Gord Magill
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Gord Magill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's the same in every country.
It's an important and critical job.
And, you know, again, third generation trucker.
My dad's a trucker.
He's still out on the road.
My uncle Chris drove truck for years, established a freight brokerage in Canada, an honest one.
Unfortunately, they're not so honest anymore.
My uncle Bruce hauled logs and heavy equipment in northwestern Ontario, the kind of place you would love to go fishing.
You know, my grandpa drove truck across the Trans-Canada Highway when it was first built in like 1960 across Lake Superior, you know, in a truck with no bunk, you know, sleeping across the seats, no air conditioning, you know, at threat of the truck freezing up in the winter.
You know, like, well, my grandpa was a tough bastard and like truckers in general were that way.
You know, I mean, the technology has improved and whatnot, but...
I feel very strongly about this industry that served my family so well and so many other families so well.
And one of the things that's not talked about with this displacement problem as of late is that many multi-generational American trucking companies have gone out of business in the last few years.
So since 2022, the freight market has been in what some people call the great freight recession.
We're starting to come out of it here in the last few months.
But, you know, there's a website called Freight Waves.
I'm friends with the guy that runs it and a few of the people that write there.
And they have a section of their website called Layoffs and Bankruptcies.
And they have people whose full-time job is to document American trucking companies going out of business or closing or drivers being laid off or having financial difficulties.
And it's been humming for four years.
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