Beaucracy VS Trucking Schools

Hey, Mike.

It's been a long time since we talked.

It has, Dan.

Good to

hear from you again.

It seems like not a whole lot has changed, because it seems like the last time we talked, and that was a long time ago, we were talking about bad schools, and we're still talking about schools.

Yeah, we seem to go round and round in circles, I guess is what we'll say.

One step forward, a couple steps back.

But there has been some positive changes in the last six months, years, so I don't want to put everything negative.

It's been taking a lot of screaming and we are seeing some action, but More needs to be done, and there's some actions being taken that don't really amount to a hill of beans either.

So we've got a bit of both, I guess, but I will say at least we are seeing some governments starting to step up enforcement finally and putting resources and money towards that.

So it's not all negative, I guess, is what I'll say.

Isn't that what it comes down to in the end? I mean, it seems to be you make all kinds of rules, you make a standardized test or whatever, but it all comes down to enforcement.

And that's the part that seemed to be

missing.

Exactly.

It doesn't matter how many rules and regulations you have if you're not going to enforce them.

all it means is the the good trucking companies the good schools their costs to operate and play in the sandbox has now just gone up because good operators are going to follow the rules when you put them out they'll find a way to do it the bad operators aren't going to change like the bad operator is not going to go all of a sudden go well i didn't follow the first 15 but now there's a 20th i guess i better start following the rules um yeah so The divide just gets even wider between the compliant and the non-compliant, unless you're going to put serious resources towards enforcing the rules and regs you put out.

A rule without a plan to enforce is pointless.

Jim, I know you've got some tough questions