What's the gvw? They probably don't drink it too bad , 80k loaded truck can get close to 9mpg at normal speeds so even being a sloppy pig at estimating I bet they still get 5-6
And they weren't worried about the lives of other people on the road either. I get the rush driving them that fast but it takes football fields to stop em at those speeds. Just sayin.
I was a pump jockey at the local truck stop back in '76-79 in my high school years. I fueled em , cleaned bugs off windscreens, bumped tires, added oil, cleaned all lights and reflectors, made sure their mirrors were spotless and otherwise did what I could to help the truckers roll. Man I had some fun at that job meeting truckers from all over the country! I had regulars but honestly they were some very. Nice and friendly people I ever known! Truck stop was in south Kankakee IL. Really good job for a high school kid! I loved the Kenworths, Freightliners, and Internationals equally, I liked the look of the conventional trucks but the cab overs had just as many favorites as well! Let them truckers roll 10-4 !!!!!!
I didn't graduate until 79 and didn't start driving semi until around 87. Had no idea there were jobs such as yours. Makes sense as many gas stations were still full service.. Very interesting
@@snapmalloy5556 Yes, back in the day full service truck stops were very regular. We also had qualified mechanics on hand 24-7 and had offered high pressure manual truck wash for $37. We also did wash outs but that was more. There was a huge lot to park that held about 75 rigs, a few lot lizards were always around. Our head cook was an older black lady from Mississippi that could really run a kitchen. Her food and especially her country fried chicken was almost legendary!! Biscuits/gravy were amazing, breakfasts were belly buster all-day meals. Again, this from a time long ago when road men from all over the country could fuel up, shower, relax in the lounge, chat up a waitress or stranger and get great meal!
Worked full service truck stop in West n.mex in the mid 90s it was awesome. Got 2 c 1st hand just about every Nascar even #3, including Bigfoot, grave digger coke cola x-mas trucks & been in all kind of country music busses. Learned to never travel west after Wednesday and east after Monday to Wednesday.
Cow trucks and grain wagon's (Hopper Bottom's) otherwise known as grain trains are some of the fastest rigs on the interstate. Haulin' AG, we got s**t to do.
Been off the road for ~17 years. Didn't think large cars ran hard like this out west anymore. Straight pipes, chicken lights, big radios with the antennas leaned forward! That was back in the days of, "I GOT MY NIGHT GOWN ON..." Love it! Those were the days!
They're trying to outrun the stink lol. But seriously tho, that's not uncommon for cattle haulers. They do 90+ all day everyday on i80 in Wyoming & Nebraska
I drove for a company a few years ago and the truck I had was an old Peterbilt that went up to 90 mph once you accelerated using the cruise control. It was always fun driving in the hammer lane and keeping up (and sometimes passing) with the cattle haulers!
Back in day my mom ex-boyfriend (lates 80's) was bull hauler he run Cat that was tune for 1000hp twin turbo it was called the Purple People Eater and it would easy get up 130mph top out in left lane loafing across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in fact he CB handel was Left Lane Landlord even the cops didn't stop them.
So if you’re running a stock c.b. radio, you can communicate with them for 5 minutes.... 2 1/2 as they’re coming up from the rear and 2 1/2 as they’re pulling away towards the horizon.
Back in the day we all had top shelf radios. They were only stock when bought then immediately peaked and tuned at the very least. We like to be able to reach out and touch someone at all times 👍🏻
@@Leveraction-xr4uz omg that is back in the day. Truck mechanic here Cummins hasn't made a V series engine in for ever God the good ole days no EGR NO DEF let the blow that black smoke
I had a big ol' Pete in the '70s. V8, 6+4, on big rubber, air ride everything. 3.23:1 diffs. Hydraulic retarder. Air dump on the spread back axle. It would get up and run . Go so fast the hood would be raised up 4 inches off the cab mount. Air hissing on windshield and that turbo scream is all you could hear CAT! CAT! CAT! it would say at idle. Let her idle for 5-7 minutes while lying on the swindle sheets. Shut her down and go eat. At a Ripoff Griffins, or iron skillet. Sap Brothers was a good place. The old truck stop in Walcott. The good truck stops in Effingham.
@Clint Anderson That's actually why cattle haulers have to be the best drivers on the road. Live cattle need food and water, they gotta get where they're going before any animals die from dehydration. When hauling through the desert in the summer, that means speed limit be damned and the cops know it. If a cattle hauler wrecks, nobody gets hamburger, and that's a problem. Stay out of their way and you have nothing to worry about except thanking them next time you eat a steak.
I drove to stagecoaches outta OHIO that would run 100+..they had Screaming Demons in them turned up...w 5 speed trans..they called me Gitty up & Go on the CB..cos when I smacked the straps them horses would run..Left Lane fever.
I live in NE MO and took a trip to see my Dad in Franklin, TN a couple of days before Thanksgiving and came back a couple of days before Christmas in 1990. I got behind a group of big rigs going each way and traveled 80-90+ both ways. I was driving a 1988 Cutlass Calais and averaged 38mpg because I spent most of the trip drafting.
I did some drafting in a car behind a semi once. For it to work I had to drive "parking distance close". Too scary for me, I dropped back after a couple of hundred metres.!
Back in the day, I worked at a meat packing plant. We had a fleet of red Peterbilt 379’s. It can be dirty work, and quite dangerous when you have to get in the trailer with the cattle. These cowboys would come in dirty and smelly, take a shower, then leave smelling like they splashed on an entire bottle of cologne. 😂
I see those trucks every day, they must be exempt from the posted speed limit or they were filming the next Maximum Overdrive, but where are the cameras lol 😂
I was a truck driver for 29 yrs and yes cattle hauling in kinda exempt cause this animal's can't stand in the heat for so long even though it has big vent holes everywhere also they need to be watered and feed and In transit like this they get none so its mainly get up and go for them.
These guys have the most powerful and fastest trucks on the road,I talk to a bull hauler at Circle K in Atlanta,he owned his truck and trailer and said his truck ran around 112mph all I could say was damn make that money
In my trucking days, I tried to run with those bull racks from out west. Could've come close. They gotta get that beef there in a timely manner, or lose money. I knew some that ran in excess of 100 mph.
Well I'm just an old retired truck driver that retired in 2009 after 24 years, them bull haulers would've walked me down like that, my 2000 Freightlander XL classic, with a 500 Caterpillar pumped up to a 550, 13speeds transmission and 355 rears, And I had some more Bells and whistles to enable me at 2400 RPM, i put 128 miles an hour on the ground, 👍🏿🦾💯
Going out across I-20 in West Texas 25 years ago, 11 Bull Haulers running nose to tail like circus elephants passed me like I was sitting on blocks. It was 2:00AM, and hardly anything on the road. The radio silence was broken by the statement; “If your west bound, move over, cause we’re coming.” This was repeated a couple more times by what was obviously a big radio. I began to see light bobbing up and down behind me in my mirrors. Each time the lights came into view they were considerably closer. Then they were there. I was in the breakdown lane holding onto my steering wheel for dear life. All 11 trucks passed me in about 6 or 7 seconds. I hollered out on the radio, “How fast are you going ?” The reply came from the same deep voice announcing their approach previously; “I’d Tell ya, but then I’d have to kill ya.” In ten minutes they were completely disappeared into the night. I’m sure that they were going over triple digits. They OWNED the road.
My dad worked in the trucking industry and would always relay the stories he would hear of drivers from out west like that. And if you’re right, then I guess he wasnt bullshittin lol
@@jaelynnholloman4260 No, It wasn’t BS. Any trucker that’s been out here for a while, running out west, probably has a similar story. Bull haulers, as they are called, are ALWAYS highly motivated to get to a place to get the cattle off loaded to let them out of the trailer to rest. The rocking motion of the trailer makes them tired of standing, and if one falls down in the trailer in transit, it most likely will die. That just one of the reasons why they are almost always going a few clicks over the speed limit.
In 30 years of driving my biggest thrill was left lane loafing across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. I always fell in behind those bull racks coz I knew they were on a mission.
I pull a skateboard, my buddy and I were running together across Iowa, we got coffee at TA in Brooklyn. We get on the big road, it's little after 230am, and we are rolling. About 5 miles down the road, all we see in the mirrors are lights, lit up like Christmas trees. We're rolling a steady 80 when the radio barks and them old boys asked if we had fast trucks, we said hell yeah. 5 bullracks come by, zip, zip, zip, and that old boy said "hey skateboards, get in line, we ain't stopping until Walcott for breakfast". From there to Walcott, we never saw below 90mph, and it was absolutely awesome. Ate breakfast with those guys, had a good time. They are the last cowboys.
do you remember the drivers handles and there wasnt a chance their was a driver goin by the name of left lane james was there? that sounds alot like a story my dad was telling me
😂 I bet they were doing 65 too until the bull haulers came up and all of sudden they are a bad a$$ and the the bull haulers need to get out of their way lmao
@@71torinoman that's because they are handing these new guys straight out of school a 600hp automatic transmission truck and they all think they are super truckers. One out of 10 if you're lucky are in my mind an actual driver the others are just holding on.
@@71torinoman they would all be lost that's for sure. I'm old school brought up on a farm where everything was standard trans and not comfortable you put the time in before you earned the right for comfort. I take it from your years your similar
@@71torinoman I can recall the the ones I looked at as real truckers. The ones like my father who passed two years ago at 94. Now they were no joke. Driving Autocars and Diamond Reos old Macks and they would look at me when I would pull I to the ship yards in Norfolk VA to pick up containers off the ships driving a cab over no sleeper twin screw international and I thought I was doing something at 17. They were probably saying look at this kid he will never make it. Lol
Back in the early 2000’s(2002-2003 approx)we were running across the Ohio turnpike eastbound at 2am in the morning(back then it was a strict 55 mph for trucks)...we ended up with 75 trucks in a 59mph convoy, Pete’s, Kw’s, Freightshakers, Cornbinders, bull racks, skateboards, tankers, vans, reefers, company and o/o, u name it it was in that convoy...that was the last time I ever saw-that many drivers running together and not 1 argument... it was funny ass jokes after funny ass jokes on the cb. I never laughed so hard in my life. We all stayed in line and everyone had a cb back then so we were calling out mile markers and that’s how we knew we had 75 trucks runnin a convoy.. I’ll never forget that night.. we all split up at the 80/90 split to Cleveland. I retire in a few months after 30 yrs and 3.6 million accident free miles... nights like that back then I’ll miss because it’s the total opposite now. Bull haulers, get outta the way or get run over.
@@jmit3491 I thought 1k miles a day was a chip shot. Get up early before sunrise. Go a good 400, eat lunch, go another 400, check a tire then finish it at moonrise.
Most I've done was ironically in a day cab. 1500 miles in 26 hours. Never again. I'll do 1000 mile day but 1500 was a little much. However that 1500 miles paid me 1000$ and I was just a driver.
That's the good old days. A big truck goes as fast as it can but a Large car goes as fast as it wants. Lots of memories running with bull haulers over the years. Always make great time and usually in the left . Interstate 80 and 90 was fast when the sun went down.
I used to manage the scale at Cargill Foods in High River Alberta, some of the guys said they can cruise at 90 or 100 MPH with no problem. Some of the paint jobs on those trucks were out of this world, from wild horses to the sun setting over the rockies.
The old school trucks definitely can these new trucks can only get up to 90 now but back 20 years the petes, kws and freightliners could get well into the low 100s
In theory my truck should roll at 127 mph in high gear at 2200 rpms. My GPS says it's more like 123MPH. I only do that if I got a good front door and it's usually bull racks. Don't mind my little flatbed I'm just sliding along behind you
This reminds me of a trip east bound across Utah on I-80 back in the 80's. It was about midnight and I'm riding along all by myself just getting it in my 62 mph cabover cornbinder. I start hearing all these drivers on my CB just having a good old time but I'm the only one on the Interstate. I could see one set of headlights way behind me but they were gaining on me fast. Then those headlights moved left to pass. Then I could see a 2nd set move left. Then a 3rd, 4th, 5th and so on. Can't remember how many but they had a whole train going. 10 minutes later I couldn't even see their tailights any more. Slowly the CB became quiet again. They probably made Cheyenne before I got to Salt Lake City. Spent the rest of the night wishing I had a large car instead of the cornbinder. Those were good times to be a trucker. Thank you Lord!
Going up to Maryland to get a 6-71 for a planer power unit. Driving a Ford with a good power stroke and a 5-speed. Long job passed around Bristol and my partner was asleep (he worked shifts and slept anywhere, anytime) so I decided it was time for some soot blowing. WE ran 95 (Speed, not highway) till he turned off and I went back to 70 or 75. Used to be a lot of such stuff years ago. Black smoke too. GBWYall
You are right Kent. Those where for me any ways the good old days! I got my Class A in 1/1990!! The 2 biggest items in Trucking?? Was Fast Trucks, and big C.B. Radios
@@recycledmotivation the two digit Interstates with zero at the end all essentially go coast to coast. The ones with 5 at the end traverse North to South. The I-80 goes coast to coast, and is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln; there's a little unmanned museum of it with a giant bust of Lincoln at a rest stop between Cheyenne and Laramie.
Yeah I was going through Texas at night I could've sworn I was the lone truck on the highway doing 80mph and out of nowhere it looked like Christmas lights the way it was lit up flew rt past me and was gone just as fast in the night.
@@thebabbler8867 pretty sure Freightliner had or has better frames at one time compared to Kenworth or Peterbilt but who knows things could of changed.
not if it's geared correctly 2.76 gear 18 spd going 80 to 90 ur crusing at around 1500rpm at those revs the engine is relaxed and if u got a tail wind ur running in so they say vacuum or low boost
@@RJ1999x I guess u didn't read my statement ABOUT WIND DIRECTION. had 3.55s dropped to the 2.64s saves fuel engine is relaxed if im nit running in direct locally. this is how my 800hp e model is speced so I guess I just don't know what the hell I'm talking about I cruise 80mph all the time if it's not windy and sip fuel with a flat top reefer box.
I got behind a reefer rig in a snow storm coming west out of the poconos one night where traffic was crawling in the right lane. When he passed me I jumped out behind him in his draft and followed him down the road. My wife thought I was nuts because we were traveling over 60 in the snow and ice. Followed him all the way to Youngstown where he must’ve jumped off for fuel and we went back to crawling through the storm. A little bit later I looked in the mirror and it looked like the sun was coming up behind us. Turned out to be the same guy just motoring along, I jumped back in with him and followed him in all the way to Detroit, that guy was one hell of a truck driver
When I deployed to Iraq in '05 as a mechanic, we brought our fleet of M915A3s which our master mechanic platoon sergeant had tuned to top 90 mph. We also had tuned our HEMTT wrecker to push 70 mph. Our convoys ran like the wind.
@trace rose at first glance, the A3s are the best ones to have. We got some Frankenstein A4s in Iraq, which were a disaster. When we returned, we were part of the introduction to the A5. Beautiful trucks, but lots of issues that had to go in for warranty repairs. I say at first glance because I've been out for a decade.
americans calling the left lane a "fast lane" is the fucking problem. in canada we go out our way to put signs up that say "keep right unless ACTIVELY PASSING" (2 car lengths away) because of idiots who just think that the left lane was made for them to be dickheads.
When you haul cattle you drive hard and fast straight through, you get them loaded and unloaded so they don't get injured inside the trailer. The less time they're in that trailer the better.
And if you don't, you'll wish you had. Back in 2010 I was sitting in a small truck stop north of Dallas eating the lunch I'd just made (1991 gold and white International with a 120" (that's 10 foot) sleeper with full kitchen, full bath, etc., oh and a warmed over mechanical CAT and double over 13... so I could roll right along with the bull haulers). There were two of them parked in front of me in the dirt lot. As the drivers came out from their lunch, a fight broke out in one of the trailers on the top deck. Both men grabbed the prods attached to the side of the trailer and climbed all over the outside of the damn thing prodding away until the two finally settled down. Thought those bulls were going to flip the trailer over it was rocking so hard!!! Would sure hate to have that happen running down the road at 90 MPH.........
@@eliascorteslopez1094 It's been a long time since I saw a cattle trailer in an accident that was caused by the driver. They are almost always caused by a car.
everyone knows that the cattle haulers don’t play. you don’t mess with them, you give them their space and let them do what they gotta do. they have this country by the balls, providing the entire country with meat. mad respect for them
@@firstamendmenttshirt4768 I’ve owned dem both kenworth all day a lot more argressive stance. And more power Peterbilt is a over the road truck. Not for construction
Only when loaded we can get away with murder but man if we empty dot loves to fuck with us But I kept my trucks clean shined up and legal so it’s never a big deal just a time suck
@@funnyyylock it's a lot harder than normal freight. And these guys usually don't take rookies. My advice is start out working either hauling normal freight or grain, and get your connections. Before making that jump
One of those trucks got stopped by dot at the scale with full load and the officer wanted to do the inspection on his truck the driver said if you wanted to it was fine with him so the officer proceeded to get under Meath the truck and the bulls started peeing all over the trailer and the dot officer was soaked from head to toe. The DOT officer got from underneath and just waived him through without filling paperwork. I think the DOT officer learned his lesson that day!
That first Peterbilt was Sealy livestock out of Texas. There’s an interview with him from a channel called “I love cattle trucks”. That guy is no joke.
I was in the trainer truck, first drive through the mountains in CO, two blocks of marble @48K. I was so damn scared crawling down that twisty 2-lane 6%... Bull hauler radios, "Hey Melton, can you pull over real quick? Kinda gettin' in the way of what I'm tryin' to do." Never saw him again. LMAO
@@ismaelcarrillo3956 for expecting basic rights not to be stripped by massively overreaching, corrupt, greedy, criminal government officials. That's not hearsay or exaggeration, but undeniable truth.
Can remember back in Texas north of Dallas going uphill watching two of these cats walk up the hill with flattop Peterbilts. I was doing 85 while they walked past me doing at least a buck. No lie. Truck driver till I die.
That'll be fun when they blow a steer tire, I've got 2 million safe miles and I stay away from these assholes who think they own the road. I understand they can't stop and gotta keep air moving in the back it I wish law would crack down on these jerk offs
I pull livestock with a Peterbilt and we usually pick up the pace when it's hot out. We always get the job done as quickly as possible without crossing the line of safety (Too Much).
Starting driving in 1998. The first time I was going through Arizona on Hwy 40 and couldn't believe these trucks blowing people's doors off. It's great to they're still doing it..
Many moons ago me and my bro were running a 12 car transporter iveco 190/36 and delivering it to a customer in the UK. Our trucks are limited to 56mph on motorways(interstate freeways I guess)and it will not go quicker! On one night the TSL(top speed limiter)failed and we were cat hung stuff up quickly as all drivers of HGV run foot flat to the floor due to the limiter. I still have the tachograph card that shows speed,time etc and the needle recording speed went off the edge of the card for about 10-15 mins! Gulps fuel like nothing and only had enough to get there,ended up using grub mony for more fuel(£30!) And the low fuel light came on as we got to security at the drop. Modern trucks will stop almost as quick as cars now,watch the Volvo and Scania trucks braking from our max speed,it looks unreal. I drove for a while doing multi drop around the UK and loved it also muck away which I think was my fave! Retired to look after my wife,almost lost her in 2013 so the driving is now cars! And god the other drivers that are joining us are plain stupid. Said it before and I'll say it again, you have lessons to pass a test not to be a driver,that comes with practice only they think it's a done deal and ok now it all. Rant over! Keep the bugs of the glass and bears off yer ass! Drive quick drive well.
Bull haulers haven't changed. Back in the 80s early 90s when I was trucking. One time going across 40 through West Texas, I got up with a few. We never dropped below 90 mph for at least a couple of hours. That's back when it was 55 mph speed limit at night. Nothing like the sound of a 425 Cat with 12 speed wound out.
I had the harmonic balancer comes off n is loud clankiing around on the front of the motor one time, that truck, had a 425 mechanical cat, 13 speed trans n 390 rears beast of a hill climbing truck lol
Since when did 40 go through "west TexAss?" 40 goes through the panhandle, 10 & 20 go through west TX on top of each other & split at "The Y" near Van Horn TX for 20 to continue through Dallas & 10 runs further south through Houston! Also, it's a 9 or a 13 speed. Never seen a 12 speed in any big truck.
I've driven 2 trucks over the years that would do over 130 mph and I ran them wide open many times. Foolish? Yeah it was... But it thrilled my heart more than anything I've ever done...
How many do you ever see pulled over getting a speeding ticket. Hardly any. Old school truckers still talk on radio and use high dollar bird dogs. They tend to bark when the smell bears!
@@twin2385 ive seen 3 so far when i used to go long haul Twice in Arizona I10 and the other one i forgot lol But damn can they go fast i would top my cruise control at 70 and when they passed me it was like as if im standing still lol
@@victorurbina1558 I've run with a few couple of times. But only when empty since 90% of time I'm loaded with hazmat. Fastest I've run was about 95mph. Fuel costs too much.
I was driving a Chevy impala in the rain in the mountains of Kentucky and was doing 60 scared. Big rigs were flying around me up and down the hills like it’s nothing. I’ve never been so scared on the road. Mad respect for these dudes.
My favorite sign when I was delivering liquor in da backwoods of Ky was "Coal Trucks have Right of Way". "Rolling coal" has a double meaning down there
Fords always run hot, the Powerstroke is notorious for blowing up, oil coolers, turbos, and EGR’s and popping the head gaskets loose. Deleted they run way cooler, but if he’d been running a Cummins, he’d be running cool all day long, and run all over that powerstroke pulling the same load, at the same speed, with power to run faster if he wanted to. Here he was maxed out at 83, and about to send a melted piston or 3 airborne, with the head gaskets right behind it.
@@hunterprowsemrereviews9141 Might wanna read up on which Powerstroke do that before talking. 6.7 is actually a decent motor to have come out in the past 15 years to bear that name. Considering this is Arizona he's doing 85 with a trailer so the engine is under constant load and temps still average low 90s in October with little to no cloud cover.... your shit is gonna heat up no matter what.
@@chadreynolds6804 How dose what i said make me scared of driving the fuck kind of logic you using? i pointed out a fact death rate is higher when speeds are higher. A semi weighs approximately 94000lbs going 90+ mph they hit heavy traffic they kill 5 to 6 or more people and you know what thats fine because they would get put in jail where they belong for no following the law. But if a small car dose 90+ mph its not okay thats the logic this stupid ass truck drivers who dont have any right on the rode go by.
I'm just as real of a truck driver, Driver. Did plenty of resets at slaughterhouses in iowa and ran nearly nonstop to Texas with a reefer to make the meat boat loadings.
Hmm! OK yes that's right driver! I pulled reefer too ran out of southern Oregon coming out of the woods into northern Cali with about 3 bull haulers! I had a good time that day for sure! #keepontruckin 😉👌
Yeah, because the majority of what I encounter are SWHs wearing jockey shorts & flip-flops at the shipper/consignee. I haven't seen a bull rack driver wearing jockey shorts & flip-flops. After 32 years in trucking, I observe that the vast majority today are selfish idiots who give not two s#¡+s about the image of trucking in general. As to if anyone thinks that they might score browny points for how they "go the speed limit", everyone in trucking knows that it's extremely rare to see a reefer hauler with a truck that is capable of anything more than 72. Bull haulers are still the real truck drivers out here, but there are only a few of them left today hauling refrigerated, and you won't see them wearing jockey shorts and flip-flops, with their damn feet on the dash as they drive down the road.
I've had 8 inch straight pipes that would glow orange at night. I couldn't afford the fuel to get them that hot. He's setting the pace. Usually the oldest, most experienced, and wary of the crew runs point but they switch up and take tirunning the front door every couple hours
Tbh yeah, this is very dangerous, like it or not. With a truck if something happens you can't react as quick as with a car, dumping the brakes wouldn't do much if some idiot just came in your lane without signaling first, or better yet, if someone crashes or a animal crosses the road. At that speed, even hitting a fox is very dangerous. I see that you might be in a hurry or something, but never exceed the speed limit too much guys, they may be annoying but they're there for a reason. Plus you drain your tank very quick. Drive safe guys.
Loved it,80 to 150 was normal cruse .that old Pete would gate like a fine Tennessee😢 horse at 100.my big old tram with 2000 watts blasting miles ahead the guitar picker is comming through..I'm an old man now.but those were the best days of life I'll never forget,wouldn't have missed it for the world..
Respect my ass.... 30 years out here.... No reason livestock or not.... No reason why anybody needs to be going that fast.. Blow a steer going those speeds.... Then tell me how impressed you are? Nothing but a bunch of new bred steering wheel holder thinking that they are proving something when in reality nothing but a bunch of fucking idiots.... BTW..... I'm a O/O Trucks wide open and i still stay even below the speed limit .... One more thing I have also hauled Livestock in my time..... and I have never drove like that.... I'm not impressed not one little bit
We have bull haulers in New York up north, there couple of guys out of that area and Vermont who haul dairy cattle as far as I know up to Wyoming, it could be even farther I met a guy and his wife in Nebraska they had dark green Vermont plates that you can notice from a mile away.i am never getting married or having any kids but I’m definitely working on buying a peterbuilt with a Wilson trailer and haul cattle out of Potsdam New York area
"did you know you was doin' 96 mile an hour?" "96 mile an hour....I didn't the truck do 96 mile an hour" " you damn right you was, boy the judge is gonna turn you every way but loose."
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Nobody's going to mention how every single one of those peterbilts were sick as f***
I was about to
One was a Kenworth
One was a Kw w900
You can’t reliably roll 90+mph for 10 hours a day fully loaded with a shitty truck.
Love me the rolling truck shows i see on our highways every day.
"Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a Convoy" -C.W. McCall
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@@mattsprayberry0 same
"Son, you know you was going 90 miles an hour on the highway?"
"I was doing 90 miles an hour?! I didn't know this truck could do 90 miles an hour..."
If yer talking about the motorcycle cop in Smokie and the Bandit? The actor was Enos from The Dukes of Hazzard
@@cowboykody6775 No kidding? That was the same actor?
Snowman’s line. My dad used to say that as a joke when he was on the job. They’d laugh and talk about the movie for a little bit.
96 actually
@@cowboykody6775 damn that’s cool
"How fast can you get these cattle to us?"
"Yes"
Hmm! That's right code for its time to go left lane strolling! #keepontruckin 😉👍
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Funny to see you here lol.
@@Mrcoconutgun ayo what's good fam. 😂🤣
5 mpg ..... lol lol
That stank is money rolling down the road. Them boys aren’t worried about that fuel mileage.
"Hell, we can fill up when we get there!"
Dang strait on that driver, 10-4
At that speed you know those trucks are burning some serious amounts of fuel
What's the gvw?
They probably don't drink it too bad , 80k loaded truck can get close to 9mpg at normal speeds so even being a sloppy pig at estimating I bet they still get 5-6
And they weren't worried about the lives of other people on the road either.
I get the rush driving them that fast but it takes football fields to stop em at those speeds. Just sayin.
I was a pump jockey at the local truck stop back in '76-79 in my high school years. I fueled em , cleaned bugs off windscreens, bumped tires, added oil, cleaned all lights and reflectors, made sure their mirrors were spotless and otherwise did what I could to help the truckers roll. Man I had some fun at that job meeting truckers from all over the country! I had regulars but honestly they were some very. Nice and friendly people I ever known! Truck stop was in south Kankakee IL. Really good job for a high school kid! I loved the Kenworths, Freightliners, and Internationals equally, I liked the look of the conventional trucks but the cab overs had just as many favorites as well! Let them truckers roll 10-4 !!!!!!
I didn't graduate until 79 and didn't start driving semi until around 87.
Had no idea there were jobs such as yours. Makes sense as many gas stations were still full service.. Very interesting
@@snapmalloy5556 Yes, back in the day full service truck stops were very regular. We also had qualified mechanics on hand 24-7 and had offered high pressure manual truck wash for $37. We also did wash outs but that was more. There was a huge lot to park that held about 75 rigs, a few lot lizards were always around. Our head cook was an older black lady from Mississippi that could really run a kitchen. Her food and especially her country fried chicken was almost legendary!! Biscuits/gravy were amazing, breakfasts were belly buster all-day meals. Again, this from a time long ago when road men from all over the country could fuel up, shower, relax in the lounge, chat up a waitress or stranger and get great meal!
Nothin like a W-9 Kenworth or a 379 Pete on the road!!
Worked full service truck stop in West n.mex in the mid 90s it was awesome. Got 2 c 1st hand just about every Nascar even #3, including Bigfoot, grave digger coke cola x-mas trucks & been in all kind of country music busses. Learned to never travel west after Wednesday and east after Monday to Wednesday.
Cow trucks and grain wagon's (Hopper Bottom's) otherwise known as grain trains are some of the fastest rigs on the interstate. Haulin' AG, we got s**t to do.
Been off the road for ~17 years. Didn't think large cars ran hard like this out west anymore. Straight pipes, chicken lights, big radios with the antennas leaned forward! That was back in the days of, "I GOT MY NIGHT GOWN ON..." Love it! Those were the days!
They're trying to outrun the stink lol. But seriously tho, that's not uncommon for cattle haulers. They do 90+ all day everyday on i80 in Wyoming & Nebraska
All day long, and light the night sky up when the sun goes down
I know that’s right
@@CASH-1846 we do what we can. Lol. Left lane rollin. 😜
I'm in Iowa, I drive 150 miles round trip for work on I-80. I can confirm this 🤣
I drive 80 from wy to Nebraska almost five times a week workin in the missile fields. I can definitely agreed with you on that.
I drove for a company a few years ago and the truck I had was an old Peterbilt that went up to 90 mph once you accelerated using the cruise control. It was always fun driving in the hammer lane and keeping up (and sometimes passing) with the cattle haulers!
I loved the “hidden speed”, especially when others had no clue what I was doing…
Most drivers would not dare keep up with them. Best to get out of the way and stay out of the way.😊
I retired that left lane. Family called.
But I still sign my name in diesel smoke.
Ride on brother!
Back in day my mom ex-boyfriend (lates 80's) was bull hauler he run Cat that was tune for 1000hp twin turbo it was called the Purple People Eater and it would easy get up 130mph top out in left lane loafing across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in fact he CB handel was Left Lane Landlord even the cops didn't stop them.
"Them steaks are flying!"
Thanks for sharing!
So if you’re running a stock c.b. radio, you can communicate with them for 5 minutes.... 2 1/2 as they’re coming up from the rear and 2 1/2 as they’re pulling away towards the horizon.
Back in the day we all had top shelf radios. They were only stock when bought then immediately peaked and tuned at the very least. We like to be able to reach out and touch someone at all times 👍🏻
Yeah we had 1000hp trucks and 1200 hp cb radios comon’ 🤣🤘🏻✌🏻🤙🏻👌🏼
Saying always goes, only time you'll ever pass a bull hauler is If they let you.
Unless you pull a tanker, then they have no choice as they watch you blow by.
@@Leveraction-xr4uz fuck yeah
@@Leveraction-xr4uz omg that is back in the day. Truck mechanic here Cummins hasn't made a V series engine in for ever God the good ole days no EGR NO DEF let the blow that black smoke
Lol the 903 v8 Cummins wasn’t a good engine.
@@davidlogel2350 no it wasn't was a road oiler lol
I had a big ol' Pete in the '70s. V8, 6+4, on big rubber, air ride everything. 3.23:1 diffs. Hydraulic retarder. Air dump on the spread back axle. It would get up and run . Go so fast the hood would be raised up 4 inches off the cab mount. Air hissing on windshield and that turbo scream is all you could hear
CAT! CAT! CAT! it would say at idle. Let her idle for 5-7 minutes while lying on the swindle sheets. Shut her down and go eat. At a Ripoff Griffins, or iron skillet. Sap Brothers was a good place. The old truck stop in Walcott. The good truck stops in Effingham.
I hauled livestock for many years as a younger man. This is just the way it is. Outta my way dudes.
@Clint Anderson It's obvious then that you have no idea what you're talking about
@Clint Anderson That's actually why cattle haulers have to be the best drivers on the road. Live cattle need food and water, they gotta get where they're going before any animals die from dehydration. When hauling through the desert in the summer, that means speed limit be damned and the cops know it. If a cattle hauler wrecks, nobody gets hamburger, and that's a problem. Stay out of their way and you have nothing to worry about except thanking them next time you eat a steak.
They’re headed to Montana to deliver more steers to Woodrow. Then head back to lonesome dove
Was that Seale and his boys?
@@400sbc4 Yup, all Seale
Who are they? Noob here
@@musikman337 Anthony Seale livestock and his driver's. Anthony Seale is the guy in the first Pete.
@@400sbc4 o ok. Must be a heavyweight in the industry?
I love being local, and having a life, but sometimes I miss running nose to tail in the Coronado.
Sorry I guess you don’t know to be ashamed of driving a Coronado 🤣
Same here I’m a local joker and go home every night but sometimes I miss that open road and seeing how beautiful the nation is
If I was driving there. Id go panic mode and have to pull over. Many prayers to all our truckers. I appreciate all you do for us!!!
Don't panic, it's organic
We appreciate when you get out the way 👍
My brother as a trucker myself.... you doing the right thing being where you are and staying in your lane.😂😂😂😂
"the boys comin, The Bull haulr, I'm Goin by 80, And They Comin" lol
Love your Reaction brother👍
Best documentary on the bull haulers!
We used to do that with tour busses back in the day. Npw everything is governed, video, and gps.
I drove to stagecoaches outta OHIO that would run 100+..they had Screaming Demons in them turned up...w 5 speed trans..they called me Gitty up & Go on the CB..cos when I smacked the straps them horses would run..Left Lane fever.
My mother and I were on a road trip following a tour bus, and could hardly keep up with it in her diesel Seville!!!
Damn bro that powerstroke about to have a stroke being that hot
I live in NE MO and took a trip to see my Dad in Franklin, TN a couple of days before Thanksgiving and came back a couple of days before Christmas in 1990. I got behind a group of big rigs going each way and traveled 80-90+ both ways. I was driving a 1988 Cutlass Calais and averaged 38mpg because I spent most of the trip drafting.
I did some drafting in a car behind a semi once. For it to work I had to drive "parking distance close". Too scary for me, I dropped back after a couple of hundred metres.!
Those are real truck drivers.
I can watch this twice a day and it wouldn’t be enough. 😂😂😂
Yep been there done it an miss the hell out of it. You GENTLEMEN keep up the good work. May the Lord roll with u all. amen
Back in the day, I worked at a meat packing plant. We had a fleet of red Peterbilt 379’s. It can be dirty work, and quite dangerous when you have to get in the trailer with the cattle. These cowboys would come in dirty and smelly, take a shower, then leave smelling like they splashed on an entire bottle of cologne. 😂
I see those trucks every day, they must be exempt from the posted speed limit or they were filming the next Maximum Overdrive, but where are the cameras lol 😂
I think the troopers understand what's at stake here .
I was a truck driver for 29 yrs and yes cattle hauling in kinda exempt cause this animal's can't stand in the heat for so long even though it has big vent holes everywhere also they need to be watered and feed and In transit like this they get none so its mainly get up and go for them.
These guys have the most powerful and fastest trucks on the road,I talk to a bull hauler at Circle K in Atlanta,he owned his truck and trailer and said his truck ran around 112mph all I could say was damn make that money
Homeboys are driving as if it's American Truck simulator 😭
A whole convoy and everything 😂
Wow. I left OTR in 1999. And them boys still at it. And back then them boys were running tripple digit.
In my trucking days, I tried to run with those bull racks from out west. Could've come close. They gotta get that beef there in a timely manner, or lose money. I knew some that ran in excess of 100 mph.
Them Bull haulers don’t mess around 🔥✌️😎🙌🏿👍🏿
Well I'm just an old retired truck driver that retired in 2009 after 24 years, them bull haulers would've walked me down like that, my 2000 Freightlander XL classic, with a 500 Caterpillar pumped up to a 550, 13speeds transmission and 355 rears, And I had some more Bells and whistles to enable me at 2400 RPM, i put 128 miles an hour on the ground, 👍🏿🦾💯
We're gonna roll this TRUCKIN' CONVOY ACROSS THE USA!
For legal reasons, all of this was filmed in Mexico.
I sense some shrewd negotiation comin up by the side of the road 😂😂😂
@@elrulo6078 whats your problem ?
Texas boys they not playing ,they don’t stop nothing stop them , not Mexico no money there .😂
Cattle haulers are some of the most unprofessional drivers out there.
@@jimbohalsey8374 stay out their way or get run over .
Live cargo… Arizona heat… you better be gettin’ it done.
Makes sense, as someone who wears a leather jacket in the summer.
🌞🏍🏜🔥
That’s true buddy,
I do the same from wealder to Houston Texas
I got no time to stop with 1600 head of live birds in a gooseneck trailer
People need to understand, because of fatigue, that as soon as a bull lays down, the rest will step all over him killing him in the process.
Why don't they just travel at night instead of doing 90mph risking everyone's lives that are also on the road?
Going out across I-20 in West Texas 25 years ago, 11 Bull Haulers running nose to tail like circus elephants passed me like I was sitting on blocks.
It was 2:00AM, and hardly anything on the road.
The radio silence was broken by the statement;
“If your west bound, move over, cause we’re coming.”
This was repeated a couple more times by what was obviously a big radio.
I began to see light bobbing up and down behind me in my mirrors. Each time the lights came into view they were considerably closer.
Then they were there.
I was in the breakdown lane holding onto my steering wheel for dear life. All 11 trucks passed me in about 6 or 7 seconds.
I hollered out on the radio,
“How fast are you going ?”
The reply came from the same deep voice announcing their approach previously;
“I’d Tell ya, but then I’d have to kill ya.”
In ten minutes they were completely disappeared into the night. I’m sure that they were going over triple digits.
They OWNED the road.
Glad you shared
My dad worked in the trucking industry and would always relay the stories he would hear of drivers from out west like that. And if you’re right, then I guess he wasnt bullshittin lol
@@jaelynnholloman4260 No, It wasn’t BS.
Any trucker that’s been out here for a while, running out west, probably has a similar story.
Bull haulers, as they are called, are ALWAYS highly motivated to get to a place to get the cattle off loaded to let them out of the trailer to rest. The rocking motion of the trailer makes them tired of standing, and if one falls down in the trailer in transit, it most likely will die.
That just one of the reasons why they are almost always going a few clicks over the speed limit.
Yeah buddy put dat paddle to the metal
Very cool! Thanks for sharing 👍
I trucked for thirty six years. Ran many miles like that, with a crew of four, five or more. Loaded like a Boxcar, running like a Stockcar! 🏁
Hopefully not 'on the Night Train.' ;)
@@arthurballs2754 night time is the best time. Left lane the Monfort lane. Cluck cluck let's truck.
Alright there space brain.... Lol G N R for life!
Y'all was the real a team I like that
When we roll three to four deep we roll hard too because cops hate that much paperwork lol
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If it weren’t for bullhaulers the left lane would rust!
LMAO...that's a good one!
Lmfao.. that's a big 10-4...
AIN'T NO DOUBT
Amen
Awwww bullshit lmao hahahahaha
In 30 years of driving my biggest thrill was left lane loafing across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. I always fell in behind those bull racks coz I knew they were on a mission.
a mission to destroy any and every Honda going 56 that turns in front of them in their blind spot 💀💀
@@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890 absolutely. Dont mess with the big guys lmao
The old saying goes if you can't run with the big dogs stay on the porch
My Dad was a truck Driver for almost 20yrs and he’d tell me stories how they’d run 105 from Texas to Cali on the regular.
@@Tinnmann for the few that can say they done that it's definitely a joyful feeling walking the 🐕 and kicking the cat 🐈
I pull a skateboard, my buddy and I were running together across Iowa, we got coffee at TA in Brooklyn. We get on the big road, it's little after 230am, and we are rolling. About 5 miles down the road, all we see in the mirrors are lights, lit up like Christmas trees. We're rolling a steady 80 when the radio barks and them old boys asked if we had fast trucks, we said hell yeah. 5 bullracks come by, zip, zip, zip, and that old boy said "hey skateboards, get in line, we ain't stopping until Walcott for breakfast". From there to Walcott, we never saw below 90mph, and it was absolutely awesome. Ate breakfast with those guys, had a good time. They are the last cowboys.
That must have been a cool feeling huhh?? That adrenaline rush i guess
Hell yeah! Hammer down gear jammer!👍
Running 90 jesus christ I would have shit my pants
Haha that’s awesome👊🏻👊🏻
do you remember the drivers handles and there wasnt a chance their was a driver goin by the name of left lane james was there? that sounds alot like a story my dad was telling me
As a driver of over 32 years driving. No matter how fast you run there is always a four wheeler that just has to pass
😂 I bet they were doing 65 too until the bull haulers came up and all of sudden they are a bad a$$ and the the bull haulers need to get out of their way lmao
No doubt and it’s usually a 30 years old Datsun
@@71torinoman that's because they are handing these new guys straight out of school a 600hp automatic transmission truck and they all think they are super truckers. One out of 10 if you're lucky are in my mind an actual driver the others are just holding on.
@@71torinoman they would all be lost that's for sure. I'm old school brought up on a farm where everything was standard trans and not comfortable you put the time in before you earned the right for comfort. I take it from your years your similar
@@71torinoman I can recall the the ones I looked at as real truckers. The ones like my father who passed two years ago at 94. Now they were no joke. Driving Autocars and Diamond Reos old Macks and they would look at me when I would pull I to the ship yards in Norfolk VA to pick up containers off the ships driving a cab over no sleeper twin screw international and I thought I was doing something at 17. They were probably saying look at this kid he will never make it. Lol
Truckers keep this and many Countries alive. Thank you for your service and dedication Truckers. 💪🏻
Thanks for noticing 😊
Back in the early 2000’s(2002-2003 approx)we were running across the Ohio turnpike eastbound at 2am in the morning(back then it was a strict 55 mph for trucks)...we ended up with 75 trucks in a 59mph convoy, Pete’s, Kw’s, Freightshakers, Cornbinders, bull racks, skateboards, tankers, vans, reefers, company and o/o, u name it it was in that convoy...that was the last time I ever saw-that many drivers running together and not 1 argument... it was funny ass jokes after funny ass jokes on the cb. I never laughed so hard in my life. We all stayed in line and everyone had a cb back then so we were calling out mile markers and that’s how we knew we had 75 trucks runnin a convoy.. I’ll never forget that night.. we all split up at the 80/90 split to Cleveland. I retire in a few months after 30 yrs and 3.6 million accident free miles... nights like that back then I’ll miss because it’s the total opposite now. Bull haulers, get outta the way or get run over.
Congrats on the 3.6 million accident free mile an the fixing to retire!
Congrats driver! I hit 1.4 mil and called it quits, cant imagine 3.6! Enjoy that well deserved retirement hand!
You trucked around the earth 144.5 times. Sheesh
Sounds like some good ol days
you are blessed midnight. thanks for sharing
That is how you cover 1,200 miles a day.
@@jmit3491 I thought 1k miles a day was a chip shot. Get up early before sunrise. Go a good 400, eat lunch, go another 400, check a tire then finish it at moonrise.
Most I've done was ironically in a day cab. 1500 miles in 26 hours. Never again. I'll do 1000 mile day but 1500 was a little much. However that 1500 miles paid me 1000$ and I was just a driver.
Left lane gang
Lol
Sure is! I used to run 1000+ a day hauling cows, 5 days a week. Their ain't no feeling like cow mobiling come on!
To stay out in front of the smell you have to do 90 the smell travels at 85
😂😂🤣🤪
That's the good old days. A big truck goes as fast as it can but a Large car goes as fast as it wants. Lots of memories running with bull haulers over the years. Always make great time and usually in the left . Interstate 80 and 90 was fast when the sun went down.
"Officer, these things don't even go over 65!"
I’ve said that excuse before 😂😂
I tried that too.... still got a ticket.
@@xr80kk lmao xD
And that excuse is not going to make the people family that just got killed for something like this feel any better
@@truck2041 Do you wanna build a snowman ⛄️ ❄️ ☃️
I just passed a Jimmy and a white, I been a passing everything in sight, 6 days on the road and I'm a gonna make it home tonight.
I love that song. Fits this perfectly😂
RIP Red, Dave & Dell. You're trucking songs will live on forever!❤
@@Mike583 Amen
Read this in the rythm and heard it with the artist's voice.
I wonder how many people know what you just said?😁😁😁
They ain't haulin Bulls, THEY HAULIN ASS,,,,!!!!
HALL a”N”d ASSociates
So true
🤣🤣🤣
10 Roger
@@theangryTH-cam hahaha
I used to manage the scale at Cargill Foods in High River Alberta, some of the guys said they can cruise at 90 or 100 MPH with no problem. Some of the paint jobs on those trucks were out of this world, from wild horses to the sun setting over the rockies.
The old school trucks definitely can these new trucks can only get up to 90 now but back 20 years the petes, kws and freightliners could get well into the low 100s
In theory my truck should roll at 127 mph in high gear at 2200 rpms. My GPS says it's more like 123MPH. I only do that if I got a good front door and it's usually bull racks. Don't mind my little flatbed I'm just sliding along behind you
I don't care what anyone says, seeing a big ass semi flying by at high speed is cool af. Especially when it's a Peterbilt LOL
You should see the movie "Duel" then lol
Or kenworth or old flatnose freightliner
Yeah because they are never on the road. 🔧 CAT engines for the win.
Hell nah ... if they tailing you
They have to feed and water them if they don't get there in time, so that's why cattle haulers fly lol.
This reminds me of a trip east bound across Utah on I-80 back in the 80's. It was about midnight and I'm riding along all by myself just getting it in my 62 mph cabover cornbinder. I start hearing all these drivers on my CB just having a good old time but I'm the only one on the Interstate. I could see one set of headlights way behind me but they were gaining on me fast. Then those headlights moved left to pass. Then I could see a 2nd set move left. Then a 3rd, 4th, 5th and so on. Can't remember how many but they had a whole train going. 10 minutes later I couldn't even see their tailights any more. Slowly the CB became quiet again. They probably made Cheyenne before I got to Salt Lake City. Spent the rest of the night wishing I had a large car instead of the cornbinder. Those were good times to be a trucker. Thank you Lord!
Thank you for your cool story.
Going up to Maryland to get a 6-71 for a planer power unit. Driving a Ford with a good power stroke and a 5-speed. Long job passed around Bristol and my partner was asleep (he worked shifts and slept anywhere, anytime) so I decided it was time for some soot blowing. WE ran 95 (Speed, not highway) till he turned off and I went back to 70 or 75. Used to be a lot of such stuff years ago. Black smoke too. GBWYall
You are right Kent.
Those where for me any ways the good old days!
I got my Class A in 1/1990!!
The 2 biggest items in Trucking??
Was Fast Trucks, and big C.B. Radios
I didn’t know 80 went all the way to Utah, that’s dope. I’m from NJ and ride on I-80 all the time
@@recycledmotivation the two digit Interstates with zero at the end all essentially go coast to coast. The ones with 5 at the end traverse North to South.
The I-80 goes coast to coast, and is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln; there's a little unmanned museum of it with a giant bust of Lincoln at a rest stop between Cheyenne and Laramie.
and the soccer mom had to dart in to prove she was bovine as well....
That’s why he was running extra fast, that was his ol’ lady making sure he ran the bulls, and not being a bull.
you could say she was trying to "moooooooooooove out of their way" lol.
underrated comment😂
She only passed them cause they let her. Because I can bet money they can outrun the soccer mom:))
Man-hating feminist bitch she is.
I was coming home 1 night about 3am I was running 85 and 6 of them passed me like I was tied to a tree 🌳
Lol..
Freaking way cool man!
It’s an amazing feeling riding in a group like that. I’ve done it with a group of stick haulers a couple times and it never gets old.
Petes with 550hp and an Eaton fuller 18 speed! Yes sir.
@@crazyhorse3275 more like 1050hp!!
"I don't know where he came from but with the crew" got me lmao
Some power ranger type shit
Safety in numbers!!!
Thats how bull haulers roll!✔
He was running 110mph to catch up, old trucking company, Montford out of Greedley Colorado, Rolled Fast, Out of Nowhere than Disappear
@@tracywilder8914 yeah that was funny. 🤣
Yeah I was going through Texas at night I could've sworn I was the lone truck on the highway doing 80mph and out of nowhere it looked like Christmas lights the way it was lit up flew rt past me and was gone just as fast in the night.
Peterbilts and Kenworth is the heartbeat of America.
Sir,that's Freightliner! Waaay more Freightshakers on the road than Petes & KW's 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sixx6sixx107 Kenworth and Peterbilt actually haul shit. Freightliner is weak horseshit.
@@thebabbler8867 pretty sure Freightliner had or has better frames at one time compared to Kenworth or Peterbilt but who knows things could of changed.
Anthony seale out of Texas is who was lead truck
The K Whopper is Big on the outside and small on the inside. I'll take the Peterbilt over the Kenworth every time
You know those turbos were singing
They running triple turbos
@@danieljuarez700 lol I doubt it dude 🤣
not if it's geared correctly
2.76 gear 18 spd going 80 to 90 ur crusing at around 1500rpm at those revs the engine is relaxed and if u got a tail wind ur running in so they say vacuum or low boost
@@tomlynch7097 Lol, at 90 you're pushing a lot of wind, the turbo will be singing, unless they are going downhill, which they werent
@@RJ1999x I guess u didn't read my statement ABOUT WIND DIRECTION. had 3.55s dropped to the 2.64s saves fuel engine is relaxed if im nit running in direct locally. this is how my 800hp e model is speced so I guess I just don't know what the hell I'm talking about
I cruise 80mph all the time if it's not windy and sip fuel with a flat top reefer box.
I got behind a reefer rig in a snow storm coming west out of the poconos one night where traffic was crawling in the right lane. When he passed me I jumped out behind him in his draft and followed him down the road. My wife thought I was nuts because we were traveling over 60 in the snow and ice. Followed him all the way to Youngstown where he must’ve jumped off for fuel and we went back to crawling through the storm. A little bit later I looked in the mirror and it looked like the sun was coming up behind us. Turned out to be the same guy just motoring along, I jumped back in with him and followed him in all the way to Detroit, that guy was one hell of a truck driver
I hate you. Guess why?
Smoking a fat one doing 89 in a 65, son of a gun.
Stupid
It was me
@@slowgoat6089 could have been me too, i haul reefer back to detroit sometimes hahahhaha, just to get home
When I deployed to Iraq in '05 as a mechanic, we brought our fleet of M915A3s which our master mechanic platoon sergeant had tuned to top 90 mph. We also had tuned our HEMTT wrecker to push 70 mph. Our convoys ran like the wind.
Hmm! Go military motor pool! 🇺🇲🦾
my unit in az still drives the m915a3
@trace rose at first glance, the A3s are the best ones to have. We got some Frankenstein A4s in Iraq, which were a disaster. When we returned, we were part of the introduction to the A5. Beautiful trucks, but lots of issues that had to go in for warranty repairs. I say at first glance because I've been out for a decade.
Bullshit. Not geared for speed
@@keithrowell8895 all it takes is math
I watch this video over and over. It’s just that good!
That’s 4 of the nicest left lane landlords on the road
“Left lane landlord” I like that lol
@@Zildawolf my father had “Left Lane Landord” written on the bunk of his truck when I was a kid.....I always liked it too!!!
not the nicest but they look good
americans calling the left lane a "fast lane" is the fucking problem. in canada we go out our way to put signs up that say "keep right unless ACTIVELY PASSING" (2 car lengths away) because of idiots who just think that the left lane was made for them to be dickheads.
Good old left lane mafia. Peeling the decals off company trucks as they fly by
When you haul cattle you drive hard and fast straight through, you get them loaded and unloaded so they don't get injured inside the trailer. The less time they're in that trailer the better.
And if you don't, you'll wish you had. Back in 2010 I was sitting in a small truck stop north of Dallas eating the lunch I'd just made (1991 gold and white International with a 120" (that's 10 foot) sleeper with full kitchen, full bath, etc., oh and a warmed over mechanical CAT and double over 13... so I could roll right along with the bull haulers). There were two of them parked in front of me in the dirt lot. As the drivers came out from their lunch, a fight broke out in one of the trailers on the top deck. Both men grabbed the prods attached to the side of the trailer and climbed all over the outside of the damn thing prodding away until the two finally settled down. Thought those bulls were going to flip the trailer over it was rocking so hard!!! Would sure hate to have that happen running down the road at 90 MPH.........
But when they cause an accident cause they are speeding then they kill other drivers and their whole load.
@@eliascorteslopez1094 It's been a long time since I saw a cattle trailer in an accident that was caused by the driver. They are almost always caused by a car.
@@2A372C well I have and I also know you can't stop 80,000 pounds of mass on a dime. I used to drive, this is why I think they should slow down.
@@eliascorteslopez1094 Your opinion is noted, and discarded.
I ran with Anthony and them in the video a few years ago across Texas, New Mexico and into Arizona and we never dropped below 100mph.
everyone knows that the cattle haulers don’t play. you don’t mess with them, you give them their space and let them do what they gotta do. they have this country by the balls, providing the entire country with meat. mad respect for them
Thanks for watching. DONT mess with dah best kenworth fah life
@@JMAC-rs6ey Peterbilt for value Kenworth not so much.
@@firstamendmenttshirt4768 I’ve owned dem both kenworth all day a lot more argressive stance. And more power Peterbilt is a over the road truck. Not for construction
@@JMAC-rs6ey you a fan of volvo’s?
@@youngpatrick29 KENWORTH ALL DAY
Ya.... DOT doesn’t mess with them bc of the cargo, they have x amount of time to get where their going before the steer die on the trailer
Bingo
Only when loaded we can get away with murder but man if we empty dot loves to fuck with us But I kept my trucks clean shined up and legal so it’s never a big deal just a time suck
@@Zach-k2p would you reccomend this over normal freight. Recently got my cdl still not sure what I want to do. Worked on a farm for most of my life.
Wanna bet
@@funnyyylock it's a lot harder than normal freight. And these guys usually don't take rookies.
My advice is start out working either hauling normal freight or grain, and get your connections. Before making that jump
One of those trucks got stopped by dot at the scale with full load and the officer wanted to do the inspection on his truck the driver said if you wanted to it was fine with him so the officer proceeded to get under Meath the truck and the bulls started peeing all over the trailer and the dot officer was soaked from head to toe. The DOT officer got from underneath and just waived him through without filling paperwork. I think the DOT officer learned his lesson that day!
ROFLMAO
Sounds like a total BS story to me.
@@mizzury54 no it was told by the driver who got stopped in California.
that DOT must've be fresh
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That first Peterbilt was Sealy livestock out of Texas. There’s an interview with him from a channel called “I love cattle trucks”. That guy is no joke.
Those are all Seale rigs by the way.
Seale livestock
893 R6 I just realized after all this time my phone autocorrected and misspelled Seale
@@ThinBlueWarrior yeah buddy I gotcha. Just letting that other dude know he's not out of Sealy, TX. But also that they're all Seale rigs.
First truck is my boy chaz
I was in the trainer truck, first drive through the mountains in CO, two blocks of marble @48K. I was so damn scared crawling down that twisty 2-lane 6%... Bull hauler radios, "Hey Melton, can you pull over real quick? Kinda gettin' in the way of what I'm tryin' to do." Never saw him again. LMAO
Damn!
Got damn dude 💯
Yeah, drivin stupid through everything...sounds a like a cattle hauler. Unprofessional arrogant asswipes, the whole lot of them.
Running rabbit is supposed to run.....🙃
@@aaronpatterson2369 he was actually cool about it. I just didn't know they run so fast.
I stand with all truckers! My father drove for 46 year before he passed. RIP Twitty Bird your are missed.
Stand with truckers about what?
They got her in the whistle cog.
@@ismaelcarrillo3956 for expecting basic rights not to be stripped by massively overreaching, corrupt, greedy, criminal government officials. That's not hearsay or exaggeration, but undeniable truth.
What year did your dad retire from Trucking
I started in 1/1990.
It seems like I remember a driver, that went by that handle.
@@robbiedenham1726
He finally got off the road about 3 years ago. He was running fuel out of Vt. He passed away June last year.
RIP Tweety Bird.
Can remember back in Texas north of Dallas going uphill watching two of these cats walk up the hill with flattop Peterbilts. I was doing 85 while they walked past me doing at least a buck. No lie. Truck driver till I die.
That'll be fun when they blow a steer tire, I've got 2 million safe miles and I stay away from these assholes who think they own the road. I understand they can't stop and gotta keep air moving in the back it I wish law would crack down on these jerk offs
Plus going from 55 to 90 you quadrupled the force of the air hitting your truck.
Not just u but I walk by a lot of people
@@breakingames7772 Go eat your vegan dinner. LMFAO 😂😂
Back in the days when a 475 Cat was a horse, but gears were right and Diesel was real… Early computers helped them run, not choked them down…
I pull livestock with a Peterbilt and we usually pick up the pace when it's hot out. We always get the job done as quickly as possible without crossing the line of safety (Too Much).
Same here. When it’s cold I tend to just go the speed limit
Gotta consider the safety of on the hoof cargo
Starting driving in 1998. The first time I was going through Arizona on Hwy 40 and couldn't believe these trucks blowing people's doors off. It's great to they're still doing it..
The more time the cattle are in the racks? The more money you lose at auction due to weight loss.
Fast food
@@mattweger437 all day all night right!!!!!!
They actually put each one on a bathroom scale just to be sure not to over bid
A pack of wild trucks without a single Volvo , refreshing !
Them animals need to get to there destination. It's hot in them trailers. The law don't want the liability of stopping them for speeding.
@Kris Kross wow you sound like a ( Karen)
They will worry about it when these fools wreck or kill someone
@@tamipotirala6973 you sound like a ( glass half full) kind of person.
@Kris Kross you live in a bubble ... need a safe space bud?
@Kris Kross I’d be more worried about drunk drivers or actual criminals and not just people speeding.
Did that shit in the 90s, them cattle ain't in no box stacked on a pallet
What drives me nuts about other folks on the road, they don’t understand that rolling weight in the trailer
That’s how the real cowboys run out there in Arizona, an old friend of mine told me back in the day when they ran bullhaulers they would do 115mph
Semi truck doing 115 mph?
I call bs unless they're drag trucks or something
@@Smexy_af I'm guessing you don't drive?. A semi can reach go 130-140 Mph my friend they were just cruising trust me!!.
@@Smexy_af trucks in the 90s even made over 400 hp too and a lot of torque
@@DeathDealer1825 400 hp is not a lot for a truck.
Detroit Diesel 2 strokes 16v71, 16v92TA made well over 900 hp and 3500+ Nm torque
@@Smexy_af trucks today make like 550 that's decent power for a big diesel motor they are still making tons of torque
Many moons ago me and my bro were running a 12 car transporter iveco 190/36 and delivering it to a customer in the UK. Our trucks are limited to 56mph on motorways(interstate freeways I guess)and it will not go quicker! On one night the TSL(top speed limiter)failed and we were cat hung stuff up quickly as all drivers of HGV run foot flat to the floor due to the limiter. I still have the tachograph card that shows speed,time etc and the needle recording speed went off the edge of the card for about 10-15 mins! Gulps fuel like nothing and only had enough to get there,ended up using grub mony for more fuel(£30!) And the low fuel light came on as we got to security at the drop. Modern trucks will stop almost as quick as cars now,watch the Volvo and Scania trucks braking from our max speed,it looks unreal.
I drove for a while doing multi drop around the UK and loved it also muck away which I think was my fave! Retired to look after my wife,almost lost her in 2013 so the driving is now cars! And god the other drivers that are joining us are plain stupid. Said it before and I'll say it again, you have lessons to pass a test not to be a driver,that comes with practice only they think it's a done deal and ok now it all. Rant over! Keep the bugs of the glass and bears off yer ass! Drive quick drive well.
What you just witnessed was the last of the TRUE American Truckers.
Just a bunch of danger to society cow Truck drivers. I personally like Immigrant and new generation of Truckers. More successful and safety minded.
@@nexus-qb3bu Love the sarcasm.
No the last of the cowboys
@@nexus-qb3bu i hope u joking
Grasp the concept of sarcasm....✅
Bull haulers haven't changed. Back in the 80s early 90s when I was trucking. One time going across 40 through West Texas, I got up with a few. We never dropped below 90 mph for at least a couple of hours. That's back when it was 55 mph speed limit at night. Nothing like the sound of a 425 Cat with 12 speed wound out.
gotta love it when you can do twice the limit!
3406B
I had the harmonic balancer comes off n is loud clankiing around on the front of the motor one time, that truck, had a 425 mechanical cat, 13 speed trans n 390 rears beast of a hill climbing truck lol
Since when did 40 go through "west TexAss?" 40 goes through the panhandle, 10 & 20 go through west TX on top of each other & split at "The Y" near Van Horn TX for 20 to continue through Dallas & 10 runs further south through Houston! Also, it's a 9 or a 13 speed. Never seen a 12 speed in any big truck.
Hey man, what's that sound?
*looks in mirror*
These guys: "EAST BOUND AND DOWN! LOADED UP AND TRUCKIN"
We gotta long way to go and a short time to get there!!!!!
I'm east bound just watch ol' bandit run
Keep your foot hard on the pedal. Son, never mind them brakes.
Let it all hang out cause we got a run to make
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta, there's beer in Texarkana and we'll bring it back no matter what it takes.
This video always makes me smile, they going fast but they know what they’re doing
The yellow pet is mine and we were doing 95
Prove it
Show me your carfax
Can't the yellow tank run a hundred? Hammer down.
Nice ride 👌
I didn’t see a pet anywhere, I did see a Pete.
I've driven 2 trucks over the years that would do over 130 mph and I ran them wide open many times. Foolish? Yeah it was... But it thrilled my heart more than anything I've ever done...
You couldn'ta been getting more than 2mpg running like that
@@no_im_dirtydan lol yeah if he's lucky to get 2 🤣
Bet
@@no_im_dirtydan fuel economy is for Nancy's
I can’t imagine the power you felt 🤯
And thats why our steaks are so expensive.... they need to cover them speeding tickets haha
Nice!!!
How many do you ever see pulled over getting a speeding ticket. Hardly any. Old school truckers still talk on radio and use high dollar bird dogs. They tend to bark when the smell bears!
17yrs and almost 3 million miles and I've only seen 1 pulled over by Texas state trooper.
@@twin2385 ive seen 3 so far when i used to go long haul
Twice in Arizona I10 and the other one i forgot lol
But damn can they go fast i would top my cruise control at 70 and when they passed me it was like as if im standing still lol
@@victorurbina1558 I've run with a few couple of times. But only when empty since 90% of time I'm loaded with hazmat. Fastest I've run was about 95mph. Fuel costs too much.
I was driving a Chevy impala in the rain in the mountains of Kentucky and was doing 60 scared. Big rigs were flying around me up and down the hills like it’s nothing. I’ve never been so scared on the road. Mad respect for these dudes.
Kentucky got mountains? 😅
@@brandonthomas4175, nop got fried chicken!
My favorite sign when I was delivering liquor in da backwoods of Ky was "Coal Trucks have Right of Way". "Rolling coal" has a double meaning down there
@brandonthomas4175 Naw they got "hollers"😂
Those bull haulers are a whole different breed of trucker, I love em!
dayumm right we are. how many times do you see a bull hauler in an accident? rarely
@hawtchick69 well dayumm, this lady hauled cattle for 24 years all by her self all over the country, and LOVED IT ALL
@@Cricketmh62 cool.
@@Cricketmh62
you're no woman mam
you're one badass lady!!
lol ✌️
@@SeriusChevy why thank you very much... 😁😁
3:48 anyone notice this dudes temp gauge about to hit HOT.
He’s runnin’ pretty warm lol
It's a Ford and judging from the speed he was going it's either a f-450 or f-550. 83-84 mph maxed out.
Fords always run hot, the Powerstroke is notorious for blowing up, oil coolers, turbos, and EGR’s and popping the head gaskets loose. Deleted they run way cooler, but if he’d been running a Cummins, he’d be running cool all day long, and run all over that powerstroke pulling the same load, at the same speed, with power to run faster if he wanted to. Here he was maxed out at 83, and about to send a melted piston or 3 airborne, with the head gaskets right behind it.
@@hunterprowsemrereviews9141 Might wanna read up on which Powerstroke do that before talking. 6.7 is actually a decent motor to have come out in the past 15 years to bear that name. Considering this is Arizona he's doing 85 with a trailer so the engine is under constant load and temps still average low 90s in October with little to no cloud cover.... your shit is gonna heat up no matter what.
That’s actually right where it’s sposed to be
We don't get paid to sit still.
Hands down best comment!
Sitting still is for school teachers
they get paid to get cargo there not put others at risk
@@lilpandasdancin if driving scares you, stay home where it's safe.
@@chadreynolds6804 How dose what i said make me scared of driving the fuck kind of logic you using? i pointed out a fact death rate is higher when speeds are higher. A semi weighs approximately 94000lbs going 90+ mph they hit heavy traffic they kill 5 to 6 or more people and you know what thats fine because they would get put in jail where they belong for no following the law.
But if a small car dose 90+ mph its not okay thats the logic this stupid ass truck drivers who dont have any right on the rode go by.
That's real trucking....well for us experienced drivers that is....A long ways to go and a short time to get there....hammer down driver
I run refrigerated (31 years), and I respect the bull haulers the most out of the rest. They are the real truck drivers of the highways.
Bunch of pussys. Speeding with livestock. Easy break check them and ruin every last $ they would of received if they followed the law.
I'm just as real of a truck driver, Driver. Did plenty of resets at slaughterhouses in iowa and ran nearly nonstop to Texas with a reefer to make the meat boat loadings.
My pap ran logs for 40 years. Now I do the same.
Hmm! OK yes that's right driver! I pulled reefer too ran out of southern Oregon coming out of the woods into northern Cali with about 3 bull haulers! I had a good time that day for sure! #keepontruckin 😉👌
Yeah, because the majority of what I encounter are SWHs wearing jockey shorts & flip-flops at the shipper/consignee. I haven't seen a bull rack driver wearing jockey shorts & flip-flops. After 32 years in trucking, I observe that the vast majority today are selfish idiots who give not two s#¡+s about the image of trucking in general. As to if anyone thinks that they might score browny points for how they "go the speed limit", everyone in trucking knows that it's extremely rare to see a reefer hauler with a truck that is capable of anything more than 72.
Bull haulers are still the real truck drivers out here, but there are only a few of them left today hauling refrigerated, and you won't see them wearing jockey shorts and flip-flops, with their damn feet on the dash as they drive down the road.
You see the stacks on the lead truck tinted from the heat. You know that ole boy has earned his respect
I've had 8 inch straight pipes that would glow orange at night. I couldn't afford the fuel to get them that hot. He's setting the pace. Usually the oldest, most experienced, and wary of the crew runs point but they switch up and take tirunning the front door every couple hours
Random Karen in her Prius: yea, hello, 911, there are two big black trucks racing on the highway and I'm scared.
They say while hogging the center line swerving then complain when the big ass gust of wind from the trucks move their car around
@@jwalker7567 and driving 15 under
@harry # you must be the Karen because there is literally nothing to do with race unless you are joking lol
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Tbh yeah, this is very dangerous, like it or not.
With a truck if something happens you can't react as quick as with a car, dumping the brakes wouldn't do much if some idiot just came in your lane without signaling first, or better yet, if someone crashes or a animal crosses the road.
At that speed, even hitting a fox is very dangerous.
I see that you might be in a hurry or something, but never exceed the speed limit too much guys, they may be annoying but they're there for a reason.
Plus you drain your tank very quick.
Drive safe guys.
Loved it,80 to 150 was normal cruse .that old Pete would gate like a fine Tennessee😢 horse at 100.my big old tram with 2000 watts blasting miles ahead the guitar picker is comming through..I'm an old man now.but those were the best days of life I'll never forget,wouldn't have missed it for the world..
I live in Queens NY and never seen anything like this, but this is badass. Tons of respect for these guys, keeping America running strong.
That's how we roll! Trucking, you call we haul.
@mr fantastic how so?
Respect my ass.... 30 years out here.... No reason livestock or not.... No reason why anybody needs to be going that fast.. Blow a steer going those speeds.... Then tell me how impressed you are? Nothing but a bunch of new bred steering wheel holder thinking that they are proving something when in reality nothing but a bunch of fucking idiots.... BTW..... I'm a O/O Trucks wide open and i still stay even below the speed limit .... One more thing I have also hauled Livestock in my time..... and I have never drove like that.... I'm not impressed not one little bit
@@doneverson1756 who cares move on
We have bull haulers in New York up north, there couple of guys out of that area and Vermont who haul dairy cattle as far as I know up to Wyoming, it could be even farther I met a guy and his wife in Nebraska they had dark green Vermont plates that you can notice from a mile away.i am never getting married or having any kids but I’m definitely working on buying a peterbuilt with a Wilson trailer and haul cattle out of Potsdam New York area
"did you know you was doin' 96 mile an hour?" "96 mile an hour....I didn't the truck do 96 mile an hour" " you damn right you was, boy the judge is gonna turn you every way but loose."
Ole Jerry Reed RIP!!!
The SNOWMAN