Today Started Good. Until Orwell Didn't Start...

[@blueovaltrucker]

My ole man used to drive cabovers and he would make remote jumper posts on some of the cabovers that had their battery boxes in a tight spot. I remember he would go and get welding cable to make the jumper harness with.

[@randyogburn2498]

I've had some success with some Rustoleum paint jobs before that seemed to work out pretty good. But none of them were a trailer being subjected to things like northern roads in winter. So I hope it works out okay. I'm also in the remote jump start terminal camp, but it's not my truck. Safe travels.

[@thasl6060]

Hasl from Norway 🇧🇻 again. Best trucking channel, and i always wait for new videos. Thank you Steve F. All the best to you and your family

[@Jacob-40]

1:17 fighter jets!!

[@mrickey12]

Production quality is high… I enjoy watching the journey of building the brand and business. Keep doing what your doing the channel will grow naturally..

[@Andrew-ep4kw]

Regarding the APU, Our boat has a genset and the onboard batteries are wired to be charged when the 120v system is on. One time, we were at anchor and when we went to start the engine, not enough juice in the start batteries. So, we fired up the genset, let it run for 30 minutes or so, and then we were able to get the engine startup.

[@stiffhauler3238]

Vestal NY, oh man, you were right in my back yard!

[@mpaqman285]

I was just thinking oh no not again, but were back in time a little bit from the shop vid. Only the finest rust oleum hair dye for Chris!

[@FSC-Chris]

Nothing but the best will do!!

[@JimDog794]

Steve you're doing good. The fan base will grow. Keep on truckin'.....👍

[@charlesBenoit-p3q]

The camera angle above the truck looking at the stacks is a cool view

[@idasedin4626]

Soon both FORD and Elaine are ready to drive as Chris keeps good speed at work in shop ❤❤❤

[@82randyacman]

Hey Mr. Steve, I think you’re doing a fantastic job getting the content out and doing your regular day activities. I know it’s busy brother, but it will get better. I promise.

[@seagullsbtn]

Them batteries are ganging up on you.

[@h.h.legacydiesel6724]

Keep slugging Big Man.😊

[@Ivansgarage]

Being an old old trucker oo, if you get two years out of batteries, your doing good.... I got the odysseys, expensive suckers, but got 5 years out of them....

[@danielseelye6005]

I would think they should last longer in "Orwell" compared to modern rigs since he doesn't have all the computers and modern conviences to draw them down

[@Doubie.]

It all depends on how you load and charge them I’ve had battery’s last a couple years and I’ve have some battery’s that are still kicking 17 years on

[@glennjukes5581]

Wow! What a way to start a road trip. Only hope it gets better.

[@richardhoneywell7411]

Great video Steve really enjoy all the different camera angles and your commentary and the music. The gopro on the front of the trailer really picks up Orwell's exhaust note. Thanks for sharing stay safe Steve.

[@wesinthewest1100]

Appreciate this channel Steve. You and Chris. This channel keeps those days when the majority of trucks were cabin overs and the money was great!

[@KirkDeWitt]

Steve I want you to understand that I have come to enjoy and look forward to all of the content. I even enjoy your commentary on the videos. Keep on trucking and stay safe my friend!!

[@KrisKnight91]

That’s one thing I don’t like about that green apu. Doesn’t seem it goes into a standby mode after you shut the truck off like the tripacs do

[@lateefcarrere1649]

It's naturally occurring drama, Steve - I wouldn't worry too much about it. Whether it's you and Chris doing shop work, or it's you and Orwell making the deliveries happen, stuff is gonna happen...you just roll up the sleeves and get with it. It all works out. Btw, the over the cab view is great - hopefully there's more to come (depending on the height of the loads, of course). Keep the shiny side up!👍

[@edmelisky774]

Driving and shop videos ARE more interesting. Keep that combo.

[@pam8469]

You can put algicide (weed killer) in the fuel as an additive. I like your channel because you show the loading and unloading as well as the great views along the route. I feel like I'm riding along with you in the right seat; also your great commentary; you are a smart man! Jen sure is a very beautiful young lady in a black Mercedes Benz. And since President Trump is back in office better days are ahead, you re a lucky man... 😇😄🤑🕐🍽🍻🍰🧁🥧🥩🍗🥨🍕🍟🌮🍉🍌🍓🥑🧀🍔🍞🌭

[@mattyw190]

Great videos Steve .Keep those shop updates coming. I subscribe for the driving vlogs but I find myself enjoying the shop updates just as much.😊😊

[@idasedin4626]

Let Orwell & Chris keep working and the viewers will come ❤❤❤

[@user-eu3no4im6q]

Keep on giving us insight, keep on trucking.

[@mikescenters5785]

Hey Steve Orwell sounds great love the Jake’s be safe ❤

[@edwardwilliams9874]

Think the cam over top of Orwell is great can see everything going on brother cool

[@Randpage]

Heading into Syracuse? Out in my neck of the woods. Drive safely.

[@MK-hi3lj]

Surprised your APU doesn’t monitor your batteries and automatically fire to charge them if they’re dropping. Guess that’s optional.

[@MichaelBrandon-o9v]

Good, informative vid Steve, keep em coming.

[@edwardwilliams9874]

Good evening brother

[@wereking69]

i started watching you for the garage vids to be honest. I also do enjoy seeing you load and unload different items, i have seen some tips and tricks that i didnt know (for example putting a piece of thick cloths between your chains so they dont grind into each other) I'll always prefer the shop vids over the driving vids because i find those way more interesting then the driving videos. If it's something i havent seen you load before i do watch those parts since i'm always interested in how to go about some of these things. It's a learning thing, even though some rules here in EU are different i still find it interesting too watch

[@idasedin4626]

Just watched and Comment from our home by the Baltic Sea ❤❤❤

[@doherty2jz845]

Orwell getting grumpy in age lol

[@producerk8247]

Grumpy in the 40's... wait till 70! 🤣

[@charlieromeo5340]

Where can you buy those silver inserts for the light holes if they are too big?

[@Jesse_Jessie_James]

Hey Steve at 17:06 after u started Orwell something flys out from underneath Orwell. My wife's grandma was like what the hell was running from underneath the semi truck. I backed the video and slowly watched something fly out from underneath. We have allot of stray cat's at the yard and they always take care of the mice and rat problems. Jessie was like I never noticed that when I was watching. I was kinda watching the video when she was cause I was responding back to emai's.

[@maxpuppy96]

Have Chris put a relay from the ignition of the APU to the coil of the relay and then the power out of the relay to the starter. That way the starter on the APU gets direct voltage from the battery and its not going through the APU control system, I put a ton of those on Kubota's.

[@edmelisky774]

All fuel is organic. The soybeans may have algae that processing doesn't kill and then grows in the fuel. Not sure, just a thought.

[@dirtyeric]

Diesel Fuel Bug (algae) is not a new thing, its been around since diesel. We add an additive for it to the fuel tank every fill up on the boat and still polish (multi-step filtration process) the fuel in the tank annually just to be safe. Don't need fuel issues in the middle of the ocean.

[@dennismcguire2392]

Noticed the Hatfield McCoy Trails shirt!! I lived the majority of my adult life in Matewan WV the home of the Hatfield McCoy fued and helped a lot on the trail system in its early days. If you ride the trails the Historic Matewan House is a great place to stay. Let me know and I will try to come meet you. Love the videos

[@fsctrucking]

I was there in Matewan last year with my RzR

[@dennismcguire2392]

@fsctrucking would have loved to known. My daughter still lives there and I go there quite often. She works for her mom and stepfather. They own the Matewan house and Appalachian Lost and found,a,souvenirs shop.

[@MeMe-pj2zl-DDP]

If I may suggest as for the fuel filters you might want to consider draining the fuel tanks and flushing them with a cleaner designed to take the junk that settles in the bottom of the tanks and then see if it helps your fuel filters last a little longer just a thought to ponder ty for letting me share Matt AKA DDP be safe out there My friend and brother and friends and everybody yuuuuup

[@tabithasalb9903]

Awesome video. Great to see Jen! 😊

[@willdanielle3]

Steve, does the APU not have a battery monitor? I have one of the comfort pro APU’s in mine has a battery monitor on it. I leave fridge inverter everything going and when the batteries get low, it fires up and recharges the whole system.

[@Jm-is9ig]

I love the lives with the little bit of bourbon and some banquet beers

[@elijames3041]

Great video

[@michaelworden9265]

Update: I honestly thought the problem WAS NOT solved by replacing Orwell's four batteries when I first saw the Headline for this specific video. Steve, I just saw the Headline on the thumbnail pic. My initial reaction to that headline was "Oh Boy!" Between you and Chris are going to have fun tracing the electrical short/open circuit. There is one genuine curiosity that I have about the 84 Peterbilt 3406-B engine's electrical system: is the voltage regulator a separate unit from the alternator? The only reason that I ask this question is my personal experience with a 1998 Dodge Caravan that I used to own. I had a starting issue because the battery dropped below 12 volts. Thinking the voltage regulator might be the problem, I took the vehicle to my local AutoZone store and asked them to do a free inspection of the charging system and starter. The testing device determined my voltage regulator was not working properly. I asked the clerk to tell me the price of the voltage regulator. The clerk told me the base price was $225 dollars. His reply to my price gouging objection was to inform me that the voltage regulator was located inside the alternator. I am very curious to see what you and Chris determined the reason Orwell didn't want to start when I get the chance to watch the video.

[@ceciljdixon1488]

Detroit at u, I can't wait for Elaine Rollin interstate one thing at a time Steve u and Chris doing a helluva job contest 💯I'll b watching

[@ventureout001]

Awesome content!

[@krishimmel6747]

Are you going to pull this trailer with your dually the axles underneath that trailer you got in the shop they look like mobile home axles and you got single ply tires I'm just curious if your pickup is going to haul it

[@jasonlefley2117]

We have all seen the step deck is actually painted by the time this video dropped but man it's going to look a MEGA behind Orwell rolling down the road.

[@idasedin4626]

Blue trailer will go after Elaine ( FLD ) so missing trailer for FORD & 352 when they are finished.

[@Paladun100]

You're doing great Steve, Loving the vids in or out of the shop, just great all around

[@Angora1908]

that step deck is going to look bad ass when its done

[@archangel729]

Get yourself a portable jump box that can do the voltage you need for your truck ,also not sure if the apu has its own battery if so mabe a battery separator switch so it saves the battery on the apu . And mabe it can help orwell to start just aome suggestions otherwise your going through your wiring to see if something is on after you turn off your truck and thats not fun. Have a geat week until the next video keep the hammer down and between the lines .

[@Brian-nf6bt]

You need a isolation switch on the battery switch it off when you park up and that will stop any battery drain.

[@Jesse_Jessie_James]

Dam i hate it when that happens to driver's who are leaving early in the morning. And one driver was always having to get a jumpstart. And we found the issue that was causing his batteries to go dead. And he never had a dead battery after we fixed the issue. U should get a shutoff valve somewhere that is easy to reach when u get out of the Semi Steve. We have that also in our KW.

[@shawnmcdonald7084]

Hi Steve i just retired last week due to health issues but you know that the biggest problem with these trucks breaking down is the roads the trucks get beaten right to death

[@neonhomer]

I know this is old footage, but I would have put the flat plate reinforcements on both sides of the tie-downs... extra strength!

[@producerk8247]

Yeah, I'd like to ask him about that too.

[@dennishapki]

Cool, now the channel has audio in Portuguese. I like to listen to it in English, very good audio and the English subtitles also help. I'm curious about working with trucks and American culture. I live in the southern state of Brazil near Uruguay and Argentina, Brazilian truck drivers in the US, UK, Italy. I used to watch but the content wasn't interesting and I found your channel looking for something about Montana, your sense of humor is very good, the details you put into editing the videos, that camera you lost and left the trailer, then the guy left the camera there. You record great stories, keep it up!

[@radpaddler]

Mach Dein Ding , wir werden sehen .

[@idasedin4626]

Live with Chris from shop ❤❤❤

[@jbj27406]

That Green APU needs its own stand alone battery that can never be discharged by the truck or any of its circuits. Something like a marine battery in its own case that is wired so the APU can always start itself, and thereby the truck, without any losses of energy to the truck in a case like this. It's definitely possible to isolate a battery to make the APU completely stand alone. Then, when it's running it can charge itself and Orwell to allow a start under any conditions, or at least survival just on the APU itself. If the Green APU needs a nominal twelve volt supply signal just to function electronically, that signal needs to be able to be there totally within the APU system itself, and not depending on run down main truck batteries, no matter whether something was left on or not.

[@tommyhall2768]

Hellow guys take care be safe out there buddy

[@glennjukes5581]

I was also wondering what you do w/ the paperwork each week where you have made deliveries. Cuz that is how you get paid.

[@thebeardedtuckfardo6168]

ya don't need fake drama chris like some of them other channels do so people click, just keep on trucking the old school way and people will come.

[@fsctrucking]

Trucking on its own adds enough drama. Just remember to turn the camera on when crap happens.

[@thebeardedtuckfardo6168]

@@fsctrucking you got that right, but you do not fabricate it like some channels do, with headlines like.... broker ripped me off, like you just go with the flow with whats tossed at ya like a Owner op does. and thats what keeps people like me watching, i am retired from truckin and some of these new ones on youtubes be like cringe to watch. Keep on trucking Chris.

[@timmcdermottgetgf2250]

Hi FSC

[@JeffMartin-r3b]

Hey stave how are you doing on this beautiful day so any updates on the stepdack

[@leonardmsl68]

Have you ever thought? Of putting on a set of jump posts this way, you don't have to Jack it up or Crawl underneath Orwell.

[@jrneff9773]

i know we seen the trailer got painted did Mr., Chris add a hardener to the paint? what about fish eye addative,? your channel will grow

[@johncrawford3833]

Hey Steve I use to drive a big truck I can still drive one but I don't have CDL license

[@randywilliams3065]

This is a old video he has replaced the batteries since Its hard to follow his videos kinda jumps all over no big deal unless like this he showed a video of something that has been fixed already but it's his channel he can do what he wants people still watch.

[@Carlsensverden]

The trailer has been paintet too

[@wyatt12358]

Maybe install chain tie downs along outside rail inside of stack pockets incase you ever want to run with a side kit on the trailer.

[@MeMe-pj2zl-DDP]

If I may suggest maybe the starter is doing a very slow draw on the batteries from watching the videos it could be a really slow draw from any number of things you will find it though between you and Chris you guys will find it and fix it ty for letting me share Matt AKA DDP be safe out there My 2 friends and your wifey yuuuuup

[@mikerooney7928]

I’m surprised you don’t have a remote btry hookup, that easily accessible?

[@RonM-hp6le]

Steve you maybe should’ve checked the batteries and found the dead battery and disconnected it that would keep it from killing the other 3 it would give you time to get new batteries

[@michaelbaumgardner9493]

Hatfield McCoy Trail's. Rock House and Pinnacle Creek are 2 I enjoy.

[@tjroelsma]

You can put the Green APU on auto maintain mode. It will monitor the battery charge and fire up automatically to recharge them. If there are no neighbours around to complain, that's the way to go to keep those batteries charged overnight and over the weekend.

[@Jm-is9ig]

I'm surprised Steve doesn't do this

[@bm03431]

I was thinking of asking if his apu has such a mode.

[@kevinhornbuckle]

I need one of those.

[@bradmyers3327]

How much do you think that step deck will weigh once you get it finished?

[@FSC-Chris]

The same as new! Nothing extra has been added., other than the center tiedowns. (20 pounds at best

[@irvineyoung4545]

I don't know if you know of Dave Sparks of Sparks Motors on KZbin, he has a Peterbuilt truck to give away. It's active now and goes with CDL training. I thought if both you and Chris entered your odds are increased to get Chris his own truck and license.

[@FSC-Chris]

I started driving in 1988 back then there was no CDL it was just a chauffeur's license. I do have a CDL, and the thought of the occasional trip is very appealing. The full-time driving is just not for me anymore.

[@idasedin4626]

Content that should attract more people is on the channel just the last push so the channel takes off ❤❤❤

[@wyatt12358]

Install battery shut off switch.

[@FSC-Chris]

Not necessary since there's no parasitic drain.( no ecm) The problem was 1 bad battery

[@idasedin4626]

Drama can scare off freight customers if their freight is caught on video in the wrong context ❤❤❤

[@steamindemon3389]

has Chris mentioned chemicals you can buy that kills algae in diesel?? how hard would it be to drop both tanks & steam clean the inside of the tanks,, see how much sludge you have in the tanks..

[@batman3449]

Saludos 👋

[@SİNANTIRLARIHASTA]

Merhaba çok güzel bir video olmuş 😲🙈

[@highplainscontractingco6827]

You will find out in 3 months after painting that trailer why you don’t use Rust O Leum and your rattle cans won’t match either.

[@Sockemtickem]

So im having a problem with my 3406b. Its stalling after idling. I remember when you changed your fuel transfer pump and prime pump. Did that cure your problem?? Srry it doesn't relate to this video.

[@christophercddelrosariocoish]

FSC Trucking, I want to see the top deck of the trailer as a new view

[@idasedin4626]

15 Left to 30k ❤❤❤

[@JOSHUA8CS]

Can you install an isolator between your truck cranking batteries and your APU battery or does your APU does not have its own battery?

[@ramix04]

😊😊😊 traductor de locura 😂😂😂...

[@BDW0000]

Wont matter what you put in it. You won't keep it clean.

[@FSC-Chris]

Orwell is a working truck! Not a fake garage queen!!

[@BDW0000]

@FSC-Chris I've seen working trucks clean before

[@FSC-Chris]

​@@BDW0000 I totally agree. Changes are coming

[@joetoms1]

It would be good to put some dieletrice on the studs keep s the rust away.

[@idasedin4626]

Continue as now with video and live ❤❤❤

[@geraldsmith5690]

I have the same issue with one of my trucks, the batteries drain every time I park it.

[@danielseelye6005]

Anyone else try the new audio track option KZbin put in? Steve can finally be in different languages thanks to AI... Except it sounds more like Jen's voice in Steve's body. Crazy! 😆😆

[@producerk8247]

I have messed around a bit with it on other channels. Didn't think to try it with Steve. Now I must go back and have a listen!

[@archangel729]

Do you have a battery cut off switch on orwell if not it may be a good thing .

[@idasedin4626]

356 Left to 30k ❤❤❤

[@carloveridc]

I just found your channel and the thing I don't like about your channel is it's very hard to watch videos in order they should be numbered or something it sucks having to through pages of videos trying to find the next video in that haul. I will also say I'm not a youtuber or a truck driver so don't think I have any insight on how you should do it but numbered videos helps keep track of what videos is next for new viewers.

[@jamesmusser6160]

Don't they sell a battery pack for trucks ( take along jump starter)?