#551 Racing the Clock and Downtown Cincinnati The Life of an Owner Operator Flatbed Truck Driver

so it's two o'clock right now and we're kind of racing the clock but we're not racing the uh uh the log book i'm racing the regular clock i want to make sure i get up here in time to get a parking spot as you can see the sun's coming up i got a uh a lot of comments on my hair it was getting out of control so i had to put a hat on all right we got loaded over in middlesboro kentucky we're now over here by cincinnati ohio we're on the kentucky side we're dropping down into cincinnati on 75 heading north we're on our way up to youngstown we're going to get on we're gonna get on uh 71 north so that's cincinnati straight ahead there here in just a bit we're gonna go across the bridge i think it's the ohio river bridge i don't have much footage for you today so i'm gonna give you some driving footage but it's pretty interesting going across this bridge and where you got to get on 71 and then 71 kind of goes right through downtown there and we got the trucker path gps up after one mile deep right so we want those signs that say 71 north and i think this is the earth i think this is the ohio river bridge here [Music] columbus so we want that 71 north 50 east now we loaded up big reels of cable we're a little top heavy so we just got to be careful a little bit i know where i'm at so we're in downtown uh cincinnati here we want to follow this sign 71 north now the trucker path gps it does tell you what lane to be in it shows you which is a big help all right let's move over one lane here get out of the way we got about 20 i think 28 000 pounds on the trailer and this whole truck does pretty good with that wing all right anyway 42 000 this motor i am impressed with this motor so far knock on wood so it's two o'clock right now and we're kind of racing the clock but we're not racing the uh uh the log book i'm racing the regular clock i want to make sure i get up here in time to get a parking spot so we should get there about 5 30 which should be pretty good to get a parking spot we're trying to get up to uh what is it uh i want to say knee high i think that's right something lodi lodi up to lodi ohio there's a big ta there so that's where i'm trying to get to grab another gear here all right we made it over here to lodi we're in reserve parking it's a good parking spot i can back up in there and get my hood out of the way so i don't mind paying whatever it costs we got here last night made it in time this is what we loaded yesterday these big reels now they said to put two chains in the front i haven't hauled these in a long time so the preferred method is what they told me was two chains in the front two chains in the rear and use straps two straps on all the others and i did it on this one here let me get up here and show you so the issue is getting the strap to come through the hole and getting the hook to come through this hole here and this is what they said the preferred method was it's the straps but what i ran into was this problem right here up here so see how that hole they're not lined up well the buckle won't go through there the hook won't go through there chain will fit through there and they have a long bar that you slide in the hole here and it goes through and then that's what you took the chain up to and then you pull the chain through so this is legal this is fine but uh for some reason that was their preferred method there was a lot of other guys doing it like this too with a chain like this so they're not heavy total load is what 20 28 000 pounds so uh they're not heavy at all but uh we got to take these over to youngstown i appreciate it [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] all right we're done for the end of this video i got a couple hours before uh i have to go over and reload i actually got four hours so uh i'm gonna try to edit a video hang on so the rear trailer shots that i get this guy just coming through there ain't it hang on so i was crawling up on our dorsi trailer hey they just going right through the parking lot ah i've done it before i shouldn't complain anyway that's what i'm after it's the little camera up there people ask how i get the rear trailer shots so that's the camera and that's the view you see right there all right let me get this see if i put a video together i'll talk to you guys later

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Length: 12min 6sec (726 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 17 2021