech are also in the news in the world of politics, as a part of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ has a sneaky insert which lets AI and related tech development off of numerous hooks for a decade, and Vice President Vance gave a recent interview where he spoke out of both sides of his mouth where it concerns workers affected by all of this.
https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/the-propaganda-pushing-autonomous For more links, files, and videos mentioned in the introduction and throughout the show, head on over to my Substack post about this podcast - there is always much more info and often photos or videos that Spotify and others won't let me link to. https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/teaching-the-robots-through-worker While you are there, smash that subscribe button and never miss a podcast or any of my written work, as it will show up instantly in your inbox. As mentioned on the show - I’m writing a book about the fate of the North American trucker in 2025, and you can read about that here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-majo If you've got a couple of bucks to spare to help me see the book through - https://www.givesendgo.com/EndOfTheRoad Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and Strongly Encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Comparing Notes on Issues in Trucking between North America and Australia with Mike Williams of On The Road Aussie Trucking Podcast | 29 mai 2025 | 02:32:30 | |
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 read aloud in the Australian Senate. Maybe you passed him on your way to Port Hedland as he was towing four of the bastards loaded with Iron Ore. I appeared on Mike’s show not long after I began writing about the Freedom Convoy, and have been long overdue to return the favor. Mike didn’t disappoint, and fills us in on the history of Surveillance Tech in Oz, The Razorback Mountain Truckies Blockade, life in Oz under their insane Covid Regime, how their graduated licensing system works, (or not), various issues unique to Ozzy truckers, and in particular with driver shortage narratives and driver ‘replacement’ by drooling morons that appears to be the same no matter where you go. Is there no escape? You can find Mike all over the Internet. Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gqE7DetB7p7MYu3uhvpHu?si=a1c7cb8d281047b3 Here is Australian Senator Glenn Sterle reading Mike’s comments into Parliament -
This is the Audiobook recounting of the Razorback Mountain Truckies Blockade - https://open.spotify.com/episode/26OmJkgEEnmlkzwVm4ARtd?si=409837e518f847d2 I'm writing a book on the fate of the trucker in 2025 - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major If you’ve got a couple of bucks to spare to help me get the book out the door -
gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Trucking is a Trade with Kim Wylie | 27 mai 2025 | 01:31:51 | |
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 licensure of truckers, and despite difficulty in getting policy makers in Saskatchewan to listen, seem to be making headway next door in Alberta, where discussions of recognizing truckers with trade certification are happening in earnest.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/283073555713106/ Thanks again for listening, and paying attention. Some of us are pretty damn broke and can’t even afford to pay for that.
I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American Trucker in 2025; find out more about that, and ways you can contribute here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major | |||
| Voice Of GO(r)D - Episode 100 featuring my Old Man, Leonard Magill | 14 mai 2025 | 02:27:08 | |
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.
Dad and I discuss much of the family history and more in this extended conversation, which I hope you enjoy as much as I have enjoyed producing all of these shows and writing for you.
To see a bunch of photos of Dad and the family legacy, head over to https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/voice-of-gord-episode-100-featuring Thanks for listening, and as always - Questions, Comments, Suggestions, Corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com As mentioned, I'm writing a book on the fate of the American Trucker in 2025, for more info on that - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major | |||
| Can't be a Based Trucker in Brampton | 06 mai 2025 | 02:46:38 | |
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 wouldn’t name, as well as various issues involving the Provincial Government of Ontario. No surprises here - they throw money at people who shouldn’t be truckers, and fail to properly regulate or do anything about those whom hand out licenses to incompetents. We also get some inside perspectives on recent meetings of the Truck Training School Association of Ontario and what they have to say about the gangsters in the industry making a mockery of our once noble occupation. There’s a few gems in this one that teach me a few things even I was not aware of regards the incentives behind the scams and why people sign up for them.
I’m writing a book on the fate of the North American trucker in 2025 - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and Strongly Encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Financial Chicanery in Trucking with Harvey Beech | 28 avr. 2025 | 01:12:20 | |
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 yet to clear the dead wood out of the industry. The echoes of policies undertaken by the Biden Administration in 2021, matched with the financial industry not learning any lessons from 2008, are of far greater impact to trucking than these tariffs ever could be.
Harvey is also a partner at American Truckers United I’m on Twitter - https://x.com/GordMagill And I’m writing a book on the fate of the American Trucker in 2025 - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Post Grunge Drifting with Wez aka Obsidian Blackbird | 26 avr. 2025 | 02:01:04 | |
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 adversity of his family situation was dealt with, or not, via running away from home and leading a life not unlike that lived by another friend and former guest of this show, A.M. Hickman. A journey that spans the Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean while straddling cultural shifts of rural living in the British Empire’s furthest flung outpost to the streets of early 2000s Sydney and Toronto, and onward into the weirdness of post Covid America, Wez’s life has been lived with both hands firmly gripping the short and curlies. This interview is as entertaining as his writings, often accompanied by his own illustrations, which you ought to check out here - https://obsidianblackbird.substack.com/ A brief selection of titles - The Cruise Ship as a Spiritual Experience
Snow White and The Seven Starving Bogans Wez is nothing if not prolific; those five titles barely scratch the surface of his output - if you’ve got the time and inclination, there is so much more. And after all of that, he’s going back to New Zealand to start a ‘Right Wing Hippie Commune’. Almost as if his story is just getting started at the ripe old age of 47. Thanks for listening, and remember to not pass judgement on the hitch-hikers. Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| The History of Lombard Trucking with Mike Lombard | 23 avr. 2025 | 02:00:19 | |
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 predecessors built over many decades. We range over a number of topics including current issues facing the business, and Mike also shares with us updates on his other ventures, including his athletic pursuits, as he gears up for IronMan Texas which takes place very soon, on April 26.
https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/improving-trucker-fitness-with-mike And likewise my appearance on the Lombard Trucking Podcast from all the way back in December of 2022 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7EATxpFkYdPYkgyTbNyJ47?si=SrULZZvlTxC40TqmlftQNw Mike is everywhere on the Internet and you can find all of his links and his email address here - https://www.lombardtrucking.com/ and you really ought to check out his TikTok videos, Mike is a Real One and his energy is infectious. As mentioned, I’m writing a book about the fate of the American Trucker in 2025 - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Training Truckers Properly - For Surviving The Rockies, and Success, with Andy Roberts of the Mountain Transport Institute | 22 avr. 2025 | 01:40:43 | |
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 business since the 1980s, Andy’s school stands out as the most effective and high value truck driving school in the industry, where he has long term affiliations with established carriers and even trains drivers from American companies who want to upgrade their skills. Andy and I wander up and down mountains of information together, and he even schools me on one of my most hated topics, automatic transmissions. From his start in trucking, to issues with the bottom feeders who comprise most of his ‘competition’, Andy shares with us his professional approach, and we learn along the way why his school has been in business for as long as it has, and much else about what it takes to succeed at trucking. As mentioned on the show, I first read about the Mountain Transport Institute in an old trucking paper which has now merged with the online realm - you can check it out here - https://driverschoice.ca/
I’m working on a book about the fate of the North American Trucker in 2025 - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are both welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Can Lawyers Help Increase Truck Safety? with Grant Lawson | 14 avr. 2025 | 01:29:03 | |
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’.
https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major | |||
| Red Scared on The Interstate with Timmy of The American Communist Party | 07 avr. 2025 | 01:33:08 | |
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 in what is something of a two way interview - she asking me about trucking, and me asking her many questions about her communist ideological priors.
I mention this great book about Hoffa in the show, and you ought to read it. Timmy recently appeared on a Twitter space with fellow trucking media Internet Niche Micro Celebrity Timothy Dooner, where they discussed the ACP employing the term ‘MAGA Communism’. A complimentary and interesting discussion, which you can listen to here. As you know, I’m working on a book titled “End Of The Road - Inside The War on Truckers” and you can find out more about that here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major As always - questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Parking Anxiety with Evan Shelley, CEO of Truck Parking Club | 25 mars 2025 | 01:38:35 | |
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 is here to tell us all about this problem and the many aspects and consequences of it, and how his service has delivered a great benefit to many truckers who can’t afford to wait for new truck stops or the government to build rest areas. Sign up for their newsletter here - friend and former guest of the show Mike Lombard is a regular and excellent contributor. https://newsletter.truckparkingclub.com/ TPC posts regular updates to their official account - https://x.com/TrukParkingClub As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com I’m writing a book about the War on Truckers - find out more here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major Hope to see some of you at the Mid-America Trucking Show this week! | |||
| Canada - Late Soviet Collapse, or Arctic Futurism? with Avetis Muradyan | 12 mars 2025 | 01:44:30 | |
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, and his comparisons of Canada now to the later stages of the Soviet project. We also discuss his recent piece in IM1776 about the possibility of prosperity for Canada in developing the Arctic in conjunction with the United States.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2019/09/19/how-not-to-build-a-country-canadas-late-soviet-pessimism/ https://im1776.com/the-arctic-gambit/ Mr Muradyan has a number of other articles at both of those outlets which you should take the time to read. You can follow him on Twitter - https://x.com/AvetisMuradyan We mention a fellow Substacker by the name of Fortissax and for those who have forgotten the history of Canada and the people who founded it, and questions around where that fits into our current predicament, I highly recommend his writing. Start here - https://fortissax.substack.com/p/a-fighting-chance I’m writing a book about truckers called End Of The Road, details and links where you can chip in here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| The Little R Model That Could - Guy Meister battles Canadian Lawfare | 06 mars 2025 | 01:33:01 | |
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 Kafka-esque case of Lawfare against Guy that has now run for over three years, and has seen Guy make the 2000 mile round trip from his home in Nova Scotia back to Ottawa 16 times for court.
I found out about Guy from my good friend Donna Laframboise, who has appeared on this show twice in discussion about The Convoy (links below), and who has just released her new book ‘Thank You, Truckers!’, which exclusively profiles the regular working class Canadians who made up The Convoy or supported it. Not the politicians or the organizers or big names, just the everyday people you never hear about, who go humbly about the work of keeping society functioning, and patriotically rose up to meet the challenge of a government gone astray.
If you are around and can make it, I’m sure he would love a show of support.
Guy is being represented by Brian Doody of Doody Counsel (great name, lol) and you can follow Mr Doody on Twitter and LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-doody-ma-llb-39813626/ Lawyers, as a lesser subspecies of human, often catch a lot of flak for their shenanigans, but Doody is one of the good ones; pop over and say thank you. The Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms has been supporting Guy’s case, and you can donate via a button on their own article about him. For more links, information, and a bunch of great photos, head over to my substack, and while you are there, smash that subscribe button https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/the-little-r-model-that-could-guy As you heard, I’m writing a book about the decades long war on truckers in North America, and you can read about that here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/book-project-announcement-and-a-major If you have a couple of bucks to spare to help me get this book out the door - https://www.givesendgo.com/EndOfTheRoad Thanks for listening, and as always, share this with your fellow truckers or anyone else who might be interested. Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| The Replacement of American Truckers with Shannon Everett of American Truckers United | 01 mars 2025 | 01:55:55 | |
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.
Shannon tells us why. ATUs research has also shown a major correlation between the insourcing of foreign labor onto our roads and a slow and steady increase in truck involved collisions and fatalities that curiously start around 2016, when the FMCSA, under the Obama Administration, waived any enforcement of English language proficiency as required under 42 CFR § 391.11 (b)(2). Shannon also describes for us how various states are actively writing legislation not to stop any of this, rather, they actively encourage it by changing definitions and lowering standards for the privilege to operate a Big Rig in America.
Shannon also described the economic aspect to this problem, and how the insourcing of all these foreign drivers to America has effectively created two parallel trucking markets that each play by a different set of rules, and, more importantly, a different set of costs, which allows one market to vastly undercut the other.
I want to ask everyone who has listened to this podcast or read through the notes here to head over to ATUs website and sign up to become a member, and thus keep up with all of the news in the battle to save the American Trucker, and many lives. For more information, charts, data, statistics, and a ton of links on this issue, head on over to https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/the-replacement-of-american-truckers As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com | |||
| Edison Motors Finds a Home and Other Updates with Chace Barber | 24 févr. 2025 | 01:00:48 | |
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.
Edison Motors Website - https://www.edisonmotors.ca/ t looks like Chace and the boys are dabbling in Twitter Live broadcasts - A recent article in a BC paper about their move to Golden - https://thegoldenstar.net/news/edison-motors-reveals-next-steps/ Chace’s previous appearances on the show - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/old-trucks-new-tech https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/an-update-from-chace-barber-of-edison
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| Certifiable "Our Guy" with Donald Ward | 21 févr. 2025 | 01:53:39 | |
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, former small town newspaper guy, and one of the OG Tea Partiers, Donald leads a very interesting life and very graciously shares it all with us. You can find Donald on Twitter - https://x.com/WardoftheStates or maybe on a highway in the high plains of Eastern Washington or Idaho. Links to recent writings per the intro -
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| Political Persecutions Continue in Canada with R.B. Ham | 07 févr. 2025 | 01:26:56 | |
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.
Mr Ham joins us to tell his story of speaking out against the Covid Regime, and to discuss the current political landscape in Canada, and what we can look forward to under the worst Kakistocrats this side of a USAID funding spree.
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| Interview on Truckers and Family Formation with Grant Martsolf from The Savage Collective | 06 févr. 2025 | 01:09:01 | |
Howdy, loyal readers and listeners to the Voice Of GO(r)D podcast.
Grant has been working with the Institute for Family Studies over and above his position as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and his project of investigating life in the machine age here on Substack, and you ought to check out his work. Speaking of IFS, they put out a banger of a manifesto last week called A Future for The Family - A New Technology Agenda for the Right which seeks to outline a pro family and pro society approach to this new digital realm we all live in. It’s quite worth your time to check out, and signatories include former guest of the show Matthew B Crawford of the Archedelia Substack, and one of my colleagues at American Compass, Jon Askonas.
and that I’ve got a book in the works!
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| Let's Truck! with Kevin Rutherford | 16 janv. 2025 | 01:33:59 | |
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.
His story about publicly defending the Freedom Convoy live on air, and the repercussions he faced for that are well worth the show itself. You can find Kevin all over the internet, and specifically at https://www.letstrucktribe.com/ He is online hosting Spaces almost every day, go and check him out!
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| Drivers Know More than Desk Jockeys - Lee Schmitt for Head of FMCSA | 03 janv. 2025 | 01:01:45 | |
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 would be a better choice to head this extremely wasteful and ineffective agency. It is revealed that the FMCSA is ineffective because they’ve had no consistent leadership since their inception, and not once have they followed the DOTs own rules to be lead by someone with experience in the trucking business. Drivers can see this in their own working lives, and their workplaces out on the road. Our experiences tell us that it is clear the FMCSA is impervious to our concerns, as former head Robin Hutcheson refused to end an extremely unpopular mandate even after being shown that the mandate achieved the opposite of what it promised. You might have heard Lee and Lisa here before in discussing a trucker advocacy organization called CDL-DU, which Lee has since resigned his position from, and you may have seen him hosting the now infamous Trucker’s Town Hall with Vivek Ramaswamy back in December of 2023. Hopefully if Lee becomes FMCSA head, he can talk some sense back into Mr Ramaswamy, and something can be done about the rampant abuse of work visas and illegal migrants in the trucking business as outlined here - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/truckers-tikka-masala You can find Lee and Lisa Schmitt on Twitter - https://x.com/LSchmitt_TAAWTS
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