NTDC Press Room From PodWheels

Picture Perfect: Darius Uible Of UPS Breaks Through To NTDC With First State Title

Over the last few years, Darius Uible of UPS has become a familiar presence at the National Truck Driving and National Step Van Driving Championships. As the man behind the camera with the UPS Media Team at NTDC, Darius has gained a unique perspective and position of...

Goal Achieved: J.B. Quarles Step Van Title Makes Him A State Champion In All Nine Divisions

At this year’s South Carolina State TDC, veteran Walmart driver J.B. Quarles cemented his place as a true legend within the NTDC Community. By winning the state title in the Step Van Division, J.B. completed his quest to win South Carolina State Championships in all...

David Comings Talks To Roland About The Road Back To Nationals

In one of the five best episodes within the catalog of nearly 250 shows that we have presented in the past three years of this series, 2025 NTDC Grand Champion David Comings took some time in mid-March to have an extended conversation with Roland Bolduc, a two-time...

XPO’s Robert Dean On His Soaring Return To NTDC With State Flatbed Title

This edition of the podcast takes a flight out to the state of Washington to visit with XPO veteran driver Robert Dean. After earning the State Grand Champion’s crown in 2023, Robert brought home two second-place finishes in the vehicle division competition in both...

Middleton and Guzman: Definitions of TDC Spirit and Dedication To Safety

Over the past 17 years, Ramon Guzman of FedEx Freight and Mike Middleton of Old Dominion Freight Lines have become the very definition of why the National Truck Driving and National Step Van Driving Championships stand as the longest running safety program in the...

Just Peachy: Frito Lay’s Tony Johnson Wins 1st State Grand Champion Title

When veteran Frito Lay driver Tony Johnson heard his name announced as the Grand Champion at the Georgia State TDC Banquet on April 24th, he admittedly did a double take. Tony was still basking in the glow of winning back-to-back state titles in 5-Axle. He knew that...

Spotlighting Arizona State Grand Champion Nate Voss and Team UPS

Veteran UPS driver Nate Voss carried a sense of purpose and determination into the Arizona TDC in Tempe on March 28th. Having qualified for the Nationals as a State Champion in 2024 and then finishing second in the Arizona TDC in 2025, Nate knew what it was like to be...

Celebrating Chris Poynor’s Repeat As State Grand Champ

With our first State Grand Champion interview of 2026, the podcast heads west to the Evergreen State to talk with XPO’s Chris Poynor, who won the top title in the Washington Trucking Associations’ TDC. Chris has now gone back-to-back in earning the state’s Grand...

Going ‘Behind The Cones’ At Washington’s State TDC

For the past five years, Abigail Potter has overseen the planning and onsite event coordination for the Washington State Truck Driving Championships. As the Director of Safety and Compliance for the Washington Trucking Associations, Abigail views the Evergreen State’s...

Some Championship Perspectives With TDC Season Preparing To Ramp Up

As we prepare to enter the heart of State TDC Season, our podcast takes some time to go inside our interview vault to highlight 12 of the conversations that NTDC Historian Eugene Mulero had with drivers who made it to the championship runoffs at NTDC 2025. With...

Insights from ATA’s Jacob Pierce: Road to NTDC 2026 Is Off And Running

Feb 24, 2026

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...

NTDC’S Iron Man: XPO’s Jeff Langenhahn

Sep 13, 2025

By Eugene Mulero PodWheels Chief Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS — In the minutes immediately after FedEx’s David Commings was declared the National Truck...

Living in the FedEx Era: NTDC 2025 Delivers the Purple Promise

Sep 4, 2025

By Eugene Mulero PodWheels Chief Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS — In sports, there are moments marked by a team’s dominance. Then, there are those eras...

Complete List Of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Finalists In Each Division

Aug 25, 2025

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...