by Gord Magill - autonomoustruckers.substack.com
Voice Of GO(r)D focuses on Trucking, Truckers, and the people who study them, regulate them, and the Tech Pimps who want to make us extinct. Conversations with Truckers, writers, academics, and Neat Old Guys with life stories you need to hear. This is the Audio project of Gord Magill, writer at autonomoustruckers.substack.com
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July 22, 2026
<p>The Voice of GO(r)D podcast is very happy to bring you a discussion with one of Canada’s finest investigative journalists, an endangered species if there ever was one, Mr <a href="https://open.substack.com/users/35383216-sam-cooper?utm_source=mentions" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sam Cooper</a>. His reporting at The Bureau often highlights the dark undersides of many issues which are dragging Canada down, including the penetration of Chinese Communist Party operations into many facets of the black market in Canada, and how the results of those operations are detrimental to the lives of Canadians. One of those operations is the trafficking of narcotics in, out, and through Canada, and on today’s show, Sam and I discuss this problem, and bad actors in the trucking industry who are moving all of that gear.</p><p><br>We recorded this episode on July 1, and in the three weeks since, Sam has released a couple of excellent pieces on the subject over at The Bureau. Other media platforms in Canada are also finally catching up with the rest of us on this subject, and you can read a number of articles listed over at the home of this podcast on Substack.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/on-punjabi-narcotrafficking-in-canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/on-punjabi-narcotrafficking-in-canada</a><br></p><p><br>Sam can be found on Twitter - <a href="https://x.com/scoopercooper" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/scoopercooper</a><br></p><p><br><a href="https://www.thebureau.news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.thebureau.news/</a><br></p><p><br><br></p><p><br></p><p><br>As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - <strong>gordilocks@protonmail.com</strong><br><br></p>
July 13, 2026
<p>The Voice Of GO(r)D is happy to bring you a new roundtable discussion on the ongoing project of replacing America’s truckers with robots, a subject my podcast has investigated frequently since it’s inception. This episode touches on many areas, including the narrative spin on safety failures of numerous types and models of this technology, the naivety (or complicity) of politicians in various proposed legislation which would remove public oversight of their deployment on our roads, opportunities within the interregnum between now and when the flip gets switched on human truckers, and the seeming thin skin of at least one major motor carrier who are not pleased about drivers criticizing them in public.</p><p><br>My guests brought a great deal to bear for this information thick presentation.</p><p><br>Returning guilty parties include James Year, who has now been on this podcast at least half a dozen times, is behind the ongoing research project <a href="https://www.stealingfire.tech/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Stealing Fire</a><strong> </strong>which he started while at Syracuse University, and was the host of this super viral mini-documentary from More Perfect Union last year - </p><p><strong>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQrQrOPmszE</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Paulette Nobles is a trucker and former employee of Hirschbach Transportation, and former because she refused to be treated as a guinea pig in training the autonomous systems built to replace her.<br>You would have heard Paulette on a previous episode of the show, along with our other returning guest, Mitchell Riesgraf.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>https://open.spotify.com/episode/28Z0w2YHahINyB7Il4yGRL?si=365d3a34d6124442</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Mitchell has been very busy investigating as much as he can about the companies, politicians, and ideologies behind the push for these systems to be imposed on our highways, and is a co-founder of a new group dedicated to standing up for the American trucker, The American Transportation Co-Op, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2767450423638515" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">who you can find on Facebook.</a></p><p><br></p><p>And new to the show is Mr Josiah Henry, aka Wild Beard, a YouTuber who has become a thorn in the side of the autonomous truck industry through his very incisive videos exposing the misinformation and misdirection of some of the actors involved, and also pointing out the losses and failures accruing to the folks at Hirschbach as they transition to this technology … poorly.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcUnky77K6c</strong></p><p><br></p><p><u><strong>https://www.truckinginfo.com/news/hirschbach-announces-plan-to-deploy-500-aurora-autonomous-trucks</strong></u></p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://neuroscientist%20finds%20driving%20a%20manual%20lights%20up%20a%20brain%20region%20automatics%20let%20sleep%20a%20fascinating%20study%20from%20japan%20suggests%20working%20a%20manual%20gearbox%20gives%20the%20aging%20brain%20a%20daily%20workout%20automatics%20simply%20can't/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">A fascinating study from Japan suggests working a manual gearbox gives the aging brain a daily workout automatics simply can’t</a>.<br><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/</a></p><p><br><strong>State of California Autonomous Vehicle Crash Dashboard</strong></p><p><br><a href="https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/80957b812f8245538a883970ee31d103/page/AV-Crash-Dashboard" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/80957b812f8245538a883970ee31d103/page/AV-Crash-Dashboard</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/waymo-recalls-nearly-4000-robotaxis-to-stop-them-driving-into-highway-construction-zones/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/waymo-recalls-nearly-4000-robotaxis-to-stop-them-driving-into-highway-construction-zones/</a></p><p><br><strong>Vice President JD Vance mentions Autonomous Trucks in interview with Ross Douthat of the New York Times podcast ‘Interesting Times’</strong><br></p><p><strong>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z63oBGtmnWI</strong></p><p><br><a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15948231/married-couple-killed-tesla-semi-truck.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15948231/married-couple-killed-tesla-semi-truck.html</a></p><p><br><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/feds-demand-autonomous-vehicle-companies-stop-interfering-with-first-responders/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/feds-demand-autonomous-vehicle-companies-stop-interfering-with-first-responders/</a></p><p><br><a href="https://aurora.tech/newsroom/inside-auroras-photonic-engine-engineering-lidar-for-automotive-scale" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://aurora.tech/newsroom/inside-auroras-photonic-engine-engineering-lidar-for-automotive-scale</a></p><p><br><a href="https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/autonomous-trucks-american-middle-class-photo-essay" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/autonomous-trucks-american-middle-class-photo-essay</a></p><p><br><a href="https://junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com/p/av-companies-admonished-on-social" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">With the recent NHTSA letter, AV companies are asked to go beyond basic technology (measured in crash rates) and demonstrate tangible social and economic responsibility.</a></p><p><br>Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are always welcome and strongly encouraged - <strong>gordilocks@protonmail.com</strong></p><p><br>If you haven’t yet, please avail yourself of a copy of my book, which features an entire chapter on autonomous truck technology -<br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
July 7, 2026
<p>Voice Of GO(r)D welcomes back to the show Mr Grant Lawson, an award winning attorney who specializes in seeking justice for individuals and families who have endured a crash involving a commercial truck.</p><p><br>In the immediate wake of the <a href="https://www.ccjdigital.com/regulations/safety-compliance/article/15825179/high-court-holds-brokers-accountable-for-hiring-unsafe-carriers" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Montgomery V Caribe SCOTUS decision</a> that came down in May, the spectre of billboard attorneys coming after load brokers and shippers was invoked for their negligence in hiring unsafe motor carriers. Well, why not speak with an attorney about this decision instead of invoking the usual clichés about lawyers and their reputations?</p><p><br>Just like his first appearance on my show, Grant delivers incisive and informative commentary from his career in defending the innocent in courts of law. We discuss many aspects of the problems which lead to this decision, possible remedies and human strategies brokers and carriers can take, the role of insurance companies, and the general decrepit state of the trucking industry today.</p><p><br>You can check out Grant’s first appearance on my show here -<br></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/33jqvS9heAzqNx727FLnQH?si=NqLEHmUuQpWazO54otx-Ow" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://open.spotify.com/episode/33jqvS9heAzqNx727FLnQH?si=NqLEHmUuQpWazO54otx-Ow</a></p><p><br></p><p>Grant is a Managing Partner of the Wyoming and Colorado offices of the Law Firm for Truck Safety, who you can find here - <a href="https://truckaccidents.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://truckaccidents.com/</a></p><p><br>Before appearing on the show, Grant provided commentary on this decision to Cowboy State Daily, Wyoming’s premier online news outlet.</p><p><br><a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/crackdown-on-sketchy-trucking-practices-continues-with-supreme-court-decision/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/crackdown-on-sketchy-trucking-practices-continues-with-supreme-court-decision/</a><br></p><p>Some broker companies looking to cut costs don’t research the companies they’re hiring or heed those companies’ dismal safety ratings, he said.</p><p>“The system has become so gamed,” Lawson added.</p><p>He said the past few years have seen an explosion in the number of trucking companies, which pairs dangerously with “an ungodly dearth of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration employees and inspection employees.”</p><p><br></p><p>You can also find Grant on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-lawson-3724092b/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://x.com/WYCowboyJustice" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Twitter.</a><br></p><p>Thanks for listening!</p><p><br></p><p>During the intro, I mentioned the most recent article I have written for my friends at <a href="https://americancompass.org/">American Compass</a>, which you can read here -</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.commonplace.org/p/the-trucking-crackdown-doesnt-go" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.commonplace.org/p/the-trucking-crackdown-doesnt-go</a></p><p><br></p><p><br>As always, questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - <strong>gordilocks@protonmail.com</strong></p><p><br>If you haven’t yet checked out my book, you should! Available in hardcover, e-reader, and audiobook formats directly from my publishers at Creed and Culture.</p><p><br><a href="https://creedandculture.com/books/end-of-the-road-inside-the-war-on-truckers/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://creedandculture.com/books/end-of-the-road-inside-the-war-on-truckers/</a><br></p><p><br></p>
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