By Eugene Mulero PodWheels Chief Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS — In the minutes immediately after FedEx’s David Commings was declared the National Truck Driving Championships’ 2025 grand champion, a large crowd of colleagues, friends and family were quick to congratulate...
By Eugene Mulero PodWheels Chief Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS — In sports, there are moments marked by a team’s dominance. Then, there are those eras when a team is simply dynastic. Think the New York Yankees of Yogi Berra; USC during the Cheryl Miller years. Bill...
Staff Report MINNEAPOLIS __ Our PodWheels Team kept a close eye on Championship Saturday and we have the full list of the National Champions as well as all of those competitors who brought home trophies from NTDC 2025. In addition, we have also provided you with the...
By Eugene Mulero PodWheels Chief Correspondent NTDC All-Time Great Richard Gillespie is saluted by all the previous Grand Champions in the house at the NTDC 2025 Championship Banquet Ceremony in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS – The greatest of all time, or GOAT (as the kids...
By Eugene Mulero Chief PodWheels Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS – Carlos Ortiz with the National Truck Driving Championships and National Step Van Driving Championships organizing committee just had a birthday, like two days ago. He is the big Six O. I’m not sure, but if...
By Eugene Mulero Chief PodWheels Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS – Have you heard of Nora Ephron? The writer. Good if you did. Bad if you haven’t. Ephron is famous for delivering the words to great films, such as “When Harry Met Sally.” She also was a brilliant essayist. In...
By Eugene Mulero Chief PodWheels Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Go to any high school in New Jersey and ask students who the best basketball player is. Most times, they’ll say Michael Jordan. Nowadays, a few kids might clarify the answer by pointing to LeBron’s...
According to the NTDC 2025 Organizing Committee, there are 425 state champions across nine vehicle divisions who have registered to compete in Minneapolis when this year’s edition of the National Truck Driving and National Step Van Driving Championships begin on...
By Greg Thompson PodWheels Executive Producer Over the past 40 years, I have actually lost count of the number of road trips where I’ve gotten on the highway to drive from my house in Tennessee to the Twin Cities. Now, I can tell you the distance almost down to the...
