For episode 50 of Voice Of GO(r)D I am honored to bring you the one and only Long Haul Paul - singer, songwriter, trucker, and writer at Overdrive Magazine. Paul and I have been buddies for a couple of years now, and I’ve been meaning to get him on for awhile - what better way to celebrate 50 episodes of this show than with a fellow “trucker of letters”? If you haven’t heard Paul on the wonderful ‘Over The Road’ podcast series, as soon as you are done here go and download the whole thing, it is ...
Nov 22, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you one of my favorite intellectuals, a man whose prolific output has kept my ears and interest very much occupied the last few years, Mr Charles Haywood. Charles is the ‘Maximum Leader’ of The Worthy House, an online repository of book reviews, essays, criticism, wit, and humor, unlike any other blog out there. His podcast book reviews, which are actually vehicles for Charles to opine on everything from Roman History to various thought leaders and thought ...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Jaclyne Martin joins Voice Of GO(r)D to discuss the situation with her man Jerry, and the other men facing a Kafka-esque nightmare as pawns being used to justify the actions of the venal and vindictive regime of Justin Trudeau. Now having spent over 630 days in remand without bail nor trial, these men are suffering a grave injustice in what is clearly a politically motivated witch hunt, as are their children, families, and friends. The Canadian Media have neglected their duty to hold power to ac...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Returning guest of the show, Chace Barber of Edison Motors, brings us up to date on the progress of Edison’s diesel electric hybrid platform, specifically their brand new from the frame up beast, whom they have named ‘Topsy'“. Tune in and find out all about how Topsy got its name, how Chace convinved the leader of the Green Party of British Columbia of the merits of Edison’s technology, and what is next for Edison Motors, their trucks, and their customers. For more information on Topsy’s recent ...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Very happy to have Wes Harman, lease operator with Prime, Inc join the show to tell us all about his varied and colorful life trajectory on the way to becoming a trucker. At times an English Professor, Radio Announcer, House Husband and stay at home Dad, and a marketing guy for Tech firms, Wes has had a very, very interesting life, and delivers it to you, my listeners, with one of those silky smooth voices that makes you wonder why he doesn’t have a podcast of his own. Before Wes went truckin, h...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 45
In case you missed it live, here is a recording of the Ask Us Anything roundtable discussion on Automated Vehicle Technology, held within The Arena on Reed Loustalot's Lost Fr8 Discord Server, which you can sign up for here. This is also part three in a series. featuring previous guests of the show you should all know and love by now - James Year - https://www.jamesyear.com/ (James Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yearjames/) Edward Escobar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-escobar...
Oct 05, 2023•2 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Voice Of GO(r)D is incredibly blessed and honored to bring you author, mechanic, engineer, and America's best modern philosopher, Matthew B Crawford, in conversation with myself and co-host Brandon Daily. If you haven't heard of or read Shopclass as Soulcraft, The World Beyond Your Head, or Why We Drive, when you are finished listening to this episode, y'all need to head over to Matthew's website and get ordering some books - https://www.matthewbcrawford.com/ Given my audience of Road Warriors, ...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 43
In this final installment of my 5 episode run for National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, I am very happy to bring you a lovely discussion I had with Overdrive Online Chief Editor Todd Dills and News Editor Matt Cole. We went over the history of Overdrive Magazine, a few of the many issues facing truckers and the industry at large, and a dive into an excellent series Overdrive recently published called "Trucking's State of Surveillance" which polled many readers on their experiences and opinion...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Documents recently obtained under FOIPOP by associates of Jeremy Mackenzie, Canada's number one Enemy of The State, have begun to be analyzed and show an alarming level of malfeasance on the part of the Canadian Government and its security services, The RCMP and CSIS, as well as the media, and a state funded activist group called The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN). Voice of GO(r)D is joined by Toronto based Lawyer and independent journalist Caryma Sa'd, who has reviewed these very recently re...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 41
In this, the fourth episode of my special National Truck Driver Appreciation Week series, I invited some friends of the show on to discuss the biggest lie in the trucking business, the Driver Shortage Narrative. What better way to appreciate someone than to stop pretending they don't exist? Let’s get the government to stop shoveling money at corporations who use this falsehood to suppress our wages. Justin 'Supertrucker' Martin, social media guru over at FreightWaves, joins us to fill us in on h...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 39
On this third installment of five episodes for National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, Voice Of GO(r)D is very excited to present you an author and journalist whose upcoming book is called ... Thank You, Truckers! Donna Laframboise has spent her life writing from the perspective of the working class, and taking contrary positions against those in power who incorrectly believe they know better than the rest of us. Donna has written for the Toronto Star, National Post, Toronto Life magazine, Chat...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Voice Of GO(r)D is back with a series within a series, both the second in this run of 5 episodes for National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, and the second in a series expressing questions and concerns with the rollout of Autonomous Vehicle Technology onto our streets and highways. Rejoining today's show are previous guests James Year and Edward Escobar, along with new guest to the show Scott Douglass, president of America Without Drivers, filling in for AWOD Founder Will Cook. Today we discuss...
Sep 12, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to kick off Truck Driver Appreciation Week in conversation with Dr. Michael Belzer, the author of Sweatshops on Wheels, an academic inquest into what happened to the wages and working lives of truckers in the aftermath of economic deregulation, brought to the industry by the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. Published back in 2000, this book remains one of the seminal studies on the effects of deregulation over this very large and important sector of the working class. Pro...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you Mr Michael Thomas of Sharon, to discuss the idea of Distributism, a political and economic program influenced by Catholic Social teaching, the RERUM NOVARUM, an encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, and the ideas of such early 20th century thinkers as G.K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. Mr. Sharon describes Distributism thusly - "A good social order is one which guarantees the rights of property to the widest amount of people, and that helps them turn that prop...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Voice Of GO(r)D brings you the first in a series of Roundtable discussions on Autonomous Truck and Car technology, from the perspective of those whom will be most impacted by it - truckers, taxi drivers, and other on the road professionals. What are the big picture issues? Is this all marketing hype? What are the different messages Autonomous Tech companies are sending to different groups? What ought the government do? What ought we do in preparation? Are they safe? Will they deliver in the way ...
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 35
In researching the situation with The Coutts 4 for a future article to be published in Newsweek, it has come to my attention that the men are being tortured and abused even more than I was initially aware. Extended periods of solitary confinement and denial of necessary medical treatment are but two of the abuses being heaped upon Canada's most infamous political prisoners, and one of their advocates joins Voice Of GO(r)D to fill us in on the disheartening and disgusting details. Nikki Thom is a...
Aug 21, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Voice Of GO(r)D is proud to present this extremely ENERGY DENSE conversation with Mr Emmet Penney, electrical system analyst and critic, host of The Nuclear Barbarians Substack and Podcast, writer, philosopher, and partner in the Grid Brief Newsletter. We discuss Emmet's writings on the history of the electrical grid, the limitations of renewable energy sources and hype around electric vehicles, how nuclear reality is different than nuclear perception, and ask the question of how we expect to el...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Voice Of GO(r)D is honored to speak with one of the founders of Sublation Media, writer, political commentator, and man of the Left, Mr Doug Lain. Doug joins us to discuss the Twitter Files, state interference in free speech, Freedom Convoy, worker's rights, Marxism, Marcuse, and what it all means under the neoliberal/globalist deep state regime of 2023. You can find Doug's writings at https://www.sublationmedia.com/, his Sci-Fi novel Bash Bash Revolution at https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/97...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 32
The economy is not doing well, trucking companies large and small are going out of business, and the industry is in contraction mode. On top of all this, various types of parasites continue to extract blood and treasure from the American trucking market, leaving very little profits for an already super marginal industry. The government is behind the ball, and some of these scammers are operating in the open, brazenly discussing their methods on social media, and bragging about all of the money t...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 31
For episode 30 of Voice Of GO(r)D, I was very happy to sit down with Lora Andela, a trucker who hauls livestock and hails from a small farm near Utica, N.Y., to hear the story of how she got into trucking, from her family growing and hauling hay down to Long Island, to homeschooling, learning trucking the old fashioned way with a company that knows what its doing, to skipping the world of freight and going straight to moooving cows. Lora is a remarkable young woman, and her perspective on how sh...
Jul 11, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 30
In this second of hopefully many roundtable discussions hosted by Voice Of GO(r)D, I am joined by veteran riders of rails and thumbers of rides, Andy, Joseph, and James. We had a very lengthy discussion on this seemingly lost form of travel, of what drives young men to undertake such journeys, the meaning to be found while on them and within the traveler himself, and a little look into the particularly American crust punk culture that overlaps with hitch-hiking and train jumping. The legendary u...
Jul 05, 2023•2 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Every once in awhile a particular type of 'poast' or 'poaster' on the internet goes viral, or develops a legend around them, wether they know it or not. One such poaster is Kevin Kenneth Koehnke, whose selfies featuring his custom made trucker caps are instantly recognizable. Mr Koehnke has had quite a mysterious sort of legend spring up around him, due to his past 'BoomerWaffen' poasting on Facebook, and in part to other internet accounts sharing his pictures, acting as a sort of homage, a trib...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Edward Escobar joins Voice Of GO(r)D to discuss his history of activism as an independent driver organizer, legal fights against Uber, the AB5 controversy in California, and what to expect from the ongoing attempts to roll out Autonomous Vehicles into society. Edward is the founder of AiW Alliance for Independent Workers @ WCPDA, Wine Country Pro Drivers Alliance, is the Owner/Operator of Black Level Services SUV/LIMO, and is a public speaker on automation and the future of work. You can find Ed...
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 26
For this episode of Voice Of GO(r)D, I'm very happy to bring you my very own Uncle Chris, who shares with us stories, wisdom, and keys to success, built up from a trucking career that spans back to the 1960s. In 1985, Uncle Chris, Aunt Gina, and his partner Jeff, founded Lakeside Freight Systems in a little office in Oakville, Ontario, and built it into one of Canada's most successful freight brokers, which, after my uncle retired, was eventually sold on to Uber Freight. Uncle Chris is a high mi...
Jun 12, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Did you know that in Trudeau's Canada we have Political Prisoners being held under conditions and circumstances quite similar to that of The January 6 Protesters in the United States, or of Guantanamo Bay? Four men are approaching 500 days in prison without yet facing trial, nor given bail, under circumstances that are unbecoming a modern western 'democracy', simply for exercising their democratic rights in participating with Canada's Freedom Convoy, quite possibly the largest and most peaceful ...
Jun 05, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Miss Flatbed Red is a multi-talented artist and musician, and has become well known amongst those who recognize the aesthetic supremacy of classic American Rigs through her fantastic truck sketches. Red shares a little of her life story with us, how she went from being a music student in London, to then becoming a regular at Truck Shows all across the United States, as well as discussing the intrinsic value of beauty and beautiful equipment, and why older trucks reign supreme. You can find Flatb...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 24
In what should be the first of many Roundtables, Voice Of GO(r)D brings you a group discussion on what we can infer about society via the quality (or lack thereof) of replacement parts and those of us who operate and maintain the wheels of our economy. Very happy to bring you Mr Brandon Daily, seminary student and mechanic, along with his father and business partner Mr Mike Daily, as well as truck parts marketing kingpin Mr Joshua Gwozdz, all of whom share their perspectives about the meaning to...
May 23, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Former state job training and placement agent "Joe" joins Voice Of GO(r)D to tell us about his experiences with government funded job placement services, and how they are incentivized to push people into the trucking business, wether they are qualified or not, or have any hope of success in the business or not. There are implications in this discussion for the driver shortage narrative, as what Joe worked in was a piece of the stealth corporate welfare system which trucking companies rely on to ...
May 15, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to welcome Cornell Sociologist Karen Levy, PhD, to discuss her recent book "Data Driven - Truckers, Technology, and the new Workplace Surveillance", which is a very deep dive into the effects of Surveillance Technology such as the ELD on America's truckers. We discuss Karen's interest in how rules are managed and negotiated in practice, and where this intersects with state and corporate desire to use surveillance technology to enforce those rules on workers. Karen's...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Very old friend and lifelong fully independent owner-operator Trent Lalonde joins Voice Of GO(r)D to discuss his experiences in the business, how to approach it to achieve success, various problems that plague the industry, and how having truck driving recognized as a certified trade will go a long way towards helping solving those problems. Trent also suggests political strategies which would make that happen. You can find Trent on Twitter - https://twitter.com/gustoffur and on Facebook - https...
Apr 26, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 20
