Hey everybody, my name is Wayne Byers. Really excited to have everybody join today. Thank you guys for coming. We wanted to have a kind of a town hall meeting today. For anybody that may be interested in training, just to learn about our training program, ask some questions to some of the experts and so forth. So hopefully, if you have any questions, please put them in the chat and we'll be able to answer those for you as the call goes on. So just to tell you real briefly, my name is Wayne Byers. I'm the vice president of driver training, been with the night transportation for 20 years and was a terminal manager for about 12 years and vice president of operations before coming into this role here recently. And so one of the things that we know we need is good quality trainers. I mean, a lot of the people that we're hiring today are inexperienced, we've got great trainers, but we need more. We definitely wanted to answer any questions you may have. So today we have Ivan Arona, which I'll let Ivan introduce himself in one second. Crystal Leptin is a driver trainer and also Tony Haso is a driver trainer. So we're gonna do an introduction with Crystal and Tony in just a minute. But Ivan, do you wanna take just a quick second and introduce yourself? Absolutely, thanks, Wayne. And hopefully everyone's having a great afternoon. Thanks so much for joining. As Wayne said, my name's Ivan. I've started my transportation career in 1997 as a full-time driver. And I've been also a terminal manager for a few years and I'm currently the director of driver training and working here out of Phoenix, Arizona. And yeah, Wayne, as you mentioned, we're looking for additional trainers for those good candidates that are out there and we're hopeful that we'll be able to address any concerns you may have. Any questions, we'll surely answer them and we're even gonna be touching on some benefits. Great. Yeah, we invite you to submit any questions you may have and we'll try to make sure that we answer every question in our time a lot of years. So let's just jump straight into the training benefits. We have a quick graphic that we're gonna throw up and just kinda talk about just what are the benefits of becoming a trainer? So first of all is mentorship.  And so to have that ability, not just to be a trainer and just teach somebody, but also develop a relationship and really, it's gonna teach the next generation of truck drivers how to properly do things is a big deal. So obviously we want people who are very proud of their profession and really invested in the success of other drivers. So second is pay. Obviously we all come to work to get paid and so over one quarter of our trainers make over $100,000 a year. Our top earners make over 160,000. So I ran some numbers just right before this call and these numbers are a little down because the Christmas holiday just passed. But if you take the top 10 trainers, they're averaging $138,632 a year right now. So for those who are willing to have a student in their truck, there's an opportunity to make a substantial amount of money. Number three is miles.  And so obviously the more miles you make, the more you make in your pocket and our trainers get every mile paid for the trainee and the miles that you drive as well. The fourth is flexibility. We don't require our trainers, we give them a lot of say when they wanna train. So you're not required to have a training on your truck at all times. You wanna go and take a few weeks off or whatever it may be, you've got that flexibility to decide when you take a student. And then finally, our trainer bonus match. So during the first 12 months of your trainee's career, our trainers actually will get this, a matching bonus for every trainee they have. So if you've got five trainers and each one makes $1,000, you'll get an extra $5,000 per month. So, like I said, these numbers are a little skewed right now with the holiday just coming past, but our last month, our top bonus was $1,639. And 94 cents, which equates to just under $20,000 extra per year on top of what you would make as a trainer. So huge opportunity for you guys to stay invested and make extra money. The better you teach these trainees, the more money that you're gonna make down the road. So those are kind of what we have decided or said are the best benefits. I mean, there may be other reasons that you wanna be a trainer, but whatever those may be, we'd love to hear about that, but we feel like this is a good starting point. So with that, what I wanted to do is I wanted to really kind of turn the time over to the professionals that are out there doing it every day, Tony and Crystal. And we've got a few questions that we wanna ask. I see there's already a few questions coming in as well. That's great. So real quick, Crystal, do you wanna maybe just introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you? Sure, my name is Crystal. I have been with Knight for three years now. I have three kids at home. I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan, diehard. And I just, I love training. I love trying to make a difference out there. Awesome. Thank you, Crystal. Yeah, thank you very much. Tony? Yes. Hi, my name is Tony Hosso. I've been driving for 11 years now. I've been with Knight for five, married for 20 years. My beautiful wife Cynthia, got a 13-year-old daughter, Isabel. I'm an Oakland Raiders fan. They say Las Vegas, but I'll always be Oakland to me. And I just, I love working here at night and then training. Awesome. Thank you, Tony. And hey, I had a few questions. I call, get to know the trainer questions here. So just real quick, just answer as quickly as you can. And we'll just go, we'll just go each one at a time. So Crystal, what's your favorite truck stop food? Subway. Subway. What about you, Tony? Free. Whatever I got. All right, Tony, what's the scariest animal? Scariest animal? A bear. A bear. Okay, Crystal, what's one thing that you own that you really need to throw out? The cigarettes that I keep buying. Okay. And then I'll have one, I want you both to answer this question. Describe your career and night transportation of five words or less.  Everything I asked for. That's been great. Okay, Crystal. My second family. Very good. Nice, I like it. Well, that's great. So we want to really take the majority of this time to answer questions. We've got a few questions that I've kind of come up with and then I see that there's a lot of questions coming in, which is great. So just to kind of start off here, I'm going to start with you, Crystal. So what initially led you to become a mentor? What made you want to become a mentor? Because there has been so many horror stories that I've heard about lousy trainers from different companies and nobody looks back on the experience and says, man, that was, I had a good time, you know?  Okay. And I'm not going to ask you both the same questions, but Tony, I'd like to hear your answer on this one as well. What motivated you to become a mentor? Actually, my very first safety manager I have when I started my career, he sat me down after seven months and, you know, knowing my story when I started driving, he really said that I had an enemy to teach the next guy and that was my plans and I told him I wanted to do. And I really grasped onto the skills that I've learned and I wanted to teach the next guy so I could, you know, help them out and let them know if I can do it, you can do it. Okay. Crystal, how has your home time been affected being a trainer versus when you were over the road? Basically, hasn't changed too much. I go home, you know, four days a month. So, and I basically pick it. Sometimes, you know, I go home for two days here and there every other weekend but I basically hit go home when I want. They get me home for holidays, my kids' birthdays, all the days that matter. So, couldn't ask for more. Maybe. Okay, great. Tony, how can you help new students adjust the life on the road that's not my family? You know, somebody hasn't been used to being away from their family. How was you as a trainer? How can you help them adjust to that? Oh, I'll just talk with them about how to schedule their time out and time home and how important it is to make that phone call every day in the morning and the afternoon at the end of the day to let your family know where you are, where you're at and then you don't check on them. You know, and let them know where you're at, what you're seeing, you know, you're able to take pictures, share with them. That's pretty much what I let them know. Just keep that communication, not just with your team here in the office but your home team. Okay. I want to go to one of the questions I see that's been submitted. I'm gonna come here for a second, but this is the crystal. How has it been so far being a female trainer? It's been good. I feel like, you know, sometimes you're always gonna have issues with, you know, personality's clashing but I feel like that's even with guys but I try to build good friendships too with them, you know, and have that mentorship. I talk to a lot of my students, you know, just about every day. We're always talking. I let them know that, you know, I'm here if they need anything, even if they need just somebody to talk to because they're missing everyone at home. Call me. So I really, and I like to train my girls to go and be able to take on any guy out there for miles, so. Love it. This is a great question for you, Tony. Can port drivers be trainers? Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Absolutely. They need them. So Tony, you are for port services, correct? Yes, yes, I am. Yep. With Available, we need trainers.  I, you know, if you guys are interested in it, I say take the step, talk with any other trainer, you know, talk with Ivan there in the office and get plugged in. I mean, it's a great opportunity. Yeah, a lot of our port loads do go over the road somewhat in the mountains and so forth. So in the door, we do, we also have local trainers who, you know, there's some limitations. Local trainers only been able to train for one week out of the four. However, you know, that is an option too, is if you're interested in, if you are a local port service and don't go over the road, you can still be a trainer.  How long did it take for you to be getting comfortable with somebody else driving the truck? I take a good week.  Once they can do the two things, you know, we gotta do multiple things, you're behind the wheel. And once they understand that, I see they understand that, it takes about a week. Okay, I see a question coming in from Jason Amish and can you cross train between dry reefer and port services? The answer is we can, sometimes if we don't have available trainer in a certain area right away, we will allow them to train, you know, with a reefer or port service driver, we would prefer not to do that, but it is an option sometimes. So, and Ivan, if you see any questions on here, you wanna jump in and take, you were more than welcome to do that. I got one on there. I just really had to take some dry van guys out and get them up to date, you know, learning the zone R, learning how to trip plan, the paperwork is important. So those are still things that anybody, any trainer can do on any lane, you know, just to, you know, get these guys seated so they're not waiting or, you know, they get a sour tasting amount, they're waiting for a long time and they might want to go somewhere else. So, you know, I tell trainers out to eight, if there's guys that be trained, just take them and train them. It's the same thing. Same company might be a different terminal, but hey, you still get them the same knowledge. Absolutely. Yeah, our trainers are qualified there across our lines of business and different brands. And so we do see some of that happen indeed. I'll take on a, I'd like to take on a question that was submitted through our Facebook group. And that one was from Chad said, what are the qualifications to become a trainer? So really good question, right? We've got a requirement of one year, 80,000 miles, if you came on as a student, your smart drive score has to be a 20 or less. And we have one solo winter season as well, no more than one moving violation in the last 12 months and no more than one preventable accident. And so one thing that we really wanna share with you is if you're still not there with the mileage, right? Perhaps you're just starting off, but you already have the desire to help others and see them win and succeed. That's what the real ingredient is, right? We've been talking about mentorship. That's what's really important. And so if you're not quite there yet, don't get discouraged. There's no denials, we only delay to address the developmental stages, right? And so we're gonna partner up with you and your terminal and then help your development so that you can get there. But we applaud you when you show the desire to wanna train and be a part of the training program very early on in your driving career. Let's go to a question from Chuck. It says, when a training quits and then comes back a couple of months later, why don't we continue to get compensated if it's under the year point? Obviously, I don't think this is something that is probably real regular. However, I would just encourage you if that situation comes up, maybe to reach out to your terminal manager or to Ivan. And we could look at the circumstances of why they left and so forth. I mean, part of the big reason we have the bonus and it goes on for a year is we want you to be invested in our trainees' futures. And we want you to make sure that they are being successful because the more successful they are, the more successful you are. And obviously we don't want them to leave. But we feel like we don't wanna be, say a training mill, we wanna be different. We wanna really have a, kind of like a specialized experience for our trainers where they come in and they don't wanna leave. They wanna stick with us long term. And for those who graduate and stay long term and the better you do as a trainer, the longer these guys are gonna stay. And so that's the purpose of that. So I hope you answered your question, Chuck. But if you have any questions, specializes, just reach out to your terminal manager to Ivan and myself. This is another question. Do we have Spanish speaking trainers? The answer is yes. And the answer is we need more. We need trainers that speak all languages. And so we have students that come in sometimes that may be more comfortable going with someone that they don't speak English as their first language and may feel more comfortable going with a Spanish speaker or a Russian speaker or whatever language that may be. So we definitely need Spanish speaking trainers. Okay, question for Crystal. What is your approach to make sure that your trainers running miles and maximizing their hours of service but also making sure that they're taking the time they need to learn effectively? I basically, I just change, everybody learns differently. So, you know, especially if they've never had a job driving before, sometimes it takes them a little bit of time to build up to be able to drive longer hours. So I try to, if it's a four week student, do like 25% at least minimum, 50% of their clock and work it up. So by the end, by the last week, they're able to do their full drive time. I try to break it down like that. Some people have had driven long hours before so they're more used to it. I basically don't try to overload my student. So it's basically student by student. I try to feel how they're learning, because everybody learns differently. So I try to cater to that kind of. Great, thank you very much. There was a question from Mike. Did I never install the driver facing camera? We absolutely do not have driver facing cameras. All of our cameras are forward facing, facing the road and they're activated based upon different events that may happen, a heartbreak or, you know, any kind of shift in the truck. You know, they only have that time of the accident. So we do not have driver facing cameras and I do not think we, I don't wanna speak, say never, but I don't think that we ever will. So Linda Barbie said, so if they only have a male trainer available, would I be able to train that person? That's a female. So Ivan, do you wanna take that? Yep, sure will. We do not promote kind of mixed gender pairings with our training. However, those are reviewed on a case by case basis through our safety department. And so that's the way that we approach those. Okay. Yeah. I've got a... Okay, Tyler. Oh, go ahead, Wayne. Tyler asked a question. I'm a, I'm a drive-in driver and starting the night on Monday. How does an experienced driver that has only pulled drive-in come and learn reefer?  We do that a lot in our flatbed applications. If they haven't had flatbed experience, maybe they may go out for a week or two weeks with that person just to get comfortable with the ginsets and other things that they may encounter that aren't on the dry side of the business. Yep, and all that to that.  We'll always make sure that you're prepared, right?  So we'll set you off good and prepared. Yes, sir. Mike said, can I drive something other than a Volvo? So the answer is, I mean, we have Volvos, internationals, Freightliners, Kenworths, those are the trucks that we have.  And if it's available, I'm sure they'll take care of you. If it's not available on that week, you may say, hey, listen, this is what I have today, but if you want to come back next week, I'll have a Freightliner available for you at that point. I also want to give a shout out to Bobby Hill, one of our trainers that hit his million miles this week. We had a celebration and he got his Lyme Green, I call it Lyme Green Truck today. So congratulations, Bobby. Carson said, what's the best way to get into the truck and get a shoe with you guys? How long is the training period? Ivan, you want to take that? Yeah, absolutely. So if you come over with a sub-experience and through the qualification process, they'll determine what your standing will be, your hire, it could be a minimum of two weeks or a minimum of four weeks, depending on how you're classified upon hire. But it would be a great opportunity. You could reach out. We're going to provide a link below for our driveknight.com and through it, you can definitely apply. Yeah, we also, we have a program we call Top Gun. And if you're familiar with pilots and having simulators, we have a program that's called Top Gun we send some of our top students to and they actually train on the simulator and on range, which will help them to, we find that they're more equipped to back actually using that simulator. And that could help cut your time with the trainer down to two weeks versus four weeks as well. So, cool. So I had a question that came through on Facebook this week. And Tony or Crystal, I guess either one of you guys could take this one, but he's a military guy. And he's concerned about his military training and not as it's coming into a trainer, having a lot of pushback from the trainees. So I'd like to know from y'all's experience. I mean, who are trainees? Are they typically very eager to learn? And are they one, you know, willingness to say whatever you do, kind of jump in there and do it? Or do they push back sometimes? And how, and if that's the case, how do you guys respond to that? So, Tony, what's so good of you first? Yeah, sometimes, you know, you get like, I've got some drivers that come from other companies, you know, and they got to go out for four weeks with me and they bring over, you know, what they learned that wherever they were at and you're trying to get them to do what we're doing. And they keep on doing the same thing over and over again. So it's the same conversation sometimes for like a whole week, you know?  Sit down, have lunch and talk about what's going on because it's going in one ear and out the other because it just continues going. So, you know, just having a conversation usually gets them in the right order.  And this is how we do it. And you need to follow these. If you want to be successful here, you need to follow what I'm teaching you. Because if not, you're gonna have lots of problems. So, you know, usually it goes pretty, you know, pretty easy. If not, I got a good tip around me to help me out. Awesome. Thank you very much. Let's go, Al Compton said, would it be possible to include an Atlas with new students coming in? Some of the guys I've trained don't have the money getting started to buy one. Ivan, you want to take that? Yeah, our night CDL Academy actually provides an Atlas for our students. And we definitely encourage all of our trainers to utilize that. We want them to be successful navigators when they're out there. So that's definitely one of our training tools. Yeah, and if I would also just allude, if you didn't go through our CDL Academy and you went to a truck driving school and just didn't have the money, I would just talk to your terminal manager. I would think that we certainly would be willing to help you out there. We may even have some around. Ivan actually put together a document for new students this week. And that's one of the things he talked about was having an Atlas that's two to three, within two to three years and knowing how to use that. So that's a great question, Al, we appreciate that. Carson, do you guys still train at the Phoenix terminal? The answer is yes. We train at all of our terminals. I didn't see the second part. So I'm familiar with the American Truck Team later. Cool. Good stuff. Let's go to Crystal here. What's your most favorite and your least favorite thing about having a trainee in your truck with you? My most favorite is hopefully being able to build a friendship out here. And I love teaching and I get so excited when if they're struggling and backing and then they finally do it, like I'm so ecstatic for them. Just that feeling, because I've struggled so I know what it's like and I get excited for them. My least favorite is sense of privacy.  So you don't have that privacy anymore, so. Okay. I'll be about it. Awesome. That deer in my home time, would the students stay with the truck or get a hotel? How does that work? Ivan, you wanna take that? Yeah, absolutely. And so we look for some comments when we pair. And so hopefully they live within the same area so that way they can take the home time together, right, everyone goes home. But if it would be a home time that's coming up and they're at different cities, we'll arrange that the student might stop and they take their home time there and then the trainer continues on and takes their home time at home. And then we have seen though in 34 hour resets where the trainer will go home and then the student will stay in the truck while the trainer resets. And in that case, they would both capture that reset. It's a variety of them. Good question, Linda. Tony, question for you. What's the biggest challenge you faced so far as a trainer and how did you deal with it? Going right back to the question you asked me earlier, someone trying to break him, his old style where he was working at. And the main thing was his zonar. When you're on duty, you're fueling, pre-trip, all that.  This one gentleman had on my truck, it was just a struggle, it went on for a whole week and I had to stop and we had lunch in Barstow and I'm trying to explain this all to him and he was pretty upset. He was like, I don't know because over at CRST, they did all this stuff for us. I said, I'm sorry, man, but this is how we do it here. If you're doing that, you're gonna have a lot of DOT problems.  So I need to know right now, do you wanna work here? Cause if you do, you gotta follow what I'm teaching you. So after a good in and out burger, he decided to follow. So it worked out, that was like my biggest one with him because he was a little bit younger than me and he was kind of huffy and puffy, but I let him cool off and went and had a burger and talked and he was good to go. That's awesome, thank you. Crystal, how would you describe the support that you get from your terminal and also from the corporate office as a trainer? Wonderful, whenever I need anything, I always call either Ivan or my DDM, my terminal manager, anything, and they're always there for me to help. Whether it's, I need actual some or if I just need a lending ear as far as like, this is a situation and this is what's going on, what do I do? Good stuff. So it's very wonderful. All right, awesome, thank you. Tony, how do you feel about the training bonus match? What's your approach working with your former trainees to maximize that bonus? Well, you know, I just started training again because I was out of the truck for 10 months. I was doing our DQP, so all this came in together at the start, so I just barely started. I sat with, I'm on my fifth driver now to start off, since I got back in the truck here in May and actually last month, one of my trainees, he bonus and, you know, I encouraged him from the gate. You know, it's like, this is just for you.   They're not like having a fifth paycheck, you know, in a month.  So when I seen it, I didn't even know they hit that. I got my paycheck, I was like, what is this? And I seen it in there and I called them up. I said, yo, a way to go, you know, I'm so proud of you, man.  I gotta be home for a week now.  So, yeah, it's pretty awesome.  So that was pretty awesome. That's good. Ruben asked the question, what's the total time you can drive with the trainee? Ivan, can you take that? Yeah, I wonder, Ruben, if you meant, what's the total time within the day and the total amount of training? I'm gonna take it as probably the total amount of training. So we talked about a minimum of, for a four week student, right? A minimum of four weeks, but you're empowered. As a trainer, you are in control to, if there is some additional development that needs to take place, then we allow you to say, hey, I need an extra week with my students so they can be, you know, fully proficient, then we absolutely support that. So ultimately, you're in control as to how much time the student is there with you. Okay, two more questions. I wanna ask both of our professional trainers these questions, and then we're gonna turn it over to Ivan and kind of talk about next steps that you wanna become a trainer. So I'll start with Crystal. What's the most rewarding thing to you about being a trainer? Watching them succeed. I have a student, she just got off my truck. This is the first month she's out solo when she's almost hit 10,000 miles so far this month and that I'm so ecstatic. I know I did my job. Okay, that's great. Hey, there's an extra question. So I was just like watching them succeed. That's great. Question just came in for you from Linda. She's getting her first student next week, which is awesome, thank you, Linda. Is there any advice you can give me being a new trainer with the company? Basically just learn with my first student that I had. I was nervous, I didn't know what to expect, you know. I let them know, hey, you're learning, I'm learning also, let's do this together. And you know, basically just do what you can, try to teach and as you get student to student, you get better at your job. Just like the more miles that they drive and put into it, the better at their job they'll get. So you just have to take it one student at a time. Yeah, I think that's good advice. And Linda, we have, Ivan and his team every quarter and we're getting ready to kind of stretch it out across the United States, it's been in Phoenix, but every quarter we have a trainer basically meeting where they come in and talk about things. So as being a trainer, especially a female trainer, you know, it's a band of sisters out there, right? And so as you get to know more trainers, you can lean on each other for advice and you may call up Crystal one day and say, hey, this is, I've encountered this, how do you deal with this and so forth?  Tony, same questions for you. What's the most rewarding thing about being a trainer?  Just seeing them excited and seeing them motivated and staying connected with them. It's really rewarding to me. Awesome. And then what advice would you give? This is kind of the same question that was asked earlier, but what advice would you give someone who's considering becoming a trainer? Is that for me or both of us? For you. For me? Really make sure you're ready to do it. Really make sure you have the right reasons to do it. Yeah, everybody wants to get that extra penny, extra mile, extra miles. But in reality, your job is to train that guy. All right, the miles are gonna come. You can run him super solo, make the same kind of money you're making, or you can get him up to par and you guys can share the driving to make some extra money. But it all comes down to you doing your job. That's training him how to run his miles, work his hours of service properly, back that trailer up properly, and trip plant properly. You know, he's not just out there, doesn't get a guy to start driving more miles for you because that's only benefiting you and not him. And once he gets off your truck and he goes to do that road test, that's when we find out what's been going on out there with him.  Because we're dependent on, we really are. We are leaders here, and if you're gonna sign that paper and be a trainer, be ready to take that responsibility on. That's great advice. Thank you very much. So what I wanna do now is I wanna turn it over to Ivan just to talk about next steps. But I do wanna encourage, if anybody else has questions, we can circle back and answer those questions. So keep them coming, even while Ivan's talking, we can go back to them. So Ivan, the four jurors. Yeah, thanks. And thank you to Tony, Crystal, and all of our trainers. We're just so grateful for everything you do. And to Tony's point as a trainer, you really are impacting somebody else's future, right?  And so we definitely do encourage you to have the right mindset and kind of the right heart to call it that for training. And so with that, if you're like, hey, I'm excited. I wanna be a part of it. What do I do next, right? And so we are going to drop a link below. And therefore from that, you can go to that directly apply. And then that will come to our training group. From that, we'll contact your terminal leaders. We'll let them know that you've got that interest. Of course, also reach out to them so that they know that you're interested.  Because we want to allow you to have that, take your step, the next step really to elevate your career. And we wanna be there alongside with you to make it happen. So go ahead and follow that link. You can apply there. If you have any problems opening the link, you can go directly to your terminal manager or your driver development manager. Let them know, I'm interested. I wanna be a part of the training team. I'd like to be a trainer and mentor and they'll help you through. And I'd also like to add, if you're not employed with night and you're watching us and you're wondering how to join them. Again, go to our website, the link will be provided below, drivenight.com. You can apply to be a driver. If you come to us with experience, then already within 30 days, we can already work on your qualification. Again, if you're applying with experience and then if not, hey, we'll assess where you're at and we'll help you reach that goal. So pretty simple to get there but nonetheless, we encourage you to go and apply. Okay, also I wanna add that all of our driver managers should have the benefits and training card that we went through earlier. On there, there's a QR code that you can scan with your camera. And if you do that, there's four or five videos that have driver testimonials about why they love training as well. So I would encourage you to go watch those videos. I think they're really good. So before we go, I'd like to just kind of go around the room and one more time and just see if there's any final thoughts that you guys have. So Crystal, any final departing words here? Basically, if you are interested in becoming a trainer, go ahead and try it. You won't know if it's really for you until you are in that position and try it. It's definitely not for everyone but it's definitely worth a shot. It's got a lot of benefits to it. Awesome. Thank you, Crystal. What about you, Timing? Oh, just all our trainers out there, they are training right now. Just remember, you have a group of trainers out here. They're here to help you out, man, for you new guys. You see us walking around the terminal out in the road somewhere at a truck stop, whatever, a customer. You got questions, come and ask. They'll not hesitate. Sometimes it's hard to get hold of Ivan and his team. They're sometimes, they're busy too. They got all less to take care of and some are easier than others. But if you see one of your training brothers out there, or sisters, go ask the question, get your help. Don't think you're alone out there. And that goes for all the drivers out there. You need help with something. You see a trainer. You need help with something. Go talk to us. Go see what, ask us the question you need. Maybe we can help you or we can plug you in with somebody to get you help. Hey, great advice. Thank you. Ivan? Yeah. A lot of words? Of course, if you're still thinking of it, go for it. I encourage you. Take the next step. Elevate your career. You listened to testimonials already. And if you follow the link, you're gonna see even more of our trainers that are gonna be giving testimony to the success they've had as trainers. But I really encourage you to go apply, be part of it. And we're here to help the audience support you along the way. Go get it. Yeah. And kind of like Ivan said a minute ago, I mean, thank Crystal and Tony. Thank you guys so much for being here today. Pleasure. We're so blessed to have so many great professional trainers. Out there. So just thank you to all of our trainers. Thank you to everybody who's considering becoming a trainer. 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Item number, I don't care in the slightest. Object class, something something eats people. Special containment procedures, SCP whatever is to be contained in a metal cage, I think. It has to be put in a chamber that looks red, but I'm pretty sure is orange. I mean if you look at it very closely it looks orange, but from afar it looks red. Isn't that interesting? Don't bother answering. Description, SCP is something.  Ever since the psych director found out that SCP could create those walking tin cans, he replaced all of the personnel except for me. Seafoot note one. Because apparently the talking tin cans don't have enough linguistic abilities to write documentations for the SCPs. My job wasn't even to write files. I was assigned here because all of the archivists opposed the robots and were fired. But I know soon enough they'll replace me and then I'll be back to the streets of ... Oh, look, I just got censored. Wow, would you look at the utility of the new censoring machine, one ... The funniest thing by far is that I wrote ... in an official Foundation document. Isn't that hilarious? What do they need this document for anyways? The machines have a 99.9% chance of recontaining any of the SCPs we're currently containing in the case of a breach.  I haven't even written anything here. Well, okay then, info, here you go. SCP is a solidified mercury sphere with a volume of 10 meters. It will speak to any person in a 99 centimeter radius around itself in incomprehensible languages.   Addendum, pastimes. Now that I don't have any other officer to talk to, I spend most of my time just bouncing a Foundation-branded stress ball against the wall. I also mess with the robots by asking them, hey, tin can divide zero by zero, and then they go ... Since nobody is monitoring the surveillance cameras, I haven't been demoted to D-class. And talking about D-classes, even they were replaced. The ethics committee said it was more humane to use robots for testing. Huh, jokes on them because the director replaced them with robots. Addendum, new officer, agent, has been deemed incompetent for his job and has been replaced with an automaton specialized in the creation of classified documents by orders of the new leader of SIP, leaderbot 2.5, and report, footnote one, augmented efficiency. February 12, 2015, to the O5 council. I have the pleasure to inform you that I, Dr. Franklin M. Mercy, director of SIP, have augmented the efficiency of the site under my responsibility up to an 80%, all thanks to the use of SCP and I must thank you for giving me the opportunity to give a practical use to this artifact. Like you already know, SCP is capable of creating a variety of machines based on commands introduced in the keyboard embedded into it. We initially use these machines for tasks such as cleaning, maintenance, and termination of class D personnel, but now the site under my watch is almost completely automated with only two personnel left that aren't machinery, myself and Jim. I've had to keep him because the automaton's incapacity to write reports. We're still searching for a solution to this. It has been demonstrated again and again that the machines generated by SCP are much more efficient than any personnel recruited by the foundation. In my opinion, I would recommend the use of SCP to the directors of all sites to generate additional personnel. It's efficient, fast, uses low resources, and unlike SCP-222, it won't cause an incident of rebellion or internal conflicts. Effectively, gentlemen, the machines that SCP creates are 100% loyal to the purpose of their creation. It would never do anything to harm the foundation. They'll only continue to improve the functioning of the site. They'll upgrade themselves after every failure, although I've seen that some of them keep exploding without apparent reason. But those are just details. Basically, SCP is a great asset to the foundation, and I would recommend its use immediately. That is to say, me, now all of the site runs at 100% efficiency, leaderbot 2.5, director of site.


Uh, this is Park over here, and it's a little better light there now, that works out, way better. Yeah, way better. Oh yeah, much better. Alright, we're going. This is doing a little uncut for us, a little raw. Raw dog. I'm not sure if that's right. We just got done seeing Furious 7, or Fast and the Furious 7 for the, the layman's out there. It started with the Fast and the Furious, but around 4 or 5 it switched to the. Yeah. And then it went, and then it was just Fast 5, now it's just Furious 7. But then I've seen trailers where they also call Fast and the Furious 7. It's just a convoluted name there. And some of them take place before Tokyo Drift. Correct. All the new ones do. And I think we finally caught up to Tokyo Drift. We even get the guy from Tokyo Drift in this, he's terrible, his accent somehow got even thicker. I don't even know if he had one in Tokyo Drift. I don't know. Another thing we didn't catch up to, Jarul. Yeah, he really, he really screwed the pooch not wanting to be in these films because they've gone from kind of a mediocre drag racing to an Avengers blockbuster.  It's an event. I still think they should team up with the Transformers and just combine universes. Yeah. Diesel can drive Bumblebee, Bumblebee! So let's break this down. I'm not a fan of the Fast and the Furious films, I don't think you are either. What do you mean by fan? Like, I mean, like, I like to laugh a lot if that's what you're asking.  I don't like Fast and the Furious 1 through like 4. 5 is when they turn the corner for me and I think the director and the actors kind of realized we're going to make some really over the top shit now. Ludacris, if you may. Very Ludacris, yes, the actor in the film and the superior rapper. What do I have to say? I think this is probably the best, honestly. The best one I have seen. I remember when a lot of the reviews coming out for number 5 were very meaty, very praiseworthy and I actually fell asleep during Christmas Eve trying to get through number Fast 5. Never made it to 6, but I actually really enjoyed number 7. 6 was good. 6 is good. I think this is better than 6, but it just builds off of it more. You know, the absurdity, the ludicrissness, if you say is ludicrissness a word? Do you think it would have been a more enriching environment or experience had I seen number 6? First? Okay, alright, alright, so I'm okay. They say family like 30 times in the movie, that's all every movie is. I don't have friends, I got family. If you haven't seen 6, you're okay. If you haven't seen any of them, you're okay. In fact, you're probably better off for it. This movie does a lot of things that kind of the bros out there like it's got its fast cars, it's got its fast women, a lot of ass shots, a lot of chest shots, and a lot of cars going through buildings this time around. Going through everything. Going through everything. Everything's paper. When you think that this car can't go any further, it inches a little bit further. And to bounce off of that, the humans are more indestructible than the vehicles themselves. There's a portion of the film where Vin Diesel just, he's in harm's way, he's surrounded. And we were even talking about, you see it on the commercials when they open their parachutes and drop out of the plane, well, each car has a secondary shoot. So I remember you turned over and you're like, he's got a secondary shoot. He's going to go backwards off the hill. No, he just goes off the hill. He just rolls down the hill. He's essentially the T-1000 and Vin Diesel is the T-1000. It's a whole mountain. And then he just gets up and he's like, whoa, that kind of hurts. There's a lot of like stretching and fracking after like taking a three-story fall. The person that would normally get their head blown off is just a simple adjustment for like the rock, although to be fair, that's probably accurate. There's so many people thrown into this film. It's okay. Like Kurt Russell's in there. Jason Statham's the bad guy. Jason Statham is Jason Statham in every single movie he's in. And I'm fine with that. He's a badass. Except for Snatch. He, I guess I cheer for him in that role. He's amazing in Snatch. But yeah, otherwise he's just a martial arts kick in badass. So question, we all know Fast 8's going to be coming out as inevitable. Kurt Russell confirmed. New York setting. Who would you like to see as the new bad guy in Fast 8? I mean, they've went their way with Turkish. Let's bring someone else into the mix. Who are you looking for? Action stars. Well, as par for the furious chorus, bad guys can always return. I wouldn't be surprised if Statham rears his head again or if they're going to let him cool off for a film. I'm guessing they're going to bring it back in some portion. Who would I like to see though? You're putting me on the spot, but I wouldn't mind seeing Stallone as a bad guy. Yeah. I think that could work. Yep, yep. I think that could really work. I feel like you're asking the question, but you already know the answer. I don't. No. I like how you flipped the script. You put me on the spot. Yeah, that's what we do. That's how it feels. So movie feuds go. This is not prescripted. That's right. This is very bang bang. Well, I can't edit, you know, cut, so. All right. I'm not going to. I say you bring back, well, I don't know if you want to let this cat out of the bag, but I say you bring a more prominent role for Iggy Azalea. Oh my God. Why? She was, OK, first things first.  We want that. I want it even more dumb, but about as quick a cut as you could never have. Right. Yeah, the the camera, it's Michael Bay on crack. The thing is constantly moving when they're on the phone because they know the audience is bored if you talk for more than five seconds straight.   And then route route. How do you say your name? Rhonda Rhousey. Yeah, she doesn't have MMA or rose anything from me. I want her off the screen. I don't want her ever in the movies again. She was terrible and expendables three. She was even worse here. Thankfully, it's like two minutes of screen time, but it's still two minutes too much. Out of a two and a half hour movie, which why is it so long? It was long, but at the same time, I didn't find myself checking my watch. No, no, like, like we've kind of hammered away.  Justice, you're kind of you're kind of off the screen here. Let's let's get you better. Let's get you more in here. This is a very technical, very. Yeah, OK, we got enough. Sorry, I just derailed everything in the whole conversation. I'm sorry. I had trouble thinking during that movie, which is kind of extending into the next 20 minutes past quickly, 30, 10 seconds. Describe the plot of Fast and the Furious 7 to me. All right, 10 seconds or less, I'll say fast cars, worldwide wide eye that can see through any camera. I think your time's up already. They're destruction. The point I'm getting at is no idea. Doesn't matter. Bad guys come and go without a care in the world. There's some sort of a God's eye computer thing that can hack into any phone or whatever. It doesn't matter.  You see, I always, as far as my view on movies versus your interest, I always seem to lean towards more of the indie. Type stuff a lot of times, not to say that you don't like a good indie here and there, jumping once in a while. But I guess I don't mind a movie that doesn't allow me to think the entire two and a half hours. It doesn't want you to think. It doesn't want you to think. And I was OK with it in that movie. Yeah, so like I said, if you're going to Fast and the Furious 7, you're clearly not new to the franchise. You know what you're getting into at this point. Some of you but hurt ones from what was it? Fast 4 where they kind of went to this more Avengers kind of a thing. You're long gone at this point. All that's left is us newbies or us loyalists that want to see this kind of crazy stuff. And it's got it. It's got it all. I would actually say this is probably the best comedy I've seen this year. It's very funny. It's very funny. I'm laughing the entire time. I don't know if it's intentional. I mean, they have to know when they're setting these shots up of like Paul Walker running up the set of a bus and jumping conveniently to Rodriguez who's spinning the car over from the catch. Hanging on by a thread under the side of the mirror. Everybody knows what everybody else is going to do.  Like he has no idea where the drone is. He has no idea where his team is. He's just like, I'm going to drive it over this bridge and I'm just going to see what happens. Two days after falling like six stories out of a window onto a car. Well, nothing makes sense.   Nothing adds up. Nothing adds up. And also, nothing needs to. Because I'm in it for the entertainment and it's going to give it to me. It did give it to me. It's just how I like to. It adds up to Furious. It's a different kind of math, Adam. We're giving it a lot of praise. But should movies get up past these days, it seems like Transformers and all these are all big budget $200 million spectacles with zero substance and no script. Zero substance. But the one thing I like about Fast 7, if they truly are trying to do this, they at least can laugh at themselves. Whereas I don't know necessarily that Transformers is trying to laugh at themselves. No, Michael Bay is not. He actually applied for the Oscars this year. He thought he legitimately had the best movie of the year. So a good point there. Everyone's got their own point of view. Let's give it a grade. Grade? You do like 0 to 10, or do ABZ? No, we do 0 to 10 still. Effer Furious isn't good enough. As far as entertainment value on a scale of the 1 to 10, I would give that an 8. That's an 8. An 8. Strictly entertainment. Yeah, I mean, it's getting to the point now where the characters are growing on me a lot. The tribute to Paul Walker was actually, if I had any emotion whatsoever, I would have shed a tear, because it was very heartfelt. That alone raises it up for me. And then Vin Diesel doing a Hulk smash at the end on the parking lot. That takes it to an 8 for me as well. Yeah, so we got two 8s. Go see it. You were going two anyways. If you're watching this review. And until next time, this is another Car Side review. I don't have an ending for this, so I just kind of awkwardly. Yeah.


Hai, so my name is Ah Tan, I've been a long time electronics engineer since 2003, I've been out of my own. So maybe I do customized electronics for factory testing. So there my background was all derived from all these test and instrumentation here. I also belong to a group called the Hec-Wen-Bitah Group that's on Facebook of which two of the many founders are here, Chinmeh and Sayani. And I occasionally or more like infrequently give some talks on just a beat-up group. So last year I gave some talks on my NBIOT project which isn't successful despite all the years of experience. And here I am today to share with you what these difficulties I have. So what is IOT, right? So IOT is just a collection of devices connected by the network to maybe collect data and possibly actuate physical actions. So you may collect temperature or water from a pond and maybe there's not enough water. You can actuate it through remote beans through IOT. IOT is any devices that is connected to the internet. So the possible users ranges from consumer to commercial and industrial infrastructure projects as well. So consumers, right? We have all these variables of which Mitch has explained some of them to us. We have smart home equipment like bulbs, power switches, kitchen appliances, and quantum health. So it's all explained here. So this is how I gave these lights up from my previous talks. That's why you see this skip recap. So I'll just go very briefly to that, right? So despite me being an electronics engineer, the only internet connected gadget I have at home apart from laptops and my smart TV, it's a light bulb. That's all I have at home. So my experience with internet gadgets is not a lot. But since I've been reading up to implement this project, I discovered that there are many, many more things out there. So for my case, I have a friend coming to me because he discovers that I can do electronics. He wants to implement an IOT project for his farm. So it's in a remote location where he has water pumps and he wants to measure the water flow and the water quality. So in this farm, power and wild internet is not so readily available. And he wants to take several readings per hour. So this is perfect application for internet through wireless transmission and that he has many locations wiring all these sensors and gadgets. So there are some considerations with this project. He needs long-term operation running off batteries. If the batteries don't last, he wants it rechargeable also. It has to be in a robust enclosure so that it can survive the elements outside. So the size is not a main concern, although he wants it small enough for portability for installation. So in the locations, there are possibly no Wi-Fi as it's near his shed or farm shank. And we have to consider also the low data rate limitations. So the type of peripherals, he doesn't want to tell me. He just tells me what interfaces he wants for this project. So now there are several IOT connection types. Starting with the oldest, we have serial connection. We have internet and fiber. So those are the ones we are not looking at. We are looking at all the wireless options available. There's Wi-Fi. There's RFID. There's ZigBee, which is quite popular in long distance and consume very little power. There's Bluetooth Low Energy. Unfortunately, that doesn't do the distance. There's Sixporks, Laura, and lately, the cellular companies like Singdel, M1, they have released a thing called the NBIOT. So what is NBIOT, right? NBIOT isn't easily available to us consumers. First, it's only available D to D. Unfortunately, that's not what we all can go to 7-Eleven and buy the same card for. So you have to meet up with one of their business people and then have a long chat, blah blah blah and then maybe you get evaluations in cards like the one I'm holding now, right? So what is NBIOT is that I'm not a cellular expert here but these are things I picked off from the internet. What this is that in the bandwidth given allotted to them by the government for cellular services, your 3-chain 4G mobile phones. They take a little portion to do low data rate transmission. Thereby, they can rely on the current infrastructure of all the cell stations they have in the country or countryside and use a small portion of their bandwidth reserved for NBIOT, narrowband. So these 4 statements, 4G-LTE means your 4th generation long-term evolution and the long-term evolution is being a type of 4G which is prevalent in our modern phones. So you have the fast LTE categories. Those are the ones that are used by the phones. They require high data transmission rate to support all your videos, your Facebooking, voice call, video calls and all that. Now the reason bandwidth in this slot given allotted to them is called narrowband IoT. It just uses a small subset of the bandwidth and it limits the data rate to fit within 200 kHz of their bandwidth allotted to them. So the data rate is lower despite using the same frequency band for all our mobile phone support. They can still squeeze in a tiny form of modulation of frequency spectrum to support narrowband. So they're using back the same base stations that they have already set inside the country. Now they have a second category of narrowband IoT. It's called the LTE-CAP-1 so this is a medium speed LTE standard but it is also categorised under NBIOT. So sometimes you see this terminology and CAT-M1-NBIOT so these two things fit in the umbrella for the usage of IoT applications. So not knowing all these inner details we use modules to support our project. So initially we started using Arduino shields but then we decided to move on to the ESP32 because it supports a bigger programming application. So two modules are currently available. The DGXP, this is the one here I'm going and another one called the SIM 7000. SIM 7000. There are two prevailing modules currently available. So what my customer wanted in this project was that he supports in all of these interfaces including rechargeable batteries and a real-time clock because the ESP32 doesn't have a real-time clock for supporting each sleep and also time heating. So before we started on the project we had to have a rough idea what we were dealing with. So we performed two quick tests before drawing out these schematics and then PCB. So in the first picture we tried the SIM 7000-C connected to an Arduino which is an Arduino. Okay, this was my first struggle. The SIM 7000-C version simply cannot work. No matter what I did in the programming I couldn't connect to our cellular base station. And the one I'm using is from Sintel. So it simply cannot work. We don't know why. We found out later that the 7000-C the C really meant for China usage. So if you're thinking of experimenting with the SIM 7000 don't use this version. So the next thing that we had was the XG, right? Thankfully my Leonardo has an XB connector on it. So this is a special Leonardo by DF Robot. It has two strips there to support the EGA XB module. Right? Okay, so we got some successes here. We managed to connect to Sintel and also to internet websites for data transmission and reception. So we went on with this for our project. At first the module from DIGI also did not work. So we had to use the XB test software called XCPU. So it gives a whole list of parameters that it can adjust. And the difficult things that we had to find out is where do I get this is the name S-T-M-I-O-T. So we had to dig through the web not having good support from Sintel themselves because their own application engineer is being put left and right so he had time to answer all calls. So we found out that this one was a stumbling block and also two more parameters which is the bandmask set for this country's also for Sintel's transmission. The second struggle is that things still didn't work as well because the XB that I got was an earlier version. So it was at firmware at 1140B. So after upgrading through all the steps it finally started to work properly. So this is another thing that the websites and the web support pages don't tell you rapidly. So you have to experiment it for yourself. So this was the second struggle. It took many weeks to discover all these things and which we finally decided to... So okay, the third struggle is that even after we got the connection things broke. Why? Because the same card expired. Alright, so after we had all our decisions kind of made we started to make a PCB. And this was the first version of a PCB. So like our friend here say it's the development of a product that is not straight forward. You just slap on things together on a PCB and it still works. There's a lot of testing needs to be done. So this being the first version more struggles. Okay, so I did some basic testing. I didn't bother with sleep mode so I just had it operating. So my normal CPU consumption was at 50mA operating. That's not in sleep mode. But when it connects to the cellular network it consumes 151mA. So these numbers are important to us because we want the product or this project to last a long time running on batteries. So the lower the power consumption the longer the batteries will last. So I finally did some testing. It works through the internet but when I did the sleep mode testing with the ESP32 the power consumption was good. My target was 100mA or less 200mA is a good starting point. Sorry I don't have a picture for that. But the CPU wouldn't wake up from sleep. So there therein lies another struggle. Damn it, everything works it's just the CPU won't wake up. So I can't put the CPU to sleep. So I could only demo it with my friend running at 56mA and 151mA during transmission. There was a little disappointment. So let's talk some schematics. So this is my power solution for the electronics on this board. It's only a portion of the whole schematics but the schematics isn't very large it's just one page. So this is a portion. So my battery charger I relied on a benchmark T-Texas instrument 24170 I spent a lot of time reading up and configuring this IEC I think I'm falling in love with it. I feel to pay much attention to the actual regulation of the power. So the battery charger works. I like it. It works great. The main regulators I thought it's just it's not a full time project anyway. So I just left in SOE23 Park regulator hoping we will regulate 4.2V into 3.3V required of the system. I felt a bit iffy so I just slapped on another alternate LDO regulator. My main concern for choosing the Park regulator was in the quiescent current. The less quiescent current contributes much lesser prolonging battery life. So this one's not bad. It runs at 1mAh operating. However I totally overlooked the minimum operating voltage of this Park regulator. Hey, I only want 3.3V right? A regulator should take just a little more and start to work. This one will not work at all. It was a bad choice. After reviewing data sheets, I discovered that it required 4.75V to start operating. So it was already a bad choice. Thankfully I had the LDO as an open-up regulator and I performed my test earlier using this one. So in this design, this first version that regulator was totally useless. So now um... continuing the test of the sleep mode, I discovered that running from 4.2V regulator down into 3.3V even with the LDO the ESP32 there was no problem. So that was a struggle also. When I first started testing I had no idea what's causing the CPU to not work properly coming out of sleep mode. Until I tack on the sleep mode I measured the power rails now it sleeps with 200 microMPS at 3.3V but during wake up when it's restarted there was a power spike in the ESP32 consumption all the way up to 200mA but you know frankly went through forums and other people actually recorded the same thing. That consumption of the 200mA is not from the CPU but from the flash supporting the CPU. So what ESP32 does when it goes to sleep it kills itself and on wake up it reloads the entire application firmware into ESP32. So that initial rush of program coming into the ESP32 is the flash work and the flash is the one consuming much of this power spike and I could observe from the scope it takes about 60-70ms and then it stayed quiet. So ESP32 the module went into coma. So that was the first bad design The second version I started to read up more on the power regulator ICs I found some good ones and this was a possible solution. It's from NS or National Semicone I've been brought over by TI So this is a TI part now It's LM46001 So now when I look at the data sheets for the power regulator the lower the recent current projector So this sounds quite good but in this data sheet it will take only 24 microamperes that's really small So I implemented it on the second PCB here and I measured it's no load condition it consume only 42 microamperes Wah, elated then I went on so I put that one that the old LDO back just in case that wasn't needed and this project started to work So although the regulator took only 42 microamperes the entire system between CPU and all the supporting supporting electronics for the system during sleep mode it consume a total of 120 microamperes nearer and nearer towards my target of 100 microamperes So currently I have some issues with the second version looks like I'm going to spin for third one again, I forget to put the reset button for CPU that's very important when developing sometimes the only way to reset is to run the Arduino IDE and hit upload again so there are other things I found out but using the ASB32 model only some lines can be made to wake it up call all of them so that third point is not important now XB3 from DG is very expensive it's $147 you can't sing dollars so when I research $18,000 it's only like $21 ya so now but that's not so bad because I also made the recent discovery and I actually tested it the same $7,000 I don't know what the E means C for China, E for Europe ah Euro, thank you so that works with the sing tell same card ya so now my project is push in the totally new direction I am going to use this new $7,000 E instead ya so that isn't even on the drawing board yet upcoming talks will be here and then another recent discovery right I the bug regulator I've been using is a downward voltage regulation so my lithium iron cell of 4.2 volts will eventually deplete and the voltage will go less and less and then eventually I won't get enough voltage to supply to the system electronics ya 4.2 volts to 3.3 no problem 4.1 to 3.3 no problem and if you just make it 3.5 volts to 3.3 the bug regulator may start to behave funny so this new regulator that I discovered was shared to me by a phase our heckware member also I don't know whether it's here today Sir Joe Virgil okay he shared to me regulator if the input voltage goes below the required 3.3 volts it will boost it upwards to 3.3 so this is a useful regulator I can squeeze a lot of energy out of the battery even if it goes down near the limit of 2.5 volts so other bug regulators exist but maybe expensive so is my project open hardware no not yet I'm too frightened I'm too embarrassed it doesn't work yet most of the times I see on the web of all these open source hardware projects they're fully working fully tested and that's what they call a release so I'm too embarrassed to put it out on the web just yet but my third version is coming so with that I end my talk