Maximize Your Earnings: Bonuses & Pay at Cypress Truck Lines

1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:06,640 You know, everybody wants to know the same thing when they start a new trucking job. How do I make 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:12,840 the most money? Most people assume the answer is pretty simple, right? Drive harder. Stay out longer. 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:19,520 Burn every minute off of your clock. But what if that's not actually how the highest earners do 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:25,640 it? On today's episode, three veteran Cypress drivers pulled back the curtain on little things 5 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:31,720 that separate an average paycheck from a great one. We're talking about loads that lots of 6 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:38,320 drivers pass up every single week. Bonuses that are surprisingly easy to earn. Clock management 7 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:45,199 tricks that can save you from wasting a 34, and even how? Fixing a mud flap, recovering a tarp, or 8 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:51,800 taking 15 minutes to help the shop can literally put cash in your pocket. None of this is a secret. 9 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,880 In fact, the guys will tell you the information has always been there. The difference is learning 10 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:02,969 how to recognize the opportunities when they show up. So whether you're a brand new driver, you've 11 00:01:02,970 --> 00:01:08,249 been here for 20 years or you're just looking for 1 or 2 ideas that could make your next paycheck a 12 00:01:08,249 --> 00:01:14,089 little bigger. This episode is packed with practical advice from drivers who have already 13 00:01:14,089 --> 00:01:16,409 figured it out. Let's go get it. 14 00:01:21,410 --> 00:01:25,969 Countdown to the Cypress Truck Lines podcast starts now. 15 00:01:28,290 --> 00:01:35,209 Your number one professional flatbed podcast here to deliver stories, safety updates and company 16 00:01:35,209 --> 00:01:39,849 news directly to your ears. Let's get down to business. 17 00:01:45,889 --> 00:01:50,849 How's the weather out there? Cypress and Sunbelt. Welcome into another episode of the Cypress Truck 18 00:01:50,849 --> 00:01:57,009 Lines podcast. Thank you so much for joining us today on episode 30. And I'm very excited about 19 00:01:57,009 --> 00:02:03,619 this one because we're talking about putting more money in your pocket today and, uh, yeah, I mean, 20 00:02:03,660 --> 00:02:08,499 show me a better combo with the trucking industry than drivers trying to make more money. That's 21 00:02:08,499 --> 00:02:12,619 what we're all out here trying to do. And, uh, we've got three drivers that are going to come in here 22 00:02:12,619 --> 00:02:17,659 today and share some tips and tricks. But before we get to that, let's talk about our never ending 23 00:02:17,660 --> 00:02:24,019 homework assignment where we tell a friend about this podcast, um, you know what the podcast website. 24 00:02:24,059 --> 00:02:30,979 podcast.cypresstruck.com. Send them there, tell them, hey, just go check out this website and maybe click one of the 25 00:02:30,979 --> 00:02:35,500 episodes and listen to it. Find something that you think sounds like something you might want to 26 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:40,539 hear and take a listen. The episodes are only an hour long, so you don't have to ask them for much 27 00:02:40,539 --> 00:02:45,580 of their time. And I understand that you drivers, uh, you spend some time looking out the windshield 28 00:02:45,580 --> 00:02:50,699 from time to time, so maybe they've got the time in their day, uh, to check out an episode of the 29 00:02:50,699 --> 00:02:56,220 Cypress Truck podcast and then have them get back with you and tell them what you tell you what 30 00:02:56,220 --> 00:03:00,800 they think about it like if they don't like it, we're open for feedback. I want to know, what do 31 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,799 you guys want to listen to? What do you want to hear? How do you want it to sound? I'll take the 32 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:10,480 suggestions. All I want you to do is go out there and tell a friend about the Cypress Truck Lines 33 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:17,080 podcast today, and you will be doing great things for this little engine that could. Now, 34 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:23,360 today's episode, you hear me say, it's about putting more money in your pocket, maximizing your 35 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:29,200 earnings. And a lot of you might hear that and think, well, just drive harder, work more. But it's 36 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:35,879 not always about working more. In today's episode, you'll find that out once we get Tony, Kevin and 37 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:42,039 Adolf in here to talk about it. You got to work smarter, is what I'm finding out. Uh, the best 38 00:03:42,039 --> 00:03:48,520 earning strategies are often small habits that compound over time. They aren't, you know, one magic 39 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,999 trick or one flick of the finger, and all of a sudden you're making a bunch more money. Um, and 40 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:00,129 also, I want to take the take the time to call this out right here and right now. This is a 41 00:04:00,129 --> 00:04:06,369 driver generated episode. These guys reached out to me and said, hey, we're getting pretty good at 42 00:04:06,369 --> 00:04:12,008 this in all of our years here as as Cypress truck drivers and one of them being Adolf, even being a 43 00:04:12,009 --> 00:04:18,969 retired driver. Kevin's been here for 17 years. They figured out how to work within this system. 44 00:04:18,970 --> 00:04:25,089 And it's not gaming the system. There's no, um, there's no fast and loose that we're playing here. 45 00:04:25,089 --> 00:04:32,088 These bonuses, these extra money opportunities are there for you Cypress drivers. And this episode 46 00:04:32,089 --> 00:04:38,169 is really more about, hey, here's where they are. Here's what you can do. This is a way that you can 47 00:04:38,170 --> 00:04:44,369 add maybe a hundred, maybe 40, maybe 80, who knows? Uh, to to the to your paycheck at the end of the 48 00:04:44,369 --> 00:04:50,410 week. And it's pretty easy. The things that we're discussing and hey, every fleet has their own 49 00:04:50,410 --> 00:04:55,259 playbook for this type of stuff. They're all different. And so if you're new here at Cypress, 50 00:04:55,260 --> 00:05:00,099 this could be a really good. A really good primer for you, because one thing that you'll hear the 51 00:05:00,099 --> 00:05:06,339 driver say is that it took him a couple of years to figure out exactly how to work within the 52 00:05:06,339 --> 00:05:12,620 system, and once they did, they were super happy. But we could save you some of that time here 53 00:05:12,620 --> 00:05:16,579 today. If you're brand new at Cypress right now and you're listening to this and you're thinking, I 54 00:05:16,579 --> 00:05:21,139 gotta get more money in my pocket, and I want to keep working for this company. Well, we're going to 55 00:05:21,140 --> 00:05:27,579 give you a bunch of ways that you can do that today. And they are surprisingly easy. Uh, as easy 56 00:05:27,579 --> 00:05:34,019 as just watching a safety video at the end of the week. Fridays. My guy, Matt Penland puts them out 57 00:05:34,019 --> 00:05:38,099 there. Good. They're good. You got to check them out. And all you do is you watch them and you keep 58 00:05:38,099 --> 00:05:43,219 your safety score low. Bam! Money in your pocket each quarter. That's a quarterly bonus you can 59 00:05:43,219 --> 00:05:48,139 earn. And there's a lot more different ways that we're going to get into. As soon as Tony and Kevin 60 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:55,070 and Adolf join us in here. Uh, so stay tuned, because let me tell you, Nobody is 61 00:05:55,070 --> 00:06:00,350 upset about having a few hundred more greenbacks in their pocket, right? Like, imagine going home to 62 00:06:00,350 --> 00:06:06,629 the wife next week and saying, hey, so I checked out this podcast episode and, uh, here's an extra 63 00:06:06,630 --> 00:06:12,909 400 bucks for the savings account or go buy that thing that you wanted, or, hey, let's make an extra 64 00:06:12,910 --> 00:06:18,429 payment on the car or the house. Let's get ahead. Let's pay off some debt, you name it. It doesn't 65 00:06:18,430 --> 00:06:23,509 matter what your situation is. The fact of the matter is, we're all game for a little bit more 66 00:06:23,510 --> 00:06:29,069 cash in our pockets and look. Things are tough out there right now. All right, the gas prices there. 67 00:06:29,230 --> 00:06:33,829 They're up there. Groceries. Not cheap, man. It's hard to get out of the grocery store with a 68 00:06:33,829 --> 00:06:39,589 week's worth of groceries for less than 100 or 150 bucks these days. And so this extra money can 69 00:06:39,589 --> 00:06:45,670 really help, and it can really add up over time. So sit back, relax, strap in, make sure you got your 70 00:06:45,670 --> 00:06:50,510 head on a swivel and you're listening. Ears on. Uh, because we're going to get Tony, Adolf and Kevin 71 00:06:50,510 --> 00:06:55,449 in here right now to talk about maximizing your earnings at Cypress Truck Lines. 72 00:07:03,969 --> 00:07:09,850 Let me tell you one of the coolest parts about my job. You know, everybody is you would look at a 73 00:07:09,850 --> 00:07:14,849 podcast host as a guy. That's that's my job title. And you would think, man, that guy's got to think 74 00:07:14,849 --> 00:07:20,649 about all the stuff that they talk about all the time. And you'd be right. Except in cases like 75 00:07:20,649 --> 00:07:27,049 today where I am the fortunate recipient of a text message from a driver of the company that 76 00:07:27,049 --> 00:07:32,048 we're doing the podcast for. And all of a sudden, this Cypress driver tells me, hey, I got a really 77 00:07:32,049 --> 00:07:36,409 good idea for an episode. And then they type about, you know, 3 or 4 sentences about what the the 78 00:07:36,410 --> 00:07:42,809 episode is going to be about. And presto, my job is done. And that's what happened today. These guys 79 00:07:42,810 --> 00:07:48,530 did my job for me. They put together the episode idea. I'm just here to host the thing. So let's 80 00:07:48,530 --> 00:07:54,219 welcome these guys in real quick. First we got Kevin Barritt on the line Kevin always a pleasure 81 00:07:54,219 --> 00:07:59,939 man. Welcome back. How many pig missiles have you had since the last time we talked to you? Oh, I've 82 00:07:59,939 --> 00:08:04,539 lost count. Hey, perfect. That's the best, most American answer we could have gotten out of you, 83 00:08:04,540 --> 00:08:11,499 man. Welcome back. But I'd like to. I'd like to say welcome into the, uh, Tony and Kevin podcast with, 84 00:08:11,499 --> 00:08:18,219 uh, special guest Adolf and our host, Marcus. There you go, man. That's a great way to put it 85 00:08:18,219 --> 00:08:23,819 today. It really is. Uh, Kevin Barritt, always a pleasure to have you back, my friend. Let's also 86 00:08:23,820 --> 00:08:29,379 welcome to the show. Hey, great to have you, uh, another frequent guest here. We love having him on. 87 00:08:29,379 --> 00:08:34,419 We got Tony Miller on the line. Tony, thank you so much for your time, my friend. Uh, pig missile count 88 00:08:34,419 --> 00:08:40,659 since the last time we talked to you, pig. Missile count is over 100, I guarantee. I love it, man, I 89 00:08:40,659 --> 00:08:46,900 love it. Uh, thanks for the time here today, Tony. Uh, of course. And thanks to all three of you guys for 90 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:52,149 kind of coming up with this idea. Um, it's going to be a fun one today. Let's also welcome on to the 91 00:08:52,150 --> 00:08:57,589 show. Uh, Adolf Metzger, retired Cypress driver. Adolf, thanks for being back, man. We always 92 00:08:57,590 --> 00:09:02,349 appreciate the time, especially considering, uh, you don't have to do this, man. You don't even have to 93 00:09:02,349 --> 00:09:08,469 feel compelled. Hey, I forgot to be connected with the company, you know? Gotta be connected. Yes, sir. 94 00:09:08,510 --> 00:09:14,149 Well, we feel. If I can help out a little bit or, you know, if I can look at the weather map for you 95 00:09:14,150 --> 00:09:19,348 or, you know, give you a little bit of guidance, I'm here. I love. Just a phone call away, so it's not a 96 00:09:19,349 --> 00:09:24,269 big deal. I love it. What a great resource for us all to have here at Cypress. Somebody with your 97 00:09:24,270 --> 00:09:29,509 experience and your know how and when we get the three of you guys together, we get a lot of 98 00:09:29,509 --> 00:09:35,909 experience and know how, uh, both currently in the truck and out of the truck. And, fellas, I'll 99 00:09:35,909 --> 00:09:41,309 suffice it to say that the most, uh, the best I could boil this down for you is today's episode 100 00:09:41,310 --> 00:09:46,669 is about maximizing your earnings here at Cypress. That was the that was the the message that you 101 00:09:46,669 --> 00:09:51,919 guys sent me. Hey, what if we did an episode where we talk about how to maximize your earnings and 102 00:09:51,919 --> 00:09:57,880 how to manage your clock and things like that so that you get the most out of this job. And I'll be 103 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:03,760 honest with you, because I haven't worked a lot of jobs where I could do that, a lot of the jobs in 104 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:09,200 my professional career, the way you maximize your earnings is you show up every day or you get 105 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:15,879 fired. Um, those are the two options that you have. And I know that there's a little bit more nuanced 106 00:10:15,879 --> 00:10:21,200 to it when it comes to driving truck, especially for Cypress. So, um, I don't know which one of you 107 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:26,079 guys kind of wants to jump off first here. But as I said, I'm letting you guys drive the boat a 108 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,999 little bit today. So let's jump into this conversation about maximizing our earnings. Where 109 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:37,678 do we start? Hi. Um, let's start with me. I guess we let Kevin finish. But anyway, 110 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:44,479 everybody, what about me and Tony? Tony over there? Just just sit back with your big missiles. 111 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:51,689 Hey, um, when you come to orientation, it's whatever sense per mob that you, you know, based on your 112 00:10:51,689 --> 00:10:55,769 experience. So each drive is a little bit different, you know? I mean, get yourself these 113 00:10:55,770 --> 00:11:02,769 drivers, then you got your Florida two 50s and you got your what's at the 175 over 114 00:11:02,770 --> 00:11:07,610 there in Wilmington or whatever. Then you got the over the road driver. So everybody's a little bit 115 00:11:07,610 --> 00:11:14,089 different but close. Okay. Okay. On the on the money. So how do we 116 00:11:14,090 --> 00:11:19,570 maximize the money. Well there's a couple key components is 117 00:11:21,010 --> 00:11:27,368 to be fat and fat faithful accountable and 118 00:11:27,369 --> 00:11:34,289 trainable. Okay. Gotta be trainable. Okay. Very true. Very true. So how do 119 00:11:34,330 --> 00:11:41,289 how do you maximize our money? The biggest pay tickets is the landlords that 120 00:11:41,289 --> 00:11:47,749 deliver inside the 250 loop Bridgeport, Lowe's Home Depot's. Nobody liked them. But you gotta, 121 00:11:49,150 --> 00:11:55,789 you know, you gotta be kind of fat because they did. That's a $100 122 00:11:55,789 --> 00:12:02,070 bill plus the miles with that load. And you'd be very surprised on how many people go to 123 00:12:02,110 --> 00:12:08,788 Bridgeport, do all the work and drop that load in Smyrna. You know what I 124 00:12:08,789 --> 00:12:15,069 mean? Because they want to go deliver a Home Depot load. And if it's a two stop, that's an extra 40 on 125 00:12:15,070 --> 00:12:21,989 top of the hundred. So that's 140 bucks plus a miles. And that's just for taking that load. That's 126 00:12:21,989 --> 00:12:27,749 just that load that goes through for it. That load that bridge comes out of Bridgeport. Yeah. Comes 127 00:12:27,749 --> 00:12:32,669 out of Bridgeport. It comes out of Bridgeport. Gotcha. So, so so if it's a two stop, that's an 128 00:12:32,670 --> 00:12:38,509 extra 40. If it's a three stop, it's a it's another extra 40. It just keeps adding up. 129 00:12:39,870 --> 00:12:44,760 And talk to me a little bit about the driver that would drop that trailer in in Smyrna because they 130 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,080 didn't want to take it. What? What is behind that thought process and why wouldn't you want the 131 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:53,560 extra money? Or is it just a we might not know about it. And that's why we're having this episode. 132 00:12:53,600 --> 00:13:00,559 No, here's, here's here's the thing. Everybody wants to be home on Friday. Everybody. Everybody. You 133 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:06,358 talked to any driver in Cypress? I gotta be home on Friday. Okay? Okay. But even if they leave 134 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:11,440 Bridgeport with that load, they're not getting to South Florida on Friday. Oh, okay. There's no way 135 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:18,358 possible unless you're driving the Concord or a 747. That's the only way. You know you're not going 136 00:13:18,359 --> 00:13:24,919 to make it. So if you're not going to make it, you might have to instead of dropping that load in 137 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:31,559 Smyrna, deliver it in Atlanta, come back to Smyrna, pick up your loaded early in the morning. 138 00:13:32,239 --> 00:13:37,839 Boom. And you're gone. Go on down and you'll be home Saturday morning with extra money in your 139 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:44,408 pocket. $180 of possible extra money in your pocket. In your pocket, and 140 00:13:44,409 --> 00:13:51,209 then you'd be surprised how many other people have the same mind thing of, oh, I don't want 141 00:13:51,210 --> 00:13:56,209 to, I don't want to deliver the Home Depot load, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm just going to drop it in 142 00:13:56,210 --> 00:14:01,450 Smyrna or Jacksonville, the Home Depot, the Home Depot load is what he's talking about. These are 143 00:14:01,530 --> 00:14:07,889 the $100 is overnight paid because the Home Depot delivers usually after midnight. Oh, okay. Gotcha. 144 00:14:07,969 --> 00:14:12,689 Yeah. That's. Yeah. That's that's what that's what he didn't tell you is that that's why the that's 145 00:14:12,690 --> 00:14:18,529 why the guy wants to drop in Smyrna. Because he don't want to do that overnight run. Because 146 00:14:18,530 --> 00:14:22,049 chances are you're going to do your ten hour break in the Home Depot parking lot. Like I'll be 147 00:14:22,049 --> 00:14:27,450 at the truck stop, people taking lessons. Ah, I see, so what you need to do is you need to bring pig 148 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:31,608 missiles on board. If you're going to do that, then you still get to have that. Exactly. There you go. 149 00:14:31,649 --> 00:14:38,249 That's okay. Right. Exactly. And then also the other big ticket item is 150 00:14:38,530 --> 00:14:45,259 Saturday. Um, Lowe's deliveries. They don't come up 151 00:14:45,259 --> 00:14:51,819 very often, but they do come up and they, you know, if you work in the weekend, that's part of 152 00:14:52,220 --> 00:14:57,339 and normally you'll normally see those heading 153 00:14:59,019 --> 00:15:05,099 up to Atlanta, up to Atlanta, say from, uh, Gibson's in Florida, up to Atlanta. So you have to ask for 154 00:15:05,099 --> 00:15:11,978 it. Hey, is there any weekend deliveries? And they come up quite often. 155 00:15:12,539 --> 00:15:17,979 They're there for you. So I, I'm let me put it to you guys this way. I wonder, Kevin, if I could ask 156 00:15:17,979 --> 00:15:24,498 this question to you. Um, would you basically suffice it to say that, hey, if you're willing to 157 00:15:24,540 --> 00:15:29,539 spend your ten hour break in the Home Depot parking lot, it's worth a hundred bucks to you. 158 00:15:30,499 --> 00:15:34,419 Does that. Does that make sense? Is that basically the that and yeah, you're not going to be home 159 00:15:34,419 --> 00:15:39,339 Friday like when you normally want to be. But there's there's extra you know, there's extra 160 00:15:39,339 --> 00:15:44,079 sweetness in that pot for you for making that sacrifice. And that's sort of the way that Cypress 161 00:15:44,079 --> 00:15:47,839 does things right there. They're not going to ask you to do something without taking care of you 162 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:54,319 for it. Yeah. You know, it's you know, it's that old saying, you know, you scratch my back and I'll 163 00:15:54,319 --> 00:15:59,200 scratch yours, you know? Right. Absolutely. Cypress needs that load delivered to help, you know, 164 00:15:59,239 --> 00:16:06,000 because usually Bridgeport Bridgeport is a USG, which is probably our number one customer. So, you 165 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,478 know, dispatch is saying, okay, we've got to get the this Home Depot covered. So we're going to throw a 166 00:16:11,479 --> 00:16:15,999 little bit of extra money in your pocket if you go ahead and run it for us. Yeah. We know you want 167 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,039 it to be home Friday night. But you know what? If you get there Saturday morning by breakfast time, 168 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:26,679 you know. Sure. Would you would you sacrifice it for that little bit extra pay. Yeah. And it's and 169 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:31,359 really from what Adolf's telling us, it's not even a little bit I mean, it's almost 200 bucks you can 170 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:36,039 get if you add that third stop in there. That's not it's nothing to shake a stick at. I mean, I'd 171 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:42,608 take 200 extra bucks. I'll stay the night inside of Home Depot for $200. Just ask me. 172 00:16:43,249 --> 00:16:48,769 Watch me. You'll unload the truck too. You won't just sit there and pull the tarp. You'll go and 173 00:16:48,770 --> 00:16:54,010 run the forklift at that point. Yeah, exactly, man. I'll do. I'll do all those jobs I got no problem. 174 00:16:54,010 --> 00:16:58,369 And I'll go in there and put on the orange vest and help a guy build a deck the next day. I don't 175 00:16:58,369 --> 00:17:04,889 even care. You're paying me extra money. Uh, but. But I'm a cheap date, right? We know that. Uh, Tony, I 176 00:17:04,890 --> 00:17:09,129 wonder if you want to jump in here at all. Uh, based on what we're talking about so far. Any 177 00:17:09,130 --> 00:17:14,489 thoughts to add to this? Yeah. Not only is it the hundred bucks from the from the Bridgeport, but 178 00:17:14,529 --> 00:17:19,489 it's the short haul pay. You gotta, you know, add that. Plus, like Adolf said, if it's a two stopper, 179 00:17:19,529 --> 00:17:26,328 extra 40 bucks. So it really is lucrative to do a Home Depot out of Bridgeport. And is it one of 180 00:17:26,329 --> 00:17:31,448 those things where it's like, is there a lot of guys that try to get these runs? Um, or is this one 181 00:17:31,449 --> 00:17:36,050 that is one that guys would just rather not do and they kind of take it when it's there and when 182 00:17:36,050 --> 00:17:42,779 it needs to be done. What's what's your guys take on that? Guys, turn it down. 183 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:48,979 They turn it out. It's 5050 I would say I would say 184 00:17:49,859 --> 00:17:56,859 nine chances out of ten. This probably has to ask a 20 drivers to get 185 00:17:56,860 --> 00:18:03,779 two to do a load. Interesting. It's like yeah it's like begging you, hey, open up 186 00:18:03,779 --> 00:18:08,259 my pocket, put a couple extra hundred dollars in it and you'd be surprised. Marcus a lot of those 187 00:18:08,259 --> 00:18:15,180 Home Depots are one stop and there's multiple of them sitting in Atlanta. They do have a couple of 188 00:18:15,180 --> 00:18:20,459 local guys that that run nothing but Home Depots around Atlanta. But but but there's a lot of Home 189 00:18:20,459 --> 00:18:27,259 Depot's from the Home Depot. Two guys can do it. Sure. It might not be going to A to Atlanta. It 190 00:18:27,260 --> 00:18:34,259 might be going to Chattanooga, which is right down the road, but 34, 35 miles, I think it is 191 00:18:34,259 --> 00:18:40,709 maybe. Okay. So let me ask you this. Uh, Tony, I'll field this question to you. 192 00:18:40,709 --> 00:18:46,229 Um, if if you were to go to your dispatcher and say, hey, I'd like to take one of those loads, 193 00:18:46,230 --> 00:18:51,629 that'll pay me the extra 100 bucks. Um, how's that going to pay dividends in the future? Because from 194 00:18:51,629 --> 00:18:56,629 what Adolf's telling me here, and Kevin's saying, you know, 5050, it kind of sounds like maybe this 195 00:18:56,629 --> 00:19:00,589 is something that could really help the dispatchers out. If you were to go and volunteer 196 00:19:00,589 --> 00:19:06,709 to take some of these loads, um, over your course of time with Cypress. Tony, when you've gone to a 197 00:19:06,709 --> 00:19:11,349 dispatcher and volunteered to do work like this, how does that kind of pay it forward to you in 198 00:19:11,349 --> 00:19:18,349 the future? Tenfold, Marcus. Tenfold. Like Kevin just said, you know, you scratch my back, I'll scratch 199 00:19:18,349 --> 00:19:24,110 yours. You volunteer for that? Boy howdy. They got. You know, when Miss Katie has a rotten load, she's 200 00:19:24,110 --> 00:19:30,109 going to be looking for me and say, hey, you know, let me cover one of these local loads for you. 201 00:19:30,229 --> 00:19:37,089 You'll be. They'll be your best friend from there on out. Oh, yeah. It's kind of like 100%. Yeah. Hey. To 202 00:19:37,129 --> 00:19:42,249 sweeten the pot. Just like you said, Marcus. Uh, sometimes I'll be coming back from Texas, right? 203 00:19:42,249 --> 00:19:48,608 And there's a sweet little spot that says Lee. Florida. Right. It's called the red onion. Uh, 204 00:19:48,609 --> 00:19:55,489 grill and seven layer pineapple cakes over there. Or eight layer ice cake. Those. 205 00:19:56,009 --> 00:20:02,328 Every time I cruise, I cruise by there. It's constantly $35. Right? Cause you're getting one of 206 00:20:02,329 --> 00:20:08,449 those cakes. Because I take one of those cakes, I deliver it to this batch. 207 00:20:08,650 --> 00:20:15,448 Everybody's happy up there with cake. Wow. Right. That's a that is some inside baseball right 208 00:20:15,449 --> 00:20:21,968 there, man. Keeping dispatch happy that pays. So. And it's not like, you know, kissing their 209 00:20:22,170 --> 00:20:27,050 their butt or nothing like that. It's. Hey, y'all. Y'all help me out. I'm gonna help you out with the 210 00:20:27,050 --> 00:20:33,530 little sweet tooth problem that y'all have. Right. And now give me a, like, just like Kevin said, is it 211 00:20:33,579 --> 00:20:40,180 going to pay forward? It might not. Right. But they're going to remember that cake. They will. 212 00:20:40,420 --> 00:20:45,619 They will remember the cake. I remember the cake. And I haven't even tried it. It sounds amazing. 213 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:52,059 It's a seven. Yeah. It's like seven layer pineapple cake. Or they get the red velvet cake. And I had to 214 00:20:52,060 --> 00:20:58,979 grab one ticket over there. It cost me 30, $35. Not a big deal, but, um. Yeah. Got it. Home 215 00:20:58,979 --> 00:21:05,539 depot, Lowe's. Mm. So that that 35 bucks is not a big deal, because you understand what it's going 216 00:21:05,539 --> 00:21:09,219 to mean in the future, right? You're they're they're going to they're going to grab you for 217 00:21:09,219 --> 00:21:12,899 one of those loads that Tony was talking about. What? Uh, Tony, what was that load that you were 218 00:21:12,899 --> 00:21:19,739 referencing? He said, if Miss Katie has it, she's looking for you. Sure. A Rotan, Texas load. Okay. 219 00:21:19,740 --> 00:21:26,139 And why do you like that load? It's. The miles are great. It's a nice, easy 220 00:21:26,140 --> 00:21:32,670 run. The folks out there in Rotan are really nice. It's just. And then to get out of there, You got to 221 00:21:32,670 --> 00:21:37,829 drive 4 or 500 miles to get to your next shipper. It's it's great. Like Kevin, you said, it's great. 222 00:21:37,829 --> 00:21:44,629 Miles. Okay, great. It's great. So, like, real quick math if you're going to 223 00:21:44,670 --> 00:21:51,229 Texas. It's 800 miles from, say, like Atlanta. Let's just say it's 224 00:21:51,269 --> 00:21:57,748 800. So if you're getting paid, I don't know what the new guy is getting right now. I think it's, um. 225 00:21:57,790 --> 00:22:04,670 According to my sheet here, $0.67 a mile for the new guy on the block. Uh, that's experience 226 00:22:04,709 --> 00:22:08,029 got me this ride down. Experience? 227 00:22:11,990 --> 00:22:18,709 All right. So. So that's a five year driver right there. Okay, so let's just let's just, uh, 228 00:22:18,749 --> 00:22:24,389 let's just use round numbers. We know $0.50 a mile isn't the number, but even if it was, that'll make 229 00:22:24,390 --> 00:22:29,188 this quick math a little easier on a guy like me who really struggles with math. So let's just go. 230 00:22:29,229 --> 00:22:34,239 Let's just call it $0.50 a mile and we can say, we know that's not what new drivers are making at 231 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:41,159 Cypress, but we're using this for an example. Okay, so so so $0.50 a mile. We'll just use that for an 232 00:22:41,159 --> 00:22:48,079 example thousand miles. It's 500 bucks. Yep okay 500 bucks. So if you add that 233 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:54,800 Home Depot in there on Friday night or two, might they'll get two of them. It's only 234 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,879 800 miles to Texas. You're going to be there in plenty of time. It don't take you three days to 235 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:04,199 drive 800 miles. Right. Okay. Um, so 236 00:23:05,959 --> 00:23:11,879 you get your, like, a sweet Home Depot long load for the evening. You got your extra $100 in your 237 00:23:11,879 --> 00:23:18,119 pocket, plus the load going to Texas from Monday morning. Mhm. 238 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:24,560 Just to work the weekend. Get like 600 over there. Over here. Over six, 700 miles for the weekend 239 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:30,170 already. Wow. Yeah exactly. So, so a lot of guys gotta 240 00:23:30,729 --> 00:23:36,809 calculate the loads. You know what I mean? Like, how much is my empty miles? How much is my loaded 241 00:23:36,810 --> 00:23:42,569 miles? Your empty miles might have been 3 or 400. And then you load it like 242 00:23:42,610 --> 00:23:49,448 123. Yeah. So how long? Let me ask you this. And everybody, 243 00:23:49,489 --> 00:23:54,009 everybody tune in here. But, uh, Kevin, I'll start with you, and we'll kind of go around the table 244 00:23:54,010 --> 00:23:59,930 here. How long did it take you in your employment at Cypress to kind of figure this out? I know that 245 00:23:59,930 --> 00:24:05,249 they tell you some of this stuff, uh, in orientation and and training, but, uh, how long was 246 00:24:05,250 --> 00:24:11,489 it until you really felt like. Kevin, you had a dial on being able to maximize your earnings and 247 00:24:11,489 --> 00:24:18,009 get everything out of the miles that you're putting in here? So I go back to Adolf Saxon and, 248 00:24:18,050 --> 00:24:25,009 you know, you got to be fat, but the T and fat was be trainable. So it took a while for me 249 00:24:25,009 --> 00:24:29,670 to figure out all the little extras ins and outs. So I'll probably say I was here. Probably a good 250 00:24:29,670 --> 00:24:34,949 couple of years before I really started, you know, said, okay, this is how I'm going to maximize what 251 00:24:34,949 --> 00:24:39,589 I'm doing, you know, because I feel like you said, if I pull a I got some extra hours at the end of 252 00:24:39,589 --> 00:24:44,629 the day, let me run one of these shorties real quick that I know I can. I got the hours to do. 253 00:24:44,989 --> 00:24:50,109 Yeah. I might not get to stop where I want to stop. But, you know, I made a little extra money and I, 254 00:24:50,270 --> 00:24:55,109 and I used and I used my time a little bit lighter. Sure, it took a couple of years to get 255 00:24:55,109 --> 00:25:01,789 that out. And along with time management and logging and all that. And how much of that was, 256 00:25:01,790 --> 00:25:07,669 was, uh, the trainable part of that acronym, that Fat acronym that Adolf brought up there? Um, was 257 00:25:07,670 --> 00:25:12,069 it guys kind of helping you out and telling you, hey, this is how I do it. Maybe you should try this. 258 00:25:12,069 --> 00:25:18,869 Or was it kind of trial and error for you? So trial and error for me. Okay. So you found the 259 00:25:18,870 --> 00:25:25,509 trainable part later. When when I started when I started training, then, you know, I tried to work it 260 00:25:25,510 --> 00:25:31,239 into my training and say, you know, hey, look, you know, try to work your. Try to work yourself out 261 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:36,358 this way and you'll make a little bit more. Got it. Got it. Tony, how about you? Oh, sorry. Go ahead. What 262 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:42,199 do you got for me? I was going to agree with Kevin. It wasn't. Overnight. It takes several years. And 263 00:25:42,239 --> 00:25:47,239 you know, me listening to Adolf, me listening. To Kevin and the other guys, you know, you pick. Up on, 264 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:53,919 you know, Kevin's out making. The hardest person to train with, Adolf. Yeah, exactly. 265 00:25:53,959 --> 00:26:00,759 Dude. He was he was so hard headed. Well, I didn't I didn't train him. 266 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:06,439 But after becoming friends with him, you know, I think we talked and I think we talked in one of 267 00:26:06,439 --> 00:26:11,319 our last episodes, you know, that, you know, it took a long time for Adolf to get off his high horse 268 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:18,239 and actually listen. I think. So. Hey, I can make more money. I think. So. Well, because the 269 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:24,479 thing I kept that Kevin kept trying to install me as I gotta go, I gotta go, and I run my clock out 270 00:26:24,479 --> 00:26:30,209 every day. Every day, all the way down to two minutes. And where was I? I was in a rest area. Dude, 271 00:26:30,249 --> 00:26:36,530 come on, man. Right. Uncomfortable. You know, I stop. I stop before I take a shower and stuff, and I go 272 00:26:36,569 --> 00:26:43,249 extra 50, 60 miles and sleep in a rest area. I was like, come on, really gotta be better than this. 273 00:26:43,569 --> 00:26:50,209 And before you know it, once you figure it out, you quit sleeping at a rest 274 00:26:50,209 --> 00:26:57,209 area and sleep in a truck stop and you get a shower. You get some of the pig missiles, just a 275 00:26:57,209 --> 00:27:02,650 slice of pizza. You might be able to get you a slice of chicken. But. But the key thing is, 276 00:27:04,090 --> 00:27:10,969 the key thing is like Kevin. The price of chicken. Yeah. It's a very small a 277 00:27:10,969 --> 00:27:17,449 very small portion of chicken is what a slice of chicken is. You just slice a chicken. 278 00:27:19,130 --> 00:27:25,699 Um, but, um, if you can average 500 miles a day. You can run 279 00:27:25,699 --> 00:27:31,979 continuously and never do a reset. And that's and that's the hardest thing that it took me forever 280 00:27:32,140 --> 00:27:38,100 to catch on. But once I caught on on how to work the system and not overrun my clocks, I'll have to 281 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:44,979 do a 34 hour reset. I'm making money. And Kevin's. The expert. At making that 282 00:27:44,979 --> 00:27:51,699 500 miles and never have never have to do a reset. Never has. He's an expert at that. Yep. 283 00:27:51,740 --> 00:27:57,300 How tough? How tough is that, Kevin? What kind of trip planning goes into something like that? It's 284 00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:04,259 an hour and an hour. It's an hour. An hour job. You gotta gotta know. I mean, you gotta know 285 00:28:04,260 --> 00:28:10,180 your route. You gotta. You gotta kind of foresee what you're going to face in traffic. And it's, you 286 00:28:10,180 --> 00:28:14,059 know, it's a constant. It's revolving. I mean, you know, there's some days I might have to drop it to 287 00:28:14,060 --> 00:28:19,259 450 because I had to hit Atlanta at the wrong time of day. Right, right. But yeah, it takes a lot 288 00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:24,799 of discipline, a lot of knowing how to work your clock. And the main thing is keep that left door 289 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:30,199 shut. Yeah, that's something every driver will tell you. As long as that left door shut, you can be 290 00:28:30,199 --> 00:28:34,079 making money. But if that thing's open, you're not making a dime, right? 291 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:43,119 Exactly. And. And then the other thing that, um. How to maximize 292 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:50,039 money. Making money. Right. Everybody drops a trailer, say, um, missing a mud 293 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:57,040 flap or a couple lights not working or what have you. Then the bottom line, 294 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:05,399 you just keep kicking the can down the road until somebody that's not lazy gets it fixed. Follow 295 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:11,519 me. Mhm. So if you see a trailer A it doesn't have a mud flap. 296 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:17,599 Right. Take a picture of the trailer before you hook your truck to it. Take a picture of it. Hey 297 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:24,409 you go up underneath your mattress and you got a brand new mud flap from the shop. Each little 298 00:29:24,409 --> 00:29:31,250 branch out there put some new mud flap on. Take a picture. Bolt for bolts. Four bolts, four bolts. 299 00:29:32,170 --> 00:29:39,090 And you send that to Jesse in a shop, and they will pay you a attaboy for fixing that mudflat. 300 00:29:39,090 --> 00:29:46,050 And maybe that tail light or that marker light. I mean. So you can you can turn turn 301 00:29:46,050 --> 00:29:52,969 four bolts out of a mud flap harness and end up with more money in your pocket. Possibly 25, 302 00:29:53,010 --> 00:29:59,769 like $25 in your pocket, 25 for fixing that mudflat. Right? That goes because that goes into it. 303 00:29:59,770 --> 00:30:05,129 That goes into our next, next thing about making extra money is atta boys. Yeah, yeah, I was going to 304 00:30:05,129 --> 00:30:11,888 ask about those too. So, so like when you're at these various like Shoals, 305 00:30:11,889 --> 00:30:18,208 Indiana. Right. Um, at help me out, guys. What's that other trucking company 306 00:30:18,529 --> 00:30:25,060 that that's based in shows up there. But anyway, they do trailer repairs, right? A lot of 307 00:30:25,060 --> 00:30:31,898 guys will tag a trailer for a for like a tail light or a marker, lights not working 308 00:30:31,899 --> 00:30:38,379 or a mud flap and they'll red tag a trailer. So whenever I go to all these different locations, 309 00:30:38,900 --> 00:30:44,859 um, I'll drive around the yard and see if there's any red tags hanging, and I'll go read them and 310 00:30:45,059 --> 00:30:50,979 and call a shot like, hey, what's it might be? The hand-cranked broke. I got a spare one in my psych 311 00:30:50,979 --> 00:30:57,540 department. One boat trailer can't go nowhere if you can't crank the landing gear up. But you 312 00:30:57,540 --> 00:31:04,180 know, so there's opportunities to make extra money. But most people are just. 313 00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:10,900 Just not looking for them or not. Not out there actually seeking those out. And that's that's one 314 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:16,019 of the reasons we're having this, this episode is because there's a very strong possibility, fellas, 315 00:31:16,020 --> 00:31:20,949 that drivers may not know, that if a trailer is red tagged and it's something easy, like a crank 316 00:31:20,949 --> 00:31:26,829 handle or a mud flap, that they can go out there and fix it and, you know, let the shop know. I mean, 317 00:31:26,869 --> 00:31:32,628 that might be something that isn't, you know, well talked about because, hey, it was maybe something 318 00:31:32,629 --> 00:31:36,429 that somebody just started doing one day and there's not a lot of policy surrounding it, but 319 00:31:36,429 --> 00:31:41,669 there is, uh, definite, you know, progress made when you do something like that. And that's, you know, we 320 00:31:41,669 --> 00:31:47,389 already talked about it. That's a you scratch my back, I'll scratch your situation, right? Yep. I mean, 321 00:31:47,910 --> 00:31:53,349 because for cyclists to say, like Shoals, Indiana. And then what's the other place, uh, that's 322 00:31:53,349 --> 00:32:00,349 notorious is, um, New Columbia, Pennsylvania. I'll get to that one. But, um, they have to pay Cypress, 323 00:32:00,350 --> 00:32:06,829 have to pay road service for somebody to come out there, check the lights, and put a mud flap on that 324 00:32:06,829 --> 00:32:13,669 one trailer. Minimum 250, 300 bucks just to get to somebody to go out there. Yes. Wow. And so if 325 00:32:13,669 --> 00:32:17,709 you're already out there, it's saving them a huge amount of money. If you're willing to take that 15 326 00:32:17,739 --> 00:32:23,479 minutes and make that little fix. I think the shipper, the shipper gets mad because there's a 327 00:32:23,479 --> 00:32:29,679 trigger that they can't load it. It messes up a lot of people with one red tag out there. 328 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:35,999 So where's it there another one that we only have a minimum trailers. Schultz has. We have minimal 329 00:32:35,999 --> 00:32:41,559 trailer shows. We have minimum trailers in New Columbia, Pennsylvania, and then we have minimum 330 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:48,559 trailers over there in Otsego, Michigan. So the. Same. Thing. So the same thing. How to 331 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:55,439 make more money is to keep those trailers rolling. Right. Get the lights fixed. Get the mudflats 332 00:32:55,479 --> 00:33:01,159 fixed. It's bumper broke. Call it a shot that they're directed to a shop to get that bumper 333 00:33:01,199 --> 00:33:06,679 welded on or whatever. You know what I mean. Like new Columbia, Pennsylvania. The weld shop is 334 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:13,479 literally ten miles down the road. That's it. Ten miles. So you gotta you gotta keep your eyes open 335 00:33:13,479 --> 00:33:17,579 for these opportunities. And and this is, you know, you you mentioned it. Adolf, you said that's an 336 00:33:17,579 --> 00:33:22,979 attaboy for fixing the the mud flap and, you know, maybe 25 bucks in your pocket. Attaboy. Is is 337 00:33:22,980 --> 00:33:27,579 something we've heard mentioned quite a bit on this show, and it's part of maximizing your income, 338 00:33:27,580 --> 00:33:33,619 for sure. Um, now, do you 100% know when you're going to get those? I'm not sure, but I want to ask 339 00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:40,299 you guys each the the most kind of out of left field out of boy that you've ever gotten. Because 340 00:33:40,299 --> 00:33:45,579 I think if we give some examples here, maybe these drivers will start to kind of propagate this 341 00:33:45,579 --> 00:33:50,180 behavior if they're listening and they want extra money in their pocket. So Tony, I'm going to start 342 00:33:50,180 --> 00:33:55,619 with you. Um, tell us the story of an attaboy that you received that maybe you weren't expecting, or 343 00:33:55,620 --> 00:34:00,539 maybe you didn't even know that they would give you an attaboy for doing what you did. I'm going 344 00:34:00,539 --> 00:34:05,980 to change it up a little bit on you. Okay? I was behind it. A Cypress Day cab one day heading 345 00:34:06,019 --> 00:34:12,978 towards Palatka, and the tarps were so perfectly rolled. I was sick. I was like, I could never 346 00:34:12,979 --> 00:34:17,989 roll something, so I called Sharia. said, Sri, I got to report this driver and I gave her the truck 347 00:34:17,989 --> 00:34:24,388 number. I'm right behind him and she goes what's wrong? I go. His tarps are so perfectly rolled I'm 348 00:34:24,389 --> 00:34:29,789 thick and she started laughing. She goes, does he deserve another boy? I said, he absolutely does. So 349 00:34:29,790 --> 00:34:34,428 she said, sure, sure. She said, thank you very much. I'm going to give that boy 25 bucks. Oh that's 350 00:34:34,429 --> 00:34:38,989 awesome. That's I. And he probably never knew that you were the one that called in and said that, but, 351 00:34:38,989 --> 00:34:45,829 uh, but what a what a nice gesture, Tony. Uh, it was, it was, it was, it was fun to do. And he really 352 00:34:45,830 --> 00:34:52,309 did a great job rolling his tarps. Hey, the tip of the cap to that guy because, uh, he deserves it. If 353 00:34:52,310 --> 00:34:57,469 he rolled tarps so well that you had to make a phone call about it. Great work out there, man. 354 00:34:57,509 --> 00:35:04,429 Deserved that. 25 bucks. Exactly. Kevin. How about you, man? Uh, tell us a story about maybe an 355 00:35:04,429 --> 00:35:09,270 unexpected attaboy or one that you just kind of came out of left field and hit you in the side of 356 00:35:09,270 --> 00:35:16,239 the head? I'd have to say probably one that got me one time was, was, 357 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:23,199 uh, when, uh, when I was training. The. Uh, the night and the training 358 00:35:23,199 --> 00:35:28,199 department, they wanted us to start taking pictures of how the trainees tied their legs down 359 00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:33,039 to make sure that this pyramid was right, that we were showing them the right way. So they say, you 360 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:38,560 know, attach a picture of your load or the trainees load to their training report. So I was 361 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:43,878 just doing it, you know, just because that's what they asked me to do. And then one day I get an 362 00:35:43,879 --> 00:35:50,719 email from from the big man TV said, uh, great trainer report, $25. 363 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:56,839 Attaboy. Just out of the blue. Just because I went above and beyond what they had asked for on the 364 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:02,759 trainer report. That's awesome. And to hear from the big guy himself to get that 25. That almost 365 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:09,599 feels like 50 coming from TV, doesn't it? Yeah. That's amazing. Adolf, you got 366 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:15,409 one for me. Hey, let me add on to Kevin's sprite. I was cruising Bridgeport from Pensacola to 367 00:36:15,449 --> 00:36:20,169 Bridgeport, and I was talking to one of my friends on the phone and I was like, uh, his name was buddy 368 00:36:20,169 --> 00:36:26,969 Messed Up. I was like, hey, man, what's up? And he's like, man, they just got me. I said, hey, would they 369 00:36:26,969 --> 00:36:33,929 get you for it? Well, my terp fell off my truck. I was like, oh no, it did it, dude. Really? Come 370 00:36:33,929 --> 00:36:40,569 on man. Where's the turret? He goes, I don't know. I couldn't find it. I mean, 371 00:36:40,769 --> 00:36:45,649 for a tarp to fall off your truck is very dangerous, right? Very dangerous. Very dangerous. 372 00:36:45,649 --> 00:36:50,409 Very dangerous. Somebody's going to hit it, and it's going to cause an actor. So I don't care if 373 00:36:50,409 --> 00:36:57,369 it's a two by 4 or 4 by four, a tarp. Anything attached to that truck or trailer, if it falls off, 374 00:36:58,090 --> 00:37:04,929 that's bad. Bad, that's bad. And you'd be surprised what we've seen. Still attached to the 375 00:37:04,929 --> 00:37:11,209 trailers. But anyway, getting back in my my buddy buddy messed up. He lost his tarp. And then I was 376 00:37:11,230 --> 00:37:17,869 cruising up I-59 and I thought I seen it. So then I called Kevin. I was like, hey Kevin, 377 00:37:18,149 --> 00:37:23,469 I think I seen it between this mile marker and this mile marker, but I couldn't pull over in time. 378 00:37:23,870 --> 00:37:29,989 I said, but, um, our tarps are there. Kind of like maybe bluish color, but they're really. Easily 379 00:37:29,989 --> 00:37:36,789 recognizable, right? Yeah, yeah. So Kevin was cruising up and he slowed down and he found it 380 00:37:36,790 --> 00:37:43,709 and well. Part of it. Oh, yeah. Because it'd probably been hit by a few cars by 381 00:37:43,709 --> 00:37:50,109 the time you found it. But yeah, they got run over by one of those roadside lawnmowers. Oh, 382 00:37:50,229 --> 00:37:56,628 yeah. But but that tarp, no matter the condition. Paid. 383 00:37:56,870 --> 00:38:03,870 Paid, Kevin $200. Right? Yeah. 250 bucks. And I brought a three quarter piece of the 384 00:38:03,870 --> 00:38:09,590 tarp back to Jacksonville. That's amazing. So there and there is a bounty program on those tarps I've 385 00:38:09,590 --> 00:38:14,560 heard that directly from management when we were there for the very first time. Talking about 386 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,639 launching this podcast, they told us, hey, we've seen and they told us a story about they they 387 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:26,039 said a driver was driving one day and he drove by a farm, and the farm had their hay tarp with the 388 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:32,439 cypress truck tarp. And he was like, wait a second, that's got our logo on it. I went and got that 389 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:37,239 tarp back and got him, you know, got himself that $200 bounty. And that's something that, hey, keep 390 00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:41,320 your eyes peeled, right. That could be 200 bucks in your pocket if you see something sitting on the 391 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:46,718 side of the road. Hey, that's easy money, because all you do is get a picture of it. Um, 392 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:54,719 you know, because we have Cypress drivers everywhere. Everywhere. So if you're a part of the 393 00:38:54,720 --> 00:39:01,439 team to recover that tarp, you still get something. Yeah. Yep, yep. So I'm just. 394 00:39:01,439 --> 00:39:06,958 Another. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. Before we run out of time, I want to bring up, you know, kind of kind 395 00:39:06,959 --> 00:39:11,969 of kind of changing your direction here. You know you're talking about making extra money. We would 396 00:39:12,010 --> 00:39:17,929 we would do Cypress a disservice if we did not bring up Cypress, as I would have to say, one of the 397 00:39:17,929 --> 00:39:24,329 greatest bonus programs that I think in my in my career as a truck driver that I've ever 398 00:39:24,329 --> 00:39:31,008 seen. Talk to me about it. We've got we've got bonuses. I mean, coming out the wazoo with this 399 00:39:31,009 --> 00:39:37,929 company. I mean, to start off with, you got your quarterly safety bonus and it's 400 00:39:37,929 --> 00:39:44,850 it's pretty easy to me to get it. It could be anywhere from 5 to $600 every quarter. Wow. And all 401 00:39:44,850 --> 00:39:51,809 you got to do is watch your weekly video and keep your safety score, you know, as low 402 00:39:51,810 --> 00:39:58,489 as possible as 30, 30 points as the industry's old. Mhm. And you got to keep your nose 403 00:39:58,490 --> 00:40:05,369 clean. So you got a like a one of the podcasts. You know that I think uh play was 404 00:40:05,370 --> 00:40:10,299 talking about being coachable. Yep. You know Yeah. They're real good about, you know, coaching drivers 405 00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:17,259 and self coaching. So those three things will get you. You know what? Up to $2,000 406 00:40:17,259 --> 00:40:23,539 by the end of the year. Just the quarterly bonuses. Yeah. Yeah, that's a pretty good chunk of change. 407 00:40:24,379 --> 00:40:31,378 And then well, then you got your then you got your, uh, they give you a anniversary yearly, you 408 00:40:31,379 --> 00:40:38,139 know, for every year you're here bonus. Which, uh, I think starts at 500. It's like 409 00:40:38,179 --> 00:40:45,099 500 bucks. Yep. 500. And then it goes up to $1,000. And then after ten years, 410 00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:52,100 it's $100 for each year you're here. Wow. After that. So July, this 411 00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:58,899 month is my, uh, 17th anniversary. So the beginning of next month, I'm getting a $1,700 check 412 00:40:59,139 --> 00:41:06,019 added to my check because I've been here 17 years with, uh, you know, just just for being 413 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:11,919 here for 17 years. That's amazing. So they want longevity out of these drivers. They want you to 414 00:41:11,919 --> 00:41:18,359 stick around, especially if you're safe and you're a good driver. And then on top of all 415 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:25,040 that, the best bonus of all, which I've discussed on the podcast before, is, you know, which 416 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:31,199 everyone works hard for is the road dog top dog bonus? Yep. You know, running the most miles in the 417 00:41:31,199 --> 00:41:38,079 company. And then they also offer a three year safe driving no accident bonus, 418 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:44,319 which is $550 for the year. For every year that you you have a clean record. No accidents, no 419 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:50,919 incidents. So I mean, I mean, you get your bonuses every month or every quarter 420 00:41:50,919 --> 00:41:56,999 and then you hit your yearly bonus. I mean, you're looking at another probably six grand a year just 421 00:41:56,999 --> 00:42:03,719 in bonuses. That's amazing. Hey, also, not only to get with the the big 422 00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:10,649 bonuses Kevin is talking about. Um, let's add in vacation pay, right? One year is 140 per day, 423 00:42:10,689 --> 00:42:17,529 right? Um, two years is 160 per day for three 424 00:42:17,529 --> 00:42:23,050 years. And then three years. Three years is a big one. That's that's where. That's where you. Got to 425 00:42:23,050 --> 00:42:29,929 be the three. Years. This is where it pays to pay attention. Three after three years, you're you're 426 00:42:30,489 --> 00:42:37,409 you're the 52 week average. So whatever your average is. Okay. So everybody qualifies 427 00:42:37,409 --> 00:42:43,609 for one year two year. But the big one is the three year 52 week average. 428 00:42:44,570 --> 00:42:51,249 My vacation pay right before I retire was $320 a day. 429 00:42:51,449 --> 00:42:57,928 Wow. Oh, man. Come on. How easy is that? Let me take two weeks vacation. 430 00:42:58,570 --> 00:43:04,419 That's amazing. That's amazing. So that that three year mark is a that's a big milestone for for 431 00:43:04,419 --> 00:43:11,179 drivers. It's a big. One. Yeah, that's a big one because um, but you gotta like before you take 432 00:43:11,179 --> 00:43:17,499 your vacation, gotta pay attention. Right? Right. What's my what's my, what's my weekly 433 00:43:17,499 --> 00:43:23,819 average. How do you know your weekly average. Either talk to your driver manager or you talk to 434 00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:29,219 one of the owners. Like the pain lines, and they'll pull it up. Your driver manager should be able to 435 00:43:29,219 --> 00:43:35,739 pull it up instantly. What is your. What is your average? Got it, got it. 436 00:43:35,939 --> 00:43:40,979 Uh, here's one thing that I think that we need to touch on to. Obviously all those bonuses that's 437 00:43:40,980 --> 00:43:45,339 phenomenal. And and guys, all that information is available to you if you're listening to this 438 00:43:45,340 --> 00:43:50,620 program. Uh, the bonus structure isn't something Cypress was withholding from you. They want you to 439 00:43:50,620 --> 00:43:56,540 know that. They want you to earn those bonuses and have those incentives. So, um, definitely talk to 440 00:43:56,580 --> 00:44:01,499 your driver manager, uh, you know, talk to Sherry and safety, talk to any of those people and get 441 00:44:01,499 --> 00:44:07,388 more information. And I'm sure that Kevin and Tony and and to a lesser extent, Adolf since he's 442 00:44:07,389 --> 00:44:11,749 retired now. But if you got these guys numbers, they'll discuss it with you, too. I'm certain of 443 00:44:11,790 --> 00:44:17,669 that. Um, but, Tony. Absolutely. This this next question is for you specifically, not only 444 00:44:17,669 --> 00:44:22,829 specific guys. I know these other guys train people as well, but as a driver trainer, where do 445 00:44:22,830 --> 00:44:29,309 you think drivers lose the most money or waste the most time? That could turn into money when 446 00:44:29,310 --> 00:44:33,349 they first get started with the company in their first going out on their own. Where are some 447 00:44:33,350 --> 00:44:37,148 places you think that some of these guys you could see could clean up and maximize their 448 00:44:37,149 --> 00:44:41,510 earnings a little bit? Everything Kevin just mentioned and Adolf just mentioned, you know, 449 00:44:41,550 --> 00:44:47,289 getting those bonuses. You got to watch that Friday video, ten minutes. Sometimes there's four 450 00:44:47,289 --> 00:44:52,790 minutes at the most they're 15 minutes. But you got to watch that video to get that Road Dogg 451 00:44:52,790 --> 00:44:58,909 money to get that quarterly bonus, to get that annual bonus, to get the the three year bonus, the 452 00:44:58,909 --> 00:45:05,759 new guys that got to watch those videos to get those bonuses. And it's every Friday. They come 453 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:10,199 out every Friday morning. Kevin watches them before he rolls out in the morning. Yeah, I was 454 00:45:10,199 --> 00:45:15,080 gonna say, you gotta make that a just part of your day on Friday. If they're that short, right? Yeah. 455 00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:22,120 Make that part of your day. But that's the biggest way to lose money and not gain that money 456 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:29,120 is to to not watch those videos. Interesting. Just just to add to watching 457 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:35,759 the videos is on Sunday night, Monday morning, your smart 458 00:45:35,759 --> 00:45:42,319 drive uploads. So if you have any speeding tickets or hard brakes or 459 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:49,319 run a stop sign at the plant or any of that, you know. So you you definitely don't want to do that 460 00:45:49,319 --> 00:45:55,360 dumb stuff, right? Because it comes back to you, but comes back to me. But if there's while you're 461 00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:01,699 watching those those training videos always refresh on the smart job because as soon as 462 00:46:01,699 --> 00:46:08,619 safety comes in, in a moment, you can argue that point. Hey, that wasn't me. You know 463 00:46:09,419 --> 00:46:14,539 this guy? Brick checked me. I had to hit the brakes. But if you don't say nothing that goes against 464 00:46:14,540 --> 00:46:21,220 you. Heart break. So just. Kind of. Matt always says. Defend. Says yep. Matt will always 465 00:46:21,220 --> 00:46:28,100 say, you know, argue the cases, argue them like guys cut us off all day long. Cars 466 00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:34,059 cut us off all day long. And you know the AI camera picks that up and, you know, charge the 467 00:46:34,059 --> 00:46:41,019 point. But like Adolf says, call in. Yep. So those. Called in. They can look at that video 468 00:46:41,060 --> 00:46:47,219 like yeah you're right that that guy cut you off. Boy that's that's great advice because that type 469 00:46:47,220 --> 00:46:52,699 of stuff happens to you guys so much out there that you might even just not be thinking about 470 00:46:52,699 --> 00:46:57,780 the fact that that might have just cost you a point on your safety score. So pay attention to 471 00:46:57,820 --> 00:47:03,029 those little hard breaks and things like that. Look at your smart drive and be ready to to make 472 00:47:03,029 --> 00:47:09,229 your case on. You said Monday morning, Adolf. You get on Monday morning. You can you can only see 473 00:47:09,230 --> 00:47:13,948 the video. You can only see your videos either Sunday or Monday when they come on the app. Okay. 474 00:47:13,949 --> 00:47:19,549 Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. You can't you can't watch them in real time because faith gets them. But we won't 475 00:47:19,549 --> 00:47:24,749 get them to the for the following week. Okay. Understood. So just pay attention to that stuff 476 00:47:24,750 --> 00:47:30,549 and make sure that if you if you've got a case, you go in there and make it. Yeah. I mean if you 477 00:47:30,549 --> 00:47:34,830 blow a stop sign at 45 miles an hour, I mean, you don't really have a case for that, you know? I mean, 478 00:47:34,949 --> 00:47:41,469 you have to I mean, you have to take them. Yeah. I mean, if you're at Bridgeport and the stop signs 479 00:47:41,469 --> 00:47:48,269 are they get the or the, uh, LED lights that are flashing red and you blow across the 480 00:47:48,270 --> 00:47:55,229 train track. Um, well. You really don't have a case. Yeah, you have to just 481 00:47:55,269 --> 00:48:01,919 just keep on that. Not that. Not on the head. God own up to your own mistakes. But if a if a 482 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:06,519 basketball rolls out in the road and there's a child chasing it and you have to do a hard break 483 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,399 for that, that's definitely when you want to come in and say, hey, I think I made the right decision 484 00:48:10,399 --> 00:48:17,320 here. Yeah, yeah. No, that's another attaboy right there. Right? If you if you 485 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:23,279 have. No, no, seriously, if you have a prevent, you know, if you prevent, you know, a near miss or 486 00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:28,119 something and they see it on the video that, hey, you know, you did an extraordinary job avoiding 487 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:34,639 that situation. They'll reward you for it. They will. Yeah. Sure will. Um, how many times have you 488 00:48:34,639 --> 00:48:41,039 been driving down the road? A cooler, a pool float, uh, came off a boat or 489 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:46,999 something and get into the center lane? Yeah. And you had to swerve. Not 490 00:48:47,959 --> 00:48:54,878 drastically. I mean, not drastically swerve. But, you know, you might have to break a little bit or 491 00:48:55,280 --> 00:49:02,009 or pumped at cooler out the way. It is what it is. Don't I mean, stay in your lane at all 492 00:49:02,009 --> 00:49:07,289 costs. Staying in lane, but, um. Yeah, like they like they say, uh, stay in your lane and be ready to 493 00:49:07,290 --> 00:49:13,489 stop. Absolutely any lane. Because we like to say we have an obligation to the motoring public. Yes, 494 00:49:13,490 --> 00:49:19,489 sir, yes, sir. And hey, I can I can totally relate to this because as a, as a young kid, I did a lot of, 495 00:49:19,490 --> 00:49:25,449 uh, wakeboarding, a lot of water sports and my prized possession, my, uh, wakeboard that I could 496 00:49:25,449 --> 00:49:30,369 not afford flew out of the back of the boat in its case, one day when we were driving up to the 497 00:49:30,370 --> 00:49:35,489 lake and, uh, somebody stole it off the side of the road, and I had to go. Me and my buddies had to go 498 00:49:35,490 --> 00:49:41,169 driving through campsites until we found it. And, um, we just went ahead and procured that piece of 499 00:49:41,169 --> 00:49:47,489 my possessions. But, uh, uh, we don't have to talk anymore about how we went about that, but, um, I can 500 00:49:47,489 --> 00:49:52,570 say that that stuff happens. And even if you're good, I mean, we spent 20 years going up to this 501 00:49:52,570 --> 00:49:58,309 lake at least twice a week. every single week of the summer. And we never lost a single. Not even a 502 00:49:58,310 --> 00:50:03,309 wetsuit. Not a life jacket, not a glove. But the one thing that did blow out was one of the biggest 503 00:50:03,310 --> 00:50:08,389 pieces of equipment that we had on the boat. You can't really predict that. And as a truck driver, 504 00:50:08,389 --> 00:50:13,629 you just have to be aware all the time, head on a swivel and watching out for stuff like that. But 505 00:50:13,629 --> 00:50:19,229 there is ways to maximize your earnings just by doing that. And that is you're Kevin say it might 506 00:50:19,230 --> 00:50:24,310 be an attaboy for preventing an accident or something like that. Um, there's there's so many 507 00:50:24,310 --> 00:50:28,829 different ways to maximize your earnings. That's kind of why you guys came up with this idea for 508 00:50:28,830 --> 00:50:35,669 this episode in the first place, isn't it? And then one last, uh, one last quick, uh, 509 00:50:36,110 --> 00:50:42,549 another way to maximize your earnings that they're they're pushing real hard here lately. 510 00:50:43,070 --> 00:50:48,628 If you got the means and the patience. Go ahead and sign up to your trainer. They got a real good 511 00:50:48,670 --> 00:50:53,840 training program. I mean, we got we got a lot of good. We got a lot of good trainers here at this 512 00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:00,399 company. You know, safety is at the forefront of everything we do. But your training pay is now 513 00:51:00,399 --> 00:51:06,479 $55 a day. Hold on. Kevin. Hold on. It's changed. It's now 60. Wow. 514 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:14,040 Hey, hey. You're right. You're right. It is. I'm coming back. It's $60 a 515 00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:20,280 day. $300 or $400 a week. They know how many days a week you work, 516 00:51:20,919 --> 00:51:27,559 and then they got a bonus program on top of that. Oh, my gosh, that's amazing. And listen, uh, good news. 517 00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:32,639 I'm really glad that you brought that up, Kevin, because next week on the podcast, we are going to 518 00:51:32,639 --> 00:51:37,719 be talking about how to become a driver trainer. We're going to get a few driver trainers on with 519 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:43,158 us. And, uh, and we're going to talk about that whole system. So make sure to tune in to next 520 00:51:43,159 --> 00:51:47,959 week's episode as well. If you're thinking about, hey, that's 60 bucks a day. Sounds really nice and 521 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:52,249 I've been doing this long enough, I feel like I could be a good trainer. Well, we're going to have 522 00:51:52,249 --> 00:51:57,169 a whole episode on it that can help you. Uh, next week. So a week from today, if you're listening to 523 00:51:57,210 --> 00:52:04,128 this, on Wednesday the 29th, I believe, is what day this one will come out. 524 00:52:04,129 --> 00:52:09,570 So, uh, make sure to check that out for sure, guys, because I feel like listen, we've we've talked 525 00:52:09,570 --> 00:52:15,689 about no less than, like, 6 or 7 different ways to maximize your earnings on this show today. And I 526 00:52:15,689 --> 00:52:19,570 feel like we probably haven't even covered them all, fellas. I mean, we haven't even talked about, 527 00:52:19,610 --> 00:52:25,009 you know, clock management and things like that. You mentioned it and how Kevin's a kind of a guru 528 00:52:25,050 --> 00:52:31,409 at it. Um, but that type of stuff takes years to learn and, and to perfect. And if nothing else, just 529 00:52:31,409 --> 00:52:35,729 call up one of these guys that you hear on the podcast here talking about it and, and pick their 530 00:52:35,730 --> 00:52:40,489 brain about it a little bit because you guys are open with this information. This isn't something 531 00:52:40,489 --> 00:52:47,369 you're gatekeeping. Right? Exactly. Um, the other thing for for how to make money, 532 00:52:47,409 --> 00:52:53,539 how to make money is The key thing. You got to be a vet. Make yourself 533 00:52:53,540 --> 00:53:00,219 available. Come on, man. Yeah. My favorite thing. Come on man. Come on 534 00:53:00,220 --> 00:53:06,619 man. Hey. Because every day they got Home Depot Lowe's in 535 00:53:06,620 --> 00:53:12,378 Jacksonville in Atlanta. We all know that. We all know that. They got Home Depot loads everywhere, 536 00:53:12,419 --> 00:53:19,419 right? Pick up the phone. Hey, I need some new tires for my car. I need to start 537 00:53:19,420 --> 00:53:24,419 making a couple extra hundred bucks. Right. You're not gonna make an extra couple hundred bucks 538 00:53:24,459 --> 00:53:31,340 extra every week. Maybe every other week until you get the system down and fine tune your 539 00:53:31,340 --> 00:53:37,100 rhythm, and then, boom, you're making money. Right. It's all about kind of feeling it out for 540 00:53:37,100 --> 00:53:43,379 yourself and making it work for you individually, because everybody's situation is different. But I 541 00:53:43,379 --> 00:53:48,619 think that what what I want you to take away from this episode today is that there's a way for you 542 00:53:48,620 --> 00:53:53,189 to make money, even if you're the guy that's on such a rigid schedule. Look, maybe you just had a 543 00:53:53,189 --> 00:53:58,948 kid, okay? And maybe the wife needs you home for your home time because we got a messed up 544 00:53:58,949 --> 00:54:03,029 sleeping schedule. We got, you know, maybe older kids that need to go to sports in school, but 545 00:54:03,030 --> 00:54:08,790 we've got a newborn at home. Hey, watch the safety video on Friday. Make that the point right there 546 00:54:08,790 --> 00:54:13,229 to watch that every single time and keep your safety score low. You're still going to earn that 547 00:54:13,229 --> 00:54:18,749 quarterly safety bonus if you do that. And there you go. You've maximized the earnings in the best 548 00:54:18,749 --> 00:54:23,748 way that it works for you in your situation there. You might not be able to take advantage of all of 549 00:54:23,749 --> 00:54:30,628 these, but you can definitely take advantage of some of them, right, Kevin? Yeah, absolutely. I think 550 00:54:30,629 --> 00:54:36,789 if my wife my my passcode for my smart drive, right. And real quick, she would critique me 551 00:54:37,590 --> 00:54:44,388 every Monday, I had to answer to the wife. So hey, why are you driving too fast? Why'd you 552 00:54:44,389 --> 00:54:50,769 heart break or or this or that? Yeah, exactly. That's a smart idea. That's a smart idea. But the. 553 00:54:50,770 --> 00:54:57,610 Thing. Is. Because. Exactly. Because you're being in a hurry all the time. It's 554 00:54:57,610 --> 00:55:04,529 costing your wife and kids possibly money. Right. And we don't want to cost the wife money. If 555 00:55:04,530 --> 00:55:09,768 we've learned anything in our years of marriage in this collective that we've got here right now, 556 00:55:09,769 --> 00:55:16,369 we know that costing the wife money is a one way trip to a bad time. So don't do that. Right. 557 00:55:18,449 --> 00:55:22,769 Well, fellas, this has been really informative today and I greatly appreciate you guys coming to 558 00:55:22,770 --> 00:55:28,409 me with this, because all I want to do is, is help out in any way that I can. And if one Cypress 559 00:55:28,410 --> 00:55:34,209 driver puts an extra 25 bucks in his pocket because he listened to this episode, that counts. 560 00:55:34,209 --> 00:55:39,209 And I really appreciate you guys just being willing to and being comfortable enough with me 561 00:55:39,209 --> 00:55:44,010 as a podcast host to reach out and say, hey, we should talk about this. Um, I want you to tell 562 00:55:44,010 --> 00:55:49,779 everybody right now how easy it was to get this turned into an episode. I believe it took what, one 563 00:55:49,780 --> 00:55:54,059 text message where we actually talked about it, and then the rest of our conversation was just 564 00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:59,539 tomfoolery and messing around. But it's pretty easy, right? I want you guys to tell the listeners 565 00:55:59,540 --> 00:56:03,979 out there, because we've developed sort of a relationship, the three of us or the three of you 566 00:56:03,979 --> 00:56:09,138 guys and I at this point in time. But I need more drivers on this show, fellas. So I want you for 567 00:56:09,139 --> 00:56:13,939 your Final Thoughts segment. You can obviously say and thank whoever you want during your Final 568 00:56:13,939 --> 00:56:20,698 Thoughts segment, but give me your impression of of the podcast coming on it, how the whole thing 569 00:56:20,699 --> 00:56:26,859 works, how easy we make it just so maybe some other drivers can shake off any, um, anxiety that 570 00:56:26,860 --> 00:56:31,779 they might have about coming on the show. Because fellas, you guys always do great, but we need more 571 00:56:31,780 --> 00:56:37,219 guys like you to join the show. Uh, so Tony Miller will start with you. Thank you so much for the 572 00:56:37,219 --> 00:56:42,939 time today. Thank you for bringing me the idea. Um, final thoughts from you before we let you go 573 00:56:42,940 --> 00:56:47,869 today on, uh, not only maximizing your earnings, but the experience of coming on the Cypress Truck 574 00:56:47,870 --> 00:56:54,829 Lines podcast. Marcus, you, um, you invited me on early on on the podcast and I was nervous 575 00:56:54,830 --> 00:57:00,509 as all get up and, you know, just talking with you. Next thing you know, an hour went by and I didn't 576 00:57:00,510 --> 00:57:05,869 even realize that it was such a great experience. And then the next podcast was even better. This 577 00:57:05,870 --> 00:57:11,990 one. Great. The experience just keeps getting better and better. But you do a great job calming 578 00:57:11,990 --> 00:57:18,229 people down and letting them talk. Let it so the experience is great. Appreciate it. Tony. And, uh, and 579 00:57:18,229 --> 00:57:22,189 you're welcome back anytime, my friend. You know, that will always make room for you here on the 580 00:57:22,189 --> 00:57:28,428 Cypress Truck Lines podcast. And and I appreciate the kind words. Uh, for me, I that's not something 581 00:57:28,429 --> 00:57:33,550 that I constantly work on. I think it's just a little bit about me being a student of human 582 00:57:33,550 --> 00:57:39,709 nature. And I really enjoy talking to people. And, uh, if that makes guys comfortable, that's awesome. 583 00:57:39,749 --> 00:57:44,400 And I can't tell you how happy it makes me, uh, to know, Tony, that we were able to dispel those 584 00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:49,719 nerves because this is not something you guys are used to doing. I get that I understand how weird 585 00:57:49,719 --> 00:57:54,479 it is to have a dude from Oregon call you on a Wednesday and say, hey, do you want to come on 586 00:57:54,479 --> 00:58:00,600 record and talk to me about things? It's it's not the easiest sell, fellas. You know what I'm saying? 587 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:07,879 Yeah, that's saying to boot. But since you mentioned Oregon and my, my final thought is, is I 588 00:58:07,879 --> 00:58:14,679 always wondered why a school would name their mascot a duck. So that's not a very 589 00:58:14,679 --> 00:58:21,239 threatening or scary thing. So I actually did the research for you. So way 590 00:58:21,239 --> 00:58:27,319 back during the Revolutionary War, there was a group of fishermen from Massachusetts that were 591 00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:33,558 called the web footers that were actually heroes in that war. And their descendants moved to Oregon. 592 00:58:33,559 --> 00:58:40,319 And back in the 1880s, it used to be called the Oregon web footers. And 593 00:58:40,319 --> 00:58:46,699 then just over time, you know, people start saying, well, ducks. Ducks have webbed feet. So by the 1920s 594 00:58:46,739 --> 00:58:53,699 they started using the ducks. And the actually the first mascot was puddles the duck 595 00:58:53,699 --> 00:59:00,459 in the 1920s. So talk about a real fierce mascot. Puddles the duck. You know what you 596 00:59:00,459 --> 00:59:06,739 know. So I just want to leave you with that thought. You know, there's there's great schools 597 00:59:06,739 --> 00:59:11,820 out there like the Florida Gators with, you know, powerful mascots. Then you have the Oregon Ducks. 598 00:59:11,859 --> 00:59:17,579 Puddles the duck. Can I give you just a just a little piece of info here that I think might make 599 00:59:17,579 --> 00:59:24,259 your, your, your research even more robust? Tony. Uh, okay. Okay. Did you know that 600 00:59:24,260 --> 00:59:30,979 the, um, institution of the Walt Disney World down there in Orlando, in the great state of 601 00:59:30,980 --> 00:59:36,539 Florida, such a pretty state that you guys have got down there? Uh. Great state of Florida. Walt 602 00:59:36,539 --> 00:59:43,349 Disney himself gave the University of Oregon a lifetime. 603 00:59:44,389 --> 00:59:50,749 I guess what do I want to call it here? Lifetime permission to use the Donald Duck, 604 00:59:51,269 --> 00:59:57,629 uh, copyrighted, um, imagery. We're the only ones everybody else that wants to use something that 605 00:59:57,629 --> 01:00:03,550 has Disney's fingerprint on it has to pay them and pay them handsomely. But the University of 606 01:00:03,550 --> 01:00:09,989 Oregon gets to use that Donald Duck imagery for free whenever we want to. Uh, gifted by Mr. Walt 607 01:00:10,030 --> 01:00:16,429 Disney himself. And one more piece on the mascot front for you. When Oregon won the very 608 01:00:16,430 --> 01:00:23,269 first NCAA national basketball championship, they've only won one. And it was the very first 609 01:00:23,269 --> 01:00:29,909 one. That team was actually called the Oregon Tall Firs. Uh, on the basketball court. Believe it or not, 610 01:00:29,910 --> 01:00:35,109 they had completely let go of the ducks for for that time period. I believe it was in the late 30s 611 01:00:35,150 --> 01:00:40,039 or early 40s that Oregon won that first ever national basketball championship, and they were 612 01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:46,839 called the Tall Firs at the time. Tony. Very cool. And, uh. Yeah, great mascot for Florida. 613 01:00:46,879 --> 01:00:51,159 I you know, if you're going to have a mascot, why not have it be something that can bite your foot 614 01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:58,040 off while you're trying to get around a golf in? Sounds great, I love it. Tony Miller, we always 615 01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:02,958 appreciate your time and thanks for doing that research, man. That's awesome. I look, there's no 616 01:01:02,959 --> 01:01:07,199 shortage of jokes to be made about my team's mascot. Okay, but one thing I'll tell you, they got 617 01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:12,519 right, uh, water off a duck's back. That's how rain hits us here in Oregon. We don't feel it anymore 618 01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:17,239 than we get so much of it that we're pretty much saturated. So that's one thing that makes a little 619 01:01:17,279 --> 01:01:23,119 bit of sense to me. There you go. There you go. All right, man, thank you so much for the time. Hey. And 620 01:01:23,119 --> 01:01:27,039 I again we learned I believe I'm one of the podcasts you were on that we don't do final 621 01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:33,999 thoughts without shouting out the wife. Exactly. I shout out to my wife Kathy. There you go, 622 01:01:34,039 --> 01:01:39,449 man. I can't let you get out of here. I don't want you to get in trouble. Uh, Kevin? Barry. Oh, sorry. Go 623 01:01:39,449 --> 01:01:46,329 ahead. Tony. No, no. You're good, you're good. Kevin, we'll get to you for your final thoughts, man. Talk 624 01:01:46,329 --> 01:01:51,089 a little bit about the experience you've had on the podcast in your final thoughts. But of course, 625 01:01:51,090 --> 01:01:55,689 the floor is yours. Kevin, thank you so much for joining us. We always appreciate the time. Final 626 01:01:55,690 --> 01:02:01,489 thoughts before we let you go today. It's definitely always a pleasure to come out here and 627 01:02:01,530 --> 01:02:08,449 have a chat with you. Um, uh, like I said in, uh, I think one of the first, the first episode that I 628 01:02:08,449 --> 01:02:13,888 was on, that was one of my suggestions. I mean, it was like I said, it was easy was just as soon as 629 01:02:13,889 --> 01:02:19,369 shooting off an email and now it's text message. But the first time I sent you an email and I 630 01:02:19,370 --> 01:02:25,489 figured I wouldn't get a response back, and I mean, almost instantly, as soon as the message hit your 631 01:02:25,569 --> 01:02:30,449 hit your pocket, you're on, you're on with me saying, hey, that's a great idea. We'll get 632 01:02:30,449 --> 01:02:36,969 something together. I'll get back with you within a day or two. We were we had a Angela Scotto and 633 01:02:36,990 --> 01:02:42,388 chin and bro ham on there. And we were talking about smart drive cameras and Mirai cameras and 634 01:02:42,910 --> 01:02:48,949 things are great. It was a great episode. We had a great time and I've been on many times since. And 635 01:02:49,550 --> 01:02:55,349 like you, like you say, every week, it's getting better and better. And tell a friend. Yes, sir. Yes, 636 01:02:55,349 --> 01:03:02,309 sir. Kevin. And. And to your wife. Got a shout out to my wife and my daughter. My daughter 637 01:03:02,309 --> 01:03:08,989 is at a summer camp this week at her favorite college in Pensacola. And, 638 01:03:08,990 --> 01:03:15,109 uh, I want to shout out to as far as making money, I gotta have a shout out to the best dispatcher 639 01:03:15,110 --> 01:03:20,188 in the company, Miss Katie. I'm not even going to try her last bank because I fail at it every time. 640 01:03:20,709 --> 01:03:26,149 But y'all know the last name Vancleave. I learned it for the episode that she was in. There you. Go. 641 01:03:28,310 --> 01:03:33,350 Shout out Miss Katie. Gotta love her, man. She did awesome on here. We gotta get her back on for sure. 642 01:03:34,309 --> 01:03:40,879 Yeah, well, thanks for being here, Kevin. Always a pleasure. We can do a maybe we can do a driver, 643 01:03:40,879 --> 01:03:45,998 manager and driver episode or something. I would love it. I would absolutely love it. We'll get her 644 01:03:45,999 --> 01:03:50,638 on there. We'll get you on there. We'll get a couple other pairs on. We'll have some fun, man. Uh, 645 01:03:50,679 --> 01:03:55,879 sounds like a great idea. In fact, I'm going to take note of it right now. Uh, Adolf Metzer, thank 646 01:03:55,879 --> 01:04:00,879 you so much for your time, man. You are a retired Cypress driver that still joins the podcast to 647 01:04:00,879 --> 01:04:07,719 share your knowledge. Final thoughts from you, my friend, before we let you go today. Oh, yeah. Um, it's 648 01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:12,758 real easy to get on the podcast. Just send Marcus a little email. Uh, you know, when you're white or 649 01:04:12,759 --> 01:04:18,599 when you tune in, just click on it, send a little message, possibly have a couple friends available 650 01:04:18,599 --> 01:04:23,120 that they can join you for a conversation. Yep. It's fun actually. I mean, I look forward to it 651 01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:29,839 because I'm retired. I get to shoot the breeze with Kevin, Tony, you, a few others possibly. You 652 01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:36,770 know, it's a good time. Um, But but the key thing for 653 01:04:36,970 --> 01:04:42,289 let's make some money so you can retire. That's the that's the thing. You gotta make the money. 654 01:04:42,570 --> 01:04:47,889 Amen. Yeah, man. And retire with plenty of good years still left in you, right? Adolf's out there 655 01:04:47,890 --> 01:04:54,009 enjoying this time. He's not, uh. He's not holed up in an easy chair, man. He's active. He's tinkering 656 01:04:54,009 --> 01:04:59,609 with lawnmowers and everything else. Yes, sir. Yes. You got to have your side. Hey, once you're retired, 657 01:04:59,609 --> 01:05:06,570 now you have a side hustle. Hey, there you go. Anyway, a couple, um, shout outs. Is. 658 01:05:06,570 --> 01:05:13,249 I, like, a shout out to the safety department, because every day, I mean, their phone never, never 659 01:05:13,249 --> 01:05:20,009 stops ringing. Yep. So I like to shout out to everybody in safety. Um, you're doing 660 01:05:20,130 --> 01:05:26,449 you're doing a great job. If I could give you an ad blocker, I'll give you all a $250. Attaboy. There 661 01:05:26,449 --> 01:05:33,249 we go, man. That's awesome. You're doing a great job in safety, keeping all these guys rolling 662 01:05:33,700 --> 01:05:39,539 helping them out on weekends and stuff with their logs and stuff. So to the complete safety 663 01:05:39,540 --> 01:05:45,659 department. Thumbs up. Thumbs up man. Great stuff there, fellas. Adolf. Kevin, Tony, thank you all so 664 01:05:45,660 --> 01:05:49,659 much for your time today. We're going to get off here and let you guys get back to it. We'll get 665 01:05:49,659 --> 01:05:54,259 you back in here soon. Stay tuned for more Cypress Truck Lines podcast right after this. 666 01:06:02,100 --> 01:06:07,378 Adolf might have said it best. You gotta be a little bit fat. Actually, you gotta be a lot a bit 667 01:06:07,420 --> 01:06:13,979 fat if you want to maximize your earnings. What is fat? Well, faithful, accountable and trainable. Uh, we 668 01:06:13,980 --> 01:06:18,459 know about the faithful angle here. Always faithful. Semper fi. That runs through the 669 01:06:18,459 --> 01:06:24,820 lifeblood of this company. Okay. Um, being accountable, stepping up and saying, hey, listen, I 670 01:06:24,820 --> 01:06:31,340 made a mistake. When you make one, um, I will go back not very far to that, uh, phenomenal episode 671 01:06:31,340 --> 01:06:37,029 that we had, uh, about the truckers and kind of the predatory towing that goes on out there. Uh, both 672 01:06:37,029 --> 01:06:41,988 of those guys, one of them's truck was gone. They towed it. The other ones was lifting up and about 673 01:06:41,989 --> 01:06:47,228 to get towed. And both of them came on this podcast and said, listen, I made a bad decision 674 01:06:47,229 --> 01:06:53,149 there. That one was on me. And that's that accountability. You hear it. Be accountable and be 675 01:06:53,149 --> 01:06:58,389 trainable. You heard Kevin Tony talk about it, man. Just being trainable, being a guy that doesn't 676 01:06:58,389 --> 01:07:03,508 come in and think that they've got everything figured out right off the jump. Look, this is 677 01:07:03,509 --> 01:07:08,189 nuanced, all right? There's a lot to it. And there's a lot of different ways that you can maximize 678 01:07:08,189 --> 01:07:13,429 your earnings here at Cypress. Uh, you know, and and one thing I want to kind of say is none of the 679 01:07:13,510 --> 01:07:20,268 individual tips that you got here in this episode today are life changing on their own. Okay. But 680 01:07:20,389 --> 01:07:26,429 maybe you take one Home Depot load here. Maybe you get one attaboy for, uh, doing something nice there. 681 01:07:26,629 --> 01:07:31,770 Uh, you're checking out every Friday safety video. Uh, you're keeping your safety score clean. You're 682 01:07:31,970 --> 01:07:38,449 avoiding. You're avoiding unnecessary resets. These small habits can compound into over 683 01:07:38,490 --> 01:07:44,209 thousands of dollars in a given year, and that's a really big amount of money. At the end of the year, 684 01:07:44,210 --> 01:07:50,969 if somebody asks you, hey, would you want a $100 extra every week for 12 weeks? 685 01:07:51,129 --> 01:07:57,570 You'd be like, I mean, yeah, that sounds fine. But if they said, hey, would you like 1200 bucks? Uh, where 686 01:07:57,570 --> 01:08:02,249 do I sign? Well, I'll give you 100 bucks a week. That's fine. It's 1200 at the end of the week or 687 01:08:02,250 --> 01:08:06,689 at the end of the 12 weeks. That's what I care about is the grand total. So look at it that way. 688 01:08:06,729 --> 01:08:12,569 Think about how this compounds over time and how if you just do some of these things every so 689 01:08:12,570 --> 01:08:17,689 often, you're going to see the effect in your wallet at the end of the month. Another thing I 690 01:08:17,690 --> 01:08:23,049 want to point out is that every driver on today's show didn't figure this out immediately. So if you 691 01:08:23,049 --> 01:08:28,208 think you've got it figured out and you're you're just stepping into your job at Cypress, chances are 692 01:08:28,290 --> 01:08:33,179 maybe you do have some of it figured out, but maybe you missed some things as well. So today's 693 01:08:33,180 --> 01:08:38,579 episode is a great little primer for that. You've got a lot more info than maybe Kevin had 17 years 694 01:08:38,620 --> 01:08:43,219 ago when he started. He had to figure that stuff out on his own and by asking questions. But he did. 695 01:08:43,259 --> 01:08:48,419 And, you know, Tony and Adolf, they asked a lot of questions too, but they didn't figure it out right 696 01:08:48,419 --> 01:08:54,619 away. Took years of learning. So one thing I want to do here is encourage the new drivers out there, 697 01:08:54,660 --> 01:09:01,459 ask questions, find mentors, lean on experienced drivers instead of trying to reinvent the wheel 698 01:09:01,459 --> 01:09:07,939 yourself. Again, we're not gaming a system here. These systems are in place for you to work within 699 01:09:07,939 --> 01:09:13,019 and to maximize your opportunities and your pay. We're just kind of talking through different ways 700 01:09:13,020 --> 01:09:18,898 to do it here on the show today. And one thing that also stood out here is how often the 701 01:09:18,899 --> 01:09:24,419 conversation came back to helping, um, you know, helping dispatch by picking up that Home Depot 702 01:09:24,460 --> 01:09:31,309 load, helping safety by calling Sherry and telling her how immaculate this tarp has folded on the 703 01:09:31,309 --> 01:09:36,508 back of this guy's truck. Helping the shop by saying, hey, here's a picture. I got a bad mud flap, 704 01:09:36,509 --> 01:09:43,149 man. Can you give me a mud flap so I can replace it? Bang! Easy stuff there and helping customers. 705 01:09:43,149 --> 01:09:49,149 It all comes into this great customer service that we have here at Cypress. And, um, look, there's 706 01:09:49,190 --> 01:09:54,989 ways you can put extra money in your pocket just for, uh, fulfilling those standards. Meeting those 707 01:09:54,990 --> 01:10:01,669 standards. It's not rocket science here. Um, and also, we had another recurring theme as we react 708 01:10:01,669 --> 01:10:06,509 to this and kind of sum it up for you. But drivers who become dependable tend to see opportunities 709 01:10:06,509 --> 01:10:12,949 come back around to them. I scratch your back. You scratch mine. Hey, dispatch. Uh, I'm okay not being 710 01:10:12,950 --> 01:10:17,230 home Friday night. Let me take that Home Depot load. If you got one that needs to go. Uh, dispatch 711 01:10:17,269 --> 01:10:21,589 is coming back to you. You don't have to bring him a cake like Adolf does. They're going to come back 712 01:10:21,589 --> 01:10:25,629 to you later. Uh, and and they're going to scratch on your back a little bit, maybe throw you that 713 01:10:25,629 --> 01:10:31,040 awesome load out to Texas that Tony was talking about. You never know. But one thing I do know is 714 01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,839 if you go and help them out, you're going to make yourself a little bit more money. And who knows 715 01:10:34,839 --> 01:10:41,719 what kind of load might show up for you down the road? Um, and I guess I 716 01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:46,960 should spend the last bit of this plugging what's going to happen next week. On next week's episode, 717 01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:53,279 we are going to get, I'm hoping at least three, but I've got room for as many as five trainers that I 718 01:10:53,279 --> 01:10:59,639 would like to get on next week's episode and talk about how and why they became trainers. You heard 719 01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:05,239 Tony talk about it. Tony's a driver trainer, 60 bucks a day right now. He can get four training 720 01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:11,160 drivers and he does. And let me tell you, that will add up over time. Any kind of bonus you're getting 721 01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:17,479 like that, that's daily. Sign me up and make sure to tune in next week, because we will be talking 722 01:11:17,519 --> 01:11:23,919 to driver trainers about how they became driver trainers. We'll talk to them about what they did 723 01:11:23,919 --> 01:11:28,819 that made them qualified. We'll talk about why they decided to take the gig. Was it just for 724 01:11:28,820 --> 01:11:33,939 extra money? Is there different aspects to the job that you like? We'll find out all of that on 725 01:11:33,940 --> 01:11:40,419 episode 31 next week here on the Cypress Truck Lines podcast. It's been real. It's been fun. Thank 726 01:11:40,419 --> 01:11:46,499 you to Adolf, Tony and Kevin for coming on here again and thank them all as well for coming up 727 01:11:46,499 --> 01:11:51,619 with the idea for today's episode. I'm not out there with you guys. I'm not understanding 728 01:11:51,619 --> 01:11:56,979 necessarily all the opportunities that you have to maximize your pay. And without Tony and Kevin 729 01:11:56,980 --> 01:12:02,059 and Adolf coming to me with this idea, this is not an episode we probably would have made. I don't 730 01:12:02,100 --> 01:12:07,258 inherently have enough of the information these guys wanted to come on today and share it with 731 01:12:07,259 --> 01:12:12,179 all the rest of you Cypress drivers, just in case. Uh, there's some guys that don't understand 732 01:12:12,180 --> 01:12:17,619 exactly how to navigate the system. Well, that's all we're doing. It's just education today. And 733 01:12:17,620 --> 01:12:23,060 that education means more shekels in your pocket. So hope this episode was as functional for you 734 01:12:23,060 --> 01:12:29,790 guys As it sounded like it was today, because we talked to three guys who've had long decorated 735 01:12:29,790 --> 01:12:34,549 careers with Cypress. Um, and with the exception of Adolf, who's already retired, I don't think Tony 736 01:12:34,549 --> 01:12:40,589 and Kevin are going anywhere until retirement. Uh, time for them. So these guys are utilizing these 737 01:12:40,589 --> 01:12:45,669 tricks as we speak. You should get in touch with them, see if they can't help you out a little bit 738 01:12:45,669 --> 01:12:51,109 in utilizing them yourself. Thank you all for tuning in to episode 30 of the Cypress Truck Lines 739 01:12:51,109 --> 01:12:56,709 podcast. I've been your host, Marcus. You've been fabulous. Stay safe out there, drivers. We will see 740 01:12:56,709 --> 01:13:02,108 you next week, Wednesday, 5 a.m. local time for another hour of content from the Cypress Truck 741 01:13:02,109 --> 01:13:03,829 Lines Podcast. Be good.