 Okay, so you can be honest with us and Anthony is not going to beat you okay, cuz you're not on this truck anymore How is he is he a good guy is he good? I'm gonna be honestly like he's one of the best guy, and I'm actually Really happy that I got him for a trainer. I do a lot of shopping on it One one day I had ordered a lot My husband took a picture of it and there was like boxes, you know by the front door and he says he goes Oh, he says Linda Dominic. Do you see a problem with this? Well, I posted. Yeah, I need a bigger doormat. Don't worry I'll order one How you been doing Anthony, I've been doing great Steve covered you in a driver profile Well back, what have you been up to since then same old same old still out driving training training new drivers Nice, how's Nate doing? Is he doing good? Nate's doing really well. He's doing really well I see him posting stuff on Facebook all the time where he's always smoking brisket or chicken or something, so And you did the other video right what oh, what are drivers? Well guys, what do we cut was for driver appreciation where I did the yeah name something that drivers don't deliver. That's what it was Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. That was actually a lot of fun I don't know if you got a chance now. I haven't checked out now that one was so much fun We we literally went to Tanger outlets and we just sat down on a bench and we asked customers that were walking by Tell me something that driver doesn't haul All right, we got some funny they couldn't come unless there was some definitely some funny ones Yeah, there were some funny responses since my last video I Moved to be the I was the executive assistant to Dave Jackson who also was in the night life What was he nightlife for anything was for? Dave Jackson who's president CEO. I was the executive assistant to him. He helped mentor me Taught me a lot. My gosh the man's brilliant Then after that my current role. I'm now the vice president of driver development So I work for you I've worked for you. I tried to better all of your your life out over the road. All right, we've got a Driver over here, but he ain't paying attention. Otherwise, I'd wait so So tell me you this one now has the I guess we can tell them we're in a brand-new Kenworth That that mirror. Do you like having the extra mirror on this? That makes a big difference having the both mirrors both mirrors. Yeah, and I noticed that's that's one thing the 2019 and newer has The two mirrors. Yeah, that makes a difference, huh? Makes a big difference. Yeah, so we had a few drivers tell us on Facebook on the we drive night Facebook page that they would they really liked those mirrors and so We went over to Dave Williams who is the guy who buys all the equipment for both night and now swift and Told him hey, they're looking for these mirrors And voila, there you go. There's the mirrors Which is kind of nice I kind of like it as a passenger because now I can actually see what's going on because this one I can't see out of well now. You always had the mirror on the Patheter side, but not that one but not on the driver's side, right? It's so now I can because I can see what's going on there I can see what's going on here whereas before I couldn't see not that it mattered. I'm not driving I don't even have the all I have is the invisible invisible Brake pedal, you know how the passengers are playing and they're pressing the ground like if they can make it stop As a trainer I always told students as a trainer, you know, you're lucky. I don't have a That a brake pedal over there For sure for there, that's a million-miler truck. I noticed on yours you had the 500 on your thing Just hit 500,000. You just hit it. Just hit it. That is awesome And did and how long have you been for night working one night? Coming up to five years Five years you did 500,000 in less than five years. Yes Incredible you're a hustler. I see it You know, we always say the wheels ain't turning. You're not earning. That's right. Have you gotten your your swag yet? Yes, okay, so you've already gotten your swag and you got an increase Yes, see Check that page, so you Running you ain't even got time to look at your paycheck Direct deposit, you know, hey, it just shows up Yeah, check it out. Yeah, you got an increase because you get an increase every hundred thousand so Which is exciting Well, I knew I knew when they started that program they the guys that were already over Like the 200,000 when they implemented it they backed it, you know So if you only had 20,000 to the max 100,000 they retroactive it so you didn't have to do 100,000 from the time they started it, right? Yeah Yes, that is correct. That's correct We're just trying to make it as fair and as transparent as possible for the drivers Nice always been a fair company, you know, it's I tell guys I said There's no point in if you're starting a new As a new driver, I'm like the one thing that you cannot do out here is jump from company to company Chasing the money. You're right. I might get out. You got companies that'll tell you don't pay you 52 cents a mile But how many miles are they guaranteeing you? That's true. And are they truly paying you 52 cents a mile or is that 52 cents a mile including? bonuses layover Breakdown because you know that they play a lot of games We're not big into the games. We just want to just be transparent so You know that was that was one of the biggest reasons why I chose my two. Oh, yeah one for the in-house training program and in two because when you went on the online doing the driver search See what other drivers are saying about the company seeing what the companies are How the companies are promoting themselves With anything you're gonna find some negative. Oh, absolutely. But when you go through and you start reading the negative comments You can kind of weed out. Okay. This was a disc rental employee for whatever reasons, right? Not to do with the company, right? And I kept coming back tonight That's awesome. That's awesome. I asked a true statement, too. I mean We don't go out there and delete any of the posts that that are negative because hey, you know that that person You know on their way out that was her That was their right to do if that's what they chose we hate it and we loved it If I know if I see and I can tell who the driver is I'll at least reach out reach out to him, you know And the other thing that I saw quite a bit of drivers that had left the company You know and some guys honest, they're like, look, it just wasn't for me. They're not a bad company. It just wasn't for me Yeah, and then there was a lot of guys like look if you're a new driver starting out You can't go wrong with night My favorite is so every week we get to meet the new drivers here at Buck guy that are going through the Dqp And so they come up to the north office where where I'm at if I'm not here at Buck guy to meet him I at least get to have lunch with them most of the time. They're At the north building and my favorite is to ask them. Sorry. Why did they quit? You know, why are they coming back? What happened? So it's pretty interesting to see their responses But it's but it's definitely Wonderful to see that. Hey, you know sometimes things go things go wrong And um, you you test out a different company and then you find out. Hey, it it wasn't what was promised And and if if nothing else fells at least we're honest We're 100 honest and I see it all the time You know training these guys They leave and then you won't see them for a while And then like you said they come back. I've had one guy that I trained twice Hahaha That's funny Training the first time he left after about six months Back to driving buses Wow Okay And he stayed on for about About a year and a half So because he didn't Had didn't do it full year. He had to go back through The ride along with a trainer. Oh, wow Yeah, so you got him again. So when he came back, he's he asked for me specifically When they rehired him. Wow Can I have my old trainer back? Did you tell him you shouldn't have left? We had a bit done training. I told you I said see if you just stayed You'd have two years already You're gonna come up when you two year anniversary That's awesome. So how long you've been training for us? Four years four years. So wow, you came in Five years one year later. Boom. I want to train. That's the way to do it. You know, I'll give you a little bit of my background I uh I'm retired army. Okay. Well, thank you for your service. You're welcome. I did 22 years And in that 22 years of travel I did two years drifts on time. Oh Oh boy, so did you did y'all wear the big brim hat and have to hit people in the Walk up to them do like this Technically you couldn't hit them with the brim on a hat. Yeah, well, we know We don't have to we don't have say it on camera You just kind of walked up, you know, and put it right there like I whispered in your I whispered in your air I took a private when I get you back to the barracks. You belong to me I'm sure you had a good old time with that. Oh, yeah, because I'm like yelling at them You know, they just turn you off It's true. It's true. It's the 22 years Wow So did you jump? My initial contract was airborne. Oh, yeah, and uh, I had to retake the physical and the doctor Miss classified me The trader sickle cell In my record I carried a trait so he misclassified it as me having sickle cell Which is an automatic disqualified for the airborne school So by the time I got it out of my medical records, I thought twice about do I really want to jump out of airplanes and it's like Yeah I'm not big on jumping from the from an airplane So I'm thankful for those that do Who is in the army currently, okay, and he's airborne So I hear the stories from him and my daughter who so he's at Fort Bragg right now No, they're not they're they're in virginia right now. No, my twin brother was airborne Oh, so you got a twin. Yes. Wow So are you identical or fraternal fraternal fraternal twins? Okay, so who's older I am 20 minutes 20 20 minutes 20 minutes. Oh my gosh, you're poor mother Yeah, well, it was only for the one big kid and then uh, it turned out. Nope. Nope Too smaller ones. They're like, we're mistaken. There's actually another baby in there So they really didn't find out until right then. Oh my god. Can you imagine? Yes, and do you have children? No children no children married 29 years 29 years as those The seven of this month. Oh happy late anniversary That's exciting. No next month. This is March. This is March. No, April. Okay, 7th of April 7th of April. Okay All right, so 1990 nine years as well, but it'll be July of this year. Okay. Yeah So what does your wife do? She is an accountant Ah at the Nautical Beachfront Resort in Lake Avonson. Oh Wow, well, that's nice. Yeah, that's really nice. At least she got a pretty view Right. Yeah every day she goes to work is a beautiful view. That's it. That's it Wow, that's pretty cool. Well, I promise you she's seeing your penny raise. She knows She knows you got that increase So she probably does 100% if she does the folks she knows She's seen it before you did without it. Sometimes I'm like this is good thing or a bad thing being married to an accountant That's true because she knows every penny. She knows where where it went That's so funny So where have you been, you know in the service how long? You were in for 22 years, so where have you been stationed? I see I started out at Fort's well basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky And then my first duty station was uh, Fort Stuart, Georgia Then for Fort Stuart, Georgia, I went to Republican Germany How long were you there? Uh two years two years And then from Republican Germany back to Fort Knox, Kentucky for 13 months And then from Fort Knox to Korea. Oh, which which base in Korea? Camp Casey And uh Tondeshon And then from there I was two years and then from there to Fort Lewis Washington that's where I met my wife at Fort Lewis I was there about 18 months and then from there we went to Fort Bliss, El Paso And then from there that was Desert Shield Desert Storm And then after three and a half years there drill sergeant duty at Fort Jackson, South Carolina And then after drill sergeant duty Fort Jackson Was Fort Carson, Colorado Oh went from nice and sunny to cold And then from Fort Carson, Colorado To Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Oh, that was that was three years That was uh, I had the component a reserve component training Training command. So for three years, we Basically trained National Guard and reserve units Okay All right. And then from there I went back to Korea for a year And then back to Fort Carson is where I retired. Same base in Korea? No, this the second time I was at uh Second Infantry Division headquarters in uh, E.T. Y. Okay Then from there back to Fort Carson is where I retired Okay, and then you know My husband was retired Air Force. So what year did your husband retired? He retired in 2000 I believe it was 2009 or 2008 Good gosh No, it was 2008 It's 2008 because I retired in 2003 2003 All right And he and my husband retired right here outside of uh, Luke Air Force Base. Oh, okay. Yeah So the military definitely is a good life. I tell you you make long lasting friends and the best part I think is It could be friends who you haven't seen in years But when you meet up with them, it's like they never left. Yeah, it's a bond that just can't be broken That's it, you know, it It's such a strong bond. It's a to reach out to those To those folks, you know, and I feel like no matter where you go in the country Chances are you're gonna know somebody who's living close by And I don't know what it is about military members But when somebody says, hey I'm gonna be in like they'll tell it. Hey Linda. I'm gonna be in vegas. We're gonna drive to vegas to see him, right? I mean, I don't You hadn't seen him forever, right? I mean, that's just what you do. That's I've got a buddy in Kentucky And whenever I get through Louisville or anywhere close, I'll call him up And say, hey I got time to stop for a couple hours or I'm just calling late, you know, I'm coming passing through Yeah, and if I've got a couple hours to burn He's he's gonna show up. Yeah, he's like, I'll come get you wherever you at. We'll go have lunch or whatever This actually doesn't drive too bad. No, you like it I'm getting used to it. I mean, it's different from your truck I think I like the the layout of the international a little bit better This part of the dash and international is flatter Here's the nice thing about having the mirror on this side So right now that car's in my blind spot and I can see it without having a look Oh, yeah, you're right. We need these on passenger cars When you're in Europe, the mirrors used to be on the hood. Really? Yeah, you look at some of the old British sports cars and things the mirrors were On the hood I mean, it looks right before, you know, just one mirror is Now they're balanced, right? Right. I like it because like I said now I can I know when I was driving with Sue Um, I could see but I couldn't And I don't know why it's not like I need to see right. I'm passenger. I can't steer the truck But it is nice to be able to Say hey, slow down. Yeah Do you know how many trainees you've had? I've seen four years. I've probably had probably about 35 Wow, that's incredible So probably Eight months out of the year. They say you get an abundance of females for whatever reason in a particular class cycle And how do you accommodate that when you don't have The female trainers It's a struggle It's a real struggle. Um And sometimes they got a unfortunately you got to wait you got to wait for the for the female driver to come The females we struggle sometimes, you know, they got to sit unfortunately got to wait for a female trainer, but there are a few um Trainers that they can put them with that and There could be a case where you've got somebody say In lakeland, florida that now we've got to get them all the way to telleri to get them with a trainer You know, I mean that that happens That's why it's important that we get enough, you know female trainers As well as we mean male trainers always. I mean, it's it's it's tough. It's tough for sure For sure, which we've got a we've got quite a few female drivers out there Shut out to the dames of night. That's what they that's what them they created their own facebook page And they're called the dames As a matter of fact, they created a pen that's that's already been designed and ready to go So oh, okay. Yeah, you'll see those coming out as well Yeah, pretty pretty cool That was a question I've always had Yeah, how do you what do you do with these female trainers when you don't have enough? Yeah, it it's a true struggle. It really is that's why we You know, that's why we encourage, you know, so many people to to train not to mention I mean, hey, you get a little you know, you make extra money to have somebody on the truck You're not by yourself in the truck Okay, so you can be honest with us and anthony is not going to beat you. Okay, because you're not on this truck anymore How is he is he a good guy? Is he good? I'm gonna be honestly like he's one of the best guy and I'm actually Really happy that I got him for for trainer because I by her, you know All the story from from my buddy from class and stuff And like once in a while he told me like story about like other training stuff And I you know, I'm really happy like he's my trainer and I That's he like really knowledge And it's not just that but it's like the personality like when you ride with somebody like you live you live with somebody You know the attitude the attitude and the personality is like matters, you know So yeah, like we get along really well And yeah, and how are you doing out there? Are you doing good? Yeah, I mean as far as I know, you know, I I don't get you're liking it Yeah, um, although yesterday morning. Jesse call me. It's like, oh, you know, like uh, he check on my my Points and it's like you like really good because like I got three points. Oh a smart draw. Yeah the spark drive Uh, yeah, so he's like, oh, that's that's he got bonus for for the smart because he got three points You know, that's like, oh, wow. That's good bonus. Hello extra check. Let's take this helps Yeah, that's awesome. You're like, I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. You still stay in touch? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's good. I'll call him once in a while Give him a hard time. Oh, yeah That's cool That's pretty, do y'all ever catch each other out while you're out every once in a while Every once in a while, yeah Texas uh There was a somewhere else That's pretty awesome. Yeah, I was backing up. I'm looking I'm like I know that You're like, I know that guy Yeah, those pins look sharp. I mean, how could they not? I know look at those Let's see. I had a top. You know what we need to do give one with them a night one with american flag on it What does a driver get if he collects all of the pens? Is there like a reward like He's collected all of them. He's made it to the like monopoly of mcdonald's Right, maybe there's a special pen for somebody that gets all of the pens first Gosh, we got a lot of drivers who already have all the pens. Oh really? Yeah, never mind Yeah, but I can do an american flag one. Yeah, yeah a flag with a k on it. Yeah But we can't put the k on all glory though But we can put all glory in with Yeah, we totally can do that All right, so how did the ride along go like did you enjoy it? I enjoyed it. How could I not enjoy it? I mean for all you guys who have been training with any how can how could I not enjoy that? Of course I enjoyed it Nice and how how did you did you enjoy it? I enjoyed riding with somebody like this I enjoyed it from the standpoint of A lot of good information This is It's he said it's like nice willing to put the effort in that talk to the drivers to find out what the drivers need wants and try and make what What's reasonable happen You know make the driver's life on the road a little easier for better And we talked at lunch for an hour and a half We're probably at lunch for at least an hour and a half None of which we'll be making it into this episode because it is so uh, it's probably awesome But we can't sure it can't release it just yet. We can't release it just yet until it's like 100% That's the teaser. It'll be so awesome. Stay tuned. You should put on their teaser Stay tuned more to come. Oh, yeah, something like that. Yeah, people are gonna be like blown away Oh for sure. Oh for sure. All right. Well, thank you guys for coming out and participating and doing all this. Thank you Thank you for letting me share your truck. Thank you for inviting me to Be your driver for the day