Each year, the NTDC Organizing Committee makes a visit to the host site for the National Championships months ahead of the event taking place. This year, the NTDC Organizing Committee circled mid-March as the date to visit the Minneapolis Convention Center to conduct...
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Catching Up With Ina Daly, Arizona’s First Lady Of Trucking
Ina Daly has been a fixture at the Arizona Truck Driving Championships for more than 30 years as she heads into this year’s event in the Valley of the Sun. Ina has also served as a consistent presence and a continuing inspiration at the NTDC. Becoming the first woman...
SCF Team Looks Back At The Fun And Success Of MATS 2025 Trip
In this edition of the SCF Highway To Hope Podcast, we will be taking a look back at the connections made and the success achieved by the SCF Team during the 2025 edition of the Mid-America Trucking Show, which took place at the end of March. Elisabeth Barna returns...
Spotlighting The Volunteers Who Come Together Each Year To Help Bring The NTDC To Life
In this expanded episode of the podcast, we place a spotlight on the work of the volunteers who come together each year from across the country to serve in a variety of capacities. As anyone familiar with NTDC knows, each job and every assignment helps to contribute...
Taking Time To Review Key Deductions As The 2025 Tax Deadline Approaches
With the clock ticking down toward the April 15th deadline for tax filings, Certified Public Accountant John Turner uses this episode of the podcast to review an important business operation deduction that owner-operators, independent contractors and owners of small...
2008 Grand Champion Dennis Shirar Still Enjoys Competing For Chance At Nationals
Dennis Shirar joins us on this edition of the podcast to reflect on his run that claimed the NTDC Grand Champion’s title back in 2008. Dennis looks back at his career in trucking with Eugene Mulero of Transport Topics. As you’ll hear, Eugene and Dennis discuss what...
Know The Scams That Top The IRS ‘Dirty Dozen’ List
In this episode of the podcast, Certified Public Accountant John Turner will be addressing the timely topic of tax scams that can often be found during tax season. As John shares with us, the IRS publishes a Dirty Dozen list of the top tax scams the agency has seen...
NTDC Organizing Committee Chair Robert Foskey Is Ready For The Road Ahead
Our guest for this edition of the podcast is Robert Foskey, who is the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for NTDC 2025. As you will hear in his interview with Transport Topics Senior Reporter Eugene Mulero, Foskey brings a wealth of NTDC experience to his...
Do You Have a Strategy for Navigating Federal and State Policy Changes Impacting Trucking?
At both the federal and state levels, the changes related to regulations, policies and statutes impacting the trucking industry are happening at an increasingly rapid pace these days. In this episode, the Grawe Pod examines the challenges involved for the management...
Inspired By Last Year’s Breakout Performance, Rebecca Heck Looks To Return To The Nationals
After a decade of competing at the state level, Rebecca Heck’s first experience at the NTDCs in 2024 has served as added motivation to work on making it all the way back on the Road To Minneapolis and NTDC 2025. In this edition of the podcast, you’ll hear Rebecca...
SCF Gears Up For Silent Auction Fund Raiser At MATS
In this episode of the SCF Highway To Hope, you’ll get a preview of what the St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund has planned for this year’s Mid-America Trucking Show, which is happening in Louisville March 27-29. Once again this year, SCF will be holding a silent...
Rollin’ With Roland: A Grand Champion Chat With Gragg Wilson
What happens when the NTDC Grand Champion from 2022 sits down to chat with the NTDC Grand Champion for 2023? You’ll be able to hear the answer in this fascinating Rollin’ With Roland episode of the podcast. Two-Time NTDC Grand Champion Roland Bolduc talks with Gragg...
Will Recent IRS Staffing Reductions Impact The 2025 Tax Season?
In this episode of the podcast, Certified Public Accountant John Turner covers a number of timely topics, including a discussion of the recent IRS layoffs and the possible impact those layoffs might have on tax season in 2025. John also uses this episode of the...
NTDC ‘All-Stars’ Promise To Make 2025 Safety Drive For A Cure Quite Memorable
On March 22nd in Atlanta, the 14th edition of the Safety Drive For A Cure will take place, and Herschel Evans, who is the driving force behind this annual charity event, is our guest on this episode of the podcast. Built around a TDC-style competition, the Safety...
Spotlighting Eugene Mulero’s Teaching Work With Students At George Mason University
In this episode of our Destinations Podcast Series, we will be spotlighting Eugene Mulero, a Senior Reporter from Transport Topics, who you can also hear on the National Truck Driving Championships Podcast from PodWheels. As you will hear through this episode, Eugene...