Alan Trucker's forklift problem comes with a crawler in reverse

A long-towbar lumber mover draws a fast audience, while viewers give the operator more credit than the unusual equipment.

Channel: Alan Trucker Story of November 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 408,489 views a day, 6.9 times a normal first day on this channel (58,923).

I don’t really like when shipper or receiver use a unique type of equipment 😆🤦‍♂️ #truckdriver

The forks carry the lumber, but the machine doing the pulling sits at the other end of a long metal tow bar. In Alan Trucker's new Short, a Caterpillar crawler backs away from a flatbed, towing a wheeled forklift apparatus loaded with stacks of wood.

It is an unloading job with considerably more moving parts than the familiar warehouse version. The operator keeps reversing and steering across the dirt yard toward open storage sheds. There is no spoken explanation, just engines, machinery and on-screen text calling it the most complicated forklift the poster has ever seen.

The November 8 upload drew about 408,000 views in its first day, nearly seven times Alan Trucker's usual Short. The comments were roughly seven times busier than usual, too.

But the title's discomfort with a shipper's unusual equipment isn't the only view in the discussion. Several viewers focus on the operator's control of the crawler, or point out that the arrangement still saves someone from moving the load by hand. One finds a familiar comparison in Farming Simulator: making a working machine out of whatever parts happen to be available.

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The numbers

The lumber-moving Short drew a much larger first-day audience than Alan Trucker's usual uploads of the same format, with a similarly sharp increase in comments.

the video's first day

usual first day here

58,923

this video

408,489

subscribers

463,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,023,959,291

views per day

747,557

typical day: 545,502

the video

views

458,449

likes

2,576

comments

116

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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622,000

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593,000

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463,000

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388,000

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364,000

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345,000

As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.