Transport Topics Radio

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Transport Topics Radio has expanded its rebroadcast programming on SiriusXM Radio, Channel 146. 

Each week, host Dan Ronan, TT’s managing producer-multimedia/senior reporter, brings listeners up-to-date news from government, business, logistics and other sectors of the industry.

The program initially airs live on Saturdays from 1-3 p.m. ET.

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Ronan 

The program is also rebroadcast three times each weekend. In addition to the first airing, you can hear TT Radio at the following times:

•    Saturday nights from 11 p.m. ET until Sundays at 1 a.m. ET
•    Sunday afternoons from noon-2 p.m. ET
•    Sunday nights from 9-11 p.m. ET

SiriusXM is available live and on demand at siriusxm.com with a paid subscription. 

Here's Ronan's lineup for the Feb. 17 show:

• ATRI President and COO Rebecca Brewster joins us to discuss the new report outlining the Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks in the U.S. 
• TT’s Eugene Mulero has a one-on-one conversation with Allison Dane Camden, deputy assistant secretary for multimodal freight infrastructure and policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation, as they discuss the state of the freight industry four years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and what improvements have been made to move cargo faster and more efficiently. 
• Federal Maritime Commissioner Carl Bentzel joins us to discuss his call for an investigation into possible sanctions against the government of Yemen for the recent acts of piracy in the Red Sea and other international waterways, which is impacting shipping. 
• TT Managing Editor for Features Seth Clevenger joins us to discuss the Technology & Maintenance Council conference in New Orleans March 4-7.

Here's Ronan's lineup for the Feb. 10 show:

• TT Senior Government Reporter Eugene Mulero joins us to discuss the status of legislation on Capitol Hill to move transportation forward, including the effort to repeal the more than 100-year-old excise tax on the purchase of new trucks. 
• Mulero has a one-on-one conversation with Rep. David Rouzer, a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee who chairs the subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. They discuss world issues and where the supply chain is at, more than two years after the implementation of the Infrastructure and Jobs Act. 
• TT Features Editor Michael Freeze joins us with a preview of the upcoming Technology & Maintenance Council conference in New Orleans.
• Texas Trucking Association President and CEO John Esparza joins us to discuss the ongoing issues at the U.S.-Mexico border and the impact it is having on moving freight by truck or rail.

Here's Ronan's lineup for the Feb. 3 show:

• TT Business Reporter Connor Wolf discusses the overall state of the trucking industry economy and, during earnings season, how many transportation and trucking companies did during the fourth quarter of 2023.
• The state and regional National Truck Driving Championships competitions are set to begin soon, and we talk about the upcoming events leading up to the final competition in Indianapolis with NTDC Chairwoman Patti Gillette. 
•  As the construction season begins in the nation’s highways and roads, we are joined by Stacy Tetschner, the president and CEO at American Traffic Safety Services Association, to discuss highway safety and what can be done to make our roadways, especially work zones, safer for construction crews.
• Brad Bentley, the CEO of Fastport, discusses his efforts to continue to attract high-quality talent to the trucking and transportation industry from departing members of the U.S. military. 
   

Here's Ronan's lineup for the Jan. 27 show:

• Brenda Neville, president and CEO of the Iowa Motor Truck Association, joins us to discuss the expanded role of the ATA council Women In Motion and her role as the co-chair as the council looks to expand the role of women in the trucking and transportation sector. 
• Zac Doerzaph, executive director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, joins us from the Blacksburg, Va., campus to discuss some of the technological changes taking place in transportation and trucking to make the industry safer and more efficient. 
• TT Senior Government Reporter Eric Miller discusses the latest moves by the Biden administration to change the independent contractor model, and he updates us on the latest on the Louisiana staged truck accident scandal. 
• Rhode Island Trucking Association President Chris Maxwell discusses the latest infrastructure problem in his state, the possibility of the closing of the heavily traveled Washington Bridge over I-195 and what that could mean to the trucking industry.