Dave: there's nothing wrong with driving an automatic, its easy to drive a manual 70 year old Dave: You young guys in your electric trucks don't even turn the wheel!
Grain Hualing is a truck driver job that involves loading Farmers' grain harvest and transporting it to either a grain elevator or a storage bin. The fees paid for grain hauling are determined by the weight of the load being transported. Physical labor and heavy lifting are major aspects of this career. You need a valid Commercial Driver's License, or CDL, or a valid endorsement on your driver's license to drive grain. Obviously grain is transported through trucks and very rarely driven down to someone actual farm but non-rare to drive down a gravel road into a grain elevator facility.
when you get to be an old man (58) with MANY miles under your belt, ill say this much Automatics are a freakin dream, no more hurting clutch knee/leg/shoulder/elbow...i enjoy them..name of the game is getting freight from point A to point B safely!! regardless of what you are driving!!..keep up with the awesome videos Dave Thanks!
I'm with ya on the Manual transmission. I first drove an automatic in 2016 after starting out with a manual 2 years prior. Wasn't my choice the company I was driving was just switching over to autos. Now i wouldn't want to go back to a manual. I do flat bed currently, but i don't throw a tarp. Just straps over PODS. I don't know if I could go back to bumping docks again, but I'm not gonna judge those that do.
@@RidingWithDave it very good actually. It's easy work main con is just dealing with the weather. I had to toss 6 straps in a downpour near Miami a couple days ago. My biggest plus is I'm kinda my own boss in that i set the appointment times. I don't have to run my ass off to make someone else's per determined appointment.
@@RidingWithDave I like being a dock bumping door slinger with my automatic thanks for the new slogan lol I needed it hope to catch up with you on the road sometime I'm in Las Vegas right now waiting for another preplan keep the greasy side down shiny side up and try to ignore the haters they gonna hate and ainters gonna ain't
Colorado Rockies is the baseball team in Denver. Avalanche is the hockey team. We loved living in Colorado! Denver is an okay area, but we lived in Colorado Springs which his very beautiful. Too bad you couldn't get of the truck for food. Golden has a great pizza joint, Woody's Wood Fired Pizza. Safe driving Dave! Thanks for the great video.
When you have to wait for the combine or the grain cart, your in the middle of no where and it takes 1 hour for a load. Then you get to the terminal and there's 20 trucks ahead of you. Hailing grain can suck sometimes.
Driving a manual isn't hard, it just takes a little bit to get used to. A manual is fun, but I like my automatics... a lot. But grain hauling, I've only done from field to co-op, but it's relaxing and just following a certain route on backroads. You would get used to driving gravel and putting the hammer down because the combine is yelling at you on the two-way to get your (rear) to the field because you had to wait in line for an hour and the grain cart is full and the combine is waiting. But, if you're looking for seasonal harvest grain hauling, I can hook you up!😉
I will say, that while driving a manual is easy most of the time, mountain driving in a manual with a maxed out load can be a challenge. I also like them better for winter driving.
Just graduating drvier academy. Still talking to companies to determine which is the best fit for me. I enjoy watching your videos and hearing about your experiences. Im in the east and trying to find a southern route due to winter appraoching and dont wanna be in the mountains on ice and snow in my first few months. Keep doing you buddy!
@Country start with a Local Farm Hauling Grain for them for a First Job.... best First Job you can start out with. Work your way up from the bottom and take your Time..... Guys start out as a Long Haul Over the Road in the first year and are away from the Family 4 weeks a Month.. If you go Local you will be home with the family more than you will be for Over the Road... Hope this helps
The one cool thing about manual, if you have an air leak you can still run. Once the psi in an automatic drops your tranny won’t shift or shift properly
The secret is to just park it at 2p. I think when I run the NE, it's 8.5hr driving days and longer breaks running recap hours just to avoid the headaches.
Used to be you had no power steer, had to map out your route, figure out what was truck able, avoid the low underpasses, and weight limits, plan your fuel stops, call from a phone booth and get directions to write in a note book, slide axles, slide the fifth wheel, figure out how you were gonna log it, sometimes keeping two logs going at the same time, there was no road service every ten miles. Many time you had to fix it yourself…..,lots of loads only allowed 6-8 hours for a sleep break.
I have a freightliner with a 13 speed parked at the house. I drive an automatic for a company pulling a hopper cross country. I have so much more room. Keep being you and I'll keep watching. You make me laugh. You get ready to make the swap to a hopper, just holler.
Well the reason most companies has went to automatic transmissions is people don’t ever learn how drive and get the fuel mileage out of them. Actually most people don’t have a clue they are lucky to go forward and keep it up right and between the lines… Keep up the good work enjoy your vids and stay safe
Floating gears is something different to using a clutch. And depending on the load I guess it makes sense to drive a manual shifter. Especially the oversize guys will get mad with a automatic transmission.
You'll love driving back roads! I've been driving a Freightliner M2 series with a box in southern Manitoba, Canada to mostly small towns and the occasional farm or AGRO depot for the past 5 months. The gravel isn't too bad but sometimes the road goes to mud and then it gets greasy pretty quickly. Some of the driveways are decent and some are very sketchy. If you miss a turn, then you have to find a place you can turn around on to go back. The other fun thing is meeting a harvester at a bridge that barely fits the harvester so I always give the farmer the first go and I'll wait. Still beautiful countryside and I enjoy chatting it up with the people I meet. This year's been quite challenging because of the tons of rain we've had up here with bridges washed out and roads closed due to flooding. Haven't got stuck so far this year and I hope to keep that record going..lol Do like your videos as they are very entertaining and you have a very positive attitude, which goes a long ways in this job. Keep up the great videos!
So I watched until the end! I rode with my dad way back in the day. Started as a grain hauler back in 1981 after riding with my Father for many years! You have to be careful! There are grain haulers and hydraulic freight haulers! I still plow for a county hwy dept and fix roads so everybody can go to work!!
Im 12 so don't quote me but when you haul grain sometimes you get hired out by farmers to haul there grain. But after harvest and stuff you usually haul grain between elevators and you could take stuff from elevators to food plants of to plants the make feed and dog food and thing of that nature. Your videos are awsome.
From 2000 to 2017, all I drove were manuals (8, 9, 10, super 10, 13, 18 - mainly 10 and super 10). Since December 2017, I've been stuck in automatics. I'm a company driver (CFI), so I drive the vehicle the company assigns to me. It is what it is...
I do my trucking in the northeast. I’ll admit, you have to time your trip right. My old company didn’t allow ramp parking but I found out that what they didn’t know didn’t hurt them lol.
Colorado Avalanche play at the Pepsi Center in downtown Senver. Same arena the Nuggets play at. And we got the Colorado Rockies for our baseball team. We also have a lacrosse team (Colorado Mammoths)
That Audi is gonna turn into an innie if they aren't careful lol For teams, Avalanche is hockey, Rockies is baseball, Broncos is football, and Nuggets are basketball.
These newer autos shift the transmission pretty dam good. Best part is you don’t kill your left leg at the end of the day. And you have just as much control of the truck as the old school manual. Years ago when I was in the high school wing at the vocational college we would take the old cab overs (70’s models) out in to the parking lot and cruise around and shifting them was a pain in the ass as the linkage was a bit worn out and the clutch was well abused. I was the only one that was skipping gears cause we had no load. Also cause it was hard to find the gears in them.
Been at it coming up on 32 years this coming February, I've pulled flatbed, dry van, reefer, tanker and end dump. I currently pull reefer and have done so for the last 7 some odd years and that's my preference but as far as manual/automatic? Give me the one that rolls and i can make money. Listen to the radio traffic during a backup and tell me who seems more agitated, i can almost guarantee it's the one with the gear shift lever that's almost long enough to stick up their butt! I guess that's to help them shift with the muscular atrophy that's no doubt set in or their over inflated head.
Dave I want to help you out. Do not go through Dallas at all... From Golden Colorado go down to Amarillo then through Lubbock and continue on down to Laredo... You can even miss San Antonio as well... this route is 16 hour and 48 min...1078 miles... You are welcome sir..
Golden Colorado is beautiful. Bunch of cyclists downtown. Picked up a load out of there to Las Vegas. Intertrashional couldn’t handle the mountains in Colorado and Utah
Denver's baseball team is the Colorado Rockies, and it looks like their hockey team is the Avalanche, though the local college hockey team came up first in a Google search
I agree with every word 🤣 I hate dealing with super truckers, with my flatbed trainer ATM and we had to get towed from a truckstop because he put DEF in the Diesel Tank. I learned that you can't tow a tractor and trailer together in the state of Iowa, so I rode with the guy towing the trailer back to the home depot we're based out of and he had a thing where as we got going he switched it into the next gear and then when he had to switch to that gear all he did was press in the clutch and pressed a button to upshift, and then would just put it in neutral when we had to slow down and put it into whichever gear his speed would allow. Pretty interesting stuff for us steering wheel holders 😂
Man seeing you drive past that Kipling exit at 16:23 brings back memories, I used to live just off Kipling St. due south and I recognize this area like the back of my hand.
Lol Dave! You're on a roll that day! Ride Along Gang aren't allowed to park on ramps anymore. His company called him a few days back when he had parked for the night on a ramp and his com po any called and told him to get off the ramp. Nothing wrong with automatic trucks. You guys still get the job done and loads delivered!
Hauling grain- usually have multiple loads coming out of a place, and searching for loads to get you back can be tough. A lot of grain hauls are short. Places will have 15000 tons of grain that need to go 150 miles. Your paid by weight or bushel, so 80k is a light load, stay off the interstate and you can usually haul more, some states you can haul what you can bridge, get up in Michigan and they run b trains up to a gross of 164k iirc. Most locations are first come, first serve, so as long as there isn't a line, your in and out. People are much friendlier and often will hand you a cold drink and a hat. There is also stuff like harvest, where you might drive 100 miles in a 12 hour day, and charge 120/hr or get paid by the bushel (usually better if your working with a good crew that keeps you moving) There is always other stuff you can haul with a hopper. Ddg, frac sand, fertilizer, mulch. I'm just moving from company driver to O/O. I have the connections already so a hopper is my first trailer. Been thinking about doing a channel for it.
Guess I’m a super trucker because I prefer a manual to an auto shift. With a manual, I can control my rpm’s in all conditions. Especially in the mountains. I also float the gears. Clutch is for starting, stopping and backing. Yes the manual is a pain sometimes in traffic, but I am capable of going up and down through all the gears in traffic without ever touching the clutch. I’ve hauled grain, in a hopper and an end dump. Grain trains are a lot of climb up and watch till the front is filled, hurry up and get in and pull forward enough to fill up the middle in an end dump or the back hopper in a hopper bottom. Then hurry up and shut the grain drop off if you’re loading yourself or tell the farmer to shut off if you got help. Or pay attention and pull up when they tell you if you’re loading at an elevator. Dumping at the elevator is hurry up and wait if there’s a long line for the bean dump or corn dump. And there’s a lot of dust.
I do end dump trailer home daily stuff. I haul potato sludge from a French fry facility and we deliver to farms and an energy company. It’s pretty fun and pays really well.
5:35 I can’t speak for everywhere, but here in the Denver area those are gravel or aggregate haulers. Basically go from a quarry to a cement plant and back and forth every day. There’s a lot of quarrys and aggregate plants up that highway you were on northeast of Denver. Edit: Colorado Rockies are our baseball team
Most of the drivers out there nowadays wouldn't know how to shift the transmission that I learnt to drive on. Not a super trucker, just a driver that did the best I could with the equipment of the day. Try shifting an old 5 and 4, mack triplex, etc........
I don’t understand why everyone calls it an automatic, the truck doesn’t have a torque converter on it like a car. It’s a Automated Manual Transmission which is the same as a manual with the difference, of the AMT, being that it has a computer and an air shifter. If you wanted to you can pretty much convert an AMT to a manual and you shift an AMT without the extra step
Thats all i ever drove was a manual , however I would love to drive an automatic. Absolutely not having to push clutch in , shift up, shift down. Seems like work smart not hard. Keep on truckn Dave, I got your 6 with those drivers from my era, lol.
Dave that's quite the rant. There is a difference in manual to automatic for hills and off road. But that doesn't make one better then the other. I'm a last mile ltl with reefer and deck in Northern Canada. Ice roads and off road all the time. I would hate city driving and heavy traffic. Everybody has a lane.
You might be shifting but doesn't meen your doing it right. I drive a 13 speed and it's more then flipping splitters as you say. I'm far from a super trucker but I'm no mega carrier steering wheel holders that's for sure.👍 Been there done that when I first started but once I got experience no more mega carrier baby sitter micro managing. Believe it or not the reason behind so many companies having automatics now is because a lot can't shift a truck. Shifting a truck is nothing like shifting a car the only similarity is both have a clutch and both have a stick shift.
That was an end dump, typically you would see grain in a hopper. That's not to say that grain doesn't get hauled in end dumps, just not nearly as common as a hopper.
Grain and typically feed ingredients,DDGs,are all put in hoppers if possible. Certain places require a dump for various reasons but even then the rates suck on hopper loads unless you can 25 ton or better. All that stuff pays on pounds.
That trailer was a end dump they haul things like rock coal ash hooper bottoms where what you was talking about i have pulled both blood meal in hopper and turkey guts in a end dump
Hey Dave going to Laredo from Golden take 25 south to 287 save some miles and a little quicker. I drive oversized and overweight and wide load. I don't drive in bad weather and day usually ends by 5 pm. Very little at night. 30 years doing it, I love it
Best part about super truckers is how they fail to understand that absolutely nobody gives a fuck what you drive, the only thing that matters is getting freight delivered since that what gets you paid.
I'll tell you about grain hauling ------ If you roll your rig, the following year there'll be corn growing on the shoulder.
Dave: there's nothing wrong with driving an automatic, its easy to drive a manual
70 year old Dave: You young guys in your electric trucks don't even turn the wheel!
Grain Hualing is a truck driver job that involves loading Farmers' grain harvest
and transporting it to either a grain elevator or a storage bin. The fees paid for
grain hauling are determined by the weight of the load being transported. Physical
labor and heavy lifting are major aspects of this career. You need a valid Commercial Driver's License,
or CDL, or a valid endorsement on your driver's license to drive grain. Obviously grain is transported through
trucks and very rarely driven down to someone actual farm but non-rare to drive down a gravel road into a grain elevator facility.
when you get to be an old man (58) with MANY miles under your belt, ill say this much Automatics are a freakin dream, no more hurting clutch knee/leg/shoulder/elbow...i enjoy them..name of the game is getting freight from point A to point B safely!! regardless of what you are driving!!..keep up with the awesome videos Dave Thanks!
Man Dave was in one of his moods today! 😂 Love it. Keep crabbin about them supertruckers!
I feel like Dave has a split personality thats a super trucker! Lmao and they argue all the time 😂
I'm with ya on the Manual transmission. I first drove an automatic in 2016 after starting out with a manual 2 years prior. Wasn't my choice the company I was driving was just switching over to autos. Now i wouldn't want to go back to a manual. I do flat bed currently, but i don't throw a tarp. Just straps over PODS. I don't know if I could go back to bumping docks again, but I'm not gonna judge those that do.
Straps over the pods sounds pretty good! That can't be too bad.
@@RidingWithDave it very good actually. It's easy work main con is just dealing with the weather. I had to toss 6 straps in a downpour near Miami a couple days ago. My biggest plus is I'm kinda my own boss in that i set the appointment times. I don't have to run my ass off to make someone else's per determined appointment.
@@RidingWithDave I like being a dock bumping door slinger with my automatic thanks for the new slogan lol I needed it hope to catch up with you on the road sometime I'm in Las Vegas right now waiting for another preplan keep the greasy side down shiny side up and try to ignore the haters they gonna hate and ainters gonna ain't
I just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos. And I really appreciate everything you do to get the stuff delivered. Keep up the great work Dave!
Been watching you since you made that video on how to counter steer your motorcycle 🏍️ big fan . Never stop the content brother
WAIT! You use a clutch to shift😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Colorado Rockies is the baseball team in Denver. Avalanche is the hockey team. We loved living in Colorado! Denver is an okay area, but we lived in Colorado Springs which his very beautiful. Too bad you couldn't get of the truck for food. Golden has a great pizza joint, Woody's Wood Fired Pizza. Safe driving Dave! Thanks for the great video.
When you have to wait for the combine or the grain cart, your in the middle of no where and it takes 1 hour for a load. Then you get to the terminal and there's 20 trucks ahead of you. Hailing grain can suck sometimes.
Driving a manual isn't hard, it just takes a little bit to get used to. A manual is fun, but I like my automatics... a lot. But grain hauling, I've only done from field to co-op, but it's relaxing and just following a certain route on backroads. You would get used to driving gravel and putting the hammer down because the combine is yelling at you on the two-way to get your (rear) to the field because you had to wait in line for an hour and the grain cart is full and the combine is waiting. But, if you're looking for seasonal harvest grain hauling, I can hook you up!😉
I will say, that while driving a manual is easy most of the time, mountain driving in a manual with a maxed out load can be a challenge. I also like them better for winter driving.
Just graduating drvier academy. Still talking to companies to determine which is the best fit for me. I enjoy watching your videos and hearing about your experiences. Im in the east and trying to find a southern route due to winter appraoching and dont wanna be in the mountains on ice and snow in my first few months. Keep doing you buddy!
Find a reefer company.
@Country start with a Local Farm Hauling Grain for them for a First Job.... best First Job you can start out with. Work your way up from the bottom and take your Time..... Guys start out as a Long Haul Over the Road in the first year and are away from the Family 4 weeks a Month.. If you go Local you will be home with the family more than you will be for Over the Road... Hope this helps
You know that CFI does that (Dave please correct me if I’m wrong).
@@ICREFAN_OFFICIAL CFI offer was waaaay to low tho. Had much better offers. I was excited to talk to CFI but they failed me 😆
@@CountrysLife ah I see
The one cool thing about manual, if you have an air leak you can still run. Once the psi in an automatic drops your tranny won’t shift or shift properly
You're absolutely right about parking in the north east. If you don't get a parking spot before dark, you are lucky if you can find one.
The secret is to just park it at 2p. I think when I run the NE, it's 8.5hr driving days and longer breaks running recap hours just to avoid the headaches.
I don't know how you guy's put up whith the industry today, keep up the good work.
Ranting With Dave
🤣🤣🤣
Love your work Man, keep it coming.
More like whining with Dave.
Thanks for the entertainment Dave. I Love your videos
Used to be you had no power steer, had to map out your route, figure out what was truck able, avoid the low underpasses, and weight limits, plan your fuel stops, call from a phone booth and get directions to write in a note book, slide axles, slide the fifth wheel, figure out how you were gonna log it, sometimes keeping two logs going at the same time, there was no road service every ten miles. Many time you had to fix it yourself…..,lots of loads only allowed 6-8 hours for a sleep break.
I have a freightliner with a 13 speed parked at the house. I drive an automatic for a company pulling a hopper cross country. I have so much more room. Keep being you and I'll keep watching. You make me laugh. You get ready to make the swap to a hopper, just holler.
Hopper bottoms are super easy! I haul frac sand in one. The hardest part which is super simple is closing the tarp if it's the manual style
Well the reason most companies has went to automatic transmissions is people don’t ever learn how drive and get the fuel mileage out of them. Actually most people don’t have a clue they are lucky to go forward and keep it up right and between the lines… Keep up the good work enjoy your vids and stay safe
All of that rant was spot on.
Colorado Rockies is our baseball team. Colorado Avalanche is hockey. Both play in Denver. Keep on trucking brother!
Good to hear that Billi Jo and you are still together.
Auto is a lifesaver in downtown Chicago traffic.
Floating gears is something different to using a clutch. And depending on the load I guess it makes sense to drive a manual shifter. Especially the oversize guys will get mad with a automatic transmission.
You'll love driving back roads!
I've been driving a Freightliner M2 series with a box in southern Manitoba, Canada to mostly small towns and the occasional farm or AGRO depot for the past 5 months.
The gravel isn't too bad but sometimes the road goes to mud and then it gets greasy pretty quickly.
Some of the driveways are decent and some are very sketchy. If you miss a turn, then you have to find a place you can turn around on to go back.
The other fun thing is meeting a harvester at a bridge that barely fits the harvester so I always give the farmer the first go and I'll wait.
Still beautiful countryside and I enjoy chatting it up with the people I meet.
This year's been quite challenging because of the tons of rain we've had up here with bridges washed out and roads closed due to flooding.
Haven't got stuck so far this year and I hope to keep that record going..lol
Do like your videos as they are very entertaining and you have a very positive attitude, which goes a long ways in this job.
Keep up the great videos!
So I watched until the end! I rode with my dad way back in the day. Started as a grain hauler back in 1981 after riding with my Father for many years! You have to be careful! There are grain haulers and hydraulic freight haulers! I still plow for a county hwy dept and fix roads so everybody can go to work!!
Im 12 so don't quote me but when you haul grain sometimes you get hired out by farmers to haul there grain. But after harvest and stuff you usually haul grain between elevators and you could take stuff from elevators to food plants of to plants the make feed and dog food and thing of that nature. Your videos are awsome.
Yooo glad to know you're a Saints fan as well! WHO DAT, WHO DAT, WHO DAT SAID THEY GON' BEAT THEM SAINTS!⚜
From 2000 to 2017, all I drove were manuals (8, 9, 10, super 10, 13, 18 - mainly 10 and super 10). Since December 2017, I've been stuck in automatics. I'm a company driver (CFI), so I drive the vehicle the company assigns to me. It is what it is...
What's the difference between a 10 and a super 10?
I do my trucking in the northeast. I’ll admit, you have to time your trip right. My old company didn’t allow ramp parking but I found out that what they didn’t know didn’t hurt them lol.
Colorado Avalanche play at the Pepsi Center in downtown Senver. Same arena the Nuggets play at. And we got the Colorado Rockies for our baseball team. We also have a lacrosse team (Colorado Mammoths)
That Audi is gonna turn into an innie if they aren't careful lol
For teams, Avalanche is hockey, Rockies is baseball, Broncos is football, and Nuggets are basketball.
Your still doing paper work lol Dave your just preaching to the choir I’ve been at it for five years and I’ve dealt with all walks of life lol
Baseball team is the Colorado Rockies. You got me on the Astros, I was already at the comments but had not started typing yet
Lol Dave came out guns blazin’ today
You're also at Colorado 58, you're right along one of my routes I do with our casino buses lol
Drove manual for many years, I thought same, older automatics were horrible. But modern automatics are great and I now prefer it
These newer autos shift the transmission pretty dam good. Best part is you don’t kill your left leg at the end of the day. And you have just as much control of the truck as the old school manual. Years ago when I was in the high school wing at the vocational college we would take the old cab overs (70’s models) out in to the parking lot and cruise around and shifting them was a pain in the ass as the linkage was a bit worn out and the clutch was well abused. I was the only one that was skipping gears cause we had no load. Also cause it was hard to find the gears in them.
I have a 73 IHI with a screaming Jimmy, a ten speed, and a four speed brownie behind that! Bring ear plugs and enjoy hitting 50mph.
I’ve been driving trucks since the wheel was invented. I can honestly say I’ve Never Ever made a wrong turn
Exactly, we just might take the scenic Route as a professional truck driver.
Been at it coming up on 32 years this coming February, I've pulled flatbed, dry van, reefer, tanker and end dump. I currently pull reefer and have done so for the last 7 some odd years and that's my preference but as far as manual/automatic? Give me the one that rolls and i can make money.
Listen to the radio traffic during a backup and tell me who seems more agitated, i can almost guarantee it's the one with the gear shift lever that's almost long enough to stick up their butt!
I guess that's to help them shift with the muscular atrophy that's no doubt set in or their over inflated head.
Well said!
Whatever you decide to do Dave if it’s otr In the city or grain hauling we’ll watch
Sad Dave can’t drive Manual
You gotta do bull hauling Dave, and when it comes to grain hauling all you're doing is loading up with grain at the farm and unloading at the co op
Dave I want to help you out. Do not go through Dallas at all... From Golden Colorado go down to Amarillo then through Lubbock and continue on down to Laredo... You can even miss San Antonio as well... this route is 16 hour and 48 min...1078 miles... You are welcome sir..
Golden Colorado is beautiful. Bunch of cyclists downtown. Picked up a load out of there to Las Vegas. Intertrashional couldn’t handle the mountains in Colorado and Utah
Denver's baseball team is the Colorado Rockies, and it looks like their hockey team is the Avalanche, though the local college hockey team came up first in a Google search
I love this truck and this channel keep on trucking
Love the outro of you on I-84. drive from Vancouver to Pendleton almost every day.
I agree with every word 🤣 I hate dealing with super truckers, with my flatbed trainer ATM and we had to get towed from a truckstop because he put DEF in the Diesel Tank. I learned that you can't tow a tractor and trailer together in the state of Iowa, so I rode with the guy towing the trailer back to the home depot we're based out of and he had a thing where as we got going he switched it into the next gear and then when he had to switch to that gear all he did was press in the clutch and pressed a button to upshift, and then would just put it in neutral when we had to slow down and put it into whichever gear his speed would allow. Pretty interesting stuff for us steering wheel holders 😂
Man seeing you drive past that Kipling exit at 16:23 brings back memories, I used to live just off Kipling St. due south and I recognize this area like the back of my hand.
I like your videos but I wanna see a video of you driving a manual in heavy traffic and through some mountain passes if it “ain’t that hard”
Hey Dave! Just wondering, do you think you will ever buy a truck for yourself? CFI has an o/o program
That's not buying a truck that's paying for a company truck lmao
@@matthewfromflint2504 oh, nvm then
Football is Denver Broncos, Hockey is Colorado Avalanch, Baseball is Colorado Rockies, Basketball is the Denver Nuggets.
Lol Dave! You're on a roll that day!
Ride Along Gang aren't allowed to park on ramps anymore. His company called him a few days back when he had parked for the night on a ramp and his com po any called and told him to get off the ramp.
Nothing wrong with automatic trucks. You guys still get the job done and loads delivered!
Hauling grain- usually have multiple loads coming out of a place, and searching for loads to get you back can be tough. A lot of grain hauls are short. Places will have 15000 tons of grain that need to go 150 miles.
Your paid by weight or bushel, so 80k is a light load, stay off the interstate and you can usually haul more, some states you can haul what you can bridge, get up in Michigan and they run b trains up to a gross of 164k iirc.
Most locations are first come, first serve, so as long as there isn't a line, your in and out. People are much friendlier and often will hand you a cold drink and a hat.
There is also stuff like harvest, where you might drive 100 miles in a 12 hour day, and charge 120/hr or get paid by the bushel (usually better if your working with a good crew that keeps you moving)
There is always other stuff you can haul with a hopper. Ddg, frac sand, fertilizer, mulch.
I'm just moving from company driver to O/O. I have the connections already so a hopper is my first trailer. Been thinking about doing a channel for it.
Colorado Rockies, Coors field is in Denver.
Guess I’m a super trucker because I prefer a manual to an auto shift. With a manual, I can control my rpm’s in all conditions. Especially in the mountains. I also float the gears. Clutch is for starting, stopping and backing. Yes the manual is a pain sometimes in traffic, but I am capable of going up and down through all the gears in traffic without ever touching the clutch. I’ve hauled grain, in a hopper and an end dump. Grain trains are a lot of climb up and watch till the front is filled, hurry up and get in and pull forward enough to fill up the middle in an end dump or the back hopper in a hopper bottom. Then hurry up and shut the grain drop off if you’re loading yourself or tell the farmer to shut off if you got help. Or pay attention and pull up when they tell you if you’re loading at an elevator. Dumping at the elevator is hurry up and wait if there’s a long line for the bean dump or corn dump. And there’s a lot of dust.
18 speed in the Canadian mountains with B trains 140,000 lbs baby
If you park at sapp bros in Denver, there's great waking/bike trails that go all over.
I do end dump trailer home daily stuff. I haul potato sludge from a French fry facility and we deliver to farms and an energy company. It’s pretty fun and pays really well.
Love you bud awesome trucker voice lol 😂 what a gift you have
I saw a feed hauler delivered to hog farm and he got stuck in the mud road next to pig pen , the truck was stuck there for several days
5:35 I can’t speak for everywhere, but here in the Denver area those are gravel or aggregate haulers. Basically go from a quarry to a cement plant and back and forth every day. There’s a lot of quarrys and aggregate plants up that highway you were on northeast of Denver.
Edit: Colorado Rockies are our baseball team
Fuckin rock haulers 😝
Most of the drivers out there nowadays wouldn't know how to shift the transmission that I learnt to drive on. Not a super trucker, just a driver that did the best I could with the equipment of the day. Try shifting an old 5 and 4, mack triplex, etc........
I don’t understand why everyone calls it an automatic, the truck doesn’t have a torque converter on it like a car.
It’s a Automated Manual Transmission which is the same as a manual with the difference, of the AMT, being that it has a computer and an air shifter. If you wanted to you can pretty much convert an AMT to a manual and you shift an AMT without the extra step
Aint no wifi at the farm
I learned how to drive manual when i was 17 ez lol nothing to it
I have a blown out knee. I can drive a manual anywhere but uphill. I can’t get my leg to move fast enough to shift if I need to clutch.
Thats all i ever drove was a manual , however I would love to drive an automatic. Absolutely not having to push clutch in , shift up, shift down. Seems like work smart not hard. Keep on truckn Dave, I got your 6 with those drivers from my era, lol.
i mean you don't have to always push in the clutch, only when you take off or go into reverse
you don't use the clutch.
You still use the clutch?
@@WorldTravelA320 For going in Reverse or from a dead stop to first gear. Double clutching is bad for the clutch, and your knee!
Dave that's quite the rant. There is a difference in manual to automatic for hills and off road. But that doesn't make one better then the other. I'm a last mile ltl with reefer and deck in Northern Canada. Ice roads and off road all the time. I would hate city driving and heavy traffic. Everybody has a lane.
god damn genny coupe. Respect !
Can always tell when you hit the vape. lol
Colorado Rockies is the Denver-based Major League Baseball team. ⚾
Colorado Rockies is the baseball team. Yes the avalanche plays in Denver. Stanley cup champions this year
Colorado Rockies for baseball we also have a lacrosse team in denever
You might be shifting but doesn't meen your doing it right. I drive a 13 speed and it's more then flipping splitters as you say. I'm far from a super trucker but I'm no mega carrier steering wheel holders that's for sure.👍 Been there done that when I first started but once I got experience no more mega carrier baby sitter micro managing. Believe it or not the reason behind so many companies having automatics now is because a lot can't shift a truck. Shifting a truck is nothing like shifting a car the only similarity is both have a clutch and both have a stick shift.
That was an end dump, typically you would see grain in a hopper. That's not to say that grain doesn't get hauled in end dumps, just not nearly as common as a hopper.
Grain and typically feed ingredients,DDGs,are all put in hoppers if possible. Certain places require a dump for various reasons but even then the rates suck on hopper loads unless you can 25 ton or better. All that stuff pays on pounds.
Bet you cant drive an 18 speed huh huh huh. LOL just kidding Dave! Have fun out there and be safe. And Denver has The Colorado Rockies lol.
No the best question to ask is can I get a radio check even better on the days when a lot of other people are asking for a radio check
🤣 Dave really triggered the super truckers with this rant! They don't like being called out for their idiotic super trucker comments! Lol
That trailer was a end dump they haul things like rock coal ash hooper bottoms where what you was talking about i have pulled both blood meal in hopper and turkey guts in a end dump
You should ask one of the drivers with the roll tarp. When they are parked at a truck stop.
Hey Dave going to Laredo from Golden take 25 south to 287 save some miles and a little quicker. I drive oversized and overweight and wide load. I don't drive in bad weather and day usually ends by 5 pm. Very little at night. 30 years doing it, I love it
Best part about super truckers is how they fail to understand that absolutely nobody gives a fuck what you drive, the only thing that matters is getting freight delivered since that what gets you paid.
I'll take a auto every time if I have the option. The only time I like the manual is during parking. You can float it in better with the manual.
Time for cfi to put you in a next gen kw 👍
hockey is great. I went to my 2nd ever blue jackets game a month before covid happened lol
And yes the air is yes the air is thinner. Up here in Colorado
Driving through Commerce City saying "its pretty up in here"
Said no one
Ever
But Dave
Moving for cop is personal conveyance
I don't care which trans you have just stay out of left lane if you can't go speed limit
It's a beer load, I knew as soon as he said golden
You didn't like the pretty drive from Denver to Raton and over to Amarillo?
Manuals are super easy and honestly easier to controll in the winter