 And it probably started when I was about 10 or 11 years old, driving down the San Bernardino freeway on the 10, with my father, he used to haul wood on the flatbed. So I remember just sitting in that seat, just looking over at him, just proud of my pops, driving down the road, big truck. We were, you know, we could see everything over us. So it was awesome. And I think that's where it all started for me. He would always ask me like, what do you want to do? You know, like as you get older and stuff like that. And I'm like, I don't know, I'm young. I don't know, I'm in school. I don't know what to do yet. At the time, unconsciously, driving with my father, going down the road, picking up loads, that was being built with me. He would always tell me like, look, figure something out. If you're going to go flip burgers at McDonald's, it better be the best burger flipper the world has ever seen. But be great at it. Let people know around you that you love what you do. And I got that from my father. When I used to pick him up when he was like 12 or 13. And he'd go in the truck with me. I just always remember him sitting in the seat and he'd hit the button and the seat was all the way up. That way he could look out. But just looking at him reminded me of myself with my father and just a smile on his face and we would throw on rock music and just seeing him over there, just looking out the window, big smile on his face and just the connection that we started at a very young age at that time. So after we would go on our trips and everything, I'd go back home like, man, I want to get back on the road. Like it's just a feeling that you just can't compare to anything else. When I decided to join into the military, that was my occupation, the 88 Micromotor Transport Truck Driver. So I always wanted to get into driving trucks. Like that's always been like in the back of my head. Furthering the career in the military, went on a couple missions and then I had my son. So I decided to get back into trucking. My favorite thing about a driver, oh man, there's a million things. I think most of all, just the freedom of being out on the road. Just having those windows down, listening to your favorite song, maybe some Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin for me personally, it's therapeutic for me. Now I feel good going down the road. I know that my trailer's good. I know that my truck is good. I'm good. Like my father was saying, throwing on the favorite rock album. Me personally, I get my day started with ACDC. I love it. I just, the guitars, the drums, I just, I go for it. My journey to a million miles, because I run a dedicated short haul. So it took me almost 13 years, because everything was probably about 350 miles, maybe 400 miles a day, but I would run six, seven days a week. So I did that for about 13 years. And I did a lot of that running at night time. So yeah, my million miles I'm proud of, because it was a lot of grind, a lot of dedication, all with IKEA. Man, now that I think about it, and I'm looking back at it, that was a lot of days up and down the mountains in LA. You know, driving with night transportation is something that I take great pride in. So I originally started with Budweiser, and they paid for the Class A, and they had trainers there and everything. So once I got into that part of Budweiser, that's when I decided I wanted to go long haul and OTR. So that's when I looked into the newspaper, and in big headings right there was night transportation. And so I called them up, and that's really where it all started. When the time came for me to actually choose a company, I honestly didn't look into any other company. I was like, I'm just gonna go at night. I like night, I like the red trucks. I like the trucks that they have. They look fairly new all the time. People take care of them. So having seen that people take part of their equipment which just shows me that how much the background people take care of their workers as well. So that was the reason why I chose night transportation. You know, one of the things with us that I really do love is that we do run similar routes in the same area in short haul. And as far as like things that we do in the way we start our day, we listen to war. There's a song called Spill the Wine. Take That Girl. That's kind of our song, our connection. We're always talking all day long until the moment it's time to go to sleep and take a 10 hour break. So we're constantly having those conversations. Yeah, our phone records will show. Like mine says Pops, Pops, Pops all the time. And that's something that is helpful for me, being a new driver and having my father that's been experienced 25 years. Hey Pops, like what would you do in this situation or how do I go about this? And having somebody to lean on and it being my father. We never know, you know, when our time has come or when my father's time has come. So these memories that we share, memories of me driving, him driving, talking on the phone every day about life, about family, about my son. It's a great honor to be able to have my father there at a constant time when I need him. My son, just the man that he is, you know, what he's grown up to be, what he's accomplished. At his young age at 23 years old, is way more far advanced. I mean, being a father, 20 times the father I can ever be. You know, just in the way that he moves away, carries himself the way he talks, the way he deals with people. And to being a father to his young son, being able to see all that stuff. It, every day it touches my heart just to be able to work with him, drive down the road with him and have conversations and laugh about everything. And those are memories that I'll always have with me. And we continue to have and make every day. So proud of him? Ah, way beyond proud of him. I love this man. That's my guy.