How Culture Makes a Fleet: Brian Fielkow on Safety

How Culture Makes a Fleet: Brian Fielkow on Safety

Culture is not a poster on the breakroom wall. It is the difference between a fleet that thrives and one that barely survives and Brian Fielkow has spent a career proving exactly that. In this episode of the Liquid Trucking Podcast, we welcome author, speaker, and former CEO of JetCo Delivery in Houston, Brian Fielkow, for one of the most genuinely informative conversations this podcast has ever hosted. Brian walks us through the core principles behind his book Making Safety Happen: The Roadmap to a Safe, Productive and Profitable Business, and shares the real strategies fleet owners, safety managers, and drivers can use to build and maintain a workplace culture that keeps everyone accountable, engaged, and safe. This is a person who has forgotten more about trucking culture and safety than most people in this industry will ever know and that is not an exaggeration. If you own a fleet, manage drivers, work in safety compliance, or simply want to understand why culture matters more than any policy manual ever written, this episode delivers. New episodes every Wednesday at podcast.liquidtrucking.com. Share this one with every leader in your organization.

Trucking Up History: The Formation of the DOT

Every rule you follow on the road, every regulation that governs your hours, your load, your equipment, and your career has a history and in this episode of the Liquid Trucking Podcast we are going all the way back to where it started. This is a fully scripted deep dive into the formation of the Department of Transportation. We trace the origins of the DOT, break down the government bureaus and agencies that make up the alphabet soup every pro driver has heard but maybe never fully understood, and connect the dots between the history of American transportation policy and the roads you are driving on right now. This one is genuinely informative from start to finish with a few well-placed laughs to keep things moving because history does not have to put you to sleep. If you are a pro driver, safety manager, DOT officer, history buff, or just someone who has ever wondered why the rules are what they are out there on the road, this episode was built for you. New episodes every Wednesday at podcast.liquidtrucking.com. Share this one with anyone who thinks they already know everything about the DOT.

Making the Move to Tanking: Lessons from the Lane

If you have been driving a dry van, reefer, flatbed, or pneumatic, and tanking has been on your radar, this is the episode that answers every question you have been sitting on. In this episode of the Liquid Trucking Podcast, three drivers with experience across almost every freight lane in the industry, Joseph "Hutch" Hutchinson, Ronal Markwell, and Thomas Fish, share what prompted their move to tanking, what they found challenging and surprising when they made the switch, and what Liquid Trucking does as a company that made the transition worth every bit of the learning curve. This is not a sales pitch. It is three experienced OTR drivers giving you the honest insider perspective on what it really means to come from a different lane and find your footing in the tanker world. The details matter in this job, and these guys do not skip them. If tanking has been on your mind, this conversation is the most useful hour you will spend this week. New episodes every Wednesday at podcast.liquidtrucking.com. Share this with any driver who has been thinking about making the move.

America's Big 250: The 4th of July Special

America is turning 250 years old, and three Liquid Trucking drivers are ready to celebrate in the most gloriously unhinged way possible. In this 4th of July special of the Liquid Trucking Podcast, Matthew Stevens, Mike "Red Beard" Stanfield, and Mikal "Donut" Duncan join Marcus to compete for arbitrary points that mean absolutely nothing while answering the questions that really matter on Independence Day. What is the greatest hot dog you have ever had? What is your favorite thing that explodes? What are your best 4th of July celebration memories? We also Mad Lib Bill Pullman's legendary speech from Independence Day, and the result is exactly as chaotic as you would expect. We take a few minutes up top to talk about firework safety because that is still important, and we close with a genuine thank you to the Veterans who made every single one of these celebrations possible. Outside of that, it is pure 4th of July chaos from start to finish. Freedom never sounded this good. New episodes every Wednesday at podcast.liquidtrucking.com. Share this one and go grill something.

Clock Management: Getting Paid for Detention Time

Sitting at a shipper waiting to load is not wasted time if you know how to work your clock. At Liquid Trucking, drivers get paid hourly for that detention time. The problem is, not every driver is taking full advantage of it. In this episode of the Liquid Trucking Podcast, two veteran drivers, Matt Kleich and Polar Bear, join Marcus and Amanda to walk through the strategies and tips that maximize detention pay, manage the 34-hour reset, make the most of a 10-hour break, and turn what most drivers consider dead time into real money in their pockets. We cover sitting at shippers and receivers, waiting at washouts, downtime during repairs, and every scenario where your clock is ticking and your paycheck should be too. These are two drivers who know exactly how to work the system the right way, and they hold nothing back. Fair warning, these drivers are very comfortable on the mic, so there are a few tangents and rabbit holes along the way, and honestly, that just makes it better. New episodes every Wednesday at podcast.liquidtrucking.com. Share this one with every Liquid driver you know.