Staff Takeover At Hyfield Trucking

Fourteen people, one room, and just enough structure to keep the microphones pointed in the right direction. We pull the entire Hyfield office staff into a rare out-of-season drop of The Outer Belt, starting with a rapid-fire roll call and quickly sliding into the stuff drivers actually care about: how support teams work together, what’s changing behind the scenes, and why the little operational details make your day easier on the road. 

We talk maintenance reality from the inside, including what it takes to train a newer maintenance manager when truck problems don’t repeat on a neat schedule. From building confidence on phones to remembering fixes that might show up once every few years, the theme is consistency, documentation, and learning through repetition. We also swap road-life stories and compare “back then” tech to today, from limited hotspots and no trucking GPS to modern in-truck Wi‑Fi options that are simpler, cheaper, and more reliable for teams who live in their vehicles. 

Then we get to the big update: starting July 1, settlements for Hyfield contractors move to the Hyfield mobile app only and will no longer be emailed. We explain what to do if you haven’t downloaded the app yet and why this shift keeps your pay docs organized and easy to find. You’ll also finally learn who “Janet” is, how the custom admin portal improves recruiting handoffs, maintenance document uploads, receipt clarity, and even feature-request ticketing. We close with listener gifts and a Jelly Belly taste test that proves our priorities are… balanced. 

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Transcript

Chaotic All-Staff Roll Call

SPEAKER_07 0:00

Scene one, shoot two, uh whatever the word is.

SPEAKER_08 0:12

Hey everybody, welcome to the Outer Belt. I'm Patrick and Yana, my friends! Julie.

SPEAKER_02 0:16

Buttermilk. Eric Zucchini Brad.

SPEAKER_08 0:20

And Jerry. And as you can tell, we are joined here on this special out-of-seasoned drop of the Outer Belt with the entire high-filled staff, the office staff. Everybody say hi.

SPEAKER_11 0:31

Hi.

SPEAKER_08 0:33

Okay, that'll do. So uh real quick in-house, we have uh Eric.

unknown 0:40

Hi.

SPEAKER_07 0:40

Bachelor.

SPEAKER_08 0:41

Bachelor. He can't hear him. He would say hi. Uh Carla, we got uh Delena. Some of y'all may know her from Expedite Chicks and or one of the recruiters you've talked to over here. We've got Kelly. And we got Melissa over there, my sister. She's uh I don't know what she does. And then we have Don. And but last but not least, we have Kayla in this middle area. So uh welcome. This is terrible.

SPEAKER_09 1:07

Absolutely terrible. Why are we doing this? Because um, somebody wanted to have an all-staff podcast with 14 people. That's right. It's crazy. We need a better idea. That somebody is really crazy. I know. Yeah. Anyways, no one says no to that somebody.

SPEAKER_08 1:19

The audience will like it, though, right? They'll love it. They'll love it. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:25

They will love it.

SPEAKER_08 1:26

Yes, they will love it, absolutely. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:28

Is there any thoughts? Everybody, they'll love it, right? Yay! Yay! Yay!

SPEAKER_10 1:32

Yes. What a great idea, Patrick.

SPEAKER_08 1:35

Thank you. Thank you very much. All right, we'll see y'all next week. And uh, so uh uh we introduced the staff, but I'm just gonna go through real quick. I just wanted I did not I've I neglected because I'm not an intelligent person.

SPEAKER_03 1:48

We've been off a few weeks, too. Yes. We'll give you that.

SPEAKER_08 1:50

I'm off my game. We'll get on your game. We were really on it. The last few episodes, we were on our game and it disappeared.

SPEAKER_03 1:58

Well, why'd you slow it down? Get back on, get in the court.

SPEAKER_08 2:02

Well, all right, so we will. So uh y'all may remember Eric Bachelor over there, front corner. That is our uh junior maintenance manager.

SPEAKER_03 2:12

Um Jimmy were on a couple episodes back.

SPEAKER_08 2:15

That's exactly what I was about to say. You may remember was it the last episode? It was.

SPEAKER_10 2:20

Last episode of the season. That's why my stuff was over there.

SPEAKER_08 2:23

Oh, well, welcome back. So they're probably like, we just saw this guy. Yeah, we're seeing him again. Yeah. Um and then speaking of uh Eric, you're dismissed. Right. Uh and of course we've got his counterpart over here uh in the middle of the seat, Don. He's also uh maintenance guy, not as junior. And then we have which I like to call the senior maintenance manager, very senior would be uh Jimmy. Jimmy, we'd like you to chat and tell us a few things about how things are going. Riveting.

SPEAKER_05 3:03

All right, so then we have uh you gotta ask a question, or I'm not gonna know what to say.

SPEAKER_08 3:08

Uh so uh how are how do you how how are things going? It's been a few weeks now. You've really worked a lot with Bachelor. Uh last time he was here, he was green behind the ears. What do they call that? Wet behind the ears. Wet behind

Training A New Maintenance Manager

SPEAKER_08 3:20

the ears. He was green, didn't know how to answer a phone, you had to teach him how to say hello. Um how are things progressing?

SPEAKER_03 3:27

He was also hands-on in the uh really quick, he was hands-on here with a lot of the equipment. So, like, how does that translate to taking it back to being behind a desk? Really? We should ask him.

SPEAKER_08 3:36

No, but but you have the microphone.

SPEAKER_11 3:38

Yeah, it's fun.

SPEAKER_05 3:41

Yeah, things are going really uh really good. He's progressing nicely, learning a lot, uh gaining some confidence, uh knowing the right answers at the right times, and uh still has a lot to learn, like we all do. I still learn a bunch of stuff. But uh the administrative side he has down the paperwork, the filing, the uh dealing with the shops and everything. But uh there's just so much that can go wrong on these trucks that uh it takes a very, very long time to learn what could go wrong and what the fix might be. But yeah, very pleased to have him on board and uh he's doing a great job.

SPEAKER_08 4:12

Yeah, just to follow up on that, Eric, how are things we go with you?

SPEAKER_04 4:15

Um pretty good. Learning every single day, it does take a long time, like Jimmy said. Millions of and it's like I'll learn it and it won't happen for a couple weeks, and then something will happen, and it'll be something that I've already cued into, but then I remember half of what it was that I already started. So once something happens five, six, seven times, then it pretty much it's burned into your brain and you got it from there. Right. But at the beginning it's it's been a struggle, but it's been a lot of fun and uh enjoy and learn the process.

SPEAKER_08 4:47

Yeah, you know, every job I've ever had, the beginning's always a struggle. I remember like going back to cooking, like day one at Domino's Pizza, learning how to, you know, top pizza. Because like they don't teach you how to slap dough and all that stuff until you've actually been there and you know the rest of the process. It's kind of like the last thing you learn how to do. But I mean, literally just how do you how do you put pepperoni? And Melissa over there, she's just smiling because she was there where she knew exactly what's talking about. Uh how many pepperoni to put on a pepperoni pizza, right? Uh Melissa? Uh we'll give her the microphone. Yeah. Uh how many pepperoni to put on a pepperoni pizza fast, right? That's the skill is how do you do it crazy fast?

SPEAKER_10 5:28

Yes. Very fast.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

How many do you do you put on a large?

SPEAKER_08 5:32

Oh, I thought it's 48, right? So, anyways, um in my experience, it depended on what manager was there, right? Yes. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

How many handfuls of cheese you were allowed to put on.

SPEAKER_08 5:46

Oh, yes. Oh, you were there when they did handfuls of cheese. You didn't have that contraption I had.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

No, no, we actually hand tossed everything.

SPEAKER_08 5:54

Yeah, so they were wasting so much cheese, they brought this like plastic doohickey in. Yeah. And the pizza slid out of it, and it like you put the cheese on the top, you press the button, and it evenly dispersed. Yes, and you there was no extra, no waste. So no more putting six, seven handfuls of cheese on the top. No, no, no, they didn't. Six, seven handfuls was too much. Too much cover. Too much, too much. Yeah. But then uh then every now and then you have to get the like the rarely used ingredients. Like, remember the uh anchovies? There's like one little can from like 1986 when they built the dominoes uh that you'd have to use occasionally, very occasionally.

SPEAKER_03 6:26

Had to go in the back of the freezer for that one.

SPEAKER_08 6:28

Yes, yes. Or how about that can of black olives, that giant can you had to use the World War II freaking like drop down can opener, and you know, yeah. Just so many people probably got what's that metal poisoning they get? Um lead poisoning, yeah. Tetanus. So much fun. But that's that was what it was like. Like learning how to do that, and then you become faster, more proficient, and yeah. The good thing about that though is it's consistent.

SPEAKER_09 6:57

It's not like once every couple of weeks. Yes. I mean, it takes six, seven times to learn something, right?

SPEAKER_08 7:03

It really does. The problem is sometimes you see something once every six, seven years.

SPEAKER_09 7:06

Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_08 7:07

And then and then it's like I get a call from Jimmy usually, and he's like, all right, hey, we had this issue six maybe seven years ago. Right. How did we fix it? What was the cure? And I'm like, oh man, I've slept since then. And then we have to like really put our brain power to it, because I think they'll everybody in this group will testify to looking at for emails six or seven years ago. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Well, the answer is that's 250,000 emails ago.

SPEAKER_09 7:38

The weird thing is the answer ends up being, oh, you have to add six or seven quarts of oil.

SPEAKER_08 7:43

Yes, I have uh I do remember that one. Yeah, that was uh that was on um uh birth, not Bertha, what was it? Uh Bagou Begira. Begira, yeah, yeah. Begira required the six, seven quarts of oil. I do remember that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

Um I'm glad things are going good for you.

SPEAKER_08 7:58

Yes, I am too maintenance. I am too.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 8:02

Don, listen.

SPEAKER_07 8:06

Yeah, he's doing great. Excellent.

SPEAKER_09 8:12

That's all you'll get. Oh, I love it. I love it. Uh I think I think the other Eric had a question.

SPEAKER_07 8:17

Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna ask, how is it um becoming familiar with all the names and voices of the 200-ish people we have in the fleet? I'm sure that's fun to get used to.

SPEAKER_09 8:29

He's still trying to learn my name.

SPEAKER_04 8:30

So can you hear me now? Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. So I still haven't talked to everybody yet. Um, I would say probably maybe 40 or 50 people that you haven't talked to.

SPEAKER_03 8:40

No, that I have.

SPEAKER_04 8:41

Okay. So we do have some that don't call in, and we have some that you know need to call in a little bit more than others, and that's always going to be a truck issue. And we're always happy to have everybody call. I've had some great conversations with a lot of drivers and learning the names and uh introducing myself and y'all introducing yourselves to me. Um, been a lot of fun. Um trying to think of anything else that I could say about it.

SPEAKER_03 9:02

Well, you know, we're gonna do that. I'm gonna throw you under the bus on that, but backing it on up.

SPEAKER_04 9:08

I will call you by a different name every now and again, but after a while I'll get it down.

SPEAKER_08 9:12

Absolutely. Uh, I'm teasing. I love it when like I'm at um like dinner tonight. So tonight's dinner uh was brought to you courtesy of buttermilk and uh chili, mostly buttermilk. Um actually complete what was saying completely buttermilk. Completely buttermilk.

SPEAKER_10 9:29

He did the six,

Pizza Shop Lessons On Learning Fast

SPEAKER_10 9:30

seven handfuls of cheese. That's right, you did.

SPEAKER_08 9:32

Yeah, it was a provolone and mozzarella, right?

SPEAKER_09 9:34

Provolone and property.

SPEAKER_08 9:35

Prozolone.

SPEAKER_09 9:35

Prozolone and margarella. Uh Parmesan and Provolone.

SPEAKER_08 9:40

Oh, parmesan, okay, yeah. Yeah. Uh that was um that it was outstanding. If if we all seem a little sluggish tonight, it's because we just got done having an amazing dinner. It was uh sausage, kibbosa sauce, yes, yes, and um onions and peppers and a tomato red sauce.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Spaghetti sauce, mirnari.

SPEAKER_08 10:01

Yeah. Uh, and then on a bun. On a hoagie.

SPEAKER_03 10:04

That I toasted like French bread. So I actually did like garlic butter. Yes. Herbie garlic butter on the bread. Yes. Toasted that, made it ready style. And then uh provolone. Got that all melty, put the goods in it, topped it with parm.

SPEAKER_08 10:20

It was phenomenal. And what I really liked about it is it's also a dish you could fix on the truck. You could. Oh, yeah. Like it's not crazy, difficult, and we have the convection oven things on the truck, so you could easily do that on the truck.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

Yeah. I chose to use fresh peppers and onions, but you can buy the pre-frozen, yeah, which I think is what I did last time I made it.

SPEAKER_08 10:38

I've really kind of fallen in love with the frozen bag of Kroger made. I don't even buy the name Branded by Kroger Brand. Sure. Um, of the already chopped up, ready to go, just pull it out of the oven, throw it in the skillet, and go to a town. But uh yeah, no, that was great.

SPEAKER_07 10:50

And then um Who was accompanied by it was accompanied by presentation by our junior maintenance person, not junior. Oh he just maintenance.

SPEAKER_08 11:01

So it's junior, regular, and senior. Okay, our regular maintenance right.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

Exactly.

SPEAKER_08 11:08

Um, it's like cheese. You like you got you got like really old aged cheddar. Yeah, you got like somewhat aged cheddar, and you got like fresh off the cow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

So Don hasn't been making cookies for the green room. So disappointing. So he decided he'd make it all up by bringing two wonderful loaves of bread to same loaves, which is really cool.

SPEAKER_08 11:26

Yeah, you actually did um a regular white bread, I guess is how you call it. Yes. Yeah, just regular loaf of bread. And then the other one was like an herbal essence bread.

SPEAKER_03 11:36

Yes, it tasted like shampoo.

SPEAKER_08 11:38

No, that's I wouldn't say that. It was a uh food. Well, it's herbal thing.

SPEAKER_09 11:43

There was no cilantro in there.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

What kind of herbal? It was rosemary. Was it rosemary? Was there any time? It didn't. It took a lot of time to make those two loaves.

SPEAKER_08 11:52

So there was some sort of time in the well, they were delicious, and then the Kerrygold herbal butter, which I've never had. I I knew Kerrygold, but I thought it was just regular butter.

SPEAKER_03 12:00

I didn't know they had flavored butter. Oh standing. I love that stuff. Yeah, it was a delicious dinner. It was very good. Yes. Um was last night's.

SPEAKER_08 12:09

So was last

Dinner Talk And Truck-Friendly Cooking

SPEAKER_08 12:10

night's. Absolutely. Eric bestowed upon us uh his dinner. Oh, you know what? It's just me. No, that's true. Uh Eric Carlo. Settlements lady. Absolutely not with it. Well, that does bring up real quick, uh, why are we all here? This is odd, right? Like why are we all here? Uh if you're from Ohio, raise your hand. So that's about eight of us. And then if you're from uh Georgia, raise your hand. That's four of us. And if you're from Louisiana, raise your hand. Well, Melissa, I've been from Louisiana, and that's one of us. So uh we're actually up here doing the Highfield staff, I think we call it Retreat, which is not really Retreat because we're all still working.

unknown 12:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 12:44

So we're doing the Highfield work from Ohio. Yeah. Yeah. And uh getting time to hang out with each other, having some dinners. I know a lot of the Georgia people are going out and experiencing the yard for the first time.

SPEAKER_07 12:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 12:57

And uh seeing uh a lot meeting a lot of teams in the yard. I know Kelly, you know, we haven't talked about you yet, uh, and it's time.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Um I wonder how the yard was, what they thought about it.

SPEAKER_08 13:10

Yeah, what did you think? Because you've not seen it yet. You've not seen the new driver lounge or anything. You've seen pictures, but you haven't been here.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

No, no. Um here, Dee, you were the first time there too, so you may as well take the mic back. I will tell you. We were very excited because it was both mine and Delina's first time going today, and we were very excited about it, and it looks amazing. You guys did a great job.

SPEAKER_12 13:29

It does, it absolutely looks amazing, and there were a lot of teams there. Yeah. So we got the opportunity to meet with them.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Um, we did a few truck tours to you guys, so we did make some videos, but I thought it was neat. I love that you guys have the place where they're putting in the take something if you need it and can get packages and uh pick up extra paperwork uh from Vince uh if we need it. Um on an emergency. Did you inspect the wall, the the travel wall that Kayla did up there? You know what? I needed to I didn't get a chance to do that.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

Oh my gosh, the things that are all written around it that people have just really, really gotta add to that.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

You do? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all need to that. I didn't do that today. I think she didn't either, but it wasn't.

SPEAKER_12 14:11

We got a little because there are several teams there today, and we just kind of got caught up uh speaking with them and looking at the trucks and checking everything.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

So which is great. I love when I get to meet the teams, especially some that um and I hope to see some this weekend that have been with us for a long time um that I do that I've never met.

SPEAKER_12 14:31

So you've spoken with many times to see them actually meet them face to face was was great. You guys provided such a great area for us to be able to do that.

Staff Retreat And First Yard Impressions

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Very comfortable. You could tell that stuff was getting used and the have a laundry. I know that's a big deal for drivers. So it definitely makes it comfortable when you're having to sit.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

Yeah. Showers. I've seen people like a couple of teams take turns using the shower and being respectful of at that time.

SPEAKER_12 14:55

It was great. It was a really nice area. Glad we finally got to see it after all these months of waiting.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_08 15:02

I'm glad we finally have it. It's been years of waiting to get something, right? Like it's just been crazy. So yeah, I you know, one of the downsides of the work from home model that we have, because most of us do work from home. There's only a few of us actually work in the yard, is um you just never get to see people. Like, especially where like uh Delena, Kelly, and Jimmy, y'all live in a very rural corner of Georgia where there's just not a lot of traffic, not a lot of industry where you're at. And so our trucks don't hardly ever get there. Sure. I say that you and Vince managed to make it there. We did make it there, yeah. Yeah, we did. But usually most people don't actually make it there. Right. So uh it is it is rare uh that a lot of our people you talk to on the phone all the time, you you rarely get to meet them. So that's why I'm looking forward to this Saturday, which if you're listening to this, it's happening right now, or it already happened, your choice. Um we uh we we're ending out this week with an all-staff uh barbecue.

SPEAKER_09 15:59

And um I I gotta I I I gotta step in and say something here. No, I'm not having it. It's

Barbecue Versus Cookout Debate

SPEAKER_09 16:05

barbecue. It's it's a cookout at the at the right best, it's a cookout. It is not a barbecue.

SPEAKER_08 16:11

Okay, let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. If you have a competition-winning barbecue chef, pit master, as I've learned they're called, uh, making the food, that's a barbecue.

SPEAKER_09 16:26

It is not a barbecue. How would you know? Because I don't know what a barbecue is. A barbecue is cooking food low and slow. Okay. So it's things like pulled pork or brisket or a smoked turkey breast or smoked chicken or smoked sausage. Uh those types of things are barbecue items. Low and slow. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

Grilling.

SPEAKER_09 16:47

We're grilling. We're using a grill, we're making burgers and dogs. We're grilling. I like cookouts. It's over an open fire. It's a cookout.

SPEAKER_08 16:55

Okay. Well, I guess for the rest of the series, we'll do barbecue and you'll have to just bring a smoker out. That's fine. I'll bring a smoker out. I'm happy to.

SPEAKER_09 17:02

All right. I'm happy to. We'll switch dinners to 9 p.m. Yep. So I can have dinner ready at noon. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 17:09

We can put one of the mattresses down. You can start at the night later. Exactly. Take a show at the yard. Exactly.

SPEAKER_09 17:14

Yeah. I got a shower, I can clean up the next day before I serve. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 17:17

You're not gonna drink her though.

SPEAKER_09 17:18

You'll have to get like a uh one of those old uh smoky jokes or whatever they're called. I'll smoke with an offset smoker. I can smoke on a grill. Trust me, I've done it all. All right. When it comes to smoking food, I've done it.

SPEAKER_08 17:30

You smoked everything.

SPEAKER_09 17:31

Smoked everything.

SPEAKER_08 17:32

All right, yeah. Well, I haven't.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

We've got a list coming.

SPEAKER_08 17:35

I've only I've only smoked like six, seven items.

SPEAKER_03 17:37

We've got a lot along our.

SPEAKER_08 17:42

I'd tell you what, I did uh uh smoke salmon. That was really that was really good.

SPEAKER_09 17:46

Good, good. Anyway, so we're having these these cookouts.

SPEAKER_08 17:50

Yes. So this weekend uh is our big one. So I'm curious who's gonna end up getting the the the um Z grill. It's a portable pellet grill that was off the bingo uh games, and we got some gift cards we're giving away and stuff. And if you didn't make it, there's always next year. So uh, but yeah, that's why we're all that's one

Expedite Chicks Updates And Merch Ideas

SPEAKER_08 18:10

of the things we're doing. Oh, I neglected to say Kelly is our uh if you haven't watched it before, you don't drive for FedEx, you may not know her. Kaylee is the head of our FedEx fleet. Um, and that is what her daily uh duties are. And Delina, as I said earlier, is uh one of the recruiting people. She works with um Melissa, and uh you probably talked to them a few times already. Um together they are the Expedite Chicks, so you can check them out on YouTube. They put out some really fun content. I know they said earlier or a few minutes ago that they put out uh video or made a bunch of videos at the yard. So uh look forward to those coming. They're gonna be on the Expedite Chicks uh websites. So um YouTube channel. YouTube channel. What'd I say? You said website. Oh, no, YouTube channel.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

With uh C H I X.

SPEAKER_12 18:57

C-H-I-X. We have some fun content coming out.

SPEAKER_08 19:01

Very fun coming tomorrow. Coming out tomorrow.

SPEAKER_12 19:04

A little scared.

SPEAKER_08 19:05

Coming out tomorrow or being made tomorrow?

SPEAKER_12 19:07

Being made tomorrow.

SPEAKER_08 19:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 19:08

I'm a little scared.

SPEAKER_08 19:09

Yeah. That'd be fine. Do we have expedite chicks merch? Where is the expedite chicks uh merch?

SPEAKER_12 19:15

The merch? Yeah, why don't we have expedite chicks?

SPEAKER_08 19:19

I'm thinking shirts, koozies.

SPEAKER_12 19:26

Uh hoodies.

SPEAKER_08 19:27

Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_12 19:29

He just tempted me.

SPEAKER_08 19:30

I think there's all I think there's a whole whole thing here. And we'll get some Lokshire swag in there. We'll get some uh expedite boogie swag. At least Lukshire. That's boogie or boogie just now.

SPEAKER_06 19:42

I've got expedite boogie swag. His family always wears it whenever I go up there and everything. Really?

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Oh, that's so sweet.

SPEAKER_09 19:50

That is sort. Sweet.

SPEAKER_08 19:52

Sort of sweet. What?

SPEAKER_12 19:56

We had put merch in the driver's lounge.

SPEAKER_08 19:58

I mean, as long as you're fine with him taking it for free. Oh so Kayla, you were down at the yard as well today. How was it uh being back down there? I know you you've gone quite a few times. It was not your first audio today.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

No, it wasn't uh my first time, but I certainly always enjoy when I get to go down there. Typically I'll try to coordinate my days down there if a new team is moving in. Or there was one Saturday actually that I happened to not have anything planned, and I think I met with four teams and we spent the entire day together and we had a blast. I actually remember me texting you at like 10 p.m. saying I just had so much fun all day.

SPEAKER_08 20:36

I do remember that.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Yes. We have uh we have a great time.

SPEAKER_08 20:39

That was literally the uh starting point for the high filled uh monthly cookouts.

SPEAKER_02 20:47

Yeah, we were kind of um just

Life On The Road Gets More Tech

SPEAKER_02 20:50

shooting some ideas back and forth of how we can get our staff knowing our drivers a little bit better. Well face to face anyway, but we all we all well, not all of us, but most of us talk to our drivers on the phone, and uh it's kind of nice to know people on a more personal level rather than just their voice.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Yeah, we laugh today uh good with the drivers that that we hung out with today. Like it it was a good time, but yeah, like a lot left.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

And it made me actually miss driving. Every time I hang out with a bunch of drivers, I always I always miss driving, listening to their stories of how they're cooking their meals. There's always something more creative that I'm like, hey, why did I not think of that while we were on the road? It would have made things easier or more fun or whatever the case is. But uh I love listening to your guys' stories, uh whether it be over the phone or in person. It's uh one of my favorite parts of the job for sure.

SPEAKER_08 21:44

I think that's one of those things of uh like when Eric and I were on the road driving together, the amount of technology that's changed, the amount of things that are doable. Like now you can actually opt to get uh a Wi Fi device inside your truck with Directivity, right? Yes. Yeah, direct TV. And uh that didn't exist when Eric and I were driving. The only thing we could get was the um well, okay, it existed. But let me let me back up and say you could get it from Verizon, and it gave you 10 gigabytes a month of extremely slow internet. Yeah, and yeah, that was the best you could get. And then uh if you wanted uh direct TV, you had to buy a satellite, and then you had to pay uh ungodly it's eight hundred bucks a month or something like that for the service. It was ridiculous. Unless you had it at home. Then a lot of people did the dish network thing and it was add-on, it was really easy, but we didn't have that, so um it those are two luxuries we just did without because it was impossibly difficult to make it happen, and now it's super friggin' simple. I saw the device the other day, I was inside one of the trucks, and I actually saw it and I'm like, wow, this is like basic. Like almost plug and play. It's crazy how cool it's simple.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

I've had lots of conversations with drivers with a lot of good feedback that it works really well, but they like it better than you know, maybe I've had a few drivers that got rid of the box from like their cell phone carrier, like every saying Verizon, and they switched to that and it works really well.

SPEAKER_08 23:11

I thought it was funny we had some people uh actually take them and beta test them for them before we released it to the fleet because we wanted to make sure it was a good product. And they were like, We better own, but we'll test it, and then as soon as we're done, we'll send it back or whatever. We're like, that's fine, just we want to know how it compares. And then most of those people just kept theirs, right?

SPEAKER_06 23:30

They did.

SPEAKER_08 23:31

Yeah, like they didn't give it back at the end of the test, so like, nope, we're gonna hold on to this one.

SPEAKER_09 23:35

Um because it's actually cheaper too than getting it on your own, it ends up being a lot cheaper, and then you also have a lot more data with our system than you do with your phone system generally. Uh, because you're not looking at unlimited, you have or our system has a limit, but it's a pretty large limit. It's huge, yeah. Pretty big limit compared to what you might get with your cell phone hotspot. Oh, yeah, we've got more hotspot from your cell phone provider.

SPEAKER_08 24:00

Yeah, we've got some people that do like the gaming and all that, which just chews up your data and they're like fine, never had an issue with it. So I think it's great. I just think again, that stuff didn't exist. Eric and I never even had uh y'all are gonna laugh. Eric and I never had a trucking GPS. We never bought a trucker's GPS. Like I know. We found we sound like we're 114 years old. Um we used so uh we were at FedEx, and FedEx actually gave you a um really bad trucker uh GPS in their system.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 24:34

And so we took that and a little bit of Google Maps and a little bit of making sure we weren't going down truck truck non-truck routes. Sure. And and that's kind of how we made it work. Um a lot of times the stuff because we were doing a different division of FedEx than most people do, so we were actually in a lot of rural, very rural areas, and those typically don't have non-trucking routes, you know, because they're they're running tractors and 18-wheelers and stop up down those little little two-lane roads where trucks have no business being, but they're still truck routes. Right. So that was a lot of what we did. Interesting.

SPEAKER_07 25:06

It doesn't help squat when you're lost at Boston Airport.

SPEAKER_08 25:10

No, no, and that was an update quickly. Oh my gosh, and it just like when you see a white surrender flag on the GPS, you're like, this is not good. This is not good at all. Yes, smoke. That was crazy. It could have been. Oh, maybe that was it. Because Boston Logan is a so-called surrender.

SPEAKER_03 25:30

So fun fact, when Vince and I started, we couldn't afford HRX-specific GPS. Uh that's where we were with our life situation. And uh we had to ask Panther to uh engage and turn on the map on the the QC uh for us to use that. And then we quickly learned it was very outdated.

SPEAKER_08 25:52

Very outdated.

SPEAKER_03 25:53

Uh and so we also did the same thing where we did combination of car GPS using Google Maps and that, and that got us sometimes we crack out the the the atlas or the Ray McNally, like the actual Ray.

SPEAKER_09 26:10

We didn't break down and buy a truck GPS until we got our first hazmat load. Yeah.

Settlements Move To The Highfield App

SPEAKER_09 26:15

Because we could use that setting on the truck GPS.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 26:20

Wait, yeah, yeah. Yeah, certainly.

SPEAKER_08 26:23

Carla, you're back with us. You've been with us many times before in the past. Uh, we're happy to have you again. Eric and you work very closely together. Eric Highfield uh and you work very closely together. What uh how are things going uh in your department?

SPEAKER_00 26:38

All is going well. It's fixed to get really better once I get this mobile app working after come July. Woohoo! It's gonna save me a lot of time.

SPEAKER_08 26:48

Oh, that is a good point. And why what is happening? Uh who wants to say it's Jerry? Jerry?

SPEAKER_03 26:57

I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_06 26:59

Uh as of July 1st for all Highfield contractors, your settlements are now only going to be available in the mobile Highfield app. They will no longer be emailed to you.

SPEAKER_08 27:09

That's right. That is right.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

So be there or be square.

SPEAKER_08 27:13

If you have not downloaded the Highfield app yet, uh reach out to uh your fleet support or your recruiter or Jerry directly and uh get the link for that um so that you can download that to your phone or your smart device because it is gonna become uh important in just a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

Or it's been emailed to you multiple times in the month of June. So all of the details are there.

SPEAKER_08 27:37

Check your spam folder if you haven't seen it. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

And Jerry's worked super hard to make it very user-friendly.

SPEAKER_07 27:42

It's gonna do a great thing, keeping all the settlements in one place. Easy to find. Yes, now or later.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

Even if there's going to be an issue, it'll be an easy fix. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

Yep. Yep, I love it.

SPEAKER_08 27:59

Yep, it's gonna be some great things. Jerry, you as always, you have so much going on uh with

Meet Janet The Admin Portal

SPEAKER_08 28:05

the IT side. It's all been great. We talked about this recently, all the things that have gone with the app, and you really went in uh deep detail with that. Um I wanted to get some of the staff's perspective, especially the ones that aren't from here, on how they feel about Janet. First, real quick, can we get an uh explanation? Because we have the Highfeld app, but what is Janet, or who is Janet?

SPEAKER_06 28:29

Or whom is Janet? It's not Miss Jackson. No, I'm sorry. So just so I don't call it that. Melissa Buttermilk actually started calling her that. Uh I just say that calling her that.

SPEAKER_12 28:47

Yeah, I thought you started that. I did.

SPEAKER_06 28:49

She did.

SPEAKER_12 28:49

Well, he kept calling what was your original name?

SPEAKER_06 28:51

I was just I'll just call it the admin portal.

SPEAKER_08 28:53

Yeah, but it was admin portal version 2.6.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

There was a lot of words for it, and I'm like, I just kept calling it the neutrello, neutrello, neutrello. And I'm like, I can't keep calling it neutrello. She needs her own name.

SPEAKER_08 29:06

It was the formal version. It was the high-field truck. It's H Y S G L C presents the High Field trucking admin portable brought to you by Jerry McAllister for uh whatever. I'm not for it, but version 2.978. That's just a mouthful.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

So I was joking with just him and a group, and I said, because I I beta test first for recruiting when we moved to the system, and and so I do whatever, and I'm like, in this the neutrello, neutrello, and I'm like, we just need to call her something else. I'm like, I'm gonna start calling her Janet. And he didn't laugh. And I'm like, no reaction from you? Like Sat face over here. So I'm like, all right, I'm gonna try it again. So I don't know, later in the day, next day, I dropped Janet again, and he probably laughed, and and then I just kept going with it, and and now it is what it is.

SPEAKER_09 29:55

And when we rolled it out to staff, I think for a little background, we should share with those that don't know. Yes, Jerry is the world's biggest Janet Jackson fan. Number one, he is president of the worldwide Janet Jackson fan corporate. Yes. So that's why Janet became so humorous to us. Yeah, because the essence is such a big fan. Wait, that's what that means?

SPEAKER_10 30:18

Yeah, I thought it was an anagram, right? Yeah. Jerry's administrative network extra trello.

SPEAKER_08 30:25

Yes, that's what I thought too.

SPEAKER_10 30:27

Uh yeah. There you go. Better coin.

SPEAKER_09 30:30

I mean, we we would coin that one. We went through that, right? We went through probably six or seven different names.

SPEAKER_08 30:36

They did, yeah, they did workshop six or seven names.

SPEAKER_03 30:39

Um anyway, and then I think it's just stuck from there. I think as we started rolling it out, and and then he started using Janet back to me, and it's just worked out. So you can call her whatever you want to call her.

SPEAKER_06 30:52

It is a system that I have now uh we've we've uh moved some of the different uh staff off of old technology and kind of moved everybody over to one central platform. Um kind of work more efficiently.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

You have to say that it's a platform that you created from scratch and that is amazing. Yes, you're not giving yourself enough credit for that one.

SPEAKER_06 31:15

It's true. I mean I put a lot of time and effort into it, yes. Um, I'm not gonna lie, AI has helped me a lot because there's no way I could do all of that on my own. There I don't have enough time in the day to be one person. I don't have a full team. So I do rely a lot on AI to help me, but yeah, I did I do do a lot, so I think it's working good.

SPEAKER_12 31:38

I'm happy that it's helping the team. Um just easy, it's so easy to navigate. I really, really enjoy it, especially from a recruiting.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

Yeah, like I really like how it all works together. Like um Delina and Melissa can put something in a card and when it transfers to me when a team actually moves in, the information is there that I need. Um when we

Better Docs, Receipts, And Workflows

SPEAKER_02 32:00

update a name, it goes to our phone system. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_05 32:04

Yeah, from the maintenance standpoint, uploading documents of work orders and invoices, uh we would get you know JPEG pictures from drivers where you had things in the background you really didn't have any business seeing. Such as it was so far away or so blurry, and then some people had the genius scan, some people had Adobe scan, which was better. Uh, but having the having everything on the the app, they upload the documents. It's so much easy for us to to to file, to make record of, to do what we need to do with it, including the accidents or incidents where they need to send in multiple pictures, uh multiple documents when uh you know the driver exchange stuff, the registration, driver's license, pictures, everything of other drivers that we then have to forward and you know file an insurance claim. It makes it so much easier. Everything in one spot comes in one email, it's all right there. Uh it's uh works great for maintenance.

SPEAKER_06 32:58

I was actually joking the other day and said, I'm just waiting for Patrick to come to me and be like, so when are we gonna uh rewrite Trello? Or excuse me, not Trello, uh Fleo. And I was like, Well, you know, it has been in the back of my mind.

SPEAKER_09 33:13

Well, can we can we start with Trello? So we can get ops off of Trello and not delete cards just uh at touch for a button.

SPEAKER_06 33:20

You know, I I toyed with the idea of moving you guys off of Trello.

SPEAKER_09 33:24

Maybe we get a summary page where I can see multiple things on multiple trucks at the same time.

SPEAKER_06 33:29

The only reason why I didn't do anything with ops was because now I've heard what you've said before and it makes sense. Because you are mobile all the time. Whereas what I built is based on web, which you can't access on a phone, it's just not as laid out and works as good as an actual mobile app.

SPEAKER_09 34:02

We we should talk about Trello and the issues we have with Trello. Okay. And see if it's something that's viable. We got I mean, we have time, let's do it now.

SPEAKER_10 34:09

Okay, maybe outside afterwards. A summary page would be amazing for us.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

Yeah, Carla, did you have something you were gonna say? I thought you raised your hand over there.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

I was listening to what Jimmy was saying about where it helps him, but as far as receipts being turned in so that drivers can be reimbursed, I have noticed that they started using the mobile app to send them in, which is easy also.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

Easier on the eyes, clear captures clear.

SPEAKER_07 34:36

Is it helping with the quality of the receipts? Um receipts have really small fonts, sometimes old, but sometimes blurry. Does it help with that?

SPEAKER_00 34:44

So far, everyone that's come in, uh it's really readable, easy to see. So yeah.

SPEAKER_08 34:51

Very cool. Well, I'm thrilled with it. I absolutely love it. And I love the name. I'm pretty sure. I know you you told me uh uh Buttermilk, you told me that uh you you did the thing where you said Janet once and then you said it again, and not much of a reaction, and then you dropped into our recruiting text, which is uh several of us that have hands in recruiting world, right? Yes. And then uh as soon as you sent it, I immediately responded with, oh my god, I love this.

SPEAKER_03 35:17

Like that's her name. Or who's Janet? Or somebody said maybe who's Janet?

SPEAKER_08 35:21

Yeah, somebody said who's Janet, and then when it was explained, it was like, I love this, this is what we have to do, or whatever. Her new name. And um I'm with you, I agree. I like the fact that it's named. Because as soon as we say it, everyone knows what we're talking about. Sure. It just makes it so much easier than uh the uh high HYSGLC presents the high-field trucking.

SPEAKER_10 35:41

I kept thinking you were saying Neutrella and like I just didn't know what to call it.

SPEAKER_08 35:48

Yeah, um but no, it's really great, and I'm glad to see everybody's jumped on it.

SPEAKER_03 35:52

It integrates well with the Highfield apps.

SPEAKER_08 35:54

We also haven't talked about too, as things have come up, and we're like, hey, it'd be great if we had this function. You actually built a ticketing program within the website itself where we could submit a ticket saying, Hey, it'd be great if we had this feature, and then ta-da, you build the feature in. Like that's been awesome. So it's actually since you launched it, it has changed quite a bit the workflow from all this.

SPEAKER_02 36:18

Yeah, it even alerts us when he's actually working on it. Yeah, it just sits there, and then when he starts working on it, we get an email.

SPEAKER_06 36:24

And then whenever it's resolved, you get an email saying with all my notes of what it actually I did and corrected and fixed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 36:31

And he's going through the trouble to make sure it goes with Apple and Android.

unknown 36:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 36:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 36:37

I know you uh, so I got to be uh super admin or whatever they call it on the back end, and so I actually get to go in there and look at it. And uh I also got uh the the file with the code, and you were like I sent you the actual super. You were like, you were like, under no circumstances are you ever allowed to open this. You have access to it, but do not ever access it.

SPEAKER_06 36:57

Because I thought it was like you get in there poking around, you change one little period, and everything's gonna break. What I was told was to just randomly insert backslashes. That's good, right? No. That's actually not bad, actually. Okay, whenever you do that, that's comment something out. That's to put comments.

SPEAKER_08 37:14

So I should backslash, put a comment in there, backslash it, and then not say anything. And if you find it, that'll be what I get your Christmas photo says.

SPEAKER_09 37:24

Every day backslash. He'll actually probably just write code that goes to it.

SPEAKER_10 37:34

Why hasn't Jerry worked on this for a while? I don't know. I think he's just been at his computer late. That's tough. He hasn't been to bed in three days.

SPEAKER_06 37:41

I actually looked recently and not the admin portal, but just the app, the mobile app. I am just over 57,000 lines of code.

SPEAKER_09 37:52

Jeez. Oh, it's getting a little bloated. A little.

SPEAKER_08 37:55

A little.

SPEAKER_06 37:56

57,000 lines.

SPEAKER_08 37:58

How many lines did they say were in uh Jurassic Park? Six, seven. I think said two million, right? Yeah. Two million? Yeah, about two million. Whatever lines of code. That was a Unix system, I think. Unix Linux? I don't know what it is. So uh those of you that have been hanging out with us for a while, you know one of the things we absolutely love here at the Outer Belt is when y'all send us free stuff, especially candy. Am I wrong?

SPEAKER_03 38:24

I've enjoyed

Listener Gifts And Jelly Belly Tasting

SPEAKER_03 38:25

everything that's been sent. We've had jerky and we had the nuts.

SPEAKER_08 38:28

Yes. We had the uh the uh different flavored um five-hour energy, and we had the sucker that was made of tangent.

SPEAKER_03 38:40

Tahine?

SPEAKER_08 38:41

That's the one. Tahen.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

We did. Boy, we've had a lot of stuff. We've had a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_08 38:48

You know, we need we need something else. I think it would be great if we had something else. What Eric?

SPEAKER_03 38:55

Eric, do you have something?

SPEAKER_07 38:56

For those who aren't watching us, let's give them a hint, see if they can figure out what it is.

SPEAKER_11 39:03

Oh, it's a sewing kit.

SPEAKER_07 39:05

It's a sewing kit.

SPEAKER_08 39:06

I think I need a good thumb uh thimble.

SPEAKER_07 39:11

Mr. David and Miss Ramona, who uh previously gave us um the jerky? The jerky and the nuts. I was gonna say the pecans. The case of nuts. They've also um Oh, the pecans were good. Anyways, yeah. Especially the chocolate covered. Um well the yogurt flavored gifted us with a wide variety of jelly belly jelly beans. Uh they sent us a note saying, uh, dear Highfield team, because I love your podcast, and who doesn't love jelly bellies? Uh it was around Easter time. Yes. And they said belated, happy Easter bunny. Oh, that's awesome. So I'm holding a case that has uh five, ten, fifteen, twenty different flavors.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

And they also sent a bag with those are the good flavors, though, in the in your square on the popcorn.

SPEAKER_08 40:04

There's gonna be a fight with that. I believe that that was for the outer belt podcast people, right? It is taking it specifically says.

SPEAKER_03 40:11

And so that's in a case, and then you got a bag. What's the bag?

SPEAKER_07 40:14

Uh the bag is a one-pound bag of other jellybellies, irregular jelly bells. Irregular.

SPEAKER_08 40:21

We talked about those. We did belly flops. So what's the deal with the irregular uh the irregular bells? Belly flops.

SPEAKER_09 40:28

So what what's the deal with them though? So they they they don't come out of the pot perfectly smooth and round. They might be discolored, they might have cracks in them, they might the shape might be be wrong. Uh so they they don't sell them as first, they sell them as seconds.

SPEAKER_10 40:42

Kind of like an outlet store. Yeah, I was gonna say when I went to uh flops, like I would go to the floor.

SPEAKER_09 40:47

Jellyflops, what they call them, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 40:48

Like back in the day, years ago, you'd go to like Marshall's and you would find like, oh, it's Tommy Hill figure jeans, and they would have the little tag that said irregular. Yeah. And you you'd like to find out that they have one little stitch that's wrong. Exactly. Right.

SPEAKER_03 41:01

A couple of podcasts ago, Vince was telling the story about Jelly Belly and these and that.

SPEAKER_09 41:06

My daughter and I would go visit the factory and we lived in the Bay Area, California, and we would come out with the big old bag of belly flops.

SPEAKER_03 41:13

And I think we mentioned calling out teams to go that direction in synonism. So um thanks for listening to the Outer Belt and thanks for sending uh some treats our way, especially now we can share with with all staff.

SPEAKER_08 41:23

Absolutely. Well, we got these uh either very late April or very early May. Um and we knew we had this secret podcast coming up, so we're like, we're gonna hold on to them for the podcast.

SPEAKER_07 41:35

Yeah, we intentionally held on held off on opening it so we could have a larger group of people to actually taste them out with us.

SPEAKER_08 41:42

Yes, and I believe uh the shelf life on these are five to seven. No, no, six to seven years. Yeah, six to seven years.

SPEAKER_07 41:49

Okay, so what I was gonna do was uh pass the case around. Everybody grab whatever your favorite color is and see if you can guess what flavor it is. Oh we're gonna have a taste today.

SPEAKER_08 42:00

Bum bum bum. All right, uh the first to open. You you are not gonna know uh in real like we're not gonna do this in real time. We're gonna pause it for a second, then we're gonna come back with it, but uh we'll go around the room real quick.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

A few moments later.

SPEAKER_08 42:13

All right, okay. Eric, what'd you get?

SPEAKER_07 42:15

So my favorite color is green, so I pulled out the lime green. And you think it is? I guessed green apple. What'd you get? Lime green sour apple. Oh, well, listen, what did you get? It's close enough. Which color did you pick and flip it upside?

SPEAKER_03 42:32

We'll tell you what color.

SPEAKER_08 42:33

Oh, yeah, good point. Yeah, what color did you get?

SPEAKER_03 42:35

And then I chose the black, which is definitely black licorice. Oh, you don't even have to look like that. Uh I did the lime green, I don't know why I'm using your microphone. Uh I did the lime green with the dark little green specks on it. I already know what flavor that is. It's pear. It is my favorite out of all the jelly bellies.

SPEAKER_08 42:54

Is it any juicy pear? Ooh! Juicy. Vince, which one did you have?

SPEAKER_03 42:59

He had black licorice as well.

SPEAKER_08 43:01

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 43:01

And it was very good.

SPEAKER_09 43:02

Too many people get black licorice.

SPEAKER_03 43:04

I know.

SPEAKER_09 43:04

I do. I skipped. I did not have one. Oh. Because I didn't want to have the sugar. Well, you know what I say about sugar.

SPEAKER_08 43:12

Yes, please. So I had uh I think I had the same one uh Jimmy did. Is that correct? I had the pink with the like the white speckles.

SPEAKER_05 43:22

Yeah, but that's because I stole one. My first choice was cherry, and I grabbed a second one.

SPEAKER_08 43:26

Oh, so what color what was your original then?

SPEAKER_05 43:30

Dark red? It was dark red.

SPEAKER_07 43:32

And what colors are dark red? What colors are dark red? Dark red? Was that uh sizzling cinnamon? No, no. Yeah, the red. Oh, okay. Red apple. Red apple.

SPEAKER_08 43:43

So I got the white, uh I got the pink with the little white specks on it. Not the multicolored specks, just the white specks.

SPEAKER_07 43:48

You had the best one.

SPEAKER_08 43:49

What I have? I think I no, I think it had like strawberries and cream.

SPEAKER_07 43:52

Your strawberry cheesecake.

SPEAKER_08 43:54

Yes! Oh, it's the best. It was great. It brought up my inner Dorothy. All right, uh Jerry Bear, what did you have?

SPEAKER_06 44:00

I had the light yellow with the darker yellow, and I know exactly what that was. Go ahead. Do you feel like drawing a movie?

SPEAKER_08 44:09

Buttered popcorn too, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 44:10

Yeah, buttered popcorn.

unknown 44:11

But I did it a second.

SPEAKER_08 44:13

Senor Don. I had the orange one and I think maybe tangerine.

SPEAKER_07 44:18

Did it have two shades of orange? Like speckled. No. No, I think it was just solid orange. Okay. Orange crush.

SPEAKER_08 44:26

Did it taste like orange crush? Or is it I don't need the. You need another one to verify? Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_10 44:35

I had the very dark green.

SPEAKER_07 44:38

Like uh animal green?

SPEAKER_10 44:41

The darkest one. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 44:43

Yep. What do you think you had?

SPEAKER_10 44:45

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 44:47

Oh! That's how you know it's good. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_10 44:51

I thought it was like a jalapeno, but I think green outside, red inside.

SPEAKER_09 44:57

Watermelon.

SPEAKER_10 44:58

It was not watermelon.

SPEAKER_07 44:59

Yeah. Dark green was watermelon.

SPEAKER_10 45:02

Yep, I'm gonna have to try again.

SPEAKER_07 45:03

Yeah. There you go.

SPEAKER_10 45:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 45:05

You can't do it while I have it upside down looking at the flavors. Yeah. Uh Kalo, how are you?

SPEAKER_02 45:10

I got a dark purple, and I think it's great.

SPEAKER_07 45:15

Was it dark purple like lavender with dark purple specks?

SPEAKER_02 45:20

No, it was solid.

SPEAKER_07 45:22

Okay, that one would be hard to guess. That was Island Punch.

SPEAKER_08 45:27

Oh, that sounds good. It was good.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

But I also do have to admit I stole an orange one because it's my favorite.

SPEAKER_10 45:36

Four people cheated.

SPEAKER_08 45:37

Well, I tell you, we got some cheaters, but they are honest cheaters. They are honest cheaters.

SPEAKER_01 45:41

I did get the popcorn yellow, the multicolor yellow one, because Delina said popcorn's the best. But then I also got the dark blue one. I told you. It's solid blue. It didn't have any specks. And I really don't know what it was. I thought it's some kind of blue raspberry type thing.

SPEAKER_07 45:57

Close blueberry. That would have been my second favorite.

SPEAKER_01 46:00

It was good.

SPEAKER_12 46:03

I just did three.

SPEAKER_07 46:07

I took my own. My second is Tootie Fruity.

SPEAKER_12 46:11

And then my third I thought was fireball, which I've since learned normal people call cinnamon. It was fantastic, though. But I did take three, and I apologize.

SPEAKER_07 46:22

Yep, your third one's right. Sizzling Seminam. Hey, Carla?

SPEAKER_00 46:26

Since I'm amongst thieves. I did not take more than one.

SPEAKER_08 46:34

Which is what you want to hear from your accounting lady.

SPEAKER_00 46:39

But I have already known what these flavors are. So I got the popcorn because I knew that's what it was.

SPEAKER_08 46:45

Oh boy, popcorn sounds like the hit tonight, does it? Yeah, they're good. I'll take all the strawberry cheesecake. You don't have to worry about it. I want to try that one now. No, you don't. Well, you're not getting any. You can go to Kruger sells really belly for the work on home. Thank you, David. Thank you, David Nermano. We appreciate it. It was delicious. Y'all keep them coming. We're going to be still off for another month and a half or so, and then we'll be back. Can I spoil it?

SPEAKER_09 47:10

No.

SPEAKER_08 47:11

Okay. Yes. Can any? What do you think about? Oh, timeout.

SPEAKER_01 47:15

I will also leave you guys some amazing stuff that you can try from our other lovely drivers, David and Alice, that I have upstairs. And you guys can have a podcast with the stuff she left.

SPEAKER_08 47:26

Excellent. They're the ones that left us the Tahen uh pop lollipop and the uh and the the the uh what was the flavor of the uh five hour? It was um ginger and yes, ginger and something it was it was something we thought was outrageous, but yeah, it came out really nice. The ginger was subtle because I don't like ginger. It was really good.

SPEAKER_03 47:48

It didn't matter.

SPEAKER_08 47:49

That was really good. You're looking for I was looking to see if I had a like the wrapper or the lid or because sometimes the little lids show anyways. Uh well they're very, very good. So we we appreciate everything y'all do to uh help keep us on our off our weight loss journey. And uh you know, since Don quit bringing uh catering the green room, we've had to move to outside uh vendors. But um no, this was really great. I really had a blast with all of y'all today. Uh next

Next Cookout Details And Final CTAs

SPEAKER_08 48:20

week. So we just said that you you've missed out on if you're watching us now, you've missed out on the all-staff uh uh cookouts. Uh but next uh month we'll have another uh cookout. It will not be all staff, it will be with the uh Columbus local staff. And uh we would love to have you come out there and hang out with us. Uh if you want to come, please reach out to your um fleet support or uh RSVP on the website. The dates will all be listed on our private Facebook page, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 48:50

Yep, or Melissa. Or Melissa uh and it's for current drivers only of Highfield.

SPEAKER_08 48:56

Correct. So uh that information is on uh the the driver's Facebook page and it's also emailed out. Yes, so um we look forward to seeing all y'all at that. And um I think until we meet again, is there anything they should do that I've forgotten about, Jerry?

SPEAKER_06 49:15

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SPEAKER_08 50:08

And if you need to donate us any products, you can uh leave those at the uh new highfield yard uh and we'll be happy to uh make sure those make it to the podcast.

SPEAKER_09 50:18

Make sure you give them to me personally. And I'll make sure they get stuck to the podcast.

SPEAKER_08 50:22

You give them to Vince personally, and you let Jerry and myself know that you have given it to the freezer that somebody gave you. I do.

SPEAKER_03 50:29

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 50:30

Oh, that's right. But well, at this yeah, anyways. So uh thank you again. Look forward to hanging out with y'all. Uh in just a couple uh months, we'll be back with the Outer Belt crew doing it all over again in our brand new space. What? Anyways, until then, uh y'all stay safe and make good decisions. Don't leave money on the table and keep those wills attorney.

SPEAKER_09 50:54

All right,