Road Dog Trucking

Veteran journalist and editor Mark Reddig joined OOIDA as a writer and editor at the association’s publication Land Line Magazine. A winner of several national awards for his work at the magazine, Mark hosts Land Line Now, America’s first daily news broadcast for professional drivers.Website: landlinenow.comPhone: (800) 444-5791

Dan Ronan is a host and anchor on SiriusXM Channel 146 and he is one of the industry's leading transportation reporters. Ronan is the regular back up for both Mark Willis on Road Dog Trucking News and Dave Nemo, as well as occasionally sitting in for K.C. Phillips and Tim Ridley. Ronan is formerly the Managing Producer and Senior Reporter at Transport Topics, where he spent six plus years covering the trucking industry. He has been a professional journalist and broadcaster since his freshman year of high school in Chicago, Illinois. He is an expert on transportation, supply chain and business and financial reporting, especially as it pertains to trucking, freight railroads, aviation, and ports.Ronan has lived and worked in the Washington, D.C. area since the mid-1980s, and during his television career, he worked at WJLA, CNN, WFAA in Dallas, WAGA in Atlanta, and CBS NewsPath. He has won eight Emmy awards and two Edward R. Murrow awards for journalism excellence.He traveled to the Iraq/Kuwait border with the U.S. Army in 2003, reported from an earthquake zone along the India-Pakistan border, the Oval Office, Camp David, Maryland, and twice aboard a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft as it flew into the eye of two separate category five hurricanes, Ivan, and Rita.Ronan worked for nine years in public relations, rising to the position of Vice President of Strategic Communications at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. During that time, he established himself as one of the transportation industry’s experts on crisis communications.Ronan’s bachelor’s degree in journalism is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a master’s degree from Kent State University, where he serves on the journalism school’s Professional Advisory Board. Ronan is a licensed commercial pilot with instrument and multi-engine ratings. He also earned two certificates in Aviation Accident Investigation Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

Ellen Voie founded the Women In Trucking Association in March of 2007 to promote the employment of women in the trucking industry, remove obstacles that might keep them from succeeding, and celebrate the successes of its members.

Jimmy Mac, a native of New Orleans, is thrilled to be a member of The Dave Nemo circle of family and friends. A storyteller, author, and performer, he has proudly visited every state in the union. In previous days, he was a teacher, an investigator, and a contractor, and still looks back fondly at bagging groceries at A&P. He likes a good western, loves a great one, and will take any and all recommendations from movie lovers of all walks of life.

Based in Nashville, TN, KC Phillips has been part of the trucking industry since 2004, serving in several capacities. He enjoyed five successful years of truck sales, and worked with the manufacturing sector. In 2009, he moved into trucking operations managing maintenance personnel, dispatching drivers, and brokering loads for a truckload carrier. Additionally, Phillips was a member of the Tennessee Trucking Association and served on the Maintenance Council as treasurer. In 2010, Phillips was approached by Dave Nemo as a potential host, and The Taylor and Phillips Show was born. Since that time, he has worked as a full-time talk show host on Road Dog Trucking Radio, and has enjoyed serving the American trucker.

Mark Willis serves as a journalist with SiriusXM Satellite Radio. Willis, who has more than 30 years of experience in the news media, has interviewed presidents, sports celebrities, and maybe even your neighbor. He has worked as an anchor at KRLD in Dallas and the Texas State Network. He was also news director for the ABC Radio Networks in Dallas. Willis currently serves as the Region 6 Coordinator for the Radio and Television Digital News Association.

Tim Ridley’s career in the trucking industry began in the 1980’s. He has been a small fleet owner, a truck driving school instructor, director of job placement, director of training, recruiting supervisor, and a terminal manager for the second largest temperature-controlled carrier in the US. After experiencing a myriad of positions in the trucking industry and racking up more than 1,000,000 miles of safe driving with one company, Ridley became a part of the family at Dave Nemo Entertainment. Ridley holds a Masters in Divinity and is working on a Ph.D in Christian Education. In November 2010, he was given the position of Commandant of the Georgia State Chaplain Training Center at Fort Stewart Army base for the Georgia State Defense Force. He’s a chaplain and a major in the Joint Forces Chaplain Corps which includes the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, and Georgia State Defense Force.