Owner-operator Dustin Ross has been weathering the storm that is this freight recession fairly well, but he knows plenty of people who haven’t. The OOIDA senior member discusses his inclusion in an NPR piece dedicated to the prolonged slowdown and what he’s doing to keep things moving, along with the origins of his father-son trucking company, his 2000 Sterling named Stella and more.

Pennsylvania is going big on parking. The state just announced plans to add more than 1,200 spaces across the commonwealth by the end of next year. The man leading the charge is PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll. He tells us what prompted the push, what the plans call for and even his own experiences with a CDL.

Tom Berg loves trucks. Always has. But it wasn’t until he started thumbing through trade magazines at a previous job when he realized he wanted to explore that love of trucks as a career. And he did. The contributing editor of Land Line Magazine walks us through those early days – and takes us down memory lane, recalling some of his favorite trucks over the past several decades.

We may be one step closer to clearing up a long-standing legal question about broker liability. That question being, can freight brokers be held responsible for crashes involving motor carriers they hire? The Supreme Court is taking up a case. Aaron Schepler, senior counsel for Husch Blackwell, walks us through the implications.

There are new indications that the Canadian government is ready to get serious about Driver Inc., the employee misclassification scheme deemed by some to be the biggest threat facing the Canadian trucking industry. OOIDA board member Johanne Couture is among those fighting for change. She joins us from the road (on Thanksgiving in Canada, no less) to help us make sense of the problems being caused by Driver Inc. – and what it’ll take to end the scheme altogether.

Cargo theft is a problem. That’s no surprise. But the American Transportation Research Institute’s newest report on cargo theft puts the problem into perspective. ATRI’s vice president, Jeff Short, walks us through what they found – along with strategies to curb the ever-growing problem.

Lindsay Lawler wears a lot of hats – singer, songwriter, radio host, “queso queen” – but most of all, she wants to be known as a “connector.” And it comes through in work, whether that be through her music or her show We Should Write on Radio Nemo. Lindsay walks us through her life, how trucking entered it, and her lifelong pursuit of forming connections with people from all walks of life.

We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of Land Line Magazine by welcoming in someone who’s been involved from the start. Todd Spencer reminisces about those early days, which included selling his truck to pay for the magazine’s first typesetting machine, and also reflects on everything the magazine has become since. Plus, Spencer Squier used to be a trucker. Now he’s the founder and CEO of Road Dog Coffee Company, which dubs itself as the nation’s first dedicated to showcasing and honoring truckers. And as Squier tells us, this is merely the start of his big plans.