r horrible accident said driver that went from illinois of nebraska and back and was going to go back to nebraska i mean i'm in the trucking industry i drive a truck every day and i talk to a lot of independents that are parked in their trucks because they say they can't make any money anymore because they were always skirting the book you know they're always doing what they have to do to stay on the road for x number of hours you know what they hollers over the road before i was a teamster and the term there is if your wheels ain't making money right and that's absolutely and that's that's a such a but if you and i both know anyone in the trucking industry or the freight industry in general knows in the next less than ten years it's going to be completely paperless so i know a lot of guys i've talked to a lot of independents and they're parking their trucks are like we just can't make any money anymore unfortunately the independents and those type of comments it's a blanket statement about the transportation industry unfortunately the teamsters is going to be lumped into that and over the next five years we're going to need five hundred sauza and drivers that so many are quitting and retiring it's a wonderful industry to be and one i'd like you to comment i know your union and that was an independent guy steele all know let's talk about the case he's talking about that guy was driving thirty seven hours right right just totally ridiculous i mean and he was on his own or something and i mean it was a total disregard for the regulations before i was a teamster i would have to drive to new jersey and back two times for me to clear before taxes seven hundred dollars and so there's a huge pressure for you there's a huge pressure for these guys ally on a log books and make money for their families i'm not defending this guy by any means and he was a little greedy and he was cheating the system because the system is so moves there's a lot of ways that you can manipulate it for it to benefit you but i see things like what's that in europe what they're doing in europe is a good thing and i think if they did it here it would help out with these guys realize that they're not making enough money in europe after nine hours of service i believe it  your truck just shuts off you've got to find some way to pull over really you drive for nine hours and that truck a side up for it to just shut off for eight  talking or overrode case and i think the guy found out that he had been driving for thirty seven hours and he may have stopped for three hours to sleep and then he continued to drive and then he want to change the lanes and killed some somebody and brought to light you know are people following the ways of doing it and like dave saying is that the independent guy you know if you just run in eight hours he's going to be very difficult for him to make some money he's making other large freight carriers the other seventy percent of the freight called in this country is holden and what's considered independents they only probably five or less trucks older small companies and what have you and that's where the problem lies these independents are or are like you said pushing them to make more money the regulations are c s twenty ten or are getting stricter to two years ago you had a flat you could run today of flat tires and out of service violation just on and on years ago if you had a marker laid out in a trailer you're ok today you have a marker light out it's a no it's a violation you know all the lights have to work all the brake you know all the stuff in these independen are doing whatever they can to to skirt the system a little bit to help put more money in their pocket and i don't know how will i ever get the independence of the pitcher the one time i guess back in the early seventy's you know the american truck driver when i had to run a road way back when you know getting sleep was you know kind of one of my priorities during the days sometimes you got to sleep you just didn't you know you do your body will eventually shut itself down and see what the independents also  industry minimum so when these independent contractors you know you think you're going to go out there and spend twenty thirty thousand dollars on a truck and trailer and you're going to go out there you're going to make a million dollars and then you see how real it is when you have to literally race yourself to the bottom how got twenty two of the top five percent of earners were responsible for thirty eight percent of domestic consumption in one nine hundred ninety five the top five percent or only responsible for twenty percent of consumption so they're consuming ten percent more of everything that we do what we have here the current recovery has been driven almost entirely by the upper crust since twenty nine the year that recession and inflation adjusted spending by the top and shalon has risen seventeen percent consider it with just one percent from the other ninety five percent and there i could talk to you about this for days  when mad mad called and i wanted to call back and get a you get a rebuttal mad my calls in and says hey what's with these republicans downstate that are coming in on what i do for a living and they want to regulate who checks out these rental properties remember that he was really upset at republicans for trying to pass what they're passing on to privatized the inspections of rental homes right well have you ever heard the saying well first they came for the jews but i wasn't a jew you know there was nobody left  when they came after me well i finally saw were mad mack messed up on the air because now he's worried about himself now he sees how the people that i've been speaking out against or finally doing something that goes against what he tries to do for a living ok now now they're now they're screwing it up for him but now he's worried he wasn't worried when they were screwing it up for everybody else now he's worried because they're screwed up for him oh man tell me we didn't have a good debate with alex in mad max let's talk about this i mean all of the instruments that we have to measure what's going on right now is that there is more aggregating of the wealth at the top and it's getting worse every day and that's why the you know the mid level restaurants are struggling the chili capital grill i think it's seventy six dollars per person on average is going crazy you know thousand dollars per person and chili on a friday night is not doing well i mean because there's so much more money at the top right now they have they have more money to buy in bulk and beat up the competition which is me and you ok somebody else could come in here and open up an  station across the street with their national money ok what would that do for you if they came in and said we're not going to have the ninety nine dollars a week love we're going to have the fifty nine dollars a week club and they can afford it because they've got money coming in from all over the country so what do we do we still rent our spot here it will be jail be we spend our money locally ok that's the point you got to go to your mom and pop shops i don't go to fridays ok every now and then yeah i'm not going to say i never walk into fridays but i people have to realize that you've got to give your money to your neighbor first because that money stays in your neighborhood you can't give your money to some guy that's his corporate office is in wichita or new york city ok we have to we have to help ourselves that's why the one percent is the one percent now because they've taken over everything and the only way they can make the things that they do legal is by having people make it legal for them ok so when when i when i spout off against the g o p and what they're doing on a state and national level that's why it's not because i'm here to protect my union rights ok because i hold a union card it's for me you my neighbors and his family and so on and so forth i'm not worried about the latins the richest family in the world and you're going to tell me you go to wal mart because my neighbors work there or you for your neighbors to get a raise in the minimum wage you're not you say that you support wal mart because they hire your neighbors but then you don't want your neighbors to get a get a raise who are you supporting who are you helping you're not helping your neighbors we've got it we have to start in our own backyard we have to start supporting our neighbors i go to mom and pop shops i go to the bakery i don't go to dunkin donuts ok i go to the i go to the locally owned gas station ok everything i go to everything i need i try to do it where the money stays in my town next step my county next step my state we all have to do that i'm not we're going to have this conversation for a long time