I am too old to travel anymore, so I really enjoy 'riding along' with you. Your camera work and editing are fantastic and your choice of music is great. I'm sure that is a stressful job, but you make navigating that big rig look seemingly easy and simple. Thank you for sharing.
Doug I can never tell you how much I appreciate your videos, traveling alot of the roads I used to but after 54 years of trucking and 55 years of marriage It’s time to spend the rest of my life with my wife so keep them coming your the best 😉👌👍
Just stumbled on your video, really enjoyed it. Am retired but drove truck for many years. Alway enjoyed deck work and over dimensional loads as anyone can pull a van. Tying down and tarping loads keep you in shape and you end up hauling to some interesting places. Last heavy haul truck I had was a Western Star with. Cummins Signature 600 engine. Truck was nice and quiet and a pleasure to drive. Thanks for sharing, brought back some good memories. Cheers my friend.
You are about the 1st driver I've seen with Oversize that when you are shut down you sometimes do a video of the Truck stop which is great info for some recruiting
💘 Love the full trips, and those mirror mount/back of sleeper cameras are brilliant. Being higher, they give the perspective of truck/scenery on coastal and river crossings. Keep up the good work Doug. Greetings from the UK [retired driver with an interest in photography] 🙂
Having a good rear escort makes hauling 13 and 19 axle traffic easy. (IMHO) If your routing includes Impossible turns, call a crane and chill. I worked with an ex lady bullhauler as my rear escort. One day during a coffee break, she felt disrespected by the waitress, She superglued her cups, glasses, plates, silverware, and even the tip to our table top. You gotta watch who is covering your rear!
Greetings from Maine. I feel like we are almost neighbors. All of my over width driving has been in the military. My first annual training with the national guard was at camp gagetown in New Brunswick. My crane was 12 feet wide. Thankfully I noticed a canadian trucker with a red and white sign with a D in the middle. Had to make my own. Our visit to your wonderful country was great ! Canadian forces treated us very well. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there !
I don't think many people realize that what you started-out with is not how you end up due to different conditions in different states. Take a jeep off, change the axles on a jeep, add a stinger, flip an axle, change everything except the cargo. LOL Great job as always.
Just found this video, and Holy Hell! When you crossed in to Pennsylvania on US Rt. 11 and went through the small town of New Milford you were within a block of my house! Then you made the swing on to PA Rt. 706 and up Summit Hill to Montrose. I know that road well, in fact I learned to drive on that road. And when you went through Montrose and around that curve on the west side of town, just before the cemetery, I held my breath. That's a nasty curve with a car, never mind an over-sized load. If I had known you were coming, I would have gone over to Main street and given you a high-five as you went through town. And wished I was about 50 years younger and sitting where you were! What a way to make a living.
I love your videos. Brings back good memories of when I used to drive. Keep up the great work! Really look forward to watching your videos and enjoy the long format! Thank you for sharing what you do.
Another great video. The saying it’s a small world really applies. I used to live in Jesup, GA. The saying in that town was the odor from the paper mill was the smell of money. Crazy coincidence. Thanks for the videos and be safe.
At least your office has a nice view. Gotta love all the low hanging wires. Yeah,bosses seem to always make things more complicated than they need to be 😅. Them and architects. Safe travels Doug
I really enjoy watching you load and unload that's amazing to me but I seen you coming off the mountain from Virginia to North Carolina on 77 been there many times
Hey Doug !!! Thanks again for the ride !!! Yepper """ ""OL"" Fancy Gap is a trip in itself !!!! 7 miles up & down !! In the ""OL"" days B/4 I-77 ,,they had to use US 52 which runs on the East side of the mountain & had many truck wrecks on that road !! Beautiful country up there along the St. Lawrence for sure !!! 1 thing we found out when up there ,,,you DON"T ask for ""Ketchup "" for you ""FRIES"" !!! HAHA Gravy ONLY !!! HAHA 🙃🙂😊🤔🙄👀👀👀👍👍👍👍👍
I travelled with my dad as a kid and I remembered the great view but never knew where it was until after I started driving myself and stumbled upon Fancy Gap in my travels. 😊 great memories
❤❤❤❤❤ I LOVE THE WAY YOU TAKE OF YOUR BUSINESS AND PLACE THAT YOU GO .I NEVER BEEN OUT OF TEXAS .I WATCH ALL YOUR RU-vid VIDEOS. I'M WATCHING IT RIGHT NOW ✅️ 🫂🫂✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️ AMAZING JOB. WE USE TO BE ON THE ROAD BUT MY FRIEND GOT SICK AND HAD 6 STROKES NOW HE HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO WALK AND TALK ALL OVER CAN YOU PRAY FOR HIM 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 THANKS BE CAREFUL OUT THERE
There are a lot of RU-vid channels similar to yours, but yours is my go to channel for OD, OS, and OW loads, a couple times back in 2015 and 2016 I tried applying to ATS Over Dimensional, spotless driving record, had been in a truck since 1977, had moved OD, OW for the carnival business for 8 years, my load was a portable carnival ride base that was both OD, and OW, but ATS said I didn't have enough experience, s0 in 2018 I retired. Thank You for the ride along
Doug I'm going to tell you straight up. I honestly wish you knew the amount of guys that laughed at me for the amount of tarps I kept with me so I could double tarp. A lot of my loads were specialized fragile oversize where it could sometimes take up to 8 hrs + to prep and tarp a load. It was this way because the companies I worked for and companies we hauled for said there was no help. Made for a long day sometimes, but I was very particular how I did my job!
Looked like a tight gate leaving the plant. I was a volunteer "guide" for a JD combine from Vandalia, IL up thru IL and over to the Iowa border. We had an unexpected "detour" that is a story you might enjoy. It was for an organization called "Farm Rescue" out of Jamestown Iowa. You make it all like a Sunday afternoon drive. Happy Trails!!!!!
The gate was tight but if I had swung a little wider the angle would’ve been better. Let’s just say I didn’t help myself 🤷🏼♂️ I’ve been doing this for a while so some of the excitement is gone. It’s all pretty routine now unless I’m on a really big project. We are supposed to have some bigger ones coming up so I’m looking forward to that 🤞
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 ....sorry to say, but the novelty wears off after a while. That doesn't mean your quality of work changes, it simply becomes routine (and the associated risk of the old saying "familiarity breeds contempt" is always lurking around the corner. Hopefully, this "affliction" will not manifest itself with your videos.....(us, selfish watchers, wouldn't appreciate this....sorry, couldn't resist). Btw...how long does it take you to edit a full-length video....I've got no clue about these things, too busy still keeping my drivers and their employer compliant and safe. Keep up the great work and take care
Doug you may already know this but if you take a spray bottle and fill it with fuel,spray those ratchet binders down and they’ll work free and easy for a long time between sprays😉
My brother hauled mobile homes in the early 70's and I remember him saying some of his escorts wasn't much good to him,,they would be so far ahead he would have call them on the CB.
It is an added stress that we are always working with different escorts and everyone does things a little different. Not much time for team building. And it’s true about every occupation there are good ones and less good ones. I always say you gotta have a bad one now and then to better appreciate the good ones!
Good day- This one was really cool because as I mentioned in a previous post I was domiciled out of Keen, Savannah. When you went thru the US 84/US 301 intersection in Ludowici, GA you were 8 mi. from my house, north, off of 301. Drove past that plant for various reasons for years. I was going to ask for the length of the trailer because that thing cheated to the inside in a turn so badly. When you said 60', then I knew because the 4 axle that I was married to was 65'. with a 35' beam deck. I had to flip the 4th axle and chain the 3rd up to be legal in the Northeast when I was empty. Drive safe. Have a good day.
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 I should have said "lived" in the house. We moved to West Lafayette, IN in 2014. If you or your dad come to the CAT Generator plant yard in Lafayette to load out give me a shout and I'll come by and introduce myself. When your camera at the back of the sleeper turned down just as you crossed the tracks on 84 just before the plant it reminded me of 2 things. The sad one was east of those tracks that you crossed it narrows down to one track and crosses over a very skinny bridge. There was a film crew on that bridge doing filming for some documentary and didn't hear the train coming and ended up killing 3 people. The hilarious one was when the wife and I were waiting at those tracks with the cross bars down. Someone ahead of of us got tired of waiting and jumped out and went around the bars. But they didn't notice the the first car on the other side was a marked GSP trooper. BUSTED!! They didn't make it a hundred ft. after the cross bars. Have a good one.
One thing you could maybe do for future videos, is you could put what road you are on in what direction, and maybe what town you are in. Would be cool to follow along on google maps.
Raphine used to be Whites and it had a gator on one wall and guns on the other and a better restaurant but the family gave it up but it’s still one of the best truck stops around😉
I don’t know if you were in the Petro when it was Whites but it was better but they’re still good people also I’ve noticed that the Western Star you hardly ever hear the fan clutch kick in but on the Pete it kicks in all the time even when you’re empty, can you explain 🤷♂️
Great video. Love the cab mounted 360 degree camera, beautiful scenery. Really cool to see the coast from Daytona Beach FL to Canada. BTW, what are the numbers on the video description?
How much does the "pin on" axle change the turning radius? I understand you use the equipment necessary to meet the weight \ axle requirements, but is switching to the pin on axle more of a permit cost savings (short length, fewer axles) or is it easier to drive? You certainly make handling the jeep look easy. Nice that you got to go fishing. A lot of work goes into these videos, Thanks.
J'ai demeuré à Trois-Rivières et je ne me souviens plus du nom de la compagnie où tu as chargé...c'est quoi le nom?.....et Vous êtes basés dans le parc industriel de Trois_Rivières à ce que je vois...?
I only run about 14,000 on my steering. This is not a true heavy haul truck. It is more like a medium duty. It’s a compromise that can be dispatched on heavy loads but also the truck is still light enough to haul legal loads from time to time.
It is a steep learning curve. The office is there as a back up. If I’m not sure about something I can always make a phone call but it’s up to the driver to know the regulations. That’s why they start drivers on smaller oversize loads. To focus on reading permits and learning the basic regulations before they get doing the big loads. Oh and I’ve been to Mexico for vacation but never for work
lol thanks youtube safety police but I had escorts blocking traffic so yes we kind of do things a little differently. Can’t wait for you to troll my next video ✌️
@scottreed5460 was only 44,000 lbs. the trailer used is called a mini deck. It’s low to the ground and perfect for reducing the overall height but the disadvantage it is very heavy so you require an extra axle on the truck to support the overall weight.
