#523 Dumpsters and Heavy Roofing Shingles The Life of an Owner Operator Flatbed Truck Driver

like like what part of michigan all right just do white cloud and that'll give me an idea okay do do detroit um what's the raid on it let's go do it right there yeah let's just go ahead and do it okay talk to you later all right bye [Music] do [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] all right good morning we're in jeffersonville ohio at the ta truck stop we loaded our dumpsters yesterday bailey's up in the truck a little noisy out here ah this is what we got they're real easy to load that's probably about 20 000 pounds somewhere like that going down to cincinnati now we're lucky they're going on what i think it's 275 because around cincinnati they're going around the outside of cincinnati so we we don't have to get way down into cincinnati the only thing that i do that i don't see most guys do with these is i'll put a chain on the front up here let's put one chain on the front and that's more soda i should hit the brakes keep them from shooting forward but uh other than that these are pretty cut and dry uh today could be a busy day we gotta go deliver these run over to uh brookville indiana pick up heavy roofing shingles and take them down to uh norman norman oklahoma uh over by oklahoma city so uh hopefully [Music] built tanker hopefully we'll make it over to effingham at least and maybe a little bit further so all right let's get our day started all right we uh loaded our roofing shingles and we're stopped here at the rest area we've only gone about 20 miles uh google maps it's i-74 out there google maps said there's about an hour back on i-74 before you get to indianapolis so i don't know what i'm gonna do we do have an option google maps gives the option of running over to 65 run through the woods over to 65 down to louisville and down that way i was going to go outside but you see the guys mowing the grass so it'll be kind of noisy out there but if you look in the mirror you'll see our roofing shingles bailey's excited take her out we're heavy paperwork says 47 640 pounds so if you look right there if it shows up let me see if i can get it to show up so if you look we're sitting at about 30 33 000 on the drives so i had to move it back i was going to show you guys that i'm going to go outside i had to move it back from center just a little bit throw some weight to the back of the trailer all right let me figure out what we're going to do here we might run through the woods go down to louisville all right so i have decided continue on state road 46 east for one and a half miles to run through the woods when i say run through the woods i just mean not on the interstate we're gonna get on highway 129 i don't think i've ever took this road so i hope it works out we'll take a highway 129 down to 50 highway 50. take 50 over to uh mount vernon indiana get on 65 run 65 down towards louisville go get on 64. google maps updated their uh thing and it said there's a 30 minute backup and it keeps fluctuating between 30 and 20 minutes so i don't know if it's construction or accident or both people uh get too much of a hurry but we'll drag our heavy roofing shingles through the woods so yeah science says hill rom i think they make uh medical stuff i think so i don't know i don't know what that place made i've seen them before but i don't know what they make that hill rom in 1000 feet turn right onto indiana 129 south all right we're gonna get on this 129. see what happens i don't think i've ever took this road before so hopefully it's not too long right onto indiana 129 south we'll see continue on indiana 129 south for 10 [Music] miles all right [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right it's the end of the day we uh made it over here to cuba missouri um so i ended up running through the woods there over to uh i-65 and then uh 65 down to louisville to 64. and i ran 64 all the way to st louis and we're now on 44. this is the uh i think this is called the uh midwestern truck stop or something anyway i like stopping here i usually don't park on this end i used to park way down at the other end but uh i didn't see any parking down there i liked so we're gonna park here plus they got a nice nice big green field here bailey's out running around she's been cooped up we had a long day today we drove uh 560 miles today unloaded and reloaded so uh we got about 400 miles down to uh oklahoma city we did book a load out of oklahoma city loading on friday going back up to michigan so that's our weekend load so we're set for a while all right i'll give you one more view of the truck here and we're gonna call it quits for today all right talk to you later thanks for watching

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Length: 14min 55sec (895 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 15 2021