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Exploring the Future of Towing: Innovations, Partnerships, and a Breakthrough App · Towing News Now

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the American Tone Recovery Institute podcast.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Remember this is your podcast and this one happens to be a special because it's a pronouncing and letting everyone know about the brand new app.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Please remember that we're all here.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: We're here for positive public relations, networking within the professional and the business minded tone recovery industry.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: I'm your co-host, dj Harrington, and today, yes, and most of you know me as the tone doctor, but today's host along with me is the dear wife of Wetz Wilburne, who's the 40 year towing industry veteran who's normally my co-host, and Wetz just came back from Kansas City, so stepping into helping him out is his partnering life and the really co-anchor.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: The two of them work together at the Institute, my dear friend, april Wilburne.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: April, how are you doing?
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: I am doing just fantastic.
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: We are just rocking and rolling on.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: As you had said, wetz just got back from the event that he did and I'm going to call this an event because this Cinefay record hosted Wetz and they just went all out to do as much as they could and make this as easy as possible.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: You did a one day light duty and had 30 in it and that's for a light duty that's kind of a big number.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: We struggled with getting those classes pulled together, so 30 was phenomenal.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: And then for the heavy duty, the two-day heavy duty, we had 57 people and at the end of it that was having people on a wait list for next year for it.
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: And I do personally think that's as much of a testament to Cinefay, the first class operations that they have there and Wetz Wilburne's big name in the industry.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: So we had great help when we were there.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: G2 Reacher came and helped us, brian Michael came and helped us, michael Lilly came out and helped us.
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: Cinefay put us all the stops from the beginning of it anything that we needed when we were planning, the casualties, the food, just everything.
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: It was just a really great class for Wetz to go to One of the last classes, that Wetz was doing this year.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Well, cinefay has been around a while and they are a very gifted group, and I think Brian Michael brings a lot to the table also, so I kind of agree with him.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: He really did.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: He was very, very helpful in getting all that put together, and we're going to talk about this a little bit later on, but we are launching the app, so getting all that together with him and getting all that mainline with him made that a little bit easier to tail.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: Well, this class guess really is about the app, but before the app April, can I ask you a little bit about your electric vehicle that's being brought in?
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, it is, it is.
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: We're having Paddock's partner service in Indiana.
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: Wetz just did a product class a couple of months ago and they donated.
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: It's a direct Tesla.
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: When people hear that they donated it's the Tesla, it sounds like it's phenomenal thing.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: And it is.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: It got picked up from.
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: It got picked up from Paddock's service.
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: It was picked up.
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: The Ohio Toast Association really great friends of ours and big supporters of ours sent Andrew Butler out to pick this car up.
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: He took it to Cincinnati and then Shaper's towing picked it up from there and they met up one day.
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: They met up with the Chris Reed of the West Virginia Toast Association and he picked it up from them and delivered it to Roanoke, virginia, and Fab Boys does an obsession of that and they're taking it to Winston-Staylam and Southside is picking it up from there and meeting up with Adam's Towing and Recovery, justin Murray on the I-40 quarter and they're taking it to Barbara's Towing and Ronald, carolina and from there they will make sure it gets to Mike Willard, of which the stuff that we're doing this weekend With Ron Moore, which is a firecracker I'm counting up how many classes you know making sure all this is moving and going, has been mostly done thus, as far as, like making sure A is picking up from B and C is picking up from in a, dropping it off to D, the whole nerve wracking thing of getting it all put together and getting everybody to agree.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: But anybody that we've asked to do this, all these people, they've all ensured the service to us.
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: They're not charging us for this.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: Everybody who's doing this is doing an interest in advancing education.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: April I want to tell all our listeners that listen up, you know how wet it is and, of course, april.
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: I've met him once or twice, I have a good idea.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: Let's go through one weekend and he's just DJ.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: You got a minute.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: I said yeah.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: He said you know the story you tell about your seven people away from knowing the US.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: I said yeah, it's true story, it's a proven factor seven people away from knowing the President of the United States, somebody that you know, that knows somebody that knows somebody that knows how to do it.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: And we talked about how we did towing for the Body Shop Association through different associations and we got it from four different associations to help the Body Shop and it got on ABC News and then one guy who West knew personally that on the news and his kids came home and said yeah, you know, all my classmates said you were on the news last night.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: I didn't know I was on news but he had told a class so I was telling West, you're seven people away.
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: So I just counted from that.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: It's all the way down.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: You have seven different.
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: There, we go, there, we go, there, we go, there, we go there, we go, there, we go.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: Well, you never know, no matter what goes on in life, there are, because of people that you know, and Wes has been so influential in the towing and recovery industry, that people want to help Wes.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: So when Wes has this project, every one of them that you named are great people, Good Lord.
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to tell you a little bit about Wes.
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: He's any fuss made about him?
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: Anybody.
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: He really is a person who does not I'm going to say I'm not going to say he doesn't like compliments, but he doesn't like anybody gushing over him.
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: But when that happens and I've tried to explain this to him when that happens, it's it's because he is a great person.
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: Wes is a great person.
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not partial.
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: I know that I'm married to him.
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not partial, but the people that he is around are great people and I think if you're around great people, if you're not a great person, when you're around them, you become a better person at least.
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: So these people that we know in this industry are great people and I'm hoping that we're better people for being in this world, but done, lost out.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, you said it's very much so, april.
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really, I really do feel just so, so fortunate to be where we're at and with all the things that we have coming up, which is going to lead into this next segment that we're going to do with Kim Holcomb and Jake Green that are going to introduce this app and tell you all the great things about it.
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: We we're going to do so many great things with this app and electric vehicle education in the very, very near future, so that's something to keep an eye out on.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: So let's do this April, I wish you, and I passed the ball to our producer, chuck Camp, who's going to then hook up and look up right on it, because we have pre-recorded an interview that Wes and I did with Kim Holcomb and with Jake.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: The next voice you'll hear is Wes Wilbur and CJ Harrington talking about the brand new app, and I'm honored to have a 40 year towing industry veteran and the man who's ahead of American Tony recovery astute Wes Wilbur, with a special announcement coming right from the podcast center to you, wes how are you today?
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: Dj, I'm doing wonderful.
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: Just got to travel home from Detroit yesterday, had a great class up there this weekend, made a huge contact in the Italian industry and also going to be a huge contact as we move forward with the project that the special announcement is about.
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: So before we make the special announcement, I'll take a brief moment.
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: I want to thank the Michigan Towing Association, the oldest Towing Association in the United States.
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: I want to thank their member, past president and all around great guy, bill Byers, byers Towing, their Rochester Michigan.
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: They did a wonderful job hosting the class.
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: We had a great class.
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: Bill has made a connection with me, with someone that's involved with GM, with their battery division.
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: That's a huge contact and we just want to thank them for a great weekend.
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: I have to meet the fourth generation of Byers, director of service, nice young man carrying on the family tradition very proudly.
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: So I'm just about to say a few words about my contributions in the industry.
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: But you know, at American Towing Recovery Institute I'm not the only one that makes contributions.
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: Team members do a whole lot.
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: You're going to meet two of them today and I want to introduce, I guess to present to a few and introduce to the rest of the world.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: We've taken information gathering on electric vehicles very seriously.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: I've been collecting the information factory authorized information on not only towing but fire rescue, submersion et cetera, since hybrid vehicles came out and Kim Holcomb is taking up that research.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: Over the years and she's she's massed an incredible amount of information.
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: If we were to put it in a PDF document it'd be 2184 pages.
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: I believe it is To have a big document would print out which would be like six telephone books sitting on the coffee table.
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: If you're old enough to remember telephone books, I think we got listeners to do and listeners to don't DJ.
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure about that, but I think we do.
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: But anyway, we've taken that information, developed it into an app.
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: Make it easy and workable.
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: We were giving out 600 page PDF just a few short months ago the end of the class at that point.
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: That was the information that we had and that becomes unusable much less than 2000 page.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: So it's been developed into an app.
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: Kim Holcomb is our general manager, led the team to handle it.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: Now, kim, I'd like you to introduce yourself they're listening to our audience and tell us a little bit about the app and also how Jake introduced himself as well.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: Sure, wes.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: This is Kim.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: Many of you may know me from years here.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: I've worked with Wes for about 22 years total.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: I'm a founding member of the Institute, as well as the Treasurer which I guess that is my position there as well as general manager and app developer.
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: And she does a little bit of everything else.
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: She's our go-to gal to make things happen.
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: I don't think many of you have ever understood what a girl gal Friday is.
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: I believe the term is.
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: That was the first time I've heard her before she's happened and took care of everything and she's definitely that.
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: Sorry for interrupting, kim.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: So basically that's me the app that we've been working on.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: We've been working on it kind of in a fast sequence.
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: We started at the end of summer, like Wes mentioned.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: We were handing out this PDF to classes after he did some instruction on electric vehicles in class during the classroom situations and then also hands on a bit.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: I did, I guess.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: But pretty much we were building it up more vehicles and more vehicles and it just become too big and then we sat back and said why are we sending this for to be using it when it's really not usable?
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: So we were thinking, we thought the app as being a lot user friendly on the side of the road and many times there is going to be a need for kind of a quick reference, not just a look through all kinds of books and whatnot to find what you need.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: So that's what we did here.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: We have compiled about 652 vehicles of different 40 makes and that is the passenger vehicles that are electric, hybrid, natural gas, fuel cell, just to name a few.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: And then there may be hydrogen I believe it's another alternate fuel in there.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: So you'll see all those thrown in there together not thrown in, but kind of you know.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Whenever they come up under the vehicles, they are explained and put them in there.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: So the 650 vehicles are the different vehicles that we have.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Passenger vehicles, we made a call for the Amazon vehicles.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: Since that's going to be light duty telling little, last model of every grant we put them in as well in the light duty category.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: And then we also have heavy duty, which definitely for the types of vehicle in the heavy duty it has electric, hybrid, pure electric, hydrogen and fresh natural gas for the heavy truck.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: How many categories is it for heavy trucks?
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: How many different entries are there?
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Around 70 right now, but that one is one in progress, so we're adding more things, but certainly we have 71.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that is one thing.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: We're working on this app constantly.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: One other thing I'd just like to correct you on just real quick, and you're doing a good job.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: We actually started at the beginning of summer and we thought we'd be finished by the end of summer, but it's this thing is I don't want to say drug on, but we've put a lot of effort and time and energy and this would not be possible without you leading the charge, getting everybody helping.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: You can, and definitely Jake as well, and we need to give him an introduced here in a second.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: But I just wanted to make thank you publicly, because without everything you've done with us, it wouldn't be happening.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Let me let you go back and tell us about it.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Tell us Heavy trucks.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: How many of those did you say there were?
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: 71 currently yeah we're still adding to that.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: What do we think?
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: We're going to have a little bit over a hundred at this point.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Probably.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: That will probably be a good number that we're looking at right now.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: That's available.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: That also includes buses.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Maybe you could use city buses, I guess in columns, and then delivery trucks are going to place.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: That's going to be with the first or the passenger vehicle, I guess.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Well, probably the point.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: We got to take a quick break.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Get the listeners to hang around.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back because we've got a lot more to share with you about this great new tool for the towing industry.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Hang around, We'll be right back.
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• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Welcome back listeners.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: You're listening to the American Towing Recovery Institute podcast.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: This is a special podcast introducing a new system that every one of us in the industry definitely need to learn more about.
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• 17:34
  Speaker 1: So, wes, I'll pass it over to you so you can send it right back to Kim Holcomb and her assistant, jake.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Thanks, dj Kim.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Tell the listeners what the correct information about where they can find those delivery van vehicles for me, please.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: The delivery van will be found under the heavy duty.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, great, I thought so.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Thanks for correcting that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Basically, folks, one of the things we're trying to say to you is, you know, we're trying to say to you is respect all the different factory information we can for towing, fire, fighter information, submersion, and, kim, tell us about all the different categories.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: We'll introduce you, both of you, and tell us about all the different categories that are available for information.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I think we need to mention how we came up with that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Did we mention that clever has the actual?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: It actually means something.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we actually talked about that.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Clever stands for comprehensive list of electric vehicles.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Emergency response.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: So basically what that is is we've taken any information we can find from the manufacturers for any of the different categories.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: That would have taken fire fighters, rescue personnel and the only operators salvage, salvage, recycling, dismantlers.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I guess they're all the same thing, aren't they, dj?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, they're body chops as well.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: So introduce Jake and both of you all tell us about what's in the app.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Jake, my assistant's been helping for just over a year now almost an hour.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: There now has been an essential part of all the research and putting in the data and pulling it up.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: So anyway, Jake, introduce yourself.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, everybody, like Kim said, I've been working here for a little bit over a year, been helping out with websites, anything that Kim does, which can kind of cover pretty much everything, and most recently we've been working on this app.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: And I guess that kind of leads us into going over some of these categories of information that we have.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: So in each of these emergency response guides that we get from the manufacturer, they have different sections of information, and what we've done with this app is that we have pulled that information out to make it easier for you to access on the side of the road, so you don't have to scroll through or search through page after page after page.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: You can just go right to what you need.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: We've got approximately 23 categories of information for each of these vehicles and we start off with the image of the vehicle that's got the year to make the model.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: We've got a category on identification that is going to tell you how to figure out what kind of vehicle you're dealing with.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: It's got information about symbols on the outside of the vehicle that say hybrid or EV.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: It even has information on how to tell what kind of vehicle you have from the VIN number.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: So it'll be like a string of numbers in the middle of the VIN number that will tell you like okay, this is a hybrid or this is an electric vehicle.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: We've got information on immobilization, so how to tell if the vehicle is running, especially because with electric vehicles, a lot of times there's no noise to indicate that there's the engine's running.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: So how to turn that off, how to put it in park, and then we've got information.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: The category is called Disable Direct, but that's going to be telling you how to cut the 12-volt battery so you kind of like separate that power out.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: You don't have to worry about things being electrical.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: You know you can make sure you're safe before you start messing with things.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: So, kim, if you want to start talking about some of these categories, that may be more interesting to fire personnel.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, we have.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: We focused a section around fire personnel, not so much section that's just for them, but they would probably find most useful in their job out there in assisting with these vehicles.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: We have a section called access to occupants and that basically is just allowing them a little instruction from the manufacturer on how to remove seat belts, airbags and then how to cut the frame without putting any wires, which leads to the cut zone area, that is, specific diagrams provided for a guide as well.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: So it just gives you pretty much the instruction manual or just a layout there on what to cut and what not to cut.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Also, obviously, fire extinguishing suggestions, and many times I believe that's where we go right into water submersions, which is a category that we have, and in that it goes into a little bit further in the suggested time and possibly the type of water to use, because with these fires they can reignite, we know that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: And then also the disabled or direct.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: That is also going to help guide them to disabling the high voltage system and or cut the battery if that's needed by them.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So basically that's the gist of what the fire personnel would do, not to say they won't need any of the other options, but probably IDN the vehicles and stuff like that as well.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Some of the vehicles do have some kind of indication on the outside of the vehicle, be it the back, front or front fender or something around that, but sometimes they do not.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I've seen a few of the models on here that do not show those indicators and there are places that they show us how to find them, some of it being under the hood and sometimes it is inside the door jam or whatnot.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: So in addition to the fire personnel, we also have towing personnel and in that section we have included towing suggestions from the manufacturer, normally suggested on the bed of the carrier or flatbed.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: But it also shows us lifting points so that this important areas of the body that we don't put hooks or components in, that's going to damage the battery because it is located underneath the vehicle.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: So they also want to provide us the information on how to secure the vehicle on the bed of the truck, which kind of gets goes together on that.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: So with towing suggestion they've thrown in the weight of the vehicle so we have that access which gives us the weight of the vehicle with no occupants in it, so that you can gauge how much the vehicle weighs, if needed as well, also have storing the vehicle when it is taken back to the towing or storage lot.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: You've got them all.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I think that we plan on doing as an organization is keep updating this.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: One thing Kim can take will be a big part of Also some of the points the manufacturers don't have information that they add.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: So I plan on challenging some of that stuff personally and also, if any of you all report to us that are using the app, the information the manufacturer is giving is not practical, doesn't work in all of those situations.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: In fact, I've seen over the years sometimes the right to manufacturers give doesn't work in any situations.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I plan on personally working with several towing operators around the country.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: We're going to challenge some of that stuff and try to get the best information possible for the towing industry.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: We are up against a hard break so I got to ask everybody to hang around for a second.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back after the break.
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  Speaker 4: Our representatives are knowledgeable in the towing industry, so for the best towing equipment and supplies, count on the team at towing equipment direct.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Browse our catalog online at towingequipmentdirectcom or give us a call at 910747-9000.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: We look forward to serving you.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Information in this podcast is made possible by generous sponsorship from Henry's Record, serving the community with quality towing and recovery for over 40 years.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Henry'srecordcom Welcome back listeners.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: It's a pleasure and I want to thank each and every one of you for making this the most listened to podcast in the towing and recovery industry.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: You're listening to the American Towing Recovery Institute podcast with Wes Wilbur and DJ Harrington and today's special guest, Kim Holcomb and Jake from the podcast center.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: We've got Chuck Kamp on here also.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Remember to like, review and share everywhere.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: If you have more questions.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: You want to ask the number at American Towing Recovery Institute is 910747-9000, or just go to wwwamtowricom.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Ororg.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: All right, wes, I'm going to hand it back over to you.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I know our listeners are out there saying how do I get on the site?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, the site to go directly to this uh eeveeclever is eevee-clevercom.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: You do have to use www Idon'tknowwhy, wwweeveeclevercom.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: So couple things here and I'm kicking back to you.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Tim, I humbly like to thank our sponsors.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: In particular, I'd like to thank um Henry's Rector Service, purpose Petruck Sales in St Louis to our platform level sponsors.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Very well, the supporters of us.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Without their funding and financing, a whole big part of this project would not have happened.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I also want to thank All American Out of Texas, their mid-level sponsors as well.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: We appreciate the support and the uh that helped make this thing happen.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I encourage all my listeners if you like this product, consider joining us as a member to help fund this thing, because I'm going to have at least the staff of these two and we want to get some more staff because we're constantly going to be updating this, we're going to constantly be looking, adding to it, et cetera.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I ask everybody to help me support that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Now, this thing's going to have a cost and yes, it's a monthly cost.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: It's the only way I can make it work on paper, have a staff working on updating it, et cetera.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: And let me also say this this is going to be the last uh after this.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: This was going to make it the American Tone Recovery Institute.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: We got several more Once we get this concrete, which is going to be a minute, kim.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I know Kim's breathing heavy right now, but I know it's going to be a minute.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: But we're going to move on to other stuff past this.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: So I'm just telling you we're not a one-trick pony.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: We constantly reinvented ourselves since we opened to help the towing operator on the street, and that's what we're going to continue to do.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: This app, the retail price, is going to be $10 per month.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: If you buy it a year at a time, it'll be $60.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: There's several different discount codes.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: If you're a member, you get one for free, and the rest that you buy is 50% off.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Membership starts at $275 a year.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Just for listing today, just for giving us this valuable time of year, we're going to give you a discount.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: If you want to tie it down, kim, what's the discount code and what is the discount level for the podcast?
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: A discount level for our podcast listeners is 20% off.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: That's both monthly or yearly subscriptions and the coupon code for that it must be in all caps Podcast to zero, no spaces.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: So that's podcast C-O-D-C-A-S-T to zero and that'll give you 20% off If you come to a class, whether it's light duty, heavy duty or fire tow or cross training in each one of those we cover a segment on electric vehicles Never have had a class where you had to buy something to learn in class.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: If you attend a class, pay the tuition as a student to attend one of our two-day hands-on classes, we will give you the app right there at that morning in class.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: You have to do it right then and there it's a 10-minute offer.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: We don't want you to have to buy something to learn something.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: So we were going to give you a free sample copy of it to use at the class and beyond.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: So that's how we're going to handle that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: So I encourage the industry.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: This is a great tool.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: I encourage you to try it.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: We've worked very diligently.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: We've had a group of testers cleaning up all the bugs and bites, but this will be in a very first version of it, cam.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: What else do you want to tell us about it?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I think that we just want to let everyone know that, in order to download this app, you can go to the website Wes mentioned, or you can also go to our website and there will be a quick click on there to get you straight to it, which is amtowriorg or amtowricom.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Either way, it'll get you there.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: We have some updates coming up.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Projects are going to be added to that.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: That would include charging stations, locations, general news information section that will feature lots of articles, etc.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: And also on the app.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we mentioned it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Each individual vehicle also has the full manual on there, so you can flip through the 30 to 50 page information as well.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: But we just made it easy so that everything's working and we are proud of what we've gotten so far.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: So it is going to be a major thing that we continue to grow.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, getting quoting words from you, please.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the app is just going to keep getting better and better the more we put work into this.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Make an app in just a few months is a pretty big feat on its own.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: So as time goes on, as we get more feedback from people, we're just going to keep making it better.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: We're going to add new features, so it's definitely something to keep your eye out on.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Try it out, see if you like it, tell people about it and keep supporting us so we can make it better.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you, jack.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: I appreciate all your hard work and effort.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Kim who else Okay?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Leslie, cody who else April?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: April.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm also assisting them, yeah, and we'll continue to.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Leslie and Cody well, we want to thank everybody for their efforts.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: We want to thank our listeners for believing in us supporting us.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: You have been listening to American Dome Recovery Institute Podcasts.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Today's special guest is April Wilburne, dj Harrington and I want to remind all of you, by all means, if you want to have an industry expert on the podcast with Wes and I in the future, just dial our hotline number 706-409-5603, and we'll be more than happy to help.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I feel a little bit April.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I feel a little bit about this episode, this podcast.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I feel a little bit like Barney Spite, you know, when he says to Andy Griffin on the Mayberry show, he goes we got big news, andy, we got big news.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Big news.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: That's what I feel like.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: This is big news.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: So I hope all of our listeners, now that they've listened to Kim and Jake, do me a favor.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Where can they find this happen?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: How really easy is it?
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: This is very, very easy.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: If you go to our website and I'll give you the website address it pops out.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: You have to click it off if you don't want to look at it.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just like one of those old fashioned pop-up cards.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: And we also have a website dedicated to this app too.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: But our website wwwamtowricom another way to find us wwwamtoriorg that's our website.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: That's where you can look us up for any other information that you want to find too.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: That app is on there.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: You can click it.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: It goes right to where you need to log in for it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: You can find it on your desktop, your iPad, download it on your phone, and then we actually have a website dedicated to it, and you got to do the wwwand that's where it won't work.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Wwwev-clevercom wwwev-clevercom.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: And Cleveris felt E-L-E-V-E-R.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, so we're excited about it.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: It's been a labor of I want to say love, mostly some love, but it's been a huge learning curve with us, and more than anybody but also Jake and everybody else has put their heart and their tears and their frustrations and their happiness in this thing, and then soon we'll be announcing that it's on Apple and Google, but that's a whole other thing that we've got to overcome as far as like all the approvals and all the things with them.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: But right now you can't get it just on your phone through those three different ways that we just talked about.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm going to tell our listeners before we end this podcast.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: If you have any questions, just dial 910-747-9000.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: And Tim and Jake and the team there at the American Dome Recovery Institute will be more than happy to walk you through it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're really there as a team to help you, but right now, just go to amdowricom ororg and you get that information.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apple, this is great news and I do feel like Barney Fife, this is going to help the industry.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that has been our goal the whole entire time.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: You got it Well.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Until next time, april, I'm going to have to tell Wess you did a great job filming in the beginning and ending of this podcast that we had done with Wess, tim Hockam and Jake earlier.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: So, listeners, we wish you a very best for Thanksgiving and we'll go from there and thank you for making this the most listened to podcast in the Tony recovery industry.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: So next time we'll see you then.