The Lifestyle Lane
Podcasts
Trucking is more than just one loading dock to another. Conferences, championships, rodeos, legendary musicians, trucking legends, and spooky stories can all be found here. These podcasts represent a wide variety of both ongoing and limited series from Podwheels.
The Exit Ramp
The Exit Ramp takes us to exciting destinations and allows our team the opportunity to share short stories from inside and around the trucking industry.
Liner Notes
Liner Notes is the audio version of the notes that musicians leave on the record album’s back cover or CD booklet. Liner Notes takes the time to go in-depth with musical artists to learn more about them, their music, and what they find noteworthy.
Snake Pontchartrain
Snake Pontchartrain’s Places You Wouldn’t Want to Go Unless You’re With Snake Pontchartrain follows a super trucker and ghost hunter investigating the haunted legends of the road at the request of fellow drivers.
The National Truck Driving and National Step Van Championships
NTDC prides itself in being the Super Bowl of Safety. Joined by PodWheels, RadioNemo was on the scene with live coverage and interviews.
Latest Episodes
The NTDCs Have Become A Family Tradition For ATA President & CEO Chris Spear
While ATA President & CEO Chris Spear joins Jimmy Mac in the celebration of safety and driving excellence that are seen through the annual NTDC event, Chris also shares how the national championships have become a yearly trip that he has taken with his son,...
Eddie Pennington Capping 47-Year Trucking Career With 12th Trip To NTDCs
Some 22 years after Eddie Pennington began his trucking career in 1976, he won his first of 12 State Championships in Florida. The 2023 edition of the NTDCs will be his last run at the nationals as Eddie plans to retire at some point in the next year. Tim Taylor, a...
ATA Vice President of Safety Policy Dan Horvath Continues To Draw Inspiration From The NTDCs
Dan Horvath, Vice President of Safety Policy at ATA, discusses the deep roots that he has established through the years serving as a volunteer at the NTDCs. Dan tells Jimmy Mac how he got involved with the NTDC event, and he also shares how the excellence displayed by...
2004 Grand Champion Wayne Crowder Shares His Perspective On The NTDCs
Wayne Crowder, who won the 2004 NTDC Grand Championship in his first-ever trip to the nationals, looks back with Jimmy Mac on how he was encouraged to enter the Kentucky State Championships in 19 years ago, which was also his first entry at the state level. Wayne and...
Highlighting The Jobs That ‘Den Mothers ‘ Do At The National Championships
On the first day of NTDC 2023, we spent some time with Charity Marsh, who serves as the Den Mother for the Step Van Division at the National Championships. A trucking industry veteran who has worked at previous NTDC events, Charity provides insights on not only what a...
Meet Alex Ayala: A Safety Professional Who Carries The Banner In Support of His Drivers
Alex Ayala started making the trip the National Championships in 1965. On the first day of NTDC 2023, Alex was the first in the line of folks who had lined up to hang banners inside the arena in support of their drivers. While Alex has been retired from as a safety...
NTDC Defending Grand Champion Roland Bolduc Reflects On His Career & Dedication To Excellence
Jimmy Mac catches up with the 2022 Grand Champion Roland Bolduc as he prepares to return to NTDC 2023 to seek his third career Grand Championship. Roland reflects back on his personal history with the event and how sharpening his skills for the competition made...
Robert Fosky Shares Perspective Of Former NTDC Competitor & Current Event Committee Member
Jimmy Mac spends some time with Robert Foskey, who began his career behind the wheel and today serves as the Global Health and Safety Manager from UPS. As you’ll hear, Robert is the Second Vice Chairman of the organizing committee for NTDC 2023 and he is also a past...
RadioNemo Returns With PodWheels To Cover National Truck Driving Championships With New PodWheels.com Website
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – (Aug. 9, 2023) – A favorite of trucking radio is headed back to the “Super Bowl of Safety” in Columbus, Ohio, and it is bringing with it more expansive programming. On Aug. 16-19th, RadioNemo of North America, a trusted source of news,...
Eugene Mulero From Transport Topics Shares Why The NTDC Has Become A Must-See Event
Jimmy Mac chats with Transport Topics Report Eugene Mulero about the National Truck Driving Championships and how Eugene has develop a deep admiration for the event since he first began covering the NTDCs in 2017.
NTDC Chairman Rodney Myers Discusses Importance of National Truck Driving Championships
As we get set to bring you the stories and take you behind the scenes with podcasts detailing the 2023 Championships, we wanted to take some time to set the stage for the event. In this first episode of our 2023 series, Jimmy Mac talks with Rodney Myers from...
Long Haul Paul Discusses Legends of the Lost Highway CD
In this Liner Notes edition of our Destinations Series, Long Haul Paul Marhoefer goes in-depth on the making of his newest CD release, Legends of the Lost Highway. Greg Thompson from PodWheels met Long Haul Paul while he was on the road to have an extended...
Exit Ramp: Our Walking Tour of the Chattanooga Whiskey Company
For an Exit Ramp episode of our series, we'll take you to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and we'll take a walking tour of the Chattanooga Whiskey Company, a craft bourbon distillery that has been in operation for the past decade. Tim Piersant, the Founder and President of...
Celebrating Roland Bolduc’s Grand Championship Victory
To mark the six-month anniversary since we launched the PodWheels Powered By RadioNemo platform, we are taking an exit ramp that will roll us back to mid-August when we were onsite at the National Truck Driving & National Step Van Driving Championships. Roland...
Episode 12: St. Augustine Lighthouse
On the advice of trucker Jody Vale, Snake visits the St. Augustine Lighthouse.
ATA’s Elisabeth Barna Reflects On Memorable NTDC 2022
In our first post-event episode for this podcast series covering the National Truck Driving & National Step Van Driving Championships, Elisabeth Barna from the American Trucking Associations takes some time with us to look back at a very memorable NTDC 2022....
Episode 11: The Keys
Snake takes a vacation to Miami, but he soon finds himself in The Florida Keys with friend The Historian where they encounter a deadly doll.
Special Feature: Taking You Inside The NTDC Road Course
On the first day of the competition, PodWheels Executive Producer Greg Thompson had the opportunity to spend some time at NTDC 2022 with four captains from America’s Road Team. While Captain Rhonda Hartman provided Greg with a view of the road course problems the...
Ruan’s Dan Van Alstine Preparing For His Term As ATA Chairman
Dan Van Alstine, the current Vice Chairman of the American Trucking Associations, talked with Greg Thompson on the day of his eight-year-anniversary as President of Ruan. Dan, who will become the Chairman of ATA in October, shares his thoughts on just why this year’s...
Antoine Sadler Shines As A Rookie At NTDC 2022
In this episode, you’ll meet Antoine Sadler who never really expected to be at NTDC 2022 when he responded to a request from his team at Wal-Mart to enter the North Carolina State Championship. Antoine took a no-pressure approach when he went to state, and he claimed...
Jimmy Mac Reflects On Trip To NTDC 2022
Shortly after finishing up two days of onsite broadcasting the Dave Nemo Show from NTDC 2022 in Indianapolis, Jimmy Mac, the host of Dave Nemo Weekends, sat down with Greg Thompson of PodWheels to get Jimmy’s immediate impressions of his first-ever trip to the...
Trucking Is A Family Tradition For Dion Saiz
Dion Saiz from FedEx Express joins Jimmy Mac to discuss what it’s like to represent FedEx as a Road Team Captain for the ATA. Dion got his start 26 years ago following in his father’s footsteps. His now-retired dad was a Road Captain, as well. The two were the first...
Catching Up With Retired Road Team Captain Greg Nauertz
What does a truck driver do upon retiring? If you are Greg Nauertz, an America’s Road Team Captain, you hop in an RV with wife Caroljane and you zip around the country visiting family, attending class reunions and simply enjoy life on the road. Jimmy Mac gets the 411...
IMTA’s Gary Langston Talks Indiana, Trucking & The NTDC
Gary Langston, President and CEO of the Indiana Motor Truck Association, tells Jimmy Mac about how important trucking and the interstate system is to the state of Indiana. Indiana specializes in moving stuff on wheels, but, as Gary shares with Jimmy, the trucking...
ATA President & CEO Chris Spear On Return Of The NTDC
ATA President and CEO Chris Spear joins Jimmy Mac to take a look at why Indianapolis, with the numerous highways that criss-cross through it, but also the plethora of activities going each day, was an ideal choice to host the NTDC event. Chris takes this opportunity...
Ralph Garcia, 42 years On The Road & 22 Trips To NTDC
In this podcast, we hear from one of the most experienced professional drivers who earned the honor of making the trip to the National Truck Driving & National Step Van Championships. With 42 years behind the wheel and now 22 visits to the NTDC in his career...
Steve Fields Values All That NTDC Has To Offer
Beyond the opportunity to compete for national title honors, there are a number of reasons that make the NTDC an event that calls to drivers across the country every year. And while numerous drivers will note the camaraderie, family, community and focus on safety,...
Alphonso Lewis Grateful for Return Of NTDC Event
Jimmy Mac gets an opportunity to catch up with Alphonso Lewis, a veteran driver for Yellow with 30 years of experience. As Jimmy notes, Alphonso has been involved with Wreaths Across America for a number of years. An NTDC Grand Champion in 2007, Alphonso has been to...
NTDC Voice Tina Peterson Always Drawn To Trucking Industry
America’s Road Team Captain Tina Peterson is enjoying the honor of serving as a course announcer at NTDC 2022. In this chat with Jimmy Mac, Tina shares how she discovered the trucking industry at the age of seven while growing up in Wyoming. As a Road Team Captain...
The Brownawells Make NTDC A Family Event
Jimmy Mac is joined by John Brownawell from Yellow Freight Systems, his fiance Cindy Spinella and their son, Raylan. John tells Jimmy that the NTDC weekend is filled with camaraderie and family fun, but it is also one of stress and nervousness because all 50...