 about six years and I moved back to Arizona. Married and just had a baby girl three weeks ago. Oh you did? Yep. Yeah, brand new dad. Congratulations. Thank you. That is awesome. What's her name? Sophia. Yeah, the most perfect thing I've ever seen. Yeah, so this is my first week back on the road. Since your time off? Yeah, since my time off with her, yeah. But baby's doing good, wife's doing great. Everybody's helping. Everyone's happy and healthy. I always start on this side of the engine. Anything that's loose, alternator's attached, bolt it down, all my wires come up to it. Just general condition of the truck. You know, I always tell my students when I'm training them, it looks broken, it probably is. Everything's good, everything's legal. All right, go down to the back here. Yeah, this truck looks brand new. Again, this is my truck. I look at it every day. So I kind of know the condition of my brakes. But on trailers that's super important because I have no idea if the last guy burnt the brakes out. I have no idea if it hasn't had a service in a long time and the brakes are getting low. Again, listening for air leaks out of the leveling valve here. My airbags on all four corners. I want to look at pretty much everything you can on the truck before you go. Last thing you want to do is break down. Take the time now to do a proper pre-trip. To get on the side of the road is a fun, trust me. So hopefully we'll have an empty here on the yard. What are your, one of the chances? What do you think your chances are, man? Let's see. It's a Tuesday morning. A lot of people are coming back from the weekend if they took, you know, Saturday through Monday off. Yep. The chances are pretty slim. I find the best way here to find an empty is I drive behind all the trailers and I look to see if they're sealed or they have a padlock that means they're loaded. Sealed, sealed, sealed, sealed on that side. Not looking good. It's not looking good. That one's on a truck. It's loaded. Hey there, how you doing? Do you have any night empties? You don't? Okay. Then that was the only one you had? Yeah. Okay. We'll just turn around then. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So at least C night trailers here. Yeah. That's a good sign. See if we can find one. Whether or not we can take them is a whole different story, but we at least have them on property. So that's good. Okay. Will the doors just be open? Okay. Got you. Door 17. Okay. Cool. Thank you. So how do you do your trip planning? And how far in advance do you know what your load is? You never know. I try not to stress too much about trip planning. I've learned very quickly doing this that your plans never ever go exactly how you think they're going to be. So how do you do your food on the road? It depends. Usually I'll grab something from the truck stop. Yeah, something, you know, one of the fast food chains. It's definitely tough to eat out here. It is, man. I think that's one of the biggest things. There's times you get busy. You know, you're just just in the moment of the day and moving trailers around and delivering stuff, picking stuff up and dealing with traffic. And you just don't have time to eat. You look and it's 3.30 in the afternoon, you haven't even had anything to eat yet. Yeah. The alcohol and drug clearing house. We lost a lot of drivers. We've lost a lot of drivers in the industry through both those things. Yeah. So we got to train. We got to train new drivers. We got to find new drivers. And that's a tricky thing too, because like a lot of blue car industries in general, you know, the average age of the workers getting older. Yeah. And there's not many young guys placing it. Yeah. You know, I know at least in my group of friends that I'm the only truck driver. There's not many people that want to do this type of work. Right. Right. My age, especially. Yeah. Most want to be in an office or. Exactly. Or working from home or not working at all, honestly. Yeah. What a day. It's about 10.30. What a day for Russell. I just learned a whole lot and again, just to have a huge amount of appreciation for what our drivers do every day. Yeah. So I thought it was interesting this morning as we were coming in, like we were behind because yesterday when we started, we spent two hours looking for an empty. Right. Which you helped me understand that, you know, that has a domino effect later on for trip planning and trying to get to a place on time. And that's what we ran into this morning, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It all domino effect affected on us and just kind of, you just get pushed back. We started my clock as soon as I had that 10 hour reset in seconds after that. Seconds. Yeah. Got down here and, you know, fought the traffic, which actually wasn't as bad as I was thinking. Yeah. But either way, we're still running behind and depending on how this goes, we're going to be running behind again. Yeah. Depending on how that goes, we might be running behind again. So we're in a dock. We're waiting. Haven't felt the forklift going yet. We've been here. We just lost the GoPro. So this, this loads a live unload, right? So we were waiting for them to unload us now. Yes. And we don't know how long that can be. We've been here 30 minutes and they haven't even started. Yeah. The appointment was at six o'clock. It's coming up on eight. We've got another live load at 11. So hopefully, we can get out of here by 10. Make it there by 11. Then we can get over there by 11. Yeah. But again, it's the domino effect. It's super tight. Like, yeah. Trying to maneuver the truck and trailer, not knowing which door we were going to get assigned and how tight it was. And so maybe just tell, tell me, like, tell us, like how you, like what goes through your head when you're like trying to figure that out. And then as a new driver, if it were me and I got down here to this situation, I would be really nervous. You'd be terrifying. Nervous about it, you know. Everything about this load as a new driver would be terrifying. Yeah. You know, just as you get more experience, you do get more comfortable with, you know, these types of situations. Yeah. I always, you know, like you saw me get out of the truck. I kind of made a game plan before we even came into the fence, right? Yeah. Yeah. You know, while I was still on the street, I knew what door we were trying to hit. And I'm looking around at all my obstacles and I'm kind of like mentally driving the truck into the facility and kind of seeing how I would do that, right? Yeah. That's just something that comes over time. You know, driving the truck down the highway is a very small part of our job. Yeah. And I don't think a lot of people realize that. Yeah. You know, how much stuff we do behind the scenes. Yep. It's a lot. You know, there's a lot going on. There's a lot of pieces that all have to work together. And you got to be really flexible with your schedule and your plan. You know, plan A becomes plan B and becomes plan C and D real quick. And you know, you've seen that already. So yeah, you got to be on your toes and able to, you know, make a new decision. But that's also part of the fun of it. Yeah. What keeps it exciting. Exactly. Yeah, every day is different. Yeah. That's the thing. You know, it's trucking is, it's addicting. You know, there's a lot of challenges and we get frustrated and stuff. But at the end of the day, it's like most people driving want to trade this job for the world. You know, I know I want it. Yeah. That's what I love to do. Just having lived a little bit of this over the last 24 hours, I, it's just like strengthened the appreciation I have for, for drivers, professional drivers like you Russell. And it's a, it's a, it's a challenging, challenging job that I thought was challenging before I came, but now I'm just blown away.