Young Driver Discusses Gatekeeping, AI Trucks, and the Future of Trucking

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Hello trailer fam.
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We're here once again.
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Today we have with us Juan.
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He's a driver here out of the Baltimore area.
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Yeah, Baltimore area.
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Okay.
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And he's here today with us out the trailer to give us a little bit of what's going on with him and his world.
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Oh man.
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Well, I'm a real simple guy, you know.
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I like to keep things real.
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Keep things simple.
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I'm a straightforward type of person.
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You know, trucking is something that I do.
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It's not who I am.
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Okay.
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And I and I would like to say that to anybody out here in this industry, you know, because we see a lot of brothers and sisters out here uh wear it as if it's like their identity.
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It's like, nah, you know, again, it's so much more to you.
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Uh, but that's just to give a little bit, you know, by myself.
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Uh I like to be around friends and family, uh, and I'm out there on the road.
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So that's that's how I like to uh keep it.
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Okay.
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And you've been driving for how long?
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I've been driving for about roughly four years now.
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Okay, okay.
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Now hold on now.
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You might you might tease some of us off if you say you saying you don't identify as a truck driver?
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Not at all, no.
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Oh, wow.
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Can't I can't identify as that because I feel as though there's a big stigma when it comes down to oh, what kind of what is a truck driver?
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A lot of people think, you know, big belly, uh, you know, looking all crazy, talking crazy and all of that, you know, and and every, you know, as the camera see, we don't fit that mode.
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You know, again, we we out here doing all different kinds of things, you know.
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Like for example, me being here on this podcast, you see what's going on, you know, it's out the trailer.
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You know, this is a beautiful trailer right here, you know.
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This this ain't, yeah, trucking might have helped it, but it is it's far deeper than that.
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So that's why I say that.
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Okay.
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But but you're right though.
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Uh most of the truckers you see, they got the big bellies.
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Exactly.
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They're not earning them, though.
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You know, I don't think they set out to get that though, but that's what they end up being.
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Yeah, yeah, that is a fact.
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Yeah, but it it's it's hard to to avoid that.
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You know, just what if you grew up, you know, uh not being someone that could prepare your own food or cook.
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You you left to eat out, you know, outside the truck.
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And you're gonna you're gonna grow to be what you are.
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I agree.
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So uh but so you're not putting truck drivers down, you're just saying that.
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Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
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I'm I'm gonna be real because it's it's a difference.
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Because you see those guys, they they they be dirty from head to toe.
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And I used to be like, man, why don't he just take a bath?
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But it's it's deeper than that.
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Because what if he's an own operator that's going up under there working on his own truck or a flatbedder?
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So you gotta give respect to those people.
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You know, they're not dirty because they just want to be dirty, they're out here working.
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So I I do get it, but it's it's a difference because I'm not somebody that's out here smoking cigarettes and on the CB holling up and down the highway.
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I'm not the type of trucker.
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Yeah, no, I I definitely agree.
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You know, I'm definitely not dissing any of those brothers and sisters.
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It's just that normally when we're out here, when you hear people think of a truck driver, like, for example, like when I tell people that I drive trucks, it's like, oh, you a truck driver?
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No, they because you look more like a little model.
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I appreciate that.
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But better not say nothing.
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We ain't trying to start no trouble here on out the trailer, but stay quiet driver.
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Respect.
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But yeah, no, again, that's definitely no diss to them.
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It's just you hear so many people outside of us speak in that way.
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And that's why I'm saying, no, it's it's a lot, it's a lot deeper than that.
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It is.
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Um, yeah, it's definitely no nod to them.
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No, I I overstand the situation.
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And somebody, some people use trucking as a springboard to get into stuff, uh, other stuff just like strippers do, you know, the pole.
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You know, a lot of them end up being nurses and lawyers.
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So uh, you know, everybody aspire to stay uh in truck driving.
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But for me, I'm a trucker drunter, you know.
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I'm not I'm not hard pressed, I don't put people down who don't take this seriously, but I do.
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And uh, but it's it's it's it's you come into it in different modes and uh and you develop different personalities and different ways to handle your business while you're out here.
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And uh, I don't knock people that are company drivers versus own operators.
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That's not that we are all drivers.
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Absolutely.
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All drivers.
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Absolutely.
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But what got you into this?
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Funny enough, despite me coming from a line of a lot of drivers, what got me into it was I was doing warehouse work.
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And one day I was just politicking with a driver, just talking to him, and I asked him, you know, how much did they pay you?
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Because I used to work in receiving.
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Right.
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And I used to unload the trucks.
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And so I just asked, I'm like, you know, hey, how much do you make from just doing XYZ?
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He told me what he how much he made.
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I said, again, let's work smarter, not harder.
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So that's what ended up, that's how I ended up getting wanting to get into truck truck trucking on my own merit, like that.
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So and that's how now we're here.
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So with with the four years up under your belt, what do you think about it so far?
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So far, what I think about a lot has changed.
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You know, I talk to a lot of the uh uh OGs in the trucking game, people who've been driving for 10 plus years and stuff like that, and they the way how they speak then in comparison to now is like night and day.
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Like it is so different.
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But um, so far, what I see it's uh from a company standpoint.
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Uh I can't speak from the owner-operator standpoint because I'm not an owner operator, right?
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But it's not a bad thing though.
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Right.
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And uh from a company standpoint, it's bad out here.
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Right.
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And the reason why I say it's bad is because there's a lot of companies out here lying to drivers, they they lie very, very bad.
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And and when you have a person that's willing to not only give their experience but their time, don't lie to the people.
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Right.
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You know, you know, these people out here sacrificing, you know, we out here sacrificing our lives and most importantly our time that we do not get back.
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Right.
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So no, be honest about what the job is really about.
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And so many companies are doing that, and that's what's making it just honestly terrible.
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And and a lot of companies are starting to see their seeds grow from selling those bad seeds, and a lot of jobs getting fed up.
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So, what would be the discrepancy?
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So they're telling you this, but it's actually that.
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So, what what would that actually be?
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Just uh maybe a couple of examples.
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Okay, so an example will be okay, a company will say, and this is crazy, you'll have a company say, we're starting off with this pay.
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Right.
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Okay uh under let's say they have a pay range depending on how many shears you have.
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Okay.
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So they'll say, hey, we're gonna give you this amount of pay, but then as soon as you sign on to the job or whatever, you can't make that amount of pay because of uh uh, let's say the uh the politics of favoritism.
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Right.
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You know, dispatch want to give to their favorite guys or the guys who ran the longest or whatever, instead of just saying, you know, hey, this is a instead of being open and honest in an interview saying, hey, uh this is uh, hey, you gotta work your way up.
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You know what I mean?
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Like just being, just being, yeah, yeah.
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It's tears in it.
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Just be up front.
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Don't sit right here and say, oh, we're gonna offer this or give you this.
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One whole time, you I I really don't have no shot or chance to do it because you don't really value what I'm bringing to the table because of how long I have not been here.
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Not because of what I can do, not because I show up on time, not because I keep my logs uh uh aggregate, not because I keep my uh cab clean and making sure everything's right.
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You know, you're treating me based, you're treating me based off of just me not being here.
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When it's like, well, if that's the case, then you you need to take the experience sticker off the uh off the resume then.
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You know, why are you asking for three plus years of experience?
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Because then you won't treat me like a novice if it don't matter.
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And it's a lot of companies out here that's doing that.
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And I and I and I just I just think that's wrong.
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You know.
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So you OTR or regional or local?
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So I did a little bit of regional, um, but I'm pro I'm primarily local.
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Okay.
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Primarily local.
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Now I don't know if you do, I don't know if you do the local like me.
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We got this new category me and my son came up with.
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It's called OTR, but it's OTR local because we run local, but we don't get to come home.
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So you know, I think I think I know what you mean by that.
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So what we're saying is some of the loads, it's just makes sense not to cut back another 40 miles to go home or buy the house when the load is about 20 miles away.
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So now you and uh 40 plus 20, another 60 miles.
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So that's what we call OTR L.
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So OTR local.
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So I feel you know, I know exactly what you mean by that.
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Because it gets like that.
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Yeah, it gets like that.
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Because there's been you know a whole bunch of times where as though uh uh uh jobs will send you all the way out to Richmond and then come on and want you to come back, but it's like that's a four-hour drive just back and forth alone.
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You know, even so much drive time we get now.
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We get a lot of shift time, but drive time is only what eight hours?
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So you pushing it, you know, you you know what I'm saying?
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Like, you know, it just it just pushed the times as far as like you know, that we have out here count for traffic and all different kinds of things that we get we can mess up by a clock.
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Now, up there, I don't I don't see how y'all drive up there.
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I don't I done been through Virginia several times and I've never liked it.
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Even even when I'm thinking it's running smooth at nighttime and then it we hit a traffic jam, I just I can't I can't do it no more.
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Yeah, that traffic is bad in the DMV.
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Uh imagine imagine doing that in Jersey.
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Imagine driving in Jersey.
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You know what I mean?
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You know, it's it's right.
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It get real crazy.
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But Maryland, uh, again, one thing about them, everybody, everybody think they know what they're doing.
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Right.
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They don't, they have no clue.
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I would say honestly, and shout out to all my Delaware people, but I'm gonna be honest, y'all the worst.
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I I thought I thought it was Virginia, I thought it was Pennsylvania, but no, Delaware got it by a long shot because Delaware, the pedestrians, the way how they move, is just you would have thought they got, I know they're the first state, but you would have thought they was the last state to get their license back.
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I just take that.
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Smallest that state is, because you could blinking you out of Delaware.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And that's what I'm saying.
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It's crazy because you would think because they're the smallest, because of all these different kinds of things, they're not the worst, but no, they are the worst.
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They cause the most, the most of the trouble I've gotten while being behind that, uh uh being in front of that freight is is with a Delaware tech.
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That's the most, that's the most I've ever dealt with.
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And it's crazy that you say that because most of the mishaps that I see or I'm about to get into in the truck, it come from other truck drivers.
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Yeah, I agree to be.
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I got ran off the road by FedEx.
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I got it on Dash Cam.
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I'm not surprised.
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I was I was in the road, I was in the highway, and my lane was running out, but I was ahead of him.
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But he just said, I'm gonna pass you to the point that he ran me off the road.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna actually put it up online so people can see it.
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And it's funny you bring that up because on the other end, from a trucker's perspective, yes, I ain't gonna lie, we need to start being more courteous out here.
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I don't know what that's about.
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And it's like, what what do you gain out of the fact that okay, if you see I'm in a company vehicle, we know we got restrictors on how fast we can go.
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Oh yeah, yeah.
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Why are you sitting right there being anal?
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You see, I got a seal on the back of my trailer, you know I'm loaded, right?
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Going up a mountain already, you know.
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You see, you know the business.
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Oh, yeah.
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Why is you honking?
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Why are you behind me honking?
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If you if I'm if I'm going too slow, just go around me.
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What you honking for, looking over, doing all of that?
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And you may not, man.
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Never fully loaded.
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I can't do what you can do.
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And no respect.
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No respect.
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Back when I started trucking, when we passed the truck, we used to do the thing like the bikes.
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We used to wave at each other.
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Okay.
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Oh, that don't happen no more.
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No.
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Oh, it a guy a guy waved at me the other day.
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I didn't even know how to act.
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Right, yeah.
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He's like that.
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I said, Man, I need to stop the truck, turn around and go tell the politics.
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Don't you struck goal?
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Yeah, because he he was coming back with the old fucking, and I was like, okay, so let me start doing this again.
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So I waved to the truckers.
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And I I'm about 50-50 on the response.
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You know, some doing, some don't.
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But I wish they would return back to that.
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But trucking is way different from when I started.
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I've been in it 24 years.
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Oh, it's a cutthroat.
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What they say, gatekeeping, I mean, they won't tell you nothing.
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They'll sit there and watch you fumble and mess up, and and they rather record it than say, hey, young man, do it like this.
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I'm so glad you brought that up because that's that's gonna segue to a whole nother topic that I definitely want to speak to everybody who's gonna watch this.
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As a people, we gotta stop doing that.
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Oh, all of that gatekeeping, you know, you what are we doing?
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Like, how can you see a young brother or a young or a young sister or anybody who you say that you love or whatever, you see them trying to make it, but yet, you know, y'all on that topic of the game is to be sold, not to be told.
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And you wonder why we don't move as a as a as a nation.
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We won't move as a as a people.
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Right.
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You gotta cut that out.
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And and I that's something I really, really despise because it costs nothing.
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The same way house nine times out of ten, you probably got your information for free.
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Yeah.
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Well, it costs you nothing.
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You that ain't stopping your paper, that ain't stopping your money.
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So give that to the brothers and sisters.
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So you know who's gonna be able to do that.
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You can't pull every you can't pull every load out here.
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Exactly.
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But they'd rather they rather hug that information because they're saying, hey, if he gets in here, he might pull one load more than me.
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And it's the craziest mindset that I've ever seen.
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They won't help you.
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They won't help you.
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And I realize that what's for you is for you.
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No one can take it away from you.
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But when you uh pay it forward, then you put yourself in a better position and in a greater space to receive.
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That's what I'm saying.
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And and that's something that as a nation, I don't know how we're gonna be able to do that, but we definitely gotta put a cracking on that.
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Like I see so many people on TikTok, you know, Instagram.
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It's always and it's sad because again, I love one thing about me.
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If to know me, I love my people.
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I love us.
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I'm for us all the all the time, every time, regardless, good, bad, ugly, indifferent.
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I'm standing by us.
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One of the things I do not like to see on social media and all throughout these places is how it's always us saying, hey, if you want more game, hey, buy this, that, and the third.
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It's like, come on, man.
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It's like, what are you what are you doing?
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And it then and then if you do what invest, they ain't even gonna tell you the whole thing.
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Yeah, you know, and so it's just a lot of scamming.
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Right, it's a whole bunch of scamming, scamming and stuff going on.
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And I and I I just I'm not I wasn't raised that way.
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I'm not that kind of brother.
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If I know something, I I'm gonna give it because only you know what you what you got on you and what you can give and all of that.
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And no, it costs nothing.
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Information is free.
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That's how a lot of these other nations move because they share, they don't gatekeep.
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We gotta stop gatekeeping.
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I don't see that changing no time soon.
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Me neither.
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I mean, because it's it's it seems like it's a bad badge of honor to say, hey, I got it and you can't get it.
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And if you want it, pay me.
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That that's just where we at right now.
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So uh for me, trucking is still um a big part of my life.
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Um, even though it's changed a lot, what I'm learning to do is embrace the change.
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Because all of it not bad.
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No, it's not.
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But but a good bit of it um comes with with patience.
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And um, and I know a a lot of y'all younger guys that came in, y'all came in up under ELD.
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We from paper log.
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So it that transition for us was hard.
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Yeah really, really hard.
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And the DOT was giving us years to to get right, you know, to to and uh we still couldn't do it because we weren't used to it.
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A lot of us lost uh tens of thousands of dollars a year just implementing the ELD because we didn't know how to use it.
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But I I think now if you just go ahead and just say, you know what, this this ain't going nowhere.
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The robot trucks coming, the company just ordered, what's that, Hirschbach?
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Just ordered 500 autonomous trucks.
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I'm glad we again you hitting on all the topics because that was the next thing.
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How do you I was gonna ask you, how do you feel about the automation?
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Because we know it's coming.
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It's here.
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I'm OTL.
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I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm uh over the road local.
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I don't care.
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Because they see they they they can't run local because they can't bump docs yet.
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They're just over the road.
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But it's coming.
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It's coming.
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Oh, it's definitely coming.
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And and and I feel as though, in regards to our industry, you know, we're this is a dying industry because of the automation.
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Because one thing about it, they're working their way from big to small.
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Right.
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It's about, you know, sample sizes and different things.
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Again, I I I honestly don't see it not being fully automated within the next 15 years.
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Let me tell you something.
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Be honest with you.
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They at one time they had a projection to have uh 60,000 trucks on the road, uh, autonomous trucks by 2035.
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I think it's gonna surpass that.
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And and you gotta think, look at what's going on in the warehouses.
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Who on the fort list now?
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You know that the robot, our robots in the Siri and Alexa in there.
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Now, this is what I can say though.
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I kind of like the robot better.
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I can see why.
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The robot not going in out of my trailer with crazy speed, going through my walls and stuff is is precise.
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It ain't different, taking their time.
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Taking their time.
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That robot different now.
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I agree.
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And I actually I actually like the robot on check-in too, because that that robot don't give me all that sadness, because she knows I checked in somewhere down in Dublin, Georgia.
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I ain't do nothing to this lady, and that lady let me have it.
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Yeah to the point where I just want to go home and cry.
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It was just that bad.
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It was bad.
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Yeah, the complexion.
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What was the complexion?
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She was us.
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Our people.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's all I gotta say is she was us on more than one occasion with her, though.
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Yeah, she was.
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Yeah, I wanted to tell her she needed this.
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I don't know, I don't know.
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Wifey, wifey might gotta go.
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Checker, you know, I mean, she might she might got down uh the I was pretty she you know she might like you.
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That lady with the size of me and you, wifey would be nine and got eight on sat on there.
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She'd have wifey.
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We can't do wifey like you.
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Yeah, we ain't gonna do it.
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I ain't gonna let her do like that.
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That right there was a she was she was ready for whatever because she would she would then back down from me.
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So I just thought it's crazy.
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Yeah, no, no, that is a crazy thing.
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So I like the robots, I like the autom in in regards to that.
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And then I do like it when it comes to uh load check calls because most people when they call you, they may not make the notation that they've called you.
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Then you get another call.
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So with with the um what they call them?
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With the uh with the um automated calls, it's already documented and they actually record the conversation.
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Right.
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So you don't get that additional load check call.
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So I do like that.
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Okay.
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But the other parts that I don't I don't like is is taking jobs away.
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I don't like that.
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Of course, because we're because everybody's gonna suffer.
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And that's the thing, is like the same way how at the end of the day it is beneficial right now.
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People from an economically economical standpoint are not is not gonna benefit.
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Like people like me and you, like the elites, they're gonna benefit from that.
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You know, there's not it's not meant for us to benefit, you know, but that's why they're getting us.
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It's a it's a slow death.
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You know, one thing about slow death, again, you can't come back from that.
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Something that's quick might can recover.
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But as you can see, they're gradually introducing things little by little, bit by bit, they get us accustomed to it, think it's beneficial, yeah, you like it.
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Then next thing you know, hey yeah, your job's gone.
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Yeah, you know, hit the hit the roll.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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So it's it's it's a it's a tough one.
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But we're seeing this all throughout all industries.
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So your training, how did it come by?
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Was it just natural or did you did you have to go to school?
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Uh uh as far as like me me learning how to drive.
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Yeah.
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Uh definitely I had to go to school.
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Okay.
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I had to go to school.
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Um, with me doing a school bus, I got my training through that specific company.
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Then when I upgraded my license, this is a brother out here, uh, out there in Baltimore, Robin Hill Road, named Derek.
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Very genuine brother.
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Uh he's out there, he has his own truck in school.
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Okay.
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So he took me under his wing.
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You know, um, one thing about him, he he's he's really for us.
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He's really for as a people first.
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He's a man before anything.
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And one thing about it, he's a real knowledgeable brother who keeps close ties to his drivers.
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You know, that's one of his niches that he doesn't want to be like your typical truck in school that takes your money or whatever or get over on you and then leave you.
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Oh, well, I got your money.
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But what's the name of the school?
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Robin Hill Road.
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Okay, cool.
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Okay, Robin Hill Row, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, I gotta look that up then.
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And we're gonna take your word on that now.
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No, I'm being honest.
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I'm a product of it.
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I went to one of them uh 16-day programs.
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Okay.
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I ain't learned nothing.
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It'd be like that.
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I just kidding.
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I just kidding.
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I I learned a lot.
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See, we already had trucks before before I went to school, so but and and with that I thought I knew what I everything I needed, and then I didn't.
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So I learned.
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I learned I learned quite a bit.
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And then you you mostly really learn it once you get on the road.
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That's the best way when you're in the field.
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You know what?
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Yes, it's always the best teacher.
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Yes, man.
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You said it.
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But I got I got a son, he's in flatbed, and yeah, he's a trainer.
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I wouldn't be a trainer.
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Because I think my first week out um on the road uh with mine, um we went through the mountains and he just said, Man, I don't even know why they got you, you know, training with me because you know what you're doing.
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But he didn't understand the truck was running away in Tennessee in the mountains.
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I could barely control it.
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Okay.
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But he thought I was really on the mark.
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I was like, he just thought, no, we two more turns away from death.
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All right, you faking it till you make it out there.
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I was hanging on, but I was leaning like I was in a Corvette, trying to just make it stay upright.
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But it was uh, that was scary.
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And then after that, I learned how to control the speed going down the mountains.
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For me in the mountains, I hear a lot of drivers speak about that.
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For me, thankfully, I never really had that problem with the comes down to mountain driving and dealing with that.
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I never was phased by it.
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I looked at it like as a driver, and this is and this is a key tip to anybody trying to get into this industry.
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Learn how to stop before you know, learn how to go.
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Right.
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If you keep that in your mind, if you know how to control, and the only way you know how to control something is slow and steady always runs the race.
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So yeah.
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That's that's what I have to say to that.
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And so with me having that, thankfully, I was able mountains never really phased me because it's like one thing about it, I don't care.
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Again, one thing, and that's another thing.
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You're gonna be going slower than a lot of other people.
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Oh, yeah.
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They can go around.
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They are, you know what I mean?
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Again, only you know your limits and know what you can and can't cannot do.
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So forget what they're talking about, forget them horns, control your vehicle, man.
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Yeah, and a lot of that, what you learn about a mountain, when you top one, you're normally going down that you normally descend once you get on top of one.
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As soon as you get on top.
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Oh, and see, that's what that's why that night went the way it went.
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Because when we climbed that mountain, I thought we were gonna go straight, flat.
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Oh no.
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No, oh no.
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You got a lot more again, when he had to go up, it gotta come down.
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What goes up must come down.
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Yeah, so so that's what happened that night.
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But uh, so what what what what's your passion outside of trucking?
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My passions outside of trucking, that is a very good question.
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Um, I would say investing in people.
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Okay.
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All right.
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And the reason why I say that is because we need one another.
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Right.
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Um, from a spiritual standpoint, um, I am Hebrew.
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Okay.
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So, you know, I'm a believer in the Bible from Genesis to Revelations.
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And so it's just like we need one another.
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We need to be able to invest and grow with one another.
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And we're at a space where I feel as though that is needed.
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And so little by little, I try to invest in us, whether that be through a positive message, uh giving my time, uh, whatever it is.
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Uh another passion, uh being able to, I like to listen to music.
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Right.
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Uh, I'm a very, like I said in the beginning of the interview, I'm a simple guy.
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Uh I like being around family, love, things of that nature.
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Um, but those are my some little bit of my passions.
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Right.
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Uh uh outside of trucking or outside of the industry.
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But you appear to be very compartmentalized for a 26-year-old.
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Yeah.
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How we get there.
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The most high, first and foremost.
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Okay.
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Um second of all, experience, right?
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Pain.
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Okay.
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You know, I've I've been I've experienced some things in my life at 26.
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Now I haven't experienced everything, and I know the same way how people have had a better life than me, people have had a worse life than me.
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Right.
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Uh but the things that have been shown to me, all praise to the most high for giving me this.
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Uh uh is giving me discernment and allow and and bring and pulling me through that pain.
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Okay.
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And it's from that, just using for utilizing for what I've grown through and what I've seen.
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Right.
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And and that's how I am right now, you know.
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So all praises and glory go to him.
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Yeah, I always let my pain be my power because you it's always somebody else dealing with something a lot more than you are.
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Oh, yeah.
00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:19.279
And uh, and then they say he'll never give you more than you can handle.
00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:20.480
You gotta believe that.
00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:23.359
I mean, even today, the setup today, you saw what was happening.
00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:35.440
It's funny you say that, brother, because if like in from a different perspective, sometimes in order for us to break out of our comfort zone, the most high can give us more than we than we can't handle, so we can rely on him.
00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:35.759
Okay.
00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:36.480
You know what I'm saying?
00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:37.759
Like you see where I'm going at with it?
00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:40.240
Because it's like if we in our comfort zone, how can we really grow?
00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:40.480
Right.
00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:40.720
Yeah.
00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:42.880
So I get where you're coming from, you know what I mean?
00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:45.119
But you know, through him, you can accomplish all things.
00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:45.680
Right, right.
00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:48.720
And so I just to add to what you know, which you what you're saying.
00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:49.200
Right, right.
00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:49.680
Yeah.
00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:51.839
Because you cannot become independent of him.
00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:52.559
Never.
00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:52.960
No.
00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:53.359
Never.
00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:54.480
Not if you're a believer.
00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:54.799
No.
00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.680
You know, so somebody how many more years of trucking you think you got left in you?
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:05.759
Mm, I would say as many years that will allow me to become my own boss.
00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:06.079
Okay.
00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:06.960
And whatever that may be.
00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.359
So you know, so it may be owner operating, doing something else, doing another industry or whatever.
00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:17.279
But for as long as I can be able to sustain myself uh without being hands-on, that's how long.
00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:18.400
So it may be one year.
00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:18.640
Yeah.
00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:21.279
Six months five years, maybe whatever.
00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:22.240
You know, but exactly.
00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:23.200
We definitely gotta hurry up.
00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:26.640
Yeah, because your co-driver is gonna be a robot.
00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:29.039
Co-driver can't be kicking me out.
00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:31.279
No, they kicking me straight up.
00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:36.960
But the thing was they was they said that uh they was always gonna need human personnel in the truck, you know.
00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:37.359
Right.
00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:46.720
And and when they when they show uh early demonstrations of it, that the that you know the driver's always laying in the bed by the truck going down the road just in case something goes wrong.
00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:48.240
And I I don't understand that.
00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.359
You know why you it's not it's not meant for you to understand, brother, because it's foolishness.
00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:51.599
Right.
00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:58.079
Because all it's doing is it's a way to cycle, it's it's the way to play on us that make it seem like, oh no, you guys are still valuable, you guys still need to be around.
00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:01.759
But but no, they don't need us, they don't they don't want us again.
00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:02.240
Think about it.
00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:09.119
If we're training, they already have all of these different kinds of things that's stealing our data, stealing how we think, stealing how we move, practicing our parents.
00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:13.839
These trucks can manage, they can tell what driver's in a truck, and he's off that day.
00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:14.319
You know what I mean?
00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:16.400
They can tell what driver just off of the analytics.
00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:17.839
So they're stealing all of this.
00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:19.680
Not just that, think about this, right?
00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:22.240
So also in your ELD, you got this.
00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:23.839
You upload your driver license.
00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:24.960
What's on your driver's license?
00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:27.200
My age, my race, my address.
00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:27.519
Right.
00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:31.759
So now I got your region, I got the type of work you do, I got the type of truck you drive, that's what I'm saying.
00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:36.559
How you drive, where you drive, how much money you make, and they say they don't know data mine.
00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:37.440
Come on, huh?
00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:38.000
It's there.
00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:38.799
That's what I'm saying.
00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:48.079
And that's why I said with you seeing these uh human truckers or whatever, right alongside the robot, they're just there to make it seem like, oh, you know, hey, we still, it's it's a mind game, man.
00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:51.279
It's fools, it ain't meant for us to understand just plain a part of the mix.
00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:51.680
I'm mad.
00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:58.559
Are you was so can't we be mad at the drivers that go and work for the auto autonomous companies to help them put us out of business?
00:23:58.960 --> 00:23:59.680
That is a good question.
00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:02.079
I I I get a little, I get a little beside myself with that.
00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:02.880
That's a good question.
00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:05.440
I would say at that point, it depends on where your morals and values.
00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:05.680
Right.
00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:06.799
And it's objective.
00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:10.480
Because I can see like what you're saying is like, listen, we all trying to survive.
00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:12.480
At the end of the day, everybody's out here trying to survive.
00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:12.799
Right.
00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:18.559
But it gets to a point where as though on a greater good, how good are you?
00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:20.559
Is it survival or are you just trying to get over?
00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:26.480
Because if you know that this thing on a long, long term is going to put not only you out of business, right?
00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:28.000
Your children, your children's children.
00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:28.640
Right, there you go.
00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:29.279
What good is that?
00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:29.519
Right.
00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:31.359
You got to ask yourself that as a man or woman.
00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:33.359
And that's why I said it comes down to your modes and values at that point.
00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:36.079
The auto autonomous trucks is almost dropping the nuclear bomb.
00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:36.480
Exactly.
00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:44.480
It's gonna be it, because with Herd Schotch going in and ordering 500 trucks, they didn't just go, they didn't just say, hey, let me get two or eat a five, but 500.
00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:44.799
Yeah.
00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:45.359
That's a lot.
00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:46.160
That's a lot of trucks.
00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:46.960
That's a lot, that's a lot of truck.
00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:49.039
That's a lot of freight, a lot of trucks, right?
00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:51.599
A lot of a lot of money they don't gotta pay nobody.
00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:52.559
They don't gotta pay.
00:24:52.720 --> 00:25:00.480
And get and then they told they told uh dispatch, or they go in there, they told they dispatch, we're gonna pay you more, because now, you know, we ain't gotta pay drivers.
00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:06.480
So if if we're getting out autonomous trucks, we can go to uh AI dispatch.
00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:07.759
It's funny you bring that up.
00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:14.000
That's a good thing that you brought up because now it got me thinking, what about the brokers?
00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:15.440
Yeah, they're getting about it here too, right?
00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:20.000
No, they already they already face uh uh with that type of uh raft that's coming through there.
00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:20.799
It's it's pretty rough.
00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:21.119
Okay.
00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:24.640
Uh yeah, uh uh highways coming through there and they they they've taken over.
00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:25.759
They wiped them out.
00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:32.559
And uh it's and then I talked to and it actually we don't we're not crazy about brokers, but uh we got a we got a broker.
00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:33.839
Um she's retired now.
00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:35.440
And she said, y'all just don't know.
00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:37.440
I mean, we bear the brunt too.
00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:42.400
She said, every new client that we got, they may use a different TMS system.
00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:45.680
And uh and you have to buy that system in order to do business with them.
00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:50.480
You may have 20 of them and you got thousands of dollars in them, and then your computers are overloaded, you can't use them.
00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:51.920
I never thought about it in that context.
00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:52.720
I said, okay.
00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:55.359
For a small, small brokerage, that's a lot.
00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:55.680
Yeah.
00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:56.960
And I start feeling bad.
00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:58.720
I said, because that wave is coming through.
00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:03.839
So it's just a whole industry that's that's that's that's looking for uh a way out.
00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.920
Because even uh the um factoring companies, they're in the buying.
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:08.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:16.400
Because the uh the um the brokerages and uh and the mega carriers, they're offering discounts, you know, for quick pay.
00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:16.880
Yeah.
00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:19.039
So what you need factoring for for most of it?
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:21.119
So everybody just fighting to survive.
00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:22.799
It's a dying industry, brother.
00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:24.079
And that and it ain't just ours.
00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:25.039
There's so many others.
00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:27.759
And this is what would this is what we see as a people going on.
00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:30.559
And this is when I was talking, you know, the wifey off camera.
00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:36.160
I'm like, you know, what are ways that we can uh uh uh, you know, we know that these things are gonna manifest within itself.
00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:45.039
It's nothing that we can necessarily do to stop the system, but what are ways that we can get out of that system to manage ourselves as a people because we know that this system is crashing every day.
00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:50.319
It doesn't matter what you believe in, who you believe in, we are seeing it every day this system is falling one way or another for everybody.
00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:50.559
Right.
00:26:50.720 --> 00:27:00.640
So what are we gonna do as human beings uh of why the time that we do have before things get too too crazy out of our hands to control, okay, all right, if we know that these things are going among, what are ways we can try to combat this?
00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:01.759
We need to start brainstorming.
00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:02.160
Yeah, yeah.
00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:11.519
No, we need to come together because if you gotta look at what they did on the ports here, because the port authority realized that across seas, they're fully automated over there.
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:11.759
Yes.
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:12.799
And it's working for them.
00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:13.119
Yeah.
00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:14.880
So they want to bring that over here.
00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:20.960
But the union stuck together and they showed them we don't need that because when you put these people out of work, where are they gonna go?
00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:21.200
Right.
00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:23.279
We we're all gonna be content creators in a minute.
00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:23.519
Yeah.
00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:25.200
And guess what the subject matter is gonna be?
00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:26.000
Yeah, I'm out of work too.
00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:26.559
I'm out of work.
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:27.279
I'm out of work too.
00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:28.240
That's gonna be the new genre.
00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:29.119
I'm out of work too.
00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:30.240
Well, what you doing?
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.240
I I'm gonna f you out of work.
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:34.480
Because there's nothing else for us to do.
00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:35.200
Absolutely.
00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:36.559
But the robots is here.
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:39.839
And I and I just think that their race, it's a race to the bottom.
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:43.359
Because they they supposed to be job creators.
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:46.079
How are you doing that when you're putting us all out of business?
00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:50.240
And I and I felt bad because a few weeks ago, what was it, a couple of months ago, I hauled a load of robots.
00:27:50.319 --> 00:27:51.599
I they didn't tell me it was robots.
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:51.839
Right.
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.039
I wouldn't have hauled it.
00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:53.200
Right.
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:55.680
And I was hauling robots to a car manufacturer.
00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:57.920
And imagine how many people are out of work.
00:27:58.160 --> 00:27:59.359
Out of work behind that.
00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:00.000
Behind that.
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:00.160
Yeah.
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:02.240
And that's what I'm and and that's what it is.
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:12.319
It's like it's something that nobody can necessarily prepare for uh uh as far, I mean, ex because of expectation, but it's just like now that we know that it's here, it ain't going nowhere.
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:16.559
Again, it's like what you said, we gotta start brainstorming it, and it's tough out here for everybody because we all surviving.
00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:23.519
We all trying to survive, and that's why we need to be trying to come together with that pride and ego to the side, because there's some real things coming down the pipeline.
00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:25.920
It is, you know, and and it's and it ain't stopping.
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:31.759
And it's I wonder if it's gonna the robot's gonna be able to do what what we're able to do going down the highway.
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:39.599
You know when you see that little kid in the back of the car, yeah, and they hunk it, they doing their hand like that because they want Is the robot where the robot gonna be able to return to die?
00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:40.000
I think so.
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:41.519
No, no, no, here's the reason why.
00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:42.000
I'm gonna tell you why.
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:42.799
I'm gonna tell you why.
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:44.079
You gotta understand, brother.
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.160
It's so many, everything has a camera in it.
00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:46.400
Yeah.
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:48.559
And anything that has a camera is recording.
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:50.799
And anything that's recording you is taking your data.
00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:51.920
It's mimicing you.
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:53.359
So you think it's gonna hunt the hardest.
00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:54.960
It's gonna get to, it's gonna be such a point.
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:58.000
Where we already think about it, think about the AI videos we see on social media.
00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.480
We're at a point where as though you got some people who can't even decipher.
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:06.000
AI is starting to get so good that people are really starting to just like, wait a minute, like, I can't even tell, is that real?
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:06.240
Yeah.
00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:17.599
And so if you already doing that from a if if I can do that from my own phone, yeah, what do you think these people who actually own the robots, oh man, they got like the movies that we see, the same way how they can reproduce and all, it's gonna get crazy.
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:19.440
You can't put nothing past them.
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:26.799
I like the look out on Instagram with the with the old school cars and the big wheels, and he got so good at it, he's riding in the street, down the street in the car.
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:28.319
I like this crazy.
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:32.640
We know it's AI, but this we like, but he in the car now.
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:34.000
Right, right.
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:35.359
So it's a bit much.
00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:35.920
It's a bit much.
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.160
I don't I don't think it'd be able to duplicate to that point.
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:39.359
Because look at the Way Mold.
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:44.480
They uh over here they reported they were stuck in the neighborhood because it had the children at play signs.
00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:48.079
So it didn't want to hit a child, so they were stuck in the coat to say, couldn't get out.
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.240
You know, so I think it's it's still they still got some hurdles to overcome.
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:53.920
Oh no, yes, yes, absolutely.
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:57.119
But that's why I said honestly, I don't think we really have no more than 10 years left.
00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:03.920
I I feel as though by 20, 20, like what they said, 2035, just like they said, again, it's just gonna be full-fledged, full stamina hit.
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:06.559
You know, and it we're talking about a lot of jobs, at least 80%.
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:08.559
A lot of people won't be out of it at that point.
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:09.920
You really gonna see a lot of scrambling the truck.
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:15.759
But I can't say I blame them because how many times you want to go recover your truck because you got a problem with uh payroll or something like that.
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:17.279
So they're just gonna cut out all the fat.
00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:18.240
We don't want to hear your mouth.
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:19.039
We don't want to hear nothing.
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.599
We don't want to say you overslept, we don't want to hear you say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got your women's problem today.
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:24.480
We don't want to hear none of that.
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:24.960
None of that.
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:26.160
It's about dollars and cents.
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:26.799
That's it.
00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.240
And so from from that perspective, I get it.
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:38.319
But uh, you know, for as a race of people that that that you're in a position to help others, I think you need to keep creating jobs.
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:39.839
So we can keep doing what we're doing.
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:40.240
Right.
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:44.960
Because uh the one thing they want to do, they want to be able to sell products we can't buy them with if we ain't got no revenue.
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:45.920
No, we can't.
00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:48.319
I don't I don't know how they're gonna overcome that.
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:53.759
So if you if you wasn't behind the wheel, a man in a truck, what would you be doing?
00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:55.440
That's a good question, brother.
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:58.720
Um it could be a lot of different ways.
00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:01.599
Um a lot of different things, honestly.
00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:07.039
Uh psychologists, uh therapists, uh engineer.
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:10.640
Everything you just said is all in encompassing truck drive.
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:12.160
You know what I mean?
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:14.079
Like it can be it's I'm being honest.
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:16.400
Like I could go so many different ways with it.
00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:16.720
Yeah.
00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:19.599
I I really don't know to you know to give you a full-fledged answer.
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:22.000
I just know that it'll be something that I I want to do.
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:27.200
I like I personally want and like to do, and that I see is has some kind of benefit of the long game.
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.599
Because anything that I do, I'm trying to play for the long haul.
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:29.920
Right.
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:30.480
There you go.
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:31.519
That's where I'm at.
00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:34.880
Yeah, you positive words, you you're playing for the long haul, not trying to.
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:36.400
Positive mindset.
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:36.720
Yeah.
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:37.759
We we know you got it.
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:45.440
We can say we appreciate how you stand because we don't mean we don't meet we don't meet many people uh of your age with your stance and your mindset.
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:52.160
Um we my son is training a guy right now out of uh Chicago, and he comes from you know that element up there.
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:52.799
Yeah, man.
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:58.880
I met him, he came down here and he said, Man, I just saw something so different just from just from being around him and then being around you guys.
00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:02.240
He said, Man, I'm I'm I'm liberated, I'm excited.
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:04.000
I said, Man, take my number.
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:05.920
Because if you ever need me, you got me.
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:07.680
Because I can understand the background.
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:08.880
I come from the streets.
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:13.279
And uh, and I just it was just good to see a brother just not wanting to be out there like that no more.
00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:17.119
And he said, Man, I even got buddies, a few of them that they from out there too.
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:18.720
And we all driving trucks now.
00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:20.400
And I and I said, I salute you.
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:26.240
But uh yeah, but he came to the house and and and we cooked for him, and we did all that good stuff, and we just showed him us another way.
00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:27.200
And showed him us another way.
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.960
And that's and that's and that's a and hats off to y'all for that because that's what we need out here.
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:38.880
Our people forget that environment and changes of environment is very major to how we become better people.
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:39.359
Oh yeah.
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:44.480
And and it's so many of our people that stuck in the struggle, not because they want to, but because that's all they know.
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:45.200
That's all they know.
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:45.839
It's all they know.
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:51.359
If they just had a sliver of of seeing a different light, yeah, it'll change their whole perspective.
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:53.200
Like, oh man, I gotta get out of here.
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:55.599
It's more life than than than that.
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:58.559
You know, and then you got some of our people, a lot of them they they become hopeless.
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:03.359
Yeah, you know, because they they generations being stuck, you know, where they at, and they just like it ain't no hope for me.
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:04.400
They just give up on life.
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:04.640
Yeah.
00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:17.759
And and all I can say is, you know, to all my brothers and sisters out there, you know, you're you're way more than a statistic, you're way more than than than uh uh uh EBT, anything, anything of that nature that that that that's that is a considered a poor representation of us.
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:18.799
You are far more than that.
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:19.759
You're bigger than your pain.
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:26.640
Use that pain to fuel you to live a better life and and and be better for yourself and those after you because it's bigger than us out here.
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.000
We all share this rock together.
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:32.079
Yeah, like you say, a lot of them feel hopeless because they just don't have the information or the opportunity.
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:32.799
Absolutely.
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:38.799
And and and we'll be uh remissed and and and less than what we're supposed to be if we didn't if we didn't give it to them.
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:42.960
And that goes back to when we first started this conversation the game is to be sold, not to be told.
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:46.000
That sounds slick on records, but look at what it's doing, look at what it's hurting.
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:46.160
Right.
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:49.599
You know, our people again, what about that brother and sister who can't afford your game?
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:49.920
Right.
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:51.759
You know, again, what what are we talking about here?
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:52.000
Right.
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:57.279
You know, we're talking about you potentially liberating thousands, hundreds of thousands by you just giving information.
00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:57.519
Right.
00:33:57.839 --> 00:33:59.200
But yet you want to charge, you know.
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.240
So yeah, it is it's deep out here, and it is that deep.
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:12.239
Yeah, well, hopefully through through uh your wisdom and and and just your travels, you know, people your age will say, hey, I it it it it is some hope.
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:16.639
Let me let me let me look into myself and see what I'm not doing.
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:19.760
Let me see if that information that their brother talked about is real.
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:20.960
And let me pursue it.
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:26.000
Because a lot of people don't, you know, like you said, they they despair, they just don't feel like tomorrow's gonna come.
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:27.280
Tomorrow's gonna be better.
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:32.400
And I tell a lot of them, man, trucking is a good path for a lot of a lot of us, men and women.
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:32.800
Yes.
00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:38.559
I like I like that, and and and before, before this administration, I I like the military.
00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:45.760
Because the military to me is not it sets you up uh in life right now and then later in life.
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:54.400
But we've we've seen that um um with a lot of our uncles and stuff like that that went through it, but we know they went through a lot of uh a lot of trauma too.
00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:58.480
You know, a lot of them was involved in Vietnam or something like that, or the Iraq wars and stuff like that.
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:02.079
And I don't like that part of it, but I think the military is a good tool for a lot of people.
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:03.280
It's not necessary.
00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:05.039
Um I understand where you're coming from with that.
00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:06.000
Yeah, it's not necessary.
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:12.480
But I'm just saying if you lost trying to find a way, yeah, and that's what it succumbs to, it's better off than joining the gang.
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:13.360
You know what I mean?
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:14.000
Like I get what you're doing.
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:15.039
That's what I'm trying to do.
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.039
I I I get exactly what you what you mean by that.
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:22.239
Because it's like, of course, you know, if you really want to get into it, again, the military ain't no different than the gang.
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:22.639
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:28.639
But but from the standpoint of what you're saying, if you're gonna gotta pick a poison, I get what you mean by that.
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:28.960
Right.
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:35.440
I mean, i i if you if you really want to talk about it, it I it to me it's the same with anything that's got some sort of structure.
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:38.400
I mean, it's like that with motorcycle clubs, it's like that with saddle clubs.
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:43.840
I mean, people got their own identity and they may not like the next club, so it's a little bit of uh tension there.
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:44.159
Right.
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:46.239
So I think that church can be like that.
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:52.960
You know, so it it it depends on which you know which one you join and uh and and where you allow them to take you to.
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:59.119
So you just gotta you kind of gotta go into stuff with um some sort of perception of what what is supposed to be, what's real and what's not real.
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:00.239
Shows your environment.
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:00.559
Yeah.
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:02.079
And and that's how it is in trucking.
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:05.039
You can get wrapped up with the wrong person, they can give you all the wrong information.
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:07.760
Yeah, and everything that you do in trucking is gonna be bad.
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:08.320
Absolutely.
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:14.239
You know, you're just not gonna succeed because you got the wrong person to to to um to help you along.
00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:15.760
And they're really not helping you.
00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:16.639
Definitely not.
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:18.400
You want to see you crumble.
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:22.559
Yeah, so I'm I'm not I'm not I'm not knocking that I'm a uh very spiritual person.
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:27.360
Um I I believe in faith and I believe in everything that I do, and I know we led by a higher power.
00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:40.480
So for me, I just don't like to see the younger guys that that join the gang and um and never look outside of that, you know, for anything other than this is what we're doing.
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:40.719
Right.
00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:44.559
You know, and and and it's a it's a it's an epidemic to me.
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:45.840
It's a big epidemic.
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:48.320
Like, you know, we we're being played out of position every day.
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:55.360
Yeah, you know, they're literally, we're watching them utilize our pain against us through our music, television, entertainment, all of that.
00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:01.119
You know, they feed it back to us in such a way now, you know, we all products of it, you know, because we all sadly consume it in some way, shape, or form.
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:04.800
So I would be lying and act like I don't, you know, consume this in a way, shape, or form.
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:09.920
But we, you know, I see the the big the bigger game for them, they want us to keep us, it's it's a big hamster wheel.
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:11.039
Yeah, keep them, keep them down.
00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:12.000
Running in circles.
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:12.960
Running in circles.
00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:13.840
And they're watching it.
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:17.039
And and they and they and they're benefit they're benefiting off of it.
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:17.440
You know what I mean?
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:22.000
Kanye West said it a while ago, you know, the white man get paid uh uh uh out of all of that, you know what I mean?
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:30.480
And it's so easy just to go to the neighborhood and pass out information about hey, you can become a truck driver, you can do this, you can do that, you can go to technical school, you can get financial aid.
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:32.000
It's easy to do that stuff.
00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:32.880
Cost nothing.
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:37.679
Yeah, you know, and I think sometimes our people get caught up in if people are actually listening to them.
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:39.360
And it's like, no, no, you can't do that.
00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:40.239
Just do your part.
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:40.559
Right.
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:44.079
As long as you do your part, you can't control what the next man or woman does.
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:47.039
So just as long as you know what you know, give that.
00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:47.360
Right.
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:50.239
Again, you can't you lead the horse to the water, can't make them drink it.
00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:50.480
Right.
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:54.159
Again, keep keep it on, you know, keep it moving, because you can hold your head up high, knowing, hey, I help.
00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:57.039
I contributed to the cause in the best way I could.
00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:57.280
Right.
00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:01.840
I can't make them do, you know, follow my follow my my my wisdom or my instructions.
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:06.719
So now if you ever, because you you talked about become maybe become an own operator.
00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:09.760
So have you thought about your dream setup?
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:11.519
No, I haven't thought about that.
00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:13.599
Because I don't how I look at it, I'm gonna be honest with you.
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:18.079
I don't even, I don't, I don't even You're talking about with inside the truck, like how I want my truck to be.
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:19.039
Yeah, what type of truck?
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:19.920
What type of truck?
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:20.320
Okay, all right.
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:23.920
So And if you're gonna pull uh reefer, dry van, flat.
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:27.519
As far as what I'll be pulling, all I'm gonna say is this.
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:36.079
I I'm I wanna pull as much as as much as I can that makes sense for me and that what I can handle and what I want to do with my life.
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:40.239
Because at the end of the day, I you know, I'm a family man, I'm a family-oriented uh type of man.
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:50.400
So assuming I have a family by then, again, I'm thinking from perspective, all right, what's gonna give me the most money while at the same time being able to bounce out me being gone, I can contribute to my home.
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:50.960
You know what I mean?
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:52.480
To my wife, to my children and all of that.
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.679
So whatever, whatever makes sense, I'm willing to do.
00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:57.039
And so that's where I'm at with it.
00:38:57.119 --> 00:38:59.280
You know, I'm I'm I'm not closed-minded to any of that.
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:00.159
So I'm I'm pretty open.
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:02.480
It, you know, it could be any kind of truck, any kind of freight.
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:04.320
It just has to make sense for what I for what I want.
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:06.400
So, what kind of practice you got financially then?
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:09.440
If you if you're thinking like that, are you putting any of your money up now?
00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:10.159
Yes, I am.
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:11.039
I am saving my money.
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:14.480
So that's again trying to get my, you know, could continue to clean my credit and all of that.
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:17.280
So I can when I hit the ground, I won't hit the ground running.
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:17.440
Right.
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:18.079
You know what I mean?
00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:25.679
You know, and I know I'm gonna have hurdles, but at least I know that with those hurdles from me saving and me having things and in line and in order, it's not gonna hurt as much.
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:26.000
Right.
00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:28.320
So that's what that's where I'm at with it, you know, slowly but surely.
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:29.599
That's a good way to be.
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:30.079
I love it.
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:38.559
Because I know a lot of people, they'll go through all of their money, all of their credit cards, their mama's money, you know, everybody's money just to be an own operator.
00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:40.239
Yeah, it's not, yeah, come on now, what are you doing?
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:41.039
You damaging yourself.
00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:41.679
It's rough.
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:45.679
Because what you gotta think, when you get that truck, you're married to that truck.
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:48.639
Whether you want to, it's an extension of you.
00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:54.079
And uh, and for me, I always told her that that truck service therapy for me down the road.
00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:55.760
So I'm I'm really geared to the truck.
00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:56.880
That truck is a part of me.
00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.360
And I actually get my best sleep in the truck.
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:02.400
You know, we got a nice home and all that stuff, but I sleep better in the truck.
00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:03.519
I can't sleep at the house.
00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:04.320
I know it's crazy.
00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:05.679
I might say, don't say that too loud.
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:06.639
Oh, she already knows.
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:08.960
I know she knows, but but you know, I get it.
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:09.920
I'm I'm teasing.
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:13.360
Yeah, and I don't sleep long in the truck, but it that's where I get my good sleep at.
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:13.599
Okay.
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:14.559
In the truck.
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.599
So it's just like, so when you beware, you say family.
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:19.920
We always say trucking ain't for a family, man.
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:23.199
It's not, and that's where, and that's why I say, and that's one of that's why I preference.
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:26.079
Hey, I'm not your typical again, I do truck truck driving is what I do.
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:31.920
I mean, it's not my identity because I know that I go outside of those lines of what a truck driver is.
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:34.480
So that's why, you know, and it can be done.
00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:37.920
It's it's about how it's about what do you want out of life and what you're looking for.
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:45.119
So it trucking is one of those industries, whatever you're looking for, however you're trying to manage it, it has it gives you that platform to to to do that.
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:48.000
That's what I believe, you know, from what I've been seeing, you know.
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:50.400
But it's about your practices too.
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:54.480
It's about how you choose to maneuver, like you said, in life.
00:40:54.800 --> 00:41:02.400
And choices are the determining factor of how you operate in life.
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:06.480
Because the choices you make today will always and forever affect the ones that you have to make tomorrow.
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:07.280
Yes, ma'am.
00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:12.719
Earlier you said the uh trucking companies not not as transparent as they should be.
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:14.960
So I take it you're not riding for one of the mega carriers.
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:16.079
Not right now, no.
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:16.480
Okay.
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:20.800
Not right now, no, no, no.
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:26.079
You know, uh one thing about it, one thing about me, if it makes sense, I'm gonna go to where it makes sense, you know.
00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:30.320
But most importantly, where I'm gonna be valued enough to where you care about my safety and my license.
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.960
Because on the flip side of things, when you're dealing with those family-owned type of companies, you know, they can they can play on your license.
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:35.119
Right.
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:35.760
You know what I mean?
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:39.280
You know, they play on your sanity and your health, and that's where it gets real crazy.
00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:43.280
And I'm not one of them kind of brothers where it's though, nah, I was I was given this opportunity.
00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:45.039
I have this license, I have this career.
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.920
I'm not messing it up because oh, you laid on freight or or you need this done or whatever, and I'm getting ready to go into violation.
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:52.880
No, uh I don't uh money don't move me.
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:53.840
No, it don't.
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:56.159
So you can take that and give it to somebody else.
00:41:56.239 --> 00:42:02.079
And at the end of the day, how I look at it is this because we have our own licenses, this is a partnership more than anything.
00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:02.480
Yeah.
00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:09.119
Um you're utilizing my services, what I do behind the wheel and my knowledge and all of that to move your freight while you're just applying it.
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:10.400
So it's 50-50 in my book.
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:10.559
Okay.
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:11.519
So you don't own me.
00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:15.679
Even though I'm even though even though I'm working alongside you and I can respect your business, but you don't own me.
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:16.320
And that's another thing.
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:22.639
A lot of these companies have this very Napoleon-type complex where they think they could just walk around and talk to and do whatever the driver's like, hold on, player.
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:26.320
Nah, we make this, you know, we we out here, we we doing this, not you.
00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:32.880
Just because you you got the money in the fronts don't mean, you know, at any given time, if we stop and say, hey, we ain't touching that standwell, that's gonna collapse.
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:33.119
Right.
00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:36.400
So and people, people gotta start recognizing that and respecting everybody.
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:39.280
Everybody needs to start respecting everybody's position in in life.
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:46.480
Yeah, it ain't enough care in the world because they they they say they're too big to fail, and they gotta they gotta see a new people want to get into our business.
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.320
And they're gonna and again and guess what?
00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:52.159
Those same see a new people, they're gonna see, and they're gonna they will wake up at some point.
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:54.960
So you're doing something, you're only so on bad seas that's gonna bite you back.
00:42:55.440 --> 00:43:01.119
But it's hard to it's hard to wake up when you got people online making everything seem like it just never have problems.
00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:02.719
Yeah, it was just I feel you on that.
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:03.679
It's a beautiful business.
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:05.039
Let me let me ask you something.
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:11.679
How do you feel about the foreigners, the the whole foreigner wave of a whole bunch of foreigners uh coming into the trucking industry?
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:15.840
And I'm not saying it from a place of that foreigners, you know, don't deserve that opportunity or anything like that.
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:20.559
I'm speaking from a lot of companies cutting corners and then lowballing these drivers because they're foreigners.
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:21.920
You just answered the question.
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:24.559
But I just wanted to make it clear because I think bad.
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:31.519
Well, well, when you come into it and you don't have um the investment that we have, you know, because I hear a lot of them.
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:34.400
They say, I just met a guy the other day, he was he was an African guy.
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:39.440
He said, Man, if I if I didn't bring my wife over here on a visa, I'd be a very rich man.
00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:43.039
He said, Because I wouldn't have a$3,000 mortgage right now.
00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:48.960
I wouldn't have all these ancestral bills, I'll live in the truck, I'll send all of my money back overseas.
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:53.920
I go get me a big house that's seven, eight hundred thousand here for sixty or seventy thousand.
00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:55.760
How do you think I'm supposed to feel?
00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:59.440
Because when you work over here, you spend your money, you invest over here.
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:00.719
That's what Supposed to do.
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:03.039
So if you're sending it back over here, you take it from us.
00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:14.000
You know, and so for me, it's uh it's it's and if they're not doing it right, so if you're just taking loads, um, because you could take a load for$300, where I might say, hey, it you really need$500.
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:14.400
Exactly.
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:15.599
So you're undercutting the rights.
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:17.280
And they and they taking that, and that's what I'm saying.
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:19.360
These companies is really milking that to the core.
00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:32.400
And on top of that, uh, I was I was at a uh place and a and an older gentleman said this, and it really like, even though I already knew what was the issue is and what we're dealing with out here with that whole wave going on, but something he said that was real simple that hit me that makes it even just worse.
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.119
He said, You got people out here who don't know how to speak an ounce of English driving 80,000 pound valve.
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:38.400
Yeah, see, I don't know.
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:41.679
Like, come on now, when you put in perspective like that, it's like, what?
00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:42.480
Like, you know what I mean?
00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:44.320
Like, like, again, that's that's some dangerous stuff right there.
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:45.199
Give you something to think about.
00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:48.400
As a group of people, I'm not saying, hey, I don't like that group.
00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:50.000
I don't like I don't like the practice.
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:51.280
That's and that's where I'm at with it.
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:53.760
Again, I want everybody to be able to sustain and survive.
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:54.719
I have no problem with that.
00:44:54.800 --> 00:45:07.119
It's just that if we're gonna do this, let's be real, because the same way how, again, there's a lot of unsafety going on, you know, they may, you know, put us our lives in danger, but they're also messing up the market from the value perspective of, hey, I'm a driver who's been driving X amount of years.
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:17.199
I'm deserving of this amount because of what I put into the game, because of my resume, but you're willing to not, you know, value what I bring because you'll have somebody who's just willing to do whatever.
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:17.360
Right.
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:17.599
Yeah.
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:18.639
You're willing to take that risk.
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:24.960
And it's like that that kills the morale of everything because at that point, like what I said, what's the point of putting on a resume on a resume three plus years experience?
00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:28.480
And they don't even, a lot of a lot of the farms don't even try to keep their equipment up.
00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:29.679
They just care.
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.400
Yeah, it's not about trucking, it's just about what they can get out of it.
00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:35.280
Because their money is times two or times three back where they at.
00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:36.320
So they're willing to take whatever.
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:37.519
They're willing to do a load.
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.480
I I one time I talked to a driver, he does over the road.
00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:43.920
I'm asking him how much, you know, he he volunteered how much he brings home in a week.
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:45.039
I'm like, excuse me.
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:45.280
Right.
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:45.920
You know what I mean?
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.639
And and I'm just like, dang, you accepted that?
00:45:48.719 --> 00:45:48.880
Right.
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:50.400
But but he don't know.
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:53.360
And but also he's you know, he's doing what he got to do for his situation.
00:45:53.679 --> 00:46:01.840
But I'm just saying, like, yo, so you're telling me you away from home, away from your family, living out, living out of a truck, not having nowhere to go, and you willing to do this for under a thousand dollars a week.
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:02.480
Right, that's crazy.
00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:03.360
Are you kidding me?
00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:03.760
Right.
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:04.639
That's a problem.
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:06.400
And I and I don't care who you are, you know what I mean?
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:10.159
That is a major problem to an industry where we know how big money can get.
00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:13.440
It's killing us uh one day at a time.
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:19.840
And uh, and I don't I don't see it slowing down anytime soon because a lot of these uh big freight brokerages, they rely on that now.
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:27.360
Yes, they like people coming into business because it right now is about 7,000 companies that go in and out of business in a month.
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:31.280
So what I'm saying is you got 7,000 exiting, and then you got 7,000 in there.
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:33.519
So you so they're not losing anything.
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:33.840
Exactly.
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:38.320
But what they're gaining is we get this whole new perspective of people that don't know that don't know.
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:38.880
That's the key.
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:40.480
And let's keep the party rolling.
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:49.840
And that's what I don't like because you're sitting over there, you you've you've earned it, you've earned the wings to do what you do, and they come up in, hey, I got I gotta be it for half of what you're talking about.
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:50.159
Right.
00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:50.880
But take it.
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:57.119
And then once you figure out they done flip the truck or they late or whatever, whatever, uh, because it does make a difference, then you'll come back.
00:46:57.199 --> 00:46:58.639
And now I want double.
00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:00.639
And that's that's basically what I do.
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:00.880
Right.
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:01.840
I want I want more.
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:06.800
And I don't blame you for doing that because you need to, because we know on the biggest scale what's going on and what's stacked up against us.
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:16.159
Like we're again, we're talking about automation, we're talking about the foreigners, we're talking about all these different kinds of things that does not work for American driving or drivers that does not cater because of what's going on that we cannot control.
00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:19.679
So no, I can't blame my brother or sister saying, no, give me all my money.
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:20.960
I want all of it.
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:21.679
I want every penny.
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:23.440
I want it, oh no, you're deserving of that.
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:23.840
You know what I mean?
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:26.559
All I would say is just make sure you can handle what's coming behind that.
00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:27.199
That's all I would say.
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:27.599
You know what I mean?
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:28.159
Don't be greedy.
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:29.679
Just take whatever you can handle.
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:36.000
I I respect, you know, I respect them if they come over here and try to do it the right way.
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:36.480
Exactly.
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:37.360
You know, no problem.
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:39.360
Come over here the right way, learn how to be safe.
00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:46.719
I mean, learn how to to be it on freight, learn how to accept freight, you know, at a rate that we can all uh uh survive on.
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:47.679
And they don't do that.
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:50.800
And most importantly, learn how to follow the rules of the road.
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:52.960
Oh no, they ain't they they they dangerous.
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:56.079
There, yeah, there are a lot of dangerous truck drivers out here.
00:47:56.320 --> 00:47:57.280
Did y'all see that video?
00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:02.800
Oh that uh uh uh of a I I don't want to uh botch the race or something.
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.840
I stopped watching them because they're so bad when they do have accidents.
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.880
The last one I saw it was the one that was real major out there in California.
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:17.360
It looked like a uh, I'ma just say Middle Eastern brother, where he bust a U-turn in the middle of a highway and the car just went under his trailer, killing that, you know, killing some people.
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:20.639
And the thing that got me was how unfazed he was.
00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:20.960
Yeah.
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:22.719
It was just like he didn't care.
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.719
Yeah, like he was just like, it's like he didn't even blink.
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:28.079
But but like I'm just like, even though I'm like, it's tough.
00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:30.960
But even for California, they they got some work to do.
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:31.920
Think about it.
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:35.679
You got the truck speed at 55, but cars can run 70.
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:36.719
Make it make sense.
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:38.239
It's already a problem.
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:45.599
You know, if you're in a lane and you can't get out that lane, and if you look at California, a lot of those cars end up under the uh ICC bumper trucks.
00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:47.360
The trucks going too slow.
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:47.840
All right.
00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:49.199
You see what I'm saying?
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:52.960
So you take you take both of those scenarios, it's just bad out there.
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:54.639
And uh, and I stopped going.
00:48:54.719 --> 00:48:57.920
You know, I stopped going to California because it's it's not worth it to me.
00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:09.679
Well, allegedly they they they they allegedly had just put a big stop to a lot of that stuff that was going on out there as far as like people falsifying their licenses, getting the foreigners, you know, in trucks, putting them behind them wheels, doing everything the wrong way, allegedly.
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:10.880
So we'll we'll we'll see.
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.760
But the overall, the bigger enemy is definitely the automation, you know, the the Sirian Alexa out here, they plan it, they plotting and planning.
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:17.280
So, what's your outlook on trucking?
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:19.199
You say it ten years it's done.
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:19.599
Right.
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:20.559
That's how I'm looking at it.
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:21.280
That's how I'm looking at it.
00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:22.239
Ten years this is done, man.
00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:24.239
Well, you're gonna be a short-term auto operator.
00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:24.719
Yeah, I guess.
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:26.719
Listen, I'm gonna get in where I fit in.
00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:28.639
That's how we're gonna do it, and it is what it is.
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:32.719
Because at the end of the day, one thing about this journey in life, you gotta be multifaceted.
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:34.079
You gotta, you gotta be willing to pivot.
00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:36.000
And that's and that's one of the key things in life.
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:38.960
You know, what you may do this this chapter, you might not be doing next chapter.
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:40.320
You gotta just keep your mind open.
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:41.599
You know, again, it is what it is.
00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:43.119
And that's what I had told her a long time ago.
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:46.239
I said, man, I'm going to I'm going back to college to take up IT.
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:48.000
Because I mean everything on that side.
00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:48.480
Yeah.
00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:50.239
But I was behind the wheel.
00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:54.000
And I'ma just be honest, I was taking, I was taking exams going down the highway.
00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:56.320
And I told her, hey, I gotta, I gotta choose one.
00:49:56.559 --> 00:50:01.119
Either I'm gonna either I'm gonna do schools or I'm gonna do the truck, and I just said I'm gonna do trucks, keep doing trucks.
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:01.360
Right.
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:07.360
Because I was doing good, and then one night I was going to Jacksonville and I was like, hey, I'm looking more at this, at the computer than I am in the road.
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.440
So I was like, nah, I can't keep doing this.
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:11.119
And I was I was making straight A's.
00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:16.400
And I just said, Yeah, yeah, so I gotta pick this back up when I get you know get time.
00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:18.400
But we're doing something else now.
00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:21.760
Hey, well, listen, and thankfully you never know what he has in store for you.
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:22.320
Never know.
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:24.639
Y'all keep on moving, gotta keep on moving.
00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:25.199
So, you know.
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:26.719
But we appreciate you tapping in.
00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:27.920
Um, and you know, we gotta have to do that.
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.760
I appreciate y'all for having me for giving me the for giving me the platform to just hear me speak.
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:32.719
Oh, yeah.
00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:34.400
I enjoy having this conversation with you.
00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:36.079
A 26-year-old.
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:42.079
And I and I know more about you, a little bit more about the background that we're giving, but it's just like you avoided all of that stuff that we were talking about.
00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:43.440
And that's and that's very commendable.
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:44.400
All glory to the most high.
00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:44.639
Yeah.
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:45.840
Very commendable.
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:47.440
So keep doing what you're doing.
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:49.039
Well, y'all keep doing what y'all doing.
00:50:49.119 --> 00:51:01.280
Oh, and last thing I want to tell y'all, uh, audience, um, to anybody who is married or dealing with somebody who drives trucks or know somebody, family, whatever, we do not know when we get off.
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:04.960
So please stop asking us when do we get off?
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:06.079
When do we start?
00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:06.880
We don't know.
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:08.719
Every day it's a rolling of the dice.
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:09.280
We don't know.
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:20.400
Again, so if we still manage to make it to recitals, baby showers, whatever, extend that grace, even if we is late, because again, every day it is a straight, uh, uh, uh, it's it's it's it's a toss-up.
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:21.039
We don't know.
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:21.199
Right.
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:23.199
So, and this is coming from me.
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:26.639
This is again, he that's why he's laughing, because he knows you know, he know how it is.
00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:27.039
We don't know.
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:28.000
So anything can happen.
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:32.719
No, I tell by I don't miss everything for all my kids, and that's one of my big regrets.
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:34.559
And I and she can tell you that everything.
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:36.320
That's what that dollar.
00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:37.039
You know what I'm saying?
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:41.119
But I made the money and they got a good life, but but look at the flip side.
00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:54.960
And that's and that's where it's like, you know, depending on where you're at and how you're going about things, as long as as a man, you have established that foundation at home amongst your people, they should have that understanding, knowing, hey, listen, Pop's gotta get on that road and make sure we we funnel.
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:55.840
But it's about understanding.
00:51:56.079 --> 00:51:56.800
What'd you just say, Driver?
00:51:57.039 --> 00:51:57.360
Understanding.
00:51:57.440 --> 00:51:58.159
You gotta get that understanding.
00:51:58.320 --> 00:51:59.280
What'd you just say, Driver?
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:04.239
In order for me to fund, you know, fund this life, take care of the family, I have to be on this road.
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:06.480
Now, it has to be understanding on both sides.
00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:11.840
Because the same way, because sometimes we can get caught up in the chase of like, oh yeah, no, this little offering crazy dollars.
00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:15.360
No, no, no, you know, but but it might be baby girl recital or graduation.
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:18.480
You know, you have to know, you have to pick your battles wisely.
00:52:18.559 --> 00:52:19.840
And and that's all I can say.
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:21.440
You know, don't be a victim.
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:29.440
Don't just just make sure I hear a lot of brothers and sisters out here, you know, they want to chase, I get it, but definitely don't forget who you have to come back home to.
00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:31.679
Because that's your foundation, you know, from a physical standpoint.
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:34.480
Well, they they gotta remember who paying for that house.
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:35.039
Exactly.
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:36.960
It goes a two-way street, it needs to be understanding.
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:37.840
That's the that's the takeaway.
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:39.920
The takeaway is what I'm saying, audience.
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:42.079
Understand patience and understanding.
00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:44.400
Patience and understanding is gonna take you a long way.
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:46.400
With everything with everything in life.
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:51.679
Just please, just be have an understanding heart and be quick to ear, uh, be quick to hear, slow to speak.
00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:53.199
Yeah, because truck driving ain't easy.
00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:57.679
Like I had told you when we spoke yesterday, I said, man, I'm we're gonna do this in between loads.
00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:02.639
And uh, I arranged to have my truck trailer drop at the ship when I load tonight at 11 o'clock.
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:03.519
Back at it.
00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:04.880
I'm local.
00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:05.599
But I'm OT.
00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:06.159
Oh, you're right.
00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:07.280
OTL local, man.
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:09.440
You got a lot of alphabets going on, brother.
00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:09.840
You know?
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:10.639
Appreciate you, man.
00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:11.519
But no, appreciate you.
00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:12.239
Appreciate y'all.
00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:13.199
Thank you, thank you, thank you.