What's up driver, welcome to being an owner operator and repairman all in one. I feel for you my friend, some days I feel like crap just keeps following me. Just remember that you are not alone in this journey, we all have to stick together and pull through it. Better days ahead my friend, keep on trucking. Stay safe out there my friend and keep the videos coming and always travel safely catch you on the next one.
Man that feeling when you're unloaded and leaving it's just indescribable satisfaction when you get up to speed and light a smoke and just enjoy the empty drive to the next place
What PATIENCE, driving skills you have. Soldiered on through and got the job done. Best of luck and I hope all your roadways turn into magic carpet rides. Roll On.👍👌
Seems like a bad case of the “Mondays” haha. Gotta love all the disco lights on the old dashboard 👌🤦 Looking forward to some warmer/nicer weather myself, cheers to GRIP 😂
Fun to see you rolling through my stomping ground and knowing how tight those corners are. Hopefully those gremlins aren't too much of a headache. Your manoeuvre past the parked truck reminded me of when I used to drive school buses. I had to go through some big pick ups at a construction site on a residential street. I was young and brazen enough to think, 'yeah, no problem. I got this.' As the truck mirror was going under my west coast mirror and an inch or so from the bus body, there were kids plastered to the windows on both sides and one of them was, 'whooooa, that's close!' That was when I instantly started sweating and thought, 'maybe this wasn't such a good idea.' I made it through without touching anything, but I was a little more cautious after. I will keep watching for your truck when I am out and about. And now it will be a little more easy to recognise with the decals. Keep the great content coming and thanks for bringing me along so my inner trucker can get its fill. Every time I finish your videos I think that maybe it's not too late to get my licence.
Hey Matt! I’ve been watching you for years now on and off and have seen that truck change many times. Just caught back up and sorry for all the repairs and truck trouble. Honestly though, your channel is an absolute joy to watch and one of my favorites.
I like seeing this side of trucking as well, the roadblocks so to speak. It's been a couple years since I've been on the road, I had broken my leg and ankle from leaning on the winch bar to hard whilst standing on the one foot on uneven ground...popped loose and CRACK LOL, dumbass maneuver. I thought I sprained it so shoved it in a lace up boot and trucked the 650 miles back to Montana and by then it was starting to give me too much grief, BUT I MADE THE DROP!!! LOL. Those little moments of things not going as planned seem to make you better at your job in the long run, so if we take them for what they are and correct it as calmly and level headed as we can then we stand to enjoy the moments more as they happen and come out seeing clearer even quicker the next mess up. Love trucking, after the oilfield it's the only thing that makes me feel at home, I'll go through all the fuck ups to live this life on the road behind the wheel of a big rig, it's home. Don't let the bastards get you down and keep on truckin 🤘🤠🤘.
I just got back from the Montreal area this morning. On the way back, between Kingston and Belleville, there was 3 trucks in the center ditch and a truck rollover, which closed the Eastbound side. I haven't been to Ottawa much in the past few weeks but Bronson has been closed off the 417 for road work.
Good to show, when you can, the loading and unloading ''challenges'' you can run into especially from a local ontarian. I'm live in eastern Ontario. Keep up the good work!
I love your videos man! I just got my cdl about 2 months ago and you really inspire me to be an owner op or own my own truck one day im driving a 389 pete right now actually hauling waste water locally so I definitely got lucky but Drive safe out there
I can see what you be doing later when you get home or during the around trip. Lots of repairs. Hey, they to stay warm and not freeze in your truck. Seem like your truck is not having it, get me off the road. But safe drive
Don't you just love winter! haha causes all these lovely issues. Some wire somewhere must have shrunk in the cold. Anyways you'll get it all figured out and fixed happy trucking
Nothing worse than getting up on a cold morning and the truck literally broke while you weee sleeping. Keep on keeping on buddy. O/O is rough but it is what we do.
I used to run a '99 International, and it would develop lots of little electrical problems in the cold. It would work in the yard, but develop a thousand electrical gremlins 5 hours later in a much colder area, but then be fine when I got back to the yard where it was 10° warmer. Had to chuckle when your window wouldn't roll up; had that problem too!
Well, you drove thru my neighborhood. Trust me, there is a ton of salt on the roads and usually Ottawa drivers are pretty considerate and will hold back and give you room to make turns. Sadly, the younger drivers don't always practice good situational awareness. The key to remember in Ottawa. Carling Avenue (multi-lane road) runs parallel to the 417 from the Core out to the west and every major North - South intersection has signs directing you to an on ramp for the 417. Just avoid Parkdale Ave. The rest are all multi-lane and easy to drive.
I want say Congratulations on getting your own Authority & on your new trailers. Also I watched your videos a lot & had some catching up to do lol. I hope you were able to work on your truck from your last video. Keep'em coming.
Just something to check, my 389 would do the same thing with the turn signal indicator light. Usually when my 7 way plug would get moisture in it or it would get wet that’s exactly what it would do. Drilled a small hole in the bottom to let water drain and it’s worked for me since. I did have a bad ground that made it do it as well. Just a thought
Your videos are true to real truckin. Waking up in the bunk with no heat, that's terrible crap. Company drivers would not endure that, ha-ha. Frozen decks, straps, frozen slush on everthing, Yuck! I was wondering if you ever have to chain up and if you do how do you get them under those fenders or do you pull them off? Just wondering, anyhooo, thanx for taking me along for the drive , made my ass pucker a couple of times. Fun sometimes.
when your fuel pressure gauge goes into red and its cold it'll be because its full of water. Check and see if the housings all cloudy. Had mine on my pete do it to me up in yellowknife out on the ice roads, pulled the filter cleaned the housing out and ran a new filter on done. Waking up to no heat sucks, did it for 3 weeks in minus 40, not safe man keep it safe. Gett'er fixed up!
I've had the same thing happen to me with lights. Happened to be my wiring getting snow covered on the tractor. I cleaned it all off and rewired it into a protective cover.
Someone may have already mentioned this but don't get too excited about the ABS lights being on - your brakes will work fine with no ABS. Just drive according to conditions - as always.
Brother you’re brave for turning your truck off lol. I’ve learned the hard way so many times if it’s in the single digits or below keep the truck running. There’s been so many times where I’d go park up and the truck be running like a champ just to wake up with lights all over the dash, air not building, brakes locked up etc. I’d rather pay a little extra for fuel than deal with all the drama just by trying to save a little bit of fuel.
Stuff like that happens a lot with new cars and trucks, warning lights on the dash are always on because they're garbage. You don't get stupid problems for no reason with old trucks, they just work.
Haha, I just my own authority aswell at the beginning of the year! I actually believe that we're fairly close to each other too. lol You're not the only one that's been having truck issues, my old rig has been giving me some issues with the ABS aswell. thankfull i was able to sort it out and not need the $5000 pump lol I've watched a few videos of yours over the past couple weeks and i've enjoyed the content man! keep up the good work and keep on trucking! I'll keep an eye out for you and your rig and if i ever see you i'll jump on the CB. -fellow O/O from Cambridge!
if it's an espar bunk heater. get a rebuild kit and clean it. should be fine after that. and as for other things starting to come up at random. the truck abs could be a frozen sensor with ice or some water got into a connector. gremlins usually come up right after you spent soo much getting things ready to roll. also.. get a jumper box
Dude, I love this channel. I'm a new truck driver, just over a year now, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana mainly. Do you ever travel I-94 through Michigan? I swear I saw a truck just like yours with B-trains a few weeks ago on westbound I-94 near Kalamazoo. Anyways, thank you for the videos. I drive all day long, and lots of time end up watching trucking videos at night. I absolutely love how good your truck sounds on my pretty high end home theatre sound system. My wife and kids make fun of me but I have two 12" powered subs in my Dolby Atmos home theatre and when you are idling around and backing into spots with your windows down it sounds SO DAMN GOOD!
What's up driver, welcome to being an owner operator and repairman all in one. I feel for you my friend, some days I feel like crap just keeps following me. Just remember that you are not alone in this journey, we all have to stick together and pull through it. Better days ahead my friend, keep on trucking. Stay safe out there my friend and keep the videos coming and always travel safely catch you on the next one.
If it ain't one thing its another but somehow we works it out. B SAFE
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I LOOOOOVE THIS CHANNEL. Sorry for all your repairs, though im glad you let us in on the downsides of trucking/OwnOp, since im not a trucker
Right? Been my favorite channel for years now, Matt’s always got good content
Maybe a Trucker at Heart ?
Man that feeling when you're unloaded and leaving it's just indescribable satisfaction when you get up to speed and light a smoke and just enjoy the empty drive to the next place
No heat??? I can only imagine what the cold up there feels like🥶
LOL that hill at 15:27 is quite steep...short but steep. I've walked, biked and driven that road many times. Great channel!
What PATIENCE, driving skills you have. Soldiered on through and got the job done. Best of luck and I hope all your roadways turn into magic carpet rides. Roll On.👍👌
Seems like a bad case of the “Mondays” haha. Gotta love all the disco lights on the old dashboard 👌🤦
Looking forward to some warmer/nicer weather myself, cheers to GRIP 😂
Fun to see you rolling through my stomping ground and knowing how tight those corners are. Hopefully those gremlins aren't too much of a headache. Your manoeuvre past the parked truck reminded me of when I used to drive school buses. I had to go through some big pick ups at a construction site on a residential street. I was young and brazen enough to think, 'yeah, no problem. I got this.' As the truck mirror was going under my west coast mirror and an inch or so from the bus body, there were kids plastered to the windows on both sides and one of them was, 'whooooa, that's close!' That was when I instantly started sweating and thought, 'maybe this wasn't such a good idea.' I made it through without touching anything, but I was a little more cautious after. I will keep watching for your truck when I am out and about. And now it will be a little more easy to recognise with the decals. Keep the great content coming and thanks for bringing me along so my inner trucker can get its fill. Every time I finish your videos I think that maybe it's not too late to get my licence.
Damn man that's for u, hope u get all those problems fixed. Stay safe and have a good 1 out there
nice that transit trailer gave you the straps with the trailers
wow that long but you have the confidence to handle it well n be safe buddy
Hey Matt! I’ve been watching you for years now on and off and have seen that truck change many times. Just caught back up and sorry for all the repairs and truck trouble.
Honestly though, your channel is an absolute joy to watch and one of my favorites.
Cold days really kick a truck in the butt sometimes. Winter too
I like seeing this side of trucking as well, the roadblocks so to speak. It's been a couple years since I've been on the road, I had broken my leg and ankle from leaning on the winch bar to hard whilst standing on the one foot on uneven ground...popped loose and CRACK LOL, dumbass maneuver. I thought I sprained it so shoved it in a lace up boot and trucked the 650 miles back to Montana and by then it was starting to give me too much grief, BUT I MADE THE DROP!!! LOL. Those little moments of things not going as planned seem to make you better at your job in the long run, so if we take them for what they are and correct it as calmly and level headed as we can then we stand to enjoy the moments more as they happen and come out seeing clearer even quicker the next mess up. Love trucking, after the oilfield it's the only thing that makes me feel at home, I'll go through all the fuck ups to live this life on the road behind the wheel of a big rig, it's home. Don't let the bastards get you down and keep on truckin 🤘🤠🤘.
You are doing great under ruff condition. 🥶👍
Cities like Ottawa and Montreal were not designed for trucks like ours.
No place was made for big rigs.. City planners never built for the future..
@@Cent51 Although true, most rigs can easily get around most cities/towns.
I don’t even like driving pickups in Ottawa & Montreal!
I just got back from the Montreal area this morning. On the way back, between Kingston and Belleville, there was 3 trucks in the center ditch and a truck rollover, which closed the Eastbound side. I haven't been to Ottawa much in the past few weeks but Bronson has been closed off the 417 for road work.
Jeeze!!
@@callthemall Some people just don't know how to drive in bad weather. To be fair, it was freezing rain, but most of us were fine.
Don't worry yourself about the small things about your fix the immediate one step at a time
Good to show, when you can, the loading and unloading ''challenges'' you can run into especially from a local ontarian. I'm live in eastern Ontario.
Keep up the good work!
I love your videos man! I just got my cdl about 2 months ago and you really inspire me to be an owner op or own my own truck one day im driving a 389 pete right now actually hauling waste water locally so I definitely got lucky but Drive safe out there
I can see what you be doing later when you get home or during the around trip. Lots of repairs. Hey, they to stay warm and not freeze in your truck.
Seem like your truck is not having it, get me off the road. But safe drive
Matt you make it look so easy buddy….great video….. keep them coming and good luck with the truck…..stay safe buddy 👍
That is some wicked skill!
Don't you just love winter! haha causes all these lovely issues. Some wire somewhere must have shrunk in the cold. Anyways you'll get it all figured out and fixed happy trucking
Not only driving but with troubleshooting, Good video bro. more video like this.
Driving through my hometown is awesome man, but I'm sorry for the truck problems
Nothing worse than getting up on a cold morning and the truck literally broke while you weee sleeping. Keep on keeping on buddy. O/O is rough but it is what we do.
The man of many hats! Sir you’re bad ass. Sorry to hear about all the things going wrong on your truck. If it’s not one thing it’s another. 🤷🏼♂️🤦♂️
Wow you got lucky turning left out of Brampton brick I’ve sat there for 12 minutes before waiting for a gap, and you just roll right out
This is the part of trucking that sucks. God bless and stay safe fellow driver.
Ottawa, where I live!! I feel your pain! Driven 53' downtown too many times
driving a truck like that correctly is not for everybody...mistakes can lead to very serious consequences. My hat off to you sir!
Drumbo! I love that truck stop. Always stop there when I'm passing through
Me too!
I used to run a '99 International, and it would develop lots of little electrical problems in the cold. It would work in the yard, but develop a thousand electrical gremlins 5 hours later in a much colder area, but then be fine when I got back to the yard where it was 10° warmer. Had to chuckle when your window wouldn't roll up; had that problem too!
It’s a great looking truck
Handled like a boss as always. Wish I could be like you.
Hey that's our guys plowing thought that location looked familiar.
Well, you drove thru my neighborhood. Trust me, there is a ton of salt on the roads and usually Ottawa drivers are pretty considerate and will hold back and give you room to make turns. Sadly, the younger drivers don't always practice good situational awareness. The key to remember in Ottawa. Carling Avenue (multi-lane road) runs parallel to the 417 from the Core out to the west and every major North - South intersection has signs directing you to an on ramp for the 417. Just avoid Parkdale Ave. The rest are all multi-lane and easy to drive.
....Yah!..... just stay south of Kingston until spring......Cheers!
I want say Congratulations on getting your own Authority & on your new trailers. Also I watched your videos a lot & had some catching up to do lol. I hope you were able to work on your truck from your last video. Keep'em coming.
Cool to see you dropping a load local to me! I’m not far from paddy O’Stones
After watching you pull those trailers my 53 ft step doesn’t seem so bad! Be safe
All that stuff sounds like a ground issue. When you can't pin it down, it's usually ground..
Hope you enjoyed your trip to my crap city LOL
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Dude, monster skills in the urban environment.
🏖 Just pretend you’re lounging on a warm beach 🏝 with a guitar a brew and a doobie.( I’ll meet you there)
ive driven on that nasty hill on bronson, good throttle control my guy awesome to see that done well
down under we call'em 'B' Doubles , trains come with a dolly or 2
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I cant believe how easy that started at the beginning 😲
Great video...would be cool to see a gopro view of backing the trailers from the top of the truck
Just something to check, my 389 would do the same thing with the turn signal indicator light. Usually when my 7 way plug would get moisture in it or it would get wet that’s exactly what it would do. Drilled a small hole in the bottom to let water drain and it’s worked for me since. I did have a bad ground that made it do it as well. Just a thought
Sure hope your rig gets better soon hope all is well driv,ah..
Your videos are true to real truckin. Waking up in the bunk with no heat, that's terrible crap. Company drivers would not endure that, ha-ha. Frozen decks, straps, frozen slush on everthing, Yuck! I was wondering if you ever have to chain up and if you do how do you get them under those fenders or do you pull them off? Just wondering, anyhooo, thanx for taking me along for the drive , made my ass pucker a couple of times. Fun sometimes.
Tire chains aren’t legal here in Ontario so I don’t have to worry about fitting them under the fenders, which they definitely won’t!
just love youre vids from lennie over in manchester in jolly old england
Wow, every aspect of that trip was stressful for sure.
11:14 Jesus what a beauty
when your fuel pressure gauge goes into red and its cold it'll be because its full of water. Check and see if the housings all cloudy. Had mine on my pete do it to me up in yellowknife out on the ice roads, pulled the filter cleaned the housing out and ran a new filter on done.
Waking up to no heat sucks, did it for 3 weeks in minus 40, not safe man keep it safe. Gett'er fixed up!
It does this with brand new filters and brand new lines from the tank to the filter. Might be the sensor itself(??)
I've had the same thing happen to me with lights. Happened to be my wiring getting snow covered on the tractor. I cleaned it all off and rewired it into a protective cover.
really nice videos. kind regards from Germany!!!✊✊✊
Someone may have already mentioned this but don't get too excited about the ABS lights being on - your brakes will work fine with no ABS. Just drive according to conditions - as always.
Brother you’re brave for turning your truck off lol. I’ve learned the hard way so many times if it’s in the single digits or below keep the truck running. There’s been so many times where I’d go park up and the truck be running like a champ just to wake up with lights all over the dash, air not building, brakes locked up etc.
I’d rather pay a little extra for fuel than deal with all the drama just by trying to save a little bit of fuel.
Stuff like that happens a lot with new cars and trucks, warning lights on the dash are always on because they're garbage. You don't get stupid problems for no reason with old trucks, they just work.
Hi man!! Could you please tell me where did you get your forklift flatbed adapters ? I want to get it for my step deck. Thanks
Have You Checked on a Webasto Heater System for Your Truck ??
Love your vids keep up the great work 💪🏾
I'm new here...have been binging on your videos. Would be awesome to see some drone footage of a tricky B-Train back-up!
Damn all those little problems add up don't they? Sorry bud,hope thing improve for you.
Haha, I just my own authority aswell at the beginning of the year! I actually believe that we're fairly close to each other too. lol You're not the only one that's been having truck issues, my old rig has been giving me some issues with the ABS aswell. thankfull i was able to sort it out and not need the $5000 pump lol I've watched a few videos of yours over the past couple weeks and i've enjoyed the content man! keep up the good work and keep on trucking! I'll keep an eye out for you and your rig and if i ever see you i'll jump on the CB.
-fellow O/O from Cambridge!
Fuck was just there two weeks ago. Big job on Sparks. Surely I seen ya on the road !
Hopefully everything works out!
Do semi's slide a lot in the snow? Or no because they are so heavy they stay planted. Sick video I love your truck
Not really no! My issue is getting going all the time! Once it’s stopped it just spins the tires on snow!
New subscriber! I’m not a trucker but I enjoy seeing them around and your vids are great. Stay safe out there 👍
If no heat why not leave the truck idling? It's what I used to do, truck was running for 24 hrs
Aaaannddd.... that’s why I drive other people’s trucks.😂
Cold start video🥶🥶🥶🥶
😂😂😂😂😂😂
You do have the three or four months of summer to look forward to,
if it's an espar bunk heater. get a rebuild kit and clean it. should be fine after that. and as for other things starting to come up at random. the truck abs could be a frozen sensor with ice or some water got into a connector. gremlins usually come up right after you spent soo much getting things ready to roll. also.. get a jumper box
Great video dude, maybe if you had rear steers on your trailer make tight turns a lot easier. 👍😁
great, we don’t have such trucks, I would like to ride on such)))
This my second time watch your channel good stuff
Cold Weather seems to Mess with Things on Trucks and Trailers.
Dude, I love this channel. I'm a new truck driver, just over a year now, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana mainly. Do you ever travel I-94 through Michigan? I swear I saw a truck just like yours with B-trains a few weeks ago on westbound I-94 near Kalamazoo. Anyways, thank you for the videos. I drive all day long, and lots of time end up watching trucking videos at night. I absolutely love how good your truck sounds on my pretty high end home theatre sound system. My wife and kids make fun of me but I have two 12" powered subs in my Dolby Atmos home theatre and when you are idling around and backing into spots with your windows down it sounds SO DAMN GOOD!
I used to do a lot of Michigan but now my authority is Ontario only unfortunately!
this channel makes me miss being a truck driver....hoping to go back to it one day...
What made you get out of trucking?
Salam dari driver trailer asal Indonesia. Semangat terus menerus dalam bekerja dan semoga chanelmu berkembang
So, it looks like your blinker freezes when you brake. Is that what you noticed??
Yep that’s the tell tale sign!
Be careful while you're in Ottawa with a truck apparently they don't like Truckers.
😂😂😅
lol this video just kept on getting better and better didnt it
Oh it was a day that’s for sure!
It was 78 and breeze today, I don't know how you do it.
Would of been pretty cool to spot you here in ottawa
why did you go with b-trains vs flatbed? weight?
Yeah weight, and deck space
What part of Ontario are you from because i seen your truck just south of north bay on Saturday
I'm new to yer channel mate ,what trany ye running behind the ol cat
Eaton fuller 18 speed 🤙
Oh your beautiful big pete sure don’t like the cold 🤔or Ontario 🤷♂️lol cold weather gremlins
What Elog do you run big road?
USE Lanox or lanacote, a natural product on electrical couplers, we use it in the marine industry, ss fastenings into alu, never corrosion
The snowy wasteland ... the truck doesn't like it.
A lot of problem solving skills.
This makes me nervous and I’m not driving. Lol
Very niceeeeee ✌️