Jeff Tellefsen comes off of Porter creek near Bellingham Wa. 8-14-17 . Hauling for ZBW logging. Truck is a 99 Peterbilt with a 550 3406E model Cat motor.
Thanks for letting us hear the sound of the engine instead of crap music. Those of us who love machinery want to hear the damn machinery. Impressive driving.
Thanks for the great video, and a huge thanks for not ruining it with crappy background music. I don't know why some people are compelled to add annoying background music throughout their video.
To think....all the people who designed this truck....tires...bolts...welders. Its the man behind the wheel that makes this possible. Just an amazing act of courage and skill....all for a days wage.
It's not just the amazing thought of a 70,000 lb semi truck loaded with logs coming off that mountain down a steep narrow winding road. But having worked in logging, don't forget the men and machines that spent all that time busting that rock and pushing that dirt that build they road all the way up the side of that mountain. Having built roads like this I know about the risks and dangers and thrill of being on the side of a mountain riding on the edge pushing dirt and rock building a road where there wasn't one before. Great video guys great work by people who deserve more gratitude and thanks.
I use to haul cars from Houston to Seattle some years ago...and I knew that I saw the best truckers in the US coming down the mountains late nite in very bad winter weather... but you my friend...you are something else.. tip my hat to west log haulers
Carlos - I just did a round trip from Houston to Boise , ID to get a 1931 Ford Roadster with my F-250 and a single car hauler. I left the Houston area on Christmas day and from Albuquerque to Boise, through the mountain passes in Utah, more snow than I've ever seen in my life! Thank GOD for snow plows!!!! It was slow goin', white-knuckles all the way. I made it safely back home but I think I have PTSD from driving those icy, snow-covered mountain roads - it scared me to death. I can only imagine what stories you could tell about driving in those conditions to Seattle.
@@BigTex347 kkkkk im an old semi retired now...and I dont go west ever anymore... all I do now is GA TX MN WI OH ...that's it..my next and final stop will be Boca Raton Fla. and say good bye to trucking....I loved and hated every mile...but my days are almost over...still think that the good old north western truck drivers are the best I ever met...
Them Swift guys would screw up right on the spot and kill themselves because Swift is full of screw-ups! They couldn’t drive up or down these logging roads because they can’t even drive on the highways without damaging their truck and trailer because them Swift instructors don’t even train their drivers well! Look on RU-vid and you’ll see Swift in a lot of these trucking fail compilation videos. Same thing with Schneider!
I watched this 5 times. I'm a physician but I'm fascinated by all facets of driving. Particularly truck driving. I tell my family I want to truck and they look at me as though I lost my mind.
I mean I still am. That money isn’t going to the guy pulling shit, it’s going to corporate pockets that sit on their ass all day thinking of how to fuck the little man out of money
Jacob Jones it's called capitalism. I'm sure the guy driving the truck is getting paid. No one is forcing him to drive the rig. You should be glad the guy you think sits on his ass all day is able to do business cause bet the guy driving the truck is. Your way of thinking is a lot of what's wrong with this country these days. You probably think your one of the little guys and if you are it's because your lazy and probably spend more time trying to get your money off someone else's hard work. Bet you vote Democrat too
Some people are proud to do a good days work for a paycheck. Just saying. You complain more than the guy doing the work. Sad people like you feel the way you do. Quit being negative. Just spreads bad shit down the line.
Nope. Notta. Nyet! 34 yrs, 5 million miles, coast to coast, border to border(and still driving) I thought coming down Lewiston grade in the winter grossing 80k with a load of wheat was something. Not compared to this! Driver...I salute you!
It's Raid_ Bitchez Long-haul for 7yrs. Oilfield for 4yrs. Logging for 5yrs. Local P&D for the last 4yrs. I’ve driven more miles in reverse than you’ve gone straight.
Matthewloa sorry, don't have a measurement but I'm gonna guess it's bout 30 ft. We pack short logs, 3 bundles up to 20 ft per bundle .trailer is pulled by a hitch ,not fifth wheel. Weights are 140,000 lbs or 63 500kg legal highway weights. You can probably find vids of these units on yt. Canadian log trucks.
i haul wood in Florida. mostly double bunk pine or hard wood. 48 ft trailer with 5ft overhang allowance. due to softer soil down here we're only permitted for 88k lbs but we haul up to 110k lbs. i tip my hat to you driva cause this isnt for a rookie driver at all.
Brings back fond memories . You almost make it look like a walk in the park. Slow and easy gets you down in one piece . Darn , I miss my logging truck.
Thats kinda the easiest part. Skidders are fairly light compared to this truck. Plus this engine is more likely to 'run away' than a little skidder. Plus its like 20 to 30 foot longer.
Hell yeah. Working for a company that only builds logging roads I can tell you it's way. More dangerous building the. Then driving on the finish product
There are a lot of "truckers" who drive the open interstate system doing 125,000 plus miles a year. You have my respect as to the skill it takes to drive on these goat paths.
Holy crap I love trucks and I love scenery but that friggin drop off and the road width just shows you what these people risk everyday of the week. To the drivers...I salute you...
AWESOME VIDEO. So much reminded me of my late 20’s when hauling logs in BC Canada. It was in the early 1970’s as I am now in my 70’s. Still trucking and love it. Absolutely LOVE IT. (And YES, the road builders are skilled beyond compare!)
@@stevebell4906you have it exactly backwards.....the liberals ARE the whiny people. Conservatives work and do useful things and make the world function. Look where the liberals are ‘employed’......usually some touchy feely soft environment where very little useful productivity occurs. If all the Conservatives disappeared in a twinkling, liberals would immediately be in chaos.
@@raycoleman3183 I've a dem and proud of it and oh, by the way, I've worked at a steel mill for 33 years and counting, nothing touchy feely about that bro! Wow.....
@@deanteasdale6252 You come from the Old School Democrats…..that was my family background! Working class conservative Democrats. Nothing wrong with that clan. It is the New Liberals, the Progressives, that are the PITA and give Old School Dems like yourself a bad image. Sort of like the far Right Wing taints ‘Conservatives’. There really are at least four Party identities, two (or more) under each major party umbrella. Difficult to get a consensus on anything. Just voting by Party affiliation these days is a disaster. A voter must do their homework and vote for the Candidates best aligned with one’s values. Happy New Year!
Folks this is "A Professional Driver." A True Master of Skill. My hat is off to you Sir. My Late husband and I had owned a Two truck flatbed operation in Pflugerville, Tx. I most always rode along with him. He began his career hauling Tetri something Nitro something, I believe he said it was Liquid Fertilizer that was very explosive. I have yet to see anyone with the Driving Skill and Finesse he had. A very meticulous and aware Driver. You also posses these skills. Thank you for your professionalism.
Kim Guyda Pflugerville Texas is a good place it defiantly grown my business is expanding in Pflugerville,North Austin, round Rock and cedar Park. Tree trimming, junk haul off, small demo, privacy fences, furniture moves, carpet, painting and other services if you're still in the area you will here about me (Helping Hands Of Texas)
I worked for a man who did logging in the Northwest back in the 70’s (now resides in the Southeast), he said that back then if the truck even hiccuped a bit, stuttered, slipped a wheel, etc. it was your doom. He then went on to tell me that he wouldn’t trade the experience behind the wheel for anything. Great driving, really great driving. 👌🏻
That's pigeon shit if you aren't a good driver u may feel that you need balls but a great driver would see how easy it is just stay as close to the left as possible and you'll be aight
I remember as a kid riding with my stepdad hauling logs on the Olympic Peninsula and being terrified as I looked out the passenger window straight down. Seemed like a miles long fall to a six year old! He drove a Kenworth.
Great video,very brave guys, awesome terrain. Truck driving excellent,all under control,at all times. Was surprised by the steepness of the goat track. Top man .
Love them 12' wide roads with the iffy outer edges. When I was doing it we didn't have power steering though, and only the top 2 seniority trucks had Cats with retarders. Nice trip down memory lane, hand. BTW, I think if some of these negative commenters ever looked over the end of a hood at the top of a 25-30% grade with that Forest Service required outer camber, they'd never get the nerve up to release the brakes and call out "Leavin' the shovel"! The camera don't do it justice... Be safe.
The title had me thinking that the logger was going to crash over the cliff but when I got to the end of the video I realized he's coming down from the cliff LOL
Have driven my 4x4 pickup on a few roads like this in the Kootenay area of BC. Shake my head in amazement when I can see tire track going off the road on the inside of a hairpin so just the inner tire is on the road. Nuckin futs!
I am a 26 yr veteran firefighter/paramedic and everyone is you guys are such heroes, blah blah blah. It's a job I love and the career I have chosen and if you want to call heroic that's your prerogative but from my eyes there are so many unsung heroes risking their live daily too provide the quality of life we all enjoy. This video demonstrations, as I see it, a hero doing his job. That take a lot of balls and I don't think I could do it!!!! Great job driver....... Unreal
My lord I mean yeah he's got guts. I'm not sure you understand the meaning of a hero though. Soldiers dying on the battlefield for your freedom that's a fucking hero. Guy driving down a mountain like that with a logging truck is impressive though
rustytr - "I WAS becoming a fire fighter." Sounds to me like you're pissy because you didn't make it. I agree with some of what you said, but I have a feeling saying First Responders and Military aren't heroes is going to be a very unpopular opinion.
sreggiN kcuF - I can’t speak for other places in the world, but America has a distinct fixation with “hero” worship, stemming from vanity and self-righteousness. The quickest way to become a hometown hero is to do a stint in the military. Then your whole family can roll around with bumper stickers proclaiming “My Nephew is a Marine” or “Navy Wife” etc. So they can harp about sacrifice and think *they’re* heros too in by association. A soldier dying on the battlefield is an unlucky stiff who rolled the dice and lost. Nobody gets deployed to war knowing they won’t come home, it’s a gamble. Actually the military is a pretty cushy gig for the most part. Police, firefighters, EMS, military, it’s all just a job man. People do it for their own satisfaction, not for being selfless - which they definitely aren’t.
@@104bigTruck I run a dump bucket some an to me it don't compair to coming off a mountain that heavy sure appreciated you sharing that be safe out that cant wait to see another
OMG, I wouldn't feel comfortable driving my 1/2 ton on that "road", amazing driving! Unbelievable amount of blasting, that must have been hairy for the drilling rigs on those native side hills.
Dude, you're an excellent conductor ... you know when to play the drums and when to help Jake's saxophones, making the orchestra arrive safely at the end of the hill! Congratulations !
My father used to haul logs here in eastern Ky. No hills as big as these but boy were they steep. I remember my first time going with him and being nervous when looking waaay down to the bottom, he joked with me and said "Don't worry about going over the side..cause if we do, we'll starve to death before we ever hit bottom".
That brought back memories! Hauled logs in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington and Oregon. Drove a Pete and later one of the first T800 KW's. Took a lot of flack about the "ant eater" but sure could see the woods roads better! I pulled a pup the last several years. Good to see a truck with stake extensions! We used gun barrels. Heavy!
Nat Calverley the thought came to me that you might not be so "cavalier" if you were the one driving that loaded log truck on those hair pin curves around cliff drop-offs. LOL (I Just wanted to use what I thought was your name, nothing personal.)
@@xxxtexanpa I have run Hayes HDX and P16 Pacific on the B.C. Coast running up to 25 % grades water cooled brake and up ton 100 ton loads for a good part of my life and I am 59 years old . I also have run up to 10 axle low beds all over B.C. Trust me I know what steep grades and cliffs are all about. Running stump to dump off highway log trucks what you see there is done every day 12 hours a day and is just part of the job. It might be impressive to people that don’t do the job but to those of us that do the work it becomes routine.
@@natcalverley4344 I thought you were speaking from an amateurs viewpoint but now I understand how you can make such a remark. I know it's not all luck, it takes skill and guts. That definitely leaves me out. Thanks for the feedback Nat. You're old enough to retire and not take any more chances and just enjoy life. Have a nice day and a Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Truck drivers are pretty damn amazing. When I was on my first long trip on my own and driving through the night, the truckers would flash their lights when I would pass them so i would know when I could turn back into their lane ahead of them-- I was driving a Honda Accord, and they usually only do that for other trucks. Not sure why they did it, but as a young driver, I appreciated it. Another time (still very young), I fell asleep while driving (daytime) and I thought I dreamed that I saw a kid in the middle of the fwy, so I swerved, the trucker next to me must have been keeping an eye on me because he swerved too and avoided a collision. I pulled over at the next exist and got some much needed rest, and I was grateful to that driver.
Man oh man… hats off to this driver and all the mountain truckers! Those blind corners soaring out to empty space around the cliff - that would freak me out. And my eyes couldn't help but focus on those places where loose scree seemed to be holding the roadbed together.
@@jimgordon2399 that's what I mean. I've seen logs slide right thru the cab. No matter how good of a strap down job, if that much weight decides to shift, nothing going to stop it.
this is how life works for us. you are raised doing this as a young person and then it is just you later. not realizing the danger of it all. I drove every kind of rig that ever been made and you have one on me. great job,fool.lol they call you clickbait. you call them candyass crybabys pulling each others kingpins. they only winners are the big money guys sitting at home. rock on big guy you win
Awesome Jeff. Great to see you're following in your dad Johnny's footsteps and more. I see your trucks all over. Your dad gave me a job washing his truck when you were just a toddler in strandell and I was 10...The old Maroon log truck. Can't remember if it was a KW or Pete...great memories...
@@104bigTruck The area coming off blue mountain and up the switchbacks on the road to Dailey Prairie along Skookum Creek canyon is quite cliffy too. Gives me the heebie geebies anymore on that drive.
Wow, I saw this vid before that movie. Then I saw the movie. Never made rhe connection that it was the same red Pete! Thanks for the vid. Nice driving btw!
I drove a road just like this in California. 7000 ft above sea level. A few turns required a multipoint turn. Pucker factor 1000! Going up wasn't so bad, a little sweaty. Going down, I could see the potential fall off the side. I'm good. Don't need to do that again.
Thanks for the comments everyone. I Simply and quickly made a title Peterbilt comes off a cliff meaning I just drove down a pretty impressive rd. Sorry if any of you guys felt baited. I was hoping to just share my day with everyone .
104bigTruck, greeting from down under. Mate, that looks challenging, I'd like to have a go at that just for the experience. I've had experienced quite a bit in a truck, but I believe there is still so much more try, that won't happen though as I fell off the back of a truck a few years ago and damaged my spine. Keep those wheels turning and drive safe
104bigTruck ... Sir you scart pee pee out of me! My only wish is if you could mount go pros on back side of your trailer. I get nerve wracked just trying to negotiate a poorly paved windy county road in my one ton dually pulling a 16 foot car hauler behind... its tough not banging my trailer fender into some fricking rock sticking out
That's okay. I wasn't going to ride it all the way to the bottom with you anyway. I'd pause it at the part where the tractor catches air and you start screaming. Then I'd skip ahead to the last 30 seconds to see if you made it. (you didn't...) .
The dislikes are from the people that object to logging and have no true understanding of what they are arguing against. As a forest manager from Arkansas we don't have "hills" like this and I would dare say that very, very few of our drivers could make this haul successfully. Well done sir, and as stated by others, thanks for not putting music over the video. Log on brother
Good memories. Thanks for posting. I drove off road logging. Typical summer road and then look forward to winter roads. Pushed up with Dozer, load up and slide down. Always a challenge but was fun.
I used to drive log truck. We would come down grades like that in East Lewis County and St Helen's country. The only difference was, My truck was a 62 KW narrow nose, 5X4, 335 Cummins and 2 speed Eaton's with walking beams for suspension. Ol for the good old days....Not! I'd take one of these sharp turning, high horsepower, 18 speed, air conditioned, air ride logger chassis over them old bastards any day! Lol
Offgrid Cabin I'm sure we crossed paths once or quite a few times. I live in that area too. Last log truck I drove had a C-15, 18 speed and Pete air ride. Way nicer than the old trucks, but I do still like to see them for nostalgia's sake.
I was looking for video of trucks driving up stairs and found this. I train sled dogs close to hear (off Middle Fork Rd) and can see this timber contract from my parents’ place outside Sedro! Too cool.
There is a truck driver me, driving in the city and acting like I'm all that and then there a trucker like this guy with a massive balls driving on this road.
7 axles, snow & ice, 2 sets of triples at least, then we’re trucking! I see this truck and trailer set up as five axles in the summer. Up here in the north, we call that trucking as boring. No excitement as of yet. But throw in the aforementioned information, OK then we have trucking! All in all though, it does bring back some pretty fond memories of the good old days. If you want to add a little bit of pucker power to your winter time trucking, hearing the clunk clunk as the axles are locking up with two sets will do it.
Wow! That road was so narrow, most people would have been freaked out to drive a large SUV down that thing. This guy did it in a semi truck with a full load of logs. Incredible. How much money is the driver making? I hope he's making a lot because no matter how good of a driver you are, this is a VERY dangerous line of work.
Back in the day before engine brakes, log trucks in this area had water cooled brakes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fLatEK6im9A.html
Aah hell all ya gotta do before lunch on the final load is wrap your food in tin foil, duct tape it to the inside of the hood above the engine, take your final load, and eat while you drive back to the load site
Brings back the memory of my BC logging days. Now imagine this same road in early spring, tridem truck and tridem trailer. Lots of chains, and adrenaline. God it was fun. Rookie until you crash your first time, then you become a log truck driver if you survive and have the balls to get back in another truck and go up the mountain again. Been there done that. Good times.😁
I love trees, but I also liked watching this insanity. I think this driver clearly has nerves of steel and has been doing this kind of work for quite a while now! It is possible to appreciate and respect the things that are literally crucial for our survival (seen Mars lately?) AND be blown away by the talent of those dedicated enough to spend years learning their craft and honing their skills...and we can also appreciate laws like the one about cause and effect as we watch the mudslides and natural disasters continue to increase and intensify, and I'd put big money on the fact that the ceo's don't live at the bottom of that hill! 😆
Some of the best things about being a flatlander, I didn't have to build that goat path , I don't have to drive that goat path and I don't have to share roads with people who drive that goat path! Well done! My hat is off to any involved with that adventure!!!
The people who disliked this video don’t know how to appreciate a very skilled and professional truck driver. My hat is off to you Sir, I got anxiety watching you go around those turns and steep drops yet you just kept you’re cool. I applaud you and every other skilled truck driver who do this daily.
Aravindh Shankar . This fellas isn’t a trucker! He’s a steering wheel holding gear changing big nuts windshield wiper watching badass with ice in his veins! #CLASSA
