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Bayway Bridge work - Mark Colson from Alabama Trucking Association on Trucker's Appreciation Week - Midday mobile Friday 9-20-24
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All right. All right. You know what's interesting? So I'm typing something in on a Facebook marketplace thing. All right. Because that's what I should have been doing during the news there, because it's a good deal. Just let me put this out there in the room. When something, you have something and you're going to sell it, okay? At that point, it's for sale. You're selling it S-E-L-L, but when you put it, it is for sale S-A-L-E, right? Okay. It seems to be completely lost in any kind of marketplace or whatever else is out there for swap shops or anything like that. I don't know why I hung up on that, but it's like everything's for sale. I know it's actually for sale. All right. 3430106 gets you through to the show. Also, you could use that for a text or a phone call. The FMTalk 1065 app, you can also leave us one of those talkback messages, emails it to the show, and we can play it back here on the air. Read a few more text here in just a little bit, plus I want to get into a couple stories that caught my eye locally. Also, I want to remind you too, it's a Friday. Okay. Friday is like, if you're going to do something, change something, you start thinking about our Friday because you make that appointment or that I'm going to do this thing on a Monday, right? Yeah, I really need to get around to doing something. This Monday, I'm going to do it. Well, if you got junk around the house, around the shop, around the office, you got stuff in your way and you keep saying, "Yeah, I'm going to get around to doing that." Here you go. On this Friday, I don't want to ruin your phone on a Friday, but you need to get this done. So get it done on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday with my friend Trey with 1-800-GOD-JUNK. Easy to make the appointment. You go online or pick up the phone. You can see either 1-800-GOD-JUNK.com or you give them a call at 1-800-GOD-JUNK. 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And we do it every Friday through college football season, all courtesy of Mason Hills Farm. All right, to the text line now. And let's see. Yes. So Matt questioning that Robert was against kicking doors in on criminals at daybreak, but he supports good old fashioned police work. Matt says, "Do I have that correct?" I think that's what Robert said. Mike is, Mike says here, tailgating is a huge problem. It is, and I agree, but that one's harder, right? Mike, that would be harder to, if you run a red light, it's an obvious thing. It's a binary thing. Was the light red when you went through it? Were tailgating? Is it half a car length or are they two inches away? I agree with you. It's an issue. I think for law enforcement, I would guess, and maybe they can correct me. It would be a harder one to say which, at what level? I mean, you could say the extreme of two inches away. Obviously, the person's out of control. You need to do something about it. Where is six feet, is eight feet, is 25 feet? I don't know, but I do agree. It's a knowing thing. Okay. Somebody texted this. Maybe this is for next week. They said, "Have you maybe you've already done this, but can you do a segment or show explaining what early voting is and how it works in Mobile County?" Great question. We will do that. We will do that. I've done it in the past, but it's been a long time. We'll talk about that. Maybe if the judge is listening or somebody down at the office, Judge Don Davis, Probate Judge Mobile County, if he wants to come in, we can do an explanation with him as well, but great. Let me take a picture of that and put that in my reminders for next week. Thank you, whoever you are, texting that in. B.D.A.R.C. said, "Yes, the bridge project would be great with 100 percent American citizen labor and the money not leaving the country." Yeah, it's just this money. Remember back when I'm so old, I remember when the project first came up, we've talked about it for over a decade, a decade and a half, but the projected cost was $800 million back then, and then this happened, this other thing happened, another thing happened, another thing happened, and now we're looking at, I think, one's stats, $3.5 billion. I'll say it's $4 billion on this thing. You talk about this, great, this federal money, $550 million, another $125 million from the infra-grant, then $250 million from out, that's all great. This show a long way between that and $4 billion. A dirt-taker says, "Why can't we keep the old Bay Bridge for people to have e-bikes to ride with out of danger from automobiles?" Then if we needed something bad happens, it gives us another temporary path that's already built. Why spend all the money to tear it down? I don't know, dirt-taker, and it's the idea that the water is going to, first of all, what does it matter then? If we're not using it, if the water would be too high, and I know that came up in that story and that what Jack Burrell was in, and Senator Allbert and were quoted, but I do remember, we talked about this so much, I really think the issue that Adot said back then was that the lifespan of the bayway was getting too old, it wasn't added, but it was in the same area code as being too old, and that's why they had to replace it. Roger and Baldwin County said, "Is it a yard seller or a yard sale?" Yes, it is a yard sale, so something is for sale, because he said is a yard seller, S-E-L-L-O-R or a yard sale, S-A-L-E, correct, just saying something, I'm selling something, S-E-L-L, but it's for sale, S-A-L-E. I'm not saying that the English language isn't then confusing, God bless y'all that learned it as a second language, but it's just funny, if you look through any kind of postings for people selling whatever, the things are always for sale, not for sale. Let's see here, number three, I don't know, Tusker said number three, what am I missing, Tusker's, on that, a fire dog said, "Okay," he said right here, he said, "I know that Florida has turned part of an old bridge into a fishing spot." Yeah, I saw that, I've seen that a couple of times, just most recently, he went over to a Saint Joe Beatty, a scallop and I was looking at that as well, here locally, I'm sure other parts, I think they did that same thing in Tampa, didn't they, fire dog? So let me finish this text here, he said, "I know that Florida has turned part of the old bridge into a fishing spot, most of the bridge is brought down except for a small part that juts out like up here, the weight load isn't as much with just people fishing into cars." And then he also goes on to say, "So I have rosters, walkie-talkies and stoves, I may need to get rid of all of a sudden, I got pagers, walkie-talkies and stoves that I need to get rid of all of a sudden, may or may not explode." That's the one, I wonder if we can dig into that more, so of course this week, we talked a bunch about what I think is a master class put on by the massage here, and not just people like, "Oh man, the pagers blew their blanks off," or their hands and now they can't fight what the massage did, I know they're not admitting to, but what the massage did with getting the pagers and the two-way radios and all the things to explode. There's the damage to the fighters, the Hezbollah fighters, that's one thing. But I know folks like fire dog and vets out there and warriors out there get this, that scyops is huge. Number one, you shut down command and control for Hezbollah, they're not going to be able to talk with each other, and number two, now you have everybody freaked out. I mean, it's a true master class on espionage, and it's maybe one that'll have a movie down the road. Monty said a salesman will sell you a sale that's on sale, "Oh, I love that," that's very good, very good, my son's here, I have to take that back, we're going to study that one. A salesman will sell you a sale that's on sale, lovely English language, always keeps it interesting. All right, Jerry and Fort Morgan said, "Two card lengths and you're getting great checked." Right, but Jerry, do you agree with what I'm saying, it's like if law enforcement is going to do something, it's a lot easier to say they ran the red light or didn't than trying to judge and write tickets for tailgating. I don't like tailgating, I'm just looking at them, what would be the easier ticket to write? All right, come on right back. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk1065. Right out, what in 21, FMTalk, what in 65, Midday Mobile, glad to have you here on this Friday and always great to talk to my man Ron at Mobile Bank Coins and find jewelry. Ron, how are we looking at precious metals this week? Any big changes? Any movement? They have been going up, ever since they've announced their rate cut, it's really strengthened both the stock market and even the silver and gold plan of playing the market even more just in the week, gold's up about $89, and silver's up over $1.50 throughout the week. So it's, and business is booming, people are adding to their stack and creating hedges. A lot of people are still worried, even though there's been an interest rate cut, people are really still worried with the election and the possibility of who could win and who couldn't win causing a market. The courses are, buddy, Trump pulls it off and wins, I think everything will settle out, but it doesn't mean you don't need to have a hedge and create a hedge to protect you because Trump won't be in forever and they think can happen. Yeah, the hedge portion of that portfolio, and also you mentioned platinum and palladium and interest rates, and this is why, y'all, I talk about the place to go to get your precious metals, but also get the education because I wouldn't have thought about this if I hadn't talked to Ron so long. So interest rates drop, that means interest rates on vehicles will drop, which will have the vehicle manufacturers make more, which they need platinum and palladium are one or the other to make them, right, catalytic converters? Yes, sir, me, actually, as soon as interest rates drop, everything we had in stock, platinum and palladium-wise went out the door because people did exactly what you said. And of course, we reorder and get more in to just amazing how quick that stuff fell once that interest rates drop and people see, okay, exactly what you said, chances that car manufacturing will increase and of course they'll need more palladium and platinum. See, this is so cool. And now I can, you know, flex that at, you know, sitting on a front porch this weekend and say, well, in fact, here's what it is. Yeah, I can use that on the collectable side too. I know I talked to Anna about the Trump, Anna talked about the Trump rounds, y'all have got those in. Are you still having any in stock? Oh, yeah, plenty of stock. And when we're down about 50% from what our stock level is, we reorder. So we try never to be out of stock up the Trump round, especially with the election coming up. It's probably the number one seller for people to just see him in one, a ones or one day or two to be able to have in their pocket or to give away to somebody special. So they go off pretty quick, but we're not in danger of running out. We have plenty of stock. All right. People want to come by and see you today and get that education. Check out some of the precious metal or collectables. How do they find you? They're located at 22.04 government street in Midtown Mobile. They give us a call to shop at 251725 1590 or find us on the web at mobilebaconics.com. Hey, thank you, Ron. You're welcome, John. All right. There goes Ron. And yeah, it's, it's cool. I mean, go, okay, platinum employee moved yesterday. Why with the interest rate cuts because then it drops the interest rates on vehicles. Good stuff. Good education. Pat said, let's talk about a red light. Okay, let's let's do this. I said university in Bitten spur, letting six cars through on slam full university road before turning. I've been here for 12 minutes. Yeah. Well, familiar with that light, Pat? Yes. It'll, it'll be interesting. Start thinking about questions. Now the part once again, the person who's going to be on with me Monday traffic engineer is not a, not a elected official. They didn't make the, but they are the people behind the technical side of sinking lights and all that. And I'm fascinated like why they make a decision to not have them all green all the time. You know, so those kind of questions Monday at noon will be asking. Let's see here. Now we're playing word games, which I actually, like John said, if you're trying to rid a boat, trying to get rid of a boat that has a tall mast with cloth and no motor, would it be for sale, S-A-L-E or for sale? Yeah. Well, the boat would be for sale, A-L-E, and of course, the thing that moves it would be for a sale, but this is fun. Let's see. Unimmed texture said, once a new 110 bridge and toll gets approved, watch how many of our state politicians not run for reelection and get some new, nice, good paying jobs affiliated with a new construction. Watch for that. I'll watch for that for sure. All right. Speaking of I-10, because the story happens to take part partially on I-10, story from WPMI. I know that Leana had this up on the Facebook page. I have not seen the commentary on it, but I can imagine it would be of interest headline here from WPMI, my NBC-15. Camper chaos, nice alliteration, camper chaos on I-10, wild ride ends and crash near state docks. So according to Mobile Police, and I don't want to keep all the details, yesterday, yesterday afternoon, you know how these stories are, they give you the exact time and date. So yesterday afternoon, Mobile Police officers were dispatched to a traffic accident in the area of I-65 and I-10 involving a Coachman camper and a Buick Envision. The driver of the camper, Dale Paulson, initially pulled to the side of the road, but when the driver of the other vehicle exited her vehicle, he left the scene. Paulson continued traveling I-10 eastbound until he exited towards Broccoli Field. While in this area, Paulson's camper struck another vehicle. So he's in the camper. If you're looking for a vehicle to evade it, is it the camper? I'd said a short time later, officers observed the camper driving in the area and attempted to initiate a traffic stop, but Paulson refused to stop the vehicle. So now we got this guy in the, in the Coachman camper, I'm doing his version of the movie Speed, I guess. Paulson refused to stop the vehicle. A pursuit continued on the McDuffey cold terminal, where the subject crashed through the security gate. The subject attempted to turn around, but lost control and crashed into a steel structure where his vehicle was disabled. Said Paulson was arrested, 36 year old Paulson arrested and transported to metro jail. This remains an active investigation. And also I would say an active investigation and also could have been a scene in pick the Bert Reynolds movie from the 70s or 80s. But could you put this in Hooper? Could you put it, you could have put it in stroke arrays? I mean, to have a camper have a, here come the, here come the cops behind the camper. They're chasing the camper's making all kind of, I don't know if the officers with mobile police department realized that they were like part of what could have been a fantastic scene and whether the, do we have the, I know we have fast and furious now. I've not watched any of those. Do we have any kind of, you know, the formula after smoking the bandit was so successful and then they tried, you know, cannonball run and all they try to make all these movies that I just ate up as a child and still like them. Of course, smoking the bandit, my favorite. The others are like a couple floors below them in the hierarchy. But you know the, we're going to drive and then the cops are going to chase us and then we'll have all kind of wacky things happen and they're going to be maybe having somebody in a camper trying to avoid the cops I think would have been. Yeah. Oh yeah. Terry, thank you. I have the Blues Brothers camper chase. Yes. So that was happening yesterday. So not only a law enforcement story, but also when I would argue is, uh, should be in a movie of some sort. All right. Coming back here in just a couple of minutes, we're going to talk to Mark Colson. Now he's been a guest with us in the past. He's with Alabama Trucking Association and always good to get questions and see what's going on with them. It is National Truckers Week this week. So we'll talk about that, how they're celebrating. I'm sure the truckers, at least the ones in my family would celebrate by going to work and driving, but how they're celebrating National Truckers Week. We'll talk about that with Mark coming up in just a little bit. I see some folks have already had some questions up for him as well. So we'll get to those from the questions can come in at three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. Coming right back after the news. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk 106 5. Like 135, FMTalk 106 5. Midday Mobile, quick reminder. I don't know, it's a fully public service announcement, but there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. Hundreds of y'all in the College Pick 'em Challenge with the radio station. Remember, gotta get your picks in. Why do I do this? Because I'm a competitor as well, but I can't win the prize, but I do like to like move up in the rankings. So if you didn't fill in your picks for this week, it would help me. But my number one job is to you and remind you to make sure you get your picks done for the FMTalk 106 5. College Pick 'em Challenge brought to you by Spring Hill Ace and then see how you do, and we'll talk trash on Monday. All right, this is great to get this man back on the show, and he's been on with me years off and on talking about trucking in the state of Alabama. He's president, CEO of the Alabama Trucking Association, the caravan leader for the truckers out there. Mark Colson, good to talk to you, man. Thank you, sir. I'm not sure I've ever been calling a caravan leader before, but I take it. I love it. I don't think you don't think you hear the trucks are rolling, right? The truckers rolling. There you are in the lead rig and you're leading the caravan. So, and so much to talk about now, and it's National Truckers Appreciation Week, and we'll talk about that. But you and I talk so many times, maybe even it started during COVID, right there around about the need for the truckers and supply chain. And y'all were looking for truckers. Like you were telling me that if somebody went and got that education and programs down here, there were jobs waiting for them. Is it still like that? Well, freight markets are down, Sean. I mean, that's no secret. If you look at economic reports and all that, and if you talk to a trucker or a trucking company owner, but we are very proud at the Alabama Trucking Association, not only to celebrate National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, but also to promote the industry because regardless of economic conditions and how many truck drivers, you know, jobs are available or how many people we need in the future, I'll leave that to the economist debate, but what I like to say is we need high quality people getting into high quality training programs like some in your in your listening area and going to work for high quality companies or start a high quality company for themselves. And no, regardless of the economic conditions, that's always going to be a need for truckers to play those roles. Even with the advent of technologies, I know you're not talked about autonomous technologies and electrification of the industry, regardless of all those technological changes that will occur in the short medium and long term, the role of the American trucker is strong and it will be in the future. So we just want to showcase these great career opportunities to people who will be awesome at those jobs because we need great people in those jobs because they're tough jobs that require a great deal of focus, the safest drivers on the road, and those are the kind of career opportunities we like to promote through MyTruckingFuture.com, which is an advent of the you and I've talked about many times, but this new evolution is a great place for people to go to MyTruckingFuture.com and find out what truckings all about and how they can better their families, better their life through careers in our industry. So let me ask you this question then. With that being said, you mentioned future and all that in there. So when you hear people go, "Well, listen, the technology they're developing and they're going to have the autonomous driving trucks and all that," how do you react to that? What do you say? I say no matter what technology comes along, the trucking jobs are here to stay. I mean, just think about an airplane today. You still have two pilots in the airplane and the airplane flies themselves. Autonomous vehicles are a reality. They're going to be applications, which that makes sense. Electrification is going to be a reality, but only in certain applications where that makes sense. So I think on the long term, those type of technological innovations, while scaring a storm, they're not going to be driverless trucks all over the road. I mean, that's just not going to happen. I mean, think about the flatbed and tank truck industry. It always will require drivers. So some of that's futuristic and where it is applied, I think it will only enhance the professional driver's job. Speaking of people getting into trucking, so I'm looking at my text line here, this says, the texture said, "Ask Mark that if Trump gets in office, is he going to try to get the CDL restrictions that Biden put on, eliminated, and make it easier to get a CDL license? Do you know about that?" I'm not sure exactly what restrictions they're talking about, but certainly what we would like to see is there's a pilot program at the national level that would allow 18 to 20-year-olds to drop into her state. We've talked about this before. You can get your CDL at 19 and drop from mobile to hustle, but you can't drop a mobile to pass the Google because you're crossing state lines. That pilot program has never really taken off because of all of the burdensome kind of regulations around it. It's supposed to identify really safe companies to go on the pilot and really save drivers to apply to be in that age range because the idea that you're just going to throw a 19-year-old or 18-year-old, the keys to a truck and say, "Take off." That's not a reality. It's very difficult right now to even get those intrastage jobs to 18 to 20-year-olds because of insurance requirements. You have to have certain number of years of experience, but if somebody's really good with their hand, they can be trained to drive a vehicle at 18 or 19 just as well as they can at 22 and 23. But it's not for everybody, but the regulations around that pilot program had never taken off, and that may be what they're talking about. We would like to see that streamline and get more motor carriers and safe drivers into that pilot program so we can grow it over time. That's, again, a very limited population of people. Help me understand. Somebody's 18. They said this is what they want to do. They have to wait two or three years to move up to be able to go interstate or? Correct. You cannot drive interstate across state lines until a year after 21. You can drive with a restricted CDL of intrastate and now in 49 states, Alabama passed that law in 2019. I got to think about just looking at us down here with the Port of Mobile or, as the rest of the state calls it, Alabama's port. I got the Port of Mobile. Those jobs moving from supply facilities or sortation facilities back to the port, so that person would be okay. They're staying in Mobile County or staying in Baldwin County. They could, before 21, take those jobs. That's right. In the heavy trucking and law hall trucking, the 18 to 20 year old intrastate law when we passed it in Alabama, and, again, 48 other states had it, was never really designed for our industry, per se. But a lot of those local delivery, there's a lot of, as you know, construction companies and utility companies and others, bottling companies, distribution companies that operate smaller equipment, even some Class B equipment. But even if you needed Class B CDL, you couldn't drive before, before you're 21 until that law passed. Okay. We're going to get to the celebration point here in a second, but I got to get all the hard news out of the way. So, of course, back in the mix down here, more discussion of, they say, next year, they're going to get working against the, they'll do the, whatever the, you know, the political show up with the chrome plated shovels and do the, well, we're starting the project on the automobile river bridge, looking at what Jack Barrell and others had to say with the MPO, Eastern Shore, they said, looking at still tolls, still tolls are part of this, right? 250, not allowing the total to go over 250, then for local users, it's 40 bucks a month or $480 a year. But that's for non-commercial. You and I talked about this during the bridge project, that the amount of money they're going to charge trucks. Do you know what is expected with this that it'll be causing truckers? No, we've not gotten an exact estimate yet. Though we have advocated, and I think some of the parameters that the MPOs have built in there will benefit the trucking industry, one big issue that we advocated for long before I was even here has been not too, not too toll-existing highways. I mean, we don't like tolling at all. Nobody likes tolling, but you certainly don't like tolling something you've already paid for. So that was a big issue. That was one of the problems that came about in 2019. One of the other issues for trucking, depending on what the ... We will get a discounted rate for the mobile past users, but there are a lot of existing mobile past tolling operators in the country that truckers use that no matter where you go in the country, it recognizes that. So that was in one of our MPO letters that we submitted that all that when they develop the criteria for the tolling and that technology, that it syncs up with existing companies that use that. There's two or three primary ones that trucking companies use, because for somebody to have to go set up their own unique Alabama account, if that just doesn't make sense when you can opt into these other technologies. So that was a big one, and certainly they would get a discounted rate if they're paying through that existing program. So when you're in a big truck, and just like on this interstate, they're not going to be told countries where you drop your money in, it goes to people's minds, so that's just not feasible. So no, we would love to have an exact amount. We've got not gotten that yet, and we do want to see that project build. It's very important, not only for the trucking industry, but just for folks who travel that corridor with the expansion of the port, it's going to be even more central. And we've just got it. It's just an expensive project, and it's a frustrating thing to discuss. It's a means to finance debt, and sometimes if not done well, it's an inefficient way to finance debt. But in this reality, if existing highways are not told, then it's kind of the lesser of the evils. Yeah, imagine that's going to be it. Hopefully you'll get that number soon. It's tough to plan. I can imagine being in that business to not know what that number is going to be, because a lot of people are just focused on what consumer, I mean, just regular traffic, not commercial traffic is going to be, and I keep in the back of my head, remember, the conversations you and I had. Back then, when we were complaining about whatever the rate was going to be for just cars, you were telling me, Sean, here's what it could be for trucks. It was big time, big time money. It was big. Yeah, and the estimates have come down just for like it has for passenger vehicles, especially from the estimate that existed back from 2019. But as you said, it seems like the progress on the project seems to keep moving. I know there were some recent good news in the federal funding, and hopefully the additional federal funding in the future, I mean, it's almost crazy to think that we have to finance so much of an interstate project that every state is going to benefit from. But I know the mayor and others have worked diligently on this project, and it is very important to Alabama's future, but we just at the same time got to make sure we protect our local businesses, because those are the types of individuals and companies that are impacted the most by this type of thing, because they use it more. So certainly, we want to make sure we're looking out for our small businesses on both sides of the bay. Absolutely, just joining us talking to Mark Colson, Alabama Trucking Association. What about this National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, winding up today? Yeah, I mean, other than, you know, me saying, hey, can you, you know, or my son give him the, hey, honk the horn thing. What else can we do to appreciate our truckers? I mean, there's, I don't know how many in Alabama, but I know it's got to be a lot. Number one thing we can all do to not in addition to, like you said, just saying, thank you, which is so important in this life. Thank you, you know, just to be grateful for all the blessings we have, especially living in this country. But the number one thing we can do is drop safely on the road. You know, don't be just trying not to be distracted. Don't be distracted. Don't, you know, drop safely around trucks. They take longer to stop. Keep your distance. Don't get in their blind spots. Just be cognizant. And so just be safe on the road. I mean, that's the number one way you can, you can thank a trucker. All right. And those websites, once again, people want to get more information about those jobs and what's going on with trucking in Alabama. How do they do it? Yeah, my trucking teacher.com, which tells a great story of the men and women in our industry in the state. And this week, if you go on our social media platforms, Alabama trucking, you can see all of the great celebrations we've been doing this week in the state for professional drivers, Governor Ivey, Senator Brit, our driver of the year, Alabama trucking.org. Good stuff, Mark. I appreciate it. And hopefully get to see you soon. Thanks, John. See you soon. Hey, so you soon. There he goes, Mark Colson, Alabama trucking association. And we're coming right back more of Midday Mobile on FM Talk 1065. Ed Rowan joins us from 10 and 14 hours. So it's coming up here on the Friday. I stopped at a roadhouse in Texas. It was a little place called Hamburg then. And I heard that old jukebox playing. I saw him about a truck driving man.