Join the Heterodox Academy campus chapter at Cornell University for a discussion with Gord Magill, author of End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers. Gord will present an overview of the issues and themes explored in his book, which is described by his publisher thus - 

For decades the trucker was a symbol of independence, a knight-errant of the open road. Today, drivers are treated not like people at all, but merely as “inputs” necessary (for now) in moving things from place to place. They are slowly being replaced: first by poorly paid, untrained, exploited immigrants, and soon by driverless RoboTrucks. Truckers are spied on by corporations and governments, regulated into serfdom by politicians and bureaucrats, and considered an afterthought by managerial elites who despise those who do real work with their hands. 

Gord shows how surveillance technology makes today’s cab a virtual prison, demoralizing drivers and eradicating truck-stop culture. He reveals the immigration scams putting grossly unqualified drivers behind the wheel—and causing horrific accidents on our nation’s roads. And he gives an inside account of the trucker-led “Freedom Convoy” that provoked the most thorough persecution of political dissenters in Canadian history. 

End of the Road describes the human and cultural consequences of a short-sighted quest for efficiency that assigns good jobs a value of zero. Fresh and authentic, this book is a workingman’s call to save the dignity and freedom not just of truckers, but of all blue-collar workers.

Gord will also give fine grain details on the moves being made by Secretary Duffy of the US DOT in tackling the issue of pervasive exploitation of insourced labor in the trucking industry, how this exploitation was made possible by long running regulatory malfeasance,  and how this has resulted in the displacement of American truckers out of their jobs and an increase in traffic carnage and fatalities on our roads, along with a sharp rise in cargo theft and fraud. 

This free, in-person event is open to the public.

When: Thursday, April 30 at 5:30-7:00 PM

Where: Myron Tayler Hall - 182, Cornell University Campus

About the Author: 

Gord Magill is a third generation trucker, industry commentator, and author of the new inquest into the fate of the American Trucker in 2026 "End Of The Road - Inside The War on Truckers."

In his three decades behind the wheel, Gord has trucked the Ice Roads of the Canadian Northwest Territories, pulled Road Trains across the Outback of Western Australia, hauled logs around New Zealand, and every type of load imagineable across North America. He has also been writing about trucking labor issues, regulation, and the Canadian Freedom Convoy, for mainstream publications, including Newsweek, American Compass, The Blaze, American Affairs Journal, The American Conservative, and numerous others.