NTDC Press Room From PodWheels

Ready For Your TDC? Positive Mindset Remains A Key For Trucking’s Captain Kirk

How do you earn a State TDC Championship in multiple vehicle classes and qualify for the Nationals over seven straight NTDCs dating back to 2017? For Old Dominion Freight Line’s Glen “Captain” Kirk, the first step toward winning consecutive state championships and...

Jason Damron Embraces Opportunities To Learn and Serve With NTDC

In this episode, we get to spend some time with Jason Damron, who finished second in 5-Axle at the 2025 Kansas State TDC after qualifying for the 2024's Nationals in Indianapolis. As you’ll hear, Jason was just two points away from Eric Moss’ total earned as the...

How Do Event Organizers Prepare For A State TDC?

One of the more frequent requests from our listeners in the past few weeks has centered around taking you behind the scenes of the State TDCs. As part of honoring our listener feedback, we caught up with Emily Crane, the Vice President of Safety and Engagement for the...

Roland Rolls Back The Clock To Spotlight NTDC Award Winner Jim Wilcox

Our podcast series opens up our vault to share a previously unreleased Rollin’ With Roland interview that two-time NTDC Grand Champion Roland Bolduc did in 2025 with Jim Wilcox. A regular as a competitor at NTDC with multiple State Championships to his credit, Jim...

Maine’s David Crocker Hits The Note On and Off The Driving Course

David Crocker, the 2025 Tanker Champ from the state of Maine, already knew the importance of striving for excellence even before he began his professional driving career or first attempted to compete at a State TDC. Prior to entering the trucking industry, David had...

NTDC Legend Rick Cates Announces Retirement Plans Following NTDC 2026

With 55 years of contributions and dedication to NTDC, Rick Cates has become a fountain of knowledge, a go-to person and a true institution with the National Truck Driving and National Step Van Driving Championships. Rick is so well respected within the NTDC Community...

Reed and Comings: An Appreciation for Winning It All And Starting The Climb Again

With the State TDC Season officially underway, our podcast wanted to share a recent conversation we had with the previous NTDC Grand Champions from the past two years. PodWheels Executive Producer Greg Thompson had the unique opportunity to visit in person with 2024...

ATA Image Trailer and Road Team Captains Perfect Fit At Safety Drive

As we continue to share our collection of interviews from Safety Drive For A Cure, we wanted to highlight one noticeable arrival that was new to Safety Drive this year. That was none other than the red, white and blue covering the ATA’s Image Trailer, complete with...

UPS Building Team Spirit With Strong Safety Drive Results

How did UPS send 40 State Champions to Minneapolis to compete at NTDC 2025? One of the building blocks in last year’s run can be traced back to the annual Safety Drive For A Cure charity event. And while the 2026 State TDC season is just beginning, Team UPS capped off...

Mark McLean and Tim Blair Give Back While Sharpening Skills At Safety Drive

Seeing both Tim Blair from Tennessee and Mark McLean from New York at Safety Drive 2026 is perfect confirmation that TDC Champions and National Title holders make the trip to Atlanta from near and far to sharpen their competitive driving skills at Safety Drive. In...

The Journey To The Super Bowl of Trucking Safety Has Begun

Apr 7, 2026

At The Top A PodWheels Column In the ’80s, more like during the middle of that decade, popular movies followed a pretty cute storytelling formula:...

Are You Ready? 2026 State TDC Schedule Is Rolling

Apr 6, 2026

The countdown toward the Road To Pittsburgh and NTDC 2026 is underway as the schedule for the State Truck Driving Championships is in motion for the...

NTDC’s ‘Senator’ is Retiring: Five Decades-plus Tenure Coming to an End

Mar 31, 2026

At The Top A PodWheels Column In recent years, every aspect of the National Truck Driving Championships, as in everything about it, has been either...

Nevada’s Sharp Superstar: First-Time NTDC Volunteer Celebrates Event

Mar 3, 2026

At The Top A PodWheels Column MINNEAPOLIS — On the morning of last year’s finals day at NTDC, I ran into volunteer David Sharp. A day earlier, Sharp...