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The Future of Towing: Innovators, Leaders, and Game-Changers · Towing News Now

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the American Toe and Recovery Institute podcast.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Remember, this is your podcast, as I say each and every week to promote safety, education, positive public relations and networking within the professional and business minded Toe and Recovery industry.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: I love saying this introduction.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: I'm your co-host, dj Harrington, better known as the Toe Doctor, and I'm honored, as always, to have one of the best guys in the industry, a 40 year industry veteran in the towing industry, a dear friend who is the head of the American Toe and Recovery Institute, has done over 915 classes in counting and I want you to know that I'm proud to call him a dear friend, a dear friend, wes Wilbur DJ.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you for your kind words, your kind introduction.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate it.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: You're too kind, happy to be here today.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: As we're recording this, I'm getting ready to leave tomorrow for Detroit, as people will be listening to it.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: The Detroit class will be done.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: We're excited.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: We didn't have wonderful attendance, we're just challenging.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: It seems like not much of the industry wants to invest in a light or medium duty operator nowadays, but we stuck with it and we ended up.
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: We have 16 students attending the class this weekend.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we get a walk in or two.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: You know 20, 22 is a real good number for a lot of reasons.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: So we're excited.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: We're going there.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: They say the strike, there's been some resolution to the strike.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: I have to believe that's factored into things a little bit.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: But we're excited to be going to Michigan.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: We're working with the Michigan Towing Association, the oldest tolling association in the United States.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Bill Byers is the host, great guy, friend of the Institute, he definitely works hard on behalf of the industry.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: So we're excited.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that whole state association Michigan is just.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: They're wonderful people.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: And I agree with you, I could be president of the Bill Byers fan club because not only is he a great person, he's in the Hall of Fame, he's just a gifted, gifted guy who really believes in the industry and wants to just do anything just to help it.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: So he's got my vote.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Buddy.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right about him.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: He's involved in a state association.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: He's involved as a national association.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: He works with different training organizations, including myself, to help bring education.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: He's one of those people that is there at the beginning of something.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: He's there at the end of something.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: Help him clean up and put up the chairs at the end.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: He's a true friend of the industry and a good guy too.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: He's a wonderful human being, wonderful, and Rochester, michigan, it's a beautiful place.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: It really is.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've only been there one time, but it is a nice area and we've got the local fire department we're doing the class at, so that's nice.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, we're excited to be, you know, as I say, people listening.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: This class is over with, but as I'm recording it, we're getting ready to leave.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Got an early morning flight up there, going to get up there and get everything ready.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, things are good, we're excited about that.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: Well, my friends, I am with you.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a great podcast.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Just, you got to recognize a lot of people on this one buddy, yeah.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: And then the week we got three busy weeks in a row DJ and we get after Detroit.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: We do Detroit on Saturday, sunday, then the following Friday we're in Lexi, lexi, kansas, which is a suburb of Kansas City, for one day light duty November 3rd.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: We also have on the 4th and 5th a two day heavy duty rotator and I'm happy to announce that class is sold out.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: We try to live the class size to about 40 students and we're right there at 40, and that way we can only get outside to do hands on.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: We can break up into two groups of 20.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: It's a manageable class that way and we like the students to be able to get hands on.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: This is not just a demonstration that we do Right.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: So yeah we're blown away.
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: We got Santa Fe as the host.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: Their founding members of the Institute have always believed in me and helped me and I can't thank them enough for everything they're doing.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: And, like I said, we're sold out for the heavy.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: Holy moly, that's excellent.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're really blessed and empowered for this have you had any special people helping you on the 3rd and 4th and that kind of stuff or what.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, thanks, I should acknowledge everybody.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: The Detroit Nick Muzzi, an operator that's taken an interest in the program, is helping me sell him.
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: He's out of Northern New Jersey.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: It works for Tamina's telling up there.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Nick's helping me this weekend in Detroit, then the following weekend in Kansas.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: I have JT Reesner, who's an operator that I've known since he was like 10 or 12 years old, came to a class of the 90s as a young man and I've watched him grow up and mature into a very good operator.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: He's with the A&A Cardinal Telling Group.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: He's an operator that I've known.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: He's helped me before, so he's stepping up to help with the hands on and that I'm very pleased to announce.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: We got Brian Riker myBOTGuycom.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: We got Brian coming in to help me with not only the IAT duty but the heavy duty as well, so to be some extra builders there.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: Brian is a great operator, great teacher, really focuses on the DOT side of things and JT is a great hands-on operator.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: He's one of those guys just when he's taking a class as a student before he's emerged with being a leader without being too pushy, which is very hard to do in a class sometimes and he's just got a natural gift to help talk to people and he's one of the things I've had in many, many classes over the years.
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: And one of the reasons I like working with him is, even if he's just there as a student before, he's been helping me.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: He's real good at saying, hey, what we talked about in the classroom was this, let's try to do that here.
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: So he's real, real good at helping bring the lesson together.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: And Brian Riker I think his reputation speaks for himself.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: He's excellent at sharing information.
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: You know Alan answers.
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: You know he's the guy.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: I go to.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: If somebody asked me a DOT type question, I love working with different instructors as they bring their own field of expertise to the program.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to tell all our listeners and we need to bring Brian back onto a podcast after he does this.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: You know that.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: I want to tell all our listeners.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: Jt is going to get a lot out of the class.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: I'm being with Brian Riker and you.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: But Brian Riker, I sat in an audience one day and people in the hallway kept calling him the Rain man because he is amazing.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: He is just like you said, wes, the DOTcom guy because he is.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: He is that knowledgeable, he knows every state rule, regulation and then all of a sudden, he has the ability Guy has given him the ability to explain it on any level and he is very.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: The three of you will be phenomenal.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's the reason why you have so many people coming.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: Many of them know anything.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: You know of the extras, but, yeah, maybe the word has gotten out on the street.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: I think a piece of it is Santa Fe is the first class telecom company.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of times when people see a name like that attached to a class.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: That automatically helps lend some credibility, whether they know of the course or not.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: So gotcha and Kansas, the Kansas and the whole Midwest Iowa, missouri, they've all been wonderful to me over the years.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: Indiana, illinois, been wonderful to me over the years.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: Many, many friends and students have come out of those states and I can't tell you how pushin' I am Well we got some more training we're going to be doing close to home, but I want to tell you about that right after the break.
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: If I could DJ, you got it, buddy.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: Let's take a fast break, folks, and we'll be back with Wes Wilbur, take care, we'll be right back.
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• 10:01
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• 10:07
  Speaker 1: You have been listening to the American Tone Recovery Institute Podcast with Wes Wilbur and DJ Harrington and the great weeks ahead, each and every week, we do our best to bring you informative episodes like this one.
• 10:21
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• 10:23
  Speaker 1: We're available on Spotify, itunes, pandora, google Play, stitcher, iheartmeetgap, amazon or wherever you get your podcast.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: And Wes, I'm going to tell our listeners you guys know your business and Wes Wilbur, he grows your business.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: How's that quote that bless you, dj.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: But, that is true because everything we do is trying to help the towing companies be better.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: You know, really what we try to focus on with the gold mission is to help the operator.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: I feel like if we could help the operators rise up to have a better proficiency, a better safety margin, that we're helping everybody in the industry from the bottom up.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: You got it.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: I thought of that saying on the way back from the Ohio Tone Show.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: I listened to you talk to Toers not on a podcast, now, we did podcast up there but I listened to you in the hallway at dinner and a tone would come up ask you maybe a two or three minute question.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: You give them the answer and they say Wes thanks again and walk away.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: And I kept saying to myself you know, these people know the business.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Wes Wilbur helps you grow your business and you really are that gifted of a guy.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: So thank you, dj.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: I really do.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad all of these podcasters you know are archived so that a person can go back and listen to some of the people you've had on the podcast, because you've had some wonderful people.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: So, without further ado, you go ahead and tell us about the rest of the week.
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: I do want to add to your comments.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: We are thankful for all the guests we've had on the podcast.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: Couldn't have done any of this without them.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: And of course, the listeners were almost up to 13,000 listeners now, and I tell you that humbles me to no end.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: And that's 13,000 subscribers.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: So there's probably a few more listeners than that.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: So I'm very, very thankful to everybody listening to this podcast and that helps support the Institute with what we're doing.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: So we've been focusing a lot on electric vehicle training, you know.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: I haven't been able to do a class for a couple of years without people wanting information on that.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: We're doing some exciting things and our next podcast we're going to have a huge announcement about what we've done with electric vehicles to make the life of every teller out there a little easier Not only teller, firefighters, etc.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: We're very blessed we got it the third weekend.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: I got three weekends coming up in a row.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: That first one, you know, is in Detroit.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Again, by the time you listen to this, I'll be back from Detroit.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: The following weekend.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: That November 3rd, 4th and 5th we're in Kansas City and then the following weekend we're in Washington, north Carolina, which is northeastern North Carolina, just a little bit east of Raleigh, probably an hour and a half out of Raleigh.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: We've got a great family there, willard's Automotive third generation.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: They've been wonderful hosts and we're bringing a firetower cross-training class with the great Ron Moore.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Ron Moore is the firefighter that I've been working with for about two decades and Ron and me have worked on the course for electric vehicle training firefighters and we know it's how to deal with them.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: And then also we moved from that into cross-training following NFPA standards for vehicle entrapments, with people trapped in passenger cars, with heavy trucks on top of them.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Again, it's finally an NFPA standard and it's a great course.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: Now this course is going to be a little something extra special.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Patix Recreation Service in Westfield, indiana, who is a great supporter of the program, has been supporting me and my educational efforts for three decades now.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Jeff Ripley, the owner, has donated to our organization a REC light model, tesla Model Y, the vehicle's REC.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: It's been sitting for quite a while.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: He's donated to us for these cross-training classes and what we're doing is I'm getting the vehicle transported from Westfield Indiana back to North Carolina for this class and we're going to me and Ron are going to make a static display out of this.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: So I'll have this car for more than one class.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: You know, we kind of had two choices.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: We could cut up the car at that class and all the students could get a great class, but that would be one school for one car, and then I don't think they're going to be super easy to come by.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: As a side note, if any tellers end up with a luxury vehicle and don't have a home for it or are willing to make a donation, please reach out to me.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: We want to create this type of scenario all over the country.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: And.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: DJI talked about it.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: One of my goals in my final act here is to try to bring firefighters and toers together.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: And I say my final act.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: I'm going to still do training for several years.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: The reality is, with Parkinson's affecting me, with age affecting me, I'm slowing down some.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I want my focus, my trust of my last few years of doing this to be trying to bring firefighters and toers closer together.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: One of the best ways I've found to do that is just get them together.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: By getting them together in a two-day class, everybody gets to experience, everybody gets to hear.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: The other side of the coin gets a little bit better understanding of everybody.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: So that's one of the things I'm working very diligently on is trying to bring firefighters and toers together.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Now, if there's a benefit comes from this, I probably won't see it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: If there's a benefit, we're probably going to see 10 or 20 years down the road.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: But in almost any state the Fire Department could take over a scene in the name of safety.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: A lot of political BS that comes with that, with you know your favoritism the satin, the other but let's face it, towing companies are just like restaurants.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Some operate like a fast food stand, excuse me.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Some operate like a fine steakhouse.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Some operate like a roach coach delivering wrapped up sandwiches on a construction site.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: So, with that being said, I'm just trying, I'm hoping this is a way that premier towing companies, professionally minded towing companies, let me word it like that are able to elevate themselves to a different level.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: And you know I really should have started talking about this point.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: One of the main reasons I'm trying to bring firefighters and colors together is for the good of the community.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And many times a towing company can be a resource to rescue personnel, firefighters on the scene of a vehicle and trap them.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: And you know it doesn't necessarily need to be a vehicle.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I know construction companies that have brought air cushions out on a wall section.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Collapse is at a construction site, but many times that the weight to be moved off the victim is something that is challenging for the fire department, if they can even accomplish it, and if they can accomplish it about a time is consumed, so I want to.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: so the NFPA National Fire Protection Association over two decades ago identified this and identified that towing companies are firefighters who meet and train in a non-emergency scenario.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: So they ever have that emergency scenario, they have a better understanding.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: That's what we're working on hard is to bring those folks together.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: So I see we're up against a hard break, so we're taking a quick break and I'm going to tell you what we're doing with this Tesla.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Hang around, we'll be right back.
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• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, folks and thank you so much for passing on our name.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You're listening to the American Tone Recovery Institute Podcast with Wes Wilbur and DJ Harrington and before I pass it back over to Wes, I want to tell all of our listeners you want to learn more about the November 11th and 12th with Ron Moore and Cross Training with the fire department.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Go to wwwamtowicom ororg For you guys that want to just pick up a phone, dial 9107479000 and just ask information about November 11th and 12th and how you could get participating in this world-class training that with Ron Moore.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You tell the fire fighter, ron Moore is going to be the presenter, along with Wes Wilbur, and they come flying in.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So those are people you want to go into and there's a close airport it's easy to get to and Wes will tell you more.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Wes, I'll turn it back over to you.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, before I turn it over to Wes, I want to tell all of you I went to a Cross Training and I have to tell you this.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: The fire department said I want to show you the reason why we're working with our local powers.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And they put an artificial person in a vehicle a dummy and he's in the vehicle and the steering wheel was backed up on him.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: It was terrible.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: They did everything they could and after 25, 30 minutes the head of the fire department training guy said okay, now we all know this has been 30 minutes.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to step back and I'm going to show you what.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: If we worked with the towing industry, how fast we could have got that man out, and it's all about keeping him stable till we get him to the table.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: It's the golden hour rule of getting him out of that car to a hospital to be operated on.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: He turned it over to the towing people with his assistance and within 14 minutes that same dummy that was trapped was untrapped by working together.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: So what Wes just told you in the last segment was exactly right we need to work together, fire and emergency towing working together.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: It's almost like that Reese's peanut cup the peanut butter and chocolate back together and all of a sudden now we have this victim to the hospital in a much shorter period of time and save people's lives.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: All right, wes, let me turn it over to you.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: That's right, dj.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: The nut child is absolutely right.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And people come considering this an ally, considering this training, considering wanting to do this at home.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: If you can't be a member of a team, don't even consider it, because the fire department doesn't turn it over to the towing company.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: The fire department works with the towing company.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: At that point you become a tool of them.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Now, that doesn't mean they tell you how to do your job.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Everybody gets an agreeance on that.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: But there has to be an understanding and there has to be a relationship where you can work with them, not instead of them, but I think most of the people that come to the class like this already got that figured out.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And a great way to give back to your community to help.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: What we're going to do special with is Tesla Model Y.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: That's generously donated by Patix reference service out of Westfield Indiana.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I got a group of towers that are going to help me try to get it back to North Carolina over the next few weeks.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: John Hawkins senior now don't confuse that with John Hawkins III that works for him.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I screwed that up.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: John Hawkins Jr I'm going to talk about don't confuse that with John Hawkins III that has been with Miller Industries for centuries, for years.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: His father I'm going to read it out.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: In the late 1970s he got involved in the towing industry a little bit.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: He was a lawyer and one of the things he said was you folks need a towing association.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So at that point, as I understand it, there are only two associations in the country, you know, statewide associations.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: One of them was Massachusetts, one of them was Michigan, and both of those were kind of the reason there was an association because they were dealing with rate structures.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: You know regulated states.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: They were dealing with a regulation board who created themselves associations to do that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: So up until that point in the late 70s, the world we want many associations in the country.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: John Hawkins helped start the Towing and Recruiting Association of America and again, this is John Hawkins Jr, the father of the gentleman you might know.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: John Hawkins Jr has probably been dead for 20 years now, but he started the Towing and Recruiting Association.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I don't have time to name the 15 or 20 different state associations that he started.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Basically almost any other state association he helped that started in the late 70s, early 80s.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: He helped get going.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: He also started the Friends of Towing which later morphed into the Museum and the Hall of Fame.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the first person to coin the phrase the Towing industry.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: So John will talk about one of the many, many reasons to be involved with associations as a networking.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: He talked about it with a group of friends.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I think it was six or seven friends.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: You might have to help me on this a little bit, but six or seven friends you get anything accomplished in the world.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I know that's been true many times where I've had somebody call me needing help in, let's say, the corner of Louisiana.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: They call me because they're from Kansas.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: They don't know anybody down there.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Got a truck broke down, got a customer broke down, a family member, whatever.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I normally can't get them help immediately.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: But what happens is I'll call a contact in Louisiana, like I might call Jared Vonnardo, someone I'm close with that works with the association down there.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: You might say, well, boy, that's a long way for me, but here's a phone number of someone that's closer to that.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: If that phone number called them, they say, well, yeah, but here's somebody that's right, closer.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: By the time you get to three, four or five phone calls, you generally get right to someone that can solve your problem.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm using that theory to get this vehicle back to our state.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: We got Patrick's going to take it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: He's told me a little bit.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I got some towers in Ohio.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Jeff Shafer is helping lead that group up with the Towinger Retail Reassociation of Ohio.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Tell me to get across Ohio.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Talk to Chris Reed in West Virginia.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I love that guy.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I call him up.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: He's on the scene of a wreck.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I tell him I called.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I said no, I got a minute.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I tell him what I got.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: He said, yeah, you tell him to get it anywhere near Ohio and I'll get it to Virginia for you.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: We're working on those details now to get it across to Ohio, get it to him.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: He's going to network with different towers in his state to get it into Virginia From Virginia.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I got Shane Spaulding with Fatwood.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: He's going to get it down into North Carolina.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: We're working on getting it across the state of North Carolina.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: A couple of people at Willing Help.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I got a couple of holds in North Carolina.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure that out right now.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Of course, we're going to make a big production of this, make it a social media event, et cetera.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: We're going to get that car there to that class.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: We're going to make it a status display and have it for other classes.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about that.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I really think that's a big part of our future.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Like I said at the beginning of the podcast, make sure you listen.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Next week as a matter of fact, it might not even be a week we are so close to making a huge announcement, something we're doing, that we take will help better the industry.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: That will be in the next podcast.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Again, I don't know if it will be next week or it might even be a special.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: That is just a couple of days away from dropping.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: We haven't been here asleep.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: We've been doing a lot of stuff this summer.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: We're excited about what's going on with us and I can't wait to see what the future holds.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask all my listeners to keep in touch with us.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned for a huge announcement.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody for helping get this Tesla across the country for me and BJ.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: We're just excited we're ready to get on the plane tomorrow for Detroit.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Well, buddy, this has been a good one.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Before we end, I want to remind everybody the phone number to learn more about November 11th and 12th across training with the fire department and yourself, ron Moore and Wes Wilburn together Gustav 910-747-900.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And just ask or go online to wwwamtowricom.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And, buddy, the seven degrees of separation is exactly what you're doing with that vehicle that Paddocks were so kind enough to offer to the Institute, and it's just friends in the industry helping friends, which is, I think, just what it's all about.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Absolutely is Now, bj.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I hate to do it, but I got to cut you a little bit short.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I got about eight hours of work to do in the next four hours.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take off a little bit this evening.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Wesley's involved with the play, so I'm going to go to witness the opening night tonight.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to sit at and I'm on a 6.30 am flight out of here in the morning.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: So take the credit score.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But I got to cut it short today.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Please be listening for either a special podcast or next week's episode, because we've got a huge announcement, an announcement today, but just a couple little things.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: A couple little keys need to be crossed and I've got it.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: But we've been working on this project all summer Thanks to Towri Industries.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Firefighters, et cetera are going to love it and I'll be excited in the next podcast.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you now.