Blizzard Aftermath (Trucking Vlog #53) 

I live in sweden..its colder darker ...boring😐🔫

your comment made me laugh

this is random but seriouse question. which is a better trans in your opinion. manual or auto?. i see you drive a manual, an as for a car too. are you a manual enthusiast?

@@dddurk123456789 for a semi the autos are nice because they are less work and you have more space in between the seats without the shifter. But for a car I do prefer manual, I just find it more enjoyable to drive

Vasiliy Agiy best line.. Not as experienced as they are...you will drive and survive 👍

That's because We " geezers " have been there and done that . . . . Driving Class 8 trucks for a living, is a life long learning experience . . . .

@@barbusie5217 my father was an otr driver for 43 years. One thing he always said is snow doesn't have to be deep to be dangerous, it only needs to be slick.

Amen

Down right tragic

You wouldn't have made it 20 miles by looks of how much snow blew around by that wind overnight good call

f r e e b i r d Trust me when I say Amen to the truck drivers!! A lot of people don’t realize the work and effort they put into that job.....

I have a rule for the winter slide more than 3 times in a mile and I'm off and I won't drive on ice or in an ice storm if I can help it. Snow is all about speed but ice is just about luck.

Wise words

And if THEY can't understand that , You don't need to be working for them . . . .

Damn Straight! Told my dispatch that every time I got stuck in snow! It's not worth my life!

Jerry Newton lol maybe if you actually talk to some then you would see there are more younger folks out there that are the same

lol by I'm 20 years old and I have little faith for my generation and hardly anyone near my age. Him being an older man has nothing to do with facts.

Asserting Word not gonna happen

Yeah man, Not everyone in my generation is like they make it seem on the news and shit.

Big boy Tings I'm one I'm only 25 but j mostly like to keep to myself bc I always get either "how long have you been truckin" "oh your just a baby" "you must know know how to drive" or you've got the crazy people. But I'll still talk to people if we can have an actual intelligent conversation.

Though young, I think he's figured out there are people, MANY who don't mind putting YOUR life at risk for THEIR benefit. That's a lesson many never learn. Some die for it. This young guy has a good head on his shoulders. More power to him.

I ONLY run it at night from salt lake to Denver, only time to fly.

Been 35 years now retired and once now there was many but once 10 from a truck stop in WY. the snow started. By the time I got to the truck stop I almost could not!. Five min's later the roads were closed and I was down three days . WY can be harsh

Very true, that 80 is no joke specially those strong winds. Be careful drivers.

Even in May nearly June it was snowing hard at night across i80 in WY and ND.

SuperBigblue19, very well said!

As an old dude I can say true, but on the other hand old dudes been there...

Some boxes of MRE's stowed in the sleeper wouldn't go far amiss either.

That's some valuable advice right there

Yup never want to get stranded without enough full to stay idleing

(( Never deliver a load with empty tanks either.. )) I alway topped them off before delivery.. You just never know if or when the company your working for just might go belly up and leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere with no way of getting you or the rigg back home.. I alway maintained a $1000.00 emergency fund to get me and the truck back home in the case of the company going bankrupt and leaving trucks and drivers stranded.. It's not illegal, if you have to; to spend your own money paying cash for fuel to get you and the truck back home.. And it will look real good on the next resume, if they see you did bring the truck back to its home base before leaving your last job . . .

washingtonstromtrooper see

I'm not a truck driver but my husband is n he's agreeing with you.. I don't let my car get below a 1/2 tank in any season..

Orlando 71 you are right

Yep I'm going for the long haul, thanks

Yeah, I agree ... Sounds like he's got a good head on his shoulders, for sure!

Yeah I'd rather get called a sissy and be safe hah thanks!

If it's too bad for chains it's too bad for driving but some drivers do the drive

F3N5T4 I just hit 28.5 yrs out here and thanks to CSA and scores I tell company same thing now and don't care..Unplanned day off works for me

I’ve watched so called experienced drivers put it sideways through the medians all because they think weight = traction. There’s no substitute for common sense. To many trucking companies pushing out inexperienced drivers who don’t know the rules and believe what companies tell them and end up in bad situations and then the company throws them under the bus. I’m glad I’m done over the road trucking.

Oh yeah I got a whole life ahead of me, I ain't gonna be risking it if I don't have to

Being from up north makes this kind of laughable 😀

That's a very creative poem, well done!

@Lone Wolf Have fun with those frozen brakes And when you go to leave You'll have to chain up And I'll be long gone

That just sounds like bad advise.

YEAH THEN THEY SLASH YOUR TIRES WHILE YOUR SLEEPING FOR HAVING 1 lol

Will I finally be a super trucker then??

Vasiliy Agiy don't turn into a super trucker lol... keep breaking the mould bud! F up the mainstream haha

No sure, what classifies a super trucker!!! Take care out there!

Literally every single truck I have driven over the last 19 years has had something bad happen to it within 6 months of putting a no lot lizards sticker on it....

Thank you! And yes I will keep it up

Thank you Rory!

Well thank you kindly Harry

Thank you very much!

Haha, every night!

Oh yeah there will be silliness on the CB for sure!

@@VasiliyAgiy find a CB shop and get it peaked and tuned, some good adjustable antennas, and a power boosting echo mike. You can get out about 7-10 miles rather than a mile or less. Really helps with communicating road conditions.

@@brandonkoff thanks for the tips 👍

Thanks

Thanks alot!

And hope it falls off before it dumps on to another vehicle and blinds the driver. Or maybe falls across his windshield and blinds him. But hay, its worth a chance.

Haha good advice!

@@edtin1834; yeah seriously, I was thinking the same thing. I know the snow on the side of the trailer is dangerous enough for other vehicles but what is even worse is when that snow on top that has hardened up a bit ends up flying off in broken sheets three of four inches thick onto the highway behind the truck (AFTER HITTING A "COUPLE" of bumps); sometimes with sharp points.

I had a trucker who was in too big a rush to clean the top of his truck pull in front of me in the highway. A couple of good bumps later and giant chunks of snow/ice fell from the top of his truck. First hit my hood and blew apart blindly me momentarily. The second was blown into the adjacent lane where it did something similar to another vehicle. I immediately wrote down the number in the truck and called and complained to the company. Driver was terminated. If you are in the position to get fired for taking a few minutes to clean the top, you are DEFINITELY in the position to be fired for not cleaning it and possibly killing someone.

The man knows what he is talking about.

You, sir, are 200%correct

If you also have ham radio youll be truly complete in the communications department. You may be surprised by the knowledgeable people. Theres also a volunteer supported network and infrastructure. The license is easy to get and the equipment performance is not legally limited to 5 watts.

Thank you, I wish other drivers would see it that way too! I appreciate you joining me :)

Yep. kid sounds like me before I realized half a quarter was an eighth. Half an Eighth was a sixteenth. Half a Sixteenth was a thirty second. Who cares ...

TSAquariums am 11 but I love trucking

23 and Trucking right here

@@swan6918 Have fun we are definitely the minority

In the US ( Texas atleast) you can be 18 and drive, but you have to be In state driver only

I started pulling when I was 19. 👍

trucker boogieman how did you get into the industry?

@@jackson.denzler. I grew up in a family driving trucks so that's how I got in it

That’s dope

You might just be smarter then everyone here, I been doing this for 5 years now, I started in the north, doing car hauling, loading cars on a frozen deck take skills, after two years, I had enough of trucking in the snow and moved south, you couldn’t pay me enough to truck in the snow again, be stranded making now money, risking my life, no way no how, someone has to do the job but it won’t be me. Stay away from the harsh winter and you will have a longer and much pleasant career as a truck driver. Good luck to you.

Tell me about it..

That you candycane?

hey man how much do truckers usually make?

Amen , I just retired 10 months ago with 39 yrs. at Fed Ex and sure glad to not be fighting wintry and windy driving !!!

@@moonar5820KEEP TICKETS OFF YOUR MOTOR VEHICLE RECORD. DO NOT SPEED OR GET TICKETS. depends on company. You will 85% be with over the road or dedicated and you will average around 6-800 per week for first few months until you get into hang of things. do not get an automatic restriction, plus old timers will make fun of you all day if you do lol, In trucking school, if they have a 10 or 13 speed get on that truck!! Do not take the easy way, train hard, and remember, the gentleman who have left their families to work hard to provide run these roads not us young guns. but these old timers you see still slamming gears, a lot of heart and true dedication and GRIT. My grandpa William teer, he owned a small gig hauling blasting caps and dynamite in Colorado to miners, THESE OLD TIMERS ARE THE REASON THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT AS WELL. If you can drive a 13 You can drive an 18, and if you can drive a 10, you can drive an 8 With a breeze, i havent driven a 15 but boy can i learn lol. Get on with a company like Navajo, not the best reputation but troopers/scales will not mess with you like the smaller companies. I ran with them for about 10 months on Costco dedicated. smooth after a few local gigs and they were not bad at all compared to those other companies, and STAY OUT OF OLD TIMERS WAY, they have been doing this for many years and they are the reason this world functions and gets the commodities it is thankful to have. RUN DEDICATED FOR FIRST GIG. They hire you out of trucking school. Swift has a worse reputation I think but very humble drivers and some very good old timers in there I've met that are excellent drivers, and they will pay for your cdl, but will have you sign a year contract and if you break It you just have to pay the school back, which is fine, don't let the 4k scare you. Get that year of experience or 2, save up and pay cash for your own semi truck.. become an owner operator, cut middle man out, run hard for another company for a year or two, stay with decent company or go owner operator. Navajo, with 6 loads per week pays 1000-1100 per week take home but 3k miles a week. Cake walk brother, just get the mindset, it is tedious and can be up to 16 hour days but it flies by. They start at 40 cents per mile and pay 49 cents per mile in backhaul. Very good for first job, very good period, actually lol. Good luck. Stay safe, and stay out of old timers way, they have been on the road longer than we have been alive, they also did it with older equipment. My next truck Is an 89 freightliner with a big ol cat straight piped and a big turbo... gets me all jittery thinking about it. Cheers brothers and sisters, stay safe.

I also drive a company truck so i have to remove it every time I leave

Lol

I don't haul cattle trailers but you have to remember that they're hauling live animals and can only keep them on the trailer for so long.

I imagine the cattle not being ok with those winds, yeah they're always in a hurry for some reason

michael adams haha 😂 amen

Hi Susan can I chat you

Hi Susan can I toss your salad ma’am

Your hate for Walmart oozes from you

Thank you that's very kind of you!

I'll say this to my dispatcher the next time I get a load like this haha thanks!

deepsquat600 Im not an over the road driver luje these guys. But I do drive Inner city most days about 6-8 hours depending on my deliveries for the day. I listen to Joe Rogan podcasts myself and my spotify playlist. Id like to listen to audio books, what do you use for that?

I'm not very big on audio books, though I have listened to a few, but yeah mostly it's podcasts and music

I just use my phone ,,and in google play I downloaded Audiobook player .. or mort player ( there are a lot out there for free

@@VasiliyAgiy Which podcasts you listen to nowadays?

K-Y.......lots of K-Y