This week on the Oakley Podcast, host Megan Cummings chats with Archie Dille, one of our Owner/Operators at Oakley Trucking. During the episode, Megan and Archie engage in a heartfelt conversation as Archie shares personal stories about his family, his journey in trucking, and his views on life and work. The discussion covers family dynamics, the importance of spending holidays together, and maintaining a positive attitude. Archie offers advice for new owner-operators, emphasizing the significance of keeping trucks clean and well-maintained. The episode highlights the values of safety, patience, the joys of family life in the trucking industry, and so much more.
Key topics in today’s conversation include:
- Archie’s Background and Journey in Trucking (0:40)
- Being Outnumbered by Women at Home (2:30)
- Hobbies and Travel (4:23)
- Getting Started in Trucking (5:23)
- Archie’s First Date Story with His Wife (6:04)
- Lifelong Dream of Being a Driver (9:14)
- Industry Changes Over the Years (13:09)
- Safety and Patience on the Road (15:30)
- Pre-Road Rituals (17:16)
- Upcoming Thanksgiving Plans (18:03)
- Living Within Your Means (19:32)
- The Value of Family Time (20:14)
- Advice for Owner Operators (23:09)
- Final Thoughts and Takeaways (25:34)
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.bruceoakley.com.
Transcription
Jeremy Kellett 00:12
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. Hey,
Megan Cummings 00:40
everybody, welcome back to Oakley podcast. Trucking business and family. Our fearless leader is out on assignment this week, so I’m doing my best to mirror his footsteps, I guess, and with me to do that. My name is Megan Cummings, by the way, for those of you who may not know, and to help me with that, I’ve got Archie Dille here. He’s one of our owner operators from Jackson, Mississippi. Archie, yes, nice to have you. Thank you. How are you?
Archie Dille 01:04
I’m doing fine.
Megan Cummings 01:05
You know what? Before we started, Annabelle came to my desk this morning, and she was like, we’ve got a podcast with Archie Dille, and he’s just super bubbly. He’s a great guy, a great conversationalist. And I was sitting there with him at my desk before we came up here for about, I don’t know, five minutes two and a half to five, and I just felt it. I mean, we didn’t spend much time together before we came up here, but I just knew this was going to be a winner. Yes,
Archie Dille 01:31
yeah, that’s very easy person to get along
Megan Cummings 01:34
with, yeah. And you know, whenever people are really like that, you can tell within minutes of meeting them,
Archie Dille 01:41
life’s way I see life is that, you know, I feel like, are you a very happy person? You live a happy life, absolutely.
Megan Cummings 01:47
It makes things a lot easier. So give us a little introduction to Archieville. I’m
Archie Dille 01:53
I am 57 years old. I was born August, the 18th, 1967, I have three daughters. My oldest one is Deanna Deal, she’s 33. I have my middle daughter. Her name is Ariel Deal, she’s 26 years old. And I have Shannen deal, my youngest she’s 24 years old.
Megan Cummings 02:22
Very beautiful girls. So I hear they make girl dads different from boy dads. Maybe I’m a little biased, I
Archie Dille 02:29
I don’t know. But I think, really it depends, it depends on how you raise kids. I don’t know. I just had just been blessed to have some good kids. Absolutely,
Megan Cummings 02:39
I’m sure you didn’t have anything to do with that. Did ya first hunt?
Archie Dille 02:43
Yes, I think I did have something to do with it. But costs were very easy. Going first Absolutely.
Megan Cummings 02:48
That’s a full circle moment. That’s just what we were talking about. What about okay, so they’re all grown. Yes, do you and you guys? Do they all live in Jackson with you? Or are they my oldest
Archie Dille 02:58
daughter? She has her own house, but she still stays with us. Daddy’s girl? No, yeah, well, somewhat, yeah, I think I love my daddy’s girl, but my oldest daughter, she had two kids, so she has Solaya and she has Siona, so all of them basically just stay at home. You know, I’m the only man in the house, so I’m not a voter regardless. So really, I just surround the house well, you know, as long as you just give me my TV, let me watch football or sports, and that’s it, that’s fine, absolutely. Hey, they control everything. Okay, so
Megan Cummings 03:39
you’ve got you mentioned two. Do you have any more grand babies? No,
Archie Dille 03:42
I have only just those two and
Megan Cummings 03:44
but they’re both girls. Golly. You weren’t joking about being all numbered. Were you? Yes. What a happy life surrounded by women. Just how often do you get home? I get home every week, every week. Okay, lots of honey dos to do whatever you make it there, yeah, do the
Archie Dille 03:58
yard. Sister, certain things like that. But I usually just, you know, do the routine things around the house.
Megan Cummings 04:05
I mean, somebody’s got to do it. There’s only one man in the house, yeah, if
Archie Dille 04:09
I can’t do it, you know, I just call somebody else to do but you look, but a lot of stuff, I’m very mechanically inclined, so I do a lot of stuff around the house myself.
Megan Cummings 04:17
Good deal. I’m sure that helps a lot. Okay, so what about hobbies? What do you guys do in your free
Archie Dille 04:23
time? My hobbies? Well, my daughters, they like to travel all the time. I don’t like to go out of the country. They like, you know, they tell me, Dad, you need to get your passport. I said, now I’m gonna let y’all have Yeah, well, now I like to stay right here in the United States. Got everything right here. I said, I’m gonna load it anywhere. I said I might go to Hawaii somewhere, but, yeah, other than that, oh, I don’t want to go anywhere. Yes, that’s
Megan Cummings 04:46
fine. That just means you’re content where you are. I think that’s a very admirable thing to feel too. Yes, it is. You know what? Somebody I was listening to, I think I was listening to a podcast, and somebody said, I’ve been everywhere. I’ve been to China, I’ve been to. Different parts of Europe and Asia and India, blah, blah, blah. And they said, you’ve got everything, all of those things here. He’s like, we got mountains, we’ve got ski slopes, we’ve got oceans, all kinds of stuff. And I think that was very profound, because, I mean, it’s true, it’s very accurate, yeah, all four corners. You don’t even have to have a passport, save up a little bit for a plane ticket. Archie, tell us how you started trucking.
Archie Dille 05:26
I started trucking when I was 24 years old. I met my wife. You know, you know, I moved from I was born and raised in the Delta of Mississippi, so I moved from there, and I moved to Jackson, Mississippi, and I met my wife. We were working at Wendy’s, really, so I met her, and we’ve been married, born in almost 33 years. Wow, so,
Megan Cummings 05:51
and just from that chance meeting, you both put in an application, started working there. Did you know, like when you saw her? Did you know?
Archie Dille 05:59
Yes, I know. Really, she didn’t know though. Really, no,
Megan Cummings 06:02
Do you remember what you guys did for your first date on Valentine’s Day?
Archie Dille 06:05
Really, yes,
Megan Cummings 06:07
you kind of had that one handed to you. I mean, that was pretty perfect. I just need to interject for a moment. This is why it’s so nice to have a break, because Jeremy would never ask you about your first date. I want to know all the juicy details, like, how did you, where did you guys go? Did you bring your flowers? Yes,
Archie Dille 06:24
I brought flowers. And I brought her a big vase, a Valentine vase. Oh my gosh, and I brought her some chocolate, and the
Megan Cummings 06:33
rest is history, as this goes to show you, those things, just the little things. I mean, they obviously make a difference. Because look here, 33 years later. Now
Archie Dille 06:42
my wife, she’s a LPN. Her name is Belinda Deal, and she works at the state hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, so she’s been there. She’s been there almost since the year 2021, years. Wow, yeah. She likes it, yeah, she likes it. But I think she wants to retire, because she just had surgery on her back, probably about, I think, probably about six, seven months ago, and she just went back to work. Yeah, she’s just trying to see how she’s gonna feel. But when she comes home, she just cusses and complains. Us
Megan Cummings 07:12
women occasionally like to do that. I can’t lie to you about that one. One of my favorite activities is complaining. Well, my
Archie Dille 07:19
wife, she’s, I don’t care about what she complains about, but she’s a very bossy person.
Megan Cummings 07:23
That’s another thing that women are good at doing, yeah, but I
Archie Dille 07:27
I don’t know. You have to have the right person to be able to go through that situation. Yeah, I don’t know, just me myself, like I said. I’m just used to being around women. Yeah,
Megan Cummings 07:39
That’s good. You know how to put up with it? Yeah, I
Archie Dille 07:43
know how to cope with it. Yeah, there
Megan Cummings 07:45
you go. Well, good, she sounds like a great lady. You two have been, I mean, you’ve been married for a long time. You’ve been, you’ve both been in your careers for a long time. I think that says a lot about people. You don’t really find that too often these I know that’s cliche, but it’s, it’s difficult to do that or to find that in a person. These days, I feel like,
Archie Dille 08:05
I think when, really, when I married my wife, I got more grounded. I wanted to be able to provide for them and help them out as much as possible. Yeah. So, that’s my whole career in trucking. Yeah. I just started driving trucks when I was 24 years old. So I just drove that long.
Megan Cummings 08:24
Yeah. Was it a situation where, as soon as you started, which job did you start driving in? What were you doing? I was driving older. Okay. Did you was it just like a company driving position or, Yes, I
Archie Dille 08:38
was a company called build this transportation out of Cuba Alam them one day terminal, but they had terminals everywhere, so they are out of business now. So yeah,
Megan Cummings 08:48
was it one of those things where as soon as you started doing it, you just knew I wanted to do this forever. Did you fall in love with it instantly?
Archie Dille 08:57
No, tell you the truth. No, what you I’m telling we go back just a little bit okay, ever since I was probably, like, probably about eight or nine years old, and my mom would always ask me, What do I want to do in life? I would tell her, I want to be a truck driver, really. Yeah. So you always knew
Megan Cummings 09:15
Yes. Was everything that you imagined it would be whenever you were whenever you finally sat behind the wheel.
Archie Dille 09:22
Yes, really, yes,
Megan Cummings 09:24
I love it when a plan works out like that.
Archie Dille 09:27
Seriously, I’m talking about how hard it’s hard to find a job that you enjoy doing. But the main reason why this might seem kind of cliche, but I think one of the main reasons why I like driving trucks is that, you know, in life, you have so many personalities and you have so much drama to deal with in life. So usually when I meet a person, I just meet you, just for that time, then I’m done with my business. Yeah,
Megan Cummings 09:55
That’s a good way to think about things. It’s really easy for us to get to know you. To kind of stew over things and like, well, that’s not really, that didn’t really go the way I wanted it to. And then just, you know, you just kind of got to let it roll off your back. Yes, you do. Because, I mean, who knows? You might not know that person the next, in the next two years, you know, it could just be a chance passing. And I think that’s a secret to stay happy, yeah, is to just kind of
Archie Dille 10:21
let it roll, and then not just that, you know, I’m the youngest in my family. My mom had seven, six kids, and I’m the youngest, you know, my sister is 72 and my youngest brother, my brother, up on me, is 6064, I think. And I’m the youngest at 57 they
Megan Cummings 10:47
make those babies special. I have to say, I’m a little partial because I’m also a baby, but I just feel like we’re just built differently. We’re the fruits of their labor. Yes, and that, yeah, oh, you’re spoiled because you’re the baby. Don’t spoil it because I’m a good kid, that’s my favorite line. Well,
Archie Dille 11:02
I wasn’t a spoiler, though,
Megan Cummings 11:04
me neither, me neither.
Archie Dille 11:09
I was the person that you know, I got along with everybody, like I said, I was just very easy for one person. Yeah,
Megan Cummings 11:14
I think that, do you find that having that kind of a personality? Because you are a truck driver. You meet so many kinds of different people. You meet customers. You meet people on the road, people who will ask you about, you know, see your trailer says, Oakley, do you find that having that personality has really helped you a lot, helps you succeed in trucking? Yes,
Archie Dille 11:35
yeah, yes, I do. Because, you know, I have, you know, like I said, I’m a very easy person to approach. I have people come to me all the time. I’m talking about Oakley all the time. Yeah, man, man, I am hearing about Oakley. Man, that’s a good company to work for, I said, yeah, so that’s a good company to work for. I said, I’ve been here for six years. You see it? I said, I’ve been here almost six years. Here on the side of my truck is five years on, but I’ve been here almost six years, and March would be six years. I was talking to a dad not too long ago. Really, I’m coming. I had that I’m talking about. I had that on a regular basis. Really, people come up and ask me, I can
Megan Cummings 12:13
see that. I mean, it’s not difficult to tell just from first meeting somebody, if they have kind of a, you know, and it might just be a personality thing, but some people are just less approachable, and some people are more approachable, yeah. And I think that, you know, whenever you have a good personality like that, and you’re easy going, you can definitely tell right off the bat, well, good deal. Okay, so I wanted to talk about I wrote this down before we came in here, because I was looking at your start date, and I’ve never been able to get any kind of insight from anybody so far, at least, but I wanted to talk about you started in March of 2019 like you said just second ago, you’re going on six years. Do you notice any kind of differences, or how the industry has changed from, say, 2019 before COVID, 2020, in the thick of it, and then what it’s like now coming out of it for almost five years later,
Archie Dille 13:09
I don’t think I could tell. Use the technology. Is he dumb? That’s the impact. Ain’t nothing too much has changed, really, not to me to have it. I’ve always
Megan Cummings 13:17
wondered that, because, you know, you’ll talk to people and they’ll say, Well, you know, we didn’t really, I had started in 21 and that was that things were still kind of murky. As far as you know, restaurants were still asking you to wear masks and stuff like that. So we were still kind of in the thick of it. And, you know, so many people had told me we were busy during 2020 when everything else was shut down, and I’d never had a chance to ask anybody, you know, kind of verify, like, you know, were you really busy? Or was it, you know, could you tell that that the world was ending as we knew it? Or,
Archie Dille 13:50
Well, as long as I’ve been working at Oakley, it has always been busy for me. I’m talking even in the evening, is it slow? Yeah, I’m talking about the dispatches of that, you know, I don’t want to say this, but since I’ve been here at Oakley, I have quite a few dispatches, yeah, but one of my very first dispatchers that I had was Jordan, you know, I did very, I’m turning around the Jordan, you know, if I was very consistent all the time up To that, I think within. I think once COVID hit, I was over in Oklahoma, I think, but, but a dispatcher that I had was Colton. I think it has Colton. He was pretty good, too, with me, but, yeah, but I’m talking I was always busy, yeah, I’m talking about within the time from the time that I’ve been here at Oakley.
Megan Cummings 14:40
You know, that makes us feel because we aren’t up front. We have a tendency to kind of just when you’re in the office for a while, all that back there is just kind of white noise. So, you know, we can hear stuff we really don’t know firsthand what’s going on, like you guys do, and we always want to make sure that you guys are happy and are running if you want to be running. And making the money, because that’s what it all boils down to. You know, you want to love what you do, but you want to be able to provide for your family and your grand babies, all your daughters and your granddaughters,
Archie Dille 15:09
not just this. You don’t talk about wanting to be safe, like you say you want to be safe, and you want everybody around you to be safe.
Megan Cummings 15:15
Yes, is that what we normally like to ask this a little bit later in the podcast. But speaking of being safe, what do you if there’s something that you could tell us four wheel drivers on the roads, about truck drivers, what would you say is,
Archie Dille 15:30
it’s not easy being a professional truck driver, like you said, you have to learn how to be patient. You have to be, you know, the cars around you and the four wheelers around you. You just have to let them do what they want to do. Sit back and just watch it
Megan Cummings 15:49
here. There’s no way my patients could, I just, I don’t know how you guys do it. I think about that every time we get up here and talk to you guys, I just,
Archie Dille 15:58
You know, people always seem like they are always in a hurry to go here and go there, but, you know, I was saying you just don’t talk about you, just try your best to be safe and, you know, and try to stay out of harm’s way. Yeah,
Megan Cummings 16:09
isn’t it funny how I feel like you guys are always talking about being patient, being safe with things, and most of the time us, you know, the people that are driving cars aren’t on a time crunch to get anywhere, and you guys are trying to make a load by a certain delivery time. You know, you guys are the ones that have every right to not be patient, but that’s what you guys preach all the time.
Archie Dille 16:34
Yeah, but not just that. I’m talking about, you have to prepare. Once you prepare and set yourself up for it, I’m talking about, you know, what time you need to be at a certain place. You try to put yourself in, in the position to get their safety, yeah, you know, trying to be speeding the world all that there. You know, that DLT man is always out there watching. He’s out there watching. Is that not just the law enforcement, they are out there watching. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Megan Cummings 17:03
Do you have any pre road rituals, like, does your mom make you a big, you know, week’s worth of groceries to take or some frozen meals? Or, do you guys, what do you do before you get on the road? Usually,
Archie Dille 17:17
when I get on the road, I’m trying to, I have to try, well, me myself. I’m a big guy, so I have to try to eat right, because I have, you know, I have a health problem. It don’t, might not seem like it, but I have health problem that I try to eat right and try to, you know, try to sleep, get my much sleep as I
Megan Cummings 17:39
can. Yeah, we should all be doing that. We don’t think we put enough focus on that.
Archie Dille 17:43
Because, you know, I, you know, I try not to get the teeth on the road, but every now and then it might happen, but usually you get tired, you just pull over and take your little power nap, and then you deck at it again. But, but usually, you know, I just try my best to be healthy and be ready for the job. Absolutely.
Megan Cummings 17:59
Do you guys have any big plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas?
Archie Dille 18:03
Yes, well, we met, well, my whole family, we met in Memphis for Thanksgiving. You have a lot of family in Memphis. Yes, I have a sister, nephew. Is
Megan Cummings 18:14
Where y’all are from? Did you move to Jackson or not? Are y’all from Jackson and No? Was born and raised in Mississippi. Okay, so you just have a lot of family members in Memphis.
Archie Dille 18:24
I have family members in Detroit. I have family members in Tennessee. I have family members in Texas, Chicago. I have a lot of family members.
Megan Cummings 18:38
Do you guys? Is that kind of where you all are? The designated meeting spot is Memphis. Or do you guys kind of swap it around depending on the year? Yeah,
Archie Dille 18:45
we changed it around either to Memphis or they come down south, down in Mississippi, down in Jackson,
Megan Cummings 18:50
Mississippi. Yeah, you guys ever go visit them in Chicago? Yeah, every nine there, I’m gonna have to go up there. I hear a lot of really good things about Chicago. I really just am mostly going for the pizza because that that actually came up a couple weeks ago,
Archie Dille 19:07
Chicago, in the summertime, it’s a lot better there. Sometimes like, oh, I can go to a town. Oh, no, I
Megan Cummings 19:12
could. I’m not built for that kind of cold weather. Absolutely not. What about Christmas? Do you ever, do you normally go home for the holidays? Or do you ever stay out on the road? No, I
Archie Dille 19:21
go home. You go home. I
Megan Cummings 19:22
I don’t think I can give that up. A lot of guys do that. And I just think, what’s your heart? I’m coming
Archie Dille 19:28
to trucking. Its trucking has been good to me. You know, the way I live, I try to live a modest life and go ahead. You know, I try not to, I don’t want too much. My wife, you know, she doesn’t want too much, so we just hold on to it all yet.
Megan Cummings 19:45
Yeah, I think that everything that you’ve said really contributes to your positive attitude. I think a lot of the issues we fail to realize can be traced back to ourselves. Am I living within my means? Am I okay? With what I have. You know, not envious of things. You just learn to appreciate where you are and have a good attitude about it. And that’s difficult. Sometimes it’s hard to remember those things, to remember to feel blessed for what you have.
Archie Dille 20:14
But one thing about life, though, you got to have memory time with your family. Can’t nobody take those away from you. That’s to me. That’s enjoyable to me, yeah? Like the holidays, you are with family members. Those are enjoyable times. We can’t buy those with money. Ain’t nothing, yeah, those are, like, leisure times. I can’t take nothing away from those. Priceless, Yep, absolutely.
Megan Cummings 20:37
So what does the future look like for Archie Dell and his daughters and grand babies and
Archie Dille 20:46
In the near future I’m talking about, are you going to make goals? I’m talking about when I was younger, I always made goals for myself, but saying, like all the goals, and I don’t really know, no goals. Now, all I want to do is just try to maintain what I got and enjoy life. Yeah, that’s serious. That’s how I feel.
Megan Cummings 21:08
I think that’s great advice. I feel like everybody forgets to just enjoy where they are,
Archie Dille 21:15
You know, no, I’m doing my, you know, in life, then, you know, there’s always someone trying to get ahead, to do this, to do that, but I don’t know, just among myself, I just try to live in one of my means. You know, that’s just me. I just feel that way about life, as long as God keeps me in good health and good shape as well. That’s all I really, that’s all I really long for.
Megan Cummings 21:40
I think those are admirable ones, Archie. I feel like I’ve just sat in with a therapist. I feel so much better. I feel like I’ve got a new outlook on life. I’m like, You know what? Tomorrow morning, I’m gonna wake up and I’m like, I need to have a good day. Because I know Archie Dille is gonna have a good day. Yes, because Archie Dille says he’s gonna have a good day. That’s
Archie Dille 22:01
true. That’s where I like to be. I try not to, I try not to let people bring me out of character. Yeah, I tried to stay even a kid, even if sometimes some things might not go right. You know, I’m, I’m the type of person that, like I said, I rather communicate. I like to communicate with you. I don’t want to hold things in, yeah, I want to tell you how I feel about, you know, those things, things going wrong. Yeah, I want to tell you about
Megan Cummings 22:26
them. Seems like you’ve got it down to a science. Is that, is that genetic is your whole family kind of mellow and easy going and,
Archie Dille 22:34
yes, weathered, like you said. We found two folks from the tree. My mom is like that and but, you know, she’s a little bit my mom is a little more she’s a little bit more demanding. Yeah, that’s that woman in her Yeah. But other than that, I just, you know, I just try to do right and be right. Well, we are very
Megan Cummings 22:55
happy to have you as a part of the Oakley family. You’re a ray of sunshine, and I’m sure you have been since March 2019, whenever you least on. Do you have any advice for any up and coming owner operators?
Archie Dille 23:09
I always try to make a difference in life, you know. And you gonna come over here OPI, you know, they gonna hold you to a higher standard. And you know you should hold yourself to a high standard, too, yeah. Other than that there, I mean, you know, and you know, I’m talking about them, they have good equipment, you know. And you keep your equipment up so everything goes pretty good, you know, since I’ve been over here at Oakley, I had no problem, you know. I don’t mind you, try to keep your equipment clean and keep your tractor train, keep your tractor clean and your trailer clean. And you know, you know, you go to a lot of dingy places at times. But you know, hey, cuz you know, we pull raw material, so you know, try to keep your stuff clean. And you know, and deal team, man, you know, you see, you see a nice truck ball down the road. You feeling? Fool you though,
Megan Cummings 24:07
I’ve never heard that before, but that is a good piece of advice. Yes, we get a bunch of a bunch of comments about our equipment and the trucks and stuff like that. And I know, whenever you spend as much time in a truck, you know, as you guys, do you want it to look nice? It’s like a second home. Yeah, you know. So it always makes us feel really good whenever we get compliments on that. People notice that, you know, you don’t think that’s the first thing that they would notice, but they really do that. And good customer service, which I’m positive you check all the boxes for. Yes, I do. You have any favorite customers that you go to. Well, I go
Archie Dille 24:42
to our coast and to Livingston, Alabama, a lot. That’s one of the places I go a lot. Sometimes I go to Memphis, to the dark, you know, to eat dogs. That’s a nice place to go to. I’m gonna use everywhere open, you know, everywhere you go with Oakland, because you. Little raw material. That’s another thing I like about that. You know, it won’t take long before you get loaded. Yeah, you gonna buy your beers the majority of the time. It’s very sudden that Oakley got places for customers that you might have to sit and wait. But other than that, there,
Megan Cummings 25:15
in and out, beautiful. No complaints so far. You can tell me, I won’t tell anybody. We don’t have to publish this. Good. Good deal. Archie, well, if you have any last words for our viewers, we would love to hear them. Any last bits of tidbits of life advice
Archie Dille 25:34
Oakley, well, well, no, I’m gonna tell you about Oakley again. Oakley is a great company to work for. Oakley is a great place to work for. It is a great company to work for. It’s not a bad company. I’m talking about. I’ve been to a lot of companies, and I’ve been an owner operator for a good while. That was one of my goals. Yeah, from driving a truck when I first started driving Joe, to being an operator. And look, I’ve been an owner operator for quite a while. You know, I left. I used to work in ups. I worked for them prior to bat, I think probably about three years. And then I left there, I came over here at Oakley. No, yeah, I left there and came over here at Oakley. I took my four whole k1 just bought me a matter truck. So this, really? This was my fourth truck I didn’t have. Wow. I’m talking about my fifth truck. I had two trucks before I came to Oakley, and I had three trucks since I’ve been at Oakley, really?
Megan Cummings 26:32
Yeah, wow. And you’re just happy as a clam. Yes, happy as I want to read. We love to hear that. Well, Archie, it’s been a pleasure having you on. I think you’re just a ray of sunshine. I know I’ve said that before, but you’ll have to give all of our best to Mrs. Dille and the three lovely ladies that are your guys and the grand babies as well. Thank you so much for joining us before we leave. I did want to say thank you to our sponsors, aero truck sales and LubeZone and once again, thank you so much, Archie for staying with me. It’s been a pleasure. Thank you. I’ll see you guys next week.
Jeremy Kellett 27:06
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