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Remarks: Joe Biden Tours a Mack Trucks Manufacturing Facility in Macungie, PA - July 28, 2021
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Martin Weissburg Person
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Joe Biden Person
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Jake Evans Person
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina Person
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Glenn Gray Person
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Tammy Flower Person
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Kevin Fronheiser Person
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Eric Meyers Person
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Heather Bouchar Person
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Unidentified speaker Person
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Shawn Smith Person
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Question Person
Very Positive
Martin Weissburg
Positive
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"Welcome to Mack Trucks."
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"Good to be here."
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Martin Weissburg
Very Positive
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"Mack Trucks has been a -- at the center of building America for 123 years. Our products are the core of American infrastructure. And those products, those heavy-duty Macks, are all made here in Pennsylvania, at this factory. And we're able to do that because of the skilled and strong UAW workforce we have, sir. Um, and without these guys -- we're all part of the same Mack family, and this is what makes us a great company. So, Kevin, maybe say a few words about our workforce here."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Very Positive
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"Exactly what you're saying. You know, we have a great relationship. And, uh, we now are looking at ramping up and hiring about 400 to 600 more people into this plant, which is creating more jobs in this Lehigh Valley area, you know. And, uh --"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"You guys --"
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Kevin Fronheiser
Very Positive
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"As he said, the best workforce we could have. We're very proud -- [Crosstalk]"
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"We'll continue to invest."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Slightly Positive
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"Yep."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"We're not going anywhere. And we'll go up to our first station here, Mr. President."
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Joe Biden
Slightly Positive
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"OK."
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Martin Weissburg
Very Positive
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"You'll meet some outstanding colleagues here."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"Hey, guys."
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Positive
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"So please, sir, there's your mark."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"How are you?"
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Unidentified speaker
Unknown
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"How are you doing?"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"You got me standing in the blue."
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Positive
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"Gentleman, please introduce yourself."
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Unidentified speaker
Unknown
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"Right."
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"John, do me a favor."
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Unidentified speaker
Unknown
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"How are you doing?"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"Work on your biceps, will you?"
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Unidentified speaker
Unknown
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"Of course. Absolutely."
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Joe Biden
Leans Positive
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"Don't worry about the guy, you know what I mean?"
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Unidentified speaker
Very Positive
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"Hey, it's a pleasure."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"What's your name?"
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Glenn Gray
Unknown
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"Glenn Gray."
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"Good to see you, Glenn."
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Glenn Gray
Very Positive
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"It's my pleasure."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"Joe Biden."
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Glenn Gray
Very Positive
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"My pleasure."
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Positive
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"All right. So, gentlemen, please go ahead."
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Glenn Gray
Very Positive
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"Welcome, Mr. President. Um, it is a pleasure and an honor to have you here today in the Lehigh Valley at Mack Truck. My name is Glenn Gray. I am a production supervisor for the engine room on second shift. Currently, we have 2,400 employees that are here, and out of the 24 --"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"All right."
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Glenn Gray
Positive
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"Out of the 2,400, 2,100 are United Auto Workers Union technicians. Uh, we currently are hiring an additional 400 to --"
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"Good for you."
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Glenn Gray
Leans Positive
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"To -- uh-huh. To be able to support the chassis insourcing that we've done and worked on really, really hard so that we can now make the chassis in the rails in-house."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"So we're making them in-house now?"
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Glenn Gray
Unknown
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"Uh-huh, we'll be making them in-house."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"Correct."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
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"That's pretty cool."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"Now, we were outsourcing this --"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"That's what I thought."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"And then we decided we wanted the jobs to be --"
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Joe Biden
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"In the factory, UAW jobs. So we've been in two phases over the last three years. Completed as of last fall."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Unknown
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"This truck now was started by rails and finished, thus, driving off."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"One hundred percent built here, sir."
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Glenn Gray
Unknown
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"Right. The, uh, the facility --"
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Joe Biden
Somewhat Positive
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"Have you -- excuse me, did you have to expand the size?"
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Martin Weissburg
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah, we had to build somewhere. We've -- over the last four years, we've had about a third again to these plants. We're now at 1.1 million square feet up 300,000 square feet."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"Oh, right."
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Glenn Gray
Very Positive
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"Yeah, that was the -- yeah. The additional was the 330,000 square that we added on. And that's what we're going to fill the additional employees with to [Inaudible]"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"Now, what is this station right here?"
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Glenn Gray
Unknown
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"Mmm hmm."
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Negative
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"No one. So -- no, it starts, you know, simple components, steering columns, you know, to add even just your seat, seatbelts, everything, it'll make its way up to the upstand. And right here, they'll prep it to marry it to the chassis over the chassis line right there on top of the engine and it'll continue its way towards its customers."
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"So, OK. Each of these cabs end up on here?"
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Slightly Positive
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"Yep. Every single one."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"I got it."
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Glenn Gray
Unknown
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"They will be picked up with -- by the crane."
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Joe Biden
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah."
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Unknown
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"And lifts over."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
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"Yeah. I see. Yeah."
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Unknown
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"And then they'll place it on this one. And then as soon as the chassis -- because the chassis is running down that line."
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Joe Biden
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah."
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Unknown
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"So, the chassis is running down that line, the cab is running here, and they're going to marry and meet each other right here at this --"
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"In fact, that's the next spot we'll show you is where the chassis and the cabs get married."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"All right. Now, what's your hometown?"
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Unknown
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"Hometown? I was actually born in the Bronx, but I was raised in Allentown, our family in Texas. My heritage is Puerto Rican, so I'm all over the place, but, you know, main thing is being here in the Lehigh Valley with a good-paying job and, you know, the union and Mack trucks. So --"
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"It's a nice area."
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Very Positive
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"It is. It's beautiful, you know."
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"Almost heaven. I'm from Scranton."
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Unknown
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"There you go."
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Glenn Gray
Unknown
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"All right."
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Unknown
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"Where the office is from, you know."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"So, Mr. President, we'll go inside."
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Stephen Villanueva-Medina
Somewhat Positive
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"Thank you, Joe."
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Glenn Gray
Somewhat Positive
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"Thank you so much."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"Keep it up."
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Glenn Gray
Positive
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"Enjoy."
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Eric Meyers
Very Positive
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"Appreciate it. Seriously. Thank you very, very much."
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Joe Biden
Somewhat Positive
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"Thank you."
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Martin Weissburg
Very Positive
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"Thank you, guys. We have the best people here. I can't even put it in the words, Mr. President. It's the heart of the [Inaudible]"
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Joe Biden
Very Negative
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"I tell you what. You got -- you have a hell of a product."
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Martin Weissburg
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah."
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Joe Biden
Leans Positive
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"You're growing."
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Martin Weissburg
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah."
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Glenn Gray
Unknown
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"Mmm hmm."
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"I mean, at a time when everybody was sort of like, "Can we do it? What's happening?" Like --"
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"We're doubling down."
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Joe Biden
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah."
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Glenn Gray
Unknown
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"We're doing --"
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Positive
00:04:42-00:04:51 (9 sec)
"We're doubling down here, expanding U.S. supply chain, adding workers. So, we'll go up here then, Mr. President, please. I'll introduce you to --"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:04:51-00:04:53 (1 sec)
"Let me take a look at the [Inaudible]"
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Martin Weissburg
Very Positive
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"Two amazing people."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
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"You know, our trucks are very much made to the customer specifications."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Slightly Positive
00:04:57-00:04:58 (1 sec)
"Yeah."
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Positive
00:04:58-00:05:08 (10 sec)
"So, it's a lot of custom specs, what the customer wants. And Macks are known for their reliability and durability in that regard. So, meet two colleagues, please."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:05:08-00:05:08 (1 sec)
"How are you?"
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Tammy Flower
Positive
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"Good. How are you?"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"What's your name?"
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Tammy Flower
Very Positive
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"Tammy. It's a great honor."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:05:12-00:05:16 (4 sec)
"Oh, Tammy, how are you? Great to see you."
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Tammy Flower
Very Positive
00:05:16-00:05:17 (1 sec)
"Lovely. Nice to meet you."
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Eric Meyers
Unknown
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"Sir, Eric Meyers."
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"Good to see you, Eric."
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Eric Meyers
Positive
00:05:19-00:05:21 (1 sec)
"Nice to meet you."
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Joe Biden
Positive
00:05:21-00:05:27 (6 sec)
"Nice to meet you. So, tell me what you're doing. I'm supposed to stand here and then you tell me."
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Tammy Flower
Slightly Positive
00:05:27-00:05:27 ( sec)
"OK."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:05:27-00:05:28 (1 sec)
"We got to find the blue X."
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Positive
00:05:28-00:05:32 (4 sec)
"So go ahead, please."
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Tammy Flower
Very Positive
00:05:32-00:05:49 (17 sec)
"I work in supply chain, Mr. President. And it's been a tough year for us this year with microchips and some of the challenges we faced. And we've had to close our plant for one shift weeks this year and lost some of our labor and for -- support for our teams to work. So we're hoping for support with you to --"
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Joe Biden
Somewhat Positive
00:05:49-00:05:54 (5 sec)
"You've got it. We're making billion dollars -- $50 billion investment in microchips, and we're going to make sure we build them."
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Tammy Flower
Somewhat Positive
00:05:54-00:05:58 (3 sec)
"Thank you, sir."
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Eric Meyers
Somewhat Positive
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"Thank you."
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Joe Biden
Positive
00:05:59-00:06:01 (3 sec)
"Here in the United States. Lots of [Inaudible]"
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Tammy Flower
Unknown
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"Come to America, where we can --"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"That's right."
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Tammy Flower
Unknown
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"We can get access to our parts."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"That's exactly what we're doing."
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Tammy Flower
Somewhat Positive
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"Thank you."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:06:08-00:06:10 (2 sec)
"It's important. Well, thank you."
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Eric Meyers
Somewhat Positive
00:06:10-00:06:11 (1 sec)
"Thank you."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:06:11-00:06:13 (2 sec)
"How long have you been here, big guy?"
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Eric Meyers
Unknown
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"Ten years. A little over 10 years this month, actually."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
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"All right."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
00:06:16-00:06:22 (6 sec)
"But, Eric, also tell him. He's a third-generation Mack man. Your grandfather and father --"
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Eric Meyers
Very Positive
00:06:22-00:06:29 (7 sec)
"Grandfather worked here for almost 50 years. Uncle worked here for 43. So third generation. Proud to work here."
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Joe Biden
Positive
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"It's going to get better."
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Eric Meyers
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah?"
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
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"Yeah, better. You're going to make an awful lot of these electric vehicles pretty soon."
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Tammy Flower
Positive
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"Yes."
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Eric Meyers
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:06:36-00:06:40 (5 sec)
"All right. Well, that's cool. So --"
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
00:06:40-00:06:41 (1 sec)
"So this is --"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:06:41-00:06:42 (1 sec)
"What's this sucker over?"
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Martin Weissburg
Slightly Positive
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"Yeah, so this --"
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Question
Unknown
00:06:43-00:06:50 (6 sec)
"Mr. President. [Audio gap]"
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Unidentified speaker
Somewhat Positive
00:06:50-00:06:52 (2 sec)
"[Inaudible] Thank you."
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Unidentified speaker
Unknown
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"Where are we going now?"
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Unidentified speaker
Unknown
00:06:53-00:06:54 (1 sec)
"Come on, you guys. [Inaudible] [Crosstalk]"
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Kevin Fronheiser
Somewhat Positive
00:06:54-00:07:00 (6 sec)
"You know, it's like the old style."
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Martin Weissburg
Leans Positive
00:07:00-00:07:18 (18 sec)
"Yeah. And as we go to the next station, you'll see that, like our garbage trucks and some of the concrete pumpers and whatnot. And that'll be the -- we go to the -- show you our fully electric Mack waste and recycling truck made right here. So we've added space. We've added technicians. We've added training."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Unknown
00:07:18-00:07:18 ( sec)
"Yup."
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Positive
00:07:18-00:07:20 (2 sec)
"To make sure we have the skills."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Unknown
00:07:20-00:07:20 (1 sec)
"Everyone [Inaudible]"
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Negative
00:07:20-00:07:39 (19 sec)
"We want to build everything in the same factory here. And that's why the supply chain and the infrastructure is so important right now because we have the product. We have the technology. Our customers have the demand they're bringing us. Now, we really need to work together to get the infrastructure put together for the charging stations, which we'll talk about at the next stop, Mr. President."
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Tammy Flower
Positive
00:07:39-00:07:41 (3 sec)
"Cause we're all Mack proud, Mr. President."
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Joe Biden
Positive
00:07:41-00:07:45 (4 sec)
"You should be Mack proud. I was telling him I was raised by an automobile man."
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Eric Meyers
Positive
00:07:45-00:07:46 ( sec)
"Good."
149
Tammy Flower
Positive
00:07:46-00:07:46 ( sec)
"Yes."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:07:46-00:07:48 (2 sec)
"That's how I got through school."
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Eric Meyers
Slightly Positive
00:07:48-00:07:50 (2 sec)
"So you know how important everything is to us here [Inaudible]"
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Joe Biden
Slightly Negative
00:07:50-00:07:52 (2 sec)
"No, it really, really is."
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Tammy Flower
Positive
00:07:52-00:07:52 ( sec)
"Yes."
154
Joe Biden
Leans Negative
00:07:52-00:08:00 (7 sec)
"And look, this is -- you guys can be in the cutting edge of change. You're going to take place in the next ten years. You're not going to believe."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Slightly Positive
00:08:00-00:08:00 (1 sec)
"Yeah."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:00-00:08:03 (3 sec)
"And it's going to -- and -- anyway --"
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Kevin Fronheiser
Unknown
00:08:03-00:08:04 (1 sec)
"And if we don't do --"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:04-00:08:07 (4 sec)
"I was driving an 18-wheeler, man."
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Eric Meyers
Slightly Positive
00:08:07-00:08:08 ( sec)
"Yeah."
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Tammy Flower
Unknown
00:08:08-00:08:08 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]"
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:08-00:08:09 (1 sec)
"I got to."
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Martin Weissburg
Unknown
00:08:09-00:08:12 (3 sec)
"Mr. President, we'll go this way, please, sir."
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Eric Meyers
Somewhat Positive
00:08:12-00:08:13 (1 sec)
"Thank you, sir."
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Tammy Flower
Somewhat Positive
00:08:13-00:08:14 (1 sec)
"Thank you."
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Joe Biden
Somewhat Positive
00:08:14-00:08:15 (1 sec)
"Thank you."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Very Positive
00:08:15-00:08:16 (2 sec)
"Thanks. Good job."
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Eric Meyers
Positive
00:08:16-00:08:17 ( sec)
"Enjoy."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Somewhat Positive
00:08:17-00:08:18 (1 sec)
"Thank you."
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Martin Weissburg
Somewhat Negative
00:08:18-00:08:31 (13 sec)
"And again, so here's the Mack LR Electric, fully battery electric, first of its kind in North America. And you'll see, as we go around the corner here, Department of Sanitation in New York City is our launch customer, tough, demanding."
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Kevin Fronheiser
Unknown
00:08:31-00:08:31 ( sec)
"They're here [Inaudible]"
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Joe Biden
Slightly Positive
00:08:31-00:08:32 (1 sec)
"Oh, yeah."
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Martin Weissburg
Very Positive
00:08:32-00:08:41 (9 sec)
"Yeah. One of the best, you know, best operators in the world of this kind. And then if I may, Mr. President, I'd take you up to introduce the colleagues here. And they'll introduce you to the electric Mack truck."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:41-00:08:41 ( sec)
"Hey!"
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Jake Evans
Unknown
00:08:41-00:08:42 (1 sec)
"Mr. President."
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Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:42-00:08:43 (1 sec)
"What's your name?"
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Jake Evans
Unknown
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"Jacob Evans."
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Joe Biden
Positive
00:08:43-00:08:44 (1 sec)
"Good to see you, Jake."
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Jake Evans
Positive
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"It's good, too."
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Heather Bouchar
Unknown
00:08:45-00:08:45 (1 sec)
"Heather Bouchar."
180
Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:45-00:08:46 (1 sec)
"Hey, Heather! How are you?"
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Heather Bouchar
Very Positive
00:08:46-00:08:48 (2 sec)
"Nice to meet you. It's an honor."
182
Joe Biden
Positive
00:08:48-00:08:48 ( sec)
"Good to see you."
183
Shawn Smith
Unknown
00:08:48-00:08:49 (1 sec)
"Shawn Smith. How are you doing, Mr. President?"
184
Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:49-00:08:50 (1 sec)
"Hi, Shawn. How are you?"
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Shawn Smith
Slightly Positive
00:08:50-00:08:50 (1 sec)
"Absolutely fine."
186
Heather Bouchar
Very Positive
00:08:50-00:08:51 (1 sec)
"We're doing great."
187
Jake Evans
Positive
00:08:51-00:08:51 ( sec)
"Doing very good."
188
Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:51-00:08:54 (3 sec)
"I'd tell you what. Can I open the door?"
189
Jake Evans
Unknown
00:08:54-00:08:56 (2 sec)
"We don't actually have the keys."
190
Heather Bouchar
Somewhat Negative
00:08:56-00:08:58 (2 sec)
"Unfortunately, it was locked."
191
Joe Biden
Unknown
00:08:58-00:09:00 (1 sec)
"Who's holding the keys? Oh, man."
192
Jake Evans
Very Positive
00:09:00-00:09:52 (53 sec)
"I'm sorry. I can tell you a lot about this truck, however. So, I am honored, we are honored to be standing here today to show off the Mack Electric LR to you. It's a feat of engineering, in my personal opinion. Mack Trucks has been building the trucks that have built America for 121 years now. And this is just the newest addition to what we can do and how we can plow into the future with our heavy-duty electric LR here. So, a couple of things about the truck. We have four main battery packs, two behind the cab here and then two on the chassis over here, replacing the fuel tank and other components. The truck is zero emission, almost noiseless, virtually noiseless, requires no oil changes. It's very, very cool piece of machinery. A target that we've set is that by 2030, we want to have about a third of our truck sales be zero emission. And so, in order to do that --"
193
Joe Biden
Unknown
00:09:52-00:09:54 (2 sec)
"I predict, too, it's going to be higher than that."
194
Jake Evans
Somewhat Positive
00:09:54-00:09:56 (1 sec)
"I like that."
195
Joe Biden
Somewhat Negative
00:09:56-00:09:57 (1 sec)
"No, I'm serious."
196
Martin Weissburg
Unknown
00:09:57-00:10:02 (5 sec)
"With the correct infrastructure in place, right, I think [Inaudible] Mr. President, we will get that --"
197
Joe Biden
Unknown
00:10:02-00:10:07 (6 sec)
"That's exactly -- I know it. We're going to build 570,000 charging stations [Inaudible]"
198
Jake Evans
Very Positive
00:10:07-00:10:08 ( sec)
"Awesome."
199
Joe Biden
Unknown
00:10:08-00:10:08 ( sec)
"The [Inaudible]"
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Jake Evans
Very Positive
00:10:08-00:10:21 (13 sec)
"Perfect. And we as Mack Trucks, we appreciate that because we know it's going to allow us to continue to support jobs. Hopefully, open the door to more jobs in the future as well, as we continue to refine this technology and become the leader as we hope."
201
Martin Weissburg
Unknown
00:10:21-00:10:25 (4 sec)
"And then if you would tell the president what you guys do here at the plant."
202
Jake Evans
Unknown
00:10:25-00:10:25 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]"
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Heather Bouchar
Unknown
00:10:25-00:10:40 (15 sec)
"I've been with the company for about 16 years, and I am production flex, currently on the cab line. And I'm looking forward actually for this technology to move over to conventional cab line so that we can even be more technology-savvy."
204
Joe Biden
Somewhat Positive
00:10:40-00:10:53 (13 sec)
"Well, I just went down in North Carolina, and there's a -- we're -- now we're making an awful lot of buses, electric [Inaudible] as well, as well as school buses."
205
Jake Evans
Slightly Positive
00:10:53-00:10:54 (1 sec)
"Yep."
206
Joe Biden
Unknown
00:10:54-00:11:03 (10 sec)
"So, I have in there $50 billion to build -- "
207