00:10 Welcome to Six-Figure Trucker, the podcast where we share advice on how to be successful in trucking and have fun while doing so. We’ll share stories, news, and advice on how to earn six figures in trucking, and we’ll speak to guys and gals that are already doing so. Let’s get to the show. Hello everyone and welcome to the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. And those of you who have checked in with us each week, you know this is an area, a time when we elevate and celebrate the driver and everything they do for us, everything they do for the country. And of course here at Norton Transport, we don’t move cargo, we don’t move freight, but we move the trucks that move the freight. And we have a very special guest with us this evening. His name is Bryant Robinson. Bryant, how are you?

00:58 All right.

00:59 Well, Bryant, you know, we spoke earlier about getting together on the podcast here, and I didn’t even ask when we spoke before we started recording. Where are you now?

01:10 Well, I just recently left High Point, North Carolina.

01:16 Gotcha. Gotcha. Now, you’re we should go ahead and clarify this is a late night edition of the Six-Figure Trucker. Of course, you will hear this at the same time on your podcast each Thursday, but we’re recording getting close to the midnight hour. It’s a little after 11. And of course, Bryant, I guess life as a truck driver, you never know where you’re going to be, what time it’s going to be—

01:39 Right? You never know. So—

01:41 How do you cope with that?

01:43 Well, you know, it’s all about timing dealing with this you know, timing and planning, you know. So you got, you know, so once you adjust to that right there, it’s like a walk in the park. But you know, you know what I’m saying?

01:59 I got you. Now, do you deliver tomorrow? Tomorrow being Wednesday.

02:04 Yes, I’ll deliver tomorrow.

02:06 So, are you halfway, more than halfway? Are you betting down for the night? Obviously. Yeah, I’m I’mma bed down and I should be there, you know, another I say probably about 12 1:00, you know, somewhere in my when I crank back up.

02:24 I got you. Now, you don’t have to name the brand, but I’m assuming you’re in a hotel now.

02:30 Yeah, Hilton.

02:32 Okay.

02:32 Hotel.

02:33 Gotcha. Now, when you’re traveling, when you’re doing loads for us here at Norton Transport, do you have a preference of where you stay or do you do it by the dollar sign?

02:45 Well, I kind of do both a little both. It depend, you know? You know what I’m saying? Cuz it depend on the area I am. Sometime, you know, they might have some events going on. So, the rates be outrageous. So, you got to—

03:00 Got to be flexible.

03:02 Yes. I guess, you know, when you’re talking about flexibility and planning and the overnight stays at a hotel, you made a good point that you may be going through a city that has an event going on. Maybe it’s a ball game, maybe it’s a concert, something like that. And you got to make a alterations. Will you go away from that city even if it makes the most sense geographically? Will you go ahead and say, “I’m going to go on to the next town?”

03:29 Yes, most likely. Cuz majority of the time, I mean, if you don’t book ahead of time, they sold out. So, you’ll have to go to the next town.

03:40 Gotcha.

03:40 You know—

03:41 So which town are you laying your head in tonight?

03:43 Well, right now I am in Georgia and I’m near the stationary downtown.

03:54 Oh, okay. Okay. So, you picked up in North Carolina. You’re staying in Georgia. So, which direction are you headed tomorrow?

04:02 Montgomery.

04:04 Oh, okay. So—

04:05 I’ll take out— Yeah. I 20 straight down.

04:08 I got you. So, you’re just cutting across and kind of splitting it.

04:11 Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

04:13 Gotcha.

04:14 Now, I had to ask you this question. I was looking up your information in our system at Norton Transport and I saw your handle is Superb. That’s Superb B like a bumblebee. But tell us the story behind how Superb be came to be your h your handle.

04:30 Well, you know, it’s like a nickname my granddaddy gave me. So, I kind of stuck with that cuz I, you know, I love running around doing stuff, adventurous stuff that this, you know, and he gave me the nickname Super.

04:47 Super B.

04:49 Yeah. B, you know. Now, Superb, were you a young boy when your grandfather gave you this nickname?

04:56 Yeah. Yeah, I was. Yeah. I want to say probably about six, seven years old.

05:01 Were you running all over the place? A kid with a lot of energy?

05:04 Yeah, super energy.

05:07 Do you still have that today?

05:09 Oh, that’s hard to say. That’s a 50-50 question. Now, being Superb B and having energy as a child and hopefully being able to tap into it now as an adult, how much does that help you for the toils and the long hours on the road?

05:29 Well, you know when you’re on that road, you really have to, you know, adjust to all situation. You know what I’m saying? Night cuz if you don’t get the proper sleep, you know, it’ll come down on you. So, I try to get the proper sleep at all time so I can, you know, handle that role and my decision, you know, of trying to drop the truck on time. It’s all about timing with me. So, sometime my day start it might be when you sleep—

06:03 Right? I got you. Job. So—

06:05 Speaking of sleep, you make a very good point and we’ve talked to a few drivers here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport about sleep and the importance of it because when you’re on the road how many hours of sleep do you like to get on a trip? Let’s say you’re taking a truck, let’s say 1,800, 2,000 miles. So, you know, you’ve got to sleep at least two nights, maybe three. How much sleep do you like to get in that time period? Well, I mean I do my thing, you know, that’s required—

06:37 Right?

06:38 You know what I’m saying? So, so, you know, so I can stay on task, you know, until I can, you know, drop my truck off. So, you know, it’s, like I said, everything is about timing, you know, and, you know, your time be changing in different states. Sometime you lose hours—

06:59 You know when you go on the west coast you might lose three hours—

07:02 Right—

07:02 So you know so you got to readjust you know what I’m saying so—

07:07 Is it a difficult process to readjust or is it something you’ve become accustomed to—

07:11 Well I admit came accustomed to that but you know at yeah the very beginning it was kind of shaky I had to you know adjust to it you know going from one area, east coast, central time, and then you got the west coast. You know what I’m saying?

07:31 Right.

07:32 And you know, it kind of throw you off a little bit even with the sleep.

07:36 I got you.

07:37 Cuz you got daytime, night time.

07:39 Kind of elaborate some about, you know, we were talking about sleep, but also quality of sleep and how alert and aware you got to be. Let’s kind of drill down on how important that is. I mean, it seems obvious, but as a driver who does it on the daily how important and where do you want to be? Do you know when you’re not where you need to be as far as, hey, I’m not on top of my game. I’m not 100% aware and alert today. Well, well, one thing about me if I need some rest or I need to pull over or whatever the case may be, because by me traveling a whole lot, I see a whole lot. And I see a lot of fatality, accident, and you know, you got to stay alert. You know what I’m saying? At all time—

08:28 You know, not one time you can’t miss a beat. You know what I’m saying? If you look down wrong, it could be over with for you. You know what I’m saying? So, you got to pay attention. You got to trust your mirrors.

08:40 Be on top of your game—

08:41 At all time.

08:43 Now, you said you’ve seen some accidents and some fatalities.

08:47 Obviously guys like you, drivers like you, you canvas all over the country and you see freeways, highways, country roads, windy roads, you see all kinds of roads. What kind of impression did that make on you when you see these gnarly accidents or even in the worst cases fatalities?

09:05 You know, like I’m the type of person I wish I can help, you know, the situation sometime, you know, you want to stop, not just be nose ill, you know, but at the same time or you see something like that, you really want to do all you can to help the person. You know what I’m saying? But—

09:22 Like I just recently seen a truck burning straight to the ground.

09:26 A big truck. A tractor.

09:28 Yeah, it was a tractor. Mhm. Straight to the ground.

09:32 Was the driver anywhere visible or the driver already left the scene?

09:35 Well, this where this driver he had enough time to you know pull away from his trailer and pull the truck up some from away from the trailer.

09:47 Gotcha. And then so that that probably was a leak from the depth tank or something like that. For that to happen.

09:58 I mean when you see something like that obviously you’re empathetic toward it and compassionate toward it for the loss of the equipment and the you know and the trauma for the driver. But does it resonate with you to the point that you’re like, you know, that could be me—

10:15 At all time. It can be, you know, at any time. It could be you. And it ain’t always got to be your fault, you know—

10:22 Right?

10:23 It could be some other driver or it could be the, you know, the person in the tractor. You know what I’m saying? He done fell asleep. She done fell asleep, you know, coming your way, you know?

10:36 Mhm. I guess when you see something like a fire like that happening, it could obviously be something mechanical. Something that happened that caused that fire, triggered that fire, but I guess it’s something when you think about prevention, does that kind of underscore the pre-trip inspection for you?

10:53 Yes. Yes. I mean, if you can inspect the truck as much as you can, you know, you need to do so. You know, you got to know your truck.

11:03 Walk us through a PTI. Kind of give us what your pre-trip inspections like if take for example the truck you’re in now. What was your pre-trip like today?

11:11 Well, my pre-trip this truck when I first inspect it, you know, I always, you know, check up on my hood, my tie, you know, the drive shaft, you know, I check all over, you know, make sure my gauge is up to par.

11:30 Gotcha. Have you ever done a pre-trip where you found a truck and you’re like, I’m not driving this truck?

11:36 Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you can hear a seal of air, some air, you—

11:42 Know, I listen for sound when I do my pre-trip, you know, sometime you, you know, cuz you can lose pressure from just a little pinhole, you know, and it be faking—

11:56 That could lead to much bigger problems down the road. No pun intended. It will I mean you know you need to take care of that right away or you know just you know who whoever you getting the truck from they might have to you know fix that problem cuz it wasn’t on you know at that time.

12:17 Gotcha. Now what type of truck are you in right now?

12:21 I’m in a 26 foot Penske box truck.

12:24 Box truck. Now, we know this from looking at your background and looking at your profile at Norton Transport. You are a nonCDL driver. Tell us from your perspective. Do you see many differences andor similarities to the CDL drivers?

12:41 Well, you know, they see a little more what you know that I can’t see like for dump trucks and tractor. I mean, you know, the tractors, but for the most, you know, we still do about the same amount of miles. You know what I’m saying? So, you know, we all get paid different, you know what I’m saying, for the mileage. But I don’t see no different, you know what I’m saying? But, you know, I enjoy what I do. You know what I’m saying? As long as you enjoy what you do, and I feel like Norton pretty much take care of they—

13:12 I ain’t had no problem, you know.

13:13 Well, you’re in my head and there’s plenty of room there. But just wanted to ask you, do you find enough work, enough trucks to drive as being a nonCDL guy?

13:24 Yes, I do. I mean, I can’t speak for everybody else, but for me, you know, I’ve been doing pretty good, but you know, you know, everybody, you know, set a goal or what they trying to do weekly, you know.

13:38 So, you know, that’s up to them because everybody got a different, you know, overhead or whatever they got going on. So, Gotcha. With me, you know—

13:47 It’s been good.

13:48 It’s been good to me. You know, I bad to say, but you know, it would be something if Norton, you know, the company itself can bring up some type of program for the non CDL driver to help them get their license through them and then, you know, and they, you know, they can make sale, you know.

14:10 I got you. I got you.

14:11 Yeah. Now, for a superb being on the road, how what’s your goal? What’s your expectation for a week? Do you say I need this many loads? I need this many miles. How do you look at it?

14:25 Well, for me, you know, I truly I, you know, I used to just come straight back home, you know, I do my little South Carolina, North Carolina, and I’m back home. But now I’ve been like stretching it out, you know, going to Minnesota, going, you know, you know, going all over. You know what I’m saying? So, mileage is not a problem to me. You know what I’m saying? Cuz I know how to calculate my mileage with my so I know.

14:56 Gotcha.

14:56 Will it take how much will it take? All of that. Now, you were saying that you previously were doing the shorties, the short runs, but now you’re stretching out on the miles. How do they compare to each other? Obviously, you’re going to make more money on the long runs. For you personally, which ones do you prefer?

15:15 Well, I mean, like now, you know what? I stretch out for like 4 days now. But I used to just come on back home, you know, same day. The turnaround. I’m coming back, you know.

15:31 Well, you live in a good place to do the turnarounds. You live in what? Riverdale, Georgia.

15:36 Yeah. Yeah. Sometime I catch, you know, I catch my Roel and I catch my Griffin, you know, or Madison, something like that, you know, to start my day off sometime, you know.

15:48 Gotcha.

15:49 It works out for me.

15:50 Now, Riverdale is what is that? South of Atlanta.

15:53 Yeah.

15:53 Gotcha. Born and raised there. I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. And you know, I just you know—

16:02 What’s it like for you as far as dealing with Atlanta traffic, whether you’re going to pick up a load or you got a load coming through Atlanta or you’re coming home. Everybody knows particularly around the country and particularly in the southeast, Atlanta traffic is a bear.

16:20 Yeah. But it ain’t that bad to me. If you going through the city then you going to catch but you staying on like on the outstate 285 or something like that it moves. You know what I’m saying? So—

16:36 You know I mean it took it as long cuz you know what I mean like I’m kind of used to another trip. So that like me going on the west coast and I say hey what is this going to LAX or something like that and it’s a miss going up there.

16:51 That was my next question. And in all your travels, which city’s got the worst traffic that you’ve experienced?

16:58 I want to say LA. LAX. Like going to LA.

17:04 It’s a mix.

17:05 How long were you stuck in traffic?

17:08 I guess, you know, it depend on what time you coming through. You know what I’m saying? So I coming through like when people getting off work. So you looking at 4:00, you looking at the hour slow because you got people.

17:23 It don’t always be an accident. There be people getting off at the same mix—

17:27 Right?

17:28 So that what slows you?

17:30 Well, when you’re in your position where you’re driving for a living and you know, time is money. How do you cope with that? How do you deal with it? I mean, we’ve talked to a number of drivers about traffic and as many have said, you know, there’s nothing you can do about it and but your attitude, how do you approach it as far as your demeanor toward traffic?

17:51 Well, I have a lot of patience. So, so that really don’t bother me. You know what I’m saying? And it’s like I said, it’s all about timing. So, if I get a head start, I already added my traffic in a head start.

18:05 Gotcha. You know what I’m saying? So sometime I get up right in front of that traffic. You know what I’m saying? Cuz I get a head start.

18:13 Try to do the timing and the planning to beat that rush hour traffic.

18:17 Yes. Yes. That’s why I like sometime, you know, it depend on where I’m going and picking up from and you know, do they allow me? Do they have 24 hours pick up or something like that? I like driving at night time going into the morning time. So—

18:33 So you like to drive at night? Yeah—

18:36 You make better time.

18:37 Just better time, less traffic, less hassle with do all of that.

18:44 I got you.

18:54 You’re listening to Bryant Robinson giving us some advice and stories from the road here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. Bryant, we got to ask you Superb B. NonCDL driver, live in the greater Atlanta area. You’ve been doing this for a minute.

19:10 Well, you know, I’ve been driving like I want to say a couple of years now. About seven years.

19:18 Gotcha.

19:18 And—

19:19 How did you fall into it? How did you get into it?

19:22 With driveaway or this driving period.

19:25 Yeah.

19:26 Oh, well, I had a I got a uncle that’s been in this business like what 30 something. It’s in the DNA. Gotcha. You kind of fell into his footsteps.

19:36 Yeah. Yeah. You know, we got that grinding.

19:40 I got you.

19:41 Well, it certainly helps to have that patience, too.

19:44 Yeah. You got to have patience. I, you know, I also, you know, I help a lot of people, too, with this kind of my phone ring. It rings off the hook—

19:54 From other drivers.

19:55 Help people get other drivers. We network. But you know if somebody in a bad situation I’m there my phone stay on 24 hours.

20:06 That’s cool. We certainly appreciate that and even more so the drivers I’m sure they appreciate that. You talked about networking. What kind of things go on within the network as far as— Well, let me back up for a second. Do you I would imagine your network is all nonCDL drivers.

20:24 No, no, no, no, no, no. All CDL drivers as well. So they talk to you as well.

20:29 Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

20:32 What kind of things do you guys talk about? What are some of the hot topics in that network circle there?

20:38 We mainly, you know, a lot of some CDL drivers, you know, they logs, you know, some of them still have problems with, you know, but like I say, I help a lot of people. I’m there to walk them my all the way through the process. Whatever they need, I’m there.

20:58 Gotcha.

20:58 You know, if I don’t know something, I make a phone call or if it’s a dispatch or not, you know, they can’t get in contact with somebody, I’m making a phone call trying to make sure they get out that situation. You know what I’m saying? So—

21:13 We certainly appreciate that. You’re listening to Superb Bryant Robinson here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. What is it about you that gives you that helpful nature? Well, that that that comes from my grandparent, you know, like, you know, we always want to help, you know, and that’s in my heart. So, so it’s genuine, you know what I’m saying? So, that’s what I do, you know.

21:42 Kind of living the golden rule. That’s you know if and then you know a lot of people get mad because they don’t understand they don’t have the information you know what I’m saying I try to whatever information that I have I try to imply that you know and get it to them so that way—

22:01 Information is free you’re free to share it—

22:04 Yes and you know that helps out a lot of times cuz you know y’all have a lot of new dispatchers as well— So they don’t be quick on their feet. You know what I’m saying? That I’ve been messing with y’all, you know, a couple years now. So I helped the situation even with that. You know what I’m saying? So I put it all together. So So everybody be happy. You know what I mean?

22:28 We appreciate it, Bryant. Now, speaking of dispatchers, I think I know who your primary dispatcher is, but tell us about your dispatcher and what that relationship is like. Whereas Fel is, you know, she wherever she go, I go. So we like, you know what I’m saying? We like sister and brother now. So we talk about anything. You know what I’m saying? But I can feel when she going through something or something like that. You know, I’m much older, so I understand. You know what I’m saying? I understand business cuz I don’t ran my own business anyway. So I don’t really be so emotional about certain situation.

23:10 I got you. Now you can pick up if she’s having a good day or a bad day—

23:15 Right off the hand and that’s with anybody. I’m an energy person.

23:20 Right now you know being a patient person, energy person, superb be—

23:26 Helpful person. Is are there points, you know, where a lot of drivers talk about the relationship with the dispatcher is a two-way street? Now, I’m sure you lift up Sierra and I’m sure the reverse of that is true as well.

23:41 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, sometime, you know, when a lot of these jobs, you know what I’m saying? Not saying it’s bad thing, but they might put a little too much on the person. You know what I’m saying? And you could be either one or two thing. You be underst staff or over staff. And majority of time you be understaffed. And if people not saying my dispatcher, she’s you know I’ve been with her since she came in. She’s great to me. You know what I’m saying? But a lot of people they you know you just can’t throw them out there right away because they ain’t ready for that 30 40 people that you might throw at them at one time and then you know they don’t handle the situation like they supposed to.

24:32 Got you.

24:32 You know what I mean? And that energy you feel it right?

24:36 You know.

24:37 Mhm. Cuz somebody might be calling them not, you know, coming at them the wrong way and they don’t understand like how to shift some rain. They don’t even know, you know what I’m saying? But they coming at them like they ignition is trying to do it personally, but it ain’t got nothing to do with personal be.

24:56 You know what I’m saying?

24:57 Oh, yeah. What do you come to or what are you looking for when you have that interaction, that close relationship, that close conversation with your dispatcher? What’s what are the things that are most important to you as far as what you need to know?

25:12 Well, my thing is, you know, you got to have some kind of bond with somebody when you when you’re dealing with this. You know what I’m saying? So, you know, I just, you know, I mean, like I’m a people person anyway. So, I rub on everybody. Age one person, you know what I mean? So, I guess cuz that’s the giver, you know? I do a lot of stuff for people, you know what I’m saying? But, like I’m just that’s just me, you know what I mean? It ain’t got nothing to do with—

25:40 I got you.

25:40 You know what I’m saying? You know, it’s just they’re just me.

25:43 I got you. You’re listening to Bryant Robinson here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. Bryant lives in Riverdale, Georgia, just south of Atlanta. That’s just about an hour and 45 minutes from our office in Ringgold, Georgia, the home base of Norton Transport. Bryant, have you had the chance to drop in and visit with some of us?

26:03 Yeah, I dropped in and did a surprise visit. And I met, you know, majority are one of I think one of the oldest. So—

26:15 Okay. So you met Calvin Norton?

26:17 Yeah.

26:18 Now, did you get a chance to spend some time with Sierra? Well, I spoke. We spoke for, you know, for a little while. You know what I’m saying? I just want to meet who I’m, you know, I want to put a face, you know what I’m saying, with even with the people, some of the dispatches I used to be with. I want to put a face with them, too, as well.

26:36 Gotcha.

26:37 So, I just walked in.

26:39 Now, you were talking about you started off doing the shorties, you’re starting to do the longer runs now. Do you like to be home for the weekends or do you run over the weekends? Well, now I would love to be at home for the weekends cuz I like my college football. So that give me peace.

26:58 I got you. Now living in Riverdale, Georgia, who’s your team?

27:02 You know, I want to give a shout out right now to my to one of my teams right now that’s all doing a little something right now. That’s Colorado Buffalo. We doing prime time.

27:15 Coach Prime. Coach Prime. That’s I want to give a shout out to him.

27:19 That’s quite a story that he’s got going on there. Now, do you did you follow Prime Time when he was at Florida State and then in the NFL?

27:28 All that. Yeah. All that, you know? I mean, that that’s who he is. You know what I’m saying? So, he always connected.

27:35 It’s kind of it’s easy to pull for him. You see what he’s done. I mean, what he did at Jackson and what he’s doing now out in Boulder, Colorado. What do you like about him and the Buffalo? The camaraderie like bringing everybody together, you know what I’m saying? And got them upbeat, the spirit, believing, you know what I’m saying? So, I’m y’all Dion for y’all company, you know, bringing people together.

28:03 I like that.

28:04 Yeah. I mean, there’s a lot to be learned from what he has done with an organization, the Buffaloos that were, you know, seller dwellers for so long. I think they only won one game last year. Now they’re sitting there ranked and undefeated at the moment 3 and 0.

28:22 Yeah—

28:22 How do you kind of push that out into the trucking world as far as that kind of spirit, that kind of energy, that kind of camaraderie? Is there a lot to be learned from that?

28:34 Yeah. Yeah. Cuz it like I said, you know, when you dealing with people, you know what I’m saying? And then not only that, you know, I’m representing Norton, too. You know what I’m saying? When I’m out and about, so you got to have good energy at all time. Don’t even matter if that person ain’t having good. I always try to reverse it.

28:57 You know what I’m saying?

28:58 Oh, yeah.

28:59 That’s me. That’s me. So, you know what I’m saying? And I feel like that and I feel like that’s the you know what I’m saying? He’s bringing everybody together. Even though it’s some Dallas and Nath, you don’t worry about that. You keep pushing and you let your work show. Now, let’s talk about that for a minute. We kind of you really gave us some good insight to the relationship with the dispatcher, but another aspect of your relationships are obviously with customers cuz you’re dropping that truck off to a customer. How do you approach that? You said you’re representing Norton. How do you handle that? Let’s say you go to a customer that’s not real friendly, not real receptive. How do you handle that situation?

29:48 Well, you know, I mean, I don’t ran that simple time, but that’s okay with me. But I got to stay once you know when I let him know what I’m here for and he know he’s aware of that you know and then he might sometime they come off like real rude but you got to readjust you know what I’m saying? So what I do is you know I still I do my normal you know I’mma speak to you know even if you know sometime I might get a handshake sometime I might don’t but I’m going be respect it’s all about your approach so if I come to you with a good approach you don’t know how has to return you know what I mean so if your energy bad and I come with that goody that good spirit you know what I’m saying it’ll overwh you know what I’m saying? At the end, hey, you know what I’m saying? I feel like I’m doing my job.

30:50 You know, my duty is—

30:52 That—

30:52 You know what I’m saying? Be respected. That philosophy, the way you deal with customers, the professionalism, the respect that you carry in your day-to-day job. Is that something that you kind of share with people in your network that you help out?

31:08 Yeah, cuz I always talk to people, you know, because you got to keep your emotion in check at all time.

31:14 Gotcha. So, you know, you know, at the end of the day, you know what I’m saying? Y’all got a contract with, you know what I’m saying? But I know if it’s getting out of hand, I know how to pick up the phone and give y’all a call and see if y’all can, you know, give somebody else a call to, you know what I’m saying? But I it should never go that far.

31:33 Take care of it right then and there.

31:35 Yeah. You know, like I like with me anyway, I you know, I deal with customer anyway. I had a small convenience store for a couple of years on my own. So I deal with people, right? Different attitude, emotional, you know, so you got to readjust. So—

31:51 What was it like running a convenience store, being the business person in that—

31:56 You know, with me? That’s all about family and community. So I helped the community. So you know, that’s all I was raised on. You know what I’m saying? You know when I was coming up but I ain’t really understand you know about the business or something like that but I seen that how you can bring the community together by doing this is this showing that you appreciate you know what I’m saying so I do that now—

32:28 Was this convenience store in the Atlanta area—

32:31 Yeah it was at College Park Georgia—

32:33 College Park that’s a growing area.

32:36 Yes, it’s a big growing area.

32:38 Now, you mentioned how you’re a big believer in family and community. Give us a kind of a little insight of Superb Bee’s family. What’s it like?

32:48 Well, you know, I got a wife. I’ve been married for 22 years.

32:52 Good for you.

32:53 I have a son that’s 28 years old. I just recently had he just had his first child, so I’m a granddad. Was that your first is that the first grandchild for you?

33:06 Yes.

33:08 How are you adapting to being a grandfather?

33:11 Well, you know, you know, I pretty much raised all my nieces and nephews. So, Nestling like you know—

33:18 Comes naturally.

33:19 Yeah. I’m a proud granddaddy though.

33:21 Grandfather superb. Grandfather super—

33:24 Super B. You hear me?

33:28 Now, how old you said your son just recently had a baby. How old? Yeah. Yeah. So, my son, he’s 23. He’ll be 28 this year.

33:36 I mean, the child the baby is it a baby?

33:39 Oh, he’s like Yeah. He’s still two weeks old.

33:42 Oh my goodness. So, you got a lot in front of you there.

33:47 Yeah.

33:47 A lot of bonding time with it.

33:49 I Yeah. I got to leave by example at all time.

33:52 I got you.

33:53 At all time.

33:54 So, your kids are grown, but now you got a grand baby right there. Is this something that has any influence on how much time you’re on the road?

34:03 Well, you know, like I kind of I start my week I try to start my week on a Sunday and end it on a Thursday. That give me three day two day, you know, something like that. Somewhere in there.

34:15 You kind of almost squeeze in a three-day weekend almost.

34:20 Yeah. Have having that flexibility and that luxury as a driveaway driver. How important is that to you?

34:30 I value my time and so that’s where one of the things I like about the company cuz I can value my I can you know explore my time a little better you know and that’s the freedom of it. What would you say to someone who’s considering moving into driveaway? Because you’ve had a lot of experience driving, a lot of life experience running a convenience store being a family man, and what your parents and grandparents taught you. How would you what would your counsel be to someone who may be thinking about moving into driveaway? Well, what I always let them know it’s all about information. And once you understand the information, then the approach of be different. You know what I’m saying? But when you don’t understand, then that’s that become the problem.

35:24 So, I always kind of like let them know what they getting into from the top to the bottom.

35:31 Cuz when I first started, I’m going tell you the truth, I was all over the place. You know, trying to adapt to the confident, you know, so it took me about a good week. Yeah. You know, one thing about me, you know, when I challenge myself, I’m going figure it out and I figured it out, you know, but I also start networking with other people so I can get some better understanding, you know. That’s why I don’t mind hitting others so they won’t have to go through it.

36:06 It sounds like you’re a quick learner.

36:08 Quick learner, you know, and so I just try to make it way they’ll be comfortable from the start getting out the gate.

36:19 Kind of give them a little cliffnotes version of what you need to know.

36:23 Yeah, that’s very important. You’re listening to SuperB Bryant Robinson here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. Bryant, you’ve been doing this for I think you said seven, eight years. How much longer do you see yourself doing it?

36:38 Well, you know, hey, you can’t never put a time plate on it, but you know, as long as you enjoying what you doing and you making money, cuz the number one thing is money. I love money. So, you know, right now I’m enjoying it. I’m enjoying it. I appreciate the company, you know, for allowing me to for this opportunity be up under their authority. I appreciate that.

37:06 You’re listening to Bryant Robinson here on the Six-Figure Trucker, and you heard him just now say it. He loves money. It’s all about the money. And I it appears that it’s working out pretty well for you.

37:17 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Well, Bryant, thank you for taking time out of your schedule before you lay your head down on the pillow and continue your transport. You’ve given us a lot of good advice kind of an insight into your philosophy. What would you say is the most important thing you can do when you’re on the road? Most important thing to do when you on that road is make sure you paying attention and holding cuz your life meaning and that’s the truth.

37:54 The truth from Super B right there. You heard it here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. Bryant, thank you so much for joining us and hang with me for just a minute as we wrap up. We got a couple of little things need to run by you, but we’re signing off here. Bryant Robinson spending some time with us on the Six-Figure Trucker. One last thing, Bryant. Anybody you want to give a shout out to other than Coach Prime?

38:19 Oh, yeah. I want to give several shout out. You know, I got I want to give a shout out to Mark my quiz truck move was the on the move. He got his own moving company. I just want to give a shout out to him. And I just recently lost somebody that that was in the APD law enforcement.

38:42 Mhm.

38:42 I want to do a moment of silence right now for him cuz that’s still to my heart right now. So I want to do a moment of silence. She Andre pardon me. All right, Bryant. Again, thank you very much for joining us and be safe on the road. That’s the most important thing for you and everyone else on the road.

39:09 All righty. And I appreciate you, man.

39:12 All right. Thank you.

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40:05 You got it.