Follow me as I load up a brand new CAT H18 Grader in Little Rock Arkansas and truck it all the way to Montreal Canada. The H18 weighs 76,000 LBS!!! 1UNNG5OPTRBNBQCG G6VPE82WDINPVUFL EHHGGPSBF1P5W1S6 CN01VBLLCLMODU70 A9WEIK1US28RCLQU
Hey there greetings form Mirco auf Achse circle of friends. Mirco is a german Trucker living in Canada and hauling flatbed stuff between Canada and the US for REK. Mostley John Deere maschines etc. Mirco recommended your channel to our comuninty.
I have also been a viewer of Mirco for years. But I've been watching your videos for a long time and not just since Mirco's recommendation. greetings from Germany.🙋✌️PS your videos are extremely good.👍
Thanks man, great job. May I make a suggestion: I know you're not a tour guide, but could you, as you go over state/provincial lines, mention which location you are in. E.g. Just crossed into Missouri etc etc. I like trying to track your route 🤔 & it would be easier with a heads up once and a while. 😉
It's good you pulled off to check everything... and caught the issue early, and they were able to see you quickly... looks like it set you back a day from how it got dark then light again.
Thanks again for making thoses that are way more than juste trucker videos ! That time you put in thoses is also giving a smile to thousands and one day it will be millions im pretty sure !
i know that but viewership is international. if you write a comment that aims to give most viewers a voice by recogninsing that the comment content is true,(wich in this case is a like because the video made them smile) peoples must be able to read it.@@gl4989
I use to shoot the hights in front of a 14G Cat here in New Zealand, What a buzz it was and I asked if he could teach me how to drive a 14G Cat Grader, Monday morning I had 2 boxes full of Grease and a Grease gun. Haha. Love the old-school grader driver.
Hey driver, just wanted to say hello from another Canadian(years retired) you are bringing back many memories from an old man that ran that route many times. Thank you.
Doug, you brought back memories when you went into Kentucky on I-65. That was my old stomping grounds over 40 years ago. 😀 Enjoy the vids and safe travels. From an old trucker.
Since watching your channel we are amazed at all of your hauls and loading the trailers. Trying to get my husband to watch and be interested in as he has Macular Degeneration and has lost his drivers license, so something interesting to watch.
I drove a grader one time only ! lol ! they needed a grader to plow in a big snowstorm in Montreal ! i didn t know how ! my friend sat beside me and told me how to work it ! we went around thhe block and he said ok now go go 2 plow trucks are waiting for you ! that was my training ! 3 minutes training ! lol ! I loved it ! i had that blade on the right side just like a truck does ! it wasn t a automatic, it was a 4 speed stick shift ! I got on sherbrooke street and started to plow and 2 plow trucks taged on my back ! lol ! Well that was my grader experience ! I been trucking for 35 years now happy to be retired ! And yes i m french too ! 🤠
A major thing they did wrong was not lowering the blade once the front wheels were up in the air. If anything was to happen it would just fall on the blade and not all the way to the ground.
A major thing they did wrong was not lowering the blade once the front wheels were up in the air. If anything was to happen it would just fall on the blade and not all the way to the ground.
Always watch your videos. They are interesting how you have to make difficult turns. This video I see you're crossing the Bluewater bridge. I grew up in Sarnia Ont. I walked across the original bridge when I was a teenager. Seeing in your video brought back memories.
I go to Texas every winter. I use those same roads you do fro Little rock to Ottawa. Now, I remember why I dislike the 401 so much! I cross at 1000 Islands from New York. Gas is much cheaper as well in the USA. Great trip, thanks for taking us along ! Bonne Journee.
Wow that is one big grader, way bigger then any grader when I worked for CAT back in the 70's. I bet you just love driving through Toronto on the 401(just a nightmare at the best on times!!) Look forward to all your video's. Keep the rubber side down, safe trucking !!
Another great video. When your seal went and you got it in the garage, I thought was, how fast they could do it for you, as here in the UK, its the same old thing, "we've not got the part will have to order it", then you saida little, you had to wait. Seems to be the same everywhere😂😂. Totally agree with about keeping to both lanes. After my hubby passed away, I decided to go caravvaning on my own, and found that other drivers don't give you the room that you need. On normal UK roads, they can be a bit narrow.
I live abt 30 mins north of Little Rock, that Keen yard is where I pick up when I’m leaving out from the house. Hauled many of the 18’s out of there. Chris and Jorge are great guys runnin that yard
I was leased to Keen in the 80's and 90's. Those motor graders used to load out of Decatur IL Cat Plant. Keen had a yard across the street (?). Loaded excavators and wheel loaders out of Aurora IL Keen yard and the dozens out of Morton IL. Didn't know Keen had a yard in Little Rock. Of course things have changed a lot since then. Keen sold out to some big conglomerate in CA from what I've heard.
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 A shame about Aurora, I knew some very competent manufacturing engineers there, and the factory-floor workers took their jobs seriously as well. In the mid 1980s, I wrote and installed some quality monitoring and control software/hardware at the Aurora plant when our parent company (Ingersoll-Rand) installed or updated an assembly line for differentials there. Mostly for loaders of a wide range of sizes, but a lot of machines use differentials. I'll tell you, you wouldn't want the differential ring gear from a 992 loader to fall on you. That thing was a beauty and a monster at the same time. In automotive plants, our systems were mainly for finding defects and seeing that they got flagged for routing to a repair loop for manual repairs by old guys, then back into the main assembly line upstream to pass through the data gathering station again that had found the problem. In the Cat plant, it could do that, but in fact mainly ended up just documenting how perfectly made each gear and assembly was, that every bearing was preloaded just the right amount, every nut and bolt was torqued way within specs. Hard to believe it was around 40 years ago. My advice to folks your age is to gather up the contact info for every good person you meet in your career. Not just for career networking in the future, but even more importantly, for when you realize what great people you worked with and what great times you had, compared to with other people you may end up working around, especially if you climb the ladder to higher positions. Now when I Google some great former coworkers, I find their obit, and a life story showing that our paths almost crossed a few more times. Having lunch with them at some point would have barely required a detour. Of course with Linkedin, Facebook, and other resources now, your generation maybe stays more connected than back in the days of just a company phone extension list on a Xeroxed sheet of paper.
Montreal loves them for plowing snow, one of the most expensive if not the most budget for snow removal.. Sweet rig, drive safe!!! In my 1st auto big rig and loving it!
Graders can be tricky to load. I’ve done many 16H nothing this size. Many a time the tandems start slipping and shift sideways while trying to run the front wheels up on the back. Gotta roll back a bit and just go for it with a bit of momentum. :) Good looking load! :)
You’re doing an amazing job, sir that was my dream job to become a long haul trucker but unfortunately I came down with a case of mild epilepsy, and said no way I am not driving anything although I did have some good old days with some good old friends of minekeep on Truckin Cha threes and eight
what a piece of equipment bet ya this is not the standard road grader we see in the street during snow removal operation, men i love it also thats pretty penny but who don't like big equipment like that the bigger the better, thanks for the video keep the good work!
Greetings from Puerto Rico, I just started following you and I love the videos with all the security that this type of work requires. Keep going with your videos.
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 It's good that you visited our island, I hope that it was a great pleasure for you. Receive a big hug. There are many good places to visit as a family.
I’m only about 32. Minutes into this video, but had to say “thank you” you used some protection between your chains and this brand new machine, I have always done this when transporting a brand new machine, it show’s professionalism IMO, ok, now back to the video
It is so nice to see a professional driver at work. No tank tops, gym shorts, or flip flops. The ones who wear that stuff only are seat occupiers, not pros.
Another great video man keep up the amazing work👍🏽👍🏽, idk about the other viewers but I’d love to see a video of you talking about specs of your heavy haul truck and trailer, always fantastics me how much this things can pull, Anyways that’s my little rant keep it safe out there and the shinny side up cmon🤟🏽👌🏽
I seen you in michigan on thursday at one of the rest areas on 69 (I was going west). your load caught my eye because I knew michigan had frost law on and I chuckle too myself thinking that load is not 80000lb lol. Im surprised M.I okayed it. If I knew it was you I would have flipped around to say hi. Maybe next time lol
Very true. To a certain extent. More of a double standard. We also have maximum weight restrictions to follow only they are much higher than general weight restrictions.
I know what talking about using both lanes, I don’t even get over for merging traffic anymore, they just won’t let you back over, so I don’t. Hate to be that way, but like you said, “they did it to themselves “.
You know, the little fact of you had no hesitation about getting the work done says a lot about Bellemare when it comes to getting work done that is needed. Not every company would let a driver get work done without calling them first, absolutely required work or not, they want to ok it before it's even scheduled.
Bellemare is a professional company. If we were loading just around the corner from our shop it would be a different story but no question with 3 days drive ahead of me.
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407understandable about being close to the yard and being able to get the trailer there before getting work done. To bad you guys aren't out in BC, a local hauling co had their BC license revoked after drivers hit road infrastructure multiple times.
Keep both lanes! I've been blocked more than once! And headed north on I-5 in Washington state, in my pickup, in heavy traffic, into a construction zone, being funneled down to one lane, I could see trucker in my mirrors looking desperately to move into the right lane. You should have seen the relief in his eyes when I reached out my window and waved him up in front of me... and the angry eyes in the cars behind me! No one gives a rip about truckers!
I got this far lol 10:16 I would've said no to the load positioned like that. That right tire looks underinflated, one good bump and they look like they're going to rub.
In the States in particular each state the route goes through gets so much of the revenue to go toward road maintenance(that's if they decide to use it for that)!
Have you been across the Mackinac bridge at the straits of Mackinaw I would love to ride with you across the bridge virtually, I live in Charlevoix, Michigan, 60 miles north of Traverse City and 56 miles south of THE BRIDGE ,we have the one of the 2 draw bridges in Michigan the other one is in Zilwaukee.
@@luckybananaheavyhaul3407 When they designed the bridge it was ready to be built with 2 decks another 4 lane or a single railroad track it got neither, I believe to discourage industry because the powers that be wanted the upper half of lower peninsula to be a playground for the wealthy as it turned out to be, ducks unlimited was tied right in with that because duck hunting is still considered a gentleman's sport as is golf and we abound with wetlands and golf clubs.I'm off my soap box now.
By blocking both lanes, especially in a construction zone, you actually make the road safer. All the clowns who speed are then forced to do what they are supposed to be doing in the first place.
Hit the road is not possible in Europe with this transort, when the CAT steering tyres lose air you have big problems, graet video for sure, thank you.
Another interesting trip video. Thank you. I noticed that when you weighed the loaded truck at start of journey, you first turned the engine off. Was that to reduce vibrations that might affect the scale, or just to reduce noise? Hoping all your trips are safe and as pleasant as is possible.
I like the brightness balance on you cabine camera. Not too dark inside so it feels like we’re riding with you, and not too bright out so we can see the road. How did you do it? I can’t guess between camera setting, a special lens/filter, software editing... the rest you do is easy 😉
You got hung up for a day with the oil seal repair. When something like this occurs, where to you spend your night(s), in the truck or do you go find a hotel? How about your meals as I expect truck stop food can be repetitive 🤷♂️
I always sleep in the truck. We used to get paid hotels but that went out with the last budget cuts. I eat very little restaurant food. I cook meals at home that can be heated up in the microwave. It saves me a lot of money and I can eat healthier at the same time.
