 I think that I'm ready to drive over the road like it's a whole other experience no I think I got it after doing that what's it called the simulator okay like I think I got it figured out now I've worked with some of amazing drivers over the years and even though I will only be able to experience a small part of it I want to better understand the challenges that are endured while living a life on the road okay cotton are we taking this to like a mattress place what do they do with it we're taking it to Calcott what Calcott does is they take it off of our trailers they'll store it there and then they'll load it on the port trailers going overseas to China I don't unfortunately but this isn't a port load they just do port their own no they transfer it there do we then haul it on that one of our containers over do you know that would be like I'm not sure but I think we do yeah I've seen our port guys there before hmm do they have to take take some of the cotton out it's just the whole thing goes over because it's all it's all in the bags yeah we just can't load it into the port containers at our instructions are we can either load it on a drive-in trailer or a drifter trailer but not a port trailer are you jealous I am supposed to get one really you don't get when you're local exactly I'm just kidding that's exactly why I went local so I I'm keeping this truck you don't get all the fancy things oh he is hugging the right real close why oh oh nice timing this road is notorious for that do you think that they redo it and then it just gets terrible again because of all the weight that runs through here I don't know if they've ever read on it it's all patchwork you can see yeah they've repaired them but it's not the same how many trucks come on coming down the road today with the roofing company here we got dominoes right here that's an old truck old freight liner oh and an old night I'm ready to drive over the road like it's a whole other experience no I think I got it after doing that what's it called the simulator okay like I think I got it figured out like that turn how you went wide like that I knew that already honestly so when I was in Ireland the road the lanes are so small you obviously you drive on the other side of the road the driver sits on the other side of the truck and there were obviously truck drivers they're like moving freight around there yes they did I don't so I think it self is so small you don't even need a sleeper berb now you really don't but you know cab over they're gonna have a better turn radius and oh yeah that's true because they're shorter great because the very front of truck is the wheels oh yeah that yeah yeah yeah so you're not gonna have to have you don't have a big nose sticking out like we do yeah well they have no room to navigate there their roads are just so tiny so that's good that they use that how long have you been at night now see my one year solo will be April 11th I started through Squire in February last year nice who hired you Emily CDL school okay how cool how was the CDL program it was awesome yeah so you did CDL school with us why did you choose to come to our CDL program all the research I did really the night had the better deal yeah as far as repayment program went just the reviews for night were much better than the other companies where did you look at the reviews everywhere yeah I spent a good two weeks doing all my research did you look at like YouTube videos as well as like Google reviews and Facebook reviews that's cool that makes me feel good I'm one of those research for everything yeah good so my dad always is I picked up from that I mean it's a big decision like deciding where you're going to get your CDL did you have any regrets with your decision no I love the company I mean it's especially the team that I'm on players in a great team they're taking care of me and they've been there when I needed them and who's your favorite person on the team Joe's been Joe Stefani has been my DM pretty much the entire time yeah even when you were Squire or yeah my trainer Steve Higby had Joe as his DM Higby that so I went from having Joe with her DM been with Steve and then Joe was my DM when I got off Steve's truck so you started over the road when you did Squire when you were with a trainer you were over the road yes and then and then I started doing soak out turns okay I'm back and then how often did you get home with that one I was home almost every week oh and even more so right like during the yeah I just do all night at home because you know I live four miles from the yard oh nice so I was delivering a load I'd stay here at night and go home and go see your wife and baby yeah baby girl so then when you talked to them about wanting to go back to school then they worked with you on doing something local so that you could do both yeah and they were very good because of what I'm going to school for is there's a position here at night for it what I'm going for it oh yes they want they were doing everything they can to keep me here and I didn't want to leave to begin with yeah but I knew I couldn't do over the road while trying to get my degree at the same time yeah you know internet not always a guaranteed thing out there yeah truck stops you usually have to pay for it are you doing online I am or do you have any in-person classes all online for now are you using your GI bill or did you already use that because you're a military yeah no I'm not using the GI so you've been a year what's your favorite part about night so far that I can truly walk into the office and people know who I am you're not I mean it's you see the signs that everyone says you're not a number it's actually true yeah it's hard to convey that because every other trucking company says that too they do like in all of their advertising and stuff oh no scrubbing off the graffiti yep how interesting this gets here why there's a spring training stadium up here nice I think the Milwaukee Brewers play up here oh I appear in this vicinity there are a ton of teams in town right now yeah and Sonny my uncle usually flies in every year about this time since he's retired now to go to different spring training games section I'm doing it this year though it's not really you just had another grandbaby oh so he's probably too caught up in that where does he live he lives in right outside of Cincinnati Ohio but on the other side of the border in Indiana don't remember the name of the city that he's actually in but it's on the outskirts of Cincinnati because he was a doctor in Cincinnati oh nice what kind he's a pathologist so they are the ones that they read all the different tests one of the bigger than the more famous pathologist right now is the guy that discovered CTE and football it's the head injuries and he's a pathologist and that's kind of the same one so it's a very investigative type of medicine which all medicine yeah that's for sure that would be a fun job I love interpreting data so that would be right I usually have family from Illinois that comes into for the games I feel like it's all people from the Midwest I mean the weather there is usually pretty terrible so family services summer is this a nice facility I've never been look at these lurkers the other side of the fence that's trying to watch the game although it's not that's not the actual part of the game I think I've been to one spring training game and I was born and raised here so I grew up down the street from the Cubs Spring Training Facility they're all come and I went to that one all the time oh you did okay all the time and when I was growing up a lot more to teams played down in Tucson as well the dime backs were down in Tucson so I never once a dime message unless they were playing the Cubs here why would they go somewhere else to do training spring training but in two locations done here is the floor all the team travel except for the time so they just travel from chase and then no games are played at face field but it's it's kind of just the history of the game where spring training is always played in an outdoor facility it's always better weather who wants to play baseball at Wrigley Field right now or you could play at Sloan stadium it doesn't get cold enough here to need to go somewhere else for spring training so there's three different spring training leagues I could be very wrong about this I don't remember I think the world was called the great bootleague and one here is called the cactus league very fitting yes we have a lot of cactus but it's I remember as a kid it's not horrible but I'd skip school with my family some day isn't it go after spring training game it's always done like morning afternoon responsible I think every parent have a really allowed their children to miss school at some point or another for or not a good reason especially if you're gonna like if you're gonna go to Disneyland now you got to do it during school season like in the middle of the week otherwise you're gonna pay a fortune and wait horrible lines is it bad that I don't want to go to Disneyland ever again this is a very weird facility oh yeah it's very open it looks like an old Air Force base and that's actually they used to have a lot more of these buildings and you'll see where they used to be this is weird is it the hole down there oh yeah why is there a water tower I don't know what are we doing we have to scale in and scale out oh what's this next or where are we going now following the arrows on the pavement in a circle yep so then I'll go park and I'll go take the paperwork up to the window they keep a copy I'll keep two and then I go back and I'll unload us and I give that guy one copy and I keep a copy let's go since we don't have that other load could go drop this empty number Bob tail so we're scaling out yeah scaling out they'll record that and that's what they'll send in for the billing oh the difference yep 77 78,000 yes yeah like 78 7 and that's what I was reading off before my mirror that red sign yep that's our gross weight so it's 43,000 pounds almost even except you if you want to go back to drop the trailer and then grab something if we can find something on the way that's fine but I don't know we'll be able to park we'll go drop it we went to we flew into Dublin and we booked the whole trip through this website called European destinations.com did you do the Guinness Brewery yes if you didn't go if you went to Ireland he didn't do the Guinness Brewery did you really go to Ireland I mean it was so it wasn't my favorite thing I'm gonna be honest with you Guinness is not my favorite beer either but they did say that the Guinness in Ireland is different than the Guinness throughout the country well throughout the world because they put formaldehyde in it when they ship it over for a preservative which is so disgusting so I had a pint of Guinness that I poured myself at the Guinness factory when we were in Dublin that we spent in Dublin I think we walked like 15 miles or something because everything it's just easier to walk there to get around we went to see castles like Dublin Castle cathedrals I think St. Patrick's Cathedral is one of them there's just so much good food there and the brown bread they serve brown bread with like everything and it's basically just like Irish soda bread like made with baking soda instead of yeast and it's so dense and heavenly then after Dublin we went to a place called Ennis and we drove we stayed there for two nights and had really really good Italian food very proper like they're influenced heavily by London because it's like an hour flight and they do a lot of teas and like tea time and so much Nutella which is the best thing. I've actually never had Nutella. Oh my gosh. Why? Who raised you, Brandon? Why? I don't remember that. It's so good. Yeah my mom never bought Nutella when I was younger. What? When you buy Nutella at Costco it's cheaper than peanut butter is. Oh is that really? Yeah. It's like yeah I suppose. It's because it's a fad thing now. I mean it's true. It's so good. It's so bad for you though. I'm a firm believer if it ain't broke don't fix it. You need to try Nutella. Like peanut butter is not even in the same category as Nutella. Where's their truck parking? I feel your pain right now with not being able to eat wherever. That never crosses my mind like if my vehicle will fit in the parking lot. This is Lur. I haven't seen one of those in a while. Right? Wow. We're going sis. What? We're gonna have a wide man catch up. Nope. Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Nope. Do you know what he's talking about? I do know what he's talking about. Don't admit it. Say no. We can then say that he's just old and we're too young to know what he's talking about. It's a cold thing. That's what people know. It was a 90s movie. I mean it's not that old. You weren't born yet. I was. Oh. What were you born? 91. Oh. You weren't born yet. You're the same age as my little brother. Oh how cute. So I have an SUV. Like a small one. And I really like to go off-roading. Okay. And really enjoy it. Okay. My SUV is all-wheel drive. It's not four-wheel drive. Okay. And the ground, the clearance is not very high. Okay. So I was at the lake at Lake Pleasant and back of the lake and with my dogs and we were driving along on the dirt road and there was a boulder and I thought that we had plenty of clearance. And you didn't. And it stopped us. Like dead in our tracks. Like I hit a wall. It just stopped us. And my dogs like went flying forward. And I think because the ground on either side of the rock was soft so I'd like sink in a little bit. Yeah. So everything was like the car drove okay. And then four days, five days later my fuel pump went out which like that has nothing to do with what stopped me. You know like very separate issues I think anyways. So my car still at the shop because the fuel pump is on back order. It depends on where your fuel pump is located. It's in the back. On the driver's side. Well I'm pretty sure. Because there's two different kinds of fuel pumps. There's ones that are actually in your fuel tank. And then there's fuel pumps that are actually located up near the engine. Oh. That works kind of like a vacuum system. Oh. For a pole's fuel. So it just depends. Oh. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I don't think that's a road. It's not. So I had my older brother look under the undercarriage part and he told me that okay so you know the metal bit that holds the engine up. Well I broke it. I can't have pictures. But I like crumpled the metal. Not enough to where it like completely pushed the whole like metal bit back. But it like crumpled the metal. Is that bad? So depends. I'd have to see it now for sure. Because but. It cannot affect the body of the car. Most likely no. Okay. So it's hard to say for sure. Everybody to listen. Steve's sleeping right there. Yeah Steve fell asleep. Unintentionally doing intermittent fasting today. The things you have done to come get this delicious Mexican food sir. I have no idea. Do you think it looked good? I was translating some of the stuff because I don't know what it means. Like close to the end. What are you getting sir? I'm getting that tamales. They have it in their name. They gotta be good. You'll pick middle. What happened? This will turn purple. And then someone will push it for you. And then you're ready to go. Okay. Final comfortable. You've never played this? Wow you did really good then. Yeah she did really awesome. I don't know this game. 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