An Interview with Sasnak

hey guys um just wanted to add uh before the video starts this is a long video but we talk about a lot we talk about pay pay in regards to being an owner operator we talk about maintenance in regards to being an owner operator and we talk about how the industry has changed overall over stan's time uh being in the trucking industry and what he thinks we do tell some war stories at the end uh which is you know very enjoyable i always enjoy doing that with another truck driver and everything but um stan's gonna post part of this video he was recording the first half of the video uh up until my battery died and he's gonna post that on his channel uh just us talking or whatever he's gonna edit it down and and everything and then he um the idea is uh the rest of the video will be available on my channel and i'm gonna go ahead and post the whole video now uh it's certainly something that i wanted to talk to him about um and everything was something i'd already thought of as far as talking to him with vasculature so i'm gonna give it some time i'm gonna let the video kind of um sit and collect views i want as many people as possible to see it and i want as many people as possible to be able to uh ask questions i'm gonna have a q a after the video um i'm saying two weeks okay so we'll set the i'll try to set the q a up for uh let's look at the calendar here uh let's see today is sunday the sixth we did the video yesterday on the fifth i will try to set up a um i think his video will be out the following monday so not the seventh but it'll be out on the 14th and so i will try to set up a q a for the 19th and that gives other people that may not be on my channel um the ability to come over watch the video and then ask questions so we will set up a q a for the 19th of june which happens to be my birthday um that'll be my first q a so that'll be my birthday present to me i guess um anyway um so yeah that's it so uh please enjoy the video and um you know just enjoy two old truckers talking so i appreciate it guys there you go okay homer [Music] [Laughter] it's your video too um all right so uh hey everybody so it's big mark here and uh you know this guy if you uh if you watch his channel if you don't this is sadness yeah so we're out here at his uh and his shop uh i'm lucky enough to have him uh nearby he's an old truck driver and i can sit around and chat chat with him when we're both at home and talk more my birthday is coming up in a couple weeks my mom we were at the restaurant the other day my mom goes what do you want for your birthday and the first thing popped from my head was peace and quiet it's getting old oh yeah so anyway anyway uh but anyway so um i was talking to him the other day on the phone and uh we were uh discussing uh getting together and kind of sitting around i told him i said you know i kind of want to sit around and kind of find out some things from you you know being that you have 34 years of experience in the industry and i have eight years of experience in the industry you know just swap war stories at some point but you know generally try to talk about some stuff i think a lot of people that follow stan's channel a lot of people that follow my channel are interested in becoming owner operators or working their direction and becoming owner operators and there are some things i didn't know when i first started out on you know in trucking especially owner op you know i kind of went through the school of hard knocks trying to find out about it and luckily i i've made some very good decisions over the years and it's kind of led me down the right path and and um you know i i've said before on my channel that only by the grace of god have i gotten where i'm at um and that's certainly true but once in a while i run across people like stan who they know what they're talking about and uh don't pay any attention to him that know what they're talking about and i can ask advice and everything and i think that some of the advice that he's given me especially recently i think would be is something that should be on camera for others that are looking to be owner operators so um you think that's right huh huh oh you turned me down oh yeah now i'm talking to you i'm sorry i'm talking to you i don't know nothing right but anyway uh yeah we can we can swap some stories here and stuff but uh what did you drop i don't know what i dropped oh you glasses oh okay okay this is my beatnick here here let me see what you look like now that's a cool dog girl anyway so uh no don't sneeze on me oh yeah yeah come on it's over here anyway uh she's photobombing us yeah well she is cuter than we are so yeah that's all right but anyway um so anyway uh we're going to talk about uh pay first uh so let's go ahead and start with that um i make exactly 12.70 a year now um that's right about pay like like what it was back in the day well i think yeah i think um you know you've had 34 years of experience in the industry and and um certainly things have changed a lot you know the cdl uh in 91 when it changed don't know about that i didn't have when i started it wasn't a cdl as a class a chauffeur's license and it's still a class a license but it's class a cdl yeah it's all regulated by the government feds now used to be state by state by state yeah and now it's all the problem what happened on that for the most part the reason we have cdls is because back in the day in the 70s 80s whatever drivers would get lice driver's license out of several states so let's say you're from texas you get an arkansas oklahoma tab a license okay so if you're out in colorado or california you get a speeding ticket you put on that arkansas tag a license so they wanted to put a stop to that because you know then when you go home you get your clean texas driver's license you show that to the insurance company and keep your rates down yeah it was all that kind of stuff or you get so many tickets and everything well you just get rid of the arkansas license and go with the oklahoma but you never you never dirty your texas license or whatever state you're from and a lot of drivers did that i never did i actually i had i had a texas and a kansas license at the same time i wasn't a truck driver though i was a uh i was in the army and i had a kansas driver's license when they sent me down here to fort hood texas i got a texas license actually i got a texas license for a motorcycle really okay i was in your army i got a motorcycle and they needed a motorcycle license i got a texas motorcycle license and in my head i thought it was a kansas driver's license for cars and a texas motorcycle license you know and he goes now the motorcycle license is good for cars too you got to give one or the other up so he took he took my kansas driver's license oh wow yeah so anyway yeah hope the wind doesn't mess us up here but anyway we got wind muffs and everything it's probably pretty good so yeah by the way i invested in camera equipment yeah i'll talk about that later yeah on another video yeah yeah yeah yeah so but anyway he uh uh that's where cdl's came in in the early 90s and because i'd been driving for at that time about four years i was grandfathered down so i didn't have to go down and do all the testing you know because arya's already he knows what he's doing kind of yeah and well you were i guess one of the questions that i have about being grandfathered in though uh when you were grandfathered in were you given all of the endorsements that go along with that so yeah you can do anything you can do doubles and i can't do hazmat anymore back what was it back in old nine or something like that they they heightened the uh you had to get a background check and all that kind of stuff and i thought you know i'm never going to haul hazmat ever again so why why bother so i have all my endorsements but i left i mean your doubles and passion your you know buses and all that kind of stuff i can haul anything i can grab anything but i can't do a hazmat anymore okay which to me is a good thing i don't want to oh yeah it's me hazmat i mean yeah hazel the thing is most companies that are just regular freight companies you know and they hey you got a hazmat you gotta have hazmat to work over here but they don't pay anything more for it yeah you know so you know and i just every time you have hazmat on it's just like this huge red flag when you call pull across the scale pull around back let's inspect you well then if you're not going to pay me any for anymore for it then why should i put up with a headache yeah you know but at the time when that came out no 9 i started my own reefer business up hauling food and i'm thinking i'm never going to haul hazmat and i thought that was going to be the last business i ever did yeah just do that for until i retire someday okay and uh but uh and i just i got burned out on you know work work too much all work and no play makes jack a bill a boy yeah i got i get tired and just i said the heck with it i got out of the reefer business all together and that's when i went and bought big trucks like this and and do what i do now okay but what did you uh so we were gonna talk about pay we said that yeah so um yeah we got off a little uh i have adhd i'm pretty sure he does too he's probably not gonna admit it but uh um but i think we it's like squirrel you know you know and uh but anyway okay so when you started out first your first trucking job what how much did you get paid fifteen cents a mile fifteen cents but it was hubs smile not book miles oh there's no whatever you know whatever bookmark uh hub mile my understanding of hub miles they pay you for every mile truck driver and book mile is they at the time they paid you from post office to post office or something like that or elsewhere household mover guide okay you're uh you're all familiar with the moving companies like united or ally or mayflower and all those companies um they when they when they move your household belongings from point a to point b they have this big book it's like a great big encyclopedia or like a like a big very big yellow pages i mean a real thick book and it had uh it was a chart and it showed all the different towns in the country and you could go through it it's all on computer now but back then it was in a book it was a household movers guide and it said from st louis to phoenix arizona is that many miles okay well today actually dropped it there was there was a crow fly just straight line distance well no highway is straight like that so by the time you go around the curves and up over mountains and things like this by time you get there you you're ten percent more than the book says okay so that's what book miles now now book miles they they had as the crow flies and they also had uh you know uh uh practical miles but even the practical miles was you know seven or eight percent less than we actually drove so you say from point a to point b they say it's a thousand miles you'd have to drive a thousand and ninety to get there okay okay more more likely about eleven hundred and something to get there uh so you got paid by you got paid for the thousand miles not for the 1100 that you actually really drove on the book miles now on on hub miles they just go off the odometer okay and the first company i worked for they had odometers but they also had a hub meter on the on the wheel oh yeah i remember those a lot of trailers have them nowadays but the trucks don't hardly have but they they put them on the truck and every week when you come home or every two weeks whenever i was usually home every week or every other week you know kind of thing yeah i'd come in and when you pulled through the it was a small company but they still had this like fuel when you pulled in they'd fuel for you and all that you you'd pull in dr stop the truck in front of the fuel line there's a guy out there to fill the truck up and everything wrote down the mileage and everything and you're in there turning paperwork and all that kind of stuff in and uh that's what you got paid on whatever he wrote down on that odometer yeah and i got paid 15 cents a hub mile and then i got a one cent bonus for safety i didn't mess anything up no wrecks or just tearing things up ripping a tarp or things like that you know safety okay uh backing over a street sign or something you know whatever uh messing something up at a uh at a customer yeah whatever it might be you know um that was a safety bonus and then they also had an appearance bonus okay and the appearance bonus it was about image that company they really liked the image you know they didn't want you know skanky old nasty truck drivers and and dirty trucks so you know they they they would pay to have your truck you can stop with truck washers and get the truck washed once a week so you get the truck washed and then you keep yourself and the inside of the cab how many of these trucks have you seen were you know there's there's tons and tons of paperwork up on the dash how does the driver even see out you know you open the door and trash falls out you know that they didn't want that because it looks bad to the customer it does about appearance now a lot of companies don't you know do anything about that anymore but but back then that was kind of the thing you know uh so i get basically at 17 cents a hub mile okay and i thought i was rich and you figure that out and we averaged about about 3 000 miles a week um it got a call about three thousand miles a week times point one seven five hundred and ten dollars and i thought i was rich it was in eighty-seven right he was eighty-seven oh yeah yeah and that wasn't bad that wasn't that that'd like a thousand dollars today yeah you know something like that so so um but yeah uh uh but then um that was hub mile paid by the mile hub mom and then also got like tarpon keys and stuff like that you know because there's a flat bed yeah flatbed um but went to uh my second company you know i left that company and went to my second company after about a year and a half and um he said we're gonna pay you 20. all right cool yeah well no 20 oh 20 and i learned real quick 20 percent of zero how much is that let me calculate that i can do that 20 of very little pay is very little pay yeah yeah it uh it was it was a disaster i didn't make i i only worked there for about four or five months and realized i learned a lesson and it's one of those you live and learn kind of things you know and if that's on the job training and you can get back to the truck driving schools and all that see i didn't go to truck driving school you know so he's through you you learned you learned this stuff as you went yeah but uh but yeah um but yeah i started 15 plus the bonus 17 cents a mile and now drivers nowadays what's a typical driver make nowadays uh you know i've got a friend that works for stevens and uh i think when he was when he he's doing the uh the uh contractor division now that was his choice and uh he's i think he was doing like 38 cents a month okay or something like that on the you know over the road so yeah close to 3 000 2800 miles something yeah yeah about 200 miles times what was it 30. yeah let's say 38 cents a month 38 yeah see that's 1064. so you know yeah so it's like double but what can you buy for taxes but well mine was before taxes too yeah but what can you buy with that thousand compared to 30 years ago yeah you know it's about the same yeah it really probably hasn't raised much you know it's kind of kept kept even with inflation if not maybe lost ground you know i don't but i mean i was working at a warehouse before i started that trucking company i was working at a warehouse actually i was running route delivery here in texas okay and i was bringing home maybe 350 a week so when i went and started making 500 i'm like i'm in the money now you know so um you know pay with trucking you know uh we were talking about this before we started the cameras up the the pay and trucking how much does a truck driver make well it depends you know it depends on what you're doing in trucking how much does a race racer make how much does a racer make i don't know what kind of it's on the race it depends on the racer you know depends on what you're racing yeah it depends on what you're if you're if you're a nascar driver you make really good money racing but if you're a dirt truck driver you know yeah or in a local series and you're not going to make a whole lot yeah but there's all kinds of there's so many different kinds of trucking it's like saying well i'm a trucker well that just kind of gives you a general that i'm not a plumber or an electrician it just says you drive you drive a vehicle for a living yeah there's so many different kinds of trucking just like there's so many different kinds of you got nascar you got top fuel dragster you got horse racing yeah you know you've got um the olympics you know people running you know 100 yard dash racing you know yeah there's so many different kinds of racing so i'm a racer what does that mean you know you might race remote control cars around yeah you don't get paid anything for that you know i mean you know sam you know so there's so many i'm a trucker that's so vague you know well what kind of a trucker what do you do what do you haul what uh what kind of v are you are you a company driver owner operator it's it's it's such a hard question if people ask me on my channel all the time well how much truck drivers make well it depends on what you're doing you know and uh like if you're just starting out like stevens transport is a student you're not going to make very much at while you're training once you get in your truck you'll make a little bit better probably more than flipping burgers it's two years later once you put your dues in okay that's when you can start making a year later even that's when you can start making better money and if you really want to make good money you want to specialize you want to you want to specialize down to something that other people don't want to do me personally i don't want to haul heavy haul or oversize because i don't want to deal with all the permits and the headaches with the the pilot cars and all that you know windmill blades you know it just you don't get 3 000 miles a week hauling windmill blades you might get 1200 miles yeah but you make eight bucks a mile you know but out of that eight bucks a mile as an owner operator you got to pay for the pilot car you know you got to pay for all the permits you got to pay for all you know or if you're a company driver doing that you're not going to make eight bucks a mile you make 80 cents a mile or a dollar a month as a company you know there's so many different variations uh how much does a plumber make well it depends on who the plumber if you're a good plumber if you've got a lot you know if you're a plumber in a little dinky town and you get two calls a week you're not gonna make very good money but if you own a big plumbing company in a dfw area and you've got crews and crews and crews you're gonna be filthy you know well you know probably filthy rich you know it depends it just i'm a trucker so i'll make there's no dead i make exactly fifty thousand dollars a year you can't you can't do that with with trucking so anything more on pay or um i think the only other question i have on that is is when did you uh how long did you were you a company driver altogether and then when did you decide to become an owner i bought my first truck in 1999. okay it was a used truck from a friend of mine and people on my channel would know kurt the guy from kansas i went to work for him he was trucker back then and i went to work for him as a company driver for about four or five months and one day he came to me says hey you when you hired on you said you was interested in buying a truck you meant you know gordon yeah well he quit me you know the other day and his truck's empty and if you want to get out of this truck and get into that older peterbilt i'll sell that peterbilt to you and he made me a sweetheart deal and i you know and that's kind of what you're doing yeah i mean similar you know if you know his channel uh he uh uh uh he made me a really nice deal we'll get into the details but basically uh it was i'll make you a deal yeah you can't refuse yeah you know and it's been you know upward and better ever since you know yeah but i was working for him making let's say you know at the time 800 a month a week you know 800 a week and i became an owner operator all of a sudden i'm making after expenses 25 yeah you know tripled my money or something you know roughly you know over overnight just by getting out of this truck and getting into that truck it was you know a 10 year old truck you know but the price was you know 100 000 truck either yeah you know which would be a 180 000 truck today you know but um it just all depends on uh what you do in your career but but if you really want to make money in trucking get into trucking learn you know go through the the toil of you know putting in your dues so to say get a little bit experienced and then start getting into specialized stuff and do something you want to do i mean don't get into oh i'm going to make a million dollars because i'm hauling heavy haul but yeah it might make you nuts i mean i made dean good money on my own when i own my own business i own my own authority and everything i made really good money doing that dallas to la run back and forth you know i made really good money doing it can you are you willing to tell like to tell us like what you made i mean just out of here they're not 12.70 that's all i make irs thanks for watching yeah um um i mean at that point because at that point you you own the truck it was your trailer you own the trailer and and it was you it was under your authority like your license and everything so and i got my own customers i didn't get a broker and you didn't go through brokers and you know everything 100 me i got 100 of the pay yeah now i had a lot of expenses that went out after i got that paid yeah but you know whereas you're leased on to a company like right now i'm leased onto a company in oklahoma they take a percentage out for their office work and they're the same it's the same thing for me yeah um i think they take i think i get somewhere around 70 right now okay so they take 30 for they they provide the insurance and all the paperwork and they do all the billing i can haul a load and i get paid the next friday yeah you know i get paperwork in by monday i'm paid on friday yeah they might not get paid for three months but when you were when you had your own company with your own authority that was did you use a factoring company or did you wait for this no i just had good customers that paid me on delivery when i showed up they wrote a check and handed it to me without that load you know okay i had a real good company there um the company i had that went from dallas to l.a was for it was for chile's restaurant food okay and i'd go around pick up all kinds of restaurant food and i take it to la they take it off my truck put on shipping containers ship it to hawaii okay that's what i did on the west bound on the eastbound i hauled back for asian grocery stores in dallas fort worth we got a lot of a lot of your major cities have uh ethnic areas you know and dallas fort worth we've got well we've got arlington you've got great uh irving a little bit a little bit in full garland there's areas that have a lot of asian people living there so they have their own grocery stores so they can buy their you know octopus legs and stuff you know i mean they eat some weird stuff now look up look up century eggs anyway they're duck eggs don't do that yeah well look it up and just don't eat one don't do that but but they they have they have their own special foods that they like to eat you know and um it's no different than if you live in houston there's spanish neighborhoods that have mexican you know mexican uh same thing as like little italy and new york very exactly so i'd haul stuff back for them and uh and when i delivered and i did ltl you know is less than truckload yeah okay so i'd haul i go i'd be out in la and pick up three pallets for this one customer and i picked two pallets up for that a different customer and one pal for a different customer and five pilots for a different customer so think of it ltl is kind of like what you do trucking you load the whole truck and it's all one one truck load going from one customer to another customer yeah one customer sold a truckload of widgets and took it to another customer and they bought the widgets you go there and you unload the whole thing think of that as um a a taxi or a limo you bought the whole thing it's yours yeah your truck is all yours ltl is more like a city bus you don't buy the whole bus or you don't rent the whole bus you just rent the seat yeah okay so you get on the bus you got three people you you just rent three seats but on the truck you rent floor space yeah so this company would say hey i need three pounds so they just rented three pilot spaces for me to put their pallets on okay i'd put 20 or 22 pallets on the truck and bring it back to dallas and deliver it okay and i'd go around all these different stores and delivery and that's specializing remember we talked about specializing yeah nobody wants to do that how many traders are going to go to eight pickups oh that's crazy well but you get paid three times as much well it's a little crazy now like you know so i just specialize in something yeah once you specialize you you specialize in something that most drivers aren't willing to do okay i really don't want to go out and do heavy haul yeah somebody else does it and they make the money yeah okay i don't because i don't do that but i at the time i was doing reefer you know refrigerated not a reefer but um i was doing refrigerated trailers you know frozen frozen food and stuff like that and a lot of drivers like to do that but they want to go one place pick up a whole load and take it all across country and deliver one place yeah and i was going eight or nine pickups in dallas taking out to la for one customer go around make a whole bunch of pickups take it out to la and deliver it one place okay and now i'm empty i go around la and make my my record was 19 pickups in one day in la oh wow but usually it's about 10 or 12. 10 or 12 pickups around l.a that's hard to do it's hard it's hard to do one drop and pick up enough and one of the reasons i don't do it anymore because it can't work the guy that bought my company he can't do it anymore oh wow because the law the electronic logbook won't let them do that but i my friday was a really big day i'd get up about five a.m unload the truck they don't load the truck but i'd be there watching them with the forklift and everything they they don't load the truck sign my papers i'm out of there about six or six thirty okay i'd leave and i'd start going around all these different places by the time i got picked up it's six or seven o'clock in the afternoon and then i'd leave and i'd drive from downtown l.a all the way over to arizona somewhere and go to bed so it's yeah one you know midnight one o'clock or something like that that was one of my one big day but then i'd slept eight hours that night and then saturday morning i'd get up and i'd drive uh i'd go back to el paso one of my customers was arrested a vietnamese restaurant in el paso i'd bring in two or three pallets to them no doc i had to hand stack everything okay paid yeah right it paid so you don't mind working if you paid for it so i'd hand stack all that down to them and they'd take it off into their store and once it was done the lady would come out and she here you go here's your check and i'd take the check stick in my pocket and i'd hit the dallas and i i had a customer in the middle of odessa a little small asian grocery store delivered one or two pallets to him okay and then take off and head back to fort worth for monday morning i go around monday morning make all my deliveries and i'm empty at the end of the day monday and then i come home do all my book work all the filing and the fuel taxes and all that kind of stuff i did all that filing and figuring all that stuff all monday night and then tuesday morning i get up go out and start making those eight or nine pickups around the dfw area and then leave thursday wednesday morning to head to l.a again and they just do it seven days a week go go go go go go yeah and it was a paper log so i could kind of shift things around and i wasn't outlaw i mean i did like you know 2 800 miles a week yeah 28.50 roughly you know that's all the miles i did but i mean the mileage from dallas to l.a is what 1400 miles yeah plus you know 100 miles running around in la and maybe 50 run around in dallas yeah so you know i'm doing 2 900 miles you know 29.50 something like that so i'm not going out and doing 5 000 miles but i worked extremely hard on one day but on tuesday i didn't really do much on tuesday i went around dallas and i was done you know about five o'clock and i went home yeah so tuesday was my easy day wednesday and thursday were my easy days because all i did was drove you know i drive about halfway i get out in new mexico somewhere go to bed wake up the next day on thursday and drive on into l.a those are easy days you're just sitting on your butt driving down the road it's friday was my killer day friday and monday were my killer days and i worked my butt off doing that but i was never tired sleepy tired i was just [Music] i need a vacation but i worked my butt off but i made darn good money doing it but when they changed the electronic global clause i saw that coming i'm like you know i'm not going to be able to do this buy an older truck now you don't have to pay for logs yeah you can't take an older truck into california because the emission loss yeah so it's just it's it's time you know just finally just throw your hands up and say well the government screwed me out of my job yeah and you go out of your specialization right special lifestyle and by then i was uh getting financial awareness work so damn hard so i started looking around for other other uh you know ways of making a living and i don't make near as much doing what i do now you know make about half maybe to go back to the original question how much are you willing well let me ask respect because not everybody's comfortable with telling people and this is going to be public because it's going to go out on youtube but are you willing to give us a like to give a ballpark ballpark about what you like my best year i probably made about 300 000 in revenue okay but then i had 150 120 dollars worth of expenses okay so what i actually put in my pocket is a little over a hundred thousand dollars or a hundred and fifty thousand dollars you know one year okay um yeah other years weren't quite that good but still two hundred thousand yeah but that one that was you no brokers 100 just just like i said because 100 me i had a lot of other expenses that i wouldn't have my insurance was my insurance when i first started in 09 my insurance was i think around for a truck trader cargo insurance a whole nine yards about 9 000 a year okay in eight years in eight years it went up to i think i spent 19 000 last year more than double now why is that well when i first started i had a about a three-year-old truck about a two-year-old truck can work and i had a 20 year old trailer okay so the insurance is a lot lower on it the the cargo insurance is the same the collision insurance it's the the the liability the uh to replace the vehicle you know the uh comprehensive comprehensive yeah yeah uh that was fairly low because the truck and trailer together were you know uh 60 and 10. so you look at 70 000 worth of equipment okay when i quit i had a brand new 2015 kenworth w900 was 150 000 truck and you know and i had a trailer that was five or six years old because i bought it brand new in 11 2011. and it was a 65 plus the graphics and the paint and all that you know uh i had about seventy thousand dollars in the trailer so i had two hundred twenty thousand dollars with equipment okay so eighty thousand dollars versus two hundred and twenty that's why my comprehensive was a lot higher you know okay so anyway uh but yeah i just you can make really good money when you do it yourself but it's a lot it's a lot of work there was no and the other thing when it was going to take a week off because i couldn't take one day off because i get off my schedule okay if i missed one day i can i could never catch up yeah so if i ever lost one day a truck's broke down or something and i took it in the shop i got to take the whole week off i call the customer and say hey i can't haul this week why transmission's blowing up or the motor is messed up or yeah you know whatever i i got to get in the shop and you know yeah we don't want to take you know six hours to fix but we can get you in next tuesday you know you go to the dealer probably you go to the dealers yeah you know hey it's monday morning hey my truck's broke down yeah we can get to you on thursday yeah okay well now i got to take a whole week off you know to get the truck in the shop but that didn't help that's why i had new equipment so i didn't break down i didn't break down very often yeah i think i had a out of this whole seven years i broke two weeks that i didn't run really yeah two weeks that i didn't run because of mechanical brick now i took weeks off occasionally but not very often i work most years i work about 48 or 40 49 year weeks a year i'd always take off around christmas for a week and i'd take off in the middle about the middle middle of june uh to go on a little vacation you know okay so and go to colorado or something good mountains yeah um but yeah you could make good money like that but then um what i'm doing now is nothing nothing compared to that you know but what i'm doing now is so much easier than what i that california run you know so much easier yeah it looks easy for me i mean i enjoy it i really enjoy it it got to the point where you just you're so stressed out my blood pressure was through the roof i mean that job was that literally killing me you know my blood pressure was through the roof and i was just like you know yeah yeah so i finally said you know the heck was it it's you know over the over those years i put money away put money in the bank saved it invested in some of it you know and things like this and i got to think one day how much is enough i don't want to be donald trump yeah you know i don't want to be ross perot or who pick your millionaire i want jeff bezos i don't i don't want to have that much i mean yeah i would but i just you know the kind of work i'm doing i'd kill myself trying to get that right and some people are really really driven i've got a couple really good friends of mine that are just super super driven how you know you know couldn't believe i sold the company you know i just walked away one day yeah yeah i'm tired of it you know and and truth be known if i really wanted to do it again i could just go right back into it well not with this truck probably because it's too heavy we can get into that in a minute about weights and stuff but um i can go trade this truck off and go buy another truck and a refrigerator and get right back into that frozen food and stuff that i was doing uh i did take a little while to build it back up because those customers weren't found other people to haul from yeah but uh i could probably get into it back into it if i wanted to i just don't want to no i understand so anyway what else uh let's see next thing was uh maintenance so uh about about a month ago maybe two months ago um i had my truck in the shop and i had uh my truck hit about 500 000 miles and it was originally a stevens transport truck uh and i know stevens takes care of their equipment um so at least that's i know stevens takes care of their equipment so anyway no they do but yeah their schedule's a little weird probably i don't know england i know we're for england their schedule was always really good they were very anal about that they were like get your truck in or you're not going anywhere so i think stevens is the same way but um my truck hit about 500 000 miles and um i you know just randomly thought i should probably change the transmission fluid and the two rear ends you know at least one rear in the uv change for sure and uh i called stan up and i said what's the typical interval for changing fluids like that like your rear ends and your transmission he goes oh about every 37 miles oh yeah every week everybody's on the oh my god i'm gonna fall on the side of the road like changing their fluid everything yeah uh he said about every 250 000 miles and so um i had done it right about the right time basically or i had hoped so 250 500 751 million you know so are there any other maintenance things that you could think of that are like that like oil changes and stuff like that okay you change the oil um it all depends uh oil changes back when i first started engines weren't what they are today yeah okay cars are the same way you know a 57 chevy you know 350 the tolerances aren't near what a new honda is yeah you know honda go to 300 000 miles not think about it but an old 57 chevy you know i told me 100 000 miles that thing's pretty much wore out yeah you know the motor you know um trucks are the same way back when i started driving you know the old mechanical cats and stuff like that uh cummins and whatnot they uh the the common thing was around 10 12 000 miles you know 10 000 or 12 12.50 something like that change oil that's what most owner operators did but 30 years later now the engines are better quality you know minus the emissions crap but the motor itself is actually usually a pretty much better you know better materials better metals and stuff but the oil has changed a lot over the years the oil with all the additives and stuff like that [Music] i work for a company i won't say who you know one is really really large companies years ago and their their in their intervals were uh their intervals were 30 000 miles for a grease job and 60 000 miles for the oil engine oil and i don't think they ever changed the transmission rear ends because they didn't have the trucks that well yeah three they have three year release on them you know they had at least some freightliners from freightliner they'd lease them and they'd run them run the tar out of them okay and if you think about it that's good business strategy now it's not good for the truck it's a good maintenance strategy it's not it's not good for the truck but it's good business strategy yeah the reason i say that let's do some math here real quick you got a you got a um an owner operator and he changes his oil over like me i do mine over 15 000. because the oils are better but i don't i'm not going to go 60. okay i do mine every 15 000 miles so let's say i run i don't run this hard anymore let's say what i used to do is 150 000 miles 150 000 miles a year divided by 15 is 10 10 oil changes a year okay so 10 10 oil changes and oil change back when i was running it was about 200 230 400 yeah well depends on the motor you know yeah the the pack car motors are really expensive and and detroit uh is the detroit's fairly expensive yeah dd15 that's what i've got in mine but a cat or cummins you know i think my oil changes are usually somewhere around 300 now but back then they were like 240 you know 230. so 10 oil changes in a year times uh two let's say 250 yeah that's twenty five hundred dollars and in oil just in oil yeah and the filters and everything to go with the oil change you know and the grease job and all that so so every fifteen thousand miles about twenty five hundred dollars a year in expense okay now if i only did that 150 000 miles divided by let's just say 60 but let's just 50 because it's an even number yeah 50. there's three three oil changes a year times three hundred dollars now yeah that's nine hundred dollars a year versus twenty or three thousand dollars right which is what it would be if it was ten oil changes right nine hundred dollars a year for oil changes in a truck times stevens transport 22 000 trucks yeah maybe okay swift 9 000 trucks good lord okay the company i was with they were about 3 000 trucks yeah so 300 [Music] ten times two hundred or three hundred yeah today's number so three thousand three thousand dollars for oil if i changed every fifteen versus or 900 900 if you did it minus 900. you're looking at 2100 of difference times three thousand trucks three thousand trucks at six million dollars a year they save in oil do you suppose if they blew a couple motors up are they going to cry nope you got six six million six point three million dollars they changed by not changing the oil okay and if and their trucks are bought or worried about whether or not they're bought with a warranty because it's a it's a lease and a warranty and do you suppose if this big company okay if this big company blows a motor and they go it was a detroit's freightliner with detroit and they go to detroit and say hey we blew a motor up put a new motor in and detroit says we're not putting a motor and you blew it up you didn't change your oils like okay we'll go with cat next year oh no no no we'll we'll buy and you see business wise it's a great strategy but where does it hurt it after if you don't change the oil at all if you just you know it gets low you just pour oil in your truck or run three four hundred thousand miles no problem before you have any troubles with it yeah okay that's when they're getting rid of them yeah so that guy that bought it that's his problem now you see what i'm saying so from a business strategy yeah like i said i'm a little more worried about whether or not my truck's been properly maintained right see what i'm saying is from a business strategy those big companies when they don't change your oil very often okay it makes them money puts money in their pockets for their shareholders because there's public tr publicly traded companies usually okay and they make good money on it and by the time the truck starts having problems they're getting rid of it let the other guy mess with it yeah so that's why i'm always very very leery of buying those mega company trucks okay because of that maintenance schedule now you can get that truck so cheap just overhaul the engine yeah and it's still cheaper than another truck that i might have drove and took real good care of and there's no guarantees yeah you know there's no guarantees when you buy an old used truck there's no guarantees when you buy an old car yeah there you go hello but anyway like that's your maintenance i mean it's there's there's different strategies to it and stuff but if you're an owner operator you've got one or two or three trucks you don't want okay put it this way that big 3000 truck company okay they're only going to have about 2 500 drivers at any one time so there's 500 trucks just sitting doing nothing yeah okay and they're well if they blow a motor or something something's wrong with that that driver get out of that and get in this truck and that driver keeps rolling yeah okay because they're screaming we need more drivers we got 3000 trucks we can't keep our trucks full okay you know full of drivers uh keep them on on the road uh so if a few of them break down it's not hurting their revenue as far as their customers that base okay so they can afford to have a few trucks broke down if you only got one truck and one truck breaks down that's a hundred percent of your fleet that's true so if this big mega carry that has three thousand trucks all three thousand trucks broke on one day their whole fleet is down and they'd have a problem but when they got so many spare trucks sitting over in the wings it doesn't really matter to them so it's strategy on big carriers like that you know and the other thing is the company i work for they did their own they were their own dealership they didn't go down to freightliner and buy them they were their own dealer and they went to freightliner factory and bought the factory as their own and and they were their own customer they'd buy the truck and sell it to themselves or they'd get the truck as a dealer and sell it to them they don't want dealer license okay so yeah they they got a brand new truck where at the time um um a brand new peterbilt would have cost 120 000 dollars back then yeah uh a decent one you know w a a 379 peterbilt would have cost 120 000 they were getting it for like 80. yeah because that's the dealer price so they can beat that's why it's so hard for independents to compete with these mega carriers when it comes to just general freight where do we shine that other ship that nobody wants to do yeah okay if that big mega carrier it was a dry van company but let's say there's a reefer coming and they say hey mr truck driver own a company driver we want you to go down and pick eight pickups in the dfw area and take them to l.a unload it five o'clock in the morning and then we want you to run around la making all these pickups and everything and be back here on monday to make ten deliveries that drivers i ain't working i ain't doing that kind of nonsense yeah they quit okay so they can't get their drivers to do that kind of stuff so they don't go for that kind of freight one and done so that special when you specialize in the crap that nobody else wants to do you make a little [Music] you know i i book loads on on truckstop.com and i'll put loads on uh on dat and i've made more money off of multi-stop loads then i then i will off a single single stop pick up and drop off it's like i know i did one out of florida and it's hard to get out of florida sometimes for for two dollars a month i picked up a load for about 210 a mile but it had 10 stops on it and a lot of those stops were up in the north taking flowers up to the north so um okay so um so i mean anything like any other intervals that you can think of besides just changing your oil like 15 000 miles uh transmission fluid and uh rear ends you got every 250 for how how but what about brakes how often should you whenever anywhere else just when they wear out yeah it depends and that when are they going to wear out okay you know what depends on when they wear out uh how often you step on the pedal that thing right there how hard how often you use the brakes what about what about people people when you get when it gets uh when it gets okay i mean i i i don't know how cool it flies when the mechanic says hey you probably ought to clean that you know i don't that's i believe that order the mechanics okay you know i there's no uh i imagine there's a pamphlet that says change it after every two hundred thousand miles or something like that but you never you as an owner operator running into a time when you need usually a flusher yeah really not so much now because uh usually a a water pump is going to go bad or something like that and when you change the water pump well yeah put fresh antifreeze in okay but yeah you don't just go well schedule says we need to change the antifreeze you know yeah at exactly 100 000 miles or 200 you know there's i i'm sure there's been a pamphlet i just i've never really worried too much about that because antifreeze doesn't really go bad you know it it can rust and stuff like that but it doesn't really go bad it's like uh when you change the freon and you're not free on but you're you know the coolant in your air conditioner it never goes bad as long as it's working it never goes bad it never wears out in texas we live in texas so air conditioning for us is magic okay you don't touch it if it's working like you just leave it alone if it's not working you find somebody who can fix it today yeah if it is working it's not working you're in a panic don't mess with them don't even look at it funny okay because you don't want it to go out all right but yeah all these different fluids and stuff anyways all right all right so we are back we're back we got our pipes going new batteries fresh batteries fresh batteries in the in the gopro and everything and uh so we're going to talk about um i think we were pretty much done with maintenance and what we're going to talk about now is we're going to talk about how you've seen the industry change in the last 34 years that you've been in the industry right there it has the biggest change in the trucking industry right here i mean you you remember the day of stopping and talking to the dispatcher on the pay phone so i'm talking about right here this is the biggest change in all aspects of life really yeah but in trucking this right here is the biggest change what i mean is back when i first started it was all pay phones there was no cell phones i mean even the big cell phone baggy phones weren't even around yet i don't think okay um and if they were it was uh you know new york well new york executive in his limo yeah you know and had the big bag phone or is it a car phone you know i'm actually looking for one for my 88 cadillac so um back in the day you'd wake up in the morning you crawl out of your sleeper you get in the truck and you think i need to run into the truck stop or wherever you're at customer whatever you're the customer delivering whatever and you'd have you'd make your morning check calls your morning and afternoon check calls okay okay so they most companies that i work for anyway they wanted to check call anywhere from like eight to ten somewhere in eight to ten let them know where you're at what you're doing uh are you at the customer yet or are you halfway to the customer if you're going all the way across country are you in albuquerque or you're an amarillo you know where are you at um if you're at the customer uh you'll be unloaded in a couple hours uh if you're already unloaded you're doing a check call and an unloading call all at the same time or a loaded call or whatever so you make a a check call then you'd unload and then two hours later it's 11 30 now you're finally unloaded at whatever customer you're at and you'd go in and say okay i'm empty and that's when they would dispatch you if they had a load if they didn't you had to hang by these phones every you know calls back in a half hour well you call up you you get a not a busy snow you get put on hold this is where the trucker launch comes in and truck stops had these huge phone banks of cell phone a pay phone after pay phone after payphone you can still find them in um they're rare uh well you can still see them they change most of the payphone things into video arcades or something you know that kind of thing or you know um the one in rochelle illinois last time i was up there i've heard they started remodeling but they used to have the phone booths still and you could like open them up it's just like a little room or whatever yeah the flying j's had their little rooms like little closet phone booths you know uh most of them just had a a wall of seven six or seven or ten pay phones and a driver go over and he'd call the 800 number hello yeah and [Music] you're on hold we will get to you shortly you know you know and you sit there for 20 minutes on hold waiting and they'd finally get to you okay so what you babysitted a pay phone okay so you don't you make your call that's uh you finally get dispatched if they had a load find otherwise they say call back in 30 minutes call back in an hour you know something like that well an hour well 20 minutes later you get back on the phone because you're going to sit on hold for a half hour yeah you know so you're on your you know you know on the phone pay phone sitting up in a truck stop instead of out in your truck watching tv or whatever so it was just you babysitted these pay phones okay when you finally okay you got your dispatch there was no emails or anything like that so you had a little notepad and you wrote down all the information they verbally told you over the phone okay this is before qualcomm's or any of that stuff you know didn't have that stuff it was strictly a pay phone and a notepad and a pen and you go in and you write everything down and you go to this customer here's their phone number right then you hang the phone up you pick it back up and you call the customer number yeah okay hopefully it's an 800 number otherwise you had to keep four quarters out and pay you know to make the call so you'd call the customer to get directions because you didn't there was no gps you see all this electronics stuff has really changed the industry okay um electronics industry and motors and stuff like that too but we're talking about just communications alone right now do you feel like it's sped up the industry or floating a lot yeah oh god what we were just talking about when i went to california and everything i couldn't have done that without a cell phone there's no way i could have made it because you did things on the fly you're coming along and a customer call you up and say hey um yesterday i told you i wanted three pallets yeah well they're not going to have one of those pallets available you know they're only going to have two pallets today you know because something didn't come in on the ship or whatever and oh okay so you dropped that customer well that other customer said he wanted four pallets and i told him no you can only have three because that's all the more space there was well now a space opened up so i can just get on the phone within minutes and call the other customer and say hey i can go ahead and take that fourth pallet oh great you know and they grab they call their customer and say or their warehouse out in california and say hey uh we'll go ahead and make those four pallets for this guy okay so if it's you know just speed speed speeds you know whereas before it would have took a day and a half to make all these phone calls and you know getting everybody on the same page yeah well i'm picking it up this afternoon a day and a half that's tomorrow i'll be out of town you know it's too late then so it's all that it's sped up the industry it's made it so much more like just in time kind of stuff it's not just in time but i mean it's just it's made things flow much better but on the other hand drivers are sitting there doing this stuff you see this has changed the industry hugely it's watching my channel i've done two or three videos about how dangerous the cell phone for the good and for the bad bones okay so um so the cell phone is probably the biggest thing that has changed now get off the cell phones get into things that have changed my first truck no refrigerator no microwave no no that kind of stuff has changed used to be you had to go into a restaurant a truck stop cafe or whatever you know in a restaurant and eat there okay a lot of buffets and that kind of stuff you know but uh now even like you're tr you cook in your truck don't you i do even though it's not a big truck like mine mine's my i got a kitchen in mind you know a shower and a whole nine yards even in your truck you don't have a kitchen a shower but you can make crock pot foods and stuff like that uh just little inverters we didn't have them back when i started the inverter you know that's you had to buy everything 12 volts really yeah everything was 12 volt there were if there were inverters they were specialized in like in the rv industry and truckers didn't do it you know i didn't use them they didn't start using you know i can't remember the first inverter i think i ever bought was probably mid 90s something like that okay so i'm talking back in the 80s okay and now uh has all that changed yes uh uh you couldn't watch tv because it was the old analog tv and you know you're always just far enough where you can't quite get the tv reception now it's digital it works so much better on top of that you got internet tv you know you get your cell phone or a wi-fi hotspot of some type you hook your tv watch netflix watch movies in your truck okay you couldn't do that back in the day okay but because of that yeah i guess cobweb yeah god webb just come across my face back in the day drivers didn't have all these little other things to do yeah so they were on cb talking to each other and that's where we learned from each other because of cbs everybody was on a cb talking when you're driving down the highway it was just a chatter chat or chatter all over the place and i wouldn't learn by picking a mic up and go uh hello driver what what's the interval on oil changes you just hear some guys yeah i was in the shop the other day and i got the oil you know it's been 250 000 miles it was time to get the transmission coil oil change you know and your rear ends you know you overheard that stuff and you in the back of your mind you just filed that and now you've learned something nowadays nobody has their cbs on because the drivers are too busy with their flip-flops now i know i got shorts on you know i wear shorts but i wear shoes because they're in shorts and flip-flops they got their foot up on the dash and doing this driving down the highway and cruise control on ice in wyoming yeah and can't figure out why they're having racks you know so um that that's the biggest change of the cell phone and the electronics and stuff like that um the trucks themselves ride smoother you know your truck rides a whole lot my first truck was a spring ride it was a kenworth with a spring ride train no airbags i've had airbags and you needed that here yeah you needed that airbag on the seat because the truck was so stinking rough okay you're going down the road you know concrete highway you know 50 miles you know so it was it was rough um that's whoa our neighbor dog came over chief go home go home chief chief go home go chiefs let's get the dog situation straightened down we're going to edit this out so where were we on the spring ride trailer trucks and stuff they just rode really really rough and uh back then you you really needed that air ride seat i don't use my air ride seat anymore i just set it right down on the floor and i'm not doing that lower rider thing yeah but this seat when you set it down it's just about the right height for me it fits just about right and the truck rides so smooth that you don't really need the air ride seats anymore i mean the technology's changed like that uh tires are better than they used to be and compared to when i first started they're not that big of a difference compared to the old bias plies but back in the 50s and 70s you know through there they had those little bias flat tires they were terrible you know um so yeah a lot of things like that have changed any other aspects you want to can you think of um the drivers themselves i i mean do you do you feel like the drivers themselves have really changed in 34 years yeah yeah a lot okay do you feel like it's more to me it feels like as somebody who idolized truck drivers as a kid you know and wanted to be a truck driver and uh because you watched smoking the bandit that was probably that yeah okay like um you know it was smoking the bandit other other stuff this type of drivers now yeah they're not the same it is a lot different is because a lot of the drivers back then i i'd say 99 percent of the drivers out there when i first started with the jerry reed snowman type you know on the smoking abandon that type of you know billy bob redneck you know cowboy boots and a hat yeah you know we drive a truck a million mile an hour okay yeah is that old cowboy attitude yeah cowboy truck drivers um a lot of it's changed nowadays there's a lot more uh ethnic groups in it you know a lot of asians a lot of uh a lot of russians a lot of middle eastern you know a lot of mexican drivers nowadays compared to when you know now i say that run around the greater part of the united states when i first started and you go down to laredo all the drivers were mexican down there because that's what lived down there yeah but you didn't see mexican drivers too much in ohio you see yeah but now you're seeing them kind of everywhere but a lot of middle eastern a lot of european like uh russian drivers uh uh georgia and what's the other uh eastern europe countries you know old soviet bloc yeah um i'm trying to think of that one company a country but anyway yeah that that time yeah i didn't that's not uh but anyway uh ukraine you know those kind of drivers nowadays they're they're driving down and half of them don't know how to speak english you know and i don't know that's getting into more of a political thing but you know just if you're going to be driving a big rig in america you probably ought ottawa learn how to speak english you know i think it should be a require i do think it should be a requirement that we have we have road signs that have to be understood we have um you know uh i just that's pretty much it so road signs maps you know if you need to ask questions or something like that of somebody uh you're most everybody in america speaks english right you know and i and i don't want that to come off sounding like you know he he hates immigrants my grandpa was an immigrant okay my grandpa was from germany he was born in germany so i can't hate immigrants okay i don't you know this is america i mean people come to the melting pot they'll come here legally yeah we're getting into politics here but you know come here legally that's all i have and on my channel don't come here and be a terrorist and tara you know you know whatever but anyway but you know it's it's i don't know it to me i think i i thought when i came out here it was going to be more like jerry reed you know cowboy boots jeans and everything and i but i had seen i i worked and it still is in certain areas i mean if you're a whole if you're if you're hauling logs in alabama or mississippi yeah it's all you know gary reed redneck kind of bull haulers are kind of that way yeah you know um and everything so but your freight haulers your you know your big driving big now back when i first started you know the people that weren't the redneck jerry reed types were the household movers you know the united lines they were more um new yorkers teams no i don't know it seems like a lot of them but they just want that redneck style they were they're more of a you know the the the they get out of the truck yeah a dentist or something you know it just didn't look like a clean yeah and that's another thing when i first started trucking you know things changed 30 years ago it was this way when i started there was some old guy they've been driving since 45 out of you know i got out of world war ii and became a truck driver and i've been drivers in 45 i'm 80 years old and getting ready to retire now okay and other damn truck drivers nowadays these whippersnappers wisdom whippersnappers don't know damn black okay well it all morphs and changes over the years okay um i this is going to get into a whole different thing but eventually you're not going to have to worry about that yeah because these trucks will eventually become autonomous cars and trucks and all eventually yeah not next week not next month not next year not 10 years from now i'm writing an article 50 years from now 50 years from now hardly anybody's going to drive you're going to get in a car push a button and talk and say take me to the grocery store or or the semi i would say the dispatcher will walk out turn the truck on you hit the button or be remote like they do the drones on the air force does the drones now it'll be remote drones and one driver operator requirement operator one operator will be sitting in front of a bank of tv screens running 10 trucks at one time with cameras as the trucks go autonomously down the road i think something like that will eventually morph into okay now i did a video two and a half years ago uh somebody asked me hey what do you think about the new elon musk's uh uh cyber truck or the not the cyber the uh um uh uh electric truck yeah and i'm like no that's a car you know i'm thinking no no no no this is in my comments yeah and i'm like no no he just released they're gonna make start making semis yeah what and there was a link in the comments you know so i clicked on the link and looked at them sure enough here's elon musk pulling the tarp off of that ugly ass cyber truck thank you and he pulls it off and in the comments you know uh they were saying well yeah that i don't know why you want to become a truck driver anymore because you know you're gonna be out of a job in five years yeah and i'm like are you crazy five years there's no way well that was two and a half years ago that somebody told me that truck drivers would be a thing of the past in five years so in two and a half years they still haven't built one truck you know they've got their prototypes but the factory they don't even have a factory built to build those trucks now oh yeah they'll build them in the same line as they do the cars okay you're not going to replace 10 million trucks in five years but like okay first off that's how well possible you can't yeah you can't build the truck in the same line that you build the cars because the machinery is so specific when you're building a car that you have to have specific machinery to build a truck but then then again we're talking about us elon musk electric truck is that aerodynamic looking thing right and supposedly it can they're going to try to make it cyber i've heard that they're getting off of that they're not they're they're they kind of stop worrying about this they're worried about the battery more than anything yeah they're still trying to get that straight down but what i'm getting at is it's not going to happen in five years yeah okay uh in 2030 you might see a few of them at frito-lay and fedex you know that kind of thing going cross-country type of stuff they won't be going cross-country they're going from terminal to terminal to terminal terminal to get the cross country yeah because they'll pull into this giant and they'll probably have a sliding battery pack they'll just slide that pack out and put like forklifts you've seen forklifts how they do it in warehouses the battery gets low they just grab the you know they got a crane and they slide the forklift battery out and put a new fresh battery in so you leave la with the fedex truck and he's got got his freight and it's going to haul all the way to new york last night going all the way across cooker which it wouldn't they'd fly it but or it'd be on a train or something whatever but anyway they're going to go from la to phoenix okay when it gets to phoenix the battery pack's gonna be wore out they'll pull in slide that pack out and put a new pack in that's not the way they're designing it right now but i'm sure they'll there will be probably versions of it that will be like that for those kind of companies so they can just slide the pack out slide a new a fresh pack in put that one on the charger and slide this one in and the truck leaves 10 minutes later and goes right on down the road and the guy in the office in omaha is driving the truck autonomously watching tv cameras and he's not driving he's just monitoring watching these 10 trucks thrown at her that's what i see in the trucking eventually okay when is that going to be it all depends on the infrastructure for one for two who wants it you know but you're not gonna see you know all of a sudden there's 10 million cyber trucks driving autonomously all the truck drivers are fired and there's 10 million semis that are going to go to the scrap heap yeah that ain't going to happen just our economy or economics won't allow that to happen because i'm going to be that driver looking at say i can go out and buy a million they're a million dollars yeah but the electricity is free yeah so they go look at a million dollars well yeah but over 10 years it's a much better deal oh yeah for that big company but what about you were telling me a story earlier about your dump truck how's that dump truck going to electro elect this electric duct truck out there or some farmer he's going to have a use for that old mechanical you know engine motor diesel motor yeah so those those trucks will still be around just like you can still see a 57 chevy pickup driving around town okay you've got older cars you know they they will be there the only thing i can see that would really hasten this is if legislation comes in says you must switch over the government forces the industry to change over right and they just don't and i think that will really hurt the industry too i don't think that's going to happen i don't know you know i don't know i just i do believe eventually we will be at a place now i probably won't see it okay i'm 56 years old i'm almost 57 and if i live another 20 years i won't see it yeah i might see a few trucks but the whole industry won't be taken over by autonomous autonomous electric trucks they might in 20 years it might be 50 percent electric trucks and 50 percent diesel yeah but they all have drivers in it still because you've got all this other problems of uh if it's an electric truck and there's nobody in it and there's an accident who do they blame that guy in omaha that was just monitoring his screen and and some electronic gizmo goes bad you know i always thought too back you know you got strikes and uh union workers would have picked lines and stuff like that [Music] excuse me you have uh you have strikes and picket lines and people protesting different things you know they're changing the industry of whatever steel mill or something yeah and people go in and protest because hey it's killing my job you're automating all this stuff it's killing my job auto workers and stuff like this right what about these truck drivers that go you know i don't like the idea of an electronic truck so they go over and grab a traffic cone and a cyber truck you know like whether it's elon musk you know a tesla truck or who whatever some electric truck pulls up autonomous truck pulls up might even be a diesel truck but it's still it's a top yes whatever yeah but an autonomous truck pulls up and at a stop light and he walks over takes a traffic cone and sits down in front of the truck and walks away that truck can't go because it once it's a car a person there and it's up there so now the traffic backs up okay and finally somebody goes over and pulls the cone out and the guy comes and he's sitting over at the gas station the traffic kind of gets to go in here comes another one he goes over and sets it down and you know there will be that sabotage is going to get and it won't be sabotaged like you know blowing it up or anything but just putting a thorn in their side yeah so i mean it'll there will be that type of thing going on too you know but i don't know it's i won't be around to see it you know um i i'm not worried about my job driving a truck yeah for the next you know 10 years it's an economy thing it's like you look at it from the perspective of the electric car you know there are electric cars that are available not everybody can afford one you know it's like you know you and i would probably afford one if we wanted one i think they will have long before they have an 80 000 truck going down a truck autonomously you'll see disneyland having autonomous vehicles they already do i think to some extent but um you'll see uber and your your uh what's that they bring your food uber and lyft have given up on on doing they're giving them they've been doing fully autonomous okay but what's the other the food delivery in amazon you know those amazon apparently is going full full bore into that they then they buy uh they were good they were gonna do uh like autonomous delivery using drones you know and they'll fly them yeah yeah but if you've seen the little box looking thing it's about sizeable double the size of a refrigerator on wheels you know refrigerator laid down with wheels and everything yeah and it delivers your amazon package to you and how big is this thing like this big oh it's smaller than a vw beetle and people can't see motorcycles now yeah but there's but this thing will be it won't be on the freeway but it'll be on taking all the back roads and stuff but the thing is how's it going it pulls out that's the thing about amazon they come up and they have a human walks the thing up and puts it on your doorstep yeah if there's nobody home they can't deliver the who's going to walk out and pick it up yeah you know they got to have somebody there to you know so if they're going to have they have somebody there to walk it up to the i don't know how to come get it it's like the it's like the domino's autonomous delivery thing yeah they don't bring it to you you have to go out to the street and get your pizza right vehicle yeah yeah so yeah but you're expecting the pizza hot and fresh and delivered mm-hmm you order something from amazon i'm going to be at work today i'm going to sit around waiting for the amazon truck for a car to pull up i can't wait all day long for the amazon thing to show you that's the that's the magic of amazon you don't have to be there they just leave it on your doorstep i've read a stolen article i read an article this week that was talking about how the uh the uh the dream of fully autonomous vehicles is dead and the reason it's an opinion piece but the reason is because uh our cargo planes and our passenger planes that fly now don't fly autonomous yeah they have autopilot but there's a pilot sitting in trains monitoring trains by law they have to have people in there to get that panic button you know every every time it's like every 20 seconds they're gonna hit well that's just to go but you know if they're oh there's a car on the track they can hit the panic back and lock the brakes up so they have a uh they have what's called a deadman switch yeah they gotta hit every 20 seconds yeah that's not the panic button that's the dead man it's what you got you know all the time yeah but uh um but you know one of the the most telling thing that tells me they're not going to have autonomous vehicles but the jetsons were flying around in the future and they still had to drive their own cars you're going to base the future of society on the jetsons cartoon the simpsons do okay there's look at all the things if you're going to start talking about how much the citizens have told told the future yeah i'm totally on board yeah it's amazing how many things they've come up with you know yeah that they didn't have you know 10 years ago they had an episode where homer did something and kind of find out it come true 10 years later you know what was the trump thing and they they they predicted trump yeah running for there you go yeah before you ran for office yeah so um all right what about 30 minutes into this one um so uh so you just think you see that's fine we talk forever we'll edit some of it out i probably won't i probably add it all in there but yeah um okay so using for the in the last 34 years which really changed the industry the most is just technology yeah yeah mainly like cell phones and stuff okay but driver comfort also like with you know do you have a refrigerator in your truck i do yeah okay actually there's one right there right behind you right right behind you there's a refrigerator came out of one of my trucks yeah that that truck kirk has when the sleeper got wrecked they were going to take the sleeper off and throw it away that's a good refrigerator it's only two years old so i grabbed it and it's been sitting there ever since pepper where are you oh come here [Music] all right balls for the cars come on pepper okay all right we're back dog man yeah we had to stop the dog fight we got to talking and and uh she snuck off all right so i'm sure in the video you can see her slinking off like don't you know so so anyway uh we were talking about uh uh uh well i just how the industry's changed 34 years but i think mainly it's electronic yeah so let's move on to what do you want to talk about now horror stories okay so yeah so uh stan wants me to tell a story uh i'll go first well i'll give you a choice because you heard the you heard the fire story there's a second fire story okay whatever you want uh it's your video okay so i'm trying to think like which story is the best and also which one i don't want in the public [Music] there's so many um the names the names have been changed for the protection of the united states um okay i was working for a company i'll tell them when i told you earlier i was working for a company then you could tell me the oklahoma one uh i was working for a company um a while back i'm not gonna say what company and i was delivering i was running an in-dump trailer and um i was afraid of the end dump trailer and and my boss at the time had told me be careful as far as the end up trailer is concerned if you're not on a level ground when you raise it up it can actually top over on you so i was always afraid that i was going to end up having a trailer type overall and i had a close call i had a place i'd gone the guy wanted me to drop a little dirt here and a little here and a little here and a little here big trees and the driveway was uneven and and i was watching in the you know i was looking behind me it's a day cab so i've got a window behind me and i'm looking at the thing and i'm watching it kind of laying back and forth like this and so it leaned a little too far this direction scared me so when it leaned back this direction i dropped the trailer as quick as i could and i called my boss and said yeah it's not gonna happen so i'm gonna have to dump it at the end of the driveway and just let him figure it out and then okay so i found a place and dumped it down there well uh the owner of the the place that i worked had a fire uh work stands and he was getting ready for fourth of july one year and they sent me to get some flex base which is uh if you don't know what flex base is it's basically when they when they take up a parking lot or tear down a concrete building they crush all of that that concrete and everything it creates like a powdery uh substance with some some rock and stuff in it you can put it down and water it down and kind of solidify it it becomes pretty hard so yeah um it's real cheap it's cheapest thing you can get actually and so um take it out to you know the fireworks stand according to these two really busy farm to market roads and we have what are called farmer market roads in texas so uh this was between like kaufman and terrell in in kind of east of dallas real busy uh intersection and um so i go out there and i'm looking for the best place to drop this flex base off and uh finally find this one place that kind of slopes back and there's a driveway it leads up to the farm to market road up front so it's real nice i can just dump it move forward bring the trailer down pull out and go on back to the office so i i pull it back nice and level and everything raise the trailer up you know shake the trailer a couple of times get it all kind of go down the end and pull the trailer forward and as i'm doing this there's just brilliant blue flashes of light in the sky and it was kind of a it was a it was a not a cloudy day where big blue puffy you know big white puffy clouds in the sky um i watched a channel called thunder mesa studios and he calls them andy's room clouds from the toilet movie yeah i call them uh simpsons class oh yeah they're simpsons clouds basically so they uh simpson's cloud day and so uh no thunder or anything so big big brilliant blue flashing sky and i thought oh crap what's that and about that time your funk and off goes the power line and it's sunk and off goes another power line and they sparked when they hit the top of the truck draped across the vehicle yeah yeah well no it hit like i snapped it in two and it hit and then the two oh it broke the cable yeah it broke the power line yeah so one side went this way and one side went the other way and it sparked as it went down and uh had not rained in a while uh and so it was pretty dry in texas and there was an issue with uh with dry grass and everything at that time so of course it set fire to the grass either side now mind you i'm in a company truck i've just taken down a power line and i have set fire to the owner's property like and i've done it at a very busy intersection and on on two fm roads and uh and locked power up and not powered out yeah and there was a pit that was further down one of the roads uh that we would get sandy loan from and it knocked them out they no longer had power to to um screen the product that they had so um i'm like okay well uh it said fire to the grass and i like oh i gotta get out of here so i go to like drop the trailer again and when i did there was another brilliant blue flash of light in this guy broke another one and and the li and i i stopped it before it broke that line oh which is nice so i stop it immediately what the hell so i look up and sure enough there's another one and i i tried to go back far enough they could lower the trailer that didn't work and and there just wasn't anything i can't back up because the pile of dirt i came back up to the pile of dirt i can't go forward because of the power line yeah can't lower the trailer because of the power line so i'm sitting here in the truck air conditioner's blowing which was nice you know uh there's fire either side of me and it's building pretty quickly yeah i can't lower the trailer i can't get out because there's a lot of electrical lines on the ground yeah and i pretty much was like this is how i die you know so there's gonna be like so they're gonna go how did it did you die no i didn't oh okay all right luckily enough and so uh [Laughter] so anyway so i'm sitting there and i'm like okay well i need to at least try to save myself so i get the phone out i call 9-1-1 and the fire department shows up they start putting the fire out the police officers show up and they're they're kind of snickering about what's going on i'm pretty sure and texas department of public safety officer shows up state trooper texas state trooper shows up of course dumb ass drivers oh i'm gonna get so many tickets for this and everything and and this company i'd worked for they ran 20 25 30 year old piece of equipment truck i was driving had over a million miles on it was still over 20 years old and so things broke and i had so much go wrong i had a truck burned down on me at one point i lost wheels whole wheels you know just gone uh other things had happened and i thought for sure you know uh this was you know this was gonna be the strong this is gonna be the stroller cam is back you know and um and so anyway so i get like you know the fire department puts the fire out and everything and they get the electricity turned off and and uh i get the truck pulled out on the road they direct me how to lower the trailer up snap in another power line and i get the truck pulled out on the road i get out and the state trooper goes well how do you feel and i said well so good i'm pretty sure i'm fired and he goes you know and uh i said what's the what's the ticket that i'm gonna get he goes um yeah i feel like you've had a bad enough day yeah i'm not gonna give you a ticket i was like oh i appreciate that thanks you know and uh so i get about that time the phone rings and it's my boss and he goes what the hell are you doing i said uh and he goes don't tell me i already know how do you know and he goes he goes you know that pit down the way that we use all the time i said yeah he goes and he said well when the power went out he went looking for the reason why he lost power and he found you he said uh and he said he called me up and said what kind of dumbass drivers drive driving for me and the only one i could think of was you no i'm like yes yes sir you know and like it's guaranteed you know so and uh just get back here all right so i've you know put the trailer down put it in gear stick tripper's nice they're putting the you know caroline's back together and everything and i got back to the office and i i took the key we always left the key in the truck i'm trying to key out the truck you know i took all the stuff that i needed to take and had all my stuff with me and i went inside and i'm like you know ready to go you cleaned out your desk yeah basically yeah and uh i handed the key to him so here you go and he goes he goes what's this and i said well i said yeah this is everything i got so you're fired and he goes he goes what are you doing i said well i'm fired and he goes why would you be fired i was like why wouldn't i be fired i was like i just said fire to the owner's property and i got a parliament i mean like come on he goes mike he said i like you mike you know and uh you don't cause a whole lot of drama i was like what are you talking about they just farted not counting today and he's like no i'm not gonna fire you mike you're all right don't worry about it just go home try to be more careful next time which was always his advice every time something happened just be more careful next time you know it's like he's a good guy i really liked him they're working for a little bit so there you go so let's go home story you want to hear about the oklahoma fire on i-35 heading south this is actually the very first company i've ever worked for i've only been driving for maybe a year and i was coming down um 35 south of ardmore area somewhere along in there maybe um oklahoma city to the state line somewhere in in the middle there yeah um you know i'm driving along and a guy hollers at me on the cb because we used cbs back then you know there was this invention that people could talk to each other yeah with you know wirelessly you know called a cb yeah you know they don't know what that is anymore but anyway uh i passed him and he hollers at me says hey yeah flatbed yeah hey you know you got a flat tire oh i do yeah yeah it's it's completely flat it's off the rim and everything it's flat yeah big bolt got in it you know and uh so okay so i pulled over on the side of the road and look at it check it out he pulls over behind me okay well we get out and look at it and sure enough it's completely flat because there was a bolt in it because uh what we can do is uh air it back up and you can get on down the road to get it fixed because it was duals instead of these super singles yeah you know you you know you don't want to run that much weight on one tire so let's air it back up i said well how are you going to air it up you know it's well you what we can do is put firing okay and i'm like you know the ether triggered that yeah yeah so for you that don't know an ether the ether trick is what you do is the tire is completely off the rear i mean it's it's on the rim but the seat the bead is broke you know and you can push the side of the wall in and see the inside of the rim you take ether you know starting fluid and you squirt it in there and get just a little bit it don't take a lot just and then and then you with the the ether you draw a line down the side of the tire out onto the pavement okay that's your that's your fuse yeah okay so you light it over here and that lights up on the side of the tire kind of catches on fire and then you kick the tire which opens that bead up which the fire can go inside where the ether is and and it whoops it up okay that's not a full pressure like 10 pounds of pressure but it seats the rim and then get arrows out and air it off air it on up now depending on how fast your leak is you might be able to go ten mile might not be able to go it might not be able to air it up at all yeah maybe the bolt has gone in and out and now you got a big hole but if it's sealed up enough you can air it up 80 pounds or something and go limp down the road 20 miles to a truck stop to get the tire fixed yeah so we get out there and we do this i never saw this this is all new to me you know what are you doing now we're going to air it up well i got to see the rim first because you know you put the hose on it won't take air so he's out there with his either now he lights this thing all up and everything now it whoops now you remember it's summertime and there's all this dry grass in the ditch and everything when i went woof some of that went over and it caught the grass on fire oh lord and i'm like i'm out there like stomp stomping trying to stop this stuff out and it was the kind of grass i don't remember what what species of grass it is but it's the kind that would burn underneath and then pop up over here you know it's like a crabgrass or something i don't know anyway yeah it would burn but it would also burn down below so you don't see it all set it three feet away it'd pop up over there and burn so i'm over here stomping it out and oh yeah over and over and i figured he's around here somewhere stopping to try oh no and i turned around and he was i didn't mention this but i was in a flatbed he was in a gas tanker like a propane pressurized you know yeah propane gas tank right yeah yeah so i look around and he's gone he's getting the hell out of here so am i so i start running this is on the drive passenger side trailer yeah so i turn around i'm like where's he at he's gone you know and i start running up the side of the truck i'm gonna get in the truck and take off too to get you know for one get the truck out so i didn't catch fire but you know yeah you know like oh get the hell out of here and i guess we started the grass fire and i get up just about to the tractor uh by the side of the cab and i hear this you know look around he had one big uh uh fire extinguishers that's what he did he went off to get the fire extinguisher blowing it all out you know but i mean now i'm out there i'll look around he's going i'm going to get the hell out of here but anyway he got he got the fire out and everything so anyway we got to talking after that we he was going on to dallas i don't know where i was going somewhere so anyway uh he uh uh got to talk with him his cv handle i don't know why i've remembered his cb handle ever since glad really glad that's glad yep he's glad to be out here i think he had had a uh something happened in his life war or something like that you know maybe you know in in world war ii or vietnam or something like that and he'd i don't know i didn't get but i assume that's what it was we just he he was glad to be alive still you know yeah so that was a cb him i was glad so anyway yeah uh and that's the only time i ever saw him i never saw him ever again but anyway but that was my uh catching uh um catching oklahoma on fire now we got it out you know a little 20-foot burn area you know but it was kind of windy that day too you know yeah it would have it would have caused a problem you know it would cause a big car yeah luckily he had that big fire extinguisher you know because that big tankers they have to have that huge fire extinguisher on them yeah not just a little five pounder or something so yeah anyway he uh that was that was uh almost almost kept caught oklahoma on fire yeah and that's how a lot of the road fires and stuff happen they do yeah did your thing dip deep off no go okay but that's why a lot of road fires happen is is a a truck or a car this happens with cars too but their brake pads get old or wear or whatever and a chunk of metal will fall off a brake pad will break or whatever and that hot piece will go off into the grass the driver doesn't know he drives on them down and i'm going and that thing catches or cigarette throw you know used to throw cigarettes out the wing window all the time you know since people don't smoke near as much anymore there's no they used to be driving along the middle of night and you following some guy here comes a cigarette ash you know a cigarette butt out and here goes you still see it you know you still see it you see them some but not near like you used to yeah there's so many people that don't smoke anymore but but um but anyway guys you get these guys at chain smoke and you know about every about every 10 miles here comes a cigarette butt out the window but um anyway um that was my oklahoma store you wanna hear the elephant story yeah okay i'll tell you i'll tell you another this is this is this is a goofy story uh i've already told it on my channel years ago so maybe some might remember it but uh this is 30 years ago i don't remember uh it's probably early 90s maybe 92 somewhere along in there anyway i was working for a flatbed company out of houston and i was driving uh had a load of um something i remember what it was but i was on my way out to uh i think seattle and i'm out in montana way out in the middle of montana somewhere open debt you know just i mean it wasn't i don't know i was just driving along and i'm tired and this is you know paper log books so we could mess around with them and everything and i was just you know i was pushing i was pushing it more than i should and uh so i'm out there driving along and i'm tired and i see this truck up ahead you know and speed limit was 55 back then and they were probably doing 55 and i was probably doing 65 or something you know how long oh really yeah eating the highway up but anyway i'm out there driving i'm catching this vehicle and uh remember it's montana late at night it's like two o'clock in the morning yeah and uh not a lot of traffic here's this truck up there and i change lanes and i go to pass them and as i go to pass them you get a hill okay and i'm heavier than they are so i i was catching him and went up but then i kind of stalled out right beside him going up this little bit of a hill not a big mountain just a little hill and i kind of stall out so i'm sitting there side by side with this truck you know we both dropped down to about 50 miles an hour oh tired i look over and there's an elephant drawing on my mirror the elephant truck is out there drawing on my mirror and i'm like all right i'm trying to go to bed so i slowed down backed up and i didn't back out i just slowed down that truck went on and i pulled in behind him don't pull off the next truck stop rest area wherever i'm going i'm tired of him i'm calling it quits i'm done and i pull him behind this truck and on the back of it ringling brothers burning bailey's circus it was a real elephant there was a real elephant and stuck his trunk out the window and his overhead straw in your mirror he was just over there you know doing this and i'm sitting here that you know [Music] oh man i'm real tired i didn't pull over and it was a real elephant yeah it was a real elephant stuck his trunk out i hadn't heard this story before yeah that's hilarious so yeah oh my goodness and then let's see what else uh have you ever seen a rainbow at night no it's possible and really it's true and i wasn't tired really so uh up by just south of gillette wyoming casper north of casper you know on 25 there i'm driving along in their head big rainstorm and it was a full moon and it was one really super moon's super super bright moon that night and just really really clear but here's this thunder cloud is up ahead and i as i got to it it rained and the cloud kind of moved off and all the water was in the air where it would have been a normal rainbow but because the moon was so bright i was actually getting a rainbow at night wow it was that bright it was just and it wasn't your bright really but it was an arc and you could tell it was a rainbow it was like a night version of a a rainbow but yeah somebody's kind of got something like that on a picture what about uh what about uh uh ufos you ever seen ufos i have yes but not while driving a truck okay so yeah i've seen a lot of weird stuff driving down the road yeah i don't i don't believe in alien ufo kind of stuff you know i just that that is i didn't before but i've seen weird stuff that would be considered you what is ufo unidentified flying obviously yeah i'm sitting here right now and there goes something across the sky i assume it's a plane i can't see it i assume it's a plane but it's to me it's a ufo because i don't know what it is it's unidentified but i've seen you know probably meteors fall and stuff but i was down on i-10 in new mexico around the uh lordsburg demi area on i-10 there and i'm driving along and there's thunder clouds in the sky you know it's kind of one of those nights they have big thunder clouds in the area and i look and and uh to the south which we're only about 15 about 20 miles north of the mexican border there roughly okay and i see something in the clouds glowing really really bright yeah and i'm thinking it's airplane with landing lights or something but it's just hanging and i'm driving along for hours for a good hour watching this thing and it's just kind of hovering inside the cloud making the cloud glow that's weird yeah yeah and i'm thinking somebody suggests it might be a tethered balloon they're using for border patrol or something maybe but why would it be lit up i don't know so i mean you see weird things um the weird not weird things but unique things of course a lot of people saw this but um when the not the challenger what was the columbia columbia re-entry when it blew up i was in yuma arizona uh my parents were actually uh doing rv back then okay and they were in an rv park out in yuma and we were sitting there and they were talking about you know the space shuttle coming in and it would be coming right over us to land in florida yeah and i don't we were sitting outside and all sudden uh you you know somebody i remember who it was neighbors or something they started looking at them where he kind of looks and there's all these streaks going across the sky and you can see it was breaking up of course it landed in texas you know the pieces fell in texas mostly mostly east texas but uh you saw that um i saw the space shuttle go up you know from from florida go up you know all these little things you see because you're a truck driver you you get to you have to be in the right place i just happen to be in the right place at the right time yeah or the right place for the wrong time and it was one of the last shuttles went up it wasn't the last one but it was like the last five or so i just happened to be in florida i was in the trucks i had a flat tire pulled in truck stop and while i was sitting there i was sitting there wanting to watch this because this first time i'd ever been close enough to cape canaveral to watch the thing go up when they were shooting it up you know and i was over in central florida but it was close enough where you could see the you know you know i mean it was so far away but you could see the the the smoke the contrary whatever you know went up yeah so i mean you couldn't see the shuttle itself you can see you know there it goes right there so i mean we're stuff that i've seen on the road i think i've been pretty lucky i haven't seen a whole lot of weird stuff i don't know i don't know highway i can't think about it i the whole alien thing yeah i didn't really believe in aliens and uh i took my sister and my nephew we went up to uh you know that highway that runs between arkansas and oklahoma it's called the ptalamina highway i think or the tallahina highway i think it's telling me the highway and uh by mina arkansas yeah upon the mountains yeah it runs up i've been up here many times so we went up there cause i'd heard about it from a friend of mine i you know never heard about it before and i wanted to go so you know i talked to my sister you want to go yeah so we you know we got together in in her car and went up there and uh i decided that this this was my chance to see the milky way for the first time right now at night i've never been up here at night so we went up during the day and it was starting to get dark as we were leaving and said dang you know i bet i could see the milky way and i've never seen it before and i've wanted to and so um we went back up there and we were sitting on top of the mountain and you could see satellites and the space station would come by every now you know and so we're just sitting there we're kind of sitting on the back of the tailgate of her car she had an aztec party guys then we're sitting there we're kind of watching white's car yeah [Laughter] she loves the dog i'm like i actually liked it too but i'm weird as far as car is concerned so it's understandable but um and we're watching things you know it's like and here comes this this like meteorite or something like it was going this way and like i was like oh look there's something and you just see it enter like this and it stops and changes and goes that direction just like makes a solid 90 degree turn and i'm like at speed it didn't slow down it just it just goes it just goes like that i mean never slowed down and it looked like like if you're a fan of star trek yeah it looked like a like a star trek ship basically dropping out of warp changing course and chain and taking off to me that's what it looked like and i'm just like [Music] did you see that she goes yeah i said i think it's time to go like yeah it's like where are you gonna go i don't know you know it's just like well we just at that point we were ready to go so we hopped back in the car and drove home my nephew was fast asleep or whatever but uh yeah that was that was when i changed my mind because it's just like i've never seen anything in nature just come you know just come in make a right turn again you know and it entered like it was yeah i mean it's like it entered just like a meteor you know or a little little piece of debris or something and it just and it just and it left reverse of how it entered it'll be dark you know and i was just like okay that i might be wrong you know so um but you know what you have in your pipe [Music] uh strangely enough i didn't smoke a pipe at that point so yeah but you know just different yeah you see little things and and um you see odd things odd vehicles a lot you know um i just see people doing awesome the cannonball run did you oh yeah i bet that was cool they were running out of l.a going to florida i think that year i don't know if it was the actual cannonball was one of those races i wanna yeah driving down the road porsche flow you know i'm in the right lane out in arizona by phoenix you know just west of phoenix about halfway between quartzite and phoenix oh yeah yeah i'm driving along this this was back in probably around 0 9 10 11 somewhere along in there i'm driving along and and she passed me on the shoulder because there was a truck in the left lane or somebody's come on the shoulder blown by me doing 150 or better i mean just i mean crazy you know i'm not gonna do a 70 and this thing just like i was sitting still yeah i don't buy and then shortly after here comes up here comes up aston martin and a ferrari and you know what you know by then the left lane was open and i mean holy so i'm sitting there watching in the mirror and here they come flying by and like you know i didn't have a camera or anything back then you know i think we had flip phones that had a real cheap yeah anyway i didn't know i don't know but yeah um the the radio really picked up the cb and everything and guys started talking about you know that that's some cannonball guys yeah they're having a race right now and they're racing from and it wasn't just like coast to coast non-stop yeah they were they would go from point a to point i think they were going to tucson they were going to stop for the night oh yeah and then it was a time thing you know and then take off again but you know they had numbers on the doors you know you know uh you know just like your cannonball run yeah you know all the sponsors and stuff like that you know i don't know who would want to sponsor that because it's highly illegal well nobody you know uh the very first cannonball run nobody wanted to sponsor it because it was highly illegal but it was a protest for the 55-mile rp though oh is that where it started yeah that's where it started i started with brock yates and uh of course this will i may just end the video like just ripped off here at this point but because we're getting off onto the subject so if uh if i do end it here you know anyway so anyway so that's where yeah it started off with brock yates and uh brock gates just kind of uh he decided that it was ridiculous to have a 55 mile an hour feeling it nobody wanted to cross country doing 55 miles there so he decided to protest it by holding the cannonball right he got a bunch of people together okay and uh and now he's just turned into millionaires you know with ferraris and stuff well and i think probably what you saw was more like there's this guy on youtube called super speeder rob i think and he had videos at one point they were going out making videos where they were running as fast as they could and we're trying not to get stopped by the police and they were they were yeah dozen or 15 cars past me yeah something like that something like that it wasn't probably wouldn't the cannonball run itself but it was one of those kind of something like that yeah i think what they had left la and they're going to tucson spend the night and then they were going to go to like san antonio spend the night and then to you know somewhere in florida and then down to miami yeah that's what the scuttlebutt on the radio was yeah who who knows i mean you know truck driver i know truck driver what you always want to rely on is a truck driver on a cb that's gospel yeah in other words he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about anyway yeah i think that's what that is it's like okay but those yeah anything else you want to talk about no i think that's it so yep yeah so we'll probably stay here we've wasted enough of this right yeah i don't know how much time we've actually talked but this is this may end up being two or three videos you know because i don't have to cut it down and just like go here here here here i don't know anyway but guys i appreciate it thank you very much for watching so um tala stands people well we're not you're not putting this on you know i don't think this isn't going to be okay i'm recording but yeah yeah yeah but anyway so um anyway so i appreciate you watching thank you very much thanks to stan for always like uh having me out and uh you know enjoying sitting around swapping stories everything and that's what we're going to continue to do because i got more stories i want to tell them but i don't want you guys in there you talk about lovers now huh oh yeah anyway thanks guys you know the drill keep shining side up bigger see you down the road ciao did i do that right you did all [Music] right [Music] you

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Length: 102min 14sec (6134 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 07 2021