HEAVY DUTY TRUCK/RV WITH SOLAR 😎 // BOONDOCK RV // Big Rig RV 

That is one hell of a HDT, I wish I was younger and had the money.🤩

I’ve been sitting here with my mouth open throughout the whole video. What an amazing job. You would think he’s an engineer skilled in multiple disciplines.

He reminds my of my Dad who didn't have a high school education but was a really smart guy. I'm not implying tis guy's educational level; the point is what he's put together comes from a lot of common sense and intelligence. I'm very impressed with everything he did. Add in a DRV fifth-wheel and that tells you a lot about this guy.

Sooo cool! wish we could see what he's got rigged up inside that RV!!! Thanks for the review :)

Fantastic design! This gentleman has thought his systems all the way through!!! Great Alpaca for sure! 👍💯💪

Fire truck technology incorporated nicely in this rig!

WOW Roger would be the ultimate boondocking friend! He is READY for anything!

I met Roger at the RV Super Show in Tampa this past January. Great guy. Yes, he knows his stuff for sure. Impressive HDT setup. Nothing like it.

NASA called. They want their shuttle hauler back.

As a Long distance Truck driver I am on the same page with everything he’s saying! That’s why I’m converting my Kenworth to do the same thing next year.

Just freaking awesome! A ton of great ideas on that rig. Thank you for the video.

Everybody: You can't go there Old man: You can only go where your imagination takes you 💯🎯

This guy is my new superhero.

This was the most stunning shit I’ve ever seen. My mouth didn’t close until after the video ended. 3800 watts of solar, 8k inverters, over 200 gallons of fresh water...........that’s just scratching the service of this infinity boondocking beast. New to the channel and after a few videos I’m just amazed and so happy I found your channel. You and your wife are so down to earth. I need to finish up my masters before I hit the road and see the country we call home and I’d love to meet you both in a few years. Such an amazing community you all have built and willingly share. Stay safe and blessings~

The only thing I would do differently is to put the inverters on the sides so the storage would be more accessible. Awesome build though!

This guy is awesome, he has really thought things through!

That was incredible. Truly inspiring. I got my solar started too.

After watching only a few different videos about HDT RV haulers this truck is what I want!

Very impressive!! Thanks for showing us this HDT set up.

I can have a shelf and a shelf any where I want It.... Think this Southern Gentlemen is impressed with himself and all his toys...

I'm a truck driver. I've paid for some engine rebuilds, transmission replacements, maintenance etc on my trucks. I'm here to tell you if you have a pre emission rig (2007 or older) it will be a heck of a lot cheaper to maintain and operate one of these trucks vs a newer pickup truck. They are built to last! You will even get comparable fuel mileage. 👍 I also used one to pull my 36ft double slide toy hauler. Seriously, I find myself checking my mirrors constantly to see if it's still hooked to my truck. My one ton? Oh yeah, I new it was there. You can go up and down the steepest longest hills at highway speeds , stop better and see better too.

Hey Jim between you and Roger you guys can light up Times Square . 😂 you guys are inspiring me !!!

Damn dude built this truck right

That’s a sweet rig. Well thought out

What a small world. I met Roger when we were both broken down in Tucumcari NM. I was pulling my new ATC toy hauler back from Florida to Ca. and we met at John's truck repair. Pray you don't have to go there because the bill was outrageous for a simple manifold replacement. He is a character and I hope we meet again. I just converted my 2007 Freightliner Columbia with 58k miles, so I feel much safer than with my dually. I found out the hard way when I saw a red light too late and even with the trailer brake gain on 10 with no load I rolled right through that red light. Never again with my Columbia which is rated to haul 80k lbs.

I'm not easily impressed. I'm in awe! I want to meet you Roger!

WoW, what a set up

Wow. That guy has it going on. "And I find that adequate" LIKE A BOSS!!!!

Hmm that gives me some ideas on future solar project... Im a travel nurse and about a year ago watts on wheels convinced me to buy an HDT running into them in Yuma, AZ, so i bought one with the intentions of turning it into the RV hauler, here i am a year later and im still using it as my sleeping location, because its just so dang affordable while i shop for the RV i want.. Ive done 4 contracts so far this past year living out of the sleeper cab on the road in the truck. I picked up a 2014 Peterbilt w/389k for 17k and had it converted to Motorhome title. Ive been using the APU on the truck for cooling and heating, but i installed a small solar system on the truck also so i can run the a/c straight off the inverter and batteries via the flip of a switch, but I wired the charging side of the APU to the solar batteries and off the semi-truck batteries, so it will auto-start to charge the batteries when the voltage on them drops to low. Im very happy with the truck, its just saved me so much money since purchasing it, before buying the HDT, i rented a single bedroom furnished apartment while on assignment and it would be $2500+/month and had a Ram 2500 Hemi pickup that got 15ish mpg. The HDT, the insurance is much cheaper than my Ram 2500 was a year and the cost to drive the HDT seems like its more expensive to drive only getting 10-13mpg not pulling a trailer, but i picked up a bulk diesel fuel savings account with tsdlogistics and i spent less now drivng the HDT than it cost in gas to drive my ram 2500 i had previously. I have stopped in for diesel and got as much as $0.80/gal off the price on diesel fillups with the discount program, my last fillup after the savings I got diesel for $1.83/gal. Typically i setup my work shifts so i work my 3-4 shifts in a row and i just park in the back of the hospital employee parking and so far at all 4 hospitals, noone has asked me to leave after staying parked for 3-4 days before leaving, then ill drive down to a nice park that i can park at for a few days to a week before returning back to work. Its just been a blessing really on all the money its saved me this past year traveling the country.

I loved seeing the ultimate boondocking set up

Impressive, thanks for sharing.

Roger, you have an amazing truck. Thanks for showing it.

Awesome build! You have the knowledge to make it right. Thank you for sharing!

It’s great to be in America today!!!

Anybody who has a KC Chiefs sign on his truck can't be a bad guy :)

How could someone dislike this video?

Diff locks and power divider lock, and that truck will go LOTS of places. Great work. Cheers

That is such an awesome rig! Great interview and great video. 👍😎

Thanks for doing this interview. Rodger has done an amazing job designing and building his truck. I’m building one now and the advanced planning is so important. I too look forward to the day when I am able to hit the road.

Thanks for sharing awesome awesome HDT/RV hauling setup wow loved it thanks

As I mentioned in my last comment I just found this channel tonight. I know absolutely nothing about HDT's other than the fact that I have occasionally seen trucks similar riding down that highway And I always wanted to see the inside of one. Y'all seem like great people and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos and getting to know y'all a bit. God bless and y'all stay safe,😊

Oh man thank you so much. I have so many Ideas for our rig once we get it. I hope you welcome us to the HDT RV community. We are on a mission to find one of the next renewable energy sources. We are getting our RV soon and I am shopping for our HDT. We hope to be traveling on country and beyond in the next 2 years. Thank you. 😌🖖

He got that truck and built it to his liking and the cost was cheaper than a new one ton truck so why not. ✌🏽

Wow! What an awesome set up he has!! Thanks for sharing!!

WOW!

That was incredible. Congrats!

From SURPRISE, AZ - Definitely the ultimate boondocking machine! Amazing setup.

I just love this dude

Wow! Impressive set up. What a great interview.

Do more of these videos. I have an HDT but it's nothing like that. I do have a smart car setup on it but wow, that there was inspiring!

Wow. 50 knuckleheads thumbs down? This rig is awesome and pretty damn close to what I have in mind myself.

Wow the is a awesome truck...well thought out and executed!

Right answer"why not"

WOW! What a setup Roger has..and, to think he designed most of it! Absolutely amazing! There's just one thing that makes me very curious: I've often seen the cars riding on back of the trucks ['large cars' as we called them in the trucking industry!] and always wondered what keeps one from driving off the truck deck on the other side of the truck? That's one reason I would never become a automobile hauler when I was trucking for 38 years cross country! I was always afraid of the brakes going out and here I am driving off the front of the trailer on the top deck like Evil Keneval only smashing onto the hood of the truck! Scary thought.... that and I'm afraid of heights stopped me also! LOL. Great video, Jim! I am so happy I found your channel! Stay safe, be happy, love God, and, I'll see y'all in the next video! I'm ending my comment right here👇

Doing it right, nice build. I wonder how many nights he woke up with a new idea for his build.

I think we need an update video on this guy…..need to see what he’s done in the past 3 years.

thanks for the explanations... Definitely didn't know what a Drawbox was. Great presentation.

I've got 1.3 million miles on 2009 Cascadia and my goal is 2 million miles. I use my commercially.

Wow!!!

Very interesting some great points, thank you for posting.

Thinking of the car loader like that. But will use an airbag in place of the cylinder. Have air and the bag will do the same job. Seen the pic of this truck on the board a lot. But first time seeing whats on it. Nice!

Fantastic

Great setup.. 😍😍😍😍

Great interview and what a genius ideas.

Nice...!!!!!.

Oh! and the amazing Roger is a Chiefs fan... Winner winner. Love this guy...

Damn impressive setup...

Wow that is one heck of a unit you got there awesome

Makes perfect sense, doesn’t wear the tractor out, I’d love to do that where do I apply ?

Love this setup. He's picked the right team too. Go Chiefs 👍

Great looking setup!

Nice

Oh cool, shelves!

OVERKILL is what I call it ...

Drom. Short for dromedary. A dromedary stores extra supplies, water and fat, in the hump or humps on its back.

We started spec’ing the roll up doors on fire trucks after having several doors tore off when an apparatus pulled out of the station after somebody forgot to close them … take heed of my experience when I say, make sure your cabinet items are secure … getting the doors up with items jammed up against them from the back side make if difficult to get the doors to roll up

Awesome info. Huge rig!

Nice rig. I want one 😎🇦🇺👍👌

its a CA 125 because. It was built for the California market with a front of bumper to the Back of cab of 125”.

Jim said in another video about the fact that the hdt weighs more than the trailer. If you have a dually which does not weigh more than the trailer, if you stop that trailer is still back there behind you coming at you. When you stop with an hdt it weighs more than the trailer and that trailer will stop. I was impressed! He has this rig set up nice! 😎

that's so cool

Dude has got a shiny dime into that rig.

How many times have you seen a 1 ton pickup pulling a trailer that's too big for it? You can buy a semi like this for about 15k (just the truck, not all the extras) and never be in danger of losing control. I've got an old 96 Walmart Cabover (700k original miles for 4$,000) with 25 feet of frame that will be great for this. I can't wait to start building it out.

This man beat me too it

Nice set up !

Ca125 is the 125” bbc model. They also make a ca113 which has a shorter hood.

i really love this, the type when you say. there is something I would love to build. perhaps I might :)

I’m have Popup truck camper with the same magnum inverter with solar panels. Never knew you could build a solar setup that could run 1 much less 2 AC’s. This is a eye opener for me. I’ve trying to decide if I want to build a crawler hauler RV. I own a 53’ lowboy trailer all I need it a truck. Thinking about driving Jeep in the back and the rest living quarters. For those who say a waste of money have no clue how reasonable you can build this. We Boondock 100 percent of the time. Only issue is being sure of where your going to camp. I need his number as well.

Holy 🐄 What a imagination

That was the best video you have done to date. Wow does that guy have a list of places he is going I want to park next to him and plug in. Very nice 👍

This is badass. At my old job most of the trailer brakes didn't work out of like 30 trailers. Piece of crap company. One day I might be able to afford a custom sleeper.

I seen this truck at little America in Wyoming.

cool for him, i 'd have very different choices

Amazing cool setup! Did he design that all himself? Who would you even consult to help you with that?

I could do well just with the Cascadia as an RV. Good size sleeper.

that rig costs more, than I've made in 3 of lifetimes 🤔 it's incredible though 🤘🏽

Does anyone know if Rogers trucks amenities are listed out on paper? You can tell this gentleman’s mind doesn’t stop. Awesome truck!

FEMA: Rogers's gonna rescue you.

I would like to see a tour of his DRV. I noticed its an Elite Suite too.

We have very different definitions of boondocking.