American Truckers United - Safety, Security, Sanity – with Shannon Everett – (Part 1 of 2) - [Ep. 261]

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Now, as I mentioned, all of these products, all of these things we use all the time and we see things being shipped, purchased, all of that, do you think about it when you drive along the road and when you go to the store, do you think about the truckers? I know when I do cross-country trips, I'm always astounded at the amount of truckers.

I just think of their safety, their security, their service to our nation and to the world. But there's a lot that's happening within the trucking industry. And you, listener, you need to know about it because it affects you every single day.

So here with me today is Shannon Everett. Shannon is one of the founders of American Truckers United. I recently found out about this organization and have studied and learned and tried to listen to so many interviews where he has been featured.

I'm just convinced this is one of the most important issues we face. So Shannon, thank you so much for joining with us. Could you share with us basically the mission of American Truckers United and then how you came to be a co-founder?

Shannon Everett: The mission for American Truckers United really is around immigration. American Truckers United was formed because we saw a gap in the representation by our current industry associations or our special interest groups that were supposed to be speaking up for the American truck driver. But we saw that they weren't adequately doing that when it came to the matter of immigration.

So we speak up for the voices of the American truck driver, but also the small to midsize American trucking company and the crash victims who have been impacted by these immigration loopholes that are currently taking place in the trucking industry.

I used to own a large business in the trucking industry. I had almost a thousand trucks, and I still own a business in the trucking industry, but it's much smaller now.

But back in 2019, I had to lay off over 400 American truck drivers when I had to start competing with other trucking companies that were using these non-citizen truck drivers. These truck drivers were using what we call a B1 visitor visa. I really struggled with having to lay those guys off.

This effort, this advocacy that we're working on now really started back then in 2019. That was the very first time that we stood up and started making phone calls and said, hey, what's going on here?

We officially formed American Truckers United last year when we saw not only were people losing their jobs, but people were being killed. That was when we saw the case of Scott Miller, the crash in Colorado.

Scott Miller was killed by a guy who had been deported 16 times and every time was able to come back into the country in a commercial motor vehicle and just resume working until he crashed and killed Scott Miller in Colorado.

It was at that time, somebody had already spoken a prophetic word over me, I think a couple of weeks before that crash and said, hey, you're called to do something that you're not doing. You need to go do that.

And so I prayed that day and I knew exactly what they were talking about. But then just a couple of weeks later, we had the Scott Miller crash and it was like, yes, Lord, I hear you. So we're going to do this thing and that's what we've done.

We formed this and we got up and we started speaking at political events here locally. I've never been a political person. I mean, I'm the guy that would rather watch a debate than watch a football game.

Now, I am that guy, but I've never ran for office or actually been involved and help people run campaigns and stuff like that. But I knew that this issue was too important not to get involved in that stuff. I started attending my local political party meetings and then I started asking to speak about the issue.

What's funny about all this is it's a much bigger voice now and there's a lot moving at a federal level. But the very first action and this is important because grassroots matters and you can clearly see that here. But the very first action was a county resolution in our county Republican Party meeting. It's like, hey, you know, here's an issue. Here's what's going on. Of course, no one knew about it.

So everybody's gasping, like, hey, well these guys are out here driving next to my family. So we presented the issue in the county Republican Party meeting that we presented a resolution that passed unanimously. Hey, representatives go do something. I say that because I just want to encourage everybody like it starts there.

Linda J. Hansen: Absolutely. Yeah, that's really a great story. I was a GOP county chair for nine years, I think, in a small county. I ended up becoming assistant district chair for our congressional district too. I served in that role for one year. I filled out a term and was really thankful for that opportunity.

And serving at that level in a relatively small community, I think, prepared me the best for actually helping being deputy chief of staff of a presidential campaign or doing everything I do now, because you're so close to the people and what their everyday experience is.

And in the county party, in that part is where you can start to make a difference. You can start to bring forth these resolutions. I used to tell people all the time who would complain about Republicans.

They're like, don't you just complain or don't you hate that? And I'm like, well, I'm a Republican. I don't like everything. But you're never going to find a perfect politician and not even if you run yourself but you start to make change from the bottom up.

I mean, if you want to lose weight, you don't lose a hundred pounds in one month. You lose, what do they say, a pound a week or something. You make small changes and everything begins at the local level.

My former boss, colleague, friend, mentor, Herman Cain would always say, if you want to solve a problem, go to the people closest to the problem to find the solution. So by you going to that local level and people understanding how much it affects their family, that really helped to bring about solutions that we haven't quite fully realized yet, but you've got the ball rolling and that is fantastic. So kudos to you and kudos to the county party that you were working with who understood the need and took a stand. It does it does. It is we the people still. And that's where it begins.

Shannon Everett: So further to that point, I said I hadn't been engaged, but I had a neighbor that said, hey, you should really get involved in these county committee meetings. So the very first meeting that I went to, there was a lady, her name's Jennifer Lancaster. She was giving a speech and I saw boldness in her. I saw courageousness in her. I was like, man, what is that? Then she started quoting some scripture. I was like, OK, I know what that is.

The scripture that she quoted was Ephesians 6:13, and it was talking about the armor of God. I think she went further than that and talked about the battle against the principalities of darkness and evil and all that stuff. Well, that was confirmation. 

So the Lord speaks to me through confirmations and I call them God winks. But that was a confirmation for me because in my pocket at that meeting was a coin that anytime I get a chance to pray for someone, I pass out this coin. On that coin is the armor of God. It's Ephesians 6:10 through 6:20. 

When she got through speaking, me not knowing her, I gave her that coin. So that same coin that I gave Jennifer at that meeting, when I saw courage in her, when I saw boldness in her, that kind of was one of the stepping stones to me eventually months later answering that call and seeing the Scott Miller thing. But that coin is on the top of the logo of American Truckers United.

When you look at the truck, there's a little emblem on the top of the truck. And that's an armor of God emblem talking about Ephesians 6:10 and that this is a spiritual battle and it's not flesh and blood.

I just want to say that too, to say what we're experiencing and what we're going through, whether it's this war situation that's going on right now over in the Middle East or it's this trucking situation that I'm battling. It's all spiritual. We have to come at it from that perspective and we have to come at it with Him, aligned with Him. I'm just excited to do that.

Linda J. Hansen: Well, amen to that. I love that. We are in a spiritual battle. That is exactly what we say. I notice on your website, I think I printed that part out. But you said we are a Christian in foundation. But I forget the words you said, but you're Christian in foundation and your organization. But you basically serve everybody. I thought, isn't that what we're supposed to be anyway? I mean, it was just a beautiful testimony. Your entire mission on your website.

I'll just read this for people. It says mission statement of American Truckers United: At American Truckers United, we stand as a beacon of hope and support in these trying times faced by the American trucking industry. Founded on the bedrock of Christian values. Our organization extends its arm to our American truck drivers, American trucking companies, and the victims of truck-related accidents alongside their families in a community where faith guides our unity and actions and it was just beautiful.

You talked about your mission to care, to advocate, to unite, to uphold Christian values, to act and to trust in divine guidance. What more can we do? Right. That is where when we're asked to serve, that is what we do. We trust in divine guidance and pray that He will lead us. Your advocacy has been really exciting to me. I've seen you on many interviews and it's just an honor to have you.

I know when we first connected, I told you I've been trying to get to you for a while, ever since the first time I heard you. But there's so many issues. You touched on the immigration issue and this affects everything. It affects our hiring laws. It affects the safety on our roads. When we have drivers that are non-citizens and they can't read or understand English, which to me seems common sense.

Wouldn't we want people to read and understand English? We need people who understand our laws, who are wanting to obey our laws and who understand our culture and the way we do things. I even heard you talk about how at some of the truck stops they've had to close down because the culture of some of these people, I mean, the bathroom culture, everything, it's not—it just leads to so many problems.

So, we don't want to be exclusionary. We don't want to turn anybody away. We love legal immigrants and we love law-abiding citizens and we want to help people have great careers in the trucking industry, but this isn't how to do it. Could you address, I know I kind of covered a lot of the things that you talk about, but start where you want to start and then let's branch out because by the time the interview is over, I also want the listeners to know something that they can do to help solve this problem.

Shannon Everett: For us, it's really about law and order and accountability. And so, the trucking industry that I've been a part of for 25 years has always been a very good example of order and structure. That's because we're very regulated. We've got an agency that gets—it’s well funded and every state has a Department of Transportation of officers that specialize in commercial motor vehicle safety.

So we've always been over regulated. I've always actually been proud of that. I think trucking has always been a pretty safe industry. So it's like, what happened? You know, why would you take something that's so overregulated and has so many safety barriers and standards in place to protect everyone and say, for this group of people, this is the standard. But for this group of people, there is no standard, and that's what we've been trying to really scream about.

It's like, what is this? How is it acceptable to require all these guys to have all this training and qualification? I mean, an American truck driver can't even have a certain measurement on his neck without having his license downgraded because of sleep apnea and things like that. Or if he has high blood pressure. And so we've got all of these really high standards, which I'm for. It's safer. I'm not saying deregulate. I'm saying: Make sure that the line goes straight across for everyone.

Then you've got this other group of drivers over here that—let's just talk about the guys coming up from Mexico right now on these B1 visitor visas. Number one, they're on a visitor visa. They're not supposed to be working. Then we can't run any MVR checks on these guys. 

A part of the driver qualification process is you're supposed to do pre-employment screening. Well, if you can't run MVRs and if you don't have any backgrounds on these guys, how did they ever do that? They didn't. But there's no one that's enforcing that same rule that's on these American truck drivers on these guys. I don't know if that's because of political bias or if that's some kind of protectionism that they've got on those because of their status. But it's not right.

So having an English proficiency law and not enforcing it, it's a clearly stated law in the books. Why are we not enforcing it? So it was those things. It's like this is not OK. It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with safety and economics and accountability. 

In the case—I was talking earlier about the case of Scott Miller that really reeled us into this. I saw Deanne and her daughter, Michelle, on TV in tears saying, how's this possible? I'm going to spend my time fighting for regulations in the trucking industry. It's like, well, the trucking industry’s regulations are not the problem. The truck industry is already overregulated.

The problem is the lack of enforcement and the lack of enforcement because of a political bias. And so, the accountability thing—when I was trying to think of the guy's name, Ignacio—was the suspect in the case of Scott's accident.

He's already out of jail. He has been deported now. That's just because of the administration cycle that we're in right now and when he got released from jail.
But I will say, Miss Deanne said that ICE was very responsive and very helpful through the whole process. As soon as the alert came that he was being released from serving time on the misdemeanor, ICE was standing there waiting on him and immediately took him and got him out of the country.

But at the same time, I'm concerned because here's a man that was already previously deported 16 times, got in a commercial motor vehicle and came right back across the border, so those mechanisms that allowed him to get here all those times are still available today, even in this new administration, because the loopholes in the trucking industry have not been addressed.

Linda J. Hansen: I love that you say "loopholes in the trucking industry."
You talk about there's laws on the books that are supposed to prevent some of this, but there's obvious loopholes.

I know that you have been active in different states. I have followed your work and I've seen that some states are now having legislation about English-only trucking in the industry, citizens only. Can you address some of that legislation? Because that legislation is moving forward positively in various states, can be model legislation for other states.

But also, we need to know what it is at the federal level that we need to ask our senators and representatives to do to make sure that laws are passed to close these loopholes and provide safety for all American citizens.

Shannon Everett: Yeah, absolutely. So the legislation that first got filed in all of these discussions was House Bill 1569 in the state of Arkansas. That bill came in response.

Look, I've never been a part of drafting legislation or writing bills or suggesting bills or anything like that, but what happened was we're representing these families. We've got Miss Deanne, we've got Miss LaDonna, and we're talking about the tragedies of these crashes and we're getting up and we're speaking around the state of Arkansas.

Then out of nowhere comes legislation for a special session in the state house for a bill to legalize non-domicile CDLs. And up until that point, I was focused on foreign CDLs. I’d never even heard of a non-domicile CDL, so when that legislation came through and it came into my hands through the sponsor at a county committee meeting, he said, hey, will you look at this?

I looked at it, I was like, oh, man, what is this? And I actually fired that. I guess I was a little testy in my email because he got a little testy back. But, I was like, what in the world is this? We're talking about making the roads safer. Why would we legalize a non—

So what they wanted to do was they wanted to change state law that currently said that to drive a commercial motor vehicle in the state of Arkansas, you had to have a U.S. commercial driver's license or a Canadian driver's license. They wanted to strike U.S. and Canada, and they wanted to add the words non-domicile learner's permit, non-domicile CDL from any foreign jurisdiction.

So the new state law in Arkansas would have said to operate a commercial motor vehicle, you only need a non-domicile commercial learner's permit or a non- domicile commercial driver’s license from any foreign jurisdiction. And I'm like, what?

So you're saying that a guy from the Philippines or a guy from Ethiopia, Ethiopia is such a great example—there’s so much poverty out there, a lot of people don’t drive cars—so a guy from Ethiopia could have a learner’s permit from Ethiopia and come drive a commercial motor vehicle in the state of Arkansas? No, absolutely not. Like, what are you talking about?

They came back at me and said, well, three attorney generals from Texas said this is OK. Well this is Arkansas. This isn’t Texas. I don’t know who you’re talking about or what they were thinking, but that’s not what we’re doing in Arkansas.

Linda J. Hansen: Good for you.

Shannon Everett: So that’s when the battle started. That’s when this—at first we’re just saying, hey there’s crashes. Please help these people. Please help these people. Then God, it’s one of the things that we set out to do is we’re only going to go through the doors that God opens. Well He swung that door wide open, like what's going on here? And then we got up and we started talking about, hey they're trying to pass a bill. They're trying to run this bill through.

I had a representative, Representative Wayne Long, came forward out of the House and he said, Shannon, I'd like to help you all. I'll write a bill. I said, oh, man, that's great. How do we do this?

He said, well you've got their language. Let's just take their language and fix all that and address it the way it needs to be addressed. So Wayne Long took the concerns of the amulet—he took the concerns of LaDonna Brown from accountability, from lack of enforcement.

He drafted House Bill 1569, which is a Secure and Safe Roads Act, and filed it in Arkansas. So it wasn’t until that bill got filed that this really became an issue. At American Truckers United, we started doing some videos. So we've got some English proficiency videos and stuff like that dating back to September of last year where we were putting those out on social media and things and really weren't getting a lot of traction.

But we were saying, hey y’all are driving on highways with a bunch of people who don't speak English. But once Wayne filed that bill, then we had a battle, and people like battles and they like watching battles. So we filed that bill, and then about two or three weeks later, they filed that trash bill that they were trying to do.

So Arkansas ended up having two competing bills in the trucking industry going at the same time. That's where it really got interesting. We got called into a meeting. We got called into a meeting with the chair of transportation, with the chief of the highway patrol, with the vice chair of transportation, with our sponsors, with a legislative liaison from Arkansas State Police.

We all get in there and we give them a presentation on behalf of our crash victims and everybody like, hey here’s why we filed this bill. What’s going on here? So we give them the rundown and they're all aghast. State police confirm everything we said was happening. Yes, that’s happened. Highway police say, yes, it's going on.

But the highway police were really against us and they said, hey this is a federal issue. We can’t address it at the state level. So one of the key problems they had a problem with was the fact that the bill that Wayne had drafted said that he wanted the trucks to be put out of service.

So if a guy can’t speak English, put the truck out of service. Well that’s what the federal law says. So all we’re trying to do is codify in the state law what the feds are already saying so that our state law enforcement, our county law enforcement, and our local law enforcement can enforce a law. So if you’ve got a federal law and the feds are saying stand down, you don’t really have anything to enforce.

But if we've got something codified at state level, I don't care what they're saying. We've got state law here. We've got state law enforcement officers. Let's enforce the law, so that was the objective.

So they pushed back that only federal officers can enforce out-of-service criteria. I thought—I really thought they had us for a minute. I was like, man, they're probably right about that. So we went back and talked to the lawyers and Representative Long came back and said, well, let's impound them. Let's impound their trucks.

There's nothing to stop an impound. A county cop can impound, a local cop can impound, your state police can impound, so we jumped their hurdle. Not only did we jump the hurdle, we really rocked their boat because now it just went up a notch. It's like, OK, we're going to impound these trucks.

So we addressed their concern. Look, leaving that meeting, that was a great day. There was a lot of optimism, like we have a solution here. We've got our state agencies involved. This thing's headed in the right direction.

Well, the Arkansas Trucking Association refused to attend the meeting. Then right after that—I'm sure you're very familiar with how all this works—right after that, calls went out, opinions were had the next day. It's like, hey, we're going to address this at the federal level. We're not going to advance this bill. And, those whispers started happening. It's like, what? How is this possible? How can we not have our bill heard?

At that same time, their bill gets filed and this battle is on in Arkansas. I mean, it was intense, at least from our spot and their spot—maybe not everybody else looking in, so we never got to have our committee hearing in Arkansas. We spent all of our time in committee defending or fighting against the bill that they filed, House Bill 1745.

We were successful in getting them to drop. I didn't even realize at the time how important it was because we were still trying to catch up with non-domicile language and what exactly non-domicile CDL was. Everything was happening so fast that way. I have a completely different understanding of it today and how we got here and exactly what's taking place than I did in that little rush of 60 days of legislation.

But we got them to drop the non-domicile language. So they removed that from their bill. Then in the 11th hour, after they'd already gotten out of the House and gotten over to Senate Judiciary, they started getting some dissension. So they added in the English proficiency in the committee hearing. But they didn’t take it out of service.

The only add they did was, okay, we're going to put English proficiency in, which is what we had in ours, but it's just going to be a citation. Then they let the driver go so the whole point of the bill was if a guy doesn't speak English, get him off the road.

So they put that in there and then started flying banners like, "We're doing English proficiency. We're doing it," but they weren't. It was the same problem. It still wasn't out of service. Anyway, they ended up passing that bill. That was House Bill 1745, so God's plan is always better than our plan. My plan was, we're going to file HB 1569, and we're going to get that passed in Arkansas. It's all just going to work. Well, God's plan was to allow all of that to rise up and everybody to see it and He let that be revealed. I'm so thankful for that.

Then He had a trucker from Oklahoma, Cole Stevens, who was facing the same economic struggles as our Arkansas truck drivers. He's got a great outfit over in Oklahoma. He reached out to his Senator and said, "Man, we've got a huge problem in trucking." He'd seen some of our content and he'd read some of the news reports. He said, "We've got to do something about this. This is going to put everybody out of business. If this is allowed to continue, we can't compete with these guys."

Cole's a believer. Senator Sacchieri's a believer. And so I say, this is another open door. So at six o'clock in the morning, one morning, I'm driving into work. I get this unknown number from Oklahoma. I usually don't answer that stuff, but at six o'clock it intrigued me to get an unknown number.

Linda J. Hansen: Yeah, it’s not usually a spam call at 6 am in the morning. 

Shannon Everett: I answer it and it was Senator Sacchieri. And she said, "Hey, we've got a trucker in trouble over here in Oklahoma. He says this stuff is rampant. Can you fill me in?" I started briefing them on all the issues. I'm going to tell you, Ms. Kendall's my hero. Also Representative John Wilkenhouse over there. I'm talking about two fighters, two patriotic American heroes for the American truck driver.

They not only received what I was telling them, they took it another level. They dug in, they did their research. They started calling around and talking to other truckers and then rallying the support in the state of Oklahoma with the different industries and throughout the leadership. It was a completely different experience.

So I got to stand there beside Cole and watch him have the complete opposite experience of what we faced in Arkansas, because the governor was behind it. The Senate leadership was behind it. The House leadership was behind it, and they don't have a trucking association over there with the same kind of financial firepower that we do in Arkansas.

We've got some pretty big names in that association over here– 

Linda J. Hansen: And that brings me to a question. Actually, because this is going– and I would love to ask you one—could you stay on a little extra? So I think I will make this into a two-part interview, so listeners, I'm so thrilled that he is going to stay on. We're hearing this fight at the state level and it started with the county party resolution. It started with you going to a local meeting and starting to educate people on the problem.

It grew into a state issue and now a multi-state issue, now we're really seeing this at the federal level heating up. So listeners, I just want to encourage you as a listener or a viewer of this podcast, you can make a difference. Look at the difference that Shannon has made by just speaking up and walking through the open doors that God provided and going out in faith.

If you stay for the second episode, if you join with us for the second, you'll hear some things that he went through, some of the battles that he fought. It's not always easy when you're fighting for things that are about freedom and truth and righteousness and you talked about some of the organizations that opposed you.

Before we move into the second episode or the second part of the interview, I would like you to address, why would they oppose you? I mean, to people listening, so often we're at home, we watch it unfold, and it seems like it would be so common sense. This would make so much sense—to have only English- speaking drivers, only citizens on the road.

So you tell me. I mean, I know basically the answer, but tell our listeners: who’s benefiting the most by not doing this? And then we'll dive into that a little bit more as we go into the second part of the interview.

Shannon Everett: I think the situation we faced in Arkansas had two sources of opposition. I mean, it was really one key source, but there were two reasons for the opposition. Number one, as we have learned, they architected what we were experiencing, so it's kind of hard for the architect to say, oh, that's a flawed design.
They were really dug in because of their involvement in the current design.

Then the second thing was the economics of it, so who benefits from bringing in a bunch of slave labor to suppress the American worker, at the same time making our roads more dangerous? Well, that's the people paying for the shipping charges. So large shippers, and I would take that even a step further, that have facilitated this practice through brokerages. Those two entities are the ones who have profited from this.

An illegal alien driving a commercial motor vehicle that can't speak English isn't calling a Fortune 500 company and saying, hey, can I haul loads for you? That's not happening. What's happening is large brokerages, multi-billion dollar brokerages are going to shippers and saying, hey, all of a sudden we've got a bunch of new truck drivers and trucks and we can haul your loads for you. Will you let us put them on an electronic load board and we'll match them up with available trucks and drivers and we'll list them out there and they can bid on their phones and they can bid on apps and then we'll do all the processing and then we'll put it on your truck.

They say, absolutely. You'll save us money? Yeah, we'll save you a lot of money.
So they've created these load boards and these apps where they've taken out that interaction so that shipper is not communicating with this guy that speaks Russian, he's not communicating with him.

Where historically, you had to have this transactional relationship with an American truck driver and you had to negotiate the rates and all. So now this gig economy has taken that element out and there's a man in the middle that's making a margin off of that arbitrage and that's the real villain. That's our villain.

That wage suppression is really wage theft. So they've stolen the living standard and the wages of the American truck driver and they put it in the pockets of these brokers and then an element of that has trickled down to the shipper, so in Arkansas, there's a group of shippers that are connected to the Trucking Association. Not only are they truckers, but they also have their own private fleet. So they benefit from the suppression of the wages of the drivers.

If you look at the majority of the Trucking Association, they're good people. They're middle-sized truckers. There's some large truckers in there, but the Arkansas Trucking Association is just an extension of the American Trucking Association. When you have billion-dollar enterprises involved in your small Trucking Association, you quickly lose your voice, so what we're experiencing is there should be a different association.

There should be a separation of these voices because those voices inside of there don't have the same interest and they don't have the same concerns. They don't share the same concerns, so it's really lost its way.

Now over in Oklahoma, they don't have that same problem because they don't have—they're still connected to the American Trucking Association—but they don't have that local voice that's really coming in there and saying, hey, this is what we're going to do. They're still captive to what the American Trucking Association wants to do, so I would say it's those two things.

Linda J. Hansen: Well, there's always money lining someone's pocket on these things. We see it anytime we see government corruption, there's always a money trail. I do want to just pause right here. I want to continue the interview, but I'm going to make it into a two-part because there are so many things that we haven't even covered yet, and I want to because it's so important.

So for this section of the interview, listeners you can contact Shannon by going to the website, please give the web address and how they might contact you personally.

Shannon Everett: Yeah, please visit us at www.americantruckers.com. There's a registration page where you don't have to be a truck driver. There's a concerned citizens page where you can just sign up and register for our newsletters and stay updated on exactly what we're working on, both from the legislative front, but also other things that we're doing for these crash victims and helping them with some litigation.

Linda J. Hansen: Well, absolutely so listeners, do that, but then also please make sure you tune in to the next episode of the podcast where we are going to follow up on this and go into a little more detail, talk about things at the federal level, but also talk about what it takes at the core of a person to fight the Goliaths in industry and in government. And that's something I think we all need to know, especially at this point in time. You know, we're all here for such a time as this, like Queen Esther in scripture.

We are here and God has a purpose for our lives and for what we can do to help His purposes and our fellow men and women. So we just really want you to be encouraged to get involved like Shannon did—wasn't really involved politically, but saw an issue that he felt called to serve.

It's making an incredible difference and I'm sure saving lives. So please not only share this episode with others, but then let's make sure you tune in next week to part two of this. Let's make sure that we get this information out to as many people as possible. Send it to your elected officials at the state and local levels. Send it to your representatives and senators at the federal levels and send it to the Department of Transportation, send it to Homeland Security. These are all things that are really important.

So you at home, whether you're viewing this on video or audio, you can make a difference just like Shannon has done. So Shannon, thank you. And we are going to just move into the next wave of information to provide for the listeners. But we thank you for this particular time.

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