32 years i hauled oversize nothing more then 9 axels and mostly locally,you are by far a gifted heavy hauler,love your style of heavy hauling and watching you do your thing.i dont have to tell you to keep up the good job.
As a retired trucker, this video is more interesting being start to finish. With most aspects covered apart from the prep, superb 👍 Greetings from the UK
In the northeast height is always an issue. The wires and overpasses are just not up to the standards of the rest of the country. We get used to working around low obstacles.
Once again i sit here in aww watching and learning. The detail and angles you get are perfect. I can really see how you put together your float. How you load such a large machine. And transport it safly to its destination. We just took ownership of a 470G excavator. Look forward to getting a chance to move this machine. Im from Ontario Canada. The North Western Part and we have some decent size hills. Not so much long as in steep grades. I run a t800 Kenwort with the 510 Paccar motor or a pete 389 with a 600 cummins. Im sure the Pete will be the unit to pull it as it also has an air lift and larger spread on the drives and float. So ya Thanks again for letting me share and for teaching me so much about this amazing industry. Take care driver and much respect to you and this channel.
I had to double back to find this video which I recently watched. I wanted to thank you for your time in explaining "18:55 to 21:09." You didn't need to explain but I'm glad you did. I'm not a trucker, yet want to understand. P.S. I'd volunteer to be a tree branch "pusher" 🌳
Curious what the random letters and numbers mean in the description of the video. You do an excellent job on the videos: we get to see the truck before it is "setup", the "setup process", loading, enough of a flavor of the driving \ routing issues of huge loads, unloading, and reconfig of the truck back to "normal". A lot of days compressed into a video. Thanks - a lot of effort editing.
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 I guess it is not surprising that someone that requires permits for every load is also concerned about "music permits". Nice.
love watching your videos, keep them coming! obviously, you have done a lot of preparation for these hauls. a driver in sarnia ontario where i'am, wasn't so well prepared. he hit an overpass at about 80 kmh with his oversized load about 4 or 5 years ago(maybe less). the result was catastrophic, destroyed the load, trailer and half of the 4 lane overpass. the overpass took months to rebuild
Accidents can happen but I try not to take short cuts. That’s usually where these guys get themselves into trouble. Better to just take the proper time needed to get the job done right and safely.
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 the ironic thing was that the driver was local, the load was off a ship 5km or less from the accident, handled by local people and it's not a low bridge, just standard ontario 400 series highway overpass!
Thanks for responding! I have been doing OTR for the last 3 years always like the heavy haul, how or where can I get training to do what you do? Appreciate any feedback! Thanks ! Safe travels!
My best advise is to look for companies that do both regular flatbed as well as oversize. That way you can grow without changing companies. ATS, Keen, Daily, Hunts, TMC, Hackl, Valley, American, Bay Crane, De Masse, are all examples of companies who do both regular and oversize. It’s harder to get in with the specialized only companies with no experience. Good luck!
I so glad we have higher power wires here in Australia but you can't close the the train electric wires they are 25000 volts just a cb radio antenna them and it fried every electrical thing in the harvester on the float but they are still 5.3 metres
Yeah I see pictures of you guys loading big machines on step deck style platform trailers and I envy you 😅. Around here anything over 4.3 isn’t impossible but gets complicated. Thanks for watching 😊
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 it must be difficult 4.3 is legal height for a reefer and 5 metres on a yearly permit but our highway overpasses must be layer out different because if the overpass is to low we just take the off ramp and go straight across to the on ramp
Superbe vidéo copain. Cela me rappel d'excellent souvenir de mon passage chez Bellemare. Simple curiosité, tu l'a ramassé à Peoria Illinois le loader? Je ne reconnaît pas la place. J'ai ramassé un D6 à Peoria et des pièces de loader ailleurs... le reste, j'étais abboné à Baltimore haha
Merci pour les beau mots! D’habitude on les ramasse à Decatur Illinois. Mais celui dans le vidéo étais une move spécial que j’ai ramassé chez Daily à Carlisle PA.
@Lucky Banana Heavy Hauling….another great video…just curious are you required to chain / strap down loaders or booms, anything that could “possibly” raise up and catch wires or overpasses? Maybe you did….didn’t see the camera angle…Thx again….keep the videos rolling… Be safe out there…
Yes the law requires all attachments and booms to be secured. There are 2 chains on the bucket of this one. There is actually a video on my TikTok showing close up all the chains.
Hi Doug, thanks for the reply, it’s really cool and appreciated the information you provide. Although I’m retired from a great aviation career of nearly 40 yrs., Always loved trucks and tractors still hold current CDL, work part time for local John Dealer, sure would have enjoyed a career driving large rigs like you do… Oh well, I’ll live vicariously through your travels… It’s awesome you totally love what you do… Keep up the great job and content. Stay safe out there!
I had that happen in NY 3 weeks ago, 16' wide, 16' tall, 128' long and grossing 228,000 pounds, met a convoy of 14' wide by 15' tall on a narrow two lane in a small town. It took all of our combined escorts, including the police, and all of us drivers about 35 minutes, but we got past each other
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407, our plan was, if they couldn't pass, I had a steerable trailer, so I was going to back up one of the side roads and let them pass. But that was the last option.
1) Regular CB 2) UHF with 5 company channels 3) VHF a lot of northern remote areas have mandatory VHF channels to monitor and in Western Canada a lot of guys run VHF instead of CB
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 are you using Galaxy radios. I have a DX959 with upper and lower side band. I had a modulation upgrade down too. . I'm looking at there 10 meter as well. They are great when your traveling.
1)CB, 2)VHF because in Western Canada and up north trucks run VHF because it has more range. 3)UHF because this company pays for 5 UHF channels to talk between escorts and other company trucks.
Why did you get off at exit 44 just to go back the way you came from ? And that camera behind you in the truck we cant see out the front its so bright its all white we see.
If you look closely when loading it was driven on most of the way but actually pushed to the end. The beam height of this trailer is higher then the loader so it always needs to be on blocks to clear the loaders undercarriage. I probably only needed to pull it 10 feet but more is better then less.
