Roadtripping Across America - (Part 2)

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[@hioh3012]

Why don't u talk nicely to that guy beside u

[@savagemac6697]

I came across one gp transco driver who decided to drive beside me in 2 narrow lanes. Idiotic move.

[@brianburman6580]

Alex-The Charlie Brown of trucking. Things do not always go right for him, he loves to complain, but you know deep down that you want to root for him!!

[@deluxetransport3208]

Lol, he reminds me of all the things I would not do.

[@leroyleoroy]

hell yea i was excited to see he was able to bring his boyfriend with him on the road. going through all the trucking BS with the on you love makes it so much easier!

[@Thebillionair07]

The hate is real out here

[@johnradcliff9973]

Another new PRO member I'm now up to 3 pros! Keep yourself safe Alex! My guys and I love your videos!

[@devilshark8200]

Hey Alex, I'm in Massachusetts I just delivered to Dover New Hampshire. I put my rookie behind the wheel an hour ago it's not too bad here we're picking up for Yankee Candle. They just opened a store at the local mall in North Carolina, I secured this run a month ago. Can't wait 2 more weeks and we're getting our brand new 2024 Kenworth's! I told my rookie if he helped me team drive, he'll get a new one. So, how's your FRIGHT liner? Keep it safe and out of the ditches bro. I'm releasing my first trucking video in two weeks; I hope you watch and enjoy it Alex.

[@devilshark8200]

.my first video will be a shocker; it begins with me jumping 4 wooden pallets with my 1968 Dodge Charger then I stop next to my truck and drive off!

[@johnstruthers744]

What part of mass ya from

[@rlt78]

Up in Deerfield I see. Not bad right off I-91.

[@devilshark8200]

@@johnstruthers744 Newburyport Mass originally, but I now live in North Carolina! aka HELL!

[@kv2792]

Liar

[@travisjohnson5038]

Makes me laugh. “Absolutely freezing”. Me as it’s -52 windchill right now.

[@marksellinger3736]

You and your buddy are still friends. So far, so good! Safe travels!

[@ALEXTHETRUCKINGGUY]

Haha yes we're still friends but I can't imagine sharing the truck permanently. Team driving definitely isn't for me

[@marksellinger3736]

@@ALEXTHETRUCKINGGUY im with you there. No team driving! My domicile! My office!

[@JSRRADIO]

It was definitely a struggle hahahaha but alot of fun

[@johnstroer347]

Hi Alex, that's the pilot I start and end my day at every day. I run out of the drop yard across the street. Your right it is very sketch there 😂

[@antonizvekov1]

My lightest load was flowers from Florida to Halifax NS Canada - 3,500 lb...in winter...

[@8004william]

Lo bueno es que esta compañía te permite traer a alguien en el camión, saludos desde Texas.

[@BULLDOGKS]

One of the perks to the new company is really quick loads and unloads. Wow

[@ALEXTHETRUCKINGGUY]

It's very rare for them to take longer than 1hr

[@farmerthatflies]

The ones that take literal hours to load and or unload trucks are largely responsible for the high turnover in truck drivers

[@ilocanotruckerusa8256]

Hey Alex . I’m with GP transco company now. Just got my truck two days ago , I found GP transco from your previous video and it’s great to be part of the team .. thanks to your video .

[@albertmartin6298]

Welcome back my friend and be safe out there

[@auspiciouscloud8786]

All I can think of is truck nerds! The two of you are truck nerds! ❤️❤️❤️ I love it! A definite improvement to trucking!

[@jbowman2535]

So if you have the room, slide the tandems all the way back. I have found its a lot easier to back the trailer, and maneuvering. Plus if you think about it, most shippers and receivers ask you to slide the tandems. So I would open my doors and slide my tandems, and then start to backup.

[@betzaidavazquez5579]

Always a learning adventure when you upload Alex, Love the content.

[@Random-JK]

Gateway international has an oval track NASCAR uses and a drag strip for NHRA events. Be safe out there Alex.

[@Jamesthechef0311]

Scroll down Scroll down Scroll down Scroll down Scroll down Scroll down Scroll down Great show man!

[@marcminor7049]

I parked at that same Flying J last week.

[@alistairbishop9933]

Alex your an amazing truck driver, I've driving 25 years, and your good

[@georgewashington8456]

i mean this as a compliment but i watch your videos to fall asleep, something about it is just super relaxing! love the content man seriously though

[@realisticthought1781]

Not a difficult back. It is dumb though that they gave you that particular dock

[@official_savage9027]

that back was so easy. but you made it look so hard

[@chrisiverson257]

Alex gotta learn how to walk a trailer over. When pulling straight crank wheel hard left, then hard right, then hard left again and whatever way you start you physically move trailer over that direction would've cut your backing down by half.

[@Kawiboy]

Keep on Truckin fellas 👊💪✌️😉

[@jamjames1971]

Awesome Ale x hope your doing well

[@allblackswagg99]

That was a hot minute backing up! Lmao

[@Macdad24]

Seems like you should be better backing up to a dock after 2 years of driving

[@alanbear4912]

You go to dock 14 1/2. Open doors 14 and 15 and there ya go.

[@KenG557]

I could be a trucker if I didn't ever have to back up! 👍 May you always have a truckload of protein shakes when you're stranded in a blizzard. 🙏

[@nobull4414]

Backing is easy as long as you know your right from left. If you get stranded in a blizzard, you are an idiot.

[@v35james78]

Was relieved when I saw you pick up the seal. You had me thinking you just tossed it on the ground and It was so out of character for Alex.

[@cassius8409]

In my experience, large facilities like that separate shippers from receivers. My placement was based upon why I was there. There was separate equipment for each (not interchangeable, this 50 forklifts were not mixed with the other 50), and they had them separated by many docks. Perhaps the story at where you were at?

[@sumitkumarmurmu5176]

Cool work bro 👍

[@JosephCompnotta]

Drive straight to towards 17 when your cab passes 16 turn hard right until the trailer is in 16 then back in

[@johnreynolds7546]

Alex spends more time driving around in truck stops and backing up at shipper and receiver than highway miles. 🤣🤣🤣 like your channel though .

[@carlingtonhenry9788]

Alex you are distracted!! This is not how I know you man!! 😂😂😂

[@jakepaitel9328]

hell yeah man, keep up the good work!

[@brianjones8800]

I couldn't see the St. Louis arch in this video, but I have seen it in person in my travels. However, I've never been inside of it. Whiteman AFB, Missouri was my first duty location when I joined the Air Force. I'm from Alabama and I would make the trek from Missouri to Alabama just about every holiday that I could. I always passed right by the Arch.

[@ProGoHERO]

I wonder why you always blur out your headlights? Again always good content.

[@deluxetransport3208]

Lol, you took over twice as long to get docked as they needed to unload.

[@TEXASTRUCKER87]

Pull up game strong 💪 that’s okay take your time

[@jbmueller1847]

You should also drive almost all your 11 hrs. Watch all your videos. They are funny as hell. I've noticed you stop alot and you could make your deliveries sooner but you shut down to soon.

[@michaelpharr8343]

I think he has bigger windows for delivery and to him it’s better to shut down and keep on his sleep schedule than to screw it up delivering early for nothing.

[@ozzie4306]

Dude says he doesn’t drive past 3pm. Like really? No wonder he said he’s broke. He won’t be there long.

[@evancline24]

Love your videos!

[@nekretlow2715]

Looks like you're going to replace those front tires 😜

[@willfarschon5279]

love the content must be such a grind trucking and making content

[@yasari444]

Question: why not break the seal and open the doors after you line up to the dock? You didn’t have any straps on either. I drive too so just a thought. It could be a bad day if the freight fell out while na king and all.

[@yasari444]

Backing*

[@zx1200]

It's your turn to buy dinner man! Don't complain too much because in trucking you never know what to expect, dont be picky and drive wyoming in the winter but never ever leave I-80 unless you have to. Trucking is not for everybody but you are doing just fine and dont trust the gps all the time! Enjoy, have fun, don't complain and it is what it is! "Trucking"

[@jamesfeldman7669]

If that is the arch I am thinking of it has been around for a long time and has been in several movies.

[@colerauch1091]

Alex, are u in Florida rn.l? I just saw one of those same trucks and trailer on 95 going north near St Augustine

[@sumitkumarmurmu5176]

From part one 💪👍

[@supraboy3956]

Hello have a nice weekend Alex

[@ptaszek1983]

Love the content Alex!

[@JosephCompnotta]

YOU need to start using a CB! So you know what you are driving into.

[@beazleylaw]

I don't doubt you are happy with what you are doing, but I don't think you are being well paid. When you go out on a trip the meter should start running. Think of a seven day trip this way. The first 40 hours at $15.00 an hour (crappy money) would be $600.00. As long as you are with the truck and living in it you should be paid. Even when you are sleeping. That is another 128 hours at time and a half for overtime. That time is worth $2,880 or for the week long trip should be $3,480.00. Ok 650 miles a day at 50 cents a mile is 325.00 per day or $2,275.00 for 7 days. So you'd have to make another $1,205 a week to make $15.00 an hour. What you are really making (assuming 50 cents a mile) is $9.80 an hour.

[@clovis_solid_70nm]

Saint Louis truck stop I've been that one many times 🚛

[@KeeponTrucking19]

I seen couple o ya truck down here toward buffalo on the 90

[@WSUNNYA]

Nice video Alex!

[@obliterater7595]

Hey I park my truck in the drop lot across the street from that pilot lol

[@ozzie4306]

Two goofballs. This is the future trucking generation!!😂😂

[@alexito521]

Hi , I’m doing hotshot 2 years ago , and I want to have the cdl, the only problem is I have a speeding ticket last year, which school recommends me to start , i talk to 2 schools but the insurance doesn’t accept me …….

[@nobull4414]

You didn't go to driving school for the ticket. That was stupid.

[@JosephCompnotta]

So, it took you longer to back into 16 than to unload? lol Empty docks are harder then full docks, all the space freaks you out. Its common but watch your cuts line in the concrete they can help

[@18wheeler77]

16:34 you’re in East St Louis Illinois. It’s not Missouri.

[@edhackett389]

Dont that noise from those 4way signals drive you nuts.I never understood that I'm from Florida and we only use them in emergency only.If we go into the northeast they have a under a mile a hour law that you use them .By the way backing in where it's close to other trucks is so the forklift operators don't have to run so far they have that for a reason. That's why I got unloaded in 20 minutes Ok Alex take care not too many your age does what you do Good luck in your career.

[@rebeltrucker]

Was that the Flying J on 270?

[@carsstechnologies3796]

I wish we would have your videos at least thrice a week ...by the way why don't you try a live video since your friend jonathan is there? it would be great

[@maverrick2877]

You are not in downtown st Louis, geez

[@bobbycrapps7685]

That Race track there thats where all them Big Rim Racing Boys go to with them custom up Nice Donks Cars they calls them from a 1970 to a 1976 chevy iampla old school thats a Donk Ha Ha

[@LT.X380]

Drive safely my friend. God bless you. 🙏🙏🙏🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@JTAPtv]

You were in east side STL 😂 very sketchy

[@tollbootheddie]

I've heard the Love's in St Louis is really bad

[@BoxOfMangoes]

Literally

[@jerrybohringer4894]

A word Of advice. Don't open your trailer door Until you get lined up with the Doc

[@AH-st1my]

Perfectly executed

[@robertmcdonald9280]

Did you're friend get dropped off, or does he hide in the sleeper..

[@project1638]

The cursed white light on the trailer. 😅 very annoying

[@JoseHernandez-ol1fc]

All that space and it took you a minute to back up the load...🤔

[@alexhowley9834]

I was thinking the same thing.. that was not tight looking

[@edwingarcia5767]

Hi Alex when will you be around Pennsylvania

[@richardeckert6130]

Dame how long is it going take you to park that thing

[@mrsevenfold9702]

Is there a comedian😂

[@tedburton8490]

That was East St Louis Il.... Its a shithole like West Memphis Ar.... I avoided both, Lot lizards knocking ALL night... no thanks... Stay safe.

[@bstrong5008]

How much do you make per mile? What's your home time like ?

[@CodyPerryy]

Are both of those bunk beds made?

[@rcdune7132]

Should I become a trucker? I've honestly been giving it a lot of serious thought lately.... I definitely enjoy driving and I absolutely need to start doing something a lot more stable in terms of a career

[@JanesDough855]

Another driver that I follow had to wait 7 hrs. just to get loaded. Thats insane!

[@nobull4414]

Food DC? Don't do that!

[@badbanana0]

I just had to wait 24 hours to get loaded. Longest I’ve waited so far…

[@nobull4414]

@@badbanana0 Make sure you put it on Google reviews.

[@jaykid6595]

What's the max weight limit you can haul?

[@WSUNNYA]

Hey dumb question. Did you go thru medina ohio yesterday? Seen one of those trucks lol

[@juangonzalez-lb8ml]

Is your truck automatic?

[@jonathansparks3386]

Does your truck have an air leak

[@tyler-the-US-trucker]

An eight-time zoom I can still not see that😅

[@michaelhayes4537]

Practice becomes permanent

[@nobull4414]

Motor memory.

[@derekdonnell6503]

WATCHING YOU ALEX.PURRR.

[@user-sc9cb7ed9d]

I have never seen a OTR driver be so nervous about backing a trailer, or going to truck stop and leaving because the only options were “not easy “ backing or all by themselves parking. I like that you are careful and I love your videos but please chill out on moments of complaining that “ you don’t know why they put you at a certain dock where other trucks are parked next to yours. I am sure you know this hopefully, but they put you at a certain dock because that is where they have the other stored merchandise as you are hauling .

[@nobull4414]

Nobody taught him to back. Plus, he has a hard time with right and left.

[@user-sc9cb7ed9d]

From what I have seen he backs just fine, a little slow but that’s okay. But he gets so anxious and backing a trailer, or cars merging into highway where he has to get over a lane, part of the job bro, gotta be ready for it all, everyday OTR.

[@donleamon8653]

@@user-sc9cb7ed9d - What kinda concerns me is how many more of them are like that out there OTR? I've caught myself cringing behind the screen watching his timid approach to merging several times.

[@ulicesrosas546]

More than one year on trucking?you should be good at backing but apparently you need to practice a lot more

[@jonnemeth3445]

Hey Alex what you got to do is play some John Denver thank God I'm a country boy as your friend alarm

[@jbsimmons54]

Take Me Home Country Roads...

[@JohnsgreenKenwortht]

He's more into Village people

[@edwardwilliams9874]

Good afternoon brother

[@eddiecastro5088]

NO FUCKING WAY THATS WHERE I BROKE DOWN AT THAT PILOT MONDAY. BLACK GIRLS AT THE TACO BELL ARE WRETCHED

[@michaelwhisenton1440]

Lol East St. LOUIS Sketchy

[@farmerthatflies]

Everything in east St. Louis could be called sketchy. I’ve been in that t/s while there was a race going on. Sleeping was definitely NOT an option that night

[@bobbycrapps7685]

whats up my Guy they had made it harder for u to back in that dock next to that truck and that truck was in your way and he or she wasnt even back into a dock it was backed up to a wall but u got it in there safely with out hitting them 2 trucks u no and when u done backing in and now they wants to leave out before u no crazy out here man u be safe out here and get home to your family safe Ok My Guy Ha Ha

[@Cryptotruckermike]

You still don't know how to park Alex 😂🤣😅🫣🫣🫣

[@jakemc2373]

How are you still so bad at reversing??you really want to hope GP don’t watch your videos Alex…

[@jbeezostl]

I mean he got it in the dock with out hitting anything so that is all that matters. Even if it takes an hr does it really matter in the long run?

[@jakemc2373]

@@jbeezostl of course it matters….

[@yessir9216]

@@jakemc2373 we were all rookie once, not everybody can back perfectly. Everyone struggles backing. As long as you don’t hit anything, that’s all it matters. If you think you’re so good at backing all the time, I’d like to see you try and upload a video.

[@jakemc2373]

@@yessir9216 I’m Irish…I was in the states for 9 months trucking…the standard of truck drivers between Europeans and Americans is night and day…I couldn’t believe how bad you guys are…you have the biggest roads and the biggest warehouses and it takes you guys 30 minutes to get into a door….you would leave with embarrassment in Ireland if you couldn’t get into a door after 2 minutes…and we have a fraction of the room you guys have to manoeuvre

[@jakemc2373]

@@yessir9216 and your not a rookie after a year of trucking…it’s not like we’re trying to fly a airplane

[@JoseHernandez-ol1fc]

20 minutes to back up that's bad... you don't need to do so many pull ups for that much space