 I am feeling so good today, and I have such good news. Yellowstone, episode 10 of season four got released. A final episode of that season, I think. It was so good. It was so good. Washed it last night yet. Stayed up a little bit late to get her in, but worth it. We're on our way into work again today. Pretty much doing the same thing we did yesterday. We're going to grab unit 3099. That's that Peterbilt 579. Going to get her warmed up. I got to grab a roll tight trailer, and head up to two long grabs and freight. That's headed down to the States. But man, if you haven't seen Yellowstone yet, it's a really good series. She's running. That's good. Block heater's working. This truck actually has a bunk heater in there too. Well, all the highway trucks have bunk heaters as far as I know. And it's very handy because on a day like today, I can warm that cab up a whole lot faster because not only is the engine like once it warms up, not only is that going to warm up the cab, like by turning up the heat, that bunk heater will start blowing heat a lot sooner. That's filling that cab with nice warm air so I'll be able to get going a little sooner. I like that. Very handy to have. If you have a highway truck, you always want to have a bunk heater. It's better to have an APU that also does air conditioning and also warms the coolant, but those are about $12,000. Bunk heater is, it runs off very little energy. So you can run it all night, usually. They say a bunk heater uses about as much energy as leaving like an LED tail light on all night. Uses about the same power. So you should be able to turn your truck over in the morning as long as it's not too cold outside. When it's this cold, minus 27, you don't want to shut your truck off that night. Eight hours, and if you don't have this thing plugged in, you're not starting that thing. You're not turning that engine over. You're gonna have it plugged in or keep it running all night. So all these trucks along the fence here, all the way back there, and all the way around, oh, we got our trailers here, but we got more trucks out where the old P to spark, all of them plugged in. So then you have to plug them in or you're not gonna start it. If you forget to plug it in and you plug it in, they say at least four hours. It takes at least four hours to warm up the coolant enough just from the block heater to be able to start it, but you might end up having to tow it into the shop and thaw it out that way to get it to start. So it's best always to plug in your truck in the wintertime overnight if you're not gonna be running it. Unless you can park it inside. I mean, that's awesome, but you imagine a shop big enough to park all these trucks inside. That would be nice in a perfect world where money grew on trees, but I haven't found that tree yet. And if you find it, send me a private message, okay, it'll be between me and you. I'd like to know where this money tree is. I've been looking for it. We got that truck warming up. I'm gonna come back here, check on the old Pete, see if they did get it fixed last night yet or if they moved it or thawed out or whatever we wanna call it. Oh, it has moved. Nope. No, I can tell. Has it moved? Okay. I can tell because there's still snow at the bottom of the rims there. The old Pete's not quite ready yet, but that's okay. We have another truck to drive which is actually way nicer that Peter built 579. I forget what year these trucks are. It's exactly like the truck I used to drive on the highway. I'm pretty sure they're all the same year. I wanna say, I wanna say 2017s, 2018s maybe, 2019s. That truck's got just under a million kilometers on it already. So that's pushing what, 600,000 miles, 200,000 kilometers a year on average. If it's running, if it's running hard, it's two, four, six, eight, it's about five years old, say five years, it's 2022 now. One, two, one. Yeah, probably in 2017. My best guess. But I'm happy driving this truck or I'll drive that truck as long as they want me to. And then they probably got some trucks in the shop right now that need to get out right now. Probably got loads that are waiting to leave and we need to get them out of here. So I'll drive the 579 as long as I need to. I like these trucks. I like all trucks though. You'll probably notice that. I don't care, I'll drive them. Peterbilt, Kenworth, Mack, Volvo. What else do we got here? Why am I, what am I missing? International. We don't have any internationals in our yard though. That's something I noticed. I always forget about them because we don't have any here. We got Volvos. Oh no, there's an international right here but that's an owner operator. That's an owner operator. There's a blue international right there. I haven't driven it though because it's not one of ours. One of our guys owns it. But yeah, there's all kinds of things. I wish, I sort of wish we had the option of buying these European trucks over here in North America like Scania and Mann and you know, the Volvo European trucks. It would be pretty cool to be able to drive them here but they're not even available here. I've seen one on the roads here in the last 15 years of me driving but as far as I know, I think I got ahold of the guy or someone who knows him anyways and he had it shipped over. Customs shipped over here from Europe and he had to buy a whole bunch of permits and go through all of this extra effort and bend over backwards, do a back flip and a somersault so that the government would allow him to run it here. It was a long, probably expensive process but hey, he's the only European trucks on North American roads or one of the only ones, right? So you turn heads. You turn heads with that. The only thing is with the European trucks, the interiors are so small but I know that you can get the longer extended bunks and what if you get a European front end, right? European truck with an extended North American style wheelbase and then put a custom sleeper on there, right? I think that would turn heads. I would drive that. I think so. I mean, when you're in North America here, everybody wants to drive the classic trucks including myself, the big Kenworth W900s, the long nose Peterbilt. You want these big Mark trucks, right? But having a European truck, the turning radius on them and just to be different, I think would be pretty cool. That's a topic for a different day. So I'm waiting for my truck to warm up here and we're gonna go find a roll tight and hook up and head up North. Hopefully it's warmer there but I bet you it's colder. Isn't she nice? I like it. I'm all hooked up to a step deck roll tight. It's the only one we had left. We have a flat roll tight over there but it's red tag which means we need some more pairs. Here she is. Let's go make sure all the lights work. Oh wait, let's fill it with air. Almost forgot. Let's fill it with air just to make sure. Ah, there we go. Go air leaks. There you can hear the air compressor come on already. You can hear the air going through the line there and it's shooting air into this trailer. It's gonna fill up the airbags and release the brakes. Lights are all working here. I wonder where we are here. There's the signal. It's hidden behind that a little bit. Signal's working though. There is premium winter air in the tires as usual. Hopefully these brakes aren't locked. Just started lifting up the bags. Good. Good, good, good. What do we got going on back here? Everything sounds as it should. As it should be. Signal's working. Yeah, that looks good. Nice, I like it when everything works. It's a good day when everything works. I mean, we make it a good day regardless, but oh, there's lots of snow in here. Please don't let these brakes be frozen. Just wanna make sure they're not flat. Let's all them check in for it. Oh, a lot of snow on this side. Okay, you know, we've been complaining the last couple of years that we haven't gotten enough snow. Maybe we should have kept our mouth shut. Oh, we got lots of snow. Just gotta kick the snow off of my shoes. Otherwise, when I get in the warm truck, the snow melts, turns to water, and then my shoes are wet. You don't want wet shoes in winter time. That's a good way to freeze your feet off. That's noisy. That's the air going into the compression tank underneath there. There's nothing to worry about. It's just not usually that loud, but hey, I don't like waking up on cold mornings either. I understand. The guys over here are very busy. There's a dump truck there. There's a front-end loader behind me there. I probably can't see it in my mirror. It's back there. They're very busy bringing snow from there to there. Serious stuff. I don't know why they didn't just pile it back there in the first place. I guess that would be difficult to do, because they piled it all in like one part of the parking lot, way over there. Now they're bringing it out. Now they're loading it back up into trucks and they're piling it all back on the other side of the fence over there. Wait one second for this container guy to get out of my way here. You'll be able to see. Oh, they got big piles back there already too. Look at that. There's another dump truck there. So they've cleared this whole yard and put it into a big pile over there. You see? They're doing that pile. I mean, it gives you something to do, right? When you run out of snow to clear, well, you just start moving the piles. Move that pile from there to over there. And then tomorrow, you move that pile from over there back over there. See? Keeps you busy. You gotta keep moving, remember? That's our secret to how we stay warm up here. You have to keep working and when you run out of work, you just make up work to do. Just move the snow around. Keep moving, otherwise you're gonna freeze and die. So this is a big deja vu for us. It's the exact same thing as we did yesterday, except yesterday we loaded up a flat bed in the morning and this morning we loaded up a step deck but with the exact same stuff at the exact same place. And now we're back here at the exact same place with another van behind us. Loading this up, bringing it back to the yard and that's probably gonna be my day. Almost exactly the same as yesterday. But this truck though, you wanna see it again? I showed it to you yesterday. May as well show it to you again. Other than the Kenworth T680s, actually I was gonna say this is my favorite truck. I spent a lot of time in 3101, which is exactly like this truck. And they're very comfortable and smooth to drive. I was gonna say this was one of my favorite trucks but I say that about every truck I'm in. I mean, it's not that hard to impress me, just as long as it goes, it's got lots of room, looks good. There they go, they're loading up that snow. Oh, there's another big pile back there behind them. Bring that snow and they're gonna put it over there. What's even more funny about that is I talked to some people who work in that building, another, not where I was going, but they were outside as well and they were looking at those guys, asking the same questions as me and we're sort of chuckling to ourselves. Apparently, like every two days they move the snow from one part of the yard to another part of the yard and they can't figure it out either. We just came to the conclusion they must just be making themselves look busy. I don't know, maybe there's a reason to it. Really? Maybe it's because the best explanation I can come up with is that they clear the yard as fast as possible because it's a very busy yard. There's like hundreds of docks there, right? So you have to have it clear so that the trucks can get in and do their cross-talking. That's the companies can get in there and it's a big place. So what I think happened is they get in there and just clear it all as fast as they can, just get the snow out of the way and just whichever way they can put it anywhere they can, just get it out of the way. Then, once they have it all clear then they start managing it into bigger piles. They sort of take all the snow from this side, put it into one big pile on this side, take all the snow from that side, put it onto one big pile on that side and then after that, they come and then they move those piles all into one big pile and then they call in the dump trucks and the dump trucks come in one day and they move that whole big pile, all the snow from the whole yard to where it's actually supposed to be behind the fence where it's completely out of the way so that they have their full yard back again. So it seems that this is like a four-day process and maybe that's just the way they do. That's the best explanation I can come up with in my mind and that would sort of make sense. I don't know if it needs four days. I can understand how they just wanna get it out of the way the first stage, just get it out of the way so we can open our business and get our trucks in and out. I would just say do everything else the same day or the next day. Maybe there's different logistics in it. Maybe they need different equipment for different jobs. I just thought it was funny we're talking about. I don't know what's going on. I'm not a snow clearing guy. That's not my role. But I do appreciate the work they're doing because without them clearing the snow, it would be very difficult for me to do my job. So who am I to question their ways? Right, Chevy? Right, Chevy? Hey, come here. Come here, everyone wants to say hi to you. Come here. Stretch it out, buddy. Come here. Come on up here. There you go. What do you wanna say to the good people? What do you wanna say to the good people? Hi, I was sleeping and I was having a good dream. The fridge is that way, that's where the treats are. If you were wondering, that's where they keep the treats. It's... Chevy, you wanna treat? Yeah? Oh, okay. Talked me into it. Talked me in, how about you, Diesel? Diesel, you wanna treat? Who else wants a treat? Hey, I'm gonna give you a treat. That's all I gotta do is rustle with that. Go on, come on. Oh, they're already here. Hey, guys. Is that the one, Chevy? That's the one. Yeah. Okay. What do you wanna say? Let's put this down here. Oh, hey. Hey, hi, guys. What's up? Eating some treats? Okay. We're gonna put this. All right. These are freeze-dried liver. Boy, careful, buddy. Don't just swallow it, you gotta chew it, save it. Diesel. He always takes it so gently. Big Frank. Why do you grab it so hard? That's a big one, Wiener. Chew it. Chew it. He didn't chew it. That's why I don't give you those big ones usually, man. Freaks me out. You guys happy now? No, you want more? That's all you get for now. I'm cheap. Okay. Gotta save some for later. This delicious beef liver. Mmm. Mmm. At least they don't gotta worry about me stealing any of their treats. Thanks for hanging out with us today, everybody. It was a good day. I'm just closing this up here on the weekend. Hope you have a good one. Take care, and we'll see you tomorrow.