RANDOM AUSSIE TRUCKER CALLS IN. A truck driver from Australia recently called a podcast to talk about his adventures in the outback. While calling in tot the show, Doug Parker, a truck driver from down under had a few questions of his own. This week on TalkCDL trucking Podcast, here how we had allot of…
POT, TRUCKERS & THE NEW T680E. There is a new rise in drug screen failures and refusals. The September statistics are out and there is over a 9 percent increase in truck driver drug failures. With the increased amount of unemployed truck drivers, it is possible that some are turning to drugs for comfort. Even…
A TRUCKERS STORY OF CHILD ABUSE. Meet Rodney Timms, the founder of Western Flyer Express. Rodney founded the company along with his son in 1996 but that is not what this story is about. Success means nothing when you have a monster hanging over your head. Rodney would trade everything he has to change what…
ROCKS THROWN FROM BRIDGES & KW TRUCKS. It's happening again, rocks and other objects are being thrown from over passes. Truck drivers recently have reported being attacked by people throwing objects at moving vehicles including semi trucks and all automobiles. No suspect have been named as of yet but being the incidents have happened on…
IFDA'S TRUCKER RODEO AT DISNEY ORLANDO. International Foodservice Distributors http://www.ifdaonline.org is an organization compiled of many food distributing carriers. We sat down with Mark Allen the president and CEO of IFDA for a few minutes. IFDA has their very own "Truckers Hall of Fame". In order to be inducted into the HOF a truck driver…
Truckers Hall of Fame. Truck drivers now have a place they can strive to be a part of. A part of History if you will. A truck driver can now make it into the Truckers Hall of Fame. Recently we picked up on a story that covered a driver making it into the IFDA (International…
Masking Truckers at the Pilot Truck stop. It's official, the Pilot Truck Stop is now requiring all people entering the store wear a mask. Many truckers are unhappy and are saying they will not wear one. With the ever growing businesses that are instilling this new rule, it is hard to find a business that…
Trucking Stuff. This week on the show we talked about a cat that traveled in a Peterbilt from Canada to North Dakota. The cat was a stowaway on board a truckers semi. When the truck driver conducted a daily inspection of his rig, he found the black cat named "spooky". Jack Shao an active trucker…
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…
