This Guy's Fired. 

As a retired truck driver I can promise you this involved looking at a cell phone.....

One time is a mistake, second time is a pattern. Being the boss sucks sometimes.

At least no one is hurt or dead. Keep your chin up Bales.

Do like my old boss used to. If you actually SCREW UP (not paying attention, stupid driving etc..) You get the S*** detail for awhile! (I had an incident, dumped a rear trailer of baled corrugated.) For 6 months, I was in the shop power washing trucks and trailers, washing the dirtiest parts when working on engines (By hand), weed pulling, etc.. I did anything I could to get back on the road. Never had another accident with that company in 20+ years! ALso, ended up with the nicest truck of the fleet!

Now he can do all of his "business" on his own time. Good on you for not losing it on camera Trevor. I would have

I work part time as a truck driver, I’m a retired heavy equipment mechanic. There was a employee who only did half of his route and said he did it all. I was surprised he still had a job. The owner said he showed up to work, better then what usually shows up for interviews. I’m lost….

You should make those guys put their phones into the glove box while they are transporting anything through the yard or on the road. Can almost bet he was on his phone most likely watching you on RU-vid while he was driving to the hay barn.

Hey Trever, Eugene from Ontario Canada been working on a farm and driving truck for my whole life driving truck for 23 years on and off. It is hard to find good operators. We are having that problem in Canada on farms trying to find good people keep up the good videos. I enjoy watching you. Have a great day.

All ways look forward for the next day. Thanks for sharing

The joys of having employees, HA! Keep Smiling😊.

Old Ed, my dad's foreman for many years, and my adopted grandfather told of driving a water truck on a road job, late 20's or early 30's. To fill up the water you backed into the river. One day the brakes failed as he backed down to the river. He said once the truck stopped in the water, he got out and walked home.

Seems like all you guys had a bad day but thank God everyone is OK.

That look said it all. Makes you work even harder

I agree with the comments that he is being VERY DISRESPECTFUL of YOU!! Doing all that breakfast BS on the clock is downright stupid. IF you keep him on, he should be docked the time it took to reload plus all the time it took everyone to stop and help get it back on the road. Plus if there was any damage to the trailer, he would be docked that too. Then after it was all paid back, then consider firing him!

I had 2 different load’s dropped in the rd several years back. We do 2 string bales and had around 400 bales on the trailer both times. Needless to say that driver never hauled for me again. He did keep his job but we just knew he couldn’t drive.

My goodness man. I feel bad for you. I’ve been driving for 20 years, I’ll move to Arizona and drive for you! Best of luck!

When any of my favorite channels goes dark for longer then 5 days I get worried. I sure hope all is well with you and family!

Nice!!! I remember the squeeze 👍🏼💯😎😎😎 put it back the flames✌🏼

I feel your pain the struggle is real! I think that guy’s relative works for me! You can’t make up some of the things that they do.

Such are the joys of being a boss and owner of a business.

I wouldn't fire him but I definitely wouldn't allow the breakfast stuff. This ain't your house you eat before work.

"Ain't no Hill for a Stepper" is the way my grandfather always said it.

The Joy's of being an Employer.

The sun was in my eyes is code for, He was on his facebook. Fired!!

My dad hauled hay since the early 50s everything was loaded and unloaded by hand he retired from hay because arthritis in his hands,right when they invented the squeeze he's 97 now

Trevor, you are a good man for staying so calm, if it was me, the whole video would be full of workin words

Came here cuz I saw the channel name, couldn’t believe it. I miss Buckeye, moved to Michigan two yrs ago for “in-laws” pfft. (Mistake! Lol) at least I was able to catch a good sunset in the background of this video. Yeah, fire that dude!

Lighten the mood , I rented a car in Goodyear a couple days ago , not familiar with the area my GPS sent me west out of town on my return trip to Yuma. It was evening and I was driving along and I says to myself , I recognize those barns . Aha , Bales Hay Farm , I watch the videos during my winter vacation in Yuma . I am a retired rancher/ row crop farmer and I love seeing the wrecks and totally understand the frustration of the stupid accidents , fortunately nothing was too broken. The broken stuff is where the time and money gets serious .

Think I saw this on my way to the Walmart dc lol I’m glad you got it out ok

Just discovered your channel. I subscribed. Greetings from Yuma, AZ

Would love to see more of that chrome wheeled forklift!

I would of fired that driver last time.

Guys like this is why good drivers need to be careful who they work for

Could have been worse...the semi and the hay could have been in the water on its side! I do feel your pain though.

Just another day at the funny farm! I really like this jacket but, the sleeves are much too long 😂!!😂😂😂!!

Luv the stach mr bales

Bet that driver was on his cell phone!!

Not fun. I remember on our farm as a kid we would hire drivers for silage harvest and every year someone would tip over a truck. Either drive too close to a ditch or take the wrong angle on a field entrance. Our poor truck was so bent up. Glad nobody was hurt in this incident. Hard to be te boss sometimes. Thanks for sharing!

Just my opinion but any employee who makes excuses for messing up instead of owning the mistake is not worth keeping. I have had a few and they only are out for themselves not the business. Cut ties and find a better employee.

It was probably a good thing the hay was NOT strapped because it would have flipped the other trailer and truck too!

I feel your pain

That’s a beautiful rig and set of trailers too…

I would have left him to clean it all up. Also doing what he does on the clock is very disrespectful to an employer. You know what you can afford to do.

I have had my Bales t-shirt for years now lol quality 👌

On the bright side no thunder storm came upon you

Stacker reloads lol😂

Cell phone texting maybe ? Did that back trailer get twisted when it went off the shoulder ?

At least no one was hurt and I don't think you're being to tough on this guy

may I suggest a negligence claus in your future employee contracts, once is a mistake, twice is a habit. Anyone saying you're forgetting incidents happen haven't had to pay for their wrecks

5:55 😂🤣 So did you really fire him? Because I would’ve 😂

Hi Trevor that's 3 strikes for that guy, any way just letting you know That in Victoria Australia there is a little town called Bayles

Damn I did hay for a few months as a fresh rookie driver and I’ve had little mistakes happen but nothing like this😂😂

Everyone has a bad day but 2 in a row somethings up

I would give him one more chance.Time his personal time and explain his next check deduction.In it will also include the deduction for the time spent cleaning up the spilled hay.

I use to drive 18 wheelers. You know there are just some drivers that are accidents waiting to happen. They always had some lame excuse on why it wasn’t there fault. They were just chronic. Sorry this has happened. ☮️

New subscrber here. Your videos are awesome. You have a lot of going on for sure. My brother manages a ranch in Utak called "Four Star Ranch". They raise hay, corn, and cattle. I think they could benefit from watching your videos for sure. How do I order a cap?

You need to get with Michael Stull at Stull Design and check out his squeeze retriever trucks.

You’re fired!! Done!!

If you haven’t fired him, you absolutely should. He would’ve had 1 foot out the 🚪 clocking in to eat & 💩 w/ me. “Getting distracted” while driving a fully loaded trailer could end tragically!! Turns a truck into a deadly weapon in court.

Jim Marek would have had that load unstuck in 3 minutes.

Heck I'd probably play video games while on the clock. 🤣🤣🤣🚜🚜🚜

Today a truck almost totally flipped over.... what about tomorrow, hitting a car going down the road. NO EXCUSE... I have 4 million miles under my belt , no one accident or ticket , owned a small fleet and... live in Laveen. Nope, sad but you can't take the risk. Good luck... love your videos!!

Better to loose on drivers side then the other side into the water. That’s probably why he was hugging the driveway on driver side.

Omg, please tell me you shit canned that guy!! If not, I would come do it for you! At the very least maybe you humiliated him enough where he just quit. By the way, that caterpillar above your lip is looking sweet!!

Dump him , he's been dumping you, on the clock. The trailer is just like the hay fork, things happen. Breakfast and bathroom duty is theiving.

These things are sent to try us 🙂

He was probably watching baleshay RU-vid video while driving lol!! Also that mustache looks decent!!!

Mr zBales , some just are not cut out to drive, dispite what they think.

I'm a O/O, and I see a lot of nonsense out here. I assure you he was 🤳, 💯. The whole sun in my eye's excuse isn't even believable as so many driver's deal with that and never seem to crash. You definitely made the correct decision, hell you even showed sympathy when he did that the first time.

LMAO is that the driver standing around while you point out all the crap he did wrong!

Be glad it wasn't tied down!

Big T there ain't no words for that. Just tell him your last checks in the mail😵

shit happens all the time on a ranch or any time trucks are involved specially in construction when your are paving . As a supervisor you sometimes loose it but you maintain calm and solved the problem .. you handle it well but i can tell your ready to chew some ass ...

He needs to go no excusefor that happining

Wild guess looking at his phone...

Actually to be a great farm worker takes years of working along with some one who has done this for years. The trainee will see all the dos and don'ts. That is true with operating front end loaders hay baler and hay rake and hay cutters. Driving a truck tractor with doubles that requires a skill that requires working with angles and a very good manager of often very limited space. Just any one who has a Class A commercial drivers license may not be what you need. I figure there was something that distracted your driver? What was it he should have saw the problem before the hay started falling off the trailer. It goes back to working with angles and managing the available space.

3:40 wow.....

No hill to steep for a stepper

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Squeeze to the rescue! Frustrations of Farmer-employers. You got this.

Bad employee/character....don't feel bad bro...he was taking advantage of your generosity...

I definitely agree with you, no work ethic. It’s really hard to find people with this qualifications, as a business owner I will fired everyone with no work ethic……

At least he picked the right ditch 😂 other one wouldn’t be good at all!

What's going on with all this hay? In my neck of the woods, I'm seeing a lot of hay going down the road loaded on trucks.

NOW THATS WHAT I CALL A FORKLIFT.

the joys of employees makes you wonder why things get done that clearly cannot work

the amount of crap i've seen some people do with truck and trailer with the several (not few, not many) years of driving experience i have... people wrapping their trailer around light poles, going through parking lots they have no business being in and trashing cars in an attempt to get back out, driving up to a fast food drive-through and ending up demolishing the side of the business (because apparently reverse doesn't work in their brain), and of course dropping trailers off into culverts/ditches... but i think continuing to move forward when you can't see what you're doing is definitely at the top of the list for stupid mistakes i think what may have really happened is, he was taking a nap or paying attention to his phone while driving and didn't want to own up to it so he used the "the sun was in my eyes" excuse to "explain" what happened... because i can't believe someone would actually be stupid enough to think "i can't see anything, but i'll keep going anyway because (whatever)"

He was probably checking his phone !!! 🫣🫣🫣🫣

My dad ran a bunch of trucks halling hay. He only hired women drivers. They always drove nice and slow and carefully. They did get stuck in the mud more but they never had any other mishaps

😄😊🇨🇱 it's ok no one got hurt . Trust in God .

Give him a raise and make em a supervisor

Ain't no hill for a stepper buddy.

On the bright side the bale's didn't go in the water

Sun in the eye , Well in that case he better not operate a tricycle with the training wheels.

Give him a break if it’s his first screw up. I still mess up stuff once in a while. If he’s a good dude that cares, he’s worth keeping. If it’s habitual, get rid of him. Complacency gets everyone. Have safety meetings in mornings or at least bring up safety areas. Like this turn, it’s a little sketchy, be careful with it.

Aw man would love job opportunity there 110%

Listen lol, only you will treat your equipment right

Iv hauled hay before

Why duals and not a straight flat bed ? 70 footer alot more stable and less chance for off tracking...

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