Loaded And Rolling

FreightWaves

Loaded and Rolling focuses on news, insights, analysis, and commentary on topics impacting enterprise trucking companies and their role in the supply chain.

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Loaded And Rolling

Episodes (169)

Tue Feb 3rd End of the Road: How the Trucking Industry Lost Its Soul
Jan 27th How AI Is Transforming Fleet Maintenance: Cutting Road Calls from 13 to 2
Jan 20th AI Is Eating the Back Office: Trimble’s Spicy Takes on the Future of Logistics

Loaded And Rolling

Feb 3, 2026
53½ minutes
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Trucking isn’t just a job—it’s a craft, a culture, and a way of life. In this episode of Loaded and Rolling, host Thomas Watson sits down with journalist and lifelong trucker Gord McGill to unpack how deregulation, automation, government policy, and the “driver shortage” narrative have transformed trucking over the past few decades—and not for the better. Drawing from McGill’s upcoming book End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers, the conversation explores declining wages, rising safety risks, forced churn, and the erosion of driver skill and pride. It’s a candid, sometimes uncomfortable lo...

Loaded And Rolling

End of the Road: How the Trucking Industry Lost Its Soul

FreightWaves

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