The End of the Trucking Gold Rush - My 1 Week Settlement

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:05]Look, this was uh this was my my most recent settlement. Yeah, most recent settlement.

[00:00:12]>> All right. So, right there, obviously, you see the net amount.

[00:00:14]>> Inspectors are now preparing ELD logs with real highway camera data.

[00:00:20]>> Top of the morning, y'all shaking. Hey, you know where I'm at, man. You know this block. You know where I'm at. Yeah.

[00:00:25]The truck still in the shop.

[00:00:28]So mechanic said, "Hey bro, you need some more parts, man." So I thought it was just a oil pump. So apparently it's not just a oil pump. There's a whole bunch of other things. So we went shopping, fool. Yeah, we went shopping.

[00:00:40]This right here, gasket valve cover. You said I need that. All right. I don't know how much it is, how much it was, but we going to go through the rundown.

[00:00:48]Swapped that out. Picked this up five minutes ago. That's one.

[00:00:55]What's this right here? The hell is this O-ring? All right. You know the O-ring could cause you a whole bunch of issues.

[00:01:03]You dig? Something simple as a O-ring on your oil pump. Whole bunch of pilots.

[00:01:08]Get that together. What else we got? The hell is this?

[00:01:12]Uh gasket. Another gasket. Some type of gasket. He know what type of gas it is though. There you go. All that oil leaking. I thought it was from the oil pan. He said, "Nah, fool. It ain't that." All right. Another sensor. We got a sensor right here. That's some type of sensor. Crank case or some type of sensor. Got that together. Oh yeah, we got more, bro. Christmas shopping. It ain't Christmas. What's this?

[00:01:37]Seal front cover. Yeah, we need that.

[00:01:39]That's part number right there if you need it, fool. Something real cheap.

[00:01:42]Just rubber. Something like this. So cheap. Just rubber cause you a whole bunch of pain and agony. Get that together. All right. Hold up. What else we got?

[00:01:52]Uh, seal oil joint. Whatever this is, some type of seal. Another seal.

[00:02:00]Yeah, that's my mechanic. Oh, no. That ain't here. It ain't 9:00 yet. They get here at 9:00. It's 8:30 right now. Got that. Hold up. We got more, man. Yeah, it keeps going, bro. It keep It don't stop. What you talking about? Another sensor. This might be the crank case.

[00:02:17]I don't know. Might don't stop, bro.

[00:02:20]This might be the final one right here.

[00:02:22]Let me see.

[00:02:23]What the hell is this?

[00:02:28]Uh, fuel pump gasket. Fuel pump gasket.

[00:02:31]So, the fuel pump leak into. Damn, bro.

[00:02:35]Yeah, that's everything. The whole bag in total. All them parts. How much we spent?

[00:02:42]How much we spent total, man. 357. Not too bad. Nice little tax write off.

[00:02:49]So, boom. I get to the I get to my mechanic. He like, "Yo, bro, you forgot the part. You forgot what part." I'm like, "What part you talking about? I forgot." Yeah. $92. That's what it's looking like right there, man. Yo, I'm glad that all the gas is getting changed, though, bro. Change out everything straight up.

[00:03:04]>> Appreciate.

[00:03:05]>> Yeah. A little bit more money. Spain ain't hurt nobody. Yeah. Extra $92.

[00:03:11]The parts is cheap, you know what I mean? But the labor, you know, we going to spend a couple dollars for the labor, but it's always worth it. Yeah. My homie get me together, man. Y already know the shot. Go pull up on my boy. Yeah. He waiting on you.

[00:03:24]Always got to be something though. Come on, man. Come on. Yo, a little bit of rain. I ain't going to lie. The weather been trash. Yeah, the weather been trash. But come on, dog. Get it together, people. Damn. And that was a bad spin out, too. Bad spin out.

[00:04:08]down.

[00:04:09]Heat.

[00:04:26]Yeah, quick double back. I like the fact that my shot right there. Peter belt right there. Yeah, quick and easy.

[00:04:48]It was quick enough. You know what I mean? To drop it off for my boy. Yeah.

[00:04:50]Drop it off. Get a little head nod. Get a little dab. Spin on them. Then we out of here, man. Yeah. Gone.

[00:04:58]What I thought was a simple oil leak from the oil pan. Nah. You see all that major work? I'm hoping that the fact that they got the engine opened up like that that they go ahead and give um go ahead and do an overhead adjustment.

[00:05:11]Yeah, might as well send that boy a text right now, man. That's the thing when you got a mechanic that you can just, you know, direct contact with. You ain't got to go through you ain't got to call no office, none of that. You call the cell phone immediately, text them, whatever, and let them know what you need done. I didn't think it would be all of that, man. When I walked up in there and I seen I seen pistol pe the panties down, I was just like, damn. I guess I should have knew better that it wasn't just the the oil pan gasket with all the oil that was coming down. Um, talk about be parked somewhere for for 10 minutes. Then you come back, you see a puddle that big. You know, that's a problem. But I'm just fortunate enough that all my driving back and forth that I didn't run out of oil, no point in time.

[00:05:54]Right. That would have been ugly. You driving an engine with no oil in it or low oil and for whatever reason your truck didn't give you the notification to let you know that you out here whing, you're going to experience a bad situation. All right? You're going to blow your whole engine up. I don't know anyone personally that been driving a truck with no damn oil in it. But I like to believe there was somebody at some point in time that didn't know no better that never do a pre-trip, that never check anything. They just out here running crazy. All right, just running blind. But we don't play like that. So they going to get me together. It's Wednesday right now. I'm in no rush.

[00:06:26]Take your time. most importantly that um all the gaskets and everything is the proper part and then they don't leave nothing that make me have to double back because I don't think there's much more annoying than spending your money at a shop and then have to double back because the work wasn't done the way it's supposed to be done. I that right there it annoys me. I ain't got no problem spending the money. You know what I'm saying? You make the money, you spend the money. That's just how it goes. But when you got double back because you didn't do what you were supposed to do the first time. Yeah, I got major issue with that. So, let's hope that's not the case. But I got faith they going to get me together.

[00:07:02]See, one thing about me, I'm not delusional. I don't live in a delusional state. I do know that um all good things come to an end. Um I do know that get it while you can. Get it while the pot is hot or get it while whatever the saying is. You know what I'm saying? Get it when you can get it. Cuz I've been in situations where you know what was jumping once upon a time is not going to continue to jump. So, you got to make sure that you capitalize or maximize whatever you can cuz the gold rush is coming to an end. Yeah. The gold rush in trucking is absolutely coming to an end.

[00:07:34]Um, yeah. So, I'm just here to let my people know and and at the same time try to get you some. You dig? They going to try to get you some. But look at this right here.

[00:07:44]>> Drivers are getting caught faster than ever for HOS violations. And this is only the beginning. Inspectors are now comparing ELD logs with real highway camera data. Your log book says you were off duty in Oklahoma, but the system shows your truck entering Dallas 3 hours earlier. And once they have the photo, timestamp, and location, there's nothing to argue about. Thousands of highway cameras across the US now track plates, locations, and movement in real time.

[00:08:12]With today's AI technology, many drivers believe it's only a matter of time before violations are detected automatically and fines are sent directly to drivers and trucking companies without a physical inspection.

[00:08:25]The trucking industry is changing. The question is, how long until HOS fines become fully automated?

[00:08:32]>> How long before it get fully automated?

[00:08:34]That's the question. How long?

[00:08:36]Everything's going to be fully automated. That's why you just got to laugh at fools that say, "Oh, bro, you you you out here spilling too much." Or, "Oh, you you out here giving the game."

[00:08:44]If y'all think that they don't know what the hell going on before any one of us even talk, you bugging. You bugging.

[00:08:51]That mean that you ain't never understand nothing for real. That mean you don't understand what goes on. You don't understand that people will let you take a inch and an inch before you decide to take a yard. And that's when they decide to step in. It's running rampant now. All right, we all know it's running rampant. If they had a way to stop it by pushing the button, they will stop it by pushing the button. It's inevitable that it's going to come to an end. But before it comes to the end, you got to make sure you get something. You got to make sure you get something. And that's what we doing. This is not new. I seen this like a long time ago. Well, maybe months ago, where they're already cracking down on which ELD, right? They eliminated about seven ELDs the other day if I'm mistaken. I believe those are the ones that are easy to be manipulated. So, they got them out of here first. Now, you got some like the one that my company use that will remain nameless. It's something like motive, but it's not really motive. The closest thing to motive. So, those two right there on the top of the food chain. So, when they zero in on those, you know, the gold rush is over. But before the gold rush is over, you got to get you some. Do I feel bad about to be over for what? You know what I'm saying? I've been doing good before I even transition to the side. I'm just doing a little better. You know what I'm saying? And I'll be and and I hate for those that only could thrive during the gold rush, right? For those that only could make a couple dollars during the gold rush, then we might be doing trucking a little wrong. Before I even came on the side where I'm at right now, I've been doing good. Y'all know that. You know what I'm saying? We still standing. All right.

[00:10:15]Without even missing a meal. So, we good. But it's unfortunate for those that, you know, this has been the bread and butter for the long time cuz I know some of y'all, well, a lot of y'all been eating real quietly. It been a gold rush since you've been in your truck. Yeah, it been you've been on a gold rush since you got up in your truck. And this is nothing new to you. You've been getting to it. But salute to those that realize, okay, I can get some of this and not be capped, right? And you out there doing your thing and you running it up. But hopefully you prepared because it ain't going to last. It ain't going to last.

[00:10:46]We know that once you start seeing [ __ ] like that and the elimination of ELDs, you already know it's going to happen, man. It is what it is. What good things last forever? Like come on, man. Nothing to laugh forever. You know, I like to use comparisons, bro. Let's use this comparison like this. You You with a girl, you know what I'm saying? You with that fine thing and she hits you with that line, you know it's yours. You want to believe that you're a fool. It's never yours. It's just your turn. That's just same thing with this trucking [ __ ] You thought the gold rush was going to run forever. Nah, it ain't going to run forever, bro. Just your time. Get you get you some, right? Get you a little bit of something something. hopefully a lot of something and then move on or have a plan executed in your brain so when that time comes that transition won't be that painful because it's going to happen. As much as you and I and everyone else is actually running it up and doing that thing with it, you got a majority well a lot of people maybe not majority but you got a lot of people that's glad that the gold rush would come to an end. Why? Because they scared to do it and they ain't got the legs to do it right. They don't want you to do it cuz they scared to do it. Not only scared to do it, they ain't got the ability to do it. So, they want the gold rush to come to an end.

[00:11:54]That's cool. But before the gold rush come to the end, I'm gonna disclose something just because I know it's gonna be for motivational purposes and also because this comment right here, me and this dude went back and forth a little bit. I just felt like he was a hater.

[00:12:06]You know what I'm saying? He is a hater or somebody that just want to be I don't know. It's like he want to be proven right or proven wrong. But a part of me feels like, who are you to even, you know, be prove anything to? Like, who are you for me to prove anything to? You see what I'm saying? Like, now after back and forth on the message a little bit, my day goes on, I'm going forget you exist, but you still going to know I'm here. You have people that, you know, they they they it's hard to it's hard for them to fathom and believe that ain't no way you you you you out here driving the truck and you you doing good for yourself. Cuz if you was doing good for yourself, you'll be in a mansion.

[00:12:42]Yeah. You'll be in a mansion. You'll have a a sports car. Um you'll be wearing the ice. You you you'll be wearing the finest of the finest. You'll be living great, right? Because you have to show your accomplishments. No truck drivers doing good at all. No truck drivers living good. They don't take trips every week. Um yeah, they living a basic life. So all that [ __ ] y'all talking about getting 7,000 a week, 8,000 a week, 9,000 a week take home.

[00:13:07]It's not real. So for me to believe that it's real, I need to see five years.

[00:13:12]Five years of your P&L. For those don't know what P&L, profit and loss statements, I need you to show me 5 years so I could believe what you're saying.

[00:13:21]Somewhere in this twisted person's brain, they feel like I care enough to prove that they're wrong.

[00:13:29]But what I do care about is proving to my people that I'm right. You see what I'm saying? I don't care to prove that that that that you're wrong, but I care about proving to my people that the gold rush is real and we can run it up. Look at my exchange with this fool back and forth real quick. And sometimes when I say fool, it it is it's out of affection. But when I say fool with this one, yeah, I ain't mean there's no affection attached to it. None at all.

[00:13:52]All right. So this an exchange, you know what I'm saying? This a back and forth cuz you don't like going back and forth in the comment section. Especially when someone, you know, someone is just, you know, they they got the hater residue all over their lips. Pause. They got the hater residue, you know, seeping out of their pores. You can just tell by the type of comment that they give and why they giving their comment. You dig what I'm saying? like what's the reason for this comment? It's more so because you can't believe I'm not here to prove you wrong. But look look at the back and forth. I don't know what he you know he he was replying to one of his old videos that I did. I don't know. It was old enough. You see what it says? And if you driving, I got you. It's not freedom. It's illusion. So I guess in the video I said, you know, freedom is having your own truck and the the ability to do what you want to do.

[00:14:33]That sounds about the type of [ __ ] I preach. You know what I'm saying? You can be a company driver and do great. We know that. But for me and a million other people, we choose the headache of having a truck for the freedom. But in his brain, it's not freedom. He said it ain't freedom.

[00:14:49]If the numbers were what a lot of owner ops brags they are, then over the long term, you will be buying brand new customordered trucks every 3 years.

[00:14:59]>> What, bro? What are you talking about, man?

[00:15:03]>> There's people out here that think that somebody wants a brand new truck. all owner operators cuz we making all our money. You will be in a brand new truck.

[00:15:11]You not going to be in no old school truck. You know why? Because you not making no money. You dig what I'm saying? You making all that money. You going to get a 2026 with all kind of sensors on it. DPF out the yingyang. Um electrical problems that the the the the mechanics can't even figure out because the truck is so new. You and I, we ain't making no money cuz we ain't need nothing new. According to the goofy, you see what my response is. It's always in fun games. Boy, you sound like a fool.

[00:15:36]Yeah, you do. Hit the like button for that foolish ass comment. You know what I'm saying? If you going to comment, at least hit the like button cuz you sound crazy. All right. Then he come back. Of course, if I'm a fool, then all of y'all be living in big houses, driving show trucks. Show the numbers for the last 5 years. Average it out. Talk is cheap, fool. That's what he said. This is somebody that just can't believe that.

[00:15:57]Hold up, you driving the truck and you doing okay for yourself? Nah, I don't believe it. Why? Because he probably working somewhere. Never own [ __ ] right? and he's on the line of he been listening to the people saying like, "Damn, owning the truck ain't making no money." He's the one that's been listening to the the the failures that's on here talking about owning the truck ain't [ __ ] They've been feeding it to him and he been over there eating it up probably with his hands eating it up like African. You know what I'm saying?

[00:16:20]That's how he was doing it. No utensils.

[00:16:22]Yeah. I told this wait for the video today. Yeah. Just wait for the video later today so he can understand that proving something to him doesn't matter.

[00:16:30]But proving to my people that it's possible to to be out here running it up. If you do it the right way, you know, you you you you set your schedule the way it's supposed to be set, you can make it happen. You know what I'm saying? You can make it happen. So, what I'm going to do right now, I'm going to do a screenshot of my most recent settlement. Um, a lot of this [ __ ] going to be dirty obviously. And I'mma I'mma crop it to where you only see what goes to my pocket. If I could crop it to a way to where you can see some of the deductions as well. I might do it like that. But most importantly, it will go to the pocket. Don't worry about how many miles I drove. Don't matter. All right? It doesn't matter. Just know that I did all of that in a week and your boy been home for a week. You dig what I'm saying? I did all of that in a week and I've been chilling with that [ __ ] on for a week. Oh, yeah. I got the um the bubble. Oh, talk about that later. All right. So, look, look. This was uh this was my my most recent settlement. Yeah, most recent settlement.

[00:17:23]All right. So, right there, obviously, you see the net amount. Um, there's no fluke. All right. There's no no this ain't AI. All right. You see the you see to the pocket. If you know what growth is, you know what net is. All net. You know what I'm saying? Growth all net.

[00:17:40]That's to the pocket. All right. Don't worry about the miles. You don't need to see all that. Um, you can see where I ran. All right. Cool. We can show you that where I ran.

[00:17:49]There go the deductions.

[00:17:55]There go the deductions right there. You know, 4,400.

[00:17:59]Take away some of yo 4,400 in expenses and deductions. Some of y'all that's not even your check. I know that hurt. Oh [ __ ] Hold up. But it ain't about that.

[00:18:08]It's to show the people that it can be done. It can be done. And this is the way it should be done. But so many people are hypnotized and programmed that this is not right because you can't do it. They programmed you to think that it's not right. I understand. It's about safety. You're right. Right. My bad. My bad, bro. It's about safety. You got to go get your sleep. While you sleep, we running. Yeah. While you sleep, you running it up. So, go back to sleep.

[00:18:32]Cargo. Cargo liability 350. Escrow 250.

[00:18:35]Escrow about to stop. So, you can add that to the net cuz that's my money anyway. I know I'm getting it back. So, escro, you can add that to that. The occupation insurance, the receipt, that's how much I saved in a few. That's what they say. Whatever. And truck support fee. You may wonder what that is. Truck support fee. Hm.

[00:18:55]Yeah. If you running with the Russians, you know what that is. If you're not, keep thinking. And that's in one week, bro. That's in one week. But you going to say, you going to say, KB, you had to work for it. You damn right. And I enjoyed every second of it. I don't know about y'all, but even though I'm home right now, this is not enjoyable for me.

[00:19:13]You know what I'm saying? What keeps me going is doing something productive.

[00:19:16]Doing something that where I'm getting to the money. Let's call it what it is.

[00:19:19]I'm doing something and I see my account going this way. You dig? When I'm sitting here, my account is either doing this or doing this. Going this way is what keeps me going. So, y'all could me with that. Oh, bro, you about there. You get your rest. You overexuding yourself, right? Too much of that. Nobody trying to hear that cuz the gold rush is coming to an end. And I need all of it. Yeah, I need it all. That one week is cool. When I seen it, it wasn't even one of those, damn, it's one of those.

[00:19:49]It is what it is. And all my years of driving going on 10 years, I ain't sniff close to that in one week. Sniff. No.

[00:19:57]The most I could think of doing it, you know, the right way. Don't be closing on 45 47. You know what I'm saying? That's when I was over there at the blue star.

[00:20:05]Come on, man.

[00:20:07]Mr. Fool in the comment section. I know you want the profit and loss statements.

[00:20:11]All right. You would never be able to get that. But what you could but what hopefully what you got from this video is that you could do some math and think that hold if he's getting that on the regular, what is it like for the month?

[00:20:26]And if he's staying out 3 weeks a month and there's 12 months in the in the year, oh, let me do some guesstimation.

[00:20:37]Now, you're not going to get the numbers. I know you want the numbers, but do some guesstimation so you can see that everybody in here running on the gold rush. We do nine. Now we don't need no Lamborghinis.

[00:20:48]Now we don't need no big houses. Another thing, a big ass house for what? It's just me. Do you not see this? All right.

[00:20:53]It's just me. What the hell I'm doing with a big ass house for? Come on. Yo, people just want to project what they would do or what they think they would do with the type of finances that they don't have and they probably would never would get. Some of us are minimalists, bro. We don't need too much. You know what I'm saying? We don't need too much.

[00:21:10]We don't want too much. Why? Cuz with too much, come with more responsibilities. And I'm trying to be responsible with the minimal responsibilities I have. The more responsibilities you have, the more [ __ ] you got attention.

[00:21:22]I want my attention to be on the money.

[00:21:24]All right? I want my attention to be on the freedom that comes with getting the money. And I want my attention to be on things that matter. And for you to want my P&L, it don't matter. Oh, I get it.

[00:21:34]You just want to debunk and see if people be out here faking. Now, we ain't faking. Nah, we ain't faking, fool. Fake for what? We don't We don't got a cap, man. We doing damn good. And what I want people to do is realize that, yeah, we might be doing good right now during the gold rush, but prepare and look at it like the [ __ ] might be coming to an end in a month or two. You know what I'm saying? So, whatever whatever you got to do, move [ __ ] around or cut back on too much of that. You know what I'm saying? too much of this cuz I know you getting it. So you you got old girl feeling good cuz you dropping a couple dollars. Nah, you you need you need every dollar, bro. You need every dollar. Hopefully you get back into your selfish bag, your selfish cap. So you can know that I need this for me because all of this that's that's been going real good going to stop during the um the 2020 time when they had the vid going around. Yeah, something similar to that. I was doing real good during that time, too. And there was no Russians associated.

[00:22:32]I don't know when it's coming to an end, but we know it's coming to an end. It is what it is. I know a lot of people happy about it. You know, just as much as people happy about it, just as much people going to be sad about it. But look, the hustle don't stop though. You know what I mean? If you was making it before, you can make it now. When they do switch it up, ain't no different.

[00:22:54]Straight up. It is what it is. But I'm about to set the street. Yeah. Shorty ready to go get something to eat. Um, I don't know where we going. You know what I mean? Go get me some something called Bad Daddy's. I don't know. It's a burger spot. I don't know if I'm in a I don't know if I'm feeling like a burger. You dig? I don't think I'm feeling like a burger. But this is what it usually all boils down to. I always tell her, listen, depending on what you have on depend on where we go and casually dress like when you dress down fast food and slide. But if you look like, you know what I'm saying, you can go somewhere and go sit down a bit, then we go do that. So depending on what you decide to put on, that's what it's going to be. And I think I know well enough to know that drive-thru activity. Now, not no drive-thru, but at least pick up and go.

[00:23:44]Yeah, it might be that. But look, if you made this a part of the video, I appreciate you. You already know what it is. Yo, this is one of those videos you might need to go share. I ain't going to hold you. I know people don't like to share videos. Y' don't really like to like the video, but those that do like the video for your boy, I appreciate it.

[00:23:58]Go a long way. Um, yeah, it might be one of those you need to share because I don't think people be paying attention.

[00:24:04]Your people do not pay attention because too busy getting to the money.

[00:24:08]Rightfully so. So, if someone was not tapped in, you might want to tap on the show to let them know what the hell going on. That's what I'm saying. You brought the gamblers out. Here's how we doing it. Gambas are my favorite pair of shorts and we going to slide. Yo, if you get to the money, don't stop getting to the money. Why? Cuz they still printing it. No matter what the situation is, you dig? I'mma holl at y'all on Friday.