Sirius versus XM Trucker's Channels STN versus Open Road

Well Ill toss my two cents in.

I drive from about 6am to about 4-5pm five days a week and mainly have it on XMs 171. During that time I hear three shows, Nemo, Bill Mack, and Bozo.

1. I like Nemo because he has guests and he seems to actually know what he is doing as far as his show....tells you what is coming up in the day and throughout the week (or on Fridays, next week). ie this week he had a guest on that talked about the 10 things that truckers feel is most important/ most concerned about over the next year. He also had a guest that was from the Library of Congress and they talked about various things. He tries to ahve a drivers detor or something like that from what it sounds like, so drivers can have an idea of what to do in various cities when they ahve some free time.

2. Bill Mack...not sure what I think yet. He seems to genuinly care about truck drivers, but his show is more less just a old fashioned country music show with talking in between. Doesnt really have guests that I have noticed, outside of various people calling in. When Billy and April (his son and billys wife) take over...the show just turns silly and does'nt really have a point other than to not have dead air.

3. Truckin Bozo is like a truckers version of a Limbaugh, or anyother political talk show host. He is open and honest and that is a plus, but lord....just seems to go off.

4. On the weekends they have Kevin Rutherford who has a trucking business show. I thought that was well done. He has five live shows Sat-wed, and th en repeats on Thur-Fri. But I think from what he said, he will have two new shows on Thursday and Friday. one will be a show where they take a truck driver who has a struggling business, take his plan and help him turn it around to where he is profitable. Forgot what the other show will be.

5. Landline Now is a good show too. Goes hand in hand with OOIDA so you hear lots of OOIDA stuff on there. IT sounds pre-produced, but the general gist of the show is for trucking industry news and information.

 

Kevin Rutheford does have a decent show along with the early morning guy on Sirius.

 

To me, Rutherford is a Trucker's Clark Howard.

 

i like sirius trucking shows better. i also get a kick out of listening to channel 198 on srius.

 

I haven't really listend to the trucker channels that much.. I had XM but then switched to Sirius.. Sirius does have a better channel selection but I liked a few of the DJ's on XM squizz and liquid metal...

 

i love 198 on my sirius.