something called a per diem. in the past, truckers could deduct things like food and daily expenses from their taxable income. now with trump's new tax bill they no longer can. >> i have a young family at home and with our per diem, they took the per diem out and that made an $8,000 difference. >> $8,000? so what were you paying in taxes last year? >> nothing. >> reporter: a hit that comes especially hard after promised made by the president. >> america first means putting american truckers first. >> you said you believe the president would help truckers. do you think he's doing a good job now? >> no, i don't. there is nothing that he's doing to help us out out here in any way possible. none. >> mr. trump ran on the platform of doing away with obama bad regulation. well he quite well done that for -- i'm going to say corporate america, but us blue-collar america, we've got regulations that we have when obama was in office. i would like to ask him why