hi everyone I am Tootie of Tootie's corner and welcome to my channel in today's
video I have a special guest with me and my special guest is my husband mr. Bennie
I wanted Bennie to come and talk to you today about the trucking industry he is
in the trucking industry and the reason I want him to come and talk about this
is because he's seeing some things that is going on that we want to share with
you he wants to share it as well so let's get right into what we're gonna
talk about today first of all I want to ask Bennie how long have you been in the
trucking industry I want the people to know how long you've been driving a big
rig truck 20 years so Benny's been driving for 20 is it just 20 or just 20
plus years just 20 just 20 years he's been in the trucking industry and how do
you like it I really like it it's good he always tells me to get into something that I really like
well love because if I love it I won't have to work a day in my life and that's how
he is about his job he loves it and that's what gets him
going and motivated to go if he didn't like it he wouldn't be driving it would
be like oh I dread getting in this truck and going picking this load up but he like
loves to go do it because he just loves it and I'm glad that he loves his job
too but he's been noticing something since President Trump has been in office
versus when President Obama was in office so how was Freight for the
trucking industry or how was trucking industry overall when President Obama
was in office well the the rates were wasn't as good as they are now the rates
they ranged from a dollar fifty dollar seventy some sometimes two
dollars at highest two fifty a mile every once in a while on the land star board you
get a $3 a mile load but it's very it was very rare and it
and it wouldn't stay long and it just there always has been hiring in the trucking industry
but the rates and the amount of freight hasn't been as much as it is now as
good as it is now so how is the freight and the rate and all that now since
President Trump has taken office the rates and the freight now if you get on
the Landstar load board the company and I'm leased to the rates or if you get on
the dack board or any of the other boards load boards some of the loads are three
plus three to four dollars plus a mile some of the some of the loads pay ten
dollars a mile I just did a load from Stockbridge to Bremen that paid eight
dollars a mile and 60-something cent a mile so that's Georgia you guys from Stockbridge
Georgia to Bremen Bremen Georgia it was eight dollars a mile $10 okay eight
dollars a mile and that's some of this is due to the LED mandate so what isn't
it so what is an LED for those who don't know electronic logging device that they
made mandatory for every truck so every truck driver has to have a an electronic
logging device the and since that there's a lot of drivers exited exited the industry
when they happened but also it's because of the tax cuts the tax cuts that were put
in in that were implemented this year was it last year they helped a lot and I
think a lot of the trucking companies are benefiting from that too it's a lot
of things but the rates since I've been in trucking twenty years I've never seen
rates this good okay so what Bennie says is that the trucking rates are good it's
the best there's ever been since you can remember you've been in trucking for
twenty years he's an owner operator so he has his own tractor-trailer tractor
I'm leased to a company I had my own truck he has his own truck and he's been
having his own truck for a long time and he's he hasn't really seen the rates in
the industry this high before and they were not there well under Obama so we
just kind of thought that was pretty interesting and that lets us know that
what's going on that the economy is booming is doing pretty good and as they
say you have to strike while the iron is hot and get their Freight and make that
money yeah so you have anything else you want to say
I listen to the trucking channels Road dog trucking 146 and talking to drivers
- I talked to a lot of them at the shops and stuff and they said at this time
they're making more money than they've ever made they're making good money this
is a great time to be on an operator if anybody out there is looking to drive or
want out on your own truck this is a great time to do it you know because the
rates are good we don't know how long this is gonna last because you know what
goes up must come down so you know if your own operator or you know if you in
the trucking is even company drivers are making better money so you know I just
encourage you to try to you know - if you want a truck now is the time you
know it's no excuses I mean you have Walmart wants to hire UPS a majority of
the companies are looking for drivers I mean it is really good now I mean you
got guys that are really making a lot of money and they're doing very well so you
know I mean we just need to thank God for what he's done and blessing us you
know and so that's all I have to say ok so I wanted him to come and share that because
it's amazing to me that what in 2016 the freight wasn't that good but when as
soon as President Trump took office and did his
the the tax bill and all that the tax tax plan and the cuts and all that it
made a difference and Freight they cannot get Freight covered you know so
like Wow so that shows us that things are going pretty good and you know Bennie
travels around and he pays attention to what's going on and he says that there
are a lot of what jobs out here not just with trucking but yeah there's a lot of
job openings a lot of places that are hiring them there's a lot of companies
that are that are opening up now because of the tax plan and because you know the
reduction of regulations you know my mother told me she said that even in
Atlanta she said she's seeing a lot of hiring now a lot of places are starting
to hire so you I mean it's not only in trucking it's it's it's an other
businesses too you know I mean we here in America we don't have nothing to
complain about right if you want a job and you want to work you can work yeah I
know yeah what I see yeah this ain't
something we're just talking about this ain't something we're just saying and
making it's true we have no reason to lie okay you have something else to say
yeah just just there's loads that are on the board get to go that only go sixty
sixty six sixty four miles paying $10 a mile whereas before they went paying but
maybe a dollar dollar ten mm-hmm some of the loads paid only dollar thirty a mile
they paying triple and quadruple that now you can have loads that are paying
that go go 188 miles paying $1,200 I mean that's good it's all the time on
the board on our board and when you're looking at the rates four
dollars a mile plus three dollars plus that's unheard of you didn't see these
before dollar yeah at least the last time 2011
and 2012 2013 and 14 I get on the board I'd be on there all day trying to find a
load couldn't find anything that paid enough for where I could make a profit
from my truck and so now you're seeing that it got a little better but not much
in this time of the year it starts the the best months are March April May and
June and July and then them start to tail off but the way the rates are now I
don't think they're going away no time soon unless something drastic happens
mm-hm so I think that people need to take advantage of this while there's an
opportunity not only this but even with the good jobs that are hiring I mean
there's a lot of big companies that are coming that's gonna be opening you can
even go around Newnan and Atlanta and you see all the building and the
construction going on even in Birmingham they're building everywhere so we
need to take advantage of this and stop complaining that's right stop complaining
and get out there and make it happen yeah make it happen I have this quote
from I think it's JF Kennedy it says things don't just happen we go and make
them happen we got to make it happen we can't just sit by and expect somebody to
take care of us we have to stop complaining and we have to get out there
and make something happen especially for ourselves because nobody's gonna do it
for you have to do it for yourself take responsibility for yourself and that's
all we have today that's all we're going to talk about but I wanted you guys to hear
it from an experienced truck driver who is seeing what's going on and he's like
whoa I can't believe it this is amazing I'm glad president Trump is in because
this wasn't happening when Obama was in office that's all we have for you today
thank you so much for watching if you'd like to leave your comments please feel
free to do so in the comment section below so that we
can chop it up okay all right we'll see you in the next video bye-bye
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