

On The Road Aussie Trucking Podcast
Mike Williams
Long distance truck driver. Former Truckin' Life Magazine editor
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Oct 29, 2025 • 57min
265. In The Weeds with Rob Grieves.
 265. In The Weeds with Rob Grieves. The discussion this week is all about FSD (Full Self Driving (Supervised)). That is Tesla FSD. What it is, How it works and what it means for driving down the track. Rob Grieves owns and drives a Tesla with FSD. I always love to talk with people with first hand experience. We also discuss what can only be described as a 'hit piece' by 60 minutes on FSD. 

Oct 25, 2025 • 1h 27min
264. Australian Trucking News and Opinion With Mike Williams and Trev Warner
 264. Australian Trucking News and Opinion With Mike Williams and Trev Warner. this week Trev and I get stuck right into one news piece. Truckies flouting the law and running hot! Well slap my arse and call me Sally! Who knew we had operators who will have a crack and bend the rules!
Also, The memorial service was held today at Tarcutta there was a great long list of names added to the wall this year. This industry does have a butchers bill. One of the names added to the wall was my mate Barry "Sleepy" Grimson. Barry is on the remembrance wall, he didn't actually lose his life on the road. He did spend his life on the road and contributed to the industry not least of which was his role at Razorback. Barrys story is on the Copy Southbound Podcast feed an of course the razorback story is available for free on this feed. 

Oct 22, 2025 • 54min
263. In the weeds with Mike and Trev Warner
 263. In the weeds with Mike and Trev Warner.This week (as boring as it is) Trev and i get stuck into the HVNL review bill. come on the journey into the weeds with us if you brave enough! link below to the bill if you need a hand to get to sleep
https://kor01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.qld.gov.au%2FWork-of-the-Assembly%2FTabled-Papers%2Fdocs%2F5825t1608%2F5825t1608.pdf&data=05%7C02%7C%7C97c74c8371414e1523a908de0e40e020%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638963869006217661%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3okfbiWQktSzxlfhOVy2uzC6WDdLjb1dmu1u85X1dhc%3D&reserved=0 

Oct 18, 2025 • 1h 43min
262. Australian Trucking News and Opinion With Mike Williams and Guests.
 262. Australian Trucking News and Opinion With Mike Williams and Guests. I have a bit of a say on whether the Australian trucking representative bodies really care about drivers or if they just pay lip service to the idea. Some of you will know I do a spot on 2SM in Sydney each week, this week Chris and I talked about the proposal to reduce speed limits on rural roads amongst other things so I've included that for you. Jason Scott is in for the news and something to talk about and finally Andrea Hamilton Vaughan joins in with some powernap stuff and a forum she's put together for November 12th go to orange.nsw.gov.au/safetyforum to have a look at that. You can attend in person at the Orange Civic Center or via teams on you computer. Finally this is the link to the SE freeway hill decent video i was talking about with Jason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-cS9_0CRA 

Oct 15, 2025 • 1h 8min
261. Australian Trucking. In the Weeds with Rod Hannifey
 261. Australian Trucking. In the Weeds with Rod Hannifey. It's Wednesday evening and you get to listen to a conversation with a guest. No subject off limits. This week Mike has trucking identity, road safety advocate, former National Road Freighters Association President, professional driver and good friend on for his take on a few things. Hope you get something from it. 

Oct 11, 2025 • 1h 52min
260. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests.
 260. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests. Just ask us what we really think and we'll tell you. But, be warned, you might not like the answer! 

Oct 8, 2025 • 55min
259. Wednesday Extra with Mike Williams and Trev Warner
 259. Wednesday Extra with Mike Williams and Trev Warner. Lets talk about some serious stuff and get into the weeds on things we all think but no-one will say. 

Oct 4, 2025 • 1h 31min
258. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests
 258. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests.This week on the show Dougie chimes in on the News, Caleb has Something To Talk About and Marcus Cosgrove and I have a chat about the review of the NHVL and what we're not getting after years of talkfests. Marcus attended the QLD Parliament to make a presentation on behalf of the College of Road Safety. we also get into the weeds on a bit of other stuff as well. shortcuts to the stuff we were on about appear below.
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-Committees/Committees/Committee-Details?cid=272&id=4548
https://www.nhvr.gov.au/files/media/document/515/202412-1546-heavy-vehicle-productivity-plan-2025-2030.pdf 

Sep 28, 2025 • 1h 50min
257. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests
 257. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests. This week we introduce Jason Scott to the team with the news, we have a double barrel something to talk about and Trev joins in to learn my latest news. It seem we're all just cogs in the machine, myself included. 

Sep 20, 2025 • 2h 5min
256. Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests
 Australian Trucking News and Opinion with Mike Williams and Guests. Caleb with Something To Talk About, Dougie joins me for the news. Trev and i get into the weeds on all sorts of stuff and a comment fro Gord McGill in the US about trucking recruitment and driver facing cameras. It's a bit spicy!! 


