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Inside the big world of little trucks

On today’s episode Dooner and The Dude are shrinking the world of big rigs down to size when they’re joined by First Gear Inc’s Adam Knight. First Gear has been recognized as an innovative, world-class, top quality leader in the diecast replica custom imprinting and custom tooling business since its founding in 1992. Today they’re showing off some of their most sought after models.

Tim Guin, Executive Vice President / Chief Commercial Officer at USA Truck talks about their mission of charitable giving to driver and veteran related charities. We’ll also learn about their upcoming America’s Trucker golf tournament. In 2021, America’s Trucker was founded to create and offer clothing and accessories that  will help improve the perception of professional truck  drivers and the trucking industry, while also giving back to deserving charitable organizations.

We’ll even get to hear a clip from Joe Stamm Band’s song Pocketful of Quarters which was done in collaboration with USA Truck and the artist. 

James Spencer, trucker and musician at Cracker Box Jimmy #playsitforward with a new track off his latest album. 


Plus, #FOSC22 recap; Ryder buyout; Optimus Prime transforms into LEGO; and idiots in cars.

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Timothy Dooner

Dooner is an award-winning podcaster who hosts and produces FreightWaves' WHAT THE TRUCK?!? In under a year he helped build FreightCasts, the world’s largest logistics and supply chain podcast network in media. WTT is ranked in Apple Podcasts top-20 Business News podcasts. He also writes a newsletter of the same title with over 15k subscribers in the supply chain and trucking niche. Dooner has been in freight since 2005 and has held directors positions in operations, sales, consulting, and marketing. He has worked with FedEx, Reebok, Adidas, L.L. Bean, Hasbro, Louis Vuitton, and many more high level clients across the full spectrum of the supply chain. He was a featured speaker at TEDx Chattanooga.