Ep. 65 : Building My Hotshot Sleeper! : Hotshot Trucking

What's up, big crab, daddy crab? Yes, hello guys, it's time for the video. Now it's Thursday for me. Here I am filming this. I already added it throughout my video. I just have to put this little bit at the beginning. I want to stop and say while I've got you guys here, hit the subscribe button, hit the like button, leave a comment below because we're doing a free giveaway when we hit the 10,000 subscriber mark, which we're aiming for at the end of this month if By the end of this month, there will be something really big added, but anyway, when I hit that 10,000 subscriber mark, we'll be doing a free giveaway for a 4-foot fallen art.

I don't know if I will have it. was shipped or if I'm going to deliver it in person, this will be the first thing I can deliver in person, so I might do it that way. I think it would be great if I could meet someone, but anyway with the video below, the reason I didn't make several or why I didn't make a whole specific video about everything, is because the average attention span is between 13 and 18 minutes guys, so I need you to understand that I didn't do it. I want to make a 30 to 40 minute video and lose some people along the way, so we have these videos in this video here, you'll see pretty much everything I'm doing in the truck and if you have any questions and comments, Anything you want to know Guys, feel free to ask it in the comments below and remember that you may be the one asking the question, but that's only because you have the guts to write it below.

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Let's go ahead and show you some things that will be done to this truck. Now that we have the one he had in episode 52, it was here. working a little bit, it's almost done and then they have the first one they built, it's there, it's a beautiful truck, so what we're going to do is install the 54 and the tab, the same one as them. you have here or almost the same thing pretty close to that, it's going to go right here for this to be made and placed here, you have to make an extension to the frame, there has to be about a 20 to 24 inch extension on the frame, so Lo What they are going to do is most likely add it up here.

I'm not one hundred percent sure how or where, but an extension is going to be made, put on the tires, and we'll back another one about two. feet, so the rear of the truck will probably extend up to here, about two feet further back, as for the reasoning why you have to do this is because of the space between the axle and the cab, you need to have enough space between the cavernous shaft if it is I'm going to do it strictly and he said this. I talked to Buster and Buster said this. If you are working strictly with a gooseneck, you never plan to work with anything but a gooseneck.

You can do it with this current configuration. I don't have to do that extra extension and I'm not going to say quote me on that, I'm not going to say quote me on that, but if you're going to do anything larger than a gooseneck if you're looking to pull an RV if you're going to pull like a semi or semi-flat style drop deck trailer, but if you are going to pull something else, you do not have the turning radius with this vehicle in this current state, so this extension must be done here if I am going to pull only a regular gooseneck flatbed trailer.

I can't even say like a gooseneck horse trailer because some of them tend to be very big and very wide, but it's for turning radius purposes so you don't want to hit your cab. I don't want to hit the

sleeper

once it's mounted there, let me walk the

sleeper

here and I'll tell you a little more about it. Well, this is actually one of the first ones they made. I think this is the first one they made. There are over five hundred thousand miles on this truck. It's a beautiful truck. It has the windows on top and the window here on the side.

It has side markers around it. There's my other phone in my. lunch, you have your work lights, there are two work lights there in the back, this one has a very, very nice tank here, on this side, now guys, before I say anything, I want to remember that this is the first one that has done, just stay with that. in mind when we opened this, this is a very old truck, it has a very, very beautiful seat, that seat that I was telling you is a complete bench in every sense, of course, it has innovated from this, it has a better configuration , this is very old, the carpet is very old, but this is incredible when it comes to the amount of extra space that you have in here and I think it's 75 inches from head to toe in all the beautiful space here, of course can.

Mount your air conditioner on top, it just has one air vent which also works phenomenal, but I wanted to go ahead and show it to you so you can see some of the innovations that it does here and that Buster has done with his style of bed that is now coming . Back to my truck, let's go back here, um, let's go to the side here, let's make sure this is open, come on, we're open, so in my truck here, of course, I have the limited package and go ahead and pick this up. Get up, get this out of the way, what Buster is going to do for me is remove these two back seats, so I only say two seats because they are two separate pieces.

Take out the back seats, take out the rear window. you remove the back wall, he'll cut the two sides of the bunk to fit all of this in here. I have a camera that is here. He'll extend that camera so it meets the back of the bunk. The bunk bed, of course, would mount here and the sleeper is they build a nice frame that goes here for your sleeper and then it has these eyelets that go on the bottom like rubber shock absorbers, so the sleeper, I don't want to say, moves but it is not 100%, how do you say? that this sleeper is not going to be super rigid, so it's not going to crack or break, it's going to be versatile or versatile, sorry, and we'll be able to move it around so it's flexible, that's the word I'm looking for, it's flexible, so all of this it's going to pull out from here at the bottom here, open this up here and you get a nice floor going down here, so it's going to level the floor up to here and cut out for the extra cup holders. here, so they still have their cup holders and that will be now for me in my specific model because many of you have already seen the sleeper, you have seen the models and the things that they have for the sleeper.

It's already owned so I can't show it to him unfortunately but what he's going to do for me because I'm looking for space to sit this is the reason we're doing this so my girlfriend and my daughter can come with me on the road we have to have room for those two we will have a captain's chair here and a captain's chair there there will be two separate captain's chairs with a pass through the middle seat will be your entrance to the bedroom this will be of course leveling one thing I'm probably going to to do and what I'm not sure I can get Buster to do is: I'm going to level the floor up to here, everyone on the other side I don't care about the cup holder, we're going to level it all the way down so it's all in one piece.

I hate to say my girlfriend is short, but she's a little short, your feet don't really touch the floor. So you know we don't really need all that space and then this will become bay space for storage. You know, anything I can put there also the space here on this side will become storage space and this side will be the one we like the most. Stick with the subwoofer. I'm not sure if I'm going to quit or not. You could take it out for extra storage space when it comes to your bed, under the bed, it's better to sit on gas springs and lift up and you. you will have tons of storage space underneath the entire bedroom other than the small side where you will actually have your fuse box and with the fuse box that will be connected to the generator that will go right here in this space so I am getting an Onan RV generator of 4000 watts will go right here and I'm setting up a fuel tank and I'll tell you about setting up the fuel tank a little bit above the generator, we're also going to put in an air conditioner.

We'll get on top of the bed, so it'll be a really good air conditioner to keep everything that's made and cooled down and the cutting and everything will be under the mattress on that side and a boxed area for its own power. storage, let me go up this way. One thing I'm going back and forth on is to remove this seat completely since we won't really need it here and actually maybe put a small refrigerator or something in here. I don't know. like in the air, we'll see what I come up with over time, but most likely I'll level the entire floor here, have all this lift up the storage as well, you know, who knows, I'm not sure we can do it.

I know we can still work on it by coming to this side, give me two seconds. I need to bring one of my articles here so I can read it all. Review everything. Now I have my sheet here that has my appointment and everything. my things there I'm not going to go into exactly what everything costs I don't know if he's charging me less or more I don't know anything about prices I don't know what you paid, that's not my business I'm here, I'm not here to talk about numbers, so let's see another thing he's going to do here is going to make the fenders that he's going to go and put up from here to the bedroom, it's going to be a diamond plate. that goes around there will also be a diamond plate that goes right here on the front or sorry, the rear with the rear camera actually mounted on the diamond plate, something you usually do when you build these as most pickup trucks no I don't have a rear camera up there, the limited edition comes with 360 degrees, which I think I showed you in their live stream video and I have the camera right there, which will be mounted so you can look at your gooseneck or fifth wheel most of the time they move the camera cable from here on and put it on top of the bed and that will be the rear view camera will show you because when you're doing this and you're on the road you don't really need a camera here, right?

Probably not, but I want my camera to stay mounted here in case we go camping or whatever we're going to do to get the fenders and wheel mounted. Well, the wheel will go there and it will be on, you know, the cop, the public defender, the poly fender, sorry guys, it's been a long day, there will be a plate that will be mounted on the other side of here. I'm going to buy an air fifth wheel and I'm not telling you that you need to get an air suspension fifth wheel. Guys, don't take anything I do as: you should do it.

If you're looking for an air suspension gooseneck, you can definitely look at the surprise if I'm looking to make one of those that cost around eight hundred and fifty dollars. I'll try to leave the website below if I can remember to, but I'm looking at the aerial fifth wheel and will see if I can. Get a video of that when we get into the store, your license plate, of course, will be mounted back here and he'll set it up to be on this side or this side and it'll have a light that goes with it. to keep that illuminated, let's see, sorry guys, I'm reading everything here, my entire list of quotes, so I'm making sure to tell you everything.

The rear bedroom window will come with a blind that will lower. I'm doing a different gas tank setup. which what most people do, you actually know what I'm going to get into on the fuel tank part a little bit later and I'll actually show you the fuel tank setup that we're going to do. I'll be getting the air conditioning, the 4000 watt generator, there will be a 30 amp breaker box, let me turn to the next page here, let's look at the captain's chairs and I think that's what pretty much covers it, leveling the floor, everything the rest there and then, of course. the extension that has to go here on the frame now I will tell you that if you have someone who can do a frame extension and wants to do that welding and everything for you, you are more than welcome to take your vehicle to whoever.

It's just that I will tell you that Buster has someone who is local, not much here at all, but somewhere around the corner, who will do it for you and who goes by truck when it comes to getting a cape for it, so I'm not going to start throwing numbers out there. I went ahead and spoke to him and got an acceptable quote from him. I'm not very happy about it, but you know whatwe're going to do this anyway, let me, let me switch to the truck that I saw in episode 52, that will be this one came from Cooper Motor Company and you are more than welcome to go to Cooper Motor Company for any of your vehicles, they have some that usually They are in the lot that was this one and then I believe they had a gray company, another one that you could also work with if you are in North Carolina, currently Kernersville, which would be where I bought this truck and my deep Grand Cherokee and they work directly with Buster so that you can set up get financing and everything through them as well so if you want to get a specific vehicle and then you want to add your basic sleeping setup add amenities from there you can do it it's very easy to do and the guys at Kernersville can follow Go ahead and set that up for yourself, you can also talk to Dave, the gentleman who sold me this truck, telling Jason about my highly successful life, he sent you and he will definitely know exactly what you are looking for and point you in the right direction.

Wait a second, I'm going to come back here and see if I can get a better look at the hitch setup. Alright guys, we're in the workshop. Let's talk about the fuel tank configuration now if you are looking for a fuel tank. added to your vehicle, you're looking to get the generator, your air conditioning, whatever it is, and you're looking to get a diesel and a gas so you can have both because of course your generators are going to run out of gas unless you want them to. pay the extra for the diesel, that's fine and Buster here has this amazing setup made by this company and he custom makes it.

This is a 60 gallon diesel tank and then on the other side, gallons of gasoline on the other side before your generator, now my setup. Now this is really cool and I like it, but I'm not looking for 60 gallons. I'll tell you about my personal setup and what I've been able to work on here with them. Now this one, of course, is 60. gallons 60 gallons is more than enough to do whatever you want to do when you're working with a 4500 or 5500, you already have 52 gallons, so this would give you 112 gallons of fuel that should give you easily a day and a half at least in driving and then you have your gas in there what I'm making is a 45 gallon gas tank this will be my dad's so I'll fill everything up here with gas and then there will be a pump . and it will go down to the generator to run on gasoline.

I will have 35 gallons of gas with me at all times and then we will return here. I also have a 91 gallon diesel tank that's going to mount there as well, so we'll look at the back of the cab like it's on the passenger side and I'll have this here first for our gas tank. The diesel tank is actually a little bit shorter, so we'll narrow it down to about here and you'll have a 91 gallon diesel tank, so 45 gallons of gas, 91 gallons of diesel plus 252 gallons of diesel, I have a hundred Forty-two gallons of diesel with me at all times and then, of course. here because I'm on the passenger side at this point using diesel gasoline, down here is going to be where the generator mounts and then the wheels and the fender of course will be there so I wanted to go ahead and explain how. the diesel setup will be if you want custom stuff done, you go in, talk to Buster, work alongside him and he'll do it.

Hey, the guy will move mountains for you. I am very, very happy for the incredible service they have received. here today, so let me go ahead and move on and we'll see if we can talk about something else before we go. Ok guys, a moment ago I mentioned the 5th wheel setup I was looking at, but I have a single pivot pneumatic 5th wheel here and this most likely isn't the exact one I'm getting because I think this one was already sold for a customer but this is the basic configuration for the pneumatic fifth wheel they will sell from here if you have anything else you are looking for still if you have a custom one if you have something else from somewhere else I'm pretty sure they will go ahead and attach whatever you already have if you want to bring something with you and they will set it up with your custom plate that they have down here, but don't quote me on anything.

I'm just talking because I'm here right now and I've had great service from these guys today. Alright, I know some people are interested in what the gooseneck hitch setup looks like. It's very basic. It's just a simple hitch that goes here. You have access for the chains there and then of course it will be a mounting plate. goes below Hello guys, that was the end of the video. If you have any questions, you can leave them in the comments section below, just like I said at the beginning, or you can check out the Roadmaster truck. comm I definitely want you to visit this website, you can see the different types of conversions.

Of course, we have videos here on the website and I'll do my best to try to leave you this link below and you can see the different styles of different versions of the truck, let's see, you can also look if you have a specific Dodge Ram, you can see the different random configurations that he has made and that they have built, here is a very nice white one, let's see, let's look at a really nice red one, in fact, here you go, this is a very nice red one. Here's your air conditioner, and he can paint the cover to match your stuff.

You can put it in tool boxes. Here is the gooseneck fifth wheel combo. whole thing he can do for you as far as pricing. I don't know the exact price. Here's another truck he built. The image is not very big, but they have a platform added to the end. I think that this. It is a 5500 and has seats that have been added to the rear. He has a few different things he can do for you to the extent you want and just be open when you talk to him. This is actually the smallest. bed I think this is a 30 inch bed and it is literally the size of your bed.

Buster said he maybe makes one of these a year, so they're not the most common, but if you're looking for something that will save you more. room and just give them a mattress for a low price that would be good for you Hey guys, did you like that video? If you continued, please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe for more great content like this for you. I hope you drive safely on the roads. My name is Jason and this has been my star life and as always, I'll see you next time.