Hey, John. How you doing?
JOHN CLARIDAY: All right, sir. How are you?
MARC SPRINGER: Wow.
That's pretty big unit.
What are you going to do with it?
JOHN CLARIDAY: I was going to make a thing
for taking people to gambling and trade port
or to Cowboy football games. - Oh, yeah.
There you go.
It was just one of those things
that I looked at I said, "God, I really need that bad."
And it just never seemed to work out.
I never had time to invest in straightening it out.
And we've had it a while and I'm glad to get rid of.
This is going to be an interesting load.
Obviously, I'm not going to get in here
and I can't load it out there on the road.
We can all follow each other up to the corner.
Perfect.
[music playing]
MARC SPRINGER: We're running out of daylight.
We're out here under the lights at night.
That's perfect.
[grunts] Oh.
A winner.
JOHN CLARIDAY: Yay.
So I got her loaded up here.
I'm feeling pretty good about it,
but I want to get exact measurements
so I know what I got.
Oh, you got to be kidding me.
[bleep]
I'm looking at this thing and I'm seeing it overheight.
Hey, John.
Did you measure this thing?
And you got what?
And you're sure that's what it was?
I'm going into Chicago.
It's world famous for low overhead clearance.
Well, I got 148 and 11, 159 total.
There's going to be some pissed off people when I get stuck.
That's all I can tell you.
159 is 13 foot 3 inches.
God, I looked at that and my eyes--
I thought I saw 16 foot without my glasses on.
It's not overnight then.
No.
You know when I measured that thing, the sun was in my eyes,
it was dark, and I was having heat stroke so--
It's getting kind of dark out here for these old timers.
I can't see.
So there's a big storm upfront coming
through Chicago up to 70 mile an hour winds,
hail the size of tennis balls.
I think I got to sit and wait it out.
Where am I going to find a place to pull up, you know,
a 72-foot truck and trailer undercover?
I mean, that's not an easy task.
Parking for authorized vehicles only and that would be me.
I'm [bleep] authorized.
I hate hail.
[clunking sound]
[gasp] What the [bleep] was that?
[clunking sounds]
Quit it.
Damn it.
So I got into Chicago last night and lo and behold,
the storm I was worried about dropped right on top of me.
So I'm just going to walk around the truck
here and see if, you know, everything's OK.
I figured my truck and that trolley
were going to be trashed.
I was worried about my truck more than anything.
I did worry about the trolley for a brief second.
Kind of looks like I might be OK on the hail.
It's already a piece of crap.
[laughs] What's another couple of dents?
I don't know if Carl realizes that this thing's not
ready to be hauling anybody around in.
Oh, wow.
Jesus.
- How are you doing? - Bill.
Nice to meet you. - What's you name?
Bill.
Well, what do you think?
It's a trolley.
Wow, this is pretty beat up.
It needs a lot more work than I thought it was going to need.
MARCH SPRINGER: Sometimes the best strategy
with a load like this is get it off your trailer,
get the cash in your hand, and get out of town.
Hold, hold, hold it.
Stop.
Holy [bleep].
BILL: You sure you want this thing?
It's not too late to take it to the scrap yard.
A little bit more.
Perfect.
I'm perfect.
You ain't even close.
Jesus.
Floor's all rotted out at the back.
ARNOLD CERMENO: You really got your hands full.
MARCH SPRINGER: I'm not so sure this guy
really knows what he bought.
I can't tell what happened on the way here
and the way I bought it.
BILL: My, the windshield got broke.
That happened in transit?
You're right.
It could have.
Yeah.
I need to turn them around a little bit
and show him the good side of this.
The cup's half full here.
Well, you know what?
I think you got a cool deal here.
It's, you know, you can put your school name on it.
I think a little paint, a little elbow grease,
this thing is going to look good.
ARNOLD CERMENO: Yeah, you know.
You're running here is good. That's--
BILL: Yeah, that's the main thing.
That's the bottom line.
I mean, you know, the thing runs great.
That was the important thing, the engine transmission.
As long as the engine works, I'm good.
MARCH SPRINGER: Well now that you're happy with it,
there's only one thing I need--
cash.
Very good.
ARNOLD CERMENO: There you go.
Whew.
It's all yours.
ARNOLD CERMENO: [inaudible] The thing's nice.
I just got fix it up.
A little TLC doesn't hurt anybody.
Now what are we going to do with this thing?
ARNOLD CERMENO: I'm going to leave it there for now.
All right, let's go.
ARNOLD CERMENO: [laughs]