Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Trucking says it NEEDS truckers. So why can't drivers find a safe place to park, why does Washington keep piling on rules, and why does the industry keep screaming “driver shortage” while struggling to keep the drivers it already has?
On this episode of Brake Check, Charles Gracey asks the uncomfortable question: Does trucking actually hate truckers?
OOIDA's Collin Long joins us from the Washington front lines to break down the truck-parking fight, highway funding, English-proficiency enforcement, the “driver shortage” narrative and what Congress is actually doing that could hit an owner-operator's bottom line.
Then Conversion Interactive's Marilyn Surber gets put through the retention gauntlet:
Why do good drivers leave?
When does a recruiting problem become a BAD JOB problem?
Can carriers market their way out of 90% turnover?
And what would she actually do to cut it?
No press releases. No conference-panel answers. No fluff.
Just the policies, economics and management decisions affecting the people behind the wheel.
And then we trade Washington politics for horsepower, polished metal and some seriously badass trucks as Summer of Chrome rolls on.
Does trucking really value truckers? Let's find out.
This is Brake Check. Let's go full stop.
#Trucking #TruckDrivers #OwnerOperator #TruckParking #DriverShortage #DriverRetention #Freight #OOIDA #TruckingIndustry #BrakeCheck
Trucking says it NEEDS truckers. So why can't drivers find a safe place to park, why does Washington keep piling on rules, and why does the industry keep screaming “driver shortage” while struggling to keep the drivers it already has?
On this episode of Brake Check, Charles Gracey asks the uncomfortable question: Does trucking actually hate truckers?
OOIDA's Collin Long joins us from the Washington front lines to break down the truck-parking fight, highway funding, English-proficiency enforcement, the “driver shortage” narrative and what Congress is actually doing that could hit an owner-operator's bottom line.
Then Conversion Interactive's Marilyn Surber gets put through the retention gauntlet:
Why do good drivers leave?
When does a recruiting problem become a BAD JOB problem?
Can carriers market their way out of 90% turnover?
And what would she actually do to cut it?
No press releases. No conference-panel answers. No fluff.
Just the policies, economics and management decisions affecting the people behind the wheel.
And then we trade Washington politics for horsepower, polished metal and some seriously badass trucks as Summer of Chrome rolls on.
Does trucking really value truckers? Let's find out.
This is Brake Check. Let's go full stop.
#Trucking #TruckDrivers #OwnerOperator #TruckParking #DriverShortage #DriverRetention #Freight #OOIDA #TruckingIndustry #BrakeCheck
