Have you ever felt like you might be giving too much at work, putting in those extra miles but worried you're just being taken for a ride? Strap in as I unpack the complexities of being a team player without becoming the team's doormat. I'll share my recent run-in with the fine line of work boundaries after clocking in two weekends straight, and we'll chew over how a fellow driver's reliance on GPS landed him in a heap of legal trouble. And for a dash of levity, I'll toss in a curious celebrity connection to a show that's got my son and me glued to the screen.
Life on the road isn't just about the haul; it's about the heart, too. Join me as I tip my hat to my little cowboy of a son, navigating his charming phase of cowboy hats and youthful romances, while also taking a moment to extend a supportive hand to a colleague dealing with a family heartbreak. I'll bring you into our circle, sharing stories that underscore the unbreakable bonds of family and community that keep us trucking, no matter the load we carry.
And just when you thought it was all truck stops and tie-downs, I rev the engine and take a sharp turn towards the chilling corridors of true crime. Gordon Ramsay's kitchen escapades give us a taste of tough love on TV, but I'm eyeing the rear-view mirror, considering a trip back to podcasting's darker side with "Murder Unraveled." Then, let's navigate the bustling intersection of social media as I contemplate a broader foray into Twitter's tangled web, all while inviting you to connect and share the journey with us across the digital highway. Follow us on youtube. jusr clock the link.https://youtu.be/tKyiUidgrJc
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Have you ever felt like you might be giving too much at work, putting in those extra miles but worried you're just being taken for a ride? Strap in as I unpack the complexities of being a team player without becoming the team's doormat. I'll share my recent run-in with the fine line of work boundaries after clocking in two weekends straight, and we'll chew over how a fellow driver's reliance on GPS landed him in a heap of legal trouble. And for a dash of levity, I'll toss in a curious celebrity connection to a show that's got my son and me glued to the screen.
Life on the road isn't just about the haul; it's about the heart, too. Join me as I tip my hat to my little cowboy of a son, navigating his charming phase of cowboy hats and youthful romances, while also taking a moment to extend a supportive hand to a colleague dealing with a family heartbreak. I'll bring you into our circle, sharing stories that underscore the unbreakable bonds of family and community that keep us trucking, no matter the load we carry.
And just when you thought it was all truck stops and tie-downs, I rev the engine and take a sharp turn towards the chilling corridors of true crime. Gordon Ramsay's kitchen escapades give us a taste of tough love on TV, but I'm eyeing the rear-view mirror, considering a trip back to podcasting's darker side with "Murder Unraveled." Then, let's navigate the bustling intersection of social media as I contemplate a broader foray into Twitter's tangled web, all while inviting you to connect and share the journey with us across the digital highway. Follow us on youtube. jusr clock the link.https://youtu.be/tKyiUidgrJc
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Alright, here we go. Another day, another dollar here on trucking out. I'm here to thank you for joining me today. I'm your host, rich. We got a pretty good show here for you today, I think so. I hope so. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1:This is my second take just on this show here today, because my computer crashed so I had some issues with that, so it kind of sucked because it just did. I'm going to start over. Thank God I wasn't too far into it, only a minute or two and we just start over. Not a big deal, but hey, this is what we're going to talk about here today. We're going to talk about being a team player and trying to decipher what's being a team player, what's being taken advantage of. We see a lot of that going on. Nobody could really well, not nobody, but there's a lot of guys out there that just don't know the difference. So we're going to help you out with that a little bit. Bad GPS directions, land truck driver, two years on probation that's not a good sign right there. That's not a good thing. You know, most of you know what I say about them, gps's and serial killer truck drivers. We're going to talk about them for a little bit and a little fun fact about a celebrity out there which I thought was pretty interesting, being I started binge watching this show with my son.
Speaker 1:But hey, it's Sunday, it's Sunday morning, early in the morning, as usual, I'm awake a little too early, but you know, it is what it is. I worked yesterday and I worked last weekend, to which I rarely, rarely do. This is where this is what brought me to the topic of, you know, trying to decipher about being a team player and being taken advantage of, and that's what brought me to this topic here Working two weekends in a row. But yeah, I'm a little wiped out this Sunday, this Sunday morning, a little tired. I got to bed early last night, about 830, 9 o'clock. My wife had somewhere to go yesterday. She went with her cousin to celebrate her, her cousin's daughter's birthday, my niece's birthday, and she was gone all day.
Speaker 1:I got home about one o'clock, one 30, something like that, and I said to my son what do you want to do today, man? Let's hang out, let's do something. Boys, night, guys, day, whatever you want to call it. And he want to go pizza and chicken wings, he want to go shoot pool. So you know, he's been into this cowboy mode here lately, you know, wearing a cowboy hat and the jeans and leather jacket and this and that, and so he wears cowboy hat. That thing is on him constantly. He wore a cowboy hat to eat and he's looking through through.
Speaker 1:He was online looking at cowboy boots and he wanted to go get a pair of cowboy boots and he showed me the ones he wanted and, man, they were 270, some bucks. I said, man, I'm not spending that kind of money for this stuff when you're only going to grow out of it in six months, eight months or whatever. And then I started thinking for the kids, they're not going to be that much. So we went up and checked them out there Cheap couple bucks, you know, a hundred bucks or so. So we got a pair of cowboy boots and he did not want to go shoot pool after that. He wanted to come home and get in touch with his friends and let them know that he got cowboy boots and we listen to country music all the way home. He looked pretty cool man, with the hat and the leather jacket and the boots. He looked like Rip from what's that show Yellowstone. You know, put a little scruff on him. He looked like Rip and, yeah, he looked pretty cool. He looked pretty cool.
Speaker 1:He's getting into girls now and over the past couple of weeks you could tell he was. He was a little anxious. He wasn't eating all that much and you could tell something was on his mind and I finally got it out of him and he asked the girl out and it took her a couple of days to get back to him and apparently she said yes, she'll go out with them, she'll date them at 11 years old. What the freak? Where are you going to take a girl out on a date? You know? And I guess next Friday he wants to take her out to a movie with him and a couple of his friends and their girlfriends at 11 years old. You got to be freaking, kidding me. At 11 years old I was riding bicycles and you know, chopping trees down and shit. These guys are, you know they're during the girls already, but I guess that's the new way, man it's. You know, we just got to keep an eye on them and teach them the right way and the right thing. So, yeah, that's what it is. You know, these kids today they drive you crazy, man, that's for sure. We have a gentleman on the account here.
Speaker 1:He had a rough go last. I think it was last Sunday. Sunday night in the Monday morning His three daughters got in a car wreck and it was pretty, very bad. Actually it was very bad. A dump truck ran a red light and T-boned them. One of his daughters ended up in a coma in critical condition. They weren't sure if she was gonna make it or not and he gave me a call during the week here I think it was Wednesday and she's doing much better. She's out of the coma. They did another surgery on her and it seems like she may be out of the woods. I'm not sure. He's not even a hundred percent sure. So you know our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family, especially the girl you know first. Speedy recovery. Just keep fighting and keep them in your prayers, please For Aaron and his family.
Speaker 1:Hey, I'll tell you what man. It is cold up here in the Northeast. It is freezing. I got up this morning and take a leak and it's only like eight degrees. I think it was eight, nine degrees. And my father-in-law come over for coffee, like he does every weekend, and he is 13 degrees out Nine o'clock in the morning, man, it was freaking cold. It was cold, still cold outside. I was gonna go outside meet the boy and clean up the dog poop out in the backyard. You know, with three dogs it's a mess out there and it would be easier because it's frozen, but it's a little too cold for me to go out there, you know. So bump the mic, bump the mic, so we're gonna let it go until tomorrow. It's gonna be starting to warm up here pretty soon and we'll talk a little bit about that as we get into the show here.
Speaker 1:So you know what is the difference between being a team player and being taken advantage of? How do we differentiate between the two? You know, I find myself in this predicament quite a bit. It's not that I'm being taken advantage of, it's I find myself in a position where if I say yes too many times, they're gonna expect it all the time and they may start to take advantage of that situation, which there are some guys that I work with that do not know how to differentiate between the two. You know, for me, being a team player is someone goes out of their way to help the account, the company, a fellow driver, you know, even sometimes a yard jockey that doesn't even work for the account, the back of trailer and a door or what have you?
Speaker 1:That for me, is being a team player taking that, going that extra mile, you know, taking that, maybe, that shit load that you really don't wanna take because it doesn't pay well, or it might be going into a crappy area of a major city or something of that nature, something you don't wanna do. And a lot of times there's drivers out there that they get themselves into position where they don't know how to say no. They don't know where that fine line is. And it is a fine line when you say no, I don't wanna do that load or I'm not going to do that load. And there's a point where you gotta say you just do have to say no, enough is enough and I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1:You know for me, you know one, two bad loads a week, you know I could kind of deal with I wouldn't say a week, but in a week I could deal with as long as the next three or four weeks are great or good, decent. You know I'll take them loads to help the company out or to get a manager out of a pinch, but they know I'm not gonna do it week after week after week, not gonna happen. And you know, I know where that fine line is. I know, you know, I think I know anyway, when I could say no, I'm not doing it, or something along that line. And I know that when I get good loads, week after week after week after week, I know I need to help out. If there's a shit load that comes up, I need to help out.
Speaker 1:And a lot of guys won't do that, they just won't, you know. And but there are times where they don't have a choice whether they wanna take that load or not. They just don't have a choice, especially the way freight is now. Freight is slow, it's not great, so you have to take what you get. A lot of the times and sometimes it might be you know a week or two where you're getting crap loads. Right now, during these months we all know from you know, from right from Christmas right up until the end of March, the middle of March, there's freight drops bad, real bad. I will say where I'm at, it's dropped significantly, but not as bad as I thought it would. Why, I'm not sure, but it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. So we're pretty steady right now. We do do some outsourcing, we get farmed out or whatever do some broker loads to keep some guys busy. But we're pretty, we're pretty good, we're pretty solid and we're going to start going through a transition on this account here very shortly.
Speaker 1:And this is where I say where you have to be a team player now, because the manager's got to figure stuff out. We got a couple more lanes and they have to figure out how they're going to run them lanes and they have to hire more drivers. How are they going to manage this? How are they going to put these drivers in certain spots? How are they going to run different loads with another load? How are they going to run a load with a backhaul? And, like I said to some drivers, we have just have to weather the storm for a couple months until they figure it out. And they will figure it out, and there's some drivers trying to figure it out for them. You know it's not your job to figure it out. The more you bother these managers well, you could do this, you could do that, you could do the more they're going to get confused. Maybe not get confused, but they're going to too much thrown at them at once. Just let them do their job and they'll get it done. You know they'll figure it out. That's their job, that's what they're trained to do, that's what they're paid to do. Let them do it.
Speaker 1:So what is not being a team player? Not being a team player is like I said when you're asked to do something, when you're getting load after load after load, that is great, it's what you want, what you like. You're doing it for weeks, months at a time, and then all of a sudden you're asked to do something that is pretty crappy, something you don't want to do, and you say, no, I'm not doing it, I'm not making that kind of money, I'm not making the money I would make if I was pulling the load I usually pull. Well, that's not being a team player. Sometimes you just have to give up that great load just to help out to make things work within the company or the account. And this doesn't just go with trucking, this goes with any job.
Speaker 1:You have to be a team player, you have to know how things work. You can't just be there for yourself, and there's a lot of guys out there and girls and women that are there just for them. And I understand you got bills to pay. You have a family to take care of and you want the best for your family, but at the same time, so do your coworkers. So the other coworkers that work with you they have bills to pay too. You know, I've heard it too many times. I don't care about anybody else, I got to pay my bills. Well, that's fine and dandy, but don't keep giving me to shit the shit work all the time to pay your bills. That's just like telling me well, I'm going to pay your mortgage for you. That's, that's what I get out of that, and that's not right. Pull your weight and do your weight.
Speaker 1:So you know how do we differentiate from being a team player and getting taken advantage of. Well, being taken advantage of for me, is when you're taking a crap load or you're doing a shit work all the time, and they know you're not going to say no, I'm not doing that. They know you're going to say yes, that's for sure. So they're going to keep giving you that. They're going to keep giving you the crap load, the crappy run, the shitty work, the garbage all the time, because they know you're not going to say no. They know that. But if they know that you're going to say no, I'm not doing that anymore, they're going to knock it off. They're going to knock it off and they're going to start maybe giving you better runs. With that also comes going that extra mile as far as putting in the extra work, the extra time, maybe that extra weekend once in a while.
Speaker 1:That's why what brought me to this topic, you know I worked two weekends in a row and I don't like to do that at all. I don't. Last weekend I worked, but it wasn't. I didn't really pull a run. What I did was I pulled a run Friday and I had to pick up a back haul that delivered the next day, on Saturday. So I delivered that load and I was home here I think it was by 12, 12, 30 in the afternoon. Now we work like six hours, for for a truck driver that's barely a half a day. So I knew I didn't pull a full load, a load for the company, that day, even though I got paid that extra buck. I knew I didn't pull my weight Like I said I was going to do. I couldn't anyway, because it was my wedding anniversary weekend. I had to get home. So I worked this following weekend just to help out, and I'm glad I did, because with the car accident that Aaron's daughters got in, we were down a man. So I helped out. Will I work next weekend? No, I won't, I just won't. No, I got to reset, regroup and get my wind back a little bit.
Speaker 1:But that's the difference between being a team player, being a team being taken advantage of. And you know we have to, as as employees of a company, we have to understand when we go the extra mile, why did we go the extra mile and why are we asked to do things sometimes that we don't want to do? Sometimes the managers are the companies. They know we don't like to do that specific job, but it's got to get done. Maybe somebody called off, maybe somebody got sick, like in this situation, aaron's daughter's gotten that car wreck. He couldn't call it, couldn't come in, so somebody had to step up a little bit. I'm not saying it was me, there's other guys that worked that weekend too, but I knew the situation, you know. So that's the difference. That's the difference between being a team player and being taken advantage of. So that's that. Let's move on. We're going to move on. We're going to move on a little bit.
Speaker 1:Bad GPS directions Land a truck driver two years in probation. You know I talked about this a long time ago when I first started this GPS or, yeah, this GPS, this podcast under a different name I don't even remember what name it was there's this is probably the third name that I've had, that the only one I really liked and these GPS is Well, let's get it here's. Here's what happened A truck driver has been sentenced two years probation after a bad GPS directions led to a fatal oversight load accident on a in Ohio back in 2019. 2019, the accident happened in Franklin County, ohio, at around 140 am on August 30th 2019. Now, this part here is kind of confusing here because I know in most states, uh, a lot of um menace fatalities. They won't let you take these oversized loads between certain hours and certain hours are more than likely Uh, I believe they are like from 7 pm up to 4 am, something to that nature. For so for this to happen at 140 am is is a little baffling to me a little bit. So, maybe out in Ohio that is not the law.
Speaker 1:So, according to the plumb's dispatch, 46, a 46 year old driver. Uh, he was. He was following his GPS directions and heading north of the city, heading north on interstate 270, when the top of his oversized load struck the the Claycraft road bridge overpass. The force of the strike shook the load loose and cause it to roll off of the trailer. The large dust collector then came to arrest across all lanes of the interstate Two motorists heading north and I 270 crashed into the load and a parish I sent. A judge sentenced the driver to two years of probation instead of the potential five years in prison, and driver with service probation in Texas where he currently lives.
Speaker 1:Uh, I'm kind of dumbfounded why this guy didn't get jail time. I really am. Um, why he's hauling an oversized load at that time of the morning is beyond me. Uh, I, to be honest with you, I don't think that was legal. I really don't. I don't know the law on oversized loads. I'd never carried an oversized load, so I don't know, um, but being that, you know, two people had died. I'm, I'm, I'm shocked that he didn't spend jail time.
Speaker 1:So you know, like I said, I have always said, always said, and I'm sure most drivers have said also with anybody with common sense would say that the GPS is. They're only used as a freaking tool and that's it A tool, nothing else, nothing else. You follow that blue line. You're getting yourself in trouble. You know, I use my GPS every day, every single day. I use my GPS like most drivers out there do, but I don't follow it to a tee. There's no way you have to get that GPS. I have a Garmin. I go through my directions on my Garmin, I open up my Google maps and I compare which is the best route, and a lot of times they're the same. But if they're different, now you got to look more in depth, you got to do a little bit more research. Why are they different? Why is the GPS sending me this way and Google Maps sending me that way? Now, remember, google Maps is for a car, it's not for a truck.
Speaker 1:Google Maps is good for getting a street view. You could find overhead. You could find bridges on there that might be too short. You could look at the road that you're traveling on. That might look a little squirrely. From the overhead view, you could zoom in on it. Why is this different? You know you could look at that, but I just use that just to compare. You know, that's it. Maybe for main interstates I'll use it. You know, I might follow it a little bit, but never, ever will I follow that Google Maps, that GPS with T, you know, and if they're drastically different, that's when I pull out the Atlas.
Speaker 1:Pull out the Atlas and you look at the road and you got to look at no G7 or G88. You got to go back and look and see what the hell G88 is and low bridge or restricted road to trucks over 10 ton or whatever. You got to do your research, guys. The other tool I like is Google Earth. I like that, you know, to look at my shipper or my receiver. See what I'm getting myself into.
Speaker 1:Where do I turn into this place? You know, is it going to be a tight back? How do I get out of here? How do I get in Things like that? Be prepared, be prepared, like a Boy Scout, right, be prepared. I hate preaching on here and it seems like I am, but I just don't want to see anybody get themselves in a pickle man, especially new drivers. You know they're already a nervous wreck. You know a lot of guys think you know, oh, I got the GPS, not in the worry about, I'll get there. Well, you know, for you new guys, they're not always right.
Speaker 1:A few years back, when I came to this company to work, I didn't have a GPS. I had, well, I had a GPS, but it was the companies and I was going somewhere upstate New York and that thing just had me going in circles, going in circles, going in circles, like twice, three times. I said, oh, something's wrong here, you know. And that's when I nobody told me to use Google Maps and I pull it out and I look. Well, I got to go down there and I'm like, I'm like I'm going to Google Maps and I pull it out and I look. Well, I got to go down this road and I didn't have a choice, I had to go that way. But I'll tell you what, man, when I went that way, it went really, really slow and I paid attention that there was no bridges I was going to, you know, clip orders and no restricted roads, anything like that. And that's when I finally got my own GPS.
Speaker 1:And I was much more thorough when I was going somewhere and doing my research with the Atlas and with Google Maps and with the GPS, I had my Garmin. You know, we all make mistakes, like I did that day and that's when I said to myself I can't do that anymore Exciting, I'm going to get myself in a fricking pickle. You know, I did rely on that GPS in the truck that time and I shouldn't have done that. And I did, and that's when I said, nope, not doing that, no more. So you know, just do your research and be prepared. Be prepared. No, in advance, we're going to check your routes and I'll leave it at that. Man, that's it, I'll leave it at that. This here, we're going to move on here. This is what I was talking about.
Speaker 1:The show I was binge watching with my son and it's a fun show to watch. You laugh your ass off. Gordon Ramsay. I thought this was pretty cool. 25 years ago, british chef Gordon Ramsay comes to prominence appearing in the TV documentary Bowling Point detailing the opening of a restaurant that was his Gordon Ramsay's restaurant. I never watched that show. I did. The only show I have watched was Kitchen Nightmares, which I'm watching now. Originally, ramsley tried to become a professional footballer before an injury ended his dream.
Speaker 1:Gordon Ramsay comes to prominence appearing in the TV documentary Bowling Point detailing the opening of his restaurant. Gordon Ramsay first appears on US television in a cooking competition show Hell's Kitchen on Fox. I never watched that. I didn't watch any of the cooking shows. The only one I started watching was with my son, kitchen Nightmares, and that's a good show. I like watching that. He goes in and he tries to fix these restaurants that are failing. And he goes in and he's throwing old food out. This is shit, this is junk, this is not fresh, this is freezer burn. Everything's going into garbage. So it's pretty cool. You got women crying, guys crying because they thought they knew everything about the restaurant business. They didn't know jack shit until he gets in there and he fixes everything. But that was pretty cool. I like watching that show. Now, this next topic I'm going to talk about.
Speaker 1:I've done a podcast before. It actually was really good, but the time that goes into this podcast, not this one. Well, I put a lot of time into this one too, but the podcast I used to do before I did a true crime podcast. Some of the shows are still up. If you go to Murder Unraveled, that's me. That's my true crime podcast. It was pretty good. I thought Jared Farentino liked it and he's on Fox News a lot Good morning America. He's just starting a new show on the CW.
Speaker 1:He was the prosecutor in the Hugo Salinsky case, who was a serial killer. Well, I didn't think he was a serial killer. I knew the guy in high school. I didn't know him. I'm lying, no, I did not know him. I knew who he was. I went to school with him Maybe high and goodbye, that was about it Pass him through the halls or whatever. But I didn't know a lot of his partners that conspired with him during his crime spree there. But that's what got me into the true crime and I fell in love with it. But it's just so, so time consuming to get all your facts straight and your timeline down correctly, and I think I might do it again. I think I'm going to give it another shot because I just love doing that stuff. Love it.
Speaker 1:But this guy here, a serial killer truck driver okay, roy Nelsch. He kidnapped the woman, abby Palmetto, on I-24 in Tennessee. She had escaped. Thank God, on May 22nd 2019, this guy was arrested. This is on YouTube. You can find this on YouTube. Just go on YouTube, put the name in here A serial killer truck driver's or Roy Nelsch, it'll pop up. That's what I did Because, like I said I'm thinking about getting back into it.
Speaker 1:But she ran out of gas on a highway when it was at I-24. And he was going by her. He drove by her and he went down the road. He turned around, made a U-turn with his rig and he tried to help her out. So he got her in the truck, he abducted her, he hit her with a gun he can't cuff her. And he told her straight out I'm going to rape you and then I'm going to kill you. That's what he says. Well, that is what they said on the documentary I was watching. That is what they said. He said, or she said yeah, he said she said that is what she had told the investigators, that he told her. This. Nelsch told her. When she escaped, they caught him and they pulled him out of the truck and the police, they searched his truck. They found a gun, a stun gun, knives, body ropes, sex toys, women's undergarments with blood on them.
Speaker 1:This guy was a sick frickin' ticket man. He was frickin' whacked. But while they were interrogating him they had said oh, you did this, you did that, you did this. And he goes on and say well, maybe I did Just like that, maybe I did. It's like holy fuck, you know you kidding me, you know. But he agreed to a DNA test. So they swabbed his cheek, they took the DNA test and then they asked him to do a polygraph and he said no, he refused a polygraph. So finally it went to court. It started with the indictment and he pled guilty before a judge. He did die before the trial Actually came to light. He died of leukemia. Yeah, this guy, he was a whack job. You know, you watch his documentary.
Speaker 1:If you're into true crime, just go on YouTube and just pull up serial killers and you get all kinds of crap on there. If you really like the in depth, in depth true crime podcasts or you like the investigations of it, there's a couple out there that are really really good. True crime garage is probably one of the best ones out there. True crime all the time is very good. If you like the story, the story lines of these serial killers is called serial killers and all these are on Spotify. They're very good. I listened to them quite a bit. It's a lot of fun to listen to that stuff and you know, I don't like listening to the ones with the kids involved in them. I turn them right off. I don't like listening to them breaks my heart to hear some of that. All of that stuff. To be honest with you, they're very pretty sad, to be honest with you, you know. But if you're into that stuff they're the good ones that I really like to listen to.
Speaker 1:And go to murder unravel to check out. Check out my podcast. I think it's still up. I'm going to check. I think it is and I think I might get back into it.
Speaker 1:My boy wants to do some true crime podcasting with me. But I got to be careful on what kind I do with them because he does get a little grossed out sometimes when we start talking about people getting stabbed and blood all over the place. So he might not get into it too much at all. You might want to stop period when we start talking about that stuff. But yeah, he gets stomach it for a little bit. And it's funny when we watch. He likes to watch NCIS and if there's a bad scene that comes on where somebody's getting killed, he'll go. Oh, gotta go in the pothole. You know, bury his head in my wife's lap. That's the pothole. It's funny. But I don't see him pursuing that too far. Maybe when he gets a little bit older, I don't know. But anyway, we'll move on here a little bit. But go check them out. They're a lot of fun. Just a little bit of politics here, not too much.
Speaker 1:This Nikki Haley man, she's a whack job. She needs to drop out of this race. You know, they've been saying this for a long time she doesn't have a shot in hell at all. She doesn't. She does not have a shot in hell. I don't think any Democrat really does, even if Joe Biden. My prediction is he drops out by the end of March and they appoint somebody, because by then it's going to be too late to do a primary for the Democrats. So they're going to end up appointing someone. I don't want to go on and speculate who. I think that, but well, you know what I will. I think it's going to be Gavin Newsom who they're going to nominate there, and I don't see any Democrat winning the presidential election. I really don't. They just got themselves in so much of a pickle over the past three and a half years that it's going to be very hard for them to win the presidency back. I don't see it happening.
Speaker 1:We really do need Trump. We need him real bad. We need his dedication and his love for this country, despite all of his indictments. We need him. We need him bad. So let's say we get him and he fixes what's messed up the economy, immigration, all that stuff. What's to say whoever? No, we got to look. He's only going to be in there for four years. You can't run again, no-transcript.
Speaker 1:Who's what's say that whoever takes over for him, if it's a Republican, doesn't turn around and just change all his policies again, like Biden did, and then we're back in the same situation again. I mean, that is the part of art, part of the way our government works. You know that's the way it was set up. You know you can remove this policy or that policy or whatever foreign policy you don't like. You could change that. So you know, like Trump said when you had that interview with Laura Ingram, he goes on to say well, she asked him who was who he was thinking about to be his vice president and he come out and he, the way he said it was whoever I think is going to be a good president, because he's anticipating the VP winning the Republican presidency again once he leaves office, which we hope that is what happens.
Speaker 1:So it our economy sucks, our immigration policies suck, our foreign policies suck, the things that are going on with China. You know my you know I sit here and thinking, if you know, we keep going on the same track that we're on with China. You know, I kind of predict we'll be in a war with China within the next five years, without a doubt. It's scary, it's a scary situation and that's where I'll leave the political portion of the show. I don't want to get into it too much because there's nobody here to debate Jim and Tim.
Speaker 1:Jim is out of the show because he got back to work. So he's only going to have one day off a week and it well, I think he'll have two days off, but he's only going to have one day off on a weekend. So you know, to take that one weekend day to come down to my home and podcasts is not in, not in the making there. You know you got to have some, some kind of time to yourself there. So, and as far as Jim goes, I'm not sure I haven't talked to him in a while. I know he's got he's got a lot on his mind lately. So I'm just going to let him decompress and do what he's got to do there to get things straight now, what's going on with him?
Speaker 1:Well, let's talk spring and summer. Hey, man, it's coming up on us real quick. It's coming here shortly. I know it's called as a bastard up here in the Northeast for you drivers out there. Your truck drivers make sure you put your your uh and a gel in your additive and want to get gelled up. You got to keep rolling. Make that cash right.
Speaker 1:So what are your plans for the summer months? The spring months coming up. It's going to be getting warm here next week, actually tomorrow. It's called as a bastard out there Now. Tomorrow's supposed to be in the fifties, high forties, low fifties. That's where I got to get out there and clean up that dog crap. Got a lot of dog crap in my yard Three dogs. It's a mess out there.
Speaker 1:What are you doing? You going on a staycation? You staying home? You just staying home? Or you going on a vacation? You just staying home all summer and just working around the house? Hey, let me know what you're doing out there. I'd like to know. Give me some ideas for my vacation if I decide to go anywhere. Uh, we plan on going down the shore this year? I don't know, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1:Uh, there's some good deals out there going on getting your hotel rooms a little bit early. Uh, we usually go camp and a lot during the summer. But, uh, you know the gas prices. You know to pull that RV it just cost me a fortune and, uh, I don't want to spend that kind of money. Uh, the gas is just ridiculous. You know my truck, uh, without being hooked up to the RV, I get about 16, 18 miles to the gallon and as soon as I hook up, I'm down to seven or eight miles to the gallon. So that is not happening this summer. We're actually looking into, uh, selling the thing uh, because we're not going to be using it as much. It's just not worth keeping anymore. So let me know what your plans are for the summer. Send me an email at truckinontherecap, at gmailcom.
Speaker 1:Uh, I'm going to be on Twitter. Uh, I'm also doing a couple of things on Tick Tock here and there. You know a little bit. You know little short clips letting people know what the podcast is going to be about, and, um, you can follow me on there. I'm on Instagram, truckinontherecap, uh, both, uh, tick Tock and Instagram, and also Twitter.
Speaker 1:I don't do much on Twitter. I might start doing a little bit on Twitter, but, uh, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what goes on with Twitter. I don't like Twitter too much. Not much going on there. I mean, there's a lot going on but it's not very interactive for me, not interactive enough, I'll say that. But hey, that's all I got for today. And uh, you know, thanks for uh, thanks for listening today. Uh, you know, leave a comment or two. I think you can leave a comment on here. I'm just, yeah, just scroll up and you could ask any question you want. Uh, check out our podcast. Uh, wherever you get your podcasts are all over the place, man, apple, spotify, uh, I think we're on Twitch still. Uh, yeah, we're all over Google, we're everywhere. So, hey, thanks for listening. And uh, and or watching, we're on YouTube too. Check us out on YouTube. Truckinontherecap and that living's awesome, yeah.