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Speaker 3: Schumers shutdown. Apparently the folks on the other side of
Speaker 3: the aisle, the Democrats, just can't seem to get rid
Speaker 3: of this whole spending binge that they're in. That they
Speaker 3: just have to spend our money. They have to confiscate
Speaker 3: more of our wealth and then run government programs are
Speaker 3: inefficient and fun things that aren't for US citizens.
Speaker 4: But I don't want to go off in a tangent
Speaker 4: on that.
Speaker 3: But there's some things that are going on that may
Speaker 3: affect the Department of Transportation and other things. I do
Speaker 3: want to say that the thing that irritates me the
Speaker 3: most about our government, among other things, is the fact
Speaker 3: that year after year after year, there are different studies
Speaker 3: that are done, whether it's the Office of Management and Budget,
Speaker 3: whether it's the Government Accountability Office, whether there's Inspector General's reports,
Speaker 3: whether it's a situation where Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky
Speaker 3: comes up what he calls the Festivus Report right around
Speaker 3: oh right after Thanksgiving before Christmas, and it goes line
Speaker 3: item by line item certain waste fraud and abuse in
Speaker 3: the federal government. We also had at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the year the Doge Group, the Department of Government Efficiency,
Speaker 3: which everybody on the left wanted to trash and everybody
Speaker 3: wanted to say that this was so evil and cruel
Speaker 3: and whatever. But when they dug in and saw some
Speaker 3: of the waste fraud and abuse which everybody has claimed,
Speaker 3: and you can go through that, You can go through
Speaker 3: the different It doesn't take you long to look it up.
Speaker 3: But what everybody has said, from Bill Clinton when he
Speaker 3: was president, to Joe Biden when he was in the Senate,
Speaker 3: to Barack Obama when he became president, all these people
Speaker 3: are on record talking about the well, Bill Clinton, the
Speaker 3: era of big government is over, talking about waste fraud
Speaker 3: and abuse that needs to be cut out. All these
Speaker 3: unnecessary programs, and yet not one of them has ever
Speaker 3: done anything about it until Donald Trump came into office
Speaker 3: in his second term, and you would have thought that
Speaker 3: the entire economy was going to collapse, that the world
Speaker 3: was going to come to an end, simply because trying
Speaker 3: to do some government efficiency. And I have a little
Speaker 3: more thoughts on this when we get into this next story.
Speaker 4: But the mere fact that they.
Speaker 3: Have all of these agencies that say this is something
Speaker 3: that weighs for aden abuse, this can be cut out,
Speaker 3: this could be cut and they.
Speaker 4: Never do it.
Speaker 3: It infuriates me to the point where, you know, if
Speaker 3: it was their own money, if it was coming out
Speaker 3: of their pocket that they had and took away from
Speaker 3: their salary, you better believe that they would eliminate it.
Speaker 3: But because it's coming out of our pockets, because they
Speaker 3: don't see it, because they're not affected by it, it's
Speaker 3: going to continue. So anyway, here's what the Department of
Speaker 3: Transportation shutdown plan means. Now, they came up with this
Speaker 3: Department well, this shutdown plan, knowing that there was an
Speaker 3: impasse as far as the budget was concerned. Now you know,
Speaker 3: we're still talking about the finalizing the budget from the
Speaker 3: Biden years. We aren't even talking about the first budget
Speaker 3: because the fiscal year for the United States like September thirtieth,
Speaker 3: and then the new year begins October first. So the
Speaker 3: budget going into the first Trump budget, which begins well,
Speaker 3: actually began on the first that hasn't even been voted on.
Speaker 3: The budget from the prior year, from the October of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four that funds the government through September thirtieth
Speaker 3: to twenty five.
Speaker 4: Has never been voted on and approved.
Speaker 3: That is how weird our Congress is and how backed
Speaker 3: up they are and inefficient as far as the as
Speaker 3: far as the Congress is concerned, actually getting work done
Speaker 3: on behalf of the American people unbelievable. The Department of
Speaker 3: Transportation put together this plan in terms of knowing that
Speaker 3: there was going to be a government shutdown, knowing that
Speaker 3: there's certain funds that are cut off, certain appropriations that
Speaker 3: aren't going to be used, and during this shutdown, and oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, when you hear the whining and complaining
Speaker 3: about these various government workers that are not going to
Speaker 3: be receiving a paycheck and so on, know this little tidbit. Okay,
Speaker 3: first of all, them knowing this, I'm sure day one,
Speaker 3: they're out there filing for unemployment, which they are entitled to.
Speaker 3: So they will be collecting unemployment when they come back,
Speaker 3: and when the government is funded the pay they will
Speaker 3: be paid retroactively back to that date that they were furloughed,
Speaker 3: which means that basically this is a freebie. They're going
Speaker 3: to get paid, it's just going to be delayed, but
Speaker 3: they are going to be collecting unemployment all during that
Speaker 3: period of time. So the unemployment is basically just icing
Speaker 3: on the cake. And they know this, but that's not
Speaker 3: going to stop them from whining and complaining about.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm without a paycheck, I don't have money. You know,
Speaker 4: what am I going to do to feed my family? Yet? Right?
Speaker 4: I mean as if we're going to believe that. So anyway,
Speaker 4: just so you.
Speaker 3: Know that they are going to get back paid retroactively
Speaker 3: to the day that the government ran out of money
Speaker 3: and they were load. But in the meantime, they're going
Speaker 3: to be collecting unemployment, so they're getting, you know, basically
Speaker 3: a bonus for being furloughed. All right, So, anyway, what's
Speaker 3: going on as far as the Department of Transportation trucking
Speaker 3: operations are set to roll on even if Washington grinds
Speaker 3: to a halt, or even when According to the Department
Speaker 3: of Transportations shut Down Plan that protects safety functions and
Speaker 3: Highway Trust Fund programs, the Department's plan really was released
Speaker 3: on September thirtieth, shows that the highways and truck agencies
Speaker 3: are among the least effected in a lapse of annual appropriations.
Speaker 3: Federal law requires agencies to continue work necessary to protect
Speaker 3: life and property, and many Department of Transportation programs are
Speaker 3: insulated because they draw funding from the Highway Trust Fund
Speaker 3: and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Now let me
Speaker 3: go off on a tangent of one of my pet peeves.
Speaker 4: Again. I've told you.
Speaker 3: Before that I was involved with a group that we
Speaker 3: were trying to that we're not trying to, but that
Speaker 3: we successfully stopped tolling on a companion bridge here in
Speaker 3: the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky area. We have a bridge
Speaker 3: here that carries not only one, not two, but three
Speaker 3: major interstates through the Cincinnati area. I seventy four, I
Speaker 3: seventy five, and I seventy one. One bridge, okay, covers
Speaker 3: three separate interstate highways where there should actually be probably
Speaker 3: three bridges, but anyway, they can congest this all over
Speaker 3: one bridge. For the longest time, they tried to build
Speaker 3: a companion bridge down there. They actually had funding years
Speaker 3: and years ago, but the City of Cincinnati couldn't figure
Speaker 3: out where that was going to go and figure out
Speaker 3: their plans and so on, so.
Speaker 4: They put it off, put it off, put it off.
Speaker 3: Then suddenly they decided back in twenty thirteen, hey, we
Speaker 3: got a brilliant idea. We can go ahead and do this,
Speaker 3: but we're going to toll the bridge. And we here
Speaker 3: in northern Kentucky, a group of us said hell no,
Speaker 3: hell no, hell no, And anyway we.
Speaker 4: Got it stopped.
Speaker 3: But in the process of me doing some of the
Speaker 3: work and digging into the details, I found out some
Speaker 3: of the stuff about the Highway Trust Fund, finding out
Speaker 3: that all the money that we paid that you guys
Speaker 3: pay that in the trucking industry, all the excise taxes
Speaker 3: on the on the on the trucks, on the trailers,
Speaker 3: on the tires, all the money that we're paying as
Speaker 3: far as federal federal gas tax for gas and then
Speaker 3: diesel taxes that you guys pay as far as the
Speaker 3: trucks are concerned, all that money goes into a fund.
Speaker 3: Thirty three percent of that money is spent on non
Speaker 3: highway issues. Number One, we are we are we, You
Speaker 3: and I are subsidizing that Northeast Corridor. The train, the
Speaker 3: Amtrak train that Joe Biden used to when he was
Speaker 3: in the Senate used to ride every night, paying like
Speaker 3: you know, four bucks, and so we would normally cost
Speaker 3: him fifteen bucks. But it's subsidized by us, so that
Speaker 3: Northeast Corridor can run. Okay, we also are funding highway
Speaker 3: or hight hiking trails and biking trails. Now again not
Speaker 3: opposed to that, but if it's a if they're going
Speaker 3: to toll a highway and say it's a user pays,
Speaker 3: then where's the user paying the high hiking trails and
Speaker 3: biking trails? And as I said before, can't they charge
Speaker 3: like maybe a one percent tax on all the equipment,
Speaker 3: the bikes, the boots, the stuff, everything having to do
Speaker 3: with that and fund those and not take that out
Speaker 3: of the Highway Trust Fund. So, knowing that thirty three
Speaker 3: percent of our Highway Trust Fund is already wasted on
Speaker 3: non highway issues, that infuriated me and was one of
Speaker 3: my talking points and talking about why we shouldn't be
Speaker 3: tolling the Brent Sprid's Bridge, so on and so forth.
Speaker 4: But anyway, that's off on a tangent. Pick this up.
Speaker 3: I'm Kevin Gordon, America's truck and Network seven hundred WLW.
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Speaker 3: I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network seven hundred WLW. We
Speaker 3: were talking about or I was talking about the Department
Speaker 3: and Transportation shut down, their policy and what they're planning
Speaker 3: on doing, and I went off on a tangent when
Speaker 3: I got to the point where it said that that
Speaker 3: many DOT programs are insulated because they draw funding from
Speaker 3: the Highway Trust Fund. And again, the Highway Trust Fund
Speaker 3: is the money that is collected through all of the
Speaker 3: excise taxes that you pay on all the equipment trucks, trailers,
Speaker 3: et cetera, tires, the gasoline tax, and the diesel tax
Speaker 3: of federal diesel tax on every gallon of diesel that
Speaker 3: you pump, every gallon of gas that we pump. All
Speaker 3: the money goes into that pot. And as I mentioned,
Speaker 3: a group of us fighting tolls on the Brent Spenz
Speaker 3: Bridge or the bridge that was going to the Companion Bridge,
Speaker 3: learning that thirty three percent of the money already in
Speaker 3: that fund is being spent on non highway items. When
Speaker 3: I read this, this is another another piece to that
Speaker 3: puzzle of why when they say we don't have enough
Speaker 3: money in the Highway Trust Fund in order to do
Speaker 3: the infrastructure to repair the roads. You know, when they
Speaker 3: throw these taxes on us, they always say, oh, well,
Speaker 3: we're going to put this tax on gasoline to fund
Speaker 3: the repairs. Now, going back to the beginning of the
Speaker 3: interstate highway system, ninety percent of that money that came
Speaker 3: up for that was paid for by the federal government
Speaker 3: because they realized the importance of commerce going across the
Speaker 3: country and being able to move goods and services. Not
Speaker 3: only did that do that, But then that opened up
Speaker 3: the ability for people to travel go on vacation, travel
Speaker 3: down to Florida from Michigan or from wherever that normally
Speaker 3: would take a couple of days or three days by
Speaker 3: the old highway systems. Now you can do that almost
Speaker 3: well a day if you want to drive fourteen hours
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 4: But still it's a hell of a lot closer.
Speaker 3: The amount of freight that can be moved from one
Speaker 3: end of the country to the other is very quick.
Speaker 4: And the fact that.
Speaker 3: We are now able to get certain items that were
Speaker 3: never available in terms of fresh food, either vegetables or
Speaker 3: seafood into the center part of the country. So they
Speaker 3: realized how important this was for the commerce. But let's
Speaker 3: not forget that the original proposal of the Highway Trust
Speaker 3: the highway system in the first place, was during the
Speaker 3: Cold War to be able to move troops from one
Speaker 3: end of the country to the other within a matter
Speaker 3: of a day, as opposed to three weeks what it
Speaker 3: talked took before the interstate highway system was put into place.
Speaker 3: So part of this highway system should be funded out
Speaker 3: of the defense budget, in my opinion, because this is
Speaker 3: an important component of moving troops. So again they put
Speaker 3: the Highway Trust Fund, put all this money in there,
Speaker 3: and then now they're wasting thirty three percent of it.
Speaker 3: But now we've got all of these government bureaucrats that
Speaker 3: are taking money out of this for their paychecks. Shouldn't
Speaker 3: that be part of the normal taxes that we pay?
Speaker 3: Does the EPA where do they get their funding? They
Speaker 3: get their funding from the taxpayers. There's not a separate
Speaker 3: fund that people pay into in the term of a
Speaker 3: lotion tax or an air tax or something like that.
Speaker 3: Where's the Department of Defense that comes out of the
Speaker 3: normal budget.
Speaker 4: Why isn't the.
Speaker 3: Department of Transportation come out of the normal budget? Because
Speaker 3: they want to make sure they wanted to pretend that
Speaker 3: they're being more efficient, and they say, oh, we got
Speaker 3: this pile of money over here, why don't we build
Speaker 3: these agencies here and pull that money out of there
Speaker 3: and fund it through that. No wonder they don't have
Speaker 3: enough money for interstate highway repairs and so on. So
Speaker 3: that's one of my pet peeves, and I didn't realize
Speaker 3: it until I was looking at this particular story. Anyway,
Speaker 3: getting back to the story, trucking oversight remains intact Federal
Speaker 3: Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates the trucking industry. All
Speaker 3: one thousand and eighty four employees remain on the job.
Speaker 3: And again, when I'm talking about the number of jobs here,
Speaker 3: that's one thousand and eighty four people that are being
Speaker 3: paid for out of the Highway Trust Fund. And now,
Speaker 3: in the terms of government efficiency, are all of these
Speaker 3: people necessary or all these people? Can somebody look at
Speaker 3: that and say, all right, do they have enough people
Speaker 3: to do this? And people that are dead weight or
Speaker 3: jobs that are redundant or whatever, can we eliminate that?
Speaker 3: Hell no, we've got this money coming from the taxpayers.
Speaker 3: We don't care about efficiency. But again the plan says
Speaker 3: FMCSA positions are primarily funded by authorized contract contract Authority
Speaker 3: and paid out of the Highway Trust Fund. The agency
Speaker 3: also collects fees under the licensing and insurance function, the
Speaker 3: Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, so on and so forth. Also,
Speaker 3: they've got a pot of money coming from the back
Speaker 3: in the day. Let me see, during the funding from
Speaker 3: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which basically was just
Speaker 3: a green energy, green news steel program that they did,
Speaker 3: but there were some things in there, for the highways
Speaker 3: and construction and that, but a lot of it was
Speaker 3: more of these Green New Deal programs. So anyway, part
Speaker 3: of this is funded out of that. During the lapse
Speaker 3: FMCSA's obligation limitations follow the IIJA, the Infrastructure Investment and
Speaker 3: Jobs Act highway programs fully protected.
Speaker 4: The Federal Highway.
Speaker 3: Administration will continue normal operations with all twenty two hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty eight employees. So again, are all those employees necessary?
Speaker 3: Is anybody looking at that? Protecting the tax payer money,
Speaker 3: protecting the money that we put in there through these
Speaker 3: gasoline tax and diesel taxes to make sure that the
Speaker 3: are spending our money efficiently. So anyway, no furloughs are expected.
Speaker 3: The Department of Department of Transportation said the agency has
Speaker 3: enough liquidating cash to support several months of reimbursement. Has
Speaker 3: Mad inspections continue with some cuts. The oversight of hazardous
Speaker 3: material shipments will continue despite staff reductions. Pipeline and has
Speaker 3: met material safety Administration expects one hundred and ninety of
Speaker 3: the five hundred and seventy nine employees to be furloughed,
Speaker 3: with three employees. Now they are talking about that in
Speaker 3: the federal government. Remember when dose came in and they said,
Speaker 3: we want to eliminate certain employees, and they said, well, okay, overall,
Speaker 3: in order to reduce the federal workforce, what we're going
Speaker 3: to do is we're going to offer everybody, everybody across
Speaker 3: the board, nine months worth of.
Speaker 4: Pay if you agree to leave the job.
Speaker 3: And so if you want to retire, if you want
Speaker 3: to quit or whatever, you got nine months of paid
Speaker 3: time off and you have to accept that. They had
Speaker 3: to accept that contract by September thirtieth, and I think
Speaker 3: I saw somewhere where one hundred and ten thousand federal
Speaker 3: employees have taken advantage of that. So that workforce will
Speaker 3: be reduced by one hundred and one hundred and ten
Speaker 3: thousand workers. So again that's a way of you know,
Speaker 3: people leaving the job and then basically not having the
Speaker 3: replace And it'll be interesting to see if people don't
Speaker 3: even miss those jobs in the first place. But a
Speaker 3: lot of these positions that they're talking about in here,
Speaker 3: some of the furloughs will actually be people that have
Speaker 3: actually resigned. Vehicle safety standards work uninterrupted. Maritime operations continue
Speaker 3: with reduced staff. Other transportation modes face deeper cuts, while
Speaker 3: trucking in highway programs are largely shielded. Other parts of
Speaker 3: the Department of Transportation faith further strained. Now this, I
Speaker 3: don't understand the Federal Aviation Administration projects more than eleven
Speaker 3: thousand furloughs. Though air traffic controllers remain on duty without pay,
Speaker 3: Why aren't they protected of all of the different organizations,
Speaker 3: all the other elements of the federal government that get paid,
Speaker 3: and that there's a subsidy for them, that they are
Speaker 3: essential workers. Air traffic controllers aren't considered essential paid people,
Speaker 3: but they're still expected to show up even though they're
Speaker 3: not going to get paid unblue And I wonder how
Speaker 3: that's gonna work out in terms of do they get
Speaker 3: to collect unemployment because they're not receiving a paycheck or
Speaker 3: are they just going to get that retroactive money later on?
Speaker 3: You know some of the stuff when we when I
Speaker 3: dig into this stuff and see how inefficient our federal
Speaker 3: government is, it just absolutely appalls me. I'm Kevin Gordon,
Speaker 3: America's Trucking Network seven hundred WLW News Traffic and Weather
Speaker 3: News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.
Speaker 11: The FDA has just approved a generic version of the
Speaker 11: abortion pill with your twelve thirty report, I'm Travis Laird
Speaker 11: breaking now. The drug is mifepristone, the most commonly used
Speaker 11: for medication abortions. It is the second generic version to
Speaker 11: reach the market. The announcement comes just weeks after Health
Speaker 11: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior said the drug safety would
Speaker 11: be reviewed. A study from the Ethics and Public Public
Speaker 11: Policy Center, a conservative think tank cited by the administration,
Speaker 11: claimed eleven percent of women had serious adverse reactions, but
Speaker 11: that research was not peer reviewed. The FDA's own data
Speaker 11: shows the rate is just one half of one percent.
Speaker 8: A spokesperson for the department says, by law, the FDA
Speaker 8: must approve a generic drug if it is similar to
Speaker 8: the brand name drug.
Speaker 11: That's ABC's Michelle Franzen. The move prompted fierce backlash. Senator
Speaker 11: Josh Hawley called it shocking. Anti abortion groups said it
Speaker 11: was reckless and unconscionable.
Speaker 7: Another lovely night, partly cloudy conditions, temperatures dropping into the
Speaker 7: upper fifties, and the tomorrol cloud's decrease a little bit.
Speaker 7: We'll get back to a mostly sunny sky. And it's
Speaker 7: also a warmer day with a high of eighty four.
Speaker 7: We'll see the same forecast for Saturday and Sunday. It's
Speaker 7: Monday night next week that rain will return and bring
Speaker 7: back some cooler air. That's the forecast. I'm nine First
Speaker 7: Warning Meteorologist Jennifer.
Speaker 11: Ketchbar sixty degrees in Cincinnati right now.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 11: The City of Cincinnati has announced how it will spend
Speaker 11: the next round of Railway Trust money for twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 11: Officials expect fifty eight million dollars, two million more than
Speaker 11: last year. The biggest chair, twenty two million, is set
Speaker 11: aside for street repaving. Other projects include the Fleet Garage
Speaker 11: and the Dunham Recreation Center. Mayor Pirraval says it costs
Speaker 11: a million dollars to pave a single mile of road,
Speaker 11: but he says crews have patched more than forty three
Speaker 11: thousand potholes so far this year. The city is also
Speaker 11: looking at cameras on city vehicles to flag new potholes.
Speaker 4: And the Queen.
Speaker 11: City Book Bank has opened its two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 11: Little Free Library the New Boxes in Avondale. Hosted by
Speaker 11: former libraryan Connie Harris, the initiative provides free books to
Speaker 11: more than four thousand elementary students in twenty Cincinnati schools
Speaker 11: giving each child ten new books every year. Organizers say
Speaker 11: the little free libraries help students build reading habits and
Speaker 11: help neighborhoods connect. Our next update is with Lee Mallin
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Speaker 12: Here's your trucking forecast for the tri State and for
Speaker 12: the rest of the country. Through the overnight, mostly cloudy
Speaker 12: with a low fifty nine, mostly sunny, Friday with a
Speaker 12: high eighty four, Mostly clear Friday night with a low
Speaker 12: sixty Saturday, sunshine, high eighty four. Sunday, sunny, and a
Speaker 12: high again of eighty four degrees for the rest.
Speaker 4: Of the country.
Speaker 12: Record high temps possible across the northern Plains, upper Mississippi
Speaker 12: Valley and Great Lakes. Below average temperatures to stretch from
Speaker 12: the West Coast into the Great Basin and Northern Rockies,
Speaker 12: and heavy rains and isolated flooding along the east coast
Speaker 12: of Florida and from the northern Sierra into the Northern Rockies.
Speaker 4: Seven hundred WLW. I'm Kevin Gordon. This is America struck
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Speaker 3: Last week, the Department of Transportation Seawn Duffy had a
Speaker 3: press conference and they were discussing has declared a national
Speaker 3: emergency over states handling of commercial driver's license for non citizens,
Speaker 3: ordering immediate changes that could affect thousands of drivers and
Speaker 3: potentially reshape hiring practices across the trucking industry. You may
Speaker 3: recall back on I think it was September twenty fourth,
Speaker 3: we covered on the show fmcsa data show surge in
Speaker 3: roadside inspections where we talked about the number of trucks
Speaker 3: been pulled over and.
Speaker 4: Put out a service.
Speaker 3: This is as a result of the enforcement action that
Speaker 3: was required by the Department of Transportation back in let's see,
Speaker 3: it was in May the twentieth that Sean Duffy put
Speaker 3: out this new guidance. In the headline at the time
Speaker 3: was US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy signs order announcing new
Speaker 3: guidelines to enforce that English only proficiency. And then that
Speaker 3: was supposed to go into effect on what was it,
Speaker 3: June the twenty fifth. Now you may recall too that
Speaker 3: on August the twelfth that heart Hard Gender Singe, the
Speaker 3: one that the guy down in illegal Alien Driver's License
Speaker 3: CDL license from California made that illegal U turn down
Speaker 3: in Texas Florida that killed three family members, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, this focus went on these illegal aliens
Speaker 3: and the driver's licenses. Now, this again is something that
Speaker 3: was announced back in May. The enforcement action began June
Speaker 3: twenty fifth. This hard gender singh was pulled over in
Speaker 3: July in New Mexican Co. Pulled over for speeding, was
Speaker 3: issued a ticket. They couldn't communicate with him. The bodycam
Speaker 3: footage of that showed he couldn't speak English, which meant
Speaker 3: that he probably couldn't understand roadside road signs, and the
Speaker 3: officers just let him go. And then less than a
Speaker 3: month later he kills three people in Florida. And so
Speaker 3: this is something that when the problem comes about.
Speaker 4: When a problem is announced.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't you think that people would immediately jump on it
Speaker 3: and say we need to change it. It was announced
Speaker 3: in May, the enforcement date became June, July August, and
Speaker 3: we still have these states that are a non compliance.
Speaker 4: It amazes me, and.
Speaker 3: Especially the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, how
Speaker 3: they tend to ignore these things. I watched the press conference,
Speaker 3: and I watched it a couple of times. The press
Speaker 3: conference last week when Sean Duffy was announcing this. They
Speaker 3: took some questions afterwards, and the main focus was, what
Speaker 3: do you suppose that with these people maybe losing their
Speaker 3: licenses and put out of service, will this affect the
Speaker 3: supply chain?
Speaker 4: What the hell difference does that make?
Speaker 3: What you're concerned about a little bit of inconvenience as
Speaker 3: opposed to somebody driving an eighty thousand pound vehicle that
Speaker 3: can't drive it, doesn't know the safety features, can't read
Speaker 3: road signs, and could and has not passed the necessary
Speaker 3: requirements to travel that truck. Do you not care about
Speaker 3: your kids? Do you not care about your friends? Do
Speaker 3: you not care about your families? You governors that continue
Speaker 3: allow to have your DMVs go ahead and do this
Speaker 3: are not concerned about making sure that your highways are safe.
Speaker 3: This was a topic earlier or actually last night, Dan
Speaker 3: Carroll on w Here on WLW a guest on his program,
Speaker 3: and we were talking about this because one of the
Speaker 3: topics that came up is and when we discussed it
Speaker 3: on his show about how some of these driver's licenses
Speaker 3: have the phrase no name given. Now, we talked about
Speaker 3: this and one of the things that needs to be
Speaker 3: looked at is that how is this being done, because
Speaker 3: the stories were that these issues, these driver's license were
Speaker 3: issued that had no name on us. He just said
Speaker 3: under the you know, the normal name and said no
Speaker 3: name given. But looking into it, some of these people
Speaker 3: only have one name. And I don't understand that because
Speaker 3: if you look at you know, whenever you look at
Speaker 3: some of these shakes and these people in the Middle East,
Speaker 3: they all have names. They all have a first name
Speaker 3: and a last name. I can't believe that some of
Speaker 3: these people would come over here and only have one name.
Speaker 3: What do they share or adele or something like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's got to be a name. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, even in the Arab countries you have like,
Speaker 3: for instance, my name's Kevin Gordon, right, So if I
Speaker 3: don't have a last name, and the city that I
Speaker 3: live in is Wilder, Kentucky, so it would the normal
Speaker 3: would be Kevin Ben Wilder, which means that I'm Kevin
Speaker 3: from Wilder. So they always have some sort of a
Speaker 3: name like that or it's bet something. So how this
Speaker 3: is possible is incredible. But the focus of Sean Duffy's
Speaker 3: press conference last week was the fact that well, let's
Speaker 3: just get.
Speaker 4: Into the story.
Speaker 3: Department of Transportation Secretary Shawan Duffy announced September the twenty
Speaker 3: sixth that a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration audit uncovered
Speaker 3: systematic failures in how multiple states issue non domiciled CDLs
Speaker 3: and commercial Learners permits to foreign nationals living in the
Speaker 3: United States.
Speaker 4: What the new rules require.
Speaker 3: Now technically these and one of the things was that
Speaker 3: these people were being issued driver's licenses even though their
Speaker 3: work permits had expired. And in one instance that he
Speaker 3: pointed out, this person's work authorization ended four years ago.
Speaker 3: So how is this person even still in the country
Speaker 3: if they're not even supposed to be here.
Speaker 4: It's just absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3: As of September twenty sixth, an FMCSA interim final rule
Speaker 3: imposes strict requirements. States issuing these licenses must now verify
Speaker 3: the applicant documents through the Department of Homeland Securities Systematic
Speaker 3: Alien Verification for Entitlement system. Keep non domiciled application documents
Speaker 3: for at least two years match non domiciled CDL CLP
Speaker 3: expiration dates with US Immigration Form I ninety four ninety.
Speaker 4: Four A expiration dates.
Speaker 3: In other words, make sure that they can cross references
Speaker 3: with their papers as to whether or not they are
Speaker 3: supposed to actually be in here and.
Speaker 4: Have a work permit.
Speaker 3: Downgrade non domiciled CDLs and colps if drivers become ineligible now,
Speaker 3: he pointed out during his press conference the fact that
Speaker 3: if you are a Mexican citizen or a Canadian citizen,
Speaker 3: you can get a CDL license in Mexico and in Canada,
Speaker 3: which allows you to drive in the United States. But
Speaker 3: if you're non domiciled, you cannot be issued a permit.
Speaker 3: You cannot be issued a driver's license only if you
Speaker 3: are here legally, only if you are a citizen, and
Speaker 3: can you be actually enrolled and get a CDL license. Now,
Speaker 3: this whole deal of this English language proficiency, we talked
Speaker 3: about this, and we talked about this a couple of times.
Speaker 3: We talked about this when we were at the truck
Speaker 3: show down in Louisville in March. We talked about this
Speaker 3: with Louis Pugh a couple of weeks later on, and
Speaker 3: we've talked about this off and on that the fact
Speaker 3: that some of the I mean, it's the FMCSA requirements.
Speaker 3: In twenty sixteen, during the latter part or the final
Speaker 3: days of the Obama administration, they stopped enforcing those.
Speaker 4: Now I don't know why the.
Speaker 3: Next Department of Transportation secretary didn't pick up on that
Speaker 3: and start enforcing it. But this had been going on
Speaker 3: and then on through the Biden administration where they you know,
Speaker 3: they just started issuing these driver's license without And we
Speaker 3: had the case last a couple of weeks ago too,
Speaker 3: where six people had been indicted for falsifying all the documents,
Speaker 3: the training records, whether they had actually taken a course,
Speaker 3: whether they passed the safety or whether they could actually
Speaker 3: pass the road test. So they falsified these documents and
Speaker 3: allowed these people to have these CDLs. I mean, how
Speaker 3: any hell do you sleep at night knowing that you
Speaker 3: have permitted somebody who's not qu Qui for driving such
Speaker 3: a vehicle going down the highway and possibly killing people.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I will post this on Facebook because the
Speaker 3: requirements and what was going on as far as this concern.
Speaker 3: We'll cover a little bit more of this, but some
Speaker 3: of the details I'll put this on Facebook. We'll cover
Speaker 3: the rest of this coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's
Speaker 3: truck in Network seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 4: You know what your customers are saying.
Speaker 3: You know, we were talking about this story DOTS emergency
Speaker 3: CDL ruling what that means for the trucking industry, and
Speaker 3: as I mentioned during the press conference, these people were asking,
Speaker 3: is this going to affect the trucking industry? Is it
Speaker 3: going to affect the supply chain? And this goes into
Speaker 3: a topic that we've had on this program before and
Speaker 3: a topic that was discussed at the Mid America Trucking
Speaker 3: Show down in Louisville, where you hear in the press
Speaker 3: all the time that there is a driver shortage. I
Speaker 3: think I think the number being floated around a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago was that there were something I forget
Speaker 3: what the number was, eighteen thousand or maybe sixty thousand.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the number was off the top
Speaker 3: of my head, but we were short that many drivers.
Speaker 3: And then when I made that comment to somebody at
Speaker 3: the truck show, they said, that's crazy. There are plenty
Speaker 3: of drivers there. As a matter of fact, we have
Speaker 3: too many drivers out there. And this has been a narrative.
Speaker 3: I don't know where it began, but we talked. When
Speaker 3: you listen to some of the stuff being discussed by
Speaker 3: Chris Spear, president of American Trucking Associations. He talks about
Speaker 3: that there's not a driver shortage. He talks about that
Speaker 3: there's a problem with qualified drivers. He talks about the
Speaker 3: fact that you know, we need to because the age
Speaker 3: of some of the drivers, that there needs to be
Speaker 3: other drivers coming up through the pipeline. That there should
Speaker 3: be more trade show or trade schools that are started,
Speaker 3: and the trucking schools began, you know, to train more
Speaker 3: people and try to attract more people to the business.
Speaker 3: But as far as a driver shortage, no, there is not,
Speaker 3: and so there is not a need to try to
Speaker 3: gin the system or to screw the system up by
Speaker 3: throwing people in there unqualified. This is, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: a criminal offense. The fact that you know, what is it,
Speaker 3: I don't know. There's got to be some sort of
Speaker 3: involuntary manslaughter on the person that issued the driver's license
Speaker 3: if this person is involved in an accident, because you know,
Speaker 3: if you falsified their data, if you've falsified whether or
Speaker 3: not they passed the course, you're just as liable as
Speaker 3: the person driving that car. In my opinion. So anyway,
Speaker 3: when he put this out there. He's talking about the
Speaker 3: states that face the most scrutiny. California faces the harshest
Speaker 3: consequence because, you know, anything that the Trump administration says,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden it's bad. You know, people can
Speaker 3: talk about a particular topic for years, and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, once Trump talks about it, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, everything that they've said, they ignore and go in.
Speaker 4: The opposite direction.
Speaker 3: California ignores everything coming from the White House, everything coming
Speaker 3: from the administration, including this mandate about clamping down on
Speaker 3: illegal and English language proficiency, experience or proficiency before you
Speaker 3: get a driver's license. California faces the harshest consequence. FMCSA
Speaker 3: auditors found twenty five percent of California's non domiciled CDLs
Speaker 3: in violation of federal rules, Duffy called the most egregious
Speaker 3: licensing situations.
Speaker 4: Of any states.
Speaker 3: California has over sixty thousand non domiciled CDLs in total.
Speaker 3: That means that there are fifteen thousand people that have
Speaker 3: driver's license that are unqualified and should not be behind
Speaker 3: the wheel of a class eight a semi truck eighty
Speaker 3: thousand pound truck going down the highway fifteen thousand people.
Speaker 3: Those are potential, Those are accidents waiting to happen and
Speaker 3: are preventable. Secretary gave California thirty days to comply or
Speaker 3: face a loss of one hundred and sixty million in
Speaker 3: federal highway funds. California must immediately pause issuance of non
Speaker 3: domiciled CDLs, identify all unexpired non domiciled CDLs that failed
Speaker 3: to comply with FMCSA regulations, revoke all non compliant non
Speaker 3: domiciled CDLs, and reissue those that comply with the new
Speaker 3: federal requirements. Duffy also pointed out that Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,
Speaker 3: Texas unbelievable, and Washington for also for licensing failures. I
Speaker 3: just it boggles my mind that I have to repeat this.
Speaker 3: The fact that somebody would even allow some I mean,
Speaker 3: there are This is like handing a gun to somebody
Speaker 3: that doesn't even know what end of the barrel the
Speaker 3: bullet comes out of a loaded gun, and to say,
Speaker 3: I'll go ahead, you know, go out.
Speaker 4: And play with it. It's there.
Speaker 3: It's an accident waiting to happen. And how the like
Speaker 3: I said, how these people sleep at night? I have
Speaker 3: no clue. Let's take a quick look at oil and
Speaker 3: gas prices, because you know, with the interruptions and the
Speaker 3: preemptions of this preempt in the show, gas prices.
Speaker 4: Have really been coming down.
Speaker 3: In oil prices, West Texas Intermedia crude currently is a
Speaker 3: sixty and sixty dollars and sixty eight cents a barrel,
Speaker 3: That is down a dollar nineteen from yesterday, or one
Speaker 3: point nine percent. Brent crude currently is sixty four dollars
Speaker 3: and fifteen cents a barrel, that is down a dollar
Speaker 3: eighteen or one point eighth percent, almost two percent there
Speaker 3: just since January of the twentieth when Donald Trump came
Speaker 3: into office. West Texas Intermediate crewed is down sixteen dollars
Speaker 3: and twenty one cents. Brent crude is down fifteen dollars
Speaker 3: and seventy five cents. That means that West Texas Intermediate
Speaker 3: cru is down twenty one percent. Brent crude is down
Speaker 3: twenty percent. And for the life of me, I keep
Speaker 3: asking the question and I keep getting the answer back
Speaker 3: that well, there are different grades. We're in the summer months,
Speaker 3: that the summer blend of gasoline is different and it
Speaker 3: costs a little bit higher in order to refine that.
Speaker 3: But I go back to in twenty twenty, when we
Speaker 3: are energy independent for the first time since nineteen forty nine,
Speaker 3: oil prices were down in the fifty dollars range.
Speaker 4: We're very close to that now.
Speaker 3: Gas back in this back in twenty twenty, was it
Speaker 3: two to twenty six a gallon?
Speaker 4: Diesel was a two thirty nine a gallon. Right now, as.
Speaker 3: Of today, gas prices across the board national average three
Speaker 3: dollars and sixteen cents. We are ninety cents higher than that.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why gasoline isn't about ten percent or
Speaker 3: at least maybe fifteen. If oil prices are down twenty
Speaker 3: one percent and twenty percent, respectively, I don't understand why
Speaker 3: gasoline prices aren't down a little bit lower. Imagine if
Speaker 3: gasoline prices again match the and you know when you
Speaker 3: see oil prices go up all of a sudden, gasoline
Speaker 3: prices go up or around a holiday, and they call
Speaker 3: it supply and demand. Yeah, I understand that. You know,
Speaker 3: when you have a big demand and you have lower supplies,
Speaker 3: the price is going to go up. But oil now
Speaker 3: is down at a four month low. If oil prices,
Speaker 3: if gasoline prices were to follow that and be about
Speaker 3: fifteen percent less gasoline right now, I'd be about two
Speaker 3: sixty a gallon. Diesel would be abround three fourteen as
Speaker 3: opposed to three sixteen and three seventy, respectively. And the
Speaker 3: reason that these gasoline prices are down OPEC is pumping
Speaker 3: out more oil that their production numbers are up. The
Speaker 3: International and the Energy Information Agency is talking about the
Speaker 3: possibility of an oil glut, even though that's being argued
Speaker 3: by some that it's not happening, but the fact that
Speaker 3: the oil supply is going and going well, gasoline prices
Speaker 3: should be following that.
Speaker 4: Well, folks, we're up against clock here.
Speaker 3: Time for us to step out the door, have a
Speaker 3: great weekend, stay home, stay tuned for Red Eye Radio
Speaker 3: at the top of the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's
Speaker 3: struck A Network seven hundred WLW