While Safety Drive 2026 featured a collection of past National Champions, State TDC Champions and no less than four past NTDC Grand Champions testing their knowledge and skills, the competition that took place at the UPS Smart Hub in Atlanta was a distant second to...
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SCF Is Ready For MATS 2026 With Silent Auction And Other Fun Activities
The countdown to the 2026 edition of the Mid-America Trucking Show is in its final days, and the team at the St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund is ready to make the most of their time onsite, March 26-28. SCF’s Director of Philanthropy Diane Hutsell joins the...
Paul Barnes of UPS Earns Safety Drive’s Grand Champion Title
Safety Drive For A Cure 2026 became a memorable trip to Atlanta for Paul Barnes of UPS. The reigning Illinois State Sleeper Division Champion who finished sixth at NTDC 2025, Paul was part of a record field of over 250 professional drivers who helped Safety Drive...
Spotlighting NTDC Legend Ina Daly Ahead of Arizona’s TDC
In honor of International Women’s Day that was celebrated on March 8th, our podcast shines the spotlight on Ina Daly, the veteran XPO driver and the only woman to win a National Championship in the history of NTDC. With the Arizona State TDC just around the corner on...
Brent and Laura Darnell: Answering The Call and Winning By Serving Others
When the 15th edition of Safety Drive For A Cure opens its NTDC-style competition this Saturday, Brent and Laura Darnell will have already been onsite at the UPS Smart Hub in Atlanta before the sun rises. For Brent and Laura, along with a legion of volunteers led by...
Veteran Driver Tim Vogt Continues To Find Inspiration Through Annual Safety Drive Event
For Atlanta-based XPO veteran driver Tim Vogt, the 15th edition of the Safety Drive For A Cure Benefit scheduled to run this coming Saturday is one of the most important dates on the calendar. In addition to getting a highly competitive test of his TDC skills ahead of...
Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC: Rules, Regs and Best Practices For Managing Violations
For this Safety Matters edition of the podcast, we will be focusing on the Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC as we continue our series exploring each of the Seven Basics that are part of the FMCSA’s Compliance, Safety and Accountability Enforcement Program. Mark...
Inspired By 2025, New York’s Zack Bourque Looking To Take Next Big Step
How would you respond if you landed one point short of reaching the runoff in your vehicle division at Nationals? Zack Bourque, the two-time reigning Tanker State Champion from New York, was forced to look squarely into that very challenge the moment he got his...
NTDC Rewind: Celebrating Pennsylvania’s NTDC Legend Bob Dolan
With a record that was highlighted by five National Championships, one Grand Championship and the Professional Excellence Award during his NTDC days, Bob Dolan put together a hall-of-fame driving career and remains a legend in his home state of Pennsylvania. In this...
Spotlighting Darius Uible, Road Team Finalist and Man Behind The Camera For UPS
During this episode of the podcast, Darius Uible takes us behind the scenes with Team UPS. A finalist to serve as an America’s Road Team Captain for 2026-27 and a veteran driver for UPS, Darius has become a fixture at the NTDC in recent years with his video work....
Getting To Know McCall Meany, The New Addition to SCF’s Board
For our February episode of the podcast, we meet McCall Meany, who was recently invited to join the all-volunteer Board of Directors for the St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund. SCF Highway To Hope Podcast Host Lindsey Bryan introduces our audience to McCall with a...
Insights On Navigating Four Key Trucking and Logistics Issues In 2026
Grawe Group Founder & CEO Doug Grawe takes a look inside four topics that have come up quite often in the first weeks of 2026 during conversations with clients and professionals within the trucking and logistics industries. As you’ll hear, Doug opens the podcast...
NTDC 2026 Committee Chairman Heath Arnold Excited About Road To Pittsburgh
This episode of the series is highlighted by our feature interview with Heath Arnold, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for NTDC 2026. Heath joins the podcast about 26 minutes into the episode, providing us an update on the onsite visit that the NTDC Organizing...
Getting To Know Tim Pollock, CTA’s President For 2026
Recorded shortly after the conclusion of the CTA’s Annual Membership Conference, Tim Pollock sat down to talk with Inside The Cab about what he sees on the horizon for his term as the President of the California Trucking Association in 2026. Tim addresses some of the...
Rewinding To 2010: Recalling Carl Krites’ NTDC Grand Champion Run
For this episode of the show, we open the vault once again to feature the interview that Eugene Mulero had with Carl Krites, the Grand Champion of NTDC 2010. Last year, as Eugene was developing the second edition of the From Roadeo To TDC history book with co-author...




















