Nearing age 85 I'm surely considered an Old Buzzard. Riding along with you takes me back to the early 70s when I was trucking, relieves a certain tension as years later I still miss driving and chatting with so many good people. Thanks for the ride! Be well and safe.
Once a "TRUCKER" ALWAYS A ""TRUCKER!!!" Thank U for ALL those years of DELIVERING GOODS on the highways, bi-ways, cities & towns!!!!!😎🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🫱🏻🫲🏾👍🏾🙌🏾💰💰💰💰💰🙏🏽
Had blind loads too.. bizarre.. and they'll pay top dollar for that according to my dispatcher.. now over the years the biggest surprise no one ever told me about was lumpers.. backed into a dock with grocery load and guy walks up and Said , "ok that'll be $200" I remember laughing in his face thinking it was a legit joke ... but it wasn't.. well called dispatch cuz I didn't have 20$ back then...
Also swap your map / big sleeper light with red covers or red lights and at night it'll help light up and keep you alert .. that's what I do... research ww2 fighter pilot red lights ... when your brain sees red at night it alerts your senses without even knowing it... blue on the other hand makes you sleepy..
Kurt, you know I'm a retired driver. But I used to fly for a living as well. Use red lights. Easier (and better) on the eyes and you can still see everything in the cab (or cockpit). Just sayin'.
Kurt, Trucking is somewhat like the military "Need to Know" has been for the 40 + years I've been drivin. I hooked up a purple light inside my trucks, for the longest time I drove mainly at night, U and Opie have safe travels Sir.
Kurt the most dangerous part of St. Louis is exactly right where your at in a 3 mile radius. That's east St. Louis Illinois . Please don't do that again. I lived & worked there for 28 years from 1979
Try bringing a load of calves to a farmer in NW Iowa from Montana. Strict instructions from buyer “DO NOT tell the farmer where you loaded these. Games people play. 🤷♂️
Frozen turkey is a clue. The product is likely being sold while enroute. The place you are taking it to is contracted to be the next place to handle it but the owner of the product is subject to change and nobody needs to know at this stage.
On the done light,put a red bulb in the socket or replace it with a fixture that will go back and forth between red and bright white. The reason for the red light is that it doesn't affect your night vision as much as white light does.
The sound of a good running well maintained kitty cat never gets old! 😅 I use my interior lights to during the night. Makes you feel more awake I think.
There you go again, coming through my neck of the woods. Must have been at Love's in New Baden IL. That cool river Bridge is known here as the Stan Span. Stan Musial Veterans Memorial bridge. I worked on the construction of the IL approach and I-64 & I-55/70 interchange from 2010 until it's opening in 2013 Then Retired TGP
Yup remember doing blind loads and been to that cold storage in York, many years ago did a load of TVs out of Texas was told like you just go north and call back in a hour, ended up going to LA with it
Met you at the Chiefs game today. It was awsome to shake your hand. Seeing you and Uber dad and your family made my day. Wish we could have talked longer.
Yeah, not a fan of double blind loads. Luckily I've been able to avoid them for some years and will continue to do so as long as I can lol. I really despise not being able to route plan in advance! Plus it complicates the whole BOL deal
Hey, Kurt, sometime when you are in Huntingburg, you need to go visit the baseball field that the movie, "A league of their own" was filmed. It was built specifically for that movie, but the Huntingburg Bombers use the field each season. It's a throwback type of ballpark. Enjoy!!
Blind loads have usually been sold by a broker. So the manufacturer knows who they're selling it to, the delivery point know who they've bought it from but the broker is terrified that they ever find out who each other is, then they can talk to each other and cut the broker out. Many years ago, when Poland was still a communist country, I'd gone to near Warsaw from Manchester with my powder tank (kerching). In those days, there was very little coming out of the Eastern block, especially in a tank. Anyhow, we found a load from Poland to the Netherlands, but it was a blind brokered load owned by a dealer in Switzerland, at one point in the trip I had three sets of paperwork and customs papers for it, one from Poland to Switzerland, which the sender could see, one from Switzerland to Holland for the delivery point, although I didn't go anywhere near Switzerland and one which told the truth to show German customs so I could transit Germany to get from Poland to Holland. I had to get all three documents customs cleared to keep everybody happy. It took 14 hours to get it through the Polish/German border with quite a bit of ingenuity/lying on my part. Happy days.
I worked out of the Metro "Detroit" region my entire life, final 2 years included the "south" side of Chicago, the two ugliest, dangerous cities in the nation...
In my state of South Carolina, in Charleston crossing the Cooper river is the largest cable stay bridge in the Western hemisphere. The one you are looking at in St. Louis is a cable stayed design.
Are you sure that's really frozen turkey? That sounds really sketchy. You really are an outlaw. I think I'll pass on the turkey this Thanksgiving. Thanks for the awesome ride. Safe travels, and God bless.
Porch lights on the truck would be creative idea ( motion detected) I’ve thought of that too! But it looks like you have those police hand operated spot lights you could turn on also.
back when I was on the road I was told that blind loads were loads that come from different shippers then who the receiver bought the load from and that is why we had to carry blank bills of ladding it usually happens when the original shipper has a breakdown or runs out of that particular product and so they don’t want the receiver to know where the load actually came from possibly because they might start a bidding war and lose that customer
Hi not sure if you look at these comments but I too have a GSD and I was curious how you handle shedding in your truck? Any secrets you could share on how you keep the hair from getting all over everything. My GSD (Czech working line) sheds like crazy in my car and between the hair and slobber it’s pretty much a losing battle. But love your channel and your dogs! 👍😊
@@truckingwithschmidt7120 many thanks! 👍 I appreciate your videos and insights into trucking in the Midwest, always nice to see places you travel thru like the Quad cities area, keep up the awesome videos and be safe 👍
Hi Kurt I watch your channel on my living room TV and Computer. I can only commit on computer. Loin King= I was 24 yrs. Every day for 6 months or more I heard Loin King over, over I knew all the songs it drove me nuts. My oldest son is almost 30 yrs. I told him when if he ever has any kids, I'll get him back. He don't remember watching it. Take care.
I get loaded there a lot, getting loaded there now and they told me they have a truck check there scales twice a month, but once we are loaded I plan on checking with a CAT scale to see for myself ;)
Love it-I call the leveling valve the same thing-got looked at real funny for a long time. "Ride Height Selector"-what's that ? I learned to call it the ride height control way way back when I was an 18 year old working on GM & MCI intercity coaches & in fact think GM & MCI referred to them as such. Anyway-only a year or so before ya gotta change it out-that is LOUSY.
Blind loads is how brokers are driving down rates. If you look. The bol says the load is going farther than your taking it. Example. Load going from Chicago to Las Angeles. But your actually taking it to Denver. Now brokers can say this is what a load from Chicago to LA is paying.
Tater tot still planning on going to South Dakota State next fall? Hope so, as wife and I are both 1969 graduates of SDSU and look forward to perhaps seeing her in the band on Hobo Day. Hope to run into you at Loves in Topeka one day!
I hauled too many of them pulling flatbed and all were pain in the butt. Had make own bol , broker lied about delivery times on 3 stop load and loads were never ready or always something wrong at delivery.
Not sure what route he runs but i swear i passed California today in ohio. It was a w9 about the same color with the front end slammed on the ground pulling a hopper wagon
I haven’t had much to comment lately but I understand it helps your alogrorythm or something like that So here goes. Y’all havagudun and be safe. I know I didn’t spell that right,oh well.
Kurt, are you hauling contraband? Maybe you are hauling piece by piece a dooms day bomb. Maybe you should ask for double the cost to move as you don't know what you have.
I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now, I keep forgetting to ask you a question... unlike most trucking creator videos on CZcams, Ive never heard you throw on the "Jake", is there a reason you dont use it or is it just one of those things that get edited out?
Saginaw used to be pretty bad when it comes to dangerous towns. almost as bad as detroit. I live 15 miles out of saginaw. lol I was banned from there for many years for getting in a fight. thats a long story buy it was not cool. lol
I noticed that you don't wear a seat belt, is this standard for trucking or what? I also saw that you don't wear shoes while driving, works for me as I don't like to wear them either 😊
Nearing age 85 I'm surely considered an Old Buzzard. Riding along with you takes me back to the early 70s when I was trucking, relieves a certain tension as years later I still miss driving and chatting with so many good people. Thanks for the ride! Be well and safe.
Once a "TRUCKER" ALWAYS A ""TRUCKER!!!" Thank U for ALL those years of DELIVERING GOODS on the highways, bi-ways, cities & towns!!!!!😎🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🫱🏻🫲🏾👍🏾🙌🏾💰💰💰💰💰🙏🏽
I drove for 35 years and not able to drive otr anymore and I miss it
You could be moving an intercontinental ballistic missile very discretely.
Interested in Trucking, Tay?
Had blind loads too.. bizarre.. and they'll pay top dollar for that according to my dispatcher.. now over the years the biggest surprise no one ever told me about was lumpers.. backed into a dock with grocery load and guy walks up and Said , "ok that'll be $200" I remember laughing in his face thinking it was a legit joke ... but it wasn't.. well called dispatch cuz I didn't have 20$ back then...
Also swap your map / big sleeper light with red covers or red lights and at night it'll help light up and keep you alert .. that's what I do... research ww2 fighter pilot red lights ... when your brain sees red at night it alerts your senses without even knowing it... blue on the other hand makes you sleepy..
@@riseagainstfbback in the 80’s they claimed red interiors in trucks caused the drivers to be more aggressive drivers and they didn’t recommend them
@@mikebonnett7730 right
Kurt, you know I'm a retired driver. But I used to fly for a living as well. Use red lights. Easier (and better) on the eyes and you can still see everything in the cab (or cockpit). Just sayin'.
Red lights work well at night until the DOT stops you and says red lights can't be seen from the front, so change them out NOW.
@@stevejoramo8013 I meant the interior, not for headlights.
Helps a lot in the cab. I got some 3m red film tape. Looks cool,too. 😅
Kurt, Trucking is somewhat like the military "Need to Know" has been for the 40 + years I've been drivin. I hooked up a purple light inside my trucks, for the longest time I drove mainly at night, U and Opie have safe travels Sir.
Kurt the most dangerous part of St. Louis is exactly right where your at in a 3 mile radius. That's east St. Louis Illinois . Please don't do that again. I lived & worked there for 28 years from 1979
At 6:02 I thought it was bird racing you until I realized it was a bug on the windshield. I, too, am a dork.
Try bringing a load of calves to a farmer in NW Iowa from Montana. Strict instructions from buyer “DO NOT tell the farmer where you loaded these. Games people play. 🤷♂️
Frozen turkey is a clue. The product is likely being sold while enroute. The place you are taking it to is contracted to be the next place to handle it but the owner of the product is subject to change and nobody needs to know at this stage.
On the done light,put a red bulb in the socket or replace it with a fixture that will go back and forth between red and bright white.
The reason for the red light is that it doesn't affect your night vision as much as white light does.
The sound of a good running well maintained kitty cat never gets old! 😅 I use my interior lights to during the night. Makes you feel more awake I think.
There you go again, coming through my neck of the woods.
Must have been at Love's in New Baden IL.
That cool river Bridge is known here as the Stan Span.
Stan Musial Veterans Memorial bridge. I worked on the construction of the IL approach and I-64 & I-55/70 interchange from 2010 until it's opening in 2013
Then Retired
TGP
Yup remember doing blind loads and been to that cold storage in York, many years ago did a load of TVs out of Texas was told like you just go north and call back in a hour, ended up going to LA with it
I do believe the phrase ( Leveling Valve ) is the correct answer . But we know what you trying say!
Met you at the Chiefs game today. It was awsome to shake your hand. Seeing you and Uber dad and your family made my day. Wish we could have talked longer.
It was pure craziness, im not the best around that many people but it was a blast. And yes it was great meeting you as well.
Yeah, not a fan of double blind loads. Luckily I've been able to avoid them for some years and will continue to do so as long as I can lol. I really despise not being able to route plan in advance! Plus it complicates the whole BOL deal
Hi Kurt, First Class sure sounds like music to my ears. Thanks for the ride!
Hey, Kurt, sometime when you are in Huntingburg, you need to go visit the baseball field that the movie, "A league of their own" was filmed. It was built specifically for that movie, but the Huntingburg Bombers use the field each season. It's a throwback type of ballpark. Enjoy!!
Poor Opie... he's looking at those party cakes thinking...they sure look yummy 😋
Blind loads have usually been sold by a broker. So the manufacturer knows who they're selling it to, the delivery point know who they've bought it from but the broker is terrified that they ever find out who each other is, then they can talk to each other and cut the broker out.
Many years ago, when Poland was still a communist country, I'd gone to near Warsaw from Manchester with my powder tank (kerching). In those days, there was very little coming out of the Eastern block, especially in a tank. Anyhow, we found a load from Poland to the Netherlands, but it was a blind brokered load owned by a dealer in Switzerland, at one point in the trip I had three sets of paperwork and customs papers for it, one from Poland to Switzerland, which the sender could see, one from Switzerland to Holland for the delivery point, although I didn't go anywhere near Switzerland and one which told the truth to show German customs so I could transit Germany to get from Poland to Holland. I had to get all three documents customs cleared to keep everybody happy. It took 14 hours to get it through the Polish/German border with quite a bit of ingenuity/lying on my part. Happy days.
I've told um on purpose every time
I worked out of the Metro "Detroit" region my entire life, final 2 years included the "south" side of Chicago, the two ugliest, dangerous cities in the nation...
Kurt,nice clean windshield great ride thank!!! Stay safe see me next time!!!✌✌👌👍👍💪💪💪
Great trip stay safe love your videos thank you
Great video again loved it, have safe travels Sir.
that fly been in your truck the whole vlog !!! LOL Josh would've freaked out lol
Gr8 Content & Explanation of the things we deal with in the TRUCKIN INDUSTRY!!!!!!!!😎🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🇺🇸💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
Thanks for the ride. Till next time...
Have a good one Schmidt and Opie ❤
St. Louis improved. It was number 1 for a while.
When we came through Iowa heading home to Jacksonville nc we stopped in winterset iowa to visit john wayne museum, iowa is very nice. Opie is the best
Keep on trucking!
I am so glad I put reflector on Opie's collar. lol Lights on the truck would be sweet. like on Chrome's van.
In my state of South Carolina, in Charleston crossing the Cooper river is the largest cable stay bridge in the Western hemisphere. The one you are looking at in St. Louis is a cable stayed design.
Always interesting and entertaining - plus some nice camera angles and footage - lets keep it a secret!
ive pulled a few blind loads .. one i had to buy a cheep printer to print out the BOLs. Thankfully i have the interwebs onboard
Oh my god. I love the night riding.
Are you sure that's really frozen turkey? That sounds really sketchy. You really are an outlaw. I think I'll pass on the turkey this Thanksgiving. Thanks for the awesome ride. Safe travels, and God bless.
Porch lights on the truck would be creative idea ( motion detected) I’ve thought of that too! But it looks like you have those police hand operated spot lights you could turn on also.
Ya, the load leveling valve.
It is the heads of aliens who were lost in the intergalactic war Earth has been in for 200 years. 😂
I've been there several times. And I know what you are saying. 😂
Another nice vlog.
Truck company Dispatchers are like that too.
It's all in the reflexes
back when I was on the road I was told that blind loads were loads that come from different shippers then who the receiver bought the load from and that is why we had to carry blank bills of ladding it usually happens when the original shipper has a breakdown or runs out of that particular product and so they don’t want the receiver to know where the load actually came from possibly because they might start a bidding war and lose that customer
Hi not sure if you look at these comments but I too have a GSD and I was curious how you handle shedding in your truck? Any secrets you could share on how you keep the hair from getting all over everything. My GSD (Czech working line) sheds like crazy in my car and between the hair and slobber it’s pretty much a losing battle. But love your channel and your dogs! 👍😊
It's a vacuum twice a day, and brush atleast once a day. There's pretty much no way around the hair ball lol
@@truckingwithschmidt7120 many thanks! 👍 I appreciate your videos and insights into trucking in the Midwest, always nice to see places you travel thru like the Quad cities area, keep up the awesome videos and be safe 👍
Hi Kurt I watch your channel on my living room TV and Computer. I can only commit on computer.
Loin King= I was 24 yrs. Every day for 6 months or more I heard Loin King over, over I knew all the songs it drove me nuts.
My oldest son is almost 30 yrs. I told him when if he ever has any kids, I'll get him back.
He don't remember watching it. Take care.
My son was 1 1/2 years old at that time.
I get loaded there a lot, getting loaded there now and they told me they have a truck check there scales twice a month, but once we are loaded I plan on checking with a CAT scale to see for myself ;)
We used to call them lights beaver lights lol
Love it-I call the leveling valve the same thing-got looked at real funny for a long time. "Ride Height Selector"-what's that ? I learned to call it the ride height control way way back when I was an 18 year old working on GM & MCI intercity coaches & in fact think GM & MCI referred to them as such. Anyway-only a year or so before ya gotta change it out-that is LOUSY.
Blind loads is how brokers are driving down rates. If you look. The bol says the load is going farther than your taking it. Example. Load going from Chicago to Las Angeles. But your actually taking it to Denver. Now brokers can say this is what a load from Chicago to LA is paying.
Opie takes the show again
You've obviously forgot about The Family Truckster that was Vandalized in St Louis. Griswalds remember.
17 when lion king came out holy crap it just seemed like yesterday 😮
You sure the load is frozen turkeys? Could be a load of military drones.
If you dont mind me asking Mr Kurt.. what brand of phone holder is that you have right beside you? Thanks in advance and i appreciate the video...
You're in East St Louis. Dangerous
Kurt needs a nap 😂
Doing ltl, I had DOD parts clear every other manifest in the blink of an eye
Nice one Kurt
Thank you Wayne
My pleasure Kurt
Hello. Good day/ night. When will you get back to truck camping? Happy travels.
Not a broker load,it's a product owner and a buyer, and you find more of it in chemicals.
How do you and Opie like the grassy area in Huntingburg?
A lot of scam artists around those blind loads!
your thoughts on the use of rain-x
Tater tot still planning on going to South Dakota State next fall?
Hope so, as wife and I are both 1969 graduates of SDSU and look forward to perhaps seeing her in the band on Hobo Day. Hope to run into you at Loves in Topeka one day!
Yup she is.
Hi Kurt and Opie
Philadelphia the city of brotherly love used too be the murder capitol until Detroit took the title away from them in the late 70’s or early 80’s
Mr. Kurt be careful with the Childrens of the Corn!!!!🌽👽🛸
They do that so the customer thinks the product came directly from you and not the actual supplier.
I hauled too many of them pulling flatbed and all were pain in the butt. Had make own bol , broker lied about delivery times on 3 stop load and loads were never ready or always something wrong at delivery.
❤😊
Not sure what route he runs but i swear i passed California today in ohio. It was a w9 about the same color with the front end slammed on the ground pulling a hopper wagon
Yepper!!! Im begging to not like taking i 70 threw Missouri....seems like too many people.... gona it at night.
I was never able to drive with cab lit up the light messes with my vision bad
leveling valve is correct name
Opie is pretty good, you can`t see his lips move when he talks.
Ride height selector?
You mean the leveling valve?
What are your favorite shocks for the w900L
p.s, iam an old trucker2/ when i drove/they were building inter states
👍👍👍👍👍🚒
Not sure if this a question I should ask but have you ever ran into a skunk on the side of road when you're out with the German?
I haven’t had much to comment lately but I understand it helps your alogrorythm or something like that So here goes. Y’all havagudun and be safe. I know I didn’t spell that right,oh well.
Kurt, are you hauling contraband? Maybe you are hauling piece by piece a dooms day bomb. Maybe you should ask for double the cost to move as you don't know what you have.
Stan Musial Memorial Bridge.
Not climbing on the bridge
Hello from good ole corrupt Detroit Wayne county Michigan.
🙂👍👍
I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now, I keep forgetting to ask you a question... unlike most trucking creator videos on CZcams, Ive never heard you throw on the "Jake", is there a reason you dont use it or is it just one of those things that get edited out?
Saginaw used to be pretty bad when it comes to dangerous towns. almost as bad as detroit. I live 15 miles out of saginaw. lol I was banned from there for many years for getting in a fight. thats a long story buy it was not cool. lol
What make is your truck
I had a couple of loads luke that it was for r goverment did know what i had on
I noticed that you don't wear a seat belt, is this standard for trucking or what? I also saw that you don't wear shoes while driving, works for me as I don't like to wear them either 😊
I think if your bill has no address dot would have a problem
Maybe the birds all lost their eyesight....
If you don't know what it is then you're better off NOT knowing... maybe it's human body parts...toes and fingers and lips.😅😮😂
Going to some somehow connected to govt activity.!
Hey now
how does that dog get exercise?
And now we know how nuclear waste is disposed of...