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On The Road Aussie Trucking Podcast

Mike Williamssoundcloud.com
Long distance truck driver. Former Truckin' Life Magazine editor
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243. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests

243. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests. This week on the show Andy has Max Jackson for us. She's a star in the aussie country scene and we're lucky to get her on the show. Greg Casey, former NSW Highway Patrol officer turned researcher comes in for a chat about his third research paper on truckie fatigue and interviews. Finally Bob is in from sunny Nth Qld for the news. Download Greg's research paper #3 https://kor01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A...

Jun 22, 20251 hr 21 min

242. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and guests

242. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and guests. We've had a two week break while I've moved house. Bob McMillan joins me for the news and a conversation about Brendon Ryan's "white paper". Andy is in with a new track from Andrew Swift plus a question we'd like some listener input on. Finally a bit of a departure from our normal guests, a bloke named Damien Costas has written a book called "What Happened to the Lucky Country" I thought this is a hugely interesting book so...

Jun 15, 20252 hr 1 min

241. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams, Trev Warner and Bob McMillan

241. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams, Trev Warner and Bob McMillan. Also Andy has rounded up a track from Clint Wilson and another from Mack Geiger to take the show out. As mentioned in the show we are having a two week break because we're not going to be able to physically record and produce a show. sorry about that. take the opportunity to skip back and have a listen to an earlier show or if you just want to enjoy some of the great talent we've had on the show check out...

May 24, 20251 hr 30 min

236. Australian trucking news and opinion with Mike Williams

236. Australian trucking news and opinion with Mike Williams. This week I'm having a look at the racism in trucking issue. The call from trucking bodies for more tolerance and blaming drivers for what is happening on the road. I'm calling out the associations and the government for the decisions that have been made in their offices that have caused the issues. music from the Wolfe Brothers and Genevieve Chadwick plus STTA with Bob McMillan. Have a good week.

Apr 19, 202551 min

235. Australian Trucking News and opinion with Mike Williams and guests

235. Australian Trucking News and opinion with Mike Williams and guests. This Week Bobby Dale, President of the Australian Super Trucks. Trev Warner, Bob McMillan and Andy with a great interview and a couple of tunes from Josie. Due to a recording issue, entirely my fault, I'm flying solo on the news this week. Thats truckin!

Apr 12, 20251 hr 38 min

234. Australian Trucking News and opinion with Mike Williams

Australian Trucking News and opinion with Mike Williams and guests. This week Andrew Hammond to talk about the story with importing trucks from the US and how difficult it has become. News with Bob McMillan and music from Linc Phelps and Loren Ryan.

Apr 05, 20251 hr 54 min

233. Razorback Anniversary

233. Razorback Blockade anniversary plus Australian trucking industry news and opinion with Mike Williams and Bob McMillan

Mar 29, 20251 hr 17 min

232. Australian trucking news and opinion with Mike Williams

232. This week we’ve got a bit of a different show. Listener contributions and a couple of things that have been shared from social media because of their interest. Andy has Felicity Urquhart in for a chat and a tune, Bob with an update on his travels and Trev Warner joins in with the news.

Mar 22, 20251 hr 6 min

RAZORBACK the real story.

A couple of years ago Andy and I decided we would turn Razorback the real story by Ted Stevens into an audiobook. So we got permission to do that and this is the result. It’s a story that every Aussie truckie should know. It is true Australian history. The largest act of insurrection in Australia, even bigger than the Eureka Stockade. We hope you enjoy this unabridged version and f you think it’s worth a donation to the podcast please go to www.ontheroadpodcast.com.au and follow the link.

Mar 12, 20256 hr 17 min

230

230. Anita Donlon from BEEFitUP Australia is on to let us know about the Big Rig Rumble at Bendigo next weekend. Andy is getting a bit windblown this week so he couldn't join us but Mike had a dig about in the archive and came up with a Time Machine look at the Party Boys. Trev Warner and Mike get into the Facade of Road Safety discussion of a look at some things other that the in cab tech an Bob is in with the news.

Mar 08, 20251 hr 33 min

228. National Fatigue Week

228. National Fatigue Week plus a round up of trucking news. I chat with Trev Warner about this Facade of Road Safety and technology issue we've been looking at for the last several shows, Rod Hannifey joins me for a chat after the news. Andy has Nathan Lamont in with a couple of his tracks as well. There's a lot going on, it's another big big show!

Feb 22, 20252 hr 18 min

227. Music guest Andrew Swift plus Mike and Rob Bell

It's an epic show this week. By far the longest On the Road I've done for some time! Andy has managed to get a real star of Australian Country music on for a chat this week Andrew Swift has done a bit and is about to head off on a headline tour. I chat with Rob Bell about all sorts of stuff, Bob is in for the news and a bit of something to talk about and I catch up with a couple of the girls who have been serving it up in the roadhouses in North Queensland

Feb 15, 20252 hr 16 min

226.

226. This week we continue looking at the facade of road safety we've been talked into by the introduction of increasing levels of technology in vehicles.Bob and I discuss the news of the week and we have a couple of great new release tracks from Line Phelps and Tammy Moxon.

Feb 08, 20251 hr 21 min

225. The Facade of Road Safety

225. Welcome back. It's time to get serious and take a long hard look at some of the problems that have been created by the push toward electronic road safety. I'm going to explore a few of the ideas and I want to get guests on to discuss their position in the road safety arena. Bob and I do the news and Andy is back with a roundup of the Golden Guitars at Tamworth and a couple of music tracks as well.

Feb 02, 20251 hr 12 min

224. Happy Australia Day

224. It's Australia Day long weekend and some of us are out on the road carrying the country. we've got Andy with some great Australia Day music, Bob and Mike with an extended news and some comments about how its going and what's coming up in something to talk about. Keep it safe out there and have a great week.

Jan 25, 20251 hr 5 min

223. It really is a new start.

223. It really is a new start. let me know what you think email mike@ontheroadpodcast or talk to me yourself 0418722488

Jan 18, 202559 min

222. The Richie Show

222. Mike and Andy do the news. Bob McMillan with Something to Talk About. Music from Sara Storer and Robbie Mortimer a comedy bit from Michael McIntyre and of course a few contributions from Billie Birmingham.

Jan 11, 202555 min

2SM 6-01-25 Mike having a chat with Chris Smith on 2SM Sydney

Mike and Chris Smith having a chat on radio 2SM on Chris's return to talk back in Sydney. Chris helped me a lot with the water run I did in 2019 and has been a great supporter of my advocacy and work. I'm delighted to see him hack mixing it up on talkback radio

Jan 06, 20258 min

218. A new start

218. theres some breaking news in here. We're heading back to the start and I'll tell you the reasons why. I get into the news of the week with Bob McMillan and Andy has a music bit featuring Russell Morris.

Dec 08, 20241 hr 7 min
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