Nick..good to see Dad taking time to converse with us..he is a smooth operator...at ease..no stage fright...great to have the videos back..you all look great..

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

He is. Think he'll be doing some more talking in our next video, since I'll be driving the final leg.

As allways, You have and show Profesional ways to drive and operate a Commercial Vehicle and best of all, Pride in your work. Thanks and Best Wishes.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

the sound of the engine is magnificent

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's a heck of a motor.

Great video, more to trucking then people realizes. Also I'm with you ,2017, will be a great year.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

There really is. Wish I had the time to explain it all, but so long as people have questions, I'll keep trying to make videos to answer them.

Nick & POP, great to see you two working together on this project. It's a big load and so many restrictions you can only make plans as conditions are available. God bless you both safe driving and a Happy New Year to your family.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

It's a delicate balancing act, to get everything to come together. Even with the weeks of planning we had, this load is still giving us problems.

I don't know who was driving, but it was nice to see one of you miss a gear. Makes me feel a little better about my driving. :) Hope you guys have a good year and keep the rubber side down.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Yeaaaa, that was me. It happens from time to time. Anyone who tells you otherwise is so full of shit their blue eyes are brown.

Talk about easy driving...no traffic within a half mile of you and you can blow through every light...wow that is cake driving

I really enjoy yalls videos

Welcome back and Happy New Year to you and Pops✌

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, to you as well!

I love the sound of that turbo.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Pretty nasty, isn't it?

Great video Nick! Don't worry about videos over the holidays, glad you enjoyed it with your family. Man those GSP Chargers look great

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Love the GSP chargers. That lead one was brand spankin new.

great job man keep up the good work great way to start the yr hopefully this yr is better than the last one drive safe man!!

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. We have high expectations for this year. For both our business AND this channel. Thanks for sticking around!

Happy New year Nick and Pops. Welcome back. "What in the world we got going on there here" "Nuttin. Just a large car hauling Rosie O'Donnell's belly wrap" "10-4".

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Lol. That's awesome. Happy New Year to you as well.

Thanks for letting us ride along, looking forward to Monday!

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

You got it! Thanks for tagging along.

Great video. Just started watching you guys a few months ago and am very impressed . Keep up the good work !!!!! (was OTR many years ago so brings back a lot of good memories)

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Well welcome to the channel! Thanks for sticking around. Promise to have more content up this year, and up my photography / cinematography game for y'all.

nice to see you back guys !

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Good to be back behind the wheeeeeeeel. New Year's resolution is for more content / videos for y'all!

Always professional and informative, see you Monday.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Happy New Year to you and your old man nick,wish you guys all the best for the new year #happytrucking

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Best wishes to you in 2017 as well!

Happy New Year Nick. Safe travels

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too! We'll do our best.

Happy New Year glad your up and running ,,,,stay safe .

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

happy new years you and your dad nick keep on trucking

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

I had a year behind the wheel of an L9000 Aeromax. Great video, btw.

yes nice to see u guys I watch about five or six of ur videos

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Only 5 or 6 ?!?!?! Get out the popcorn, and get on it!!! Haha. Thanks for watching though, seriously. I made a New Year's resolution to upload more content for all of y'all. I slacked hard last year. This year will be a lot of changes to the channel. More fun stuff added.

Newly subscribed, great job and very professional.

Another good one Nick your video's very interesting....

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

that motor in the W900 sounds beautiful.....nice vid guys keep up the good work

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I can't get enough of hearing her roar either.

Welcome back, buddy. Hope y'all enjoyed your holidays!

@matt_waddy

7 жыл бұрын

By the way, loving the escort driving videos. Looking forward to the next part.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We did, hope you did as well.

Hey Nick and Pops, Happy New Year to you guys too. I enjoyed your video, very impressive.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@SteelyPaw

7 жыл бұрын

Welcome Nick.. See you on your next video.

No body Him: backed off the highway, no big deal

Have a good weekend, we'll see you Monday.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thank ya`!

Thanks for the ride along. Interesting to watch the escorts do their thing. I live only 50 miles from Fayetteville.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is, they're great.

I Always look forward to your videos. 👍👍👍👍

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This year should be good. More and better videos to come!

I LOVE YOUR TRUCK!!!!!!!!! 18'BY3'BADASS

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nick love the vids you do a great job, like to see extra camera facing load as you drive in small box in main video,shot from cab,it would give width perspective ,Not criticizing just a thought like I said your videos are great !!!!!! Peace from a disabled old time truck and auto mechanic ! Happy New Year to you and the family,have a safe and productive year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

I bought a new camera and actually had it mounted to the mirror today, pointing back at the load. I don't know if the footage came out, because the camera appears to be garbage. I'm trying! Thanks for watching!

He does a first rate job, you are in good hands.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he sure does. I was nearly certain the lead trooper was going to PIT at least 1 car during the trip that wouldn't get out of the way for Jason lol.

Nice! Have fun.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

We shal.

Happy New Years, nice light and easy load for the week I see minus the height and wide part of the load. Oh yeah, you should have ask the officer to you wanted to take a drive in the high performance vehicle to feel the power. Safe driving with the storm around, dumping rain and snow all over the place.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Lol it sounded SOOOOO good. The load is actually legal height! It looks deceiving in the pictures, most likely because of how dark and wide it is, but yeah, believe it or not, we're all legal except for the width.

@JrFlexing909

7 жыл бұрын

Might have have to ask to take it around the block a few times and do some donuts in the parking lot. The load was light but still have to get over size permits for it since it's wide but from this 1:16 when you was holding the camera from an angle it seem over the normal height of 13'6". Although it's good to pull out that trusty measuring tape.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Oh trust me, we did. We measured it while the piece was on the ground, and again once it was all settled on the trailer.

Nice video as Allways, just wondering: why the big piece was loaded on the front of the trailer? take care out there.

I REALLY hate the states that put the rumble strips right on the shoulder lines. I generally don't haul loads wider than 12' but I still like to stay off the zipper. Left laners like to dive bomb the zipper as they get closers to you for some reason that baffles me to this day. Can make your trip a bit nerve wrenching.

Great video have a good weekend we're suppose to have a nor'easter snow storm here in New Brunswick Canada

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Idk how y'all do it up there. Brutal winters. Stay warm and be safe!

@Albertalorian

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think we know how we do it either, we just kinda do it and hope for the best lol. Snow Storm and -25'c (-13'f) here in Alberta Today.

hey buddy I am from central Ohio and I have been watching your videos since you started filming as of right now I am on the way home from Florida ( was on vacation ). any way I saw your rig parked there at the old scale house I just thought it was kinda cool that I saw your rig in person !!!!! be safe and best of luck !!!

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

That's awesome, man! Hope she didn't look too ugly sitting there all by her lonesome! Thanks for watching! Maybe we'll meet somewhere on the road another day.

@davidschlabach2106

7 жыл бұрын

10 4 good luck

When you make the turns I keep looking for the mirror. 😂

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Haha. Me too, only to find nothing but steel in their reflection.

Glad to see you guys back at it and that you had a good holiday! Did you get your drone figured out yet, they make those things so easy to fly anymore it's amazing, hope you can take film with it. Is any body watching over the truck, looks like you had to leave it out in the boonies. Looking forward to more vids, keep up the good work.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, that was a cheap drone. Probably only cost like $30. Not a good photography drone (which very well may be coming sometime this year, who knows). We will check on the truck periodically throughout the weekend.

@hootizzz

7 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year to you both..!! really looking forward to tagging along again this year... love the footage that you document, simply superb... keep up the great work..!! and I have to agree with KnightKrawler57, if it was me and I was the lucky OD of this grand KW I would be tucked up in the bunk all weekend getting pizza delivered and watching Netflix, with a baseball bat close by standing guard.., just in case of vermin... hahaha...

I have just discovered your channel tonight and I am so glad - one of the very few interesting haulage channels on You Tube, and probably at the top of those few! I like the way you present yourselves, very neat and you communicate well. I think it is brilliant that you and your father are in this together and you have such interesting careers. If I may be bold and ask 2 questions: can you explain why a twist is put in the straps when securing a load; and secondly, in several of your videos you had a mighty big gear shift, yet when your father was driving it was normal size, yet with the same "dice effect" top to the gear shift. I am just curious why, and how the gear lever can extend and shorten? Many thanks, looking forward to more videos when you have the time. Safe journeys to you both. From West Cork, Ireland, Mike

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting! To answer your questions in order: 1) Putting a twist in a strap will keep the wind from vibrating the strap. Especially if you can't get the strap super tight due to a lot of dead space or a weak sidewall. Vibrating straps will cause them to either loosen themselves, or wear out on the points of contact. 2) We had a g-money big ass shifter at one point. I went home for a couple days and came back and my dad had cut it down to about 1/2 the size. It's easily changeable, but you do have to cut and splice the air lines every time you do it.

New to your vids. Does your dad drive a different truck? Do you haul with a lowboy and flare bed too?

Been following all your videos! Great stuff. Who makes the boxes you have with the locking bars instead of the normal latches?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I get asked that all the time, and I honestly have no clue. They were installed by the trailer shop when the trailer was built, and there aren't any brand markings on them.

Looking good bro 👍👍💯😎

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@pierrehall9770

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Mordaunt 👍👍 Np

This is the kind of driving I want to get into. I’m a brand new CDL holder and starting with Schneider. Any recommends on how to progress to your kind of work? I am not an owner/operator.

Good vid

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Are you guys out of Michigan? If so, which part? I'm near Grand Rapids and am always keeping my eye out for that truck!

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

No sir. The trailer is registered in Michigan though. We do run all over, so chances are we'll be in Michigan at some point!

Is your truck a single frame or double?

yeah that cop car does sound like a beast! What engine do you run in the truck ?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Cummins ISX15

Just out of curiosity, how much does a load like this pay? Student driver looking at ALL my possibilities 😁. Btw, nice rig👍🏼

@mhamma6560

6 жыл бұрын

Your first question should be how much does all of the equipment that one needs to own to haul such a load, cost, followed by how much driving should you have under your belt to be able to get a load like this down the road. Then of course the permits, and time involved in planning with various state agencies, etc..... The total paid by the customer doesn't equal the compensation the driver receives....it's a team effort after all, and the team gets compensated.

In snow and ice, does your.weight greatly help in traction to move forward, but hurt or help in stopping? Thanks Nick be careful.😃

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

There's really nothing that will improve your traction on ice. In snow, yeah I suppose it could help, though we've never burried the truck while being heavy. We do our best to avoid driving in that garbage.

I do flatbed glass hauling and I don't see how you guys keep those suits so clean. At the end of the day I'm pretty filthy.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Super skills, dark colors, and good laundry detergent.

That’s so fucking cool 😎

Where you been nick ?? Been waiting for a video

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Lol, home with family for the holidays! I made a New Year's resolution to post more content for y'all!

Would you consider hauling farm implement equipment an entry into heavy haul? Looking to get out of refer trlrs, and looking for a way into heavy haul. Thanks!

@awd4g63ix

6 жыл бұрын

It'll be a good start for getting used to pulling wide and tall. You won't find much heavy stuff in the agricultural world though.

@montedyoung

6 жыл бұрын

Nick Mordaunt do you have a suggestion of where I could apply to get straight into heavy/oversized loads? I don't want to job hop...I'd rather go into a company and stay there. Thanks!

Is there a reason why you load the tank in front instead of the rear?

@awd4g63ix

5 жыл бұрын

Sure is! Everything is a calculation. The trailer is 53' long, that makes for a wide turning radius. If I then stick another 5.5' over each side, that meas that my turning radius has gotten even wider. So, the ring went up front so as not to effect the lateral clearance near the rear of the trailer while we're in turns.

Curious what the advantage to running team for heavy haul is. Seems like all your curfew restrictions and things of that nature would negate the real advantage of team running. I have to assume it's primarily the father/son quality time that is the real benefit?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Will Green Jr 7/10 times, we use being a team when we're empty. It allows us to chase freight all over the country, over night. However, like the load we're headed to get now, we can often team some of the more important loads that are heavy, but of legal dimension. I'll explain in the upcoming video!

Do the police escorts have a radio on the same frequency as yours/pilots? If not, are you able to communicate with them at all? Nice video!

@joshawalister4657

7 жыл бұрын

Kenny Wong yes

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

No, the police do not. Very few police cars, even state patrol, have CB radios. They just kinda do their own thing and we just make it work. If we really need something, we call them via cell numbers that we all exchange.

@TigerShark150

7 жыл бұрын

You would think, escorting big trucks like you, that that they would have at least hand held CB's, to make communicating easier.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it'd be nice, but a lot of the times they don't want dumb truckers making their jobs harder than it needs to be. All the police do is follow the same route. When they see an intersection that needs to be closed down, they do it and then fall back in place. It's pretty simple, and not really much communication is needed from them.

Just wondering if you'd consider doing a video about the permits and escort(s) required, their costs, etc. I thiknk most of us don't have a clue about those things.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

I keep saying I'm going to do a video on them, but I never do. I'll one for our next load. It's a simple one, won't be pilot cars involved, but it'll at least show the process I suppose.

@frankswain9483

7 жыл бұрын

If and when you have time, Nick. Thanks much! We appreciate the education!

when delays like this happen, where your permit is pulled and you have to sit extra days, is it something you have to swallow or do you guys get paid for the downtime?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Mm, that's a tough one to answer. We do our best to keep our customers happy, so we're pretty reasonable. Generally, if it's out of the customer's control, we eat it unless it's some major unforeseen expense.

Do heavy haul use ELDs too?

@awd4g63ix

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, we use a Qualcomm

Is that Jason in the lead car?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Yessir, sure is.

Why so much staging, for such short trips?

@awd4g63ix

6 жыл бұрын

Because states have very strict travel instructions on the permits. You'll understand more when you get into hauling oversize loads. Just remember...READ YOUR PERMITS!

why do you guys where ties ?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Why not?

WHERE IS NICK?

Only back in the south can you run that wide during the day, Here in L.A. thats a nite move only.

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Every state is different, and every load is different. It all just depends on weather, time of year, the route your taking, etc. We have had to do quite a few night moves at lesser width's than this, but since it's interstate, they just pushed us through.

I think a shifting camera view would be sweet.... It sounded like you guys shifted a whole lot when you were on US Highways

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Well, unfortunately I only have the one camera as of now. Part of my New Year's resolution though was to up the game of my content that I'm posting. So, more cameras and better audio will be coming shortly!

@ips7

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Mordaunt ah sweet, no worries just a suggestion. keep up the awesome work, thanks for documenting it for us :)

Nick what would you rather be? Heavy or wide? Thx

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Wide. I love pissing people off and taking up the whole road :-P

@ddrum705

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Mordaunt LOL

@sterlinghogan4966

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Mordaunt, there was a guy in Texas had a vehicle blow past his escort vehicle. He made them back up almost 2 miles. Lol

#Nick&Pops #narlyduds

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

All thank's to grand master Gru!

Nick..when you leave the big girl alone in the deserted weigh station do you and your Dad come back at night and check up on her?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we'll go check in randomly during the days that we're there.

What does it cost to have a State Trooper escort a truck?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Well, each state varies a little bit on how they charge. GA, for example, is $60/hr, per trooper, round trip, starting from the time they leave their house.

@kevino3866

7 жыл бұрын

thank you!

why do u guys wear ties ????

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Why not?

@sunrise451

7 жыл бұрын

when they see the tie they think your management lol

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

I am, though...am I not? I'm the owner of my trucking company. And exactly, they do. What's wrong with having someone think highly of you right off the bat? Aren't first impressions lasting impressions? Are you really suggesting that I should I aim to be substandard and on-par with the remainder of the trucking community? Where I'm looked at as "just another trucker" ? When was the last time you went to a job interview and wore garbage clothes, because you didn't want them to mistake you for management? Every day we show up, we are having a job interview. That's why they call it repeat business...or not, if you don't impress.

nice uniform

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Nothing like a police escort ! A little pricey but worth every penny . I'm sure that load pay's well .Is it plus plus ?

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

Yessir, they certainly are worth every penny; and yes.

Sounds like heavy haul pays enough, to allow more life freedom outside of work. True?

@awd4g63ix

6 жыл бұрын

Depends on how much you wanna make. It does pay more for sure, but taking time off is a choice you have to make.

@montedyoung

6 жыл бұрын

Nick Mordaunt are there any places for company drivers with those types of loads? I don't have a truck, or would it be worth investing? Thanks!

@montedyoung

6 жыл бұрын

Nick Mordaunt I like to stay busy...as I can!

what is your Instagram name

@awd4g63ix

7 жыл бұрын

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