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My hats off to your driving skills. Having grown up on a dairy farm and having to learn to back up a tractor, forage harvester, and a four-wheel forage (hay) wagon, that is nothing compared to your backing up under this load.
I'd rather back up Doug's trailerssss on nice hard surface than backing a tractor, forage harvester, and a four-wheel forage side dump wagon or gravity wagon in the mud, offset wheels and short hitch. I'd like to see Doug try that
I've been with you from close to when you first started with your channel. Keep up your great content Doug and thank you for your hard work with setting up cameras and with editing. This is the work most watchers have no idea how time consuming it can be.
Good evening Sir, i came from Mirko the German Guy from Canada ( speaks German all the Times, i been watching him over 2 Years) Your Chanel seen on RU-vid.
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 ....don't sell yourself short, Doug....your videos are great, it's just the sound that occasionally throws monkey-wrenches into the best laid-out plans. Comes with the territory.
Hell of a good job Doug. As soon as I saw the crane approaching the job sight, I said it's a Grove. Who ever plans the routes never drove a oversize load trucks. Traffic circles are not designed for tractor trailer trucks.
About 29 years ago I was om I80 in Pa, and saw a rig like yours. It was an awesome thing to see and I tried to google it to see what I could find out. When I saw your RU-vid channel you made my day. .
Congratulations on 20,000 subscribers and I’m glad to be one of them such awesome videos of my favourite job of doing heavy haulage down here in australia so wishing you safe miles cheers from Tim in queensland australia
Those pilot car drivers are a vibe man. New subscriber and love the content, I want to own my own trucking company one day with dry van, reefer, heavy haul, flat bed, and even cattle hauling. Keep up the vids brotha!
Beautiful job Douglas. The museum at Wright Petterson is amazing. Glad you had a chance to check it out! Congratulations on getting married man. Hope you last as long as I have. Fifty years and counting! LOL
Fifty years is something at this day and age! Thank you 😊 and the museum is really great. I was never personally in the military but I’ve read a lot of the stories and it’s something to be standing beside machines that changed history. Gives me goosebumps
I hope you enjoyed the Air Force Museum in Dayton. I live not far from it and pass is quite often. I've enjoyed your channel for some time as I'm fascinated by what these big tractor trailer units can accomplish at the hands of a well seasoned individual like yourself. Thank you for sharing your videos. They're great!
The museum is great. I’m kind of a history nut and I love the stories behind a lot of the pieces they have there. Standing beside machines that changed history is really something!
Congrats Doug and keep up the great videos you do. If you ever want to stop doing heavy hall then you should become a truck driver trainer and teach new drivers how to back even a 30 foot van trailer
I spent August - December in Columbus, Ohio. I spent 6 days at the US Air Force museum (3 weekends). I'm pretty sure I missed something though. Great video, as always :-) Thanks
Parabéns excelente vídeo e profissional, comecei a seguir o canal neste mês. Esses caminhões são muito bons, continue com os vídeos cada vez mais. Grande abraço e assistindo daqui do Brasil.
@Allemoc....greetings right back to you from an expat since 1969, from Zug. Now living in Prince Edward Island, the smallest province of Canada on its east coast.
@aderbalmatias739....sorry, but ATS' AI could never replicate this professional backing-up quality performed by real-life Doug. You see, it takes the "6th sense" to maneuver this way....something which cannot be comprehended by AI (or programmed by their masters who have never learned it themselves at the wheel of such heavy haul equipment for many 100,000 miles). Take this comment from someone with in excess of 5.5 milliom accident-free kms since 1974, over half of which by transport trucks and heavy equipment.
@@andrep8287 Please, read my comment again... ATS has a special cargo event, but it's just a game itself. It's fantastic, but not complete. The TRUE AND DANGEROUS work is made by people like Doug, that's what i said 👍
Hi Douglas - congrats on your engagement- will she ci-drive with you eventually??? It would have been interesting to see how you prepared the trailer for backing up… Keep on trucking!!!
Hey Doug !!! Hope you enjoyed your ""VAC. "" in Costa Rica & OH. !!! 😂🙂🙃😉😊👍👍👍👍👍 Won't be going to the "Baltimore "" Port in the near future as you well know what happened there last Tue. !!! 🤔🙄😵
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 Well,, Be prepared for blocked roads as President Biden to be there on Tues or Wed .. You will get to see the DISASTER close up,,,, NO Drone flying allowed !!!!!
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 Well,,, Be prepared for blocked roads as President Biden to be there Tue or Wed !!!!!! You will get to see the Disaster close up !!!!!!!! NO drone flying ALLOWED !!!!!
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 Well !! Look out for road closers as the President is to be there today or wed !! Nice that there is freight left for you to take back home !! 😆🤔
Not a big fan of automatic gearboxes, but your truck seems to handle the heavy loads well.i know you can knock a gear up or back or two but I still like the stick to let me know what's good or bad as always have a safe one, From NZ
You mentioned that you were going to “set up the trailer to back up". What, exactly, do you have to do? You videos are very well done and very informative. Thanks for posting them.
Do customers need to pay an added charge for days you just sit and wait? Seems like it would be tough to make money when you can't keep your gear in the road making miles/kilometers.
I got a load to go get in Ontario this week 60ft long québec I'll need everything on I was told d sine flags lights hole thing I'll put it with a 4ft off the back about 4 up front
Thanks for another great vlog, Doug. Question: do you actually have access use the "rear-view center camera" while driving, or is it only available to view once uploaded to your laptop? Also, do you use only GoPro or also the Insta360 cameras? Keep up the great work. Take care. André (The Road-Scholar, PEI)
Yes both GoPro and Insta360. There is a new model the X4 just released and I think I’m going to have to break my piggy bank! I do have a wireless backup camera that I have used mostly with the wind towers. You can see the video display in some of my wind tower videos
always some idiot comming out a parking lot, doesn't realize that he didn't gain much, and if there would have been a law enforcement there, could have gotten stopped.
We can always unpin the trailer if needed. With wind towers and beam girders we block up the front of the load so that the weight isn’t entirely on the jeep when unpinned.
Can you add subtitles to your videos for the hard of hearing we to like your videos but sometimes can’t hear your instructions to your escort drivers and the information you give out for the upcoming job thanks 🙏
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 Thanks for the information. One other question if you have time to respond. When it comes to pilot vehicle services, what are the three (3) most important qualifications, experience, and/or other factors that you look for?
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 Again, thanks for the reply. Admittedly, I am surprised since those competencies should go without saying for that service to be provided. Enjoy your videos very much, have learned a great deal from them, and an understanding of the challenges that oversized load drivers must deal with daily.
We still need to empty out the stock that was already on the dock. I’m actually headed there this week. It will be interesting to see if they start brining this equipment into different ports. The are ships already loaded and in transit. The economy will keep moving they just need to find a way around Baltimore.
Hey Doug, does the company send you to training for learning how to back-up a trailer with multiple swing points , or do they throw you to the wolves ?.
@luckybananaheavyhaul3407.... I think you're being a bit harsh with your bosses. I doubt that they would allow just about any greenhorns to operate their heavy-haul equipment and say "debrouille-toi!" (cope with it) 😂🤣😅
Whats the point of driving 5Mph over the bridge? Does this bridge don't hold your weight or what? Thats an interesting crane never saw a crane with a trailer
@Jens.M....as @Taid44 explained below, many bridges and overpasses are way past their "best-before dates" all across the North American continent (i.e. USA & Canada). Thus, the jurisdiction's engineers will prescribe where overweight loads must either reduce the speed to 5 mph (8 km/h) or "center-line" a bridge/overpass, which means straddling two lanes to spread the weight. Sometimes the Permits will also specify that no gear-shifting may occur while crossing such "crumbling" structures...and this again in order to reduce the vibration and shaking. Note: If such speed-limits are imposed, the Permits may also demand that "State-Police Escorts" are required (especially on Interstates), which must be booked at least 48 business-hours in advance. (and, heaven forbid, you forget to order such escorts).
@Haan-o_o Both. The DOT has issues with foreign licensed trucks and equipment doing domestic work and customs / immigration has issues with foreign people working without proper work visas and I have heard of visas being issued in special cases for truck drivers but this is not common.
@lucasdobson5957....While Bellemare Transport has different terminals in Québec, their heavy-haul division is based in Trois-Rivières. That transformer in the video was picked-up in St.Jean-sur-Richelieu, and if I'm not mistaken very close to the Tremcar Tanker trailer plant (I frequently used to pick-up new B-Trains (RTAC version) for delivery to Western Canada....so the video pick-up area reminded me of those days many moons ago).
Hi Doug(?) - another great video and picture of calmness in the face of adversity. Speaking of calmness, meet Aussie hauler Shane - runs his own RU-vid channel and is a constant source of entertainment (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LgDoSHQltoU.html).
