Webinar Replay #15: Fleet Preparedness for Adverse Weather Conditions

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Jay Wommack: Good morning, everybody. Jay Wommack founder and CEO of Infinit-I Workforce Solutions. Thank you so much for joining us today. Our webinar will begin in just a few minutes appreciate y’all sitting on hold.

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Jay Wommack: While we’re here, waiting for everybody to jump on, I want to give a special shout out to our existing clients that are here with us today.

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Jay Wommack: You are proven to your entire workforce that safety is your number one concern is your number one priority. And we appreciate that because

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Jay Wommack: We’re very, very good at delivering training for safety, for orientation, for ongoing corrective action.

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Jay Wommack: We do have all the answers. We know exactly what we’re doing with web-based training. We’ve been doing this for 15 years, but I have a special offer day for our prospects that show up.

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Jay Wommack: We’d like to offer you a 30-day free trial using our system completely see what it’s all about. See if like using something like this, you know, remote training has jumped to the forefront.

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Jay Wommack: I don’t care how many bells and whistles; you’ve got if they’re not going to use it. It’s not going to have an impact on your company. And at the end of the day, that’s what we’re all about.

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Jay Wommack: We want to see your top line and bottom line, improve, we won’t see your safety record improve. That’s what we do. And we do that better than anybody out there.

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Jay Wommack: Thanks for sticking with me. In the meantime, it’s what you came for us the webinar. So, Mark, if you’re ready, I’m will hand it over to you.

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Mark Rhea: Well, good morning, and thank you, Jay. As always,

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Mark Rhea: I want to over communicate Jays industry support for over 25 years that I’m involved with Jay of the safety, the wellbeing of our drivers, and the trucking industry. So before we get into, we’ve got a really fantastic webinar today, which includes

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Mark Rhea: adverse weather. Today is October 1, 2020, adverse weather has already begun if it hasn’t begun in your region. It’s out there.

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Mark Rhea: But to to get things started. If you want to take Jay up on his 30-day free trial offer, which I would certainly encourage you to do. Just, just check yes right in front of us right now if you could just pop it yes in there. Just, just a couple of quick stats remote learning

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Mark Rhea: Can result can result in and I can attest to this in a 20% reduction in Crash frequency, 80% reduction in a violation and a 50% reduction

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Mark Rhea: In training costs. Those are big numbers of very achievable remote learning through Infinit-I Workforce Solutions.

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Mark Rhea: The other thing I would offer is the ability to produce documentation of your training and defending lawsuits and avoiding the nuclear verdict are a huge benefit.

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Mark Rhea: And I can tell you, thousands of lives have been saved on our highways using remote awareness training, which we’re about to jump into on adverse weather so

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Mark Rhea: I see a couple of people are a check. Yes, we get a couple more in there, we’ll have the opportunity to do this again at the end and take up Mr. Jay on his 30-day free demo. So that being said, let’s move to the next slide. My name is Mark Rhea. I’ve got 35 years in this trucking industry.

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Mark Rhea: And I can assure you I have been involved in several adverse weather situations, whether they’re shutdowns, delays, crashes, fog, wideouts, black outs, sleet, wind, smoke, you name it.

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Mark Rhea: It’s real. And the weather is changing October 1, 2020, as we speak. I want to urge you to listen to this webinar in its entirety.

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Mark Rhea: At the end we have a live video to share from a multi vehicle crash. That’s very illustrative of the reality of the multi vehicle adverse weather pile up reality.

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Mark Rhea: I would also say multi vehicle adverse weather accidents can be prevented. You have got to prepare ahead of time. We’ve got Lieutenant Wyrick. I’m about to introduce

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Mark Rhea: from the great State of Wyoming to go over some of the adverse conditions that he sees. Let’s try to stay out of a multi vehicle adverse weather condition this year and it can be done so.

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Mark Rhea: Lieutenant Daniel Wyrick is a seasoned career employee of the Wyoming Highway Patrol 30 years in law enforcement.

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Mark Rhea: The last 16 he has been without Wyoming Highway Patrol to as a motor carrier trooper and inspector since 2008

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Mark Rhea: And is currently serving as the commercial carrier supervisor for the State of Wyoming and currently serves as a commercial vehicle safety alliance region for president. So

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Mark Rhea: Being from the state of Wyoming and the commercial vehicle supervisor, it’s fair to say you seen a lot. Is that a fair statement Lieutenant Wyrick.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: That’s a very fair statement Mark. Thank you.

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Mark Rhea: Thank you for making our hallways safe in helping us prepare for the upcoming season, which I think you’ve already had a little bit of season up there and Wyoming.

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Mark Rhea: Wind is always a big issue in in Wyoming. And to illustrate that we’ve got a quick dashcam to show if we could advance

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Mark Rhea: Here’s a highway patrol and that’s not you in that car, I hope, is it

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: No, it is not.

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Mark Rhea: Okay.

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Mark Rhea: That that pretty much speaks for itself. Now, hopefully, nobody was injured in that blow over. Is that, is that what happened?

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: My knowledge, nobody was hurt, including the drivers of the truck or the

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Truck in front of all these patrol cars that actually, they were already working on blow over.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: At that time, they estimated the gust of wind

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Actually, the highest recorded when that day was 105 miles an hour on crosswind and this truck will have a load that was less than or right around 10,000 pounds of payload in the trailer. So, it was a very light load.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: In comparison to a lot. And when you have sustained winds that they were around 75 to 80 miles an hour and then getting gusts up up to 105

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Mark Rhea: So, the, the logic that says the wind cannot blow over a trailer loaded, or empty is not true and state of Wyoming. Is that a fair statement.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Our spirit. Yeah, that’s very true our springtime we were multiple boomers during wind events we do

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Actually, have it when you know with proper signage and high bid signs and things of that nature to give

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Operators good heads up well.

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Mark Rhea: I’m glad, nobody was injured and if you’re going to be blown over you. Don’t be blown over on top of a highway patrol car, but unfortunately that’s what happened to that gentleman. So, let’s just let’s just get into a little bit of

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Mark Rhea: The realities of adverse weather talked about white outs, fog, black ice, wind, smoke all that

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Mark Rhea: It. We’ve got a couple of stats here 5.8 million vehicle accidents per year 21% one out of every five is due to bad weather.

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Mark Rhea: And certainly, can be avoidable if you prepare and are trained

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Mark Rhea: I’m going to ask the lieutenant if he would please expand on based on your experience with all the adverse weather.

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Mark Rhea: Multi vehicle accidents you’ve seen can you provide our listening audience and input on how to prepare their driver staff and their non driver staff for the upcoming adverse weather conditions.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Um

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: One of our biggest things is, as we get into the winter driving and that can start as early as September like Mark said, we’ve already had one closure on I-80 due to snow and

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Vehicle related crashes that closed the highway. So, as we start getting into August and September, it would be a very good idea to have your drivers prepared with warmer clothing than they would normally have in the summertime.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Travel and

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: As you can see, this one was a springtime, not only wasn’t snow, but it was when the event as well so

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: The Wyoming doesn’t require chains in the wintertime. Those are good ideas paying attention to road conditions that all our part of entries that drivers, if they stop.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: At any of our port of entries. We have road conditions on overhead monitors that are directly related to our 511 app that

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Is provided free on the internet. But we do have an in our ports of entry and of course if they’re at a port of entry, they can always ask

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Our staff members on road conditions, but those apps, most states, I believe, having I know with our 511 app, we have all our surrounding states a link to their weather in road report apps as well so

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: But preparing these

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Obviously good tires are paramount.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: For this type of wet winter weather driving

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Mark Rhea: So, so just basic preparation and awareness is the key. We do have a quick poll question for the audience. Do you provide

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Mark Rhea: awareness training in your organization for adverse weather, yes or no, and if so, what format do you use flyers and posters, satellite messages, online training, conference calls, or something else.

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Mark Rhea: If you don’t mind answer those questions. I do have a couple of more questions; did you work this wreck Lieutenant Wyrick?

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: No, this happened over between just west.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Rollins between Rollins and Warm Sutter out on I-80. So no, I did not work this crash. Okay.

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Mark Rhea: Well, let me, let me ask you another question here.

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Mark Rhea: Can you walk us through the different restrictions classifications examples are when tire change is required.

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Mark Rhea: Rolling Road closures, road closures, wind warnings, there’s a number of different restrictions and classifications, can you just walk through those with us real quick.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Oh, we base our restrictions on of course the current weather will have high when warnings will have

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Wet or slick or wet slick roads, those will all be listed out basically

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: On the 511 app and it’s either green, orange or red and then they do have a yellow for caution color and behind these different warnings.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: But when we get to where there’s no unnecessary Travel, we’re asking the motoring public to not travel because road conditions are at a point where it’s almost to the point where they’re going to close the road. So the conditions out there are not good.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: When we have a closer. We have 405 miles of interstate 80 that crosses Wyoming and this also goes for I-25 that goes north and I-90 but our

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: But, with it being the major chord or

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: From East West traffic across the nation.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: We can’t handle the volume of traffic in the smaller towns along it. So, they do what we call it rolling closure so we have a crash in and say Evanston area on the west side state, they will eventually once the parking

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: starts filling up, they’ll roll it back and close it. So, they’ll go from Rock Springs to Rollins to Laramie, and they eventually Cheyenne and then entry back into the state from either Colorado or Nebraska.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: So,

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Mark Rhea: Yeah, and I’m going to assume obviously adverse weather is not isolated to the state of Wyoming those something like that is, is nationwide relative to road closures and

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Mark Rhea: Rolling closures and tire chains, things like that. Is that, is that a fair statement.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Yeah. So one of the biggest questions I get from companies is do we require tire chains. And the answer for Wyoming is NO. Unlike Colorado they required it on I-70 basically west of Denver through

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Almost I would think call or I’m sorry, Grand Junction, Colorado. They do have a chain requirement to go over those passes in the winter, and they have to be in possession of the on the truck at the time of operation to go over those passes.

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Mark Rhea: Well, conventional wisdom would tell me if it’s bad enough to require change is bad enough to sit it out, but

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Mark Rhea: Because the conditions can change so rapidly out there and of course.

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Mark Rhea: You know, they’re not. I was involved in a deposition and Pennsylvania where there were

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Mark Rhea: I guess they were 80 different vehicles involved in a major pile up in the plaintiff’s attorney represented 21 different

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Mark Rhea: People in

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Mark Rhea: 21 different lawsuits, so it’s a major

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Mark Rhea: Crash event when we have a big pile up like that. Let me ask you another question here. Obviously, when a road is closed, whether it’s voluntary or involuntary shut down.

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Mark Rhea: That obviously is going to require a safe and legal place to park which can be a challenge, can you spend a few minutes reviewing the laws to parking and how our clients might help find a safe, legal place to park.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: So, I mean, so like a lot of other places, Wyoming is very challenged in providing enough parking for commercial motor vehicles.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: We do have rest areas along the interstate system and even off the interstate system.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Wyoming does restrict parking on controlled access highways, which interstate 80 and most public roadways are restricted access, which means we

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Are engineering only allows entry and exit off the interstate that at a certain point, because there’s line of sight and different

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: tabulations that go into where they will allow that to happen. So

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: If we find trucks parked along the highway. Our troopers will require them to move because as you can see with the wind and the snow in this picture, a lot of this was due to the when building up and drifting

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: On the trucks that are part you know that crashed in this picture. But what started this one was someone stopped on the interstate and in blinding conditions.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: And then search drifting and that’s why one of the reasons we don’t allow parking on the ramps and on along the highway, especially during

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Storms and our plows are trying to keep the highways open or get them open. And if they continually run into vehicles parked on the road. Again, it causes drifting conditions on the highway and they can’t keep up with it.

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Mark Rhea: Well, you know, we talked already about preparation in training assignments obviously driver that’s out there and

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Mark Rhea: adverse weather conditions, certainly need to support staff that can help him or her. Find a safe place. So, you can avoid getting into it once you’re in the middle of. There are your options are pretty few and obviously parking on the shoulder of an interstate is illegal.

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Mark Rhea: And contributes to these multi vehicle accidents, so just getting some information out there to think about, Okay, we got some bad weather. I’ve got to find a place safe place to park is

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Mark Rhea: Something that everybody needs to consider in the support staff need to be able to help these drivers out there, find that place so that’s a big issue is parking is that is that a fair statement.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: That is a very, very fair statement because when we get into these kinds of conditions and these roads are closed for, you know,

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Can be closed for two days. Do your drivers have enough warm clothing. Do they have enough fuel. Do they have enough food.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: And we are very concerned about that our troopers will check the rest areas and make sure everybody’s doing well. That way when they aren’t busy working crashes or trying to keep the road closed

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: This crash that we’re looking at now kept interstate 80 closed for almost four days.

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Mark Rhea: four full days.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Thats because this was only one of two this, the total number of vehicles involved in this crash or almost 100 vehicles.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Wow. And we ended up

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: One of the tow truck companies got with the school district and Rollins and got school buses to come out and take drivers and operators private vehicles in the town and get them to a motel until we could get this cleaned up.

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Mark Rhea: So we need to do everything we can to keep our drivers from being in the middle of all of that somehow, someway, so let’s go to the next slide. Thank you very much for that commentary

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Mark Rhea: Just, just a quick, just a little bit of what is it that’s causing that.

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Mark Rhea: 400,000 injuries 5,300 fatalities as from the Federal Highway Administration looking here at the at the weather conditions. It says wet, rain, snow, sleet, icy, and obviously, there’s a

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Mark Rhea: Kind of a hybrid of those things. Could your kind of just review what you see in those different weather conditions and how they can change.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: So, one of the biggest things that especially springtime in Wyoming. We can get you know snow and ice and the wet.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Eventually, it gets cold enough, it freezes. We get rain and then on top of it, then it turns snow, like we’re looking at this picture at the bottom. This one, if I remember correctly, was about 45 cars and semi in this on Interstate at West of Laramie, it was very, very dense fog and

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Things just cascaded from a commercial vehicle on the road.

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Mark Rhea: And then also this one initiated by a commercial vehicle parked on the shoulder.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: That’s what it was determined. Yes. Wow. Okay. Um, but so we get a lot of foreign conditions and then that you know adds to icing and everything that it lays down on the

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Highway. But the biggest thing is drivers can run into this. I mean, on both sides of this crash. It was clear before they entered it, but there was a fog morning out at the time for from the certain mile post to a certain mile post on Interstate 80

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: But that’s the conditions can change so the

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Mark Rhea: So the fog can turn into snow that can turn into those sleet that can turn back into rain is just a never ending hybrid of all these conditions. Yeah.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Like we say in Wyoming sometimes wait five minutes in the weather will change.

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Mark Rhea: I know, I know a lot of our clients go through Wyoming. But I would also, you know, Tennessee, Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana. They’re the adverse weather conditions that are upcoming are

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Mark Rhea: Touch all of us.

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Mark Rhea: blue smoke and we’ll cover smoke here in just a minute but

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Mark Rhea: The time to get ready is now for these adverse weather conditions and get people to think about it and stay out of it. So, let’s go to the next slide please.

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Mark Rhea: The three major causes obviously snow. I mean, rain, snow, fog, smoke, smog, and smoke.

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Mark Rhea: We’ll talk a little bit more about smoke because people don’t think about that often, but it clearly has an impact on visibility.

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Mark Rhea: And we talked a lot about preparing. We do have a quick list here. I’ll go over the content that we have available that can get out this afternoon. If you’re a

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Mark Rhea: Client or if you take up. Jay, on his 30 day offer driving and extreme weather conditions, winter weather readiness checklist. You talked about that a little bit earlier. I think will read the recap of that in just a minute. Out to be ready for winter weather. I see cabs step leads to a broken arm.

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Mark Rhea: I can attest that I see cab steps can lead to more than a broken arm.

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Mark Rhea: We need to be aware of the injuries.

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Mark Rhea: getting in and out of your truck winter weather is a bad case of ice and watch where you are walking

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Mark Rhea: Do you want to expand on that last before you walk in, do you see a lot of pedestrian-based accidents and injuries.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: We do Mark, we have you know required trucks to stop if they’re not on a bypass system at our port of entry. So, we do what we can keep you know the steps and things clear but

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Ice does build up. Occasionally, we’ve had drivers slip and fall and end up going to the hospital because of injuries like said broken arms.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: And other related injuries with falling on the ice. So, and during our winter months. It’s

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Again, we try to do our best and our port of entry staff do their best to keep the sidewalks clear and even we bring the snowplows in to

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Clear the lots for the for the drivers it, but those accidents do happen, and we get usually one or two a year that

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Mark Rhea: Me ask this question, if you’re at your port of entries, and I don’t know if this is for all states at the port of entry.

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Mark Rhea: Do the personnel at the port of entry, can they provide some assistance to the driver of upcoming road closures or conditions.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Again, Mark like said in all our report adventures we have the monitors in the ports for all the driving conditions on all the highways within

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: The state of Wyoming and they can help them. Yes. With the road closures, they can direct them to the 511 app if they’re on their cellular device and can download not even downloaded thing just access it on the internet. I’m free of charge. Okay.

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Mark Rhea: Again, this content that we have already developed it’s immediately valuable, I would certainly

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Mark Rhea: Recommend that this not only be assigned you’re driving staff but your non driving staff. Everybody needs to be aware of the upcoming adverse weather conditions. So,

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Mark Rhea: That’s just a sample of what we have immediately available if we go to the next slide, please. We talked a little bit about smoke in, if I’m not mistaken, you are, you have an ongoing fire today. Is that correct, Lieutenant.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Yes, we do. We have one which is south and west of Learmey that’s depending how the wind is shifting last I looked at a little over 70,000 acres of burnt.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: And it’s right on the border of Colorado and Wyoming and more in Wyoming than it is in Colorado. But as we all know we this last or the summer, just a few months ago I 70 was closed because of the fire danger and smoke.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: In the then on the passes in Colorado.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: I can’t remember exactly what town, but they closed all of interstate 70 to access because of the fire and smoke danger.

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Mark Rhea: Well, and that that that top of smoking lead to a complete blackout or smoke out are completely

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Mark Rhea: Not reduced I mean zero visibility.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: And I’m sure they’re experiencing the same and California and Oregon with the fires over there as well. Yes, sir.

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Mark Rhea: Okay, well, and we do have a resource airnow.gov that can give you a little bit of insight on where the wildfires are that are can certainly

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Mark Rhea: Have a huge impact on traffic out there. So, okay, next, next slide please.

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Mark Rhea: Okay, we talked a little bit about preparation. Here’s a quick checklist.

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Mark Rhea: Of things that you can use. We can share this with the audience. We have the content your drivers trained to drive and adverse weather, obviously, you know, slowing down.

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Mark Rhea: There we have we have extensive training on that.

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Mark Rhea: My opinion on some of that is the best training you can do is to not drive in adverse weather.

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Mark Rhea: Just be prepared for it and avoid it, equipment, tires, snow chains. I don’t know, Lieutenant. If you’ve got some input on what you seen for

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Mark Rhea: Equipment requirements for adverse weather.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: What really that and I mean you know during winter.

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Mark Rhea: Windshield wipers.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: wipers and fluid are very good.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Men, of course, just making sure the triangles are there if they do get stranded, man.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: And communication with either their dispatch or being able to give an accurate location of the assistance.

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Mark Rhea: Know what your state requirements are for snow change, obviously.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: 512 tier system marketing Wyoming. So, if it’s tier one if you’re for will driving up adequate tires are good. So, this isn’t going to apply to a lot of commercial vehicles, so you’re going to have to have chains.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: It, regardless of if the tire chain law is in effect in the State of Wyoming. We don’t do a lot of that on the interstates, it’s more on our primary, secondary is over mountain passer is that will require the chains, more than the interstate.

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Mark Rhea: Okay, and you mentioned the 511 app that you clearly would recommend

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Yes, most definitely. Not only will this give you weather conditions. It has a link to we have

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Speed signs. So, we have reduced

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Speeds in effect at times as well. So, if it’s saying it’s 45 even though it might be sunny and dry what it’s trying to do is worn of impending bad weather and we’re trying to get traffic, slow down, because

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Again, it’s that accordion effect where if everybody’s running into it faster than the people that are in the condition at the time we end up with problems. So, we do have reduced speed limits available.

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Mark Rhea: This is this is clearly something support staff needs to be involved in monitoring those road conditions and weather procedures, knowing exactly what, what am I going to do this is I would very much encourage support staff to detail, get this content out to your drivers.

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Mark Rhea: What is the procedure? What do I do if I find myself in the middle of adverse weather conditions and have a plan not to just roll into a big multi vehicle mad scramble and

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Mark Rhea: Thinking ahead and getting people to think about certainly help. We talked about parking on the shoulder. Not a good idea at all.

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Mark Rhea: But it happens every year and it happens in multiple states is going to happen this year.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Yes Mark.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Yeah. Again, it’s, it’s not allowed, except for in cases of emergency and even when it’s those emergencies. I mean I review all commercial motor vehicle crashes that happened in the State of Wyoming.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: And there are a number, and I can give you an exact number, but that we’re parked vehicle or stranded passenger vehicle gets struck while they’re parked on the interstate and that’s what we want to try to avoid

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Mark Rhea: We want to avoid that. Yes, sir. Okay, let’s go to the next slide, please. A little bit of preparation.

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Mark Rhea: Content that needs to be shared with both drivers and support staff on what how to track weather conditions, how to advise drivers on safe operations specifically parking how to prepare

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Mark Rhea: They need to be the supporting staff for our drivers that are out there maneuvering through this. So, we do have a lot of content on that. And I would encourage you to

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Mark Rhea: Like I said to get those assignments out. If you are an existing client or if not Jays gotcha A 30-day free trial offer you can get it out this afternoon so

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Mark Rhea: The driver depends on their support staff for good information, and we need to be able to provide it to and they’ll, they’ll. Thank you. I mean, let’s, let’s just call it like it is. There will be several multi vehicle adverse weather.

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Mark Rhea: Accidents this winter. And I did one time, have a driver call and thank me one time for doing some training ahead of time because he had heard about

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Mark Rhea: A multi vehicle accident and said, I’m just glad I wasn’t in the middle of that. I just want to thank you for having me. Think about that. So,

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Mark Rhea: This is just an illustration of Wow, look at that. Oh, did you work this accident, Lieutenant.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: No.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Thankfully I didn’t this one.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Was when I was working up on the two lane, I believe this was in 2015 so right before I came to Cheyenne

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Mark Rhea: You know, you look at that and it’s hard to put $1 amount on the

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Mark Rhea: claims, the verdicts, the injuries, and deaths.

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Mark Rhea: Wow okay let’s go to the next slide please.

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Mark Rhea: That’s what we’re trying to avoid

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Mark Rhea: Okay, well let’s, let’s, um, here’s just a quick overview of all our clients, obviously they’re not all in the State of Wyoming, but a lot of go through the state of Wyoming. But these

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Mark Rhea: These ad boards weathers are not isolated to Wyoming. They’re all over the country plaintiffs’ attorneys love them.

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Mark Rhea: And their avoidable. The point I would like to get across is adverse weather conditions are high priority topic today is October 1 the timing is right to get out your online training to improve the awareness to avoid these nasty situations.

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Mark Rhea: Infinit-I Workforce has a complete library of modules on adverse weather that can be immediately assigned

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Mark Rhea: Out. Let me ask the lieutenant it is multi vehicle polyps preventable.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: I believe they are yes if we pay attention to our, our weather patterns.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Allow drivers to pull over when they started incurring the hazardous conditions.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: This, I think it would improve

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Mark Rhea: Show preparation and training and simulation and in all those buzz words are very relevant to to being able to get through the winter.

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Mark Rhea: And fall with the fog that that is very applicable in this rule world.

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Mark Rhea: Also, there’s a 30 day free trial offer. I want to get that up again if you have some questions.

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Mark Rhea: Okay, now that you know what you need to share with your drivers and driving staff.

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Mark Rhea: If you want free access, just click yes you want to speak to Lieutenant wire say yes.

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Mark Rhea: Today and get some of this content out if you’re not, if you want to take Jay up on the 30-day free trial or got to do is put the yes right there. And somebody will get right back with you. I think the key is the timing is now.

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Mark Rhea: Lieutenant work. Would you agree with that. Not in the middle. If we get this content out in February. It’s too late. We need to get that out today. Is that good? Is that a good recommendation.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Very good recommendation Mark Yeah, because like I said, our weather, at least in Wyoming and I mean it can happen anywhere you know with adverse weather.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: The, the training is permanent for drivers, it would

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Mark Rhea: Be nice if some of your records contacted you and say, hey, we wish we had more risks but

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Mark Rhea: We, we, we want to stay out of that. So, we’ve covered a lot of information today. The key is now. I did want to go ahead and tell everybody. Our next webinar scheduled for October 15 is on intersections. We have a guest from the insurance industry that’s going to help us.

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Mark Rhea: Frame. The, the emerging issue of increased intersection crashes and what to do about those

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Mark Rhea: I want to thank everybody again and I want to especially thank Lieutenant wiring and the other peace officer’s highway patrolman across the nation.

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Mark Rhea: As they help us get through this winter and hopefully, we can help you out a little bit by preparing our drivers and are driving staff for those conditions because they’re going to happen. So, thank you very much what you do, Lieutenant.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Thank you, Mark. Thanks for having me.

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Mark Rhea: I hope you don’t get too much. I hope you don’t get too busy this winter. But I’ve got a feeling you probably will be busy.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: I hope, or I certainly hope the best for true present on the road as well that are

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Mark Rhea: Yes, sir.

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Lt. Dan Wyrick: Do this and they’re safe.

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Mark Rhea: And I’m certainly glad. Nobody was in that highway patrolman his car that got the blow over on top of him.

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Mark Rhea: Wow. Okay, so we’re going to close a little differently. Today we have in live audio will just

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Mark Rhea: cue that up and this will close out our webinar. Again, we’ll see you on October the 15th. Again, thank you. Lieutenant wiring in Collin. If you can crank up the audio, we’ll just let that play. Thank you very much.

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