The Lombard Trucking Show

Danielle Chaffin is a 3rd Generation logistics kid who's father and grandfather both drove trucks. She's someone who is an innovative thinker, and is passionate about helping others and solving problems. She joins the show to tell her story.

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I have partnered with Wreaths Across America and will be training and running in Ironman events including a 70.3 in Waco in October, and the full Ironman Texas next April. Along the way I will be raising money for Wreaths Across America, and raising awareness for the driver health epidemic.

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Traveled to Kansas City last week to present at the Broker Carrier Summit specifically on my weight loss testimony, and why driver health is paramount. I highlight the event from my point of view, and why this has become the fastest growing event within the industry.

I also go into detail about where I am going, in business and as an athlete. Lombard Fit Motor Freight will become the brand that becomes what the industry knows...

On Friday April 5th, myself, Gord, and Chris went live to give a little MATS recap, we touch on Gord's recent appearance on Tucker Carlson and go into his recent article published in the American Compass. If it's one thing truckers can do, it's talk, and we just sent it for a couple hours on a Friday night reiterating our narrative on what the problems are in the industry, how to fix them, and beyond. Thank you to all t...

Trey Griggs is born and raised in Kansas City, from a little bit of a hard scrabbled background, sports became his escape growing up. Becoming a sort of Jack of All trades, from being a Youth Pastor, Basketball Coach, and Teacher, Trey eventually wound up in door to door sales. Mastering the skill of sales led him to the renowned load board app we know as DAT, and so his journey into logistics has begun.

Listen to Trey's s...

Michael Rodriguez is born and raised in San Antonio. After high school he went to college, but then took a detour into the Marines. Serving on multiple deployments, he eventually crossdecked into the Army, and later the Texas National Guard. We talk about military equipment movement across Europe, and the Texas response to the Covid19 pandemic where he served on the ground when it came to testing and vaccination sites.

Eventually h...

Kary Jablonski is the current CEO of TruckerTools, the first load board to develop an app for smart phones in 2009. Hungry for entrepreneurship, her introduction into transportation and logistics began with Uber, and her drive and passion for solving problems brought her to the helm of TruckerTools.

Listen to her story, how TruckerTools uses their technology to leverage themselves to stay ahead of their competition, why doubli...

Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder Patrick Visintainer, along with a piece of his Operations Team, Tucker Been join the show to talk about REPOWR. A FreightTech company founded in 2019 that can only be described as the AirBnB of the freight industries underutilized assets. From the largest fleets in the nation, to single truck Motor Carrier, Repowr is solving problems, and creating opportunities for everyone.

Right from their b...

James Year rejoins the show along with Will Cook, the Founder of America Without Drivers, and Scott Douglas, the President of America Without Drivers.

We go back into the details about the dangers of Autonomous, and why this conversation needs to continue to happen. The technology that's coming should not really be stopped, but there has to be a better way to implement it then how it currently is.

Currently Indiana has legislat...

Happy New Year everyone! Wanted to kick off the year to drive home a message regarding health and wellness. The idea of "new year new me" has been meme'd so hard, that people don't even want to try it anymore. No excuses, let's get moving. I'm going to go into detail about the 1stPhorm Transformation Challenge as well as OrangeTheory's challenge. Both are 8 weeks, and in 8 weeks you can accomplish a lo...

Interstate Avocado is a driver who came on the show back in August to tell his trucking story. A soft market was getting his miles cut at one company, so he took a risk with going to drive for a carrier based in Florida owned by a Russian man named Igor. The promise of essentially unlimited miles, and a little fooling around with their ELD's was alluring, but eventually it almost broke him. He rejoins the show to tell all on th...

On today's episode I went live from the bedroom I grew up in to touch on Vivek Ramaswamy's summit that happened at Iowa 80 on 12/21. A Historic event that is driving many of the conversations we have on this show to the forefront of national politics. Listen until the end for a positive Christmas message on how to control what we can control, and spread light and love heading into 2024

Merry Christmas to all!

Anthony Hudson is an owner/operator of a small trucking company outside Detroit. Like many in trucking, especially within these last few years, he's become discouraged by the current state of American politics. Instead of sitting and complaining, Anthony Hudson decided to take action. In the summer of 2022, he launched his campaign to run as a non-partisan candidate for President of the United States. He joins the show to tell ...

Jake Hoffman is the Chief Technology Officer of Gnosis Freight based in Charleston, SC. Gnosis is an industry leader in providing what they call Container Lifecycle Management. Jake joins the show to tell his story as well as Gnosis. Unlike America's highways, Earth's oceans are a lawless frontier, and a deep dive into the absolute magic of how we get products across such vast areas is something I think everyone takes for g...

Meghann Erhart is currently the Executive VP of Relay Payments, a FreightTech company that has streamlined how Motor Carriers conduct fuel transactions, and in the process, eliminate the rampant fraud which has costed the industry millions of dollars.

With nearly 20 years in the transportation industry, Meghann has worn several hats, from fleet management of fuel trucks, to going out to the oil field, her passion in the indus...

Drew Ellefsen is the CEO of Benefits Management Team, a Health Insurance agency that aims to provide affordable healthcare to those who need it the most. When it comes to truckers, 25% of truckers, especially those small/independent owner/operators, go without health insurance. However even on the company driver side, employer sponsored healthcare can be steep for someone being paid by the mile, and those deductions can add up, esp...

Getting to 100 episodes was definitely a milestone I knew I would reach, but whatever happened in between I had no clue what it would be or what it would look like. I bring on some dear friends of mine I've made simply because I started making/posting freight related content. We go into what this show is starting to mean, we recap our time at the F3 Future of Supply Chain Conference, how we can really make an impact on changing...

Dani and I crossed paths on tiktok, she makes a lot of videos about her day to day life, especially as she has become a gosh darn professional flatbedder. A fascinating story, motivated by her uncle to start driving she jumped behind the wheel in 2020. Her story resonates with all this show stands for in regards to activism. Her first company started out rough with a few trainers but got better. She goes into her time with JB Hunt ...

Santiago Talamantez is a Marine veteran, Former Texas DPS officer working with CMV enforcement, adjunct professor at Midland College, and owner of Safety Compliance Training Company. He joins the show to tell his story. From the invasion of Iraq, to joining law enforcement, and then getting knuckles deep intro transportation. An industry true to the trend, you can never leave it once you join, when he decided to leave being in law ...