Thank god for truckers. My husband Shawn is a trucker. He been a trucker for 9yrs now. Shawn if you ever see this i love you so much babe in can't wait too see you again. Lov you in god bless two all the truckers
After a little over 35 years, I had been seeing the hand writing on the wall for years & hung it up back in 07. The good ole days are gone for sure. These younger drivers will never know what it was like to be an outlaw or some of the things we did. Too bad. Had some damn hard times but had some damn good ones too. Wouldn't take nothing for them days cause I did it the way I wanted to.
Amen on that my pops been doing it for 37 Year an had to hang it up last Friday when found out he had cancer an im 30 an been doing it since i was 18 by my self.. Would never be in to trucking if it was not for my pops put me in a truck when i was 2 months old
i miss those days of running in a convoy across 55 mph states with the hammer down and shooting the shit on the radio. good times. now you couldn't pay me enough to run a convoy with this new breed.
I always respect truckers on the road because you never know what kind of life is unfolding in that cab or how heavy that drivers shoulders are. From a retired trucker. 🇺🇸🦅😑
Im 23 yo, truck driver for 5 years. Currently in Ireland driving truck, didnt see my family since august... Sad life, but its my sacrifice for them BUT I still lovr my job
Still riding my 84 cab over Pete, riding it as long as I can, hats off to all of us who still like the old ways of doing business. Loved the 359s and the "A" models.
I've got a question then my family's never owned a cab over not even for harvest or my grandpa's trucking company what were the reasons to have them. I know one of my neighbors do but I don't know what year it is besides it being a Pete. BTW I know the neighbor and his daughter since where both in the same grade.
@@christopherwinter2099 the reason, in north america, was to enable greater length of the trailer within a legally restricted overall length. i presume something about the length rule must have changed since cabovers are pretty scarce nowadays.
I’m not a livestock hauler, but a skateboarder. Been out here for 20 years, proudly sharing the road with all the steel cowboys n girls to keep the good ole USA moving. Godspeed to all of you. Great vid
I miss it! West coast turn arounds 4500 miles 4 days. Big Cats 18 speeds triple digits. Maybe 4 miles to gallon Them days are gone but a lifetime of memories
Yes thank you. In covid I spent 2 years straight in my truck. I ofcoruse went to shoping, eating, working and all the necessary things in life but during covid I had 2 choices. See my family from my window or face call. If you wonder this was possible because I own my truck and was working when covid started.
I didn't Try to Live the Outlaw Life,. I lived it a very long time, 30 year's Long Haul Refrigerator Unit 1986 359 Pete 300 inch wheel Base and Many more from the old Cabovers to the first Big Cam 400 & the old 1693 Cat the KT 450 V8 right on to the time of the 600 Cats. Plus my time in these Eastern Kentucky Mountains as a Kid Hauling Coal,. Yeah I'm one of those Lost in Time Outlaws of Real Truckers..... We gone forever but Never Forgotten
I was in the store the other day and 2 girls were talking about truckers. I couldn't keep my mouth shut cause I think it's bullshit people wanna down grade a trucker. My husband is a truck driver. Yes it's a lonely life but I love him and gonna stand strong beside him. If you buy milk, bread, or anything at a store well guess what a truck driver made sure you was able to buy those things. Yes my blood is still boiling over it. To all the truckers and their families be safe and your in my prayers. God bless all the truckers.
your husband is prob one of the few with pride and decency anymore,theyve prob not had the pleasure of running up with some real fashioned and seasoned drivers such as......well...me n him,surely you can see where theyre coming from,look at whats out there now,scary aint it?
Good for you standing up to your husband and other truckers and I'll do the same thing when I'm in a store or somewhere someone starts crying over a truck driver and I speak my peace because I was a truck driver one time I am disabled now but I still got trucking blood in me
Too bad... My ex wife needed to take a few lessons from you on standing by her man. I lost everything. Houses trucks cars etc.. I drove one the baddest stretched slammed to the ground Kenworth Studio out there.. and she felt it was a good time to bank roll our money and run off... So just what little you said about the girls talkin' bout drivers. I thank you for havin' our backs... Your a strong woman to put up with guys like us. Your husband is a lucky man... God bless you both both.
@@hphggr9652 I've been out here almost 20 years. I was raised old school. I'm not saying panty jammers aren't out there. But don't put us all in one basket.
That outlaw life “the true outlaw life” was some of the best trucking we will ever see! Not many can do what we really had to do back in the day. The CB radio was your life line of the road. You didn’t see these big 150 truck pile ups or major backups
We had respect and Camaraderie. Now the new generation want to cry wine bitch and moan These so called steering wheel holders wouldn’t make a pimple on a drivers ass!!
Some of us are still in that left lane ain't ain't moving back over till I can't physically get my old bones to get into the pilot seat.King Of The Roads old school at 50 yo
Well for the most part the good ol days r over in most of the industry except for the ones that pull bull wagon u have to run outlaw or loose money and only take runs u can run legally or unload and feed and water what u r hauling Everytime u have to shut down for ur break I'd rather run outlaw
@@joshuastevens5910 very true but they don't have to run as hard as livestock haulers they only have I think it's 24 hours from the time they load to have that livestock unloaded whether it b at where they going or a pre-planned stop like a stock yard or something to unload them and feed and water them their is a reason DOT everywhere will write a bull hauler a big ticket instead of shutting him down if they shut him down they have to have a place for him to unload at while he is shut down
Ryan Williams I’ve done both. I run equally as hard doing flatbed and grain as I did livestock. I’ve also noticed just around where I live that some ranchers don’t like these new breed of cow haulers. Seeing a lot more fuck ups among cattle haulers now because guys coming into it that don’t have a lick of sense on how to do it.
I've lived a life very similar to the song. Been driving solely for a living for 3+ years now. I have so much more respect than ever before for my fellow drivers and I grew up in the old school ways. My Father drove for 43 years and I just got tired of what I was doing and decided to have a go at it. I've done many things you shouldn't do and been many places and met so many friendly faces. It gets in you and there's no changing it once it does. Loose leaf is life but E Log never stopped me!! Keep the shiny side up my brothers and sisters of the road. Outlaw For Life!!! Dump Bucket!!! They call me Pyro aka Crazy Craka aka Haas depending upon time and location. My Father was Woodstock aka Wishbone for the ladies!! 10-10 on the side
I'M 62 and retired (disabled) this vid bring back memories both good and bad. late 70ies and 80ies. SUMABITCH. triple digit trucks. those 3408 and 1693 Cats, occasional v-12's. 13 speeds or 4x5's. This takes me back. THANKS
Kind of cracks me up that all those people think bullracks were the bad ass truckers out there ...Skateboarders to the Parking Lots ...most of us lived it that white line fever chasing horizon to horizon ,sunrise to sunset ...those days are pretty much done but I have mad respect for those of us that did it ...be safe and God bless you all
It sucks I just got into trucking running with an outlaw group wish I could have gotten into it sooner I've put in 16hours or longer in a day running 70-90mph down the highway but it seems the days of being an outlaw are getting forced into the end. No more black smoke, no more big horsepower no more paper logs and no more gliders it sucks
back in the day, we all had our share of outlaw truckin....jonesport, maine to L.A. and Salinas to Chelsea Market in 8 days.. double loads out of illinois to new york... livin on go fast and coffee...much respect to you as well bud for your years as a driver... they are gone for me now.. i miss it like hell..
Cant tell ya how true this song is. Just lost my best friend that was trucken for the last 30 years with me. This life is all we know. Long live charley. We will miss you. "Lost my friend"
I’m 3 generation truckdriver and I’ve been driving for 21 years. I’m 39 and I absolutely love this song it is the true song to my life. It’s hella deep song! ❤️
My Dad drove trucks. Hard life. I APPRECIATE you men and women who are out there driving to make sure the food is on the shelves. God bless you and your families. May God give you a safe ride.
This is the school of hard knocks I learned in. Lots of great memories. Went back to it a time or two to keep the lights on for the family. It's a rare breed indeed. There's a part of me that still misses it. Thanks for the video and song. Trio back in time.
"lost my friends and lost my husband"! Yep that white line fever is in the blood!! Anybody can drive a truck, but not everyone is a truck driver!! I never pulled a bull wagon but hauled that produce outta Shaky!! Retired/disabled now, TOO MUCH outlaw life takes a toll on that 'ole body!!!
I can't wait to get out there If that makes me an OUTLAW so be it I lost my man if I lose my friends hey guess they weren't really friends. Dreams Come True I'm following my DREAMS of being an OTR TRUCKER !!! Roll On 18 Wheeler Thank y'all out there pushing through this pandemic
Been driving truck for over 20 years and learned three things . My family loves me , I love my job and everyone else doesn’t appreciate me. Hope y’all stay safe and GOD Bless you
My sister sent me a link to this video because we both share a love of trucks. My dream as a little girl was to drive cattle haul. Can’t afford the $10 grand to get my AZ, but one day!!! For now I admire them on the highway!! Thank you truckers!!
My dad was in Heavy Hauling for 34years. I can relate to the last 17 of those wonderful years to this song for him. Red 81 long nose twin stick Pete 10/08 R.I.P JYD
Love you dad. I had a dream I went to heaven looking for him. Once I arrived I found myself having to cross the scales before I could enter the pearly gates. I asked the man at the scales if he seen my dad. The man laughed and said , you dad told us he would drive through hell before he rolled over that scale. Hats off to all you drivers out there feeding this great nation. Stay safe!
I would have NEVER traded that life for any other, I loved ir then and always will. That life was more faithful to me than anyone I was ever married to or dated, and it always will be, being a woman doing it feels so good because I was always respected and I still am, Thanks guys !!
This video always brings a tear to my eye. Because of a stupid heart attack they took away my CDL. I miss the life and being out there with my trucking brothers and sisters.
Been at this game 35+ years. The best were in an 86 379 cranking close to 600 horse and geared to go!. Hauling cattle in Western Canada and the US. Never did pills but there was an awful lot of Jolt cola and coffee. The great times and comraderie of those days will forever live in my memories. God bless all the drivers who survived and took pride in shiny chrome and lights, sadly something that is a rareity today
Well boys and girls I enjoyed y'alls comments. Keep them Rolling ( coming ) I have been over road haulin all type's animals. Mostly calfs cows hogs Started in 1955. 67 years. LOVED every minute. Still driving and haulin. Greatest life ever. Friends in every state Canada Mexico. Cuba. Wife for 48 years . KEEP BLOWING THE HAIR OFF OF THEM BOYS AND LADY'S. HAD UP TO 12 TRUCKS AT ONE TIME. SOME OF THE BEST DRIVERS I EVER HAD WERE. " LADY'S"
God Bless Ya Man...... I try shaking them ole' boys hands and having a convo everhtime I see them walk in the truck stops.... I once met an 80 year Old Bull Hauler still driving .... He needed my helo cause the lady inside told him she had opened the pumps for the fuel but they wouldnt pump..... Had a nice talk with that Ole Boy..... He told me something I'll never forget..... " Boy You Gotta Smell The S##$hit and Ya gotta smell the P/iss to make the money" .... That thought me to never give up. How an 80 year old boy could still handle that big ole' Pete and unload them Animals..... not to mention that big Ole ' Shiny Cattle Pot He was Haulin. Beautiful Truck and Trailer combination he had.
Been Over The Road over 30yrs. It’s not for everyone. But it’s a living. Words to this song hit deeper than anyone who’s never been OTR could ever understand. Big wheels keep rolling because people need the luxury’s of life. Let’s all be safe out there and make it home to our families.
Yeah if I don't know nothing if they found a bottle doctor bills or whatever they find a box or bottle of that they probably think of some kind of dama something to put on sores so let me know and get some of that out there dump that on your leg everybody that the whole Splash that upon your damn cut see how you feel
I miss the old days , trucking was trucking , 48ft flatbed and a cabover freight shaker , riding 80 in flats and 30 uphill , truck stops had real food and real coffee
Someone just sent me this and it definitely hits home for me back in the 90’s. Especially on my 49th Birthday. It’s wonder I’m even made it to this age alive. And it wasn’t whiskey for many of us like in this video. We didn’t have time for it. We had to and wanted to roll. My way of thinking back then was I’m out here to make money, I can sleep at the house. But it was something much worse than whiskey. Something that I’ve seen some good friends I’ve met over the years on the road and knew at home that it got their wife, business and a few it even got their life. Others even got some jail time to 20 years in prison. But the fun times, memories and stories we made back then. The close calls we had, to dodging the scales to just killing the lights and blowing by at 100 plus. To nearly getting busted. The lies we told the Dot man. Like what log book ? And we’ve all use the line Jerry Reed used in the Smokey and the bandit when he got pulled over running 96mph. “I did’t know this truck would do 96 mph” But we did. And depending on how it was specked out we had a gear or so to go. And we’d find out in the middle of the night. West Texas I 20 was one of my favorites. We’d get up around 127. But we loved those big fast shiny chromed out lit-up rigs. Or Large Cars as we called them. But for some of us they lived up to what others called them and that was home wreckers. Drivers License takers.
OMG dude, how MANY times has a string of 10 or 12 of us rolled through west TX in the middle of the night...cruising speed 120mph and yes a couple gears to go!!! Yeah lots of stories, up 3 or 4 days at a time...run 5000+ miles a week, 3 log books, prayin you gave em the right one...good times!! It's not fun out there anymore though😔
@@TWBlack. Been there did that back when running a Pete 359 with either a 3408 Cat or a KTTA Cummins 600 with either a 5x4 or 6x4. Have run the bottom from El Paso to the Dome in 8 hours with me leading with Mississippi Shaker, Special K, and a few other hands. It all started over someone getting a new truck and saying they could run with my truck. Afterward, Special K told the driver to get another truck as he could not run with the big boys. We were all young an had a lot of luck on our side looking back. Knew some that got jail time for hauling drugs or selling. Met some really good people on the road back then and if a truck broke down more than one driver would stop to help or ask other drives if they had a such and such part to fix the truck or knew how to fix it. Some of the ladies who just rode trucks to see the US and all that were something also. Try telling a driver today about running around Miss scales when the weight limit was 73,280 all the way up the Mississippi River and the only legal length was 65'. Some of the back roads I have run with other drivers would amaze the drivers today. Pay was 9-12 cent a mile or 15%-20% gross driving for different companies.
T Black no doubt. Stretched out nearly a mile. Because we didn’t tailgate. Had that bird dog or jammer on the dash or grill. And a brake light switch. Seat taken up and slid back in the hole of that ole 379 and bolted to the floor. Styling & Profilin. Only lines I did was on a scratched up aluminum high Performance clip board. Which many flight plans were laid out on. Had many prayer meetings up in my ole ride. Because a friend in need was a friend indeed. An I was an ole hero. 😎
@@zan1069 Hahaha OMG thanks for the giggle....many a flight plan of mine was made on one of those steel clipboards...and is there ANY other way to drive a Petercar but all the back and on the floor!!!! No better feeling than Petermobiling.... I still have my chrome "Haulin Ass" bumper plates!! Think I got them at the Iowa80 or Little Rock one. I REALLY miss the OLD days!! P.S. my absolute favorite DOT reaction was when I handed him my 3 ring binder (loose leave logs ONLY) and the sticker on my little binder said "Slut with Skills"...I thought DOT dude was gonna pee himself!!!
Thanx for the video....Most people doesn't understand what we do and I dare say there's a lot that can't do what we do but that's alright we're just cut from a different cloth than normal folks! Sure was some sharp rides shown and to all the drivers and owners "Thanx for the representation of our industry y'all made us all look good...true professionalism"
I do, been there did that before most on here were born. The first hundred miles and the last hundred is the most dangerous. When I was young I ran for Florida Beef Producers. Ronnie Golden still owes me $60.00 by the way. Some of you may have seen my 79 ex/hood pete with the horse's eyes rolled back smoking a left-hand cigarette with stars above his head drinking from a straw out of an xxx jug. I loved running the Moford lane.
Ron Buchanan Jr You are correct! It is also stereotypical that truckers are seen as fat , stinking uneducated and ignorant people that can find no other jobs. It never ceases to amaze me that those stereotypes have pretty much always been in place. Why truck driving?, you may ask! I was forced into retirement from EMS due to two surgeries on my right shoulder and one on my left due to 25 years of lifting fat asses. That has taken a toll on my poor old shoulders...thank God, I am one of the few that wasn’t forced into retirement due to back injuries. I will say, if I could be a paramedic for 25 more years, I’d still be working on the meat wagon because I truly loved my job and made it very personal to me. I always made it a point to learn everything I could to make me a better medic than the ones that were satisfied on just knowing the base skillset that a medic must know to pass the test to be a medic. I am proud to say, my skillset and knowledge base far surpasses the vast majority of other paramedics working in the field today. Speaking of being “uneducated”, I am a retired Critical Care Paramedic (The highest level of training a medic can earn and it has to be earned by means of a specialized college that offers the Critical Care Paramedic Class. I sat in class with Registered Nurses, as this is the exact same class Critical Care nurses take to be ER nurses with their highest training level before becoming a Nurse Practitioner (Same skillset as a Physicians Assistant). The field of Emergency Medical Services has grown to the point that their is actually a PhD program for paramedics. I didn’t have that option when I went to medic school...just an associates degree was offered back in the EMS dark ages. So much for all us “outlaws” being uneducated idiots! Fellow drivers, walk proudly, hold your head high and embrace the fact that truckers are licensed professionals doing a job that the majority of citizens could never do!
hearing this stuff makes me think of my dad he was a trucker for 32 yrs and died in 2017 at age 52 and makes me break out in tears miss my father it took yrs just to listen to trucker songs and to watch trucker videos when he passed i took my girl to a restaurant and seen a boy and his dad all happy and just having fun and i broke down in tears just like i am writing this now my girl had to calm me down people in the restaurant were wondering why i was crying she told them my dad recently passed and seeing that boy with his dad brought back memories i feel every song i write will never take away the pain of losing my dad i feel ill write and write and always feel pain inside
I hear ya man. I lost every imcludimg my soon to be wife. Trucking has helped a lot. When you out on that road you dont have time to think about what you lost but what you can amd will gain
My dad drove a truck his whole life and had a massive heart attack 3 weeks before he was going to retire. I was working on his Kenworth w900 when it happened. He survived and made it about a year before he passed away. He spent the last year of his life letting me know how much he regretted missing me grow up. When he had his second heart attack he was laying on the hospital bed grabbing my arm and he kept telling me he was sorry and I told him he didn’t have anything to be sorry about and was a hell of a father. Every time I think about saying the hell with it and hitting the road I keep thinking about that. After him letting me drive that first 50 miles I was hooked you can’t get it out of you. I’ve always wanted to drive and he’s alway talked me out of it or I was to busy to slow down and get my cdl. I spend my days working on trucks now. After my twin girls were born He told me you don’t wanna drive no damn old truck them two little girls are more important than any truck on the road and I know he’s right and I couldn’t leave them if I tried. An old black w900 rolled through the shop the other day just like dads to get some work done And it was hard to watch that old black truck roll away Knowing how bad I wanted to be in it But when I come home and my two little girls run up to me it lets me know he was right but damn I miss them days in the truck with dad Listing that big caterpillar sing And that turbo whistle fading in and out with the Rolling hills. Trucking is an addictive hard life.
It's bring back the good ol memories for sure.i drove them cattle wagon for 27.5 years .tooth picks little cocain whiskey some weed. It was a good life back then.im always gonna be an outlaw till the day I die.
Been off the road for awhile now but your video brings back a lot of great and not so great memories, it's the life of a Trucker and I thank you for your great video and the work you put into it
Coast to coast and back in 7days. Outlaw life. No feeling like chicken moobilin. Hanging it up 42 yrs. Not fun with what's out here today driving trucks. Be safe drivers.
As a European immigrant I drove produce trucks from California to Chicago back and forth. Came to states in 1992, never been outside of Chicago until 1999 when 22 years old I first time drove to California. I-80 or I-40 routs, a round trip within 5 days over 4,200 miles per week, on and off, total for about 8 years between 1999 and 2012. Quit about 6 times, it was hard to get away, never did drugs though however few times drove through Iowa on I-80 while having a stiff hangover. Seen and followed those cow trucks many times driving through nights, I never forget when I followed one on I-80 driving over 85mph on ice and snow it was few days before Christmas. Now I embrace a comfortable big city life, futures contracts trader.
I am a retired paramedic....forced into retirement due to three shoulder surgeries...truck driving has enabled me to be the provider for my family I once was! Did my two years OTR, came back home to my wife and two kids, got a local job that pays more than OTR and come home very noght
Scotter I hope you enjoy it! I have truly enjoyed driving the past few years. Where else can you get paid to see this beautiful country we live in! I do drive local now, don’t want to miss my kids growing up by being OTR when I can be home every night now.
Adrian Craciun My friend, Big Rigs DO NOT rule the world....Great Drivers do! These days, automatic air shift transmissions allow any “student” off the street to drive an 80,000 lb. truck. The companies say it’s for “fuel mileage” when it’s actually to keep new drivers from destroying the clutch, transmission and U-joints out of these beasts. They are not built like they used to be. Companies are going with lighter components to save on weight, thus compromising strength. My dad was a diesel mechanic as long as I can remember...up until he passed away at age 38...too young and gone too soon...but I remember him working on big trucks to the point his hands would dry, crack open and bleed from the diesel oil, parts cleaner and Go-Jo drying his hands out. Respect to other drivers makes you a trucker. Just the kind gesture of yielding to merging traffic, especially your brother and sister drivers: Getting over a lane as not to “wind wash” a truck on the shoulder getting a tire changed, raising their hoods and/or pulling over to assist a fellow driver makes you a Trucker. Talking the time to stop at an accident and helping other motorists/truckers makes you a “Big Rig Boss.” It may be YOU that makes the difference in saving a life of a fellow motorist/trucker just because you took the time to hold pressure on a bleeding artery. You may make the difference when you witness another fellow trucker that was intentionally “brake checked” by a 4 wheeler that was intentionally looking for the “Here’s my wreck, here’s my check” idiot that truly doesn’t realize just how many other motorists, including the big rig driver, that was put in danger for their ignorance. The boss of the road is the one that has the common sense not to “push through” that fatigue and actually just pull off the next exit and taking a little break...even if it does make you late for your drop...if you don’t make it there, the load doesn’t make it there and possibly the 10 cars you wiped out didn’t make it there either. Pay attention to that “little black dog” that seems to dart in and out of your vision. That dog may just save your life and many others. The King of the Road will be the one that makes it home to their families for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Birthdays (even your own) because they are the ones that go above and beyond because they care more for their own safety than the $300,000 load that they have in their van/flatbed/reefer, consider others over themselves and have a desire to be better than the one that just flipped you a bird for no apparent reason. The King will be the one that actually take the time to look over their truck before they start their shift to add a little assurance that you will be less likely to throw a cap from their tire, slinging it into the car behind them.....hitting that baby in the car seat (you don’t want to know what happens next.) Only you can decide if you are the DRIVER that RULES THE WORLD and proves to all the others you earned the respect and reputation to be one the next million milers, top earners and retire alive with that nice GOLD WATCH thousands of drivers strive for, earn it and make it alive because they kept themselves mentally and physically fit enough to so! Good luck on any drivers quest to be DRIVER THAT RULES THE WORLD! Also...take the time to get a good CB radio and “learn the lingo”...Don’t worry about coming up with a catchy handle, that’s something you will be “granted” by your fellow drivers as experienced comes your way! It took me a little time to earn my “new name”...but it actually fits me well...here is why. I was a paranormal investigator for about 20 years and was given the handle “Egon”-from a Ghostbusters..LOL I worked as a medic at one of the last two funeral home based ambulance services in GA. Yes, you had to call the funeral home to get an ambulance sent to you via a 10-digit phone number because we didn’t get a 9-1-1 system for emergency dispatch until 1996 because we are so rural. I became interested in paranormal investigation due to all the strange occurrences at the ambulance station. Our sleeping quarters were in the upstairs of the funeral home. If you are ever in GA/AL/SC (my local route hauling bulk coal fly ash and concrete via pneumatic tanker)...Proudly displaying my “Square and Compasses”... Rug Doctor just might hear ya! Gold bless and be safe!
I been there had 5 trucks on the road I was the out law hauling cattle loved it got away with it sold out in 2011 I'm a company man now running chips and lumber but drive a 93 Pete no e log
Still tryin to live this Outlaw life. Hung up on refrigerated freight. Got my 2001 classic freightshaker dressed up and put a tow pack on it. Chicken lights and chrome. She's fire engine red. SEXY! Here to save our Hazmat brothers.
Been doing this for 19 years lost 2 wives to this life style. On my 3rd wife now and she's been with me going on 8 years now. This song hits hard. Truly one of the most deadly accurate songs
Never pulled bulls, but i lived that life. Hauled cold garbage, one side to the other for decades, just me and my little friend the squelch monster. Like so many other driver's, they could write a book about my life and no one would believe it. Keep hammering driver.
My uncles name was wishbone, he drove for a couple companies before he finished off driving for Mason Feeders out of Mason, Texas for atleast 17+ years, hauling cattle for most of It odds and ends when things were slow. As a kid I used to help him wash his truck, add lights and what not sometimes hitch a ride if he wasn’t going to far. It was something about shifting gears and swinging that truck wide that really grabbed my attention and has always been there in the back of my mind since. Ever so often I get the urge to hit the road but It scares me now that I have a wife and 2 baby girls. Much respect for the guys making It happen 💪🏼
I listen to this song everyday. Song and video goes great together. I know it's probably not a good life to live but it's in my blood. Cow trucks is all I think about..
27 years old here. Grew up in a trucking family. Learned to shift and drive when I was in pampers. I drive a 93’ flat top 379. 317 inch wheel base, 625 6nz Cat with a 18 speed behind it and 355 rears. Pulling a dump bucket riding low and heavy. This is all I know 10-4
Reminds me of the pill popping days dam those were the days and will never be safe and fun like it use to be things sure changed thanks to regs!!!!! What a mess the government made in the trucking industry.it will never be safe like it used to be.
Hey truckers snowman here been trucking since the early 70s mostly all owner operator it’s been a good life I’ve seen a lot of things change we used to be well respected seem like anymore we’re disgraced but they still my food on the table and clothes on their back and product in the stores and the government makes it very very hard for a tracker anymore I just wish we all stick together back in the old days
This song cuts a little to close to me. I didn't know until I got hurt on the road and had to stop driving just how close I was to losing my wife and kids. It was a tough road trying to heal and find a new career and fix my marriage and relationship with my kids. Thankfully that was 6 years ago and we're doing well. I miss the road but I would rather have my family.
A great big thumbs up to you for making the right chioce alot of us try that balancing act till it too late and you come home but noone's there i know it's happened to me very recently well done brother!👍
been a bull haulers most my life; my wife passed away in 2019 so it the only home i have. i hope when i leave this world that there's a Pete in heaven when i get there or hell wherever I find myself.
I imagine the drivers were communicating on the c.b. with other drivers in this video, even at the end, I think the driver making the video hollered on the radio for that other driver to slow down and let him get his chicken lit up Big Car on video... ~ The Brotherhood ~ Respect
45 years , roughly 4 million miles, cattle hauling, heavy haul, freight, bulk , super trains, ect almost every type of engine transmission combo, It has taken great care of my family
I drive in Europe and I love these Country Songs I drive over 15 years and lost soweit of my Friends on the road and in Private Life. My Wife stand to me and my Job and I love them so much for this it is not easy to go away for two or three Weeks but when I come back Home we got a good time and enjoy every second.
Bull haulers are some bad azz drivers but so is my husband. When the bull haulers we’re out of gears we still had one more. 379 Pete was a heck of a truck never let us down. Quit the job when they sold the truck. They closed down 6 mo later.
It’s not fun or a good career in this day and age to many regulations it’s stupid e logs the a joke if it was 10 years ago I’d say it’s good not now it s crappy computer tells you when you have to sleep don’t quit your day jobs.
Bad ass song and video. Although I wouldn’t risk my family to live this life. If it came to my family or a truck I’d choose them hands down. It’s just my way of making a living. Don’t get me wrong I love what I do and wouldn’t wanna do anything else. But I’d give it up in a heartbeat for them. And although it used to be and in some cases still is the truth, the drugs are part of what has almost brung this Industry to its knees! Every word of the song is right on tho!! Love it
Agreed, some on the road lost things because they were doing what they loved including supporting a wife, HOME and kids, somehow the cell phone got the wife's attention ~it kinda goes like this ~~~tapping foot to the beat of the song~~~
Now I'm a trucker. My dad and his dad all drives trucks, one of them were killed in a wreck. This song is,my life now, especially "lost my friends and I lost my wife" such happened to me
Love this song and video.When I first started trucking I was told you going to miss your kid growning up miss birthdays funerals. Break ups going to be regularly . That truck has to move .Damn he wasn't right I miss my dad funeral, uncles funerals cousins .break up is regular .Dont do this job unless you're ready to sacrifice what comes with the job.
My grandfather started driving a semi at 16 years old, Oakley tanker. He was everywhere I knew every highway over a million miles. Said he used to put cigarettes between his fingers to stay awake.
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came home form over seas find out my wife left me start diving a kw w900 ben diving for 10 years now love this outlaw life
Sorry to hear that, keep truckin. And thank you for your sacrifices to the country.
I don’t drive trucks for a living and my wife left me so I am wanting to start hauling cows I have always love the bull haulers
Damn I'm sorry bro... thank you for your service, and be safe out there on the road brotha
Thank god for truckers. My husband Shawn is a trucker. He been a trucker for 9yrs now. Shawn if you ever see this i love you so much babe in can't wait too see you again. Lov you in god bless two all the truckers
Ty for ur service.
After a little over 35 years, I had been seeing the hand writing on the wall for years & hung it up back in 07. The good ole days are gone for sure. These younger drivers will never know what it was like to be an outlaw or some of the things we did. Too bad. Had some damn hard times but had some damn good ones too. Wouldn't take nothing for them days cause I did it the way I wanted to.
Amen on that my pops been doing it for 37 Year an had to hang it up last Friday when found out he had cancer an im 30 an been doing it since i was 18 by my self.. Would never be in to trucking if it was not for my pops put me in a truck when i was 2 months old
i miss those days of running in a convoy across 55 mph states with the hammer down and shooting the shit on the radio. good times. now you couldn't pay me enough to run a convoy with this new breed.
Im just starting out and i would rather be in the old school peterbuilts than the new pussy autos
We aint all gone brother,there still a few of us old school drivers
@@jasonjacobs7962 you can say that again
I always respect truckers on the road because you never know what kind of life is unfolding in that cab or how heavy that drivers shoulders are. From a retired trucker. 🇺🇸🦅😑
Thanks for keeping us all supplied during this pandemic.keep the hammer down
Im 23 yo, truck driver for 5 years. Currently in Ireland driving truck, didnt see my family since august... Sad life, but its my sacrifice for them
BUT I still lovr my job
I’ve had my ups and downs, but I keep going, thanks for making our lives easier
@@Lone-Trucker !!!33eè
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My father was a truck driver in the late 90s. Now I am following in his footsteps to become a truck driver so he can be proud of me.
Still riding my 84 cab over Pete, riding it as long as I can, hats off to all of us who still like the old ways of doing business. Loved the 359s and the "A" models.
My 84 359 waits for me in the driveway. She used to fire right up but after this last cold snap her batteries broke. Love the ol girl...
Still riding in my 90 9670 cabover
I've got a question then my family's never owned a cab over not even for harvest or my grandpa's trucking company what were the reasons to have them. I know one of my neighbors do but I don't know what year it is besides it being a Pete. BTW I know the neighbor and his daughter since where both in the same grade.
Keep trucking Driver
@@christopherwinter2099 the reason, in north america, was to enable greater length of the trailer within a legally restricted overall length.
i presume something about the length rule must have changed since cabovers are pretty scarce nowadays.
I’m not a livestock hauler, but a skateboarder. Been out here for 20 years, proudly sharing the road with all the steel cowboys n girls to keep the good ole USA moving. Godspeed to all of you. Great vid
I miss it! West coast turn arounds 4500 miles 4 days. Big Cats 18 speeds triple digits. Maybe 4 miles to gallon Them days are gone but a lifetime of memories
Just charge um more to cover the fuel
Me 379 Pete Class of 79 they call me the roadrunner
michael Hayes pretty sure you did not have a 79 model 379
Straw trucking...96000 miles 8 mo..my ex. Couldn't stop doin ....things...
Jason Yliniemi many people are still running big cats with 18 speeds and getting decent fuel mileage
If it wasn’t for us y’all wouldn’t be so cozy during quarantine, god bless all you truckers out there still grinding through these horrid times
You got that right there driver
Pretty crazy wasn't it. One state no mask was cool, next they acted like you wanted to murder people.
Dam right keep that fuel burning those tires turning down that endless black ribbon
Yes thank you. In covid I spent 2 years straight in my truck. I ofcoruse went to shoping, eating, working and all the necessary things in life but during covid I had 2 choices. See my family from my window or face call. If you wonder this was possible because I own my truck and was working when covid started.
Thanks you for your Hard work My uncle drives a scania s650 and it is a Mean machine
I didn't Try to Live the Outlaw Life,. I lived it a very long time, 30 year's Long Haul Refrigerator Unit 1986 359 Pete 300 inch wheel Base and Many more from the old Cabovers to the first Big Cam 400 & the old 1693 Cat the KT 450 V8 right on to the time of the 600 Cats. Plus my time in these Eastern Kentucky Mountains as a Kid Hauling Coal,. Yeah I'm one of those Lost in Time Outlaws of Real Truckers..... We gone forever but Never Forgotten
I was in the store the other day and 2 girls were talking about truckers. I couldn't keep my mouth shut cause I think it's bullshit people wanna down grade a trucker. My husband is a truck driver. Yes it's a lonely life but I love him and gonna stand strong beside him. If you buy milk, bread, or anything at a store well guess what a truck driver made sure you was able to buy those things. Yes my blood is still boiling over it. To all the truckers and their families be safe and your in my prayers. God bless all the truckers.
your husband is prob one of the few with pride and decency anymore,theyve prob not had the pleasure of running up with some real fashioned and seasoned drivers such as......well...me n him,surely you can see where theyre coming from,look at whats out there now,scary aint it?
Congratulations you are an angel to all highwaymen and we thank you
Good for you standing up to your husband and other truckers and I'll do the same thing when I'm in a store or somewhere someone starts crying over a truck driver and I speak my peace because I was a truck driver one time I am disabled now but I still got trucking blood in me
Too bad... My ex wife needed to take a few lessons from you on standing by her man. I lost everything. Houses trucks cars etc.. I drove one the baddest stretched slammed to the ground Kenworth Studio out there.. and she felt it was a good time to bank roll our money and run off... So just what little you said about the girls talkin' bout drivers. I thank you for havin' our backs... Your a strong woman to put up with guys like us. Your husband is a lucky man... God bless you both both.
@@hphggr9652 I've been out here almost 20 years. I was raised old school. I'm not saying panty jammers aren't out there. But don't put us all in one basket.
That outlaw life “the true outlaw life” was some of the best trucking we will ever see! Not many can do what we really had to do back in the day. The CB radio was your life line of the road. You didn’t see these big 150 truck pile ups or major backups
We had respect and Camaraderie. Now the new generation want to cry wine bitch and moan
These so called steering wheel holders wouldn’t make a pimple on a drivers ass!!
Some of us are still in that left lane ain't ain't moving back over till I can't physically get my old bones to get into the pilot seat.King Of The Roads old school at 50 yo
amen....keep on keepin on
Been doing this for 30yrs I've lived it & loved it ; this is one of the most true songs I've heard love it
The good old days are over
Well for the most part the good ol days r over in most of the industry except for the ones that pull bull wagon u have to run outlaw or loose money and only take runs u can run legally or unload and feed and water what u r hauling Everytime u have to shut down for ur break I'd rather run outlaw
Ryan Williams Grain haulers and coal haulers still run paper. Some of them I know do, as well as some flatbedders who are not on elog.
@@joshuastevens5910 very true but they don't have to run as hard as livestock haulers they only have I think it's 24 hours from the time they load to have that livestock unloaded whether it b at where they going or a pre-planned stop like a stock yard or something to unload them and feed and water them their is a reason DOT everywhere will write a bull hauler a big ticket instead of shutting him down if they shut him down they have to have a place for him to unload at while he is shut down
Ryan Williams I’ve done both. I run equally as hard doing flatbed and grain as I did livestock. I’ve also noticed just around where I live that some ranchers don’t like these new breed of cow haulers. Seeing a lot more fuck ups among cattle haulers now because guys coming into it that don’t have a lick of sense on how to do it.
I've lived a life very similar to the song. Been driving solely for a living for 3+ years now. I have so much more respect than ever before for my fellow drivers and I grew up in the old school ways. My Father drove for 43 years and I just got tired of what I was doing and decided to have a go at it. I've done many things you shouldn't do and been many places and met so many friendly faces. It gets in you and there's no changing it once it does. Loose leaf is life but E Log never stopped me!! Keep the shiny side up my brothers and sisters of the road. Outlaw For Life!!! Dump Bucket!!! They call me Pyro aka Crazy Craka aka Haas depending upon time and location. My Father was Woodstock aka Wishbone for the ladies!! 10-10 on the side
I'M 62 and retired (disabled) this vid bring back memories both good and bad. late 70ies and 80ies. SUMABITCH. triple digit trucks. those 3408 and 1693 Cats, occasional v-12's. 13 speeds or 4x5's. This takes me back. THANKS
Good engine's
Kind of cracks me up that all those people think bullracks were the bad ass truckers out there ...Skateboarders to the Parking Lots ...most of us lived it that white line fever chasing horizon to horizon ,sunrise to sunset ...those days are pretty much done but I have mad respect for those of us that did it ...be safe and God bless you all
It sucks I just got into trucking running with an outlaw group wish I could have gotten into it sooner I've put in 16hours or longer in a day running 70-90mph down the highway but it seems the days of being an outlaw are getting forced into the end. No more black smoke, no more big horsepower no more paper logs and no more gliders it sucks
Grow a pair and try it.
back in the day, we all had our share of outlaw truckin....jonesport, maine to L.A. and Salinas to Chelsea Market in 8 days.. double loads out of illinois to new york... livin on go fast and coffee...much respect to you as well bud for your years as a driver... they are gone for me now.. i miss it like hell..
Lived it, loved it back then... I like running ltl freight trucks now more though. To each their own though.
Cant tell ya how true this song is. Just lost my best friend that was trucken for the last 30 years with me. This life is all we know. Long live charley. We will miss you.
"Lost my friend"
I’m 3 generation truckdriver and I’ve been driving for 21 years. I’m 39 and I absolutely love this song it is the true song to my life. It’s hella deep song! ❤️
My Dad drove trucks. Hard life. I APPRECIATE you men and women who are out there driving to make sure the food is on the shelves. God bless you and your families. May God give you a safe ride.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if it wasn't for us the left lane would rust.
No shiter
That a no shitter
Hammer lane ain’t for no sissy’s
Crazed Monk So you don’t get it, huh?
🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
This is the school of hard knocks I learned in. Lots of great memories. Went back to it a time or two to keep the lights on for the family. It's a rare breed indeed. There's a part of me that still misses it. Thanks for the video and song. Trio back in time.
I been down that road. Lotsa memories but my share of regrets as well. Once an outlaw...always an outlaw! Thx for keepin it real! Love your videos!
"lost my friends and I've lost my wife" ain't that the truth.
It's not the only things ...you get addicted to that damn zipper line and the next thing you know your life is gone
Todd Chambers that's the truth!
"lost my friends and lost my husband"! Yep that white line fever is in the blood!! Anybody can drive a truck, but not everyone is a truck driver!! I never pulled a bull wagon but hauled that produce outta Shaky!! Retired/disabled now, TOO MUCH outlaw life takes a toll on that 'ole body!!!
ben down that road .love this outlaw life
God bless yall. Stay safe out there
I can't wait to get out there If that makes me an OUTLAW so be it I lost my man if I lose my friends hey guess they weren't really friends. Dreams Come True I'm following my DREAMS of being an OTR TRUCKER !!! Roll On 18 Wheeler Thank y'all out there pushing through this pandemic
You will never understand it until you have lived it. Love this song
Been driving truck for over 20 years and learned three things . My family loves me , I love my job and everyone else doesn’t appreciate me. Hope y’all stay safe and GOD Bless you
Ran a bull wagon back in the 80's for Biffle bros. Nice trucks. All 359 Pete's. Real trucks.
My sister sent me a link to this video because we both share a love of trucks. My dream as a little girl was to drive cattle haul. Can’t afford the $10 grand to get my AZ, but one day!!! For now I admire them on the highway!! Thank you truckers!!
My dad was in Heavy Hauling for 34years. I can relate to the last 17 of those wonderful years to this song for him. Red 81 long nose twin stick Pete 10/08 R.I.P JYD
Love you dad. I had a dream I went to heaven looking for him. Once I arrived I found myself having to cross the scales before I could enter the pearly gates. I asked the man at the scales if he seen my dad. The man laughed and said , you dad told us he would drive through hell before he rolled over that scale. Hats off to all you drivers out there feeding this great nation. Stay safe!
When I heard this song for the first time, a lump rose in my throat and my jaw dropped. My life! Word for word..
Me too...
I hear ya man that's me word for word
I would have NEVER traded that life for any other, I loved ir then and always will. That life was more faithful to me than anyone I was ever married to or dated, and it always will be, being a woman doing it feels so good because I was always respected and I still am, Thanks guys !!
your 100% right Christina Henderson and that's only faithfully way of life,love the open road and the midnight air always.
You do know this songs about doing dope right? It’s about dope and failure which is why it’s used in correlation to Ritchie Acosta all over fb lol
We don't discriminate!! Welcome to the highway sister
I'm still hammering every week outa Florida to the Panhandle with cattle....stayin tight and and gettin right..
a spark in da dark
Still a few of us around
This video always brings a tear to my eye. Because of a stupid heart attack they took away my CDL. I miss the life and being out there with my trucking brothers and sisters.
Been at this game 35+ years. The best were in an 86 379 cranking close to 600 horse and geared to go!. Hauling cattle in Western Canada and the US. Never did pills but there was an awful lot of Jolt cola and coffee. The great times and comraderie of those days will forever live in my memories. God bless all the drivers who survived and took pride in shiny chrome and lights, sadly something that is a rareity today
nightcrawler .... still here34 yrs
I am arabic ❤ I love the power of American music.....God bless you American
Richie Acosta Black Pete R.I.P🙏 Project 350! Love this song great video 💯💯💯💯🔥🔥👍🏻
Damn sho ain't for most. A rare breed indeed. Been outta the saddle 5 years. Thanks for the trip back in time.
I've been out for 11 years, it's not easy not burning the candle at both ends but when the wax is gone, it's gone...
I drove 4. 35 years loved
Ever min of it would do it
All again if i could it takes a special breed of man to do it
We sure do see some beautiful rigs out here on this lonely old road
Well boys and girls I enjoyed y'alls comments. Keep them Rolling ( coming ) I have been over road haulin all type's animals. Mostly calfs cows hogs
Started in 1955. 67 years. LOVED every minute. Still driving and haulin. Greatest life ever. Friends in every state Canada Mexico. Cuba. Wife for 48 years . KEEP BLOWING THE HAIR OFF OF THEM BOYS AND LADY'S. HAD UP TO 12 TRUCKS AT ONE TIME. SOME OF THE BEST DRIVERS I EVER HAD WERE. " LADY'S"
God Bless Ya Man...... I try shaking them ole' boys hands and having a convo everhtime I see them walk in the truck stops.... I once met an 80 year Old Bull Hauler still driving .... He needed my helo cause the lady inside told him she had opened the pumps for the fuel but they wouldnt pump..... Had a nice talk with that Ole Boy..... He told me something I'll never forget..... " Boy You Gotta Smell The S##$hit and Ya gotta smell the P/iss to make the money" .... That thought me to never give up. How an 80 year old boy could still handle that big ole' Pete and unload them Animals..... not to mention that big Ole ' Shiny Cattle Pot He was Haulin. Beautiful Truck and Trailer combination he had.
Been Over The Road over 30yrs. It’s not for everyone. But it’s a living. Words to this song hit deeper than anyone who’s never been OTR could ever understand. Big wheels keep rolling because people need the luxury’s of life. Let’s all be safe out there and make it home to our families.
This brings back so many memories from my outlaw cow hauling days.
Yeah if I don't know nothing if they found a bottle doctor bills or whatever they find a box or bottle of that they probably think of some kind of dama something to put on sores so let me know and get some of that out there dump that on your leg everybody that the whole Splash that upon your damn cut see how you feel
I miss the old days , trucking was trucking , 48ft flatbed and a cabover freight shaker , riding 80 in flats and 30 uphill , truck stops had real food and real coffee
Someone just sent me this and it definitely hits home for me back in the 90’s.
Especially on my 49th Birthday.
It’s wonder I’m even made it to this age alive.
And it wasn’t whiskey for many of us like in this video. We didn’t have time for it.
We had to and wanted to roll.
My way of thinking back then was I’m out here to make money, I can sleep at the house.
But it was something much worse than whiskey.
Something that I’ve seen some good friends I’ve met over the years on the road and knew at home that it got their wife, business and a few it even got their life.
Others even got some jail time to 20 years in prison.
But the fun times, memories and stories we made back then. The close calls we had, to dodging the scales to just killing the lights and blowing by at 100 plus. To nearly getting busted.
The lies we told the Dot man.
Like what log book ?
And we’ve all use the line Jerry Reed used in the Smokey and the bandit when he got pulled over running 96mph. “I did’t know this truck would do 96 mph” But we did. And depending on how it was specked out we had a gear or so to go.
And we’d find out in the middle of the night.
West Texas I 20 was one of my favorites.
We’d get up around 127.
But we loved those big fast shiny chromed out lit-up rigs. Or Large Cars as we called them.
But for some of us they lived up to what others called them and that was home wreckers.
Drivers License takers.
There ain't nothing like hauling ass on 18 wheels though.
OMG dude, how MANY times has a string of 10 or 12 of us rolled through west TX in the middle of the night...cruising speed 120mph and yes a couple gears to go!!! Yeah lots of stories, up 3 or 4 days at a time...run 5000+ miles a week, 3 log books, prayin you gave em the right one...good times!! It's not fun out there anymore though😔
@@TWBlack. Been there did that back when running a Pete 359 with either a 3408 Cat or a KTTA Cummins 600 with either a 5x4 or 6x4. Have run the bottom from El Paso to the Dome in 8 hours with me leading with Mississippi Shaker, Special K, and a few other hands. It all started over someone getting a new truck and saying they could run with my truck. Afterward, Special K told the driver to get another truck as he could not run with the big boys. We were all young an had a lot of luck on our side looking back. Knew some that got jail time for hauling drugs or selling. Met some really good people on the road back then and if a truck broke down more than one driver would stop to help or ask other drives if they had a such and such part to fix the truck or knew how to fix it. Some of the ladies who just rode trucks to see the US and all that were something also.
Try telling a driver today about running around Miss scales when the weight limit was 73,280 all the way up the Mississippi River and the only legal length was 65'. Some of the back roads I have run with other drivers would amaze the drivers today. Pay was 9-12 cent a mile or 15%-20% gross driving for different companies.
T Black no doubt. Stretched out nearly a mile. Because we didn’t tailgate. Had that bird dog or jammer on the dash or grill. And a brake light switch.
Seat taken up and slid back in the hole of that ole 379 and bolted to the floor.
Styling & Profilin.
Only lines I did was on a scratched up aluminum high Performance clip board.
Which many flight plans were laid out on.
Had many prayer meetings up in my ole ride.
Because a friend in need was a friend indeed.
An I was an ole hero. 😎
@@zan1069 Hahaha OMG thanks for the giggle....many a flight plan of mine was made on one of those steel clipboards...and is there ANY other way to drive a Petercar but all the back and on the floor!!!! No better feeling than Petermobiling.... I still have my chrome "Haulin Ass" bumper plates!! Think I got them at the Iowa80 or Little Rock one. I REALLY miss the OLD days!!
P.S. my absolute favorite DOT reaction was when I handed him my 3 ring binder (loose leave logs ONLY) and the sticker on my little binder said "Slut with Skills"...I thought DOT dude was gonna pee himself!!!
The good old days when 4200 a week was slacking
10-4
Cabovers, 4x4s. 359s 1693$. 6x4. Both sticks up against the dash. Let’s ride. That was our motto in the 80s. Toothpick. Lines, 3 wide.
Thanx for the video....Most people doesn't understand what we do and I dare say there's a lot that can't do what we do but that's alright we're just cut from a different cloth than normal folks! Sure was some sharp rides shown and to all the drivers and owners "Thanx for the representation of our industry y'all made us all look good...true professionalism"
I do, been there did that before most on here were born. The first hundred miles and the last hundred is the most dangerous. When I was young I ran for Florida Beef Producers. Ronnie Golden still owes me $60.00 by the way. Some of you may have seen my 79 ex/hood pete with the horse's eyes rolled back smoking a left-hand cigarette with stars above his head drinking from a straw out of an xxx jug. I loved running the Moford lane.
Ron Buchanan Jr
You are correct! It is also stereotypical that truckers are seen as fat , stinking uneducated and ignorant people that can find no other jobs.
It never ceases to amaze me that those stereotypes have pretty much always been in place.
Why truck driving?, you may ask! I was forced into retirement from EMS due to two surgeries on my right shoulder and one on my left due to 25 years of lifting fat asses. That has taken a toll on my poor old shoulders...thank God, I am one of the few that wasn’t forced into retirement due to back injuries. I will say, if I could be a paramedic for 25 more years, I’d still be working on the meat wagon because I truly loved my job and made it very personal to me. I always made it a point to learn everything I could to make me a better medic than the ones that were satisfied on just knowing the base skillset that a medic must know to pass the test to be a medic. I am proud to say, my skillset and knowledge base far surpasses the vast majority of other paramedics working in the field today.
Speaking of being “uneducated”, I am a retired Critical Care Paramedic (The highest level of training a medic can earn and it has to be earned by means of a specialized college that offers the Critical Care Paramedic Class. I sat in class with Registered Nurses, as this is the exact same class Critical Care nurses take to be ER nurses with their highest training level before becoming a Nurse Practitioner (Same skillset as a Physicians Assistant).
The field of Emergency Medical Services has grown to the point that their is actually a PhD program for paramedics. I didn’t have that option when I went to medic school...just an associates degree was offered back in the EMS dark ages.
So much for all us “outlaws” being uneducated idiots! Fellow drivers, walk proudly, hold your head high and embrace the fact that truckers are licensed professionals doing a job that the majority of citizens could never do!
@@scottmcclure8933 Amen brother, Amen!!
Yes, it can take a toll on one's health beyond no return @Daniel Singerline
That's a heavy story thanks for sharing it @Daniel Singerline
hearing this stuff makes me think of my dad he was a trucker for 32 yrs and died in 2017 at age 52 and makes me break out in tears miss my father it took yrs just to listen to trucker songs and to watch trucker videos when he passed i took my girl to a restaurant and seen a boy and his dad all happy and just having fun and i broke down in tears just like i am writing this now my girl had to calm me down people in the restaurant were wondering why i was crying she told them my dad recently passed and seeing that boy with his dad brought back memories i feel every song i write will never take away the pain of losing my dad i feel ill write and write and always feel pain inside
I lost everything but my wife..trucking has been my tool to rebuild! Thanx for the vid
I hear ya man. I lost every imcludimg my soon to be wife. Trucking has helped a lot. When you out on that road you dont have time to think about what you lost but what you can amd will gain
@@hilham89 sorry to hear ...loss is tough but gain well Yah t sketch and Yah giveth...do what ya need to do..
I lost everything to trucking. she took the family and replaced me quicker than I could grab a gear.
First time hearing this song..A good friend of mine sent it and its all the things we both went through to the T....AWSOME JAM!!! ....
“Last of the cowboys” another good song same artist
My dad drove a truck his whole life and had a massive heart attack 3 weeks before he was going to retire. I was working on his Kenworth w900 when it happened. He survived and made it about a year before he passed away. He spent the last year of his life letting me know how much he regretted missing me grow up. When he had his second heart attack he was laying on the hospital bed grabbing my arm and he kept telling me he was sorry and I told him he didn’t have anything to be sorry about and was a hell of a father. Every time I think about saying the hell with it and hitting the road I keep thinking about that. After him letting me drive that first 50 miles I was hooked you can’t get it out of you. I’ve always wanted to drive and he’s alway talked me out of it or I was to busy to slow down and get my cdl. I spend my days working on trucks now. After my twin girls were born He told me you don’t wanna drive no damn old truck them two little girls are more important than any truck on the road and I know he’s right and I couldn’t leave them if I tried. An old black w900 rolled through the shop the other day just like dads to get some work done And it was hard to watch that old black truck roll away Knowing how bad I wanted to be in it But when I come home and my two little girls run up to me it lets me know he was right but damn I miss them days in the truck with dad Listing that big caterpillar sing And that turbo whistle fading in and out with the Rolling hills. Trucking is an addictive hard life.
My Dad drove a truck his whole life also he would only haul cattle and I'm thinking about following in his footsteps
It's bring back the good ol memories for sure.i drove them cattle wagon for 27.5 years .tooth picks little cocain whiskey some weed. It was a good life back then.im always gonna be an outlaw till the day I die.
Been off the road for awhile now but your video brings back a lot of great and not so great memories, it's the life of a Trucker and I thank you for your great video and the work you put into it
As a cow calf producer in this volatile market and economy, I want to say.... Thank y’all and God Bless y’all.
Sweet video am a heavy haul driver done the over the road thing for little while. respect to all you boys on the road all the time
~Respect
Done the cowcar thing for 48 yrs 48 states 5 provinces . Know why bull hauling has to have large car GOTTA GO!!!!!
@@jerryensminger494 Respect Brother ♡
Damn. Really hits home. Love it as I’m laying in my bunk. Great song!
Coast to coast and back in 7days. Outlaw life. No feeling like chicken moobilin. Hanging it up 42 yrs. Not fun with what's out here today driving trucks. Be safe drivers.
Young Men today are upset if they don't get a text message grow a set hammer down
As a European immigrant I drove produce trucks from California to Chicago back and forth. Came to states in 1992, never been outside of Chicago until 1999 when 22 years old I first time drove to California. I-80 or I-40 routs, a round trip within 5 days over 4,200 miles per week, on and off, total for about 8 years between 1999 and 2012. Quit about 6 times, it was hard to get away, never did drugs though however few times drove through Iowa on I-80 while having a stiff hangover. Seen and followed those cow trucks many times driving through nights, I never forget when I followed one on I-80 driving over 85mph on ice and snow it was few days before Christmas. Now I embrace a comfortable big city life, futures contracts trader.
I am a retired paramedic....forced into retirement due to three shoulder surgeries...truck driving has enabled me to be the provider for my family I once was! Did my two years OTR, came back home to my wife and two kids, got a local job that pays more than OTR and come home very noght
Nah, just have a boss that understands...
Scott McClure im just beginning. worked in factory for 19 years. three back surgeries so im going to drive.
Scotter I hope you enjoy it! I have truly enjoyed driving the past few years. Where else can you get paid to see this beautiful country we live in!
I do drive local now, don’t want to miss my kids growing up by being OTR when I can be home every night now.
BIR RIG RULES THE WORLD
Adrian Craciun My friend, Big Rigs DO NOT rule the world....Great Drivers do! These days, automatic air shift transmissions allow any “student” off the street to drive an 80,000 lb. truck. The companies say it’s for “fuel mileage” when it’s actually to keep new drivers from destroying the clutch, transmission and U-joints out of these beasts. They are not built like they used to be. Companies are going with lighter components to save on weight, thus compromising strength. My dad was a diesel mechanic as long as I can remember...up until he passed away at age 38...too young and gone too soon...but I remember him working on big trucks to the point his hands would dry, crack open and bleed from the diesel oil, parts cleaner and Go-Jo drying his hands out.
Respect to other drivers makes you a trucker. Just the kind gesture of yielding to merging traffic, especially your brother and sister drivers: Getting over a lane as not to “wind wash” a truck on the shoulder getting a tire changed, raising their hoods and/or pulling over to assist a fellow driver makes you a Trucker.
Talking the time to stop at an accident and helping other motorists/truckers makes you a “Big Rig Boss.” It may be YOU that makes the difference in saving a life of a fellow motorist/trucker just because you took the time to hold pressure on a bleeding artery. You may make the difference when you witness another fellow trucker that was intentionally “brake checked” by a 4 wheeler that was intentionally looking for the “Here’s my wreck, here’s my check” idiot that truly doesn’t realize just how many other motorists, including the big rig driver, that was put in danger for their ignorance.
The boss of the road is the one that has the common sense not to “push through” that fatigue and actually just pull off the next exit and taking a little break...even if it does make you late for your drop...if you don’t make it there, the load doesn’t make it there and possibly the 10 cars you wiped out didn’t make it there either. Pay attention to that “little black dog” that seems to dart in and out of your vision. That dog may just save your life and many others.
The King of the Road will be the one that makes it home to their families for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Birthdays (even your own) because they are the ones that go above and beyond because they care more for their own safety than the $300,000 load that they have in their van/flatbed/reefer, consider others over themselves and have a desire to be better than the one that just flipped you a bird for no apparent reason. The King will be the one that actually take the time to look over their truck before they start their shift to add a little assurance that you will be less likely to throw a cap from their tire, slinging it into the car behind them.....hitting that baby in the car seat (you don’t want to know what happens next.)
Only you can decide if you are the DRIVER that RULES THE WORLD and proves to all the others you earned the respect and reputation to be one the next million milers, top earners and retire alive with that nice GOLD WATCH thousands of drivers strive for, earn it and make it alive because they kept themselves mentally and physically fit enough to so!
Good luck on any drivers quest to be DRIVER THAT RULES THE WORLD!
Also...take the time to get a good CB radio and “learn the lingo”...Don’t worry about coming up with a catchy handle, that’s something you will be “granted” by your fellow drivers as experienced comes your way! It took me a little time to earn my “new name”...but it actually fits me well...here is why. I was a paranormal investigator for about 20 years and was given the handle “Egon”-from a Ghostbusters..LOL I worked as a medic at one of the last two funeral home based ambulance services in GA. Yes, you had to call the funeral home to get an ambulance sent to you via a 10-digit phone number because we didn’t get a 9-1-1 system for emergency dispatch until 1996 because we are so rural. I became interested in paranormal investigation due to all the strange occurrences at the ambulance station. Our sleeping quarters were in the upstairs of the funeral home.
If you are ever in GA/AL/SC (my local route hauling bulk coal fly ash and concrete via pneumatic tanker)...Proudly displaying my “Square and Compasses”... Rug Doctor just might hear ya!
Gold bless and be safe!
Pittsburgh PA to LA and back in 6 days those where the good ol days big motors and fast trucks.
Im a truck driver. But not a bull hauler
I have a lot of respect for you guys. Great song and video by the way.
Fellow bought my role Copenhagen drink and slim Jim today and told me to keep up the good work god bless that man
I been there had 5 trucks on the road I was the out law hauling cattle loved it got away with it sold out in 2011 I'm a company man now running chips and lumber but drive a 93 Pete no e log
Still tryin to live this Outlaw life. Hung up on refrigerated freight. Got my 2001 classic freightshaker dressed up and put a tow pack on it. Chicken lights and chrome. She's fire engine red. SEXY! Here to save our Hazmat brothers.
Been doing this for 19 years lost 2 wives to this life style. On my 3rd wife now and she's been with me going on 8 years now. This song hits hard. Truly one of the most deadly accurate songs
Never pulled bulls, but i lived that life. Hauled cold garbage, one side to the other for decades, just me and my little friend the squelch monster. Like so many other driver's, they could write a book about my life and no one would believe it. Keep hammering driver.
Long live the outlaws💯💯
You it’s sad dam government be safe
My uncles name was wishbone, he drove for a couple companies before he finished off driving for Mason Feeders out of Mason, Texas for atleast 17+ years, hauling cattle for most of It odds and ends when things were slow. As a kid I used to help him wash his truck, add lights and what not sometimes hitch a ride if he wasn’t going to far. It was something about shifting gears and swinging that truck wide that really grabbed my attention and has always been there in the back of my mind since. Ever so often I get the urge to hit the road but It scares me now that I have a wife and 2 baby girls. Much respect for the guys making It happen 💪🏼
Song gets to you if you understand what the song truly about
Indeed
you got that right driver
@@johntompkins9417 it's the truth
Amen to that
I listen to this song everyday. Song and video goes great together. I know it's probably not a good life to live but it's in my blood. Cow trucks is all I think about..
Truckers are the backbone of this country. Anyone who says different is stupid. If its on your table or in the store a trucker brought it
"I've been trucking all night and I can't sleep. My pockets are empty and I can't eat."
I woke up this morning to my empty coffee cup. Life is great when you live in a truck.
27 years old here. Grew up in a trucking family. Learned to shift and drive when I was in pampers. I drive a 93’ flat top 379. 317 inch wheel base, 625 6nz Cat with a 18 speed behind it and 355 rears. Pulling a dump bucket riding low and heavy. This is all I know 10-4
love it , my dad hauled swinging meat way back ,had a 100mph truck , always said the bull haulers was the crazy one's
Yeah I can't take last time they did swinging beef it's all boxed now.
My ex husband is trucker I went on the road with him for 15 years I miss it so much 😭😭 be safe guys ! God bless 🙏 ❣️
Reminds me of the pill popping days dam those were the days and will never be safe and fun like it use to be things sure changed thanks to regs!!!!! What a mess the government made in the trucking industry.it will never be safe like it used to be.
that's true
Amen
Your right all the governed trucks are making things dangerous
yep, sign into your third logbook for the week, get onto some high speed chicken feed, and hammer down...been there with you driver
Hey truckers snowman here been trucking since the early 70s mostly all owner operator it’s been a good life I’ve seen a lot of things change we used to be well respected seem like anymore we’re disgraced but they still my food on the table and clothes on their back and product in the stores and the government makes it very very hard for a tracker anymore I just wish we all stick together back in the old days
This song cuts a little to close to me. I didn't know until I got hurt on the road and had to stop driving just how close I was to losing my wife and kids. It was a tough road trying to heal and find a new career and fix my marriage and relationship with my kids. Thankfully that was 6 years ago and we're doing well. I miss the road but I would rather have my family.
Good for you (on fixing your family), I wasn't so lucky...lost my husband (didn't have kids)!
Quitter lol be careful like any addict relapse are common
@@rogerbunch4411 Sadly I am relapsing and working on getting my own authority. Figure if I am going to do this then I am doing it on my terms.
A great big thumbs up to you for making the right chioce alot of us try that balancing act till it too late and you come home but noone's there i know it's happened to me very recently well done brother!👍
been a bull haulers most my life; my wife passed away in 2019 so it the only home i have. i hope when i leave this world that there's a Pete in heaven when i get there or hell wherever I find myself.
Never did drugs when I ran the road but I always had a cooler of beer when I was parked
If u done drugs u wouldny have parked huh!
At least, Smith, with drinking we can understand what you said.
Can't even outlaw like that nowadays
Running double bottom dump to snort and crank 350 Cummins 600 horse you had to have been there drugs are wrong but those were the days
Here that miss that bull haul
Boy how I can relate to this song I don't think a more realistic song has ever been wrote or performed !
I imagine the drivers were communicating on the c.b. with other drivers in this video, even at the end, I think the driver making the video hollered on the radio for that other driver to slow down and let him get his chicken lit up Big Car on video... ~ The Brotherhood ~ Respect
45 years , roughly 4 million miles, cattle hauling, heavy haul, freight, bulk , super trains, ect
almost every type of engine transmission combo,
It has taken great care of my family
Ain't no feeling like cow mobiling...give me another toothpick!!!!..come on..
So I'm order to be a bull hauler you must have a kw or a , Pete?
Go polish the chrome lol
Had more than one friend leave this earth chewing on a tooth pick.
Flatbedders: because even bull haulers need heros
Omg, I forgot about the toothpicks...yeah buddy, west coast turn around!!!!
I love18 wheelers and me and my dad love to listen to this song when working on a 18 wheeler
Awsome video truckers life ain't easy keep your dirty side down an the shinny side up loved the video
I drive in Europe and I love these Country Songs I drive over 15 years and lost soweit of my Friends on the road and in Private Life.
My Wife stand to me and my Job and I love them so much for this it is not easy to go away for two or three Weeks but when I come back Home we got a good time and enjoy every second.
Proud of my outlaw life
Was proud of my outlaw life and before it was over my husband was proud of his outlaw wife!!!!
love music man my fam trucks if ever see a blue flat top pete J&g its my great grand father 83 and still hauling cattle
quick question at 0.09 does the sign on the trailer say dustar?
350 people with zero tatse in music. Probably a fleet driver. Running 58 mph
Bull haulers are some bad azz drivers but so is my husband. When the bull haulers we’re out of gears we still had one more. 379 Pete was a heck of a truck never let us down. Quit the job when they sold the truck. They closed down 6 mo later.
My truck is in there. Thank you!
Thank you... you guys help make it happen
Wat truck driber
@@stevenmartinez7172 the red and black W900L at 28 seconds
What truck
@@smokinkw 1 badass w9
I'm looking to become a truck driver, bc I really have no family, but I grew up around semis, I've the smell of diesel in the morning
It’s not fun or a good career in this day and age to many regulations it’s stupid e logs the a joke if it was 10 years ago I’d say it’s good not now it s crappy computer tells you when you have to sleep don’t quit your day jobs.
Bad ass song and video. Although I wouldn’t risk my family to live this life. If it came to my family or a truck I’d choose them hands down. It’s just my way of making a living. Don’t get me wrong I love what I do and wouldn’t wanna do anything else. But I’d give it up in a heartbeat for them. And although it used to be and in some cases still is the truth, the drugs are part of what has almost brung this Industry to its knees! Every word of the song is right on tho!! Love it
Agreed, some on the road lost things because they were doing what they loved including supporting a wife, HOME and kids, somehow the cell phone got the wife's attention ~it kinda goes like this ~~~tapping foot to the beat of the song~~~
I'm a trucker wife it's a hard life he passed away age 52 thank u all the trucks out there
WHAT A SONG AND VIDEO AIN'T EASY BEING AN TRUCKER OR A OUTLAW AT THAT COME ON!!
Now I'm a trucker. My dad and his dad all drives trucks, one of them were killed in a wreck. This song is,my life now, especially "lost my friends and I lost my wife" such happened to me
Damnit boy!!! Hits home
DAMMIT
amen
Amen
good video good tune, memories flooding me. miss it. do it again in a heartbeat.
I will not say I can not say my ol man is dead, he's just away.
Nice song very Nice trucks from america 🤠🤠🤙 keep on trucking buddy's 🤠🤠🤙🤙
Love this song and video.When I first started trucking I was told you going to miss your kid growning up miss birthdays funerals. Break ups going to be regularly . That truck has to move .Damn he wasn't right I miss my dad funeral, uncles funerals cousins .break up is regular .Dont do this job unless you're ready to sacrifice what comes with the job.
This is my old theme song I promise you I've lived this. Looking back if I had it all to do over wood I change everything absolutely not
My grandfather started driving a semi at 16 years old, Oakley tanker. He was everywhere I knew every highway over a million miles. Said he used to put cigarettes between his fingers to stay awake.