Speaker 1: This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon.
Speaker 2: Lovable. Thanks for tuning in on this Friday morning. We
Speaker 2: start with a story that a subject that always gets
Speaker 2: me fired up. Just one of those things that when
Speaker 2: I see the term it just Illinois lawmakers approve a
Speaker 2: thirty percent truck toll hike. All right, we're talking about
Speaker 2: we've been talking about, and we've been hearing about inflation,
Speaker 2: and we've been talking about and hearing about, you know,
Speaker 2: how prices are going up and all this, and I
Speaker 2: keep pointing out the fact that you cannot continue to
Speaker 2: raise wages, which again you have to do that in
Speaker 2: order to make sure that your employees can have a
Speaker 2: wage to be able to live on and to be
Speaker 2: able to their families. But it still adds to the
Speaker 2: cost of things. You can't continue to increase wages. You
Speaker 2: can't continue to pay increase taxes and regulatory fees and
Speaker 2: bookkeeping things to keep the government happy. You can't continue
Speaker 2: to be paying increased in terms of the suppliers as
Speaker 2: far as them having to increase their payrolls and then
Speaker 2: come through to you. You can't continue to go out
Speaker 2: and pay more for interest rates and higher interest rates
Speaker 2: than what you should be and this not affect inflation.
Speaker 2: Nobody other than America's truck and network is concentrating on
Speaker 2: these other costs that are going into adding inflation. Everybody
Speaker 2: wants to talk about it. Everybody wants to kind of
Speaker 2: point it to well, it's a matter of the tariffs
Speaker 2: and all this sort of stuff. What it is is
Speaker 2: they're gas lighting us. They are. They know what the
Speaker 2: reason is, but they're trying to fake you out and
Speaker 2: make you think one thing so that you don't notice
Speaker 2: it over on these other ends. Raising a toll by
Speaker 2: thirty percent in these times are they insane? But we're
Speaker 2: talking about Illinois. Under the measure approved by the state
Speaker 2: legislature on October thirty first, tolls for commercial road trucks
Speaker 2: would increase by thirty percent to help fund a one
Speaker 2: point five billion dollar plan to revamp the state's transit operations.
Speaker 2: Transit operations, not to improve the roads, not to improve
Speaker 2: the bridges, not to improve lighting and timing of traffic
Speaker 2: lights and all that. No, we want to supply and
Speaker 2: we want to pay for the trains, the commuter trains,
Speaker 2: the buses, and these types of things. They can't sustain
Speaker 2: themselves on their own, and they can't. They are we
Speaker 2: are subsidizing the taxpayers subsidize those fares so that people
Speaker 2: that ride the buses and ride the trains can pay
Speaker 2: a smaller amount. But if they're paying a smaller amount,
Speaker 2: they don't have enough funds in terms of those transit
Speaker 2: authorities in order to pay for the improvements. And so
Speaker 2: what do they do. They go on the backs of
Speaker 2: people who can't for reasons, especially if you're a truck driver.
Speaker 2: There's no way you're going to load all your stuff
Speaker 2: onto a train and take it into the city. You're
Speaker 2: gonna have to drive a truck. If you live in
Speaker 2: certain parts and it's not convenient for you to take
Speaker 2: one of these trains, you have to drive into the area.
Speaker 2: And so they penalize the people who are actually trying
Speaker 2: to make a living and subsidizing these other forms of
Speaker 2: transportation rather than cutting expenses as far as the government
Speaker 2: is concerned, as far as some of the things that
Speaker 2: they do and spend money on and put the money
Speaker 2: aside for these transit authorities, No, they put it on
Speaker 2: the backs of truck drivers. Like you told people that
Speaker 2: people that go into the city and pay the tolls,
Speaker 2: so it's back on their backs. It just infuriates me
Speaker 2: because when a toll goes into place, they always sell
Speaker 2: it as a as a user fee. If you use it,
Speaker 2: you pay for it, which means that you're paying for
Speaker 2: that road, which means that if you're paying for that road,
Speaker 2: then that road is going to be repaired and replaced
Speaker 2: with the money that you pay. But no, it's always
Speaker 2: siphoned off and used for something else. Specifically, the state
Speaker 2: would replace the current Regional Transportation Authority with a new
Speaker 2: Illinois Transit Authority to oversee statewide transit system. And I
Speaker 2: would love to go through that Transit Authority, the transit system,
Speaker 2: and whoever is in the bureaucracy there and do a
Speaker 2: job by job analysis in terms of how many people
Speaker 2: are sitting around all day long twiddling their thumbs, how
Speaker 2: many of those employees are actually essential employees and actually
Speaker 2: being productive employees. How much waste, fraud and abuse is
Speaker 2: there within that agency. I would love to do an
Speaker 2: audit on that. Let's see, the plan would increase tolls
Speaker 2: by forty five cents for passenger vehicles, and the bill
Speaker 2: awaits the signature for Governor J. Babyback Pritzker JB. Pritzker
Speaker 2: is probably one of the most disgusting human beings on
Speaker 2: the face of the earth. He is the governor of Illinois,
Speaker 2: and you listen to him talk about how how safe
Speaker 2: Chicago is, yet it leads the country in murders, and
Speaker 2: yet the illegal aliens that are there and the illegal
Speaker 2: well illegal aliens, illegal immigrants that are there. He wants
Speaker 2: to stand in the way of ice getting rid of
Speaker 2: those out of the city, the people that are causing
Speaker 2: the problem. And yet he stands there and he talks
Speaker 2: as though how safe the city is and so on.
Speaker 2: And there is a website that I found years ago,
Speaker 2: go called Hey Jackass, And it's a website that you
Speaker 2: go on there and it tells you how many murders
Speaker 2: or how many shootings are over a weekend, how many
Speaker 2: people were killed, how many people killed you're to date.
Speaker 2: They'll even tell you where the where the deaths have occurred,
Speaker 2: where the shootings have occurred, how many sounds of shooting.
Speaker 2: In terms of the tracking. They will show you how
Speaker 2: in some cases I saw a graphic that showed well
Speaker 2: where most of the people were being shot, where they're
Speaker 2: being shot in the leg, where they're being shot in
Speaker 2: the arm. Where they're being shot, you know, the murder obviously,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter where they're shot. But if there's a
Speaker 2: lot of woundings and stuff like that. I mean, they
Speaker 2: have numerous shootings in Chicago and they don't do anything
Speaker 2: to try to solve that. But anybody that goes in
Speaker 2: there and tries to clean it up, boy, they're just
Speaker 2: you know, jack booted thugs. They're you know, Donald Trump's
Speaker 2: a king because he wants to come in and make
Speaker 2: the city safe. That's your job. JB. Pritzker. And if
Speaker 2: you see the guy, I mean, jeez, you know, put
Speaker 2: the fork down and get some work done. For crying
Speaker 2: out loud, let's see. Michael Moran, president of Moran Transportation Corporation,
Speaker 2: called the legislature's action crippling and warned it will put
Speaker 2: people out of business. The thirty percent increase would raise
Speaker 2: the company's annual toll spending to one point six million
Speaker 2: dollars and hinder the ability to upgrade equipment and dress
Speaker 2: workplace benefits. He said. His firm specializing in regional less
Speaker 2: than truckload service throughout Illinois and surrounding states. So you're
Speaker 2: not going to be able to replace your equipment. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to take that money and use
Speaker 2: it to make your to buy new equipment, which again
Speaker 2: effects in terms of the durable goods and making car
Speaker 2: the truck manufacturers hire more employees and get better trucks
Speaker 2: on the road. Also, it increases your cost because if
Speaker 2: you're driving older trucks, the maintenance on that's going to
Speaker 2: be higher, and you're going to instead of being able
Speaker 2: to buy a new truck and cut back on benefits
Speaker 2: that you're paying to your employees so that you can
Speaker 2: so that you can pay the toll, so that your
Speaker 2: toll money can then be used to subsidize people riding
Speaker 2: the buses, people riding the trains. This is probably one
Speaker 2: of the most critical things we face in the state
Speaker 2: in decades, Brands told the website on November fifth when
Speaker 2: he did the interview. It's just crippling impact on the industry.
Speaker 2: Safety and safety, increased costs of merchandise, passing huge increases
Speaker 2: to customers at a very very challenging time for everybody,
Speaker 2: and just a massive increase. I can't think of any
Speaker 2: increase that I've taken personally or corporately in the last
Speaker 2: forty six years. That is this level of impact. And again,
Speaker 2: these are prices are going to have to be passed
Speaker 2: through to the customers, which are you know, the companies
Speaker 2: that they're sending them, that they've delivered the merchandise to
Speaker 2: those vendors, and then they are going to have to
Speaker 2: then turn around and increase their cost to us, the
Speaker 2: buying public. The plan would redirect the state redirect the
Speaker 2: state's sales tax on motor vehicle to statewide transit operations,
Speaker 2: generating and estimated eight hundred and sixty million dollars annually.
Speaker 2: It would authorize Regional Transportation Authority to increase the Chicago
Speaker 2: area's sales tax by zero point two five percent. The
Speaker 2: measures primary provisions would take effect June first, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Pritzker back to plan. The legislature makes important changes in
Speaker 2: new Illinois operations, manages our transportation network, including investigator investing
Speaker 2: in new capital projects, and will make our public transit
Speaker 2: and toll ways more modern, efficient, and reliable. Writers want
Speaker 2: trans transit to be safe, reliable, and frequent. The transformational
Speaker 2: investment of more than one billion dollars in new operating
Speaker 2: funds lays the groundwork to improve service, shortened travel times,
Speaker 2: and enhanced writer experience across the region, the group said
Speaker 2: in October thirty first. The bill also change as the
Speaker 2: Regions Transit Transit Governance, transitioning the RTA to the Northern
Speaker 2: Illinois Transit Authority. I just cannot I would love to
Speaker 2: see the waste, fraud and abuse in that organization. I'm
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon, America's trucking Network. Seven hundred WLW.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Hunter Ray, the twenty fourteen Indianapolis five hundred winner
Speaker 3: and twenty twelve IndyCar Series champion, will be joining Aero
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Speaker 3: Ray on why the Indy five hundred favors older drivers
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Speaker 3: revert back to a season long championship without a playoff
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Speaker 3: He holds a one hundred and one point lead over
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Speaker 1: I love this is the raething report on America's Druging
Speaker 1: Network on seven hundred WLW, Say Dennison a t N.
Speaker 2: I saw this story the other well, actually we had
Speaker 2: the story the other day talking about how they expect
Speaker 2: and anticipate a record dollar amount in terms of retail
Speaker 2: shoppings during the holiday season, during the Christmas season. And
Speaker 2: if you notice, because Thanksgiving is so late in the month,
Speaker 2: there is a shortened period of time between then November
Speaker 2: the twenty seventh and Christmas Day, so you got basically
Speaker 2: what a month and two days of the Christmas shopping season.
Speaker 2: So if you notice, there's an awful lot of vendors,
Speaker 2: a lot of stores that are trying to get ahead
Speaker 2: of the ball of the game there, and you notice
Speaker 2: all these I wish they would come up with a
Speaker 2: different term I mean, you know, Black Friday used to
Speaker 2: have a significance to it, the day after Thanksgiving when
Speaker 2: people would have all their different sales and so on,
Speaker 2: and then of course followed by the Monday of the
Speaker 2: Cyber Monday sales. Now a early bird Black Friday sale
Speaker 2: is kind of a ridiculous term, a pre holiday sale
Speaker 2: or just hey, come up with a different term. But
Speaker 2: to keep calling an early bird Black Friday sales or
Speaker 2: Black Friday comes early or whatever. I mean, it is
Speaker 2: just so lame. Come up with a different term. And
Speaker 2: you know what, maybe tonight I'll think of that and
Speaker 2: then on Tuesday Show, I'll come up with the term
Speaker 2: that they can replace it with. But it's just, you know,
Speaker 2: rushing the holiday season is bad enough. I mean, you
Speaker 2: go going to some of these stores, what before they
Speaker 2: even have the Halloween or the fall merchandise done before
Speaker 2: the Halloween day October thirty, around the end of October,
Speaker 2: and already they've got the Christmas stuff out there. I've seen.
Speaker 2: I actually saw one store that almost seemed like they
Speaker 2: were starting their Christmas stuff in there towards the end
Speaker 2: of September, first part of October. Unbelievable. But again, when
Speaker 2: you're trying to get that holiday dollar, when you're trying
Speaker 2: to make those sales, when you're trying to get people
Speaker 2: through the door and get your profits up. You got
Speaker 2: to do what you got to do in order to
Speaker 2: get people in the door. And when you're relying, and
Speaker 2: when you have such a short holiday season, that's going
Speaker 2: to be difficult. But anyway, they're anticipating over one trillion
Speaker 2: dollars in holiday spending, which is a record, so which
Speaker 2: shows the resilience of the American public, the fact that
Speaker 2: the American public has decided that they're not going to
Speaker 2: participate in this doom and gloom that they're spoon fed
Speaker 2: regurgion in the mainstream media keep trying to force feed us.
Speaker 2: And as we pointed out on this program, numerous times
Speaker 2: when they throw a headline out there, the story doesn't
Speaker 2: match the headline, and you know what's interesting, and I
Speaker 2: don't you know, I don't know if it's a coincidence
Speaker 2: or I'm just noticing it, or people are well, we
Speaker 2: do know that on America's truck A network, we are
Speaker 2: far ahead of the curve. Stuff we start talking about here.
Speaker 2: It takes two, three, four, sometimes weeks months before other
Speaker 2: people start talking about it. So when I make the comment,
Speaker 2: and I've been making the comment pretty much all the
Speaker 2: year long, that when you read the headline of the story,
Speaker 2: and I point out that the younger people and a
Speaker 2: lot of people, all they do is get their news
Speaker 2: by the headlines and they don't dig into the story
Speaker 2: as we do here on America's truck a Network and
Speaker 2: get behind the numbers and show that hey, you know,
Speaker 2: they contradict themselves here and that the actual story itself
Speaker 2: doesn't match the headline. People are starting to mention this
Speaker 2: more and more. I'm hearing more and more people talk
Speaker 2: about it again Late to the game, Welcome to the
Speaker 2: club gang. But we've been talking about that on America's
Speaker 2: truck and Network for a number of months here, and
Speaker 2: by the way, it would be a good time to
Speaker 2: remind you that if you listen to America's truck and Network,
Speaker 2: you're going to be so far ahead of the curve
Speaker 2: they're not even going to see your tail lights. So
Speaker 2: now we've got people starting to talk about the holiday
Speaker 2: season and it's going to be robust, that the people
Speaker 2: are are geared up and people are looking forward to
Speaker 2: spending money. Well, we got a story here. FedEx profit
Speaker 2: guidance eases holiday season worries. FedEx Corporation expects profit this
Speaker 2: quarter to improve from a year ago, easing investor concerns
Speaker 2: about a lackluster holiday season and volatile trade policies. All
Speaker 2: year long, all we keep hearing about volatile trade policies,
Speaker 2: the up and downs of terrorists, the up and downs
Speaker 2: of this Trump's trade policies are disrupting things, and all
Speaker 2: the doom and gloom, all the stuff that everybody was
Speaker 2: worried about, panicked about, and all this sort of stuff,
Speaker 2: Easing investor concerns about lackluster holiday seasoned sales and volatile
Speaker 2: trade policies that never materialized. You know, again, when you
Speaker 2: go into a negotiation and you say that, Okay, here's
Speaker 2: what you're charging us, here's what we're going to charge
Speaker 2: you unless you lower your prices, then that's the starting tool.
Speaker 2: And I guess everybody assumed that, okay, raising of the
Speaker 2: tariffs on these other countries, that that's going to be
Speaker 2: permanent and that's not going to be reduced. If there
Speaker 2: was a trade agreement between the two countries finalized and
Speaker 2: hammered out, and when that's hammered out those tariffs that
Speaker 2: were going to go into effect. And how many times
Speaker 2: have these terrors been postponed because it appeared as though
Speaker 2: that they were making some progress in the negotiation. So
Speaker 2: in terms of the impact of these terraffs, it's been
Speaker 2: very minimal. Anyway, what you're seeing right now, and according
Speaker 2: to this Ari Rose an Analystic City group, what you're
Speaker 2: seeing right now clearly is something of a relief rally
Speaker 2: when people have been pretty negative on the prospects for
Speaker 2: both FedEx and UPS. These are people that aren't looking
Speaker 2: at the numbers. They're not concentrating on the numbers, they're
Speaker 2: not seeing what is being done as far as the
Speaker 2: economy is concerned. And again, focus just on the individual
Speaker 2: headlines and not the details, you're gonna have this doom
Speaker 2: and gloom that reflects a lot of challenges that these
Speaker 2: companies have faced over the last twelve to twenty four months.
Speaker 2: And again, when a company is facing these certain challenges,
Speaker 2: they adapt. They just don't sit there and say, gee, whiz,
Speaker 2: this is a problem, and you know what, we're gonna
Speaker 2: stick our head in the sand. We're just gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: pretend that it's not happening and then pull our heads
Speaker 2: out later on and see what things look like. Maybe
Speaker 2: the threat has passed. You know, not everybody out there
Speaker 2: has the luxury or the stupidity of Gavin Newsom to
Speaker 2: completely ignore what's going out and caning with high gas prices.
Speaker 2: Eleven thousand structures out there destroyed by fires that they created,
Speaker 2: that it was their fault and their mismanagement. They can
Speaker 2: ignore that, And they can ignore the overruns on this
Speaker 2: speed train that was supposed to be done that is
Speaker 2: now hundreds hundreds of billions of dollars over budget and
Speaker 2: so on, and they haven't even laid a rail yet.
Speaker 2: So you know, you can ignore all that stuff, and
Speaker 2: you can trot off to the Climate Change COP thirty
Speaker 2: convention I guess it's convention or conference down there in
Speaker 2: Brazil and talk about and go down there and trash
Speaker 2: the United States and trash the president. Good for you, Gavin,
Speaker 2: you you know, one of the most useful individuals around.
Speaker 2: I just you know, you can't put your head in
Speaker 2: the sand. These companies don't have the luxury of being
Speaker 2: able to do that. They have to be proactive. They
Speaker 2: got to change things, They got to make adjustments. That
Speaker 2: got to be resilient, and it shows in these companies
Speaker 2: and when their bottom lines improved as a result of
Speaker 2: the changes they made. The package delivery industry has seen
Speaker 2: has been grappling with uncertain demand ahead of the peak
Speaker 2: cheap shipping season and rising costs from Donald Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2: They always have to throw that in there. FedEx and
Speaker 2: UPS are also expected to encounter disruptions and higher expenses
Speaker 2: from the grounding of their MD eleven aircraft following the
Speaker 2: fatal craft last week from the UPS freightliner. The grounding
Speaker 2: could be more burdensome for UPS because the plane accounts
Speaker 2: for about nine percent of their total freek fleet. Brian
Speaker 2: austen Beck and analysts the JP Morgan Securities, the latest
Speaker 2: developments are pushing the couriers to turn to third party
Speaker 2: charters to maintain operations. So that's good for some of
Speaker 2: the people in the trucking industry because if these planes
Speaker 2: have been grounded, they're going to have to do and
Speaker 2: move the merchandise some other way other than by those planes,
Speaker 2: and a lot of that's going to be moved by trucks,
Speaker 2: So that's good news for the trucking industry. And again
Speaker 2: showing a bit of resilience. You don't sit back and say, well,
Speaker 2: ge whiz, our planes have been grounded. I guess we
Speaker 2: just can't deliver these package. No, they're going to find
Speaker 2: some way of delivering those packages, if they have to
Speaker 2: go through third party operations or not. They're going to
Speaker 2: adapt to the situation. Coming up, we've got some story.
Speaker 2: I've got a story about ACT research reveals how fast
Speaker 2: the trucking capacity is shrinking. That's good news. Well, I
Speaker 2: mean in terms of freight rais is going, freight rates
Speaker 2: going up. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network seven hundred
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Speaker 2: W Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: That House will vote soon on whether to force the
Speaker 6: release of all remaining Jeffrey Epstein files. With your twelve
Speaker 6: thirty report, I'm Travis Laird breaking now, a bipartisan petition
Speaker 6: has reached the required two hundred and eighteen signatures. After
Speaker 6: Arizona's Adelita Grihalva was sworn in and added her name,
Speaker 6: four Republicans have joined Democrats Lauren Bobert, Nancy Mace, Marjorie
Speaker 6: Taylor Green, and Thomas Massey of Kentucky. ABC's at Stephen
Speaker 6: Portnoy has what comes next. After unsuccessfully applying pressure on
Speaker 6: a handful of GOP colleagues to keep their names off
Speaker 6: a petition that would force a vote, Speaker Mike Johnson
Speaker 6: says he'll put the Epstein Files bill on the floor
Speaker 6: next week. It could pass the House, but even if
Speaker 6: it does, there's no guarantee it would be put to
Speaker 6: a vote in the Senate, and even if it passed
Speaker 6: both houses, there's no guarantee President Trump would sign it.
Speaker 6: We'll see what happens next week. WEB the time.
Speaker 7: On the way to Friday morning mostly clear. We'll see
Speaker 7: a morning low of thirty seven our Friday, though increasing clouds,
Speaker 7: a slight chance of a shower, a high of fifty
Speaker 7: nine at night We're cloudy, and a low down to
Speaker 7: forty six. That's the forecast. I'm nine first warning. Chief
Speaker 7: meeting zeurologist Steve Rawley now right now forty degrees. In Cincinnati,
Speaker 7: WCPO says the Beauty Artistry Academy in Eastgate took full
Speaker 7: tuition from students this year, but then shut down with
Speaker 7: almost no warning. The owner blames federal funding cuts. In
Speaker 7: a bank backing out of.
Speaker 6: A refinance deal, but parents say the school never disclosed
Speaker 6: any financial trouble before closing in September. The academy wasn't accredited,
Speaker 6: so students can't use federal loans and have limited options
Speaker 6: to get their money back. Some were offered partial refunds,
Speaker 6: others say they got nothing. Many have now transferred to
Speaker 6: other programs while filing complaints with the Ohio Attorney General
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Speaker 8: Along the central text, here's your trucking forecast for the
Speaker 8: Try State and the rest of the country and the
Speaker 8: Try State. Overnight mostly clear, the low down to thirty seven,
Speaker 8: mostly sunny Friday, with a slight chance of afternoon rain.
Speaker 8: A high of sixty one, mostly claudy Saturday. The high
Speaker 8: year seventy, sunny and cooler Sunday, a high fifty six.
Speaker 8: Nationally through Saturday, heavy rain and heavy mountain snow, along
Speaker 8: with strong winds will be seen in parts of California.
Speaker 8: The West and central US will see above average temperatures. Meanwhile,
Speaker 8: rain and storms will be seen in the Great Lakes region.
Speaker 2: Saturday. Seven hundred WLW im Kevin Gordon. This as America
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Speaker 2: friends at Rush Truck Centers. Before I get to this story,
Speaker 2: on act researches reveals how fast trucking capacity is shrinking.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons for that. These two stories will
Speaker 2: kind of add to that, and it's a good thing,
Speaker 2: quite honestly. Oklahoma and ICE launch second I forty CDL crackdown.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma Highway Patrol and ICE detained seventy people, including thirty
Speaker 2: four commercial drivers, in the US illegally during the fifteen
Speaker 2: hour interstate forty sting of the Arkansas border. The operation
Speaker 2: part of Operation Guardian involved two hundred and nine vehicle
Speaker 2: inspections targeting drivers lacking legal status or English proficiency. According
Speaker 2: to the state officials. Now with the mandate from Sean
Speaker 2: Duffy in the Transportation Department, that regulation in terms of
Speaker 2: English language proficiency, which has always been part of the
Speaker 2: FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Guidebook, which is classifies
Speaker 2: as an out of service violation. That out of service
Speaker 2: violation was rescinded or not enforced during the latter part
Speaker 2: of the last few months of the Obama administration, although
Speaker 2: the illegal aliens in this country at that point wasn't
Speaker 2: that much. There were still some available or there was
Speaker 2: still some and I think the estimates were something along
Speaker 2: the line of six thousand throughout the entire country at
Speaker 2: that time. But with the invasion that we saw, and
Speaker 2: that's why that I guess that loophole wasn't closed during
Speaker 2: the first Trump administration, but in the Biden administration, when
Speaker 2: the invasion of this country happened through the southern border
Speaker 2: and the northern border and every place else, there's more
Speaker 2: of these illegal aliens that have somehow gotten well. We've
Speaker 2: seen some of the instances how they got driver's license
Speaker 2: and stuff, but not passing the English language proficiency. And
Speaker 2: this hasn't been enforced by the Department of Transportation during
Speaker 2: a Biden administration. So now this is being enforced and
Speaker 2: those people are being turned out of service, So that
Speaker 2: will make not only make the roads a lot safer,
Speaker 2: but then also drop down that capacity in terms of
Speaker 2: how many. You know, when you've got people that are
Speaker 2: willing to come into a country and they're already illegal
Speaker 2: and they are willing to drive and operate for less
Speaker 2: than what the normal wages are, that pushes the ages
Speaker 2: down for the rest of people. If they're willing to
Speaker 2: haul freight, or the companies they work for willing to
Speaker 2: haul freight for less than what can be done. Those
Speaker 2: depress the markets. So if you weed that out and
Speaker 2: get rid of the drivers that are creating the safety
Speaker 2: problems on the road and get them off the road,
Speaker 2: freight rates will go up. Now, the operation Operation Guardian
Speaker 2: involved two hundred nine vehicles. Governor ken Stitt has said
Speaker 2: Oklahoma will continue enforcing immigration and safety laws for truckers
Speaker 2: as other states joined similar interstate crackdowns. Now, you remember
Speaker 2: when they did this a couple months ago, they caught
Speaker 2: all kinds of flag from the spoon fed regurgitators in
Speaker 2: the mainstream media saying how can you do this? This
Speaker 2: is so cruel and blah blah blah. Well, you know,
Speaker 2: do you want your family out on the road with
Speaker 2: somebody who doesn't understand English, that can't read road signs
Speaker 2: that if they are even if they do have some
Speaker 2: sort of an app where they have on their phones.
Speaker 2: And I've seen this at hotels and stuff where if
Speaker 2: you're talking to somebody that is, you know, housekeeping or whatever,
Speaker 2: and you ask them a question, they'll kind of put
Speaker 2: up their finger the index finger, mind you, but to
Speaker 2: kind of halt you for a second. So they pull
Speaker 2: out their phone and then they ask you to repeat
Speaker 2: or you know, say what you said, and then they
Speaker 2: can look at their phone and it automatically translates that. Well,
Speaker 2: imagine if you're out on the road and you're reading
Speaker 2: and you're trying to figure out where you are, and
Speaker 2: you're looking at your phone and you're waiting for that
Speaker 2: to come back and tell you where to turn or
Speaker 2: how to turn, or keeping in communication distracting you from
Speaker 2: the road itself. How that's going to cause a safety
Speaker 2: issue out on the road. And why anybody in the
Speaker 2: right mind would issue a driver's license, or especially a
Speaker 2: CDL license to somebody that's going to be operating an
Speaker 2: eighty thousand pounds vehicle out on the highway that doesn't
Speaker 2: display the proficiency had been able to handle that truck
Speaker 2: is absolutely beyond me. But anyway, Oklahoma Ice has launched
Speaker 2: a second CDL crackdown looking good, and we'll see some
Speaker 2: of the results of that in the coming days. But
Speaker 2: it's interesting. It was a fifteen hour sting called Operation Guardian.
Speaker 2: Now kind of on the heels of that, mind you,
Speaker 2: California has been resisting. They have been saying, hey, we're
Speaker 2: not going to comply with this stuff. We're not going
Speaker 2: to comply with Duffies Sean Duffy's mandate to review all
Speaker 2: of the CDL licenses and see which one of those
Speaker 2: have been issued to illegal aliens or people whose work
Speaker 2: visus have expired and all this. They don't want to
Speaker 2: comply with that. So there's been transportation funds withheld from
Speaker 2: the state of California. And of course, rather than fixing
Speaker 2: their fixing the problem out there, what do they do.
Speaker 2: They sue the FMCSA, sue the Trump administration and try
Speaker 2: to tie this up in court. And they say, we
Speaker 2: don't have a problem out here. We have complied with
Speaker 2: the law. Oh really, well, California to revoke seventeen thousand
Speaker 2: CDLs for immigrants, its expiration dates went past when the
Speaker 2: drivers were legally allowed to be in the US. This
Speaker 2: is one of the things we talked about before. If
Speaker 2: you are issuing a driver's license to somebody, one of
Speaker 2: the things you should check in is make sure that
Speaker 2: number one, they have a work visa, that they are
Speaker 2: authorized to work in this country. And then when you
Speaker 2: look at that visa or you look at that work authority,
Speaker 2: how long are they allowed to work? You don't issue
Speaker 2: them a license that goes beyond the date of when
Speaker 2: they're supposed to when their visa runs out, that's just crazy.
Speaker 2: That gives them an opportunity to keep out there and
Speaker 2: keep on the road past the time that they're supposed
Speaker 2: to either renew it or get out of the country.
Speaker 2: And again, those kinds of things are what depresses the
Speaker 2: freight rates around and makes it difficult on other people
Speaker 2: out there to make a living. But again, if California
Speaker 2: doesn't have a problem, then why are they withholding or
Speaker 2: they revoking seventeen thousand CDLs the things that make you go.
Speaker 2: Fatal crashes in Texas and Alabama highlighted the questions about licenses.
Speaker 2: Transportation Secretary Duffy revoked forty million dollars in federal funding
Speaker 2: for California over English language enforcement. Now I think that
Speaker 2: number has gone up to over one hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken. The announcement follows harsh criticism from
Speaker 2: the Trump administration about California and other states granting licenses
Speaker 2: to people in the country illegally. The issue was thrust
Speaker 2: into public consciousness in August when attractor trailer not authorized
Speaker 2: to be in the US made an illegal U turn
Speaker 2: and caused the crash in Florida and killed three people. Then,
Speaker 2: of course, we had that accident last month where the
Speaker 2: person and you know, he was impaired, he was on drugs,
Speaker 2: tested positive for that and apparently, I mean, if you
Speaker 2: look at the video, like I said, it was one
Speaker 2: of the most horrific crashes I've seen. The guy didn't
Speaker 2: even break I don't know if he was asleep, I
Speaker 2: don't know if he passed out, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't see any of the details of that. But he
Speaker 2: just came plowing into all these trucks again or these
Speaker 2: vehicles that were stopped or slowed down. Killed three people there.
Speaker 2: So again this enforcement going on in California actually starting
Speaker 2: to revoke some of these licenses. I mean, I thought
Speaker 2: they didn't have a problem out there. I thought that
Speaker 2: they were saying that we've been complying fully and completely
Speaker 2: with the law and what the government has been mandating,
Speaker 2: and were in compliance with the federal laws. And of
Speaker 2: course let's see Gavin Newsom Nwisman's office said the state
Speaker 2: followed Guy idents it received from the US Department of
Speaker 2: Homeland Security about issuing these license to non citizens. Oh really,
Speaker 2: then again, why are you now starting to revoke these
Speaker 2: Apparently you weren't doing that. You were going under basically
Speaker 2: the rules from the prior administration. But as in any
Speaker 2: executive order or any type of inter departmental I guess,
Speaker 2: decision or mandate or resolution, those are the rules. Now.
Speaker 2: You don't refer back to the rules before and say
Speaker 2: we're operating accurately under those rules. No, if the rules change,
Speaker 2: you have to comply with that. Coming up, let's get
Speaker 2: to that story about ACT Research. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's
Speaker 2: Trucking Network seven hundred WLW, run a business and not
Speaker 2: thinking about podcasting. Think again, Yes, as America'strucking Network seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. ACT Research reveals how fast trucking capacity is strengthening,
Speaker 2: and of course ACT stands for America's America's Commercial Transportation
Speaker 2: Research Company ACT Research. October Research is one of the
Speaker 2: first comprehensive looks at the trucking market since English language
Speaker 2: proficiency enforcement has been tough and impacts to trucking capacity
Speaker 2: are clear. What isn't obvious though, is whether the demand
Speaker 2: side on the market will show up. The ACT for
Speaker 2: HI Trucking Index depicts the landscape where for higher truck
Speaker 2: capacity is contracting. According to the report, capacity index increased
Speaker 2: by two point one points month over months to forty
Speaker 2: seven point five in September. This tells us the capacity
Speaker 2: is indeed contracting. Analyst Carter Weith from ACT Research highlighted
Speaker 2: the crucial aspect. The key piece regarding the capacity is
Speaker 2: the thirty two percent reduction in tractor build from H
Speaker 2: one to H two the first half of the year,
Speaker 2: first half and second half of the year, which notably
Speaker 2: to tractor build below the replacement levels. This substantial cut
Speaker 2: and tractor builds is shrinking the overall number of units
Speaker 2: available to the US market. And again, when you have
Speaker 2: these tractors, the number of tractors available out on the road,
Speaker 2: the laws of supply and demand come into effect. If
Speaker 2: you have fewer items and you have a bigger demand
Speaker 2: than the cost to comply or the cost to move
Speaker 2: that goods, those will increase and will increase those freight rates,
Speaker 2: which will get them back up to where they should
Speaker 2: be and where we get out of this trucking recession
Speaker 2: that we've been in, and again to emphasize people in
Speaker 2: that are not in the trucking industry generally, anybody that
Speaker 2: has been in the trucking industry for a number of years,
Speaker 2: they stand. You have peaks and valleys, Like in all businesses,
Speaker 2: you have certain years where you're just making a lot
Speaker 2: of money and things are going well, and then certain
Speaker 2: things happen and you make a little bit of a dip,
Speaker 2: and so you try to even those out over the years.
Speaker 2: But what they and generally and when you have a
Speaker 2: trucking recession, those trucking recessions usually last between twelve and
Speaker 2: fourteen months. We are now double that amount in the
Speaker 2: trucking industry to where we are in the third year
Speaker 2: basically of a trucking recession. And this all started as
Speaker 2: a result after the pandemic, because so many people came
Speaker 2: into the marketplace seeing that they could make a lot
Speaker 2: of money because freight rates were high. So a lot
Speaker 2: of people jumped into the marketplace and they stayed around.
Speaker 2: And then because they stayed around and they could afford
Speaker 2: possibly to carry freight for a little bit less than
Speaker 2: they were doing that, which was depressing the prices and
Speaker 2: as we've seen with the influx and the invasion that
Speaker 2: we had from the southern border with illegal immigran and
Speaker 2: also out there driving and working for some of these companies.
Speaker 2: And quite honestly, the crackdown needs to be on some
Speaker 2: of these companies that have hired these people. That'll thin
Speaker 2: the herd as well. But they are going through this
Speaker 2: analysis in tandem with the capacity contraction. The heightened enforcement
Speaker 2: of ELP standards by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Speaker 2: is poised to clean up the industry driver pool and
Speaker 2: potentially constrain capacity in a material well way. As noted
Speaker 2: in ACTS research, ten percent of drivers might not meet
Speaker 2: these standards, potentially creating a capacity crunch in the less
Speaker 2: compliant lower end of the spot market where many freight
Speaker 2: brokers cover their shipments. Stricter ELP requirements may cause a
Speaker 2: significant reshuffling of the labor market, fundamentally impacting the availability
Speaker 2: of qualified drivers. Now that is a good thing because
Speaker 2: if safety is the issue, and if you're worried about safety,
Speaker 2: making sure that people out on the road that are
Speaker 2: driving these big rigs that they are qualified to do
Speaker 2: that and they can do it safely because you want
Speaker 2: safety out on the road, and this makes things better
Speaker 2: for truck drivers like you out there that are following
Speaker 2: the law and doing the right thing day after day
Speaker 2: after day. While factoris that tend to constrain capacity and
Speaker 2: the headlines other macroeconomic variables are blocking the robust rise
Speaker 2: in freight rates, volumes present more complex picture. The volume
Speaker 2: index as reported by ACT rows fIF fifty five point
Speaker 2: one in September, it's highest in over a year, indicating
Speaker 2: a rebound in the volumes now. They talk about in
Speaker 2: here that one of the things happening is consumer spending
Speaker 2: increases have helped buoy the inventory levels without causing overstock,
Speaker 2: while even while sectors such as manufacturing housing remains sluggish.
Speaker 2: See what are some of the other key pieces in here.
Speaker 2: One of the things they talked about, which is interesting
Speaker 2: talking about ACT research underscores that while capacity contraction typically
Speaker 2: participates precipitates rate increases, other elements are balancing this effect.
Speaker 2: Look ahead to mid next year, I by suggested as
Speaker 2: tariffs are worked through the work through, capacity continues to
Speaker 2: contract and if the economy continues to grow furthermore, reports
Speaker 2: intimates that lower interest rates could bolster durable goods demands
Speaker 2: while offering some optimism for future housing market activity. Where
Speaker 2: have you heard that before? Oh yeah, from America's trucking network.
Speaker 2: Lower the interest rates, you stimulate the economy. People move
Speaker 2: into homes, they buy more durable goods, furniture, fixtures, appliances,
Speaker 2: and so on. So you know, again America's trucking network
Speaker 2: ahead of the curve. Just saying tay, a look at
Speaker 2: oil and gas prices real quick before we out of here.
Speaker 2: West Texas intermedia crude currently is a fifty eight dollars
Speaker 2: and sixty seven cents a barrel. That is down actually
Speaker 2: up eighteen cents from yesterday, not much of an increase.
Speaker 2: Brent crude currently is sixty two dollars ninety nine cents
Speaker 2: a barrel, that is up only twenty eight cents, a
Speaker 2: marginal increase. Just since January of the twentieth, when Trump
Speaker 2: took office. West Texas intermedia crude is down eighteen dollars
Speaker 2: and twenty two cents a barrel, which accounts for which
Speaker 2: is equal to a twenty four percent reduction in the
Speaker 2: cost of oil. And again, when you have lower energy prices,
Speaker 2: that lowers your energy bills, that lowers your cost that
Speaker 2: increases your bottom line and lowers inflation. Brent krude currently
Speaker 2: since January of the twentieth it is down sixteen dollars
Speaker 2: and ninety one cents, or twenty one percent per barrel. Now,
Speaker 2: I've been mentioning on and on about how if oil
Speaker 2: prices are coming down in the twenty percent twenty five
Speaker 2: percent thereabout range, then we should see a reflection of
Speaker 2: that in the oil or in the gasoline prices. We
Speaker 2: are not seeing much of that of an impact. If
Speaker 2: you look at the nation nationwide average of gasoline at
Speaker 2: three dollars and eight cents a gallon, that is roughly
Speaker 2: the same as it was this time last year. Diesel
Speaker 2: prices nationwide currently is at three dollars and sixty or
Speaker 2: seventy seven cents a gallon, which is actually twenty two
Speaker 2: cents higher than a year ago. If those prices were
Speaker 2: down by about ten to fifteen percent, that, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: what they should be gas across the board right now
Speaker 2: nationwide average should be around two dollars and sixty three
Speaker 2: cents a gallon, and diesel should be around three dollars
Speaker 2: and twenty cents now nationwide high and I keep mentioning this,
Speaker 2: California currently is at four dollars and sixty eight cents.
Speaker 2: They are two dollars and thirteen cents a gallon higher
Speaker 2: than Oklahoma. So how jazz hands Gavin Newsom can be
Speaker 2: out there talking about how wonderful California is and how
Speaker 2: great they are operating that state out there when they're
Speaker 2: paying two dollars and thirteen cents more per gallon than
Speaker 2: the lowest price in the country is beyond me. So
Speaker 2: a lot needs to be done out there in California.
Speaker 2: Number One, don't elect people like Gavin Newsom. Oil prices
Speaker 2: tick higher after Steve losses in the previous session. Oil
Speaker 2: price is ticked up on Thursday after easing nearly four
Speaker 2: percent yesterday in the previous session as investors weighed concerns
Speaker 2: about global oversupply and illuoming sanctions against Russia. Now there's
Speaker 2: been this push pulland Phil Flynn and his Energy Report
Speaker 2: keeps pointing this out that the OPAC producers, they are
Speaker 2: saying that there will be an oil glut next year,
Speaker 2: and yet the International Energy Agency is saying that we
Speaker 2: have hit peak oil and that the supplies are going
Speaker 2: to tighten. So you've got the agency that looks at
Speaker 2: these this data and they see it and they are
Speaker 2: saying that it's going in one direction, where the people
Speaker 2: that are doing the production are saying a different thing.
Speaker 2: And it's amazing how these so called experts can get
Speaker 2: it wrong. Anyway, talking about Server A Sarker DBS Bank
Speaker 2: Energy Sector Team lead, there should be a considerable support
Speaker 2: to oil prices around the sixty dollars per barrel, especially
Speaker 2: given that there could be a short term disruption because
Speaker 2: of sanctions on Russia. Those are starting to have an
Speaker 2: effect other things affecting the markets. American patrolling. I'll get this.
Speaker 2: Crude inventories rose by six point four million barrels, they said,
Speaker 2: to four hundred and twenty seven point six million barrels
Speaker 2: the weekend. It's November the seventh, the EEI said, compared
Speaker 2: with the analyst expectations that they would raise by one
Speaker 2: point ninety six million. So again, because of these so
Speaker 2: called experts involved here, we see that oil inventories they
Speaker 2: only miss that mark by three one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: six percent. Week after week after week, we see this
Speaker 2: and it's creating problems in terms of being able to
Speaker 2: plan ahead for these companies to make sure what they're
Speaker 2: you know, what is available and what on the short
Speaker 2: term is going to be available as far as the
Speaker 2: marketplace is concerned. But again good news as far as
Speaker 2: falling oil prices, again this should equate through the economy
Speaker 2: and in the form of low energy prices, which is
Speaker 2: a good thing. Well, folks, that does it for us.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned for our Red Eye Radio at the top
Speaker 2: of the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon. America has struck a
Speaker 2: network seven hundred WLW