WEBVTT - 11-14-25 America's Truckin' Network 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.120 This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.959 Lovable. Thanks for tuning in on this Friday morning. We 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.320 start with a story that a subject that always gets 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.800 me fired up. Just one of those things that when 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.800 I see the term it just Illinois lawmakers approve a 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:36.760 thirty percent truck toll hike. All right, we're talking about 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.280 we've been talking about, and we've been hearing about inflation, 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.479 and we've been talking about and hearing about, you know, 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.800 how prices are going up and all this, and I 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.159 keep pointing out the fact that you cannot continue to 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.040 raise wages, which again you have to do that in 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.240 order to make sure that your employees can have a 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.360 wage to be able to live on and to be 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:03.640 able to their families. But it still adds to the 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.319 cost of things. You can't continue to increase wages. You 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:12.280 can't continue to pay increase taxes and regulatory fees and 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:18.000 bookkeeping things to keep the government happy. You can't continue 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:22.600 to be paying increased in terms of the suppliers as 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.479 far as them having to increase their payrolls and then 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.400 come through to you. You can't continue to go out 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.319 and pay more for interest rates and higher interest rates 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.200 than what you should be and this not affect inflation. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:40.040 Nobody other than America's truck and network is concentrating on 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.440 these other costs that are going into adding inflation. Everybody 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.200 wants to talk about it. Everybody wants to kind of 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.840 point it to well, it's a matter of the tariffs 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.280 and all this sort of stuff. What it is is 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.520 they're gas lighting us. They are. They know what the 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.040 reason is, but they're trying to fake you out and 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.080 make you think one thing so that you don't notice 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.920 it over on these other ends. Raising a toll by 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:10.239 thirty percent in these times are they insane? But we're 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.440 talking about Illinois. Under the measure approved by the state 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.680 legislature on October thirty first, tolls for commercial road trucks 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.440 would increase by thirty percent to help fund a one 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:27.680 point five billion dollar plan to revamp the state's transit operations. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.919 Transit operations, not to improve the roads, not to improve 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.240 the bridges, not to improve lighting and timing of traffic 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.240 lights and all that. No, we want to supply and 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:45.880 we want to pay for the trains, the commuter trains, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.160 the buses, and these types of things. They can't sustain 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.920 themselves on their own, and they can't. They are we 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:59.680 are subsidizing the taxpayers subsidize those fares so that people 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.920 that ride the buses and ride the trains can pay 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.480 a smaller amount. But if they're paying a smaller amount, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.600 they don't have enough funds in terms of those transit 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.720 authorities in order to pay for the improvements. And so 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.360 what do they do. They go on the backs of 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:21.560 people who can't for reasons, especially if you're a truck driver. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.480 There's no way you're going to load all your stuff 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.720 onto a train and take it into the city. You're 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.960 gonna have to drive a truck. If you live in 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.399 certain parts and it's not convenient for you to take 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.920 one of these trains, you have to drive into the area. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.200 And so they penalize the people who are actually trying 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.640 to make a living and subsidizing these other forms of 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.560 transportation rather than cutting expenses as far as the government 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.840 is concerned, as far as some of the things that 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.680 they do and spend money on and put the money 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.880 aside for these transit authorities, No, they put it on 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.120 the backs of truck drivers. Like you told people that 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.400 people that go into the city and pay the tolls, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.280 so it's back on their backs. It just infuriates me 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.000 because when a toll goes into place, they always sell 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.560 it as a as a user fee. If you use it, 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.600 you pay for it, which means that you're paying for 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.239 that road, which means that if you're paying for that road, 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.800 then that road is going to be repaired and replaced 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.400 with the money that you pay. But no, it's always 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.640 siphoned off and used for something else. Specifically, the state 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.839 would replace the current Regional Transportation Authority with a new 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:43.360 Illinois Transit Authority to oversee statewide transit system. And I 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.280 would love to go through that Transit Authority, the transit system, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.400 and whoever is in the bureaucracy there and do a 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.960 job by job analysis in terms of how many people 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.480 are sitting around all day long twiddling their thumbs, how 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:03.080 many of those employees are actually essential employees and actually 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.040 being productive employees. How much waste, fraud and abuse is 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.800 there within that agency. I would love to do an 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:14.920 audit on that. Let's see, the plan would increase tolls 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.279 by forty five cents for passenger vehicles, and the bill 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:24.040 awaits the signature for Governor J. Babyback Pritzker JB. Pritzker 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.600 is probably one of the most disgusting human beings on 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.280 the face of the earth. He is the governor of Illinois, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.159 and you listen to him talk about how how safe 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.880 Chicago is, yet it leads the country in murders, and 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.839 yet the illegal aliens that are there and the illegal 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.680 well illegal aliens, illegal immigrants that are there. He wants 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.839 to stand in the way of ice getting rid of 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.400 those out of the city, the people that are causing 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.800 the problem. And yet he stands there and he talks 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.159 as though how safe the city is and so on. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.000 And there is a website that I found years ago, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.159 go called Hey Jackass, And it's a website that you 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.040 go on there and it tells you how many murders 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.719 or how many shootings are over a weekend, how many 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.640 people were killed, how many people killed you're to date. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.440 They'll even tell you where the where the deaths have occurred, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.039 where the shootings have occurred, how many sounds of shooting. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.800 In terms of the tracking. They will show you how 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.279 in some cases I saw a graphic that showed well 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.120 where most of the people were being shot, where they're 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.919 being shot in the leg, where they're being shot in 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.840 the arm. Where they're being shot, you know, the murder obviously, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.080 it doesn't matter where they're shot. But if there's a 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.240 lot of woundings and stuff like that. I mean, they 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.600 have numerous shootings in Chicago and they don't do anything 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.039 to try to solve that. But anybody that goes in 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.039 there and tries to clean it up, boy, they're just 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.920 you know, jack booted thugs. They're you know, Donald Trump's 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:53.800 a king because he wants to come in and make 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.680 the city safe. That's your job. JB. Pritzker. And if 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.400 you see the guy, I mean, jeez, you know, put 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.799 the fork down and get some work done. For crying 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:07.640 out loud, let's see. Michael Moran, president of Moran Transportation Corporation, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.280 called the legislature's action crippling and warned it will put 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.720 people out of business. The thirty percent increase would raise 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:21.520 the company's annual toll spending to one point six million 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.720 dollars and hinder the ability to upgrade equipment and dress 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.360 workplace benefits. He said. His firm specializing in regional less 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:34.440 than truckload service throughout Illinois and surrounding states. So you're 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.280 not going to be able to replace your equipment. You're 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.080 not gonna be able to take that money and use 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.119 it to make your to buy new equipment, which again 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:47.360 effects in terms of the durable goods and making car 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.640 the truck manufacturers hire more employees and get better trucks 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.240 on the road. Also, it increases your cost because if 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.640 you're driving older trucks, the maintenance on that's going to 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.880 be higher, and you're going to instead of being able 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:03.000 to buy a new truck and cut back on benefits 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.360 that you're paying to your employees so that you can 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.560 so that you can pay the toll, so that your 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.280 toll money can then be used to subsidize people riding 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.680 the buses, people riding the trains. This is probably one 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.239 of the most critical things we face in the state 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:23.400 in decades, Brands told the website on November fifth when 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.000 he did the interview. It's just crippling impact on the industry. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:32.679 Safety and safety, increased costs of merchandise, passing huge increases 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.319 to customers at a very very challenging time for everybody, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.880 and just a massive increase. I can't think of any 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.320 increase that I've taken personally or corporately in the last 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.240 forty six years. That is this level of impact. And again, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.280 these are prices are going to have to be passed 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.240 through to the customers, which are you know, the companies 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.000 that they're sending them, that they've delivered the merchandise to 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.760 those vendors, and then they are going to have to 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.880 then turn around and increase their cost to us, the 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.760 buying public. The plan would redirect the state redirect the 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:12.000 state's sales tax on motor vehicle to statewide transit operations, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:17.319 generating and estimated eight hundred and sixty million dollars annually. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.360 It would authorize Regional Transportation Authority to increase the Chicago 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.160 area's sales tax by zero point two five percent. The 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:31.280 measures primary provisions would take effect June first, twenty twenty six. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.480 Pritzker back to plan. The legislature makes important changes in 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:41.319 new Illinois operations, manages our transportation network, including investigator investing 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.080 in new capital projects, and will make our public transit 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.920 and toll ways more modern, efficient, and reliable. Writers want 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.280 trans transit to be safe, reliable, and frequent. The transformational 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.240 investment of more than one billion dollars in new operating 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.480 funds lays the groundwork to improve service, shortened travel times, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.680 and enhanced writer experience across the region, the group said 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.920 in October thirty first. The bill also change as the 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:13.600 Regions Transit Transit Governance, transitioning the RTA to the Northern 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.840 Illinois Transit Authority. I just cannot I would love to 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.959 see the waste, fraud and abuse in that organization. I'm 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.599 Kevin Gordon, America's trucking Network. Seven hundred WLW. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.520 I need this is the breathing reward on America's truck 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.000 and needwork on seven hundred WLW. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:32.520 IndyCar News. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.720 Ryan Hunter Ray, the twenty fourteen Indianapolis five hundred winner 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.200 and twenty twelve IndyCar Series champion, will be joining Aero 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.679 McClaren IndyCar team for the one hundred and tenth running 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.640 of the Indianapolis five hundred in May of twenty twenty six, 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.840 completing the team's four car linap for the month of May. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.640 Ray on why the Indy five hundred favors older drivers 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:53.439 with experience. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.800 It's complex, it really is. It is the toughest race 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.559 to win. It requires finesse at the right times. That 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.080 requires there's a massive amount of aggression at other times, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.080 but you have to know when to apply those at 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.440 what time and when that's appropriate. And you also have 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.959 to keep the big picture mentality on everything that you do. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:11.040 Everything, whether it. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.360 Be in practice qualifying there, it's not just what's on 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.880 the surface, which you can operate at kind of at 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.600 that level at some other racetracks where it's just one 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.439 hundred percent aggression here on fire, it could pan out 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:25.680 for you the whole weekend at Indy. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.199 It requires depth. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.120 Motorsport reports that NASCAR is not ready to divulge details 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.600 of its new championship format, mostly because they haven't made 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.920 the final decisions on it yet. NASCAR is unlikely to 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.880 revert back to a season long championship without a playoff 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.760 on the track this weekend. Champions will be crowned at 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.920 the NHRI Finals in Pomona, California. A second World championship 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.199 in three years is all but certain for Doug Khalit 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.839 and Top Fuel. He will secure it by making a 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.120 qualifying pass. Austin Prock looks for another title and Funny Cars. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.480 He holds a one hundred and one point lead over 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.560 Matt Hagan heading into NHRA's final weekend of the twenty 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.920 twenty five season. Dallas Glenn and Greg Anderson, a pair 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.560 of KB Titan Racing teammates, will battle it out this 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.839 weekend for the Pro Stock Crown of twenty twenty five, 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.440 and Richard Gaston holds a slight twenty one point ledge 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.760 over Vance and Hinz teammate Gage Herrera for the Pro 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.320 Stock Motorcycle Crown. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.240 I love this is the raething report on America's Druging 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:34.000 Network on seven hundred WLW, Say Dennison a t N. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.000 I saw this story the other well, actually we had 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.720 the story the other day talking about how they expect 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:44.200 and anticipate a record dollar amount in terms of retail 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.520 shoppings during the holiday season, during the Christmas season. And 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.280 if you notice, because Thanksgiving is so late in the month, 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.600 there is a shortened period of time between then November 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.600 the twenty seventh and Christmas Day, so you got basically 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.960 what a month and two days of the Christmas shopping season. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.240 So if you notice, there's an awful lot of vendors, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.720 a lot of stores that are trying to get ahead 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.560 of the ball of the game there, and you notice 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.040 all these I wish they would come up with a 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.920 different term I mean, you know, Black Friday used to 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.960 have a significance to it, the day after Thanksgiving when 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.760 people would have all their different sales and so on, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.280 and then of course followed by the Monday of the 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:34.040 Cyber Monday sales. Now a early bird Black Friday sale 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.720 is kind of a ridiculous term, a pre holiday sale 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.520 or just hey, come up with a different term. But 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.960 to keep calling an early bird Black Friday sales or 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.560 Black Friday comes early or whatever. I mean, it is 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.480 just so lame. Come up with a different term. And 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.760 you know what, maybe tonight I'll think of that and 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.840 then on Tuesday Show, I'll come up with the term 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.960 that they can replace it with. But it's just, you know, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.760 rushing the holiday season is bad enough. I mean, you 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.000 go going to some of these stores, what before they 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.520 even have the Halloween or the fall merchandise done before 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.760 the Halloween day October thirty, around the end of October, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.920 and already they've got the Christmas stuff out there. I've seen. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.360 I actually saw one store that almost seemed like they 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.240 were starting their Christmas stuff in there towards the end 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:27.120 of September, first part of October. Unbelievable. But again, when 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.120 you're trying to get that holiday dollar, when you're trying 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.240 to make those sales, when you're trying to get people 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.960 through the door and get your profits up. You got 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.560 to do what you got to do in order to 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.600 get people in the door. And when you're relying, and 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.120 when you have such a short holiday season, that's going 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:47.160 to be difficult. But anyway, they're anticipating over one trillion 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.920 dollars in holiday spending, which is a record, so which 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.760 shows the resilience of the American public, the fact that 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.920 the American public has decided that they're not going to 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.520 participate in this doom and gloom that they're spoon fed 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.960 regurgion in the mainstream media keep trying to force feed us. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.960 And as we pointed out on this program, numerous times 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.840 when they throw a headline out there, the story doesn't 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.840 match the headline, and you know what's interesting, and I 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.520 don't you know, I don't know if it's a coincidence 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.600 or I'm just noticing it, or people are well, we 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.400 do know that on America's truck A network, we are 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.960 far ahead of the curve. Stuff we start talking about here. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.800 It takes two, three, four, sometimes weeks months before other 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.920 people start talking about it. So when I make the comment, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.960 and I've been making the comment pretty much all the 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.920 year long, that when you read the headline of the story, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.440 and I point out that the younger people and a 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.800 lot of people, all they do is get their news 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.840 by the headlines and they don't dig into the story 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.640 as we do here on America's truck a Network and 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.320 get behind the numbers and show that hey, you know, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.280 they contradict themselves here and that the actual story itself 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.960 doesn't match the headline. People are starting to mention this 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.160 more and more. I'm hearing more and more people talk 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.200 about it again Late to the game, Welcome to the 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.960 club gang. But we've been talking about that on America's 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.360 truck and Network for a number of months here, and 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.240 by the way, it would be a good time to 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.040 remind you that if you listen to America's truck and Network, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:15.560 you're going to be so far ahead of the curve 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.760 they're not even going to see your tail lights. So 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.520 now we've got people starting to talk about the holiday 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.640 season and it's going to be robust, that the people 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.360 are are geared up and people are looking forward to 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.240 spending money. Well, we got a story here. FedEx profit 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:34.400 guidance eases holiday season worries. FedEx Corporation expects profit this 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.080 quarter to improve from a year ago, easing investor concerns 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:43.240 about a lackluster holiday season and volatile trade policies. All 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.280 year long, all we keep hearing about volatile trade policies, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.440 the up and downs of terrorists, the up and downs 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:55.760 of this Trump's trade policies are disrupting things, and all 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.080 the doom and gloom, all the stuff that everybody was 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.480 worried about, panicked about, and all this sort of stuff, 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:06.680 Easing investor concerns about lackluster holiday seasoned sales and volatile 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:13.080 trade policies that never materialized. You know, again, when you 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.200 go into a negotiation and you say that, Okay, here's 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.320 what you're charging us, here's what we're going to charge 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.600 you unless you lower your prices, then that's the starting tool. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.879 And I guess everybody assumed that, okay, raising of the 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.800 tariffs on these other countries, that that's going to be 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.800 permanent and that's not going to be reduced. If there 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:41.080 was a trade agreement between the two countries finalized and 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.680 hammered out, and when that's hammered out those tariffs that 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.119 were going to go into effect. And how many times 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.520 have these terrors been postponed because it appeared as though 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.560 that they were making some progress in the negotiation. So 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.520 in terms of the impact of these terraffs, it's been 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.680 very minimal. Anyway, what you're seeing right now, and according 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.080 to this Ari Rose an Analystic City group, what you're 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.280 seeing right now clearly is something of a relief rally 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.880 when people have been pretty negative on the prospects for 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:14.000 both FedEx and UPS. These are people that aren't looking 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.840 at the numbers. They're not concentrating on the numbers, they're 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.840 not seeing what is being done as far as the 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.800 economy is concerned. And again, focus just on the individual 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.920 headlines and not the details, you're gonna have this doom 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.720 and gloom that reflects a lot of challenges that these 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.119 companies have faced over the last twelve to twenty four months. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.240 And again, when a company is facing these certain challenges, 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:40.199 they adapt. They just don't sit there and say, gee, whiz, 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.840 this is a problem, and you know what, we're gonna 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.119 stick our head in the sand. We're just gonna, you know, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.000 pretend that it's not happening and then pull our heads 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.680 out later on and see what things look like. Maybe 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.160 the threat has passed. You know, not everybody out there 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.919 has the luxury or the stupidity of Gavin Newsom to 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.560 completely ignore what's going out and caning with high gas prices. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:06.840 Eleven thousand structures out there destroyed by fires that they created, 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.560 that it was their fault and their mismanagement. They can 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.720 ignore that, And they can ignore the overruns on this 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.639 speed train that was supposed to be done that is 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:22.280 now hundreds hundreds of billions of dollars over budget and 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.960 so on, and they haven't even laid a rail yet. 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.280 So you know, you can ignore all that stuff, and 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:32.560 you can trot off to the Climate Change COP thirty 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:39.320 convention I guess it's convention or conference down there in 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.840 Brazil and talk about and go down there and trash 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.119 the United States and trash the president. Good for you, Gavin, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.720 you you know, one of the most useful individuals around. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.159 I just you know, you can't put your head in 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.280 the sand. These companies don't have the luxury of being 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.719 able to do that. They have to be proactive. They 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:59.800 got to change things, They got to make adjustments. That 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:03.040 got to be resilient, and it shows in these companies 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.760 and when their bottom lines improved as a result of 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.000 the changes they made. The package delivery industry has seen 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.120 has been grappling with uncertain demand ahead of the peak 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:17.320 cheap shipping season and rising costs from Donald Trump's tariffs. 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.639 They always have to throw that in there. FedEx and 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:26.280 UPS are also expected to encounter disruptions and higher expenses 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.879 from the grounding of their MD eleven aircraft following the 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.920 fatal craft last week from the UPS freightliner. The grounding 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:37.680 could be more burdensome for UPS because the plane accounts 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:41.520 for about nine percent of their total freek fleet. Brian 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.080 austen Beck and analysts the JP Morgan Securities, the latest 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.600 developments are pushing the couriers to turn to third party 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.960 charters to maintain operations. So that's good for some of 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.439 the people in the trucking industry because if these planes 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.520 have been grounded, they're going to have to do and 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:00.200 move the merchandise some other way other than by those planes, 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.520 and a lot of that's going to be moved by trucks, 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.720 So that's good news for the trucking industry. And again 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.520 showing a bit of resilience. You don't sit back and say, well, 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.600 ge whiz, our planes have been grounded. I guess we 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.160 just can't deliver these package. No, they're going to find 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.439 some way of delivering those packages, if they have to 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.159 go through third party operations or not. They're going to 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.480 adapt to the situation. Coming up, we've got some story. 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.560 I've got a story about ACT research reveals how fast 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.840 the trucking capacity is shrinking. That's good news. Well, I 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.440 mean in terms of freight rais is going, freight rates 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.679 going up. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network seven hundred 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:42.919 WLW News Traffic and Weather News Radio seven hundred wl 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:45.160 W Cincinnati. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.000 That House will vote soon on whether to force the 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:53.840 release of all remaining Jeffrey Epstein files. With your twelve 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:58.640 thirty report, I'm Travis Laird breaking now, a bipartisan petition 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.400 has reached the required two hundred and eighteen signatures. After 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:06.360 Arizona's Adelita Grihalva was sworn in and added her name, 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:10.920 four Republicans have joined Democrats Lauren Bobert, Nancy Mace, Marjorie 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:15.159 Taylor Green, and Thomas Massey of Kentucky. ABC's at Stephen 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.480 Portnoy has what comes next. After unsuccessfully applying pressure on 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.000 a handful of GOP colleagues to keep their names off 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.800 a petition that would force a vote, Speaker Mike Johnson 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.119 says he'll put the Epstein Files bill on the floor 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.040 next week. It could pass the House, but even if 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:31.840 it does, there's no guarantee it would be put to 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:33.919 a vote in the Senate, and even if it passed 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.919 both houses, there's no guarantee President Trump would sign it. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:41.000 We'll see what happens next week. WEB the time. 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.640 On the way to Friday morning mostly clear. 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