On The Road Aussie Trucking Podcast

It’s the final show of the year! All the usual fun and frivolity this week to round out the year. Andy chats with Billie-Jo Porter and we roll out her new track “Eyes wide open” Mike chats with Natalie Kascak Chair of Women in Trucking Australia. Ben Charles with his tax bit and Mike get on his soapbox doing the news. A ripping instrumental from Troy Cassatt-Daley and Eightball Aitkin to wrap it up. Let’s get this show on the road.

What a year! Hearing from people from all aspects of Aussie Trucking. We’ve had some awesome music industry guests as well to help the show along. Stars and up and coming stars have entertained us as we roll the coal. Our Christmas gift to you is this playlist from the show. Hope you like it. Merry Christmas from the “On The Road” team. Keep it safe out there. 1. Jane Denham / “Addicted to the Diesel” 2. Darlinghurst / “So Long, So Long” 3. Street Pieces / “Mouth of a Lion” 4. Gina Jeffreys & Tania Kernaghan / “My Old Friend” 5. Dane Sharp / “When The Sun Goes Down” 6. The Fargone Beauties / “Play That Funky Music” 7. Christie Lamb / “Flame Thrower” 8. James Johnston / “Small Town” 9. Billie-Jo Porter / “Eyes Wide Open” 10. Judah Kelly / “Real Good Time” 11. Blake Dantier / “Layover” 12. Caroline Taylor-Knight / “Country Girl” 13. Lee Kernaghan / “Back Road Nation” 14. Casey Barnes / “A Little More” 15. Suz Dorahy / “Tell You” 16. Jane Denham & Tony Justice / “Long Distance Love” 17. The Tesky Brothers / “Man of the Universe” 18. Jack MacDougall / “Negativity” 19. Luke Austen / Let’s Just Go With It” 20. Fanny Lumsden / “Roll On”

It’s an epic show this week as we wrap up all the loose ends before our Christmas Special. Andy has a chat with Aussie country music royalty Gina Jeffries and Tanya Kernaghan. Senator Glenn Sterle is on to discuss the enquiry he chaired into the road transport industry and what his view of the future is. Singer/songwriter and home brewer Blake Dantier joins us as well. Somehow we’ve shoehorned the top news stories and something to talk about in as well. Is a big one. Let’s get stuck in.

There’s a lot going on the week. Old mate Sludge of Outback Truckers fame joins us for a bit, Trevor Warner Vice President of the NRFA talks trucking issues with Mike there’s new Aussie music, Ben Charles the truckies accountant with more tips, news and something to talk about. Time to launch it.....

65. Cam Dumsney Darlinghurst by Mike Williams

64. Dion Costigan Glenn Sterle Black Sorrows Teske Brothers by Mike Williams

Another jam packed show this week. Jacquelene Brotherton chair of Transport Women Australia joins us to talk about mentoring and other TWA things. A small fleet operator joins us to share his thoughts on the trying to run a business these days. News, views and some tunes. You can even find out a bit about Andy. Listener questions answered! Let’s get started.

Monster show this week. We’ve blown the time bud jet because we wanted to present the stories and we didn’t want to cut anything out. Ross Iles from Monash University joins us to talk about driving health and the research that’s lead to a program that should make a difference. Mick Carter joins us to talk fatigue and we’ve got an unhappy truckie who can’t cross a border. Plus a few tunes and all the latest from the news desk. Let’s get it done!

61. Mark Reynolds Vincent Ho Brian Cadd Nickleback by Mike Williams

This week Trevor Warner joins us to talk logbooks. Dr. Vincent Ho talks about Colonoscopy and the benefits of getting checked out. Mike catches up with Yogi and Sludge at Brunswick