Episode 149 - Remembering 9/11 and Elevating Trucking Standards

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What's up, JFW family? Welcome back to the Challenge 23 podcast. The purpose of this podcast is to reach out and touch the fleet, to engage and inform everyone with all things JFW. In the studio today, we got Jim White, Brother Dave, and Super Dave. Welcome, man. Hi, everybody. Good morning, everybody. If you're driving around town and you're in a place that you could stop, you're on a treadmill, working out, take a moment, join us for the pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Yeah, I love our pledge. Last week we told you we had a couple surgeries coming up. One was for Amanda Velasquez and the other was Rich Brown. Manny update. I got a message from Kim, Manny's wife. She says, I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. hours.

Manny's surgery was eight hours long yesterday, and he was in recovery for three hours. We will be in the hospital for about five to seven days, depending on his progress. Maybe we will be able to go home sooner. We appreciate you all, and have a blessed day. Well, thanks for the update, Kim, and sounds like Manny went through it. We're glad he is in recovery, and we'll continue to pray for Manny and speed of recovery. Yes.

Wishing for a lot of recovery. Absolutely. Yeah. Gosh, I hope things went well. I hope his problem is solved. Right? Yeah. Right? After all of that, it has to be. Absolutely. And then Rich Brown update, Rich is home and recovering. Knee number one, he just had done. That wasn't fully healed yet, so he's kind of got two knees that are on 100%, but he is doing well. Nice. Awesome. Same thing. We'll continue to pray for you, Rich.

I mean, there's the healing going on, but hopefully it takes care of the pain. Right. Right? You know what I mean? Healing is so much different than constant pain. Yes. Yeah, when you're living in pain. Yeah, it's just that. It changes your attitude. It's something that's on you all day long and you don't even realize it. Yeah. You know? You know, carrying that a hundred pounds around and getting exhausted. And I think that's why Rich is always crabby.

So when, you know, when he comes back, he's a hundred percent. We'll see a brand new Rich. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I'm looking forward to that. We'll have to call him High Road Rich Brown. And not so happy news. I would want to wish Rick Ray condolences. His dad did pass away. So we're thinking about you, Rick. and praying for your family. Yeah, for sure, Rick. Absolutely. Our condolences, Rick. Yeah, again, I don't know for, I've talked about a lot of time, it's the season our ages are in.

You know, we just had a friend pass away also and it just, it's life. Yeah. You know, I talked to David Wright yesterday. Our CPA was in and did the books for the month and he doesn't expect his dad to make it much longer. And, and, you know, I think he said he was 91 or just about to turn 92. So he had 91 and a good life. He said he's got a good life, but it's just, it's just tough. He's got problems with his lungs and his suffering and it, it not good that way, but yeah.

Something we all deal with. Yeah. Well, we should pray about it. Father God, we thank you for the opportunity to go out and do some trucking today. We pray for the safety of our fleet, all their families, and all the other families and individuals we come across in the road today. We pray for patience and making good, safe decisions. We pray to be accident-free and that we all make it back to the comforts of our homes this evening.

We pray for healing and 100% recovery for all of our family members that are ill. No matter what we trust you god and it's in jesus name we pray amen amen as a reminder anything you hear on today's podcast is not the opinion of jfws it's just our opinion there you go. Educated opinion right yeah we're just a good guess yeah this is this is probably off i mean it's on the subject but it's off the subject jam and it's about the

debate no no i don't even want want to talk about that. I'm glad I didn't watch it. It was rough all the way around. So anyway, just after the prayer there, I happened to run into a video and I didn't know this, but I think Tim Tebow has his own podcast. I'm sure. And if he doesn't, he was a guest on one, but if he does have one, his guest was Brock Purdy, the quarterback from, from the 49ers. Okay. He was the third place quarterback a year and a half ago. Right.

And first position got hurt, second position got hurt. And they only took Brock Purdy because they saw a little something in him. They had a little spark. And they call him, his nickname is Mr. Irrelevant. And what that means is he was the absolute last person in the draft. Wow. So picture playing kickball and you're the last kid picked on the team. So his nickname is Mr. Irrelevant. He didn't matter. Right? Right. And here he comes in and he's a rock star.

He sure looked good the other day. Right, Dave? I mean, he's looked like that since day one. Monday night, yeah. But his faith in God is unbreakable, right? The same as Tim Tebow. And I just, you know, Tim Tebow does a lot of the inspirational talks, you know, and travels with a group and stuff. And, you know, it's pretty crazy because while he was here, I, you know, I take it back.

I don't know whether it was while he was with the Bronx. I think it was while he was with the Broncos, you know, because he wears John 316 as the sunblock under his eyes, right? He has those made, John 316, or it says just 316 on it. And I'm pretty sure it was the one game that got us in the playoffs while he was here. And I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. If not, it was why he was at Florida State. And anyway, he rushed. He rushed.

For 316 yards i'm sorry through for 316 yards he rushed like 31.6 yards their time of possession was like 31.6 minutes they're like every single freaking stat he had was john 316 right i mean like every single stat about what he had and he goes you know the the little clip that he that he had that he, that I was watching with him and Brock Purdy is, is with their faith. And, and their thing is, they said, could you imagine being in the huddle? You're down 24 or 14 points or whatever.

And he says, someone steps in the huddle and says, we're going to win this game. We're doing everything right. We've just got to keep the faith. You know, we will win this game. But he said, you got to believe, you know, you just, you have to believe. And it was kind of funny. And what I took from that was believing, right?

There's a lot of things you have to believe in. If you want to believe in God, if you don't want to believe in God, if you want to believe in this is my destiny because I'm making it happen, all sorts of things with believe. And I thought it was a powerful enough clip. I sent it to Sam, my son, and he replied to me almost instantly after watching it. And he's like, so you're religious now? That was his reply. Well, dude, you missed the whole concept of believe, right?

You need to believe, you know, and I knew God was going to get a hold of me. I had faith. It's just interesting. You know what I mean? I have faith. Those things are such a huge coincidence. Some people would say it's crazy. It's not crazy. It's God. Yeah. What is the biggest space in this room? Anybody know what the biggest space is in this room? The room? Yeah. He's got to be. Without sounding like a jerk, I'd be like, in your mind, right? That's the biggest space. The space between your ears.

Right? Right, but it sounds like a shot, and I don't mean it like that. What's the biggest space? Biggest space in this room. The room itself. Yeah. I don't know. It's between your head and your heart. Average is about 12 to 14 inches. And you either believe it, Dave, or you think it. Huh. It's the biggest space you haven't overcome. I like that. I like that. Yeah, I struggle. I struggle with what my heart wants and what my brain wants all the time.

Right for you jam and i heard it and i i know because you're you're you're i know enough about you but you know the book right you know the book in your head do you believe it in your heart, that's that's the space and i know you believe i'm just for some people they know the book i mean i know things in the book but do i believe in my heart that's the space that you know what dave's talking about when i went in the huddle you know y'all have

it in your mind but do you believe in in your heart right yeah my my mind and my heart they believe the same it's what i want like my want my heart wants different things than what my brain wants sometimes you know a lot of times it's control you know what i mean so yeah interesting yeah good talk nice uh will you send me that clip i if i can find it yeah oh i should be able to because i said sam right. Be part of my Bible study, Brother Dave. There you go. No, you are. We're leaving it.

That's a pretty, you need to step up your game, champ. Episode 148 had 249 downloads. We're at 80.7 thousand total downloads, and we have 631 followers. And it is time for the dad joke challenge. Who would like to go first? I will.

So this is just cute i think so anyway i found my rope this morning and said sorry boss i can't come in today i have a wee cough he said you got a wee cough i said really thanks boss see you next Next week. A week off. Wow. That was good, Jim. I like that. Well, since we all have cell phones, do you know why the cell phone needed glasses? No. Because the screen was broken. Because it lost all its contacts. That joke is strong. Man, that was like a daughter joke.

Okay, then here's it. Shots fired. No, it's because we both have daughters. Oh, yeah. We kind of know how that goes. Yeah, Bella's jokes are great. Do you know why Monday can't lift Saturday? Well, I've heard this one before. Monday can't lift Saturday. Because there's a week in between or I don't know, something. It's too weak. It's a weekday. Ah, I gotcha. Weekday. And my last one. Do you know where roses sleep?

In the bush. You're really close, Super Dave. In the flower bed. Oh, flower bed, yeah. They're always so apropos after you. Like so obvious, right? Right, yeah. Well, we can't end on mine, so I'm going to jump in and let yours be last, Dave, because it sounds like a better one than mine. Yeah, mine's long. Mine's a total low road trucker joke. It's awful. And I've only got one. That's the best kind. Do you guys know how the Burger King knocked up the Dairy Queen?

Oh man something about mcdonald's i'm sure the religious point point of the podcast right he forgot to wrap his whopper oh man that's funny, can i have some fries with that shake what i've got a good old-fashioned blonde joke Uh-oh. Okay. And you could substitute that for brunette or redhead or. But you didn't. My brother. Yeah, right. But you didn't. I didn't. I had a hair joke. I didn't. So anyway, a blonde gets a job as a PE teacher for 14-year-old kids.

On her first day, she comes to watch the kids playing soccer. She watches as they all get together and start playing.

But she notices a boy at the end of the field, standing alone while all the other kids are running around having fun she takes pity on him and goes over to talk are you okay she says kindly yes he says you can go play with the other kids you know she says it's best I stay here he says why is that sweetie she asked the competitor asked the compassionate teacher because I'm the goalie.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, boy. Good one. I know. It went right over your head. It did. I have to listen back to it. You are a sports fiend, I know. Moving on, we've got Victor Vargas and Taylor Sullivan. Welcome to the fleet. Welcome. Yeah, welcome, you guys. Sorry for making you listen to the dad jokes. Did I say his last name right, Super Dave? Do you know?

Yep okay great wow he's still laughing at that joke celebrations anniversaries we got a big one on tomorrow yep we got a big one tomorrow miguel castro home five years congratulations thanks for putting up with us for five years we appreciate you birthdays dwayne sand had a birthday yesterday bob martian has a birthday this friday oh and a big one this saturday for brother dave right happy birthday guys happy birthday everybody duane bob dave you're

doing anything for your birthday bd i am not is it a big one or is it just a i mean is is it between any of them a big one well like 50 would be big 60 would be big i'm double nickels okay sweet such a speed limit just such a cruise 55 me Sammy Hangar, going to drink some tequila. Cataract. Just hang out. That is it. All right. I like it. Family birthday celebrations. Jose calls out his son Elias, turned eight on Sunday. Happy birthday, Elias. Happy birthday.

What a great age. Yes. Great age. Yep. Do you guys want to do your shout outs before me? I can. I wanted to go back a little bit and hopefully we have, oh, quite a few of the new drivers listening, whoever they might be, you know, Victor and Taylor today, but a shout out to you guys. I know how different, difficult it is to start something new and take on a new challenge and everything that we, you know, we do to get you up and going into speed.

It's a lot, it's the classes, it's orientation, you know, it's driving with the trainer, you know, might be in and out out of trucks, different stuff like that. And I just want to, you know, I guess the, the new guys I'm talking 30 days, 60 days, you know, just getting your feet wet, getting to learn how to do everything. So thank you for all your hard work and all your time and, and being here and being part of the team. Yeah. Learning the grind.

Yeah. That's awesome. Do you need any shout outs? I don't have any off the top of my list. Thanks for checking. All right. Super Dave. Nope. Nope. All right. Good thing I checked with everybody. Do you have any, Jim? I got a couple of shout outs. One is from Big Country. He says, my shout out goes to all the Boca crew and everyone helping shuttling. I know it's gotten super busy this past week and has continued this week. Thank you for running hard and getting it done.

All right. It's a good shout out. Shout out to Big Country covering for Rob while he was on vacation too. Absolutely. Yeah. That's a seamless little team. They take care of themselves. They sure do. Yeah. They make it look easy, don't they? Right. Yeah, for sure. You guys are going to have to help me out with who this shout out was from. It's from a guy from Wholesome. He was managing a paving project last Saturday. I just did not write down his name. Earl Spears.

There you go. This shout is from Earl Spears to all the Super 10 drivers on Saturday's paving job. Hello, I wanted to send you a message and let you know how impressed I was with your people involved in the paving project Saturday. I was on site at the plant when they initially loaded, and I was also at the job site a large portion of the day. Today I was processing the GPS logs for your drivers and was pleasantly surprised that there were no errors or issues that I needed to address.

This makes my job so much easier when I have carriers and their drivers that are punctual, communicate well, and follow instructions. Please give my compliments to your staff and drivers. I look forward to doing much more work with you in the future. I mean, it doesn't get better than that. That's, that's a shout out. Yeah. You know, that, that is a shout out. Yeah. That's absolutely. Customer we haven't worked for doing paving before. Yes.

You know, and for him to, to recognize that, you know, that's why we run a type ship around here. Yeah. That's a, that's a good. Yeah. Go ahead, Dave. No, go ahead. That is a result of all the hard work that we put in every day, crossing our T's and dotting our I's. I mean, it seems like, oh my God, you know, another rule or another, you know, situation, but that's the result. The result is a championship like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I want to be clear,

Dave. I mean, I know what you mean when you say we, that's the resolve of what we do. That was the six super drivers and JR. Right. Because JR filled in and worked all day Saturday. And I just want to be clear that we is them. Right. You know what I mean? In addition to obviously the support team of us, the safety team, dispatch, all of that stuff. But I mean, they went and shined. They went and made that happen. Our front liners went and made that happen. Yeah, they went and did it.

But to Super Dave's point, I mean, we went to our program. That is them going out and doing it as a result of our program. It's a group effort for sure. Absolutely. You know, we got to practice on Brandon and learn. You know, we show up to wholesome and yeah, JR probably led that.

You know what I mean? but to show up there and just knock it out of the park and have no issues, especially with the GPS part, which is a thorn in all of our sides when we hear about, xp or you know toro or you know just trying to get everything lined up and another app you know i was the same they have their own they have their own app yeah so i found it interesting too that we were paving intramodal right which is

our spot removal oh really yeah that's like oh my gosh hopefully we did a good job so. That's built that's built-in work you guys just tear the hell out of it we'll be back next summer We're going to fix it, right? Yeah. Right? That's wear it out. Wear it out. Yeah. I just wanted to mention you guys, and you guys all covered it, but that's our creed right there. And that's the top thing that I think is the best is when that creed comes into play and we actually, we did it.

Yeah. It feels good. Absolutely.

Today is 9-11, Day of Remembrance. There was another day for it last week. What do we call it? Do you guys remember? Patriot Day? Patriot Day. Yeah. I just, man, last night before I went to bed, I was like, oh, when I wake up in the morning, I need to pull my flag down a half mass. And I forgot. So when I go to the gym later, I need to shoot by the house and pull that flag down a half mass and I'll put it back up at sunrise.

But I was so disappointed. But anyway, Brother Dave, you put together the timeline of 9-11. So I'm going to hand this over Do you? It's, it's interesting. You mentioned the flag jam because at my other house, I had a big old flagpole and, you know, it was, it was a thing for me. Right. And it always bugged me when I would forget to lower my flag. Right. And I actually, I got an email one time and this was years ago and I can probably forward it to you.

That's how I got the alert of 9-11 Wednesday, the reminder to lower my flag to half staff. It's a group you can join or not a group. You just subscribe to it, right? Free. And it sends you the email. Hey, reminder, lower your flags to half staff for whatever and whenever. Right. And so that's kind of what led me to what I have here for 9-11. You know, sorry.

No, go ahead. What's interesting talking about the flag is, so yesterday I Googled it because the last holiday or last time we needed to lower the flag, you were supposed to put it back up at noon oh interesting yeah so you take it down and then yeah it's like at noon you put it back up to show that we're coming back you know what i mean so then i grew up yesterday and it's sun sunrise to sunset all interesting yeah you know i'd like to build a uh wi-fi flagpole and

control it on your phone that's great isn't that a good idea so you could just say oh i need to lower my flag you know right now jam and you you know you know with this yeah exactly garage door now we have exactly you can do all that jam right down this time we have to erase this out of that because right you just gave ring and you know all my other my garage door company and all this all these ideas Dave you got we got just draw it out just draw it in a napkin put the

time on and we own that idea and I say we knew we need that we need that patent super but I think you know part of the problem my flag is it doesn't have I gotta to like pull my pole out whoa and then like you should have been here for that that that effort you made just now yeah saying it and so then i gotta i gotta like i gotta like tilt tilt my flag pole down and like unhook it it's not on the rope you know what i mean yeah so so does it have the.

Ability to be half staff absolutely remove it okay no no yeah no it could go yeah there's there's it's a cool setup but it's yeah i like it because nobody could just walk by my house and my flag gotcha you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah i went through three flagpoles in my house two thousand i finally got the one right but the one was sturdy i bet wow yeah i think it was like 1200 bucks when it was all said and done jam and like it went four

feet in the ground and it was buried in concrete and oh my goodness, it was pricey. And it was funny because I was so proud when I did the install, you know, and you like have to pre-assemble the pole at the top and then, you know, cause once you, once you put it all up, it's up, right? Like, like the rope is on there. I'll never forget. I had the rope in there and I didn't tie it off. And I stood the pole up and Janet walks out and she's like, oh,

that looks good. Do we just need to tie a knot in the rope? And the rope went. And just whipped right out of there. And I'm like, oh shit, how do I get all the way up there? Oh man, it was so redneck. Well, I only had like a 12 foot ladder and I think it was an 18 foot flagpole, I think. I don't remember. Oh, just put some milk crates on her. Well, I backed the pickup up. I had the ladder inside the pickup. And then, you know, the wife, she's pretty supportive.

She's like, you're too big to go up there. For like a 200 mile an hour wind not mine she shimmied up there and like shoved the rope through and that was the last time it ever happened but yeah i mean you know had the light in the ground shining up on it and on a timer and yeah you know all the good stuff it's good stuff man did it only lean three degrees to the north it did not lean davis it was perfect buddy mine has uh it withstood stood the wind way better than my house nice yeah

mine has a solar right on the top yep you know it's kind of cheap but it works but yeah my flagpole is not built like your flagpole because three right i had to go through one i had a cut i had a cut because my pole's made out of aluminum okay and then windy days like it ended up bending you know so i had to pull it out and like cut like a foot and a half off the bottom to make it straight again so it's just getting shorter Oh, funny.

We'll all have to try and remember, because I'm pretty sure Mike looked and looked and looked and then Mikey, and then he ordered a flagpole. He's got a. For the new. No, for his house. Oh, okay. I think he ordered a. Nice. Like a really nice one. Yeah. But he researched, you know. Yeah. It seemed like he didn't want a junky one. Yeah. But I think he did pull the trigger on it and order one. Yeah. We'll have to ask. Yes. Yeah, that'd be cool.

Would be cool. I mean, it makes me now think of the new building. Yeah, I think that's what Jan was kind of pointing at, is that what. Got a flagpole. We need a big one with, you know, American flag, Colorado flag. Yeah. Yeah. I think that'd be awesome. Yeah. One of my neighbors and I mean, the way our lawns are designed in the neighborhood we're in, you kind of just, you either have to plop a flagpole right in the middle of your lawn.

You know what I mean? There's not, we all don't have areas for it. It's just lawn and it's kind of weird. And one of the, you know, several of them have them attached to their house. And I like that, right? But I don't have a particular spot, the way my house is positioned. And anyway, what I'm getting at is one of the neighbors took, they had a big boulder in their front yard. And he had somebody show up and he drilled it at like a 45 degree angle.

Oh, wow. And put a flagpole, like an eight foot flagpole right out of that rock. That's cool. And it's so freaking cool. That is cool. That is the shit. Huh. I like that. Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, the new Berlin, you could have three flagpoles. You know, the American flag, Colorado, and a JFW flag. Right, right. That'd be super cool. I was thinking about that. You know, we could easily use our logo and just put it right on a flag. Yeah. Yeah, Dave. It would look great. Yeah.

Yeah, I was coming back from Holly's cousin or my cousin, whatever, however, through relatives there out east. They live. The wife's family. The wife's family, yeah. You're at one of the wife's family's focus. Kind of out in Keensburg and coming back across road two, but it changes when you get across I-76. I can't remember the name of it. But anyway, one of the people out there have a flagpole and a flag.

And I mean, it is a flag and a pole. I mean, you, I mean, and they're kind of a little up on the hill and as you're driving back and it was, it was like almost seven o'clock and a little bit of sunset and the flags waving out there. And I'm like, God, that looks so cool. But they got, like you said, Dave, I don't know. I don't know what it costs for the flagpole that size. Yeah. So yeah, that's impressive. It's so like that giant flag on I-70.

It is that, it is like that big. That thing, it was so big. It's huge. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know that when you make the trip out I-76 headed towards I-80 there between Crook and Julesburg, there's the Stromberger family farm and they put up like, it sticks out like a sore thumb, but they put up like seven new grain silos right against the highway or as close to the highway as you can get from their property. But they had this 3d deal made that's mounted and it's huge.

It's gotta be 10 feet tall. And it's like a picture of the flag waving. And I think it has a tractor embossed into it, like plowing the bottom of a field in the bottom of the flag. And it says Stromberger farms. Yeah. Stromberg. And maybe the tractor's not on there. You're looking at it. I can't remember the tractor, but the waving flag across the silo. But it's not a real flag, right? Right. It's just, it's, it's three D.

Yeah. Yeah. So it's actually, you know, attached to it. It's not a sticker, but it looks like a tear out. That's what I'm trying to say is it looks like a tear out, but God, it is just so patriotic and so cool. Yeah. Can't miss it. Yeah. Anyway, all right, back to 9-11. I don't know. I know all you guys in this room know Paul Harvey. I don't know how many of our listeners truly know who Paul Harvey was, but he was an ABC news radio host from 1951 to 2008.

Ironically, he died in 2009. So he worked right up until the year before he passed away. I didn't look at his age, but a 57 year radio career just with ABC alone. He was in radio prior to that, but he had a segment called the rest of the story. And I know, you know, when I was driving, I would tune into AM, you know, it was on 850 radio. That we would listen to and stuff. And it was during Tom Martino's, the troubleshooter who's still on and stuff like that.

And it just such an interesting segment. He would cover things that was going on in the nation and his voice and the way he could tell a story. It was just remarkable. He just had an incredible voice. So I, I, you know, when I, when I'm reading this, I wish I had the Paul Harvey voice to go along with it, but I don't. So here we go.

So 23 years ago today day, on September 11th, commonly known as 9-11, were four coordinated Islamic terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. On that morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast to California. The hijackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations, reportedly financed by the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization of Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but until that day, I'd never heard Osama bin Laden. I didn't know his name. I didn't know who that was. You know, I mean, everything was just so foreign. So they were allegedly acting in retaliation for America's support of Israel, which coincidentally is kind of scary right now, and its involvement in the Persian Gulf War and its continued military presence in the Middle East.

Some of the terrorists had lived in the United States for more than a year and had taken flying lessons at American commercial flight schools. Others had slipped into the country in months before September 11th and acted as muscle in the operation.

The 19 terrorists smuggled box cutters and knives through security at three East Coast airports, Logan International Airport in Boston, Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., and Newark International Airport in New Jersey, and boarded four early morning flights bound for California. The California flights were chosen because these planes were loaded with fuel for the transcontinental journey.

Soon after takeoff, the terrorists commandeered the four planes and took the controls, transforming ordinary passenger jets into guided missiles. On a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 93rd to 99th floors of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapped hundreds more on higher floors.

As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 18 minutes later, after the first plane hit, the second Boeing 767, United Airlines Flight 175 appeared in the sky, sharply turned toward the World Trade Center, and sliced into the South Tower between the 77th and 85th floors.

As millions watched the events unfold in New York, American Airlines Flight 77 circled over downtown Washington, D.C., before crashing into the west side of the Pentagon military headquarters at 945. Jet fuel from the 757 caused a devastating inferno that led to the structural collapse of a portion of the giant concrete building, which is the headquarters of the U.S.

Department of Defense. All told, 125 personnel and civilians were killed in the Pentagon, along with all 64 people aboard the airliner. Meanwhile, the fourth California-bound plane, United Flight 93, was hijacked about 40 minutes after leaving Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Because the plane had been delayed in taking off, passengers on board learned of events in New York and Washington via cell phone and air phone calls to the ground.

Knowing that the aircraft was not returning to an airport, as the hijackers claimed, a group of passengers and flight attendants planned an insurrection. One of the passengers, Thomas Burnett Jr., told his wife over the phone, I know we're all going to die. I could do it. There's three of us who are going to do something about it. I love you, honey. Another passenger, Todd Beamer, was heard saying, are you guys ready? Let's roll over an open line.

Sandy Bradshaw, a flight attendant, called her husband and explained that she'd slipped into the galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water. Her last words to him were, everyone's running to first class. I've got to go. Bye. The passengers fought the four hijackers and are suspected to have attacked the cockpit with a fire extinguisher.

The plane then flipped over and sped toward the ground and upwards of over 500 miles per hour, crashing in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at 10.10 a.m. All 44 people aboard were killed. Its intended target is not known, but theories include the White House, the U.S. Capitol, Camp David, a presidential retreat in Maryland, or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard.

The attacks killed 2,977 people from 90 nations, 2,753 people were killed in New York, 184 people were killed at the Pentagon, and 40 people were killed on Flight 93. America Responds to the Attacks. Dave, you want to? Yeah, thanks for covering. Yeah. At 7 p.m., President George Bush, who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House.

At 9 p.m., he delivered a televised address from the Oval Office declaring, terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. In a reference to the eventual U.S. military response, he declared, we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts

and those who harbor them. Yeah. Operation Enduring Freedom, the American-led international effort to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and destroy Osama bin Laden's terrorist network based there, began October 7th within two months. I'm sorry, began October 7th. Within two months, U.S. Forces had effectively removed the Taliban from operational power, but the war continued. As U.S. and coalition forces attempted to defeat a Taliban insurgency campaign based in neighboring Pakistan.

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, remained at large until May 2, 2011, almost a decade, when he was finally tracked down and killed by U.S. Forces at a hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In June 2011, then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of a large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, And it took until August 21 for all U.S. Forces to withdraw, which that's quite the debate on how we pulled out of there and what we left.

And that's more political. That's a whole nother discussion, right? And those were all facts. That was all just snippets that I pulled to do a basic timeline. And these are a little bit of my thoughts, just a few seconds on it. I just wrote this yesterday. So it's interesting. We're having a president or we had a presidential debate last night, the day before the 23rd anniversary of the last terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

I believe in my heart. I know who I want to be president of the United States if this were to ever happen again. One of the candidates literally bleeds America and the other wants us to be woke. I know clearly who will protect the American people with millions upon millions of illegal people here being harbored in the United States. We don't even know who's here.

So may you have God's peace and love and give your loved ones an extra big hug tonight when you see them because you truly never know. Thank you and may God bless. Yeah, thanks for putting that together, BD. Yeah. It is kind of crazy, you know, here we are talking about that and look at the state of the country. And like you said, we don't even know who's here. You know, for this not to be a priority of protecting, you know, the U.S. soil.

Right. You know, it's just really amazing to me that we're letting our guard down. Right. I mean, we've kind of touched about this conversation on the podcast, but I know off the podcast, we've all talked about it. Right. We are poised for something bad to happen because they make it sound like how many bad people have come here. Right. Right? Yeah. So that's- Come on over. What was great was how the country came together after that attack. Right. We were unified.

I mean, stand together for any obstacle that might come up. Not anymore. And now we're so divided. Oh. You know, I don't know if we could really stand together like that right now. It's terrible. Yeah, that presidential debate, that's the two best people we have in our nation to get behind. I have a few other tidbits. We were talking about it yesterday, Dave, about facts.

We always talk about the loss of life and the actual terrorist attack, which was the largest terrorist attack on humankind in history. Really? Ever. Really? Not in the United States. I'm talking worldwide. Did not know that. But anyway, people don't know these facts. The stock market fell that day 7.1%. I mean, that's huge. Right. You know, the New York economy lost 143,000 jobs in just one month. Wow. $2.8 billion in wages were lost in the first three months.

An estimated cost of the World Trade Center damage is $60 billion. The cleanup cost was $1.5 billion. By 2018, 10,000 people were diagnosed with 9-11-related cancer. Between 2001 and 2004, over $7 billion in compensation were given out for the victims' families. In 2015, victim compensation fund was renewed by Obama for five more years to another total of $7.4 billion. And in 2019, President Trump continued that program through 2092. too.

And I had no idea. And that's the Victim's Compensation Fund for damages, families and others, right? I just got to make this comment. He knows nothing about policy, but he sure did something really good there. Yes. And this was a shock and I would have to fact check this, but an estimated 17,400 people had been at the World Trade Centers and some 87% were evacuated safely. Wow. Yeah. Because I kind of thought it happened so early in the morning, a lot of people hadn't shown up to work yet.

You know that a lot of lives were saved because it happened so early. But anyway, interesting facts there. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny, you guys, I don't know why, maybe the, like going into a restaurant and not sitting with your back to the door or some of the things I've been through, but I can't get on a plane and not think about it. Right? Yeah, me too. And I just flew this weekend. I mean, Monday night, I just stepped off of one and some of the people around you that are clueless.

Right? And you just know they're clueless. No situational awareness. No, they put those headphones on, Jim, and they're buried for the entire flight. Condition white. Not paying attention to anything. Yeah. And I, it's, it's, you know, not only cause I had Allie and Holly with me, but you know, the thought of you run that through your mind. I don't even know what I could do. Right. The situation would prepare itself. You, you're not armed. You know, you, you try to jump out of a seat.

You can barely get in, in the first place to try to tackle somebody or do something or. I'm going to attack him with my wedding ring. You know. You know, what do you, what do you do? And, and you just, it's just a weird situation to be trapped like that. And if anything would go on, you know, cause I feel, I feel it's, it's trapped when you're on that plane. 30,000 feet in the air. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you, and you read about the, you know, that the, the segment of, is it flight 79?

Do I have, what, what's the flight? 93. The one that attacked? Yeah. The last one. Yeah. 93. 93. Yeah. There's amazing people. Yeah. You know, heroes. Heroes. What about, speaking of heroes, what about the first responders that had to go into the World Trade Center? You know, do you not think like, I'm walking in here.

I'm probably not getting out. Yeah. I was just, I just watched a show at some point and it was a, because of the age, you know, the, the kids of the kids of the people they lost now have kids, you know, but they, they talked about the one fire chief that he went up and went down and went up and went down and, and he went back and he went back again and didn't, didn't come back, you know, and like, like you're saying, Jim, who does that?

What's, what's crazy is like, if you look at an engineering standpoint and this just blows me away, when that first happened, they're like a plane hit the trade center. You know, I can't speak for you guys, but it's like, okay, a little Cessna. Right. You know, if a plane hit the, hit the trade center, otherwise it would have knocked it down. Right. Right. And then you learn a fricking Boeing 747 flew into one. Right. One of the largest airliners we have, a 757.

At what, Dave? What's the slowest they can fly? 200 miles an hour? Yeah, without falling out of the air. Yeah, they hit it like 500 miles an hour. Yeah. They were full throttle. And then we watch on TV as the second one plows into it. Right. And you're like, oh my God, that building just withstood a hit. Right. From a plane that carries hundreds of people at, you know, between three and 500 miles an hour. And it's still standing.

It's, yeah, it blew. You'd think it would just hit it and tower over. I just would think it'd be like a bulldozer knocking a tree over. Like Lego block. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that is incredible. That is just absolutely mind boggling incredible. I mean, clearly I know they collapsed after hours, but my God. Because of the heat of the fire. Yeah.

Melted stuff. Yeah. Yeah. But you think about that too, you know, an attack on America, that, that trade center, there was probably every culture, nationality, color, what, whatever in that building, truly an attack on America. Oh yeah, it's a world trade center. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't, you know, it was an attack on America. I guess I want to say that. And I guess that's what's scary about what we're doing now is there is going to be an attack on America.

There would be something go on that's not going to be pleasant. Yeah, right. Yeah, and Dave, there's so many conspiracies on that because you immediately said the building collapsed because of the fire, but fire started at the top and was rising. It collapsed at the bottom, you know, and there's so many myths about why it collapsed because it was never on fire down below. Yeah, I disagree, Dave. If you watch the film, it collapsed from where the planes went into the building

and then it collapsed like came down like that. Now I'd have to watch it. I just know there's, there's several myth things out there about that, about why it collapsed. Yeah, they, they, the engineers, and I'm sure your wife could tell you exactly because she is one structural engineer, but the, the heat of the fire, because it's jet fuel burning at such an intensity, it destroyed the structural integrity of the steel.

And then they couldn't hold up the weight of the floors above and then it just got down and, in a pile can you see what that is lower the flag i got the girls to bring it down a half so your cell phone did control the flag. That's awesome that's great, Man. Hopefully it's a good day today. Yeah. Right. Well, I mean, it's better than it was 23 years ago, whatever. Right. Whatever it's been 24.

Yeah. I guess that would be a shout out to all the families that lost heroes and just everyday people and the people on those planes, the loss in their families. So shout out to everybody.

We still remember. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't it something when your armies go to war, the people have gone to war, they're carrying weapons. They know they're in harm's way. They're out there fighting, quote unquote, a war. But when innocent people get killed like that, it just breaks my heart because they're just living life every day. They got out of bed that morning to take a flight to California on a vacation or maybe a business trip, just a normal deal. Right.

Yeah. That's what I meant when I get on a plane, Dave, everybody's there. Most everybody's there to do something fun, different, go see something. It's not, you know, there's a few people that are working and, you know, you're on that plane and that's, that's the same way, you know, those people. And, you know, I don't want to get political cause you can, you just, it's so easy to go down so many rabbit holes.

But Dave, that's where, where it's so upsetting right now is we trust, I trust my government to protect me from this, Dave, our army, you know, our, our, our, our, our forces, our national defense. And I don't think that's being done right now, you know, by, by the people that we've elected to protect ourselves. And it scares me, you know, I'm worried about it. When you, when you mentioned, can we rally as a country?

Come together. Come together. That's scary, Dave. Yeah, no, I don't think we can. No. So, should we go to something else, Gary? Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of, I mean, I don't know, like, it's hard to even move on, I guess. We have to. Shift gears, right? But it's like, what's more important than what we just talked about? Yeah. Trucking. Take it down a notch. Kind of a little bit of loss of heart. Yeah. You know? All right, guys. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next week. Yeah.

But let's get into proper dumping techniques. I've been hearing a lot of things going on and I just remembered, well, Superdome taught me how to dump and it's very different than how we're teaching people to dump nowadays. We simplified, we've kind of, I don't want to say dumbed it down, but we made it really simple, but it's not applicable to every time you dump. There's lots of ways to dump and you've got to pick the right way to dump.

For example, if you're dumping in the field, it's going to be a lot different than the jumping and if you're dumping in the bin so a lot of what's been taught and i'm not saying everybody trains this way but you know you back up you pull your gate and then you you know some people are just going to set their tractor brake and bring their trailer to the tractor the whole time some guys are going to teach them though start you know start

with your trailer brake set and then switch in the middle so you start bringing your tractor to your trailer and then you're going to bring your trailer to your tractor. And that is more common than not. Eventually you'll learn not to use your, your valves and you're going to use your, your Johnny bar and your foot pedal, right? That's, that's when you start getting smoother. But I do want to mention, if you are dumping in a bin, right? That means that the plant is bin fed.

It's belt fed. You know, the whole idea is to get your load in the bin where the loader has to do minimum work or none or none right to be able to run that plant.

A lot of times it's not going to be none because the bins only hold so much material and we bring more in and you know somebody's going to dump a load and it's in the bin and out of the bin and the loader need to come by and you know maybe push one or two one or two passes and you know he's good to go again you know back in the day with plant one i mean everything went in a bin you couldn't you couldn't lose a loader like you had to wait till your load fit before

you know what i mean or you're going to sit there until it went down in the bin but right those bins were big gig you know what i mean i remember when i was a batch man at ai those bins held a lot of material you know very rarely did you have to come and push it in with the loader so unless unless you did well no unless a driver oh yeah and i didn't get the material in the bin right right or dumped right in front i mean you

see some weird things like i'm just dumping in front of the bin like none of it's in the bin and there was room you know right you know and that's just part of the gig as a loader operator. But yeah, so if you're dumping in the bin, the idea is to get your load in the bin. If you're pulling your trailer to your tractor, how is that material going to go in the bin? It's not, right? So I just wanted to bring that up.

Obviously, you know, we're looking out the back window, we're watching the trailer come out of the saddle, we're making sure we're level, you know, we're watching that hoist go up, making sure it's in the middle of the doghouse, All those safety features, but the actual dumping technique of how to build your pile or, you know, it's going to be different. Try to get your load in the bin. Right. Jim and I talk about it all the time and I'll pose the question this way.

Does JFW have a product? Do we sell a product? We don't sell anything. Right. We don't own anything. We sell a service. We sell service, right? What are we doing on every load that we dump? Servicing our customer. We're providing a service to our customer and we can either provide a good one and give that customer their money's worth. Like we did on Saturday. Like we did on Saturday. Or we can provide a bad one and they may not want us back.

So always best to provide the best service you can. Yep. I agree. Yep. So anything to add on dumping procedures? I think the most important thing is to realize that there's different techniques in every dumping situation. Absolutely. And like you said, if you're dumping in a bin, you got to use your Johnny bar and get that material down the hole. In a hopper I should say, not in a bin.

But either way, you want to keep your pile high and tight so the next guy has room to dump and so it's also easier for the loader operator that might have to push that pile up. You don't want to string it out and make it as long as your trailer. You know, you want to keep it high and tight. I love that term. And obviously a newer guy that's dumping is going to need to take practice. I was talking about that with one of the trainers just this morning.

And after you get good and after your pile is your product. It's reflection. You just dump that pile and you will look back and you don't want any tailgate lines across the top of the pile. You want the angle to flow just perfectly down to the ground from the top. Got to take pride in that dump. You know, it's just like when you get out of your truck and you close the door, you walk about 10 feet away and you turn around, look back at that truck and you say, okay, it's straight.

It's the steer tires are straight. All my lights are off. And what a beautiful truck, by the way, you know, everybody does. I don't care if it's your car or your motorcycle or your tractor trailer truck, you get out of it and you turn around, you look. And same thing with your pile. You want your pile to be just perfect because that's a representation of what you do. Yeah. So try to do it well. And then I'm just going to pick on you say potato, I say potato type thing here, Dave.

We're all so old school and we know what we're talking about, but a lot of new people here have no clue what a Johnny bar is. Like they might be looking in their glove box going, do I have a Johnny bar in here? Is there a Johnny bar under the seat? Did I get a Johnny bar in my tool bag? You know what I mean? Like what the hell is a Johnny bar, right? Because I think we have what, four, well, I can't speak for the super dumps.

I mean, I wouldn't think they even have them. I know some trucks that were made specifically as tandems, their Johnny Bar would pull the actual drive brakes. But anyway, the pinch valve. Right. I miss the Johnny Bar. Oh, me too. Yeah, Johnny Bar is badass. I agree. Yeah, I wonder what the, you know, except for how it was mounted, I wonder what the purpose of that. Just the right hand shift stocks. Yeah.

And it just did away with it. Yeah, that's what I mean, the location, but I guess that's the best we could do otherwise.

Ergonomically they're i guess after a hundred years of a turn signal on the left they're like ergonomically that's the best place is on the right let's let's switch that johnny bar to a pinch valve so i was 10 years old well i was last week years old when i learned that a shift stock is s-t-a-l-k not s-t-o-c-k i thought it was a shift stock i'm like that's a real stock of salary like celery yeah you put it in one of your emails and i was just like is that right,

if it was one of mine you should double check and then and then i think i saw it on like uh parks list or something i'm like yeah oh that was right. All right, next thing I want to talk about is leaving things in your truck, okay? I know we all like to leave things in our truck because it's just easier the next day. I will tell you, growing up in Queens, right? And then coming to work for JFW when I was a driver, if I liked it, I didn't leave it in my truck.

I don't care what it was. Liked it. Yeah, and that included my CB radio back in 2013, 14. Take it out every day. You still had to provide your own CB radio. I had a big radio. Well, I had a medium-sized radio, but that would come out every night. It was a pain in the ass, right? I had my own tool bag. If I liked it, I took it out. If you have a phone charger, I'm just talking about the cable, not even whatever it is. If you like it, take it out of your truck.

I'm not saying that's how it should be. Or, but it's reality. That's a good way to come back in the morning and not be disappointed that something's missing. Right. You know, sometimes we misplace things and we think somebody did something with it.

We've all been there like you know oh you know i got in my truck and you know somebody took my hard hat and threw it on the ground and you know then we look at the video and it's just like no they put it on the seat and it fell off you know what i mean right you know it's always thrown when it's moved oh yeah or i can't find this well it was in your truck it was just behind you know just the easy way trust is good this is my mom's quote trust is good control

is better if you like it take it out of your truck yeah yeah i mean i just did that with chewy's truck it was Sunday when I brought it back and Holly and Allie wanted to ride down here with me, you know, and yeah, it's crowded in the truck, but I had to move all the chewy stuff. You just threw it. I just threw it. I threw it in the bed. I was going to say, you put it in the back, right? Right. I don't know if he found it, but yeah, that's just, yeah, it's just what you do.

And I tried to put it back, but I'm sure I didn't put it back how he had it. Exactly. Right. You know? So yeah, have, yeah, you're right, Jim. If you like it, take it with you. I mean, because the other thing that could happen, I mean, here we are. Well, I'm not going to talk about it. I don't know. I'm not even going to say it. But somebody else that doesn't work here could go through your truck. You've had that happen before. Yeah, absolutely. So keep that in mind. Yep. All right.

Next, all time off requests must be put in pay cut. Calling dispatch is not acceptable. We just are running into it where people are just getting used to like, Like, oh, hey, you know, I need today off, or I need to be off by noon today. And it's like your lack of preparation becomes JFW's problem or emergency. You know, so all time off requests have to be put in Paycom. That's it, end of story. Paycom is the Bible of time off, right?

If it's not in there, it hasn't been requested. It's unapproved. Yeah. Next, I sound like I'm just complaining about everything. No, you got us. Details. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's like Dave said earlier, you know, I mean, these rules and, and things that we run into for a reason. Right. You know, and it's not, we just don't want to sit around and make up shit. Right. Right. It's not like, oh, we don't need to worry about that. Just keep going.

Exactly. That won't happen again. Well, the, the PTO and calling out and all that kind of stuff. When we're short, we're short. Right. Then we have to put a safety guy in it. So that's taken away from our safety. And then, you know, if we're playing, if a truck sits, you know, that that's a certain amount of revenue. But bottom line, we're not taking care of our customer. Right. That that's like it's like you got to be here because I want you here.

You got to be here because the customer needs is material. It's our job. Right. This is just like the housekeeping portion of the podcast. Yeah. That's what got things. It's good. I had that section. Any housekeeping. This is things that happened last week that we're discussing. Right. That's how we get better. Yep. Next time I rest as workman's comp, okay, please let us know right away about any injuries on the job.

Doesn't mean you have to go to the doctor. But if you get hurt, we need to know about it right away because we have a certain amount of time to report it. When we report it a week late or 10 days late, it makes us kind of look like we're not doing our job. Right. And the way it was explained to me by Flood and Pete, when it comes time for renewal rates, that does have an effect on a renewal rate.

So if we want to keep our renewal rate down or drive it down, we need to do our job in reporting injuries. If you end up reporting the injury, you don't have to go to the doctor. It doesn't cost JFW or anybody any money. It doesn't go against our score. So just let us know. We had some complaint calls out of Fair Play. let's make sure our fenders are cleaned off after loading and check behind the drip trays too.

Okay. Sometimes when you get loaded by a loader, he overshoots your trailer and material get caught on the fender on the opposite side. The wind blows that material off and it peppers people's windshields. So. Jam, are we talking about the truck fenders? The trailer. So pretty much just the drip tray. Well. Cause the front fenders aren't in play on the trailers. I mean, they, They would wear material all over the tarps. I mean, absolutely.

And the rear fenders, I mean, sand can kind of, wet sand can kind of. It can stick to it, but it doesn't pile there. And I've never seen a rock just sit on it unless we're talking about where the drip trays are. Yeah. So, I mean, I have seen it on the other side. It must be wet because it does stick. But I don't know. This is a complaint call we got. Our fenders should be clean. Yeah. It's totally. It's the trail of fenders. It is the trail of fenders. And yeah, the drip tray is just.

It catches everything. It's a cup, basically. Right. It is. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I took. So 0019, there were some rocks behind there the other day.

Man i almost had a pride that drip it was it was like the water got on there and it just got like like it was so hard to get off i mean it vibrates all day long so it just naturally compacts in there right yeah yeah so keep that area clean did you have to try to undo the clips because those rust yeah the clips the clips actually function good you know and there was no wing nut on the bolt that came out you know but i was like one end and on the other end i I ended up taking the,

the handle from the sledge and getting it underneath one side and then going to the other side and it finally released. And there was a bunch of like, you know, the three quarter rock, you get the little slivers. They're not. Yeah. It was a bunch of that under there. So I don't know if it was just putting pressure on that bolt. I've, I've toyed with the idea of having, I mean, two things. You either keep adding weight to the trailer by.

Putting things on there to cover that, but like a piece of rubber that mounted just a shield, right? So it was, it was like a mudflap for the drip tray, but then I'm like, well, that's just more weight, more added stuff. So we've talked with the manufacturer about possibly moving the drip trays to where the landing legs are. Oh, okay. So they, you know, but it's kind of in the way when you have to drop the legs. No, we used to put them down there.

We did in the old trailers, yeah. We did in the old trailers, yeah. We were on Jim on, but it'd be nice if when the manufacturer made it, there was a thing for them, but then I'm sure, you know, mud Mud will stick to it because we don't have anything there now. Right. Right. And a piece of mud will dry and then fall off and will, you know, I mean, it's, you fix one problem, your scenario jam, you pull one lever, the other lever pushes forward and you got a different thing happening.

Well, we know where you get all your sayings from your mom. Some of them, a lot of them are from my brother, rest in peace. But yeah, man, with that reaction, there's a reaction, right? Right. Yeah. So my last thing for housekeeping, and this is just more of a tip.

But you know the other day i was hauling pea gravel to central i don't know where the pea gravel pile is you know and i looked i was like oh that looks like pea gravel over there i walked over it you know moved the top layer saw some wet stuff underneath it climbed up in my trailer i'm like that's the same so if you're not sure what you have and where it goes easy way to check grab a handful or go look at the pile and go look at what's in the trailer absolutely it makes you seem a little

bit like a novice, but guess what? You're not putting the wrong material in the wrong pile. Exactly. It just made you a pro. Exactly. Not a novice anymore. Get out of the truck and get down and look at that pile. Get up close. Any housekeeping items from you guys, aka discussion items? I just got to keep jumping in on post-trip, post-trip, post-trip. I mean, I would love to pair mechanics to mechanic in the morning instead of change tires.

Right. It would just throw me to death. I couldn't dream of a week that for five days our mechanics didn't change any tires all morning, Monday through Friday. You know what I mean? That all the trucks left the yard and there was not one flat because we did such a good job checking them the night before, you know, and yeah. Yeah. You know, but actually we should say you need to spend more time checking your tires in the evening, listening for air leaks, looking for those nails.

If you see a nail, pull it out, see if it's leaking. You know, that was always such a good feeling when you're like, ah, man, that looks like a big one. Right. And then you pull it out and it's like, put your spit on there. There are no bubbles. It's cool. No leaks. Sweet. I just saved a flat tire. That whole conversation could have went south to begin with.

Get your mind out of the gutter. But if you spend more time looking at the tire. Put some spit on it. Forget it. All right. Let's talk about what's next. This was a great idea you had.

The what's next section. All right. So what's next? It's the last month to receive calendar photos as we close submissions on October 4th. Well, where do you send the photos to? You send them to ann at jfwtrucking.com. If you're new around here, we have a calendar photo competition. And if your photo ends up in the calendar, you get money. Yep. Some guys do really well at this. Right. They get multiple. Oh boy. Multiple. Yeah. A lot of time taking pictures all year, pretty much. I think.

Chili Dog's going to have a rough go of it. When did he get hurt? Yeah. June? He might be. Oh, he's got six months worth of photos turned in, I'm sure then. Yeah. Where was he at? He'll be sending in some stitch pictures, some brace pictures. They'll be captioned.

Funny. I mean, you could do so well. i might even hire somebody to take the photos and photoshop them and like do some cool things you know yeah some ai photos yep so all right this is big next week is driver appreciation week yeah if you haven't been there been here for that we have raffles and prizes and every day we're giving away stuff to some lucky winners of the raffle and is there food involved or do we are Are we doing any, is it just raffles?

No. Just raffles as far as I know. Yeah. Forget the food. That was just. That was your stomach talk. Foot in slip. So we got that. And then I'm excited next week on Wednesday, took a few weeks to lock this down, but we've got the two owners of CDL 303 coming on the podcast. These guys are doing some innovative stuff with truck safety and mountain driving.

They have a mountain ready course where they're pretty cool so they do a business to business, mountain driving course where you know they have a cdl school but then let's say i don't know i'm just gonna this isn't true but like shamrock foods you know they got 10 guys that go to the mountains they need mountain driving training these guys put on a class just for that nice okay and then And they've teamed up with Roto Rare out of Arizona.

That was the engineer guy out there. He has an application. I don't know everything about it. We could probably talk about it next week. But it tells you when you're going too fast into a corner. You know, to slow down and stuff like that. So I thought that was pretty cool. And that's, did you say an app? Is that what you said? It's an app, but I think it's more of like a screen.

It's like software program that gets installed in the truck. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, software, not app, software. And then, yeah, I mean, I looked at it a little bit, but it looks pretty cool, you know? And I'm taking their Mountain Ready course online right now.

They sent me you know a login and they offered it to the safety team i know i'm gonna get casey a login credential anybody else on the safety team that thinks they have time to do it you know it's it's fairly long i'm halfway a little over halfway through it but i've learned some things you know the main thing that really they're pushing is you know those those signs going into corners, those are suggested speeds for four-wheelers, not big trucks.

You know, if you're going into a corner and you have a yellow sign, which means caution, 45 miles an hour, that's for a Prius, not a JFW big truck or not, you know, somebody hauling a 53-footer. You need to probably be doing about, you know, 30, you know, to protect yourself and protect the public. So, yeah. I want to try to take that before next Wednesday or Wednesday. Okay, I'll get you some credentials. Yeah, I wanted to try to get to

it. You guys wanted it? Is that the recommended speed for a Ferrari? No. It is, just wondering, it is if you're Tyreek Hill. Add 10, add 20. And trucks, reduce by 10 or reduce by 20. Apparently the speed limit outside the stadium is 105. Is that what he was doing? Yeah, I loved the, so they did an interview afterwards, and his interview afterwards was great. You know. Was it? I didn't see it. No, it was great. He's like, I'm not going to make any comments on my actions, the police's actions.

We need to get this figured out. It needs to be positive for everybody, positive for me, positive for them. You know, we need to learn from this. This is, you know, but I don't want to comment. But then you see the video of the actual pullover and kind of the way he acted. And I was like, ah, a little bit, a little disappointed there. Yeah. You know, and it could have done better. But he was being a jerk then.

Not really, but a little bit, Dave. He had that, like, you know who I am ghetto kind of thing. Well, and did you see the car? I mean, that car was so fancy, I don't even know what it is. Yeah, I don't know what. Like you say Ferrari, Dave. It could be a Ferrari. It could be. Lamborghini. Lamborghini. It easily did 105. Yeah. Let's put it that way. First year. If you didn't pick that up at the Ford dealership up at O'Mara, Dave, I'll put it to you that way, right?

You know, it's funny. these these supercars are names i don't even recognize anywhere you know yeah, One thing I need to talk to you guys about, I need a little bit of a budget for the podcast next week because they requested donuts. I'm like, happy to oblige. We can stop on the way home and grab them. Yeah. Do you remember we had those gourmet donuts in here like a couple weeks ago? What were those? We need to get those donuts.

I have to do a little research. Those things were like. You brought those by. Yeah, those were nuts. They were crazy donuts. They were the crumble cookies of donuts. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah. Yeah. Either that or we'll get, what's that one donut place? Voodoo. Voodoo Donuts is the one. Oh, Voodoo's good. Voodoo's good. Yeah. Yeah. But what's the one that, like Krispy Kreme? Yes. Krispy Kreme. But then there's a one, oh, Winchell's. Winchell's. Yeah. That's what I said. I said Winchell's. You did.

There you go. Yeah. I was paying attention. I thought you said Dunkin'. I just saw a video. This dude took a dozen hot Krispy Kreme donuts. And you know, when they're, when they're hot. Yeah. We got, we talked about it, but we got a whole education that night. Didn't we do? This dude took the dozen out of the box. Like they're hot. He stacks all 12 on top of each other and smashes them flat. And I kid you not, they're no taller than like an inch and a half.

And he ate all 12 donuts. Wow. Like that, man. Crazy. Smashed them down and ate them. And I'm like, damn, 12 donuts in one shot. Huh. I have a what's next. I kind of wonder. We haven't talked about it a little bit, and I know we – I thought we talked about it on the Mudd podcast, and we're a month out or a little less than a month now, so I'm getting kind of excited about it. But on October 7th, we have our meeting with Commerce City in front of the Commerce City leadership.

City council. City council. And it would be a late night for anybody. You know, we got our last meeting got pushed because the meetings have been going so late, but I kind of want to invite anybody if they're interested. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. It's open to the public. You know, either myself or Dave is going to speak in front of city council, but it's the final approval basically for the building, our new building.

And so if anybody wants to put in their calendar and they're interested in showing up for support or seeing how it process.

I realize. can you imagine are we allowed to cheer like when you speak can we is that like discouraged or the security guard that was there she was pretty cool i think you could get away with a few okay and then you might get in trouble maybe if enough people showed up we could just get away with the wave yeah okay yeah yeah silent wave in the deal but uh yeah i just want to throw it out there so we you know the we get paid if we come. Put your time down, Jim.

Yeah, hopefully we all get paid and get approved, right? That's the payday. The million-dollar question, October 7th goes well. When do we break ground? Well, we're working right now on seeing if we can possibly get a foundation permit, like, right after the meeting. Oh, wow. Like, the next few days. Within weeks, dirt could be moving. Yeah, so that's how –, We hope that's how it goes, Jim. Yes. Yeah. That's pretty cool. So my buddy Timmy, he's a site supervisor out in North Carolina.

There's this guy that I've been telling you about, right? So he gets a little bit of, he gets a bonus for every certificate of occupancy that he gets, right? Oh, wow. So I've been learning about all these things. I'm like, oh, we're going to need one of those. We'll have to get our CEO. We're going to get one. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to get one of those. That's going to be cool. Yeah.

Yeah. It's going to be quite a process. We just, me and Dave just mentioned it this morning that, you know, we don't have, I'm going to call it bandwidth, you know, and, and with you guys here and everybody here, you guys are a lot of help, but we can't be involved in that building as much as we want to. Right.

So we're going to have to rely on a lot of people. And when it's, when it comes to the end, Jim, other people are going to be getting us our CEO, you know, and we're going to be, hey, listen, we've spent all this time, all this money. We want our CEO. You got to get this done. Yeah, just think, the person that's site supervising, he might be getting a little check for that. Right, right. So, yeah, exciting stuff. And I know we got a couple weeks here

left before that happens. But anyway, it's- Yeah, that is exciting. You know, what's next? That's a big one. Somebody was just asking a couple weeks ago to get an update on that. And then I came to one of you guys, and you're like, oh, there's nothing really to talk about yet. I mean, yeah, it's just- There's not, except for that date. Yeah. And the funny thing is, I mean, Jim and I have, we've, we've come to the belief that city council, they're not really concerned about the building, right?

They're, they're more concerned or we feel we've been led to believe this, right? Because we flew through planning. Right. Like planning was a 4.0 for it. You know what I mean? Like no, they had a couple questions, minor, minor details. Everything was answered ahead of time. And we flew through it after the presentation. They're excited. You know, the planners, they love it. It's going to take that area and make it look so much nicer.

And what city council were led to believe is, you know, well, how long do your trucks idle? You know, they're Commerce City. No one knows it, but they're trying to impose a five-minute idle time on any truck here in Commerce City. And it's like, great, we have that. We program our trucks before we even take possession of them. They have already got a five-minute idle time on them. They're the cleanest diesels available in the world is what I've started telling people because they

truly are. They're not just the cleanest diesel in the nation. They're the cleanest diesel available in the world produced. And that's what we have. And, you know, and this is kind of, I talk about it so much, so frequently, so often anymore, part of my shtick has become, you know, and I think I've said it on here already, one truck, one diesel truck from 30 years ago emits as much as 60 of our trucks today. So when, when we talk to city council.

And you talk truck, people naturally envision a truck from 30 years ago that's just got black smoke rolling out of it. And that doesn't exist anymore for a newer fleet or top-notch companies, right? Do those trucks still exist? Are they still in heavy use? Are they still popular? Not at JFW. Heck yes, they are, but not at JFW. And I think those are the things

that we need to go in and push our green initiatives. You know, so many people think we only run the super singles on the trailers because they're light. Well, guess what? They're light and they're fuel efficient. Instead of having to flex four sidewalls in dual tires, we're just flexing two sidewalls. So our rolling resistance goes down, right? That trailer rolls so much easier.

Our fuel mileage goes up. So now we're carrying more product per load, which is better for the environment because we make less trips. You know, and this all needs to be part of the spiel. We're burning less fuel or getting better fuel mileage, which should be part of the stick. The, the, just the, the five minute idle time, the newer emissions, you know. The aerodynamic caps, Dave, everything we've, we've done.

If, if we can get them to understand that our complete fleet is equivalent to two trucks from 30 years ago. Right. That's, someone needs to sit back and go, wow, wait a minute. A truck from 30 years ago had 60% emissions and you're telling me your fleet today has 0.2%? Not 2%, 0.2%. We need to address that. We need to promote our trucking industry from that angle to city council and get them to understand, hey, we're not just building a building. We're not just going to put up a new building.

We're going to bring in a thriving business. Right. You know, and get them to understand. And these are our, our actions. This is how we do it. So yeah, hopefully, hopefully we can get that across to them. Love it.

All right. Tips and tricks from Ray Davis. How to check your air disc brakes. The trail brakes and steers are easy to check. The tractor brakes are a lot harder to see without taking the wheel off, but I hope this helps a little. The easy way to check is there are notches on the caliper. If the notches are lined up, they need to be replaced. When they are brand new, the notches are about a half inch apart. Does that make sense?

Yeah, I guess I'd, yeah, notches that you can feel with your fingertips, right? You have to reach in there. So you can't check that at the end of the day. Right. It could be hot. You can't check it when you deliver a load to the plant. You can't check it, right? You can't stick your finger in there. Guess what? You can't wear gloves because you can't feel the notch with gloves on. Got it. So your hand's going to get dirty. So, you know, just a little bit of FYI there, right?

And if the two notches do align, yeah, you need brakes, but you're probably going to need rotors and whatever else because it's pretty much metal to metal at that point got it also, check from broken or missing calipers brake pads pad retaining components push rods yokes clevis pins brake adjusters parking brakes power springs or chambers return springs air chambers and mountain bolts guys got that you're kind of checking for everything

yeah here's an easy way to do it if you know what it looks like when nothing's broken look for something that's out of the ordinary. Right. Put your hand on it, make sure there's nothing new, stuff like that. Go out there and look and see if you smell anything. There you go. Yeah. Smell that? That smells like 0059. He's over your R23, you got to go over there. He's got a screw out on the passenger side of his tarp.

Check for a rotor that has evidence of severe resting or metal-to-metal contact over the rotor friction surface on either side. You're also looking for oil grease contamination on the friction surface of the brake rotor and the brake friction material. Brake pad thickness is less than 1 16th inch or to wear indicator if pad is so marked. 1 16th inch though? Look for external cracks that are visible or open upon break application.

Look for rotors with a crack and length of more than 75% of the friction surface that passes completely through the rotor. Check to see if a portion of the drum slash rotor is missing or in danger of falling off. With all this, if you're not sure or don't understand, please pull me aside and I can show I'll show you what to look for. I'll be pulling Ray aside. Hope all is well with the JFW family, friends, and listeners. Remember, safety has no blind spots.

Look and lean. Sit up on your stool. Don't be a fool. It's better to be slow and safe than it is to be sorry. Much love and respect. Always Ray Ray, the Black Sheep, 0013. Yeah, like that. Yeah. Better to be slow and safe than sorry, right? I love that as well. Isn't that great? So, you want to hit us with that high road, Holland? Oh, I'd love to. Love to. So...

All these years we've been doing the High Road Hauling after our meetings, and initially they started out to be life lessons or advice or just good food for thought for people to use. And this one is no different. This one is great. I love it. It's about willpower, the psychological science of self-control. Do you have willpower, Dave, Jim? Not when it comes to dessert sometimes, Dave. I just don't have it.

Well, it talks a little bit about that. And many people believe they could improve their lives if only they had more of that mysterious thing called willpower, more self-control. With more self-control, we would all eat right, exercise regularly, avoid drugs and alcohol, save for retirement, stop procrastinating, and achieve all sorts of noble goals. In a long-running, longitudinal study, psychologists followed a group of children who were identified by their teachers as highly intelligent.

As they compared how these subjects fared throughout childhood and into adulthood. Researchers found that those who ultimately were in the most successful life shared some key characteristics, including perseverance and willpower. Other studies have uncovered similar patterns. They found students who ranked high on self-discipline had better grades, better school attendance, and higher standardized test scores, and were more likely to be admitted to a competitive high school program.

Self-discipline, the researchers found, was more important than IQ in predicting academic success. At its essence, willpower is the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals. And there are good reasons to do so. University of Pennsylvania psychologists Angela Duckworth, Ph.D., and Martin Seligman, Ph.D., explored self-control in eighth graders over the course of the school year.

The researchers first gauged the students' self-discipline, their term for self-control, by having teachers, parents, and the students themselves complete questionnaires. They also gave students a task in which they had the option of receiving $1 immediately or waiting a week to receive $2. You guessed it. The students who chose to wait correlated with higher grade point averages, higher self-esteem, less binge eating, and better relationship skills.

As it turns out, these studies didn't end there. Recently, BJ Casey, PhD, and all these people are PhDs, of Well Cornell Medical College, along with Michelle Yushi Soda, PhD of the University of Washington, and other colleagues tracked down 59 subjects now in their mid-40s who had participated in one of these experiments as a child. The researchers tested the subject's willpower, strength, and a laboratory task known to demonstrate self-control in adults.

Amazingly, the subject's willpower differences had largely held up over four decades. In general, children who were less successful at resisting all those years ago did more poorly on the self-control tasks as adults. An individual's sensitivity to so-called hot stimuli, it seems, may persist throughout his or her life. So let's define willpower. We have many common names for willpower. Determination, drive, resolve, self-discipline, self-control.

But psychologists characterize willpowers or self-control in more specific ways. According to most psychological scientists, willpower can be defined as the ability to delay gratification, resisting short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals, the capacity to override an unwanted thought, feeling, or impulse, the ability to employ a cool cognitive system of behavior rather than a hot emotional system, and conscious effort regulation by the self, of the self, by the self.

So here are some strategies you can improve, use to improve your willpower. Distraction. For example, if you're trying to lose weight but are having difficulty time staying away from your favorite snacks, distracting yourself during your moments of weakness can be an effective way to avoid giving in to that temptation. Practice. Willpower is something you can build, but it takes time and effort. Start by making small goals that require willpower to achieve, such as avoid those sugary snacks.

As you build your ability to use your willpower to achieve such small goals, you may find that your willpower is also stronger when working on much larger goals. And focus on intrinsic motivations. I think this one is super important. What is it that motivates you most? Do you find that the promise of external rewards keeps you reaching for your goals? Or is it the more personal, intrinsic motivators that keep you from feeling inspired?

Or that keep you feeling inspired? Sorry. While extrinsic rewards such as money, awards, and praise can be helpful, Many people find that they are most motivated when they are doing things for personal satisfaction. So many questions about the nature of self-control remain to be answered by further research. Yet it seems likely that with clear goals, good self-monitoring, and a little practice, you can train your willpower to stay strong in the face of temptation.

And the quote this week is, in the absence of willpower, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. And that was spoken by Alistair Crowley, who lived from 1875 to 1947, and he was an English poet and writer.

So you could be the most talented person in the world, but if you don't have the willpower to be diligent, you're not going to win your medal, right right yeah but interesting to have that discipline yeah just dedication yep i find it interesting what i kind of a piece i took out of that dave is you've got to have some self-satisfaction in it exactly you don't don't do it for other people's right benefit you do it for what makes you feel good your own benefit right yeah intrinsic rather

than extrinsic love it But final thoughts, guys?

Yeah, I can. It's kind of funny, Jam, you printed this out in the second page or the second page, but the last page you handed me was completely blank. So I just used it to make my notes on it, except for at the very top. Yes. And so the very top, I'm just going to, that's how I'm going to start off my final thoughts is. That's the last page of my. Right. And you read it, Dave, but like the first page of my start. So it says, thank you and God bless. So thank you, everybody, and God bless you.

And this is something I ran across, and some of you, it might hit pretty hard. Some of you, it may not. And Super Dave, we talk a lot that your high road Hollands fit into the week, and it's called willpower. And, you know, willpower brings change, right? I mean, when you have willpower, there's change, right? And so it's more of a poem about when you know you've really changed. So- It says, when drinking and numbing turns to reading and learning, when your late nights turn to 9 p.m.

Bedtime and 5 a.m. rise, when excuses turn into opportunities, when working out becomes non-negotiable, when failure becomes the pathway to success, when protein is choosing and over-processed foods, when small thinking makes you cringe, when your circle that surrounds you screams inspiring, when your standards are so high that only a few people get your time, when your boundaries are so strong that only a few pass by, when your bank account reflects your self-worth, when your language,

it sounds like love over resentment, when you respond Bond instead of reacting. When your trauma becomes your stories, yes, your stories, they're used to help change the world. And yes, you can change the world. We all can. Whether you are conditioned to believe that, you are worthy or not. I am here to tell you, you are. You just have to believe it. That's a good one, Jim. Final thoughts. Back to believe, right? You have to believe.

Yeah. Yeah. And to believe you got to have willpower to believe. I mean, we, we started off the podcast talking about your mind and your heart, you know, and believing. I like the working out. It's not negotiable. It's true, Jim. And that's, that's, that's a willpower. Yeah. I was just talking to my buddy cause he's kind of new to the fitness journey and, you know, there's a lot of days he doesn't want to go, you know, he does.

And I'm like, Like, I bet you regret every time you don't, I bet you regret when you don't feel like going and you go, you probably regret it, you know, being sarcastic. Yeah. You never regret going, you know what I mean? Right. But for me, it's just like, I mean, obviously there's things that are getting in the way. You know, are we short drivers? I'm going to jump in a truck. I'm not going, I'm not going, you know.

Is there something else about life that I have to go do? But yeah, I mean, there's very little excuses to not go. You know, I'm just, that's, it's just. Yeah. I don't, I don't know if it's true for myself, but I ran off, ran across a woman talking about working out and she goes the, you know, getting dressed, getting in my outfits, picking that out, leaving the house, doing all this, getting to it.

And she said, why is that, you know, a hundred yard walk from my car to the gym, the hardest part of my workout. She said, why, why is that? And she goes, cause like you said, Jim, I don't regret it afterwards. All I get is rewards afterwards. But why is that a hundred yards from my car to the door the hardest? Yeah. Interesting. My final thoughts are just tying all of that to the creed, the first line, we're going to face and overcome all that stands before us.

Every day, every hour, every second. Constantly. Constantly. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with all that. Don't have anything to really piggyback. Just do your very best. You know, don't, don't settle for being average. Do your very best. Stand out for the right things. Don't forget to like, and subscribe to the challenge. 23 podcasts. Hit that follow button. Also, don't forget to go back and listen to episode 72 to help find Amber's mom.

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