so yeah i mean there's just lots of
aspects about this truck that i think are pretty cool you know that most
people wouldn't even uh notice but… Hi we're team Parker- I'm
Sherry this is my husband Mike and this is our fur baby Chica. We're
a team here at Reliable Carriers. well this is 2023 579 Pete,
it's got 144 inch sleeper on it and at the moment it's only got 12,000 miles.
we ended up getting the truck what was three weeks ago about three weeks ago so and it had
250 miles on it when we got behind the wheel getting into it was shocking almost I mean, you
know to walk in and look at this thing to me it was you know it's futuristic compared to what i've
been in over the years i mean it's just a gorgeous truck. It's beautiful, it makes life living on the road bearable and actually enjoyable. You shut down at the end of the night and the rest of the
world is blocked out. We feel like we're at home. We're always on the road. When we started working here we got rid of our house. We put our things we wanted to keep in storage, and
we have some nice stuff at our kids house. This is our this is basically our retirement. Fast tracking our retirement, yep. You know, getting the most done in the shortest amount of time. No bills, and we dont have that house payment. So we're not trying
to get home to the house that we're paying for we can just go wherever, whenever
and it doesn't matter when we get back. It makes it very enjoyable. My husband had been on the road for 21 years, when I decided to get my license and go over the road with him. Team driving with my wife is incredible. I can do what I do. I go to bed at night and i wake up 500 miles down the road. Never in my life have i experienced that . So it's i feel like i'm getting twice as much done than i've ever been able to in the past. Alright, well let's go inside the truck and take a look at everything that they got going on in here! This is one of the cool features
about this truck, having a side door. It makes it a lot nicer than going in and climbing through in between the seats The step comes out, I mean it's basically a motor home. This little screen door is pretty cool, I think thats neat. It's got a lot of little bells and whistles just like this throughout the truck. Come on in! Alright, so in here is where our home is. We have a nice little bench seat when the bed is flipped up. This is our bed. You can hit it, it'll flip down. It's a little bit smaller than a twin, but it's bigger than the last one we were in. And it's amazing what an extra six to eight inches of width will do when you're sharing a bed in a truck with someone. These are the our little Chica ramps so she can get on the bed. So we don't have to
pick her up and take her down because she's constantly wanting up and down. We got storage space like you wouldn't believe. It makes it incredible, I mean all my clothes are in here. I've got basically our work clothes cabinet, everything Reliable, and then the rest of it is all our other clothes. So when we're stopped in Las Vegas, Phoenix, or California.. you know, if they don't have anything going on, we don't have to go see the town in browns. Which makes it kind of nice sometimes. The sink, I just love the counter tops. I just love everything in it i i just to me this is
a very sharp layout and upholstery and everything like that toothbrush holder well i put that
in there to be more hygienic you know so that they're not rolling around in our little medicine
cabinet with all our stuff i actually like it microwave- not just a microwave, convection
oven, broiler, grill, dehydrator and an air fryer. we've tried the air fryer, we've done the convection
oven, all in the microwave. Pretty neat, i didn't even know they had those. The fridge, good size. I
mean we can go to the store and still spend four hundred dollars to stock this thing with food, and drinks and everything . The generator, which it is getting warm in here. I like just turning it on it'll kick on the ac ! We have, and this is what i mean by the bells and the whistles, the air vent. The old air vents were basically the same thing but all the controls are
up there so now my wife she could never reach it before you just hit the button it opens on its
own and it kicks on you can set the speed reverse and we'll bring it back down wow that's really
cool it is neat yeah i was like i was looking at it when i first when we first kind of like what is this remote for we actually ended up with so many remotes in this truck. We have our shower, toilet system. This is this is what makes it possible for my wife to be with me if this wasn't
here she wouldn't want nothing to do with it. and I gotta say, now that i've had this i'm quite spoiled.
i don't know if i could go back to a conventional.. going into truck stops taking flip-flops, using public showers. This is where it's at.. The TV and the remotes that go with it. They got
the tv, they got a blu-ray player, up top they installed a surround sound.
Basically a center speaker so we've got so many controls I didn't know what to do with it. The
wife ended up getting all these little pockets and organizers, because she's a kind of a neat freak.
So she wants everything in its place. that's where these baskets came from, you know, because we just had empty counter space. But you know where you're gonna put everything rolls
around on the floor so we got some double-sided sticky tape we put it up there and she does a good
job of picking out what it all matches so it looks sharp if it was me things would be rolling around
on the floor i'd be tripping over water bottles and all that good stuff. One of the most important
things in this truck that didn't come with it and we added ourselves is the ice maker game changer
makes life incredible when you can get a cup of ice you know even though we keep cold drinks
having you know well everybody knows having something with ice in it all the difference
in the world so that thing runs non-stop and continuous all right and i'll show you inside
the cab and what a 2023 peterbilt now looks like all right so we're in the front of the truck this
is uh pretty uh you know it's new and a lot more advanced than what i've ever been used to in the
last 23 years no shifter and no clutch takes a little bit of getting used to uh when i started
driving this you know i was it's still a lot more jerky than uh what you can you know what i'm used
to doing having a clutch and i'm having a manual and everything i'm going to go ahead and fire it
up and that way you can see the gauges on the dash everything in here all electronic i mean
basically uh like having your smartphone as our dash now no more gauges pretty neat
i can uh adjust everything i can change the layout how i want it to look if i uh you know
roll the switch right here it'll take away we have all the different uh you know
your oil pressure your torque your boost that's how i have it laid out it's pretty much
everything that will show up on the dash um but if i roll this up once you'll see that go it
can take more away some i guess if some people don't want to look at everything that's going
on with the truck uh they'll roll it up to this spot and you just have the speedometer showing
in the tachometer here's the transmission so it's as simple as this you roll it i'm in drive
i push on a gas pedal like i'm in a car and we go down the road when i stop i set the brakes back
in neutral if i want to go into reverse there we are and that is the automatic transmission you
can manually shift this uh it does have you know we can push this button at the end we're getting
on the highway we're pulling a load and i want to run the rpms a little bit higher um i will do
that usually probably about sixth or seventh gear i then you know will take it up to it's
it's a 13 speed so from there i'll sometimes manually shift it depending on the situation I'm in, it makes definitely is weird i'm still you know going to stop still moving my foot for
the clutch i still go to grab the shifter every time i do anything the radio slick i mean we've
had these in trucks for a while now uh you know it's the nav system you know cd player this is the
hard deck but everything goes through the screen links up to my phone real easy so i don't
even really mess with the radio because we all know that you know 50 miles down the road you're
looking for another station so i can just play my spotify, or you know pandora or whatever you
have right through the radio you can choose audio my wife's phone when she drives at night
she'll do the same thing she'll link up she likes listening to books. It's pretty high
tech, everything that goes on in here. this switch here this is your i can turn
off the beeping for crossing out of my lane, which i don't it doesn't really bother me like I
thought it would. A lot of people complain about it, but you get used to it i guess the most aggravating thing about all the sensors and the beeps is if you can see right now it says acc that's adaptive cruise control. So if I got my cruise control set, i'm going down the road, i'm coming up i'm doing 70. I'm coming up behind a guy who's doing 65, it will
match his speed. It tells me his speed, the truck will then match his speed before i know it, I look down i'm like wait a minute..why am i only doing 65?! Well the guy you know an eighth of a
mile ahead of me is doing 65 so i have to manually go over it get on the throttle and come around
him um if you get too close it starts warning you and you know the warning is i mean it's set at
a good spot you know at the point where you are tailgating and you are getting too close where
a lot of us have gotten in that comfort zone of doing it'll start yelling at you, you know,
so once you get used to it you know you're getting over into the left lane a little bit
sooner than you know a lot of us want to and you know it might make the impatient driver
behind you want to cut you off on the right and split both trucks but you know we're going
to have that no matter what we do the must have you know these air ride seats are pretty cool
they've got a memory to them i'm just going to hit the button and it automatically after it
adjusts for the 300 pounds that's sitting on it it goes right back to the last setting where
i had it so you can just dump it it goes down if i get out of the seat and it know and it
knows there's no way it'll it'll lower itself um i usually just hit it and dump it myself but
it's there's no more adjustment because i gotta where i want it i think that's pretty cool to
me it's like going from a you know a chevy work pickup truck and getting into a cadillac escalade
you know i mean that's where we're at now with it one feature i like it came with the uh
privacy curtains you flip everything down snap them open and completely shut out
the rest of the world and it keeps me from having to keep these curtains shut um when we're
parked we feel like we have a lot more room it's almost like you know she's back there if i feel
like you know i could go to my den basically and do my thing a feature that my wife likes a lot
is this little tray for some reason i find that obnoxious when i stop and get us some food and
we're going down the road and she's got her burger laid out on there and her fries and her little
dipping cup it's just whatever makes her happy i haven't personally used it but she loves it the
chica bed i mean that is her that is her spot used to be a side window in the door in the
last truck so she definitely misses that but she's getting used to it she's starting to sit on
the seat more if she wants to look out the window all right well this is uh the
trailer that we are assigned to it took me a minute to get used to
the enclosed aspect of car hauling like i said earlier you know i hauled cars for
over 21 years before we came here to reliable so you know i'm not trying to sound arrogant
but i know what i'm doing when it comes to the aspect of auto transportation the nicest
trailer that i've had since i've been here all the equipment's worked good but this one has a
couple little extras that really make my job a lot nicer a lot of times i don't use it but it's this
floating floor right here is what we like to call it but it basically brings back the aspect of an
actual car hauler a lot of these they just have a deck that go up you know get you over the axles
this i can lift the whole belly of the floor up i can take a ford gt from the rear end of the
trailer and put it all the way up here on the dance floor without having an issue on the front
end or the rear end makes life great because it makes a lot more versatile i can put whatever i
want wherever i want i've got four independent decks on the top i had another one before this one
that had three big ones which was nice that was more of a gt trailer this is more along the lines
of your actual car hauler any car haulers watching this that are thinking about you know hey what
can i do with an enclosed trailer reliable i'll tell you this i haven't done it yet but i strongly
feel i can get eight nine elevens in this trailer if they had them at one spot for me to do that
simply because i can get this deck up i think i can nose one underneath it down here on the bottom
and the other three even if i had to lower the in front of the axles down over here pretty
sure i can get three with a fourth one over top of each other right here and obviously four
across the top because we got four decks well i'm going to open up the gate those of you who have
used or seen a lift gate this isn't anything uh new or exciting but those of you have never seen
one this is how we get them on here reliable so for the most part you know it's like an
elevator you know you're putting low profile vehicles on the top you can take your gate right
to the ground drive your corvette your ford gt uh your ferrari i mean you know anything that
you'd normally be ripping the front bumper off of on a set of skids to put up on your 10 car this
boom no boards no build none of that stuff up one of our first experiences the two
older gentlemen that were selling off some of their collection yeah and they had a
uh they had an army jeep that was at a base in alaska i believe it was 1940 and he drove it
when um he served so he actually drove that jeep he did and he was able to purchase it from the
government when he retired from the service and he was 92 years old and decided it was time
to sell it yeah that was that was actually our first pov load i thought it was ohio but we were
going down to uh an rm sale down in uh miami so that was that was actually
our first pov move for an rm and that was our first tip too i still
have the 250 dollar bills the guys gave me i just i really enjoyed those customers and their
story well thank you for coming on a tour of our truck and our equipment and uh seeing what we do
here at reliable and uh we'll see you guys later goodbye everybody
