@@chilogutierrez8760 the cost of a ticket is more... Specially if you have to get towed... Half the trucks out there right now wouldn't pass a dot inspection.
@@MrMighty147 It's a place that only truckers who aren't doing what they are suppose to do fear. You drive along the highway and a scale house makes you pull over into get out show all your paperwork once in a blue moon/ inspection. But mainly they just check to make sure your legal on your weight. I trucked for three years. Only once did the scale house fuck me. And that's cuz my dumb ass forgot to set my tandems to California standards.
@@escaladeEXTon28s I may not be the best but 18 isn't harder than 10 just different, I have driven almost everything model r macks, old tri axle 379 those were 13s and so much more
@@cranemechanic2479 10 speed doesn't have to split gears so yes it is different. when u gross out at 148k with height restrictions come back to conversation. probably a swift driver
I used to dispatch for a trucking company and handle all the compliance paperwork for our terminal. This one hits home. Sometimes you're grateful for the Ricky's of the world who just get the job done but other times... ugh. Damnit Ricky! 🤦🤣
Ricky is the epitome of "Some days they call you, cause you're the only one crazy enough to do the job... and other days you're the reason for the safety meeting."
I remember hauling a load of red iron and decking to a job site when I was fourteen. I was the only guy on the crew who had a license. I could legally drive my motorcycle 100cc or less. That old semi truck and flatbed trailer was a rolling violation and was overloaded to boot. Not one of the guys that I worked with were even legal to be in the country. Took about half a can of ether to start it and smoked like a freight train the whole fifty or so miles to the job. Man those were the days.
I wish we could bring back the days when kids weren't sheltered and were actually expected to be able to function in the world as teenagers. Today we treat them like babies until they're 18 and then wonder why they're maladjusted and unable to cope with reality.
@@jonnothetrucker Nice bike Jonno . I was taught if you can’t kick you can’t ride it. I would love to get to Australia just once before I cash out. Keep it in the wind.
Granola Bar instead of a Honey Bun, 😂👍. And Pre-trip.... I was just waiting for the “pregame” reference. In my head Ricky was like, “hell yeah I pregamed this B$@?H! Did you honestly think I was gonna drive that thing with no CDL, bald tires, leaking oil, and the entire load barely hanging-on by shredded straps SOBER?!” 😂😂😂
As a CDL holding professional driver I hereby motion that we grant Ricky an honorary commercial license. He's wild enough to toss a toothpick in and make it happen. #OnChannel19AmongOtherThings
My husband is a truck driver, so this shit is spot on, haha. The amount of shit to be checked before starting out is ridiculous 🤣. I love your content ❤
Ridiculous? Is it ridiculous when something falls off a flatbed and ends up in your windshield or a tire blows and you hit it in the road? Thanks for further making this industry look like unprofessional clowns
@TheRoadhammer379 Calm down. I just meant there is a lot to check, not that it was excessive. Relax, you'll give yourself a heart attack Captain Over reaction
As a truck driver I can honestly can honestly say I would rather have Ricky out here than most other drivers. Great video, And I agree don't worry about the scalehouse they'll come and get you if they really want to talk
Boss had me deliver equipment for a last second rental. 'Take the backroads avoid the scales...you got this.' Ahh simpler times.😁 I was my job sites Rickey...lol
"If it's leaking oil you know it's got oil in it"...true words...In the military we had several kinds of helicopters that if they DIDN"T leak you had a problem.
I'm a cheese maker and receive 10-15 loads of milk per shift via 18 wheelers and I can see this exact conversion happening before each one leaves to deliver us milk. Lol
OMG!!!! LMAO!!!! This just described like minimum 30% of the truckers in West Texas. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 My buddy on the force told me once that 1 of the top 3 citation they give out to drivers is NOT having a CDL. Other than that I've seen WAAAY to many newer drivers just grab and go and can't seem to understand why their stuff breaks down LoL
CDL is just another part of the alphabet. ABC's and 123's is all Ricky remembers after he injects himself with his daily dose of low grade beaver tranquilizer lol 😅👍
“as far as the overweight thing, i had a granola bar instead of a honeybun this morning.” that is probably the most relatable thing ive heard ricky say 🥲
I've been driving truck for a decade. I don't have CDLs. It's illegal to possess more than one driver's license at a time so I've only ever had one CDL at any given point in my career.
I've been a Real Estate Broker in NY for 33 years. I decided at one point that burnout was about to make me strangle my clients/customers. I took a 2year hiatus, worked for a specialty bin & pallet company. I did EVERYTHING from freezing my ass off in the mill, doing inventory once a week, designing 8 sided pallets for a TP manufacturer & my FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB... DISPATCH !!! Made sure my driver's always did their safety checks, loaded either vans/flatbeds & AVOIDED THE DOT, HAHAHA LOVE YA
Best video ever I have a CDL’s and just sent this to the supervisor and Forman and we will see what happens LOL “ it’s leaking oil so I know it has oil” LOL
As a truck driver here. Sir I just wanna say thank you sir to bossman and the wonderful Ricky. Ricky should have just told the safety man he ain't haulin' of give a fucks behind him, ok. An Ricky, hammer down Ricky hammer down my boy...
I did a stint as a *"safetyman".* Yer safety man has to learn not to ask so many questions. Hell if ya know everybody's name you know who has the potential to break stuff anyway. You just ask em if they're all set and let em go. Anybody asks later, you just tell them you did a spot check, and everything you checked was "just fine". So what if you just asked the driver? Still a spot check in my safety book. 🤣🤣🤣
I outlawed seafood from East point Flor'Duh to Orlando Flor'Duh in a wore out international cab over. As soon as they smelled the truck they would wave me through.
Yep, often get night loads during harvest. No scales on the route, Transport guts are few in number, watching the main highways, cops won't stop me unless something is obviously wrong. A semi is easier to drive than a lot of agricultural road trains that can be legally driven by a 14 year old that just got his scooter license... You ain't illegal if you don't get caught. As for the pretrip, yep, tires look ok, oil is visually present, no warning lights. The real question is does Ricky know enough to disengage the trailer brakes, or is he hauling down the road with half his brakes locked, leaving a black strip that leads from one yard to the other?
First truck I drove was a 1997 kenworth w900L with belly dump doubles hauling gravel. I was 18 and it was probably 20,000lbs overweight. I'm now 20 and still don't have a cdl, but I will soon assuming nobody finds footage of that. Boss man says to, I do.
I worked for a company that would send their dump trucks out with guys with no cdl...the dude driving is the one who faces the fines and gets in trouble, not the company.. I had a lot of fun driving them around when I was young, but the dude that got caught went to jail over, they didn't give a shit about "my boss said to do it"
Its like this video was made for me 🤣. My truck has a new tool box on the curbside (aka) scale house side, which used to have the appropriate letters and numbers. So now I run legit drivers side personal use curbside 🤣
Operator here. My Rigger/signalman and I now only ever refer to each other as "Mah Boi" and everyone on site just accepts it. "Mah Boi, you copy?" "Go for Ya boi" "You wanna rig up that welder? Its being called for" "Oh you know it mah boi"
This is exactly how the vast majority of truck drivers in construction I know started out. Most were farm kids who had more experience at 14 yrs old moving oversize and overweight loads then most legit drivers. It generally boiled down to we have shit to get done and someone who could do it safely, regardless of if they had a license. Expert scale dodgers everyone of them.
Yah he’s as good as any new driver these days that’s for sure !!! At least he speaks and can partially read the the road signs in English that’s better than 50% of the so called truck drivers now 😂😂😂
I appreciate the love you are extending to me and my brother truckers. But, Ricky!, of all people should not be behind the wheel if you have to get the equipment to the job site. And, you already know that driver is going to open up an entire case of Roscoes on Ricky when he learns that someone moved his rig. Oh, hell, Ricky did what with the stickers? Oh shit, someone is going to have to call the law... naw, not for the stickers, but for the driver that's going to take it out of Ricky's ass. Y'all have a nice day, be good to each other, and be safe.
