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While it's hard to believe we've already put three quarters of 2021 in the books, the key question for owner-operators and independent contractors at this point in time becomes the following: Is your trucking business operation prepared for the end of the year? The bigger question may be this: Do you have a checklist for the top considerations for trucking businesses in 2021? In the early days of October, Equinox Owner-Operator Solutions President & CEO Colton Lawrence took some time to talk about his 2021 business checklist for owner-operators. As you'll hear, it covers five key points that every owner-operator and independent contractor should consider in the final months of 2021.

In this highlight package from our work since the PodWheels Network began our operation in 2016, we revisit some of interviews with company drivers, owner-operators and independent contractors. You'll also hear interview highlights from fleet executives on the essential work that professional drivers do each day in keeping our economy on the move.

Have you missed filing your taxes with the IRS? Do you owe back taxes? In this edition of the Equinox Owner-Operator Solutions Podcast, we are beginning a series of episodes that will discuss the very important considerations that go into Tax Resolution. Colton Lawrence, the President & CEO of Equinox Owner-Operator Solutions, will be talking with Robert Hazen about Tax Resolution. Robert is a member of the Equinox Team who specializes in the area of Tax Resolution.

As we continue our special series previewing the artists who will be performing during SCF's Highway To Hope Virtual Concert on May 16th, our podcast catches up with Lindsay Lawler, the Red River Girl. During our interview with Lindsay, you will learn how she found her way to Nashville after starting her career in California. SCF Highway To Hope Podcast host Shannon Currier talks with Lindsay on how she built a strong bond with the trucking industry and what inspired to write Highway Angel for the Truckload Carriers Association. You'll hear the Highway Angel song as well as the upbeat tune Goodbye Go in full during this podcast.

Billy Dean is our featured guest in this episode of our special series highlighting the artists performing at the May 16th Highway To Hope virtual concert benefitting the work of SCF. During our interview, you'll hear Billy share his amazing journey from what began as an area talent search competition to earning a place in the national spotlight, ultimately launching a career that now spans more than 30 memorable years in Country Music. SCF Highway To Hope Podcast host Shannon Currier talks to Billy about his contributions to what became the 1990s Country Sound, and how Billy is now working with the next generation of songwriters moving Country Music forward. During this podcast, you will hear how Billy became closely connected to the trucking industry and how he gained an appreciation for the hard work drivers do everyday. This podcast will also feature four songs from Billy, including his classics Somewhere In My Broken Heart and Billy The Kid.

John Schneider joins us for an extended conversation during this episode of the podcast. As we get ready for John's performance as part of the May 16th Highway To Hope virtual concert benefiting the work of SCF, we talked with John about his career in the entertainment industry that now spans more than 40 years. John revisits his beginnings when won the iconic role of Bo Duke in the Dukes of Hazzard TV show at age 18. We discuss his development as a writer and director in both television and film and how those efforts led to the development of John Schneider Studios. You'll hear about John's love for music and his growth in becoming a respected country artist who has recorded 22 albums and has registered five No. 1 hits on the country music charts. One of the highlights of the interview is the connection John has made with the trucking industry and the people behind the wheel. We'll be talking about his latest album, Truck On, which is dedicated to the trucking industry and a portion of its sales benefits the work of SCF. During the podcast, which is hosted by SCF's Director of Philanthropy and Development Shannon Currier, we'll be featuring three songs from Truck On, including the title track.

Country Music legend Wynonna Judd, who is the headliner for the Highway To Hope Benefit Concert, caps off our special series of podcasts featuring the artists performing during the live virtual event on May 16th. The SCF Podcast interview, which was led by podcast host and SCF Director of Philanthropy and Development Shannon Currier, was one of the first media Q&As with Wynonna since the global pandemic. As you will hear, it was an extended conversation that covered a number of interesting topics. While discussing her respect for professional drivers through the interview, Wynonna offered her perspective on being out on the road and away from home, which shares many of the same emotions experienced by truckers behind the wheel. For the interview with Wynonna, Shannon was joined on the podcast by Donna Horton, a member of the Radio Nemo Team. Donna is a long-time friend of Wynonna, and she helped to connect SCF and Shannon to Wynonna's team as SCF began to plan for the Highway to Hope Benefit. In addition to the conversation with Wynonna, this podcast also includes two songs recorded by Wynonna, No One Else On Earth and Ramble On Rose.

Rising County Music Star Heath Sanders is our featured guest on the podcast as we begin a series highlighting SCF’s Highway To Hope Virtual Concert on May 16th. An artist who has drawn heavily from his blue-collar roots as a natural gas worker in the fields in Arkansas, Heath talks to us about how he found his way to realize success in country music. Heath also discusses the close connection he feels to America’s Professional Truck Drivers. 

We are dedicating this edition of the podcast to provide you with a trucking perspective on what’s happening with COVID-19 and the effort to get the country vaccinated. In our feature interview, you’ll hear from SCF Executive Director Donna Kennedy as well as Dr. John McElligott, the Medical Director and the owner of Occupational Health Systems, which is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. Dr. John is the co-founder of SCF, and he currently serves as a Volunteer Medical Advisor for SCF. Donna and Dr. John will be talking with the Highway to Hope about SCF’s efforts to get professional drivers vaccinated. Shannon Currier, the Director of Philanthropy and Development for SCF, serves as the host for the Highway To Hope.

As January turns to February and March is not too far behind, we’re entering the part of calendar that has become known as Tax Season. It’s the time of year when everyone should begin to think about filing their tax returns. In this episode of the podcast, we would like to take some time to help owner-operators, Independent Contractors and trucking business owners get ready for this tax season. As you’ll hear, Equinox Owner-Operator Solutions President and CEO Colton Lawrence joins us to explore a number of key points that should be considered during the early part of the year, including the special considerations that are unique to the 2020 tax year.

The Highway to Hope returns for Season 2 and we look back at SCF’s fund-raising success in 2020 as the organization surpassed $1 million in donations. We also discuss SCF’s new Driving Down Diabetes program with Wellness Manager Julie Dillon and Kathryn Amatriain from Southern Recipe.

Recorded on December 22, Equinox Business Solutions President & CEO Colton Lawrence shares his first impressions of what’s contained in the latest COVID-19 Relief Bill that was passed by Congress and how it could help truckers and trucking businesses.

Equinox Business Solutions President & CEO Colton Lawrence walks us through the types of business entities most often used by owner-operators and fleet owners in setting up their operations. He also discusses many of the key considerations in play.

During this episode of the podcast, Equinox Business Solutions President and CEO Colton Lawrence will be examining the numerous considerations that should be reviewed by anyone thinking about becoming an owner-operator within today’s trucking industry.

In this edition of the podcast, we will feature the touching story of owner-operator Howard Salmon. Even as Howard and his family face the realities of a cancer diagnosis for their young son, Liam, they are finding ways to give back to SCF.

This edition of the podcast will feature our interview with Patty DelMonico, the Senior Manager of Commercial Marketing for TravelCenters of America, discussing a new fundraising campaign TravelCenters has launched to further support the mission of SCF.

In this podcast, Equinox President & CEO Colton Lawrence makes a non-partisan trip into the political arena by examining how this November’s elections could potentially impact owner-operators, independent contractors and the trucking industry at large.

American Trucking Associations President & CEO Chris Spear joins PodWheels Network Executive Producer Greg Thompson to share some reflections on the vital contributions professional drivers have made to the nation during the unforgettable year of 2020.

In our August edition of the podcast, you’ll hear our feature interview with Jerry Seaman, who was honored by Travel Centers of America as a Citizen Driver of the Year for 2020. We’ll also get an update from SCF Health & Wellness Manager Julie Dillon.

In our second Health & Wellness episode, we learn more details and get an even greater perspective on SCF’s Driven To Be Healthy, Going The Distance Challenge. Professional drivers Carmen Anderson and Craig Daniels are among our guest on the podcast.

Health & Wellness is the focus in the first of two July podcasts detailing SCF’s Going The Distance Challenge. SCF Wellness Manager Julie Dillon highlights this new program. Hope Zvara from Mother Trucker Yoga & Road Pro’s Kim McDonald also join us.

In this edition, you’ll hear our feature interview with professional drivers Chris and Chanté Drew, a husband-and-wife team who enlisted the help of SCF after Chris came down with COVID-19 while on the road. We’ll also talk to two new SCF sponsors.

OWI CEO & President Charles Culverhouse joins SCF Highway To Hope host Shannon Currier to discuss the company’s #KeeponTruckin social media campaign. #KeeponTruckin is focused on celebrating professional drivers as front-line heroes for our country.

SCF President Joyce Brenny will be our featured guest on this edition of the podcast. Joyce is the owner and CEO of Brenny Transportation. Starting her trucking career at 18, Joyce looks back at her time in the industry and how she got involved with SCF.

Recorded April 3, Equinox Business Solutions Colton Lawrence discusses the loans and grants that are available through the Small Business Administration as part of the CARES Act, the $2.2-trillion-dollar COVID-19 relief package signed into law in March.

Produced and released on April 3, Equinox Business Solutions CEO Colton Lawrence provides insights on the COVID-19 CARES Act that was signed into law to provide forms of relief for individuals and businesses impacted by the COVID-19 National Emergency.

Released on May 26, Equinox Business Solutions CEO Colton Lawrence discusses the additional government guidance that was recently issued regarding the Paycheck Protection Program, potential tax concerns and loan forgiveness.

Do you have a financial plan in place? Are you ready for those “rainy days,” and the unexpected circumstances that can cost you extra money? This episode of is dedicated to exploring good financial planning & what it can mean for professional drivers.

Equinox Business Solutions CEO Colton Lawrence addresses news related to what’s happening with tax filing deadlines and other trucking business considerations in the wake of the COVID-19 National Emergency on a special edition of the podcast.

Equinox Business Solutions CEO Colton Lawrence addresses some of the frequently asked questions that Colton and his team at Equinox receive during tax season. Among the issues that Colton addresses is self-employment tax.

Equinox Business Solutions CEO Colton Lawrence is our guest on this debut episode. We focus on examining what owner-ops and ICs should be addressing early in the year with estimated taxes and getting ready to file returns for 2019.

The PodWheels Network presents a collection of the most interesting sounds from the morning of Championship Saturday at the Super Bowl of Safety, NTDC 2019.

PodWheels Senior Producer Barry Courter went into the grandstands to speak with Regina Gibbs Lewis, wife of 2007 NTDC Grand Champion Alfonso Lewis. Regina talks about the nerves of watching her husband compete at the NTDC.

ATA Chairman Barry Pottle, who has compiled more than one million safe miles during his days behind the wheel dating back to the late 1970s, expresses his appreciation for the professional drivers competing in the 2019 edition of the NTDC.

For ATA Executive Vice President Elisabeth Barna, NTDC 2019 served as a homecoming for the Pittsburgh native. Hear Elisabeth’s observations on the special place this event holds for her as well as thoughts on happenings in the industry.

Prior to winning his second straight Grand Champions’ award, Scott Woodrome of FedEx Freight and an America’s Road Team Captain talked to the PodWheels Network about his 14th consecutive trip to the NTDC event.

Join Barry Courter and Greg Thompson as PodWheels takes you inside what we experienced in Pittsburgh covering NTDC 2019. You’ll hear highlights from the awards ceremonies, interview highlights and special features on trucking’s Super Bowl of Safety.

Shannon Currier joins us on the debut edition of the Highway To Hope, the official podcast of the St. Christopher Trucker’s Relief Fund. The Director of Philanthropy & Development for SCF, Shannon shares some highlights for 2019 and a look ahead to 2020.

Esther Goetch of TAT discusses the achievement by Dart of reaching the milestone of having 500 company drivers and owner-operators becoming certified as TAT-trained.

TAT official Esther Goetch speaks on the importance of becoming certified through TAT training in the efforts to save victims of human trafficking. Esther also shares how a TAT-trained professional driver who saved a young woman with a phone call.

In the second of our two-part discussion with Supt. Drew Evans of the Minnesota BCA talks about the role that professional drivers and owner-operators can play as every-day heroes with a phone call.

In the first of our two-part conversation with Supt. Drew Evans of the Minnesota BCA discusses the important role that professional drivers hold as the eyes and the ears of the road. Supt. Evans also discusses situational awareness.

In Part 1, we talk with Minnesota Trucking Association President John Hausladen discusses the efforts to combat human trafficking in Minnesota, including MTA’s role as a host and part of a coalition for the Briefing on Commercial Sexual Exploitation.

John Valle, a Principal at Apple Growth Partners, reviews the key points he shared during the 2018 Fleet Owner 101 seminar held by V3 Transportation.

In Part 1 of a special series, we talk with Tennessee Trucking Association President about the TTA's 2017 Call On Washington.

Minnesota Trucking Association President John Hausladen discusses Minnesota's contributions to the fight against human trafficking in part one of this special series.

Women In Trucking President & CEO Ellen Voie talks about how her 2017 trip to Vietnam for an Asia-Pacific transportation conference came together.

In this segment from V3, you hear the story of Robert Burton, the 2017 winner of the Expediter of the Year award who gave his prize money to the St. Christopher Fund.

The Dart Network Podcast goes onsite to US Bank Stadium for the Minneapolis Strides Against Breast Cancer event. Dart's Breast Cancer Awareness Truck is featured in a tractor-trailer pull by breast cancer survivors was the talk of the event.

The PodWheels Network goes on the road to the Tennessee Truck Driving Championships, hosted by the Tennessee Trucking Association. You’ll hear highlights from a big day of expert driving and family fun. Barry Courter and Greg Thompson are your hosts.

Two days after the initial release of the update to the Hours of Service rules, PodWheels talked with Dan Hovath, the VP of Safety Policy at ATA. Attending NTDC 2019, Dan shared his first thoughts and ATA’s perspective on the proposed changes to HOS.