This week on the Oakley Podcast, host Jeremy Kellett welcomes Marlon Lindo, one of our Owner/Operators at Oakley Trucking. During the episode, Marlon shares his journey from Jamaica to the trucking industry, highlighting his new 2025 Peterbilt 567 truck inspired by the Jamaican flag. Marlon discusses his transition from operating under his own authority to joining Oakley, the challenges he faces on the road, and his family life. Jeremy and Marlon also talk about the supportive community at Oakley, the importance of understanding the trucking profession, and so much more.
Key topics in today’s conversation include:
- Upcoming Events at Oakley (1:07)
- Marlon’s New Truck (5:06)
- Marlon’s Jamaican Heritage (7:40)
- Family Background (9:29)
- Challenges as an Owner/Operator (11:35)
- Public Perception of Truck Drivers (13:53)
- Future Plans for Marlon (17:09)
- Experience with Dump Trailers (18:39)
- Loading and Unloading Insights (19:11)
- Safety and Responsibility (21:54)
- Driving Habits and Parking (23:41)
- Oakley Opportunities in St. Louis (26:47)
- Audience Engagement Question (29:04)
- Final thoughts and takeaways (30:13)
Oakley Trucking is a family-owned and operated trucking company headquartered in North Little Rock, Arkansas. For more information, check out our show website: podcast.bruce oakley.com.
Transcription
Marlon Lindo 00:12
I’m happy for the opportunity to be here with Oakley. I think it is one of the best decisions I made coming over here. You know, I have no regrets, no complaints. I wish I would have done it a long time ago, for sure.
Jeremy Kellett 00:24
Well, we wish we found you a long time ago.
Marlon Lindo 00:26
And every time I get a chance, somebody asks me about Oakley, it’s a good company if you want to work, it’s the place to be. You know,
Jeremy Kellett 00:33
Welcome to the Oakley podcast, trucking, business and family. This show is brought to you by Oakley Trucking, headquartered at North Little Rock, Arkansas. The purpose of this podcast is to communicate with Oakley owner operators and their families by giving them up to date information concerning Oakley trucking and the trucking industry, from business advice to safety updates to success stories, also to give an insight to outside truck drivers that might be interested in joining the Oakley family. Welcome to the Oakley podcast, trucking business and family. My name’s Jeremy kellett, and I’m the director of recruiting here at Oakley trucking, and I’m your host for this podcast. We’d like to bring you guys a new episode every week. We appreciate everybody listening, and, you know, sharing the episode and getting it out there a little bit more, because we have really gained some traction here this year on getting a lot of people viewing this stuff, and then I think it’s just because of the content we bring and some of the people we have on this podcast, and which is what’s lined up again today, I have another one of our owner operators, Marlon Lindo, that is going to sit down with me and tell his story, and I’m anxious to hear it, because I don’t know it, but I got a feeling it’s a good one, and we’re going to talk to him here in just a minute. Co-host Megan is not here today. She’s on assignment, not really. She’s at lunch. And I just like, we need to get this done now with Marlon, so we’re going on without Megan. She’s going to be mad, but we’ll get her on the next one. Yeah, I did have safety reach out to me. Ashley reached out to me and said that you need to be getting any safety paperwork to them ASAP. She had, I’ve mentioned this before, but she’s gotten a couple of physicals, and the driver took it about a month ago. She gets a copy of it to update everything, and it’s got a mistake on it. So when it has, you know, when they check the wrong box, when they don’t put a date on there, they do something wrong, because Ashley checks them well, and you got to go back to the doctor, the doctor’s office, try to get them to change it. And it is, it’s an ordeal. So please, you know, if it’s physical, if it’s any kind of paperwork, get it to us ASAP so we can check it. It won’t be a big deal down the road. Also our sponsors, you know, I can’t thank you enough for aero truck sales, and what they do and how they take care of owner operators, especially with Oakley, and it’s been a great relationship, even with the transport funding is their finance company, and, you know, we just made relationships with them too, and that’s been really good, and just keeps getting better. So, and I’m anxious to see they’re opening up an office here, you know, over here in Little Rock. So looking for that, I guess it’s North Little Rock. It’s out there on 161 out of proto junction. So looking for that coming up in the future, I don’t think just see, oh, truck. We got October 19. We have got the Oakley party. We call it the Truck Show. This will be our third annual Truck Show. You know, we’ve had the party for, I don’t even know, since I was here, started here back in the 90s, we’ve had an annual company party, which has really changed. Y’all can go back and listen, we actually did an episode on just the company party. I don’t remember what it was, but it’s been a year or two ago we talked about the company party and the history of it, but we’re doing that. And the truck show is just for Oakley owner operators, their families and Bruce Oakley employees, but Corey got this bright idea of having a truck show about three years ago, and just with our owner operator. So we have about how many we got signed up so far. Annabelle, you know, not 1520 maybe 23 may be signed up so far. So if you’re an Oakley owner operator, and you got a truck that you think is top notch in the fleet, which may be Marlins, I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but we’ll show you a picture of it. But you want to be in the truck show, man, it’s a great time. You come down here. It’s on a Saturday, it gets a truck shined up. We put it out here, and then everybody that comes to the party gets a vote on who, what’s the best looking truck is. And at the end of the party, at the end of the night, we have great prizes, I mean, anything from lots of cash to tires to giveaways of all kinds of stuff. So it’s a good time to make plans to be at the party. We got like we’ve sent out an email that we’ve reserved a block of rooms. You pay for your own room, but I’ve got some reserved at the Holiday Inn and Little Rock and some at the Wyndham down here block of room, so you can reserve a room and stay that night for a good rate. So looking forward to that now, let’s get started talking. Marlon and Linda, what’s going on? Marlon, Oh,
Marlon Lindo 05:01
not much, man, appreciate I’m here today. I
Jeremy Kellett 05:04
appreciate you sitting down with me, and you know you’re here because of
Marlon Lindo 05:08
switching trucks. You bought a new truck. Yeah,
Jeremy Kellett 05:11
Tell us what you got. Well,
Marlon Lindo 05:13
I bought a 2025, Peterbilt, 567,
Jeremy Kellett 05:17
nice. Yep, I saw it out there, and it looks really sharp,
Marlon Lindo 05:20
yep, I actually ordered it a year ago, but I didn’t want to get it until I wanted to. Actually, I want to get it in September, But it so happened where I put mine up for sale, and a guy bought it the first day I put it up, and he wanted it, and I wasn’t ready, but, you know, but so they I had to run it another three weeks after he bought it. Luckily, my truck was already at a dealership. Oh, good. So I was actually on vacation in Jamaica, and he called me and said it came early. It came a month early. Well, that
Jeremy Kellett 05:51
was good timing, wasn’t, yeah, well, it’s a great looking truck. Thank you. Definitely. Annabelle wants you to put up a truck. It’s a unique looking truck. It’s, it’s, I was out there noticing it’s got some of your decals, or what you need to tell me about the decals. Decal,
Marlon Lindo 06:08
Well, I came up with the color scheme that my wife came up with to put it together. The color scheme is, I’m Jamaican, so it’s a Jamaica flat color, green, black and yellow. Okay, so I got, I didn’t want a black frame truck anymore. I own four trucks, and they are without black frame. I don’t like black frames anymore, so I decided to go with the green at the bottom and top, and black in the middle and the yellow stripe. And then we came up with the flag, the Jamaica flag, and ran into the American flag.
Jeremy Kellett 06:43
It looks really good out there, and you got something written on the back of the cab? Well, what’s written
Marlon Lindo 06:47
in the back of the cab is, if the Jamaican motto is called Out of many one people, that’s a Jamaican thing. Okay, so if you, if any Jamaican see that, they will know whatever they know what it means. Yeah, as a matter of fact, the one guy here this morning, I didn’t know it was Jamaican. He saw the truck, and that’s how he knew that I was Jamaican, because
Jeremy Kellett 07:08
he thought, because of that saying on the back of it, neat. Did you have that done after you got the truck? Did you have to go get that? Well,
Marlon Lindo 07:15
The yellow and the logo was done after the green and the black came from Peterbilt. Everything else came from a logo company, okay, yeah, decal place, decay place, yes, okay, and I was happy with the way it came up real Oh,
Jeremy Kellett 07:33
yeah, you should be yes. It looks really nice. Yeah, tell us about Marlo Lindo. You’re from Jamaica, huh?
Marlon Lindo 07:40
Yep. I was born in Jamaica, left when I was 17 years old, moved from Jamaica to California, and yeah, and by yourself. No, my mom, my mom, was actually living there, so she moved us out there to California, okay? And from the age of 17, I lived in California until I was 52 so I just, I spent 35 years in California, wow, yep. And I got into trucking because my first wife’s dad was in trucking, and I’ve always liked trucks, so that’s what he did. So on days when I had a job and days when I didn’t work, I’m always in the truck with him, and that’s how I learned how to drive. I didn’t go to a Trucking School with your dad, my wife, my ex wife, that your ex wife’s dad. Yeah, gotcha. So that’s how I learned and I actually started out and ended up. So really, yeah, most of my trucking career has been, I said , 90% of it has ended up. Wow. And that’s how I noticed Oakley. That’s how I see Oakley. I’ve always seen Oakley. And I like when in 22 when stuff started to get bad, I started, you know, I look at Oakley and see what they do. And then I started researching, okay,
Jeremy Kellett 08:53
What were you doing before that?
Marlon Lindo 08:55
I’ve always, I’ve I had my own authority from 99 up until I came here, really, yes,
Jeremy Kellett 09:02
Well, that’s a big change.
Marlon Lindo 09:04
I think it is the best, one of the best decisions I made, so I don’t have to keep up with the paperwork. No more. It’s a lot of things that I used to do that I have to do anymore.
Jeremy Kellett 09:13
Was your wife helping you with that? Well,
Marlon Lindo 09:16
I’m on my second wife now. But okay, yeah, right, so, but no, I’ve always done it on my own, but my current wife, now, she’s tried to do as much as he can, but, you know, yeah, she does more than paperwork. So
Jeremy Kellett 09:27
Tell me about your family. Okay,
Marlon Lindo 09:29
so with my first wife, I have three kids, two, a boy, one girl, and my youngest is 25 so they’re all grown, and as a matter of fact, my daughter is getting married this weekend, I could go to California for that. So they’re still in California. Oh yeah, they’re all in California. Okay, I moved to Maduro when I got married for the second time. So okay, so I’m married now, going on two years to my current wife. She lives in Missouri, okay? And she, if you talk to her, she said it. Only thing I love is trucking. I sleep in a dream truck.
Jeremy Kellett 10:07
I’d say there’s probably a lot of wives out there that tell dad about being married to a truck driver. It’s
Marlon Lindo 10:12
trucking or nothing, yeah.
Jeremy Kellett 10:15
What? What do y’all do on your time off travel? Though? Do you? Yeah? I
Marlon Lindo 10:20
I just went to Jamaica last month, and we are planning to go back again in November. So we do a lot of traveling back and forth. Do you still have family there? Most of my family’s still there, yep, and like, like, your parents are still my mom is back and forth. Okay, she is working. She retired from here, but she spent most of her time out there, and naturally she’s here now because of my daughter, when she came back for that. But gotcha, she goes back? Yeah, but yeah. Eventually, when I retired, I’m gonna be doing the same thing
Jeremy Kellett 10:50
back, just back and forth, yes.
Marlon Lindo 10:53
So, yeah, kids are grown, and I have one son that even does trucking, he’s doing some local stuff in California. Oh, really, yeah. Then my other son, he worked for a tech company at the time of fifth corner. My daughter is the psychologist for the county. What are the counties out there? So,
Jeremy Kellett 11:12
Okay, so they’ve made their establishment in California. Yet? Grandkids?
Marlon Lindo 11:18
No, not yet, not yet, not yet. Whenever they ready, it’s getting out up to me, it’s
Jeremy Kellett 11:24
coming though, right? What? What’s some of the biggest challenges you face as an owner operator, Marlon, and you’ve been in a long time. What? How old were you when you started driving?
Marlon Lindo 11:34
I started out with 92 or 22
Jeremy Kellett 11:40
you were 22 Yes,
Marlon Lindo 11:41
I started in 9292 okay, started 92 I was working for a company, and I worked for them for seven years, and another it was a manufacturing company, another company bought them out, and they decided that they the company that bought a company had and I worked for us, and we hadn’t had, We’ve been in business for 100 years. We never had trucks. We don’t need them. We had a truck. Oh, no, after seven years. So that’s when I went and bought my first truck. And my first truck was actually I bought it from a family friend. It was an 87 Peterbilt cab over but it was a good truck. I spent $15,000 for that truck, and I kept it till I bought my, usually to buy my next truck after two years. And then I just
Jeremy Kellett 12:27
keep moving from so you’ve seen, you’ve seen a lot of challenges, because, mean by you’re driving, and started in 92 so you’ve seen it come a long way
Marlon Lindo 12:35
to change it, yes, and a lot of people back in those days were like when they start doing this, e log, I’m getting out of it. To me the E log thing right now. It’s easier for the drivers. Less things you have to do. Yeah, less paperwork. And, you know, I’ve always told people that they don’t like E log. I said, if you don’t like E log, you’re not working for the right company. If you’re working for the right company, you follow the law. You make money. You’re gonna follow the law, makes sense? Yeah, if you gotta cheat, then you’re not working for the right company. Good
Jeremy Kellett 13:11
point. So you got out of your own authority. Came to Oakley. What was the biggest relief when you came to Oakley? The biggest
Marlon Lindo 13:19
relief is I don’t have to chase my money down. No more money will do every Friday. A lot of people
Jeremy Kellett 13:24
don’t think about that, do they have to collect, or you got so many days that they got to pay you. You got to kind of float that. Oh, you
Marlon Lindo 13:31
got to use the factory. You got to pay to get your money, right? So, yeah, and then the paperwork and all the stuff that you don’t have to do. No more. But what that Oakley does for you. You know, yeah, make it a lot easier. What
Jeremy Kellett 13:45
Do you think the general public thinks about truck drivers when you see them out there on the road every day?
Marlon Lindo 13:53
Nobody likes truckers? Why not? May you’ll be surprised how many time I get the fingers from the time I started it, just for doing my job,
Jeremy Kellett 14:04
just for driving your lane, yeah, and
Marlon Lindo 14:06
Nobody wants to be behind the truck. I can’t understand the safest place to be behind the truck, right? That’s what I think you have control of when you are behind that truck, right? Yeah, so. But you know, and I always tell because I worked for the grocery company for a few years too, and I say, Hey, you are passing me and cutting me off and doing all this. ” Are you going to that store? I got this thing you need, so you have to wait for when you get there. Anyway, that’s right, you know,
Jeremy Kellett 14:33
I’ve got it right here. You might
Marlon Lindo 14:37
as well just wait, take your time and during the pandemic, was it worth, you know, there was, everybody was following the truck to the store because of something that truck they need. You know, it’s just crazy, but, but, yeah, that’s pretty much it. Nobody really liked trucking. For some reason, I don’t. And then I always say, until somebody in their family or close to them gets it. It was by a truck. They want a thing, yep,
Jeremy Kellett 15:01
you know. So, yeah, I think it’s just a misconception. A lot of the general public just don’t understand the, you know, the federal guidelines that you gotta go
Marlon Lindo 15:11
by your time you want to time, yeah, schedule all the time. And, yeah, yeah.
Jeremy Kellett 15:15
And I think it’s just over the, you know, over the years. I mean, you just grow up seeing billboard signs, you know, of attorneys and hit by a truck driver, call me, and you see the commercials on TV, and it’s just,
Marlon Lindo 15:30
but it wasn’t always like that. Though it changed. I think it got worth in the 2000 back in the 90s and back it wasn’t, you didn’t see all of that. It
Jeremy Kellett 15:38
seemed like, I mean, was it back in the 90s when you started? I mean, truck drivers were kind of heroes. I mean, they were more
Marlon Lindo 15:45
respectable, yeah, yep. But all that change, and, you know, the years go by change,
Jeremy Kellett 15:51
yeah. I think a lot of it is, a lot of the we’re our own worst enemy sometimes,
Marlon Lindo 15:57
yeah, you know, because it’s a lot of bad ones out there, yeah, for sure,
Jeremy Kellett 16:01
yeah. And that’s a thing that gives the rest of us a bad reputation. Yeah, it’s a little frustrating, for sure, to do. But what so you live in St Louis, Missouri, yes, moved there a couple years ago when you started here. So good. You like living there. You know, St Louis got a bad
Marlon Lindo 16:20
reputation. Much. I went to one cardinal game since I’ve been. It was good, yeah, yeah, that was fun. I’m not really a baseball fan. I’m more football, okay, but, but, yeah, I did go to one game while I was there. That’s pretty good.
Jeremy Kellett 16:34
So you pull a dump trailer, you stay out. What? A couple weeks of time. Yeah, I
Marlon Lindo 16:37
try to go home every other weekend. Okay, sometime, you know, my death bachelor got loads where it get me through there, even though I don’t want to go home, but I still get through there,
Jeremy Kellett 16:46
you know, but, yeah, because you like to work, Oh, you like trucking.
Marlon Lindo 16:50
I like, yeah, I love trucking. You saving
Jeremy Kellett 16:53
up for something special, or, you know, if you’re working that much, you’re making money. Well,
Marlon Lindo 16:58
I just bought a new truck, so I gotta start saving again, but now I’m in the process of buying a house in Jamaica too. So how are you to do that? Yeah?
Jeremy Kellett 17:07
Because you’re gonna need a place to go to. Need
Marlon Lindo 17:09
a place to go to when I retire. Yep, yep. That’s a good plan. So yeah, good to have a goal to work towards. Well, yeah, it makes you want to get up and go to work. That’s right. Yeah, that’s right. Sure you
Jeremy Kellett 17:19
you know a lot of owner operators over here. You met a lot of,
Marlon Lindo 17:22
known a few. Most of the guys that, well, it’s too many of them left anymore. But all the guys that were in my class, 123, of us. It was six, now it’s three. So I talked to one or one of them regularly, and I have a guy that I ran into about a year ago, that customer, and I saw him, and he saw me at some guy I knew for 30 years who didn’t know he was here. Didn’t know he came after me. He didn’t know about it. I didn’t know he was here. And I think he still lives in California, but he works out of here, and he just flies home every couple months, or whatever. Juwan? Yeah, really, yes,
Jeremy Kellett 18:03
I know Juan for 30 years. No kidding, yes, yeah, juwan’s a great guy. Yes,
Marlon Lindo 18:07
I talked to him regularly, but, oh, good, yeah, I talked to a guy that I know, that has their numbers all the time. You know, if I need
Jeremy Kellett 18:14
him, you run into any other Jamaicans here working force. I’d
Marlon Lindo 18:19
I ran into one today in the shop. He saw my truck, and then I ran into another guy in Atlanta. He was pulling the upper bottom. I don’t know if he’s still here or not, but I think he lives in Atlanta too. And now there was one guy that lived in Chicago, but I think he quit. He was doing the upper bottom. So
Jeremy Kellett 18:39
you got a lot of dump experience. Yes, a lot of people out there are pulling dry van reefers, flatbeds, they look at a dump trailer and it goes up in the air, and they’re like, oh, no, to do with that. That’s scary, yeah. How do you get over that? That’s where
Marlon Lindo 18:58
I’m comfortable, you know. But my ex father in law told me, he said, If you do it long enough, you’re gonna flip one. So just don’t think about it. If you win it long enough, it’s gonna happen, not
Jeremy Kellett 19:11
yet. So you know, and tell people about pulling the dump trailer, you know, because most of them never have been interested in coming to work here. They don’t understand the goods and the bads,
Marlon Lindo 19:21
okay? About a dump turtle, the good thing for me is I don’t have to bump a dock. I’ve even been in docks before with the end up when I picked up some pallets a couple months ago, but I don’t like sitting at a dock and you don’t know when you’re gonna be getting loaded or unloaded. You know, you get to pick a shipper receiver, they are ready for you. 99% of the time you get there, they’re gonna be ready for you. And you do open your gate up, dumping you out of there, you know. So that’s what I like about it. And I guess the cons to it is, you know, in the winter time, it can be rough when you get snow up on top of the trailer. But, you know, you get to. It, you know, it’s just,
Jeremy Kellett 20:01
What do you do when you get snow on top of each other? You gotta try to, try
Marlon Lindo 20:05
to get it off every
Jeremy Kellett 20:06
roll it, try
Marlon Lindo 20:07
to beat it. Try to, you know, jiggly the top around. Try to do whatever you can to get it off of there, you know. But you figure out you might have to sit and wait, or whatever you have to do. But, you know, that’s the worst part of it to me, winter time, winter, winter time, yeah, summertime, yeah. It’s nothing like it, you know, yeah, yeah. And, you know, I know a lot of guys say they don’t like doing certain things and dump because of where they go, but you know, it’s, I don’t think about where I’m going. I’m thinking about going there, getting loaded, and getting out of there. You know, you got to get done so well. It
Jeremy Kellett 20:45
gives you, I think, doesn’t it put a little more responsibility on you? Marlon, yeah, you know, to get loaded correctly. Get the weight, get the weight.
Marlon Lindo 20:53
Hell yeah. And that’s the thing. I mean, it doesn’t take long for you to figure out how to load your trailer. Once you start doing it, you know, a couple of weeks you have that figured out. Just like getting used to dumping, you figure it out, and it don’t take long, yeah, you figure it out, and all the
Jeremy Kellett 21:07
time, yeah, I think it’s one of the biggest things that when I’m talking to a recruit, is, look, we put a lot of responsibility on you. Now, when you go to a place to load or especially unload, it’s up to you to make sure, yeah, everything is right. Everything’s right. You’re in a safe place. And you know, you know, because the people that are there just let you do your own thing, right? They don’t. They just want to get everything loaded or unloaded. They just want that product on the ground. Yes, yeah. So you gotta be, you
Marlon Lindo 21:33
gotta take responsibility for what you’re doing every time, make sure the ground is leveled, and every day, if it’s not leveled, you can keep. You might have to move around 10 times, but you’ll find a level flat.
Jeremy Kellett 21:44
We talked a couple weeks ago, had an episode about safety, CSA and all that, and doing pre trips and that kind of stuff. What’s safety mean to you? Marlon, I
Marlon Lindo 21:54
do it every day because it’s my truck. I got to pay for it, so I would rather find it when I’m at the truck stop than to find it down the road at the scale, that’s gonna cost you more down there. That’s right, you know. And I had one out of service about a year ago, and I’ve seen it, but I didn’t think it was a big deal. My hair hoes had a little chaff in there, just nothing. But they red tagged me for that, but I knew it was there, but I didn’t think it was a big deal, and they wrote You up for it. That red tagged me, rode me up, and I had to drop the trailer by the tail to the trailer to the truck stop getting new lines, and come back, they wouldn’t let me go. But like I say, I knew I was there, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal, because it was nothing to me, right, you know, but I would rather fix it on my off time than to be fixing it on a scale.
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23:41
How about your driving habits? My
Marlon Lindo 23:43
driving habits, I try to keep it right at the speed limit or three or four over, that’s about it. But, you know, I don’t, and I try, sometimes I try not to run all the way up against my 11 hour driving time, but I can’t. Sometimes I can’t find parking. So sometimes I’m right up to it, you know, really, or if I have, I have a plan to where, okay, I can make it to this point, but I got caught up in traffic. Now I’m pushing to get there. You know, when I leave it looks good, but you’re in the process, things have changed, yes, so, yeah, you know, I tried to drive. I try to do most of my driving in the daytime. I like to be at a truck stop before it gets dark because you can’t find parking. And with end dumps, it pretty much works like that for me. Yeah, yeah. There’s not too many places that we go that you know, taking, receiving and unloading at night time anymore, right? When we’re doing a lot more roofing, granular though, you know, you can be all night, but, well, I’ve done a lot of that in a while, but hopefully we get some more of that stuff
Jeremy Kellett 24:49
back. Yeah, yeah. Come and go. That business,
Marlon Lindo 24:53
things change, you know, nothing stays the same. So you’ve
Jeremy Kellett 24:56
seen some. So you’ve been here. How long? 22 Yeah, been here. Two. Years. Okay, so you’ve been hearing me, it’s been pretty good. Oh yeah, we’ve been pretty good last couple years.
Marlon Lindo 25:05
I have no complaints, man, everything’s good for me. Yeah, I get my mouth and I have no complaints.
Jeremy Kellett 25:12
It must be that pretty Peter bill that says it all right, there for sure. What’s the future looking like for Marla and lindo? Well,
Marlon Lindo 25:20
planning, and once I pay this truck off here in five years, then I can slow down. That’s what it looked like. And I’m looking at about 60. I’ll be 60 at that time. I’m looking at, you know, not retiring, but working less few days a week, you
Jeremy Kellett 25:37
know, go perfect with our St Louis terminal. You know, slow
Marlon Lindo 25:41
it down about that time, right? Yeah,
Jeremy Kellett 25:43
we are just right, yeah. I’ve
Marlon Lindo 25:44
I have since I got my drive in my life, and I’ve never gone without a job. I’ve never not had a job, you know.
Jeremy Kellett 25:54
So, yeah, yeah, you got to be doing something. Yeah, yeah. Speaking of St Louis, telling you a little bit earlier, but our listeners need to know too. We have we’re looking for some owner operators out of the St Louis area, because, of course, we’ve got a terminal there, and we haven’t just been really gung ho to get things going in the last few years, because we’ve had it for several years. But now we’re to that point. We’ve had a few things happen. We’ve got some needs there to where we need some owner operators in the St Louis area, probably, you know, maybe 50 miles radius, radius that live in there. So, you know, we because we’re going to just start doing a lot of stuff. We already are, but we’re going to start doing more, and I need some people that are up in that area, yeah, they want to work out there. And it’s going to be a lot more of a local, regional type stuff. So yeah, a lot of things are going on there. So if you’re up in that area, let us know. Give us a call. We’ll try to give you some details on exactly what we’re looking for. But definitely going
Marlon Lindo 26:56
to have a lot of my own operator I live up there. Now, you
Jeremy Kellett 26:58
we don’t, we do have some but none, you know, it seems like they’re all around that area, not exactly in the 50 mile radius. We’ve got a few, though, and they’ll probably hear this and go, I didn’t know. Get me on that, you know, which is fine, we’re gonna be caught in you Yeah, which is good, good. That’s what we need, you know, to get this thing started up there. Because, you know, I mean, we envision another Catoosa, Oklahoma terminal out of there, you know, out of St Louis. So just gonna take the right people. A lot of room around there, for sure. Oh, yeah, a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff is going out there. Anything else you’d like to add, more than us, you got a great story out of story, out of Jamaica coming to the US, California, then St Louis.
Marlon Lindo 27:43
Just happy for the opportunity to be here with Oakley up, I think is one of the best decisions I make coming over here. You know, I have no regrets, no complaints. I wish I would have did it a long time
Jeremy Kellett 27:54
ago, for sure, yep. Well, we wish we’d have found you a long time ago. No,
Marlon Lindo 27:58
no problem. And every time I get a chance to tell anybody out, it’s good company. If you want to work, it’s the place to be, you know, yeah.
Jeremy Kellett 28:06
Well, we appreciate you telling everybody that, too. And appreciate you coming on the podcast with me and kind of a minute’s notice here and sharing some info with us. And, oh, proudly, you know, it’s, it’s always well, like I was telling you before. I mean, this is what our listeners like to hear you, yeah? Like, see, like to hear our owner operators on the podcast, because they can relate to it, right? And everybody has a story, yeah, for sure. So everybody’s story is different. Everybody’s story is different. And sound like you got a good one. You’ve had, you’ve had a good story. Oh, yeah,
Marlon Lindo 28:37
I have something good like that. Trucking is my thing, man, I don’t see anything else. I would not do anything else. I tell people all the time, I’ll be in a different city every hour. You know, my window, I’ve seen it all. Yeah, oh yeah. Love it. Well,
Jeremy Kellett 28:52
I appreciate everybody listening to the Oakley podcast this week, and every week as usual. Now, Corey wanted me to come up with some questions. We were trying to ask our listeners out there to comment on some stuff. So let’s see. Let me pick one here and see if you guys would, if you don’t mind, comment on our on YouTube or on the website about this, let’s see, what are some common misconceptions about truck drivers that you encounter. And similar to what I asked you earlier. Marlon, I think that would be a great question for our listeners out there to respond and see what kind of comments we get. What are some common misconceptions about truck drivers that you encounter while you’re out, while you’re out there on the road? Hey, I appreciate everybody listening to the Oakley podcast every week. Thanks to everybody. Thanks everybody for helping us and making this thing better. Thanks to Annabelle for helping us get it going. Thanks to the herd guys over there that do what they do every week, and we really appreciate it, and we’ll talk to you next week. Thanks. Thanks for listening to this episode of Oakley podcast, trucking, business and family. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to rate or review the show in the podcast platform of your choice and share it with a friend. We love hearing from our audience, so if you’ve got a question, comment or just want to say hello, head over to our website, the oakleypodcast.com, and click the leave a comment button. We’ll get you a response soon, and may even share some of the best ones here on the show. We’ll be back with a fresh episode very soon. Thanks for listening.