SWAMP LOGGERS NC / "Tract Progress...Hungry Crew and Trucker Safety"
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- In this segment we look in on Bobby and his crew and the progress on the Rynstein/Huffman Tract in Pender County. Word has spread about the 100 loads or 100k like on the videos and Dave cooking, so the crew has kicked it up a notch. Jimmie Locklear of Forestry Mutual Insurance sheds some light on the current logging and truckers insurance situation.
I still love Bobby Goodson and his men, and Justin is as always, AWESOME!
Regardless of regulation, stopping bad drivers driving, drink and drug screening to prevent collisions, injury and death is just common sense.
I'm so glad to see a UA-cam channel for Goodson. I watch the tv series and was disappointed to see it go! I was just a kid then. God bless you!
I wish yall where back on tv
Why they take show off this was great show loved watching them logg
Love what y'all are doing Bobby way down in Alabama. God bless all of you . In Jesus name.
Bobby, I know good and well you probably don’t remember this but back along time ago when I was about 7 or 8 years old I would watch your show over and over and over again tell I knew every word y’all said. Well about when I was 7 or 8 years old for my birthday I wanted to get a photo of you and the whole crew. Well my parents decided to contact you all and try to get a picture and signatures of everyone. Well it worked everyone signed it. I still have that picture hanging in my room to this day. From I was 5 years old I knew that logging was a business I wanted to be involved in. Bobby I’m sure you probably don’t have any time to look at this but if you do it would mean the world to me. My name is Sam Vannoorbeeck and I’m from Virginia.
Hi Sam.....Thank you so much for your kind words. That means alot! Tell everyone in Virginia that we said hi!
I like the video and the song at the end!
Simitrio is the best operator!
It’s so good to see y’all back! We miss Dave!!!
I’ve been trucking flatbed/heavy haul for 30 years. The amount of steering wheel holders on the road now is just sad. Pure lack of old school professionals is dwindling every day.
hope everyone that watches this video slows down.team safety sounds great.i liked that song at the end too....an the bloopers.be safe out there and take care everyone.🇺🇸🚛✌️ 🙏🙏
As Robert Hight, a driver in the NHRA (drag racing), is supporting "don't drive intoxicated and don't drive INTEXTICATED!!!!!!" put the phones down or in the glove box, center console, where ever!!!!!!! using those phones while driving is just as bad if not worse in occurrence than driving while drunk!!!!
What about this Bobby, take a big tuff shed find a place have your wife help you with this. Make it a classroom. Go to the nearest truck driving school, tell them what you are looking for, like a responsible that is willing to to take their truck driving education farther. Becoming a serious truck driver! You get new people without anything on their records. Teach them how to become a logging truck driver. Becoming, Bobby's Logging Truck Academy!!!
That way when you retire you can become an instructor.
With the Lord's help, you can do anything!!!
I worked in the logwoods for years and even done it part time after choosing another career with retirement I still love it if it had retirement and good insurance would still be logging loved it I commend y’all for the hard patience and drive keep getting it.
boy no joke wish they were back on tv too very good show
Bobby, Thanks for the videos you take the time to explain a side of the industry that us outsiders don't see.
I absolutely enjoy this video mostly because I'm being talked to like I'm setting in class learning. May God bless you with great truckers.
Awesome videos Mr Bobby, really like and appreciate what yall are doin responsibly for our woodlands! I am a crane operator at a papermill in south Mississippi so i certainly have a respect and appreciation for yalls occupation! Keep on keeping on my friend! Be safe!
Thank you for putting this video out there. It's good for everyone on the road wether your a trucker or a regular car or pickup, whatever. Like you said in the video people drive around trucks like they can stop on a dime or turn like a car. One the problems we've had here in Oregon is trucks that haul veneer! That's another high load and we've had many wrecks this year that were the drivers fault because they were going to fast going around an on ramp and to over. That costs a lot of money to clean up the wreck plus to fix the truck!!! But I also agree with Bobby, that nation wide we need to teach all drivers when they are getting a license about how things work out on the streets and roads with vehicles!! Thanks again for sharing.
Totally agree on safe trucking...we have truckers over here who regularly cheat the tachograph by swapping cards so do not take the proper rest periods..the worse drivers are from Eastern Europe who are badly trained if ever..many just get a license with little or no training and cause many accidents...injuries and deaths...also need a system when mobile phones are totally disabled once the truck starts as have several bad fatalities by distracted drivers slamming into the back of stationary traffic killing people...at the end of the day no matter how well you train drivers it has to be their mentality and total responsibility for the truck and the way they drive it....and needs a whole different mind-set....
I enjoy these videos and I hope you can keep making them. I liked to listen to Simetreo explain about the 'feller'.
All DRIVERS need to leave the Me & I mentality at home and join the We & They team on the roads!
Amen we dnt need anymore rain in jacksonville n.c wev had bout all the ground will handle love the videos bobby keep up the good work
hello there Mr Bobby Goodson and all crew members.love the videos and what you all do.safety is main priority.be safe and take care.✌️🇺🇸🚛🙏🙏
Hi Bobby I am from Mississippi and I used to watch your show on tv and I still watch the show on UA-cam. I am glad y’all got a UA-cam channel. Great video
Hey Bobby and Lori I love all your videos since day 1
Bobby and Lori another great video thank you for putting them out!!
I look forward to seeing them when you guys do put them out very educational this one was very educational I’m an owner operator over the road from logging truck back when I was younger looks like the industry is changed quite a bit guys have a great day be safe!!
Great video Bobby thanks for sharing have a great day
Love your show Bobby keep up the good work
I have said for years now and agree with you Bobby about having every driver learning how truck and trailers handle before getting their license.
Wish you were on TV again
Bobby I just started watching swamp loggers for the last month and a half, I'm from Chicago, man I wish I was 30 yrs old again, I'd go down there and beg you for job , your a great boss, and you have a great crew, some down home people, I've reruns from 2012 up here ,wish you guys were on a update shows on regular TV, keep up the good work..
as always love ya video, still looking for Dave 👁, best to all you guys love yaw.
Bobby
Glad your back on. First off my Dad and I watched on discovery. I even bought a 640 clambunk that we modified to fit our needs. I have been around equipment since I was a kid. I hold a class A CDL and only do my own hauling. Many large companies will put you in bad situations. I have been told to haul oversized with no permits escorts etc. I have been ridiculed and punished for trying to do right or refusing to do something that would have serious consequences all the time knowing better.
Great info. Good to see you Bobby! I subscribed and liked and look forward to seeing more videos.
Really miss you guys on TV it was one show that I really look forward to seeing every week. Hope you all doing good at in the swamp. Source of truck drivers go them schools keep pumping them out and they'll keep wrecking the loads and us to consumer will keep paying for it. I drove over 30 years with not one wreck. Couple speeding tickets but no accidents
Love the song!!!!!
So happy to see y’all doing good.
Completely agree with the statement about in order to get your license there needs to be more in the test about trucks not just school buses not that that is not important but truckers have families to go home to.
Great Video
Sorry to hear that the trucking side of the Logging Industry is in the shape that its in...
Doesn't look like any quick easy fix to the problem in the near future
Sure do wish you and all your guys could feast on Dave's Delicious Cuisine really soon...
Thanx for sharing...
Good luck for the future. Thanks for the video.
I use to watch the show on TV every week. I enjoyed the show, and getting into the peoples lives on the show if someone got hurt or something like that and how they were doing in recovery, not that I want to see anyone get hurt by just talking about being into the show.
I agree that you have got to get good drivers to drive these trucks. I use to drive a truck but never had experience doing something like this kind of work. It is a very hard job to do though. I hope this does well, I would love to see the show back on TV again. Thank you.
Worried about yous miss you all praying
PS: I sure like those big fat-tire double-bogie Tigercats.
Thanks Mr & Mrs Godson for another informative video the days have sure changed as far as drivers you never had to worry much and not to mention that if you started driving years ago there's a big chance that you started in a log truck now you see trucks hauling everything so more over the road drivers then there are the off road log truck type drivers any how best of luck to you on drivers and I sure hope Dave gets to cook for you as you cannot afford to have your stomach chewing on your backbone.
It's the same across the whole transport industry
No one trains the rookies anymore
Hard to make a living hauling logs round here when they only paying $12-$13 an hour and the trucks are ragged out. Boss man’s son pulls up in an $80,000 pickup to ride to the woods an back in and the truck your hauling in ain’t worth $10,000. Ol buddy I’m driving for now though keeps good equipment an pays 25% of the truck. Can’t beat that w a stick! Enjoy the videos tho Mr Bobby!
It's a great video I'm hoping to meet you at the Paul Bunyan show in October
We got to here Jimmy tell us about team safe trucking this spring at our Minnesota ACLT certification training. It sounds like we're all fighting the same battles.....
Good program with great guy's !
Safety starts with attitude , following good health and safety practices is only a start everybody must contribute to keep the standard high and keep improving it .How do you protect yourself against the outside world on the roads when you constanly fight against cell phone, drugs,drunk, and dangerous drivers? cheers nz
The problem with trucking is the mega companies are taking guys with 2 months experience training new drivers. It's like the blind leading the blind. Good drivers are hard to find, especially log truck drivers. If you find good drivers you gotta take care of them.
Good drivers ain't cheap
Cheap drivers ain't good lol.
Keep up the awesome videos!👍
Only thing I change is this. Sometimes when you are showing the equipment working, let us hear it. Stop the music and let us hear the saw, let us hear the truck, dozer, etc. that's the big thing I miss. I want to hear the saw go through the log, not the music.Keep it up, I enjoy watching all of your videos.
You can tell that Bobby is good people. I could work for a boss like that any day.
Great video Bobby, the trucking industry, not just logging is going through lean times, here in the UK we are really finding it hard to get good experianced drivers and also bringing new drivers into the industry, about 9 years ago in europe we intruduced an industry wide qualifaction called Driver certificate of profesonal compintance , or DCPC for short , every driver has to have completed 35 hours of training with in 5 years, this can be in a block or most drivers or companies do 7 hours a year, this card then has to be renewed again every 5 years , this can be on anything relevante to the indusrty so many firms base the training around there trade, plus adding refresher training on drivers hours and and new legal updates, at first a lot of older drivers just said once they get to 5 years they are calling it a day, and a lot did just give up their HGV liecence, and the indusrty struggeld to back fill those spaces , but as time went on they have started to replace them but not enough, this is partly due to wages aswell , but getting back to the DCPC, its good cos it gives different areas of the indusrty a chance to focus on their specialist area , like you said in the video about truck roll overs cos the trucks being top heavy, and how a flat bed or box van driver not understanding that to start with. a lot of companies provide there own in-house dcpc training as long as it government approved and they do random drop in inspection on training classes to make sure they do 7 hours .at the end of 35 hours training you our isused a DQ card which all the time you are driving the truck must be on you and can be asked for it by the police or the DVSA ( DOT) and if you do not have it , it carries a penalty for the driver and the company your working for and points on your licence and on the company compliance score and its also an early bath for the driver till he gets his completed card. I hope this helps with ideas for better training and industry knowledge for drivers and companies. GODSPEED from GREAT BRITAIN
Damn you are a great men ,respect buddy
Driving a log truck can be one of the most fun things you ever do it you know what your doing. I agree that there is no kind of training to train these folks. I got lucky and was trained by the company I worked for. Someone that don't know what they are doing can make a mess fast. I've seen it multiple times. Once you get in it's hard to get out. I just went back flatbed after pulling logs and I miss it. Once you go in the woods once it's in your blood and something you never want to give up. Also the log woods is hard on equipment and there are many loggers who don't take care of trucks and trailers like they should such as breaks and lights which is another thing that contributes to high insurance rates.
Love your videos
I watched you on tv . Glad I found you on UA-cam
A lot of information that’s needed to get out
As I drive a company truck and subject to the piss test . I found the dash camera comes very important as it my voice in claims .
A lot of people want a free ride in life
Please keep putting video as this format is better then the tv.
You do not have to what the network says
Great Job , you have awesome crew guys ! Let's get those "likes" and comments in ! Get all you all some great food ! I hear Dave is an AWESOME chef ! Keep it up guys you guys Kill it every day !!!
Hope you can find some solid drivers!! Love your videoes!
I enjoy the Swamp Loggers reruns on Quest! There's always more going on in the middle of nowhere than most people realize. The format was entertaining, I don't (yet) know why the show ended.
While watching Season 2 "Crisis at the Mill" (8 October 2010), something occurred to me;
Y'all could use heavy-lift drones to ferry parts, tools, equipment, medical aid, etc. from one end of the operation to the other, and save all that down time en-route by any other means! You could also use the on-board, live-stream video camera to put eyes & ears wherever you need them. Have you considered it?
Something else; Since beaver infested land is prone to flooding, dead & dying trees and hampers shovel road building, etc. Have you or Corbett considered working with land owners to open wet plots to licensed trappers, for beaver management? My guess is y'all do what you have to out there, but Discovery didn't allow filming of it for fear of upsetting some viewers.
the reason my father got out of trucking ( owned around 30 trucks ) was the insurance company telling him who he could hire and could not hire, he could NOT hire a man with 20 years experience and a couple speeding tickets but he could hire someone fresh out of driving school with no experience. that was the end for him.. pulling tankers with Haz Mat loads.. insurance and government,
NIce to see you all on here, nice video
Great video Bobby! These are some very, very important issues! Do your insurance people require steel toed work boots on the job? If they don't they should! If a log drops on your toe, it is better to have something between crushed toes from wearing a sneaker to going home at the end of the day thanking the good Lord that they still have their toes! Keep up the safety and the great videos!
steel toe boots will not stop your foot from getting hurt. In some cases they make it worse a log dont stop just on the end of your boot it rolls all the back. Then your foot is trapped with the log behind the steel toe. I have had this happen and you cant get your foot out. They are good for some cases but not all.
awwhh poor bobby he like me he's waistin away to nothin lol!!! great vid as always brother !
A good video Bobby i was honestly thinking it was going to be yet another truck driver bashing video bud the insurance guy Jimmy seems to have a good respect for truckers and is just looking to keep them safe i really liked his position on the drivers . And you Bobby are totally correct it is not worth killing a innocent person if the truck driver does mess up and causes and accident great video very much enjoyed it
Might start with after-school programs for the kids (like in Iceland where there has been high drug/ alcohol use in the young people) to keep the young people clean. In most western countries the kids probably have the school career counselor telling them that trucks are going to be self driving with no truck drivers required in a few years and they should study or qualify for something else at college, tech etc.
I guess the technology in trucks is likely to fairly quickly get to a similar level with the tesla car auto pilot.
Here there are companies that have the forward road/ back/ side view cams and also a cam directed at the driver (after one driver parked a truck in a house).
As trucks become more electronic with onboard human driver monitoring (e.g optidrive 360) the company management quickly knows which drivers are better skilled than others.
Keep up the good work guys. If you need a truck driver I could maybe come in the winter time
Mr goodson, I'm a fourth generation logger in VA and we are facing the same problem and issues that you are. the only good advice I can give you is to get rid of all that tigercat equipment and get John Deere
i have driven a front discharge concrete truck the last 18 years got to be careful out there
I had one roll over in a truck I had just bought bc I couldn’t find contact trucks and was tying to work all day and haul wood half the night, ran off rd going around a curve and bc of a deer and nothing but trailer tires went off rd and that was all she wrote. Pulled me right on over and no headache rack. Damn if I wasn’t lucky bc I had a cab full of pine chip and saw Pulling a stick wagon or chip wagon is a whole different ballgame than straight rd trucking. Y’all be safe
Please keep the videos coming . Wish you were still on tv. I catch some re runs.
here here on edjamacatin the public on truck safety ! spot on bobby !
Do whatever you need to do to get Dave back
Jimmy Locklear definitely knows what he talking about!!!! OTR Driver compared to Log Truck Driver. OTR Driver needs that training so he will know the difference between a Log Truck Driver Job. 👍 👍
Nice video and great channel! Greetings from Austria!
Bobby, that’s the biggest problem with drivers coming off of over the road trucks and getting into a log truck, 75% of wrecks with log trucks is them turning over because they went into a curve to fast. They just don’t understand how top heavy a log truck is. When your hauling logs and come up to a curve, if that curve is marked at 45 miles an hour u better be doing 35 to be able to make it safely around that curve and the drivers today don’t understand that until they lay one over. I’m 60 years old and been logging ever since I was 12 years old so I know what I’m talking bout
timmy frierson u hit the nail on the head an even then ur loads r different
new equipment with the safety systems mandatory over here would also help. electronic brakes can prevent turnovers, but nothing can fix stupid.
american drivers seems to want to drive fast as they dont get paid by the hour. thats really not helping.
Thanks for the video Mr Goodson
It’s the same here in Europe but the reason behind the driver shortage is the wages plain and simple and all the good people are giving up .. and then company’s will stick any one in the truck ..most of them shouldn’t be behind the wheel
Mr goodson, since you are addressing your truckers I had one of your trucks run me off the road on 421 in nc and he didn’t even slow down to check on me or the kids I had in my car, still love the channel and I know that really has nothing to do with you I was just making you aware of the situation
wouldn't a phone call to their office be more appropriate,than posting here. I would call in a heartbeat, most companies want to know. Thankful you were safe
Love your videos, always informative. I am wondering what Dave is doing since he left your show.
Maria Sweidan Goodson said on another video he finally became a chef.
Id requimend you call the company not post here in the comments. I had called a company over a flamable placard driver who had unsafe fallowing distance, speeding, improper lane changes, not stopping at a rail-way crossing required by law being placard, and even cut me off getting 1 place ahead. I took the trailer plate, truck number, and company info telling the company i have a state trooper on speed dial if i cross him again on his illegal actions. I gave te company a benefit of before their FMCA score would have tanked and their insurance would increase all because of that 1 driver being a fool.
Just a suggestion if not implemented already. Install forward facing camera's in all of your company trucks and require contract trucks to have them if pulling your wood or trailers. It will give you leg to stand on in case the four wheeler caused the issue. I hate for it to come to this but even having driving facing cameras to element there actions causing some issues.
Great video bobby , Keep them coming
Great video. Really liked the song at the end.
Ya like he said I miss watching this show Mr Bobby needs a medal for all the shit he went threw come back to TV ....o ya I'm in Maine
I would love to see shorter vids (10 mins), but an equivalent. Love these vids though. I love hearing the RAW story - no drama.
Never mentioned that a few years ago North Carolina changed the weight laws for log and agricultural trucks to 90,000 gross.
Donald Knobloch thats crazy... but you dont see them prices on the tons go up.
Ernest Brock no but accidents have gone up. Also what about maintenance issues of trucks. Can't really put it all on the drivers.
That was a funny joke!! Alot of Locklear in Robeson county but I know it wasn't his family. I guess you would have to know the area to catch the JOKE. 😂😅😂😂😅😂
I harvest literd stumps and they have really just started cracking down on us never had to worry what we put on trailers 118 thousand was a great load to us but it's very unsafe being that heavy
Awsom video keep up the good work.
Great video keep them coming!!! Where is the burgandy Kenworth? Did Bo and Joy stop driving?
I work for a paper company and they do nothing to discourage overweight trucks on the roadway. Maybe the insurance company needs to start checking the drivers load reports. I know for a fact a major paper company that doesn't care how much wood they are hauling and the trucks they are driving are wore out and unsafe. I have followed Bobby and see his trucks come in the mill often and I must say he keeps his trucks in tip top shape and doesn't go over the weight limits. I guess if you are heading to hell in the afterlife a log truck would be a good way to get there. You would probably be glad to arrive. BTW Bobby - can you get Monkey to bring me a Goodson All Terrain logging hat?
Lots of mills, will turn you away if your over loaded these days. 25 years ago I would go in with what I had. Be it 70,000 lbs or 110,000 lbs. Today they have to leave, then come back legal. Local truck stop will take off 3 logs. Hes making good cash doing that.
Stay safe out there
I love this show
Great video!
Great video...
You all really earn your money.
I got 30 years experience driving trucks pulling log dump flat lowboy and March 2 2018 i stop driving because of company i drove for stucka camera in my face 24/7 and dispatch screwing me around. Unless i can drive with out a camera in my face then i go back to driving. Had not ever turn a truck over or accident. So if someone out there can put me in a good truck without a camera and good pay i will drive again. If you are a logger and need a by the book person to make sure the drivers you have or hire is doing it right i am your man i believe in being safe and drivers wearing ppe.
Tell us in two words what you want the SUBJECT to be in the next video. Remember, two words!!
Feller Buncher
Truck Bonanza
Goodsons All Terrain. Swamped Trucking
Sawmill
Shop repairs
where are you at need more vids miss you keep going
I understand the trucking side completely. Family of CDL holders, but do not have one myself. I let driver have their room and watch for them. Had a woman scrape againt the passenger steer tire and drove away. Being infront and aware, i caught the entire thing stopping traffic so the driver could get her plate. Also had my fair share of bad CDL holders. Had a run-in with a company hazardous placard tanker driver. Speeding, failure to stop at a railway crossing, and unsafe fallow distances. He even cut me off to end 1 spot ahead. I warned the company to solve the issue before DPS Officer would be called. I know FMCA scores are vital and it also plays into the insurance costs. Rather have a company notifed before it costs them money in a wreck or ticket riden drivers on the books.
Is everyone still with you that was on the TV show where's Dave and Bo Bo and monkey and the rest of the crew now
Great job
It's hard to have a over the road truck in the brush and mud that most drivers don't app and help keep them clean because the newer ones not able to take abuse like the old ones loved the tv ser bob dad put u up with Andy Griffith 😎
Dude this rain is kickin our ass too. We have our motor grader doin the same thing your talking bout today. We’re about 30 miles from Wilmington off 74