Dirt Road Trucking, Peterbilt

I had plans to do a spoof episode of Ice Road Truckers called Dirt Road Truckers but will probably never get around to it so instead of letting all these clips go to waste, I strung them together to demonstrate what a typical trip to the local elevator looks like. It's not ice I know, but hauling out of the field on turnrows and dirt roads has its share of perils for a 120K pound truck! Thankfully I don't have any pictures of that. This is the 2008 Sorghum crop, music is Jack Ingram's 'Keep on Keeping on'.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Peterbilt
• Petercar
• Largecar
• grain
• harvest
• elevator
• combine
• big
• truck
• dirt
• road
• truckers
• ice
• farm
• field
• flat
• top
• Pete

[schwingin08]

i dont think that the tandem truck and trailer can haul that much weight...my gross weight was 116K with a triple axle trailer and four axle truck and 116k is very heavy to move and these guys take off like there empty

[stexag]

Oh yeah they do. Most loads are @100K gross, 32K tare + about 70-80K in the box, but get to the end of a field and you can squeeze 90K in a high-side 96" box. A 102" squeezes the asphalt pretty hard.

Never said it was legal... but it gets done. And no - they don't take off like they are empty.

[JayShawn89]

are you in west or south texas

[stexag]

South south. Did I say south?

[deeremack613]

Ok fall harvest is coming up a bunch of us need to take a bunch of video and pull this off together itould really be neat this to me is just as specialized as hauling on Ice totally different but still the best job in the field

[AnnieOakley379]

You must be an Aussie. We don't get to play with cool road trains here.  =(

[redneck7006]

thats what i am talking about that is a good load of grain 120k almost enough to take the bounce out for a grain hauler expecially the old outlaw ones it aint nothing to zzzzzzzzz out a scale when they are loaded

[dalilkillaswag]

@stexag is that your truck man it sound good straight pipes?

[dalilkillaswag]

man i love that cat and i like the red and white one is that a cummins or cat it sounds like a cummins

[dalilkillaswag]

all man thats one bad truck my uncle got a 18 speed 550 cat kw

[nokiaicon]

Need a 15speed over in that mess

[dukwcapt]

I see you put some effort into this video, and it shows. Music......but with the sound of the Pete and some really interesting shots........all good, thanks for posting!

You have a talent here.

[1966omc]

Great video, reminds me of summers back home in Idaho :-)

[Mrchago08]

nice video man, u must be from the valley. keep on doing your thing man awsome video

[nchayfarmer]

@stexag lol same here we load our hopper bottoms to 96k or 100k all the time on tandem truck and tandem trailer it aint legal but it gets it done