Transmission Talk: Manual vs. Automatic in the Trucking World

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's do it.
Hey everybody, welcome to theOuter Belt.
I'm Patrick and you know myfriends Tone Loke.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Butter Milk.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
Eric.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Zucchini Bread and Jerry.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, clearly today's going to be a day.
We want to welcome you back tothe show.
Tone, look how has your daybeen today.
Because we didn't get a chanceto see you today, me and Eric
went to the yard, we worked, wedid things and I didn't, and you
didn't, yeah.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
Yeah, I took the day off today.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
How was it?
It was a day off Nice.
Did you get any snuggles inwith Annie?

Speaker 5 (00:48):
No.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
I barricaded myself in the basement.
Usually I go down there and Idon't close the door to the top
of the steps.
Yeah, but today I did, I getthat yeah that way I wouldn't
irritate Melissa with what I wasdoing in the basement.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Or vice versa, because she talks on the phone
all day.
Right, she does talk loud.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
She talks a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Loud, loud.
You're a loud talker.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I am a loud talker.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
Yeah, Her voice carries, you know so.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Which is better than being a soft talker, right.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
It is better than being no?
I don't think so, I guess inher line of business.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
It is better me think of that Seinfeld episode,
agreeing to the puffy shirt.
It's a great episode.
Anyways, Dawn, where are you?
I need you.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
It was a good episode .

Speaker 1 (01:31):
She's like I've never seen it, but I'm going to agree
.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I've seen it, I'm a Seinfeld girl.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yep, we've had that discussion before.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
We have.
I should take better notes.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
At any rate, yes, a loud talker, I think, is better
than a soft talker.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, I agree.
At least we can hear whatyou're saying.
Today, Eric and I went out tothe yard and we have, as you all
know, we have a bunch of trucksWith different type sleepers.
We have Bolt sleepers, which isout of Fort Wayne, indiana.
We have ARI sleepers out ofShipshawanda.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
I still need to go there and see it.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
We do, which is out of Fort Wayne, indiana.
We have ARI sleepers out ofShipshawanda.
Yeah, I still need to go thereand see it.
We do.
We need to make a road trip, wedo and take some video and
maybe be an outer belt onlocation or something.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yeah, sure, it would be fun.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
And then we have a bunch of AA sleepers Now, aa out
of Texas.
They have discontinued makingthe large sleepers but they out
of Texas.
They have discontinued makingthe large sleepers but they are
still in business and they dostill provide us with service,
which is very handy.
And then the smallest categoryof sleepers we have is Premier
Customs out of Texas.
Unfortunately, about a year anda half ago, two years, ago
maybe two and a half years ago.
They went out of business duringthat COVID time.

(02:41):
Wow, covid was five years ago,yeah, but I think they hang on
for a couple years and then wentout.
It may be more than two and ahalf years.
I could be getting my timeswrong.
Our most recent one would belike 2021.
So three or four years.

(03:02):
Yeah, you're right, it's been awhile.
They unfortunately went out ofbusiness and the good news is
the majority of the parts inservice were able to get done at
either AA or Bolt or wherever,and it's not a big deal.
But we had a unique problem onsome of our reefer units.
Well, all of our reefer unitshave these.

(03:23):
They have these little.
The sleepers are notched out.
We've talked about that beforehow the?
sleepers are notched out and thereefer unit goes over into that
notch.
On the sides of that notch theyhave these little fairings.
They're just these little fauxpieces of aluminum or fiberglass
that hide the reefer unit andkeep that static of the body of

(03:44):
the sleeper going.
And also the aero and theaerodynamics yes, keep the wind
blowing down the side of thetruck instead of getting caught
in there and causing drag.
We had one that flew off.
It's missing.
We don't know where it's atit's gone yeah.
And then we have several othersthat are just not in great shape
.
Like you can tell, thefiberglass is getting old.
There's starting to be littletears and rips where the bolts

(04:08):
go through and stuff.
They had to be taken off.
When they work on the reeferunit they're on and off quite a
bit.
We need to replace them, whichis common, but that is a
custom-made part that nobodyelse has.
We had to actually go grab atruck, get both sides of those
fairings off and tomorrow I'mbringing them out to Bolt Custom

(04:28):
Trucks in Indiana and they aregoing to reverse engineer them
and create us new ones out ofaluminum and get us a bunch of
spare sets so that, as these flyoff or need replacing because
they just look bad, we canfinally do that.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
So by reverse engineer you mean that
somebody's seven-year-old kid,who is coming to work with their
parent because they're out ofschool for the summer, is going
to sit down with it on a pieceof paper and take a magic marker
and outline it right.
Well, yes, basically.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
So because we're getting made out of aluminum,
they're going to be stamped,okay and so, because that has to
be thrown in a CAD, so theyhave to like and it's not a
one-dimensional part.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
It's a three-dimensional part.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
It has curves and stuff.
So they have to actually gothrough and upload all that into
the CAD software and then makeone and then verify it's
identical to the one that we'regiving them as a sample.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
So they're going to have somebody's 10-year-old kid
who's out of school for thesummer, come in, give them a
digitizer and have them gothrough and digitize everything
and then they're going to makeus a bunch and enamel coat them,
paint them and get them back tous so that we can.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
That's going to be fun, it will be nice, it will be
very nice.
I hope it's done relativelysoon.
They didn't really give me alead time so we'll see.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Paint timing, a paint booth is a little tricky.
Sometimes it is with them.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
We're hoping we can get these back in a pretty quick
turn.
But yeah, I'm excited that weare going to be getting these
done and have some spare partsfor that, Because it's a little
bit of concern when you've gotsomething.
That's that custom.
Yeah, and there's of concernwhen you've got something that's
that custom.
Yeah, there's not many parts onthe truck that are that custom.
No, there really aren't.
Most of the stuff.
Like if you were to hit a Godforbid hit a bridge and put a

(06:13):
crease in it, you could justlike a fiberglass.
That's super easy.
That kind of repair is easy.
This is a freestanding,independent part.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's a one-off part.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm excited about getting that done, but that's
what we had to take care oftoday, and Eric got a chance to
ride a truck, which he hadn'tdone in how long?
How long has it?
Been since you've ridden atruck A good bit.
A good bit, that's anindustrial term, it means a long
time ago, and so yeah, prior toPCS going out of business, it's
my guess I would bet that'spretty accurate.

(06:46):
Yeah, uh, and then sounds likea fun day me being in a truck.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Who's PCS?

Speaker 1 (06:55):
that's funny, yeah.
Yeah, it's pretty, pretty busyday.
Got to do uh orthodontistappointment.
Uh finally got an update on thetimeline of these braces.
Nice, and that update is, we'llfinally got an update on the
timeline of these braces.
Nice, and that update is we'llsee.
He did say that he, for thefirst time ever since I've been
going to this orthodontist, hefinally was like I know we're in

(07:16):
overtime and kind of a littlelonger than we planned, but you
know we're making good progressand things are coming together
nicely.
So you know we're just going tokeep going at it.
Nice, so I have no, we're justgoing to keep going at it.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
So I have no idea how long until this is done.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
So I actually had a good day today.
I'm working on a new somethingor other that I'm not ready to
talk about, but I got to do somework on that today, cool, you
know.
So it was a good day.
I barricaded myself in thebasement, did some messing
around and then did someresearch.

(07:50):
But I did some other stuff toothat I'm not prepared to talk
about, but yeah, it was a goodday.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Well, that's exciting .
I know projects you keep mepretty well in the dark too
about it, so I know those kindof projects are exciting.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
I've kept even Melissa kind of in the dark
about progress.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, but that was weird, though.
You actually brought her intothe basement with all the lights
off, you walked her in, youturned her around and you took
her right back out.
So, it's like you didn't giveher a chance for the eyes to
adapt or anything.
You actually had her in the sun, had her sit outside in the sun
and then walked her down.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, I made her put shoes on too, so she couldn't
feel around the floor with herfeet.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Appropriately, yeah, appropriately, appropriately.
And then the giant pieces offoam that she had to walk on
just to really throw her off,Just to really throw her off.
At least it Ooh that's good inthe basement.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
That was under the phone.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Put some visqueen.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
It was kind of weird, though, and I put the
handkerchief over her face and Isaid does this?
Smell like chloroquine?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
She said no, it smells like hydrogen peroxide.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
I poured the wrong bottle.
Wow, that sounds really bad.
I would not do that to Melissa.
We're just teasing, that's okay.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
We're just teasing, that's okay, we're just teasing,
that's okay.
I know you are All in good fun.
Got it Jerry Only because I'mprobably the only person in the
world that Googles.
Where do you buy chloroform?

Speaker 5 (09:15):
No, there are others.
There's others.
Only person in the room.
Morbid curiosity Only person inthe room.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, I listen to a lot of podcasts and I watch a
lot of true crime, and then Iwatch a lot of not true crime,
which is where it spurred myinterest.
I was watching Criminal Mindsepisode and the guy used it on
the lady and I'm like where arepeople in general just buying
chloroform?

Speaker 1 (09:35):
They do make it sound like you can buy it like Scope.
They do, they really do.
So I was curious and I Googledit the other day I get you 10%
off at CVS.
Yeah Well, it's literally likeyou can go to CVS and you're
like, all right.
Listerine Scope, chloroform.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
Aqua.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Aquanet, aquanet.
Thank you, aqua.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Velvet, which could almost be like Chloroform.
It could be.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Yeah, I know that I have to make sure the fan is on
in the bathroom and everythingwhen I put it on my hair.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
I got to use a lot for this too, I believe it.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, I believe it.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
You know, too much will make your hair come out.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Interesting.
I didn't know that.
Yeah Well, the more you knowthis has been your NBC spotlight
moment.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
I had a personal appointment this morning and
Vince drove me to it andafterwards we went and grabbed a
quick coffee.
It was at a location we've beento before and I really enjoy
their coffee.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
The human bean.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Some of you know.
No, that's a two and a halfhour drive in any direction, but
Vince and I like to do coffeedates on the weekend, try to
find new places that aren'tmajor chain, and this is one
that we've been to before.
So we went and grabbed a quickcoffee, yep.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
A little breakfast.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
A little breakfast and then back at it.
I think I was back in front ofmy computer by like 930.
Maybe 9.
Cool, so yeah, just answeringpeople's phone calls, all their
questions.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yep, I had a flight lesson this morning.
They got canceled, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Ah, that sucks yeah.
How was?

Speaker 1 (11:11):
yesterday's Yesterday's got canceled because
of me.
I canceled it actually.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
So I still went in and did a ground.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Okay, I did some.
I'm in my final preparationsfor my checkride, which
checkride is like your finaltest to yes, you can be a pilot
or you can't Go work on thesethings, right?
So yesterday I went for myannual doctor's checkup.
Is that what it's called?
Okay?
Your physical, yeah, annualphysical that my insurance has
us do.
The last thing we had to do,always everybody's favorite

(11:41):
blood draw, and I hate gettingmy blood drawn.
I'm just not one of thosepeople that likes it.
But you know, sometimes you getin there and the nurse,
practitioner or whatever theyare, the lab technician they're
like I got you and they're likezoop, zoop.
They're like grab this ball,pump a fist, how's your day been
?
You know what's going on withwhatever.

(12:01):
And then it's done, yourblood's drawn.
You're like, oh, my god, thatwas amazing.
This was not one of those days.
This was not, this was a.
Which arm would you like it in?
I was like this one.
He's like okay, cool, whateverhe goes looking for, he's like
pump up your arm and I do thefist and everything.

(12:23):
He's like fill it around.
You ever had them touch a vein?
And you can like oh, that's it.
Like I can tell you found it.
Yeah, and I'm like cool, hefound it really quick and then
he kept filling around.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Oh no.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
And then he kept filling around.
Then he kept filling around, ohdear, and then he's like let's
try the other arm and he popsthat little thing off and wraps
it on the other one.
I'm like great, I don't likeI'm right-handed, so he was
going to the right arm.
I'm like I don't like doingthat, because that's what I
write with and everything.
And so he's like, all right,well, we'll give that a shot.

Speaker 6 (13:01):
And he's like oh, is it that much?

Speaker 1 (13:03):
better If you're still Really.

Speaker 6 (13:05):
I was super nervous.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
And then he finally Is like alright, got it.
And he goes over there and Ihad my phone Sitting next to me
and I moved it To the other sideof me and he's like you can
play on your phone If it helps,like I don't mind If people do
that or whatever.
And I, I don't like getting myblood drawn.
So I'm like, as much as I wouldappreciate the distraction, I'd
rather just look away and then,when it's done, it's done and

(13:28):
boop, he goes in.
And then halfway through I feelanother ooh and I'm like, oh,
did he not find a vein?
It felt like he did.
And then you hear him changethe thing out.
And then he pulls it out and heputs a little swab on it and
he's like hold here now, holdhere.
And I'm like he's like allright, you're good.
And then he goes and gets aBand-Aid to put on and he's like

(13:49):
, by the way, he's like you kindof moved halfway through it or
whatever.
And I'm like BS, I didn't move,I was stoic.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
You know, I Same thing for me.
I'm stone.
I don't like this.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
I'm just doing.
I'm like tense as it gets, I'mnot moving.
After I got in my car and again, I don't like getting needles
and if you're listening to thisand you do or don't, I'm sorry
because I know the queasyfeeling.
I'm sitting in the car, notfeeling great, but I'm like I
just know this little airconditioning on the face and
then I'll be good to go right.
And while that's happening,it's like wow, it's actually
starting to hurt.
Like it wasn't hurting when Ileft, but now it's starting to

(14:29):
hurt and I'm like what is goingon?
So I go on to the house and Itexted my flight instructor.
I'm like I would love to meetup for a ground today.
My arm is killing me.
There's no way I could fly thisplane, because you do use your
right arm a lot on the airplane.
That's your throttle andeverything you know, so you've
got to have access to that Atthis point.

(14:49):
It's really hurting.
So I took a little Tylenol andthen went and did the thing with
him and, yeah, sure enough,this morning I wake up with a
bruise and I'm like it's myfirst time ever getting a bruise
from having blood drawn and thepain has subsided, but it's
like.
It's not pretty looking andit's frustrating, but Eric's

(15:09):
going there in a couple days toget his blood drawn, so it'll be
better.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
I think I'm going to schedule an appointment at the
allergist blood draw place.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
I'll get her to draw the blood and I'll just drop it
off at the doctor's the lasttime I got blood drawn was for
allergies.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
She was great.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I always.
The last time I got ledron wasfor allergies.
She was great.
She was great.
It's always awesome to use thebutterfly needle.
It's much smaller with the hoseon it, and then they take the
blood off the hose, not your armEspecially if they need more
than one vial Vival.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Vival, vival gone west.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
It's a significantly smaller needle when I did it at
the allergist.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
they took like three files and I didn't even know it.
It was done before I eventhought about it.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
Is it part of the same health group?

Speaker 4 (15:50):
No, oh is it Ohio Health?

Speaker 1 (15:52):
No, this one's not.
He's not part of Ohio Health,yeah, but we did get the
bombshell too that this will beour last visit with the doctor,
because in the fall he's movingto Toledo.
So now it's like great, we'regetting another doctor too.
So you know, just a doublewhammy.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
I remember bragging to you how much I liked my
doctor.
I had the same problem.
My doctor moved to a differentclinic he's no longer part of
Ohio Health so I liked him.
He shot me straight.
You know, he didn't BS me.
I'd ask a question, he'd giveme an answer or say I don't know
and find me an answer.
So yeah, I still haven'treplaced him.
I got to do that soon.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Ours automatically.
They're like we'll justautomatically assign you someone
in the group, and when I wentto go make my appointment for
the next year, she gave me thename of someone.
I was like okay, whatever, if Idon't like him, we'll change it
again.
That's a year from now, sowe'll figure it out.
But uh yeah, crazy stuff.
This getting old and takingcare of your body, stuff sucks.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Not a fan.
Wait till you get to Melissa'sage.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh, I know, oh, he told me he's like well, alright,
at 45 you get the colonoscopyand I'm like, oh, do we have to?
He's like.
And then at 50 he's like no,that's a long ways from now we
don't even need to think aboutit how was your day?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
zucchini bread same old, same old yeah, y'all have
to deal with the boob squeezer.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's right once a year what age does that start?
It depends on what kind ofhealth history you have in your
family, but I think theyrecommend it.
I think I did mine around40-something.
Yeah, I don't know what theCancer Society or Breast Cancer
recommends.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
I haven't been back.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
I do mine once a year .

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
We have health history, though in my family, of
breast cancer.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
I remember my mom before she passed.
We were chatting one day andshe was like dreading going to
Fort and I'm like what's?
The big deal and she told meeverything that happens and I'm
like yeah, I wouldn't want to dothat.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well, it's not pleasant.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
That sounds horrible.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I also think if you're more sensitive or don't
have a high, or you don't got alot or don't have a lot or high.
You know your pain tolerancelevel isn't high.
It's a significant squeeze.
It's very uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Well, I think I'm going to try and say this as
delicately as I can, so thatYouTube doesn't defund us.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
But she had a lot to squeeze.
Yeah Well, and sometimes youknow.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
So I think that was part of her thing, yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Oh, no, yeah, I miss her.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Jerry, how was your day?

Speaker 6 (18:30):
It was good.
I too locked myself in thebasement and worked on something
that I'm not ready to talkabout Nice.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Top secret talk, all these mysteries.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Oh, no, I'm.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Jerry's.
Let's follow him on Twitter.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
In the basement.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
That's really the office, isn't?

Speaker 5 (18:47):
it, it is.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
For both of you.
For me it's the office.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
yeah, Is it for both of you now?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
No, I mean for Vince and for Jerry.
Oh, oh, oh, oh sorry, Differentbasements, but that's where
their offices are.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
So if you don't know Jerry's Don, I thought maybe he
moved in the basement with you.
Okay, I was going to say,because that would be a lot,
because he's on the phone.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
So is your secret project, personal or business.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Business.
Did you have mahogany deliveredtoo?

Speaker 1 (19:15):
No, Just not ready.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
That was oak because it's business.
Exactly there you go.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
Just not ready to announce it to the public, but
something within Highfield thatI've been working on for a while
and I have gotten a lot ofstuff done recently with the
videos and different things.
So 100% of my focus is nowgoing on this and I'm not
stopping until I get it done.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Very exciting, exciting.
So if you don't see a podcast,that's thrilling.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
So is Don working upstairs Like your old office
Yep, is he during the heat?
Yeah, yeah, jumping into the ACthere yet.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
We are running the AC .
We had to yeah this weekend.
We're really.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
By Monday 94.
It's going to be 94 thisweekend, Monday 90s over the
weekend and Monday 94.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
It's going to be 94 this weekend, monday 90s over
the weekend and Monday 94.
How's the humidity going to beHigh?
I had to Thank God y'all can'tsmell it, but where our studio
is we had to bring thedehumidifier in Came into the
studio.
I guess it was maybe two orthree days ago.
I think it was two days ago andI was was like, oh no, I smell

(20:27):
it like you know that if youhave a basement and you know the
mildewy, musty smell.
I was like, oh, this isn't good.
Uh, so right now we're allsmelling it.
Uh, thankfully y'all aren't,but I I put the, the
dehumidifier down there and likean hour in a it was like 70
something percent humidity andan hour in it filled the little
bundle up.
So it's like I've had to keepcoming down here and dumping and
dumping and dumping.

(20:48):
Just try to get that humidityout of the air and get it back
under control, because it'sfrustrating and it's so weird
how, like we recorded here aweek ago, yeah.
And it was totally fine.
There's just been that muchrain and humidity.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
That's come into this area.
It has been humid.
Yeah, rain and humidity that'scome into this area.
It has been humid, yeah, ithasn't produced much.
Last night I think it did Alittle bit.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, it's kind of been sprinkling Rain, rain.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
It rained today.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Oh it rained good today.
Oh it rained good today.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
I went out to Gahanna .

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh, it was raining this morning.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
It was raining this morning.
I went out to Gahanna about 12,1230 and it came down On the
highway.
Everybody slowed down becauseit was coming down good.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
It wasn't raining at the yard.
No, I talked to Mel and shesaid it didn't rain at the yard,
it was just that strip, thatcenter strip.
When I got home, it was dry.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
They got nothing at the house.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
When I picked up that truck today, eric and I picked
that truck up today at FighterFreightliner.
I picked up that truck today,eric and I picked that truck up
today over at Fyder Freightliner.
I guess that storm was movingat an angle, because it was.
We got in that truck and it waspouring down rain.

Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Got on the interstate and the interstate's straight
due west east rather, and wedrove out of the rain and made
the little clover leaf and itwas on to 270 and it was dry,
dry, dry, onto 270 and it wasdry, dry, dry, past the yard,
dry.
And then we got up to, uh,cemetery not it's an actual

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cemetery, it's the road and, um,that's where thermo king is off
of right and it was justpouring I mean like totally
missed that section you toldthat's crazy because it was like
it was bad pouring and I justlike thinking the whole time.
They're doing me a solid byremoving these fairings and I'm
showing up as it is pouring downrain.

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I mean monsoon.
And as soon as we parked in theparking lot, the rain.
We literally watched the edgeof the rain leave.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Isn't that cool.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
And then it was dry.
And it was like well the road,I mean the ground wasn't dry but
it wasn't raining anymore.
It was.
I was like, oh, thank God, wegot here, literally just in time
.
And you know it takes thoseguys five minutes to pop those
things off.
But and then we drove back toFida.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
So that's I didn't realize the yard didn't get any
rain either.
It like sprinkled, likeseriously barely sprinkled, like
got spit on oh wow.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
That's crazy Cats and dogs.
I mean, it was just.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, and those windshield wipers.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
They're not really rated for cats and dogs.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
They were meowed and barking Cats maybe but not cats
and dogs.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
No, you got to have one or the other.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Tomorrow night is supposed to be strong storms,
possible tornadoes.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
No that's not good.
So, no, that's not good, so Ineed to not dilly.
I'm taking the truck out.
To well, like you said, aboutto build tomorrow, I hope, our
other contractors know aboutthat too, yeah.
Yeah, we have one of thebuildings getting painted right
now and they've been bustingtail to get as much painted as
possible.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
It was a great weekend for them to work.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
They didn't bother showing up at all today at all,
yeah, so, oh, so much going on,so much going on.
But we have to get to the news.
It's what we do, it's what wehave come prepared for.
And I saw something thatzucchini bread you sent to me
and Eric, and it was interestingbecause it was about my home

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state.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
It was.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
And you said would this be appropriate?
And I'm like, I think it's notonly appropriate, but I'm
excited about it and I think weneed to talk about it.
So if you would be so kind asto let us know what's going on
in the great state of Louisiana.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Or if you're from the south Lusian.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
So you know how you're driving down the road and
you're in the left lane andthere's somebody there just
cruising blocking your path,can't get around them and they
don't move over and they justsit there.
That if you're going one mile,is it one mile under yeah, one

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mile under the speed limit inthe left lane that you can get a
ticket?

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yes, they used to do it before.
It was 10 miles under beforethey would ticket yes, and now
it's only one mile and it's upto $150.
Fine, if you get stopped again,it's two times, it's 250, third
offense 350 and possibly jailtime up to 30 days.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Wow, yes, so that'll keep you off the road.
I love it.
I love it.
I also, you know, forewarningthose of us that drive
speed-controlled trucks.
So if you're in aspeed-controlled truck like we
run governed trucks at 65 milesan hour on the straight truck
side when you're going throughthose areas at the speed limit

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70, and you may be tempted to gopast someone that's doing 63 or
64 and a half or 64 and threequarters and you get that left
lane to pass them.
you are now under that one mileBefore, if Spelan was 70, you
were doing 65, you were withinthat threshold.
But now, with that one mile perhour difference, you're no

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longer in that threshold and youcan get a ticket.
I think that's a very importantpart of this.
So you need to make surethere's no one around you when
you go to make that pass.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Right, yeah, right, or that you can do it in
sufficient time.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yes, yeah, so you're not blocking traffic.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Yeah, probably not a good idea to try and pass
somebody that's governed at 64.
We all know those trucks, likeprime trucks, that are governed
a little bit low, low 65, youknow.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, so be careful with it, yeah, and then?

Speaker 2 (26:32):
And is that any road in Louisiana or just specific
like interstate?

Speaker 3 (26:35):
It just says a state, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
So any road?
Yeah, it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Like she said.
It doesn't say which, but Iwill say this, coming from
Louisiana not a lot of two-laneroads, so I would imagine most
of this is going to beinterstate related.
But if you're not on theinterstate and they do our
two-lane road, most of those are55-mile-an-hour roads, so then
you could kind of get aroundsomeone if you needed to.
But then be careful, Don't getcaught speeding.

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I was going to say I'm totallyfor the law.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
I think it's great because there are a lot of
people that do go a lot slowerin the left lane.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Camp out there.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
However, do you think something like that does
promote?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
speeding.
You could argue that.
I think you could argue that,because now if I'm doing 72, I'm
keeping myself a buffer to getaway.
Argue that.
I think you could argue thatbecause you know, now if I'm
doing 72, I'm keeping myself abuffer to get away from that as
well.
The other thing that makes me alittle bit nervous is, you know
, maybe they want to target theperson that's leading the pack.

(27:36):
But if everybody's spread outfar enough and I've got my
adaptive cruise control, like inmy Jeep, I have adaptive cruise
control then I can set thedistance out pretty far, which
I'll do when I'm cruising on theinterstate.
And if the person in front ofme slows down slow enough, my
car automatically slows downslow enough.
What's the chance of the copcoming after me and saying, hey,

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you shouldn't be in the leftlane, even though I am passing
people because I'm going under70 miles an hour?
So it does bring someinteresting questions.
I mean, you would ideally hopewell, no, they're going to go
after the guy in front of you.
But if that adaptive cruisecontrol is set out as far as
it'll go, that car can be prettyfar from you.
You've seen it in the trucks.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Even Sometimes that car in front of you that you're
following is pretty good waysaway.
I guess I didn't see it as ifyou were passing and you weren't
blocking traffic and cruising,that it wouldn't matter if you
were under the speed limit.
But I suppose they still couldtechnically.
The way this is written, theway it's written yeah, but they
think that this will help forunsafe lane changes and avoid

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will help so that there are notas many crashes and avoid road
rage.
Yep, I mean like I love thestate of Louisiana but will help
so that there are not as manycrashes and avoid road rage.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, and I do.
I mean, like I love the stateof Louisiana, but I do think
some of that's crap.
I think it's just people don'tlike to let people in the left
lane.
No, none of us do.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
None of us do.
There's a guy I follow onTikTok and he says it all the
time Like you know, don't be inthe left lane if you're going to
be camping out.
He always says if you ain't gotticket money, don't be in the
left lane.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
I got ticket money I'm ready to go.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
It's interesting, it's cool to see them make a
change like this.
I'm very curious to see whatpeople say, and we've got a lot
of family and friends that areleft in Louisiana, so we'll see
how this actually kind of shakesout.
I mean, again, if you're stuckin the left lane behind someone
and they're going slow, youstill got to wait and hope that
there's a cop that sees it, andwho knows how long that'll take

(29:31):
to find, because there's neverone around when you need them.
There's never one around unlessyou're doing something wrong.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
So how long do you think this will be now before
other states start doing it?
I other states start doing it.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
I hope sooner than later.
But you know, again it comesback to is there empirical data
that says this helps or is thisa hunch, because like an excuse
because we don't like it?
I feel like there's a lot ofstates that want to see actual
data saying it helps, and Ithink Louisiana is a little more
okay with.

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We don't like this, so we'regoing to outlaw it.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
I could totally going back to what you were saying
with the trucks and passinggovernment trucks and stuff.
I could see something like thatin California.
You always seem to have thetrucks that get over in the left
lane because they're climbingup these slow mountains and
someone's going a half a mile anhour faster up that mountain.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Or even, and that gets really bad too because
you've got, you know, a truckdoing 35 miles an hour and so
someone gets in the left lanegoing 38 because they're passing
someone, Meanwhile, you know,regular traffic's going 65.
Other trucks, like our straighttrucks, climbing a hill in
California, fully loaded, 55 allday, no big deal, and so I
could definitely see that like Igot stopped in california.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
I did and I got it.
I got a warning for it were youin the wrong lane I was in the
wrong lane because it was one ofthose instances where there's
seven lanes of traffic climbingup the mountain and I got over
because I can go a lot fasterthan all these other trucks and
I was cruising at 55 and hestopped me and he gave me a
warning not a lot of being outleft california is very.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
The signage is there right.
Yes, trucks have to stay in theleft two lane or right two
lanes.
Um, it's throughout the stateand I'm gonna guess maybe you
were climbing out of castaicgoing north of i-5, correct?
That's a hot spot for chp tosit there because it is so wide
there and it's the first bighill coming out of Los Angeles

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and I've seen CHP on their bikesall the time, just going to get
drivers that are in the firstand second lane and just
grabbing them.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Is that where you passed the Getty?

Speaker 2 (31:41):
No, that's further south.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
That's on the 405 further south this is literally
as you're leaving, leaving.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Castaic, like where the Flying J is, like where the
Flying J, the pilot, the pilot,yeah, the pilot is going towards
the Flying J.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yes, up higher.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
Yeah, okay, you're just starting to climb the
grapevine there.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
We hardly ever ran that, which is crazy as many
times as Eric and I ran allthose roads because we spent a
lot of time in California and wewere in the desert all the time
, but we rarely rode I-5.
We were almost always on, is it99?
Yep, we were on 99 a lot.
We were in Vegas a lot.
It was very rare for us toactually take 5 and go north.
It was just the freight we werehauling.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
I guess was a little off.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Because, out there.
I mean dry freight's unique.
It's not.
I mean y'all ran it withPanther.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
It's not always where you think it would be going
Sure.
And I saw it too when I waspulling a reefer up and down I-5
.
I was always on I-5.
So I saw it a lot during that.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, makes sense.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
And a lot of our reefer trucks run I-5.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
That makes sense too.
Again, we're in dry vans, so wehardly ever kind of did that.
But well, it'll be interestingto see what happens in Louisiana
.
I mean, you know I tend throughLouisiana's majority of its
three lanes, but there are stillgood sections of two lanes.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
They've been developing it over the past
decade.
Making everything into threelanes yeah, over the past 30,.
Making everything new Over thedecade yeah, that's how long it
takes Over the past 30 years.
Okay, I was putting you onframe for a minute.
It takes them a while.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah Well, I mean, can't really complain.
How long has Dallas beenworking on their freeway system?

Speaker 5 (33:18):
When did they stop?
How is Columbus working ontheir freeway system?

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah well true by Columbus Morgan on their freeway
system.
Yeah well, true by the timethey get done with it.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
They have to go and do it all over again, because
the road will be potholed.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Oh man, crazy stuff.
Well, interesting to see whathappens in Louisiana.
I'm curious y'all driving outthere, as you go through
Louisiana, do you feel thatpressure?
Do you see people obeying thatlaw or not?
And are cops really?
Do you see anybody gettingpulled over if we're going too
slow in the left-hand lane?
I know we don't get a lot oftraffic through Louisiana.
Most of our freight is going tobe north of Louisiana, but we

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still get a few trucks throughthere, I know.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Panther goes out of Baton Rouge Across ITN all the
time.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, quite a bit Interesting.
Well, Melissa, you've got somenew news.
That is exciting.
We kind of spoiled this a fewweeks, a few months, a couple
months ago yeah.
I talked about heading out toFIDA and I actually saw
something out there that excitedme and we talked about it a
little bit, but you can finallymake the announcement.

(34:16):
I'd love to hear it.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
I'm so excited.
We were just out there lastSaturday yeah.
We saw the sign, the big signgo up.
Yeah, the last Saturday Saw thesign, the big sign go up.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
The beacon of what we called home and love.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
That's what we used to call it.
So Love's just opened up a newtravel stop in West Jefferson,
ohio, on I-70, which is justoutside of Columbus near FIDA
Freightliner.
Yes, so, kind of between FIDAand the TA.

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So out there it does offer 80parking spaces, six bobtail
parking spaces, the Love's FreshKitchen, hardee's, eight diesel
bays, five showers, catscale,dog Park, self Checkout Options,
and my favorite was the 85 JobsAdded.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Oh, I thought it was the Hardee's.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Oh, did I say Hardee's you?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
did say Hardee's.
Oh, did you say Hardee's?
Oh, my apology, I didn't hearthat no.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Fresh Kitchen and Hardee's Yep.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
I saw it, I honed in on.
I like.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Hardee's.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
So anyways, yeah, it opened up, and super excited to
have another Love's Around theCircle as an option, the Outer
Belt as an option.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
I got to say I'm going to be totally
controversial here and I'm sorryI'm not going to high-tech your
story.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
No, that's okay.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
Carl's Jr is much better than Hardee's.
Oh, much better than Hardee's.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
You Much better than Hardee's.
You know, it depends how eastor west I am.

Speaker 5 (35:49):
I get that, but I'm just saying Carl's Jr is better
than Hardee's.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Yeah, I mean, if you think about Carl's Jr has the
Los.

Speaker 5 (35:59):
Angeles market locked in.
There is no Hardee's there,it's all Carl's down.
There is no Hardee's there,it's all Carl's Jr.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
There is no Hardee's there.
But my question is if you werein Los Angeles and you were
locked down by Carl's Jr, thenobviously you would go to
In-N-Out, of course.

Speaker 5 (36:15):
I mean, this is a Carl's Jr Hardee's conversation
In-N-Out doesn't even come toplay in that conversation.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
There is no difference.
The then In-N-Out doesn't evencome to play in that
conversation.
There is no difference.
The way I see it is, out hereit's Hardee's, because we don't
have In-N-Out, and in Texas it'sof course, whataburger Hardee's
.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Whataburger.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Whataburger Texas.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Whataburger.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
The most controversial thing I'm ever
going to say on here isWhataburger is just okay, the
spicy ketchup's nice, and see, Ithink In-N-Out's just okay.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
In-N-Out is horrible.
I hate it.
Wow, it's not horrible.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Wow, how can it be horrible?
I'm not a fan either.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
What I'm not a fan.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's because y'all don't have a giant row with one
of the massive safety pinsholding it, exactly it's fine.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
I just never understood the lines.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
I never Too long of a line.
I do agree with that.
That is what.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
For a burger that's not that great.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
It's a delicious burger.
I don't want to hear y'all saythat, but the lines in
California are ridiculous.
But when you're in Texas, likearound Dallas, dallas has
In-N-Out Burger.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
The lines are much more reasonable, okay.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
They're bringing them to the East Coast.
Didn't we have In-N-Out?

Speaker 5 (37:23):
Burger.
Last time we were in Oregontogether we did on the way out.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
I'll eat In-N-Out, don't get me wrong Animal fries,
animal fries.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
I don't understand a secret menu that's not posted.
That you should know about that.
You have to order from.
That confuses me.
Well, you don't have to orderfrom it.
Well, at this point, how?

Speaker 4 (37:37):
secret is the secret menu.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
It's not even a secret menu anymore.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Now it's an unlisted menu.
That's exactly what it is.
It's just animal stuff.
It's great food.
Well, I'm sorry you don't likefresh, never frozen, ground beef
, french fries chopped right infront of you, not flash frozen
in a factory a thousand milesaway.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
They need to be fried extra long.
Well fries are well done.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Oh see, I like them.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
Animal fries are well done.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
I like them.
Animal style.
Not well done, because it'salmost like a baked potato kind
of experience.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
I get it.
I get it, but I could see, yeah, I want a little crispy.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
If I wanted to eat them as french fries, I'd go to
McDonald's.
Mcdonald's is great frenchfries.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
I'd go to Burger Shake Shack.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
I've never been to one.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
You need to try it.
You know what I want to do.
We were just there this lastweekend.
I want to do the shake.
Thanks for the invite.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Oh yeah, thanks Let me check mine, oh okay, that's
not fair In all fairness In all.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Fairness In all fairness.

Speaker 6 (38:36):
In all fairness, in all fairness, I was supposed to
hang out with you this weekendand I chose not to, so that is
on me, but I do want to do theShake Shack Challenge.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Have you considered it?
What's that?
You go to Boston and you get aShake Shack in Boston and try it
, and then you get on a Deltaflight out of Boston, over a
thousand miles, and theyactually have a Shake Shack
burger as your lunch or dinneroption, Not breakfast.
Don't go too early, You'll missit.
And then you get to compare itand how it is.

(39:08):
Everyone that's done it so faris like mind's blown away at how
good.
It is.
Interesting that they canactually make a hamburger, a
cheeseburger, so good on a plane.
So I'm like I really want totry it and see if it really
holds up.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
Does Shake Shack do Smash Burgers?

Speaker 6 (39:23):
They're kind of like that.
I think they're not as paperthin as some people think a
Smash Burger is but they arereally thin.
They're really good.
It's like a potato bun andtheir fries are big, thick,
crispy fries.
They're good.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
Are they the ones advertising beef tallow fries?
No, that's steak and shake.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
That's what that sign means we don't have a steak.

Speaker 5 (39:46):
Yeah, I can't wait until Patrick gets his
Blackstone, so I can play aroundwith Smash Burgers.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
I can't wait either.
I thought you were going to saypilot's license.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
We can fly to Boston and then fly back with the Shake
Shack burger.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
We could fly to Boston, get a Shake Shack burger
just bring it back on the plane.
Like an Air Force.
One thing with McDonald's.
You know who has a Smash Burgernow too.
That's actually pretty darngood.
It's Sonic.
I don't know if y'all ever goto Sonic Drive-In.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
I haven't been to Sonic in ages.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
I always liked their burger.
I thought it was a prettydecent burger.
It's not spectacular.
I probably feel about theircheeseburgers the way you feel
about.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
In-N-Out.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
It's just an okay burger.
But sometimes an okay burger iswhat you need.
But they now have a smashburger and I would have actually
was ordering a footlong chilicheese dog, because that's my
jam.
I love Sonic's footlong chilicheese dogs.
Their chili's good, they getthe onions Anyways, yes, I had
dinner tonight, dang it.

(40:46):
So they had a special going onwith the Smash Burgers, like get
one half off or something, andI'm like well, for like $1.50,
let me try it and ooh, I'm likeit's good, good to know it's
considerably better than theirregular cheeseburgers, good to
know.
So, sonic, if you're out there,I mean I love Sonic Blast.
I used to love the Coke slushythings.

Speaker 6 (41:09):
They would do.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
So, yeah, America's driving for a reason.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
You know what cherry lime I made from Sonic.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
I used to work at Sonic.
I never did Sonic, you did.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Did you have the rollerblades?

Speaker 3 (41:20):
I did not do the rollerblades.
I was not allowed and I didn'tfeel comfortable.
Anyway, I'm not coordinatedenough.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
Which you proved earlier this evening.

Speaker 6 (41:30):
Their shakes are half off right now for happy hour.
You know what I always lovedabout, you know what.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
I always Ask me how.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
I meant to.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
We'll be back.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
After this break we'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
We'd like to thank our sponsor of the show Sonic.
No, we.
So Sonic was always, but mysister was going to college.
She went to college.
No, I'm wrong, but my sisterwas in high school as a senior,
sophomore and senior, and Ithink she did this in the
college too, but sophomore andsenior she would work at the
Girl Scout camp, cape Meridaleas a wrangler.

(42:05):
She was a horse wrangler.
I don't know if you know thatabout Melissa or not.
She was a horse wrangler.
The place was probably an hourand a half from the house and so
Melissa didn't have a driver'slicense, so Mom and I would take
her and then on the way back,me and Mom would swing into
Sonic, and I always loved itbecause I would get a Route 44.

(42:27):
And if you remember back thenthey were the only people with
that size drinks.
They were Even like Circle K or7-Eleven didn't have that size.
Yet Our AMPM did in LA.
We didn't have AMPM in BatonRouge, louisiana.
We did in LA.
We didn't have 7-Eleven either.
We had Circle K.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
How did you know they didn't have that big a size?
A super big gulp, a super biggulp.
Yeah, 64 ounces of sugarygoodness.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
So we'd hit the Sonic for happy hour because we'd
just gotten rid of my sister.
And we'd get the Route 44 forhalf price.
And we would get the Route 44for half price and we would get
a I don't know some kind of icecream treat Sunday or something,
and then head back to BatonRouge.
The only thing that suckedabout that was you've got to
keep in mind this is like early90s, mid-90s and late 90s and

(43:18):
the cars back then weren'treally big cup holder things.
Cup holders weren't a thing.
So Mom's Buick had a little cupholder that slid out of the
dash and it was perfect for acan of soda.
Like one can of soda would fit.
But if you had a big Route 44,you had to hold that sucker the
whole way because there wasnowhere to place it.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
It didn't have the fancy breakdown to a small one
Later on.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
they did do that.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
It was so close to the radio.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
Even if it would have fit, you couldn't have fit it
in there because the radio wouldhave pushed it, and if it did,
it would probably be so heavywhen it was full it would break
the thing.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Or fall over.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
That's why we always liked Dad's pickup truck.
Dad had a Ranger back then,which five-speed manual and on
the side of the shifter.
It had two cup holders that youcould put the big drink in.
That's where I became a big fanof Sonic was through that
process, and then me and Momwould just sing songs and screw
off all the way back to thehouse Nice.

(44:15):
Good memories from childhood,and Sonic was part of it, now
redeemingly health-wise nothing.

Speaker 6 (44:21):
They don't have a single thing there, not at all.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
You Now redeemingly health-wise nothing.
They don't have a single thingthere.
Not at all.
You don't even want to count.
That's a cheat day.
It's a cheat day and you don'trecord it.
If your app that you'rerecording your calories on
doesn't know that you had it, itdidn't count.
It didn't count.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah, so my favorite thing working there is we would
make the shakes and we could putin whatever flavors we wanted.
So I could do like a chocolatecovered cherry shake, or I could
do like I don't even rememberwhat.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
That's one I always made Did you ever do chocolate
mint, because that's the best.
That is the best.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
I don't remember having mint but, yes, I love
chocolate mint.
You outnumbered.
For those of you that can't see, I've got the look of disgust
on my face, which is the look, Isee every morning when she
opens her eyes and looks at me.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
She rolls over and sees me and I get the look of
disgust.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
I love chocolate mint man.
I remember going to Piccadillyback in the day.
Anybody know Piccadilly,piccadilly, anyone Going to
Piccadilly?
And afterwards you get a littleYork peppermint patty on the
way out for five cents.
Or going to Cracker Barrel andgetting the Andy's mint on the
way out the door, or BaskinRobbins and getting the mint,
chocolate chip, ice cream, good,good stuff.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
Yeah, heather was kind enough when she did her
Girl Scout cookie order thisyear A little.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Thin Mint.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
A little Thin Mint.
She put a sleeve of Thin Mintsin the freezer for me and she's
like that's all yours.
I actually ate the last threelast night.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Last night, last night I paced myself.
I wanted to be so mad at herfor not getting me any.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Samoas Samoas Caramel Delights, depending on where
you're from yes and.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
I was at my house.
It's like Hardee's Carl's Jrkind of thing.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I was at my house one day after one of these
recordings and you had been overbecause you were getting the
goodie bag for a team.
So, if you don't know, when youcome to Highfield Trekking we
have a little goodie bag puttogether for you and all that
accoutrement or not all of it,but a lot of it is kept in my
office.
And so she came over and made acouple goodie bags and then
left and on my bar was a littlesnack bag of those Samoas and

(46:25):
I'm like, well, I would rather awhole box, but like this is
nice.
I appreciate this and I wasvery thankful and I ate those.
I spaced them out because Ionly had like six maybe.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
I don't remember Six or eight of them.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, and it was good , I appreciate it, love it.
But then, when it was good, Iappreciate it, love it.
But then when they were gone, Iwas like, well, this is sad.
And then, like three weekslater, another bag appeared and
I was like oh, someone's buyingsome love Nice and you can buy
all the love from me.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
I got to keep my job somehow.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Well, you're on the right track.
It was great having those and,honestly, I am trying to watch
what I eat.
I did get a little fat and Iwas able to space those out.
One cookie night is not a bigdeal.
The problem is I would eat anentire box in one setting easily
.
Wouldn't think twice about it.
Oh they're so good.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
I could try and make them.
I have a recipe to make them,but I just don't know.
It would be the same.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
What are you doing tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Tomorrow is your day off apparently.

Speaker 5 (47:31):
No, she doesn't get a day off, but she can just make
cookies tomorrow, that's part ofthe job, very true.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Well, the thing I liked about the Loves article
was anytime they open one oftheir stores article was anytime
they open one of their stores,they always do a $5,000
contribution donation to thelocal community and they do a
$5,000 donation to Children'sMiracle Network and I think
that's something I'm sorry,nationwide Children's Hospital,

(47:56):
but it's through the Children'sMiracle Network.
I think it's one thing we needto talk about too the next time
they do one of their bigChildren's Hospital pushes is.
Loves does an amazing jobworking with Children's
Hospitals.
Children's Miracle Network isthat what it?

Speaker 5 (48:15):
is.
They have the balloons, theyhave the little balloons.
You can donate and put a nameon or something, if you ever go
into a Loves.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
You see all these little paper hot air balloons or
whatever.
Are they hot air balloons?

Speaker 4 (48:24):
They are All over the wall.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
They do these big pushes and people donate money
right there and 100% of it goesto Children's Miracle Network
and they let you fill a littlething out and they'll stick it
on the wall.
They do it once or twice a yearand it's one of those things
they do that we really don'ttalk about.
They don't put a whole lot ofpublicity behind it because
they're not trying to get famousoff it.
It's just one of the goodthings they do.

(48:46):
So the next time they have onewe need to publicize that and
let people know about it,because it's a really good
organization.
It does help people out thatare in those spots.
I'm a big fan of St Jude andChildren's Miracle Network.
I've got several family membersthat have been affiliated or

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had to use those services.
Same with Ronald McDonald House.
When you need that stuff, it'sreally great these charities
exist to help out with that Bigfan of that Love that they have
chosen to give back in that way.
The other thing I love about itis it is so close to the yard.
Yes, it is.
If you, maybe you have come toColumbus to work with Highfield

(49:31):
or drive one of our trucks andmaybe you are interested in it,
a lot of people come, they getinto the truck and then the
pilot that's really close to theyard is horrible.
It's tiny.
It's very difficult to get inand out.
Even if you just circle throughto get air in your tires, it
could be an hour long endeavoreasily.

(49:51):
It's not a good place, and sothen a lot of people will want
to go to the Loves in Obetz,which is a nice one-year,
two-year-old Loves.
It's not that old, it's aboutfive years old now Is it five
years?

Speaker 5 (50:04):
Yeah, because it was open when we were on the road.
I was going to say it was openwhen we were on the road.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
We've been off the road for just about three years
now.
Okay, so so in early 2021.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Apparently.
I don't know time anymore, butit gets the local bobtail
anytime of day, it's always bad.
It's in the middle of a verybusy industrial area.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
So most people avoid that.
Then the next option is to goout towards Buckeye Lake, and
they go to Aetna.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Aetna.
Do you know?
They don't have laundryservices.
Aetna doesn't have laundryservices, but they're a newer
store too.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
Yes, but they're the kind of it can get busy at night
.
During the day it's not so bad,but at nighttime it can get a
little crazy.
On the weekend it's actuallynot bad.
It's a good place during theweekend, but at night it's a bit
much.
So a lot of people choose to goto Circleville and Circleville
is like 45 minutes or so.

(50:57):
If there's no traffic.
If there's traffic, it could bean hour south of Columbus, so
that place there's alwaysparking.
It's never really a big deal,but this place is 10 minutes
away.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
Yeah, but my concern, though, with this place is it's
right on I-70.
And it's where Circleville is,not on I-70.
It's off a smaller state route.
This one's right off I-70.
It's a busy area out there aswell.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
You know, I was doing the math on Bellefontaine.
It also is equal distance asCircleville is.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Well, the thing I'm hoping with this one is, like
you said, it's a busy area, butyou've got TA a large TA, large
TA.

Speaker 6 (51:41):
You've got a pretty big Flying J right there.
You've got a brand new sheetthat just opened with truck
parking.
It's a good size too.
It's a good size.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
And now you've got this LUVS, yeah.
So you've kind of goteverything right there to where
even if you're like we're goingto go to LUVS and we're going to
get fuel and we're going tolike try and make that our thing
, you get there.
You don't parking.
You've got three really goodalternatives right around the
corner, and so that's what Ilike about it.
I'm hoping that, with all thoseother options, that loves

(52:09):
doesn't get too crazy.
Now again, if you leave at 8, 7pm, good luck.
Sure, you know that might be abit much, but most people are
out of the yard by 4 or 5, andthey should be able to get there
and get some parking.
I would think so, and then also,you know, if people come into
town, I think it would be agreat place for people to hang
out, because there's a fairnumber of them that go to that.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
TA, they do.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
So to be able to have that Love's right there where
you get your shower credits andfree refills and all that stuff,
I think it would be really nice.
I'm glad to see it's open.
They also I don't know if yousaw this they have a spot where
they have pre-planned forelectric vehicle chargers.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
They've apparently not built it out.
They are trying to come up withsome kind of a partnership with
a local utility provider toinstall that, but they are
planning for it.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Yeah, I'm excited.
I think it's going to be areally cool place.
I like the location.
If you're going to FIDA, it isextremely convenient.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
Yes, it is I agree.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
One exit down from there.
It's three minutes to FIDA.
It's very close.
We use them a lot.
I think our drivers are goingto see a good bit of benefit out
of that.
Even if you're not one of ourdrivers, you'll see some benefit
out of it if you're in the area.
So yeah, pretty cool stuffhappening in Ohio and

(53:33):
questionable things happening inLouisiana Sounds about right.
Yeah Well, today, in continuingour series, talk on why, oh why
, hi Phil, did you do what youdo Today?
Last week we talked about theengines.

Speaker 6 (53:48):
And I apologize.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
I kind of heard back that audio and it's ooh, it's
rough.
I was clearly a little underthe weather still.
But today we're going to talkabout not engines.
We're going to move a littlebit down the truck, but not much
.
And we're going to move alittle bit down the truck, but
not much.
And we're going to talk abouttransmissions.
Ooh, yes, ooh.
In our line of work, in thetype of trucks we run, there's

(54:12):
essentially four transmissionoptions for trucks.
So we'll get the first one outof the way quickly, which is a
good, old-fashioned manualtransmission.
You know, I thought alltruckersers grounded gears and
double clutched, and right, youknow, with that 18 speed eaten
with the double reduction gear,you gotta have the double
reduction, double reduction havemy arm up on that, uh, gear

(54:36):
shifter and cruise down the road.
You know that's a lot ofpeople's idea of of the truck,
right?

Speaker 6 (54:40):
is that big old gear shifter right down the road.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Well, we don't run those.
We never have run those.
We've always been some form ofan automatic transmission since
day one.
But I did, eric and I.
It was something we wereconcerned with.
Actually, we first got starteddriving so both of us went and
actually learned to drive on astick shift commercial or test
on a stick shift, I should sayso that if we ever had to, we

(55:02):
could Right Get in the industry.
And here we are now and it'slike nobody, no need, no need.
Majority of your large fleetshave all gotten out of that.
Even when we got started, the10-speed Eaton was like a.
Everybody had them.
It was very, very common.
Today it's becoming less andless common.
Even those people Like we'llalways only have 10-speed Eatons

(55:26):
have now moved to an automatedform.
But so manual transmission ifyou love it, great, I love a
manual transmission.
I got a car out in the yardthat has a manual transmission
right now.
I love it.
It's a fun car to drive.
But when it comes to trucksit's just a little easier with
the automated transmission,easier on the left foot and the
right shoulder, yep, you know,that's one thing.
So my dad was one of thosepeople who drove a manual

(55:46):
transmission truck all his lifeand it's one of the things he
talked about.
As he got a little older Hisleft knee started to give him
trouble because of just workingthat clutch.
It just is what it is.
Your body can't do one steadymovement its whole life without
an issue.
So the automatic transmissionis easier for driver recruitment

(56:07):
, it's easier going down theroad and nowadays the automated
transmission has gotten morefuel efficient than a manual.

Speaker 5 (56:13):
It's more fuel efficient, yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
And I've run across a lot of people who argue me this
, although it's getting less andless common, but the facts are
there Black and white.
You can see it.
The automated transmissionshave gotten so good they are
more fuel efficient than themanual transmissions.
So now that you know that wedon't have manuals, all we have
are automatics, we have a fewdifferent types of automatics I

(56:37):
want to talk about.
So there are two that are OGoriginal automatic transmissions
and there's one new guy on themarket right now and the new
guy's been on the market for 10years.
So I'm not like hiding anythingbut the OGs, which I think OG
you had.
One would be the EatonUltraShift 10-speed automated

(56:59):
manual with the clutch.
I did, I thought you did, I hada feeling you'd been around
long enough.

Speaker 6 (57:06):
I was in a Western Star, so please explain how this
transmission worked.
So you had the clutch.
You had to engage the clutchwhenever you started the vehicle
, whenever you came to a stop.
However, once you startedrolling, then you no longer had
to use the clutch.
It would automate and shift thegears for you, but whenever you

(57:26):
then came to a stop, you had toengage the clutch.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Yep.
So those old Eatontransmissions.
They were pretty smart in whatthey did.
They knew like if you meet atrucker that drives a manual
transmission, he'll tell you Iclutch first, I don't clutch
again.
Outside of that, you'refloating gears, floating gears
yeah.
And so by floating gears if youdon't know what that means is
you match the RPMs of the engineto the RPMs of the gear that's

(57:50):
actually spinning and you canpull the truck out of gear and
into another one and you don'thave any clanging of the gears
because they're spinning at theexact same speed.
So as you drive manualtransmission you get used to
hearing it and learn where thoseshift points are because
they're spinning at the exactsame speed.
So as you drive manualtransmission you get used to
hearing it and learn where thoseshift points are and you can do
it without having to hit thatclutch.

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But it only works once thetruck's moving.
If you're at a dead still, thenyour engine's turning but your
transmission's not, so you haveto use a clutch to engage that
transmission.
So what Eaton did at the timewas they said all right, we can
use air and we can like airpressure, like off the air
system of the truck, and we canprogram our computer to know

(58:35):
with sensors when these twodisks are flying or gears are
flying at the same speed.
Then you do your shift and theydo it with compressed air to
make that happen and it workedgreat.
But they didn't know how to getthe truck moving in first gear
clutch.
So that's why your old schoolones had a clutch.
Well, they finally got smartand they found out how to do an

(58:55):
electric clutch and now you'vegot a little motor that actually
engages and disengages thatclutch, which is how it's able
to get in and out of first gear.
But it's still.
Once you're rolling in one ofthose old Eaton transmissions,
it's air-right, it's justair-controlled, it's all
floating gears, so the onlyclutch still out of first gear

(59:20):
and reverse and not movingneutral.
So really cool technology, veryfuel-efficient, very dependable
.
Those old school ones you had,xy shifters and some other
things that were problematic,had to get fixed, but other than
that, very durable, so durablethat the latest version of that
so that was the Eaton AutoShift.
I think it was the EatonAutoShift, wasn't it?
I believe it's.
The Eaton AutoShift is what itused to be called.

(59:41):
Now it's called the UltraShiftShift, wasn't it?
I believe it's.
The Auto Shift is what it usedto be called.
Now it's called the Ultra Shift.
The newest version of that iswhat we have on our M2s which is
the Eaton Ultra Shift.
That one works great.
It's dependable, greattransmission.
Not the fastest thing in theworld.
It's not going to win awardsDurable, long-lasting
transmissions.
When they break, you can getthem fixed pretty easily.
Eaton is a huge company andalmost every trucking like

(01:00:07):
Peterbilt, kenworth,freightliner, western Star,
international, volvo, they alluse it, so everybody's familiar
with them.
There's a lot of independentEaton shops so you're able to
get service everywhere.
But a lot of times just replacea clutch is what it normally is
.
They're just reliabletransmissions not very fast, but
super reliable.
Uh, the piece de resistancethat everybody loves, absolutely

(01:00:31):
loves, and you see this inmodern motorhomes, you see it in
touring buses, you see it inlike, if you've ever done a
charter bus, they probably had.
One of these would be theallison automatic transmission.
Now allison builds an automatictransmission that is a true
automatic, just like what's inyour car.
It's got a torque converter onit and it's a 5 or 6-speed

(01:00:53):
transmission so it doesn't havethe 10 or 12 or whatever you're
used to.
It's very large gears and itruns the gamut, but it runs like
your car.
When you put your foot down youdon't feel the gear shifts,
it's instant power.
It goes pretty quickly and theyare really nice, really durable

(01:01:16):
transmissions.
They've been out for a long,long time.
Allison started by buildingairplane engines for the war.
Like they've been out a longtime.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Is the Allison, the one with the push buttons?

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Yes, so Allison had.
Yes, if you've ever seen an RV,or even some trucks have had
the little push button, it's theNeutral, is in the middle,
drive reverse.
That's the Allison.
Very, very cool.
We had one truck like this.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
We had a couple of them like this.
We don't have any more.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
We don't have any more.
We only had one.
We had another, eaton, that hada push button.
Okay, but we only had oneAllison Gotcha, and that Allison
was crazy how nice it was, itwas nice.
The reason we don't use allison.
Like I said, we've only everhad one and I bought that one

(01:02:07):
used the only reason we don'tuse them is horrible fuel
economy because it is like yourcar, so it runs through a torque
converter.
Now, a torque converter, thinkof it like I'm gonna dumb it
down, but think of it like twofans.
Um, like you take two box fans,you put them in front of each
other and then you seal them upand you turn one fan on.
It's going to make the otherone turn, right.

(01:02:28):
Well, that's what a torqueconverter does.
It's basically two fans insideof a liquid and as your engine
turns, it spins the liquid whichmakes the other one turn.
Well, you can imagine, by doingthat it's not perfect you lose
a lot of power and waste in thatspinning liquid and so you lose

(01:02:50):
a lot of power.
So the engine has to workharder to move the truck forward
.
And when you're at speed, sowhen you're going 65 miles an
hour, 70 miles an hour down theroad, they actually have these
little teeth that come out andlock the two torque converters
up to help with fuel efficiency.
So now you are actuallyconnected to the system so you
don't have all that loss.

Speaker 5 (01:03:13):
But everything to get you there was inefficient.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
You lost tons of diesel using that.
So again, great transmission,super well built, well built,
very reliable, very comfortableto drive, but just horrible in
fuel economy.
Um, you look at like the bigtouring buses, most of those are
like five to six miles pergallon, whereas our commercial

(01:03:35):
trucks are getting around 10, 10to 11 wow so it's very, very
inefficient versus what we'regetting, but more comfortable
for a big coach, absolutely yeahespecially if you're driving
around people.
So when you're driving like theEaton or the next transmission
I'll tell you about, you do feelthe gear shift.
So if you're ridden with amanual transmission car and you
feel the car move forward alittle bit like when you shift

(01:03:57):
gears and all, you do feel thaton the automated manuals, on the
Allison, you wouldn't.
So if you're on a charter busand you're trying to get some
sleep because you're riding,because you play saxophone in a
band, like a marching band forexample, and you're trying to
get to a game somewhere, and soyou're trying to sleep on the
bus, you don't want to befeeling all those shifts you

(01:04:19):
want to be able to just conk outand that be that.
So that's why those Greyhounds,all those guys, they run the
Allison.
So it's nice and smooth, butfreight don't care and we haul
freight.
So the transmission that we nowuse is the modern-day 12-speed.
Eaton, detroit and Volvo allmake a version of this

(01:04:41):
transmission.
It's a 12-speed automatedmanual.
The new thing that's so greatabout it is it actually works
with the engine.
So beforehand you had an enginetelling a transmission hey,
we're going to go to this RPM.
And the transmission would gooh, that's cool, whenever you
get to that RPM, I'm going toshift gears, right.

(01:05:01):
And so they didn't really talkto each other.
They knew what each other weredoing but they didn't really
chat.
Right, modern, these new, moderntransmissions, these 12 speeds
that are out right now and Eatonactually has like an 18-speed
too that'll do the same thing.
The transmission computer andthe engine computer are sharing

(01:05:24):
information.
So now the transmission cantell the computer hey, we want
to do this, can you do this tothe engine to make to where I
can do this?
And so now they're actually alltalking back and forth, which
is just increasing that fueleconomy and making them even
more efficient and getting thembetter so they last longer,

(01:05:44):
because there's less wear andtear on them, because they're
not kind of fighting each other.
Now they're working as one andyou get better fuel economy and
a plus side of that is now theycan skip gears.
So if you've ever jumped in atruck with a 12-speed
transmission, you might havenoticed if you looked at the
number.
A truck with a 12-speedtransmission, you might have
noticed if you looked at thenumber it would start at 3 and
go to 5, and then go to 8, andthen go to 10 and then go to 12.

(01:06:07):
Whereas before it would be 2, 3, 4, 5, every little shift
pattern.
They act more like a 6-speedtransmission.
Because they're all workingtogether it makes for a more
pleasant ride, I think.

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
It does.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
It's a more fuel-efficient transmission.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
Even though you can still feel those shifts, you're
feeling less of them betweenzero and 65.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Absolutely.
And in some cases they'resmoother shifts because they are
working more together, and soit's definitely a lot better of
a way.
It is so good that Prevost BusCompany.
So those are, you know, prevostyeah big motor coaches Big
motor coaches.
They're the ones, pretty muchthe only thing Greyhound buys

(01:06:51):
these days.
They're owned by Volvo and theyare now buying that version of
transmission from Volvo for theGreyhound buses Nice that
version of transmission fromVolvo for the Greyhound buses.
So, even though they've alwaysbeen Allison, these new ones
have gotten so good and so slickthat they're buying those and,
much to our happiness,freightliner just introduced

(01:07:11):
those into the M2s that we buy.
So now all of our new M2s thatwe've been buying, I think we
probably got about 10 of likesix or about ten of these, now
About ten.
Okay, yeah, it's about ten ofthese so far and we've got seven
more to get something like thatyeah something like that.
They all have the new 12-speedtransmission.

(01:07:33):
That works together and it'sreally nice.
They also work with your enginebrake.
Now it's tied into yourtransmission as well, so it's a
really, really smart system.
If you're driving a Cascadiaright now and it was built 2016
or new, you probably have this.
They have tweaked it and madeit a little better over the
years, but they're finallyrolling it out to the

(01:07:53):
Freightliner M2 series, which iswhat we mostly run across the
board, so that is very excitingthat we get this.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
That's exciting.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Those are the two, so the Eaton and the Detroit are
the two transmissions that wepretty much run exclusively now,
and they are fantastic, verywell-built transmissions.
We get a lot of reliability outof them.
They get very good fuel economyand, depending on which service
group you're working withwithin Highfield, some people

(01:08:26):
pay for their own fuel, somepeople don't, and if you're
paying for your own fuel, youcertainly want the most fuel
efficient combination you canget, and it's really cool to see
that we have this option outthere and that we are running
that top of the line equipment.
So that's just a little bitabout why we do what we do.
The big one we get all the timeis why don't we run the
allisons?
Because people know how smooththey are fuel economy it just

(01:08:49):
cost a fortune to run them whatdo you think big enos had in his
truck running that beer acrossthe country?
Uh, he would have had it eaten,but it would have been Probably
an 18 speed In that oldKenworth W900.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
I fact checked for you.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
And it's who.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Big Enos was the name of the bandit.
Well, the driver.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
What's his call handle?

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Really, Was it bear no it was.
I don't see anything about thatIf you remember his call handle
Drop us a line.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
And tonight, Eric, we're watching Smokey the Bandit
.
Do you think, does Iowa 80still play Smokey the Bandit on
loop?
They used to.
I haven't been to Iowa 80 in acouple years, but they used to
always have it on loop.
We've only stopped in there,like once.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
I could have stopped on my way back, but I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
I've been there quite a few times, but I'll be honest
with you.
It's because they had a blimpysubs in there, in the fuel bay,
which is a weird thing to say ifyou're not familiar with
trucking.
But I would go in there and getthat beef, turkey beef and
cheddar.
Anyways, get it panini style.
Oh, this is great man.

(01:10:02):
That's when I knew Subway wascrap.
Was when I first had Olympia,Anyways so you heard I'm going
to rat out our Southeastdivision.
Kelly and Jimmy and Delina justhad a Firehouse Sub built right
next to them.

Speaker 6 (01:10:18):
Wow, I bet you Jimmy's on hogging it.
Oh, they're loving it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
They're loving it.
I'm like, oh God, you're goingto gain 20 pounds next time.
I see you all that bread, butanywho, well, that's how we do
our transmissions the way we dothem.
I'm curious if you've been outthere and you've experienced
different trucks You've had theVolvo, or you've had a Kenworth
with the Eaton transmission orsomething and it's a little
different.
What is your experience?

(01:10:43):
What do you like on it?
What don't you like on it?
Let us know Smokey's partner'shandle.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
I saw Snowman.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
Was that Snowman?
That is his name, that is hishandle, that is him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Yes, I think it's him , and his handle is Smokey Bear,
smokey Bear, smokey Bear andSnowman is what I get when you
Google.
We have botched this.
I am so sorry.
I apologize.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
We will be handing over our CDLs and going back to
CDL permit holders and we willdo our diligence to watch and
get better.
We did not mean to offend thetrucking community but if you
were listening to this andyou're kind of curious, what is
Highfield all about?
What is this company you allchat about?
I thought you all were just ashow that you all put on.
Feel free to reach out to us.

(01:11:29):
We have highfieldtrekkingcom.
You can kind of see what we dothere.
If you want to talk to one ofour recruiters and get a little
more of an idea, you can talk toMelissa or Delino, who's been
on this show before.
You can look her up a fewepisodes ago and see her on here
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
You can support the Expedite Chicks.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
And support the Expedite Chicks.
They do a wonderful job.
You can check out LookSharkExpediting Adventures.
You can check out Truck andTravel.
You can check out ExpediteBoogie.
You can check out the Real, thereal trucker couple, the real
trucker couple, the real truckercouple.
Look online.
There's other YouTubers outthere that aren't affiliated
with our company, but they stillput out great information.

(01:12:08):
Check them out as well, and ifyou would like to call and talk
to one of these ladies inrecruiting, you can always call
us at 833-493-4353, option 1.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
That's 833 Highfield, monday through Friday 8am to
5pm Eastern Time, or Jerry, whatelse can they do?

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
You could shoot over an email To theouterbellpodcast
at gmailcom If you're interestedin leaving a comment on the
show or have an idea for afuture show.
You can check us out on all thesocials Instagram, Facebook,
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Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
We're on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
We are.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
I don't have TikTok.

Speaker 6 (01:12:57):
That's pretty cool we don't have TikTok, it's cool
Some people do.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
You can also leave us a comment here as well and
we'll chat with you on there.
We have had a couple peoplesend us some corrections and
we've chatted.
If you find some of those chatswe talked about like we were
talking about the Englishlanguage proficiency, we were
kind of really focusing on whatwas happening in Mexico and we
were certainly told about someother things that we had a blind

(01:13:24):
eye to we really do appreciateyour comments.
It does help us make the showbetter and it does help us with
our education as well.
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We're also on any podcastformat you're familiar with, so
if listening to us is easierthan watching us, you can check
us out on any of your podcastformats you like, and I would
like to say we actually lastepisode just published our 75th

(01:14:06):
episode.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
Nice Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:14:10):
So, we're on our way to 100.
Had you told me after that lostepisode that we'd be at 75
episodes, I wouldn't havebelieved you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
How about, after the first one, the lost one, the
lost one, the lost?

Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
one.
Oh, that was bad.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
That was horrible that was y'all putting oh.

Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
And people are streaming at their phones right
now saying all 75 have beenhorrible, but that's just in my
opinion.
Well, you know, I think we'vedone a great job.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
We have done a job, so, and we've expanded our cast
and we've changed our setup.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
We have, we've adjusted.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
It has been a lot of fun so far, but in the meantime,
until we meet again, thank you,OTR Services for sponsoring
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Make good decisions and stay safe don't leave money
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