Jared Flinn:
You're listening to the Boat Floats Podcast, your number one resource for everything. Volt freight trucking.
Garrett Foxx:
All right.
Jared Flinn:
That's the concept.
Tyler Allison:
Hey, guys. Welcome to the Bulk Loads Podcast. I'm Tyler and I got Garrett with me today.
Garrett Foxx:
What is up?
Tyler Allison:
This is your first podcast feature here.
Garrett Foxx:
I know.
Tyler Allison:
Yeah. Your first episode that you're on it.
Garrett Foxx:
Yep. Normally pretty good. You know, my family always told me I got a face for radio, so here we are, living the dream.
Tyler Allison:
So, Gary, I. I wanted to have you on just to introduce. So Jared is out. He is doing some other stuff this week. He was traveling all week. So we have you in here. I wanted you to have you on because you're the man now behind the podcast and everything. So you're the one that edits the episodes and produces really, this whole thing and makes it really, really look good.
Tyler Allison:
So I wanted to have the viewers see who's all doing that. So whenever we say, hey, Garrett, can you throw up pictures of whatever.
Garrett Foxx:
They know who Garrett is, not just that ghost. Yeah.
Tyler Allison:
Yeah. So we'll go ahead and kick it off with a truck feature before we get into the episode, Garrett, if you want to.
Garrett Foxx:
Yeah. This week we got Alex Newfield with Prairie Gold Transport out of Winkler, Manitoba, Canada. And Prairie Gold's been a Bulk Loads member all the way back since 2010.
Tyler Allison:
Oh, wow. Yeah, A long time.
Dalton Cloyd:
So.
Garrett Foxx:
Which I thought was pretty cool for being that long. And also from Canada.
Tyler Allison:
Have we ever had a Canada feature on here?
Garrett Foxx:
Not that since I've been.
Tyler Allison:
I don't know if we. I don't know if we had. This might be the first time. Many people don't know that we actually do Canada freight on the load board. It's not a whole lot, really, but we do have some Canada freight on there. Some bulk freight coming in and out of Canada, across the border there. I do love this picture, though, with the sunset or might be the sunrise there. But that truck, I always.
Tyler Allison:
I think I said this in the previous episode. I always love. Whenever they color match the fenders, it always makes it look sharp.
Garrett Foxx:
That's just a. It's a simple look I like. Just a good, clean, simple. He said it's maroon on the front there, too. It's kind of hard to tell in this picture, but now he says a couple of really solid ones. And then you says, good belt trailer on the back, which we also don't get a lot of those. Yeah, it's typically just the hoppers or.
Tyler Allison:
Maybe a. Yeah, I know. He's sending some other pictures as well, featuring, featuring Hopper trailer, I believe, so we can throw those up as well. Yeah. Well, thanks, Alex for sending that in. As always. Guys, if you want your truck to be featured on our podcast, social media, anything like that, please send it into us. We always love seeing them.
Tyler Allison:
You can send it on to us on our social media channels. You can send it to us that way or you can simply just email
[email protected] and we'd be happy to share them and feature you. Always feel free to share a little bit about your company as well. In that, that way we can highlight you. But today we'll get into the episode. Today's kind of a short one that we wanted to highlight. It's kind of entertainment one, but I know it's going to resonate with our audience a little bit. Today we bring on Dalton Cloyd.
Tyler Allison:
He's one of our race cars that we sponsor here at Bulk Loads. He's a local around southwest Missouri here. He's good friends with Jared, but I know we sponsor a lot of race cars from our members and it seems like trucking and racing go hand in hand, which, I don't know, it makes sense. But I just, like before getting into this industry, I, I just, it never crossed my mind that they would run, you know, so close together.
Garrett Foxx:
Oh, yeah. I mean, that's never been a sport that I've been super interested in. So you always wonder like who, who watches, who goes and watches these things and there's quite the audience for sure. And I always.
Tyler Allison:
It's super entertaining. I love going. And what do you like? Especially the. I don't know if I can get into like the, the big 500 lap NASCAR. Yeah. Like the N stuff. But these dirt, these dirt track races, like they're fun, electric. Yeah.
Tyler Allison:
Like I love going and watching them in person. Like it's, it's super cool. So I know this episode is going to be entertaining for a lot of our viewers out there. So Dalton kind of touches on what specifically he is racing, where he's going. He's going in the four state area, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and just kind of talks about his upbringing, his dad being in racing. Sound like his dad was racing with a couple well known drivers. So really cool episode. So you guys tune in and we'll catch you on the outro.
Tyler Allison:
So with that being said, here is a race car driver that we sponsor, Dalton Cloyd.
Jared Flinn:
Dalton, thanks for joining.
Dalton Cloyd:
Welcome. Glad to be here.
Jared Flinn:
Yeah. Well, our audience has probably seen your cars because we've Promoted it on our social media and in different sources. Actually we got some pictures up in our break room. But we sponsored you this last year, your race car for the local area down here. But we, and we see each other every day at the gym. But man, I thought it'd be great to have you on the show and really talk about it. So many of our listeners are race car fans, motorsports. They have kids that are involved, grandkids, nieces, nephews.
Jared Flinn:
Like I said, it's just there's a huge amount in our industry that are in a motorsports. So would love to just hear a little bit about your story and really to be encouraging and maybe also some advice that you can give for those out there that maybe are starting in it and getting into it. But just to kind of start off like how long have you been racing and how did you get into it?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, so this was my third season. This, this, this 2025 will be my fourth. Got into it. My dad did it my whole life, so grew up watching him race. I was playing football at Evangel, so I never did it while I was, you know, what age a lot of people begin, you know, 18 or so. So I started at 22 years old and my dad finally said when I was done with college football, he said, do you want to do this or should I sell all of it? And that's where we are today. So we started doing it together.
Jared Flinn:
And your dad. So you'd be second generation, your dad started racing. But I love the story you've told me, but if you don't mind sharing how your dad actually got started in it.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yep. So my dad got started when he was 14 or 15. One of those years his mom had passed when he was young, 10 or so, and his dad thought he needed something to stay out of trouble. He was starting to make some bad decisions at that age and so he took what money he had and bought him a little four cylinder hobby stock and said, hey, go do this. And his dad didn't know anything about it, so he had to learn it on his own. And he met some people that taught him how to build engines, build chassis. Did that for two years and then he got it modified and then he kept racing, made his way over to the pavement world, had a lot of success there. And then started racing dirt, late models.
Jared Flinn:
A lot of people know. But briefly explain kind of the different, I guess classes or series out there. I mean you just talked about, I mean you do dirt racing strictly, but there's also pavement. But also talk about the Actual. The class or the. The actual race car that you're operating and maybe that your dad did too, or is it the same?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, it's. It's similar. So I run a series called the four state dirt late model series. And it's a little bit different than what a lot of people would think. There's a lot of different classes for late models. This one is a spec shock, so we're all on the same shock. A harder tire to save money on tires. And then they have motor rules, so they're not completely open late models that are, you know, some.
Dalton Cloyd:
Some of what some of the viewers might see on tv, but they're a little bit of a step down. And then my dad raced open late models in the 2000s, so he did. Did that with the. The national stuff. Well, he didn't race many of the national stuff, but the regional national stuff.
Jared Flinn:
And you're sure? I want to go back and talk about your dad too, a little bit. But you're strictly doing dirt tracks. Are they pretty similar? All different sizes? I know you've racing. I've taken my son out here, just west town here in Springfield, to watch a race here in Springfield. And I know you've gone as far as, I think like Fort Smith, Arkansas, one trip you were telling me about. But tell me about even the. Like the tracks that you're racing on.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, we race in the four state area. So that's Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas.
Jared Flinn:
Is that a series or it's just kind of where you guys pick and choose?
Dalton Cloyd:
So it's a series. The series is usually about 20 to 25, 27 races, and they pick the tracks. It's not a weekly deal. So our class isn't available on a weekly race. It's kind of come in as a special so that fans that want to see late models can come see them. And the tracks are. They're all different. So Springfield, for example, west of here, is a quarter mile high banked pretty fast for a quarter mile.
Dalton Cloyd:
And then we'll go to places that are even smaller than a quarter mile. They're flat, it's slow. You don't go very fast. A lot of beating and banging on those tracks. And then we go to a track in Oklahoma, Sloan, Oklahoma, that's a half mile. That's also high bank. That is really fast. So they're all different.
Jared Flinn:
Hey, guys. We are getting so much interest for our Bulk Freight Conference 2025. You know, we started this two years ago. We've had two phenomenal conferences. It keeps getting Bigger. Our first conference we had over 200. This last one over 500. We have a lot of people that want to show up.
Jared Flinn:
We want to make sure that you can get your ticket reserved. It's going to be the third week of April. We hope that you can make it. But go ahead. Right now go to bulk freight conference.com and put your email address in there and we will notify you when tickets go on sale. That way you will be the first one to be notified before they sell out. It's going to be amazing show. We have a new venue that's going to be even bigger.
Jared Flinn:
We're talking actually having show trucks inside the venue. Breakout sessions and man, just a world mess to get you connected. I was just talking yesterday, had had dinner with a lady that was at the conference last year and just talked about the connections that she made and the business that she's doing now by meeting those clients face to face. So we want you to be there, man. Go to bulkfreightconference.com Enter your email address, get signed up. It's going to be phenomenal. We'll see you there. God bless when you're.
Jared Flinn:
Because you have to do qualifying and all that to be in the race. Like some of these. How many, how many cars are trying to qualify and then how many are actually in the race?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah. So it depends on the night but on average I think last year there was 28 cars a night and they would take 20 to the feature event. So.
Jared Flinn:
Okay, I want you to go back because I still like that story talking about your, your grandpa buying the car for your dad. Your dad really got into it and I want you to tell the story. But because you've told me this over and over. Like he raced against some well known racers like Jamie McMurray.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah.
Jared Flinn:
And Carl Edwards and actually ended up beating them. But yeah, talk about that.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah. So my dad can be kind of proud of himself at times. So he makes sure to tell me who he raced against in the 90s when he was winning a lot. He was racing a dirt modified at the time and he had some buddies racing pavement back in the 90s of Missouri Pavement racing was really big and so he started racing pavement Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Every week he convert, converted his dirt modified to a pavement modified. And so he was racing at Lebanon, Missouri Bolivar, Missouri and a couple other tracks. But he, he won a couple track championships against Jimmy McMurray and Carl Edwards. Um, and I mentioned that story.
Dalton Cloyd:
I said well, did Carl Edwards do backflips when he Used to win back then, and he said he never won back then.
Jared Flinn:
And again now. I mean, you were closely with your dad, but if you can really talk like, what. What was it that he had that these other guys didn't have to win?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure exactly what it is he had or didn't have. Carl Edwards was early on in his career then obviously Carl worked, I hear. My dad tells me. On the flip side is that Carl was always marketing himself and just kept taking steps to go to the next step. And his marketability is what got him to nascar. He had a lot of skill. That's why he won races in nascar.
Dalton Cloyd:
But he always focused on making sure he was marketable. And then, I think back then it was just who could build the best car. And my dad was pretty good at building them. He built them himself and then he just. He did it a lot and wanted it really bad. And I think that's probably why he had a lot of success back then.
Jared Flinn:
I guess that's where I always get froze when I think about racing, because not everyone. But if you're going to get into it, it's going to be expensive and we're going to talk about that. But you have to know that car in and out and even do a lot of the repairs yourself just to save costs. You've talked about, like, you've wrecked cars before and you guys have rebuilt them back from scratch.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, I wouldn't say that's as common today as it. As it is for us, but, you know, my dad can do all that stuff as well. So I got in a wreck a couple years ago, had to cut the front clip off and rebuild it, and we did all that ourselves. But nowadays the norm is there's some big companies out there that build the chassis, and when people wreck them, they often send them just to them, but not as cost effective as fixing it yourself.
Jared Flinn:
Talk about the cost itself, though. I mean, and broadly speaking, because I think that's the other thing too. It's. There's a lot of activities, a lot of sports. This is one that, I mean, there's a lot of investment and cost, let alone the time to get into.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, it's. I guess I don't have a good example of that, but.
Jared Flinn:
Well, I know we sponsor, but I mean, I think you're probably your family. Your dad puts in a lot. I mean, sweat equity or sweat time, but also just investment. Because you said this year you. You're going into it with two. Two motors.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yep. Yeah, so we got two motors built this year while we're finishing building them. My dad builds those himself, so that's a big cost that he saves me from not having to pay an engine builder. He builds the motors, and then you have your upfront cost of a race car. A new dirt late model can cost $50,000 as a roller. We have a 2015 car that we've updated and rebuilt ourselves, and so it's probably worth 7 or 8,000, but we're still going to race against guys that have $50,000 race cars. And that's. That's where some of the struggle comes in.
Dalton Cloyd:
And doing this from a. From a financial standpoint, then you have tires on weekly race fuel at $15 a gallon, and, you know, the diesel fuel to get their pit passes at $40 apiece. So, yeah, it's. It's. It. There's a saying that racing has always taken. It never got more expensive. It's always taken every dollar you have.
Dalton Cloyd:
So.
Jared Flinn:
Because really, if you. I want to talk about kind of how your seasons have progressed from your first year till now. But, like, when you' win one of these events in Springfield, what is the top end prize?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah. So our series is a little different, you know, and payouts are widely different across the nation. But our series is a budget series that's built to try to allow the. The normal person, per se, to afford to do it. So ours pay 1000 to win, but they pay 325 to make the feature. And my weekly cost with fuel and pit passes are about 400 to 450. So as long as we're making the features, and I haven't missed a feature ever, I've always made the features. So as long as we're making the features, we're not spending a ton.
Dalton Cloyd:
But then you add in engine repairs. If you blow one up, if you crash one, you know, you can be $1,000 here, $1,000 there. So that's how our payout is designed. There's not a big gap for winning to making the feature, and they do that intentionally to try to allow everyone to be able to do it on a weekly basis.
Jared Flinn:
So would you say the goal is, you know, so this upcoming season, I mean, how many races will you be?
Dalton Cloyd:
They haven't released the schedule yet. I imagine It'll be about 25. And our big goal is just to be at all of them this year. We've always had one motor, and we've always had issues that kept us from being there. But this year, we've got two motors, and we're gonna. Our. Our big goal is just to be at every race.
Jared Flinn:
Last year, you. How many did you have to miss?
Dalton Cloyd:
I think there was 20 races total last year, and I think I missed six of them or seven. So a decent chunk.
Jared Flinn:
Okay.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah.
Jared Flinn:
And again, for your dad, I mean, the expectation. I mean, he wants you to do good. Yeah, obviously. But as far as winning or being in the top, I'm just curious, how do you all strategize that or kind of talk through that? Because, again, there's a family event. He's happy. He's wanting you to be involved with it. But I guess just how do you get into it to really talk strategically about, like, hey, we gotta. We gotta be top three on this race, or we gotta be wherever.
Jared Flinn:
And do you guys talk about the track itself and how to.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, I. I don't think there's an expectation necessarily on a specific position, but I will say that he expects me to do. To. To try. And then we're on the phone almost every day talking about different setup stuff that we could try this year. And, you know, this is. You know, he'll call me randomly, say, hey, I was thinking, you know, the car wasn't getting up on the bars entering the corner. I think we should change this, this and that.
Dalton Cloyd:
And so there's times when the car was really good and I ran fifth or sixth, and he's like, hey, you had the car to win tonight. You know, and he. He's not too hard on me with me only doing this, you know, three years, but he says, you had the car to win tonight, and you. You probably should have been up there at least battling with the leaders. But on the flip side of that, in racing, there's some nights that you just miss the setup and you run 15th. And he's not upset. He's like, hey, you did what you could, and it wasn't our night. We'll.
Dalton Cloyd:
We'll work on it and try again next week. So.
Jared Flinn:
Yeah, that's cool. And this is a family event. You talked about, even your mom.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah.
Jared Flinn:
She comes to the races. Your fiance?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, my. My fiance. Her family was involved in dirt bikes, so she's been around racing. And then when we first started dating, I took her to some races, and she actually didn't love it at the beginning, but she'll. She'll tell you she doesn't love it, but she is awful excited when I'm on the racetrack for someone that doesn't love it. So.
Jared Flinn:
And last thing, and we'll kind of end with this. I want to talk, and I said this in the very beginning, but really just encouraging that next generation. You know those folks out there that they got kids or grandkids starting off maybe dirt track or, or even go karts and all that, but just in, in the short time you've been doing it and then watching your father all these years, like what. What's some of that practical advice you would give to other people that are maybe just getting into it or thinking about it?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, well, first off, I think everyone that can do it should do it. I think it teaches you a lot. But racing is the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. You can go from winning the week before to not making the feature the next week. And so I think it just teaches you resilience and how to handle that adversity. And then obviously the hard work aspect, after you work, you know, a long day. Cause a lot of these guys are in, in the trades or trucking that I race with. And they work hard.
Dalton Cloyd:
And so, you know, they work 12 hours in a day and then they come home and they work on the race car for four or five more hours. And so it, it teaches you how to just never quit and hard work and when, when things aren't going your way, the only way to make it better is to keep working.
Jared Flinn:
So is the sport still growing or is it about the same or it, it's.
Dalton Cloyd:
It depends who you ask. I mean, I see.
Jared Flinn:
And this area's always seemed like it's been huge, like southwest Missouri. Again, you mentioned Bolivar, Lebanon, Lucas Motor, Wheatland. I mean, it's just like everywhere you look around here, there's racetracks. And again, you talked about Carl Edwards. I mean, he was from Columbia. Jamie McMurray down here. Man, there's. It seems like there's been a lot of really good professional race car.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah.
Jared Flinn:
Drivers that have come out of this. This area.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah. Well, Fairgrove, where I'm from, used to be called Little Charlotte because it was like Charlotte, North Carolina. There were so many good pavement racers that came from there. Really, they would call it Little Charlotte. But to answer your question, if I. If it's growing or if it, if it's dying, I guess would be the other way is it's, it's getting tougher for the weekly racer. I think. I think we see times where it seems like car counts are down, but on the national scene, it's as big as it's ever been.
Dalton Cloyd:
Payouts are as big as they've Ever been crowds online streaming, so I don't think it's going anywhere. I think racing will always evolve. It just. It might be one of those things that it's tougher for the weekly racer to do it every single week. But the national scene, I think there's probably more fans than ever.
Jared Flinn:
I've heard one time where they. There was talk about even NASCAR and some of these other motorsports kind of going down in popularity, but it had to do with really vehicles you look at today, a lot of them. You know, back in the day, you'd work on that, your car with your dad, you know, whatever pickup truck or whatever. Well, kids today aren't really working on their own vehicles anymore. Most of it's done by a technician at some mechanic shop. It's all computer generated. And because of that, it's led to less people involved in motorsports and that. And I don't know, it's just what I've heard.
Jared Flinn:
I don't know if there's true to that or not, but I just wondered, do we see that? Have you seen that in the industry?
Dalton Cloyd:
I do see that. The, the fans and the people participating are getting older. Usually the only people my age are doing it because someone in their family did it.
Jared Flinn:
And how many racers are you racing against kind of in your age? Or are they older? I mean the actual drivers? Because if I remember right, when I was out at Springfield, a lot of those guys seemed older, in my opinion, because there was a car that flipped over and man, it looked like he was 55 or 60 years old.
Dalton Cloyd:
Again, I know who you're talking about. I think that guy's about 70.
Jared Flinn:
He was even older.
Dalton Cloyd:
Um, yeah, a lot of the racers, I would say the average age is somewhere around 40 to 50 that I race against. Um, there's a. There's a couple that are younger than me, though. They're 20, 21. And then there's some that are right around my age. But I would say the norm is older. And if they don't have a son or their son didn't want to do it, then those people probably leave the sport when they're done and not do it again. Um, but I.
Dalton Cloyd:
With that being said, I will say I've brought a lot of my friends to the races or they've asked to go. And several of them that weren't into racing are ate up with it now. So I don't know that it's dying. I just think it'll continue to change. And I think a lot of teenage boys used to what they looked forward to is getting their first car and they wanted a sports car. I think that's kind of gone away and that's where some of the appeal came from with maybe your generation or my dad's generation. So I don't think it will die, but I do think it'll continue to evolve and, and tracks will have to find a way to stay open when fans aren't in the seats and. But I, I don't, I don't see it going away.
Jared Flinn:
What's left of the car as we speak to, to be done.
Dalton Cloyd:
It's, it's got a lot of work left. We have one motor done and then we've got a complete rebuild on the second motor. We're going to rebuild the rear end on the car and then we have to. We finished the deck of the race car building that and then we need to build some doors, quarters, fenders, nose, and then start prepping and double checking everything. And first race will be in April.
Jared Flinn:
April. We're whatever, three, four months away as we're recording this. So yeah, still quite a bit of work to be done.
Dalton Cloyd:
Race cars never finished.
Jared Flinn:
You said your dad is like Saturday morning, 7am he wants you out there.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah. You've asked me how, how my dad is with things like that and he's, he's a little old school where he's like, hey, if I'm working at 7am tomorrow, you better be out here. And if I'm not out there at 7am sharp then, or 8 or whatever he sets that day then and he's going back inside and I'm working on it on my own. So.
Jared Flinn:
But even weeknights, so you've gone out there after hours and at night and worked in the car.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, I usually we'll, we'll work on it. We try to work on it a couple nights a week after work and then try to get a Saturday morning till one or so noon one and get some work done. Just depends how much needs to be done at that time.
Jared Flinn:
Yeah, I think that's awesome. I mean first off, it's a heck of a commitment. Yeah. For you and your dad for something you're going to do. But again, when you look at it again, you can talk about the, the winning and hopefully making, you know, getting first, second place and making money. But at the end of the day too, man, you're getting to spend that time with your dad, your mom's coming to the races, your fiance, friends that you're bringing. So man, it's just sounds Like a cool thing that you're doing.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, it's winning would be cool, but I don't, I don't think that it will replace just getting to do it with my dad, you know. So me and my dad are pretty close and we get to spend a lot of time whether it's in the shop and working on stuff and you know, maybe our attitude isn't always great in there. Things aren't going well, but we get to spend a lot of time together that a lot of people don't get to do with their parents. So it's nice.
Jared Flinn:
Lastly, for people that want to just learn a little bit more about your race car and kind of where to follow you. Obviously you do have a Facebook page, right?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, I, I post a lot of racing stuff on personal pages, but it's just Dalton Cloyd on Facebook and decoyd30 on Instagram.
Jared Flinn:
So Bulk Loads will be sponsoring this year. I assume that you guys would gladly take on other sponsors.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, yeah, we still got a few open spots. We've had some really good ones in the past and so I think we've got three open spots still. But we would gladly find a. Find a spot for any size sponsor.
Jared Flinn:
I know you don't. It hasn't been released yet but obviously you'll be racing in the four state areas, so obviously Springfield. What are some other cities?
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, Springfield, Springfield. I've heard rumors of Wheatland or Lucas Oil. Humboldt, Kansas line, Oklahoma, Fort Smith, Arkansas. See, there's some more that I can't think of off the top of my head, but probably West Plains, Missouri and maybe some more. But yeah, more to come on that once they.
Jared Flinn:
I know all these guys. There's an app that people can watch all these races on.
Dalton Cloyd:
Right.
Jared Flinn:
They're all recorded.
Dalton Cloyd:
Yeah, ours, ours are usually not. Ours are usually the tracks website. We'll record them. Okay. And you can. It's usually a like a pay per view type of thing. You pay for the that week's. And then my race pass is an app on your phone where you can stay up to date with results.
Dalton Cloyd:
It's not recordings, but it'll show you live lap times and stuff. You can see how your favorite driver qualified that night, things like that.
Jared Flinn:
Yeah, well, man, buddy, I'm excited for you. Good luck in this season. Make sure and follow Dalton on this. And you all know as listeners on Bulk Loads, we love sponsoring race cars and drivers and it's not really about the exposure, although we do get good exposure, but we love investing in those people that put Those sports like that. I know last year I think we sponsored man, I think 20 something different cars kind of throughout the US and we're glad they're going to do that again this year. So if you do have interest and are looking for a sponsor, reach out to us. You can comment in on the post on this and we'd be glad to consider that as well. But Dalton, man, good luck this year.
Jared Flinn:
I see every morning at the gym, so we'll talk more after this.
Dalton Cloyd:
So, man, appreciate it.
Jared Flinn:
Yep, you betcha.
Tyler Allison:
Well, Garrett, what'd you think of the episode?
Garrett Foxx:
I thought it was pretty entertaining. Like you said in the intro. I think this is definitely a different style than we typically do, but it's just a good story, which I think we all love every once in a while. I like, I think my favorite part is just the fact that he kind of got into it later in, you know, his not childhood, I guess, current life stage. But, you know, it's something his dad was always into and he really wanted to kind of continue that legacy. And I think you see that a lot. But you also see a lot of times some people want to branch off from some of the family history. So it's always good to kind of hear some of those stories.
Tyler Allison:
Yeah, like I said, we have a lot of members who do racing. We sponsor a lot of cars out there. One of the, we were up in the at Nebraska for the Nebraska Ag Expo. We met one of our members up there and it was kind of interesting. He's a big race car guy, but his take on trucking, I'm like, dude, why do you truck? Why do you, you know, why do you wake up and do this every day? And he's like, I truck so I can race.
Garrett Foxx:
Oh yeah.
Tyler Allison:
We all know it's a super expensive hobby. We all got expensive hobbies, you know, whether it's the hunting, fishing or whatever. But racing can get real expensive real quick. And I know a lot of guys out there love it. They do it and it's one of those things it seems like you gotta, you gotta, you know, live and breathe. Yeah, like he was saying, Dalton was saying in the episode, he knows guys in the trucking industry that, you know, they'll work 12 hour days and then they'll go home and work four to five hours on the race car. So it's, it's a lifestyle, but it's all about the thrill, you know, winning.
Garrett Foxx:
I can't even imagine being in one of those.
Tyler Allison:
Like you said, the highs are super high, the lows are low. But yeah, super cool episode. So thanks Dalton for coming on. I do want to mention, you know, Most of our 2025 year is filled up for race car sponsorships. Usually we dedicate so much to try to help sponsor our members, specifically in their, their cars. We sponsor a lot of our members, sons and kids racing as well. But if you race and this is something that you are passionate about and you are looking for a sponsor, definitely don't, don't be afraid to send it in. And we will consider, no promises on if we will do it, but we'd love to have it run, you know, run it by our team.
Tyler Allison:
So you can email us podcastolkloads.com just a little bit about, you know, what you do. You're racing everything like that. And we'd be happy to view it and consider it and be part of it. Definitely. Garrett, we have the conference coming up. We keep mentioning this episode after episode. We need you to go get your tickets now. They are running out.
Tyler Allison:
Hotels are almost booked up. I think we have out of the two hotel room blocks, one is already completely filled up. I haven't looked at the other one. I think it's getting close to being booked up too. So go ahead, go to Bulk Freight Conference.com, book your tickets, secure your hotel room and we'd love to see you there. There's going to be a lot of cool stuff. It's all centered around networking. There's a lot of connections to be made.
Tyler Allison:
There's a lot of good speakers that we're going to have so you can view the agenda on the, on the website as well. So looking forward to that. Also, we just released the Idaho documentary or docu series. Whatever.
Garrett Foxx:
Yeah, whatever you want.
Tyler Allison:
Go to YouTube if you're not on YouTube right now and look it up. It's. It should be like one of our most recent bulk lids feature videos. Super cool. Joe and Jared, they went up to Idaho and got to capture just the entire kind of potato farming industry. And it's. I didn't realize how high tech it was with the, they got AI sorters and yeah like the different potatoes where they're going, you know, for. If it's a good, if it's a large good potato, you know, it's going, it may be going to McDonald's for french fries if it's a, you know, short potato, you know, maybe going to a steakhouse for a baked potato.
Tyler Allison:
Like just the different uses I guess that they're doing and just the massive production that they have going on in Idaho and how it incorporates trucking and all. Like, it's just super fascinating. So I would recommend you go watch it if you haven't yet.
Garrett Foxx:
Definitely. This is the one that. I think this one's got the coolest, like, visuals out of all the features we've done just with the machines and the feel like, I don't know, the Joe with that drone does some magic. But yeah, yeah, you know, it's an awesome episode.
Tyler Allison:
We've got. We've got more coming out too, so make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. That way you never miss one. We've got. We should be releasing another one here in a few weeks. They just keep stacking up, which is awesome. We love doing them. So we also have a form I want to tell you about in the description below.
Tyler Allison:
If you click on that form, you want us to come out and do a video shoot with you? We'd love to do that as well. And we'd love to come see you and feature company. Anything else before we go ahead and close out?
Garrett Foxx:
Nope.
Tyler Allison:
I think we mentioned this again on every episode, but we do have a prayer request line. Prayer line, prayerboltloads.com you can simply just email in any kind of prayer request or. Like Jared has said before, we want to hear your praises as well. We want to hear all of it. We have an internal team who prays over those weekly and we share with our team. So we definitely want to utilize those and. And we want to be able to use the Lord, pass those off to him because we know that he is a part of our everyday lives and he's the. The king, you know, of all kings, so he can take care of it.
Tyler Allison:
So with that being said, we'll go ahead and close out in prayer. Lord, we come to you today. Just thank you. Praise you, Lord. We just thank you for all your many blessings, Lord. We just. We just want to release everything that we have, Lord. Lord, up to you, any hard times, any struggles that we're dealing with, Lord, we just want to give that to you.
Tyler Allison:
I know there's a lot of, you know, crisis going on, whether it's natural disasters or any kind of hardships, Lord, those times are tough, Lord. Sometimes we cannot handle it all by ourselves, Lord. And we know that we shouldn't handle those by ourselves, Lord. We want to trust in you, Lord. So I ask that anybody going through any hard times or, or. Or crisis situations, Lord, they are just so bold enough to pass that up to you and give you the reigns, Lord, I ask that you just bless every one of our members, our farmers, this agriculture industry, the trucking industry, Lord. They work hard every day, Lord, and I ask that you just make sure to keep them safe. That way they can return to their to their families every single day.
Tyler Allison:
Lord, we love you and praise you. Amen.
Garrett Foxx:
Amen.
Tyler Allison:
All right guys, well, we will go ahead and close out here. If you could just go ahead and drop us a like and a subscribe on our channel, on our Facebook pages, Instagram pages. I think we're pretty much everywhere TikTok. We release videos all the time on there, so make sure to follow us. Stay up to date with us as well. You can always drop below if you've ever been curious about bulkloads.com. if you're not a member with us, go ahead and click the description in the link below. You can create a free account with us and see what we're all about.
Tyler Allison:
We'd love to have you. So also, if you know of anybody can benefit from this episode or loves racing, go ahead and share this episode. Copy and paste the link, send it over to them. That's how it helps us grow our channel so we can keep doing these episodes. All righty. Well, thank you. God bless.
