STAN: I love this truck.
This is my money maker.
We're going to drive about 50 miles north to pick
up an excavator and a dozer.
So the excavator weighs about 30,000 pounds,
and the dozer weighs about 19,000 pounds.
I'm the heavy guy.
I get the bigger tows.
Jobs like this pay a lot of money.
Right now it's 0 degrees outside.
It's hard to put it on the trailer because of the snow.
Sometimes, it will slide.
I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope we can get this job done
without any issues.
So this is the equipment I'm going to be picking up.
STAN: It is a lot more dangerous to be a heavy operator,
because of the weight of the equipment
you're moving, especially in the weather conditions
that we're in.
Whatever you want to load up first, we can load up first.
I mean, they said it was 30,000 pounds on the excavator?
It's a little smaller.
28,000.
STAN: 28-- so about 30,000?
Yeah.
About 28,000, 30,000.
STAN: The fear is is when you can't
gain control of the equipment that you're trying to load up.
You get up to the deck, and it just goes sideways
and just falls right over.
Basically, I'm in a death trap.
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This is the kind of issue we get here when the deck is frozen.
It's on metal tracks, and my deck is metal.
So metal and metal plus frost, and it's just not gripping up.
[sighs] It's all slicked.
Can't even get that dozer on the deck because of how slick
it is.
There we go.
Come on, baby, you can do this.
Watch out.
Dozer's rolling backwards.
STAN: Going off the side of the deck,
my heart dropped all the way down to my toes.
I don't want to flip this thing over.
Hold on, one second.
Can you hear me now?
STAN: So I call my boss and tell her that I
tried everything I could.
Sir, I don't mean to be an ass, or anything like that,
but I can't even get the dozer on the edge of the trailer.
It's way too slick.
I get it a quarter way up the trailer,
and this thing just freaking slides right back.
STAN: As soon as you get loaded with a heavy excavator
or bulldozer, you're pulling 20,000, 30,000 pounds.
Then when you're out on the highway,
chances are that load is going to shift.
If you start coming down a hill, there's nothing in the world
that's going to stop it.
And I don't want to die today.
I understand that you need the stuff moved, but--
OK.
Bye.
STAN: She knows that I don't say no for a job,
and I do everything I can to help the customer out.
She says it's not worth dying for,
We're going to probably put the trailer inside the shop.
OK.
Let it thaw out.
And come out here when it's nice and sunny,
so the deck stays dry.
And we're gonna try to load it up right away.
When it get's a little warmer out?
- Yeah. - All right.
Sorry, man.
That's all good.
- Oh, well. - Give me a call.
We'll try to figure this out later.
OK.
Have a good one.
STAN: I had to pull the plug and say no on that job.
But not getting the job done actually
cost money for the company, money for me.
All right, now we're rolling back with no equipment,
no payment from the customer.
I'm disappointed.
Every dollar counts, because I'm trying
to get my family up here.
And I'm nervous it's just not going to work out.