#408 Finally Back to Work The Life of an Owner Operator Flatbed Truck Driver Vlog

you [Music] [Music] tastes the 23rd we've been working on this just about three weeks now so and we're getting ready to put the last a couple pieces of metal up we ordered our metal from place up in Tucson and we take three sheets at a time we found that three sheets is about what we can handle we'll take three sheets I built this little cradle right here with 16 foot boards we slide the sheets up on the board trim the sheets just group pre-drill the holes get everything lined up and then Teresa drives the tractor around and raises it up and then we just slide the sheets up onto the roof [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] after three months off of work finally back at work we are in Sayer Oklahoma at the Flying J truck stop and this is our load I call these tar machines pick them up out of Phoenix we got Tina back going up to Milwaukee and this one right here is going to Ohio near Cleveland I got my satellite dish mounted helping the back mounted up there let's see what else that I do with the truck sighs at home trailers doing good I need to get it washed today's plan is we're going to stop in Oklahoma City get some fuel and then make our way up to Cuba Missouri there's truck stop up there with flying with a Blue Beacon Truck Wash that's be our goal to pay about 550 miles as you can see whether pretty bad I'll admit I did not look at the weather report I was not expecting this we're gonna go to this ta truck stopped over here this tea is a little tricky getting in and out of but they got cheap fuel for surprises like $1 78 go over here is fuel I don't know I put a look at the weather see where this is going this been like this prime for the last 20 miles oh man Oh they got no power here the lights out let's feel like that yeah on the lighter I know here I think let's do this let's go over here to this TA sit it out for a little bit cuz honestly I am I Drive this stuff let's uh but it looks like the power's out the lights those traffic lights are out and I don't see many lights on I got a little over a quarter tank of fuel getting wrinkled in the toll road so I need to get some cash I have some other options if this place isn't open now they got the power over there just the lights on over here pull up to the pump see what it looks like a lot of water here that's a lot of water yeah I did not pay attention to the weather and I probably up I wasn't expected this let's see well he might do is just eat lunch eat lunch yeah there's no lights on in the store and so let's uh let's Berkeley lunch and then figure it out from there figure it out from there so I don't know if I'm gonna get the truck washed or not this rain did washing out the dirt the bugs off the so we came from that way you can see it's clear enough the buzzer still works we'll just make some lunch have some lunch yeah I I think people call it the cove in 20 but I gained a little bit of weight while I was at home so I got to do a little better job watching what a I will park here that way I can see when the lights go all right that's it we'll talk in a bit all right we got some fuel over here this Flying J off of i-35 I don't like coming to this flying J cuz it's a mess trying to get in and out of here especially trying to get back onto the toll road but we got fuel we got cash so we got about 200 miles up to Joplin from right here and then [Music] just fly jays they built these flying jays with one way in and one way out and if you get somebody parks in the driveway I'm just get right here doesn't give you much room to get in and out so we've got about 200 miles up to Joplin you figure out what we're gonna do it's 1:30 I wanted to go a little bit further we'll see I've got an ABS light on my tractor and I'm wondering if there's all that deep water that I drove through sometimes if it's just wet drive it it'll clear itself up we'll see ah seen a bit alright we made it over here to the petrol in Joplin Missouri and still got to show up ABS light so this trucks smart it'll tell you which one's wrong so da right wheel speed sensor so what that means is drive axle right wheel speed sensor so we'll crawl out there and take a look and see I was hoping it would just be wet but we've gone about 200 miles since since we left Oklahoma City there's Peterbilt dealer up over the interstate over there so that was why I stopped um instead of me crawling up on it aired showing you let me raise the hood up and I'll show you what the speed sensor looks like hang on okay we got the hood up probably a little easier to show you so this piece right there if it shows up that's the speed sensor right there and it goes in there and there's a little cog on inside the wheel and it's a little magnet that little speed sensor is a magnet and there's a little wheel that cogs on it and it reads it as it spins around sometimes it'll get water or dirt up in there and it doesn't read it or all that water we drove through it could be water could have shorted out or something so what I'm gonna do for right now so it said right side so that would be over here and it doesn't say which axle it just says right side let's we can look to see but anyway I'll I'll crawl under there sometimes those uh sometimes that little thing will get loose or something if you tap on it sometimes that'll fix it but what it does is it detects the speed it's what calls Beatson takes the wheel spinning and that's how it operates the anti-lock brakes if if it stops spinning it releases the brake on there now the brakes still work fine and everything even a little lights on but let's even get it fixed so I'm gonna crawl up on it and see what I can find okay a little update we're still over here in Joplin at the petrol hey if this guy drive by fast enough you guys can see this cow hauler good luck in truck and you go all right so I called the shop which is right across the street there and I went over there and asked him for estimate they said they'd have to look it up in the meantime I went over to Peter bill or not over but I called Peter bill the part itself like $57 and it requires removing the wheels the brake drum and the brake shoes in order to get that sensor in and out and I knew that so I was curious what the shop they what kind of estimate they would so they quoted me estimate around $200 including the part so I didn't think that was too bad hopefully they know what they're doing like I said it's a pretty simple process so hopefully they could do it so it's gonna be a couple hours before they get me into the shop get it done next week starting Sunday supposed to be like a blitz a DoD blitz so trying to keep everything straight I could drive down the road but if I got a little bit of time right now to get it done so I'm going get it done man all right so that if we're gonna call it quits for today because I don't know what's going to happen so you got the paint to stay tuned for tomorrow so this is the first video back at work so hopefully stay at work for a while and I can keep this truck together but that's it thanks for watching welcome back you

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Length: 14min 48sec (888 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 10 2020