Beyond The Truck Podcast with Jerry Curl
Join host Jerry Curl as he empowers individuals with clarity, fresh insights, and actionable strategies to cultivate a transformative mindset—enhancing the mind, body, and spirit—not just to achieve success, but to sustain it and continuously evolve into their best future selves.
Mindset: Setting the Route Before You Roll
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Health Starts in the Mind
Core Message: You don’t drift into health—you dispatch it intentionally.
Health is a leadership decision, not a reaction.Identity drives behavior: “I am a healthy professional driver.”Reframing stress, fatigue, and habits as systems—not failures.Mental clarity as the foundation for every physical choice.You don’t start driving without a route—your mindset is the GPS.
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Power Of Belief
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Your belief is the foundation what you tell yourself shapes your reality.**
Drop a 🔥 if you're ready to upgrade your mindset today!
I used to think I couldn’t run, but changing my words changed my life. Incremental steps, consistent effort, and a strong belief built a new version of me.
It’s not about overnight success; it’s about trusting the process and choosing the right behavior daily. Believe me, your actions follow your thoughts.
What’s one belief you’re...
Father’s Day THANK YOU
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**This Father’s Day, here's a message you *really* need to hear especially if you're on the road today.**
Drop a ❤️ if you’re making an impact, even from afar.
Today is about more than just celebrating it’s about recognizing *your* strength and purpose as a father figure, whether by blood or by choice.
You’re setting the example that shapes generations with your words, actions, and presence, even when you’re physically miles away.
It’s tough, I get it. Social media, comparisons, the struggle to stay ali...
The Road to Grand Champion: A Conversation with Bruce Jones
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In this episode of Beyond the Truck, we sit down with Bruce Jones of G&D Trucking/Hoffman Transportation, the 2025–2026 NTTC Professional Tank Truck Driver of the Year Grand Champion—an honor recognizing exceptional safety, professionalism, leadership, and service to the tank truck industry.
Bruce takes us behind the award to discuss the discipline, consistency, and culture that helped shape his journey. We explore what it felt like to receive the industry’s highest driver honor, the importance of setting meaningful goals, and how strong leaders...
Action VS. Distraction
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Most drivers don’t realize their biggest obstacle isn’t the road — it’s the fog that's clouding their mind. In this episode, Jerry Curl reveals the crucial mindset shift needed to see clearly and move confidently through life's journey. Just like a dirty windshield blinds your vision, confusion and old memories block your way forward. But clarity isn’t accidental it’s a deliberate choice you make, and today, you’ll learn exactly how to create it.
Imagine steering your life with the same precision as a professional driver—everything becomes easier whe...
Clarity Over Confusion
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Clarity does not happen by accident. Clarity requires intention, discipline, focus, and the right mindset. When we do not create clarity, confusion takes over the space. And when confusion takes over, chaos begins to build in the mind.
In this episode of the Beyond the Truck Podcast, we talk about the importance of choosing clarity over confusion. Just like a professional driver cannot safely drive forward looking through a dirty windshield, heavy fog, or the wrong prescription glasses, we cannot drive our lives forward with a clouded mind, unclear...
Authority Self Mastery
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**Are you giving your power away to external stuff every day? Here's why your internal authority is the game-changer.**
Drop a 🙌 if you’re ready to reclaim your power!
We often blame traffic, delays, or others for how we feel — but the real control comes from within.
Your internal authority—your mindset, your composure—is YOURS. Nobody can take it unless you give it away.
When life gets tough, do you respond from your core or get reactive? That’s the key to lasting peace and power.
<...Alive or Living: Are You Just Running Miles… or Building a Life?
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In this powerful episode of Beyond the Truck, we challenge one of the most important questions a professional driver can ask: Are you alive… or are you truly living?
Long hours. Tight schedules. Isolation. Fatigue. The repetitive grind. It is easy to slip into survival mode—waking up, driving, delivering, sleeping, and repeating. But you are not designed merely to endure the road. You are the backbone of the economy, the engine that keeps families supplied, businesses open, and communities functioning.
This episode reframes the daily grind into daily purp...
Choice vs. Decision Who’s Really Driving Your Life?”
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In this episode, we recalibrate the internal operating system by breaking down two words most people treat as identical—but they are fundamentally different: choice and decision.
A choice is an option.
A decision is a commitment.
Drawing from foundational Greek meanings, we uncover how one keeps you parked… while the other puts you in gear.
Professional drivers operate with precision every day—lane control, speed management, route planning. Yet internally, many are living in neutral—cycling through choices without ever making the deci...
Your Life Is a Sum of Your Choices
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Every mile you drive and every decision you make builds the road you’re on. Life isn’t just about where you’ve been — it’s about the choices you make today that determine where you’ll end up tomorrow. In this episode, Jerry Curl dives into the truth that your life is the sum of your choices — the small ones, the tough ones, and the ones that define your future.
From the cab to the kitchen table, the road to a healthier, more purposeful life starts with one thing: choosin...
CHANGE — THE ROAD TO A BETTER LIFE
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Change is not always comfortable, but it is necessary.
If we never changed, we would still be trying to move freight with faster horses. Progress requires us to think differently, learn new strategies, embrace better tools, and make stronger decisions.
The same inputs will always create the same outputs. If we want better health, we must change what we put into our bodies. If we want stronger relationships, we must change the time, attention, and energy we invest in the people we love. If we want a better future...
You Drink From the Well You Draw From
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Every day, we lower a bucket into the well of our life. That well is filled by the thoughts we repeat, the people we surround ourselves with, the content we consume, the food and drinks we choose, and the habits we practice when nobody is watching.
When you raise the bucket, you can only drink what was already in the well.
You cannot lower your bucket into a well filled with negativity, excuses, anger, poor nutrition, and unhealthy habits—and expect to pull out peace, discipline, strength, and a he...
WHEN DID IMPOSSIBLE BECOME THE ONLY ANSWER?
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IMPOSSIBLE = I’M POSSIBLE.
The greatest barriers in life often do not live on the road ahead. They live in the mind.
How many times have you told yourself:
“I will never get through this.”
“I will never lose the weight.”
“I will never change.”
“I will never become the person I know I am capable of becoming.”
Yet, you have already overcome days you once thought were impossible.
The same mind that creates limitations can create possibilities. The same mind that builds w...
The Power of a Memory
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Every day, we are creating memories—through the conversations we have, the people we encourage, the time we invest in our families, and the choices we make when no one is watching.
A memory may feel like a simple moment today, but over time, it becomes a brick in the foundation of our lives. Those bricks shape our character, strengthen our families, and build a legacy that can impact future generations.
In this episode of Beyond the Truck, we reflect on the power of a memory and th...
Going the Extra Mile: Your Best Mile Is Your Next Mile
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Every professional driver understands that a successful trip is completed one mile at a time. You cannot drive tomorrow’s miles today, and you cannot go back and change the miles already behind you. The only mile you can influence is the mile directly in front of you.
In this episode of Beyond the Truck, we discuss the power of going the extra mile—not merely doing enough to get through the day, but choosing to operate at a higher standard physically, mentally, spiritually, personally, and professionally.
Your...
GPS — Goals, Perception, and Standards
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Today, I want to talk about something every professional driver understands: your GPS.
When you get into your truck and prepare to deliver a load, one of the first things you need to know is the destination. Where are you going? What route are you taking? What obstacles could appear along the way?
Your GPS identifies your current location, calculates the route, and provides the next direction.
But your GPS does something else that is important.
When you miss a turn, it does not insult...
The Courage Loop
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Every meaningful transformation starts with one decision: the decision to move forward before you feel completely ready.
In this episode of Beyond the Truck, we break down the Courage Loop: courage leads to action, action creates experience, experience builds competence, and competence produces confidence. That confidence then gives you the courage to take the next step, face the next challenge, and continue accelerating toward the best version of yourself.
Professional drivers understand this principle. Nobody begins their career knowing how to back into every dock...
What Are You Afraid Of?
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For many people, the answer is change. We fear leaving the familiar lane, even when the road we are traveling is no longer leading us toward the life we truly want. We stay parked in old habits, limiting beliefs, unhealthy routines, and comfortable excuses because the unknown feels more intimidating than the pain we already understand.
But fear and being afraid are not exactly the same.
Fear is an emotion. It is a natural response designed to protect us and bring awareness to possible danger. Afraid...
Body Language: Steering Your Attitude Before the Day Begins
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Your body speaks before your words ever do. The way you stand, sit, walk, breathe, and carry yourself has a direct impact on your mindset, your attitude, and the way you show up in life. In this episode of Beyond the Truck, we talk about the importance of body language and how it can either drive you toward confidence, strength, and positivity—or pull you deeper into stress, frustration, and defeat.
For professional drivers and hardworking men and women, stress is real. Long hours, pressure, isolation, traffic, deadlines, and da...
THE WAR INSIDE
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There is always a battle taking place inside of us.
It is the old version of you fighting to come back out—the version connected to old habits, old reactions, old triggers, old pain, and old ways of thinking. At the same time, the new version of you is fighting to stay alive, to grow stronger, and to become who you were created to be.
That is why awareness matters.
We have to recognize when the battle starts. We have to recognize the triggers, the environments, the em...
I Wish I Would Have
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In this episode of Beyond The Truck, we take a hard, honest look in the mirror and ask one of life’s most important questions: Do our actions match our words?
We often know what is right. We know what we should do. We know we need to take better care of our health, strengthen our relationships, build better habits, and let go of the old version of ourselves that keeps pulling us back. But knowing is not the same as doing.
The question is no...
What We Measure, We Improve
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What we measure, we can improve. What we ignore, we allow to drift.
In this episode of Beyond The Truck, we break down the power of small incremental decisions and how they compound over time. In trucking, improving fuel mileage by just one-tenth of a mile per gallon may not seem like much in the moment, but over a million miles, that small improvement can add up to thousands of gallons saved and thousands of dollars protected.
The same principle applies to our health.
<...MEMORIAL DAY
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Today is Memorial Day.
Today, we honor the brave men and women who gave their lives in service to this country. We do not take their sacrifice lightly. We do not forget the price that was paid. We remember that freedom is not free.
To every person who has served, thank you. To every family who has lost someone in service, we honor you. To every life lost protecting this nation, we remember you.
Today is also a reminder to honor the people we have lost in...
PAUSE WITH GRATITUDE
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Today, take a moment to slow down and reflect.
There are families this weekend who are not just remembering a holiday — they are remembering a name, a face, a voice, a uniform, and a sacrifice. Memorial Day carries weight because real people gave everything so others could live free.
Let’s be thankful for those who served, respectful of those who were lost, and mindful of the families who still carry that sacrifice every day.
We also remember those in our personal lives who are no longer with...
REMEMBER THE MEANING
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As we enter Memorial Day weekend, let’s remember this weekend is more than cookouts, travel, and time off. It is a sacred reminder that freedom has a cost.
We thank every man and woman who has served this country, and we pause with deep respect for those who gave their life and never made it home. Their sacrifice allows us to live, work, worship, build, and pursue the life we have today.
Also, let this weekend remind us of the people we have lost in our own lives — the...
Who Are You? Where Are You?
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Before you can move forward in life, you have to answer two powerful questions: Who are you? and Where are you?
In this episode of Beyond The Truck, we break down why identity and awareness are the starting points for real transformation. Just like a GPS cannot build a route without knowing your current location, you cannot build the roadmap to the best version of yourself until you honestly identify where you are today — mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally.
Too often, we fo...
Fine vs. Great
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How many times do we ask someone, “How are you doing?” and the answer is, “Fine.”
But what is wrong with being great?
In this episode of Beyond The Truck, we challenge the mindset of settling for fine when greatness is only one choice away. In trucking, you can sit idle, stay parked, or put the truck in gear and move forward. Life works the same way. You can idle through the day, or you can decide to drive with purpose.
Being great does not mean life...
What’s Going Under Your Hood
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February may be recognized as Heart Health Month, but the truth is this: every day is heart health month when your life depends on the engine inside your chest.
In the transportation industry, we know how to inspect the truck. We check the oil, monitor the gauges, run diagnostics, analyze fluids, and make sure the equipment is road-ready. But the real question is: when was the last time you checked what’s going on underneath your own hood?
The professional driver is the heartbeat of ou...
The Real Conversation
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Great day professional drivers nothing else is saved but today is just a real conversation with myself to lay my feelings out their love and appreciate every single one he enjoyed today's podcast hopefully it sinks and resonates with you a little bit and for the 1 or 2 you might be listening keep going.
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The Old VS. The New YOU
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Is the old version of you still alive?
The truth is, the old version of you never fully disappears. It lives in your memories, your habits, your triggers, your reactions, and the stories you used to tell yourself. But the real question is not whether that old version exists. The real question is: are you still letting it drive?
In this episode, we take a deep look at the old version of ourselves—the version built through pain, setbacks, poor choices, limiting beliefs, unhealthy habits, and...
The Choice Is Yours
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The choice is yours.
Every day, we are faced with a decision: stay where we are or take one small step toward the best version of ourselves. Growth does not always require a giant leap. Sometimes it begins with one choice, one discipline, one decision, and one moment where we finally say, “I am ready to move forward.”
In this episode, we talk about the power of choice and how your life can begin to change the moment you decide to stop living on autopilot. You are not stuck. You...
The Power of the Wish
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There comes a time in life when the miles behind us become more visible than the miles ahead. On our final days, the power of the wish becomes deeply meaningful. We may look back and wish we had loved more, forgiven sooner, slowed down, taken better care of ourselves, called our family, protected our peace, strengthened our faith, or lived with more purpose.
This episode is not about fear. It is about awareness. It is about using the wisdom of the final mile to change how we drive today. Life is...
MOM Miracles of Memories
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MOM — Miracles and Memories
Moms have a powerful way of turning ordinary moments into memories that last a lifetime. A simple meal, a quiet conversation, a hug, a prayer, a sacrifice, or just being present can become something we carry in our hearts forever.
In this episode, we honor the miracles and memories created by mothers — the love they give, the strength they show, the lessons they teach, and the legacy they leave behind. Motherhood is not measured only in big moments, but in the daily acts of c...
Identity in Focus: Keeping Your Life Out of Foreclosure
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\In this episode, we talk about one of the most powerful areas of personal growth: identity. Too many people live today under labels that were placed on them years ago. Childhood wounds, past mistakes, failed attempts, broken relationships, poor health decisions, financial setbacks, and limiting beliefs can become the story we keep repeating. Over time, we stop growing because we start believing, “This is just who I am.”
That is where identity foreclosure begins. In psychology, identity foreclosure refers to committing to an identity, role, or set of b...
DNDC: Decide Now, Demonstrate Character
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DNDC: Decide Now, Demonstrate Character
In professional football, DNDC can mean Do Not Draft Character — a warning that no matter how much talent someone has, their character may make them too risky to trust.
But in life, leadership, business, family, and the transportation industry, character is not a side issue. Character is the foundation. Talent may open the door, but character determines whether you can be trusted to walk through it and stay there.
In this episode, we turn DNDC into a positive st...
Kindness Given, Not Kindness Received
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In an industry built on endurance, pressure, and long miles, kindness often becomes conditional—something we wait to receive before we give. This episode reframes that mindset.
Kindness is not a transaction. It is a standard.
Not something earned. Not something returned. Something chosen.
In this episode, we challenge professional drivers to operate from a higher operating system—one rooted in discipline, leadership, and self-respect. Kindness given is strength. It is emotional control. It is a competitive advantage that stabilizes mental health, improves decision-making, and restores humanity in a...
Focus Is Your Currency
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In this episode of Beyond the Truck, we break down the truth that focus is your currency. Just like money, what you spend your focus on will determine your return. For professional drivers and anyone working through the demands of life, distractions are expensive. They cost us peace, discipline, health, growth, and momentum.
This episode challenges you to take ownership of your attention, protect your mental energy, and invest your focus into what truly moves your life forward. On the road and off the road, staying centered...
Power To Persevere
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Your Next Decision Is Your Best Decision
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Your life today is the result of the decisions you made yesterday. Your future life will be built by the decision you make today.
In this episode of Beyond the Truck, we break down the power of one decision. One decision can change your health. One decision can change your mindset. One decision can rebuild your discipline, restore your focus, strengthen your family, and redirect the road ahead for generations to come.
Too many people wait for the perfect time, the perfect plan, or the perfect conditions...
What You Focus On Will Grow
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In this episode, we talk about the power of attention. Your attention does not just observe your life; it helps shape how you experience your life. What you focus on gets amplified. What you ignore loses power.
When we focus on fear, anger, negativity, and everything that is wrong, we begin to live from that place. But when we choose gratitude, faith, positivity, and God’s goodness, our perspective begins to shift. Gratitude becomes an antidote. Faith becomes our foundation. Focus becomes our steering wheel.
Today is about learning to...
