Trucking Crazy - Driving Semi in Winter Storm
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Trucking Crazy - Driving semi in winter storm is not so joyful! But Kevin does a great job despite the ice and wind and gets us safely to our delivery.
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@renedominguez7621
Жыл бұрын
Hey Kevin I will be at the Wilmer tx terminal on the 9th for orientation. How fast where y’all driving at the runaway ramp where the police was ?
@renedominguez7621
Жыл бұрын
Also did you use your jack brakes during those runaway ramp ?
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
That's great news!! We wish you all the best for orientation and beyond! Hope you have a great experience with Crete!! We hope we get to meet you some day!! Kevin was going between 30 and 45 most of that day.
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
No. Do not use jake brake coming down hills in ice and snow. Stab brake only. Even on wet pavement from rain you need to gauge the situation, as you could have your trailer try and pass you and end up jackknifing.
@renedominguez7621
Жыл бұрын
Thanks you for all your advice And info !!
i truly and honestly think we all need to take some time out to give kevin a round of applause for litteraly having the greatest posture possible on gods green earth for a truccer😂😂😂😂😂😂💪🏼
Today reminds me how much I enjoy being retired, be safe
@borklaser6394
9 ай бұрын
Stay retired trucking is only for real Americans unlike yourself
Start trucking tomorrow and have been learning and studying and practicing for awhile now but no matter how many times I hear “dropping loads” or worse “taking loads” my juvenile side still chuckles 😝😝😝🤨
@TheJoyofTrucking
4 күн бұрын
@@MakeshiftApollo 😆😆😆😂🤣Yes…we can relate to that! Endlessly entertaining. 😉 We wish you a great start to trucking!!!!
@MakeshiftApollo
4 күн бұрын
@@TheJoyofTrucking I may still be one of the few left that still holds a little sense of magic for this particular career. There are too many grouchy and jaded drivers out there but even as things become second nature and even old hat I think I’ll still have that romance for it that many drivers either lost or honestly probably never had.
You handled the ice and snow really well Kevin and having Tonya as a copilot must keep you amused. Winter driving stinks but it’s just part of the job, but satisfying when the season’s over. Really enjoy your videos and sound effects.
@TheJoyofTrucking
11 ай бұрын
Thanks!!!👍 Great to see you are enjoying a variety of our videos, Lois!
Love yalls channel, greatest KZread channel n 🇺🇸 n world, keep posting n new ones.alway interesting n Kevin very professional, knows more then most drivers out here.number 1 viewer.
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
🥰🥰🥰Thank you!!!🥇🥇🥇
Clearly you two are a grrrrreat team and a joy to watch! Be safe. :)
Beautiful country in the winter time
I remember the cabbage patch!! Indeed! Kevin, I sure hope you're doing better by now. Sick sucks on a truck, I'm sure! Take good care, and, as always, travel safely...
As a lifetime citizen of western Maryland, you definitely will learn to drive in every type of weather.
@TheJoyofTrucking
9 ай бұрын
👍👍👍😆😆😆
I really enjoyed watching your video. My husband and I drove from Maine where we live to Pa all the time. We were out M-F. Usually home weekends. He passed last Jan 16th so watching your video was bittersweet. I've been on the same roads and sat in your seat doing the same thing as you. I took so many photos and only started trying my hand at videos. We were on the road for 3 years together and 2 apart. We drove from Maine to South Carolina and as far Wrst as Ohio and Michigan. It was so much fun being with him in the truck. I loved it dearly.
Kevin I love your hat today
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
😃😃😃 Thanks!!
68 is a nice drive when the weather isn't crap you were pretty close to me (York)
Some very intense trucking. Some very beautiful scenery though. Great driving Kevin y'all stay safe out there. Great video.
You did a great job of driving today. The video showing the steam train. I enjoy it very much. Be safe. Spring is coming.
Thks for all tht y’all do Godspeed driver keep the video coming
Great job!! Im a new cdl driver and this will be my first winter❤
Glad y'all made the best of a difficult situation and made it to your appointment safe n on time . Hopefully there was time off to rest in a warmer temperatures and fully recover from being ill . All the best , love the channel.
Always interesting watching
Hi Tanja! Hubby and I are on our way from Missouri to Tampa FL. We continue to enjoy your channel and also wanted to mention how interesting it is seeing all the stuff being hauled on open trailers ( is that the correct term?) huge logs of tree trunks, giant mechanical parts like 7-ft diameter tubes - maybe fan cages; wind turbine propellers, modular home pieces, and things we can only guess what they’re for. Enjoying iceless roads today, unlike you two. 😮. Safe travels!
@georgecook1374
Жыл бұрын
Flat bed trailers is the proper term. Truckers also refer to them as Skate Boards.
@kitdwyer8534
Жыл бұрын
@@georgecook1374 Thank you, George!
That "old steam engine" in Cumberland is Western Maryland #1309. She was recently restored and entered service in 2021 after 64 years of being idle. Love your videos, don't love seeing all that ice, snow, and cold!
almost normal driving conditions for winter in NewHampshire and Vermont I drove up there for most of my career.
Be safe and keep trucking
Hello from Omaha. Those were beautiful pictures and I hope you have a happy New Year.
Y’all be safe
Kevin is definitely a talented man the concentration levil he has melts snow hood job filming narrating job definitely harder snow ice
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
👍😃😃😃😃🥰😁
Be careful and stay safe and happy new year
Stay safe you guys
I hate driving on this stuff. I do Oregon and Washington so I see alot of it. 35mph works great for me. Awesome job man.
@renedominguez7621
Жыл бұрын
I drive the same no more than 35 thanks for your comment made me feel normal
Omg what amazing place you went though with that steam locomotive . Hats off to you guys all the trucks how bring us our goods . Watching from the U.K.
Good evening beautiful things is good from shipock nm God's is good 👍 🙏
Love you guys!! BE CAREFUL!!!!
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
Awwwwww….. blushing…thank you!!!
It is so interesting to travel with the two of you from the comfort of my chair.
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
👍👍👍 We love having the armchair travelers with us!! Honored, Nancy!!
You folks do a great job
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
Very familiar with I68. Have driven it in all types of weather in a four wheeler and in a Yukon pulling a 28’ trailer. Was on it in Jan ‘22 pulling my trailer when 6-8” snow fell. Personally, I was pulling a 42K load on I76 (PA turnpike) the day you were on I68. The wind at the Summerset service plaza was brutal. Kevin, Thanks for sharing your experience driving. Tonya, thanks for capturing the video.
that stretch of 68 is never clear in the winter lol
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
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Stay safe. I had to call it a day today in Sioux Falls SD
Kevin is amazing. Driving in this while sick. I would have raised a white flag and crawled into a corner. Hope you feel better soon.
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
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Enjoying the videos. Drove for Crete/Shaffer for 5 years back in 2010-16 on the Shaffer side. Great company an would go back to them in a minute if ever got the itch to change companies. Running all 48 for a for small outfit dragging a skateboard with Pete 389 now. Ya'll be safe out there an keep the shiny side up.
I’m new to trucking so I avoided this storm at all cost
That section of I-68 is a "bear" up/down in good weather! You passed your snow/ice road test! Did you deliver to the fruit market in Grantsville?
I just drove over Vail passed twice once Las Vegas and then back to Denver yay! I thought it was the karate kid chains on chains off.
You have 44,000 on I68 in icy conditions? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. That roller coaster was one of the scariest I've ever driven on. 15-25 mph going up, jaking and doing the recommended speed limit on the way down. Brakes caught on fire once because I lost the jake. .
@renedominguez7621
Жыл бұрын
So true I would only be on i68 in normal conditions you got me messed up
My guess is those headlamp assy lenses are plastic. I would think that using an ice scraper over time will scratch the heck out of them. Maybe use some -20 washer fluid to clean the ice off
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
Yes! We were not sufficiently prepared and we’re using a makeshift approach. 🤦♀️
I've missed your videos.
Excellent video and editing! Be safe.
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!! Hey…we know a Mr.. Seriouz on KZread. Any relation?
@mrs.seriouz321
Жыл бұрын
Yesss…Mr. Seriouz…that’s my husband! 😁
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
@@mrs.seriouz321 Lol!!! That’s great! I thought that might be the case!! Hope he’s well and still trucking. He’s a very talented editor and always trying to help and inspire people! Thanks for watching our video! Tell him hello!
They were so incorrect on the temps from that storm here in Orlando. The two coldest days it was supposed to be 20⁰ at 6am. I took my pooch out for her morning walk at 6am both days wearing only pajama shorts and slip on shoes, no shirt. There was dew on my windows and the grass but none of it was ice. I'm a born and raised Floridian, so cold weather isn't my cup of tea. Honestly i think it was colder back in 86 when the Challenger shuttle exploded, it atleast felt colder.
Grantsville Maryland
Oh the joy of trucking. When on icee roads, as you hit the bumps and rough areas of a road, how does the truck and trailer react to those bumps? I've not had to drive on bad winter roads so I don't know. Did you see any cabbage growing? lol
It snows up on Coopers Rock 🪨 in June.
I don’t think 3 GPS is enough; have you considered 5 so your windscreen is covered completely?
Saw a video few days ago, where people were using truck runaway as a sledding hill
@renedominguez7621
Жыл бұрын
Lol I can see that 😂
when did you get a new freightliner
What’s your avg length of haul at Crete carrier, here at Werner I get like 8short loads a week?
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Its DEF
Omg some people shouldn't be allowed to drive....PARK ON A RUN AWAY TRUCK RAMP!!!!
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
And it turned out to be the police!!!!!
Hey buddy why do guy’s run with two gps
@TheJoyofTrucking
Жыл бұрын
We use co-Pilot on ELD. Garmin Dezl GPS OTR800. And Garmin Dezlcam OTR710. And Trucker Path on phone. Different functions and overview settings. More info easily accessible.
Kevin it's against the law drive down the road with Hazzard lights on. I'm federal agent second you need to get a dash cam for your safety reasons cars and trucks do it all the time run out front of semi trucks. Your word against the person you hit truck driver's get smarter old school trucker I'm getting back in it with my wife god bless you both Dr A Retzer
Used to drop fuel at Mechanicsburg term.