Voice Of GO(r)D Gord Magill - autonomoustruckers.substack.com

Voice of GO(r)D is happy to have you join myself and Trucking Twitter personality King Spud for a wide ranging discussion that covers Elon Musk rocket launches, deceleration induced back injuries, Texas Barbecue, Hoods versus Plastic, Simplot Potatoes, and understanding the lingua franca of the road you happen to be on.



King Spud/Old Goose Burger is currently going through similar issues with Twitter/X that I have been through in the past; y'all know who I'm talking about.



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Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you a conversation with fellow writer and logistician Cameron Ritter, author of the upcoming satirical novel, and peak behind the curtain of America's supply chains, "Confessions of a Freight Broker."



If you want to find out about the 'Wolf of Wall Street' shenanigans that go in the offices of those who help move our economy around, Cameron is your guy.



Cameron is a former freight nerd and currently writes about his experiences on Substack - https://cameronbritter.substack.com/



You can also find him at Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cameronbritter/?hl=en



Threads - https://www.threads.net/@cameronbritter?hl=en

and over on Twitter - https://twitter.com/CameronBRitter



Thanks for listening - as always, word of mouth is the best advertising, and I appreciate you sharing this show with others, especially my fellow truckers.



Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections, and Hate Mail, are always welcome and strongly encouraged!

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Returning guest of the show Donna Laframboise brings us an update on the progress of her book 'Thank You, Truckers!' and we discuss, once again, life in Canada downstream of the Freedom Convoy, the situation with the Coutts Four men, and many of the characters she has met while researching her book.



If you missed our first discussion, you can find it here -



https://open.spotify.com/episode/1WH5Qcwn8g64xx9kXhBO0t?si=dc9dae2089924b42



You can buy Donna's children's book "Opa's Convoy Letters" here -



https://www.amazon.ca/Opas-Convoy-Letters-Donna-Laframboise/dp/B0BS93Z5J4



Donna's wonderful substack, where you can subscribe and read daily snippets from her upcoming book -



https://thankyoutruckers.substack.com/



Find Donna on Twitter -



https://twitter.com/NOconsensus





My recently published essay mentioned during intro -



https://americancompass.org/crash-and-churn/



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Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you another academic who has spent a great deal of his life studying the trucking industry, and who also started out behind the wheel.



University of Minnesota-Morris Economics Professor Stephen Burks joins the show to share with us the findings of some of his studies, what undergirds many issues in the industry, and stories from his life on the road back in the 1970s.



You can find Professor Burks online -



https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/expert/stephen-burks



https://www.iza.org/person/1883/stephen-v-burks



His research project on driver turnover -



https://morris.umn.edu/academics/truckers-turnover-research-project



And a list of many of Professor Burks great research papers -



https://morris.umn.edu/academics/truckers-turnover-research-project/results



Professor Burks most recent paper we discussed on the pod -



https://docs.iza.org/dp16477.pdf



The American Compass piece I mentioned in the intro -



https://americancompass.org/crash-and-churn/





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Voice Of GO(r)D was extremely honored to have Hillary and Jamie Hagen of HellBent XPress join the show and share with us the ongoing story of their small trucking company.



From how Jamie and Hillary met, to the contributions oft unseen in the background made by the ladies in business, to fuel efficiency nerdery and the necessary relationships with everyone involved to make it all work, this was a great story telling episode and I'm sure you guys are going to enjoy it.



You can find HellBent Xpress online here - https://hellbentxpress.com/



And you can follow both Mr and Mrs HellBent on Twitter -



https://twitter.com/hillarymhagen

https://twitter.com/HellBentXpress



And you, dear listener, can find all three of us at this years Mid-America Trucking Show next week, March 21-23 in Louisville, Kentucky.



I would encourage all listeners who are going to the show, please contact me, I would love to meet you and discuss all things truckin', and have a beer, or three, or seventeen, or maybe just a coffee ... you know what I mean!



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Voice Of GO(r)D brings you a presentation about the realities of Autonomous (Driverless) Trucks in America, recently given to members of the Greater Houston Trucking Association.



Featuring past collaborators of the show James Year, Edward Escobar, and Will Cook, who brought their expertise in studying and documenting the roll out of this technology and answered questions that many drivers in the industry would be well advised to consider, given that this tech is already out on the roads, especially in Texas.



Special thanks to the GHTA who asked us to bring them this info, whom you can find here -



https://greaterhoustontrucking.com/



Edward Escobar is the founder of AiW - Alliance for Independent Workers and WCPDA - Wine Country Pro Drivers Alliance, Owner/Operator Black Level Services SUV/LIMO, and is a public speaker on automation and the future of work.

You can find Edward on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-escobar-694445168/ and on his Alliance for Independent Workers Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/581196215724042



James Year is a post graduate student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has done a great deal of work documenting worker communities affected by automation.



Jame’s website can be found here - https://www.jamesyear.com/and his masters project here - https://www.stealingfire.tech/



Will Cook is a trucker and the Chief organizer behind America Without Drivers, an advocacy group seeking to have the government and society take a closer look at what will happen when Autonomous Technology hits our roads.

You can find AWOD website here - https://americawithoutdrivers.com/ and their Facebook group here - https://www.facebook.com/Americawithoutdrivers



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