Yes, thanks for the memories! I used to do this back in the 70s, based out of Roosevelt, Utah. Worked for a man named Byrell Lamb, he had a couple of bright orange Peterbilts. He also had crude oil tankers, so when cows weren’t busy we’d haul crude oil to the refineries in SaltLake City, Sinclair, Wyoming, Fruita,Colorado and Ciniza, New Mexico. When we hauled cows, we worked with Uintah Cattle Company a lot.
@@woodfordreserve6673 wow! Sounds like y'all stayed busy for sure! Diversity is the key in this game, can't always count on the same thing! Thank you for visiting the channel, just getting started!
When I got my cdl a year ago I started doing flatbed for my father’s company. I remember him always telling me about how bull haulers are pretty much the cowboys of the road so it’s cool seeing a glimpse of what you guys do. 👍🏽👍🏽
I used to love hauling cattle. Had a 73 Pete with a 5&4 in her with overdrive. When you got booth sticks pushed up to the dash. She was running about 93 mph loaded. We really cranked on it from about midnight till the sun went to warming up the sky.
Could have called this episode: THE TRAIL DRIVE. Born in Reagan, Tx and still living in Falls county. Great video sir. It was a good trip, no dead or crippled AND You didn't get hurt. City folk don't realize how dangerous working nervous cattle in close spaces can be. Keep em coming G5.
@@raymondbradley6788 Worked with a Jimmy Rhodes from Thornton. He was a good friend but passed away several years ago. Don't recall any Bradley folk in Reagan. Takecare Ray
@@johnhrynyk8521 John that’s my RU-vid name. That’s my wife’s name. My last name is really Evans. My late uncle Carl is the one that put Texas pneumatic on the map in Reagan.
All through the Eighty's I was a Fla Bull Hauller. South Fla to CA , AZ , NM , TX , CO , WY. FL Bull Haulers were the Best Of The Best back in the day. FAST TRUCKS , FAST WOMEN AND OF CORSE FAST DRUGS. I ran 250000 Miles a year with NO CO Driver's. Just my girl fried sitting in the passenger seat naked. Wouldn't of missed it for the world. They Called me Left Lane.
10 years was enough. Most of the Guys I knew back then are gone now. I had to get away from the 125 hour work day's. I hauled for Macdonell Livestock out of Clermont. FL and Baily Cattle out of Ocala, FL. Most of us ran 5500 to 6000 miles a week back in those days 78 KW 12V 71 Twin turbo 700 HP. DETROIT It would turn 2450 in high gear Loaded with Cows. 6X4 TRANS 355 REARS ON TALL 24.5 RUBBER. One fast Super Strong Truck. Only seen one or two trucks that would run with my old truck
@@stevemeade6588 Wow, sounds like one heck of truck! "Ashes to Ashes dust to dust, without cattle haulers the left lane would rust!" Yeah those kind of hours and miles will take a toll on you. I know a few guys that did that and the old body paying for it now! God speed brother!
Been following you for 4 years and you inspired me to go into trucking. So glad to see your recent video and hope you continue to share happiness by the mile..
Good and nice Video. I am a retired Cattle Hauler from Germany. I am working over 25 Years in this business. In this Time i go with Cattle to Turkey Iran and Irak and Russia. It was a hard job but once a Cattle Hauler always a Cattle Hauler. Keep on going my friend
Dad trucked out of OKC and I also grew up hauling cattle in the 50s Trucks lined up for 2 miles waiting to unload at the stock yards when it was the largest stocker- feeder market in the world. Good old days.
Great video. Gives us here in the Bronx NY a chance to see things that never happen in New York. I'll subscribe and I'm going to tell the brothers about the channel, they need to see this. None of this happens on the east coast. We only see these scenes in movies. Much appreciated pardna! Don"t you get me hooked on these videos and you stop making them. Keep them coming it takes awhile for the channel to grow but, it will. Stick with it. Safe travels and God Bless 🙏.
Love your comment, I'll try not to let you down, I'm planning on keeping the videos coming, I guess we take for granted the life we have and don't realize our brothers and sisters in other parts of the country may not get to have the same experiences! I appreciate you and spreading the word about my channel! I hope you have a blessed day!
@@jessphuqette1716 Wow! That's awesome, I bet you saw a lot of changes since then, in the trucks, the laws,and the regulations! Thank you for the time you put in, I hope you are enjoying your retirement!
You're a smooth driver,I like that,no jerkin the truck! Very easy on equipment. I'd buy a truck you'd drove. Trucked 45yrs,haulin coal movin equipment. Good video,enjoyed. Hear me talkin to ya!!
@@everettnantz9544 thank you for the compliment, I try to take care of my equipment, it costs too much to abuse them! 45 years! Wow! That's a long time behind the wheel! Thank you for putting in the work and watching my video!
I ran Bull wagons for many years about 25 years ago.... KW W900L with a 550 Cat and an 18 speed.... I remember being parked right there in Canadian, Texas many times on my way north to Kansas.... Only think I don't miss is the No sleep 💤😴 for days....
Heck yeah, W900L with that set up, heck of a truck! Nice looking trucks also! I'm heading to Kansas next week and will be running through Canadian again, I've seen pictures in the last few days and it looks pretty burnt up from the wild fires, I'll try to get some drone footage of the area and post up when I get back. The no sleep deal can wear on ya for sure! Thanks for your time in the saddle!
@@G5OutdoorAdventures Keep those girls a moving down the line hammer 🔨 down... Stay safe and we'll look forward to the drone footage... Very sorry to hear of what happened in the Texas Panhandle... Beautiful Cattle Country for sure... And you're very welcome , glad we still have good men out there to take the saddle over from us... God Bless Bull 🐂 Brother 💯💪
Nice informative video very interesting through and through...watching the cattle being loaded and unloaded brought a memory I have riding along with my Step Dad from Oklahoma City stockyards down to Amarillo Tx when I was about 24yrs old, I'm now 62. I was visiting Mom And Harley from Tampa Bay Florida USA🇺🇸 it was an experience I shall always remember. Thanks for sharing this video. I really like the wildwest style of music playing in the background. The trailer wash was beautiful concidering how much B/S there had to have.been.
Thank you for the wonderful comments, I'm glad I could bring back some old memories for you, I have fond memories of riding with my grandpa, he drove a milk tanker and picked up milk from dairy farms. And yes there was a bunch of BS in that trailer before it was washed out!😁
@@G5OutdoorAdventures are you being affected by the wildfires rolling through Texas now. I saw those poor cows running down.a road to escape those hot flames. News said some were burned and there hides were burnt while they were running. I hope your families are okay out there. God bless your rancher friends n families.🛐
Yes, I've heard it's real bad, I just got home from taking a load to Colorado and drove just West of that area on my way, I didn't see any fires but could definitely smell the smoke! It's complete devastation from what I've heard! They need prayers and rain, it snowed there yesterday morning but wasn't enough to put out the fires.
I grew up in the cattle trucking business close to Ft. Worth, Texas. (I cleaned out the cattle trailers for about $10 - which was good money in the late 60's and early 70's. I left for college and a place to wash out the trailers was built not to far from our truck lot. We traded a lot of manure for vegetables back then. Your cab definitely has more bells and whistles than I remember! One of my dad's main clients back then was the Hunt ranches. His trucks picked up Charlois bulls from New York airport coming from France and hauled them back to Texas!
Wow this brought back some great memories from my childhood. Both my parents hauled cattle. And we actually lived in Anson Texas at the time. I can't count the times my parents rolled around the Anson court house 😊 keep on trucking!
Ingeniously designed trailer. Almost need road map to negotiate all the gates. As a former rancher we use to ship a lot of cattle but first time to see inside of a cattle trailer. Of course back then the trailers were just plain basic open area. Like the compartments bet thats lots better for the animals also. Great video Smooth operation - both truck & video. Keep on truckin.. BTW great voice as comentator.
Yes, the trailers are really set up nice for hauling, it's all about numbers, head counts, weights, and how much you can put where, I started out hauling sale barn cattle and it can get real interesting figuring out where to put cattle, especially when you have to pick up several barns in one load and keep the barns separate! Thank you for the positive feedback, I'm new to making videos and I'm glad you liked it!
Took me awhile, but finally placed that good voice. That old cowboy actor Ben Johnson had that same smooth voice and honest accent. I miss the good parts of trucking. Be Safe ! ☆
Thank you! I'm glad I could give you some insight on what we do, I have people from time to time approach me at truck stops asking how we get all those cattle in there, it's a fun job!
Wife brought our Daughter to the truck one day to give me something. She asked me if I was gonna hurt the Moo cows. I says no Princess. I felt guilty about that for days. Good vid Driver.
Just hooked up to your channel sir enjoyable content I must say I am old disabled retired trucker that just can’t do it anymore back and shoulders are both shot and watching RU-vid and the trucker on here is about the only thing that keeps me going lol 😂 well stay safe out there and gods speed we’ll catch ya on the next video
Thank you for watching, I just got back from a trip to Colorado, I'll be posting another video soon, thank you for your years of trucking, it can take it's toll on your body for sure!
@@G5OutdoorAdventures thank you for the kind words I like your channel no politics no lies no stories just the plain truth that’s what makes it awesome job good clean content and keeping it interesting can’t wait till the next one have a great weekend
Your welcome! I'm glad you like it! I took a little time off this weekend and went fishing with my wife, back in the truck tomorrow, I have 2 loads to the Texas Panhandle this week, hopefully I'll be able to get another trucking video up next weekend! Take care!
I've done that a few times in my life when i was a kid. It takes time and is a little bit of dangerous, but it's so satisfying and calming that it's worth the hard work.
Great video. Those US cattle trailers look complicated, check out European livestock trailers like Pezzaoli and Montchiari. On board water drinkers, ventilation fans, lifting floors.
Abbington va to garden city , broken bow , herford tx , omaha neb. Crazy times , hen house for food, straight out and dead head back , 4 years was enough to crash my health. I have a tree service these days. Road is too packed for me 😅😅
I'm a heavy hauler used to live on a cattle ranch in the middle of the San jauqiun delta in ca not a Democrat !! Like the music bro stay safe God bless
@G5OutdoorAdventures I'm go all over the us alot of ports and military bases I live in my truck I bought property in Northern Nevada I don't want any neighbors lmao anyways nice videos God bless my freind !!
I pulled a reefer most of my career I think I missed my calling of 42 years. Should have hauled beef on the hoof, not in a box. Thank you for a great video. I subscribed after watching this one video. I knew where you were before you put it upon screen 90%of the time. I know the rest area by 6666. Thank you the history on that place
Awesome, thanks for the comments and subscribing to my channel, loading in the morning and headed to Lamar, CO,but I hear there is wild fires all over the Texas panhandle, just hope I can get through the area with no issues!
@@G5OutdoorAdventures . Ride safe driver. I have been watching that fire on the news. I buddy loaded at Budwiser in Ft Collins for Lubbock today. You 2 will pass on the trail
Thank you! I made it back home early this morning without any issues, but from what I heard it's really bad up there, I was just to the west of the fires when I went through that area, could definitely smell the smoke!
I think the trip was 1000 miles. I know live stock haulers don’t stop much and are exempt from e logs but when you you guys get rest if any??? Much respect for what you guys do!
We put in some long hours for sure, but I manage to get some rest, when cattle are moving we usually run a load every other day, so usually we get some decent sleep between runs.
Thanks, it's definitely not for everyone, we all have our talents or jobs to do, it's what makes everything even out, makes the world go round so to say, but there is just something about getting behind that steering wheel, hearing that big diesel motor and listening to the turbo sing, just gives you a feeling, gets in your blood! Both my grandpa's drove big trucks and they always got us grandkids excited when we got to ride with them!
I used to haul cattle, but it became harder and harder for me taking them to the kill factories. It started really upsetting and wearing on me. It’s the dark side of this industry for sure.
Before I say my two cents... I am a beef lover. They're cute, they're alive, but they're also a valuable, reliable food source. I have no problems with raising cattle for slaughter; however, the loading of the cattle really added some weight of what it would be like to be rushed into a big, scary metal box only to stand uncomfortably for eight plus hours with no idea what or where you're going. Necessary, absolutely, but still felt a bit heavy to me. Kudos to you for doing the job.
Thanks for watching and I can understand what you are saying. Cattle are a herd animal and like to be together, so once they are together they typically calm down and ride pretty easy. They also don't think like a human and so reasoning or wondering where they are going, I'm not sure they think like that but who really knows, cattle like other animals that were put on earth for consumption usually only care about eating, drinking, and multiplying, I don't think they think too much about what may happen tomorrow if ya know what I mean, but I do try to have as much respect for the animal as possible and give them the best ride I can from point A to B!
First time viewer, Really enjoyed Ya vid, Thank Ya Sir ,!! Retired about a year ago drove off & on since 98 , kinda miss some of it , never hauled any cattle , although occasionally i'd unload around San Antonio, and reload in Devine Texas , cow manure , i'd always say mine was load of BS !! Keep up The Good Work !! Keep on Truckin Take Care ..God Bless
Thanks for taking a look, working on another video now. We all got to haul some part, whether its the live beef, beef in a box, or what the beef left behind! God bless you!
It didnt matter , long as I was rollin! Lol , until the wife asked why I only had a ten cent for running mile average. I had to stop rollin so much unless loaded.
Some reason this video popped up on my 70" screen. I had just watched that dope Grumpy Farmer. Okay video. I live near Fort Worth. Isn't it amazing you kinda followed the old cattle drivers trails.
Fine looking rig. Interesting to see the gates and ramps inside the trailer. What was your tare and gross weights? This is a great video for is retired truckers to get memories of the job that is in our blood. Nice job with the cattle and the camera.
I've got a video loading right now showing the gates and how they work from a different camera angle, check it out once it finishes loading Titled Miles and Miles of Texas - Hauling Heifers, and as far as weights go, we kinda keep that under our hats, the shippers tend to put as much on us as they can! 😜 thanks for the comments, I appreciate it!
Having traveled from the Milwaukee, WI area to El Paso many many times over the last few years I have seen so many cattle haulers with the lighted trailers. Is there a different weight limit you can haul with livestock versus the typical 80k lbs. for tractor trailer operators? The feed lots outside of Dalhart, Texas are pretty damn impressive. That smell........ the smell of MONEY.
"The smell of money" love it! Yes, there are some serious feedlots out there! Legal weight limits are the same, 80k, at least in Texas and most of the states I haul in, you can get overweight permits that will go up to 84k, but in Texas those permits are only good for some roads, no interstate driving, so you are still limited. I will tell ya this, to haul cattle you got to be a little bit outlaw!😁
I farm east of Dalhart around Dumas. The manure out of Cactus is great for my farm. The Paunch from JBS smells like more than money! I have used thousand of tons of manure out of Dumas and Cactus each year for the last 50 years. What a blessing to improve the land.
Been a trucker for 18 months... local. I was thinking of doing cattle hauling for JBS but my colleagues said it's too dangerous and complicated for a city driver..
It can definitely be dangerous, loading and unloading cattle has it challenges, some cattle just want to hurt you on purpose, others can hurt you on accident. Then hauling moving cargo has it's own challenges as well, it's almost like hauling liquid, someone pulls out in front of you or does a brake check all the cattle surge forward and its hard to stop. Hauling cattle is not for everyone, not saying you couldn't do it, but I would try and find a local guy you could do a few loads with and see how you like it first before jumping off in it.
I hear ya, my cargo walk on and walk off, but at the same time my cargo tries to hurt you real bad sometimes 😁 and when someone pulls out in front of ya or trys to brake check you, that same cargo surges forward like hauling unbaffled liquid, but still love doing it!
Used to haul them from Tennessee to Nebraska with a 89or 90 Kw with the 3408 it was one of the last kw with the dig cat's use to have one hell of a time 10/4😅
Thank you! I mostly haul cattle, I have hauled grain and fertilizer before when cattle hauling was slow, I have bought some other trailers to fix up for mainly personal use, hauling hay and road base etc.
Good old US83 we travel that way a couple of times a year how far is kismet from sublet next time you go by Bryan’s corner watch out for the troopers they like to hide at the post office just on the other side of Bryan’s corner. How come that store is not 24/7
The feedlot is about 20 minutes from Liberal. Yeah the DOT likes to hang out in Bryan's Corner from time to time and I wish the store was open all night, I'm always getting back there late, after hours!
39 years in big truck now retired only think I didn’t haul was cattle. Kinda scary with a CDL. You can’t run up those speeding tickets and other violations like the old days. Days of the Go-fast toothpicks and 3 log books are over sadly.
Thanks for your years behind the wheel! Hauling cattle is definitely different than most of the other trucking jobs and a lot different than it used to be! The buyers can sure run ya ragged at times and get as much out of each load as possible! There is still things that need to be changed, but I still love what I do! Have a blessed Easter Sunday!
Good old "Dr. Bells " it's a horse hop ( speed ) . Soak toothpicks in it for couple hours . 4 of them get you from "Wrinkle city" ( Jacksonville FL) to "Shakey "( L.A. CA) .
I hauled my calves to the sale every year in a 28' stock trailer.. I finally wised up and hired a truck, they hauled them in one load.. i can't haul them cheap as they do
I don't know, I'd haul a couple of loads a weekend till I got them gone.. Fuel ,tires, time was eating on me.. I could hire a truck for $700.00. Worth every dime@@G5OutdoorAdventures
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! There are some places that are harder to get to than others, but Google maps has most feed lots on them and if not you can call and get directions, same with loading, the contact I have for loading always sends a pin drop for the GPS on the location where we are loading if we haven't loaded there before.
also, awesome to hear from Canada, that's cool, I'm hoping to make the road trip to Alaska in the next couple years and travel the Alcan HWY, I hear it's beautiful!
@@ThatCloneSvt take a 600 mile run, that will pay $3120.00 gross, then you have to deduct fuel and if you don't have a back haul you have to figure fuel for about 1300 to 1400 miles depending on how far you had to drive to go get the cattle and how far you have to drive to get back home or to your next load and most of these trucks only get 4 to 5 miles a gallon, some less, so shave $1000 to $1200 off that gross pay, then you have to factor in commercial insurance which is really expensive, cargo insurance for the cattle, tires, oil changes, break downs etc, I love it, but it's a tough business to be in and I want to be honest, it can bank rupt you before you really get started if you run into some misfortunes with your equipment or can't get hooked up with an outfit that will keep you loaded. Hope this helps, if you have anymore questions just ask and I'll answer them best I can!
Everyone ask why I don’t go back to hauling cattle. My truck has to much torque would sit the girls on their but and get nose bleeds when I slide her in the big hole. Meow
Depending on how much "stuff" is in the trailer and how long it takes them to wash it out it's usually between $90 and $120, but one time I had to wait overnight and everything froze in the trailer and it cost $250!!!
There are a couple answers to this question, the most head count I've ever hauled is 130,they were calves, so I didn't break any weight records, the most most weight I've ever hauled was over 59,000 lbs, I don't remember how many head I had on, but that was pretty dang heavy!
Thanks for responding, I was just wondering, I know you can haul a lot of them on a semi trailer, I’m from North Carolina and we have some cows and calves on our farm here, thanks for the video!!!
Thank you for watching! It just all depends on the weight of the cattle on how many head you can haul, you just don't want too many that wouldn't let one get up if it decided to lay down for a rest!
Just wondering something with my encounters with cattle haulers, I'm a trucker and constantly get my doors blown off even at 70...why do they go so fast?? Some don't even give a courtesy wave...
That's a good question, I don't understand it myself, I try to stay at a good constant speed, most of the time just shy of the speed limit and keep the left door shut and I end up at the other end within minutes of the hammer down guys and sometimes get their before them and I'm always passing the fuel stops when they are pulling in and their asking me how I get so much better fuel mileage lol
