00:05 Now, that story you were telling there about the nutcup that gives new meaning to balls and strikes.

00:12 Oh, yeah. And it makes you sing like Prince.

00:17 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.

00:41 Hello everyone and welcome to the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. This is a format every week where we lift up, elevate and celebrate the truck drivers. Of course, they are the backbone of our company. Without them, we would not be able to get by. And we have a very special guest joining us tonight, Kevin Tutt. Kevin, how are you?

01:01 I’m good. And you?

01:02 I’m doing great. Not as good as you because we talked earlier. You’re on vacation, right?

01:07 I am.

01:08 Tell me about who you’re on vacation with, where you are, and what you’re doing.

01:11 I’m in Disney World, Orlando, Florida. I’m with my two sons, and my one son’s wife, he’s married. My grandbaby, my kid’s mother, and my son’s wife’s sister.

01:29 So, you guys got a whole crew there.

01:31 Yeah.

01:32 What’s the weather like there in Disney World?

01:34 It’s nice. It was nice today. The sun was out all day. It’s starting to get a little cool now, but it’s we’re on the last ride right now. We’re going to head in after this.

01:43 Have you been jumping on any of the rides or you just watching?

01:46 Yeah, I just came off the Millennium Falcon.

01:50 The Millennium Falcon? Star Wars.

01:52 Yep.

01:53 How was it?

01:54 It was my second time I’ve been on that ride. This time I was an engineer. I mean, all you had to do is push a button. It was like a simulated ride. It was cool.

02:02 Cool. Cool. Cool. Now, are the kids enjoying it?

02:05 Oh, yeah.

02:07 There’s only one kid.

02:08 Only one kid. That child is enjoying it.

02:11 Oh, yeah. She’s having a great time.

02:12 Well, that’s fantastic. Now, obvious question here. You’re in Orlando. You’re on vacation. You got a big family trip there. I’d like to think that that’s possible because you’re one of our independent contracted drivers.

02:26 Yes.

02:26 So, you’ve been able to take advantage of time on the road.

02:30 Yes. And I was able to take off what I wanted to take off so I can make it.

02:33 Was this had this vacation been in the works for some time?

02:37 Yeah, it’s been in the work for a couple months now. Yeah.

02:40 And you talk about you mentioned there take off when you want to. What kind of freedom does that give you where you know you don’t have to ask to take off. You can take off whenever you want.

02:51 Well, that that’s wonderful. It’s you like I said, you know, there’s a lot of jobs that won’t give you the time off sometimes and you know, it’s easier to make plans when you can do your own thing. And I’m on the road a lot. So, you know, when I take time off, it’s not much. But this was a well-deserved week off.

03:08 So, when did you got down there? A couple days ago, is that right? Yeah, I got here on Tuesday.

03:14 Okay. Got there on Tuesday.

03:15 I delivered my last truck on Monday. I mean on Tuesday morning. I delivered my last truck. Then I got on the plane and flew down here.

03:22 Well, you didn’t waste any time.

03:24 No.

03:25 Now being in Orlando, can you— We were talking about this earlier before we started recording. You can still see some of the remnants of Hurricane Milton.

03:34 Yeah. Very little here, but like the Airbnb we’re staying in, the whole back fence is torn out. And there’s some debris on the ground out front, but—

03:49 Orlando didn’t get hit too bad.

03:50 Oh, no, no, no, not at all. What’s the crowd like down there? Is it seems like it’s always crowded at Disney World.

03:59 Well, you know, when we went to where we went earlier today, it was kind of light and then it started to get moderate. And when we were leaving, it seemed like there was most people there. And then we went to the Epcot Center and there’s a lot of people at Epcot.

04:14 Oh yeah, that’s a popular.

04:15 But yeah, now we’re at the Universal Kingdom or something like that.

04:21 It’s Hollywood something is where we at.

04:23 Okay. We certainly appreciate you taking time out of your vacation to talk to us. And you know, you had mentioned that when you drive, you drive a lot. And I did a little research. You’re knocking out 8,200 miles a month. Did you realize you were on the road that much? Well, I know it was something like that.

04:40 8,200 miles a month, you must love life on the road.

04:44 I don’t.

04:45 Oh, you don’t? Okay.

04:47 Oh, no. I used to have a saying a long time ago. Anything over an hour was too much. But I mean, it’s the way I make my living, so I don’t mind driving. I mean, I just do it.

04:58 I got you. I got you.

05:00 I got Yep. I got introduced to the driveaway game, like I said, back in 19 2019. I didn’t understand it at first, but once I got the hang of it, I was off and running after that. I hardly ever came home.

05:13 How’d you get introduced to it?

05:15 Well, it was really strange cuz I left Minnesota. It was getting to be wintertime and I wanted to get away from Minnesota because I hate the cold.

05:22 Get the hell out.

05:23 And yeah, and I went to Phoenix, Arizona to a friend’s house and cuz he’s like, “Man, come here and, you know, till you get on your feet and then do what you got to do.” And I was like, “Okay.” Well, when I got there, he accused me of being after his girlfriend, which I knew him and her. I known the girl longer, but that wasn’t the case. And so, it caused a little conflict, but and I got the job driving for another driveaway company just in the nick of time, and it was able to let me get out of there. And I just I did a whole bunch of California runs. I went from Marino Valley all up through California, Northern California, Sacramento, places like that. And it took, like I said, I didn’t really learn the real ropes until I ran into another driver. We went to Indiana to pick up these trucks and we drove them all the way to California. They were eight they were UPS trucks.

06:15 Okay.

06:16 And then that’s when I learned about how to make money and shop, you know, I go to the, you know, the I fuel up at the places where it’s less than like going to the Pilots and the Love’s because those are the most expensive fuel places. Mhm.

06:31 So, yeah, I just, you know, I learned to save on fuel and I started putting a couple extra coins in my pocket, though.

06:37 Well, you know, you talk about saving on fuel. When you’re talking about a diesel, a tractor that, you know, holds over a 100 gallons, a penny here and a penny there adds up—

06:48 Right? It does. Yeah. And I mean, we took some regular unled vehicles, too. So, I mean, I drove so many UPS trucks, it’s ridiculous.

06:57 So, you were driving the step vans? Yeah. Well, we call them bread trucks.

07:03 Yeah.

07:03 But yeah, they were— Yeah, they were the step vans. Yeah.

07:07 You’re showing your age there.

07:08 I hooked up with this other— Yeah. Well, that’s what happened.

07:10 Yeah, I understand though.

07:12 And I hooked up with another driver and me and him, we were running those trucks from coast to coast.

07:17 Was that fun?

07:18 And I mean, it was a— Well, the first couple runs we discovered we got to come through Phoenix in those areas at night because it’s too hot. When you’re driving in a truck that doesn’t have any air conditioning, you know, it gets a little warm.

07:33 You gotta you got to plan your stops.

07:35 You got to plan your stops. Exactly. So, we slept in the day and we drove at night.

07:39 That’s I hear you, brother. Now, you were talking about you’ve learned a lot since you started picking it up and I was looking at your profile there. You’d been basically been running about 5 years before you came to us. Have you picked up any more tricks of the trade since you came to Norton Transport?

07:57 Well, another trick is to really find somebody to run with you—

08:01 Because you can save money on rentals and things like that, you know, and you can kind of look out for one another cuz you know even though you get 11 hours of drive, sometimes you can get sleepy in that 11 hours drive, you know.

08:15 Sure.

08:17 Yeah. So if we, you know, see a guy swerve to the right or left, I’d call him on the phone and say, “Are you all right?” And he tell me, you know, what the case might have been, you know, but like I said, you learn to get somebody that’s good to run with and you look out for each other.

08:31 I mean, there’s great money to be made at the, you know, in the driveaway service. That’s why I’ve been doing it so long.

08:37 I got you. I got you. Now, do you run with somebody on the regular? I haven’t really found nobody yet since I’ve been with Norman, but you know, I still keep, you know, I stick to the grind and it depends on who you run into.

08:51 Well, if you guys are out there listening, Kevin Tutt looking for a running mate.

08:55 Yep. A good running mate will make I mean, then it’s kind of hard to pull off short runs when you if you got somebody who can run with you. You can even you get some short runs, you know, and just rent a split the cost on a rental car.

09:07 And if there’s four or five of them, give them all to us, you know. We’ll take them off, you know.

09:12 Yeah.

09:12 And get those short runs out of the way, you know. But it’s hard to do that when you don’t have nobody to run with because, you know, it’s got to make sense, you know. It’s definitely got to make sense for you to take a run. You can’t take a run where it’s going to cost you a couple hundred bucks to fly to and it’s only five or six hundred miles. You’ve kind of shot yourself in the foot by doing that—

09:31 Right? Unless you find a cheaper way to get there, you know.

09:34 So, it’s always about finding your best route, you know.

09:37 You know, some drivers, obviously, most drivers love the long runs. I’m sure you do, too. But there’s money to be made also on the short runs if you plan it right.

09:46 There’s definitely money to be made on. You just got to make sure they make sense.

09:49 Those connecting runs, I mean, if you can get some of those to take a long one then a short one to get to another long one, that’s a good week right there.

09:57 Oh, exactly. Yeah. Exactly. I wanted to run down some of your stats here just to kind of pat you on the back here. You’ve got a 96% check-in percentage, 96%, 90% completion, and 67% on time. All those good marks. Thank you very much, Kevin.

10:16 Y do you take I don’t know any of those till now, so—

10:20 Did you do you take pride in doing your job and doing it well?

10:24 Oh, always. I mean, you know, even if I don’t really care for the run or I look at where I got to go with the run, you know, if as long as I can get out of some place, I’m pretty cool with it, you know. I’m going to take care of the truck and get it to from A to B, you know, safely and under the regulations, you know, and get on to the next truck. That’s what I’m about, you know. So, I tend to go to Minnesota a little more now because I got a little friend that I hooked up with and so I try to sneak in there and see her when I can. But—

10:57 I gotta I got you. What part of Minnesota?

11:00 Right in front of cities where I’m from.

11:02 Okay. I got you. That’s a nice area. Minneapolis, South St. Paul there. It’s a clean city. I’ve been up there and from that struck me it’s like it’s a pretty clean city.

11:13 Only thing I don’t like, like I said, I don’t like the snow and I hate the cold.

11:16 Yeah. Now you got to get out of there come about this time of year.

11:20 So I normally get out of there for the winter.

11:23 Snowbird it. Snowbird it there.

11:25 Yep. Exactly.

11:26 Now you like we were talking you had about five years experience prior to coming on board with Norton and what kind of lessons have you learned in your time before Norton and your time with Norton?

11:40 Well, main thing got to keep them logs clean. I got in log trouble a long time ago. And ever since then I’ve been minding my logs like I’m supposed to. You just got to follow the rules. I mean, it’s not a hard job at all, you know, but sometimes you might get detourred or things like that. If you don’t pay another thing you got to pay attention to is the weather. I mean, you don’t want to drive through a blizzard somewhere or hit like the take the hurricanes that were just came through here, you know. Yeah, that impact—

12:13 I didn’t take anything.

12:14 That impacted a lot of our drivers both of—

12:17 Oh, yeah. I’m sure it did.

12:18 Both of the hurricanes, a lot of plants shut down, a lot of drop points closed down, a lot of pickup points closed down. North Carolina was really bad because of—

12:28 I when they shut 40 down. Yeah—

12:29 When they shut 40 down. Exactly.

12:32 And—

12:33 Yeah, I didn’t take anything down that way.

12:35 Well, that’s smart. I mean, the underscore paying attention to the weather across the country—

12:39 Right? You got to I mean they Norton sends out you know memos and stuff you know but even with them sending out memos you still got to plan ahead. You got to look ahead and see what’s coming your way if you can you know look I’m going this way what am I going to run into because you know you don’t want to get stranded somewhere. I got stuck out on 40 like four years ago. All of a sudden I drove into a storm that I didn’t pay attention to and I was heading to California with that truck and I sat on the freeway for 11 hours.

13:08 Where was it? I was right before I was about 300 miles before El Paso, Texas.

13:16 Describe the storm to us. What was the storm like?

13:19 Well, as I was driving, I started seeing these signs and they were like, winter warning ahead blah blah blah 15 inches of snow. I was like, “Oh my god, did I read that right?” And so I kept going and so then we stopped. Like I said, we stopped on the freeway there. It might have just been past El Paso, but and we came to a stop on the freeway and I mean, and another thing was I only had like a quarter take of fuel. So, I’m sitting there. I’m like, “Okay, we’ll see how long this is.” And I had my fuel stop planned already, but I had to stop about two miles up after we I finally drove up they cleared out the right lane. And what the problem was were the semis, their tires were bad and they were just spinning out.

14:05 Mhm. So they were blocking lanes. So we they made it so we creeped up the side and then I stopped at a chevron. I only put a little bit of gas in there though cuz that chevron was high and so I put some fuel in there. But I mean I went to sleep right there on the freeway. It was crazy man. Nobody was moving.

14:24 What kind of truck were you in?

14:25 I was in a box truck.

14:28 I bet that was cold.

14:30 It was cold. Yeah. And it was cold too. It was crazy. But I mean, I that was about the worst thing that had ever happened to me out here on the road. I mean, and I was driving and this guy almost ran me off the road and I had to pull over for a little bit cuz I got a little shook up. Semi driver just driving crazy, man. The things you see out there is accident wise, man. It’s just crazy. It’s I think a lot of people out there driving beyond their time and not resting like they should—

14:58 Right?

14:59 So, you know, I’ve seen a lot of that, too. I’ve seen a lot of bad accidents. I haven’t been in, thank God. You see a lot when you’re out there. If you’re paying attention, you’ll see a lot.

15:07 You’re listening to Kevin Tutt here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. Kevin is joining us from Orlando on his vacation with an extended family there at Disney World. Kevin is some of the younger folks are on the rides and he’s waiting for them to get off the rides. And we appreciate you taking time to be with us, Kevin. And my understanding is back in your younger days. Well, before we go back into your younger days, you got a birthday coming up a couple days from now, right?

15:38 Yep. Sunday.

15:39 And it’s always good to talk to a fellow Libra. You know, Libras know how to get it done. And right—

15:46 Wanted to ask you about back in your youth, you used to play some sports.

15:50 Yes, I did.

15:51 What was your favorite sport and what position did you play within that sport? Well, my favorite sport was baseball and I used to love— Well, first I started out as a catcher until I got hit somewhere with the ball. So then—

16:07 Yeah, I went after that I went Yeah, I went to the outfield and that’s because you know when I was young my grandmother raised me because my mother died when I was five and my grandmother we didn’t have a lot of money so I didn’t have money for what they call a nut cup.

16:22 Yeah. Yeah.

16:23 And so that— Yeah. And so then I got hit with that ball and then I was like, ” I’m going out in the field.” And so I played left field for a lot of years. I loved the position and I moved to center for a while and I had to play right field one for one team because you know they had the left and center field taken. So if I wanted to play I had to play right field.

16:43 Gotcha. Yeah. That gives—

16:45 But I did play basketball and football. Now that story you were telling there about the nutcup that gives new meaning to balls and strikes.

16:54 Oh yeah.

16:57 And it make you sing like Prince—

17:00 Who is from Minnesota.

17:03 Yeah. Who is from Minnesota. Yeah. And he was very good at basketball, too.

17:07 Well, that’s a I did not know that Prince was not a—

17:11 Not a tall guy.

17:13 Well, there you go.

17:14 Yeah. That’s probably why that didn’t really go anywhere. But—

17:18 Well, speaking of music, you’ve had a background in music as well, haven’t you?

17:22 Oh, yeah. I’m a drummer.

17:23 How long have you been a—

17:24 And I started out on guitar back when I was young. Me and my brother were going to be the next Jimi Hendrixes.

17:32 Yep. Yep.

17:32 And my dad bought us both guitars for Christmas one year. And then we started to learn how to play. A guy who was teaching us how to play guitar was actually a guitar player for I can turn.

17:47 Oh, wow. Learning from the best.

17:50 But yeah, well, you know, and he got short changed on that by his father because his dad got lonely and called him and told him he was sick and had his son come in off the road withina turn and found out that he wasn’t sick and but he never went back out after that because he lost his position. M—

18:08 But yeah that guy taught us how to play and then I didn’t like getting blisters so it slowed me down from learning but then we started we got in a band with six guitar players. It was crazy.

18:20 That’s a bass player and a drummer.

18:23 Yeah. And so at that particular time we had nobody who knew how to read. We knew no nobody who knew how to sit down and listen to a song and say okay this is what you got to play. So the only song that we could actually play was 25 or 64 by Chicago.

18:37 Oh yeah, that’s a great song.

18:38 So yeah, we yeah, we’d play that song and everybody would get their little guitar solo and then we’d stop and then we’d fiddle around for an hour because we didn’t know how to play anything else. And so I got tired of that. I like I told my brother, “So we need to form our own band.” So we started looking for a bass player. We found a bass player, but we couldn’t find a drummer. And that’s when I switched. And I told my dad I want I said, “Dad, I need a drum set.” He’s like, “Well, didn’t I just buy you a guitar?” I was like, “Well, that was your other son.” And he’s like, “Yeah, right.” But he bought me the drum set and I stayed with it. So, I’ve been playing drums for ever since I was 13.

19:13 Was it a pretty easy transition from the guitar to the drums?

19:16 It was for me. And it’s funny cuz my uncle was actually the one who got us started wanting to play. My uncle moved in this we stayed in this duplex in St. Fall and he moved downstairs and he had a band and they rehearsed in the basement—

19:30 And I my grandm used to tell us to stay away from down there but I used to sneak down there anyway—

19:35 Of course—

19:35 And for some reason back even back then I got I was infatuated with the drummer—

19:40 Right—

19:40 And his name was Paul Aguilar and I used to watch Paul play and he would hit me in the stomach with the stick and I couldn’t figure out how he could do that and not miss a beat.

19:49 Wow, that’s some rhythm. But I also thought— Yeah, I also thought that that was my payment for learning how to play because that’s I that’s actually how I learned how to play was watching him.

19:58 Well, here’s the question. What was the name of the band that you guys formed?

20:03 Should I form?

20:04 Yeah. That you formed?

20:05 You know, it was Eternal Flight.

20:07 Eternal Flight.

20:08 Yep.

20:08 Oh, that’s cool. That’s cool. And—

20:11 Yeah. And we were together. Yeah. We were together about seven years.

20:14 And that that guitar fair I told you he taught us how to play, he played with us. His name was Joe Wilson. Okay. Did you guys get gigs? I mean, did you play around town or—

20:23 Yeah, we did. Yep. Yeah, we played all through St. Paul and then we got to the point where, you know, we were in the basement too long and then there was this girl involved, which is always a girl, man. I tell you. My brother and the bass player both messed with her and then they got in each other’s face about that girl—

20:40 And we broke up.

20:41 That was the end of the band, huh?

20:43 And my brother Yep. My brother never played again. And then I left music alone for quite some time and then I went and seen another band and I was inspired to play after that. So I pulled together a band and then like I said before earlier I did the same thing. I brought Yoko Ono into the band and then that was the end of my band which that that band was called Mystic Punk—

21:05 And we played a lot of places in the Twin Cities. Yeah.

21:08 Do you still dabble in it now?

21:10 Yeah, we travel some. I mean we went to some resorts. We played up at Big Beer up in Minnesota Casino a few times. We went to what was the name of that other place? Lake it. We played up there at the resort there.

21:24 Okay.

21:25 And we were on the verge of getting into Oshkosh, Wisconsin. There’s a resort there we were trying to get in and we broke up right before I was getting that connected.

21:36 Gotcha.

21:36 But other than that, we played at all the bars in the Twin Cities. I mean, anywhere they had live music. We pretty much played except for we hadn’t played at the Minnesota Music Cafe yet. I didn’t really want to play there cuz that bar had got so ran down and people would quit coming there because the condition of the place, you know, you come in there and all you smelled was urine, you know.

21:57 I got to come in a place and that was the first thing you smelled.

22:00 I got you know.

22:01 Yeah.

22:01 One of those kind of places.

22:02 I’m looking at putting pulling another band together though. I want to play again. Oh, wow. That’d be cool. Have you got people that you could pull together pretty quickly to make that band happen?

22:13 Well, yeah. I got a bass player that I really want to get him playing, too, because I—

22:19 I’m I really I’m really interested in moving to Vegas, honestly. Because there’s a lot more bars out there to play in.

22:27 But, I talked to him about moving in getting, you know, getting a place with me and moving out there.

22:32 Gotcha. And then you know I’ll transport some trucks early in part of the week and we’ll probably rehearse over the weekends and then play of course on the weekends. But that’s my goal. That’s my next goal.

22:43 Well, let’s shift gears back into driving here. Do you have a preference of what type of truck you drive or do you just take what’s available? What makes the most sense?

22:52 Well, I like to drive the tractors. I’m not going to lie. I don’t know why I like to drive tractors, but I like the tractors. I like I don’t mind a box truck either.

23:04 I’m not a big fan of any of the chassis.

23:07 Yeah, they bounce a little bit.

23:08 No, I’m— Yeah. Well, the chassis you going to bounce around a lot. I’m a little old for that.

23:13 I gotta I got you.

23:15 So, yeah.

23:16 Well, you got—

23:17 I just took one almost across the country like I ain’t gonna do that again soon.

23:23 I got you. I understand. We get that a lot about the chassis, particularly on those 2,000 milei runs with a chassis. It’s—

23:30 Right.

23:30 You got to be ready. Young man’s truck.

23:34 Well, speaking of a young man’s truck, how much longer do you see yourself doing this?

23:38 I don’t know. I haven’t really thought about it. You know, my biggest part of leaving this would probably be the cut and paint because I’m not going to do nothing in cross country in a semi. I don’t want to do long haul semi.

23:53 I got you.

23:54 I’ll drive a tractor across the country, you know, because I ain’t got to worry about the freight. I a lot that I don’t have to worry about. But if I actually stop transporting trucks, I think I might get into maybe driving a coach bus maybe. But—

24:09 I gotta—

24:10 I don’t— Yeah, I don’t see it happening. So I just made a retire doing driveaway. I’m thinking—

24:18 Well, if it sounds like it’s been good to you.

24:20 Yep.

24:20 Well, I got to tell you a confession.

24:22 I mean, and don’t get it twisted. I mean, driveaway has it its downfall sometimes. It’s not always cookies and cream, you know.

24:30 Right.

24:31 You got to work past the bad part, too, because things can happen, you know.

24:35 There is a learning curve. I mean—

24:37 Right. Right. Yeah.

24:38 You got to really learn how to plan and like you were talking about, you know, make pay close attention to the weather everywhere because where you may be going.

24:46 It’s all about, you know, you know, you know, you get what you want to take. You figure your route out, figure out where you’re going to stop for fuel. And I mean, it’s pretty simple, man. You know, you just get on your way and get going.

25:00 You drive your 11 hours, find your good place to shut down—

25:03 Maybe you can get you a good dinner. The other hard thing about being out here on the road is eating the proper foods, you know, cuz a guy my age, you know, your body starts to change. You got, you know, you’ve been eating a bunch of garbage all your life and it catch up to you, you know.

25:17 I hear you.

25:18 I hear you.

25:19 I used to pride myself on not being on any kind of medication and I just got put on blood pressure pills because I can’t control my weight. But he told me, he says, “If you get your weight down, you know, he says, we can take you off easy.” And I was like, “Well, I’mma work on that.” Like I said, and the biggest part is finding the right foods to eat out on the road.

25:37 Yeah. You got to be that that comes with a bit of a challenge there. I mean, you got to plan ahead and stop at the right places and not get, you know, not get into that trap of truck driver food, you know. It’s I mean—

25:50 Right. Yeah. Cuz I was in that trap a long time, you know. It wasn’t— It was real easy for me to stop and pick up that cheeseburger.

25:57 Oh, yeah.

25:57 Or a piece of chicken, you know.

25:59 Oh, yeah. Yeah.

25:59 I hear you. I hear you.

26:01 So now, yeah. Now I hit the Walmart and I tell you, like my breakfast mostly consist of pine I can only eat pineapple. I can’t eat a lot of fruits because I got allergies.

26:12 And so I get me a I get some pineapple in the morning. I’ll eat some tuna fish and maybe a hard-boiled egg or two. And then I’ll probably do a salad for lunch. And then that’s that could pretty much be all I eat on in a day’s time now.

26:26 Well, it sounds like you’re on the right trail. You’re on the right path.

26:29 Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it’s a long process cuz once bad habits are hard to break.

26:35 Oh, I can relate. I can relate.

26:38 I was just going to give you a confession here. I’d heard your name around the office as one of our top drivers and I’m like, I need to talk to this Kevin Tutt guy. So, I started talking—

26:49 To your dispatch team. Talked to Mike first, then to Courtney, and then to Carson—

26:54 And they all signed off on you. Said, “Yeah, you need to talk to Kevin.” So, you obviously have a good relationship with your dispatch team.

27:00 I do. Yeah, I do. I like Courtney.

27:02 Yeah, she’s great. I mean, talk about that relationship. We talk about this pretty much week in week out with each driver we have on here. How would you describe your relationship with Courtney and the team?

27:16 I think— Well, you know what? I can’t say too much about the team. I mean, other than, you know, I communicate with more than I communicate with anybody. And so, I mean, me and her, I think we see the eye to eye on a lot of things. And I mean, everybody’s going to have their moment, you know, but overall, she I think she’s a great girl. I even want to meet her sometimes. So, you know—

27:41 Well, if you’re she tries hard. She tries hard for me. So, and that’s all I can ask of her. You know—

27:47 That’s nice.

27:48 Try hard for me.

27:49 And I’m sure she’s going to be pleased to hear that. But if you’re ever coming south on I-75, which I’m sure you are, and you cross into Georgia, you need to stop at the office and we’ll hook you up with some stuff.

28:01 Okay, I can do that.

28:03 Well, Kevin Tutt here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought you by Norton Transport. Kevin, it sounds like there’s a lot of fun and activity going on around you there in Disney World, and I don’t want to keep you too much longer. Anything you want to say? Signing off.

28:15 Well, I got to say, anybody’s interested in making some decent money and want to, you know, if you want to see the world, come aboard.

28:23 There you have it from Kevin Tutt here on the Six-Figure Trucker brought to you by Norton Transport. Kevin, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate everything you do.

28:31 Thanks, John.

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