 I'm picking up some pipes today. I was told a 53 foot step. Take any 53 foot step, deck 10. This is my favorite one that I could find. It's actually, it's the first one I could find, so it's my favorite. 115D, it's gonna be our partner for this morning and if we have time, we're gonna go back and do a second one later this afternoon. These loads are in Carmen, Manitoba. Hour, two hours west of here. Hmm, I think there's an air leak. Let's close that up. Nothing a little spit shine won't fix. Let's first take a look, see if there's any obvious reason. Well, it's not the best O-ring in there, but it's, it should still seal. It just doesn't have that cover on there on that. Still looks good. Okay, well before I do the spit method, let's just see if I can align it a little better maybe. Okay, let's try that again. Yeah, you see? No spit required. If you're having problems with it sealing still and you've eliminated all other reasons of why the O-rings aren't sealing, if you put a little bit of spit on the O-ring, just moisten it up a little bit, it usually works. Don't ask me why. Magic, I guess, I don't know. Hey, well, solve that problem. Climbing gears up, kingpin is locked in. Marker lights are all working, signal should be working. Tires are filled with air, I bet you. Yes, yes. Good, and it's gonna be a hot day. Some good quality summer air in there. Don't forget to go to your local tire shop and tell them to put summer air in your tires in the summertime. Oh, what's this here? Well, that's running kind of close to the tire here, and it's not touching, but what's going on here? Mudflaps on the back, lights working, license plate late. Working, anything else? Mr. DOT's gonna give me trouble over. See, this one has a mudflap on that one. That one obviously got ripped off. I'm guessing someone must have backed it against a curb at a truck stop, but since that one's ripped off, it's okay because we still have one back there. It's just gonna look a little funny because, you know, there's two on this side and one on this side, but I am going to bring that up with the shop so that they can take a look at that. It'll serve its purpose for today, though. I'm just going to carve it in back. Signals are working. Marker lights are, look at that. Everything's working. Everything's working. The ball of fire is back. It won't leave us alone. Burning things up. Frank the AC up. Gonna take a picture of that mudflap there, that one that ripped off and go show it to the shop right now before I leave. So that, west of Winnipeg, pretty quick Tim's, just a quick Tim's. We're gonna head down this road in the front of us and make our way to where's Carmen. Look like a Timmy's, but there's a Timmy's in there. Don't be fooled. Park over here. It works. Look at this nice little day cab. I wish I could have a nice day cab like that. Nice and shiny. A lot of people ask me, almost every day if I miss long haul trucking or over the road trucking, as it's called in the US, I'll always miss it. There's always a part of me that just wants the open road. I love it, but I love what I'm doing now too. I mean, I'm still trucking. I get a haul a whole bunch of different kinds of loads, all kinds of different freight. And I get to go home at the end of the day and I get my weekends to spend at home. And here it comes. You were wondering if I was gonna mention the motorcycle. Here it comes. I'm not gonna disappoint you. I can get a lot more riding in, being home more often, kind of the weekends often. I'm really excited to take this challenge. What was it called? The Cannonball Rides? I wanna get all the Manitoba ones done this summer. We'll see if I can. There's one longer one that's gonna take two days off to stay at a motel somewhere along the way. And it takes me up north and back around by the paw. I wanna see if I can do it. If I can't do the long one this year, okay, I get it. But I should be able to do the rest of them. There's a couple of half day ones and a couple of full day rides. And each time I complete one of these rides and send in proof to, I guess the headquarters of this site, this organization, you get sent a certificate of completion that you completed that route and you get entered to win prizes, different motorcycle gear, and there's even a motorcycle giveaway. It's a little 2020 Honda CB300R, I think. So it's a small bike. It's sort of like the bike I just sold, but smaller. Small bike, but hey, if you win it, it's a free bike. You can't argue with that. So in order to win the bike and be entered in to win the bike, you gotta complete these rides on, I think it's called cannonballrides.ca. It's a Canadian riding organization. So if you're a Canadian, you have a motorcycle and you like motorcycling, check it out after this video. Go to cannonballrides.ca. I don't know the owners of the site. They didn't ask me to call it out, but you know, the more people that use it, the more people that enter to ride, you know? The more fun it is, you know? We'll see. Maybe we can organize to do a few rides together in the future. Shout out to my sister Rose. Her coworker completed one of these rides last weekend, I think. And I guess told my sister about it at work. And my sister thought that I would really like it. And she was right. She knows me well. She told me about it. And now I'm all excited about it too. So now I'm telling you guys about it. Maybe you'll get excited about it too. I don't know. I think it'll be fun. And it gets, it's an excuse to get out there on the bike. Welcome to Carmen, Manifamo. Good care of the town. I didn't mean right. This is left. I'm bringing Karen back. She'll bring my GPS back. I just usually don't need it because I don't go very far anymore. I know these. Somebody up here already. They want me to wait out here? Probably. Yeah, you know, wait out here. So here's our load. So the bands hold it all together. We have one strap. And that way, that way to stop it from rolling when we suck them all together. So I'm going to do this back one next. And you see there's a little gap in here yet. We're going to tighten this right here and pull that together. All kinds of different kinds of pipe here. No idea what it's going to be used for. But it doesn't really matter. It's going to be hauled by me. We got this cardboard in here to make sure that my step here doesn't damage it. So I'm going to suck this in first. Oops, I guess I got to connect it on the other side first. Suck that against here that this cardboard is pinned in there. And then there'll be one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two on straps. Then we'll roll out, bring it back to the yard and we'll come back for another one. And that's the other side of it there. This is the side. My hook, unhooked itself. It's not very hook-like of it. That in there. See, it goes into that little slot in there. That in there, see? You know what I mean? Just jam it on there like that. Okay, and that'll hold it up against there. This is going to come down over here. That'll hold that in place. Very light, very light. Probably won't even feel the weight on the trailer. I'll just feel the wind resistance a little bit because it's going to catch a little bit of wind, not too bad. Okay, so let's push the first one against the step. Then we'll push this one against that, that one against that, and then the last one in against there. I just have this tied in here right now, just so that if some random gust of wind that I'm not expecting comes through here, it's not going to push that off the back and roll it. You could always put a chalk at the back so it doesn't roll off or I just put a strap that way. I don't have to worry about this one back here while I work on these three first. Working with brand new straps today because the highway guys never bring back the straps that I leave on the trailers for them. They just keep them. And that's exactly why I always take my equipment back, but on freight like this, I can't just leave this loose on the trailer in the yard for the highway driver, right? I've got to leave the equipment on it, or at least some of it so that it doesn't fall off. The highway driver is supposed to return the same amount of straps to the shop before leaving the yard, I think. So the yard is running really low on straps right now. And I'm pretty sure there's a few drivers running around with about 40 straps on their truck because they don't stay with the trailer on these ones. They stay with the truck usually. So when they pick up a load on a trailer like this that's strapped down by me, that means that that came out of my supply of straps and I'm leaving it on there for them. So they hook on to the trailer, let's say maybe two, four, six, eight straps on here. So before leaving the yard, they'd take eight of their own straps, company supplied, and leave them with the yard guy, Bill, before leaving on the trip, or leave them somewhere in the yard where Bill will find them so he can replace them in the stash. Otherwise, we'd run into problems like this morning. I was completely out of straps because no one's returning them and I almost, like eventually they're gonna run out and these are expensive. So here's a friendly reminder, if you do hook on to a load that's already strapped down for you, you're welcome. I know it's very convenient. That way you don't have to strap it down. I like that too. Believe me, I like that. Just don't forget to leave me some replacement straps so that I don't run out. It's 12.30, I'll be back at the yard round before one. Oh, it might be time for a second load today, yeah? I've passed about three of our trucks on the way back here now headed that way. So maybe they found other drivers who will pick up the next load. Or maybe we just have that many coming out of there today, I don't know. No idea, he just said there might be a second one so I should hurry back. There was time for a second trip. Turned it into quite a long day, but we're finally done. I didn't film the second load, I just went and got her done. It took quite a while, left here at 130 and it was one of those fancy loads. That takes some creative strapping. That's all we'll say, let's go home. I wanna go home, it's been a long day. Did I say that already? Still parking at the front in the yard here because they're repaving, well not repaving, but they're spreading gravel down on our parking lot, they're still in the back. And they're probably going to work on it for the rest of the week a little bit and let it pack. So I'll just hold off a little bit, probably for the rest of the week I'll park up here. Look at this, only the night staff here for the shop. Everybody else has gone home already. One of the first ones here, I wasn't the first one here, but one of the first ones here and the last one to leave, how about that? Not complaining, I appreciate the hours. I don't mind working the hours, as long as I have my weekend, I don't mind working during the week. I mean, see that or I go home and I sit around at home, but sometimes it's nice just to sit around at home for the evening, you know, watch TV, get some stuff done. But we gotta work, you know, this world's gone crazy and I'm very thankful to be in an industry and a business that is thriving through it all. That's sort of how it is, eh, with all of this mess, there's, you're either thriving or you're being shut down, put out of business. Well, Britt's already done her day of work, so she's home already. I left home before her, I'm getting home after her. As soon as I can get on the highway here, kick her into Chevy gear, there you go. Use all of those eight beautiful cylinders, wonderful. I don't like stepping on it that much, I like saving my fuel. I should rephrase that, I love stepping on it and I love the sound of my engine, I just like to save fuel. Well, it's the very next morning and I realized that I didn't even say hi to you guys when I got home yesterday. It was pretty much eat, shower, bed. I was pretty tired and here at work the next day, so I don't wanna give away too much, but I'll give you a little sneak preview of what's to come in tomorrow's vlog. There you go, you're welcome. So tune in tomorrow to see the rest. Thanks for watching everybody.