For one, it’s not my taste in music, they play mostly old style country and old trucking songs. Between songs most of them take callers. This is usually the part I can’t stand, people that call in use their CB handles and it’s mostly just a late night redneck chit-chat / bitch session.

That was probably fine back when most listeners could only listen late at night on a hand full of super AM stations that broadcast throughout most of the country. Back then the trucker population was different then it is today.

Now there are a lot of immigrants from all over the world, there are more women and the age group has gotten younger as the truckers from yesterday have aged and are close to retirement. More drivers are driving school graduates and not from the generation that learned how to drive on their daddy’s knee. Personally, I would have loved it if my dad was a trucker, but he wasn’t and I had no other choice than to go to school. Driving school graduates in general are looked down upon by the ‘old timers’, but that’s another blog.

All three are on XM satellite radio and are on all times throughout the day, not just late at night. I feel that someone should change their format to relate to more drivers. Cut out the music and the free-for-all chit-chat format and have a more technically and industry oriented talk show. I understand it would be difficult for the late night shows to have industry type guests, but the times that I have heard Bozo have an occasional guest, they have been excellent shows.

I will listen once in a while just to hear the commercials for the trucking products. All three are fine shows, but trucking has changed and someone needs to step up to the plate make a change in their format. If nothing else, keep people on one topic at a time, have an information filled discussion then go on to the next topic. And cut down on the chit-chat.

Originally posted 2008-05-20 08:37:09.