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Trucking talk from the training seat.
Beyond The Rig keeps trucking talk close to the yard, the cab, and the training seat. Conversations move from CDL rules and language proficiency to Kenworth features, home time, shop work, and the patience it takes to teach new drivers.
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Beyond The Rig is a trucking show built around people who know the road, the training process, and the company systems behind both. It is plainspoken and work-minded. Recent episodes put driver development, safety, recruiting, CDL academies, equipment, and operations in the same conversation instead of treating them as separate worlds. One episode follows Ashley Bays, Brett Sant, David Tillman, and Sophie Terry through entry-level driver training, non-domiciled CDL drivers, English language proficiency, and why regulators are looking harder at the basics. Another sits with over-the-road trainers and lets the details breathe: students in the truck, home time, VA appointments, family obligations, and what support looks like when freight still has to move. The show has a strong training backbone. Trainers such as Remy, Lefty, Rosalinda, and Alex Trujillo talk about patience, confidence, older equipment, newer automatic transmissions, and the responsibility of preparing someone who is nervous behind the wheel. It is not only about instruction, though. Career episodes follow people moving through the industry, including Brian Davis shifting from driver and owner-operator experience into shop foreman work, and Ivan Arona talking about different roles across transportation. Equipment and industry-change episodes bring in voices such as Dave Williams and Don Blake for Kenworth features, government relations, sales experience, and the current state of trucking. The mood stays casual even when the subject is serious. A conversation may move from CDL compliance to road signs, then to old-school manual transmissions, then to a joke about HR work or an 80s movie reference. That looseness gives the show its texture. It sounds like people talking inside the industry, not explaining trucking from the outside. The most useful episodes make policy, training, and technology feel concrete: what a student needs to learn, what a trainer needs to notice, what a driver needs to understand, and how the industry keeps changing under the hood. It is especially strong when veterans compare how the job used to work with what new drivers face now. For PlayNext users, Beyond The Rig fits the listener who wants practical trucking insight with real road stories, not a glossy overview.
Made for: For drivers, trainers, CDL students, trucking staff, and industry-curious listeners who want practical conversations about the work behind the wheel. It especially suits people interested in safety, training, equipment, career paths, and day-to-day fleet life.
What sets it apart: Beyond The Rig stands out by connecting regulation and operations to lived trucking consequences. It treats driver training as the center of the story, then lets road stories and shop-floor specifics fill in the rest.
On the Beyond The Rig podcast we're talking all things trucking. We'll cover tons of topics with our amazing weekly guests, including transportation industry news, tales from the road from experienced drivers, real stories of the ups and downs of over the road trucking, and so much more! Together we're creating a community within the industry that celebrates all things trucking. Check out our social media accounts: Subscribe on YouTube - https://bit.ly/3jDA7ok Like on Facebook - https://bit.ly/3p5Bc9d Follow on Instagram - https://bit.ly/2Z6cdYR Enjoy the podcast, and keep...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Beyond The Rig connects trucking operations and career development to the firsthand experience of drivers, trainers, recruiters, and safety leaders.
Beyond The Rig treats trucking as a workplace shaped by judgment, training, technology, and the practical tension between road time and home life.
A veteran trainer says patience helps nervous rookies notice road signs; you may hear a lesson for any new hire.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A company-centered trucking discussion that follows training, screening, and the changing learning curve for new drivers.
Beyond The Rig centers on entry-level driver training and the scrutiny around non-domiciled CDL drivers, with Ashley Bays, Brett Sant, David Tillman, and Sophie Terry tying policy talk to Knight Transportation's qualification process.
Trainers talk home time, appointments, and what it takes to prepare a driver for the road.
Beyond the Rig uses a trainer-focused conversation to show how Knight Transportation talks about driver development when the work gets personal.
A direct look at why patience and quality training still matter in trucking.
Beyond The Rig keeps its focus on Alex Trujillo and Mike Liu as it weighs the practical side of trucking training: patience, driver confidence, and the case for quality over quantity.
A loose goodbye built on Tennessee yard work, accent jokes, and familiar plainspoken chatter.
This episode lands as a quick sendoff for Will Phipps, leaning into the room's jokes about his return from Tennessee, the changed accent, and the way a move can make even yard work feel endless.
A trucking conversation about brokerage, training, and the work that links office and road.
Brett Stabler guides a practical discussion of trucking brokerage and driver training, moving from work in the Southwest to hay, recycled materials, waste management, and a digital platform built to handle freight booking, invoices, and accounts payable.
Crunchy campaigns, sharp jokes, stranger systems.
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Owner operators Matt and Sean tell Beyond The Rig that the truck 'gets paid before we get paid,' so a new owner's finances at home must be in order before the switch.
Entry-level driver training gets a closer look.
Beyond the Rig opens with a reset.
This episode features an interview with Rosalinda Tejada, a trucking industry veteran since 1991, discussing her journey into trucking, her roles as a former owner-operator and trainer, and her experiences as a mother on the road.
Alex Trujillo and Mike Liu sit down for a plainspoken talk about driver training.
This episode features an interview with Dave Williams and Don Blake discussing the current state and future of the trucking industry, including Kenworth truck innovations and personal career insights.
This episode features an interview with Brian Davis, a former truck driver and owner operator turned shop foreman, discussing career advancement and transitioning from driving to shop work in the trucking industry.
Linda Domney opens with a joke about who's back.
Brett Stabler opens with Ivan Arona and Julio D'Onozo and sets up a conversation about transportation from a few different angles.
This episode features an interview with Chris Slindee, a 21-year Army veteran transitioning to truck driving and nominated for an award, discussing his career change and experiences.
This episode features hosts Linda Dominey and substitute Corey Webster discussing trucking experiences and sharing a humorous story about co-host Will Phipps' vacation.
The hosts share humorous personal anecdotes about a blizzard treat mishap and an ice spill at work, in a casual trucking-focused podcast.
Hosts Linda Dominy and Will Phipps joke about shoveling sunshine in Arizona and introduce guest Marcia Luchenbill, who received the Fleet of Heroes truck.