 Good morning everybody I'm in Fargo, North Dakota. We're headed out to Hortonville, Wisconsin We should be there tonight. I'm just starting my day here. Just had a shower I walked in I looked at the mirror and I sighed you know, I kind of missed my beard I think I look a little goofy without it What do you think? Should I grow it back? Maybe I'll wait till the end of summer and I'll start growing it back I will grow back again at least for next winter, but I might just start now Is that by the time winter hits next year? It's already at a good good length Sort of like a piece of me left, but I did it. I wanted to do it I wanted to cut it off because it was it's really hard to maintain it especially on the road But yeah, we'll see and I didn't really like the way it had grown out and I trimmed it The way I trimmed it now we can start over it'll grow back. It always grows back anyways, we're just Getting going here getting the truck ready to go. I already showered like I said. I walked the weasel I just got to make sure the truck is all set and ready We'll be off to the races. I think we'll have the wind in our sails today, so that'll help a lot So I've got this idea Let's turn our lights on and go Do a tug test first Make sure the trailer is not gonna fall off make double sure Okay, I was gonna pull through there, but there's a truck coming in there now I walk in here. I guess we will I can make it. I can make it About bubbles you can turn on a dime. I can turn sharper in my pickup So we still have our load of lumber on behind us that we picked up in Alberta out there in Sundra And we're taking it down to Wisconsin somebody down there needs some wood I'm waiting for you, but you give her Don't slip now That's quite the moustache. That is impressive. Nice makes me miss my beard Little slippery here, okay So we have 800 kilometers 500 miles to go today. There's a lot of cars back here with the trucks today See them buzzing around We're here at the rest stop Four mini-amples I'm gonna put a little walk around making sure my load is still as it should be that nothing has veered from the correct path Looks like everything is still going good here Everything's still going good here See this is how it was loaded with those It's not being completely flushed like that. They're all jammed in there real well I can't move it forward or back But hauling this economy lumber it's sort of like I call it garbage lumber but it's it's economy lumber It's not for like building anything important. It's the cheap stuff You gotta be careful hauling this stuff because if you strap it down wrong The centerpieces like that can actually still stay loose and they can wiggle their way out fall onto the deck here and then Fall into traffic behind you In the worst-case scenario it can also do the same thing in the front and slowly vibrate its way out in the front So I've learned that I've never lost any boards or anything don't worry But I've had them sort of a shift a little bit on me That's why I come back here and look all the time make sure nothing has moved since I've touched it I'll get up here in a second yet and push on them make sure that they're still jammed in there But you got to tie it down pretty tight If you don't wrench on it as hard as you can putting your full body weight and using gravity to your best Advantage to tighten those straps as tight as you possibly can You might be losing some boards in the traffic and then you got you got a lot of problems Then you got a lot of problems. You got paperwork It could kill somebody and you got more than paperwork. You got a lot of explaining to do then and Good luck convincing a judge and jury that That was the justifiable oopsie I'm pretty sure they're gonna come for you with everything they can the full way to the law so As truck drivers, we are considered professionals out here right professional truck drivers So that kind of thing is not supposed to happen on our watch. So if it does The full weight of responsibility falls on you the driver. That is that's your responsibility this load here This is my load anything anything that happens to this load Between now and when I get to my destination the forklift Takes it off or when I get my straps off, right? If they if they dump it or break it or hurt themselves taking it off the trailer or something my fault Obviously there obviously it's their fault then But from between the shipper as soon as it's on the trailer. I got to tie it down. That's my responsibility I got to get it there safely my responsibility anything that happens in between there falls squarely on me so You got to be able to prove that's why we got cameras on our trucks now, right? We have lots of cameras on there just to record everything to make sure to make double sure That if anything does happen, that's not our fault that causes, you know bodily harm or injury or Damage or anything anything whatsoever if it wasn't our fault. We have to prove it Because if we can't prove that it wasn't our fault We are guilty. It's kind of backwards. It's guilty until proven innocent for the most part So protect yourselves out there. Make sure you have a dash camera make sure that you take measures to protect yourself because Lawyers are ruthless to truckers. We'll just say that they're ruthless and it's very very very expensive to fight them just protect yourself and Make sure that you secure your freight properly that is key make sure you secure your freight properly I wish they wouldn't have left them poking out like that. I really don't like that, but they're jammed in there I cannot move them So we're just keeping an eye on it So you got to stop check your load check your load make sure make sure make double true sure Make quadruple sure and when people make fun of you From making sure too many times and double checking too many times Just ignore them and check again Climb up here you see what I had to do here On the top here. I was having that problem here, right? I would I put a strap over the top and what it did was it bowed the top layer of wood and then The second layer had absolutely no friction on it. Nothing holding it down So what I did was I put my tarps across the top here and strapped my tarps down as tight as I possibly could onto the lumber Equalizing the weight and friction across the whole thing, right? And now each and every one of these boards is stuck in place using friction, right? So none of them can move now That's just one creative way you can sort of even out the weight if you got a board that can go all the way across that works, too These are only six-foot Pieces so you can't exactly use them, but you know what I mean, right? Just get creative get creative, okay? It doesn't really matter so much how it's tied down matters a little bit But the most important thing is that it doesn't fall off your trailer That's the most important thing. Whatever you got to do to keep that Firmly on your trailer firmly not just I'm glad it didn't move. No, it's got to be on there to the point where you know, it's not going to move So far so good Let's stop in a little while check it again Flying Jay Roberts, Wisconsin It's enough yapping about Trucks and stuff This is a truck entry my friend truck entry truck entry Says right there says right there on the sign. You don't care. Okay. All right, then another guy No, he's going to the exit. Okay. There you go. Yeah, the other ones the exit There you go This place is always a gong show. It's just the parking lot is really weirdly put together So no parking spot is really easy to get into there's only a few and those are always taken right away, obviously The pumps aren't too busy right now, but usually when I come here, it's like a backup all the way around the back here See all these parts parking spots on the left here These guys always get blocked in because people park in the no parking zone to my right along that fence there And then none of these people can get out. I've seen it so many times I don't even stop here usually unless I can get here really early and get one of these nice spots in the back He'd parking on the left. So I think that Paid parking Now much money these people are raking in already now they want to rake in a bit more by charging us to park I know it's common in Europe To pay to park I get it It's not a thing here and they're trying to make it a thing So don't give them any ideas my European friends, okay stop giving them these ideas we I'm not paying for parking It's ridiculous We just went over how expensive it is to run a truck already now they want to take more of them Now you know why drivers are always like hi No Stop taking our money. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah You sleep well man back then over there. We're at a truck stop here in New London, Wisconsin Just about to drop off these sticks So all this lumber behind me It's gonna be a good day Beautiful day outside snow is melting sun is shining We're in America It's gonna be a good day. So we're gonna drop this lumber off Then we'll start tomorrow log, but let's go find this place first It looks like kind of a small yard to get into hopefully they're not busy I sort of need to get unloaded quickly so I can get to my reload It's about three and a half hours to get down to where I'm gonna be loading my next load of steel That loads taking me. Yeah, I already told you that was taking me up on a peg, right? Gonna need the shades today So our wheels are rolling My logbook has been kicked into driving which means my day has officially officially begun No take backs. He's Once those wheels are turning you can't change that 14 hours from this moment. I have to be stopped I'm going to bed. All right. This is the place. It's pretty tight Think I'm just coming from here. I'm coming in from here. Anyway, real quick. It's like they make pallets here That would make sense Maybe over there Park right in the middle here for now. Anyway, I don't want to see if I can find somebody Put it all in the shed right here, but I was kind of thinking they'd probably want to unload me back in the open where You know, nothing could get damaged and then you know, just Bring the wood up here with the forklift. No, they wanted to unload right here. So That's their choice Canadian lumber Gonna be turned into American pallets and then they're gonna put stuff on them Actually, there's I don't think they put I think they just sell the pallets and then other people put stuff on the pallets And who knows where those pallets will end up. Maybe they'll like ship stuff in containers Across the seas to Europe or something or Australia or somewhere else maybe To you Wouldn't that be a small world? Wish I could put my stamp on every piece of wood so you can check the pallets when you unload them If that's what you do Send me a picture of it. The wood I delivered here got turned into a pallet that got delivered across the world to you Wouldn't that be cool? You never know Never know. So from here my GPS is saying we got about four hours to get to our next This takes me a lot of time for stopping. We'll have about time to stop for one coffee break and bathroom break and that's it That is it It's a bright day out, but we're gonna book it. So I've got a Reloaded three o'clock and we'll be there at about 2 30 too much time to play with I'm gonna do that tomorrow's video though. Thanks for hanging out for me today. I'll see you tomorrow Don't forget to subscribe hit one of these these boxes around my head here the bottom I think I have if you click my head, it'll take you to the screen where you can subscribe And I'll see you guys tomorrow