Opening And Guest Introduction

SPEAKER_01 0:22

Welcome back to That's Delivered. I'm your host, Trucking Ray, and today we got another great show for you. A podcast is all about people who keep freight moving. There are stories behind the trucking industry. And today we're talking a little bit about trucking history, a truck that a lot of drivers will recognize from the most famous trucking movies that's ever been made. Today's guest is Patrick Bruno. Patrick is a truck driver, collector, enthusiast who is also a co-owner of a screen used truck from the 1978 movie Convoy, a legendary mag truck connected with Chris Christofferson's character, the rubber duck. Patrick actually reached out after seeing this episode, Rob Mariani, who has mentioned he had worked with us in the past and he wanted to share his story and talk about the truck and some of the the plans he has moving forward. So, Patrick, welcome to the show. Yo, Patrick, what's happening over there? How you doing?

SPEAKER_00 1:14

How are you doing, buddy?

SPEAKER_01 1:15

I'm doing pretty good. Yeah, I'm so glad to have you on the show and talk about what you're doing. I mean you're doing great things. And man, you know, you and Rob, you know, you guys did a lot of great things too. Um when I talk about that uh history.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Yeah, as a fact uh I'm actually standing behind my tribute daily, which I call the money duck. And uh believe it or not, I'm uh sitting on uh at the site of our um uh uh every year we do a show called The Lights in the Park. And uh I'm parked right here right now at the park where we host the Philadelphia. I thought I'd kind of bring some you know fun to have the show here.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Nice. Thank you. Appreciate you doing that, man. Not easy out there trying to do all things necessary to put that truck out there and put put the message out there for people. Let's start with your background, a little bit about what you mentioned to me from you know, family of truckers, mechanics, and operators. Tell us about that. Well, what's what's it like growing up around the trucking industry and when you first realized that this industry was what you wanted to be a part of for yourself?

SPEAKER_00 2:15

So basically, so I was born in uh fall of 2001, a year before that. My dad, which many knowing by the name of Dan Bruno, he started his first dump truck company because he always wanted to find a way to make you know money in trucking, which you know that can fox for to be these days. But uh But no, we am uh so my grandfather he um gave him the idea of getting into dump trucks, and about a few months after I was born, um, he randomly took me with him one day and uh I rode and got a dump truck. He had a first truck he ever had, it was a it was a custom ordered Mac RB model that came out of the McCundry plant in Allentown. And uh that first ride in that truck is what got me hooked on for a fly-up and stuff. Some people they wait until like maybe their like their preschool years, their own match screen and stuff, but literally just right after I was born was when I got hooked on it for life. And um yeah, as I've mentioned before, I'm I come from a whole family of uh polo cars around and operating big machinery and stuff. When my forefathers first came here to St. Louis, um one of them, one of my great-great-grandfathers, uh, he was a uh walker and a tree man. And uh both my great grandfathers, one on my dad's side and one on my mom's side, uh, they were both truckers. My mom's side, my grandfather, he drove for Yel his whole career. And one on my dad's side, I don't know much about him. And then uh, and then two of my uh step-grandfathers, and one of them, uh he was a uh CDO instructor in his career. And uh the other one, um he drove them a free oil company over in uh East St. Louis for his whole time. And um, my dad, as I mentioned, he's had two trunk companies in the past. And so yeah, I'm about sixth to seventh generation on all sides of my family, give or take. And um, I've had family members who have prevented operating type machinery and farming. So I've, you know, just anything that's loud and noisy and it's got a diesel or a badass motor and stuff, you are talking my language, that's all I can tell you.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Wow, wow, man, I can imagine. That's amazing, man. Deep, deep roots. Man, that's extremely well grounded in the trucking industry. You know, a lot of people grew up around trucks, but not everyone ends up making a career out of it and also doing what you're doing, also being a part of the the show business side of it. So, at what point did you make the shift from just you know doing a little something or growing up around it to personally you wanted to pursue it to make this, you know, a part of your life, maybe not just in trucking, but also with the convoy movie and all of that?

The Case For Drivers In A High-Tech World

SPEAKER_00 4:38

So basically I I always figured out I knew at some point in my life I wanted to be involved in truck, and uh uh so growing up um I finished high school and when I went to high school, I went to State Technical College of Missouri with that took heavy equipment operations here. It was a one-year trade program. And uh I graduated with my degree in heavy equipment operating, and uh, which is also where I I are my uh class A at. And as soon as I graduated, um I started doing mechanics stuff for a couple buddies of mine up in the St. Louis region who have had truck companies and have the same way as me and stuff, their families and dads had businesses and they grew up around and stuff. And then about a couple years ago, I mean I worked into a job um which was um and based out of Collenton, which is you know in the Dallas region. They manufacture and build and sell all the Ford and Low Pop products for all the dealerships. And um, because I I I mentioned I I do have you know good pickup trucks as much as I do with um semi trucks, and so I, you know, I I always knew I wanted to find my ways to merge into everything all at one. And uh when this drag came up, it was kind of the perfect opportunity. So I uh I go all across the St. Louis and the Marktram region, 44, I-70, everywhere, just uh delivering, selling pick-up stuff out of all the dealers. As a matter of fact, uh I just got off park about a half an hour ago Monday. Average about a 12 to a 13 hour ship. It is a lot of lot of work, like mini truck drivers and stuff, but somebody's gotta do it. Somebody's gotta make the world turning, you know. Without the blue cows, people don't even realize anymore. Like they don't care about truck drivers or blue cars like what they did back in the same stuff, and they don't realize, you know, that without the truck drivers and with as we've got the blue crowd stuff, that this country and this whole planet does not rotate and stuff. So it's without the men out there actually getting everything to you and stuff, then you don't have a rotating arm.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Yeah, I mean, think about all those uh companies that are pushing the AI, you know, they're gonna need those data centers. They got uh they're also getting nuclear plants so they could keep those AI systems going, but you know, those flatbeds and those crane operators, heavy haulers and all that. That's that's a part of that too. You know, that's what keeps it going and the maintenance too that goes on afterwards as well. I mean, that's there's a lot of moving parts, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Yeah, and even with your self-driving trucks, I mean, people think that they can replace driving stuff. Uh but a co-worker of mine once told me a very good thing. He always told me, uh, and and the working and the technical world, you can always replace, you know, the body, you know, the employee, but you'll never replace the knowledge and and the skill that some of these have.

Becoming A Collector And Preserver

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Absolutely. I agree, man. And your family is is deep, deep into it, man. The knowledge and all the background that you guys have is the legacy right there, man. So appreciate you guys' contribution, man. It means a lot. So one thing I noticed that stood out to me in your messages was you described yourself not as just a truck driver, but also a collector or enthusiast. What is that like? Where did that interest come from? And where did you start looking at trucks? And just, you know, it's not just about work equipment, but it's pieces of art or history that that's worth preserving.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

So basically, my dad has always been kind of like my role model, kind of like you know, my Superman Batman stuff. You know, everybody likes the football players and the big squirrelies and the burners stuff. But for me, you know, my dad was the one always there encouraging me. And um most of my weekends we would spend around the shop and stuff, walking on trucks. I I'd help him wash them and then um And then whenever I got old up to some point and stuff, um, I started, you know, yard tracking stuff for him around yards and whatnot. And um, as I mentioned, so the two guys who I actually went to work for, doing mechanics stuff, and they actually want me, you know, climbing around, you know, going climbing up and taking a look at all their big trucks and whatnot. And it really meant a lot of these guys, you know, and stuff because they know that there are not many kids out there over like I am and stuff. That's crazy into it and stuff. And it it just really made it, you know, personal to them, knowing that there's still, you know, some of the generation out there today that's still in the stuff. Because like I said, I'm I'm only just trying to put myself and stuff. And people said I am a rare old school breed, but I tell people at the end of the day I wouldn't change a damn thing about it.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, good good choice, man. I don't want you to change anything either, man. I like where you're going with it. So for anyone that listen out there that you may know a trucking story or maybe an opportunity that came up, and you know, how did it end up in connected that with the truck? I mean, I mean, you got the convoy, you've been there for 24 years, you you know, you're thinking about that, you know, unique trucking world, being a co-owner of that, a screen used truck, you know, for convoy. How does that all come about?

The Long Road To Owning Convoy Trucks

SPEAKER_00 9:09

So, well, mainly most of the stuff with my dad's stuff. He gets most of that stuff because he'd been a fan of the movie his whole life. And one night he uh this one, if he had a big copy, he literally wore the paper out of it. He's like the biggest I mean, there's a lot of combo fans around the world, all over foreign countries, with people and stuff. But when it comes to US Convo fans, he's like the biggest, like he's like the thing of US Convoy fans, is what I think of it. So when they came out with the MR DVD copy in 2003 or something like that, he um stay up one night and uh he could watch like you know, just noticed it's in the differences in the fuel tank sizes, the aircraft mods, and everything, and the hood sizes and models, and knowing that there were different trucks he's in the movie. So by 2005, we had purchased a dual truck, which Brad Bike also owns, you know, Rob partner and our good friend. We tried to get it back from Los Angeles from an area called Burbank, where like where a guitar artist had purchased it from a guy who actually built trucks for the Universal Studios. His name was George Sack. And uh we we went to go pick it up from Neil and George, and we drove it, we drove it from California, Arizona, and stuff, and actually just coming down the mountain stuff, people would look at that truck and they would know what that truck is and they'd be screaming on the CB, freaking the hell out, knowing that you know, so then uh we get to uh Kingman, Arizona, we're taking 66 the whole way back up, and um by Kingman, the engine starts to act up and starts dying and stuff because uh gets in pretty rough shape, so it started to blow up on us, so we had to leave that at the Wells truck stop in Kingman, and uh we drove on the way back, left it there so we could figure out how we were gonna get it back, and on the way back of 66, we stopped in Welga, New Mexico, which is about 10 to 15 miles north of Tucum Carrey off of 40. And um, there was a company at the time named Barulin Enterprises and Trucking, and uh they had provided trucks in the movie. The real most notable trucks you see on uh is the K1 comp K-100 Cab over pulling the hopper bottom truck that you see the character Leser Time drive behind the rubber duck, and then there was a 352 Peterbox, same color that you see that they're playing in the song on the way to these roadblock, and um he stops in there, telling him who he is, and they knew he was gonna be there someday, and they pulled all this documentation and they had a whole quarry north of Logan, which was just near the Texas state line. And um they saved everything because he knew he would want to buy it. So we worked at the logistics, bought it back to St. Will solver 25 to 26, and then uh finally, yeah, 25 to 27, and the early one or early spring of 27, we finally got the truck back up and running. And uh, right before the national show and in 2008 in Hudson, Kansas, which is actually where we started working with Rob at one point, we had finally got the trailer done. So by that point, we're taking the truck to all these shows, and so the work gets out of there that it's back out there. And well, we're getting contact and stuff, but we just couldn't keep taking time out of our personal or even our jobs to keep on making these people. So then north of me and saying was there's a place called the Transit Museum. My dad has a history volunteering there, so he worked out an agreement where the rubber duck and the dual truck would sit there at the time when we had them both. And then in 2009, um, he just it was one of those times you sometimes you get a lot of stuff more than you bargain for and you just can't, you know, really keep up with it and everything. So in the fall of 2009, he sold the dual truck to Brad White. And then we had the truck, and then in 2010, we actually came across a screen use, the first unit Mac truck, the 71277 model. The EMI had custom ordered specifically for the movie. We bought that in uh spring of 2010, right before we went out to Pleasant, California for the National Straw there, which is where we found it. And we had them uh 2013, sold the truck to uh the first unit one, the 77 model, we sold to uh Geo Brothers trucking up in Quebec City, the sub-31, the Slicking model, which is the one we have now, the surviving restored one. You know, it it's just one of those things, you know, you know, me and my sister were just growing up, and my dad just needed to kind of break everything. So we sold the rubber duck truck for a buddy of ours, Anthony Fox, in uh 2015 and Rome, Georgia. And then he and Brad and Rabble became partners and uh going up and stuff, you know, we kind of missing stuff, and uh, he knew we wanted to get a background day. So on uh in one point he started taking up drag racing and stuff, and um, he just wanted to fun start, I guess, building something else. So um he just kind of got bored with it saying things. So he contacted us in uh summer of 22 and said we thought said it was time, he thought we should have been enhanced in it. So that was about a two-year process of starting to sell a bunch of stuff off to get you know it back and stuff to make room for it. And spring of 24, we picked it up at uh Rad's place in North Carolina. We um I brought a bike to St. Louis and so yeah, we've actually I'm uh two weeks now and stuff. We will have officially hit our two-year mark of having it back in our hands.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

That's amazing. It's like going all around the country. I mean, man, you're running circles around me, man. I mean, you people like you are the who I love to have on the show, man. It's like it just oozes out of you, man. The trucking knowledge, the the talk about the motors and all that, man, you're spot on. I mean, that movie convoy was pretty legendary.

unknown 14:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

For a lot of truckers, it it's it represents the era of trucking where CB radios, convoys rolling out on the highway, and and the black Mac leading the way. So, man, can you talk a little bit about the truck itself or do you know a little bit about the history when it comes to how it was used in the film? Did they kind of pass that story along to you as well?

SPEAKER_00 14:35

Yeah, so like I said, that truck we have now at the second 1970 Mac, R731. It's a 78 model, but it's certainly built with components of a um the HUD of the sleeper or off of a later 77, 73 to 77 Western Series and stuff. Because by 73, they had changed, you know, the height, you know, of the HUD fenders. If you look in the movie and stuff at the truck and stuff, you'll see the height of the fenders and the and the differences and the air cleaners and the tubes and stuff and the fuel tanks and stuff. So the truck we have now originally, first of all, it's always been I had an 855 Comeout motor, which I am a huge stuff up for NPC 855 Comet Motors, favorite engine to wound stuff. It's all we have a running stuff, but um, that one at the time had a small cam 350 in the movie with a 9513 speed, 9513 for transmission, and it had a single tube on my air cleaner and stuff. And uh, whenever we bought it, we had so we put a tip terabyte on double um charger pipe tuber air cleaner to make it more movie realistic and stuff. And uh we put a uh 400 big cam 3 in it and a 9513 and uh funny story. Um when we got the truck back uh about a year and a half ago, we were on the way to the show in St. Louis, take it to a truck show out in a town called Bornton. And uh we thought something was off and stuff, because by the time I got the engine back and stuff, we could hear some like metal thing gun and stuff, and then that day was when we had stuff because the they couple of things the truck and stuff we thought we're gonna make it, and then literally we have metal screwing stuff in the band stuff, smoke coming up from uh under literally underneath the dash inside the cab. So we kill it, pull it over and stuff, and uh just the next one stuff. I realized that it was uh it's what we're called, it was a frank of time stuff. It was supposed to be a CPL 65, 400, big cam 3, but it turns out that it was a 300 CPL 5k9 that somebody had, you know, jacked up and stuff. They were on the so they were on my pistons and lines on from actually from international coming up motors, parts from a 315, I'm uh big cam 4. I am local just it was just it was a mess. So when we rebuilt the truck on my in spring of 45, because we we didn't even think we were gonna have it even running at all by now and stuff, but in spring of 45, we're hunting and hunting and stuff, and then finally in Omaha, Nebraska, we find a guy who've got four Oshkosh P19 Air Force Fire trucks. All of them have four big cam 3400 motors with literally less than 17,000 miles on them, and then all 83841 stuff, like they're like recon brand new more and stuff. And so we buy two of the foreman stuff, we put one inside the truck, and we bought a superintendent public and stuff, and um, we literally just got the last thing tweaking up right before we left up for the Madison Nationals in June. The Monday night, right before we living stuff, we took it for a four-mile test drive, and then and then since then stuff we put maybe roughly about at least about a thousand miles on the truck since, and it's not even it's mostly and stuff because of two things we got to do with and stuff, but we put a thousand miles on it since, and it's and it's literally ran better than it's ever ran its entire life and stuff. That power train swap, I think, was actually much needed either way and stuff because the truck has been performing the best it's ever been.

SPEAKER_01 17:31

That's amazing. Hey, big ups to Omaha out there, man. There's a lot of great people out there. I get to go out there sometimes myself, and man, you guys hit the jackpot with that, man, and made it right, got it tight. Hey, that's great. So, yeah, restoring and maintaining something can't always be a you know a small project. It's gonna be a lot of work. And you guys put that in. What kind of work goes into keeping a truck in good shape, making it, you know, still represent what it used to be or how it's still perceived in the eyes of many people? What would you say helps that process?

What It Takes To Maintain A Legend

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Well, first of all, I'd say don't, because if anything, you you've got to be stupid enough to build a country money and go and be a fool. Um I mean, just gotta be like more like if you know what's looking for as long as old school like old truck parts, which doesn't know how to find stuff. Like if you're really pulling attention to detail and stuff, like for example, like when I said with like eight, five com five commas awards. I love big camps, small camps, NDC stuff, favorite motors, super wild stuff, but like that's when we had the when we built the rubber dot truck and stuff, they were a dominance, like they were going for like places all the ones that you played on South America wanted them. But but now I mean they're just rents, that's what I mean. If you know what's good at the end stuff, and if you know what you're looking for, it's one of the like the old school and stuff, you do some research, you do some hunting, reach out the multiple and stuff, and just my advice is don't give up, just keep on looking, and eventually you'll find that you know native on the haystack.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

Nice. That's great. Uh keep the people out there working to keep those memories alive because uh they're much needed and we appreciate them and all the hard work that they do, just like yourself. I mean, man, you're not just also an enthusiast, you're a driver. What gives you a different perspective than someone who who only collects trucks? How does you actually, you know, working in the truck in shape the way you look at preserving older rigs and the story behind it? What keeps you going personally?

Inspiring The Next Generation

SPEAKER_00 19:28

You know, a lot of jobs with them attracting stuff, so I just go out there, I just you know, put myself out there every day, just keep on, just you know, made a meeting with friends, struggling stuff, and just trying to make things very further and stuff for the future generations, demand stuff, because the for me and us really mixes things where we make with fun stuff as I send to the fans moving stuff, and I even showed a number of kids and stuff, not many of them recently show, but there's a fair amount to where that you know that they'll grow up around Alex with their dads. A couple buddies of mine actually have kids that were in their elementary school and stuff that actually come to our shows and stuff to come and see the truck and stuff. So to me, just you know, anytime a band comes up, especially kid and stuff. As a fact, uh, when I was at a drop-on show and at the guilty straw stream and stuff, and before I left that show and stuff, I had a guy whose grandson was a huge friend in the movie Conway and stuff, probably the biggest kid fan I've ever seen. He was like seven or eight years old, but his grandfather yelled at him, told him to come over, and uh, he told me who I was. And and then the kid, you know, automatically without thinking about stuff, he just wraps his arms around around me, gives me a great big hug, straps crankers to join. He's like, Thank you so much. This is to me, I mean, that's the best fun stuff. Is make my favorite part is basically the younger generation stuff, the kids, and just them getting this experience and stuff, knowing that I was with them and stuff, that's what really makes it, you know, pretty first me and stuff. And and and that's what I'm that's a big part of what I'm trying to do and stuff. I'm trying to keep this alive for the generations to enjoy. Even if it's not well like as great as a nonstop, I still believe at the end of the day that there's hope for some people out there. That's that's what we gotta look for, man. We gotta look for the good in it. You can't always look at the bad sides of it.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

That's it. Yep, that's it. I mean, it's amazing how those trucks can take you away from your problems, too. Yeah, I mean, you start working on the truck or you start driving the truck, seems like you leave everything in right behind you in the rear view. So that's good, man. Thank you for doing that and putting it out there trying to help other young ones like uh your peers and even older ones like myself. So yeah, man, thank you for coming on the show. I mean, really uh eye-opener to what it's like to be a driver and a restorer, collector and an enthusiast for the trucking industry. I really appreciate that, man. I mean, imagine when people see that truck, when they see it for the first time, or when they also learn about it, and the more that they see that there's a story behind this, pretty pretty soon you get a good reaction from people. I mean, you make people smile after that's uh that's a great gift you can give them. Uh especially when drivers are real watching the movie. So, yeah, there's a lot of people out there. What what has the response been like that you've seen from people out there?

Global Fan Reactions And Community

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Uh mainly on other there's been a pretty good amount of stuff as invited. Probably some of my most favorite one stuff are people like from like Australia, Germany for three other stuff. I mean, that's another one of my good favorite fans. It's the foreign fan stuff. I mean, some of the nicest people I've met who are common fans who do not hear from the easy stuff. And one day I hope they'll make their countries and stuff. But um, I've met a lot of great people from Old War and stuff, and just knowing that their history and stuff just I mean, it really it really makes it worthwhile at the end of the day, knowing that we, you know, and we dumped all this countless money and hours into and stuff just so that people could relive, you know, their childhood stuff. I mean, it it it really makes it personal. I mean, because cause not like just for guys like me and my dad and stuff, but for people all all over the world and stuff. And and then they can say, hey, I grew up watching this in movie theaters or the drive-ins, or my dad took me to sit watch the truck, or just whatever the case is. It it really makes it work a lot at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Yeah, it's the deep roots uh of America right there, man. It's huge. And hopefully we can get some momentum back for Hollywood to do some more movies like that, man. We can love to see some new stuff. And maybe not just with all the CGI stuff, but more so with the real, you know, organic stuff. I think people are really trying to go back to the way things used to be because of you know, having something tangible on your hand versus all the digital stuff. I mean, that stuff is getting to be so massive that the stuff that's more organic is getting to be more more real, more something that people want.

Collaborations And American Trucker Work

SPEAKER_00 23:26

So yeah, we're good about doing that stuff. Um, but yeah, um, yeah, I mean we're glad to have a bag and stuff. Um when we did have the truck and stuff, and we actually go okay and stuff, just um, you know, sometimes you get too busy lap and just you know, even we need to kind of like and just to break in between stuff, just to kind of, you know, just you know, I mean, yeah, I mean that's so I mean but at the end of the day because the stuff is the hobby and stuff. I mean, we always try to pick it up, you know, of our family to want that first and stuff. But the fact that our family and other stuff supports us that stuff, I mean, it it really means the world. As a fact, um, one of my um my aunts and stuff um, she is she is a big supporter on our hobby and stuff, and it and it really means the it it it really means the world and stuff, you know, knowing that you have a lot of friends and some relatives on your side who support you and stuff. My step-grandfather did CDL truck and stuff. I'm on the phone with him once a week and stuff, and he and I always do stuff again stuff. We're talking stuff, just and just sharing us talks and it's making memories and this kind of stuff. It just it it's what really, you know, it's what really makes it love to see, you know, I know the day into the future.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Man, I love hearing that. Great community, supporting each other, lifting each other up. Uh, that's what we need. That's what we need more of. You know, we we're not gonna let that go so easily. We're gonna try to hold on to that. You know, I think everybody needs a little bit of that in their life, or if not, I'll need a lot of it in their life. So thank you so much for that. I mean, looking ahead, what do you guys see? What do you got planned coming up? Uh any truck shows or anything like that to look forward to in the future, or I hope maybe the younger people out here can can get and get involved and also maybe they can do these trucks for themselves firsthand.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

Yeah. So my first before I uh before I get in, Steph, I I know that you had um uh mentioned one thing I did want to mention up was our work with American truck on the TV show. So we were actually gonna rob some uh technical control and stuff and what shop went and that before the show and stuff. So we helped him ride a bunch of showing stuff from uh the guy with the beach in the bear truck, um, I know him and stuff, uh Wayne um Anderson, who did uh Smoke in the Man episode and stuff, but he's gonna truck them now and stuff. And um he plans, I think, returned with our show and festival here in May. And but I mean, but really, I'm putting into it stuff. If we hadn't sold the rubber duck and uh and the dual truck, I probably sold the Tom, I would never forgive myself. Because throwing the truck the Brad and then but selling the truck to Anthony and stuff, and then Rob getting connected with them and stuff, and we bring all the people together and stuff. To me, selling the trucks and having them not forbidden stuff, that was really a lot more good that came out and stuff. Because I mean, because then you meet so many people that you don't think you're gonna meet, and then they share the same crazy interest as you and stuff, and you make a lot of new friends along the way. Just I mean, that's that's the one for me in truck shows and selling some of these things and letting them somebody else get to have to explain that stuff and just meeting the people and just bringing us all together and stuff, old and new phase and stuff. I mean, that's what really makes this hobby worth it at the end of the day, to me personally.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

Everything happens for the reason. That's all I can say.

Upcoming Shows And Convoy Through Town

SPEAKER_01 26:13

There you go. Yeah, like uh I appreciate you coming on the show. I mean, we got Patrick Bruno here on the show for anyone here to flipstand. A lot of deep roots in the industries, uh, a lot of great things he's been able to do. Also, with like I said, American trucker. What's it been like working with them, trying to make some dreams come true on that side? What has it been like?

How To Connect And Keep The Story Rolling

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Uh it was it was pretty good work and stuff. It was a great side gig to help, you know, make some good money and stuff. And uh we went on with people like it said, Anthony Fox, Brad Wycom, Brad and Anthony are huge cobble fans of Queen and stuff. They're great people. Buddy Mine has got the beach in the bear truck or Wayne Anderson. Um they're all great people and stuff. And uh good thing and stuff up, which will actually bring me to the um next topic um shows. Um so as I said, I'm sitting over here at the park right now, Festus Missouri, where we cry parking stuff. It's where we do the um uh relaxing the park this year, May 15th to the 16th of this year. Um uh at Friday, 9 to 4, Saturday, 8 to 6, and uh Friday evening, I host the convoy through town and stuff on for all the truckers that come. So this year we'll have we plan to have the rubber duck, Wayne's stomach truck, and the screen is being bear truck all together here like we did up in Madison. And we'll be going to Springfield, Mr. this year for the 18th century national. We'll have all their trucks around stuff. So um, that's kind of what we're all hoping for this year's just to keep the memories of how we're bull-year rolling along, getting all of us together and stuff, because you know, you're only giving one lap of them. So and we all get some whizzing love, like I said, and stuff. So I'm trying to get us all to just slow down a little bit, just take some time, you know, relive your past and just chill out, just hang on, just have a good time. To me, the bats or trucks are about and stuff. And I I think that I think that a lot of us need to look back at sometimes that you know, you know, that you know, that instead of you know worrying about, you know, whether you're not gonna make them on stuff, sometimes you just need to just take it in and just be grateful with what you already have and find ways just to make that, you know, useful in the meantime instead of you know stressing over what you can't control for the next day.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

So yeah, and we definitely got a lot of stuff that we can't control. Uh we can put our input in there, but it's not gonna change a lot of things. Uh so staying positive, thinking about, like you said, staying in the present. And uh that's the gift that we always can enjoy. I mean, it's uh it's a huge gift to be able to have individuals in a community like yourself. And what's one way that people can connect with you? I know community is important. What's a good way for people to reach out and be a part of that community uh like you have for yourself there?

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Uh so my my profile name, Facebook Patrick Thomas. Um I get messages and requests from fans all the time. You can go on there. I'm uh my my uh my favorite page for the event. It's uh Drifton Arsenal Convoy. I've got my phone number, my email on there. People want to look into that. I've got my uh Instagram, mini deck 261, TikTok, mini deck 261. I'm I I'm just always I'm just gonna click stuff. I'm just trying to bring you know hope and trying to recreate some members stuff. And I'm I'm hoping that Infestus and Sinkfield and one show rain tour in July and many other shouldn't stuff. I'm hoping that people will come out or sit back, take it away, have a nice, you know, a few weekends and just have a good time as well.

Closing Thoughts And Farewell

SPEAKER_01 29:14

I love it. I love it, man. Hey, thanks for sharing your story. Uh as always, you know, people are hearing about individuals in the trucking industry. It's it's huge. And if we can find a way to keep connecting with each other and pursue that history and keep it, you know, preserved and also keep it where people actually understand what what this whole dream is about, keeping that, keeping that going. So, man, you're doing that, and I appreciate it. So, yeah, thank you. Yeah, and your family. So, and big ups to everybody over there, man. That's awesome. Uh so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

And yeah, I I hope to stay in touch and uh who knows, maybe halt it one day, maybe uh I'm hoping that you'll get the chance over to the chuckle one day and maybe even join us uh uh at a show someday. I would um I I would be awesome.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

It would be. Uh that would be a dream come true, man. I appreciate it. And so for everyone out there listening, if you enjoy this episode, learning a little more about Patrick Bruno and all the passion that he has for the industry, uh be sure to follow the podcast, share it with someone you know uh in the trucking community or beyond. And you know, until next time, you know, we will be out here making shows and episodes like this Truck and Ray, and uh that's all for this episode. That's delivered.