Trucking Quaaludes & Rioters. This week on TalkCDL we covered many topics. Of course everything is about trucking. We spoke about quaaludes. Do you remember this drug from way back? It has been a long time since it has been mentioned in fact maybe since the early 90's. At one time quaaludes were the downer…
Meet the hosts of TalkCDL Trucking Podcast Truckers are time travelers. Imagine if you will, a life on the road. A life filled with travel and moments that are held in our memories. We can reflect back to many parts in time and our minds make us able to travel through time. As truck drivers…
CB'S PLUS TROY SOLVED THE PARKING PROBLEM, YAY. Here is Troy's solution. If every city was obligated to provide a resting area with all the amenities for truckers, based on their volume of inbound/outbound freight. For example if a city has 1000 loads per day coming into their city, they would be obligated to provide…
Sick of trucking news. Lately the news in trucking is just down right depressing. All you hear is how unsafe it is to go into cities and how there is no freight. Just recently a few truck drivers made the headlines just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A trucker in…
Truckers won't deliver to copless cities. Truckers from all over the country are weighing in on the possibility of cites that are defunding the police and they are saying they will not take loads to such places. Truckers have it tough enough without having the law on their side. The title "truck driver" is considered…
TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. Trucking companies are responsible for their drivers. We conducted a survey recently in light of the violence in America. We asked truck drivers and trucking companies, what is your policy in situations like we are seeing. The…
TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. Trucker drags protester to death. A protester is dead after getting caught in between a Fedex semi truck and trailer. The Fedex rig was pulling a set of doubles in St. Louis when a protest was caught…
Trucker Shawn new driver with an old soul. Shawn Dirksen has been driving six months as a trucker but you would swear he's been at it 6 years. Shawn had a boyhood dream of being a trucker all his life. When he got the opportunity to catch his dream, he went for it. In his…
TalKCDL is the Number One Trucking Podcast on planet Earth. This isn't just our claim but yours also. NEO Secret trucker. Have you ever heard of a trucking job that involved guns and a badge? We interviewed a trucker that has a top secret trucking job. His job involves trucking across america with a team…
Truckers starting a fleet. Many trucking companies have started with on truck. We call them "one truck chuck". But many of these owner operators have figured out a way to go from a one truck operation to a mega carrier in the industry. CDLLife did a story on Erb Transport. A company that was founded…
Brokers Trucking and More. We talked about how the industry is looking hard at freight brokers. How brokers are being accused of ripping off truck drivers and trucking companies. A broker is not under any law that limits him from any certain profit margin but it is pretty sad if in deed they are cutting…
D.O.T. GIVES ADVICE TO TRUCKERS & D.O.T.. Recently a truck driver was pulled over in Massachusetts with a faulty wheel on his semi truck. He was missing several lug nuts which is a hazard. He was put out of service and out of danger. There has been several accidents in the past few years involving…
