There was a contestant on a game show in the UK. He said he was An optical service technician, in plain language that's a window cleaner. I was a road manager for a pop group back in the 60s, in other words I was a truck driver/humper/ plugger in of electric cables. Great fun!!!!!
tom7601 Hahahaha....when i was driving a front-end loader for BFI, i told the ladies i was a Waste Technician. I was a big deal in the deep south...lol😂
blah yes jack is by far the best trucking channel.he is not asking people to subscribe to his channel and asking for stuff like one other trucking show.
Speaking of lumpers - when I drove OTR in the 70's and 80's, the driver had to either pay the lumpers out of pocket, or unload themselves. That really reaked!
I want to express my respect for the job you are doing. It is not just driving a truck , it means sacrifice to make your load arrive to its destination safely. But now with this video, we can see that it is not respected by some companies. Thank you for this video and I hope to watch a new soon. Take care Indiana!!👍
ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS Jack they show the true life of a trucker on these crazy roads today miss it yet so happy im no longer able to drive the trucks today God Bless you on your travels
Hi Jack, I haven't seen one of your videos in a long time, I'm glad to see that you still enjoying it. Thanks for the inspiration you put on me when I was in school for my CDL, I been out for a year now thinking in go back in, that's why I'm back on your channel, once again thank you!!!!
Thanks for sharing your adventures. I'm not a trucker, but I enjoy you showing us the logs and how they work. It does seem like trucking is a lot of planning, hoping for good luck and a whole lot of waiting! Stay safe out there! Peace.
When you accept a load that delivers at a time that you cannot make, you are accepting fault. You have to tell the shipper or the Agent to reschedule the delivery or you wont take the load. When you dont, they can make you wait for two days and you have no ability to collect demurge fees; because you didnt make your scheduled delivery time. Do things by the numbers and you will get the extras that you deserve and none of the blame that you dont deserve.
Great video once again! I booked a load last week that was nearly impossible to run legally. To ensure that the times were all met, the shipper included a clause in the contract that reduced the freight bill by 30% if the truck was late. Of course, I did not know about this clause until I picked up the load. Welcome to the unintended consequences of mandating ELD's.
That is one of the many reasons i got out of trucking, if a tornado came along and picked up your truck, and dropped it on a cop car, who's fault would it be, you guessed it, the truck drivers fault.
A company i worked for years ago had a driver in the middle of the night in Illinois get hit by a tornado at a truck stop. Hes was sleeping when it hit. Pick the truck up turned it on it side and drop it. He had a load of beer. Broke every bottle. They give him a chargeable accident out of it. He was fighting it. Never did find out what happen. He was lucky he just hurt his neck and shoulder when he hit the sleeper wall on his head.
Your videos are very enjoyable. Wish you were making new trucking videos. You have to be the best youtube trucker of all time. Thanks for the awsome video!
Looks as though the CHIPS they SPECIALIZE in is the one they put on the drivers shoulder...lol....love that CHICAGO traffic....I love driving through there...I'm hourly for a paving company...LOVE RIDING ALONG WITH YOU.....I'm actually thinking of OTR....and you've TAUGHT ME MUCH....really LOVE your ATTITUDE....it's REAL and GENUINE and SINCERE....THANKS....
I see that you are finally enjoying the life of a trucker, and not just a chauffeur. First thing you learn is; don't stop. When food warehyouses give you an appointment time, be on time. I have had to wait 24 hours, and a couple of times had loads refused. I spent the majority of my 13 years OTR trucking hauling produce. Most of those guys are hollow eyed, stressed out people with scarcely a good word to say. I'm glad that you are showing how trucking really is. It's not just running highways, hitting truck stops and getting good nights sleeps. Rain? Run in it. Sleet? Run in it. Snow? run in it. High wind? run in it. All of the above? run in it. Hang in there son, you'll make a trucker yet.
My very first delivery with a grocery warehouse was at United Grocers in Medford, OR. I was with a C R England trainer and the load was Nally's Chilly with several varieties on each pallet. We had two choices, pay a lumper, or unload ourselves and pay us. We chose to do it. The drawback, they had to be divided by labels and stacked on pallets to fit on their shelves. Later on in my carrier at Swift, I was given a load to Safeway Warehouse near Tracy, CA, and another to Albertsons Warehouse in Roseville, CA.
294 south coming from Wisconsin ( a scale when you hit 41 off of 294) Rt 41 south to 94 , 94 to Lincoln Ford highway to 94 in Ind. The trick , as I said is hit it from 730pm ( Friday Saturday nights are bad in the city) to 430am. All things be equal you should fly through the city. I use to come back from Michigan or Indiana at prime time and just fly . Rt 41 could be your angel. This one company would not pay us for tolls so as you can imagine I ran Rt.41 alot. Check it out on you map sometime.
I often trucks those lanes and when I saw your gps highlighted through Chicago during the day I thought... oh boy. You are correct, 3am is the best time.
I use to run from the Wisconsin border down 294 to 94 Indiana go into Mich and go to a dhl terminal in Niles Mich. You can hook 41 off of 294 if your coming from Wisconsin if you want to skip 294. there are scales at the wisc Illinois border on 294 and if you are going South on 41 there are scales right when you get off of 294. At night they tend to not be open. I did it when they had 94 under construction. I ran all of that day in and day out for 4 or 5 years. going back to n.illinois I would use the Lincoln Ford highway to the Dan Ryan and then 94 to 41 and then go on up till 41 ( scales just before 294 on 41) hooks up with 294 in wisc.i ran a lot of loads that way. you miss 294 and all the tolls. The key to the whole thing is don't hit it during rush hour. rush hour in Chicago is 430am 900am or 200pm to 700pm. make your adjustments accordingly. I ran a lot of loads that way Jack. I feel your pain ( check out rt.41)
Lumpers always seem to take that long, whether its a whole trailer or its like 4 skids. I HATE grocery warehouse deliveries, its rarely a simple and quick in and out.
The Kennedy is always like that! I've off the foster exit. Anytime after 8pm to 5am during the work week is the only time to use it. Even weekends are lousy!
trucking has only itself to blame for the injustices it is victim too. They charge you when you are late for a deliver even though its not your fault, and the the transport company will pay it. What happens when you are early or on time, and they make you sit in their yard half day, and you use up all your hours and lose a whole day with not enough hours do continue on with. Who pays for that!! why don"t the transport companies charge them for lost time???
+1 for EZ Pass! If you order one from Delaware, it's a one-time $15 charge to use the transponder + whatever you place into your account [minimum $25] for tolls and NO annual fee. [Most of the other states that participate in EZ Pass, particularly New York, do charge an annual fee for use, on top of the tolls!] They do require you to return the t'ponder after 3 years cuz the batteries run down... No charge for that, though. FYI: The Flying J between I-90 & I-94 is in Lake Station, Indiana. ;) Keep th' greasy side down and keep it tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen' th' ditches, Y'all!! :)
John Baker New York City doesn't charge an annual fee, and EZ pass has NO BATTERY ! It's an RF tag, I've had the same tag for many years. You don't know shit.
Yes, agree, and I'm in Australia, we have similar. He is great with technology, cameras, GPS, editing video on computer, ELD, iPad, not to mention the app to find loads! So why not a toll pass?
Hey Jack this is Randy from South Alabama and I wanna say I know what you mean about the system, I've been there on the load being late when it's not the driver's fault. it's happened to me lots of times. just be careful out there and watch out for them 4 wheelers ,lol I enjoy your videos, so from one trucker to another be safe and God Bless
i live in illinois peoria, and its always a cluster near and in chicago and slow and/or jammed toll roads where their always doing something to the roads but doesnt seem to make em any smoother for what they charge to run on em.
Four Hours to Unload?!? Where i used to Work as a Forklift Driver, we had 20 Mins for a Standard Trailer to load/unload and 30 for an Oversea-Container, including load securing! If we needed longer, our Company had to pay the Drivers (or Companys behind them) for the Extra Waiting Time!
Jack, you're absolutely right about those grocery warehouses. I don't like them either. On top of which, how bout when there are damages with which we drivers had nothing to do.
Whenever I get the urge to drive a big truck I watch these videos. It is the real life version of SIM truck driver. Here we get to travel all across the country. The nice thing in this video is that if there was, say, like a zombie apocalypse, you could use the potato chips to survive or barter them with the new frontier societies that would inevitably emerge around Detroit. As for the late fee, what is it with people in the potato chip business? If they are going to charge you a late fee, then they should provide you with a free truck wash, Starbucks, and a foot rub. That is a broken system. In my zombie series, the lumpers will create their own guild ... kind of like dwarves in Lord of the Rings. Love the videos!!!
After 25 year's in the freight industry, I went to steel fabrication. Home every weekend, tons of overtime (that you actually get paid for), and no dealing with the idiots on the road...
penaltys are also in the medical profession also, the peeologist that i'm going to tells me that if I have to cancel my appointment and don't give them 48 hour notice i will owe them $100.00.
Ya Jack I know what you went through. Ya I would of went down 39 further then headed east. Hope this is the last one until next year that your treated that way. Be safe.
Stay off of I-94 in the winter in Michigan, if you can. It can be a beast . . . especially where you drove . . . $150 late fee? LOL I bet they are never late in their outbound loads . . .
They did a survey of traffic flows around London after building the M25 ring road. The build up of traffic had many causes that had to be considered. here are a few Plane start landing at Heathrow airport from 6 am these are mostly long haul 747s etc. and so large volumes of passengers = lots of taxis, cars and coaches. Cross channel ferries on the S Coast being delayed through bad weather, strikes etc. Trucks were parked on the freeway and other traffic diverted off causing huge jams on the surrounding roads. Once the ring road was complete warehouse and distribution depots sprung up right the way around it. So now the M25 is known as the London car park. They say man advances with time. Yet journey times between London - Birmingham or Manchester are longer now than in the 70s.
I liked chapter 28 of your video. This is the second video of yours I have seen and I did enjoy it just curious I have Ben out of trucks for a good while but can you remember this much traffic 28 + years ago, you can't seem to get down the road like before too many people out on the roads today to make good time/money. And dropping loads hasn't changed much your still waiting to get unleaded for hours and sometimes the next day are weekends a problem for you. THANKS
It's hard to believe the state of Illinois is in financial trouble with the amount of tolls they charge. It's hard to avoid Chicago if you're driving West to East.
I miss driving until you went thru Chicago and that other a- hole of a place you are headed The Dirty D!!! Been both places a lot and don't miss them at all!!!
@Indianajacktrucker: Jack, love your movies. That said, I have to protest in the strongest possible terms against your badmouthing of Roman roads. In my hometown of Cologne, Germany you can to this day walk on original Roman pavement, and it is in significantly better repair than any road I had the misfortune to travel on during my 20 years in Michigan. BTW there are only two seasons in Michigan: Winter and construction season. Keep on truckin' . :-)
Interesting, though S. Michigan sits on a huge salt mine of which some gets up to the roads for winter salting operations, here's a link certainly not definitive but a little informative comparing roads like Michigan I-roads to say an autoban(?) in Germany. Probably apples to oranges but a curiosity and stories like this crop up periodically. www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/04/why_are_germanys_roads_better.html I do think Germany's original big highways were built better but other factors in the surface geology also contribute to differences or issues for discussion. As for the Roman roads of today and yesteryear, that's another interesting story. I could say, you could have the finest ancient Roman roads, just keep Italian drivers off them. :-)
hi jack,,,this is Andrea I must let u know how much I rreeaallyy like your videos,,i feel like I'm beside u watching u an experiencing the truck ride,,yes I enjoy the girls videos but I never get the same feeling you r so laid back,,b good b safe luvyourvids,,Andrea
If you look at the shipper's time sheet besides stating 11:50,it also stated pm! The roads are so bad in Michigan, you delivered crumbs instead of chips! I hated dealing with grocery/frozen warehouses and lumpers!
This is why, with all the non-shared reporting going on regarding logs and regulations, still the heavy transport system is designed for downstream collateral damage. So truckers can pay for someone else business model way above a truckers pay grade. All those trip details could easily be made available from various e-tracking sources but no one is concerned with that data, just the fictional data associated with someone else 24 hour clock, and apparently someone else spreadsheet entry. More complicated than this but someone made this system up for someone and it ain't the truckers.
I never understand why when there's so many open spots, somebody has to pull up right behind you. It's like when I park my car in an empty lot, spaces everywhere, and come back out to a big pickup truck or an suv parked RIGHT next to me making it harder for me to see to get out. All that room.
I live right next to the Belvidere Oasis I wish I would have seen you there it would have been nice to meet you I watch all your videos I work for AAA so I'm constantly on the highway and at the Belvidere Oasis
Thanks for the upload ! Very interesting to hear that the same problems with deliveries to and from grocery warehouses over there , also occur here in South Africa ! Is it because they are in some or other way owned by the "same people" , or did South Africa just copy from the States ? Well , tell you this , you are living in a first world country ! Just hop over here and you might appreciate yours again with new perspective ! - LOL. Keep safe
The best way is to get on the 290 then the 294 to the 80. If you want to save money stay on the 39 and take the 80. Even on a Sunday the 90 in Chicago is backed up.
