Live 365 He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone. Your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught. according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep and dead. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic and each God given right. And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch him tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening Intelligence report. I'm Mark Hernke and I'm Don Betcher one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, central, east, and south. 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We're supposed to have that partial eclipse-y thingy going on the west side of the country, although I guess you could even see the air color change towards sunset here. Kind of interesting. What's going on in your neck of the woods? What's today today? It was jumping off the wall. Well, this past sunset just went down on the 23rd day of October, the year of our Lord, 2014. One girl comes in eclipse. We've talked about that before. I can't help but laugh at that a bit, Mark. Just a little bit. You hope you're not the guy, the second to last guy or the last guy before the eclipse start when you step up onto the last, you know, stair at the top of the pyramid. It's like, uh-oh. And anyway, again, it is. That was a long, long time ago. What's his name? Mel Gibson made a movie about it. But, uh... Again, a long, long time ago from the 23rd day of October 2014. It was a nice day. It turned into a kind of sunny day. A lot of clouds at the end. It was really foggy this morning, Mark, but cleared up some beautiful day for, hey, this time of year, beautiful day. What's going on in this neck of the... You know, you guys, we could talk about Canada. We could... Oh, it's all Canada. Somebody got shot in your parliament there and... These things don't usually happen. Oh, here in Canada, you knew. Took away most of the guns. It's one of the reasons why. But it's like, when you look at, we've talked about this before. If you looked at which would be the harder target, America or Canada. So it's just a softer target, yeah, that's all. Look at it in a purely strategic, where would it be easier? Because isn't like Parliament, like Congress, Granted, a bunch of Puerto Ricans went into Congress a long time ago, not as long as other things earlier mentioned. And pretty much shot the place up, didn't they Mark? We're talking about current times. And America's a lot harder target, seemingly, than Canada. But boy oh boy, they sure had some guys running around with guns there, didn't they? You know how the read is on that, Mark. everybody has a gun or everybody has a right to own a gun or nobody has a right to own a gun but a very few. The people who have the right to enforce your right not to have a gun. I'm not trying to double talk you there. I know you're following that. It did come out a little bit rough and crude. You know where I'm going and that's a perfect example of it right in the pictures we see from Canada. It makes you wonder where the ... At any rate, we don't have to dwell on that a whole lot. I just use that as an example of It's a military tactic you guys really and think about it mark you if we were sitting here on you know YouTube or something you'd be nodding your head. This is true It's a military tactic to strike a softer target if you want success You don't go to where there's going to be the most amount of resistance So that's the way we have to see that now when you look at it like that you wonder what's coming here next But a great portion of this, and Mark I'm certain you would agree, is driven by the media. Because it makes you wonder whose brother-in-law or nephew or like a conversation at a kitchen or from the big leather chairs in a den somewhere a few weekends before Reagan was shot, someone, a vice president, that will remain nameless, said to someone else who will remain nameless. Now what can we do with that idiot son of yours? See how that works? Interestingly enough, again, with Canada's situation, the way it is, of course there are a series of stories on From the Trenches that Henry's posted here recently. The, of course, Canadian ISIS read that Israeli-Israeli threat. Number one, Canada's a total monopoly, kids. in everything and the Jewish mob virtually runs Canada now every aspect of the political correctness scam is shoved down Canada's throat Everybody's pretty well comfortable with it. So the border needs to be maintained seriously Needless to say they're still trying to figure out how to plug in the gun man thing and they are still attacking gun owners up there There's been all kinds of other BS that they have been running that you're running the gamut through so The one thing I don't understand is why Canadians want to retire south of the border since they have paradise north of the border, if you know what I mean. I mean, why would you want to come south? Don't you have socialist paradise? Oh, well that's right. There's a lot of things that just, well, I guess, you know. So, down the road, one of the things I do want to benchmark about Canada is Canada was made for a reason. And our Canadian neighbors are fine people and they have their country and we have ours. There might be some parts of Canada that want to vote to maybe secede from Canada and become part of America, part of the United States. We'll see what happens. That's down the road after the war gets going. There's a lot of pieces of real estate that are going to be contested. The Southwest is going to be a dog fight. The northern border will be a mix. Some places, pretty much everybody in Canada is fed up with the regime. Of course, if they decide to kick them out of their end of the real estate, then they won't be too concerned then about not being able to manage themselves. The only difference is they get rid of the crown connection because that is something that they can do, the Canadians can do themselves. They're just going to have to work at it. They're going to make a decision there. That's personal. When you talk about being sick of the regime, Mark, one of the measures is Canada can stand there and look and say, you guys, that the American dollar has fallen so much And still, our dollar isn't worth more. Now, it almost sounds like jest. It almost sounds like it's a joke. It really does, doesn't it? But the Canadians, the American dollar and the Canadian dollar are pretty closely tied. Sometimes they've been as far apart as a quarter. Or I might even remember like 35 or 39 cents. You know, an American dollar was worth $1.39 in Canada. But, you know, We can look at other examples like the President, the Chief Bottle Washer there of OPEC talking about the price of oil. Now this is about seven or eight years ago now, but the price of oil around the world is driven up sheerly through speculation, but the problem with the price of oil is the value has lost a third of its value in the last two years. Now this was a few years back, granted. I don't see that gain back, do you? And the Canadians can look and say, look it, the dollar has lost so much, but still, our dollar hasn't even overtaken it, really. And in fact, when they got to about parity, didn't they fall as if they were, you know, riding in the same roller coaster? It's got to make a number of Canadians say, what happened there, eh? Mark, I yield to you, sir. That's just a money issue. And again, that was one of the things you could go to. Of course, I understand that means that the variation in exchange was so great, but he used to be going to Canada most of the time and be like, wow, my dollar goes farther, which is why people would go north. Well, the closer things are to equity or with the spin in the other direction, there isn't anything I really need to go north for. Right. Think about that, which is the attitude a lot of people are taking now. Combine that with the communist agenda with regard to homeland security. Getting out of the country, going the other way, pretty well you can do that without any problem. But without a passport, you can't get back into the country. So they've made it so obnoxious, and again it's arbitrary, totally of course, a combination of license plate watching, etc. So they can even let you out without any harassment so to speak. But coming back in, they'll do everything they can to try and give you a heart attack or try to, you know, angst you because they're getting their jollies off. That's what the turds and the border are all about. It has nothing to do with protecting America. It's just harassing Americans. Foreigners? No. Americans? Yes, harassed constantly. So that's another reason a lot of people just don't bother to go. I haven't been to Canada in years and I won't bother going to Canada. If I ever needed to go to Canada, I'd get across anytime we want, come back across anytime you want. You know what I mean? And not have to deal with anybody. So, that's not an issue. The big thing is, again, that when the time comes, nothing that the government is going to be doing about it once we clear the house out, then we will be enforcing the border properly, but there will be a great deal more equity with regard to how it's done, too, with all parties concerned, no matter what click they're with. Which is another thing that I know there'll be screaming bloody murder either way. Why are you stopping us? I'm just smuggling the dolphin right now. And that'll be the most common thing you'll be experiencing if you're a border guard. Oh look another batch of opium went into Canada and then just got driven across the US border. What a surprise. Well, that's how they do it. Well, it's one of the many ways. They come up through Mexico the same way. A little subnote on that, record production for black tyropium in Afghanistan again guys, just if you hadn't caught it. Who would have thought that? Because we just spent... Probably into your neighborhood soon. Yep, going to be right here on American soil as quick as they can drop it here, guaranteed. Just a little case in point there by the way. Another thing about what's going on with Canada, yes they do have a series of other secure points that they've created as hubs all along the border. that are designed to target the American population, not foreigners. Foreigners walk, drive across, tail, however they want to, pretty much smile and wave. You look like an American coming home, oh you've got to be punished. And they will. So, again. Hey, if you live along the border, you used to know it. Used to be just like driving through a tall gate. When I was a youngster, it's like where you're from. America, where were you born? Blah blah blah. Okay, see ya. That was it. You're lucky if they don't look up your old address. Yeah, well, exactly. The other component here is, again, as we know, the problem with Canada. And I don't think anybody's talking about this. Now, granted, the ships may be making up the difference for food delivery, but there has been a very dynamic change in truck deliveries, outbound and in, especially from the traditional California import points. Truck drivers coming from Canada typically had, well we always joked about it, maple dust guys, because what do you produce during the winter in Canada? Okay, but the fact of the matter is maple syrup actually truly was shipped in bulk out to the west coast and the drivers don't really make that much money on that trip. The leg back full of food, fresh fruits and vegetables during the winter months especially, is where the big money is made going back to Canada. However, there have been some changes in the world with regard to California and again food prices and availability. This has changed how things have been able to be delivered to Canada from the US market and why again the Chinese market is dumping their trash up in Canada much the way they've been dumping their trash in other places. Oh, I mean food. I'm sorry, did I say trash? Oh, oh, oh. I was supposed to call it food. So one of the other interesting things that's happening is a major dynamic talking to the drivers at the truck stops here, especially if you pay attention to the Canadian place, because they'll even tell you, it's like, you know, dude, it ain't like it used to be in any way, shape or form. In fact, even the volume has dropped. Now they've tried to compensate with direct Chinese shipping, but the problem there again is what are they getting and what are they paying for it? It's being shipped halfway around the planet. And this is to try and make up for fresh food deliveries that people have been kind of pampered for, you know, two in the north now. Years and years ago, it was unique and it was more of a, you know, again, treated as a treat. Today it's an expected thing. different world, different kind of attitude. Go ahead, Gauler, jump in there. A lot of that is due to that NASA. You got the lip-backs taking a lot of garbage, a lot of freight up there, and it's just not coming back. NASA's got a lot to do with the Canadian dropping freight. You mean with regard to coming up from Mexico? Yeah, it's coming up. A lot more freight is through the states and the Canada. And it might show that I can't really move my phone away. But anyway, the Mexicans are bringing it up, and that's satisfying the Canadian need. And so therefore, less Canadians are going down to the border to pick it up. It's getting brought to them. And look, another point is, there's a hell of a strike going on right now in Toronto. The ports are It's striking like crazy. They're not picking stuff up. They've got a big labor problem up there. So the containers aren't moving. So that's got something to do with it too. Well, that's one of the other elements. Again, it's the direction of the food's coming from or has to come from, even though it was available in the past, even in the last 20 years or so, because NAFTA is now, like we said, 20 years old, guys. The interesting thing is, at least the California route was the option and was preferred for the products, type of quality of product, etc. and the selection in terms of flavors and breeds, as they say. What's interesting is coming up from the South has been the only option because of the intentional scuttling of the California and Oregon and Washington agricultural market. That's systematically being temporarily destroyed so the Chinese will acquire that just like they've acquired the pork industry. The deal that the Carolinians had going through America was you're allowed to get loaded in Canada and take it to where it has to go. And then you can only pick up at that point and then go directly back to Canada. You can't stop off somewhere else in the United States and pick something up and then go back to the other state and drop it off and then get something else in that state and go to the other state and drop it off. That's competing with us. So they're only allowed to go. through the stage and drop off where it's supposed to go and that's it. They're not allowed to pick it up, they're dropped off and go right back to Canada. I think that's it. Tell you what, try talking a little softer for a minute. Go ahead and keep talking, but try talking just a little softer. Okay. I don't know why. There we go. Just try at that level. I'm sure that Henry would be calling up on a minute and going, you're blaring. Only because I'm figuring calculating based on what happened before. Go ahead. The thing is, the Canadians are only allowed to pick up in Canada and drop off in the States. They can do that at the delivery point in the States. Then they can pick up at that delivery point and go right back to Canada. They're not allowed to go within the United States and go to different states and pick up and drop off because that competes directly with us. But that's been going on for the last 50 years. But then NASA came about, which is almost 20 years old now, and that's killed a lot of that return business for Canada. So the drivers in Canada are They are forced more and more now to deliver within their own country. They are not coming down here as much because NAFTA has killed a lot of that. Right. Well, see that's one of the other things that I see happening in general. The process, again, with regard to the Western effect in general, the drought issue that of course is natural. That's a cyclic thing, guys. It doesn't help that they probably tweaked it here and there and cut off the water that could have been held in reserve. But it's also the fact that you're looking at mostly a desert part of the planet at any given point. It was desert back in the age of the Spanish occupation. desert in the age of the United States and the new Spanish occupation that's taking place. Except now we're going to see the Chinese occupation. So I see that being another issue with them being able to access, which is why like you said, the southern route has now become the norm and we're seeing a change in both the way that it's applied, how it gets there, and the availability. Right. That has grown 16% here for the last 10 years. It's grown quick. The Mexicans are... They're coming through here like crazy. Remember when we got the liar in charge here? And remember when he was running for president he told us he would do away with NAFTA? Remember that? I do. I just can't remember what it was Canada said to him, if you shut void that treaty will do this. What was it and how much control does Canada have over that puppet? What was it? I can't remember. I don't know either. It's been a while. It's one of the dinky little details, but I just jumped in my mind to pose that question. One more quick point. I'll just repeat it. The Toronto ports are big trouble. The drivers aren't picking up this big labour disputes. The dock workers don't want to load the trucks. That's got a lot to do with as to what's going on as well. Very good. Well, again, one of the other things that I see changing and that's something that's going to be rather interesting as we break away most of the trappings or problems that we've had that have been, you know, we've been expressing and talking about and now for the last 20 years. So we told you, so it's a warning. The next step right now that I see is a flood of probably the foreign drivers coming in from completely outside the United States again. Kind of like when we saw the Russians and the Hungarians and such. The rules of the regulations for driving have killed a lot of the business. The FM, the CSA, the Federal Motors, Carrier Safety, whatever the hell it is, ACT or Association or whatever, only allowing drivers now, owner operators, to drive less hours per day. So a lot of drivers, and this is going on in Canada too. Canada's got different rules, but they're basically the same. But that's killing off a lot of our operators, a lot of people have left the business. And now, like he's saying, a lot of foreigners have taken over their spots. But they have nowhere near the experience. They don't speak English. There's a lot of accidents occurring. And the shipments are being delivered late. And, you know, just all kinds of logistical nightmares because of the rule changes in the hours of service. Well again, you are limited to 8 hours driving time. Now here is a question I really haven't bothered even with. 11. 11 hours non-stop. Is that with a cyclic brake in the middle like a lunch break or is that just 11 straight? Yeah, you can only drive 4, you can only drive half hour breaks and you can drive 8 more and then you have to take a 10 hour break all at once. And every, you can only drive 70 hours a week, that's the one that drives off to. That kills a lot of time. He used to build a couple hundred grand a year and over an operator an aligator down to about 120. That in large cases lost. It wasn't worth it. So the amount of hours you had to work. Right, that's one of the things, again, I used to know a lot of drivers that run the Lime and Coal. Southwood Lime, Northwood Coal between Tennessee and Michigan. and they could scrunch in in a three day window. If it was two days, typically it can make three trips. Non-stop, run run run, and of course they make money both ways. They actually made more money on the line than they did on the coal. But the coal was the way to get up north, the limestone was the way to get south. And that would all of course be put on the cabocha because these guys would drive, turn around and drive right back. and easily you could see them three times in 24 hours without any problem. But they also wouldn't be stopping for anything, especially a weekend run. So that's one of the things that obviously we could see pretty well gone out of the way. But the businesses that actually supported that are gone now too. Virtually every element that normally supported that kind of resource, they don't need the call because the company's out of business. So they don't have the line to pay, they don't have a trip to make up here with the gravel hauler, the cross state gravel haulers. So it's pretty well put the kibosh to it. Go ahead. Yeah, there are 200,000 drivers short right now. We operate with 3.2 million nationwide right now. And we're still 200,000 short. Drivers are hard to come by. Companies can't tell. turn down business right and left and the freight is going to increase by 2016. I think they said that 2020 or something like that. The freight is supposed to almost triple the volume as far as going through the states. So the transportation industry has got some real big problems. Well, they'll run that over to jobs that Americans don't want to do. Right. And then all of a sudden the Hispanics or the foreigners that they bring in will be given seven years tax-free, total exoneration from having to follow any of the guidelines, and then they'll extend that so by the time they're done out of maybe a 20, 30 year work cycle, 14 years of it will be tax-free while you and I pay taxes through the nose, and not once would they have to conform. The way that a regular native born American driver would have to. That's the third car he's crushed with a family in it. We've seen that before and we'll see it again. I just see it coming. I just see the next wave coming. You basically are confirming it. The only other option, I know we've got another caller there, the other option is again to look at it the way they originally proposed using semis. If they were to keep it within a narrow hub and you were just to look at rail or obviously shipping as the wholesale delivery system, then the trucks would only work within a one or two state area. That's how you should be delivering. It would keep you within reasonable distance, but that's not what's happening, is it? Well, since rails are already matched out, Mark, the trains are running late as it is. They can't put any more trains on the rail as this time of rail. Right. I got into that conversation yesterday with one of our friends. In fact, one of our friends around the corner is very much into, you know, steam. And you know what's interesting is when we were an intelligent and wealthy nation, We built our rail system to the point where we had dual tracks across the country. Then the bean counters got this bright idea that we were going to destroy half of our rail service by cutting back and destroying one out of every other rail that was out there where we had double track systems like from Detroit to Chicago. Well, since that's happened, as I've talked to the rail people, everything is backed up. Nothing's working as they hoped because, well, they didn't have the brains to maintain the original line, so they're going to, if they could rebuild it, the bedding's there. I mean, it hasn't gone any place, but the fact of the matter is it should never have been taken out in the first place. They should have maintained the entire system. Now, if the east-west activity, especially, and north-to-south, certainly they can build it back up, but who has the capital for it? Nobody. There's double stock in the cars now with all the big boy freight companies. There's about five companies in the US with about 17,000 trailers. They're going big time rail. That's a problem within itself. That's killing the You know that's showing off the owner operator and you know, you just do that I mean, you know you start doing that you started to your operator has nothing the hall so so he quits and they never follow. Yeah, it's just it's just It's a nightmare. Yeah Mark very good. We got George. Good. What do you got? You know the thing is I know a couple overall owner operation, Texas that they don't have the Qualcomm system and order them to break even mark your heard of them heard of trucker owner operators have to use three different paper log books? Oh yeah, that's something that traditionally, see there's two different categories of truck driving here we're talking about too. There's interstate and intrastate. Now intrastate is if you're, you know a lot of drivers did this year's go back in the 90s, they just won't take a load outside of the state of Michigan for instance if they live in Michigan. Now, it's hard to do that now simply because most all of the American economy has been pretty well torpedoed. But just as NAFTA and GATT was brought into play, the argument was that if you stayed intrastate inside the state, that 99% of all of the regulations don't apply and that is true. But what they've done is they've gutted the American, the interlocked state economies. and done all this global scam BS, well because of that now you can't, you don't have the widgets in a state to do any single thing and that was intentional not accidental. The problem is being able to stay in the state and do that. I know a lot of drivers that had to work their, you know, work their schedule accordingly, I mean literally just take any trip, anything that they could find in the state just so they'd be working. They've passed up a whole lot of runs out of state, but the idea behind it is you don't have to have all those numbers on the side of the truck, and they can't force you into any of the other contracts that they've got the interstate drivers into, which is a portion of where all of the whole codes and requirements for all the driving activity take place with regard to restrictions and limitations, etc. I know a lot of owner operators, they won't take a road into south Florida unless they backhaul the road leaving the state because they don't want to leave the state. Right, there's nothing to bring back. The part of this country doesn't produce anything anymore. At least it used to produce oranges. But most Americans don't realize that there might be an orange on the map. But they've decimated, virtually just destroyed the orange production, the citrus production in Florida. is a ghost of what it was. Most of what you get that's called Florida Orange Anything, it's actually shipped across from the Gulf of Mexico, or actually from the Caribbean. They sludge the oranges or the citrus in pulp down in Venezuela and the Central American states and they literally, it's just a big barge freezer. God knows what falls in it. Because it's not in our country, but when they take they take these large blocks of what are orange juice sludge They bring them by barge across the Gulf of Mexico and they drop them in Florida Now I don't know what bugs snakes Rats, whatever it is it drops into that big like, you know 150 foot long cube of you know a rectangle of orange juice, but Did any birds fly over it? Yeah. Well, get live in it and then the wine and plop in it because it is frozen. But before it gets frozen, it's slur, you know, it's orange sludge and it's not from here. It may say it's, it's pretty, see that they say from Florida. Well, was it grown in Florida? That's probably squeezed in Florida. I'd say that right now. Mark, I tell you one thing I have freshly squeezed Texas orange juice because I got orange trees outside my backyard. Oh yeah, no, I know. Actually, all the southern states, especially along the Gulf, the Florida is not the only place, but Florida made sense. I mean, come on guys, what was it famous for? Palmetto's. You know? So, trucking's one of the few industries that are really stepping up to the plate. They're starting to pay drivers more now, and the rates are going up. The next five years look pretty rosy for the American CDL driver because my pay went up 16% last year. I'm a company driver, so I'm happy as a bug in a hot rock. But they have to do it because that's the only way they can keep drivers. There's going to be too much freight in the years to follow. They have to pay drivers long. They have to move the freight. They have to do it. The American driver is in the cap-fertime seat right now. They're starting to get big parishes. It's a pretty relevant picture. On that note, I have more than a few nieces and nephews who have been driving for many years. In fact, in one instance, both husband and wife drive, and all the children have been raised actually born, of course they come back home when they're born, but they're on the road with mom and dad. That's another point to be made because over the road truckers, a long time ago you guys, that was done in teams. The truck was always going and there was not a whole lot of problems with the log book because there was more than one man able to drive the truck. When they pushed the driver's pay down to the point that it wasn't feasible for two men to do that, see where we went with that, now as you point out, I'm glad because it's coming full circle again. The guys at home, the heavy wide roads you see with the 678 axle trailers, the low boys with the big equipment on them, those guys are doing about 350,000 a year. They're doing damn good, big money. Well, we see a lot of them windmills being pushed down a road, those big wide little trailers. Yeah, because they're making big money. Since one case is $16 a mile. Golly, where do I sign up? But you know what the thing is Mark? J.B. Hunt keeps calling me saying they've got to update my application and I never put in an application to them. That's because you have military background. J.B. Hunt is a spook and kook operation. They have been for decades guys that they're a training operation But it's another one of those, you know, kind of like we had JB Hunt trucks in our our clandestine surveillance fleet at Fortachuca We had two Mayflower straw Mayflower trucks JB Hunt Baskin Robbins and what was the other one? What about covenant transport? Well, most of these, there's about five companies. They've been out there for a long time. They have government ties and one of the reasons is because again, they have a big enough fleet and they have a whole lot of perks that are given to the company behind the scenes. They get a lot of special government grants and they've had since their creation. Well, might I interject here? The first time I was on the intelligence report, it was with Mark and John and we talked about night vision. I lived in Detroit at that time. I lived in an area where the crack wars were going on. When that happened, houses burned down. Blocks were burned down. I lived in such a place that tractor came up one night while I was asleep. I woke up the next morning. I have a habit of waking up in the morning and sticking my head through the window or door. I like to look outside immediately. I don't know. But I did. and Kitty Corner like at 35 degrees because I'm like six houses up on the opposite side of the block and the next block over is a fire road so you could have big trucks on that road. There's a USA truck trailer, you know tractor and trailer, trailer parked there, no tractor and that trailer had a big black window on the side of it. And we had pointed this out the next time I was on the air in 95. We've talked about this a number of times. You can live inside. You can have everything just like a submarine. You're eating steaks and all kinds of things. You can just sit there and watch through the window. That truck was there for like four days. Just the trailer. Big black window on the side of it. I've never seen another USA truck. The window was almost at the end, backed by the loading end as opposite of the tractor end. and it was on passenger side. It did not have a black window on the driver's side of the trailer. But it was there for a reason. It had a straight shot view to the whole of my house. And we've never heard of this before. My house, yes. Yeah, that was a special obstacle there, it sounds like. They were wanting to look at Don for a while. It had a mission. Yeah. Well, Mark, you know a thing is I told J.B. Hunt to stop calling me. It's because I heard of a story, J.B. Hunt. People not leaving orientation and J.B. Hunt going on the DAX report and telling these drivers, and putting reports saying drivers abandoned their load or something like that. Yeah. You know, and you know, I think... If a driver does that, then you'll want to find another job in the industry. Again, that's the worst thing you'll ever do, is leave a trailer and you'll never get anywhere to do that. Well, the thing is, J.B. Hunt, like I say, they abused that tax system, you know, putting that stuff on a person report. And they never even got a truck yet. Never been assigned a truck. They just never made it out of orientation and somebody got pissed off. And, I mean, one thing I heard J.B. Hunt stands for is, just been hired, unemployed next Tuesday. It happens to all of them. The best thing to do is go to work for a small company. 600 trucks or less is where you want to work for. Anything more than that, you're going to get screwed, run away or anything other. I've also heard that the latest radar detector technology is a JB Hunt driver strapped to your hood with a pair of binoculars. Yeah, I heard that one, yeah. But you want to know what, Don? I have the opportunity. It's like buying like a Ford Ford. and hiring drivers that I call gravel in the state. Well that's the norm, that's what I'm saying. That's intra-state activity, George. Intra, not inter-intra. And you'll never have the answers to housing, so. Intra-state is very different from interstate. Go ahead, I'm sorry. Well it's just the thing isn't like I say, and I have four drivers that be willing to drive for me. I mean it's like I'm not going to make a porch stop, but you know the thing is hopefully you could just haul, especially with the the boosted energy sector here. An attorney who knows the business and goes, if I buy them trucks, I can have them make the drivers a contractor on their own 1099. That's what I do. There's nothing unusual about that. That goes on every day of the week. Like I say, it kind of limits my liability to them. They lease the owner and pay their own income and I get a percentage. That's fine with me. because there are so many repos out there Mark that they are trying to get rid of these trucks cheap. Well you've got a couple of different issues repos but also again remember the fleet is being pressed by new production and if they can't get it, again get it out of the country, they do is what happens. The older fleet, progressively, gravity sucks, heads south to Mexico, there are contractors that buy these fleet trucks They watch for the, they're smart now. It's not like it used to be where they would just go in, when America was wealthier, they'd just go in and just lay down whatever they wanted in the way of block money and buy a whole fleet of Peter Belts that somebody might have up and available on auction or on the block. Today, they wait until they're distressed, then they pretty well pick anything and everything they can drag away. It goes out down to the Gulf or over towards the East Coast. gets loaded onto a transport ship and that's South America's fleet. In fact, as we've mentioned many times, they send our first line fleet, becomes our second line fleet, going down to Central and South America. The older stuff that we already hauled up down there before, we didn't, but somebody did as a contractor. That gets shipped over to Africa or it goes somewhere else where it gets the snot shot out of it like Well, remember all those guys really had exactly what you're talking about That's what Shelley deals with every day is stuff going to Africa literally out Yeah, the Galveston majority of what they ship out is actually right from Dearborn, Michigan and goes to somewhere in Africa Yeah, and got here talking cars by interestingly enough think about this When you heard about all those hundred thousand dollar a year mercenary truck drivers guys that went to Afghanistan and went to Iraq remember those What were they driving? There were, they shouldn't have been driving, our armor-plated tracks. Oh, not very many. Most of them were driving like four or five generation back day cab Peter belts and day cab internationals. If you notice some of those burned out wrecks for the old international day cabs with, you know, I mean the short overhead. Really, really short overhead. But they were all burned out. Well, you see, that's where they're on their last legs. It's kind of like if your ship is flagged for Liberia, it's got to help you. And so when they got over there, they were either old Italian rigs, which were again dumped the same way that we dump our stuff, or they came from the United States. And you go back through the pictures and look at that stuff from back 10 years ago. Well I have. Yeah, or like in Pakistan. Remember just last year when they stopped all the fuel transporters from getting up into Afghanistan through Pakistan? Look at the fleet of trucks and what was lined up there truck after truck. It's like a museum rack. Oh I tried to plan for that thing. I don't know. You have to be on the right hand side of God to get that job. I don't know how the hell you got. They got really picky. Yeah, but the problem is you know it was a good thing you didn't because I know a lot of guys who really really really wanted to go over there and they did and The contractors being scurrilous swine if you if you were if they could bump you on month 11 What they would do is bump you or fire you for any excuse they could find Not only does your tax-free status go go out the window, but you had to pay the taxes immediately Good word. Think about that. It's like, but I spent it and sent it home. Well, you're not going anywhere until we get the money. Well, Mark, you know the thing, I wish they would start making these trucks again. You know what I would like to see? I would like to see an international cab over truck because they back easier and there's not too much length. Like a Peterbilt 379 long nose. Well, that's the whole point. The cab over, the little cab over, that's what it's talking about, the day cab internationals, you'll still run into those down like around Nashville, Tennessee. I've noticed there's a lot of them hanging around down there for sale. You can get an international day cab like that for $2,000 to $3,000. Now, is it road worthy? Probably not by today's standards, but you know, as I pointed out, it starts up and it actually goes forward and goes backwards and stops. and where can you buy a diesel engine for $2,000? Well that's another point that I was thinking about buying it just to use for a diesel generator, the hell with it moving. But look at it, if it does go forward or backwards guys, think about it. It's only going to travel a short distance and it gets parked and put up on blocks and used for a diesel engine, you know, a diesel generator again. And if you're sitting at a dock and disconnect the trailer it doesn't ask you where are you going? Yeah. Exactly. The problem is, if you want to be an owner or operator in this day and age, you want to buy a two-oh-farther, older truck. Reason being is, California, they started this in California, but the ETA laws, you have to have all kinds of... There's a third tank on an old 15 truck and trailer that's called diesel exhaust fluid. So now you have two diesel tanks and then you have another tank. that holds diesel exhaust fluid and this gets charged to the systems and collects all the exhaust and puts it into a separate tank and that tank and then it gets burned off. It's something akin to the space shuttle technology. It costs 150,000 for the truck and we just mentioned a $3,000 truck. I mean, through the map, which one would you rather have? This don't go to California and buy the lesser, and buy the cheaper truck. the night is a mixture of good money. You buy the truck with the diesel exhaust fluid, you're going to have $2000, $2500 a month truck payments, and not to mention fuel and insurance. You're not going to make any money. So you have to have your own truck. Isn't your in California don't give you a ticket if you don't wash your truck before entering a crossing the state line? No, it's the other way around. You should wash it before you go in. That way they'll leave you alone. Why? If you don't know the... If you don't know the... You don't have to run with the dirty truck. They'll pull you over and rouse you. Yeah, driving long discs. If they were kept to locals, we wouldn't have the insect problems. I opened up a box in Detroit one day and it came up from a Corvette supplier down in Texas, our car or somebody. And I walked away from it and some girl in the office was screaming. And I walked back and here's a spider coming out of the box as big as my hand. As big as my hand. I'm not talking about the body of the spider, I'm talking about, you know, foot, tip of leg to tip of leg. But it was as big as my hand come out of this box. And that's when I shot it. And she didn't think it was worth screaming about after that one. But he wants to start his own business, and he wants to get his CDM, Mark. The next slide here is It's a really rosy picture, man. You can make some darn good money just pulling a drive trade and a drive trailer. You can do, like I said, get a $75,000 start pretty quick. So, I mean, things are looking pretty good. The transportation industry is one of the industries right now where it's getting into. I mean, it's a damn good job. Last time I was in the transportation industry, all you had was a bunch of useless bureaucracy at the truck driving terminals. Yeah, and also you put your ears and you work for a company that's only 600 trucks strong and you leave a big deal, you stay away from the big boys and you make good money. Because every time, like I say, when I did my end of day signing off on the blog, on my log, anything in my, I didn't dot every I and cross every T, I wasted a whole day at a terminal. because I forgot to dot the key. Oh, and Mr. Porter didn't mention, you don't want to be made without a little on the car or a house. You won't be there anyway, right? Right. What's the point? Well, I always thought it would be kind of fun. It's just to buy one of those little fours, you know, they're actually two-seater popcorn, you know, they're basically a little popcorn fart. uh... stubby little bit smaller than a mini oh come on who the hell made him uh... if you have an accident with him you're dead but i just thought it'd be fun to put a set of divots on the back of a cab over and actually have one hanging there like it's a lifeboat ready to use The little Fiat's are about the same right now. Those little Fiat's are a little bigger though. This car, there's somebody driving one down the road here. I can't even think of the name of it. They're a little bug car, literally. There's no nose to them. If you get hit, your feet know where the accident is first thing. But it'd be perfect because they're just short enough they would hang right behind the box, right behind the cab. Even on a long body like a Peter Builder. So you still got enough axle. Long as you don't go too big with your living box on the back end of the truck. It's just fun stuff. I wonder what they'd say. What would they say? I'm sure they'd come up with an excuse to figure out how to ride it up or constantly harass you over it. But it'd still be fun. Otherwise, again, I know many people, some of our friends listening right now, they're out on the road and they are satisfied. They're making good income. The biggest problem is, again, like you said, knowing the road because Florida, going to the bottom of Florida is like the dead zone. You can get stuff there. Everybody wants stuff to go. They want stuff to go to Florida, but Florida doesn't make anything to take out of Florida. You gotta hit your own account. You gotta actually do this for a while. If you're not a rocker, you'll meet people and they'll hire you to hide their freight. So now you don't have to worry about getting broke or you got your own account. That's the ultimate right there. Now you're talking real big money if you can do that. Mark, one thing I learned about trying to make money on the road is more like, get away from eating truck stop food. Well that depends. You learn where all the really good places are and then you don't have to worry about dying from the other ones. I'll tell you what, and drivers, think about this. Have you ever made the run just to the top of the Natchez Trace? The reason I bring it up is because you can't run a semi on the Natchez Trace and because of that there's a whole bunch of other go arounds to make deliveries. But right there where the Natchez Trace starts, you know where George is saying truck food is bad, guys they have palatial smorgasbord restaurants right there just to serve the truck drivers This one place we came into three islands of food And when I say islands we're talking seven-tier pyramid about 12 feet in diameter The biggest problem was getting out there out of there without gaining 20 pounds You know and I mean all just home-cooked, you know southern food guys. It's like aha Hey one dessert Island one meat island and one vegetable and cooked and boiled stuff by island And it was just phenomenal and the drivers do what they were to listen to the truck drivers. They know where to eat Way the hell the food is it won't kill you George? Don't you never you'll be available in just a minute sir goggles or gun sights if you want to talk about night vision Give me a call my numbers two three one seven nine six eight four five eight Very good. God bless the Republic. Death to the new world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. You're going to have to see him tonight to do that. You're going to need Don's night vision. Don, your number for night vision, give it out, and he'll be available in just a minute to call, guys. Hey, green screens or thermal. My number is 23179617968458. Thank you, Mark. God bless you. God bless you, America. Share your passion. Share your voice with the world. with your own personal talk show. Live 365 provides the tools to create your own 24-7 live streaming talk station with listeners all over the world. All you need is a computer and a microphone. Reach, engage and interact with listeners from around the globe and via Skype. If you have a passion, then get it out there. Start your own online talk show today at live365.com slash protalk.