That’s Delivered Podcast
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That’s Delivered Podcast
Trucking Ray and Matty G explore the wild world of modern trucking culture
Buckle up as Trucking Ray and Matty G return for a packed episode of That's Delivered, diving deep into the ongoing debate between traditional trucking values and modern advancements. After a short break, the duo reunites to explore the evolving landscape of trucking, from shifting industry norms to viral moments sparking heated discussions. This episode unpacks a viral video about manual vs. automatic transmissions, a shocking hit-and-run case in West Virginia, and the latest in trucking innovation—including Volvo’s cutting-edge VNR truck. Alongside serious discussions, the hosts keep things engaging with heartwarming stories and industry insights that highlight both the challenges and triumphs of life on the road.
Key Takeaways from the Episode:
✅ Old School vs. New Tech Debate – The hosts analyze a viral video where a veteran trucker claims "real drivers" should only use manual transmissions and drive anywhere. Ray and Matty explore how the industry is evolving with automatic transmissions to attract new talent while still respecting traditional skills.
✅ West Virginia Hit-and-Run Incident – A disturbing case of a trucker allegedly fleeing after causing a crash that sent a car into a frozen lake sparks a conversation about ethics, responsibility, and the weight truck drivers carry on the road.
✅ A Special First-Time Experience – A heartwarming story of a trucker letting his nephew take the wheel of a Peterbilt 389, highlighting the deep connections and pride within trucking families.
✅ Industry Innovation – A look at Volvo’s VNR truck, a game-changer in regional hauling, showcasing how technology is shaping the future of trucking.
✅ More Than Just Trucking – The episode also touches on industry economics, pop culture moments connected to transportation, and why trucking is more than just a job—it’s a way of life.
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All right, welcome back to another episode of that's Delivered. I'm your host, Truckin' Ray, and you're joined with me. My co-host, the one and only Manny G G y'all. Yeah, baby, we got a packed show. Today we're going to be bringing you the latest trucking news and some of the wild stories from pop culture, From trucking going viral, old school philosophy and a crazy lawsuit involving a semi-truck that's in a frozen lake. We got Dakara involved there. Plus, take a look at Serena Williams stepping into the WNBA ownership. We've got a lot here, so buckle up and let's hit the road.
Speaker 1:Let's go what up?
Speaker 2:what up? Let's see I'll get you put in here. Got you here, maddie g, in the place to be how you doing today, my man I'm doing well.
Speaker 3:I'm doing well. How about you?
Speaker 2:pretty good. Yeah, I'm doing pretty good. So, hey man, I just uh wanted to touch on some things. We haven't been on the show in a while. I wanted to see what those uh see if we can do this again. Put out some good, some good uh trucking news, or some good updates on what's going on out there in the world. You know, trying to figure out what is going on in the world. So first we're just going to check out this viral video. It's been hitting the news here, trucker. He's saying that if you can't go anywhere or you won't go anywhere, you ain't a driver. That's kind of an old school mentality and it caught the attention of quite a few people. Let's see here. I think I got it. I could share it here.
Speaker 5:In America. You don't go with the truck, I'll go anywhere. So there ain't no place. Honest truth, dude. Even the five boroughs, I'll go to five boroughs. I go to bronx, I'll go to queen brooklyn, don't make a difference to me, yeah they ain't gonna run me out, I ain't scared. What about california? I'll go anywhere. I've been in every part of california, from south all the way up to the north end, so yeah, california, I'll go anywhere. You ain't going there with this glider, though. Well, no, not with a, not with a glider.
Speaker 6:I would go.
Speaker 5:if we had to, I would go. I'd slip in one of something that's got DEF in it to go to. California. Real driver man. What do you got to say to all the guys that are picky about where they run? They ain't a driver, especially these ones that got to have the automatics and that, nah, dude, you ain't driving a truck unless you're driving 13, anywhere from a 10 all the way up to a 21 speed. You ain't driving if you're driving an automatic. That's the way I look at it. I'm sorry, I'm old school.
Speaker 2:I just think what you think.
Speaker 3:He's old school, Ray.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:He's old school.
Speaker 2:A lot of people. They want the automatics, they want the cushy drive, they want the nice truck. But he likes uh, he likes it old school. He said 18 speeds are good, um, even 12s or 10s, you know.
Speaker 3:So yeah, everybody's each his own, huh yeah, I mean, I get it, but you know they're with the void trying to be filled of putting drivers in the seat. They're trying to make it more, you know, easier.
Speaker 2:Yeah so.
Speaker 3:I mean, and let's be honest, some of these kids that are driving nowadays, they can barely keep their eyes on the road. So if you could eliminate the shifter in the car, in the truck, I mean, it's probably a little better for everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, less stuff to think about.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean I don't know. I like shifting every once in a while, but we do a lot of city driving too, though, so I think that makes a difference yeah, that does.
Speaker 2:It makes a lot easier when you're looking out for people and trying to figure out what uh, you know what's going on out here, because some folks just want to jump in the way.
Speaker 3:You need to be able to need to be able to stop more than accelerate well, I don't, and I don't think you should be able to just have one on your license. You should be able to jump. I agree with them on that.
Speaker 2:You should be able to jump on anything yeah, yeah, there's quite a few people that just get the a restrictions on there and they keep going and never, never, get it upgraded. You can always go back and get that upgraded. Um, it's good for the driver, it's good for companies, it's good for I think it's good for all around to be versatile.
Speaker 3:I think that would be hard to just jump out of the game. That's like um you know, anthony edwards stopping his nba career right now and changing his jump shot, or like tiger woods when he changed his his golf swing right in the middle of the his career it will slow things up, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:Let's see what else we got. Frozen car falls into the lake here. That ain't good.
Speaker 4:The other play. It's a case different. We believe that the evidence points to the fact that the truck driver not only knew that he caused this collision, but knew that Mr Latai went over the edge of the Chee Lake Bridge, that Mr Latai went over the edge of the Cheat Lake Bridge. We will never see cases like that, where someone has so unconscionably, so perilously, so callously knew that the victim of a collision had plummeted to their death and never said anything about it. That's what makes this case different and that's what makes this case a case where punitive damages ultimately come into play. Look, people make mistakes, accidents happen, collisions occur, but but it is when you try to hide, when you try to, when you try to uh, avoid responsibility that, oh my god, come into play. Because not only were you reckless in the way that you operated that truck, you were so callous that you knew, or should have known, that that Mr Ty's vehicle went over the edge of the bridge and said nothing. That's just how it is.
Speaker 3:I mean, I'm thinking you're thinking about a guy who left his car out at ice fishing on the lake a little too long. I mean the dude crashed on somebody on a bridge yeah. Oh man, he got to go to jail.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And the person died.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh man, that's terrible. Where was this at?
Speaker 2:What kind of drivers we got out there.
Speaker 3:Oh well, we know what kind of drivers we got. I don't even know if you can call them drivers. We got people out there.
Speaker 2:This was in West Virginia man, I think an accident happened at Cheat Lake in West Virginia. Les Accident happened at Cheat Lake in West Virginia. The motorist found inside a submerged car in a frozen lake on January 26th Dang it's almost seven days later. So they got a warrant out for the.
Speaker 3:Well, do they got footage to know? I mean? So how did they find the guy who did it? I don't have all that. That sounds terrible. Yeah, you let that dude drunk.
Speaker 2:I guess he got some. They got some type of evidence to tie him to it. Maybe that's what he thought he he could get away with it. But uh, they got a dash cam in there. I mean that's gonna pick up on it. Yeah, that's crazy man.
Speaker 3:Uh, see what else I got here well then you wonder what he was doing, that he actually wanted to get away, because, you know, usually people will only flee the scene of an accident if there's, if they're implicated in something greater than what is going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's terrible oh, shoot, caught on cam. Look at that mess. Oh my god, do you see that?
Speaker 3:oh yeah, that's, that's. That's minnesota driving at its finest, right there hit it right there.
Speaker 2:You can't even see that black ice. They got yoked up. Yeah, that was the ride of their life yeah, I wonder what their shorts look like.
Speaker 2:Look at that Right there. Yeah, so got to be careful out there on the road. I mean that Black Ice, it's a wild ride when you get out there. I guess that's where this dash cam shows how bad it was this was in Washington. It shows that the best way to handle black ice situations is to slow down. Um, it could be a nightmare for a trucker. Um, you know or just don't tailgate other drivers. Don't be right up on them like that. You know it's gonna be dangerous I go with the tailgating thing.
Speaker 2:That's uh, that's a problem yeah, I mean it's big up to all the uh prius prius drivers out there. What do you think about the drivers out there? Here you go with that prius drivers, put the prius on the car yeah, that prius boy, they some bad boys they should have their own racing circuit prius, prius racing I see a prius coming up on my on my left side, I said oh, oh boy, what we got here.
Speaker 3:Oh, he's a daring individual. He's a daring, individual.
Speaker 2:If it ain't the Prius, it's the minivan.
Speaker 3:Ah, what you really don't want is you don't want a Prius minivan driver. Oh they coming out With the. They come in a hybrid.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Turn it into a hybrid.
Speaker 2:Oh sure.
Speaker 3:That's what you want, right there.
Speaker 2:See if this clip stuff stuff works. So they're not just looking at my face, you know.
Speaker 3:No, it's a nice face, right, you got, you got that. You got that. You got that well-rested face yeah, I did get.
Speaker 2:I did get some sleep today. Let's see how we make it bigger.
Speaker 1:So yesterday I randomly texted him and he said okay, I don't know if this just opened up a new level of trust between me and him, but when he said okay, I started losing my because look at his thing, it's beautiful. Doesn't let anyone drive his truck. He's let my brother-in-law before, but other than that, no one else has driven his truck. So the fact that he told me yes, I was like all right, I'm running with it and I'm taking it before you change your mind. First things first. I had to feed his baby for him because he had it on each other. So nervous driving this thing, not only because it's my first time ever driving a 389, but because, like I said, it's literally my uncle's baby. I didn't lie. I felt like a bad mother and I even did a little tutu.
Speaker 2:That's pretty cool so this guy lets him take his 389 for a spin, and I put the video on there and of course you know a lot of people liked that video, the way he did it and stuff. So yeah, that was another good video for people out there truck enthusiasts, you know, those that know what a 389 is, versus some of the newer models. When you're out there on the road you're feeling pretty good about yourself. You feel like a boss on the road.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, that's some hardcore trucking right there.
Speaker 2:That's the stuff we dream about one day having our own Peterbell or Kent KW. That'd be nice, but it comes with a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean it'd be nice.
Speaker 2:The American Transportation Institute is digging into the latest cause of running a trucking operation. With fuel prices, maintenance and insurance skyrocketing, what do you think is going to be the biggest expense this year? That's a good one.
Speaker 3:I mean wait, take your choice, there'll be what.
Speaker 2:There's a constant going up and they're saying it's supposed to get better and it's like, well, I give it time and you give it time and it keeps going up. A lot of companies are preparing for a recession. They're buckling down the hatches, they're trying to get ready for who knows what. They're trying to protect their assets and their profits and their margins and all their predictions. They want to make sure that they can get close to something that will help them grow versus something that will help them not grow. You know so I mean, think about it could be a whole lot worse. You know you could be Sean Diddy Combs. You know he's another guy that was a businessman, but I don't know kind of bottom fell out for him.
Speaker 3:Dang. I don't know if you can use the word bottom fell out with this. That might. That might not be good. Someone could read into that too much yeah the bottom fell.
Speaker 6:I was at a giddy party and all of a sudden, guess what happened the bottom yeah, there you go one of the lawyers representing sean Diddy Combs in his sex trafficking case is quitting. Anthony Rico filed notice in Manhattan federal court Thursday. Writing. Under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel. Rico, one of six attorneys for the music mogul, did not offer any other details. Combs has pleaded not guilty to the charges, saying he did nothing wrong. His trial is set to begin in may he might have done diddy a favor what do you mean?
Speaker 3:I I don't know if I'd want a guy with the last name rico, I mean, he might be getting charged with a RICO act. There has to be a point when you're going through your case and you realize to yourself my lawyer is leaving. Granted, he has quite a few lawyers, he's not just a one-lawyer team, and he's making a pretty big, pretty nice penny. It's not like he has to do the jail time with him. But if your lawyer walks out on you, you got to think to yourself man, I must be screwed. This guy's walking out on me. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2:You can do things I don't want to do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that sounds like a party, or maybe he's on some video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got him.
Speaker 3:They got him on there.
Speaker 2:Prosecutor got him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, bro, we got you on there, man.
Speaker 2:Thought you was going to the house for a meetup, and then it was a different type of meetup.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we slapped you with the Diddy case. Yeah, that's pretty bad. I think he had 21 lawyers or something. 20 lawyers, yeah that's rough yeah that's rough. I wonder how much dude was making Rico Rico ain't taking no chances All right, I got another one here for you.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was that. That was Serena man. She went from, she had a tennis ball in her hand and now she's gone, you know, got the basketball in her hand, so she's done one up on Toronto, toronto Tempo.
Speaker 3:She must really got some cake.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Does she have any investors with that, or is it just her?
Speaker 2:It's not saying here, let me see it says all-time tennis great. Serena Williams purchases a share of Toronto Tempo, the new WNBA team that is set to take the floor next summer. So she and the club announced Monday that Williams, 43, is set to join an ownership group, both Kilmer Sports Ventures and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which has a portfolio that includes the NHL, maple Leaf and the NBA Raptors. You know the league has to approve it and then Williams is presumed new involvement would put her in the same Toronto basketball circles of Drake, the Canadian rapper and courtside fixture at the Rapture home games.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know they were going to say something about that. I was just waiting. It's all a thirst trap, right, it's a thirst trap.
Speaker 2:Williams reportedly once dated Drake. I didn't even know that, taking the stage with halftime performer Drake rival Kendrick Lamar, they got her dancing on the stage there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was. I just don't. I don't know. I think it's good for her to be involved in women's sports. Get some. I just don't. I didn't know that Canadian even had a women's basketball team.
Speaker 2:To be honest with you, Sounds like it's a new team.
Speaker 3:Yeah it must be, but it is the women's WNBA. Right, right, all right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a new team.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's cool. Good for her.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, that's a celebration, I wonder how Drake know.
Speaker 3:Uh, I wonder how Drake feels about that with the, with the whole kindred beef and all that stuff. That's probably going to jazz it all up again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're closing in on him, man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's a you know? You, just I would. You just got to put that much money in just to get a piece of it. It's like a Bitcoin. I don't got a whole Bitcoin, I just got like a little bit of a Bitcoin.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it's a lot of money. Oh yeah, let's see what we got here. I got another one for you. Let's see what we got here.
Speaker 7:Our president, Peter, for some closing remarks. Thank you, Magnus and ladies and gentlemen. As you can see, we continue to innovate, we continue to set new standards when it comes to fuel efficiency, when it comes to safety, when it comes to uptime, when it comes to connectivity. The versatility of this all-new VNR is a game-changer and we are committed to continually set new standards for our industry. And today, ladies and gentlemen, we're setting these standards with the all-new VNR. Own the day.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for your time and your attention, thank you.
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Speaker 4:Once again, Volvo Trucks is changing everything.
Speaker 2:I thought that was a pretty impressive one of the trucks I saw at a truck show. And man, when I got in it it just it didn't feel like a truck man, it felt like you're sitting in your house.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm sure for the price of it you could be. That was a commercial. I feel like investing after that. That was a pitch yeah, man.
Speaker 2:So you know, if you're going to matt's, you know that's going to be out last week of march uh, there's going to be quite a few people there, um, checking out the show. I'm going to be there as well, um, so yeah, 27, 28, 29th and I think also, um, it's going to be there as well. So, yeah, 27, 28, 29th and I think also it's going to be the 30th. So that weekend Is a good weekend. Go down there and check things out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's about it, man, just Trying to put it out there, get another show. Been kind of busy with the interviews, wanted to be able to just have some fun, do a fun episode and check out what's new. And trucking what's going on in the world. There's a lot of things happening, a lot of fear, but the thing is just try to stay balanced. I wouldn't be too far on one side or the other. Just try to go right down the middle, because everybody wants to buy you, everybody wants you to be on their side. So just hey, don't get caught up in the fear of it all. Just trucking is going to be here to stay. It's not going anywhere because people still need their produce, people still need their goods. So somebody's going to figure this thing out. So we just got to hang in there and get through these hard times and, I think, the better days ahead of us.
Speaker 3:Just keep the main thing, the main thing Right.
Speaker 2:Keep the main thing, the main thing, the main thing right. Keep the main thing, the main thing, mangy. As always, man, you bring a lot of excitement to the table. I appreciate you bringing on the show. I want to make sure a lot of our subscribers, if they listen to the show, go ahead and leave a review. Check us out.
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Speaker 3:Nope, let's just be careful out there in the transition of the winter to the summer, with the sand out on the road, watch out for motorcycles and let's all get home safely.
Speaker 2:That's it. That's it, man. I appreciate you. All right. Until next time, keep the rubber side down and the sunny side up. Yes, sir, all right, that's the limit baby.
