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The Ride-Along Trucking Podcast
With trucking tales, tips and tricks
Follow the Show
Finally — a podcast for the Cat® truck engine owners, operators and fans who help keep trucks rolling, goods moving and the world turning. It’s about the people and places essential to our industry, covering Cat engines and the truckers who love them.
Each episode you can find advice from trucking experts or insights from the customers who know how to get things done. We’ll cover things like:
- Maintaining your engine
- Reducing your repair costs
- Protecting you and your truck
- Getting your business where it needs to go
- Taking your engine past the million-mile mark
- Finding the resources available to people in the industry
- Doing what it takes to build your own team
- Making the most of the customer/dealer relationship
- The latest trucking trade shows
- The ins and outs of life on the road
Find practical and timely suggestions in our free-wheeling conversations — all from folks dedicated to supporting highway heroes like you.
See How We Roll
Haul Talk features guests from a wide range of backgrounds. Within the thumbnail image for each installment, the following icons note the focus of a given episode.
EPISODES INCLUDE
Customer Interviews
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dealer discussions
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CONVERSATIONS
WITH CATERPILLAR
Play an Episode, Binge the Series
Whether you listen in your cab, your shop or your free time, Haul Talk is here for everyone who seeks a smooth ride ahead. Just press play.
Meet the Hosts
These guys spent years working with truckers, shop owners, dealers and many others. Now, they’re here to tell tales and find new stories. Let’s get to know them.
KURT FREIDINGER
ZACH BARRETT
KURT FREIDINGER
Kurt joined Caterpillar nearly 20 years ago — starting as a fork truck operator at the distribution center in Morton, Illinois. Soon afterward, Kurt’s lifelong interest in trucks and his studies at Illinois Central College and Robert Morris University helped him secure a role at the Cat On-Highway Truck call center. Now an account manager for the On-Highway Truck Engine team, Kurt helped launch the display engine program and supports the legacy of Cat truck engines.
In addition to hoisting the product support efforts throughout the Cat dealer network, Kurt competes in a German stein hoisting contest and loves to smoke meats with family and friends at his home in Morton.
ZACH BARRETT
Zach works with his hands — whether it’s on cars, woodworking projects or home improvements in Kansas City, where he lives with his wife and two kids. He brings his hands-on approach to the Cat On-Highway Truck Engine team as a parts and service marketing consultant. Prior to joining in 2020, he spent 12 years in the service department at one of our largest Kenworth dealers after studying automotive technology at Pittsburgh State University.
With a career rooted in trucking, he takes pride in his team’s commitment to performance and reliability — promoting Cat Reman engines and long blocks as viable repair options and developing new aftermarket solutions to keep truck engines running. Zach can be seen discussing some of these solutions in our Myth Buster video series.
