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Speaker 3: America's Truck and Network. Got some interesting information here on
Speaker 3: the housing alarm. There's a well they're calling it a
Speaker 3: housing alarm. I would say it's just a kind of
Speaker 3: a blip on the radar screen. Housing alarm. As half
Speaker 3: of US homes fall in value, biggest drop since the
Speaker 3: Great Recession. Home values are falling for more than half
Speaker 3: of America, the biggest shares since the country was last
Speaker 3: clawing its way out of the Great Recession. Now, based
Speaker 3: on that headline, and based on that first sentence, you
Speaker 3: would think, oh my god, this guy's falling and housing
Speaker 3: market is going to hell in a handbasket. Things are
Speaker 3: not working out the way they should. However, we'll get
Speaker 3: into that here. New data from Zillo shows that fifty
Speaker 3: three percent of US homes have lost value over the
Speaker 3: past year, the highest level since twenty twelve, when the
Speaker 3: housing crash finally hit bottom. National market looks flat on paper,
Speaker 3: but the average masks huge differences in regions, cities, and
Speaker 3: even neighborhoods. Price have been slipping in much of the
Speaker 3: South and the West as more homes in the market
Speaker 3: and buyers stay on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: Well, let's just cut through the crap here.
Speaker 3: They go through all these these sentences here and makes
Speaker 3: it seems alarming and all that, But the bottom line
Speaker 3: here is we'll talk about it is what we saw
Speaker 3: as far as the pandemic. A lot of home values
Speaker 3: soared during that period of time, and we're hitting record peaks,
Speaker 3: and there was rampant well if you want to call
Speaker 3: it inflation in terms of the prices, in terms of
Speaker 3: when you look at the value of the homes, how
Speaker 3: fast these homes were rising. There were areas in the
Speaker 3: country where we were seeing fifteen sixteen percent increases in
Speaker 3: home values just in a one year period of time.
Speaker 3: And at some point in time you get to the
Speaker 3: point where that has to kind of pull back a
Speaker 3: little bit and get back to some sort of normalization.
Speaker 3: And this is what it is. But the fifty three
Speaker 3: percent number has to do with some of the locations
Speaker 3: when you talk about some of the more populous parts
Speaker 3: of the country and some of the country, some of
Speaker 3: the cities within these particular states where people were flocking
Speaker 3: to because during the whole you know, again getting back
Speaker 3: to the pandemic, when people realize that they can work
Speaker 3: from home, or we saw stories about people who just said, well,
Speaker 3: you know what, I don't you know if i'm you know,
Speaker 3: if I'm in the Midwest or I'm up north or
Speaker 3: something like that, if I'm doing remote shoot, I could
Speaker 3: be down in Florida, I can be in the Bahamas,
Speaker 3: I can be wherever it is. And so I'll rent
Speaker 3: a place down there or buy a place down there.
Speaker 3: Then they had a little conundrum once this company said
Speaker 3: you know what, this ain't working. We're going to bring
Speaker 3: people back in the office. And they're saying, well, wait
Speaker 3: a minute, I've already moved down here. Well that's not
Speaker 3: the company's problem, that's your problem. And so anyway, with
Speaker 3: people moving to these you know, hotspots and stuff, of course,
Speaker 3: when you have an influx of people, when you have
Speaker 3: a limited supply, those prices are going to go up.
Speaker 3: When you look at and here on the map, it
Speaker 3: looks like well, Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Dallas,
Speaker 3: San Antonio, Austin, Tampa, Jacksonville and Orlando.
Speaker 2: Most of these countries, most of.
Speaker 3: These cities are in either resort areas or in very
Speaker 3: areas where it's sunny in the south and where the
Speaker 3: weather is more pleasant than up north where you deal
Speaker 3: with the snow. So again the map breaks down using houses,
Speaker 3: and of course again with the people in those areas.
Speaker 3: When you take the large metropolitan groups in the metropolitan areas,
Speaker 3: of course that's going to be a bulk of the houses,
Speaker 3: and that's why that fifty three percent number is there.
Speaker 3: But when you look at individual neighborhoods, when you look
Speaker 3: at areas like my area, here, my area, and there
Speaker 3: here in Greater since Northern Kentucky area, our prices are
Speaker 3: pretty stable. As a matter of fact, during the plant
Speaker 3: or during the housing crisis back in twenty two thousand
Speaker 3: and eight two thousand and nine, we did see in
Speaker 3: certain areas about a forty percent decrease in the value
Speaker 3: of homes as a result of that housing crisis, But
Speaker 3: there were certain neighborhoods where that wasn't even affected at all.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of neighborhoods in Northern Kentucky near me
Speaker 3: which basically saw no decrease in terms of the value,
Speaker 3: but again it depends on the individual pocket of the
Speaker 3: area and so on. Now Tampa is seeing one of
Speaker 3: the sharpest reversals in Florida, with over eighty percent of
Speaker 3: the homes now worth less than a year ago. The
Speaker 3: city's rapid run up in prices has given way to
Speaker 3: steep corrections across much of the metro area. According to
Speaker 3: Trey men Hurtz, senior economic researcher at Zillo, says, the
Speaker 3: downturn is a normalization, not a crash. Now we have
Speaker 3: to get to that phrase, a normalization instead of a crash.
Speaker 3: On the second page of the story, I mean, if
Speaker 3: you just look at the headline, and again this gets
Speaker 3: back to a lot of the stuff that I've been
Speaker 3: talking about. If you're the type of person that are
Speaker 3: just looking at the headlines, if you're a younger person,
Speaker 3: which they ought with a lot of the younger people do.
Speaker 2: All they do is they flash through their.
Speaker 3: Phones, they look through the headlines, and that's what develops
Speaker 3: their impression of what's going on in not only in
Speaker 3: the country, the world or the economy. And so if
Speaker 3: you see something housing alarm, as half of all us
Speaker 3: homes fall and value biggest drop since the Great Recession.
Speaker 2: That would scare the hell out of you.
Speaker 3: But when you get to the second page and it
Speaker 3: looks at and they get into it and say that, well.
Speaker 2: It's based a correction.
Speaker 3: It's not a panic type of thing.
Speaker 2: It's just a normal return to normalization.
Speaker 3: Despite the widespread decline, their few homeowners are really underwater. Naturally,
Speaker 3: the median gain and since the house was last sold
Speaker 3: is sixty seven percent, So people that bought their homes
Speaker 3: whenever whenever, it is the average across the board is
Speaker 3: that house is now worth sixty seven percent more than
Speaker 3: what it was when you first bought it, you know,
Speaker 3: clicking dirty math, if you bought the house for one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars, it's now worth one hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: seven thousand dollars. So if it comes down a little
Speaker 3: bit in value of five percent, six percent, they'reabout range.
Speaker 3: You're still well above that one. You know, a sixty
Speaker 3: percent range increase in the terms as far as your
Speaker 3: house is concerned. Nationally, a median gain since a home
Speaker 3: was last sold to sixty seven percent. Mentioned that overall,
Speaker 3: very few Americans are in the home worse than what
Speaker 3: they less than what they paid for. Only four point
Speaker 3: one percent of the US homes are now valued below
Speaker 3: their last sale price, a smaller share than before the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Even among new listings, just three point four percent are
Speaker 3: priced below.
Speaker 2: The seller origin.
Speaker 3: The sellers originally paid roughly half the rate since seen
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen. So again you're talking about a small
Speaker 3: percentage now from some of the stuff that I've observed
Speaker 3: over the years, especially where I live, the condo complex
Speaker 3: I live in, there have been situations where you look
Speaker 3: at the value overall value of some of the properties.
Speaker 3: And there was a year in which one couple that
Speaker 3: was living there, their son bought a home down in
Speaker 3: I think it was North Carolina and built on an
Speaker 3: in law suite or an area for them to live,
Speaker 3: and so they said, hey, mom and dad, come down
Speaker 3: here and live with us. They price their condo at
Speaker 3: a fire sale, which was they had been in that
Speaker 3: unit for about twelve years. They priced it at what
Speaker 3: they had paid for it then. So when they sold
Speaker 3: that like right away, that pretty much, you know, in
Speaker 3: terms of your comps, dropped the value of a lot
Speaker 3: of the homes around the area. In the area, person
Speaker 3: next door in a condo. He and his wife got married.
Speaker 3: They had been talking in terms of and this all
Speaker 3: happened in one year. This is probably about well, probably
Speaker 3: about ten years ago. But these are some of the
Speaker 3: things you have to look into the individual numbers to
Speaker 3: see where they are actually at. So the couple got married,
Speaker 3: they were talking about moving and they said, well, we're
Speaker 3: going to be very slow about doing that. We want
Speaker 3: to find the right house. We're not going to buy
Speaker 3: a house and then have to sell our house or
Speaker 3: sell the condo here in order to move in. Well,
Speaker 3: as it turned out, they found a home that they loved,
Speaker 3: and they had been looking for about a year year
Speaker 3: and a half. They found a home that they loved,
Speaker 3: they went ahead and bought it. And then their condo
Speaker 3: they actually sold it for a a little bit right
Speaker 3: around what they had paid for it, like six seven,
Speaker 3: eight years before that. So when you have some of
Speaker 3: these type of situations going in there, that will affect
Speaker 3: the overall price and may may give some of the
Speaker 3: reason why some of these homes are on the market.
Speaker 3: Three point four percent of the houses are less than
Speaker 3: what they paid for. Coming on, we'll talk a little
Speaker 3: bit more about this. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network
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Speaker 3: The headline housing alarm as half of the US homes
Speaker 3: fall in value, biggest drop since the Great Recession. Now,
Speaker 3: I love that phrase great recession because you know, my
Speaker 3: memory is pretty clear that wasn't so great. I don't
Speaker 3: know why you'd I mean, obviously I know why it's
Speaker 3: a great recession because it is, you know, because they
Speaker 3: call it the Great Depression back in the thirties. But
Speaker 3: still great has to do with how large it is,
Speaker 3: not how wonderful it was. I can assure you of that.
Speaker 3: The Market Seeing, and we talked about in the previous segment,
Speaker 3: as we ended up there even among new listings just
Speaker 3: three point four percent our price below, with the seller
Speaker 3: originally paid roughly half the rate scene in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: Market Seeing the most listings priced below previously sale prices
Speaker 3: were ones that surged fastest during the plandemic I mean pandemic,
Speaker 3: including San Francisco, Austin, and San Jose. But in many
Speaker 3: metros across the Northeast, Midwest and Great Lakes region, less
Speaker 3: then two percent of sellers are taking a loss. So again,
Speaker 3: kind of a more of a stable area and an
Speaker 3: area that is not necessarily subject to the large fluctuations
Speaker 3: up or large fluctuations down.
Speaker 2: So kind of that steady stream.
Speaker 3: You know, one of the advantages of having kind of
Speaker 3: a steady market in terms of home prices or where
Speaker 3: you live, or even in investments. When you go in
Speaker 3: that rate, you're going to be getting the normal gains.
Speaker 3: You're going to get the small gains. You're not going
Speaker 3: to get the peaks, you're not going to get the
Speaker 3: values you're just or valleys. You're going to get kind
Speaker 3: of an overall upward trend. So I mean, it depends
Speaker 3: on where you want to go. If you want to
Speaker 3: go into a high area where the market is on fire,
Speaker 3: you're also going to be suffering when you come back
Speaker 3: and those prices drop.
Speaker 2: So again it depends.
Speaker 3: But the West, Northeast Midwest and Great Lakes region, less
Speaker 3: than two percent of the sellers are taking loss. Denver
Speaker 3: seeing the steepest slide in country, with ninety one percent
Speaker 3: of homes falling from their peak value. The Mile High
Speaker 3: City was once a pandemic boomtown boomtown, but rising supply
Speaker 3: and weaker demand have now.
Speaker 2: Pushed prices sharply lower.
Speaker 3: Dallas Long Long, one of the strongest housing markets in
Speaker 3: the South, has not escaped the cool down. About eighty
Speaker 3: seven percent of the homes have dropped from the peak
Speaker 3: value as a flood of new supply of higher borrowing
Speaker 3: costs way on the mark on the demand, new supply
Speaker 3: and borrowing cost way on demand. Austin's red hot housing
Speaker 3: market has cooled dramatically, with eighty nine percent of the
Speaker 3: homes now worth less than what they were at their peak.
Speaker 3: Texas Capital was one of the nation's fastest growing metros
Speaker 3: during the pandemic, but is now wrestling with oversupply and
Speaker 3: falling buyer demand surgeon. The surgeon sales signs haven't brought
Speaker 3: buyers back, and prices are now dropping in most of
Speaker 3: the country again, getting back to a normalization, not a panic,
Speaker 3: not the bottom dropping out of the market. It's just things,
Speaker 3: you know, things off in the stratosphere, just kind of
Speaker 3: coming back down to earth a little bit. So nothing
Speaker 3: to be a panic's about. But I saw the story,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure people are going to be talking about
Speaker 3: that and spoon Federick urgitators in mainstream media will run
Speaker 3: with that and try to make ky out of it.
Speaker 2: But you know the story here and you know the facts.
Speaker 3: Yesterday this was weird because I went on a couple
Speaker 3: of websites early in the morning yesterday. I didn't have
Speaker 3: a chance to talk about this. Yesterday we interviewed, we
Speaker 3: had the interview with Phil Flynn that we were running,
Speaker 3: and then we had some other stories that I wanted
Speaker 3: to get to. But during the day I went online
Speaker 3: to try to go on a couple of websites. And
Speaker 3: you know, when I don't know about you, but me,
Speaker 3: when I go to a website and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: they're saying, well, you know you've got to do this,
Speaker 3: you got to do that because or you've got to
Speaker 3: verify there to your hum And I'm thinking, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: I'm going to this website every day now for the
Speaker 3: last year. Why are they suddenly now asking if I'm
Speaker 3: a human or whatever, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 3: You know, you get out of the website, and you
Speaker 3: go back in and you get some other weird message,
Speaker 3: and I keep thinking, what am I doing wrong?
Speaker 7: Was?
Speaker 3: It turned out cloud Flare outage disrupts x chat, GPT
Speaker 3: and other parts of the Internet. Cloud Flare, a company
Speaker 3: that helps websites secure and manage their Internet traffic. Well,
Speaker 3: apparently not so well if the websites went down experienced
Speaker 3: an issue with a global network, the company said early Tuesday,
Speaker 3: disrupting service for many websites and apps. Companies said it
Speaker 3: believed the problem was resolved around nine to thirty a m.
Speaker 3: Eastern through, roughly four hours after the first reported issue.
Speaker 3: It said that it was continuing to monitor the situation,
Speaker 3: and then it still had reports of intermittent errors. I'm
Speaker 3: telling you what, at nine o'clock nine thirty, the websites,
Speaker 3: that's when I discovered that the stuff was down. Because
Speaker 3: I was looking at some other things and looking at
Speaker 3: some of the stores hadn't gotten to the previous day
Speaker 3: try to determine what I was going to do as far.
Speaker 2: As the show during some early prep if you will.
Speaker 3: But when I got on the websites at nine point thirty,
Speaker 3: A lot of them were still down, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: oh my god, what's going on. Well, a couple minutes
Speaker 3: and by about ten o'clock later that morning, they were
Speaker 3: all up and running. Usually began reporting problems with the
Speaker 3: website apps that used cloud Flare. Before seven am, the
Speaker 3: company acknowledged on the website issue to potentially impact multiple customers.
Speaker 3: By eight p fifteen, the company set at the error
Speaker 3: levels and so on.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: I kind of wonder about that, and if this is
Speaker 3: a company that handles and tries to smooth out the
Speaker 3: Internet traffic so that you don't have these outages, and
Speaker 3: suddenly you have these outages, You'll wonder if there's a
Speaker 3: glitch in their system, if they were hacked. Certainly they
Speaker 3: don't want to admit to being hacked, because if they're
Speaker 3: providing services to companies to make sure that their flow
Speaker 3: is even, you certainly don't want to know that you're
Speaker 3: You certainly don't want your customers to know that your
Speaker 3: company was hacked, which means that they could probably get
Speaker 3: in there and hack these other companies through the portal
Speaker 3: that you're opening. As far as some of the services
Speaker 3: you're providing, So I guess we'll see one of these
Speaker 3: days how that shook out. Multiple online services appeared to
Speaker 3: have been affected by the issue at cloud Flare, including Spotify, Amazon,
Speaker 3: Open Ai. According to down Detector and Online Outage Tractor
Speaker 3: Tractor Tracker, the outage is a reminder that certain companies
Speaker 3: have an outsized role in making the global Internet work.
Speaker 3: Last month, Amazon Web Services experienced problems with its service,
Speaker 3: disrupting a wide range of online services for hours.
Speaker 2: Days later, Azure.
Speaker 3: Microsoft's cloud service system, also experienced an outage. Last year,
Speaker 3: you may recall that cybersecurity firm cloud Strike experienced a
Speaker 3: bigger outage that cause global it meltdown and hit airlines, hospitals,
Speaker 3: and other online services. This just shows you how dependent
Speaker 3: we are on the Internet and on some of these companies.
Speaker 3: According to David Choffness. Choffness, a professor of computer science
Speaker 3: at Northwestern University, we now have aws Asure and cloud
Speaker 3: Flare outages in the span of a month. That's a
Speaker 3: very large portion of the biggest cloud providers in the world.
Speaker 3: It's not been the case that we have had seen
Speaker 3: major outages like this in a short period of time.
Speaker 3: He said, companies have had outages before, but they tend
Speaker 3: to be pretty rare. These companies are supposed to be really,
Speaker 3: really good at keeping things up. And so with these
Speaker 3: different companies being hit, you know, when one has a problem,
Speaker 3: you can call it maybe a glitch.
Speaker 2: When another one has.
Speaker 3: A problem, you start getting a little suspens But when
Speaker 3: three within a month happened, you got to figure that
Speaker 3: there's some sort of hacking going on, and there's some
Speaker 3: other nefarious things possibly happening, So you got to keep
Speaker 3: an eye on that. And again, as far as cybersecurity,
Speaker 3: you want to make sure that yours internet and the
Speaker 3: stuff that you use are safe and free from some
Speaker 3: of these things. And again the old story of you don't,
Speaker 3: you know, click on an email that you're not familiar with,
Speaker 3: you don't answer text that you're not familiar with, and
Speaker 3: so on. Timothy Edgar, a computer science professor at Brown
Speaker 3: and an expert on cybersecurity. Cloud Flare is an essential company,
Speaker 3: providing services to a fifth of the Internet and handling
Speaker 3: literally trillions of requests every day, said the outage was
Speaker 3: another alarming example of how dependent we have become on
Speaker 3: critical internet infrastructure and how little the government and of course,
Speaker 3: got to blame the government, the government, how little they're
Speaker 3: doing to stop this. Well, if you're a private company
Speaker 3: and you don't want I mean, what do you want
Speaker 3: government intervention? You want them sitting in your office and
Speaker 3: overseeing everything you do, everything's got to be blamed on
Speaker 3: the government when it's the individual companies themselves that are
Speaker 3: handling these procedures. So this is just a scapegoat, I think,
Speaker 3: as far as this professor is concerned.
Speaker 2: So we'll ignore that. Coming up, we'll get into this.
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Speaker 9: A federal panel has blocked Texas's new congressional map. With
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Speaker 3: by Rush Truck Centers. This story has been bouncing around.
Speaker 3: There's been various variations of this story, and of course
Speaker 3: it's an evolving story. The FMCSA back on what was
Speaker 3: it September the twenty ninth, put through this order trying
Speaker 3: to tighten up these non domiciled CDLs and telling these
Speaker 3: states that they need to review the process because of
Speaker 3: what we were experiencing as far as the accident with
Speaker 3: the illegal alien down there who had, you know, a
Speaker 3: CDO license but was not had no English language abilities
Speaker 3: and so when you're talking about the English Language proficiency exam,
Speaker 3: he should not have been able to get a CDL,
Speaker 3: but he was down in Florida, he was from California,
Speaker 3: caused that accident down there, doing an illegal U turn
Speaker 3: by the way, killing three people. Then last month we
Speaker 3: had that fellow that was driving down the freeway in
Speaker 3: California and was on drugs or intoxicated or under the influence,
Speaker 3: didn't stop, didn't break, just plowed into the back end
Speaker 3: of these cars called a caused a fiery crash there
Speaker 3: on the freeway, and he too had no English language
Speaker 3: proficiency or could identify signs, couldn't even communicate with the
Speaker 3: officers investigating that particular accident. Fortunately there was a you know,
Speaker 3: a dashboard camp that caught all of it. And so
Speaker 3: in the wake of that, trying to you know, going
Speaker 3: back to April, realizing that for years the truckings associations
Speaker 3: had been talking about the dumping of or the CDLs
Speaker 3: being issued to a numerous illegal aliens and ones that
Speaker 3: were not had the English language proficiency or coming out
Speaker 3: of some of these cd mills where they actually weren't
Speaker 3: even getting the training necessary but they were out on
Speaker 3: the road. This has been you know, this has been
Speaker 3: talked about for a number of years. Well, in April,
Speaker 3: Trump put through the executive order that needed to tighten
Speaker 3: this up. Sean Duffy came out with an order that
Speaker 3: by June the twenty fifth, that this implementation should go
Speaker 3: into effect, that FMCSA should now start using the English
Speaker 3: language proficiency the lack thereof as a reason to put
Speaker 3: somebody out of service, and in order to tighten these
Speaker 3: non domiciled CDL licenses that have been granted. Then we
Speaker 3: had the accidents in August and so on, and so
Speaker 3: they put forth this mandate that, okay, as of September
Speaker 3: the twenty ninth, you need to start reviewing all of
Speaker 3: your services and with your individual licensing bureaus. And if
Speaker 3: you don't comply, we're going to start with holding highway
Speaker 3: funds and whatever from these organizations. And so again, when
Speaker 3: you're looking at accidents happening, people getting killed on the
Speaker 3: highways and so on, they go ahead and put forth
Speaker 3: this mandate or this regulation and said that, you know,
Speaker 3: we need to implement this. Well, the story here court
Speaker 3: blocks new rule limiting which immigrants can get CDLs, and
Speaker 3: then we see this story here why in appeals court
Speaker 3: pause FMCSA's non domiciled CDL order. However, going back even
Speaker 3: before this was done, actually this was done on the
Speaker 3: same day that the appellate court. There's a story coming
Speaker 3: from the American Transportation Associations and Commercial Vehicle Training Association
Speaker 3: in their perspective an editorial, it says safety requires rooting
Speaker 3: out CDL mills Trump administration dot our right to go
Speaker 3: after dangerous truck driving training schools. So anyway, going to
Speaker 3: the Appeals and says why the Appeals Court paused the
Speaker 3: FMCSA's non domicild CDL order, Judges say the agency skipped
Speaker 3: required steps lacked safety evidence going through this. It says,
Speaker 3: the Federal Appeals Court on November thirteenth blocked a new
Speaker 3: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rule that would sharply restrict
Speaker 3: state's ability to issue or renew commercial driver's license to
Speaker 3: drivers who live and operate commercial vehicles in the US
Speaker 3: but are officially domiciled elsewhere. The decision paused the rule
Speaker 3: that while the legal challenge moves forward, Okay, you have
Speaker 3: a situation where somebody is operating a semi eighty thousand
Speaker 3: pound vehicle in the United States, but they don't live here,
Speaker 3: they are not domiciled in the United States. So first
Speaker 3: of all, how do they apply for these licenses? Is
Speaker 3: it a situation where they are providing a service that
Speaker 3: nobody else can? You know, you get back to this
Speaker 3: whole H one B visus where you have certain industries
Speaker 3: where we don't have the people with the necessary expertise
Speaker 3: to do these jobs. So they granted these specific visas
Speaker 3: for people to come in and work in these industries.
Speaker 3: And as we've seen, this has been abused like crazy
Speaker 3: because bringing people in they will work for cheaper than
Speaker 3: cheaper pay than what other people are paying. I've seen
Speaker 3: some of these stories crop up in my old profession
Speaker 3: being in a recovering accountant. I have seen where some
Speaker 3: of the major accounting firms have used this process to
Speaker 3: outsource and to bring people in to do audits, taxes,
Speaker 3: and so on, where the you have a wide pool
Speaker 3: of people in the United States that are citizens in
Speaker 3: the United States, fully capable of doing those jobs, but
Speaker 3: if you can replace them with other people that are
Speaker 3: work for cheaper We saw a situation where what company
Speaker 3: was it I, There was a was it Disney or
Speaker 3: it was a major company that they basically told all
Speaker 3: their people in the IT department that hey, we're firing you.
Speaker 3: We're going to get rid of you, but in the meantime,
Speaker 3: we're bringing in your replacements and you need to train
Speaker 3: them to do your job.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: They're bringing these people in, obviously for less money than
Speaker 3: what they're paying their current staff, but they said you
Speaker 3: must train them. If you don't train them, then you
Speaker 3: are not going to get your severance package. At the
Speaker 3: end of the time. When they actually replace you, and
Speaker 3: so you're caught between a rock and a hard place.
Speaker 3: You're fully capable of doing that particular job, You've been
Speaker 3: doing that job for a number of years, and yet
Speaker 3: they found a loophole or tried to figure out some
Speaker 3: way of bringing people in that will work for a
Speaker 3: cheap and that is just flat out wrong the whole
Speaker 3: mental capabilities or the mental What type of a person
Speaker 3: that runs is the CEO of a company like that
Speaker 3: that will literally push people out the door just to
Speaker 3: get a few people in that are little work cheaper
Speaker 3: and they're not even citizens in the United States. I
Speaker 3: don't understand that rationale. I don't understand that philosophy. And
Speaker 3: what a poor example as far as the business world
Speaker 3: is concerned, and what these people should do. I mean,
Speaker 3: they have no conscience. How did they sleep at night
Speaker 3: knowing they do this? But anyway, getting back to this
Speaker 3: particular story, judges say that the agency skipped are required steps.
Speaker 3: At US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia granted
Speaker 3: an emergency an emergency stay, saying that petitioners challenging the
Speaker 3: rule met the stringent REQUIREM sure those are stringent requirements
Speaker 3: for the stay pending court review. The petitioners including individual
Speaker 3: truck drivers and multiple.
Speaker 2: Labor or labor organizations.
Speaker 3: The lead petitioner is Jorge Rivera Lujan a deferred action
Speaker 3: for Childhood Arrivals recipients who runs a trucking business, who
Speaker 3: has held a non domiciled CDL for eleven years but
Speaker 3: was unable to renew it.
Speaker 2: Due to the rule. He's been here for eleven years.
Speaker 3: He's got some sort of an asylum type of documentation
Speaker 3: or whatever. So the entire time that he's been here,
Speaker 3: he is building a big to applaud him for building
Speaker 3: a business and being a productive member of society. But
Speaker 3: he doesn't care enough about this country that has taken
Speaker 3: him in where he can learn or actually start a
Speaker 3: company and flourish, and an eleven year period of time,
Speaker 3: doesn't take the time to become a citizen, and just
Speaker 3: plays off of this deferred action for childhood arrivals.
Speaker 2: I don't get it.
Speaker 3: I've talked talked about how there are I mean, you
Speaker 3: look at the Netherlands situations where I know, well, our
Speaker 3: daughter is over there and she had to in order
Speaker 3: before her she could even go there, had to prove
Speaker 3: even though she was married to a citizen, even though
Speaker 3: they had two children.
Speaker 2: They had to go through all these hoops in.
Speaker 3: Order to move there, to prove that these children were
Speaker 3: actually his. I don't know how they did that. I
Speaker 3: don't want to go into details there. But when she
Speaker 3: got over there, she had to prove that she had
Speaker 3: a job. The company had to approve or make a
Speaker 3: senate an AFFI David that yes, this was not a
Speaker 3: temporary position. She plans on being there, and we plan
Speaker 3: on keeping her for a number of years, et cetera,
Speaker 3: et cetera, and that so she had a job, so
Speaker 3: she wouldn't be dependent upon the services of the social
Speaker 3: issues of that particular country. She'd been there for like
Speaker 3: four years, got a letter and said, hey, by the way,
Speaker 3: you haven't shown, you haven't proved that you can speak
Speaker 3: the language. You've got six months in order to prove
Speaker 3: that you can read, write and be proficient in the language,
Speaker 3: or we're kicking you out of the country. What and
Speaker 3: we're doing these kind of things after eleven years, unbelievable.
Speaker 3: You go through the individual immigration and naturalization situations in
Speaker 3: every other country. We are so laxed and we are
Speaker 3: just so behind. We are so outgoing that it is
Speaker 3: unbelievable compared to how some of these other countries operate.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll pick this up on the other side.
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Speaker 3: And Appeals Court pause FMCSA's non domiciut CDL order. All right,
Speaker 3: some of the bullet points in here are just interesting.
Speaker 3: The court's stay centers on its view that FMCSA likely
Speaker 3: violated a statutory requirement likely violated.
Speaker 2: Did they violate it or did they not violate it?
Speaker 3: So you're doing this stay based on something likely violated
Speaker 3: a statutory requirement to consult states before tightening the non
Speaker 3: domicilt CDL eligibility. Judges USh FMCSA's safety rationale, citing the
Speaker 3: agency's own data showing non domicile drivers make up five
Speaker 3: percent of the CDO holders but about zero point two
Speaker 3: percent of fatal crashes. What difference does it make? How
Speaker 3: many fatal one is more than enough? Didn't we haven't
Speaker 3: we heard for years if we could just you know,
Speaker 3: if we could just save one whale out there in
Speaker 3: the wild. You know, we're going to save the whales. Oh,
Speaker 3: we got this this what was it? The spotted owl?
Speaker 3: You know, if we can keep just one owl and
Speaker 3: keep it from extinction, we've got to go through all
Speaker 3: this sort of stuff, you know, when it comes to
Speaker 3: human life, apparently that doesn't count as much as it
Speaker 3: does spotted owls or whales or whatever.
Speaker 2: But you know, if there's point only point two only
Speaker 2: point two.
Speaker 3: Percent of the accidents, fatal accidents out there, I'm sure
Speaker 3: that's a big comfort to the people and the family
Speaker 3: members who have died as a result of those accidents. Now,
Speaker 3: let's get back to some of the stuff we've talked
Speaker 3: about on this program before. We have had the statistics
Speaker 3: talking about enforcement. When they talk about, oh, we've got
Speaker 3: to do safety enforcement out on the highways.
Speaker 2: Okay, what are we going to do.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, we're going to do these mandatory pullovers and
Speaker 3: we're going to do these this blitz of where we're
Speaker 3: going to pull over the the trucks out on the highway,
Speaker 3: and we're going to do the inspections and we're going
Speaker 3: to crack down there. And yet the government, the sightings
Speaker 3: that they do, they say that, okay, of the accidents,
Speaker 3: nine percent of the fatal accidents on the highway involve trucks.
Speaker 3: Big word there, involve trucks. Now, of the point of
Speaker 3: the nine percent of the fatal accidents out there involving
Speaker 3: trucks that are caused by trucks, there's less than ten
Speaker 3: percent of that number that is done.
Speaker 2: By caused by a truck.
Speaker 3: Yet they will have these checkpoints, they will do the
Speaker 3: safety checks and all this sort of stuff, but they'll
Speaker 3: ignore the ninety one percent of the people out there
Speaker 3: driving other vehicles other than trucks other than the eighteen wheelers.
Speaker 2: They won't, you know, pull over the sedans, the vans.
Speaker 3: The pickup trucks, any of that sort of stuff to
Speaker 3: do safety checks on them. Ninety one percent of the
Speaker 3: population gets ignored, but we're going to pick on the
Speaker 3: nine percent simply because I guess they're a bigger target.
Speaker 3: And yet when it comes to this, oh, well, if
Speaker 3: it's only point two percent, well, I guess we can
Speaker 3: write that off and those fatal crashes they just don't matter.
Speaker 3: Panel signals the rule may be arbitrary and capricious because
Speaker 3: FMCSA did not adequately explain expected safety benefits or account
Speaker 3: for drivers reliance on existing CDL rules. Now again we're
Speaker 3: talking about a change. Does anybody when the EPA goes
Speaker 3: out and they do some sort of a mandate out
Speaker 3: there without discussing with the companies, is that, well, can
Speaker 3: you comply with this? No, we'll just put this EPA
Speaker 3: regulation out In the past, I might add that they
Speaker 3: put out this mandate and if it's violated, well then
Speaker 3: we'll just do billions of dollars like they've done in
Speaker 3: terms of the CAFE standards with the car manufacturers that
Speaker 3: if you don't meet these quality standards or the mileage
Speaker 3: per gram for your fleet, that will find you billions
Speaker 3: and billions of dollars even though you attempt to comply
Speaker 3: with that, but the technology isn't there for you to
Speaker 3: do that. So it's just a money grab by the
Speaker 3: federal government at that point. So they don't get to
Speaker 3: what can anybody stand up and say, well, you know
Speaker 3: you're putting through these arbitrary and capricious regulations, but oh no,
Speaker 3: that's okay because we're trying to clean the air. We're
Speaker 3: trying to save the planet, and that's okay. But if
Speaker 3: you're trying to save lives, now that's not so much
Speaker 3: so anyway, Sean Duffy, the Department of Transportation Secretary, is
Speaker 3: vowing to fight this course pause of the non CDL license.
Speaker 3: And it is amazing when you go through this and
Speaker 3: you talk about how a lot of these things are
Speaker 3: done where these CDL licenses are granted to people that then.
Speaker 2: They overstay their visa.
Speaker 3: So there ought to be something, and we've talked about
Speaker 3: this on this program, where if the license is issued,
Speaker 3: it needs to be in correspondence with the work permit.
Speaker 3: If a work permit expires, then the CDL license should
Speaker 3: expire as well not be available after that. And what
Speaker 3: is interesting too is that the industry itself that is
Speaker 3: involved in this. You have the perspective that was written
Speaker 3: an editorial written by what's the guy's name, Andrew polla
Speaker 3: Koff and Chris Spear. Now Andrew Pollakoff is Commercial Vehicle
Speaker 3: Training Association and Chris Spear is the American Trucking Associations.
Speaker 3: Now we've had the story in the past talking about
Speaker 3: Chris Spear and the American Trucking Association getting criticized heavily
Speaker 3: for starting the whole narrative that we don't have enough
Speaker 3: CDL licenses, there's a driver's shortage, which then led to
Speaker 3: the influx of a lot of these people who from
Speaker 3: foreign countries coming in and obtaining CDL licenses. So, in
Speaker 3: a certain instance, ATA has kind of created this issue
Speaker 3: according to a lot and getting criticism from people that
Speaker 3: have initiated this, but even they recognize the fact that
Speaker 3: this needs to be tightened up. According to this cbtas
Speaker 3: Andrew Polakoff and ATAS Chris Spear argue that fraudulent commercial
Speaker 3: driver training schools are endangering motorists and that recent Trump
Speaker 3: administration enforcement actions mark a needed federal crackdown these unscrupulous operators,
Speaker 3: which again issue these fraudulent CDLs, which is some of
Speaker 3: the things that they're trying to crack down on. As
Speaker 3: far as the Trump administration is concerned. These unscrupulous operators
Speaker 3: just don't cheat students out of money. They jeopardize the
Speaker 3: safety of American motorists by certifying drivers just two or
Speaker 3: three day courses and sending them behind the wheel of
Speaker 3: an eighty thousand pound truck. That's not training, its negligence,
Speaker 3: and it's putting lives at risk. And so they are
Speaker 3: calling an action to this and saying that this action
Speaker 3: needs to be done. And yet we've got the courts,
Speaker 3: and I don't know where these courts are coming from.
Speaker 3: You would think that they would rely on the experts
Speaker 3: rather than the particular petitioner. It seems like a petitioner
Speaker 3: comes in there and says, well, we want an emergency stay.
Speaker 3: They pay more attention to them than whether or not
Speaker 3: the driving public is at risk out there. And this
Speaker 3: is something that needs to be checked and it needs
Speaker 3: to be fought, and of course the administration will be
Speaker 3: fighting this as far as they can. Take a look
Speaker 3: real quick at at oil and gas price before we
Speaker 3: scoot out the door.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: West Text Intermedia CREWED currently is at fifty nine dollars
Speaker 3: below sixty dollars a barrel, fifty nine dollars and thirty
Speaker 3: nine cents, down a dollar thirty five from yesterday. So
Speaker 3: just since January, West Texas Intermediate CRUED is down seventeen
Speaker 3: dollars and fifty cents a barrel, or twenty three percent.
Speaker 3: Brent crude is at sixty three forty nine dollars, forty
Speaker 3: less than yesterday, down sixteen dollars and forty one cents
Speaker 3: in January, or a twenty one percent decrease. Taking a
Speaker 3: look at the gasoline prices really quick across the board,
Speaker 3: gasoline currently nationwide is three dollars nine cents. But then
Speaker 3: when you compare that back to twenty twenty again, when
Speaker 3: we were energy independant for the first time since nineteen
Speaker 3: forty nine, it'd be interesting to look at that, and
Speaker 3: you know, we're ninety cents higher than that now. If
Speaker 3: oil prices are down twenty three percent, I would expect
Speaker 3: to have seen gas prices being down at least ten
Speaker 3: percent or fifteen percent, and so if that were the case,
Speaker 3: gasoline should be down somewhere around two dollars and sixty
Speaker 3: three cents a gallon nationwide. Again it's three dollars and
Speaker 3: nine cents, and diesel prices are three dollars and seventy
Speaker 3: eight cents. Now one of the things that's creating an
Speaker 3: indication or decrease in oil prices, and this is again
Speaker 3: a hot topic coming up again. Oil prices fell on
Speaker 3: Wednesday after reports indicated the United States is renewing its
Speaker 3: push to end Russia's war in Ukraine and has drafted
Speaker 3: a framework for it. The US is signal to Ukraine
Speaker 3: President of Volodomore Zelinsky that his side must accept the
Speaker 3: US drafted framework to end the war, which opposes which
Speaker 3: proposes Kiev giving up territory and some weapons. Two sources
Speaker 3: said to what Rutgers now, folks, this is an area
Speaker 3: where I have a disagreement with this, with current well
Speaker 3: with the Trump administration. One of the rare instances I
Speaker 3: do Vladimir Putin. There should be a line drawn on
Speaker 3: the sand. They should not get rewarded for invading a
Speaker 3: foreign country or another country. They should not be rewarded
Speaker 3: for that swamp. Talked about this later because I just
Speaker 3: noticed we're up against clock. Stay tuned for EDI rad
Speaker 3: at time we'll pick this up. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's
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