 Hi, I'm Keith from England and you're watching Truck and Chash Flags. I'm CJV. Good morning everybody. The vest means it's time to go to work. I've got to be in Portage La Prairie by 8 a.m. today, so the time is now 10 to 6 and it's about an hour and a half from here so maybe almost two hours. So I'm on schedule. I don't have too much time to putts around, but it's another new day. It's Tuesday. I bought a truck yesterday. I shouldn't... wait, wait, wait, wait. I didn't buy it. We got approved for the truck yesterday. I have to go sign the paperwork to make it official to say that I bought the truck. The 2008 Kenworth W900, a flat top or mid roof whatever the official name for it is. It's flat top. It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be really awesome. Really, really excited. Can't wait, but until then we have other work to do. Come with me. We're setting ready. I'll see you later, my dear. You stay pretty. Right on. Off to the races. This is South Perimeter Winnipeg. That's Winnipeg right there. Island Lakes or Royal Wood, whatever neighborhood that is. We're headed westbound towards Portage La Prairie. I got to drop this empty stepdeck I have behind me. It's a stepdeck tandem. 53 foot. I'm gonna drop it at a site where they're gonna load it. And while they're loading that, they have two van trailers there or they might be office trailers. What are their box trailers anyways? I got to take them both to Glenco Manitoba one at a time. So I got to go back and forth twice between there, which is an hour each direction, I think. So that's one, two, three, four hours right there. And then by the time I'm done moving those trailers, this stepdeck will be loaded. I've got to tie it down, bring it into Winnipeg. I've got to get here in business hours. If not, then I got to bring this trailer to our yard and I'll be bringing it here first thing tomorrow morning. So we're gonna try to get everything done today so we don't have to finish it in the morning. But you know, that option is there if it comes to it. But I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure that we get it delivered and unloaded today yet. But we'll see what happens. Okay buddy, you don't have to slow down. You got the right away, but they got to slow down. They have to yield. Come on. Come on my friend. Oh, where are you from? You got Indiana plates. Americans. Welcome here, my American friends. Looks like it's a tour bus of some kind. I'd like to go around them. Maybe it's not him that's going slow. Oh, he cut this guy off. Oh, what you doing, man? Yeah, that's okay. That's okay. I forgive you. Maybe a little nervous there. Why are we going so slow though? Like there is somebody in front of them that's going like exceptionally slow. Okay, here comes an opening in traffic, but take this opening right here after that SUV. Go. Put your signal on now so this guy knows you're coming in. Put your signal on now. No, he's not gonna leave your space. He didn't turn your signal on. You could have made it. Who are we kidding? The guy probably wouldn't have left him space anyway. This is the Red River. Whoo, that's high. Yikes. Oh, there we go. Now he got into the passing line. There you go, bud. There you go. I mean, this isn't Chicago, but this is Winnipeg. Drivers are a little bit aggressive here. With that line to get around these slow pokes. What's this guy doing? His signals and brake lights aren't even working. It's just that center light. You see that? Okay, I'm taking it. I'm going for it. See, that's how you make lane changes. You just send it. What is going on up here? Why are y'all going so slow? It's not you. It's not you. There's like six trucks up in front there yet. I wonder who's the one going so slow? We're gonna figure this out. Figure this out. Hey, nice Pete. Nice. I like your Peter. You think you heard me? Oh, he knows. He knows. Okay, so I'm coming up to a stop light, so I'm gonna get back into the right lane here. So that these cars behind me. It was that CN truck that was going so slow. That makes sense. That makes sense. I forgive them. It's okay. At least he didn't block the whole road. That's why we have another lane. You can just go around. No Jake Breaks, Josh. No Jake Breaks. Remember last week, I still don't know if that was me or not. They won't tell me. Somebody was using their Jake Breaks too close to town and somebody called in and said, Hey, stop using your Jake Breaks. I like the sound of my Jake Breaks. So I know I use them a lot. But I also I'm very diligent, I thought, and I always make sure I don't use them too close to residential areas, right? I thought I was being good. So it might not even have been me. It could have been someone else. It was probably someone else. But now I'm nervous to use my Jake Breaks. I don't want to be that guy. We got a green light up ahead. So I'm going to go into this lane because it should be moving a little faster than that lane. Nice Peter guys. Left lane is the fast lane. That's why we're in this lane. You want to go slow. There's a whole lane just for you. It's over there. It's called the granny lane. This is the hammer lane. We're not doing much hammering over here. Fastest guy now. Because I am speed limited and I can't go faster than him, even if I wanted to. Those speed limiters, they're annoying. I don't want to go fast. I don't want to speed. But sometimes it's nice to be able to just pass people, you know. Oh, Captain America. Did you turn in front of him and slow down? He did. He turned in front of this guy and he slowed down. Oh, he's not going to slow me down. Captain America. Oh, there's somebody in front of him again. Oh, he's just having bad luck. It's not him. He's just having bad luck. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We should have rolled out a much better welcome mat for you, man. Welcome to Canada. Sorry. Sorry, our drivers are kind of weird and crazy. Why are you going so slow? You're holding up Captain America. It's not very nice. I got to get in front of him. There's a red light coming up here and I want to be in the right lane at the traffic light. There we go. There we go. See, can I use my jake brakes here? There's nobody around. Nobody around, but I'm still on the perimeter. I don't, I don't think we're supposed to use our jake brakes on the perimeter. I saw a sign. I really want to use them, though. I missed them. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Yeah. Don't go in front of me. You know you want to go slower than us. Look at this guy. This is the guy we just passed that was going slow. He's going to go in front of us and slow down again. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. There he goes. We just passed him. He's going to go in front of this driver and force us to pass him again instead of just staying behind us. Stuff I want to be in front. Before we go too far, I've got to grab some fuel. It's going to be a busy day. I don't want to have to worry about stopping for fuel in the middle of work. I'm going to start the day with full tanks of fuel. This is a headingly Manitoba here. Oh, and it's pretty busy apparently. Getting a little bit of rain today. No, we didn't need it but there we are. So all of the roads leading to where I had to pick this trailer up behind me are restricted 65%. So they force us heavier trucks to go down these back roads instead. I guess these roads are easier to fix. I don't know. These are the grid roads or I call them farm roads. They're for farmers. They're every mile, every square mile of land in this region of the country has a road around it. It's all boxed in by a road. This is the grid road. So every mile there's another road. Gravel like this and sometimes mud. But this is to give farmers access to their plots of land. Because most plots of land here was sold in a quarter of a square mile. Usually you get a quarter of a square mile. What is that, 860 acres? I think that's wrong. Anyway, this gives access to all the farmers that then get to their fields with their farm equipment. You call them back roads, call them country roads, call them grid roads, farm roads. I call them dirty roads because now my truck is all dirty. This is Portage La Prairie right here. Make sure people are going to stop for their stop sign because I don't have one. On these grid roads, if there's an intersection and there's no stop signs, the person to the right has the right of way. Just so you know. So if I was coming here and someone was coming from here at the same time and neither of us had a stop sign or a yield, he has the right of way because he's on the right and I would be on the left to him. That's how we uh, that's traffic control out here in backcountry Manitoba. It's on the honor system. Roads are pretty tough though. It's not that bad. It looks worse than it is. The trailer I've got behind me is the second one I've pulled today. It's just an office trailer. It's like a van trailer, converted into an office on wheels that hooks right into the electric lines. So I just bring it to where they need it out in Glencoe, Manitoba. Park it there. They hook up the the electricity and it's an office wherever they need it. So the second one I'm bringing it to the exact same place. I guess they need two offices. They don't connect or anything but there's gonna be two there. And then I come back to where I picked these up and there's a load waiting there for me. They already had it all loaded up on that step deck I brought there this morning. Tie that down. Hopefully it won't be raining then and then I'll just be bringing it back to our yard. At this point it's just taking longer than we thought to get these trailers back and forth there and we kind of figured first thing in the morning, even yesterday when we're talking, we kind of figured that we wouldn't be able to get that freight into Winnipeg before like three o'clock. It's already 1.30 and I still have an hour and a half to get just to bring this trailer back and then an hour and a half back and then I gotta tie that load down and then an hour to Winnipeg after that. So it'll be a long day today. Just stopped here at the Flying Jay in Portage of Prairie and now it's time to get going. I'm not really sure what they're gonna use those office trailers for but they're not my problem anymore. You can't really listen. Everything's really dirty. Everything needs to wash. There's no trailer behind me anymore. Now I have to go back and get that step deck, tie it down. Hope that it's not raining when I get there while I'm tying it down and then bring it back to our yard. That's the plan. It's 3.30 now. 3.40. Oh my, we need to get going. 3.40 so I'll be back there in about an hour, an hour and a bit. I'll probably get there at 5. Tie down by 5.30, 5.45. Be out of there by 6. Back at the yard 6.7.30. Oh it's gonna be a it's gonna be a long day today. It's gonna be a long day. Time to get going. I might need to stop and grab another coffee. Am I out? I'm out of coffee. This is a situation. You see, this is a situation. Can't wait till I have that bigger W9. I'll have so much more space. Not really this way but that way because the W9 has a sleeper on it. It's a nice deep 62 inch sleeper. 62 inches isn't that deep anymore I guess but at least I'll have a sleeper behind me and storage space around here. It's just gonna be so much better. And it'll be mine. Let's plug my phone in here. Let's let it charge up a bit. Charge up the phone. You guys want to see a picture of it? You gotta wait. I'm gonna make you wait. I know. Yeah, if you're new to the channel, if you didn't watch yesterday, I bought a I've gotten the approval anyways for the W900 that I am buying. We will be signing papers tonight or tomorrow. By the time you watch this, I will have already signed them. And by the time you watch this, the truck will probably be in our shop already. It's got to get one of these e-logs installed unfortunately. And it's also got to get decals on it. But don't worry, I'll take you along for that process as much as I can. I'm probably gonna get blue ones to match the truck because it's a blue truck. But we'll see. We'll see. A lot of stuff I gotta do now. There's a whole bunch more. I dotted all my eyes and crossed all my teas for the purchase. But now that I've purchased it, now there's a whole bunch of new eyes and new teas that I have to dot and cross. There's always something to do. Spring air. Trees are budding. Things are getting green. The truck is loaded. Landing gears up. Airlines are connected. Truck is dirty. There I'm just putting this together. I thought dirty this thing is. Man, did I mention that already? It's from all those back roads I gotta take to get here. So I can avoid the restricted roads. Here's a paved road right here. But it's 65% and I am overweight for that. Even when I'm empty, even when I'm bob-tailing, my steer tires are overweight for that. So the back roads it is. That's why we got a pressure washer, right? I'll just wash it off. Start again tomorrow. The roads aren't just dirt-dravel roads now. It rained all day here while I was moving those van trailers, those office trailers, around and turned these roads into mud roads. And that's why my truck's getting so dirty. But the government would rather us go down these roads during this season than down the nice paved road over there because I guess the paved road is more expensive to fix. And we gotta get in and out of here somehow. Road we go. At least I get a splash on the puddles. The trucks are already dirty. That's fun. If you're wondering what the speed limit is on these grid roads, on these back roads, speed limit is 90 kilometers an hour unless otherwise posted. So if there's no speed limit signs, it's 90. Or you just drive according to conditions because I don't know if I'm gonna do 90 kilometers an hour down this road right now. Though it is fun to splash. That is always fun. Doesn't matter how old you are. They must have gotten a lot of rain during the day. This wasn't like this at all. It was actually kind of dusty this morning. Now it's like straight mud. Look, look at it. Our living room is one big couch. And the recliner came the same day that was gonna come later. That was a nice surprise. The light fits back there nicely. I've got to quickly shower so I can sit on it. Not for the dogs though. No dogs allowed. It's a new house rule and it's gonna be hard to train them. They've always been allowed on the couches, but now they're not allowed on the couches. Hopefully it deters him. Yeah, big Frank's got a perch here in front of the window. Hopefully it works. Smells funny in here. Is that the couches? Like it smells? Yeah. Yeah, it's the couches. And then I have fajitas cooking on the stove. Oh, that's mixed together. And I have a sensey going over there. So we all have a sense. Oh man. Maybe I should turn that off. It's confusing your nose buds. That is awesome. So yeah, this is uh, I like it. Shower it up. Big moment. Oh, it's so new. You just slowly sink in. Watch out, Diesel. I'm gonna kick it open. Look out, buddy. Diesel, come here. Look out. Here it comes. Oh, I'm sleeping here tonight. That's what I was thinking too. I'll sleep in my spot. You can sleep in yours. It's still so like new and like firm. It hasn't broken in yet, but it's so comfortable. Yep. We made a good decision. Yeah, that's definitely nice. And there's so much more over there to explore. So many places to sit. So much room for activities. Little guys aren't under here. No. You have to be careful of that, I guess. Yep. You're gonna sit in the corner. Oh my. So many options. Oh, you know what actually? Look at how much room there is. Very fancy. Very comfy. Watch the feet. Sorry, that's it. I love them.