RV Factory Tour: ShowHauler Motorhomes Custom Super C RVs

now a few months ago we went to the tampa rv show and met lonnie with show hauler we were really impressed with the unit there and i know we've been talking about downsizing but we love super seas and we really love the safety aspect of them lonnie was telling us show haulers happen to be one of the safest rvs on the road and invited us up to the factory to take a tour walk around and actually see why they are the safest rvs out there and the really great thing is they're actually going to let us film the factory tour so we can share it with you guys we've been on a couple of other factory tours and when we contacted them in advance about filming we were told we couldn't film so i'm really excited to check out their factory and see what cool things we can find apparently these are supposed to be 100 almost 100 percent customizable so any size you want length height you know all the different options the cabinets the colors the tile even the chassis that they use can be completely customized to whatever you want and we're really curious to see what's in there because you know we may have to reconsider going smaller hey if we can get an expedition vehicle i'm all for going bigger let's see what they can do hey hey joe welcome so you're gonna come and take a tour of us huh uh-huh i'm glad i'm glad you came by it'll be fun so this is how we start our whole production it's gonna be well this just came back from more right more right what we do is we send them an actual bear frame the rat cab does not cut out bear frame and you're going to have what they'll do is they go more right and they powder coat everything here that's attached to the frame this is all powder coated and then it's wet painted from the outside compartment boxes and down so it's so it's all solid now now it'll be unibody construction from together in the front we have airbags in the back for the air ride and the front we have to dismount the air right of the cab but we have air ride seats so you still have a very smooth ride so then what you're going to have then from the inside so our wiring isn't exposed it's an abs inch and a half abs pipe it goes front to back so all the wires coming from clearance lights or outside compartments and stuff will run through a pipe so it's not exposed to the elements and that kind of thing um so there's nothing outside that's exposed you're holding tanks they'll go right here all the way across um and everything else your water and everything is above inside we go to shows and stuff still when with our air ride seats nobody's most rv people haven't seen them so they're going to sit down oh wow these are nice and it's and it really is wonderful because you can adjust it to anything you want whether if you're bigger like myself you know you can have a nicer cushion ride if you like you can have it stiffer whatever you want okay so what we're going to do is when it comes back they're going to cut out this wall and cut out the the roof so it's a stand-up walk-through and then what we do is we put a uh a fiberglass front cap on it but we still have our steel frame uh the fingers will go out front so you still have a small steel frame construction and then we solid mount the two together okay um so it's still unibody all one now is leaking a concern well it's always a concern anytime you put a hole in anything um it's going to be a concern but we haven't you know we've we've actually mastered that now we don't have much caulk it's all sealed so you don't want caulk because you have to replace or it can go bad so everything now is our rubber seals so yeah leaking is is you know it can't happen but it's it's very few and far between okay so with this big uh heavy-duty chassis we also do a very heavy-duty um leveling jack um these are from quadra bigfoot yeah quater manufacturing they're a 14 inch pad um they they will handle 17 000 pounds per jack oh wow so you can jack up this side and if you wanted to change the tire you could um so you can you can actually lift this off the ground then absolutely we can look them all the way off the ground the whole thing pretty much our name the same what makes us different than pretty much everybody else in the industry we have a steel jig set up here so everything square walls everything comes out they'll start off like they're making they're drawing up for all the next coats this is what they're going to end up making you're going to have the three size four sides so they're they're building each one of these sides on that jig great okay individually so we'll do a sidewall and it's all steel tubes uh everything's gonna be one by three tubular steel anywhere there's a door a window a frame even for a water heater cut out anything okay you'll have that and everything everything is 16 on center and if we don't have it where it's a steel um the big frame it's going to be a half coat but still hat hooks there's no screws on here anywhere holding this thing together anyway okay how well did oh well so it's solid as can be um this is yeah that's pretty solid and probably the biggest thing you want to see like even there if you look go up on here on our radius yep how thick the radius is um the biggest thing is a radius is stronger than a square on a square edge so our ranges like this thing was so strong i actually had one out in california a car ran into the side of it they went off the road and it rolled over on right on the slide out right in that area but it still hit the top of our frame as it rolled over and it's still straight as an arrow i mean straight into the the actual rv frame never bent never bit they actually pulled it back up pulled it back off to the road and he drove it home and it's running to this day thank goodness the two girls were in it we're ducked down and they did get out so nobody was hurt there's not very many uh rvs in the world that can do that and and and still crush a car get back and on our weakest link which is our slide out okay so the steel is extremely thick um and it's all tubular steel anywhere there's going to be any in these top even on our on our slide out there's a steel header we don't do a full wall slide like a 17-18 foot we just believe in the structural integrity of our coach needs to have um suddenly maybe 14 feet or if we did two side by side i mean 18 inches between them so we still have structural integrity of the coach okay even our roof our ceiling is inch and a one by one and a half tubular steel 16 on center and anywhere there's an air conditioner frame there's going to be a it's going to be double frame even like now this is going to have awnings up on the roof so if you see there's steel there's actually a steel um plate going front to back where we at besides our steel beams so we can screw right into it so even if the awning is out it's not going to be coming loose of our our vehicle okay we've done a few other factory tours yes sir this is the first time anyone's actually let us into the factory with a camera we don't mind um we're kind of we're old school we're different we believe that structurally wise we're probably one of the strongest in the industry so letting people learn that there's different ways of doing things and getting a stronger approach to a motor home and for longevity this won't be rattling down the road in 10 years from now because we believe our welds will last longer than screws that hold walls down got it yeah that makes sense so as far as the safety aspect of this is concerned how does it compare to you know the diesel pushers or you know class arvs things like we're a diesel puller our engines in the front so if our engine's in the front we have real steel steel frame bumpers yep and i'll show you down the road a little bit later but um we actually if you hit something it's not a windshield it's not right by your feet there's no front bumper on the front of a diesel pusher where we have a steel front bumper so something you're going to hit you're not going to have cabinetry coming down or um being in your way right away you're not going to be the first one of the accidents it's double frame rail so we actually have a c channel inside of this except for right where the the the hip stays on uh everything else is double frame rail all the way through so we're not only we're not nine inches we're almost 11 inches and it's a c channel inside of it so i would hate to be the person that runs into this yeah yeah this is this is a real steal this is not something that's going to be uh uh if you hit the back end of our 40 000 pound hitch you're done i'm in your stop um so then also the next our next thing is we have a one-piece floor where people like some of the motor home industry vacuum bomb the walls like they'll set the vacuum on the wall set it down and then on their steel train on their steel floor and then they bolt it or screw it to the to the to the floor well we actually weld everything and then our floor is vacuum bonded so it's one piece front to back uh so you'll have corrugated plastic on the bottom and then you have the luan aluminum frame 16 on center and again you're going to have the one piece pouring all the way so all we have to do is slide this whole floor in screw it down uh to our our steel studs our steel flooring and so you don't have squeaks and then rattles and floor crackings and so now another thing is down the strip down the middle there's a half inch uh structure board going down the middle because we want our route to have a some kind of an arch the water will run off safe from the condensation or something what you're going to have is down the middle you're going to have a half inch osb board and then our four by eight sheets will go this way so it gives it a crown in the middle and the air conditioner is everything will set them in the middle right now what is the roof actually made out of it's one piece aluminum it's actually over there it's a one piece uh aluminum 030 um and it goes one piece on the back so there's no seams and it's not fiberglass not to worry about it cracking only we doing aluminum is our our slide-outs just for less weight i want to show you our holding tanks okay holding tanks are 72 gallons oh wow whether it's gray or black uh so it's going to go all the way through like our holy tanks go left to right okay so we need to put a toilet over here over there anywhere we can put it anywhere we need to these have 144 gallons of waste wow so that like our insulation you're going to have the blue board insulation yeah okay it's going to fit what we do is we put the blue board um it'll go between these rails here it'll be tight fit sitting in here okay okay so that's one form of insulation okay we have another gentleman that wanted um he's again going to alaska so we put spray foam in here and then what they do is they they don't have the tape on so they grind it off you know so it's completely packed wall-to-wall okay even even the floor and the roof was done the same way so it's all spray foam insulation so you even have options in terms of how to insulate these oh absolutely even underneath if you wanted the floor insulated we actually have three three inches of blue board they can go underneath here to insulate the floor before we put the floor in um so again yeah it's up to you it's great um and how do these in terms of installation then how do these do in cold weather because with hours we only can get to a certain temperature um we actually have one again the same gentleman it's in in alaska he calls me up and he goes on it's 35 below zero it's a 65 mile an hour wind and he's out in his toasty show hauler is what he said that was a quote uh again you have to be he's snowmobiling yeah um but he has again the blue board insulation below the insulation on the walls um because we're two and seven inch thick the blue board is huge for sound insulation and then with our wall being so thick and then the insulation the bubble wrap insulation on the inside okay and the structure board and an air gap and then a wall uh it's it's extremely quiet now talk to me about the structural board because when we're when we've looked at a few other coaches being made the stuff they're using seems to be really thin and like almost like you could put your fist through it right um the structure board on the side um it's 7 16. i like this much are you having fun yeah this is my favorite he really does that he does that all the time he's like what is this doing i mean if you're gonna consider one of these you really gotta test the stuff now moving down this is where we skin it and what it is there's two bald guys standing here looking good anyway um we do have the same line i know i actually think you have more hair yes we're o63 aluminum but we're taped on so you see looking at this angle we're not a flush wall like it would if you did laminate walls and then you screwed it down or mounted it somehow to your steel so what we have is an overlap of aluminum o63 aluminum so you'll have a little bit of a gap here or a seam and you'll see it going this way if you turn and come from the front going back you don't see the seam but that's the only uh difference between us and a vacuum bonded laminate wall what does this look like when it's painted um it looks painted you won't see it it'll kind of hide itself because it'll fade into the paint okay so you won't see it so much like if you're driving down the road you would never notice the difference but it's real thick so it's solid with the blue board in here you can sit here all day and hit them you know solid as a rock being that it's not laminated um and it's taped on with 3m tape it can expand and contract with the heat so you don't so it can breathe going up and down the road or if you're sitting apart okay yeah and it's still sealed it's just it'll breathe with it nice um like when i was showing you with like there's no screws on here anywhere holding this together uh for the for structural these screws here are for the hinge of our outside compartment doors and it gives it a nice clean look all the way through when we put a cap over the top of it so that's only the screws there are not for any kind of structural strength the metal goes up inside of an s lock our radius cap it'll go inside there so it stays at the top this mounts the bottom and then the 3m tape holds it on the side nice and how like let's say you got in an accident or something happen with these um well we can do one or two things depending on how bad it was just scratched up or done you could do it like you would a car you know bondo it painted it and whatever you want to do if not we have a tape remover from 3m it's a liquid in here and paddle board it and pull it right off pull the whole panel off throw it away put on a new panel so what we do is this is a galvanized box a sealed galvanized box you can put in inside of here but it's still still below it it's still still framed below it so it can slide in and pull out if you had any kind of problems we can pull it right out but this way we can get to our wiring and get to everything real easy it's um now the difference between us to say a diesel pusher is so there's downfalls now we're 26 inches tall and 26 inches deep and we can hold anything but we can't go all the way through because we have a drive shaft going down okay but we can go all the way past through behind the tires got it you know anywhere that's behind there's no drive shaft that we can go all the way through so you're a bit limited on storage space when you compare to a dp when you're going yes all the way through the long stuff unless it's going to be in back strength wise we can handle it one big difference i noticed between this and a lot of the dp's i've seen is the dps will have the the double axel or double wheel axle they're tan they're a tag axle yes but we are a tandem axle meaning that we actually have the front axle is going to be a drive axle okay and then if you want to lock it in if you get stuck or if you're in mud or something you can lock in there's this button up on front and you can lock in the rear axle but there's actually eight tires back here you know so these four back here on both two on both sides can actually drive you out now the bad news is we don't have a lift axle it's not a lift axle so your turning radius is going to be a little uh a little uh longer because we can't lift the axle have you ever taken one of these in snow absolutely we actually have a gentleman up in we have a gentleman up in alaska has one of ours and he actually put a snow plow he has a western plow on the front of it yeah because he has a long drive and he can actually plow his drive in in the middle of winter and that's not a joke it's on our facebook page it's amazing that's awesome now onto our slides we we do a lot of different slides whether the two 13-footers a 14-footer a 13-10 we can put them side-by-side and sure yes but the biggest thing i want to show you is first of all we do not do flush floor slides we'll do slides like it again it has a raised floor but the reason we do that is because we have a motor the motor is inside it's electric it's not hydraulic so what you're going to have is two gear drives you know regular turn drives so when this motor goes it it has a shaft and drive shaft over here if you would happen to brake or the motor dies or something you can still go home we have an outside uh plug in the slide out okay you pull the plug we give you a crank and crank it so you can always go home it could still be broke but at least you could still travel even if you're on a three-week vacation or something you can always still bring it in and out okay it's not something that you would be broke and it's done now you said all of these are aluminum frame whereas the trucks are all steel yeah everything we do is aluminum frame for the slider it's only for a weight so it's the motor doesn't have to hold as much weight going in and out so we can put more furniture and heavier things on the slide out so it's easier to go in and out for the most part is that we actually build our own cabinets stain our own doors so we can build anything to make it easier for us shop i just want to let you see our on our drawers all of our drawers are dovetailed um meaning they're not just two pieces of wood stuck together in the staple go check your motorhomes okay when you're out looking around even high-end motorhomes these are dovetailed so you couldn't sit here and do this all day and try to pull it apart so if you just think about you're taking a beating going up and down the road where you're pulling on this hard yeah if it's just stapled together staples will pop off this will never come apart let's see yeah yeah yeah and it's solid wood so it's uh but again a lot of people don't see this stuff when they're looking around motor homes they just see the fancy lights and the pretty uh chandeliers and that kind of thing where this is the important thing like even our balances are real wood it's not you know it's a sculpted board everything's done right here before it's stained and coated and everything is custom built here so you don't see um eight or ten kitchens or cabinets sitting on here because everyone has to read a blueprint and do it you know perfectly square to match everything that goes into each post whether it's so you don't see a lot of cabinetry sitting around it's built it goes right in so everything you put right here on the jig so it's truly square and everything is real wood it's real like this is real so oh even our window rings around the front of the window most people just put a valance over the top and then hide the window or you'll still see all the black and the screws the window frame we actually have a window location so it's all real wood this actually is cut out of a piece of solid wood formed stuck on here and glued and then this will be stained but it's real wood every window will have this on it even our doors just a regular bathroom door bedroom door is too solid like this is solid let's see oh good board this has this door's everything in my house a lot of people have pine stuff this is really solid so the difference is if you put hinges on here and you're screwing it into our solid oak doors solid oak panels uh it'll stay there won't become buzzing down the road or flopping there yeah i don't think we ever had doors like this in our house and that's all standard it's not a the difference upgrade would just be the stain okay since these can be customized so much what options do i have well this would be your basic i mean this would be your frameless window okay like what people are putting a lot of this is like the newer window where it's frameless so it looks real sleek on the outside and it's thermal paint um so it's flatter okay so like if it rains it opens like this it's easier to access for rain got it um if you want to come down the next side to me the um the older style window but i think is a strong window um a lot less hassle um is the slider window double pane so it's normal painting so it's a real thick window um you close it wind goes past it so you don't have to worry about the window going down the road at 75 miles an hour make sure it was latched but if you have a window like this to keep it open during the rain what you could recommend is what i recommend is putting a window awning on it got it so you still have it open but you have an awning for sun or that kind of thing anyway now we love our windows and especially kate loves the big window and you sit on the couch outside um what are the options as far as how big you can go and kind of up to you we have certain standard windows you know you're going to have like this size window and a bedroom you can do bigger the problem is if you do more custom it's going to cost you a little more but yeah you can do whatever you want as long you'll give up cabinetry if you're taking a bigger window again we'll engineer it so we can't you lose any kind of our structural integrity but we won't allow certain things okay so coming from the windows now you're asking about how much window you want same with the doors okay our doors you can have keyless entry you can have this is our standard door it's 26 inches wide um we have people that want to haul their groceries in or do something so they want a 30 inch door okay it's not a problem again you're just going to give up something on the inside we have a gentleman now that's going to it's handicap he's in a wheelchair um we're making completely wheelchair friendly uh it'll have a what you have is our standard door here and in the back it's going to have a 36 inch door and then it's all going to be remote oh wow so you can open it and close it remote lightly an air air chamber we'll open it up then it has a super arm lift i will come out lift him up put him in even the controls on the cascadia will all be hand controlled so he can drive it completely by hand well you weren't kidding about customizing very custom and i don't know of another i really don't know of any other class 8 semi chassis that's ever had a complete handicap accessible uh vehicle made ever yeah okay like when we were walking through here you saw a lot of the cab overs had a bunk over like the typical class c has a bunk over for your bed you know another set of uh bunks up there well now what we do for the for the class a person that wants to stand up walk through into the cab turn the seats around we actually made a fiberglass cap so we can cut out the top oh no it sets it down we can paint it all whatever colors you want but it's again but now it's all unibody so it's all we're actually mounted together so the cab so nothing on the fiberglass will break or crack normally they just put on a class they put a shell up front what we have underneath that fiberglass is actually four rows of steel frame steel framing coming down and then fiberglass will sit right to it so even if something like say a tree falls on it or something you would have we still have the steel frame underneath it oh nice yeah and it protects you if you ever have an issue oh right yeah absolutely we're big in the trucking industry like if you have your own fleets of trucks okay well you can save your own money by just bringing us your own would you do uh use chassis at all yeah and we also do use chassis it all depends on the front axle weight it's got to be a higher rated action than over the road but we can always just switch out the axle but yeah you'll save a lot of money because these are million mile trucks these engines will go a million miles so if you only if you have like say a chassis like you've been an overload truck driver and you had your own truck and you've had it all your life and it's got 500 000 miles on it well you know it's still good for another 500 000 miles being an rv or you're going to maybe do a 10 000 or 20 000 miles a year now let me get this straight you're telling me that not only are these baits they're essentially over the road trucks but you beat them up right yeah but what we're going to do is our suspension is more for the rv industry it's an 18 000 pound front axle okay with a heavier suspension so it rides a lot smoother um and it can handle the weight how much weight can one of these hold on average um our average our average gbwr is 58 000 pounds okay and this like this one here it's a it'd be like a 35 foot box or 45 foot overall okay bumper to bumper it'll probably be about 40 to 42 000 pounds so 58 42 16 000 pounds joe you can put all of your gold bars in there the ones that she doesn't know about take them outside and still have the weight you'll be fine now what about uh towing showing up these were made to tow um like these were made to have so like 83 000 pounds okay the chassis itself was the handle that kind of weight we actually can tow 40 000 pounds wow you don't have to tow 40 000 pounds but you can't if you are a little deep will be no problem should be no problem i would definitely recommend putting a camera out back to make sure it's still there because you won't know it's there so essentially you're you're so customized here that you can say whatever chassis you want size box slides everything exactly yeah if it fits if first of all it's got to be legal yeah you know it's got to be we're rvia so we have to meet all their standards um to fit in our box yep yeah we can do you can pretty much do whatever you like whether you want a car in the back and just living up front two bedrooms two bath big claws just little closets you know some people say look i don't cook i want more living space whatever you like yeah i was talking about when we have a garage unit this actually got a 16 foot scissor lift so when you touch these buttons it'll go down and come out and scissor down all the way to the ground so you can drive your car on it like this happens going to be having a camaro in it wow so you take it you drive it on top you can push the button lift it up okay then what it does is he made it so the hood um because you have tall it takes up so much room it's an 18 and a half foot garage okay so he wanted to he still wanted a bedroom so the only way to get a bedroom was to put it over the hood of the car so it would give you more height so depending on the height if you had say a small bmw sports car the hood would be lower the bedroom could be taller oh so you're actually building it very specific to his vehicle absolutely okay now and what he did is he has two different vehicles um so one was a 48 inch and one was a 52 inch to the glass so we made it to the highest so you could park either one of his cars it's got a garage where it's got you can tie it down and then your car can go underneath the car goes underneath the hood of it and the rest of the body will be in the back here and then on top is his bedroom um so deciding how tall the bedroom is now again it's not a stand-up bedroom um but it's a like i think there's 48 inches okay you know so you can still get in and then if you i don't know if you can see it from in here but it has a roll-up door yep it's got a roll-up garage door and it's a hurricane shutter door okay so when you shut it you can pound on it and you know you won't be getting it won't be able to break in the garage or now we go to a different little beast um this is a 4x4 off-road it's going to alaska that's why you that's why you see the stout everything on this one is extremely stout more than normal this is a real ladder you could run up and down this person can do hunting and stuff but what i want to show you here is different size besides different look do different awnings okay this is a carefree or a dometic i'm sorry dometic pro awning so it has arms on it but it's all remote and everything like that so if you just come over here for a second um and you can go if you want to put them up on top and have the the gerard vision and it comes out like this and then it's a two-stage awning it will drop down more slides on this side so it can go over the top of them and still cover the door there's carefree there's the medic there's gerard we use zip t zip the awnings we can actually do all 35 feet no kidding one awning 35 feet and it goes out off the top like this harmless so it's uh so it's all all and what to what you want and what suits your your fancy and your budget like with this one it came over uh they want to tile floor so this person wanted a tile floor looks like wood so it's actually a porcelain tile that's um that looks like wood um and it's really a very nice a nice tile so what they do is they put down this orange mat and then you have like a flex mud that the concrete that goes under on the bottom that muds it together and then we'll have a flex grout that'll go on top of it once this is sealed so it has that ability to move a little bit without breaking or cracking all of your tile or your or your grout lines it's been holding up very well which really always surprised me you have your house moving down the road and your tile stays uh stops from cracking and i'm guessing the limits or the selection for flooring is limitless yeah this person happened to find it at their local uh tile place so will you just send it to us oh okay yeah it doesn't matter to us if you don't have anything you can have any look you want so if i find a beautiful tile from portugal i can send it to it yeah absolutely no we do have a lot of people that you can go to you know any of your favorite um home depots menards lowe's whatever and find out what you want if we carry stuff from the from our supplier uh that you can have but if it's not something you want like this person wanted his own look so this is what he said okay so we'll go from the floor now let's go to the ceiling um on the ceiling uh you're going to see it's a drop ceiling a fall ceiling so they just started putting up the um the air conditioning vents so everything is ducted and it's a foil wrap so it doesn't hold moisture um and you'll have duct and goes all the way front to back they've just placed them up there now getting ready to hook them up to the air conditioner so all three air conditioners are ducted together so if you're in your bedroom and you're in you're a light sleeper and you don't want your air conditioner to be on you turn your front two on and you'll still have air conditioning going into the bedroom okay so that's really cool but it's again with the drop ceiling we can run wires if you look we can run wires front to back by just pulling out lights fence and shoot wires all the way front to back so we don't have anything vacuum bonded and it's um so you also have an air gap for noise now with the drop ceiling what's the height for this coach this is seven foot eight interior ah again it's for seven foot eight most coaches now are six foot eight seven foot maybe max okay um because we don't we will wobble with our being that we're on a solid truck chassis um so being elevated up higher as long as we're under the uh thirteen six so i think we're actually thirteen four and a half to the top of our our domed uh satellites so because like when you go by a semi or we get a lot of wind it doesn't you can still drive without being white knuckled yeah we don't have that issue at all so joe can actually do yoga in this one absolutely yeah you could actually hang from those because they're mounted right to the steel frames okay so if you want to see the beast this is a international lone star this is a gorgeous coach i mean it's got the manly stacks um this is just a big towel catcher up front it's it's fun this is the one i would want yeah this is it's badass it is it looks it is it's it's it's a lot of chrome as you can see in this building we're going to come out of the weld shop we do very different array of chassis like this one happens to be the lone star from international the one behind us is you're going to have is an m2 112 it's a 4x4 yeah so it's an m2 it's a business class truck so 112 means it's 112 inches from the bumper to the back of the cab okay and this is a this is a freightliner cascadia this is their normal over the road truck right behind it you're going to have these are brand new vehicles all these are brand new it's a 389p long nose peterbilt so you can see how it sticks out and we do it volvo so about any chassis it's just a variety of chassis everybody asks me always ask me so which one would you have and it depends on what i'm going to be doing you know it depends on what part of my life i'm going to be doing if i'm going to be retired and i just want i'll probably do a smaller chassis i don't need to pull anything big and i won't need 45 feet i may need 30 feet well there's no sense having 600 horse if you don't need it so it all depends on what part of the life is like this gentleman over here in the peterboat's eraser he wants 600 horses he wants that um you know i look and he can pull it but you see on the back of his um his motorhome he has glad hands which is for air brakes on his trailer he has a stacker trailer it has air brakes so he wants to be able to go up and down the mountains as fast as he wants because he's a racer right now when we showed up for the tour we saw a red bull truck out front right what's the deal with that do you guys do you oh yeah marshall trucks too we'll do specialty vehicles that's probably ten percent of our business we've done stuff for microsoft uh five and for them red bull here this is their second one um it does all of their um events you know he'll go and set up their hospitality area we do that we also do like mammograms um vehicles especially command units so because we're tanks um we're overkill and we're steel that we can do anything you want so again they come to us because they want longevity we did one for nasa oh wow yeah so it's been um especially stuff is also another thing that's starting to come our way awesome this is the one i want you're in love with that 4x4 that's you that is so you you could be your last taking it home there you go it's not sold is it yeah it's sold if you're the owner of this awesome show hauler call me okay now as we're getting closer to the end this is just came back from paint today uh we have precision paint as our paint so it's got to be caulk and stuff so some of the furniture isn't in because we don't put it in because of the paint dust and stuff okay but you want to take one for a drive oh absolutely okay this is fun this is what makes for 15 years almost my 16th year doing this it's still fun to drop okay ready to go for a drive let's do it all right it's all yours thank you for drive okay all right let's roll you want to walk me through anything special here yeah just wait like this doesn't have a part there's a parking brake okay so you're gonna push that um releases the brake these are air brakes and it's got again it's got a ultra shift plus transmission it's not an allison it's a automated clutch okay so put it in push your foot on the brake put it in d for drive hang right let's go see what you think let's go and this will cruise about 97. you don't have to but it can it feels nice to be this high up in the air right and the air right seats you can go up and down and whatever you want oh this is comfy yeah these are regular freightliner seats and they are heated they have a recirculating compart system so you can you know massage your back up and down as you're driving oh brakes are really good on this yeah this thing was made to stop 83 000 pounds this is 40 000 pounds when you lay on the brakes in this thing it stops it's really like driving a big car yeah i'm sitting higher up but it's really easy to drive and that's probably the biggest thing that people on top um again nothing wrong with the diesel pusher the difference is everybody normally with their cars or pickups their wheels are out front so when you're driving this is like driving a big whatever you drive whether it's a car or a pickup truck or rope or suv because you normally when you're sitting here and you make the turn your wheels are out front you turn like you normally would with a car whereas opposed to a decent push or your wheels are behind you so technically you're out in the middle of the intersection before you turn yes which so this feels you don't have so much the awkwardness of getting in and out and driving one to the other and always people i don't always ask me is like well with the front engine how noisy so you know when it's up to your 2000 rpm it's a little noise right here well i've got this thing pegged right now right so i guess it all depends surely it's not the same as of having a diesel pusher because the engines in the back but engines now and with the insulation the insulation package we have with the firewall under the hood it's a lot better than it used to be just say seven years ago this is really nice and if you notice we don't we will wobble we don't whale tail it's not a windy day here but it's a little crazy but you see you don't have to i mean you look like you're driving comfortably well it's going to be interesting because there's a big rig coming up and whenever we pass the big rig in our coach we we even you know wobble back and forth so we'll be very curious to see what it's like yeah so here comes the semi-loaded semi uh see how it feels here for you no difference in what you had this guy's flying yeah nothing you know i've never seen anybody do that but because people always ask me to say things like what happens when i send my taxes well there's a semi and i can nothing nothing but good breaks especially when amish cut you off yeah when a horse and buggy cuts you off i have to say so we've been considering downsizing not necessarily upsizing but this is easier to drive than some of the class b bands really yeah yeah i guess my thing is i'm just so used to driving these things that i don't i don't have that perception that you have just remember if you break it you bought it just so i let you know all right let's see how easy this is the user [Music] just put it in our for racing backup cameras no it's up oh i can't see up here how was it that was awesome you were talking about service when we were in there as far as getting work done and i know like with our rv we have to take it to rv specific places to get work done as far as the engine and that is concerned what about these so this would be a little different that's nothing nice about us as opposed to a diesel pusher okay even though you're on a spartan chassis or a freightliner chassis we're on a freightliner chassis so it's a regular semi truck the front end of this there's nothing different than you would an over the road semi classic example is i had one of those brand new took it for a drive i'm heading south at 8 30 at night i'm heading toward indianapolis it starts to rain i go to hit my windshield wipers the windshield wipers didn't work you're driving down the road with 40 000 pounds and your windshield wipers don't work you have to shut it down i got in my little book six miles behind me was a truck stop i turned around at 8 30 at night and pulled in there was a loose wire that they they could pop the bonnet pulled the little guy up here tested it within a matter of minutes an hour and a half i'm out on the road by 10 o'clock i'm out on the road still traveling nice so you can go into any truck stop and get work done oil changes all that stuff yeah exactly tires oil uh belts pull in they can take care of it 24 hours 24 7. nice and as far as i mean the tires on this thing have to be really expensive brakes how long do the tires tend to last and um well seven years they say replace them okay because just a dry ride on the sides but mileage wise your front tire your steer tire is about 175 000 miles your rear tires your drive tires about 200 000 miles uh brakes if you use your jig brake or your engine exhaust spray like you should you'll get about three or four hundred thousand miles on your brakes seriously for your first seven years you should unless you have some kind of an issue with the wiring or something sure all you should have is once a year take it in for oil change and have like again you take it right into a truck service center they'll do a dot inspection they'll grease all your zerks do everything do an oil change so you know you're safe to go on the road again yep great and what is the warranty on the the freightliner um parts of it depending on i mean everything is different like the freightliner the cab itself is one year okay um the the engine engine is three year 360 000 miles uh the transmission is five year 500 000 miles uh and then our show hauler warranty is two-year limited warning so anything we've produced structurally wise would be two years okay um now if you had like all of your appliances and stuff or the appliance warranty would take over for that like pool or something okay yep now i have a random question yeah so if you're driving one of these do you need to pull into the truck way stop nope yeah um everybody asks since we're on a chassis a semi chassis or do we have to have a cdl do you have to pull into way stations no rvs are exempt as soon as we have this if you just had the chassis like if i was picking up this chassis yes i would okay but once you put a box in the back and you now claim it as a second stage bodybuilder we give you a title that now makes it an rv a recreational vehicle um you're exempt okay your exam for any of that any truckers kind of stuff you now fall into the rv sector but you have to go buy rv laws yeah so if you i know some states require a non-uh non-commercial cdl that's correct so yeah yeah so it's gonna be over over twenty six thousand pounds somehow tag tandem actually summer uh uh lengthwise anything over forty five forty feet the other thing if we want one i think it should yes we're saving up for rephrase that once we can afford one right okay uh how long does it take to get that's a good point you said affordable so we're anywhere between 350 to 450 000 okay and we've been up as much as 500 000 but to get one it takes three months to build from the moment it comes in this weld shop door to the moment it goes out it's about three months um and we're usually out for four months four or five months of production uh doing one a week so seven months if you say seven months you would if you from the moment you order to the time you pick it up it'd be very close that's not for a completely custom completely coaching yeah and it's something you want to take your time to do it's not something you want to just pick off the shelf and and and drive off yeah thank you very much thank you very much for coming by i appreciate it that was awesome you ready to take one home oh yeah i want that four by four okay yeah i think we both want the four by four

Channel: We're the Russos

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Length: 43min 54sec (2634 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 27 2016