WEBVTT - 10-27-25 America's Truckin' Network 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.880 This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:15.440 Well More. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:17.760 Thanks for tuning in as we begin our week here 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.360 on America's truck and Network, the show that is the 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.160 exception to the rule that nothing good happens after midnight. Well, 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.920 a little bit of an update here on Hurricane Melissa. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.560 She seems to be kicking up her heels down in 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:32.320 the Caribbean. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.600 As we talked about last week that. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:38.159 It was approaching what had hit hurricane status, but it 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:44.280 now is a category five. It is turning northward. Catastrophic 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.919 and life threatening winds, flooding and storm surge expected on 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:52.559 Jamaica early today and later on this morning. Now, the 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.400 trajectory of this, it appeared originally that it was going 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.760 to head north and look like it was going to 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.000 head towards the southern tip of Florida, around the Florida 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.440 Keys thereabouts. It looks like now that it's going to 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.959 be veering off westward and only going to be hitting 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.080 the I'm sorry eastward rather and hitting the east portion 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:19.840 of Cuba. Now nobody's talking about this yet, However, you're 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.040 going to be hearing it here on America's Trucking Network. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.360 That is the area down in the southern tip of 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:31.319 the southeastern portion of Cuba is where our Guantanamo Bay 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.360 facility is there, and it's the only portion of Cuba 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.800 that is owned by the United States, and we've maintained 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.720 that for a number of years, even you know, during 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.920 the communist regime and cast throw and all that, and 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.720 that's where a lot of these how should we say, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:55.760 illegal deportees or the more I guess more dangerous criminals 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.520 are being held. So it's going to be interesting to 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.639 see how that works out if this does in fact 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.360 go in that direction. But right now, it looks like 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.560 it's going to be hitting Jamaica. It's going to be 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.200 some storm surges there. And if it goes in the 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.480 trajectory that, it looks like it's going to take this 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.440 eastwardly bent and maybe hit the south and the eastern 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.560 tip of Cuba. So we'll keep an eye on that. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.680 Some interesting thing we got this notification. We've got not 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.679 a notification, but we got a latest release of a 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.720 study from American Transportation Research Institute. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.480 And some interesting things in there. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.480 It's the for the third year in a row they 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:39.160 actually do their top industry concerns where they send out 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.200 the survey, and maybe a lot of you have participated 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.800 in that, but they release this just the other day. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.840 As a matter of fact, American Transportation Research Institute at RII, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:54.320 the Trucking Institute's not for profit research organization, released the 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:59.480 twenty first annual Top Industry Issue Report, identifying the trucking 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:04.480 industries leading issues. This year's list include the economy, which 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.320 you know, a lot of people will ask me that 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.720 aren't familiar with the trucking industry or people that listen, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.560 why do you add why do you talk about the 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.679 economy so much? And i'm it's the thing that affects 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.639 the truckers. It's the thing that affects you out there. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.360 If the economy is not doing well, there's not going 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.640 to be those number of loads for you to be carrying. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.240 People aren't going to be buying stuff from stores, which 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.480 means that the shells aren't going to have to be filled, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.040 which means they're going to be less trucks on the 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.880 road filling bringing the goods to these locations. And for 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.240 people that aren't aware of this, seventy two percent of 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.760 everything you see on the shelves out there are brought 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.480 to you by a truck. And as people pointed out 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.320 to me at the Mid America Trucking Associate or Trucking 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.560 Show this past March, a lot of people came up 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.000 to the booth and said, hey, you know, a lot 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.720 of people keep talking about that seventy two percent figure. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.360 But if you take into consideration everything and every part 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.880 of the economy, everything at some point in time. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:02.680 Touches a truck. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.960 And the stuff that you don't see in terms of 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.200 the service areas like stuff being delivered to hospital, the 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.640 supplies that are delivered to hospitals, the supplies that are 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:17.720 delivered to stores, you know, cleaning supplies, mops, buckets, that 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.360 type of thing, which aren't the items that are actually 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.680 on the shelves. Those are all brought to those locations 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.920 by a truck at all. Also, so when you add 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.880 all that into there, there is a tremendous amount and 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:36.160 the truck well, most everybody that knows anything about anything 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:41.000 realizes how important the trucking industry is. A lot of 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.040 people learn that lesson the hard way during the pandemic, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.360 when some of the shores the shelves were empty and 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.560 people were saying, well, gee, whiz, what happened and where 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.760 is everything. Well, trucks didn't get here or the stuff 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.640 isn't available at the facility to be transported here, and 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.280 so the trucking industry delivering good during that period of time. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.240 Actually we're treated as heroes a lot of times, and 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.760 as soon as the plandemic was over, it's back to 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.040 the same old, same old. You know, it's just no 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.640 respect for the trucking industry at all. So again people 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.279 need to realize that not only the importance of the 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.000 trucking industry to the stuff getting there on the shelves, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.039 but also the stuff that's getting to the individual locations 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.599 for other supplies. As I mentioned hospital, the betting, the sheets, 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.720 all the stuff is being cleaned and then the cleaning 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.760 supplies themselves, so very important. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:31.320 Okay. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:37.799 Top issues on the list is Economic and the Economy, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.480 lawsuit abuse reform, insurance costs and availability and truck Parking. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:47.200 List also debuts for the first time four new issues 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.120 on that list. Two of them, as they say here 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.320 in the opening paragraph English language proficiency for drivers and 0:05:54.520 --> 0:06:00.279 Artificial Intelligence and Trucking. Andy Owens, a and M Transport president, said, 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.320 we're in the third year of an extended freight recession 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.159 and the pain is real. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:05.880 Now. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.920 Any of you that have been involved in the trucking 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.000 industry for a number of years, you realize and you know, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.440 and you've experienced the ups and downs in the trucking industry. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:15.960 There are certain periods of. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.240 Time where there's a certain amount of a freight recession, 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:23.560 especially in recessionary times. However, as a result of the plandemic, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.839 we have got a unique situation in the trucking industry 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.360 as far as a trucking recession, because a lot of 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:35.080 during the pandemic, a lot of additional truckers came into 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.359 the business thinking, Hey, you know, I've got a CDO license, 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.000 I can buy a truck, and I can get into 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.320 this business. And it seems like people are making a 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.560 lot of money, so I'm going to jump on board, 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.480 so to speak. And so there has been a little 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.920 bit of a oversupply of trucks, oversupply of availability, and 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.640 so the freight rates have come down tremendously, and of 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.479 course the operating costs have gone up, as you're aware of. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.040 So there's been this squeeze as far as the trucking recession. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.760 Usually these trucking recessions last anywhere from twelve to fourteen months, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.000 maybe eighteen months on the outside. But we are now 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.760 into the third year of it, it seems and every 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.920 time you turn around, there seems like there's a light 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.000 at the end of the tunnel, and once then eventually 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.640 so it seems like that light dims and gets further away. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.240 But a lot of people are anticipating. I'm seeing more 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.360 and more stories about people being encouraged of what they're 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.600 seeing and what they're anticipating over the next six months 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.440 to be and then going on into twenty twenty six, 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.800 well the last few months of this year as I'm thinking, 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.800 but also the first part of twenty twenty six, so 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.800 people are very getting more optimistic about that. So looking 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.920 through this, according to Andy Owen's third year of an 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:55.000 extended freight recession, operating costs, operating costs climbed to their 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.320 highest ever the same time the freight pricing has bottomed out. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:03.480 Atr eyesnual analysis is so critical to our industry to 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.680 not only quantify the issues, but more importantly, to understand 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.360 what we can collectively do as an industry to address 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:16.240 each The economy came in at number one lawsuit abuse, reform, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.320 and insurance costs and availability each rose one spot to 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.040 be number two and number three of the top concerns. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.720 Lack of available truck parking dropped two spots this year 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.800 to number four, and concern over driver compensation held on 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.600 to its position at number five. Driver training standard had 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:39.200 been on the list of truck drivers concerns since twenty nineteen, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.760 but this year garnered enough votes to across all across 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.200 all respondents to come in at number nine, which is 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:52.079 now the addition to the list. So rounding out to 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.000 give you an idea again the top ten. The economy 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.360 came in at number one, lawsuit abuse two, insurance costs 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:03.280 and availability three, truck parking for driver compensation five. CSA 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.240 came in at number six. English language proficiency came in 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:13.400 at number seven. Diesel emission regulations That was the other 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.679 the fourth of the items that got onto the list, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.480 different from any of the prior years because there's been 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.360 this discussion as far as the EPA is concerned, what 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.120 they're going to be rolling back as far as emissions 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.000 and then how that's going to affect the model year 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.560 trucks that for twenty twenty seven and for some of 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.240 the model trucks coming in in twenty twenty six, because 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.880 a lot of that regulations that have been puted and 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.800 placed on that are already in the works. Some of 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.160 that can't be pulled back, some of it can be 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.600 stalled or whatever. So it's going to be interesting to 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:53.760 see how these truck emissions and the regulations on that turnout. Finally, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:59.840 driver Training Standards and artificial Intelligence and trucking came in 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.640 at number ten. We'll pick this up a little bit 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.199 and get into some other things. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.240 Trucking Network seven hundred w LW. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:09.920 We need. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.040 This is the briefing reward on America's truck and Network 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:14.960 on seven hundred WLW. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.640 Championship Weekend is upon us in. NASCAR will hand out 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:23.040 twenty twenty five titles Friday, Saturday and Sunday Friday. 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For more information on virtual colonoscopy, 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.440 physic radiologyinfo dot org, slash virtual CT. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.800 I'm Kevin Gored in America's Trucking Network seven hundred WLW. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.600 Finishing of our conversation here on this American Transportation Research 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:37.360 Institute study top ten trucking industry issues. And it's interesting 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.840 because when they do the survey. This survey goes out 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.560 not only the truckers, but people in the companies themselves. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.640 Over forty six percent of the survey respondse where motor 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:53.560 carrier executives and personnel truck drivers represented thirty percent of 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.600 the remaining twenty three percent made up. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.720 Of other freight stakeholders. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.960 So again, you know, kind of a hint or whatever, 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.080 kind of a prompting to you that if you see 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.800 when you're looking at American Transportation Research Institute publications or 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.920 if you're reading certain things and you see that they're 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.520 asking for respondents to check in. As a matter of fact, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:23.480 at the Mid America Trucking Association American Trucking Show back 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.840 in March, I had Rebecca Brewster on and we talked 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.640 about some of the surveys, and she mentioned at that 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.680 time how it's important and in order for them to 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.040 get a clear picture of what's going on in the 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:42.520 trucking industry that people participate in terms of some of 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.600 the surveys that they were putting together at the time 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.160 was the cost of operations and then some other things, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.320 and especially this survey here. And so if you see 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.720 those surveys, take the time and fill it out because 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.520 again I understand being an independent trucker. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:01.800 I know talking to some. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.480 Of you, a lot of you either like or hate 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:09.000 the American American Trucking Associations. A lot of you have 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.560 good thoughts about oh Aida. Some have bad thoughts, bad experiences, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.720 or so on. Part of the thing of being an 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.360 independent trucker is that you don't, as Graucho Marsch used 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.240 to say, I never want to be a member of 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.520 a group that would have me as a member. So 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.320 as you are an independent, you like your independence, and 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.760 so you don't want to be a member of a group. However, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.280 when it comes to lobbying, when it comes to getting 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.600 stuff changed, when it comes to knowing that your voice 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.160 is being heard out there, the concerns that you have, 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.120 if you don't fill out these surveys, if you don't 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.720 participate in some of this stuff, if you don't take 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.400 the time to do the individual surveys, people aren't going 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.560 to know what your concerns are because as you can, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.080 as you see in these surveys, when they come out, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.920 they will talk about, well, the trucking people in the 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:04.240 trucking industry themselves, people that are the carrier executives and 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.600 corporate workers. They have different concerns than you have, and 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.399 so if this survey goes out and it's discussed in 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.600 the media, they may pay more attention to what you 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.760 know as far as Congress is concerned what these executives 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.680 are talking about, as opposed to what's important to you. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.400 And of course truck parking, the economy and all those 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.800 things are very important to you. So again, over forty 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:32.320 six percent of the service the survey respondents, remoter carrier executives, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.959 only thirty percent or the drivers. And you are the 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.359 backbone of this, and so you need to participate more 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.400 and more in these studies so that your concerns are 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.000 out there and people know what they are. I talk 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.439 about some of this legislation that goes on later on 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:49.920 in the week. I hope we can talk to get 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.880 in touch with Louis Pugh from Owner Operator Independent Driver 0:17:53.920 --> 0:18:00.800 Association OWAIDA and talk about this licensing non domicile licenses 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.080 that are being issued, as well as the English language 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:09.359 proficiency and making sure that's enforced even though it's been 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.680 on the books. But we saw the crash last week 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.080 that we talked about. Three people died and then back 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:19.720 in August. Again, an English language proficiency person that couldn't 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.399 even pass the test, couldn't even identify any of the roads. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.080 I think he could only identify what two out of 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:31.000 twelve had failed his driving test for the owner operator 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.240 or for the CDO license either. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.080 Some reports said ten. I saw another. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.800 Report that said he had failed thirteen times but still 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.639 managed to get a license within a two month period 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:48.399 of time. So I know these kinds of things, the regulations, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.960 these things need to be enforced. And if they don't 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.800 hear from you, it's your voice isn't going to be heard. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.360 So we'll be talking to Louis Pugh later on about that. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.160 But again you've got to be and when I put 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.040 out the word in terms of some of these bills 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.640 that are before Congress, and I'll give out the phone 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.840 number of the switchboard, again, I got to emphasize that 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.240 it is a very easy process. Is probably one of 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:19.000 the best things that the government does is the legislator 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.600 of the Congressional switchboard, because that handles the calls both 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.280 for the House and for the Senate. All you have 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.560 to do is call there. All you have to do 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.879 is give your name where you're located. And even if 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.359 you don't know your senator or congressman, they know they 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.119 can tell you which one it is, and then you 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.119 can leave your message for them. Of course, leave it 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.840 courteously and that type of thing. But if they hear 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.680 from you, then that will change their vote or prompt 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.080 them to vote on certain issues that are important to 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.400 the trucking industry. And if you don't take advantage of that, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.080 your voice isn't going to be heard again. Twenty three 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:57.159 percent made up of other freight stakeholders. Among truck drivers respondents, 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:02.040 driver compensation, truck parking in England language proficiency were the 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:09.440 top three concerns. So again re emphasizing driver compensation, truck parking, 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:14.040 and English language proficiency are your top three concerns. The 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:18.480 top three concerns here on the overall survey were economy, 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:23.879 lawsuit abuse, insurance costs. Truck parking came in at number four. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.160 That's number two on your list. So again, as far 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.600 as a respondence concern, compensation, truck parking and English language 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.600 proficiency were the top three concerns. 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.560 As far as overall driver Let's. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:41.760 See, English language was down there around number seven, so 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.600 the difference between the overall survey, and what's important to 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.080 you is the key here, and so for you to 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.680 participate in this and change the dynamics of this and 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.840 what people are focused on, you need to participate in 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.960 some of these surveys. Again, let's see get back to 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.240 this the driver Company Station lawsuit. Over forty two hundred 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:06.160 trucking industry stakeholders participated in this year's survey, a fourteen 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.480 percent increase over twenty twenty four responders including motor carriers, 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:14.639 truck drivers, industry suppliers, driver trainers, and law enforcement, among 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.720 other groups. The complete results and the course, you can 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.240 go to the website there and I'll put this on 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.440 Facebook and then a link there to where you can 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:25.800 download the overall survey itself. 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:26.720 And you can read it for yourself. 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.840 But these things are extremely important, and when these things 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.520 come out, make sure that you fill it out because again, 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.679 your concerns should be the top priority. 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.359 Other you're out there, you are where the rubber meets 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.080 the road. You are there on a day to day. 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.680 Basis, busting your hump to get this freight from one 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:50.320 place to another. And despite what maybe the company is 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.840 interested in, or law enforcement or these other people are 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.840 interested in your concerns should be top priority, and they 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:02.240 should be focused on that because with you, this economy crumbles. 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:06.480 So I can't emphasize that enough. Last week, again towards 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.440 the end of the week, we had that story about 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.440 that horrific crash that happened in California, killing three people 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.399 from a person that well, first of all, he was 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:21.720 illegal that had somehow gotten a driver's license in California 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:26.000 and couldn't speak English, couldn't pass the English language proficiency, 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:31.000 and was on top of it all intoxicated. They say that, 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:33.040 you know, some of the reports said that he was 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:38.359 on drugs, So again, being intoxicated, be under being under 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:43.280 the influence, and driving an eighty thousand pound vehicle got 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:47.119 you know, just horrific. And if you've seen the accident, 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.960 if you've seen that dashboard camera of that, it is 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:53.480 one of the most horrific accidents I've ever seen in 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:56.240 my life. But again that kind of pushed some of 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:58.240 the economic news off to the side. And of course 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:00.760 we had we talked about that, talked about it on 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:02.240 our friend Dan. 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:04.160