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  • @brettm7146
    @brettm7146 2 роки тому +5

    In Canada, or at least western Canada, we call those connecting roads "service roads".

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Yes, that's another term we use. Good point! :)

  • @lessthanexpertracing626
    @lessthanexpertracing626 2 роки тому +2

    The Lexington in Corpus Christi is a WWII carrier. Not the original (CV-2) one that sank at Coral Sea, obviously. But it's the CV-16, launched in 1942.
    The reason you see jets on it is that it was refitted in the early 50's to handle jets.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      This clears up so much in just 3 sentences, thanks! :)

  • @commanderroddi7742
    @commanderroddi7742 2 роки тому +1

    The USS Lexington (CV-16) in Corpus Christi is a museum. It does have jets on its deck (much like the USS Intrepid museum in NYC, which is a must see). The Original USS LExington (CV-2) was lost during the battle of the Coral Sea early in WWII (and was recently found again in 2018). The Second Lexington was supposed to be named "USS Cabot" but was renamed in honor of "Lady Lex" (CV-2) while under construction. CV-16 Served the USN as a carrier until around 1962 when she was redesignated CVS-16 and made a training carrier in the gulf of Mexico to train new naval aviators. she was decomissioned in 1976. Think she may have been the last Essex class carrier in the Navy. a bit of history. :)

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Cool, thanks for all the information, that's very interesting and clears up a lot. Sounds like a fun place to visit. :)

  • @andymenethil
    @andymenethil 2 роки тому +1

    13:16-Here in Mexico we call them in Spanish "laterales" or "lateral". In English could be something like "lateral" without the word "road" if that makes sense.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  Рік тому +1

      Very cool, thanks! Makes a lot of sense.

  • @Phalanx11
    @Phalanx11 2 роки тому +1

    Sidebar...I was long distance trucking up north years ago when I was following a truck out of the Petro...It was cold and rainy...I looked closer and the truck was filled with small cages of chickens for a a KFC factory. All the chickens were frozen to death....

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Whoa, thanks for sharing, that does make me think twice about getting Kentucky Fried Chicken. :)

  • @johnpope515
    @johnpope515 2 роки тому +2

    In the UK just call them a slip road

  • @megatronacepticon
    @megatronacepticon 2 роки тому +1

    Definitely learned about frac tanks. I'm just imagining someone's daughter being there on a 'take your daughter to work' day and watching them have to lift up the flat tank to drain the innards out and then she says, "what if it was already lifted up?" and they all cheer her like in the Old El Paso ad.
    I managed to finish Cruising Texas already since with 29 cities and the desire to explore the state it didn't take long to rack up 15. The east parts of Texas really feels like our first eastern state, adding a whole new biome to the map, so that's been pretty fun to explore.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Ha! Yes, at some point someone had to have the idea of tilting the tank back like that, and that would totally make sense for it to be someone coming from the situation from an unrelated angle. I wonder, though, if they strike bottom more frequently? The bottom of the tank looks really close to the ground.
      And I totally agree on the eastern part of Texas feeling "east". I felt that even with the little bit I've been in the state so far. :)

  • @ThymeKeeper
    @ThymeKeeper 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for sharing the Christmas tree story and mentioning me on the show. Made my holiday :). Although you did call it Fort Knox once. If I had a family connection to Fort Knox I''d be set up pretty well :D.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Haha! Did I really say Fort Knox? That's pretty funny. I think I shot this after midnight. I generally have a "no recording after 10pm" guideline, exactly for reasons like that. ~ And happy to mention the Christmas tree, that's such a cool story! :)

  • @RetherfordFam19
    @RetherfordFam19 2 роки тому +2

    Zilla I am a trucker and when you are driving and you have to pee you find a rest stop or truck stop but if none are in sight just pull on the shoulder go to the passenger side of the truck between the truck and trailer and relieve yourself or just pee in a bottle you do what you have to do

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Ha, thanks! You do what you have to do! :)

  • @RetherfordFam19
    @RetherfordFam19 2 роки тому +2

    One thing about the garage thing you were talking about there is an achievement to upgrade one of your garages all the way and I was noticing in one of your previous episodes that your peterbilt is about the same color as your box trailer maybe do some episodes with them hooked together and you can really rack up the money with that

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Good idea! That would be fun to explore more, the trailers and everything. I still haven't done much with them. :)

  • @commanderroddi7742
    @commanderroddi7742 2 роки тому +1

    We also call them frontage road. Here in Utah there are a couple, and one that I think was actually renamed Frontage Rd.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Haha! What a creatively named road! Too funny. :)

  • @kristoffermangila
    @kristoffermangila 2 роки тому +1

    In the Philippines, roads like that are called service roads.
    Cotton harvesters are fairly tall machines, and the train on the second trip (where you got the red light violation) looks a shortened Amtrak train (probably the Southwest Chief). That tank delivery is misranked; it should be a 300, with that difficult approach angle.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      I'm struck by the different names for the roads. It'd be interesting to map it out for the world.
      And yeah, that parking. I think I took it way too casually too. I needed my gameface on. :)

  • @coyi51
    @coyi51 2 роки тому +2

    Really enjoying the Texas adventure. in the UK we call them slip roads. Happy Thanksgiving.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks! Slip roads! Cool. Another name. This is amazing. The holiday was fun, back at things this weekend. :)

  • @Phalanx11
    @Phalanx11 2 роки тому +1

    Trucker....best job in the world...when I leave my stops on my route I'm so glad I'm not stuck in those horrible factory or fabricator jobs. My friends that work there tell me how horrible their jobs are . We make a little more money per hour than a factory worker but werk 50% longer so it seems we make waay more money than they do.
    Also as a true trucker 'Zilla you need your left foot (sans shoe) up on the dash (all new trucks are automatic) and you need your X--M Satillite tuned to Road Dawg Trucking channel 147.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Nice, thanks! I'll have to work on getting my left foot up on the desktop, for sure!

  • @Snappychugdog
    @Snappychugdog Рік тому +1

    Most of the Uk calls those roads on the side of the highway Parallel or slip roads mainly used for farmers or emergency cars set back from the main road a bit,

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  Рік тому +1

      Thanks! They seem a bit different in the UK perhaps, while in Texas they just seem to entire highways beside the main highway. :)

  • @ErikIversen
    @ErikIversen 2 роки тому +1

    I'm in western Canada and I call them frontage roads.
    Looking forward to Texas Trivia. Those are always a lot of fun!

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      It does seem like the names are regional, for sure, and that's what I think is the most common term for them here in Minnesota too. Texas Trivia should be later this week, I think. :)

  • @commanderroddi7742
    @commanderroddi7742 2 роки тому +1

    Semi-truck Cannonball baby! :) Would be nice to have the whole country, when you can explore at a nic epace. I do think that some states will get put together. with other state, like a lot of those New England states. Maybe some of the plain sates (the Dakotas), and so on.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Yeah, I wonder what their plan is for finishing the US. By the time their done they'll need to start over with a new engine. :)

  • @Jezzaaa3
    @Jezzaaa3 2 роки тому +1

    The roads you refer too, I would refer to as, slip lanes.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Thanks, slip lanes seems pretty popular too.

  • @ParkeraNZ
    @ParkeraNZ 2 роки тому +1

    Loving following along with your journey mate. I hope to get a couple trips done this weekend, such a wonderful DLC! Lol me and my buses 😂

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks, Parkera! Did you get some drives in this weekend?

    • @ParkeraNZ
      @ParkeraNZ 2 роки тому +1

      @@ZillaBlitz sure did, even spotted you ha ha

  • @ThatGuyStar
    @ThatGuyStar 2 роки тому

    In texas the Proper wording is Frontage roads because its a front road to by pass traffic and what not during rush hour.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Thanks! Seems like there is a pretty good range of terms, good to know about Texas.

  • @nomaderic
    @nomaderic 2 роки тому +1

    Yea those turn arounds under each intersection under the freeways are a texas thing the only other place I really come across them is in Florida. In texas cities the sides of freeway service roads are lined with businesses so people making those uturns happen all day long.... meanwhile I'm in denver Colorado right now and there is no service roads at all, there is just the freeway itself and when you exit you turn left or right. In texas there is a road that runs along the side of the freeway mostly the whole length

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Isn't it interesting how different the roads can be. We have service roads in some places in Minnesota. But I've never seen roads go under freeways like that. :)

    • @nomaderic
      @nomaderic 2 роки тому +1

      @@ZillaBlitz it sure is and sad to say I've been pulled over a couple times for not understanding how a road works in a different state lol. In houston on a section of i10 its the widest freeway in the world. Counting the lanes on the freeway, the 2 exit ramps, and the lanes of the service road is 26 total lanes which is freaking insane!

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Ha! 26 lanes is insane! My goodness, it'd take forever to go from the right to the left. :)

  • @billsimoni
    @billsimoni 2 роки тому +1

    I know what a frac tank is, but I work for an oil refiner. I used to have to rent them all the time for my job.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Makes sense, very cool. It's interesting that I hadn't come across one before this. I wonder if it's a new trailer option, or at least a more recent one.

    • @billsimoni
      @billsimoni 2 роки тому +1

      @@ZillaBlitz I've never seen one in the wild or even heard of it prior to needing to for work (circa 2005).

    • @robertharris4244
      @robertharris4244 2 роки тому

      There's a frac tank sitting at my work right now. I am a Chemical operator at Dow Chemical and the one sitting at my site right now is full of water contaminated with propylene oxide from a flushing of a line we have that goes under the river. I wish I could add pictures to my comment.

  • @cap26803
    @cap26803 2 роки тому +1

    I have seen a trailer like that for the first time lol 😆

  • @ostrichponk6844
    @ostrichponk6844 2 роки тому +2

    For the deliveries that you did that you couldn't post, did you go from Beaumont to Lufkin as the first delivery and Lufkin to Corpus Christi for the second delivery?

  • @cap26803
    @cap26803 2 роки тому +1

    In India, they are called as Service Roads or Linking Roads

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Nice! Thanks! So many different names for these. :)

    • @cap26803
      @cap26803 2 роки тому +1

      @@ZillaBlitz yeah

  • @th4uv3tt38
    @th4uv3tt38 2 роки тому +1

    I don't think you're pulling forward enough at the red lights when stopping, so the game isn't registering you as having stopped. I think you need to gain the white line, come to a stop and then proceed to turn right on red. At least that's what I do, and I haven't had any problems with red light violation tickets that way.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Yes, this makes sense, thanks. I think you're correct. :)

  • @arkhamgamingnetwork991
    @arkhamgamingnetwork991 2 роки тому +1

    It was super cool to have that comment in your video! Did you see the new thing about Oklahoma that they announced on the steam page? I was kind of skimming through your video so I don't know if you mentioned it in the video LOL

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Yes, that's great that they've announced the next DLC so quickly. :)

  • @NerdyNanaSimulations
    @NerdyNanaSimulations 2 роки тому +1

    Yeah I think they should have worked more on the ability to make a right on red. I get a ticket almost every time so I just stop now. Have a Happy Thanksgiving Zilla, blessings on you and yours.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      I'm glad to hear it's not just me with the right on red. I feel like it has to be so perfect to not get a ticket. If you don't fully stop within just the right distance of the stop line, and make a good follow up lane turn, you definitely get zinged. :)

    • @NerdyNanaSimulations
      @NerdyNanaSimulations 2 роки тому +2

      @@ZillaBlitz If the US had to use their standards there would not be a single driver in the US with a clean record.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Haha, too true! I'd not dare turn right on red if I got $700 fines like they dish out in the game.

  • @Mjollnir2249
    @Mjollnir2249 Рік тому

    I've always heard them called service roads

  • @JollyRoger1718
    @JollyRoger1718 Рік тому +2

    Talking from my own experience and what I see. Short distance or drivers with only day cabs usually do short runs so they stop alot and have better access to bathrooms, unlike the long distance drivers with sleepers carry some kind of bathroom with them, most of male drivers have a bottle. It makes it convenient that way, so you do minimum stopping, all you have to do is pull of on the shoulder and take care of business. And a good or a driver with decency will probably dispose of that stuff, a dirtbag driver will leave it on the side of the road in a bottle or worse toss it out the window. Hence the name trucker bombs. So if you see bottles on the side of the road don’t touch them, its not iced tea or lemonade in that bottle. Those drivers are nasty and put shame on the industry over all.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  Рік тому +1

      Oh my! Trucker bombs were not a thing I ever thought about existing before. That's ... amazing. Thanks for sharing... I think. :)

  • @classicalmusic3979
    @classicalmusic3979 2 роки тому +1

    2 events will end ad jan 15th

  • @heavydecibel
    @heavydecibel 2 роки тому +1

    I didn't knew that.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Me neither, it was fun to look up and figure out. :)

  • @thecustardprophet8434
    @thecustardprophet8434 2 роки тому +1

    In the UK I have no idea what those roads are called, i'm not sure we have them.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Slip roads, maybe? (That's what coyi said they are in the UK.)

    • @thecustardprophet8434
      @thecustardprophet8434 2 роки тому +1

      @@ZillaBlitz A slip road is a road that comes on or off the motorway/dual carriageway. I thought the road you pointed out ran parallel to the main road?

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Aha! Yes, I'm not talking about the entrances/exits. I'm definitely talking about the roads that run parallel. Good clarification!

  • @billsimoni
    @billsimoni 2 роки тому +1

    Frontage or access roads

  • @classicalmusic3979
    @classicalmusic3979 2 роки тому +1

    I also played ats 1.1

  • @Gray_Shirt_Flight_SIm
    @Gray_Shirt_Flight_SIm 2 роки тому +1

    Do you separate the two audio tracks? I separate out game and voice into two tracks in OBS. Then when I edit I can tweak the volumes.

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      I've been doing them as one track. Although I've considered doing two, but having one has worked and it's one step simpler. Until this time, though. :)

  • @ZainR997
    @ZainR997 2 роки тому +1

    Hi zilla how are you great video

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Hi Ateeq - Things are good here, I hope you are well too! :)

    • @ZainR997
      @ZainR997 2 роки тому +1

      @@ZillaBlitz ye I'm good thanks

  • @thomaspambos7143
    @thomaspambos7143 2 роки тому +1

    Hi Zilla, why don’t you do 1 video monthly on 5 pc games that are worth our attention, cheers

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      This is a great idea, thanks! My goal for 2023 is to add more PC strategy/wargames to the channel, so this would be a must once I get that going. :)

  • @susanarthur6736
    @susanarthur6736 2 роки тому +1

    I don’t know why I don’t like the frac tanks

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому

      Ha! Yes, I can relate. I mean, it's a great idea and I'm sure they work well and save time/money, but visually they look kind of broken. :)

  • @classicalmusic3979
    @classicalmusic3979 2 роки тому +1

    20:40

  • @danh7132
    @danh7132 2 роки тому +1

    Hi there is on sale farming sim 22 on eneba at $20

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      Oh, that's tempting! I'm going to ask for a review copy once I get caught up with episodes for everything else. Thank you though! :)

  • @classicalmusic3979
    @classicalmusic3979 2 роки тому +2

    I played ets2 1.22

    • @ZillaBlitz
      @ZillaBlitz  2 роки тому +1

      That's going way back! Nice. :)

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    @bossmmann21 2 роки тому +1

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