This Past Weekend with Theo Von - E307 A Female Trucker

00:00:00.000 Today's guest, we've been waiting on and we're happy that she's able to finally put it in park long enough to come and be here with us.

00:00:08.920 She is female trucker and that interstate bad girl, Ginger.

00:00:30.000 What type of what type of like hauls will you be on now?

00:00:43.260 So how long have you been doing trucking and then what type of hauls will you be on?

00:00:46.840 I've been doing it for about nine years now, almost nine March, I think.

00:00:51.560 OK. And we haul just about everything from like Woodford whiskey.

00:00:57.000 Oh, yeah. I love whiskey. I used to.

00:01:00.000 We might haul Scott's Miracle-Gro dirt.

00:01:04.180 Oh, yeah.

00:01:04.620 Just depends on who's calling for what, you know.

00:01:07.540 So we haul a lot of AAK, which is like edible oils, oil flakes or the oil in the bottles or the hardened grease like the lard stuff.

00:01:18.780 We deliver it to places that use it for baking and cooking.

00:01:22.420 Oh, wow. Really?

00:01:23.140 Yeah.

00:01:23.400 So you'll deliver to where like places in the Midwest kind of or?

00:01:26.040 No, we're mostly East.

00:01:27.780 OK.

00:01:28.420 All the East Coast.

00:01:29.340 So what's the longest haul that you'll go out on?

00:01:31.700 Like whenever you get your, you work for, you're a subcontractor, I guess?

00:01:36.660 No, I just work for the company, you know, just an employee there.

00:01:40.700 And I don't own any of the equipment.

00:01:43.640 OK.

00:01:43.880 I just keep it nice so it, you know, it looks good parents wise.

00:01:46.880 But basically, every truck, it's, they've all been good trucks.

00:01:53.580 You know, they haul good stuff.

00:01:55.280 You know, it's not nothing that we've hauled that's been nasty or bad.

00:01:59.960 We do haul some carbide on flatbeds, but I ain't messing with that.

00:02:03.440 And what is that?

00:02:04.860 It's a chemical that's explosive if it's wet.

00:02:08.180 So do you get paid more if you're hauling something like that?

00:02:10.940 Oh, yeah.

00:02:11.360 Yeah.

00:02:11.820 Because that's a hazardous material that you're hauling.

00:02:14.340 You have to have an endorsement on your license to do that.

00:02:18.080 And they'll adjust the plates.

00:02:19.400 Like on the back of the trucks, a lot of times you'll see those plates.

00:02:21.940 Will you bring those up?

00:02:22.760 Those are placards.

00:02:23.840 OK.

00:02:24.160 And so what are those, what are those plates, what does that mean?

00:02:26.680 What are those?

00:02:27.120 It's different types of flammables, explosives, corrosives, whether it's gas or, you know,

00:02:34.520 fumes or say if it's, if it gets wet, it could be explosive.

00:02:39.200 So it depends on what the material is.

00:02:41.880 And who adjusts those plates?

00:02:43.500 Like, do you adjust those?

00:02:44.540 Yeah.

00:02:44.640 These are the ones right here.

00:02:45.580 Yeah.

00:02:46.220 So, yeah.

00:02:47.360 Like, do you have all of those plates on your car and they're on your rig and they're all

00:02:51.420 adjustable or you only have some of those?

00:02:53.160 How does that work?

00:02:53.840 They're like, say you got one of the diamonds and it turns like cards.

00:02:59.620 So you can pick the one you need and then you'll latch it to where it'll show what it

00:03:04.460 is, an oxidizer or, you know, it's a organic peroxide or radioactive or poison.

00:03:10.900 It'll have that on there.

00:03:12.420 I see.

00:03:12.780 So it's all built into there.

00:03:13.980 Yeah.

00:03:14.420 Yeah.

00:03:14.640 And you legal, do you adjust this or does the company, whenever you take off with the

00:03:18.640 load, how does that work?

00:03:19.580 We find out what it is that we're hauling first.

00:03:23.160 And they usually explain it on your bills, bill of ladings, and it'll tell you what to

00:03:28.400 put on there, which, which placards you have to have.

00:03:31.660 Cause you got to have it shown in four places, which is the trailer, the both sides and the

00:03:37.400 doors.

00:03:37.760 Cause DOT will pull you over, right?

00:03:39.680 Oh yeah.

00:03:40.820 They get happy with that shit.

00:03:42.260 They, they, sometimes they get bored.

00:03:44.320 Oh, sure.

00:03:44.880 Looking for something.

00:03:45.580 I had an asshole one time pulling into a weigh station, literally.

00:03:49.260 And he's standing out there, first time I'd ever seen this.

00:03:52.860 And he kind of looks like a, just this little short shit.

00:03:56.380 Like Elmer Fat.

00:03:57.260 Yeah.

00:03:57.740 Ugh.

00:03:58.920 He's thumping everybody's tires as you're pulling in.

00:04:02.100 I was like, okay, I'm cool.

00:04:03.360 You know, I'm good.

00:04:04.420 Comes up to me and he's like.

00:04:05.140 And what is he doing?

00:04:05.720 Hitting them for what?

00:04:06.300 Seeing if there's cocaine, like drugs in them?

00:04:07.860 To make sure that they're aired up.

00:04:09.100 Oh, okay.

00:04:09.720 Well, I guess what?

00:04:10.920 I had a fucking flat.

00:04:11.980 No.

00:04:12.580 Yeah.

00:04:13.220 Drive tire.

00:04:13.920 Didn't even know it.

00:04:15.040 What happened was, as I was pulling in, I ran over a freaking bolt as big as my phone.

00:04:18.920 Oh, damn.

00:04:19.660 So, it wasn't even hot yet.

00:04:22.400 Because when I pulled in and he's, you know, he's showing me, the tire's wiggling off the rim.

00:04:27.480 And I'm sitting there just ready to just scream.

00:04:30.320 So, I was like, fuck.

00:04:31.880 You know.

00:04:32.840 Hell here.

00:04:34.200 You know.

00:04:34.760 And he's like, well, you can't leave until you get it fixed.

00:04:37.580 So, I'm calling the shop and I'm letting him know what's going on.

00:04:40.540 And one of them throws a fit.

00:04:42.720 One of the guys you work for?

00:04:43.600 Yeah.

00:04:43.880 I was like, what am I supposed to do?

00:04:45.200 You know, radar every damn thing on the road today.

00:04:47.980 Yeah.

00:04:48.200 I didn't see it.

00:04:49.460 Next time, I'll dodge the nails and bolts, you know.

00:04:51.820 We got a bolt at 1220.

00:04:53.280 Yeah.

00:04:54.300 Now, I got it fixed and rolled on.

00:04:56.180 They didn't give me no ticket or nothing.

00:04:58.120 You know.

00:04:58.480 They can be assholes.

00:04:59.680 Yeah.

00:05:00.140 Oh, yeah.

00:05:00.700 Definitely.

00:05:01.460 And do you find a lot of the officers and stuff that you encounter out there, a lot of them

00:05:07.240 are men or women?

00:05:08.100 Was it kind of mixed out there?

00:05:09.500 What?

00:05:09.740 The police officers?

00:05:11.340 They're mostly men.

00:05:12.400 Yeah.

00:05:12.840 Mostly men.

00:05:13.440 And do they give you, you think, a different type of interaction because you're a female?

00:05:18.200 Hell or no, you think?

00:05:19.260 It's mixed.

00:05:20.260 Because I actually got pulled over in Sellersburg, Indiana.

00:05:22.540 Mm-hmm.

00:05:23.240 I had a woman in front of me, kept hitting her brakes.

00:05:26.160 And when you're in the truck and you're doing 65 miles an hour, maybe 67, you know,

00:05:31.800 you don't want to be behind somebody that doesn't know where the hell they're going.

00:05:35.140 Yeah.

00:05:35.480 You're right over top of them.

00:05:36.860 Speed bump.

00:05:37.740 Yeah.

00:05:37.940 You know.

00:05:39.880 Like in Mario Kart.

00:05:40.960 Yeah.

00:05:41.400 No shit.

00:05:42.160 And anyways, I'm, you know, keep getting up on her ass and I'd back off.

00:05:47.100 You know, she'd stop and I'd get on her ass again and back off.

00:05:50.740 And we're all rolling.

00:05:51.980 It's kind of busy.

00:05:53.520 We're coming around this, I guess you'd call it like the crossover there, the bridge-like.

00:05:59.260 Mm-hmm.

00:05:59.960 There's a cop sitting there.

00:06:01.340 And I had just changed lanes to keep from hitting this woman into the hammer lane.

00:06:05.460 Mm-hmm.

00:06:05.800 What is a hammer lane?

00:06:06.960 That's the fast lane.

00:06:08.160 Okay.

00:06:08.780 You know, you're in the middle lane and I went to go avoid her.

00:06:11.120 And when I went back into the middle lane, he's seen it.

00:06:14.100 He pulls me over.

00:06:16.060 And I was like, what?

00:06:17.020 And how are you looking when he pulls you?

00:06:18.060 Are you looking pretty good?

00:06:18.960 I was trying to maintain.

00:06:20.160 And I'm like, hi, how are you?

00:06:21.640 Mm-hmm.

00:06:22.040 You know, come on in and have a seat, you know?

00:06:23.840 He's all grinning and shit.

00:06:25.220 And then he's telling me what I did.

00:06:27.120 And I was like, yeah, I said I was trying not to hit her.

00:06:29.640 I said, she kept hitting her brakes.

00:06:30.920 And he's like, I've seen that.

00:06:33.140 I was like, okay.

00:06:34.640 You've seen it, so.

00:06:35.480 And what's going on?

00:06:36.200 This ain't bumble.

00:06:36.920 You know, the lip's starting to curl.

00:06:38.640 And he's like, well, you know, you was in the wrong lane.

00:06:41.860 Trucks are not allowed in the hammer lanes.

00:06:43.560 You can't go in the fast lane.

00:06:44.920 And he was following too close.

00:06:46.460 Plus, she was doing 67.

00:06:47.840 But I'm not going to get you for that.

00:06:50.160 But is that true that you can't?

00:06:51.280 What do you mean you can't go in the fast lane?

00:06:52.320 You're supposed to stay in the right lane.

00:06:53.560 Trucks are not allowed in the passing lane, in the fast lane.

00:06:57.560 It's usually the middle or the slow lane.

00:07:00.080 So that's if there's three lanes.

00:07:01.740 Right.

00:07:02.340 Okay.

00:07:02.720 Now, if there's two lanes, you can go in either one.

00:07:04.460 Okay, but if there's three, you're not supposed to get into the far left lane.

00:07:07.180 No.

00:07:07.660 Ever.

00:07:08.160 No.

00:07:08.740 Wow.

00:07:09.040 I actually got a ticket ticket.

00:07:10.620 Not a warning, a ticket.

00:07:11.720 In Bartow, Georgia.

00:07:14.000 Did you deserve it?

00:07:15.860 It was my fault I was in that damn lane.

00:07:17.600 Yeah, amen.

00:07:18.320 Yeah, it's hard to do.

00:07:19.080 But at the same time, there was an asshole Volvo driver.

00:07:22.920 Ugh.

00:07:23.440 Okay, he's in the middle lane.

00:07:24.480 Story of my life, dude.

00:07:25.260 He's driving up the hill, right?

00:07:26.880 He's taking his dear sweet time.

00:07:27.800 Taking his time, dude.

00:07:29.100 Yeah.

00:07:29.360 Slow lanes packed.

00:07:29.620 Probably a merit trading on his phone.

00:07:31.240 I'm getting pissed.

00:07:32.000 Yeah.

00:07:32.220 And I was like, well, you know what?

00:07:33.800 I was like, fuck this.

00:07:34.680 And I got over and got in the hammer lane and started flying up the hill, right?

00:07:38.640 Well, this pecker head decides he's going to speed up.

00:07:41.640 So we're both racing nose to nose up this hill.

00:07:44.040 We get top of the hill.

00:07:44.780 There's a set of state trooper in the median.

00:07:47.560 Lights immediately go on.

00:07:49.120 I looked over at that fat guy.

00:07:50.480 I wanted to shoot him in the face.

00:07:51.940 I was just aggravated.

00:07:53.200 I was like, fuck.

00:07:54.500 So I knew he was coming.

00:07:55.780 As soon as I seen him, lights come on.

00:07:57.080 I was like, okay.

00:07:58.460 That's it.

00:07:58.980 That's it.

00:07:59.300 I'm done.

00:07:59.780 Yeah.

00:08:00.060 So I backed off.

00:08:00.960 I let the fat man go.

00:08:02.520 I got over into the slow lane and the shoulder.

00:08:04.740 The cop comes over.

00:08:05.480 He's a younger guy.

00:08:06.220 He's all buff and big and he's got an attitude.

00:08:09.380 Because he opens the door and he's looking at me like, well, you going to say something

00:08:13.540 or what?

00:08:14.740 And I was like, huh?

00:08:18.540 He's like, you know why I pulled you over?

00:08:20.360 I said, yeah, probably because I was in that damn hammer lane over there.

00:08:23.880 And he goes, yeah, yeah.

00:08:25.660 It's clearly marked that trucks are not allowed.

00:08:27.560 I said, I bet I was trying to pass that fat guy in the Volvo.

00:08:31.860 He didn't care?

00:08:32.860 Hell no.

00:08:33.480 He wrote you up, huh?

00:08:34.080 He wrote me a ticket.

00:08:35.480 He's like, you got to pay this.

00:08:37.100 Come on.

00:08:37.500 And I called him the day that I got the ticket.

00:08:40.720 And I was like, can I go ahead and pay this now and get it off my back?

00:08:44.840 And no, it's not even in the computer yet, honey.

00:08:47.440 You're going to have to wait.

00:08:48.940 Isn't that so ridiculous?

00:08:50.180 You got to wait nine.

00:08:51.480 And they try to get you.

00:08:52.460 I think so you'll forget about it.

00:08:53.560 Yeah, so they can fine you some more.

00:08:55.880 Yeah.

00:08:56.260 You got to wait until it snows.

00:08:56.840 Take your license.

00:08:57.940 One time they told me you got to wait until it snows.

00:08:59.640 You can't pay it until it snows outside.

00:09:01.280 I'm like, what in the fuck is even going on?

00:09:02.440 What the fuck does that got to do with anything?

00:09:03.600 Yeah, I need to pay this damn ticket.

00:09:05.000 Who gives a shit what it's doing outside?

00:09:07.020 I don't want to pay this.

00:09:09.180 We got a question from a caller right here.

00:09:11.720 This isn't live.

00:09:12.420 Just so you know, this is a video someone sent in.

00:09:14.320 Let's take this question here for Ginger.

00:09:17.060 What up, Theo?

00:09:18.320 This past weekend, what up, female trucker guest?

00:09:23.120 Wanted to ask, do you ever cut people off out of revenge?

00:09:27.960 I see it all the time on the road.

00:09:30.880 I feel bad.

00:09:32.140 You guys get cut off a lot.

00:09:34.340 My wife's cut you guys off.

00:09:37.000 She felt bad about it.

00:09:38.840 But yeah, we know there's a lot of road rage, especially here in California, Central Valley,

00:09:43.580 California.

00:09:44.260 We love you over here, by the way.

00:09:45.560 But yeah, do you cut people off out of revenge?

00:09:51.540 Gang, gang.

00:09:53.100 Honk, honk.

00:09:54.180 There you go, Ginger.

00:09:55.260 You're on the hot seat right now.

00:09:56.080 I'll be straight up honest about that.

00:09:58.180 I've wanted to.

00:10:00.000 You know, and there's times when it's like, you know, I'm going to show you.

00:10:03.160 Oh, some little rich bitch in a damn.

00:10:04.860 Oh, no.

00:10:05.820 Sometimes it's other semi trucks.

00:10:07.260 In a damn Lexus, you know, whatever.

00:10:09.140 Yeah, and it gets kind of scary sometimes.

00:10:12.200 Oh, it's other semis.

00:10:13.420 Yeah, it's cars as well.

00:10:14.940 Semi trucks.

00:10:16.060 It's not like it used to be.

00:10:17.880 So the, because when I was growing up, I always felt like there was a strong sense of camaraderie.

00:10:21.800 You know, I grew up in my neighborhood.

00:10:23.240 Everybody had like a ham radio, you know, or a train.

00:10:26.700 What is it called?

00:10:27.800 CB.

00:10:28.220 Like a CB radio?

00:10:29.400 Yeah.

00:10:29.740 Yeah, we still got those.

00:10:30.620 So my mom used to date men that had CBs.

00:10:33.700 And so we always had CBs around.

00:10:35.040 Everybody in our neighborhood had a CB in their car.

00:10:37.060 Yeah.

00:10:37.380 So sometimes if you weren't doing anything, you just go sit in your car and just talk to people

00:10:41.260 going by on the interstate.

00:10:42.660 Oh, it's not like it no more.

00:10:44.180 And you would see, it would seem like there was a lot of camaraderie between the truckers

00:10:47.780 out there.

00:10:48.180 It's, it's not.

00:10:49.180 You could know.

00:10:49.820 You could actually be coming up on traffic.

00:10:51.900 It's stopping.

00:10:52.740 Back bumper to bumper.

00:10:53.800 All you see is brake lights.

00:10:55.880 And you'll get on the radio and be like, hey, has anybody got their ears on?

00:10:59.080 Let me know what's going on up there.

00:11:00.780 Well, can't you read the goddamn sign?

00:11:02.760 It was only about 10 miles back.

00:11:04.800 And it's like, shut the fuck up.

00:11:08.900 I just asked a simple question.

00:11:10.860 You, you know, and it starts getting heated.

00:11:13.340 Really?

00:11:13.800 Yeah.

00:11:14.140 Yeah.

00:11:14.820 And I told Jeffrey, I said, my son, I got the benefit, you know, it's like you, I've been

00:11:20.180 in the truck before and honestly be holding a steering wheel.

00:11:22.260 I got the power and turn it off.

00:11:24.760 Oh, you can just shut it down.

00:11:25.920 I have to listen to you bitch.

00:11:28.700 I turn this thing off, you know, and it's, it's, the people are rude, you know, just rude.

00:11:34.660 So there's not a sense of camaraderie.

00:11:36.460 There's not as much of a sense of camaraderie.

00:11:37.420 It's almost cutthroat anymore.

00:11:40.000 And I didn't see that when I was a kid, when my dad was driving.

00:11:43.140 Cause back then we were allowed as kids, me and my two brothers, we would climb in the

00:11:47.780 back seat of the, or the back bed of the pickup truck, ride down I-65 to Deems Lake in

00:11:53.940 Indiana, go swimming and stuff and get back in the, you know, in the pickup and ride

00:11:58.900 back, you know, do all this to all these trucks, you know, hey.

00:12:03.020 It was part of life.

00:12:03.840 Yeah.

00:12:04.340 You don't hardly see that anymore.

00:12:06.600 And then people cutting you off all the time.

00:12:09.580 But no, you got to think of it.

00:12:11.440 My teacher told me this when I was in school, every vehicle, whether it's a semi, a car,

00:12:17.040 motorcycle, whatever, picture little kids in it.

00:12:20.600 So that, that gets drilled in your head.

00:12:24.560 Like it's almost like a mental picture you have right off the bat.

00:12:27.680 But if them little kids is assholes, if they're on their candles.

00:12:30.360 Oh yeah.

00:12:30.880 I've seen them, you know, you know, and, and like pick their nose, throw boogers at,

00:12:36.240 you know, they're, it can be mean, but most of the time the little kids are just got the

00:12:40.460 little fist going, you know, and you're just laying on, I've scared the shit out of bus

00:12:44.480 drivers.

00:12:45.260 Oh yeah.

00:12:45.800 That's fun.

00:12:46.400 It is?

00:12:46.920 Yeah.

00:12:47.120 What kind of bus are you talking?

00:12:48.020 Are we talking Greyhound or are we talking just a-

00:12:49.820 School bus.

00:12:50.240 Oh yeah.

00:12:50.720 Anybody could do that.

00:12:51.260 With little kids.

00:12:51.960 You got a whole row of little kids all grinning at you, staring out the window.

00:12:57.020 You're riding right alongside of them, you know, and you're a woman too.

00:13:00.300 So little kids, you know, kind of just little, little more.

00:13:03.140 Yeah.

00:13:03.480 And I'm just giving that horn hell, you know, entertaining them.

00:13:07.020 And the whole time the bus driver's like, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit.

00:13:10.980 I was like, oh, sorry, sorry, you know, going past her waving.

00:13:16.800 And then finally she ride up alongside of you, she'll toot her horn.

00:13:19.900 Oh yeah.

00:13:20.400 Yeah.

00:13:20.940 Yeah.

00:13:21.460 The kids are having a ball, so.

00:13:23.300 Do some trucks have better horns than others?

00:13:25.680 Actually, let's go to this question.

00:13:27.000 We got a question right here that came in from a fellow that's staying safe.

00:13:31.140 What's up, Theo Vaughn.

00:13:32.440 It's Bradley Mal.

00:13:33.300 Real Nick Davis.

00:13:34.180 This is Jordan from up in Portland.

00:13:35.660 Sorry about the face mask.

00:13:36.700 My server's about to be here to take my order.

00:13:38.760 Or got a question for the truck driver.

00:13:41.400 This signal here, do you recognize that?

00:13:43.460 When I was a kid, we used to do it all the time to give the semi-truck drivers a honk

00:13:46.880 to their horns.

00:13:47.540 Do you see that anymore?

00:13:48.720 I haven't really seen kids doing that these days.

00:13:50.920 I haven't done it, so let me know.

00:13:52.920 Thank you for your service.

00:13:54.000 Appreciate you.

00:13:54.700 Gang, gang.

00:13:55.700 Gang.

00:13:56.320 Yeah, we don't see a lot of, I'm not on the roads that much.

00:13:59.440 Right.

00:13:59.600 So when I used to drive to the comedy club, you know, have to drive around to them and

00:14:02.920 stuff, I would be on the roads a lot, you know.

00:14:05.060 So I'm not on the roads as much.

00:14:06.640 But that's a good question.

00:14:07.480 Do you still see it?

00:14:08.760 Sometimes, yeah.

00:14:10.720 And I've actually had adults that have rolled along, young adults that have rolled up alongside

00:14:16.660 of me and get me to do that.

00:14:18.040 And they'll start clapping and they're like, yeah, yeah.

00:14:20.880 It's like, yeah.

00:14:22.040 Just reliving their past a little?

00:14:23.560 Yeah, I guess.

00:14:24.760 That or just, you know, like, actually like to hear the air horns blow.

00:14:28.680 Yeah.

00:14:29.420 Because it's a lot different than the city horn.

00:14:31.280 It's toot, toot.

00:14:32.880 So what the hell is that?

00:14:34.520 So you have different horns in there?

00:14:35.820 Two.

00:14:36.240 Okay, take me through that.

00:14:37.240 One's an air horn.

00:14:38.380 That's the string one that you pull.

00:14:40.000 Okay.

00:14:40.500 That's the super lap.

00:14:41.400 Is it a real string?

00:14:41.720 What does that look like?

00:14:42.120 Yeah, it's a string.

00:14:43.080 Okay.

00:14:43.460 And it just pulls it.

00:14:44.540 I guess it releases from the, what do you call them?

00:14:50.480 Hydraulics.

00:14:51.200 Yeah.

00:14:51.440 And it just blows through and it creates like a train sound.

00:14:55.780 It sounds like a train engine.

00:14:57.220 Okay.

00:14:57.720 Oh, cool.

00:15:00.320 How many, are there a lot of women out there in the sport?

00:15:03.200 No.

00:15:04.280 I've seen more since I was a kid, but it's still like a 50 to one ratio.

00:15:09.740 Wow.

00:15:10.080 It's still over, you know, it's men dominated.

00:15:13.500 That's just the way it is.

00:15:14.640 You're going to do it.

00:15:15.280 You're going to have to blend in with them.

00:15:17.040 You have to.

00:15:17.980 And what does that mean when you say blend in with them?

00:15:21.040 Well, do you mind the story?

00:15:23.480 No.

00:15:23.660 A little story?

00:15:24.540 I've got time for it.

00:15:25.940 Example.

00:15:26.820 To blend in, you would take, you know, like things that they say as insults, cry about

00:15:33.900 it, get upset, you know, kind of pucker up like a girl, you know, mousy.

00:15:37.780 Why did you say that?

00:15:39.480 What?

00:15:40.120 There's no room for that.

00:15:41.060 Right.

00:15:42.400 There's not.

00:15:43.380 And, you know, I'm walking up to the truck stop and I was getting fuel.

00:15:46.600 I wanted to get some coffee, so I walk in and this big guy opens up the door for me

00:15:51.360 and he's like, nice tits.

00:15:53.120 And I looked over at him and I was like, nice tits.

00:15:56.340 And I walked in as he had bigger boobs than I did.

00:15:58.900 Oh, he did?

00:15:59.640 Yeah.

00:15:59.960 He had some freaking heaters on him, huh?

00:16:02.220 Yeah, I have to do that to, like, I'm walking out with hot dogs.

00:16:07.200 And this guy's like, you want to come in and see my hot dog?

00:16:10.400 I got a hot dog for you.

00:16:11.660 And I was like, well, you shut the hell up.

00:16:14.040 I said, I'm going to go eat my lunch before I throw up on it.

00:16:16.760 And then just went to my truck and ate my hot dogs.

00:16:20.180 Now, part of it's obviously that's messed up.

00:16:22.440 But at the same time, part of it's kind of funny, you know, a little bit.

00:16:24.600 Yeah, it is funny.

00:16:25.680 And you people watch a lot, too.

00:16:27.440 Especially when you're sitting, you got a 10-hour break.

00:16:29.800 You can drive 14 hours.

00:16:32.240 11 of that's driving.

00:16:33.380 Three hours is on-duty not driving.

00:16:36.040 Okay, so what does that mean?

00:16:36.960 Take me through some of that.

00:16:38.120 So the rule is you can drive for how long?

00:16:40.700 11 hours.

00:16:41.560 11 hours straight.

00:16:42.780 No, no.

00:16:43.920 Yeah, you can drive up to eight.

00:16:46.240 But before the eight, you have to take a 30-minute break.

00:16:49.260 Okay.

00:16:49.960 Before the eight.

00:16:51.060 Once you've took your 30-minute break, it'll reset it to where that you've got extra time to drive.

00:16:55.820 Mm-hmm.

00:16:56.320 And you usually approximately have maybe four to five more to drive, and you're done.

00:17:00.980 And it can't total any more than 14.

00:17:03.980 That's on-duty, not driving.

00:17:06.200 It's usually like fueling, washing your truck windshield off, or any repairs that might be needed.

00:17:12.340 That's on-duty.

00:17:13.620 Okay.

00:17:13.900 And so you'll take, so you might drive seven hours, and there's five hours, and then say,

00:17:17.800 okay, I'm going to take my half-hour break.

00:17:19.180 Yes.

00:17:19.560 I'm going to take a half-hour break now.

00:17:20.980 Yes.

00:17:21.420 And then how much more can you drive for you to take another break?

00:17:24.460 You'll only be allowed maybe five, maybe six more.

00:17:27.380 It just depends on, you know, how you run before.

00:17:30.340 And once that happens, you have to take a 10-hour break.

00:17:34.980 Okay.

00:17:35.460 So I'm just going to, just because I'm not good at a lot, so I'm going to ask again.

00:17:39.660 So out of 14 hours, you can only drive 11 of them.

00:17:44.440 And then after that 14-hour space, you have to take a 10-hour break.

00:17:49.060 Yes.

00:17:49.340 Okay.

00:17:49.980 So within 14 hours, you need to take three hours break.

00:17:52.780 Yes.

00:17:53.100 Total.

00:17:53.580 Total.

00:17:54.000 And then after that, you need to take a 10-hour break.

00:17:56.860 Yes.

00:17:57.280 Okay.

00:17:57.880 And do you, is that good because you're glad to have the breaks, or is it bad because you're

00:18:03.780 trying to make time?

00:18:05.180 No.

00:18:05.640 When you take your 30-minute break, that's actually, you know, you can break any time you want,

00:18:10.400 actually.

00:18:11.120 Like sometimes I'll stop after I've drove about four hours, and I'll take a 15-minute break just

00:18:16.700 to stretch my legs, get out, walk, you know, maybe get a drink or pee, and then get back

00:18:22.500 in the truck.

00:18:23.060 You drive another, say, three and a half more hours before the eight's up, and I'll take

00:18:28.060 a 30.

00:18:28.420 That's when I'll have my lunch, or I'll play a video game on my phone, or just, you know,

00:18:34.580 just walk around, anything.

00:18:36.560 Oh, because before eight hours, you have to also take a break?

00:18:39.100 Yeah.

00:18:39.660 Yeah.

00:18:40.060 You have to.

00:18:40.980 Okay.

00:18:41.360 That's the law required.

00:18:42.560 It has to be a 30-minute break.

00:18:44.260 Okay.

00:18:44.560 So within every 14 hours, you can only drive 11.

00:18:47.560 Right.

00:18:48.020 And every eight hours, you have to take a break.

00:18:50.320 Yes.

00:18:50.860 I got it.

00:18:51.400 Yes.

00:18:52.280 Then once you pull over for the night, and it's time to take your 10-hour break, you can

00:18:57.040 rest area or truck stop.

00:18:59.120 There's times when I've pulled over onto a ramp, you know, as you're getting back on the interstate.

00:19:05.580 And that way, when I wake up, I can just take off and go.

00:19:10.020 Yeah.

00:19:10.160 A lot of times, yeah, you will see trucks that are just right there on the side.

00:19:12.780 I always wonder what's going on.

00:19:14.440 Yeah.

00:19:14.540 I usually thought sex or drugs.

00:19:16.120 No.

00:19:17.400 No.

00:19:18.280 Not for me.

00:19:19.300 I'll pull my curtains.

00:19:21.120 I got the truck running.

00:19:22.100 I have to set my temperature where I want it, you know, especially like I like the AC on.

00:19:26.960 So I'll dim all my lights inside and make sure my doors are locked.

00:19:30.860 And depending on the area, sometimes I'll actually like use my seatbelt, latch it over

00:19:35.920 the door handle, and lock it.

00:19:37.540 Oh, I like that.

00:19:37.980 So you can't open the door no matter what you do.

00:19:40.660 Yeah.

00:19:41.280 And then once that, you get back here, you pull the curtain, pull back my covers.

00:19:46.080 I got my microwave.

00:19:47.100 I got a Keurig for coffee.

00:19:48.720 I got a TV set up in there.

00:19:50.720 Put DVDs in it.

00:19:51.900 Or I've got a cord that hooks up to my iPhone.

00:19:54.820 And I can watch movies.

00:19:56.380 Oh, wow.

00:19:56.660 Yeah, I got home movies in a little cabinet that I can watch, and I'll sit back here and

00:20:01.260 eat, you know, smoke a cigarette, watch TV, and set my alarm, go to bed.

00:20:06.780 That's it.

00:20:07.680 And so now are there times that you will, so I'm guessing that your truck has a facility,

00:20:12.940 a space in there you can get some rest.

00:20:14.360 Oh, yeah.

00:20:15.340 Plenty.

00:20:16.100 It's actually got bunk beds in there.

00:20:17.900 Okay.

00:20:18.360 The bottom one is like a full to twin.

00:20:21.380 Can you pull that up for us on Freightliner Cabin?

00:20:23.420 Or what would we bring up, you think?

00:20:24.580 Oh, just an inside cab, Freightliner, and look up maybe bunk or sleeper berth.

00:20:31.600 That actually would be better.

00:20:33.340 Look up sleeper berth.

00:20:35.340 And it'll show you, it's because you got a bed up the top that you can fold back against

00:20:38.920 the wall if you're not using it.

00:20:41.240 So it leaves that space open for you.

00:20:43.600 Or you could pull it down if you had somebody with you and you stop, you let them hang out

00:20:48.320 up there and sleep.

00:20:49.460 But you don't put them up there while you're driving.

00:20:51.480 Right.

00:20:52.000 Because they could actually fall out.

00:20:53.360 Yeah, that sounded a little risky.

00:20:54.760 Now, which one of these do you think seems like yours here, Ginger?

00:20:57.700 Okay, that's, see the bed with the red?

00:21:01.960 Yeah.

00:21:03.420 That's kind of, it's kind of like that inside.

00:21:05.760 Okay.

00:21:06.800 Because it's got the bunk beds and it's got cabinet space.

00:21:11.040 And then I've got a spot for the microwave, refrigerator's right underneath the vet.

00:21:16.280 Oh, yeah.

00:21:16.780 Yeah, it's nice.

00:21:18.080 You got enough room.

00:21:19.040 That's where I actually learned to dance for his wedding.

00:21:23.280 It was in my truck.

00:21:24.080 Really?

00:21:24.480 Yeah.

00:21:24.760 I couldn't be with him to, me and him to learn the dance together.

00:21:28.640 So I practiced inside of my truck.

00:21:31.380 So Jeff sent you a video and showed you how to do it?

00:21:33.660 Well, it was part of the movie Pulp Fiction.

00:21:36.640 Oh, wow.

00:21:37.200 Where John Travolta and, what's her name?

00:21:41.080 What's her name?

00:21:41.860 Shit.

00:21:42.440 Karen.

00:21:42.980 It was, yeah, Uma Thurman.

00:21:45.280 Uma Thurman.

00:21:45.900 Yeah, when they danced together in that restaurant they were at.

00:21:49.420 That's what me and him did as mother and son for his wedding.

00:21:52.220 So you learned that in your trucks.

00:21:53.200 You could stand up and learn that in there.

00:21:54.320 Oh, yeah.

00:21:54.780 There's enough room in that cab to do that.

00:21:57.320 And so now there's a lot of, oh, yeah, there it is right there.

00:21:59.920 That's cool.

00:22:00.620 Mm-hmm.

00:22:01.380 That's awesome, man.

00:22:02.140 And I was learning that in a truck because most of it is just a twist.

00:22:05.400 So you're not flailing yourself all over the place, you know.

00:22:09.220 You could get hurt in there.

00:22:10.420 Yeah.

00:22:11.920 Yeah, I could imagine that.

00:22:13.340 Yeah, and for people that don't know, your son is Jeff, right?

00:22:17.160 Yes.

00:22:17.880 And he came in the podcast a while back, Breasty Jeff, right?

00:22:20.380 And he had, I guess, just extra meat on his breast.

00:22:24.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:22:26.340 I hate it for him.

00:22:28.380 But hell, man, pretty cool, really, kind of, you know,

00:22:31.500 in some ways, but a really great guy.

00:22:33.200 And he's kept in touch with the podcast.

00:22:34.660 And it was awesome that he just kind of, he's like,

00:22:36.740 oh, I know a woman who would be perfect for this.

00:22:38.700 Yeah, he told me about it.

00:22:40.280 And I was just ecstatic.

00:22:41.700 I was like, really?

00:22:43.260 Me?

00:22:44.060 You know, because you kind of like the,

00:22:46.180 you feel like the little kid at the school.

00:22:48.660 Somebody picked me?

00:22:50.220 It's me?

00:22:51.160 Cool.

00:22:52.240 It's cool.

00:22:52.880 Yeah, my mom is, my mom delivers now just for Amazon.

00:22:55.840 And, but she's always been like a hard worker, you know,

00:22:58.320 always been, you know, did her own thing, you know,

00:23:01.280 wanted to work for herself.

00:23:02.940 And it seemed like you kind of have some of that attitude,

00:23:05.200 you know?

00:23:05.660 Well, I like the trucking thing.

00:23:07.160 You do?

00:23:07.680 Yeah.

00:23:08.300 But I started it a little later than most.

00:23:11.560 Because you wanted to have children first?

00:23:12.780 Yeah, well, I had my kids first,

00:23:14.840 and that was the most important thing.

00:23:16.460 And what did you,

00:23:17.120 what were you doing during those years?

00:23:18.900 Staying home and trying to maintain the bills

00:23:21.720 and taking care of them.

00:23:23.400 And it was, it was good.

00:23:25.900 It was financially tough as hell.

00:23:27.860 Yeah.

00:23:27.960 You know, being pretty much single.

00:23:30.100 But it, it, it got by.

00:23:31.820 We got by.

00:23:32.740 So.

00:23:33.400 Yeah.

00:23:33.660 And then I told them, I was like,

00:23:34.820 when I get, you know, stable, things will be better.

00:23:37.940 And it has been.

00:23:38.880 Money's great.

00:23:40.560 It's a good job.

00:23:41.520 Oh, yeah.

00:23:42.180 Yeah.

00:23:43.020 $1,200 a week.

00:23:44.620 Bring home after taxes.

00:23:46.420 Oh, wow.

00:23:46.780 That's great.

00:23:47.260 It's nice money.

00:23:48.180 Yeah.

00:23:48.480 Yeah.

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00:26:51.400 We admire hardworking women on this podcast.

00:26:55.240 I do work myself.

00:26:56.040 Yeah.

00:26:56.600 So where do you think that work ethic came from, you think?

00:27:00.080 Actually, not having nothing.

00:27:03.200 Yeah?

00:27:03.840 Yeah.

00:27:04.560 Nothing gets handed to you.

00:27:06.160 Yeah.

00:27:06.320 And if it does, there's a catch to it.

00:27:08.000 Oh, there always is in there.

00:27:09.320 Yeah.

00:27:09.760 There's always that catch.

00:27:11.320 So for me to have something, got to work.

00:27:15.580 And once they were old enough

00:27:16.780 and I didn't need babysitters

00:27:18.100 and diapers and bottles,

00:27:21.140 and they could pretty much,

00:27:22.180 once they're in high school,

00:27:23.000 take care of themselves.

00:27:23.860 Oh, once they can make a pot of macaroni,

00:27:25.660 you can get what you want to do.

00:27:26.520 Well, he's a good cook.

00:27:27.560 My oldest boy, Jeff, he's a good cook.

00:27:29.020 He is?

00:27:29.480 Yes, he is.

00:27:31.140 So he, you know, he helped out a lot too.

00:27:33.420 So, yeah, it went good.

00:27:35.280 That's cool.

00:27:35.960 Yeah.

00:27:36.860 Was there another line of work

00:27:38.180 that you wanted to get into?

00:27:39.060 It was always trucking.

00:27:39.760 I know you mentioned that from growing up.

00:27:41.300 You said from your dad was in the business.

00:27:44.620 Was there another line of work

00:27:45.800 that you thought about?

00:27:46.700 Not really.

00:27:47.600 Yeah.

00:27:47.740 I did try a concrete mixer.

00:27:50.820 You drove one of those?

00:27:51.740 Yeah.

00:27:52.220 And it didn't go very well.

00:27:53.420 Why?

00:27:53.580 I started in November.

00:27:55.520 And the old chutes that you use

00:27:58.180 to let the concrete roll down

00:28:00.400 were like 45 pounds a piece.

00:28:03.720 So you had to hook them?

00:28:04.980 Yeah.

00:28:05.400 And you pick up each one.

00:28:06.740 There's four.

00:28:07.740 And what I'd have to do is like

00:28:09.240 set it down long ways,

00:28:10.880 drop down to my knees,

00:28:12.160 let it drop on my shoulder,

00:28:13.860 then kind of stand up from a squat

00:28:15.600 and then walk it across

00:28:17.320 and hook it

00:28:17.940 and then do each one that way.

00:28:19.900 And then I had to learn

00:28:20.960 how to back up the truck

00:28:22.060 and work the chute

00:28:23.540 at the same time

00:28:24.440 without overloading

00:28:25.420 or spilling concrete.

00:28:27.020 Damn.

00:28:27.620 The people that are working by the hour,

00:28:30.160 sweetest people ever.

00:28:31.100 Take your time.

00:28:31.800 Take your time.

00:28:32.420 We're good.

00:28:32.900 Yeah.

00:28:33.440 But the white collar

00:28:34.820 that was actually like

00:28:36.440 the suit and tie people

00:28:37.960 standing there watching you,

00:28:39.180 you spill a drop

00:28:40.600 and you're a piece of shit.

00:28:43.340 Get the hell out of here.

00:28:44.500 You don't know what you're doing.

00:28:45.320 Dang, that's just...

00:28:47.320 And so you just pull up

00:28:48.140 to job sites

00:28:48.800 where it's been ordered.

00:28:49.780 Yes.

00:28:50.220 The concrete

00:28:50.580 and you say,

00:28:51.340 look, I got this load.

00:28:52.360 We're ready to rock.

00:28:52.940 Pouring footers

00:28:53.520 to a personal person's driveway

00:28:56.480 or sidewalk.

00:28:58.760 So now,

00:28:59.560 what was the first one you said?

00:29:01.220 Which?

00:29:01.760 Not the sidewalk,

00:29:03.040 the other one.

00:29:03.760 Oh, the driveways.

00:29:05.240 People's personal driveways

00:29:06.820 or their little garages

00:29:08.200 or footers at buildings.

00:29:09.940 Okay.

00:29:10.180 Like they're getting ready

00:29:10.760 to start a big mall

00:29:11.800 or something.

00:29:12.320 And there's some tubes

00:29:13.760 that go in the ground

00:29:14.720 and you got to be filled

00:29:15.520 with concrete.

00:29:16.420 Yeah.

00:29:17.100 Dang.

00:29:17.700 So you could handle those.

00:29:18.860 So are there some jobs

00:29:19.860 you couldn't handle

00:29:20.460 with concrete

00:29:20.840 where it's like

00:29:21.220 they needed like

00:29:21.780 part of a wall done?

00:29:22.620 Yeah, when somebody

00:29:23.520 ordered some concrete,

00:29:25.080 I was actually there for this.

00:29:27.400 There was another concrete truck

00:29:28.840 that beat us to the place

00:29:29.800 and it was in a residential area.

00:29:31.600 He drives into their yard

00:29:32.980 and sinks.

00:29:34.180 Damn.

00:29:34.800 Yeah.

00:29:35.460 So all the concrete,

00:29:36.640 it sunk up to the tank.

00:29:38.420 So the tank couldn't stir.

00:29:40.980 And if it can't stir,

00:29:41.900 then the concrete will sit.

00:29:43.220 Damn.

00:29:43.820 Well, it's set in the truck.

00:29:45.280 So all that got wasted.

00:29:46.960 They'd have to jackhammer

00:29:48.060 all that out of there.

00:29:49.040 Really?

00:29:49.500 Then they had to call

00:29:50.140 a tow truck

00:29:50.660 to get the truck pulled

00:29:52.040 out of this person's yard

00:29:53.660 that they damaged.

00:29:55.420 He's fired.

00:29:56.160 Yeah.

00:29:57.080 Damn.

00:29:58.280 Yeah, it seemed like

00:29:58.900 a lot of extra risk

00:30:00.220 on that job.

00:30:00.820 And there's just

00:30:01.320 so many other variables

00:30:02.460 where you could,

00:30:03.220 you know,

00:30:03.920 lose your nut for the day,

00:30:05.200 you know?

00:30:05.480 Oh, yeah.

00:30:06.400 Yeah, it's one mistake.

00:30:08.080 I mean,

00:30:08.700 a heavy truck like that

00:30:09.600 with having it liquid in it,

00:30:11.060 there's that surge.

00:30:12.660 You know,

00:30:13.040 you make a turn

00:30:13.700 and it'll surge to the right.

00:30:15.420 Oh, because of that volume

00:30:16.720 of that.

00:30:17.240 Surge to the left.

00:30:17.820 The weight of that.

00:30:18.400 Yeah.

00:30:18.580 Of that scene that's moving.

00:30:19.400 You go to stop

00:30:19.720 and it'll push the truck forward.

00:30:21.560 Yeah.

00:30:22.100 Crazy.

00:30:22.620 Yeah.

00:30:22.900 Damn,

00:30:23.180 it almost makes me damn erect.

00:30:24.460 That sounds freaking

00:30:25.200 kind of sexy.

00:30:26.120 Was it a little?

00:30:28.020 No,

00:30:28.600 I actually like the semis

00:30:29.740 because in November

00:30:31.280 when you start out

00:30:32.240 and you're like spraying

00:30:33.100 the truck down

00:30:33.860 and it's November,

00:30:35.840 you're getting wet.

00:30:36.640 I don't care where

00:30:37.580 the fuck you stand.

00:30:38.460 They'll say,

00:30:38.820 oh, downwind.

00:30:39.700 I'll say,

00:30:39.960 yeah,

00:30:40.180 okay,

00:30:40.580 whatever.

00:30:41.540 You got to get back

00:30:42.520 in the truck.

00:30:43.080 You peel all your clothes off.

00:30:44.340 You put them on top

00:30:45.020 of the heaters

00:30:45.660 and you got to let them warm

00:30:47.500 and dry out

00:30:48.820 before you get

00:30:49.400 to the next stop.

00:30:50.920 And this is in a rig,

00:30:51.700 huh?

00:30:52.200 That's in the semi,

00:30:53.480 or the concrete.

00:30:54.200 Semic mixer.

00:30:54.900 Yeah.

00:30:55.200 Okay.

00:30:55.740 And so you'll just

00:30:56.280 drive in your underwear?

00:30:58.420 You could,

00:30:59.280 but now.

00:31:00.200 Put a t-shirt on

00:31:00.880 or something?

00:31:01.280 Yeah.

00:31:01.680 Yeah.

00:31:02.000 You have to.

00:31:02.880 You have to

00:31:03.540 because I've sat

00:31:04.560 and drove in my pajamas

00:31:05.440 and the old school

00:31:07.020 truck drivers

00:31:07.680 get pissed off

00:31:08.400 about that.

00:31:09.140 Really?

00:31:09.580 Oh, yeah.

00:31:10.300 You're supposed to be

00:31:11.160 in blue jeans

00:31:11.880 and cowboy boots

00:31:13.900 and a tucked in

00:31:15.000 flannel shirt.

00:31:16.300 Now,

00:31:16.540 is that an actual

00:31:17.280 protocol you're

00:31:17.880 supposed to be in?

00:31:18.460 For,

00:31:18.740 oh,

00:31:18.900 no,

00:31:19.300 no,

00:31:19.640 it's just the older

00:31:20.360 school,

00:31:20.760 the older guys,

00:31:21.920 the older ones

00:31:22.360 that's been driving

00:31:22.880 40 and 50 years.

00:31:23.960 You know,

00:31:24.840 that's the way

00:31:25.300 that they did it.

00:31:26.040 That's the way

00:31:26.400 you should do it.

00:31:27.200 You know,

00:31:27.860 too many people

00:31:28.500 out here

00:31:28.820 wearing pajamas.

00:31:30.040 Yeah.

00:31:30.320 You know.

00:31:31.040 Somebody out here

00:31:31.500 in damn Pokemon

00:31:32.280 freaking onesie.

00:31:33.540 Exactly.

00:31:34.100 That ain't a real trucker.

00:31:35.400 Flip flops

00:31:35.960 and pajama bottoms

00:31:37.140 and,

00:31:37.540 you know,

00:31:38.360 or they'll come out

00:31:39.140 with a.

00:31:39.920 Eating caviar.

00:31:40.840 That ain't a real damn trucker.

00:31:42.020 I've seen this lady

00:31:43.540 get out of a truck

00:31:44.440 one time

00:31:44.940 and I don't know

00:31:45.820 how in the hell

00:31:46.400 she drove like that.

00:31:48.160 Her fingernails

00:31:49.240 were like

00:31:50.200 three inches long.

00:31:51.480 Damn.

00:31:52.080 She had on

00:31:52.580 all this jewelry.

00:31:53.880 She had this huge weave.

00:31:55.540 She had on this

00:31:55.960 fancy white outfit.

00:31:57.620 The whole outfit

00:31:58.420 was white.

00:31:59.260 Oh,

00:31:59.540 wow.

00:31:59.920 You got to reach

00:32:00.500 under the fifth wheel.

00:32:01.620 You've got to touch

00:32:02.600 greasy,

00:32:03.260 dirty shit.

00:32:04.580 And it's like,

00:32:05.100 how in the hell

00:32:06.160 is he?

00:32:07.120 High heels

00:32:08.000 that look like

00:32:08.640 they're six inch

00:32:09.780 spike boots.

00:32:10.720 How could you do that?

00:32:11.680 You can't.

00:32:12.600 Yeah.

00:32:14.320 I wear tennis shoes

00:32:15.660 like these.

00:32:16.720 Maybe she had

00:32:17.160 a sidekick with her.

00:32:18.100 She got out

00:32:19.620 of the truck

00:32:19.880 by herself.

00:32:21.340 You know,

00:32:21.900 usually you'll see

00:32:22.740 somebody in the passenger

00:32:23.600 seat or you'll see

00:32:25.040 the truck move around

00:32:25.860 if there's somebody

00:32:26.440 in the cab.

00:32:27.220 Okay.

00:32:27.640 You know,

00:32:27.940 but you didn't.

00:32:28.880 She just got out

00:32:29.760 and I was like,

00:32:30.360 ooh,

00:32:30.580 fancy pants.

00:32:31.940 All righty then.

00:32:33.840 Now,

00:32:34.400 are there some fancy

00:32:35.340 ladies out there

00:32:36.100 on the circuit?

00:32:36.760 What do you guys

00:32:37.180 call it?

00:32:37.520 The circuit?

00:32:39.060 When you're out,

00:32:39.840 you know,

00:32:40.080 just out the run?

00:32:41.020 Like when you're

00:32:41.440 out on the

00:32:42.060 When you're on route.

00:32:43.960 OTR or just,

00:32:45.000 yeah,

00:32:45.280 what do you call it?

00:32:46.580 It's just hauling

00:32:48.260 and you're in route.

00:32:50.300 You got destinations

00:32:51.600 such as,

00:32:52.500 you know,

00:32:53.420 your pickups

00:32:54.080 and deliveries

00:32:54.720 and,

00:32:56.000 you know,

00:32:56.140 you'll deliver here

00:32:57.000 and then you'll go

00:32:57.600 somewhere else

00:32:58.280 clean,

00:32:58.560 clear across the country

00:32:59.460 to pick up.

00:33:00.620 You know,

00:33:01.160 that's deadheading.

00:33:02.000 That's empty.

00:33:02.840 Okay.

00:33:03.240 And then you'll go

00:33:03.840 pick up there

00:33:04.640 and then you could

00:33:05.220 deliver somewhere else

00:33:06.520 or we bring it

00:33:07.760 to the yard sometimes

00:33:08.780 and just drop it

00:33:09.720 for the local guy

00:33:10.580 to take it.

00:33:11.160 And what's the yard?

00:33:11.820 Prison you mean?

00:33:12.660 No.

00:33:14.020 No,

00:33:14.500 it's the yard's

00:33:15.580 like where our company is.

00:33:17.380 That's where our trailers are.

00:33:18.880 Our trucks are all at

00:33:19.900 where the office is.

00:33:21.100 The shop

00:33:21.880 where they fix the trucks.

00:33:23.260 Oh,

00:33:23.440 that's cool.

00:33:23.840 We call it the yard.

00:33:24.840 Yeah.

00:33:25.000 Man,

00:33:25.160 I bet my mom

00:33:25.700 would have loved

00:33:26.420 doing that job.

00:33:27.480 She just likes

00:33:28.000 working for herself.

00:33:29.000 She likes,

00:33:29.640 you know,

00:33:30.540 like.

00:33:31.040 I do too.

00:33:31.940 Yeah.

00:33:32.140 Not having a ball

00:33:33.260 standing over top

00:33:34.100 maybe 24 hours a day.

00:33:35.440 Yeah.

00:33:36.100 You know,

00:33:36.540 worrying about what you're doing,

00:33:37.620 where you're at,

00:33:38.120 when you're coming in.

00:33:39.300 Yeah.

00:33:39.720 Yeah.

00:33:40.100 Is there a level of proof

00:33:41.420 in your line of work

00:33:42.780 that like I want to prove

00:33:43.800 to men that I can do this

00:33:44.900 or it has nothing to do with it?

00:33:45.740 Oh, you're awesome.

00:33:46.220 Yeah.

00:33:46.660 Yeah.

00:33:47.080 Yes.

00:33:47.700 Yes.

00:33:49.320 Women have it,

00:33:50.280 I think,

00:33:50.920 in my opinion,

00:33:51.780 a little harder

00:33:52.660 because we have to prove

00:33:54.600 that we can drive.

00:33:56.220 Right.

00:33:56.620 Which has notoriously

00:33:58.380 been misproven by women.

00:34:00.340 Yeah, right, right.

00:34:00.900 Especially in semi-trucks.

00:34:02.060 I mean,

00:34:02.200 we get picked on

00:34:02.780 for driving cars.

00:34:03.400 Oh, especially in South Korea,

00:34:04.800 actually, also.

00:34:07.920 Are there any,

00:34:09.180 and I'll just ask point blank

00:34:10.460 because that's all I know is,

00:34:12.060 but are there any

00:34:13.020 Asian truck drivers?

00:34:14.400 Have you seen any?

00:34:15.340 Men.

00:34:15.960 Yeah.

00:34:16.500 Men.

00:34:16.980 Praise God.

00:34:17.300 Never see Asian women driving.

00:34:20.700 Never.

00:34:21.260 Yeah, I think.

00:34:21.680 Always the men.

00:34:22.540 Always the men.

00:34:23.060 Yeah, and they're tiny.

00:34:24.220 Oh, yeah.

00:34:25.000 They're so tiny.

00:34:25.860 Little jockey,

00:34:26.560 little engine jockey.

00:34:27.300 Just little tiny guys.

00:34:28.160 Oh, yeah.

00:34:28.600 Little nine-pound fella.

00:34:29.820 Yeah.

00:34:30.500 Little chin-yam right here.

00:34:33.160 Little nine,

00:34:33.780 he weighs 19 pounds.

00:34:34.860 A little rice,

00:34:35.640 little rice bit, yeah.

00:34:37.020 Yeah, just cruising, yeah.

00:34:39.840 It's a pretty,

00:34:40.800 now,

00:34:41.320 I believe that

00:34:43.520 the truck industry

00:34:44.740 is getting pretty diverse.

00:34:45.680 There's a lot of

00:34:45.980 Middle Eastern truck drivers now.

00:34:47.300 Yes, there is.

00:34:48.480 Yeah, and

00:34:49.160 to be honest with you,

00:34:50.380 everybody that I have ever seen

00:34:52.500 are out there

00:34:53.780 that's different.

00:34:54.600 Mm-hmm.

00:34:55.280 You know,

00:34:55.680 the towels and the beards.

00:34:57.200 Mm-hmm.

00:34:57.580 You know,

00:34:57.780 that's not a terrorist.

00:34:58.700 That's a truck driver.

00:34:59.620 Right.

00:35:00.120 He's gotten out

00:35:00.800 and actually helped me before,

00:35:02.480 spot me in getting in the spot,

00:35:03.940 you know,

00:35:04.240 just by,

00:35:05.860 there was no word communication at all.

00:35:08.020 He's just helping me out.

00:35:09.920 Right.

00:35:10.220 I didn't ask him.

00:35:11.000 He just volunteered and done it.

00:35:12.520 Yeah.

00:35:13.060 I'm driving down the road,

00:35:13.900 I see them,

00:35:14.460 and they're like this,

00:35:15.280 just waving,

00:35:16.280 and it's like,

00:35:16.840 hey, what's up?

00:35:18.480 It's a pretty diverse sport,

00:35:20.000 though,

00:35:20.220 these days,

00:35:20.700 kind of.

00:35:21.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:35:21.820 Because you would think,

00:35:22.820 especially when I was growing up,

00:35:23.980 it seemed like it was a white man

00:35:25.480 kind of did it,

00:35:26.260 you know,

00:35:26.780 or black man,

00:35:28.200 white or black man did it.

00:35:29.060 You see a lot of black men driving.

00:35:31.020 I see some black women driving.

00:35:33.540 Yeah.

00:35:34.700 It's mostly white women driving

00:35:36.440 because you don't see

00:35:37.640 a lot of diverse women.

00:35:39.740 Right.

00:35:39.900 Different country women driving,

00:35:41.820 and it's usually just white.

00:35:43.260 Yeah.

00:35:43.940 Or black.

00:35:46.180 Well,

00:35:46.500 I remember two men,

00:35:47.340 they had a lot of...

00:35:47.980 Hispanics,

00:35:48.540 a lot of Hispanic drivers.

00:35:49.800 Oh, yeah, huh?

00:35:50.840 A whole lot.

00:35:52.780 And,

00:35:53.800 like I said,

00:35:54.860 a lot of foreign,

00:35:55.940 a lot of foreigners

00:35:56.640 that can't even speak English.

00:35:58.920 Like Middle Eastern guys?

00:36:00.020 Yeah.

00:36:00.480 Yeah.

00:36:00.820 Yeah.

00:36:01.240 Because I remember reading

00:36:02.060 an article a few years ago

00:36:03.680 that,

00:36:06.000 about the growing population

00:36:08.380 of Middle Eastern men

00:36:09.260 that were driving long haul.

00:36:11.120 Yeah.

00:36:11.340 And it was like,

00:36:12.020 oh,

00:36:12.180 that's interesting.

00:36:13.120 And I guess it was because

00:36:14.960 they also were buying

00:36:17.360 a lot of the service stations

00:36:18.780 and stuff as well.

00:36:20.000 So,

00:36:20.440 I think they're just,

00:36:21.660 you know,

00:36:22.020 one business kind of led

00:36:23.140 to the other maybe.

00:36:24.220 Oh,

00:36:24.400 yeah.

00:36:24.800 Yeah.

00:36:25.420 It could have possibly.

00:36:27.140 Let's take a question right here.

00:36:28.240 We got a question

00:36:28.700 from a beautiful young fellow

00:36:29.840 right here.

00:36:31.800 What's going on,

00:36:32.600 Theo?

00:36:33.020 Big fan.

00:36:33.740 Been listening for a while.

00:36:34.640 and I got a question

00:36:35.420 for the female trucker

00:36:36.820 across from you.

00:36:38.240 So,

00:36:38.460 MIT or somebody

00:36:39.240 did some sort of study

00:36:40.580 on female truckers

00:36:41.720 and found that

00:36:42.740 on a scale of one to ten,

00:36:44.800 they ranked 4.4

00:36:47.240 on how safe

00:36:48.260 they felt on the road.

00:36:49.720 So,

00:36:49.900 my question is,

00:36:51.120 what's the scariest

00:36:52.500 moment or interaction

00:36:54.100 you've had

00:36:54.820 as a female trucker?

00:36:57.440 That's a good question.

00:36:58.240 And how safe do you feel

00:36:59.220 on a scale of one to ten

00:37:00.120 on the road?

00:37:01.480 Big fan,

00:37:02.260 Theo.

00:37:02.920 Gang Gang,

00:37:03.500 Hong Kong,

00:37:04.640 gang brother.

00:37:06.180 That's crazy.

00:37:06.820 Two people did Hong Kong?

00:37:08.200 Yeah.

00:37:08.560 What are the odds of that?

00:37:09.540 Hong Kong.

00:37:10.160 Yeah.

00:37:11.820 That's a great question.

00:37:12.920 Yeah,

00:37:13.060 what's the safety like

00:37:14.140 out there?

00:37:15.160 It depends on where

00:37:16.540 you're at,

00:37:16.940 actually.

00:37:17.920 There's some places

00:37:18.820 the truck stops

00:37:19.480 that I've stopped at

00:37:20.360 and I didn't know it

00:37:21.300 at the time.

00:37:22.640 But,

00:37:23.440 I was told once I got back,

00:37:24.980 obviously it just didn't matter,

00:37:27.160 that I could have

00:37:28.520 got shot there.

00:37:29.880 Damn.

00:37:30.700 Mugged.

00:37:31.100 For being a female

00:37:31.960 or just anyone?

00:37:32.780 Just anyone,

00:37:33.260 but also a female.

00:37:35.100 That's the bigger target.

00:37:36.300 Right.

00:37:36.800 You're weak.

00:37:38.660 Defenseless.

00:37:40.000 You know.

00:37:40.360 Oh yeah,

00:37:40.640 if I see seven or eight people

00:37:41.800 out wandering around

00:37:43.280 at night

00:37:43.740 and one of them's a female,

00:37:45.420 I'm going to shoot the woman.

00:37:45.980 You know,

00:37:46.960 sometimes those drivers

00:37:48.060 actually think

00:37:48.900 that you are a lot lizard.

00:37:50.280 Oh yeah.

00:37:51.020 And you drive a truck.

00:37:52.040 Oh yeah.

00:37:52.580 Yeah.

00:37:53.440 But that would go

00:37:54.880 against the grain really

00:37:55.780 to be a lot lizard

00:37:56.520 that also drives

00:37:57.480 or do you think

00:37:57.980 they have that?

00:37:59.040 Yeah.

00:38:00.120 I think they do.

00:38:00.980 I've actually heard

00:38:01.780 about that.

00:38:02.500 Yeah.

00:38:02.780 That there are women

00:38:03.620 that will charge

00:38:04.480 to sleep around

00:38:06.140 in truck stops

00:38:07.180 while they're driving

00:38:07.960 and they're making

00:38:08.920 an extra buck

00:38:10.420 on the side.

00:38:11.280 Yeah.

00:38:11.780 Hell no.

00:38:12.720 I've seen some of the shit

00:38:13.640 walking around out there.

00:38:15.300 You wouldn't hook up

00:38:16.180 with it, huh?

00:38:16.820 Hell no.

00:38:17.660 No.

00:38:18.060 Now do they have a,

00:38:19.440 so you said,

00:38:20.320 so some of the truck stops

00:38:21.340 can be kind of shady.

00:38:22.360 Yes.

00:38:24.100 Is there a like,

00:38:26.140 do you feel,

00:38:28.080 like is there moments

00:38:28.940 where you feel like scared

00:38:30.100 like you go into a place,

00:38:31.820 it's nighttime,

00:38:33.420 you're walking back

00:38:34.300 to your truck.

00:38:34.960 Do you guys usually park

00:38:35.880 a distance away

00:38:36.920 from the service station?

00:38:39.020 Yes.

00:38:39.080 I try to keep

00:38:40.180 everything I need

00:38:41.020 in the truck.

00:38:42.100 So the only time

00:38:42.960 I have to get out

00:38:43.660 is for fuel

00:38:44.300 or if I have to do

00:38:45.460 a pre-trip

00:38:46.120 and you check your truck

00:38:48.060 before you go.

00:38:49.280 Now there's been times

00:38:50.420 that I've gotten out

00:38:51.280 and literally

00:38:52.040 been so scared

00:38:53.280 that I'd run back

00:38:54.760 before my pre-trip

00:38:55.700 was finished.

00:38:56.500 Just that creepy,

00:38:57.900 ominous gut feeling

00:38:59.660 that somebody's

00:39:00.480 watching you.

00:39:01.360 Yeah.

00:39:01.740 Now take me through

00:39:02.360 one more time

00:39:02.780 the pre-trip.

00:39:03.440 What is it?

00:39:04.020 It's when you get out

00:39:05.400 and your truck's running,

00:39:06.680 you check your oils,

00:39:07.980 you check all your fluids,

00:39:09.220 you make sure

00:39:10.260 your turning signals work.

00:39:11.380 You know,

00:39:11.840 the pressure in your tires,

00:39:13.660 make sure everything's

00:39:14.480 just smooth

00:39:15.340 and you walk it

00:39:16.840 and you make sure

00:39:17.740 your airlines are

00:39:18.480 all hooked up.

00:39:19.320 So you walk your truck,

00:39:19.960 you check everything?

00:39:20.840 Yes, everything.

00:39:21.800 Make sure the doors

00:39:22.480 are still locked

00:39:23.580 and loaded,

00:39:24.580 you know,

00:39:24.820 fastened

00:39:25.300 and then come back around

00:39:26.960 and once it's all done,

00:39:28.020 usually it takes

00:39:28.640 about 20 minutes.

00:39:29.720 Oh, wow.

00:39:30.280 Yeah.

00:39:30.780 So you want to check

00:39:31.500 everything.

00:39:31.820 Now do you use a pressure gauge

00:39:32.800 when you're checking the tires?

00:39:33.940 No, usually I'll just

00:39:34.940 thump them.

00:39:35.580 I'll take a hammer

00:39:36.560 and hit them.

00:39:37.560 Now you can tell

00:39:38.760 like the way it bounces off

00:39:40.160 that they're pretty full.

00:39:41.340 But if you hear a thud

00:39:42.860 and it doesn't bounce,

00:39:44.820 usually that means

00:39:45.700 it's flat

00:39:46.220 or it's going flat.

00:39:47.300 Okay.

00:39:47.920 So it's kind of like

00:39:48.740 what you look for.

00:39:49.620 And how many wheels

00:39:50.500 do you actually have on it?

00:39:51.560 18.

00:39:52.240 Damn.

00:39:53.560 18.

00:39:54.320 I knew it.

00:39:55.400 Oh, yeah.

00:39:55.980 Two steers.

00:39:57.460 So you got two,

00:39:58.720 four,

00:39:59.760 six,

00:40:00.160 eight drives

00:40:00.980 and then the rest

00:40:02.560 are all trailer.

00:40:04.180 So what do you mean?

00:40:04.980 So you got eight drives,

00:40:06.160 eight.

00:40:06.580 So it's an eight wheel.

00:40:08.260 Yeah.

00:40:08.800 So it's eight wheel drive.

00:40:09.740 Yeah.

00:40:10.660 Let's see.

00:40:11.120 Yeah.

00:40:11.420 It's one.

00:40:11.760 It's it's.

00:40:12.260 Yeah.

00:40:12.860 See,

00:40:13.240 one,

00:40:13.700 two,

00:40:14.220 three,

00:40:14.680 four.

00:40:18.300 I'm trying to think.

00:40:19.640 Yeah,

00:40:19.920 no,

00:40:20.140 it's tricky.

00:40:20.940 No,

00:40:21.400 it's if he could pull up

00:40:22.640 a picture of the trucks,

00:40:23.940 you can actually count

00:40:25.540 because it is 18 total.

00:40:28.040 But I'm trying to like,

00:40:28.880 I got a brain fart going on here.

00:40:31.220 Yeah,

00:40:31.400 there you go.

00:40:32.080 There was a perfect picture

00:40:33.640 right there.

00:40:34.340 Okay,

00:40:34.660 there's a bottom of this one.

00:40:35.940 Up there at the top.

00:40:37.100 Mm hmm.

00:40:38.520 Next to the red one.

00:40:39.660 There you go.

00:40:41.540 That's it.

00:40:42.840 So those are your.

00:40:44.420 Four.

00:40:45.060 Yeah,

00:40:45.380 you got you got the eight,

00:40:46.860 eight drives total drives.

00:40:48.080 Yes.

00:40:49.220 And the 10 are just trailer.

00:40:51.020 Yeah.

00:40:51.680 Wow.

00:40:53.020 So now if you take the trailer off,

00:40:54.800 then you're an eight wheeler.

00:40:56.160 Yeah.

00:40:59.300 No,

00:40:59.760 it's 10,

00:41:00.140 10 on the cab,

00:41:01.060 honey.

00:41:01.600 Oh,

00:41:01.760 it is.

00:41:02.220 Yeah.

00:41:02.600 10 total.

00:41:03.280 You got two in the front

00:41:04.500 and then eight in the back.

00:41:06.460 So it's 10 on the,

00:41:07.360 10 on the cab.

00:41:08.300 Okay.

00:41:08.620 So you got eight on the trailer.

00:41:10.540 Yeah.

00:41:10.740 I see.

00:41:10.980 That's where I was trying to think

00:41:12.020 something don't sound right.

00:41:13.180 Wait a minute.

00:41:13.600 Hang on.

00:41:13.900 Hang on.

00:41:14.300 Let me think.

00:41:14.860 Yeah.

00:41:15.200 I was thinking you had four in the front.

00:41:17.340 I'm yeah.

00:41:17.780 I really went wrong there.

00:41:19.180 Yeah.

00:41:19.460 Yeah.

00:41:19.660 You got two stairs.

00:41:20.600 Two up front and then eight on the back of the,

00:41:23.100 of the,

00:41:24.600 what is the whole front?

00:41:25.360 It's called a bobtail.

00:41:26.640 A bobtail.

00:41:27.400 Bobtail.

00:41:28.140 That's the,

00:41:28.660 that's your whole cab with no trailer.

00:41:30.600 Okay.

00:41:31.080 It's a bobtail.

00:41:31.700 So that's the bobtail.

00:41:32.400 Yeah.

00:41:32.640 Oh,

00:41:32.760 that's cool.

00:41:33.360 Yeah.

00:41:33.720 Okay.

00:41:34.020 So you get to a,

00:41:35.060 a service issue.

00:41:36.440 You do your pre,

00:41:37.140 pre trip.

00:41:38.360 So before you take off,

00:41:39.440 before you take off to what?

00:41:40.960 Leave or to go into the service station or whatever.

00:41:43.380 No,

00:41:43.700 it's before you leave.

00:41:44.920 Like if you're fixing to take off anywhere.

00:41:47.440 Okay.

00:41:47.700 Like you just got a new load.

00:41:49.300 You're getting ready to take off with you picked up or say you're waking up in the morning

00:41:53.220 after your 10 hour break.

00:41:54.700 That's when you really want to check it.

00:41:56.180 Cause there's people that will unhook your airlines while you're sleeping.

00:41:59.480 Damn.

00:41:59.580 Or they'll pull your fifth wheel pin.

00:42:01.640 Why?

00:42:02.300 And it's just to be a jerk.

00:42:03.760 And if they pull that pin and you take off and you ain't checked it,

00:42:06.900 your whole trailer will drop right off.

00:42:09.100 And your cables will still be hooked and rip.

00:42:10.480 Oh yeah.

00:42:10.980 They'll rip right out.

00:42:12.300 Yeah.

00:42:12.360 That happened to me at the gas station all the time.

00:42:13.740 I'll put that gas in,

00:42:14.820 fill that bastard up and take off,

00:42:17.100 baby.

00:42:17.300 It costs you $170.

00:42:18.760 Yeah.

00:42:19.400 I'll tell you that.

00:42:20.140 Praise God.

00:42:20.600 I've spent almost,

00:42:21.080 I've spent almost 800 ripping them bitches off and you don't get to keep the thing.

00:42:26.380 You got to give the thing back.

00:42:27.460 Yeah.

00:42:27.820 Yeah.

00:42:28.160 They always want that little,

00:42:29.360 uh,

00:42:29.640 pump thingy back.

00:42:31.020 Yeah.

00:42:31.300 And the hose.

00:42:32.660 Yeah.

00:42:32.840 They,

00:42:33.020 they went with it.

00:42:33.880 Yeah.

00:42:34.060 Oh,

00:42:34.300 just hateful,

00:42:34.940 man.

00:42:35.060 It's a big business.

00:42:35.760 You know,

00:42:36.160 we've seen trucks that like them so much.

00:42:37.800 They've took them with them too.

00:42:38.900 Oh yeah.

00:42:39.300 I can imagine.

00:42:40.280 We want a souvenir from the truck stop.

00:42:42.280 Yeah.

00:42:42.460 How long does it take to fill up a truck when you go to fill up gas?

00:42:47.540 And are y'all on diesel?

00:42:48.660 What are y'all running on?

00:42:49.160 Diesel fuel.

00:42:49.820 Okay.

00:42:50.220 Diesel fuel only.

00:42:51.200 And then you've got the death,

00:42:52.740 which is a diesel efficient fuel.

00:42:55.340 And it smells like cow piss.

00:42:56.940 Is it two different types of fuel?

00:42:58.580 Yeah.

00:42:59.240 Okay.

00:42:59.620 So tell me,

00:43:00.060 so tell me about that.

00:43:00.660 So you can't,

00:43:01.580 so can you pull into just like a Exxon and get some gas or no?

00:43:05.120 No.

00:43:05.420 Cause our company uses the points for pilots and flying J's.

00:43:09.020 Okay.

00:43:09.280 So you pull into those specific stations.

00:43:11.220 Yeah.

00:43:11.440 Well now if it's emergency fuel,

00:43:13.180 we can use a TA or Petro or a Loves,

00:43:15.640 but he prefers us using those.

00:43:18.640 Right.

00:43:18.900 Cause he gets extra bonus on the points.

00:43:20.940 Right.

00:43:21.040 So we go there and use those.

00:43:22.960 And it usually takes about,

00:43:25.520 about 10 minutes to fuel it up completely.

00:43:29.080 And I think it's a 250 gallons.

00:43:32.640 Yeah.

00:43:34.080 So dude,

00:43:34.880 if you get in an accident,

00:43:36.020 you're going to die.

00:43:36.820 Oh yeah.

00:43:37.200 You're going swimming in some diesel fuel.

00:43:39.180 Wow.

00:43:39.700 Yeah.

00:43:40.360 That's wild.

00:43:41.100 Yeah.

00:43:41.440 Um,

00:43:42.800 when you were,

00:43:43.680 do a lot of,

00:43:45.100 are there a lot of swingers out there on the road?

00:43:47.800 Because I would imagine couples go ride together sometimes.

00:43:52.060 Do you see that?

00:43:53.860 Yeah.

00:43:54.080 There's husband and wife teams a lot.

00:43:56.120 And like I had,

00:43:57.500 when I started,

00:43:58.180 I had male trainers.

00:43:59.740 Okay.

00:44:00.100 For me,

00:44:00.400 it was easier just to listen to a guy.

00:44:03.100 Mm-hmm.

00:44:03.540 You know,

00:44:04.160 I don't think two girls cooped up in a truck is a good idea.

00:44:07.180 Oh,

00:44:07.440 well,

00:44:07.660 there's two women died that did it in that movie.

00:44:09.880 Yeah.

00:44:10.620 Remember?

00:44:10.780 Yeah.

00:44:11.060 Thelma Louise.

00:44:12.100 Them bitches died,

00:44:13.000 man.

00:44:13.320 So you probably right about that,

00:44:15.940 you know?

00:44:17.020 Uh,

00:44:17.660 but yeah,

00:44:18.740 I think,

00:44:19.240 um,

00:44:20.020 you know,

00:44:20.340 I won't even have the,

00:44:22.580 if,

00:44:22.860 if there's someone is driving me in an Uber or anything like that,

00:44:25.860 and they have the female voice on the phone,

00:44:29.500 I'll have them turn it off or change it.

00:44:31.820 It reminds me of my mother's voice,

00:44:32.860 I think,

00:44:33.180 or just reminds me of some lady squawking.

00:44:34.500 Mine is Tom.

00:44:35.840 It's Tom?

00:44:36.360 And I told Fama I was going to fire his ass several times.

00:44:38.880 Yeah.

00:44:39.260 Yeah.

00:44:39.860 Forget me in the places I ain't supposed to be with a semi truck.

00:44:42.780 Yeah.

00:44:43.640 Tom,

00:44:44.080 you're an asshole.

00:44:45.520 Um,

00:44:45.880 do you keep the voice on the whole time?

00:44:47.380 Do you shut it down?

00:44:48.040 No,

00:44:48.300 I have to shut him off.

00:44:49.420 Yeah.

00:44:49.520 He gets on my nerves.

00:44:50.680 Yeah.

00:44:50.820 I wanted to sling him out the window before.

00:44:52.860 Yeah.

00:44:53.580 You know,

00:44:54.260 speed warning,

00:44:55.280 speed warning,

00:44:56.140 speed warning.

00:44:57.140 So hell no,

00:44:57.940 shut up.

00:44:58.620 Yeah.

00:44:59.800 How fast can you go in the,

00:45:01.280 in the rig?

00:45:02.060 72.

00:45:02.840 That's top speed.

00:45:03.760 There's a limit on it.

00:45:04.600 Yes.

00:45:04.860 It's governed.

00:45:05.900 Okay.

00:45:06.240 It's as fast as it'll go.

00:45:07.800 Now,

00:45:08.080 if you're going downhill,

00:45:08.940 that's a different story.

00:45:09.940 You can get it in a neutral and let it open up.

00:45:11.560 Uh,

00:45:11.800 you can just leave it in the gear.

00:45:13.460 It's in 10th gear,

00:45:14.340 but if you're heavy and you can't control it,

00:45:16.820 stop and doing that.

00:45:17.900 Really?

00:45:18.440 But I've let it cruise by 75.

00:45:20.660 Amen.

00:45:21.900 Rock and roll.

00:45:22.820 Yeah.

00:45:22.940 Let's live a little,

00:45:23.960 huh?

00:45:24.220 Gotta get there.

00:45:24.920 Put on some ACDC and cut it up.

00:45:27.000 Yeah.

00:45:27.680 Hold the steering wheel,

00:45:28.780 greet the cheese.

00:45:29.360 Yeah.

00:45:30.400 Yeah.

00:45:31.220 What do you listen to while you're in there?

00:45:33.040 Oh,

00:45:33.340 all different kinds of shit.

00:45:34.460 There's,

00:45:34.820 um,

00:45:35.680 some,

00:45:36.040 uh,

00:45:36.300 clandonia music that I listened to.

00:45:38.380 It's Irish.

00:45:39.440 Yeah.

00:45:39.820 And it's bagpipes and drums.

00:45:41.480 Oh,

00:45:41.660 wow.

00:45:41.940 And that'll get you shit pumped.

00:45:43.200 Cause you,

00:45:43.680 you're driving and it just,

00:45:45.380 you know,

00:45:45.680 it'll get you hyped up where you're really seriously going.

00:45:47.920 When it's like,

00:45:48.460 uh,

00:45:48.900 clandonia,

00:45:49.600 it's called.

00:45:50.020 Yeah.

00:45:50.600 Clandonia.

00:45:51.480 Clandonia.

00:45:52.040 Yeah.

00:45:52.380 Huh.

00:45:52.660 Yeah.

00:45:52.880 And it's straight up Irish.

00:45:55.420 And it's,

00:45:56.260 it's like the Titanic music that I listen to when they're in the,

00:45:59.200 the lower deck.

00:46:00.320 Oh yeah.

00:46:01.000 And they're partying.

00:46:02.020 It's kind of like that,

00:46:03.240 but it's basically just drums and bagpipes.

00:46:06.020 Now.

00:46:06.280 You're like damn William Wallace out there.

00:46:08.160 Yeah.

00:46:08.840 Yeah.

00:46:09.640 Uh,

00:46:10.220 and the truck is my sword.

00:46:11.660 Yeah.

00:46:12.980 Do you,

00:46:13.600 do you keep a weapon on you?

00:46:15.740 Uh,

00:46:16.780 yeah,

00:46:17.060 I got some old sea spray for my son.

00:46:18.760 Okay.

00:46:19.480 Yeah.

00:46:19.860 And a hammer works really well.

00:46:21.320 Okay.

00:46:21.940 Uh,

00:46:22.460 guns.

00:46:22.940 No,

00:46:23.760 uh,

00:46:24.080 we could have one,

00:46:25.380 but it,

00:46:28.360 I don't,

00:46:28.840 I don't really want it personally in the,

00:46:30.460 and then a company truck.

00:46:31.760 Yeah.

00:46:32.260 You know,

00:46:32.580 our boss is pretty lenient about it,

00:46:34.160 but he's not like giving us the,

00:46:35.520 okay.

00:46:36.200 It's like,

00:46:36.740 you can protect yourself,

00:46:37.800 but I don't really want to know about it.

00:46:39.440 Okay.

00:46:40.120 You know,

00:46:40.540 and he,

00:46:41.040 he's good guy.

00:46:41.740 So here's a fellow right here that also owns an animal and they got a

00:46:45.000 question.

00:46:47.620 Hey,

00:46:48.060 yo,

00:46:48.220 what up Theo?

00:46:48.880 What up guest?

00:46:49.640 My question is,

00:46:50.900 is there equivalent male lot lizards for female truckers?

00:46:54.940 Anyway,

00:46:55.720 gang,

00:46:56.000 gang,

00:46:56.260 bro.

00:46:57.320 Dang baby.

00:46:57.820 That's a great question.

00:46:59.660 Yeah.

00:46:59.800 How much sensuality is out there on a,

00:47:02.160 on a,

00:47:02.580 a lot.

00:47:03.480 Really?

00:47:04.300 Yes.

00:47:04.880 Um,

00:47:05.520 there's a couple of places,

00:47:07.060 uh,

00:47:07.580 in Indiana that's way up North,

00:47:10.260 way up North.

00:47:11.320 That's,

00:47:11.760 there's a truck stop.

00:47:12.520 That's really bad about it.

00:47:14.620 And they will just pound the shit out of your door.

00:47:17.300 And they're men,

00:47:18.340 women,

00:47:18.960 women,

00:47:19.420 mostly women.

00:47:20.140 And they're showing up for sex.

00:47:21.360 Yeah.

00:47:22.160 No,

00:47:22.440 I ain't sticking my head out of that curtain.

00:47:24.140 Yeah.

00:47:24.380 Cause if it happens to be a man,

00:47:27.160 I really don't want them knowing that there's a woman in the truck.

00:47:30.200 Right.

00:47:30.740 So I just keep to myself back there.

00:47:32.560 Will you do a man's voice or something?

00:47:33.940 It's like,

00:47:34.240 Oh,

00:47:34.540 I've done that.

00:47:35.580 Fuck off.

00:47:36.320 Yeah.

00:47:36.540 You know,

00:47:37.000 pretty good.

00:47:38.840 Yeah.

00:47:39.160 Pretty good.

00:47:41.520 Fuck off.

00:47:42.500 You know,

00:47:42.900 and it'll work.

00:47:43.740 It'll work.

00:47:44.300 You know,

00:47:44.580 you just keep the lights off.

00:47:46.120 Yeah.

00:47:46.560 You know,

00:47:46.880 and you don't let them know that you're,

00:47:48.240 you know,

00:47:48.600 prancing around in there.

00:47:49.560 You just don't make yourself known.

00:47:51.420 You just try to keep to yourself,

00:47:52.920 keep doors locked.

00:47:54.220 So you feel pretty safe once you're locked up and everything's locked down for the night.

00:47:58.080 You feel pretty safe.

00:47:59.100 Yeah.

00:47:59.500 The riots had me scared though.

00:48:01.220 Yeah.

00:48:01.820 Cause I was worried about,

00:48:03.120 you know,

00:48:03.420 the busting of the windshield,

00:48:05.080 the busting of the side windows.

00:48:07.300 Cause then they can climb right in.

00:48:09.180 Yeah.

00:48:09.600 And the sad thing is every time you see one of those riot videos,

00:48:12.180 they're always stopping a rig,

00:48:13.580 you know?

00:48:13.900 Yeah.

00:48:14.100 Yeah.

00:48:14.620 And I've seen them pull the drivers out of there.

00:48:16.540 Oh yeah.

00:48:17.100 And that's scary.

00:48:18.240 And the bosses told us what to do,

00:48:20.120 you know,

00:48:20.280 if that ever happened,

00:48:21.720 he's like,

00:48:22.100 you pull up,

00:48:23.320 you blow your horn,

00:48:24.680 you let them know to get off.

00:48:26.100 He's like,

00:48:26.420 don't ever roll your windows down.

00:48:27.780 Keep your doors locked.

00:48:29.620 And he said,

00:48:30.380 turn on your flashers.

00:48:31.900 He said,

00:48:32.500 you call the police on your headset,

00:48:34.480 but you continuously keep moving.

00:48:36.340 Do not stop.

00:48:37.820 And if somebody so stupid does stand in front of your truck and get squashed,

00:48:41.600 then that's what's going to happen.

00:48:43.260 You know,

00:48:43.720 if you stop,

00:48:45.360 then you're setting yourself up to get hurt.

00:48:47.800 Yeah.

00:48:47.920 Even if they're just protesting,

00:48:50.280 there are some of them that are out to just hurt you.

00:48:52.840 some of them aren't out there protesting.

00:48:53.940 They don't want,

00:48:54.740 uh,

00:48:56.040 you know,

00:48:56.480 a black life matter or any life matter.

00:48:58.880 Yeah.

00:48:59.300 This is totally,

00:49:00.520 I want your shit in that truck.

00:49:02.120 Yeah.

00:49:02.360 They want your life not to matter.

00:49:03.920 Yeah.

00:49:04.500 Give me your money.

00:49:05.640 I want your radio.

00:49:06.920 I can get this.

00:49:07.820 I can get that.

00:49:08.600 And as your truck is just slowly rolling away and they're getting a crap beat

00:49:12.920 out of you,

00:49:13.640 you know,

00:49:14.220 it's also getting stripped on the inside.

00:49:16.380 And then,

00:49:16.960 you know,

00:49:17.240 by the time you get back to it,

00:49:18.620 you know,

00:49:18.860 half bleeding and dead,

00:49:19.980 you're like,

00:49:20.380 what the hell?

00:49:21.920 You can't even drive back.

00:49:23.660 Somebody get me,

00:49:24.920 you know?

00:49:25.460 So that's,

00:49:26.440 that did spook me,

00:49:27.800 but that's a good plan though.

00:49:29.040 Flashers going contact the police on the headset and just keep it cruising.

00:49:33.340 Yeah.

00:49:33.380 Yep.

00:49:33.720 It's a low speed.

00:49:34.720 You don't try to fly through like they're balling pins,

00:49:37.480 you know,

00:49:37.760 which you'd like to just cartoons,

00:49:40.680 you know,

00:49:40.860 watch them just fly left and right as you plow through.

00:49:43.640 Oh man.

00:49:44.140 I definitely take on some Antifa son.

00:49:46.400 Yeah.

00:49:46.700 You know,

00:49:46.920 they run four,

00:49:47.760 four,

00:49:48.360 they run four,

00:49:49.080 eight rigs to that park up there in Portland.

00:49:50.900 And I think that,

00:49:51.300 did you ever see the video on the internet where the FedEx driver was,

00:49:56.620 or was UPS?

00:49:57.560 I can't remember which,

00:49:58.980 but it was when it first started the riots,

00:50:01.460 this guy was climbing all over this truck and he,

00:50:04.700 he was,

00:50:05.100 it was threatening.

00:50:06.020 You bring that up,

00:50:06.640 Sean.

00:50:07.280 And,

00:50:07.800 uh,

00:50:08.520 the FedEx truck took off and the guy actually got pinned in the wheels as the

00:50:13.880 trucks roll and people are screaming for him to stop.

00:50:17.460 Why would you,

00:50:18.280 why would he stop?

00:50:19.700 They were climbing all over him.

00:50:21.400 There was like 20 people all over this truck.

00:50:24.180 It's interesting these days how suddenly you defend yourself and you're the bad guy.

00:50:26.100 It looked like little kids on a jungle gym,

00:50:27.500 you know,

00:50:27.900 it was just,

00:50:28.300 on YouTube brother.

00:50:29.320 It was really scary.

00:50:31.200 And I cried for the person that got rolled over.

00:50:34.520 I did.

00:50:34.820 I felt bad.

00:50:35.580 It was a horrible video.

00:50:36.960 But at the same time,

00:50:37.820 I would have done the same thing as that FedEx driver.

00:50:40.180 Had to.

00:50:41.160 You don't know what they would have done to him,

00:50:43.060 you know,

00:50:43.960 to get his,

00:50:44.520 whatever he's carrying.

00:50:46.880 Yeah.

00:50:47.240 I'm not dying.

00:50:48.680 Uh,

00:50:49.360 St.

00:50:49.740 Louis man dies or being dragged by FedEx truck.

00:50:51.740 That's it.

00:50:52.760 Yeah.

00:50:53.340 Here we go.

00:50:54.520 They may have cut it because it was pretty violent.

00:50:57.880 I don't know if they clipped it or not.

00:51:00.700 But yeah,

00:51:01.340 man,

00:51:01.480 you're doing your job.

00:51:02.680 Somebody interferes because they have some social right,

00:51:06.720 uh,

00:51:07.000 social justice issue.

00:51:09.060 What is FedEx?

00:51:10.440 These is just thieves.

00:51:11.880 This is just people stealing stuff.

00:51:13.200 These people aren't about any,

00:51:14.160 this isn't about anything.

00:51:15.420 Right.

00:51:15.780 But I think this is pretty much it,

00:51:17.840 but this was,

00:51:18.600 this was pretty sad.

00:51:20.040 The guy got in,

00:51:21.280 see how he's got the double trailers.

00:51:23.640 He got in between the two of them.

00:51:24.500 He got in between the two of them and got wedged in there.

00:51:27.520 And he got drug quite a ways before,

00:51:30.000 you know,

00:51:30.900 the video stopped.

00:51:31.520 I wonder what your mindset is.

00:51:32.420 Cause I've been in mindsets where I feel like I need to stand up for myself,

00:51:35.280 where I feel like I need some sort of,

00:51:36.600 I want to act out for some sort of justice.

00:51:39.440 But then also going in between two semi trucks just doesn't seem,

00:51:44.960 like where I'm going to find any of that.

00:51:48.820 Right.

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00:55:44.500 Have you met any men out there?

00:55:46.620 Will you be on apps dating men, meeting men in different cities?

00:55:49.580 Do you have a couple of songbirds out there that you let on the branch every now and then?

00:55:54.180 No, no.

00:55:54.960 I got somebody at home and you get approached by all different kinds of men out there for different, they'll use all different reasons to try to get your phone number.

00:56:05.080 Now, what is some of that?

00:56:05.980 Take me through a little bit of that.

00:56:07.280 One of them is, hey, I like the trucks y'all are driving up.

00:56:11.700 Just tell me about your company.

00:56:12.820 Are they hiring?

00:56:13.820 Can I have their phone number?

00:56:15.400 It's like, sure.

00:56:16.160 So I write down Karn's number, you know, give it to them and tell them to talk to Nick.

00:56:20.220 You know, he'll get you a job.

00:56:22.000 We're always hiring.

00:56:22.920 And they don't call.

00:56:23.560 They're not calling for that.

00:56:24.420 Oh, well, can I have your number to let you know how it's going?

00:56:26.960 I said, hell no.

00:56:27.660 What the fuck you want my number for?

00:56:29.180 Damn.

00:56:29.600 He's like, and that's exactly what he said.

00:56:32.420 That's what I would have said.

00:56:33.700 Damn, Ginger.

00:56:34.280 Exact same thing.

00:56:35.640 He jumped back just like he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:56:38.620 And I was like, but what you need my number for?

00:56:40.620 And he's like, well, I was just going to let you know how, you know, the process is going.

00:56:44.720 I said, they'll do that.

00:56:45.900 Thank you very much.

00:56:47.080 You're a shark on them.

00:56:49.360 Now, do you hear any stories about there's places that's popular for swingers and stuff?

00:56:53.080 Because I would imagine, here's what I'm saying is, if you're taking a spouse out there, if

00:56:57.400 you're a man and you have a female sidekick with your wife, you know, or whatever it is

00:57:02.220 called, and I can't imagine y'all aren't doing swinging.

00:57:06.100 And there's a lot of swinging out there in the Midwest, too, especially in Missouri.

00:57:09.360 Oh, do you encounter any of that?

00:57:11.300 Hey, no.

00:57:12.280 I mean, do you hear any stories of it?

00:57:13.680 Is there any?

00:57:14.040 I mean, no, actually, if there's, mostly what I see is men that are single out there

00:57:18.660 picking up the lot lizards.

00:57:20.360 Okay.

00:57:20.900 You know, and they'll get what they want and then send them on their way.

00:57:23.800 And then they stop to the next truck, you know.

00:57:25.520 Is it usually sex?

00:57:26.740 Is it blowjobbing?

00:57:28.480 Is it oral sex?

00:57:29.480 Do you know what it is out there?

00:57:30.440 I guess it would depend on the girl and how much money he wants to spend, you know?

00:57:37.260 But, yeah.

00:57:38.220 Do you know the rates on any of it?

00:57:39.820 How?

00:57:40.860 No.

00:57:41.780 I wouldn't want to.

00:57:43.240 Yeah.

00:57:43.480 Because it's literally like, you got to worry about them girls sometimes.

00:57:48.020 Because I've been told that they can actually lay underneath your trailer.

00:57:52.340 And as you're coming out to, say, if you're a man and you're standing out there taking

00:57:56.880 a piss.

00:57:57.380 They cut your ankle or something.

00:57:58.060 They can cut you.

00:57:58.800 Cut you in the back of the ankle like on a hostel.

00:58:00.180 And you rob your ass.

00:58:01.580 Just like a hostel.

00:58:03.480 And that's, you got to watch them.

00:58:05.780 I've watched them at night when I'm just pulling in and it's 2 o'clock in the morning.

00:58:10.520 And it's been raining.

00:58:12.160 I'll see, you know, it's actually raining.

00:58:14.280 There's a woman walking around in a pair of shorts and high heels.

00:58:17.780 And she's tapping on each door.

00:58:18.660 Attractive or dark?

00:58:19.500 Well, it's dark.

00:58:21.000 Can't really tell.

00:58:21.840 That helps.

00:58:22.480 But you see her, you know, going from door to door to door to truck to truck to truck.

00:58:27.080 Oh, yeah.

00:58:27.380 And then the next thing you know, she disappears for about 20 minutes.

00:58:30.540 And then she's out again.

00:58:31.640 You'll see a light on in the truck.

00:58:33.220 That's the dome.

00:58:34.740 Then you know it's, ah!

00:58:36.000 That's the dome, all right.

00:58:37.260 Uh-huh.

00:58:37.620 Uh-huh.

00:58:38.140 I know what you're doing.

00:58:39.100 Uh-huh.

00:58:39.680 And then she'll come out.

00:58:41.000 But I've seen them walk around the trucks.

00:58:44.560 Like they're looking for shit.

00:58:45.600 Right.

00:58:45.940 Or maybe they're going to disconnect something or pull something.

00:58:50.760 You got to watch them because you don't know what they're doing.

00:58:53.160 Well, they have that famous documentary with Eileen Wuornos where she, wasn't she killing

00:58:58.100 truckers?

00:58:59.300 No, she actually was killing just random people that was picking her up.

00:59:02.780 Right.

00:59:03.000 She was prostituting herself out and just randomly picked out some dudes.

00:59:08.440 Do you see, is there any pimping or anything going on out there?

00:59:11.160 Do you see anything like that?

00:59:12.180 Do you know who's approached my trucks?

00:59:14.040 My truck is usually men, drivers.

00:59:17.960 Other men, drivers.

00:59:19.220 Just wanting to, now are they asking specifically for sex?

00:59:21.700 They're just kind of flirting or just saying, hey?

00:59:23.100 Well, I had a Bosnian guy.

00:59:24.520 He told me he was from Bosnia.

00:59:27.060 And he wanted to tell me how big and beautiful my boobs were.

00:59:32.260 Oh, yeah.

00:59:32.640 And I was like, okay, okay, you know.

00:59:34.700 Pretty cool.

00:59:35.560 I mean, first of all, that is nice.

00:59:36.900 It was in Maryland.

00:59:37.780 You know, I'll tell you this.

00:59:38.420 If a lady came up to my window for no reason and said, hey, man, I like the size of that.

00:59:41.940 Yeah, yeah.

00:59:42.000 Well, this is kind of scary.

00:59:43.260 You know, you're a girl in the truck by yourself.

00:59:45.220 You're right.

00:59:45.740 My bad.

00:59:46.220 You're right.

00:59:47.980 Anyways, he sticks his body halfway in my window.

00:59:52.240 Okay.

00:59:52.620 It's a beautiful day.

00:59:53.420 I had the windows down, which is stupid.

00:59:55.140 You don't do that.

00:59:56.100 So, he put his head in the window.

00:59:57.400 He was in his body.

00:59:58.880 Okay.

00:59:59.020 Was in the window.

00:59:59.860 Up to halfway.

01:00:00.760 Yeah.

01:00:01.080 I'm standing there making up my bed, you know, just kind of going to stretch out or watch TV.

01:00:05.400 Yeah, the window's open.

01:00:06.160 It's nice out.

01:00:06.640 It's a beautiful day.

01:00:08.100 Next thing I know, I turn around and I was like, ah, I screamed.

01:00:10.560 And I was like, you could get a shot like that, dude.

01:00:13.220 What the fuck?

01:00:13.740 Get out of my truck.

01:00:14.820 Damn.

01:00:15.360 And he's like, oh, hey.

01:00:16.100 Handsome guy or not.

01:00:17.560 It wasn't bad looking.

01:00:19.040 Now we're talking.

01:00:19.820 But it's a still.

01:00:20.460 Bring up Bosnia.

01:00:20.980 Let me see where it is on the map, Sean.

01:00:22.320 Yeah.

01:00:22.760 Check it out.

01:00:23.260 Bring up an image on Bosnia.

01:00:23.880 Because I asked him if he was Russian and he got pissed at me.

01:00:26.380 Oh, yeah.

01:00:26.640 They get upset.

01:00:27.220 He's like, oh, hell no.

01:00:28.020 I'm not Russian.

01:00:29.120 Well, just wear a sign that says Bosnian then, dude.

01:00:31.540 Because I was like, well, where are you from?

01:00:33.240 And he's like, Bosnia.

01:00:34.580 Yeah.

01:00:34.980 We hate Russians.

01:00:36.260 Yeah.

01:00:36.600 They'll fight, man.

01:00:37.580 They love to fight Russia.

01:00:38.840 Yeah.

01:00:40.080 Maybe Google Bosnian man outdoors maybe.

01:00:43.680 But, yeah, he told me that if he would hate himself if he didn't tell me that he wanted

01:00:49.380 to have a good time, I was like, roll on, Alabama.

01:00:52.560 I ain't know.

01:00:54.280 No.

01:00:54.840 The bearded guy.

01:00:55.580 Look at him.

01:00:56.080 Look at that guy.

01:00:56.840 Down a little third row.

01:00:57.940 No.

01:00:58.200 I'll tell you what he looked like.

01:00:59.340 It was more like the top roll up there and third guy.

01:01:02.480 That's the same guy.

01:01:03.420 But, I mean, that's more like the picture.

01:01:05.420 Okay.

01:01:05.700 That's what he looked like.

01:01:06.580 Wow.

01:01:07.100 Handsome kind of.

01:01:07.780 Like you said, a little bit handsome.

01:01:09.060 He was okay.

01:01:09.940 Oh, yeah.

01:01:10.300 But it was just too weird, man.

01:01:11.960 Yeah, it's a bit of a heavy approach, you know.

01:01:13.740 You can't do the flake thing, you know.

01:01:15.240 It's kind of flaky.

01:01:16.540 Yeah.

01:01:17.280 Yeah, you can't just peek in my window.

01:01:19.040 No.

01:01:19.400 Yeah.

01:01:19.740 It wasn't a peek.

01:01:21.460 It wasn't a peek, huh?

01:01:23.680 It was not a peek.

01:01:24.600 It was a full-blown, wow, Mipa in your truck.

01:01:28.220 You got big, beautiful boobs.

01:01:29.940 Yeah.

01:01:30.380 And I was like, oh, my God.

01:01:32.000 It's like, I would hate myself if you would not have sex with me in my truck.

01:01:35.800 Did he say that?

01:01:36.560 Yeah.

01:01:37.040 Basically, yeah.

01:01:37.700 Oh, wow.

01:01:37.920 He wanted me to get out and have sex with him in his truck.

01:01:40.140 Look, I was like, get the hell out of here.

01:01:42.280 At least he really laid it out, you know.

01:01:44.320 I guess.

01:01:45.180 Exactly what he was working.

01:01:46.460 Yeah.

01:01:47.280 Easy directions.

01:01:47.480 Because that's the tough thing.

01:01:48.260 On this podcast, we try to encourage young men to, like, at least shoot their shot, you

01:01:51.820 know.

01:01:51.980 But that's kind of a shady way to do it.

01:01:53.440 Well, I'll tell you some funny stuff, too, about other episodes this way.

01:01:57.340 We had a...

01:01:58.540 I was doing a dedicated run, which is the same thing every day.

01:02:02.360 And I was leaving from our shop, which is in Louisville, to Indianapolis UPS.

01:02:09.300 Okay.

01:02:10.080 And coming back.

01:02:11.300 Same thing every night.

01:02:13.440 Well, started running into the same fellow in a car right up alongside of me, just grinning

01:02:19.720 and waving, you know, from his car.

01:02:22.480 And I'm like, hey, how you doing?

01:02:24.300 And I'm driving on.

01:02:25.280 You know, next thing I know, he's blowing his horn.

01:02:28.200 So I glance down and he's got his junk hanging out.

01:02:30.580 Oh, wow.

01:02:31.280 Okay.

01:02:31.800 His penis, huh?

01:02:32.520 Yeah.

01:02:32.820 Oh, yeah.

01:02:33.100 Oh, wow.

01:02:33.680 Dear God.

01:02:33.880 Then he backs off.

01:02:35.080 Okay.

01:02:35.960 Then he comes back up alongside of me again.

01:02:37.820 He's grinning even bigger this time.

01:02:39.440 Oh, yeah.

01:02:40.140 His pants are down to his knees this time.

01:02:42.160 Okay.

01:02:43.120 Well, I'm sitting here just driving, you know, like, literally wanting to put my hand

01:02:46.720 next to my face, you know, and just kiss here.

01:02:48.800 Because I'll slow down, you know, for them to speed up a little bit.

01:02:52.080 Then they'll go back.

01:02:52.980 And then they'll keep alongside of me the whole time, no matter what I'm doing.

01:02:56.540 Oh, yeah.

01:02:57.080 Regardless of the traffic that's going on around us.

01:02:59.360 It's just you and them in the world, huh?

01:03:00.580 Right, right, right.

01:03:00.820 It's like a little slow dancing.

01:03:02.320 I saw this guy five separate occasions, same stretch of 65 in Indiana, and I named him

01:03:10.220 Jerk Off Jim.

01:03:11.140 Oh, yeah.

01:03:12.360 He's out there, huh?

01:03:14.080 He painted his steering wheel.

01:03:16.440 Did he?

01:03:16.820 Oh, yes, he did.

01:03:17.980 What color?

01:03:19.060 White.

01:03:19.780 Ooh.

01:03:22.200 That body glaze, I bet.

01:03:24.020 Yeah.

01:03:24.440 Damn.

01:03:25.180 Nasty.

01:03:26.260 So now you can see his penis.

01:03:27.760 Now, can you see from your perspective?

01:03:30.660 Oh, yeah.

01:03:30.740 It's the perfect view.

01:03:31.880 You can see over to the driver's side.

01:03:33.420 I can see everything.

01:03:34.740 Wow.

01:03:35.240 Inside of a vehicle.

01:03:37.180 A four-wheeler.

01:03:38.380 So if I'm driving, right, and I have my penis out.

01:03:42.060 Yes.

01:03:42.880 Can you, and you're in a rig.

01:03:45.680 Yes.

01:03:46.200 How can you see my wiener?

01:03:47.700 Can you see it from, through the front window?

01:03:50.520 No, it's from the side, your side window, the passenger's side.

01:03:53.200 So you can see from the passenger, from where you are.

01:03:55.260 Yeah, if you're passing me.

01:03:56.020 Wow.

01:03:56.300 So you're passing me in the fast lane.

01:03:57.860 I'm in the slow lane.

01:03:58.680 It's two-lane highway, like I-65 is through Indiana.

01:04:02.080 Yeah.

01:04:02.220 Yeah, I could see everything inside of your vehicle.

01:04:04.480 Your back seat, front seat, driver's seat.

01:04:06.640 So if I put my penis out, you could see it?

01:04:08.180 I could see everything.

01:04:08.960 That's awesome.

01:04:09.300 I could almost count the hairs.

01:04:10.540 Oh, wow.

01:04:11.820 That's it.

01:04:14.920 Almost.

01:04:15.280 Hell yeah.

01:04:16.380 Look, I didn't know y'all had such good sights going on.

01:04:18.080 Oh, it's a hell of a view.

01:04:19.340 It's the upstairs view from, you know, seeing y'all from downstairs.

01:04:23.060 What about this?

01:04:24.120 Did, um, do you see a lot of, like, oral sex going on between couples occasionally?

01:04:28.860 I'm sure you see a little bit of that sometimes.

01:04:31.740 Yes and no.

01:04:32.720 Yeah.

01:04:32.980 But most of the time, they're not, like, you know, trying to ride along.

01:04:36.700 Right.

01:04:37.180 They just ride on down the road.

01:04:38.560 And it's like, oh, damn, did you see that?

01:04:40.580 There ain't nobody in the truck with me.

01:04:41.920 I'm just like, what the fuck?

01:04:43.320 Have you ever had a guest in the truck, a male guest, or no?

01:04:46.840 Uh, just, I've had my oldest son with me once, and I had my daughter with me.

01:04:51.640 She got to ride with me once.

01:04:53.760 And, uh, I did have a team, uh, member from work, co-worker.

01:05:00.380 Mm-hmm.

01:05:00.540 We did team for nine months, running back and forth to Miami, Florida twice a week.

01:05:05.140 And is that, was that enjoyable?

01:05:06.900 No, hell no.

01:05:07.720 I hated it.

01:05:08.420 Really?

01:05:08.840 Yes.

01:05:09.200 Because y'all started to get on each other's nerves, I'm sure.

01:05:10.600 Oh, oh my God.

01:05:11.760 I wanted to kill him.

01:05:13.040 Oh.

01:05:13.440 There's so many times that I almost left him at truck stops.

01:05:16.000 Oh, yeah.

01:05:16.540 And that's for you, Chris, if you ever listen to this.

01:05:18.380 Amen, Chris.

01:05:19.160 Yeah, yeah, Chris.

01:05:19.920 That's what you get, son.

01:05:20.500 Chris Santana.

01:05:21.600 Yeah, smacking your fucking gums while you're eating.

01:05:24.240 Yeah.

01:05:24.980 Damn, bruh.

01:05:26.440 Tell everybody's toenails in the floor.

01:05:28.700 Oh, come on.

01:05:29.560 With body hair in the bed sheets.

01:05:31.200 Come on, Chris.

01:05:31.800 The piss bottle's rolling around.

01:05:33.420 Uh-uh.

01:05:33.760 He pee in a bottle?

01:05:34.680 Fuck yeah.

01:05:35.280 God.

01:05:35.780 Water bottle re-rolling around.

01:05:37.020 And there's two water bottles.

01:05:38.400 Oh, it breaks my heart.

01:05:39.380 Oh, it broke mine.

01:05:40.720 Oh.

01:05:41.360 I wanted to break his neck.

01:05:42.060 And women, so do you guys ever pee in like a pan or something and leave it in it?

01:05:45.500 In a cup.

01:05:46.240 In a cup?

01:05:47.000 Yeah, but as you're driving down interstate, like if you're teaming.

01:05:50.080 Yeah.

01:05:50.480 And they're driving and you gotta pee, that window goes down and out goes the piss and you

01:05:55.080 keep the cup.

01:05:55.840 Amen.

01:05:56.660 And what do you do with the cup?

01:05:57.660 Just sign it and give it to somebody?

01:05:58.680 No, you stuff a paper towel down in it and put the little top back on, you know, where

01:06:02.140 the straw goes.

01:06:03.560 And that way it keeps the smell down and you put it in a bag.

01:06:05.960 I like that.

01:06:06.440 Yeah, yeah.

01:06:07.460 Sanitary reasons.

01:06:08.340 Little tricks of the trade you learn as you go, huh?

01:06:10.220 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:06:11.220 We had a question that came in right here from some gentleman or, yeah, this fella right

01:06:14.900 here, this happy guy right here.

01:06:18.160 Hey, Theo.

01:06:19.060 My name is Brooks, long-time listener from Florida, South Carolina.

01:06:22.100 My question for your guest tonight is we all know that truck stops are the mecca of the

01:06:25.800 dark arts.

01:06:26.440 What's the craziest thing you've ever seen go down at a truck stop?

01:06:29.660 Thank you for everything you guys both do.

01:06:31.660 Love you.

01:06:32.640 Gang, gang.

01:06:33.260 Gang, brother.

01:06:33.640 I'll tell you, I'll lead on this one.

01:06:35.980 Go ahead.

01:06:36.560 So, I was going to college and I did go.

01:06:43.260 That's great.

01:06:43.580 And I went from Louisiana and I drove to Tucson, Arizona.

01:06:49.560 And I had worked all summer, man, to save up some money.

01:06:53.400 So, I had me about $1,200 in cash.

01:06:56.040 And I'd stayed up.

01:06:57.400 I was up.

01:06:58.060 I was doing uppers, gas station uppers.

01:07:00.020 No doses.

01:07:01.220 Oh, yeah.

01:07:01.660 I was, you know, snorting whatever they sold.

01:07:03.460 Any caffeine pill you can get your hands on?

01:07:04.980 Oh, I was snorting it.

01:07:06.660 Dude, I did half a damn Mountain Dew Code Red.

01:07:09.020 Burn!

01:07:09.580 Oh.

01:07:10.240 I did half of Mountain Dew Code Red straight through one of my nostrils.

01:07:13.180 You know what I'm telling you?

01:07:13.680 I fucking do it all.

01:07:15.560 You should have snorted a Red Bull.

01:07:16.640 I'll do it all, shawty.

01:07:17.580 Yeah.

01:07:17.860 Oh, I don't care.

01:07:18.560 I'll do it all.

01:07:19.440 You know?

01:07:20.540 So, anyway.

01:07:21.380 So, I'm up, man.

01:07:22.220 I've been up for probably about 20 hours.

01:07:25.000 And my car, I had this 84, some kind of car.

01:07:29.920 I don't even know what it was.

01:07:30.620 It didn't even matter, really.

01:07:31.580 It was a piece of shit.

01:07:32.560 But it would overheat.

01:07:34.320 So, about every maybe 150 miles, it got too hot.

01:07:37.240 And so, I had to pull over and wait about 40 minutes for it to go down.

01:07:40.440 And then I had to wait for it to cool off so I could put the water in the-

01:07:44.220 Radiator?

01:07:44.880 Radiator.

01:07:45.460 And then go start back again.

01:07:48.860 Well, I'd been up for fucking a day and a half, man.

01:07:51.480 I wasn't doing real well.

01:07:52.240 So, I stopped at a truck stop in, I guess it was maybe Nevada.

01:07:57.960 I'm not sure about it.

01:07:58.820 Or Arizona or West Texas somewhere.

01:08:00.740 But, man, I had all my money.

01:08:02.960 And I was like, I can't leave it in my car.

01:08:04.400 Somebody could break in.

01:08:05.180 I'll leave it on my person, right?

01:08:06.440 So, I took it, put it in my underpants, my cash, right?

01:08:09.400 So, I went into this gas station.

01:08:10.920 I found a place somewhere upstairs.

01:08:12.600 They had like this little lobby kind of place.

01:08:14.080 And I just laid on a bench up there and just went to sleep.

01:08:16.960 Well, I slept for probably about 40 minutes.

01:08:19.160 And I forgot that I had my cash in my underpants.

01:08:21.500 When I stood up, it just fell out my pant leg.

01:08:23.820 And I lost all my money.

01:08:25.440 No, you didn't.

01:08:27.140 Lost it all, man.

01:08:28.420 Holy shit.

01:08:28.980 Then, here's the shady part.

01:08:30.740 Then, you're wandering around a gas station for two and a half hours asking people if

01:08:34.180 they found $1,200 cash, right?

01:08:35.860 Oh, like they're going to tell you.

01:08:37.000 Hey, yeah.

01:08:37.860 They're not.

01:08:38.840 I'll tell you this.

01:08:39.400 Oh, sure.

01:08:40.120 None of them are.

01:08:40.460 Is it yours?

01:08:41.260 Would you like to have it back?

01:08:42.460 Yeah.

01:08:43.720 None of them are going to tell you.

01:08:45.180 No.

01:08:45.420 And the worst part is they all think you're on drugs and shit.

01:08:48.620 Oh, yeah.

01:08:49.120 You looking for a piece of crack you dropped on the ground?

01:08:53.240 Like, have you found $1,200 cash in here?

01:08:55.260 And they're like, this dude is on fucking drugs.

01:08:57.220 Yeah.

01:08:57.520 You want dope, man?

01:08:58.640 Yeah.

01:08:59.040 Yeah.

01:08:59.700 Do you run in?

01:09:00.560 What have you run into out there?

01:09:01.840 Have you seen anything wild?

01:09:02.840 Is there anything going on out there?

01:09:04.200 I've seen fist fights over parking or fuel spots.

01:09:09.220 Really?

01:09:09.820 Yeah.

01:09:10.740 Or they're in such a hurry.

01:09:12.340 They get into an actual fist fight over getting fuel.

01:09:16.020 Who gets it first?

01:09:17.040 Damn.

01:09:17.320 I've actually gotten a screaming match with somebody once over that.

01:09:21.100 And how does that work?

01:09:21.640 Because you're coming in at a certain angle.

01:09:23.160 They're looping around or something.

01:09:24.360 No, what it is is you've got to take your turns, you know, just like you would at a gas

01:09:28.760 station.

01:09:30.100 And the semi-truck in front of you that's supposed to be getting fuel, there's nobody fueling.

01:09:35.220 It's just sitting there idling.

01:09:36.620 So I run in to go pay for a parking spot because all the free ones are taken.

01:09:41.740 So you get a reserve spot.

01:09:43.300 That's about $15 to $18.

01:09:45.520 Okay, so it's almost like a KOA campground, like you get your space.

01:09:48.420 You have to park, pay and park.

01:09:50.580 But there are some that are free.

01:09:51.880 Yes.

01:09:52.500 Interesting.

01:09:53.140 The ones that are free are the shittier spots in the back.

01:09:55.880 Right.

01:09:56.440 It's twisted and turned.

01:09:57.560 It's hard to get to.

01:09:58.560 Out on the fucking rape trail out there.

01:10:00.180 Right, right.

01:10:00.420 Yeah.

01:10:00.680 And down there in the back, lower 40s, nose bleeds where there's no light, you know.

01:10:05.060 Is there a lot of drug use out there?

01:10:07.040 Do you see any of it?

01:10:08.140 What are these guys on out there?

01:10:09.540 I know some of them are probably doing pills and uppers.

01:10:12.220 Drinking.

01:10:12.580 Drinking.

01:10:13.060 Yeah.

01:10:14.220 I've smelt it.

01:10:15.900 They come in the truck stops and they walk past you and they smell like a brewery.

01:10:19.420 But there are truck stops that sell beer.

01:10:22.440 You wouldn't think that a pilot flying Jay loves or anything like that would actually sell liquor.

01:10:27.260 But there are some that sell alcohol.

01:10:30.500 And they could sit in there and get soused all they want in their truck.

01:10:33.320 And as long as they're sober, I guess, by in the morning, they're driving.

01:10:37.700 And what are you doing for food in there?

01:10:41.440 Do you take food of your own?

01:10:42.620 Do you stop and get stuff?

01:10:43.960 What do you like?

01:10:44.420 Yeah.

01:10:44.540 When I'm off on Saturday or Sunday, Monday maybe, Sunday and Monday, I'll go to Walmart,

01:10:50.160 get everything I need and put it in, you know, stock up my truck, paper towels, food, drinks,

01:10:56.320 water, everything.

01:10:57.460 And load it all up in there and then go on down the road.

01:11:02.140 So if I get hungry, I can actually take everything out, make a sandwich, or I can stick things in the microwave.

01:11:07.940 Cook it.

01:11:09.140 Yeah.

01:11:09.260 And if you're taking off, you're starting off on a haul, right?

01:11:12.920 Yeah.

01:11:13.220 What's the snacks you get out the gate?

01:11:14.900 What's that gateway snack setup you like to put?

01:11:18.260 Donuts.

01:11:19.060 Really?

01:11:19.360 You start with a couple donuts, huh?

01:11:20.640 Yeah, donuts.

01:11:21.160 Powder donuts.

01:11:22.340 Oh, they're good, huh?

01:11:23.640 Can't drink milk no more because I'm getting old and the gut can't handle it.

01:11:27.240 So I get the lactose-free.

01:11:29.540 And it's like the cartons.

01:11:30.800 Mm-hmm.

01:11:31.060 And I'll just have a little knob and turn up the milk and, you know, donut or two, donut or two.

01:11:36.600 And so, you know, you've got this powder ring all over your face and you're wiping it off and it's all over your shirt.

01:11:41.940 Oh, yeah.

01:11:42.600 You're like, oh, this lady parties.

01:11:44.100 You show up and say, this lady parties.

01:11:45.520 This is good.

01:11:45.880 I'm going to try it on.

01:11:47.080 You know, shit flying in.

01:11:48.420 It's pretty cool.

01:11:49.380 But there was a question that a guy had asked what the most dangerous thing was.

01:11:53.260 Yeah.

01:11:53.620 I did get trash.

01:11:54.600 There was a time when I was doing a pre-trip and it was early in the morning.

01:11:58.320 Sun was out.

01:11:59.180 It was bright.

01:12:00.200 Beautiful morning.

01:12:01.420 And I was actually close to the truck stop, too.

01:12:04.040 I wasn't out way out in the parking lot.

01:12:05.800 Mm-hmm.

01:12:06.460 And it sounds like a bad joke, but it's really not.

01:12:09.660 I had my hood open, checking all my fluids, checking my belts, everything that needed to be checked.

01:12:15.100 Mm-hmm.

01:12:15.380 Plus, I was still green at it, so it was taking me a while to make sure I'm actually probably over-checking.

01:12:21.400 Right.

01:12:21.640 You're doing it all.

01:12:22.320 Right.

01:12:22.960 And here comes this Hispanic guy.

01:12:26.260 Mm-hmm.

01:12:26.520 And he wants to know about how to unplug the e-logs in your truck.

01:12:30.980 Mm-hmm.

01:12:31.220 And I was telling him, oh, you go inside of the storage door of your truck and open it.

01:12:36.840 Sometimes you can unplug it.

01:12:38.140 Well, can you come over here to the truck and show me?

01:12:40.740 I was like, no.

01:12:41.660 No.

01:12:42.020 I just told you you can go check it yourself.

01:12:44.060 Damn.

01:12:44.340 So, I went all about my business, wiping stuff, you know, checking.

01:12:47.860 Here comes two white dudes.

01:12:50.300 Where's your husband at?

01:12:52.500 I was like, straight to the dome.

01:12:53.660 I said, yeah, straight, straight, straight to it.

01:12:55.780 I said, he's in there taking a shit, which I was in there by myself.

01:12:58.820 Oh, damn.

01:12:59.020 I don't tell nobody that.

01:12:59.900 A fake shit husband trick.

01:13:01.260 Yeah, and he's like, really?

01:13:03.620 Okay.

01:13:04.460 They just stood there, and he's talking amongst themselves.

01:13:07.280 I started getting nervous.

01:13:09.280 And after about 10 minutes, you know, me ignoring them, the guy said, that must be one long shit.

01:13:16.100 I said, he's probably just getting something to eat since he's shit.

01:13:19.620 Yeah.

01:13:19.960 And he finally, they walked off.

01:13:21.440 Oh, yeah, circle of life right there.

01:13:22.500 This black guy, a Milli Vanilli reject.

01:13:25.780 Oh, damn.

01:13:26.480 But he's a big dude.

01:13:27.600 Oof.

01:13:28.260 Big dude.

01:13:29.100 Big, tall, 6'3", muscles.

01:13:31.600 He came in and helped you out?

01:13:32.420 He's got the long braids.

01:13:33.740 He's got one braid hanging in the front.

01:13:35.460 Oh, that's insane.

01:13:36.060 He's like, why don't you come over here and give a brother some love?

01:13:38.760 And I was like, no.

01:13:40.320 I said, I got to run to do.

01:13:41.880 I'll drive a truck, you know.

01:13:43.880 And I put the hood down, latched them, and started walking over to the driver's side, you know, kind of quick speed,

01:13:48.680 and get in my seat, and go to grab the door to shut it, and he grabs a hold of my wrist.

01:13:54.940 No way.

01:13:55.940 And he yanks.

01:13:57.020 He yanks so hard that I used my feet and my other hand to hold myself in the truck.

01:14:02.140 And he's like, come and give me some love.

01:14:04.040 And when he yanked, and I braced and caught myself, I grabbed it, yanked my wrist back, and shut the door.

01:14:10.520 And I was already trying to put it in gear before I'd even released the brakes.

01:14:14.620 Like, I'm really trying to take off, and the truck's like,

01:14:17.020 because the brakes are still on.

01:14:20.100 So I had to release them, took off, and trying to peel out of there on gravel in fourth gear, you know,

01:14:25.660 with the heavy truck.

01:14:26.620 And it's like, you know, trying to take off.

01:14:30.200 And I get down the road and get on the interstate and broke down and just, like, damn near cried.

01:14:35.140 Damn.

01:14:35.760 You know, because I just went limp.

01:14:37.400 This guy just tried to yank me out of the truck.

01:14:40.500 And it scared the shit out of me.

01:14:41.860 So I texted on the e-logs, my company, Werner, at the time.

01:14:45.360 And the guy just tried to pull me out and sent it.

01:14:48.640 And they're like, be careful.

01:14:51.060 That's it.

01:14:52.760 That's it, honey.

01:14:54.000 That's the world, baby.

01:14:55.180 That's the world.

01:14:55.820 Be careful.

01:14:56.660 Yeah.

01:14:57.220 All right.

01:14:57.860 Thanks for the advice.

01:14:59.000 I knew that.

01:14:59.820 Appreciate it.

01:15:01.000 Thank you very much.

01:15:02.340 Yeah, a lot of guys with those dreadlocks, they'll use them to tie you down.

01:15:04.880 Oh, shit.

01:15:06.100 I need you to look like you can beat you with them.

01:15:07.740 Oh, yeah.

01:15:08.120 I saw a black guy at the gym.

01:15:10.780 He had two dreadlocks, and he was doing them like those, like, you know, like those.

01:15:15.440 These were long enough, they could be used as lassos.

01:15:18.180 Oh, people doing, you know.

01:15:20.220 People doing wild stuff.

01:15:20.640 You get around the throat, yeah.

01:15:22.040 It's risque out there, man.

01:15:23.180 Yeah, it is.

01:15:23.720 It's scary.

01:15:24.380 It's French risk, baby.

01:15:25.760 What else?

01:15:26.500 Anything else come in over there, Sean?

01:15:30.480 What's up, Theo Baby?

01:15:32.720 This is your boy, Jacob, coming straight at you from Hillsboro, Oregon.

01:15:36.560 What's up, Jacob?

01:15:37.020 And I have just one question for your guest.

01:15:39.560 Yes, sir.

01:15:39.900 And that is, how the hell do you stay awake for some of your long-haul drives?

01:15:45.820 Because anytime I have to drive for six-plus hours, especially at night, boy, you know

01:15:53.020 I'm going to start nodding off and having to pull over at those sketchy-ass rest stops.

01:15:57.480 So, just, if you could let me know one of your secrets, bless up.

01:16:02.340 I'd appreciate it.

01:16:03.660 Gang, gang.

01:16:04.320 Amen.

01:16:05.460 Yeah, what's the tricks there?

01:16:06.820 Because I, you know, what is the tricks?

01:16:09.020 Coffee, opening up the window, as far down as it'll go, no matter how cold it is.

01:16:14.580 Really?

01:16:15.200 Yeah.

01:16:15.580 Air conditioning in the face.

01:16:18.220 I've actually slapped myself a couple of times.

01:16:20.600 Oh, yeah, I've done that.

01:16:21.300 And I've took my fingertips, and I'll sit there and tap the closed eyes to try to wake up.

01:16:28.120 I've used cold washcloths on the eyes.

01:16:32.000 Visine helps.

01:16:33.260 Coffee, coffee, coffee.

01:16:36.280 And getting out and walking.

01:16:38.720 Stretching.

01:16:39.400 Yes.

01:16:40.020 Yeah.

01:16:40.360 Because you've got to get your legs in a straight position, and your ass falls numb.

01:16:45.700 Yeah.

01:16:45.980 So, you've got to get the blood flowing.

01:16:47.440 Does your ass fall asleep after a while when you're done?

01:16:49.200 Oh, yeah.

01:16:49.560 Wow.

01:16:49.920 Yeah.

01:16:50.860 You don't feel your butt crack.

01:16:52.320 It's completely gone.

01:16:53.940 Oh, my God.

01:16:54.800 It feels like one big giant pillow.

01:16:57.120 It's like, wow.

01:16:59.480 Who needs shocks?

01:17:01.520 Praise God.

01:17:01.840 I can't feel a thing.

01:17:03.440 Yeah.

01:17:03.960 Dang.

01:17:04.560 Yeah.

01:17:05.500 Yeah, I never, I can't even imagine it's having that ghost ass feel, you know.

01:17:09.460 Yeah.

01:17:09.560 Oh, yeah.

01:17:10.160 Wow.

01:17:10.320 Well, it's AIS is what it's called.

01:17:12.380 It is?

01:17:12.880 Yeah.

01:17:13.560 Ass in seat.

01:17:14.640 Really?

01:17:15.280 Yeah.

01:17:15.480 That's when you don't stop.

01:17:17.240 You run the whole, you run the whole thing.

01:17:19.540 Dang.

01:17:19.760 Except for your 30-minute break.

01:17:21.620 I've done that before a few times.

01:17:23.520 What is, now, are there some outfits and some groups where they can just drive and they don't

01:17:28.440 have to follow those rules?

01:17:29.480 Do some people break the rules?

01:17:30.900 Some people?

01:17:31.400 I think the only ones that can do that, I'm not positive, is like farm equipment.

01:17:38.480 They don't have to have certain rules.

01:17:41.380 Okay.

01:17:41.520 I think they're allowed on and off the road, but they can't, like, travel long distances.

01:17:44.960 But they don't have to have restrictions and endorsements, and they can just get on with

01:17:50.340 their tractor, but get off, you know.

01:17:53.300 But no requirements.

01:17:54.140 What's a snack that you'll kind of wait to have?

01:17:58.120 If you've been out there a while, what's a snack maybe you, what's a snack that you

01:18:01.940 won't have while you drive?

01:18:03.760 Is there something you've had from the gas station where you're like, oh, this makes me sick.

01:18:06.580 I'm not having this again.

01:18:07.480 Hot dogs.

01:18:08.280 Really?

01:18:08.880 Yeah.

01:18:10.320 That's an instant enema.

01:18:12.060 Do you want to eat a hot dog, take a shit?

01:18:13.960 There you go.

01:18:14.880 It's a risky move, huh?

01:18:15.600 Oh, yeah.

01:18:16.320 You don't want to, and they're chilly.

01:18:17.880 Oh.

01:18:18.260 Any place that serves their own cooked chili may smell good, may look good, it's really

01:18:24.160 cold outside, taking a warm chili.

01:18:28.740 Dude, that's like a lava just pouring out of a volcano.

01:18:34.400 Praise God.

01:18:37.080 Ass on fire.

01:18:39.280 My buddy hat, yeah.

01:18:41.280 We've all done some things.

01:18:43.220 Yeah.

01:18:45.520 So, is there anything that makes, who couldn't drive truck?

01:18:52.760 Is there, what, are there types of people that couldn't drive truck?

01:18:57.120 What does it take to be a driver?

01:18:58.680 You got to want to drive.

01:19:00.080 Okay.

01:19:00.780 That's the first thing.

01:19:01.820 If you don't like driving, any kind of driving that's in your own car or anything, then you

01:19:06.720 ain't got no business in it.

01:19:08.540 You have to have some patience because people are idiots out there.

01:19:13.020 Yeah.

01:19:13.220 I mean, there's too many of them.

01:19:15.460 And you got all the road rage.

01:19:17.460 And you got to control your own road rage.

01:19:19.240 But just anybody could drive if you wanted to.

01:19:24.860 You know, if you wanted to bad enough and you just keep trying, you can do it.

01:19:29.700 It takes a lot of studying, a lot of practice.

01:19:31.660 Really?

01:19:32.100 Yeah.

01:19:32.920 Backing's hard.

01:19:34.120 Backing up?

01:19:34.680 To me, yeah.

01:19:35.160 Some people are born with the, you know, to just be able to do it.

01:19:38.700 Backing gene.

01:19:39.240 Yeah.

01:19:39.880 Yeah.

01:19:40.080 Like just gravy.

01:19:41.280 Yeah.

01:19:41.540 Yeah.

01:19:41.840 Eyes closed and get it right in there.

01:19:43.520 There's old backup Benny.

01:19:44.540 Yeah.

01:19:45.440 Those there, I give the finger.

01:19:46.940 That's what I say, man.

01:19:48.080 Fuck them.

01:19:48.560 F them, bro.

01:19:49.280 I had to try.

01:19:50.400 I had to practice.

01:19:51.500 Oh, yeah.

01:19:52.020 Yeah.

01:19:52.260 But I'm better at it.

01:19:54.420 I ain't going to sound perfect at it.

01:19:55.740 I never will be.

01:19:57.100 There have days where I could bike in a spot that's, you know, super tight.

01:20:01.160 And then there's other days that I can't back into a football field.

01:20:04.380 Yeah.

01:20:05.020 You know, and I've heard that from other drivers, too.

01:20:07.360 Same thing.

01:20:08.480 Just kind of whatever your vibe is, huh?

01:20:10.020 Yeah.

01:20:10.160 Have your days.

01:20:10.840 Yep.

01:20:11.180 Yep.

01:20:12.360 What's the number one thing you got to remember while you're out there driving?

01:20:15.000 I mean, is it safety?

01:20:17.200 Is it patience?

01:20:18.180 I mean, you said patience, but I'm just trying to think if there's anything else that we're

01:20:23.400 kind of missing out, any world that we're missing out on.

01:20:25.620 You have to have, like, six sets of eyeballs running all the time.

01:20:31.940 And people don't understand what the truck consists about.

01:20:37.580 That's a lot.

01:20:38.280 It's the ignorance of the other people.

01:20:40.200 They don't know how heavy it is.

01:20:41.840 They don't know that we're getting over to avoid hitting somebody on the shoulder that's

01:20:48.360 broke down.

01:20:49.080 They think we're just cutting them off.

01:20:51.380 You know, it's like, get the hell out of my way.

01:20:52.760 Nobody likes being behind them.

01:20:54.700 We're a little slower for a reason.

01:20:57.060 You know, sometimes it is because of the weight, but then there's other times that we have to

01:21:00.500 keep our distance further back than they do.

01:21:04.240 You know, they ride bumper to bumper in cars, you know, and we have to stay back, which is

01:21:09.040 12 seconds at least.

01:21:11.120 That's the rule.

01:21:12.180 Yeah.

01:21:13.020 Is there, what about the headlights?

01:21:15.020 Y'all use those to, like, notate things to each other?

01:21:19.640 Yeah, yeah.

01:21:20.040 It's a code.

01:21:22.480 Flipping headlights can, especially during the day, can mean usually there's a police officer

01:21:27.200 or a DOT sitting somewhere.

01:21:29.760 Could mean a wreck up the road.

01:21:32.300 You know, flipping them seriously.

01:21:34.280 Flipping, flipping.

01:21:35.260 You know, you come over the hill, there might be an accident down there.

01:21:37.600 Or somebody pulled over, a lot of cops pulled over somebody on the side of the road, and

01:21:45.080 it could mean high beams, basically.

01:21:47.220 Turn your lights down.

01:21:48.620 Well, I've got them LED lights.

01:21:50.500 They're super strong.

01:21:52.400 And they, you know, they're like x-ray vision.

01:21:55.200 Yeah.

01:21:55.380 And I get headlighted, but, you know, high-beamed all the time.

01:21:59.540 And I have to show them that I got, oh, you want some high beam?

01:22:02.440 Here you go.

01:22:03.400 You know.

01:22:03.760 They are on low, damn it.

01:22:05.780 What do you want me to do?

01:22:07.340 But, there ain't nothing you can do about it.

01:22:09.620 Is it fun being out there by yourself sometimes, cruising?

01:22:12.700 Yes.

01:22:13.880 I like looking around.

01:22:15.040 I love the woods.

01:22:16.600 And it's peaceful.

01:22:18.840 You know, there's times that I miss my family.

01:22:21.040 I miss my kids.

01:22:22.400 My grandbabies.

01:22:24.040 My cat.

01:22:25.260 You know.

01:22:26.400 But then there's times that it's like I can't wait after the weekend of being home.

01:22:30.000 I'm ready to go back out.

01:22:31.560 Yeah.

01:22:31.840 I like driving the trucks.

01:22:33.080 I like shifting gears.

01:22:35.120 I feel like King Kong on the road sometimes.

01:22:37.360 Yeah.

01:22:38.020 Yeah.

01:22:38.420 I guess it does give you a feeling of power out there, huh?

01:22:40.560 Yes, it does.

01:22:41.120 Yes, it does.

01:22:42.240 And you've got control, too.

01:22:43.780 Because you can, if you have to hold your own lane, and you have to stay where you're at

01:22:49.760 because you cannot change lanes to help somebody that's getting off the ramp,

01:22:53.300 every now and then it's gratifying when somebody actually has to stop and let me go.

01:22:58.320 You know, I don't have to stop for you.

01:23:00.400 I'm just going to keep on rolling.

01:23:01.860 Fuck you.

01:23:03.920 I actually had a cop try to pass me on a ramp, which was ridiculous.

01:23:10.440 It's like the worst thing ever.

01:23:12.600 And it was a police officer.

01:23:14.460 And I'm in the slow lane.

01:23:16.060 Traffic's pretty heavy.

01:23:17.360 There's a lot of traffic coming off the ramp, getting on to the interstate.

01:23:20.940 So I move over into the middle lane.

01:23:23.800 I'm keeping up with traffic.

01:23:25.320 And they're moving all pretty slow because they're just getting on.

01:23:27.600 So I kindly start to pass them.

01:23:29.980 There's still just a tiny bit of ramp left because I let them all go on about their business.

01:23:35.020 I get back over in the slow lane.

01:23:37.320 And I just, out of the corner of my eye, just happen to glance over in my side mirror.

01:23:41.300 There's a freaking cop that's running alongside of me.

01:23:45.180 And he's running out of road.

01:23:46.400 And it's like him getting squashed between me and a guardrail.

01:23:50.240 And I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?

01:23:52.500 And he ends up backing off because I held my own.

01:23:55.320 I was like, piss on you.

01:23:56.920 I'm where I'm supposed to be.

01:23:58.340 I don't know what the hell you're doing.

01:24:00.160 But he ended up backing off.

01:24:02.000 Got behind me and then ended up into the hammer lane.

01:24:04.740 He was scooting on, huh?

01:24:06.160 Yeah.

01:24:06.520 And then rolled on down the road.

01:24:07.780 And I was like, yeah, that's what I thought.

01:24:08.800 Amen.

01:24:09.320 Yeah.

01:24:09.440 Do you feel like there, I bet there's a lot, are there some murderers?

01:24:14.960 Do you feel like you ever met a murderer out there?

01:24:16.780 Because I bet there's a lot of murderers in the trucking industry.

01:24:18.740 You probably have.

01:24:19.780 And not know it.

01:24:22.100 Because I've heard about that.

01:24:23.260 There was a truck driver that I heard about that was picking up hitchhikers and stuff,

01:24:27.940 lot lizards or whatever, and chaining them inside of the cab of his truck.

01:24:32.960 Yeah.

01:24:34.100 And they caught him or who knows?

01:24:35.500 Yeah, they caught him.

01:24:36.300 They caught him.

01:24:37.040 They caught him.

01:24:37.480 But it's definitely a job that really, you know, you're just stopping by.

01:24:41.200 You know, you're always leaving.

01:24:42.580 You have to be careful.

01:24:43.560 It's like I said, I walk around there with this look on my face.

01:24:46.780 Like I'm going to kill somebody.

01:24:47.940 I like that.

01:24:48.540 You have to.

01:24:49.500 Because you can't be.

01:24:50.780 Yeah.

01:24:51.260 Hey, come kill me.

01:24:52.640 Yeah, I'm so weak.

01:24:54.060 Hi.

01:24:54.820 Yeah.

01:24:55.300 Because that's automatic red flag for them.

01:24:58.600 You know, oh, dumb bitch, dumb bitch.

01:25:00.560 Yeah.

01:25:01.000 You know.

01:25:01.440 Let's get this hoe.

01:25:02.520 But if you walk around and you got that hammer that you just thumped tires with and you look

01:25:06.100 like you're going to crack somebody's skull with it.

01:25:08.400 Amen.

01:25:09.020 People won't bother you.

01:25:09.980 So they leave you alone.

01:25:10.760 If you're stirring your coffee with a fucking hammer or ice cream.

01:25:13.180 I'll use my pocket knife.

01:25:15.300 Yeah.

01:25:15.880 Yeah.

01:25:16.620 Yeah.

01:25:16.720 Let the blade clean, you know.

01:25:21.320 What other jobs did you have over the years?

01:25:23.220 Anything else that really stood out?

01:25:24.500 Yeah, before I ever started driving, I've done a little bit of everything.

01:25:29.320 I've shoveled some gravel.

01:25:30.860 I've worked in motels.

01:25:32.320 I've gas stations.

01:25:35.440 I've had all different kinds of just odd, meaningless jobs that wasn't going to go nowhere.

01:25:40.380 Yeah.

01:25:40.600 You know, then they offered me a grant that was free because I was on food stamps, welfare.

01:25:46.640 Mm-hmm.

01:25:47.120 And I was like, yeah, well, what's the grant consist about?

01:25:50.600 What is it?

01:25:51.540 She's like, well, you have to pick up a high-paying profession, something that's in demand.

01:25:56.280 She said, you got nursing or trucking.

01:25:58.720 And nursing's an okay thing.

01:26:00.400 Yeah.

01:26:00.560 But I don't like people being hurt.

01:26:03.620 I get too tender.

01:26:05.240 So, well, I've always wanted to drive.

01:26:07.320 So, she's like, well, we'll give you five grand that you don't have to pay back, but you have to graduate.

01:26:13.400 Damn, that's a good deal.

01:26:14.800 Yeah, I was top 97% of my class.

01:26:17.540 Dude, that's awesome.

01:26:18.480 Yeah, yeah.

01:26:18.980 I was the only girl.

01:26:20.480 Were you?

01:26:21.140 That was even more, yeah.

01:26:22.400 I was the only female.

01:26:23.740 And, well, thanks.

01:26:24.540 Yeah, I guess I was just thinking if I'm a trucker and I see a female come through, I'm going to holler at her.

01:26:29.820 Oh, they were so nice.

01:26:30.820 It's some of its nature.

01:26:31.120 The whole damn class was just, and most of them were black.

01:26:35.520 But I loved my whole class.

01:26:37.440 That's cool.

01:26:37.820 I like all different, you know, people.

01:26:40.420 So, I get along with everybody.

01:26:42.260 Did they have a fake rig, a simulator you would try at first or no?

01:26:45.240 No.

01:26:45.500 They gave us these junky little daycaps that we start off, you know, just doing the backing up moves, you know,

01:26:52.640 which is alley docking and straight line backing and parallel parking, which you don't have to do.

01:26:58.660 But they teach you the basics.

01:27:01.360 And then her own, she owned her own two Peterbilt's.

01:27:05.640 Wow.

01:27:06.360 And she would let the classmates take those out with the trainers.

01:27:10.380 Trainers would take off.

01:27:11.820 We'd get to a certain spot.

01:27:13.160 But then they'd let one of the students do some driving.

01:27:16.220 And we'd all take turns.

01:27:17.100 It'd be like five to a truck.

01:27:19.280 And we'd all take turns.

01:27:20.920 And I shifted like I was in a NASCAR.

01:27:22.680 That's cool.

01:27:23.440 Yeah, well, 55 in like five seconds.

01:27:29.420 We're good.

01:27:30.100 Yeah.

01:27:30.920 And what about, this might be the last question I have.

01:27:33.940 What about your first kiss?

01:27:34.860 You remember your first kiss or no?

01:27:36.300 Yes, I do.

01:27:38.080 I was 14 years old.

01:27:39.540 Damn, girl.

01:27:40.880 Yeah.

01:27:41.680 Yeah.

01:27:42.800 Who was he?

01:27:43.120 Head over heels with the town punk.

01:27:46.540 Was he?

01:27:47.180 Yes.

01:27:47.360 What made him a punk kind of?

01:27:48.320 What was that?

01:27:48.860 He quit school.

01:27:50.120 Oh, yeah.

01:27:50.660 Did drugs, drank in.

01:27:52.040 Yeah, he was 18.

01:27:52.940 I was 14.

01:27:54.020 Yeah.

01:27:55.420 Let's see.

01:27:56.260 He'd sneak at the bus stop to meet me and my mother.

01:27:58.820 She actually introduced me to him.

01:28:00.500 Your mom did?

01:28:01.280 Yeah.

01:28:01.640 Oh, hell yeah.

01:28:02.280 They were both from Our Lady of Peace.

01:28:04.080 Yeah, I bet they were.

01:28:04.880 Yeah.

01:28:05.340 Our Lady of Peace of ass, bro.

01:28:07.000 Well, you know what Our Lady of Peace is?

01:28:09.080 The church, right?

01:28:09.800 It's a mental hospital.

01:28:11.500 Oh, damn, bro.

01:28:13.100 Well, they changed by the time they got to our town.

01:28:14.840 Mom had a nervous breakdown.

01:28:16.380 The guy went in for drugs.

01:28:18.300 They met.

01:28:19.380 Well, when they met, my mother comes out when she finally got.

01:28:22.040 I guess what you would call normal.

01:28:23.920 She comes out and she's like, I met this guy.

01:28:26.180 He said he knows you and he's so nice.

01:28:27.580 He's so sweet and he's so good looking.

01:28:30.060 Well, I ended up meeting the dude.

01:28:32.340 Later on down the road is when I found out he was a fruit.

01:28:34.380 You know, just nuttier and shit.

01:28:37.160 He's out there, huh?

01:28:38.020 Yeah.

01:28:38.380 He was bad news.

01:28:40.400 But that was the first kiss, huh?

01:28:41.800 Damn, he was good looking.

01:28:42.700 Was he?

01:28:43.060 Yeah.

01:28:43.800 Who'd he look like?

01:28:45.120 He was dark and pleaded.

01:28:46.620 He had brown eyes, brown hair, tall, thin, has six pack.

01:28:52.040 Damn.

01:28:52.820 Yeah.

01:28:54.080 Very nice.

01:28:55.100 Very nice.

01:28:57.180 His mom and dad was Romeo and Lee.

01:29:00.480 They were really good people.

01:29:01.580 That were their parents' names?

01:29:02.480 Yeah.

01:29:02.660 Oh, that's cool names.

01:29:03.320 Romeo was his dad.

01:29:04.960 Lee was his mother.

01:29:05.840 Damn, Romeo's a dope name, really.

01:29:07.660 They had a rapper that kind of stole it from everybody, but I feel like it should be coming

01:29:10.840 back.

01:29:12.400 I wouldn't mind having a little kid named Romeo.

01:29:16.240 What was your first concert you ever went to?

01:29:18.180 Do you remember?

01:29:18.520 Oh, yes, I do.

01:29:19.960 Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue.

01:29:21.820 Damn, that's a good one.

01:29:23.600 It was Bark at the Moon and Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil.

01:29:27.960 Damn.

01:29:28.300 It was at the old Cardinal Stadium in Louisville.

01:29:31.020 The Bush Stadium?

01:29:32.160 No.

01:29:32.300 No, no, that was before that, huh?

01:29:33.220 It was the Cardinal Stadium, the outdoors.

01:29:35.200 Y'all have heard of the Yum Center, and it's the new stadium that Louisville has built.

01:29:41.440 Is this it right here?

01:29:42.960 Oh, yeah, that's the old one right there, because it was outside, and the Motley Crue

01:29:49.320 and Ozzy Osbourne concert was outdoors in the stadium.

01:29:53.340 It was excellent.

01:29:55.060 It was?

01:29:55.720 Yes, and I don't remember a lot of it.

01:29:58.000 Amen.

01:29:58.160 But what I do, yeah.

01:29:59.580 What were y'all on, drugs or just drinking?

01:30:01.500 Weed.

01:30:02.000 Oh, yeah.

01:30:02.980 I was 14, so I was pretty green to everything.

01:30:06.700 I had never actually done anything up until I was 14.

01:30:09.640 Yeah.

01:30:09.960 So the first thing I ever tried was smoking pot, and the guy, my first boyfriend, Jim, I was

01:30:14.860 telling you about, we went together.

01:30:17.040 Oh, nice.

01:30:17.600 My mom and dad drops us off, right?

01:30:19.740 Unbelievable.

01:30:20.140 And I was all so excited, you know, when I saw Motley Crue, I was just, you know, stoked

01:30:26.400 and pumped, and we're just jamming, you know, heads banging, and, you know, the little thing

01:30:31.300 going on, and, you know, yeah.

01:30:34.300 Then the next thing I know, it's like, Ozzy's on, and I was like, well, what?

01:30:37.100 And, you know, I'm starting to get, like, all foggy-headed shit, and I can't remember

01:30:41.340 hardly nothing, you know, but every joint that he had brought had been smoked.

01:30:47.860 So, yeah, yeah, we were pretty toasty.

01:30:51.160 And I remember being up against the fence.

01:30:53.200 Oh, I bet, huh?

01:30:54.060 Like, me and him sitting in the grass.

01:30:55.620 Oh, okay.

01:30:56.400 And it's pitch black outside, and I guess we was waiting for my mom and dad to pick

01:31:00.480 us up.

01:31:00.940 Uh-huh.

01:31:01.980 That's why I guess we were there.

01:31:03.520 Oh, yeah, I bet.

01:31:05.380 I bet, man.

01:31:06.040 But did I remember being in the car shortly after?

01:31:09.120 And my dad always claimed that he was the one that could bust us if we'd been smoking pot,

01:31:12.880 right?

01:31:13.180 And he couldn't.

01:31:13.940 Fuck no.

01:31:14.900 My mom knew it every time.

01:31:16.560 She was the one that didn't smoke.

01:31:18.240 I found out later that my dad was the one that smoked.

01:31:20.560 Damn.

01:31:20.960 It's like, you're too high to know that we're high.

01:31:23.420 Yeah, we're high.

01:31:24.040 She's a sober one that can tell.

01:31:26.120 Dude, I remember I went to Green Day concert one time.

01:31:31.100 I was so high that I watched the opening band, and I thought that was Green Day.

01:31:37.920 I sang all the Green Day songs.

01:31:40.360 You did?

01:31:41.460 100%.

01:31:41.860 I sang every Green Day song that I knew.

01:31:44.420 I heard it as they played it.

01:31:46.000 I thought it was Green Day.

01:31:47.620 It's over.

01:31:48.460 I'm ready to leave.

01:31:49.380 Ask my friends, are we ready to go?

01:31:51.820 And then Green Day hasn't even performed yet.

01:31:53.960 Who was you jamming to in your own head?

01:31:57.220 I mean, besides it being Green Day, who was actually playing?

01:31:59.940 I don't know.

01:32:00.400 You want to look it up?

01:32:01.020 Green Day Tour, 1994?

01:32:04.700 1995, maybe?

01:32:07.100 I don't know.

01:32:09.240 But damn, they were good, man.

01:32:10.720 I'll say that.

01:32:10.980 He was doing some kind of something with a hallucinogen in it.

01:32:14.600 That could have been it.

01:32:16.260 Oh, dude, I remember.

01:32:17.720 It could have been Beethoven playing anything since Green Day.

01:32:21.400 It could have been it, dude.

01:32:23.980 Yeah, this is good jamming.

01:32:25.840 I'll tell you this one, too.

01:32:27.260 So, at another, can you see who their opener was?

01:32:29.580 Maybe if you see their tour history, maybe?

01:32:31.220 Would that be it?

01:32:31.780 Or I'm not sure.

01:32:32.700 Yeah.

01:32:33.340 There you go.

01:32:34.020 So, Green Day Tour, it should maybe be on there.

01:32:37.920 20.

01:32:38.480 Yeah, let's do 95, maybe.

01:32:41.900 See if they played New Orleans.

01:32:43.340 It doesn't say they're opener, though, does it?

01:32:48.800 Yep, that was it right there.

01:32:50.140 December 6th, dude.

01:32:53.120 Wow.

01:32:53.620 Oh, they're actually the Riverdales, dude.

01:32:56.080 I don't know who they were, but they sound just like they were just doing covers of Green Day, I think.

01:33:01.240 The Riverdales, boy.

01:33:02.720 Riverdales, okay.

01:33:04.020 I heard of them, bro.

01:33:05.260 Alrighty, then.

01:33:07.800 Damn, bro.

01:33:08.660 I'll tell you, they're good, man.

01:33:10.460 They were real good.

01:33:11.860 And then, here was the worst part.

01:33:13.140 Another time, I went to some concert, and I remember being high.

01:33:17.020 Somebody laced a joint or just laced me.

01:33:19.340 Oh, God.

01:33:19.480 I think the Lord just laced me.

01:33:20.580 Been there, done that.

01:33:21.860 And, damn, man.

01:33:24.200 I hit a damn.

01:33:26.300 I got so high, I remember thinking I was a raccoon for a couple minutes.

01:33:31.580 And I found this man at the back of the thing.

01:33:33.660 And I was feeling on his chest.

01:33:35.100 And I thought he was in the war.

01:33:37.440 And it was a cop.

01:33:38.160 He had, like, a badge on.

01:33:39.640 I remember feeling the badge.

01:33:40.740 I'm like, were you in the war?

01:33:42.260 You know, I thought it was, like, a medal or something, you know?

01:33:44.900 And he's like, I'm a fucking cop, man.

01:33:46.720 You know, you need to take this bullshit into the bathroom.

01:33:49.520 I was like, I think I'm dying.

01:33:50.760 And he goes, well, you need to fucking go die in the bathroom, son.

01:33:53.860 He didn't care.

01:33:55.400 He said, you need to go fucking.

01:33:56.180 You just can't die here.

01:33:56.960 I mean, I've been feeling on his damn chest.

01:33:58.620 I don't blame him, really.

01:34:00.040 But I couldn't see.

01:34:01.500 I thought I was a raccoon.

01:34:02.680 I'm glad I didn't tell him I thought I was a raccoon.

01:34:05.980 Yeah, he probably would have put a straitjacket on your ass.

01:34:08.400 I don't think people want to hear that, you know?

01:34:14.080 But, yeah, it was fun going to concerts, man.

01:34:16.900 Did you ever up the ante on drugs?

01:34:18.220 You ever got LSD was popular back then, huh?

01:34:20.100 I don't like it.

01:34:21.280 I actually tried it just twice and only did a half a hit each time I tried it,

01:34:25.180 and I didn't like it.

01:34:26.060 Yeah.

01:34:27.040 It's just weird things happen.

01:34:29.620 And it wasn't that I was tripping.

01:34:30.960 It was just something that odd.

01:34:33.420 It's in the middle of summertime, first time I tried it, half a hit.

01:34:36.160 And it's hot, and I'm standing on my friend's porch,

01:34:38.640 and I look down, and just this random dog walks in front of me and barfs.

01:34:43.120 But as he's barfing, he's biking up,

01:34:45.460 and it's just kind of long gating out of his mouth.

01:34:48.520 And I'm like, what the fuck?

01:34:50.680 You know, what is this?

01:34:52.860 You know, just didn't care for that.

01:34:54.680 Then the second time I tried it with my brother and a friend of ours, Stephanie.

01:34:58.180 Oh, wow.

01:34:59.360 And it was just a half.

01:35:00.700 Family time, yeah.

01:35:01.620 And we're driving down the road.

01:35:03.120 We're in Shepherdsville,

01:35:04.400 and we're coming around the corner where the stockyards are.

01:35:07.720 And we saw this line of traffic ahead of us that's coming toward us.

01:35:11.920 And we're like, what the hell?

01:35:13.460 And we saw this...

01:35:14.780 There's a guy on this horse that is running full speed,

01:35:21.480 coming toward us in the...

01:35:23.140 Now, we're on acid, okay?

01:35:25.120 Damn.

01:35:25.400 And there's a horse that's holding up all his traffic.

01:35:28.560 Well, as he's running full gallop, he's running.

01:35:31.280 To us, it looks like the legs are flailing off like this as the horse is running.

01:35:36.140 We're all three laughing so damn hard that we can't drive.

01:35:39.040 So we actually had to pull over and sit there until we could catch our breath,

01:35:43.520 run the snot off our nose and the eyes.

01:35:46.680 And we're like, what the hell was we just looking at?

01:35:49.540 Was that a guy on a horse?

01:35:51.960 What the hell is that?

01:35:53.640 And just how do you pick two times that you see a dog vomit

01:35:57.680 and a guy on a horse in the middle of the fucking road?

01:36:01.300 Look, look.

01:36:02.260 Rolling full speed.

01:36:03.520 There ain't no cart back there.

01:36:04.640 He's just...

01:36:05.220 Like he's at the Kentucky Derby, you know, on the interstate.

01:36:10.220 It's like, what the hell?

01:36:12.240 Dude, that's God right there.

01:36:13.580 I'm telling you this because I remember one time being high on mushrooms or something

01:36:18.100 and we went to the gas station and all the ground just suddenly,

01:36:23.900 all these little pieces of oil look like it started running around everywhere.

01:36:27.720 And I'm like, oh my God, is that roaches?

01:36:30.480 What is this?

01:36:31.180 You know, it's just insane.

01:36:32.580 And then we go inside and the guy said, as we're leaving, I swear to God, he goes,

01:36:38.660 y'all be a little conscious by the pumps.

01:36:40.880 We got a roach infestation by the pumps.

01:36:43.020 And I'm like, and I'm just thinking, when have I...

01:36:45.700 When has there ever been a roach is by a gas pump?

01:36:48.320 Ever.

01:36:48.940 Maybe one, you see one every now and then, but like a roach infestation?

01:36:53.320 Just sometimes weird shit happens when you're on drugs and you just...

01:36:56.000 It doesn't...

01:36:57.300 You're like, damn, this makes things so much...

01:36:58.980 Were they making Flocka or something?

01:37:00.500 Yeah, it could have been.

01:37:02.060 It's like they made something so much weirder.

01:37:04.820 But a dog barfing, that would fucking lose my mind, man.

01:37:07.820 If you had advice or suggestions for any women who were thinking about getting into the trucking business

01:37:11.800 or anything like that, was there any suggestions you'd offer to them?

01:37:15.920 Yes.

01:37:18.080 Get plenty of sleep.

01:37:19.940 Don't let the job run your life.

01:37:23.020 You are the captain of your own ship.

01:37:26.020 You know, when you are tired, stop.

01:37:29.180 You know, if you want to shower, take a shower.

01:37:31.060 You know, it's...

01:37:33.060 Them kinds of things, you know, you want to do your job, you want to be out there on time,

01:37:38.100 but you also want to stay human and be able to function.

01:37:41.680 Because if you can't, then you don't need to be driving.

01:37:44.800 And a lot of times you're getting pushed to get there, do this one, do this one, do this one.

01:37:49.500 You ain't done yet.

01:37:50.160 You ain't done yet.

01:37:50.820 Oh, by the way, you need to go here, you need to go there.

01:37:53.200 And it's like, no, I have to sleep.

01:37:55.580 Yeah.

01:37:55.940 I have to have a shower.

01:37:57.200 I got to get something to eat.

01:37:58.040 But, you know, you can't ignore it.

01:38:01.220 Or if you ignore yourself, you can't drive.

01:38:04.020 It's just not worth it.

01:38:05.440 And it ain't safe.

01:38:07.360 Yeah, it's interesting you say that, man.

01:38:08.480 Some of those same things in my own life right now, I've just been realizing I've got to do more taking care of myself, you know.

01:38:13.360 Plus, you want to find a job that you actually like doing.

01:38:16.700 You don't want to stay stuck driving and hate it.

01:38:19.620 Because it ain't for you if you hate it.

01:38:21.720 You know, and you have to keep your head turned all the time.

01:38:26.860 And watch behind your back.

01:38:29.480 You know, I think if you help people, that eventually it'll come around to you eventually, sometime or another.

01:38:35.480 Yeah.

01:38:35.980 But karma is kind of cool to sit and watch if you just be patient and let it happen.

01:38:40.740 It's one cool thing I like about, I feel sorry when people die young and sometimes they die early in their life because they don't get to, life really does have that full karma effect, really, in a lot of ways.

01:38:49.680 You get to see things come back around and you're like, oh, wow.

01:38:52.160 When you see somebody cut you off the ultimate on the road, you know, this is like the prize winner.

01:38:58.020 The big chicken dinner.

01:38:59.800 If you see somebody cut you off or cut somebody else off and then immediately following is these blue lights flying after that person.

01:39:07.820 Yeah.

01:39:08.040 Then you can sit there in that truck and laugh your ass off.

01:39:11.300 And point your finger.

01:39:12.660 Yeah.

01:39:13.100 And just be like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, as you go down the road.

01:39:16.780 Yeah.

01:39:16.960 That's the revenge.

01:39:18.820 That's the ultimate sweet revenge right there.

01:39:21.140 I like that.

01:39:22.580 Ginger, thank you so much for being here with us.

01:39:24.540 You're welcome.

01:39:25.320 We really appreciate it.

01:39:27.300 Thanks for asking me.

01:39:28.620 Yeah.

01:39:29.180 It's really, it's an honor.

01:39:30.320 And it's just cool to learn about the business and hear about some of the pros and cons of it and just to see a woman out there working hard, getting it done.

01:39:38.680 Busting ass.

01:39:39.500 Amen.

01:39:40.460 Rolling on.

01:39:41.000 Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

01:39:47.180 I must be cornerstone.

01:39:52.300 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

01:39:57.920 I can feel it in my bones.

01:40:01.300 But it's going to take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.

01:40:14.600 Shine that light on me.

01:40:17.560 I'll sit and tell you my stories Shine on me And I will find a song I will sing it just for you

01:40:35.740 And I've been moving way too fast On a runaway train with a heavy load of mouth

01:40:46.640 Past

01:40:48.320 And these rails that I've been riding on They're worn so thin that they're damn near gone

01:40:56.660 I guess now they just weren't built

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This Past Weekend with Theo Von - November 17, 2020

E307 A Female Trucker

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