July 1, 2024 • 15 mins
How do foreign truck drivers navigate the complex cultural landscape of the U.S. trucking industry? Today’s episode grapples with this question head-on, offering an honest look into the lives of international drivers like an Australian trucker anxious about fitting in. I discuss how respectful communication on the CB radio and adherence to local driving regulations can bridge the gap between foreign and domestic drivers. By sharing real-life stories, I underscore the importance of mutual understanding and adaptation to promote harmony and camaraderie on the road.
In our next segment, we confront the sensitive issues of cultural differences and perceived racism within the trucking community. Through personal anecdotes and insights, I illustrate how misunderstandings and broader frustrations often masquerade as racism, highlighting the need for clearer communication and respect. By shedding light on the experiences of various communities, I aim to foster a more inclusive and cohesive environment. Tune in to discover how cultural assimilation and awareness can enhance safety and unity for all drivers on the road.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Rollin' 18 Podcast.
This 40-year veteran is herefor anyone wanting to stay up to
date with the trucking world.
Grab your coffee, hop on boardand let's get on down the road
with Walter Gatlin.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello drivers and welcome to Rollin' 18 Podcast.
I am your host, walter Gannon.
I appreciate you folkslistening to and or downloading
my podcast.
You can visit all the linksdown below in the description,
including Rollin18Podcastcom.
Now, last week I forgot tomention what you need to do to
win that Waylon Jennings album Iwas talking about on my last
(00:41):
episode, about that message fromShooter Jennings.
So all you have to do is goahead down to my link here at
(01:03):
roland18podcastcom.
Put in the comments section,okay, the word GOAT G-O-A-T.
Greatest of all time.
That's all you have to do isput GOAT.
If you cannot find the commentssection some people say they
can't go to my Facebook page atRoland18podcast Go ahead and
type in GOAT on whichevercomment you want.
(01:24):
I'll see it pop up that youcomment a GOAT.
You will automatically beentered into the drawing to win
an original 1979 Greatest HitsWaylon album, and it's going to
be remarkable, it's going to befun.
One of you folks out there, oneof you drivers, are going to
end up with a really nice,awesome Waylon Jennings Greatest
Hits album from 1979.
(01:46):
So be sure and do that.
Today's story is going to beabout foreign drivers and I'm
going to get some flack overthis, but I'm going to be nice
about it too, because I knowreality and I know what I see on
the road.
I also know what I hear on theCB and I know what I read online
.
I don't believe a lot of peopleare understanding the message
(02:07):
and it's probably because of theway people communicate, with
anger and stuff like that, andit doesn't make any sense.
I've always tried to explain toall drivers when you
communicate on the CB, don't useanger, don't start calling
people names, because if you'verun out of answer to a topic, it
means you've lost the argument.
So rather than look like a fooland just spew out all this
(02:29):
profanity and everything else inorder to try and get your point
across, you've lost theargument.
Don't do it.
You know, out of all thecomplaints and things about
foreign drivers, it comes downto one simple thing culture.
There is a culture differencein every single country.
A lot of countries are almostalike, but there is going to be
some differences, no matterwhere you go.
(02:50):
Driving is one of them.
Commercial drivers from adifferent country are going to
act differently in our country.
It is best as a foreigner whenyou come into a different
country, and I would do the sameif I went to anywhere else to
drive.
You need to conform to the waywe do things here.
It's the best way.
Our DOT, our FMCSA, all of ourpeople, our ATA, all of them
(03:16):
have done so much hard work inthe last 50 years to make sure
that we get things done in amanner that is the safest
possible.
To make sure that we get thingsdone in a manner that is the
safest possible and thatincludes our roads, our signs,
the attitude we give out toother people, the amount of
police forces we have out therestate patrol that pull people
over and explain to them whatthey've done wrong, write them
(03:37):
tickets, things like that.
But the one story that caughtmy attention the most was an
Aussie and he had put up anotice on February 4th.
He says I am an Aussie who iskeen to do truck driving in the
USA, but I see some posts onthis site and others on the
internet where US truckers don'tappear to be too happy about
(03:58):
foreign people working in theindustry.
Not saying this is the norm,but I have seen some posts where
people don't seem too happyabout foreigners etc.
I'm just wondering if I were toobtain a job amongst you guys,
would I be ostracized or shunnedby the trucking community?
Now that seems a littlecontradictive on itself, the
(04:18):
statement itself, because hesays but I have seen some posts
Not saying it's the norm, but Ihave seen some posts.
So then he goes on to say if Iwere to obtain a job amongst you
guys, would I be ostracized?
But he didn't say by few or bymost, he just kind of put
everybody in the same basket.
Well, it's a silly question,because if you notice that most
people are accepting to foreigndrivers and only the few make
(04:43):
contradictive or snide remarksagainst foreign drivers, then
why would you throw everybody inthe same basket when you ask
the question?
I'm just wondering if I were toobtain a job amongst you guys,
would I be ostracized or shunnedby the trucking community?
And the statement is as a wholewords are very important,
communication is very importantand the fact is no, you wouldn't
(05:04):
be ostracized by most people.
There would be a few out therethat don't care about your
driving habits, because I'm sureyour driving habits are going
to be a little different thanAmerica's.
But if you come into an Americantrucking industry and you drive
in America and you get taughtby Americans, even if you don't,
I know, you have to getcertified before you can drive.
No matter where you've had alicense in the world, you have
(05:25):
to conform to our licensingpractices.
Then you can say to yourselfokay, here's what they're
teaching me.
This is different than the waywe do it.
We don't have to stop at stopsigns, we don't have to use our
blinker when we make a lanechange.
I'm just going to do it the wayI've normally done it, or you
can, you know, conform to theway we do things here and not
(05:46):
piss people off.
That would be a good thing and,like any decent minded human
being, if I were to go toanother country, let's say and I
didn't know their drivingpractices, regardless of what
they taught me in their schooland then I got my CDL or
whatever they call it in othercountries.
Then I get on the road, I'mgoing to drive slower than
everybody else, I'm going to payattention, I'm going to see
what they get away with, I'mgoing to see what they do, I'm
(06:07):
going to see what's acceptable,I'm going to see what's not
acceptable and I'm going toconform to their way of life,
their country's laws and thingslike that, ladies and gentlemen.
It's that simple.
Now just to look at somebodyand say, oh, they got a turban
on or they got a picture of aguy, a Habib, out there on the
side of his truck with a machinegun, that's crazy.
(06:28):
Okay, it's their lifestyle,ladies and gentlemen.
They were raised that way andthey will conform over to
America.
But it takes time, especiallyif they're going to live the
rest of their life here.
It takes time to realize thatwe do things differently.
I'm not saying they're going tochange their religion, but I am
saying that they will conformto our ways.
But if I was in another country,I would drive slow, I would
(06:50):
watch what other people do.
I would find out what'sacceptable, what's not
acceptable.
I would conform to theirdriving standards.
That way they're happy and I'mhappy.
Now there's going to be the fewwho take one look at me and say
, oh my God, he is pasty white.
That is a foreigner fromAmerica, or from Europe, or from
(07:10):
England, you know.
Maybe he lived in the castle,who knows?
Oh, I hate that guy.
That's the way everybody doesit around the world.
It's not just an American thing, it's an everywhere you go
thing If you're not exactly thesame tone of color.
There's going to be people thathate you right off the bat.
It's normal.
And a lot of people use the wordracism you know they love
(07:31):
throwing that word out theracism card.
That's not the case.
To most cases, people aren'treally looking at color.
What people are looking atthere's a person that's
different.
They're going to do thingsdifferently and we need to teach
them the right way to do things.
Or they're going to think outof straight out of the box and
say that person's a foreigner.
(07:51):
I hate them.
I wish to God they weren't onthe road and then they're
probably going to make up stuffand post it on Facebook and make
everybody else look stupid,make all the white guy, all the
brown guys and the black guyshate the white guys or vice
versa.
It's stupid and we all knowit's stupid.
And racism is an example of avery few amount of people in the
(08:12):
world who want to live aroundtheir own color, who want to.
You know I talked to a blackwoman not too long ago about her
experiences with truck driversbecause she never drove a truck
and she was asking me if she gotinto the.
You know she just asked me abunch of questions and she said
I have been in communities whereI'm not black enough and they
shunned me.
I have been in communitieswhere I'm not white enough and
(08:36):
they shunned me.
And she happens to be a blackwoman married to a white man and
they have wonderful childrentogether.
And the whole thing is, yeah,there is racism out there.
There's people that hate onpeople because they don't mow
their lawn the right death.
You know HOA people.
You know what I'm saying?
People that live in a communitywhere other people get to tell
(08:56):
you how to have your house.
Ladies and gentlemen, it happensall over the place, but you
can't use a racism card because99.9% of the time, it has
nothing to do with your color.
It has everything to do withyour culture, your attitude, the
way you do things.
People don't like it, people dolike it, vice versa.
Same thing with driving, withdriving truck.
(09:17):
Now I would recommend that whenforeigners do come in from a
different country and they arelicensed to drive in america
whether they're going to stayfor a long time or they're just
on a work permit to help us out,whatever that they should be
confronted with this and get ridof the woke bs and just say
look, we have a differentculture here.
There's going to be people thatare going to say things that
(09:40):
may or may not upset you, butthis is the way we do things
here and you have to do it thisway.
They need to reiterate that,they need to explain to them.
This is the way we do things.
We don't poop in the parking lot.
You don't sit on the fuelisland for 30, 40, 50 minutes.
You don't do a lot of thingsthat they do out there on the
(10:00):
road.
That makes it dangerous fromeverybody and you know they have
a culture of blocking peoplewhen they go to pass them.
You know you'll come up on aslow truck and they'll shoot
over in the left lane justbefore you're about to pass.
That must be something inanother country that you know.
They must hate each other to dosomething like that.
We don't do that in America.
(10:22):
No, we see a truck coming up,even if we're coming up on
another truck, we back it down alittle bit because the timing
was just off on our part and wewait because we know we're
slower than that truck.
We wait, we let him fly by, wescoot over and we pass that
other truck or vehicle,whichever one, you're stuck
behind.
The whole point I'm trying toget across here.
All you drivers need to takeracism out of the mix, because
this day and age, it's not aboutcolor anymore, it's about
(10:45):
perspective.
It's about people being angrybecause their taxes are too high
.
It's about people being angrybecause they got locked into a
lease deal with a company andgot screwed royally, which I'm
going to do a story on, probablywithin the next few podcasts.
There's a lot of reason whydrivers are unhappy out there,
and a lot of it has to do withthe mentality.
(11:05):
They're out on the road,they're being stuck at shippers
and receivers, they're havingtrouble with the company they
work for.
They're just not happy people.
And then everybody calls itracism.
It's just pure stupidity.
Foreign drivers, listen to me.
This is America.
We've been doing things in thetrucking business for a long
time.
We've been doing things theright way for the most part, and
(11:29):
we're trying to even makethings better today, and that's
what we do every single day.
We strive to make things easierand better, whether it's
shipping, receiving, everythingthat happens in between, with
the fueling, with the driving,with the being stable on the
road, making sure you make pointA to point B and stay alive
doing it.
Keep your truck in one piece,keep your trailer in one piece,
(11:51):
keep your job, be happy withyourself while you're away from
your family.
That's the whole point.
Doesn't matter if you're aforeigner or not when it comes
to that kind of stuff.
We can all learn together andwe can all realize that if we
communicate and here I go again,get yourself a damn CB If we
communicate on a authentic andprofessional level, we would
(12:13):
have more information than weever knew what to do with and we
would be a lot happier as apeople, as a commercial truck
driver.
Truck driving is the largestindustry in the world.
As I say a million times, let'sstart acting like it.
There's going to be culturedifferences, no matter what we
do or where we go, becausethere's always going to be
different people.
The thing of it is drivingneeds to be identical, that
(12:37):
driving habits need to beidentical, and we need to
realize that Safety is numberone.
Number two is your happinessand being out there on the road
because you are being pulledaway from your family to do a
job that you love.
We have a guilt factor.
I'm out here, away from myfamily and they're having to do
(12:58):
things on their own and I'm outhere on the road for a week or
two weeks or three weeks at atime.
That's a big factor.
We're going to do things ontheir own and I'm out here on
the road for a week or two weeksor three weeks at a time.
That's a big factor.
We're going to do a podcast onbeing away from your kids too,
and what happens to certain kidswhen they grow up having that
distance away from their fatheror their mother or both, and
that's very important too.
You know, it's like raising achild and having to work two
(13:19):
jobs, or both parents having towork and the kids having to go
to daycare.
You know, you don't know whichdaycare you can trust.
There's a lot of good ones outthere.
Most of them are excellent, butyou have the few that are going
to ruin your children and it'sgoing to ruin your life,
especially when they becomeadults, because they're going to
distance themselves from you.
But as far as foreign drivers go, we've got this.
(13:39):
We have compassion, we haveunderstanding, we have the
freedom, we have the tools tounderstand what we can do, to
work together.
We have the tools to be a veryprofessional industry and we can
all be rose up by four-wheelersonce again.
If we just act professional andthey will look up to us again,
(14:01):
we will be rose up and we willbe the greatest thing in the
world.
It's sliced bread like we wereback in the 70s, 80s and part of
the 90s.
Truck drivers were revered.
We're still pulling 40 tonsdown the road.
We're still responsible to keeppeople safe.
We're still responsible to dothe right thing.
And just because we putforeigners in the mix which
(14:23):
they've been in the mix sincethe beginning of time, it's just
all of a sudden we have a fewmore karens out there than we
did in the past.
Foreigners understand what we do.
Get on the ball, conform towhat we do in america.
A lot more people will be happy.
All you drivers out there thataren't foreigners realize that
they need to be taught.
We need to be taught.
We all can learn together andinstead of throwing all out all
(14:44):
this vile stuff, let's just worktogether.
Okay, you guys, don't do notforget to comment the word goat.
In a couple of weeks I'm goingto pick out a winner and I'm
going to mail somebody a 1979waylon jennings greatest hits
album.
You're going to be very happy,as always.
God bless safe and keep itbetween the lines.
Driver.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Thank you for listening to Roland 18 Podcast.
Please visit my website atmediaiowacom or the podcast page
at roland18podcastcom.
Welcome to Rollin' 18 Podcast.
This 40-year veteran is herefor anyone wanting to stay up to
date with the trucking world.
Grab your coffee, hop on boardand let's get on down the road
with Walter Gatlin.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello drivers and welcome to Rollin' 18 Podcast.
I am your host, walter Gannon.
I appreciate you folkslistening to and or downloading
my podcast.
You can visit all the linksdown below in the description,
including Rollin18Podcastcom.
Now, last week I forgot tomention what you need to do to
win that Waylon Jennings album Iwas talking about on my last
(00:41):
episode, about that message fromShooter Jennings.
So all you have to do is goahead down to my link here at
(01:03):
roland18podcastcom.
Put in the comments section,okay, the word GOAT G-O-A-T.
Greatest of all time.
That's all you have to do isput GOAT.
If you cannot find the commentssection some people say they
can't go to my Facebook page atRoland18podcast Go ahead and
type in GOAT on whichevercomment you want.
(01:24):
I'll see it pop up that youcomment a GOAT.
You will automatically beentered into the drawing to win
an original 1979 Greatest HitsWaylon album, and it's going to
be remarkable, it's going to befun.
One of you folks out there, oneof you drivers, are going to
end up with a really nice,awesome Waylon Jennings Greatest
Hits album from 1979.
(01:46):
So be sure and do that.
Today's story is going to beabout foreign drivers and I'm
going to get some flack overthis, but I'm going to be nice
about it too, because I knowreality and I know what I see on
the road.
I also know what I hear on theCB and I know what I read online
.
I don't believe a lot of peopleare understanding the message
(02:07):
and it's probably because of theway people communicate, with
anger and stuff like that, andit doesn't make any sense.
I've always tried to explain toall drivers when you
communicate on the CB, don't useanger, don't start calling
people names, because if you'verun out of answer to a topic, it
means you've lost the argument.
So rather than look like a fooland just spew out all this
(02:29):
profanity and everything else inorder to try and get your point
across, you've lost theargument.
Don't do it.
You know, out of all thecomplaints and things about
foreign drivers, it comes downto one simple thing culture.
There is a culture differencein every single country.
A lot of countries are almostalike, but there is going to be
some differences, no matterwhere you go.
(02:50):
Driving is one of them.
Commercial drivers from adifferent country are going to
act differently in our country.
It is best as a foreigner whenyou come into a different
country, and I would do the sameif I went to anywhere else to
drive.
You need to conform to the waywe do things here.
It's the best way.
Our DOT, our FMCSA, all of ourpeople, our ATA, all of them
(03:16):
have done so much hard work inthe last 50 years to make sure
that we get things done in amanner that is the safest
possible.
To make sure that we get thingsdone in a manner that is the
safest possible and thatincludes our roads, our signs,
the attitude we give out toother people, the amount of
police forces we have out therestate patrol that pull people
over and explain to them whatthey've done wrong, write them
(03:37):
tickets, things like that.
But the one story that caughtmy attention the most was an
Aussie and he had put up anotice on February 4th.
He says I am an Aussie who iskeen to do truck driving in the
USA, but I see some posts onthis site and others on the
internet where US truckers don'tappear to be too happy about
(03:58):
foreign people working in theindustry.
Not saying this is the norm,but I have seen some posts where
people don't seem too happyabout foreigners etc.
I'm just wondering if I were toobtain a job amongst you guys,
would I be ostracized or shunnedby the trucking community?
Now that seems a littlecontradictive on itself, the
(04:18):
statement itself, because hesays but I have seen some posts
Not saying it's the norm, but Ihave seen some posts.
So then he goes on to say if Iwere to obtain a job amongst you
guys, would I be ostracized?
But he didn't say by few or bymost, he just kind of put
everybody in the same basket.
Well, it's a silly question,because if you notice that most
people are accepting to foreigndrivers and only the few make
(04:43):
contradictive or snide remarksagainst foreign drivers, then
why would you throw everybody inthe same basket when you ask
the question?
I'm just wondering if I were toobtain a job amongst you guys,
would I be ostracized or shunnedby the trucking community?
And the statement is as a wholewords are very important,
communication is very importantand the fact is no, you wouldn't
(05:04):
be ostracized by most people.
There would be a few out therethat don't care about your
driving habits, because I'm sureyour driving habits are going
to be a little different thanAmerica's.
But if you come into an Americantrucking industry and you drive
in America and you get taughtby Americans, even if you don't,
I know, you have to getcertified before you can drive.
No matter where you've had alicense in the world, you have
(05:25):
to conform to our licensingpractices.
Then you can say to yourselfokay, here's what they're
teaching me.
This is different than the waywe do it.
We don't have to stop at stopsigns, we don't have to use our
blinker when we make a lanechange.
I'm just going to do it the wayI've normally done it, or you
can, you know, conform to theway we do things here and not
(05:46):
piss people off.
That would be a good thing and,like any decent minded human
being, if I were to go toanother country, let's say and I
didn't know their drivingpractices, regardless of what
they taught me in their schooland then I got my CDL or
whatever they call it in othercountries.
Then I get on the road, I'mgoing to drive slower than
everybody else, I'm going to payattention, I'm going to see
what they get away with, I'mgoing to see what they do, I'm
(06:07):
going to see what's acceptable,I'm going to see what's not
acceptable and I'm going toconform to their way of life,
their country's laws and thingslike that, ladies and gentlemen.
It's that simple.
Now just to look at somebodyand say, oh, they got a turban
on or they got a picture of aguy, a Habib, out there on the
side of his truck with a machinegun, that's crazy.
(06:28):
Okay, it's their lifestyle,ladies and gentlemen.
They were raised that way andthey will conform over to
America.
But it takes time, especiallyif they're going to live the
rest of their life here.
It takes time to realize thatwe do things differently.
I'm not saying they're going tochange their religion, but I am
saying that they will conformto our ways.
But if I was in another country,I would drive slow, I would
(06:50):
watch what other people do.
I would find out what'sacceptable, what's not
acceptable.
I would conform to theirdriving standards.
That way they're happy and I'mhappy.
Now there's going to be the fewwho take one look at me and say
, oh my God, he is pasty white.
That is a foreigner fromAmerica, or from Europe, or from
(07:10):
England, you know.
Maybe he lived in the castle,who knows?
Oh, I hate that guy.
That's the way everybody doesit around the world.
It's not just an American thing, it's an everywhere you go
thing If you're not exactly thesame tone of color.
There's going to be people thathate you right off the bat.
It's normal.
And a lot of people use the wordracism you know they love
(07:31):
throwing that word out theracism card.
That's not the case.
To most cases, people aren'treally looking at color.
What people are looking atthere's a person that's
different.
They're going to do thingsdifferently and we need to teach
them the right way to do things.
Or they're going to think outof straight out of the box and
say that person's a foreigner.
(07:51):
I hate them.
I wish to God they weren't onthe road and then they're
probably going to make up stuffand post it on Facebook and make
everybody else look stupid,make all the white guy, all the
brown guys and the black guyshate the white guys or vice
versa.
It's stupid and we all knowit's stupid.
And racism is an example of avery few amount of people in the
(08:12):
world who want to live aroundtheir own color, who want to.
You know I talked to a blackwoman not too long ago about her
experiences with truck driversbecause she never drove a truck
and she was asking me if she gotinto the.
You know she just asked me abunch of questions and she said
I have been in communities whereI'm not black enough and they
shunned me.
I have been in communitieswhere I'm not white enough and
(08:36):
they shunned me.
And she happens to be a blackwoman married to a white man and
they have wonderful childrentogether.
And the whole thing is, yeah,there is racism out there.
There's people that hate onpeople because they don't mow
their lawn the right death.
You know HOA people.
You know what I'm saying?
People that live in a communitywhere other people get to tell
(08:56):
you how to have your house.
Ladies and gentlemen, it happensall over the place, but you
can't use a racism card because99.9% of the time, it has
nothing to do with your color.
It has everything to do withyour culture, your attitude, the
way you do things.
People don't like it, people dolike it, vice versa.
Same thing with driving, withdriving truck.
(09:17):
Now I would recommend that whenforeigners do come in from a
different country and they arelicensed to drive in america
whether they're going to stayfor a long time or they're just
on a work permit to help us out,whatever that they should be
confronted with this and get ridof the woke bs and just say
look, we have a differentculture here.
There's going to be people thatare going to say things that
(09:40):
may or may not upset you, butthis is the way we do things
here and you have to do it thisway.
They need to reiterate that,they need to explain to them.
This is the way we do things.
We don't poop in the parking lot.
You don't sit on the fuelisland for 30, 40, 50 minutes.
You don't do a lot of thingsthat they do out there on the
(10:00):
road.
That makes it dangerous fromeverybody and you know they have
a culture of blocking peoplewhen they go to pass them.
You know you'll come up on aslow truck and they'll shoot
over in the left lane justbefore you're about to pass.
That must be something inanother country that you know.
They must hate each other to dosomething like that.
We don't do that in America.
(10:22):
No, we see a truck coming up,even if we're coming up on
another truck, we back it down alittle bit because the timing
was just off on our part and wewait because we know we're
slower than that truck.
We wait, we let him fly by, wescoot over and we pass that
other truck or vehicle,whichever one, you're stuck
behind.
The whole point I'm trying toget across here.
All you drivers need to takeracism out of the mix, because
this day and age, it's not aboutcolor anymore, it's about
(10:45):
perspective.
It's about people being angrybecause their taxes are too high
.
It's about people being angrybecause they got locked into a
lease deal with a company andgot screwed royally, which I'm
going to do a story on, probablywithin the next few podcasts.
There's a lot of reason whydrivers are unhappy out there,
and a lot of it has to do withthe mentality.
(11:05):
They're out on the road,they're being stuck at shippers
and receivers, they're havingtrouble with the company they
work for.
They're just not happy people.
And then everybody calls itracism.
It's just pure stupidity.
Foreign drivers, listen to me.
This is America.
We've been doing things in thetrucking business for a long
time.
We've been doing things theright way for the most part, and
(11:29):
we're trying to even makethings better today, and that's
what we do every single day.
We strive to make things easierand better, whether it's
shipping, receiving, everythingthat happens in between, with
the fueling, with the driving,with the being stable on the
road, making sure you make pointA to point B and stay alive
doing it.
Keep your truck in one piece,keep your trailer in one piece,
(11:51):
keep your job, be happy withyourself while you're away from
your family.
That's the whole point.
Doesn't matter if you're aforeigner or not when it comes
to that kind of stuff.
We can all learn together andwe can all realize that if we
communicate and here I go again,get yourself a damn CB If we
communicate on a authentic andprofessional level, we would
(12:13):
have more information than weever knew what to do with and we
would be a lot happier as apeople, as a commercial truck
driver.
Truck driving is the largestindustry in the world.
As I say a million times, let'sstart acting like it.
There's going to be culturedifferences, no matter what we
do or where we go, becausethere's always going to be
different people.
The thing of it is drivingneeds to be identical, that
(12:37):
driving habits need to beidentical, and we need to
realize that Safety is numberone.
Number two is your happinessand being out there on the road
because you are being pulledaway from your family to do a
job that you love.
We have a guilt factor.
I'm out here, away from myfamily and they're having to do
(12:58):
things on their own and I'm outhere on the road for a week or
two weeks or three weeks at atime.
That's a big factor.
We're going to do things ontheir own and I'm out here on
the road for a week or two weeksor three weeks at a time.
That's a big factor.
We're going to do a podcast onbeing away from your kids too,
and what happens to certain kidswhen they grow up having that
distance away from their fatheror their mother or both, and
that's very important too.
You know, it's like raising achild and having to work two
(13:19):
jobs, or both parents having towork and the kids having to go
to daycare.
You know, you don't know whichdaycare you can trust.
There's a lot of good ones outthere.
Most of them are excellent, butyou have the few that are going
to ruin your children and it'sgoing to ruin your life,
especially when they becomeadults, because they're going to
distance themselves from you.
But as far as foreign drivers go, we've got this.
(13:39):
We have compassion, we haveunderstanding, we have the
freedom, we have the tools tounderstand what we can do, to
work together.
We have the tools to be a veryprofessional industry and we can
all be rose up by four-wheelersonce again.
If we just act professional andthey will look up to us again,
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we will be rose up and we willbe the greatest thing in the
world.
It's sliced bread like we wereback in the 70s, 80s and part of
the 90s.
Truck drivers were revered.
We're still pulling 40 tonsdown the road.
We're still responsible to keeppeople safe.
We're still responsible to dothe right thing.
And just because we putforeigners in the mix which
(14:23):
they've been in the mix sincethe beginning of time, it's just
all of a sudden we have a fewmore karens out there than we
did in the past.
Foreigners understand what we do.
Get on the ball, conform towhat we do in america.
A lot more people will be happy.
All you drivers out there thataren't foreigners realize that
they need to be taught.
We need to be taught.
We all can learn together andinstead of throwing all out all
(14:44):
this vile stuff, let's just worktogether.
Okay, you guys, don't do notforget to comment the word goat.
In a couple of weeks I'm goingto pick out a winner and I'm
going to mail somebody a 1979waylon jennings greatest hits
album.
You're going to be very happy,as always.
God bless safe and keep itbetween the lines.
Driver.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Thank you for listening to Roland 18 Podcast.
Please visit my website atmediaiowacom or the podcast page
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