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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...
Nevada’s Sharp Superstar: First-Time NTDC Volunteer Celebrates Event
At The Top A PodWheels Column MINNEAPOLIS — On the morning of last year’s finals day at NTDC, I ran into volunteer David Sharp. A day earlier, Sharp shared with me his delight about a column I wrote referring to the NTDC experience as traveling to Aruba (see last...
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 from ATA’s Jacob Pierce: Road to NTDC 2026 Is Off And Running
At The Top A PodWheels Column Hi Folks. We’re approaching late February. For many of us, it’s pretty darn cold outside. We’ve binged Netflix. New movies have been hit-or-miss. And we catch ourselves walking around our living rooms waiting for spring to arrive. So,...
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...
Merle Ashbaugh’s First National Title Makes History For DHL
Our NTDC Podcast closes out our series of conversations with the 2025 Vehicle Class National Champions by sharing the inspiring story of Merle Ashbaugh. In winning the Sleeper Class Division at NTDC 2025, Merle not only earned his first National title, but he also...
Exploring The Future of USMCA: Insights from Kenneth Smith Ramos
Our guest for this Borderless Coverage edition of the Trucking Matters Podcast Series is Kenneth Smith Ramos, who served as the Chief Negotiator of USMCA for Mexico in 2018, playing a key role in the trade agreement’s ratification. In addition to his leadership on...
Recalling The Great John Lex and Memories of NTDC 2019 in Pittsburgh
To highlight the return of the NTDC to Pittsburgh this year, we continue our look back at NTDC 2019, the first time that PodWheels had the opportunity to cover the National Truck Driving and National Step Van Driving Championships. This edition of the podcast revisits...
Taking A Trip Back In Time To Pittsburgh and NTDC 2019
As we countdown the days to the first State TDC that serve as the first miles on this year’s Road To Pittsburgh, our series would like to take our listeners back to NTDC 2019, the last time the NTDC was held in the Steel City. NTDC 2019 also marked the first time that...
Championship Runoff Rewind: NTDC’s Version Of The Playoffs
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Super Bowl and to get into the championship spirit, our podcast is doing a bit of a rewind with this episode. Greg Thompson and Eugene Mulero will be taking listeners back to the day of the Championship Runoff at NTDC 2025....
Discussing Reliance Impact Safety Team Case Studies Related To CSA BASICS
In this Safety Matters episode of the series, Reliance Partners Safety Impact Team Members Mark Barlar and Daniel Vega return to the podcast to highlight a collection of Case Studies they have compiled related to the work that Reliance Partners has done on behalf of...