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Speaker 1: This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome aboard, Thanks for tuning in on this Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 2: We are on the floor twentieth anniversary Rush Enterprises Tech

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Speaker 2: Skills Rodeo at the Gaylord opry Land Resort and Convention

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Speaker 2: Center in Nashville, Tennessee. And I want to tell you,

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Speaker 2: for my first time, I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: What to expect.

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Speaker 2: But yesterday when I came in actually Sunday, when I

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Speaker 2: came into the event or came into the venue to

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Speaker 2: get the booth set up, get our equipment set up

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Speaker 2: and everything, I was surprised by the number of vendors.

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Speaker 2: I come to find out that there's over four hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty vendors. They are paying for this, they are

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Speaker 2: sponsoring this, and this is an opportunity at this tech

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Speaker 2: tech Rodeo of where Rush Enterprises brings together all their

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Speaker 2: different technicians MCANX and they've expanded this into not only

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Speaker 2: people in the collision center, but also the leasing, the

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Speaker 2: parts department, the sales department, all different aspects of their

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Speaker 2: business coming into what they call their Skills Rodeo to

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Speaker 2: show their skills through certain testing, written tests.

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Speaker 3: And the qualifications even.

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Speaker 2: To get here, and then they test their skills while

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Speaker 2: they're here and award the prizes. And it's absolutely remarkable.

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Speaker 2: Now where we are located, it's amazing because we're right

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Speaker 2: at the beginning, right in the front. Kind of set

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Speaker 2: the stage for you. Right across from us is a

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Speaker 2: display from International Truck and a little bit over as

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Speaker 2: Peter Bilt, I look up the aisle here I can

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Speaker 2: see Azuzu, and I see Lucas Oil, and I see

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Speaker 2: some of the other vendors, and we'll probably talk about

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Speaker 2: them over the next couple of days because we're here.

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Speaker 2: We're here today, we'll be here Tom and the the

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Speaker 2: actual well actually, since this is running at night, we

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Speaker 2: were there actually Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and then at Tuesday

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Speaker 2: night they we'll have the various awards ceremony. Uh So

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Speaker 2: it's it's been a lot of fun up to this point.

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Speaker 3: Kind of let me set the stage.

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Speaker 2: For you how we got here, because they say, you

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Speaker 2: know the old saying showing up is half the battle.

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Speaker 2: Well it was more than half the battle. Uh you know,

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Speaker 2: having to pack up everything to bring it to the show,

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Speaker 2: and making sure that you know when you're traveling but

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Speaker 2: making sure that I had all the recording equipment and

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Speaker 2: everything set up so that we could actually do the

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Speaker 2: show from here. That was interesting, but you know, we've

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Speaker 2: done it before, We've gone down to Mats and kind

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Speaker 2: of figured we had a handle on it, but of

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Speaker 2: course you have to throw the wrinkle into it. On

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Speaker 2: Saturday when we drove down, we what we had what

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Speaker 2: three weather emergencies or weather advisories we nugain in between

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Speaker 2: the week left in between what was an advisory one

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Speaker 2: and Advisory two. And on our way down here we

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Speaker 2: stopped for dinner and I think we had Advisory three

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Speaker 2: on the way as well. But getting to the and

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you, if you've never been to

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Speaker 2: the Gaylord opper Land Resort and Convention Center, it is

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Speaker 2: just absolutely amazing. All under one roof the amount of

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Speaker 2: the convention center, of the floor space, and just the

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Speaker 2: venue itself for the resort hotel, all the amenities that

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Speaker 2: you can imagine they have this They have actually two

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Speaker 2: atriums and the it's kind of well, it's basically the

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Speaker 2: rooms are set up as a horseshoe if you will,

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Speaker 2: or brackets and the balconies all look over this courtyard

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Speaker 2: and one is the restaurant area and there's water features

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Speaker 2: and so on, and then another one that's actually this

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Speaker 2: canal that runs through and that you can actually take

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Speaker 2: entire area. Walking around, you go down these different corridors

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Speaker 2: and it's not just a hotel, but you go down

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Speaker 2: whole bunch of shops.

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Speaker 3: You actually feel like you're.

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Speaker 2: Walking through a city and walking through city streets and

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Speaker 2: doing a window shopping and seeing all the different different

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Speaker 3: And of course they have all.

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Speaker 2: The amenities in terms of spas and all that sort

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Speaker 2: was kind of an interesting scheduling process. We got in

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Speaker 2: they had the venue where a lot of the vendors

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Speaker 2: were getting set up. But at the same time they

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Speaker 2: also have the beginning of the competition, and so they

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Speaker 2: had the body shop competition over in Smyrna Tech, Tennessee,

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Speaker 2: which is about a twenty twenty twenty five minute drive

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Speaker 2: wanted to drive over and see that, and so getting

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Speaker 2: so that I got back here in order to set

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Speaker 2: the booth up and everything. And then we had a

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Speaker 2: cruise last night on the General Jackson that was again

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Speaker 2: sponsored by Rush Truck Centers, Dinner and Entertainment. It's about

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Speaker 2: a four hour cruise I think it was from start

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Speaker 2: And again, if you've not been down to Nashville and

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Speaker 3: What was attempt last night?

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Speaker 2: It started out I think at eighteen degrees and by

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Speaker 2: the time we got off the boat it was five

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Speaker 2: with a windchill factor in the minus figures, So not

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of time spent out on the deck

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Speaker 2: and taking pictures. But you'd run out there and try

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Speaker 2: drown through the downtown Nashville area and try to get

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Speaker 2: some of those pictures, but then run back in and

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Speaker 3: But it was a lot of fun crews.

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Speaker 2: But yesterday Sunday morning, I got up and I went

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Speaker 2: over to the Collision center again down in Smyrna, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: And the way they set this up is they have

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Speaker 2: two basic competitions. They have the competition of the repair

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Speaker 2: and then the painting process. And in the collision department

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Speaker 2: they had a fender, a fiberglass fender that had two

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Speaker 2: of the corners broken off and holes punched in them

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Speaker 2: in that period of time. As far as the competition,

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Speaker 2: get it polished and then ready to be painted. And

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Speaker 2: watching these people again it's not something I've ever watched before.

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Speaker 2: But the sponsor, one of the sponsors of the competition,

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Speaker 2: three M products. They were here and it's interesting to

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Speaker 2: see the judges walking around with their clipboards and looking

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Speaker 2: at any all the individual stations where these people were

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Speaker 2: working and talking to the people afterwards, they were saying

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Speaker 2: it was a little nerve wracking again if they've only

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Speaker 2: done it, if it is their first time, but some

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Speaker 2: so challenged or not so intimidating, because as you're working

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Speaker 2: they're looking at what you're doing, and they're writing something

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Speaker 2: What are they seeing? What are they not? So it's

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Speaker 2: fascinating for it's really fascinating from that aspect. And as

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Speaker 2: talk to Mitch Davison. He is head of the collision

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Speaker 2: department for Rush Trucks Center, and we'll have him on

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Speaker 2: over the sometime over the next couple of days to

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Speaker 2: how they repair, how they go about because apparently on

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Speaker 2: the repair of these holes and stuff, there's a couple

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Speaker 2: of different methods or ways that you can do that.

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Speaker 2: So they judge them based on the what selection they made,

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Speaker 2: and then of course their technique of putting it together. Now,

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Speaker 2: prime and then they had colors to choose from and

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Speaker 2: individual fenders and they talked about that. They had to

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Speaker 2: make sure that well, one of the things is they

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Speaker 2: could put striping on it, so you could put a design,

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Speaker 2: and they told them, well, time permitting, be as creative

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Speaker 2: interesting and I don't know who's going to win. They

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Speaker 2: haven't announced that yet, but they've got the semi finalists,

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Speaker 2: some of the lists there. But the competition is just

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Speaker 2: a couple of interviews coming up. We're going to be

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Speaker 2: talking with Jody Pollard in the next segment. Jody Pollard

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Speaker 2: is the senior vice president of the senior vice president

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Speaker 2: Vehicle Aftermarket Sales and Rob Nixon, vice president of sales.

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Speaker 2: We've talked to them, talk about the talk to them

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Speaker 2: on this program before and then to finish up, we're

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Speaker 2: going to be talking with Chris Purcell. He was the

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Speaker 2: Grand Champion winner last year and in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 2: and hopefully he wants to try to repeat this year.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon, America's truck In Network seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 5: Did you know that ninety five percent of the Anthony

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Speaker 2: Trico aftermarket sales and Rob Nixon, VP of Sales. If

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Speaker 2: you listen to America's Trucking Network before, you know we've

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Speaker 2: talked to these two gentlemen before, usually by phone, but

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Speaker 2: actually here at the twentieth anniversary of the Rush Enterprises

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Speaker 2: Tech Skills Rodeo, we actually get to do this in person,

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Speaker 2: which is really a thrill for.

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Speaker 5: This is great and here for us to do this

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Speaker 5: in person.

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Speaker 6: It is now.

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Speaker 3: I think we spoke a couple of years ago at

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Speaker 3: the MATS.

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Speaker 7: Conference when we were given the truck away. Yeah, that

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Speaker 7: was a pretty unique event.

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Speaker 3: That was quite an event.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now so far, this being my first time here,

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Speaker 2: this blows me away. The dedication of Rush Enterprises to

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Speaker 2: this end of the business and the amount of time, effort,

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Speaker 2: money put into this because you described that last night

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Speaker 2: very well, so kind of go through that with us

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Speaker 2: a little bit.

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Speaker 7: Yes, people, twenty years ago, right here in Nashville, Tennessee,

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Speaker 7: we started our first tech Skills rodeo. It really was

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Speaker 7: just primarily focused on our technicians. We thought about it,

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Speaker 7: That's a life changing event. Oh yeah, especially in a

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Speaker 7: I'm really proud to be a part of it. Russy's

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Speaker 6: So in total, you know, there's four hundred and forty

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Speaker 2: So imagine, folks, You've got technicians from around the country

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Speaker 6: What are we trying to accomplish at RUSH as an

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Speaker 9: A group of elderly, low income tenants made their voices

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Speaker 9: I'mley Mawen whose radio seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 5: Search Holiday and let the festivities begin. Do you own

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Speaker 13: Here's our trucking forecast for the Try State and the

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Speaker 13: rest of the country and the Try sit Overnight skies

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Speaker 13: clearing the low down to seventeen sunny Tuesday high of

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Speaker 13: thirty seven. Wednesday mostly Claudie Sky's becoming sunny, highs in

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Speaker 13: the lower forties. Afternoon rain Thursday, a high of fifty

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Speaker 13: three nationally into Tuesday. Heavy snow seen in the Great

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Speaker 13: Lakes region over parts of the coastline along Lakes Erie

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Speaker 13: and Ontario. Meanwhile, further west, heavy snow scene in the

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Speaker 13: Cascades and Northern Rockies.

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Speaker 2: Seven hundred WLW. I'm Kevin Gordon. This is America'strucking Network.

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Speaker 2: Continue our conversation with Jody Pollard, Senior Vice President Vehicle

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Speaker 2: Aftermarket Sales and Rob Nixon, VP of Sales and pre

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Speaker 2: Before the break, we were talking about the different aftermarket

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Speaker 2: people that are here and the events, and then what

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Speaker 2: you want them to come away with and what you

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Speaker 2: guys want to come away with too.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, sure it again, it's in a great event where

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Speaker 6: you know, primarily we get to initially talk about the

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Speaker 6: environment we're in and you know, I've been on your

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Speaker 6: show before and we talked about that it's still an

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Speaker 6: inflationary environment. And we get to review those numbers and

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Speaker 6: really we get to we get to the core of

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Speaker 6: what is the sentiment of our customer and quite frankly,

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Speaker 6: you know, we feel like they're getting squeezed. They're always

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Speaker 6: consistently looking at their maintenance costs and how do they

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Speaker 6: do that? So, you know, I hope all of our

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Speaker 6: aftermarket salespeople leave this event really strategically looking at our

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Speaker 6: primary two initiatives, and that is one we want to

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Speaker 6: drive more value to our customers. We think they need it,

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Speaker 6: you know, with five percent inflation this year, and it

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Speaker 6: may roll up a little higher than that.

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Speaker 5: That's what expected in the industry.

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Speaker 6: In the industry, spricing just keeps going up, and so

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Speaker 6: we think it's going up much faster than the number

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Speaker 6: of miles driven per year.

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Speaker 5: So there's a little disk there.

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Speaker 6: There's a separation between what's it costing me to maintain

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Speaker 6: my fleet versus my primary revenue running. If you just

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Speaker 6: looked at it from a ratio standpoint, there's about a

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Speaker 6: four percent disparity there. So we want to drive value

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Speaker 6: as a company, and driving value is not always just

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Speaker 6: about price. It's about alternatives as well. How do we

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Speaker 6: as a company provide more value. And then secondly, it's

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Speaker 6: about speed. We want to get faster as a company,

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Speaker 6: and we want to get faster from a.

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Speaker 5: Part standpoint, just the basics.

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Speaker 6: You call in, you order a part, how quickly does

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Speaker 6: it take me to get that to you the end user?

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Speaker 5: And well the important.

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Speaker 2: Thing about that too is how quickly you can get

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Speaker 2: that to the end user against Rob Nixon, vice president

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Speaker 2: of Sales, Obviously that part is needed for a truck

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Speaker 2: that's down right, and if the truck is down, it's

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Speaker 2: not on the road and generating right exactly. And so

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Speaker 2: to speed up that process and to make sure that

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Speaker 2: that is done on a very fast basis is extremely important,

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Speaker 2: which then again is a value to the customer that

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Speaker 2: you guys provide that maybe somebody else doesn't provide.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, and speed to delivery all starts with Phil Rate,

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Speaker 6: and Phil Rate is do I have the part on

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Speaker 6: the shelf when you called me? So we've got to

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Speaker 6: be really good at that before we ever start thinking

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Speaker 6: about pulling the part, putting on a truck and dispatching

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Speaker 6: that to the customer.

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Speaker 2: Well, and the overall concept of the number of parts

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Speaker 2: and the availability of the parts that there are, you

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Speaker 2: have to be very good of making sure that you

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Speaker 2: have the right mix of parts.

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Speaker 3: That you can't stock everything.

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Speaker 6: No, I mean ince when you think of AI, that's

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Speaker 6: typically what you used in the industry to not only

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Speaker 6: you've sold it to reorder and making certain you've got

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Speaker 6: not just the right part, but the quantity on hand

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Speaker 6: in the shelf. And you know, at Rush we still

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Speaker 6: carry over four hundred million dollars in parts inventory across

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Speaker 6: one hundred.

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Speaker 5: And fifty seven locations. So speed is it for part,

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Speaker 5: it's delivery.

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Speaker 6: And when we think about service, this is where strategically

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Speaker 6: we want to continue to expand our mobile service operations.

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Speaker 6: And so why is that so important mobile service because

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Speaker 6: speed equals dwell time lowered for our customer. So without

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Speaker 6: a doubt, if I can come to the customer versus

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Speaker 6: them coming to me, we can cut that dwell time

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Speaker 6: in half. So we think our customers expectations just continue

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Speaker 6: to want faster service, faster repair. We talked about it.

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Speaker 6: If it's not running, they're not generating revenue, so out.

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Speaker 3: Of time we cut them back.

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Speaker 2: And the timing of that mobile service could actually be

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Speaker 2: when they're on their downtime, so it's not necessarily taking

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Speaker 2: them off the road. There may be a brake system

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Speaker 2: or you know, the hours of service, and they may

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Speaker 2: be off at a particular time, and if the mobile

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Speaker 2: service can get to them and then take care of it,

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Speaker 2: then it's a win win because they're not off the

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Speaker 2: road technically right for any long period of time, and

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Speaker 2: there's truck is serviced and service well so it doesn't

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Speaker 2: break down later on as well.

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Speaker 6: And when you think of that strategically trying to decrease

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Speaker 6: the dwell time and speed, it's really it's about hours

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Speaker 6: of operations.

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Speaker 5: When will you work, do you work weekends? Will you

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Speaker 5: work grievyard shifts?

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Speaker 6: All those things, And really our mobile service team is

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Speaker 6: geared up to do those things. They're working less traditional

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Speaker 6: hours than our brick and mortar technicians on the yard.

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Speaker 6: So anyway, they've got a great skill set. So many

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Speaker 6: of them are here with us today. I'll have a

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Speaker 6: great time interacting with them tonight and tomorrow. But we

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Speaker 6: value those technicians and they help us meet our strategic

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Speaker 6: in we want value and we want speed for our customers.

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Speaker 3: Oh and you guys provided for sure.

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Speaker 2: Because I know a lot of people that I talk

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Speaker 2: to from time to time in the business. They're always

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Speaker 2: raving about rush truck centers. They're talking about how.

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Speaker 3: Good it is.

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Speaker 2: So before we get out of here, one of the

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Speaker 2: things we need to talk about, and we're talking with

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Speaker 2: and now with Jodi Pollard, Senior vice president Vehicle after

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Speaker 2: Market Sales, is we've got some emission standards, emission changes

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Speaker 2: coming up with the first of the year.

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Speaker 7: Well it'll be a twenty twenty seven. So I mean

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Speaker 7: we've talked multiple times this past year. I don't think

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Speaker 7: too much has changed and respected the landscape of complexity

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Speaker 7: that this year has brought for our industry, everything from

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Speaker 7: interest rates to the general freight economy. I should start,

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Speaker 7: I should start right there is the general freight economy

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Speaker 7: due to just being too much capacity, but also you know,

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Speaker 7: just the regulation uncertainty that has just happened to our industry.

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Speaker 7: And there was a lot of clear things that were

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Speaker 7: made with the Trump administration, with the ev mandate going away.

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Speaker 5: There's been a lot of good work.

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Speaker 7: But in respect to what was the law of the

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Speaker 7: land before the Trump administration was that we were going

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Speaker 7: to get to thirty five milligram and Knox by twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty seven. And I believe this the manufacturers as well

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Speaker 7: as the EPA is going to keep that as the

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Speaker 7: law of the land.

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Speaker 5: For your listeners, you know, I would just.

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Speaker 7: Tell you that there's a certainly amount of inventory on

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Speaker 7: the ground that if you are making a truck purchase

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Speaker 7: because your business requires it, you know this next calendar,

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Speaker 7: you're you really need to contact the rush truck centers

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Speaker 7: because you know this, you could get into a particular

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Speaker 7: area where it's limited amount of allocation or some form

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Speaker 7: of allocation leading into an emissions change in twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 7: So we are already out there telling our fleets to

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Speaker 7: start playing now, but sometimes the small to mid sized

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Speaker 7: carrier guy doesn't necessarily know all this information. With each

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Speaker 7: technology change, the first you know, bad out of the box,

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Speaker 7: if you will, has its set of challenges. Always new

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Speaker 7: products had its set of challenges, and I'm not speaking

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Speaker 7: fearedom in any stretch of the imagination, but we know

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Speaker 7: the product or what it is today and how it performs.

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Speaker 7: So if you are trying to make business decisions based

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Speaker 7: on capital deployment on buying new trucks, you really need

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Speaker 7: to start thinking about doing that right now because it

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Speaker 7: could get very tight in the second half of twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty six leading into twenty twenty seven when the emission

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Speaker 7: change does happen.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course, you know there's a there's a timeframe,

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Speaker 2: and I mean, if you have to place the order,

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Speaker 2: the company needs to know how many they have to

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Speaker 2: manufacture and then plan for people coming in at the

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Speaker 2: last minute.

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Speaker 3: Type of thing.

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Speaker 7: So and certainly it you know this industry in your

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Speaker 7: customers or excuse me, your listeners. It's been a challenging

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Speaker 7: year out there, and you know they're probably put.

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Speaker 5: Off the truck sale or truck buying for a while now.

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Speaker 7: And you know, there's a lot more miles that are

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Speaker 7: on trades that we're seeing right now. Six hundred thousand

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Speaker 7: mile trades were the traditional five hundred thousand miles or

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Speaker 7: even that those three hundred thousand miles. So you've got

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Speaker 7: to be pretty conscientious of that too by extending your mileage,

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Speaker 7: because that resist becomes a factor when you go, you know,

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Speaker 7: want to buy a new truck. So it's been a

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Speaker 7: it's been a very what I would say, it's been

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Speaker 7: a constant news cycle in the trucking industry right now.

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Speaker 2: But well, and the thing is that we've talked about

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Speaker 2: in the past is that you guys are there not

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Speaker 2: just to sell vehicles, but to actually educate them and

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Speaker 2: work with your customers that to let them know what's

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Speaker 2: going on and so that they can plan ahead and

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Speaker 2: know where they need to be.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, for me, it's every week seems like I just

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Speaker 7: made a comment about that news cycle. I am relearning

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Speaker 7: things that I've already learned because I was a year

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Speaker 7: ago talking about battery electric vehicles and this year I'm

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Speaker 7: not talking about battery electric vehicles. I'm talking about thirty

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Speaker 7: five milligram Knox. So yes, education is a very reliable

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Speaker 7: source when you're making business decisions and the rules are

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Speaker 7: getting a little bit more established, so you know how

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Speaker 7: to plan for your fleet.

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Speaker 2: And so you know anybody out there that are looking

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Speaker 2: to plan this www.

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Speaker 7: Dorush Truck Centers dot Com exactly and we can definitely

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Speaker 7: serve your needs. We have plenty of inventory on the

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Speaker 7: ground and we can always use one of our truck

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Speaker 7: sales specialists to spec you as a specific truck.

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Speaker 3: Very good, Jody Polers, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 5: Jody Poler is good to be with you. Happy holidays.

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Speaker 3: Happy holidays to you too.

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Speaker 2: Vice Presidents of Vehicle Afromarket Sales and Rob Nixon, VP

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Speaker 2: of Sales. Thank you guys both for stopping by and

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Speaker 2: certainly appreciate it. I'm Kevin Bordon, America's struck In Network

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Speaker 2: Seven hundred WLW. I'm Kevin Gordon. This is America's struck

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Speaker 2: A Network. I have the pleasure of speaking with Chris Purcell.

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Speaker 2: We're at the Rush Enterprises twentieth Anniversary Tech Skills Rodeo,

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Speaker 2: and well I have again Chris Purcell. Last year was

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Speaker 2: the Grand Champion, already had done well.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, We'll leave it up to you. Tell us all

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Speaker 3: about yourself, and I guess, sir.

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Speaker 14: I've been with Rush Truck Centers for twenty six years,

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Speaker 14: been to the rodeo eight times. This is my last year,

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Speaker 14: was my second time as Grand Champion, and I'm here

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Speaker 14: competing again in the International Medium Duty Division and hoping

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Speaker 14: to do it again.

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Speaker 5: But all I can do is try. Well, That's all

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Speaker 5: you can do is do your best.

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Speaker 2: That's right now, looking back in terms of the competition,

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Speaker 2: the eighth time, right that you competed, that's right. What's

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Speaker 2: the difference between year one and I guess how many

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Speaker 2: times did you compete before you won the first grand prize?

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Speaker 14: I believe it was six times competing before I won

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Speaker 14: the Grand Champion the first time back in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 14: and that was actually virtual, so it was online.

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Speaker 5: A lot of it was question and answers.

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Speaker 14: There was a little bit of interactive diagnostics, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, over the computer.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, one Grand Champion twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so I guess I would obviously twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Having to be virtual is completely different than doing to

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Speaker 2: the person.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, winning it in person was great.

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Speaker 14: Just the atmosphere we had, the camaraderie and everything that.

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Speaker 14: I don't congratulating you, the cheers, the pictures, interviews afterwards.

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Speaker 5: I mean it was just a big deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, that's that is I mean, well, being the

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Speaker 2: top champion and anything is great, and the fact that

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Speaker 2: this is one of those areas of expertise and so on.

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Speaker 3: So what was the competition like so far this year?

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Speaker 14: It's the same in the essence that they bug your truck,

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Speaker 14: they don't give you any information. When the clock starts,

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Speaker 14: they hand your work order, you got a customer complaint

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Speaker 14: on there, and you go from there. Sometimes they're looking

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Speaker 14: for procedures, sometimes they're looking for your knowledge, and you

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Speaker 14: never know which path is the best.

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Speaker 3: To take uh huh? Now is okay? I mentioned that?

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Speaker 2: So is there a starting point or I guess everybody's

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Speaker 2: a little different the way they approach things, or is

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Speaker 2: it pretty much the same or if you.

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Speaker 14: Kind of take it from a shop environment, I mean

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Speaker 14: you want to go by your knowledge to kind of

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Speaker 14: fast track the diagnostic and repair. So based on the

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Speaker 14: symptom you would want to tackle it off of, you know,

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Speaker 14: your experience, where do you start? I'm going to check

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Speaker 14: these few things first before I go to a manual

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Speaker 14: or before I start a procedure.

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Speaker 2: Now, because in a lot of instances, I would assume

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Speaker 2: that it's something that maybe you've encountered before.

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Speaker 14: Correct ye, And sometimes well a lot of times at

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Speaker 14: the shop, there are a lot of things you do

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Speaker 14: see repetitively. So yeah, you've seen this happen two or

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Speaker 14: three times, so you're going to automatically go there to

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Speaker 14: see if that's the failure and this it is?

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Speaker 2: How like going to the manual and saying, okay, step one,

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Speaker 2: step two, step three, correct, I can skip all that

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Speaker 2: because I've seen this before. I've heard about this before.

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Speaker 2: Let's start at step five, six seven.

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Speaker 14: That's right, And in this environment, it may be something

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Speaker 14: you've run across before, but it may not.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh.

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Speaker 14: The judges they figure out the bugs every year. They

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Speaker 14: put the bugs on the truck for you to figure out.

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Speaker 2: I think that would be kind of an interesting task

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Speaker 2: right there alone. Okay, how can we challenge these guys

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Speaker 2: this year about this? By the way, I'm speaking with

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Speaker 2: Chris Purcell. He is the grand champion last year and

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Speaker 2: also in twenty twenty one, a service technician out of

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Speaker 2: Atlanta and.

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Speaker 3: Joining us here.

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Speaker 2: So I guess, from the standpoint of the people setting

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Speaker 2: this up, what could we complicate or what can we

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Speaker 2: do to make this a little more challenging this year

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Speaker 2: last year? How can we do this? I think that

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Speaker 2: would be kind of a I.

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Speaker 14: Think it's this challenging itself, just just because of the unknown. Well, uh,

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Speaker 14: your judge has a clipboard and he's got boxes he's

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Speaker 14: marking off, and.

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Speaker 5: You have no idea what they are.

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Speaker 14: Uh huh, you don't know, like I said previously, if

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Speaker 14: they're going for a knowledge or procedure. Oh okay, So

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Speaker 14: as far as what they can do to make it

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Speaker 14: more challenging, they do a really good job every year.

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Speaker 2: Well you know, you know, you look at I look

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Speaker 2: at these things in terms of I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you've watched any of the cooking shows or the cooking

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Speaker 2: competitions where they have the judges, and from what I've noticed,

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Speaker 2: it's not like that because in those instances, the judges

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Speaker 2: will come around and they'll be asking the person questions

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Speaker 2: and going, well, you know, why are you using this

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Speaker 2: ingredient on this and you're trying to do this. They're

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Speaker 2: not supposed to interfere. They're just observing. And then you said,

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Speaker 2: you don't know what they're observing or what they're asking,

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Speaker 2: whether they're looking for on the procedural point, did he

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Speaker 2: do this, this and this or the technique even correct.

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Speaker 14: We try to ask questions throughout and most of the

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Speaker 14: time we either get most of the time the judges

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Speaker 14: tell you I can't answer that, so they give no guidance.

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Speaker 5: Say you're on your own. You're on this sick Er swim,

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Speaker 5: You're on your own. If you make it to day

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Speaker 5: two competition.

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Speaker 14: It's a little bit different because you have to test

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Speaker 14: on in my category, you test on an international and

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Speaker 14: then a Peterbilt, and being an international technician, I'm familiar

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Speaker 14: with Peterbilt.

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Speaker 5: They do kind of guide.

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Speaker 14: You as and they would ask you what would you

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Speaker 14: do working on your product an international When you would

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Speaker 14: describe that to them, they say, well, we got something

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Speaker 14: similar to that.

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Speaker 3: So day two.

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Speaker 5: You get a little bit of.

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Speaker 14: Guidance when you're working on the unfamiliar product, but when

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Speaker 14: you're working on your own product, there's no guidance.

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Speaker 5: It's just you do what you do.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's cool. Now let's get to you for a

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Speaker 3: moment here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris Persall is the Grand Champion last year and

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Speaker 2: also in twenty twenty one, hoping for a third champion

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Speaker 2: chip this year. You've been with the company for fourteen years,

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Speaker 2: you said, twenty six, twenty six, Oh my goodness, I'm sorry. Oh,

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Speaker 2: there's somebody person right before you.

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Speaker 6: That was.

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Speaker 2: But so what got you in the got you into

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Speaker 2: the business in the first place?

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Speaker 3: How did you come about?

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Speaker 14: Right to high school, I was working at automotive quickly places,

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Speaker 14: changing oil, moved up to another place, did a little

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Speaker 14: bit more as far as tune ups breaks and got

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Speaker 14: a call that they were looking for an opening for

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Speaker 14: electrical tech.

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Speaker 5: At that time, noally motor trucks.

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Speaker 14: And now there's a fairly large Automotive group in the

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Speaker 14: Atlanta area, and I worked there started worked there in

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Speaker 14: ninety nine and I'm still the same location. But Rush

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Speaker 14: purchased Nally's truck side through an acquisition in twenty eleven,

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Speaker 14: so I've been at the same location since nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's great.

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Speaker 2: So in terms of you wanted to get into that

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Speaker 2: industry right from the start.

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Speaker 5: I think it.

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Speaker 14: You get that sense of accomplishment for making repairs. I've

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Speaker 14: got the curiosity wanting to know why something failed, why

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Speaker 14: something works.

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Speaker 3: I always had that.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of along the lines of, I guess the

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Speaker 2: engineering brain type of thing where people always want to

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Speaker 2: figure out how something works, how it's put together, how

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Speaker 2: it you know, why it's not working, how it works,

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Speaker 2: and dig into that.

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Speaker 14: Right in our industry, you know, sometimes you run across

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Speaker 14: a lot of repeat failures because nobody ever found the

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Speaker 14: root cause of what issue was, uh huh. And I

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Speaker 14: get a lot of that in my shop. If something's

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Speaker 14: been to this shop, that shop, or even at our

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Speaker 14: shop a time or two, then it ends up in

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Speaker 14: my lap to figure out why it keeps happening and

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Speaker 14: make sure it doesn't happen again.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's great.

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Speaker 2: So in terms of this year, as far as the

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Speaker 2: competition is concerned, stuffer competition or can you even tell?

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Speaker 14: At this you see a lot of the same faces

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Speaker 14: year after year, and you know everybody that makes.

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Speaker 5: It here is a good technician.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh.

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Speaker 14: The repeat competitors, I mean, you know that they've got

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Speaker 14: a leg up on the guys that's never been here before.

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Speaker 3: H huh. They kind of know.

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Speaker 2: Well, you guys know what to expect when you come in,

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Speaker 2: and so it's not a culture shock for you exactly.

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Speaker 5: It's it's a different experience every time.

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Speaker 14: The nerves never go away, but at least as opposed

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Speaker 14: to a newcomer, the season techs that's been here numerous times,

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Speaker 14: they know what to expect, so they're a little bit

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Speaker 14: more of a challenge, I would say, even though you

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Speaker 14: don't know what your score is compared to somebody else's.

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Speaker 3: Again, we're talking with Chris Purcell.

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Speaker 2: He is the past Grand champion in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: and last year and hopefully again this year. One final

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Speaker 2: question for you, any advice for anybody interested in getting

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Speaker 2: into this area? What can you recommend? What do you

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Speaker 2: you know? How do you suggest people get involved.

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Speaker 14: If you're looking to get into the heavy duty truck

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Speaker 14: repair aspect as a technician. There are a lot of

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Speaker 14: trade schools out there, and RUSH has a great program

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Speaker 14: as an entry level. After you've graduated trade school, they've

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Speaker 14: got an entry level mentor program that they'll bring you

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Speaker 14: in and it's a great head start.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh.

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Speaker 2: And so again, and I've seen it seems that with

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Speaker 2: the younger people that are getting a little bit more

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Speaker 2: interested in the trades than they have been in the past.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if just a feeling on my part

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Speaker 2: or we're actually seeing.

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Speaker 5: It, it seems that way.

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Speaker 14: I mean, I don't know if it's got anything to

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Speaker 14: do with the expense of going to college for their aspects.

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Speaker 14: I mean, there are trade schools related to this industry,

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Speaker 14: and I'm sure that comes with the calls, but maybe

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Speaker 14: it's not as much.

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Speaker 3: Of them now, exactly right. And that's a great career too.

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Speaker 14: It is very fulfilling too when you enjoy the you know,

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Speaker 14: like I said, the satisfaction of making repairs getting trucks

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Speaker 14: back on the road.

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Speaker 2: Well, fantastic best of luck to you, Chris. I certainly

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Speaker 2: appreciate you stopping buy and all the best for the competition.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: It's nice mating again.

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Speaker 2: Chris Purcell is the grand champion in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 2: last year and hopefully again this year. I'm Kevin Gordon,

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