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Speaker 1: This is Pet Life Radio. Let's talk Pets.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Best Pets for Pets. I'm your show host

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Michelle Berne. Today we're talking about something that every pet

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parent who travels with their animal needs to hear, about

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pets safety on the open road. So there are more

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than eight hundred thousand truck drivers that travel with their pets,

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mostly with their dogs and Volvo trucks. North America just

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partnered with the Center for Pet Safety to test how

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safe big rig trucks really are for dogs and other pets,

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and we have some surprising results. Stay tuned, we'll be

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right back.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk pets on petlifradio dot com.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone. I'd like to welcome Chris Stadler. He

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is the marketing manager for Volvo Trucks North America. Welcome Chris.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. Michelle, excited to be here today.

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Speaker 2: Very happy to have you. I am always happy to

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hear about safety for pets, especially with vehicles, because that's like,

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it's one of my peeves, and especially because I live

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in a warm climate and you hear a lot of

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things about what happens with pets when they're in cars

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and trucks and so forth. What inspired Volvo to even

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think about our trucks safe for our pets, especially big

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rig trucks.

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Speaker 5: Well, Michelle, I think when we do a lot of

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research and studies on when we're designing trucks or even

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getting to put our trucks together, we do a lot

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of clinics and surveys with our drivers and customers out

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there in the road. And I mean we go to

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truck stops, we have clinics that drivers come in, and

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we even do test trucks out there today. We interact

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with our customers and those drivers. The thing that we

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really notice is that how much of people are taking

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their pets on the road and being a part of

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their livelihood driving a truck. And I think that's what

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really inspired us the most, was you know, hey, there's

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a connection there with our trucks and the custom the

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drivers out there who have their pets with them all

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the time on the road. And I think that's what

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really put that inspiration to us to you know, say,

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what can we do to make sure that we are

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also protecting those pets that are out there with their drivers.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Well, we're going to talk mostly about big rigs.

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It is definitely relatable to average pet owner that because

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most of us also have vehicles, whether there are autos

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or trucks. And one of the things that I want

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to know I have a couple of questions on on

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big rigs so that we can understand when long haul

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truck drivers are driving, how much of their time is

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spent on the road.

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Speaker 5: It can vary, of course, out there today. I think

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when you get into majority of those drivers around with

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their pets and they're in their sleepers, it's so much

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they're home away from home, and I think they could

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be on the road for months at a time, weeks

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to months at the time out there, and it's great

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to have, you know, that companionship, I guess with a pet,

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but I think they also need to have the right

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living environment when they're not driving down the road. You

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know that they can live in the back of the

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truck and be on those when they're on the road

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those weeks at a time that they have that space

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and environment that makes them comfortable and makes them feel

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good when they're not driving and the everything. So I would say,

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you know, it could be weeks and even months at

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a time when they're on the road.

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Speaker 2: So if someone's on the road and doing a hall

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and I don't know, I don't want to get into

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scheduling and all that. On the road for a month,

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they are literally driving back and forth with the month

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with maybe say what five days off. So what is

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that average month twenty five days so that they're with

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their pet in the truck.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's some limitations when it comes to

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the amount of time they can drive, and then they

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have to do some resets where they can maybe be

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a couple of days off even while they're out on

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the road. They have to take some time off based

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on the number of hours that are allowed legally to drive.

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But yeah, there could be times that there could be

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twenty five days out on the road with their beloved pets.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that just puts it in perspective for there are

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those of us that are not in the industry. How

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common is it for long haul truck drivers to travel

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with their pets and are they mostly dog and cats?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what we've seen is probably the majority of our

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dog owners out there, but there are some cats that

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you know, travel with their owners. I think it's it's

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more about who that person is, you know, their lifestyle

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on the road, and of course it can become somewhat

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lonely out there on the roses. It's a great way

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to have a good campaigning there for you while you're

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driving on the road. I don't know the volumes like

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it's like you said earlier, it's eight hundred thousand truck

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drivers out there today carry their pets with them, So

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that's quite a big amount of volume of number of

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drivers out there that do have their pets with them

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while they're on the road.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that is why are dogs and cats especially vulnerable

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inside large trucks.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think when you get into the larger sleepers,

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I mean, the driving environment is a little more open

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than say, let's say a passenger car because you had

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to have that space, and it's of course a bigger

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vehicle in general, so there's a lot more room up front.

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And also so there's there's there's risk that they're not

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strapped in safely and securely that you know, they could

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move easily when the truck moves. In the living environment again,

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that's another area that can be it's very big, open.

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I mean, I always liked the kid that it's like

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a New York loft apartment, you know, that size almost

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it's got two beds in there. A great thing about

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our truck itself, it's got a Murphy style bed that

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you know, kind of folds up and into the wall

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to give extra space for the driver when they're not

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lying in their bed and relaxing that way. And then

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we also have an upper bunk, so there's a lot

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more room for a pet to be able to roam

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around if they're not secured in the trucks, and that's

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probably where the risk might be in play, that if

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they're not properly secured, then they had that risk of

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something if the truck is like a sudden movement or

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it makes that turn that is not secured, and you

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know that it can hold a position real well so

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to speak.

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Speaker 2: Okay, understood sides being strapped in. What else were you

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most concerned about when you started this project?

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, we wanted to make sure that when

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we do a lot of testing, A lot of our

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testing is based upon the driver and maybe occupants that

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you know, there's some team drivers out there, there's life

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and husband drivers out there as partners drivers. You know,

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there's a lot of that out there today, and we

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do a lot of testing to make sure that we

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can secure that occupant there. I think what we wanted

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to make sure is that now that we know that

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there's a larger volume of population out there, of drivers

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with their own pets out there, we want to make

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sure that the safety systems that we put in place

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in these truck can also protect that type of occupant

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as well. So making sure that we have hooks and

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harnesses that can be strapped properly with the right enough

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protect our force in there to keep it from strengthening.

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You know, have the right proper restraint to make sure

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that if there any type of movement, if they had

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their carrier strapped in or the dog strapped in, it's

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not going to move them around and harm them a animal.

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So we wanted to make sure that we were ready

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for that, and we had some capabilities to support that.

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If they like to have their pet riding up in

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the front seat with them, you know, make sure that

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we can strap them in with our three point You know,

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we invented the three point safety belt that's out there

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in the car today, and we did that back in

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nineteen fifty nine, so we gave that to the whole

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in the industry when it comes to automotive. But we

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also it makes an important perspective when he put it

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to the pet. We're going to make sure that even

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we've put the proper harness on the pet, that they're

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strapped in as well with that three point safety belt.

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So we wanted to make sure we were ready for that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we have volvot thing for seatbelts, Yes you do,

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thank you. Imagine how I've been saved humans, but with

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the strap in for the trucks pets as well.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I mean I'm a pet owner myself, I

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have a five year old pit bull that I've rescued,

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and you know, I want to make sure when he's

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riding with me and my pickup truck, did I got

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them properly strapped in. So it's great that we have

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that seat built available not only in the passer's side

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of the world, but also in the commercial trucking as

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well in the big rigs, and they have the right

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harness for them to be properly secured so they can

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sit up and see the world as they travel with

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their owner. That's a great thing to.

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Speaker 2: Have, Okay, And what exactly does the pet safety test

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inside a Class A truck look like?

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Speaker 5: Well, the great thing is that we worked for the

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Center of Pet Safety and they came in and visited

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with us and talked to us and looked at our

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design of the truck. They looked at the floor plan

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of what we provide in our sleepers. They looked at

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the what we call mounting points that make sure they

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were properly secured and they are tested to handle any

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type of force there so it has the proper safety

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force capabilities things should move. The other thing they worked

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with us on is the comfort when you're in the truck,

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and making sure that you know, we have an integrated

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parking colode that we introduced with this new truck, and

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it's battery operated, so it basically can run without having

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the motor running on the vehicle. So that way you know,

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if the driver leaves the vehicle on, the pets inside

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of that the parking cooler will help keep the truck

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comfortably cool at a proper temperature without overheating. There's things

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they wanted to make sure that we have that capabilities

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in our truck, which we do with our new truck,

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and then also having the right safety equipment strapped properly

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secure these carriers or the pet themselves into the trucks.

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Speaker 2: Now you hit on something that I alluded to in

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the beginning of the show about temperature. Yes, being secure

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in the car and our truck is important, but this

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happens way too more than it should. Pet fatalities, mostly

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dog because people leave their vehicle running and you can't

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just leave your vehicle running, leave the AC on because

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there could be danger for the dog jumping around the

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car moving, and then for a big rig as well,

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because you have to have a cool temperature you had

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a device that's basically keeps the motor running, but everything

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else is safe and secure, so the dogs can't jostle

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anything and start driving a big wag or anything.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of things that we've done,

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you know, because again, the drivers, when they're on the

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road for those periods a long period of time, it's

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their home way from home. So it's basically once they're

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they're in a let's say a truck stop, our rest area,

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and they sit there for a while. What we want

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to do is make sure they can have the comfort

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of sitting there for a period of time and maybe

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not have the engine running because maybe they're going to

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sit there for an hour or so, or maybe have lunch,

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do their paperwork, watch TV or something like that, stay

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every night. And so what we've been able to do

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with the new truck is we have our battery electric

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parking cooler, which allows them to turn off the truck

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and basically run the parking cooler or the heater. Let's

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say i they're in the wintertime, now that it's wintertime,

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that they can run those without having to run the truck,

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and they can also program it to get it into

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a certain temperature range before they get in the truck.

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Truck app that we have in available on our trucks

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where they can go in and program their truck to

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start cooling down at a certain time, certain day of

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the week and allow them to do that to get

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them in the right comfortable environment. And that could be

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ideal for the pets as well, you know, get it

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to have it in a cool environment so they can

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stay in the vehicle and have that capabilities. And the

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other great things that we've done is we've we have

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insulated curtains. We have a way to really put the

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insulation in that We've put enough installation in that truck

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now that it really keeps the temperture at a good

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level for a long period of time. And that's another

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great feature that we've bought. It provided with the new truck.

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So it's not really running the truck. That they can

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run the truck that there's certain certain areas of the

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country where you can't idle for a long period of time.

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But this gives them that capabilities to run the air conditioning,

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run the heating bent for the for themselves or for

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their pets without running the vehicle. Another great thing is

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with our trucks is that from a safety perspective, if

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they're they have to get out of the truck and

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maybe going into the truck stop to maybe get dinner

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for themselves and get the supplies for their pets, is

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that they can lock the truck remotely, you know, and

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basically also have an alarm system in case something goes

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Speaker 2: That's amazing. I was going to say, I will never

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look at a big rig Volvo truck the same. Again,

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this is amazing that these features are there. And I'm

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sure people that are listening because not everyone listening drives

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a big rig or thinking when are these features going

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to be available in all vehicles? What did you learn

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that most pet parents listening would probably not expect.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean from our perspective on the Volvo in itself.

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You know, again, safety is important to us. It's in

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our DNA. We really focus on safety, and I think

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it's important that you know, when we look at protecting

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the occupants of that vehicle and even the environment they're

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operating in and taking consideration that you know, these trucks

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are moving down the road, they're next to you and

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the car, and you want to make sure that they're safe.

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The great thing is that we've done is we've put

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active safety systems in the truck, so I meaning we

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have ways to help the driver maintain their lanes. It's

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what we call lane keep assists that can nudge them

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back in the lane if they drift a little bit

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out of their lanes. We have capabilities to mitigate a

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forward collision because we have a radar and a camera

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system that is designed in the truck that basically picks

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up vehicles, picks up pedestrians and bicyclists if they're moving,

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and identifies it to the drivers so they can take

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the necessary extions to stop the vehicle. If not, the

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system will start to take over itself. That's the great

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thing about this and for me learning on the safety

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side from the pet the Center for Pet Safety is

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just you know, what do we have that can really

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work for our customers or the drivers out there to

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secure their pets firmly in the trucks, whether they're putting

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them in the carrier or letting them ride up in

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the front seat. What type of equipment is necessary to

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make sure that they're properly secure in those trucks. So

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that's a lot of things that I've learned. And then

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then how we can also communicate how we can help

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with the truck itself being safe on the road for

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those those customers that are going to take their pets

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on the right and they're driving tractor trailers, are even

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driving in their cars next to the big trucks.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, We're gonna take a short break and moving

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right back. Real people, real stories.

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to him checked out, and then there was no signs

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at all inside.

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Speaker 7: My cat had issues that developed in his height. And

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Speaker 6: I've got a labrador.

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Speaker 6: That's when I said this could be the ticket. About

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Speaker 4: Let's talk past, Let's done, pet about Life Radio HETLFE Radio.

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Speaker 8: Pet Life Radio dot com.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone. We're talking to Chris Stadler from Volvo

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and we're talking about the test that Bulbo just completed

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with big ring trucks and cut safety in the big

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ring trucks. So let's talk about the testers. What were

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the dog testers? Did you have dog testers?

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Speaker 5: Actually, the Center for Pet Safety they have an engineer

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that kind of studies that like said, they got to

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see the drawings of our cab, the interior spacing. They

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got to test out the harness straps and make sure

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they were tightly secured. And they can properly secure them

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into any type of carriers and then also making sure

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are three point safety belt is in a good position

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to secure an animal or pet into the driver's seat

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if they are passengers, ex give me a driver's eat,

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but passes their seed. So I think that was great

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to realize that they put an engineer in their company

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to help you work with the trucking industry or involving themselves.

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So that was one thing that was quite interesting that

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to see that they had that and then having that

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collaboration with them to showcase what we can do, like

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I said, from an integrated parking cooler in all our

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active safety systems. To see that development and see how

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what we can provide and in terms of protecting those

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pets on the road.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about if I'm a truck driver traveling

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with my dog right now, how with hearing this information

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and give a shout out to all the truck drivers

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listening to my show, thank you very much, But how

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would this information just change my life?

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Speaker 5: I mean well, being like I said, being an owner

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of a pet myself, and I have my commercial driver's

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license as well, so I can drive a tractor trailer

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out there today. I think how it's changed me is

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it to show that you know, Volvo In themselves are

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taking the steps to make sure that we can provide

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safety for any occupant that's in the truck, whether it's

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human beings, are animals themselves, and giving them the resource

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and knowledge that, hey, that we have the capabilities to

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protect anybody in that vehicle, but then also protect around

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the vehicle as much as you can. So I think

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that's how much it would change my life as a

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truck driver or as a pet owner that's going to

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drive a truck out there or be around the truck

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in themselves. And then also I think what I learned

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as well from my discussions with a center of pet

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safety is the type of equipment that you need to

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have to really harness your pet in the vehicle, whether

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it's in the in the passenger seat or whether you

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have them in a carrier in the back of the truck.

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You want to make sure that you have the right equipment,

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the right product to basically be able to do that improperly.

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So that's I think that's what things would say that

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information has changed my life about putting the pet in the.

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Speaker 2: Truck okay, And with regards to the Center for Pet Safety,

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what did they bring to Volvo that really you know,

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you talked about it just before, that really made you

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guys think, you know, yeah, we have to keep in

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mind this and that there's commercial that's that people can

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use in their vehicles, but in a big rig there's

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a difference. And like you said, the perfect type of

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strapping you know, has to be or containment has to be.

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But what are some other things that the Center for

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Pet Safety brought to Bolva that really just was was

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there anything that surprising?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think it was good to know that,

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you know, one animal various sizes. You know, we have

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a customer that the drives trucks for us and they

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care around three French bulldogs with them when they drive.

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A husband and wife that drive test drive for us.

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I think knowing that, you know you're going to have

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various types of carriers out there, what's the right carrier

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to maybe have that can properly be secured or what's

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the right body harness, you know, like a body vest

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that you may need have for your your animal, your

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pet that makes sure they're secured. So that was some

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good learnings from our perspective, and I think this is

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a partnership going forward. I mean that's what we want

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as a partnership going forward. So when we get into

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future developments or even if we can make some modifications

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to what we have today to even get even more

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secured for those pet owners out there on the road,

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that's what we want to do, is this partnership. And

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there's a I think having this relationship with the Center

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for Pet Safety is that we're going to have the

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opportunities to do more with them, whether it's getting some

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apps to help us link into you know, where's the

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proper vet you know, maybe we have that capabilities for

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the drivers can get access to know where local vets

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are or the nearest vets should be if they need

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the medical emergency for their pets. That kind of stuff.

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We're going to have to that in development as well.

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With our relationship with the Center for Pet Safety.

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Speaker 2: That's great. What are the biggest mistakes people make when

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they're traveling with their pets in big rings?

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Speaker 5: I hope everybody takes in nes their steps to be

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safe with their pets on the road. So I think

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what it would be is just being aware of what

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they need to do to make their vehicles safe for

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pet travel. I think that could be something that's they

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need They have to focus a little bit more on

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is in knowing what the right equipment is to have

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in their trucks and being on the road. So I

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would say that would be more of that and maybe

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properly securing the pets while they're traveling. It can be

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a little challenging, I think, even in a passenger car,

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but I think now it's a little different because you

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got a different layout in the back behind the driver

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and passes your seat in the truck. So it's just

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understanding being aware of what you need to do to

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make that pets safe while you're traveling.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I have stories with situations with pets before I

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knew better as far as making you know, my pets

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secure in the car. Some people that have their dog

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goes and behind the front seat sits and is perfect,

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and some people do not. And then for big rigs

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it's even more challenging. I would think definitely, containment would

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be something of concern and I do like and probably

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I'm biased because I live in a warm climate that

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you have the temperature controls. Yes, yeah, That's what I

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meant about fatalities that happens way more than people even realize.

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And you know what you're talking about now, everything sounds

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like it could probably be made in some version for

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regular autos and passenger trucks.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think so, I think so. I

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think you're right.

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Speaker 2: So how do you think the work you did with

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the Center for Pet Safety will be changing or will

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it be like life changing for the trucking industry.

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Speaker 5: That's hard to say it. I mean, like we said,

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you know, for us, we feel like it's a close connection.

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And again, as I mentioned earlier, you know, Volvo's DNA

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is all about safety. We have a mission here of

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zero accidents, and we're going to work as hard as

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we can to get to that point. The great thing

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is you know that we're focused on that and we're

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going to do everything we can to protect our customers,

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protect the occupants in those trucks and an environment they're

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working in. And you know, we can't prevent at this

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point is sometimes challenging to prevent any accis from having.

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But even the cab structure we sell, we have ourselves

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with a high strength steelled cab. We have capabilities to

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doing a little promo here, but I mean this is

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things that you know, we focus on safety and that's

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what we're going to do. And I think every occupant

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in that truck is important. So whether it's a human

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being or even the pet that they love, we want

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to make sure that we can do everything we can

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to protect them. And how it transfers to the industry,

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I think that will it'll become important as well because

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I think, as we said, there's eight hundred thousand drivers

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out there that have their pets with them. I think

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they'll start to see that as an important factor when

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they do their development in the trucks. But for us,

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it's definitely one of our key points.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. Do you think this could lead to

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official pet safety standards for commercial trucks.

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Speaker 5: That I can't say. I mean that's something we can,

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I guess help promote from a revolver perspective, but you

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know that's going to be something that could be I

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can't say at this point.

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Speaker 2: Start with the seapout and look where we are, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean, well, we'll do everything we can

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from our side to help that promotion, to put some

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focus on the pet safety and commercial vehicles.

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Speaker 2: I think I definitely see that coming. You know, geez,

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we already practically make dinner for our pets, like we're

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chefs for our pets. We well, some people bless them.

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There are kids, we call them fur babies. We give

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them probiotics and everything. So yeah, I don't see too

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far behind.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're family members, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: I mean we give them everything, right, they're like us.

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We have, you know, furry kids and too like good kids.

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Speaker 5: I say, I'm a pet owner myself, and I have

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a big, big boy. He's over he spiraling seventy five pounds,

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So I know what you mean by you know, they're

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part of your life and they're important to your life,

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and I think it's important to protect the pets as well.

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Whatever we can do, that's what we need to do. Yes,

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part of the testing was I guess I didn't mention that,

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but part of the testing was they get the ride

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around with me in the truck on our test track

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up in Virginia, which they were strapped into the front

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seat so they got a great view of the of

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the road and were very easy to ride with.

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Speaker 2: That must have been fun, Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 5: I hope it was fun for them. They didn't say

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too much. They enjoy it. They look like they enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: So what do you think is next for Bulba when

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it comes to pet friendly design.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think again, the partnership that we started with

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the Center for Pets Safety is the first step, and

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it's going to have continuous steps. So where we can

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help improve even more types of safety connection safety capabilities

532
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in the truck, maybe you know, give a little bit

533
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more access or more you know, capabilities when it comes

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to different types of carriers or different setups, different arrangements,

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or maybe how they want to properly secure their pets

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on it while they're on the road. I think also

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getting from you know, with apps and electronics capabilities, GPS,

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you know, we can get that connection to out there

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and do like I was saying, you know, maybe give

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them capabilities even more strong capabilities that maybe get access

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to knowing where vets are if they have to do

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a medical emergency for their pets and that kind of stuff.

543
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I think there's a lot more possibilities, and I think

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with this partnership that we're going to have with the

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Center for Pet Safety, it's only going to bring more

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to the forefront or bring more to the capabilities of

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our trucks for our customers.

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Speaker 2: I think you're absolutely right. Chris. Thank you again so

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much for coming on Best Bets for Pets and telling

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us all about the work that BOVO is doing with

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the Center for Pets Safety for big rigs. I can't

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wait to hear when it comes to commercial vehicles. Thank

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you so much.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank my guest Chris Stadler from BOBO.

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I hope everybody enjoyed the show. This has been so enlightening.

557
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I am so excited to see what comes next. And hey,

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if you drive a big I hope it's so Volvo

559
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because there are features for your pet that's going to

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be safer for your pet and for you. I also

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want to thank my crew they observed while I was

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preparing for my show, So thank you, Dennis, Charlotte and Mollie.

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Huge thanks to the Best Bets for Pets listening audience.

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We are going on our sixteenth year. Thank you so

565
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much for listening. And the show would not be the

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same without the magic and you have no idea how

567
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hard he works. So without the magic of Mark Winter,

568
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my producer, he is the one who makes the shows

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sound so amazing, so hey, keep listening. You never know

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what we're going to have next. On Best Bets for Pets, Let's.

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Speaker 4: Talk bets every week on demand only on petlife Radio

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Speaker 2: Its day past,