 Good morning there. How you doing? Well, that Sun is very bright, isn't it? Oh, should I sit over here and you can see me? Okay, we'll do this So how's it going everybody? new day new me right guys I Gotta walk them right away. I just want to say good morning. It's gonna be a good day We're in Kamloops, British Columbia. We're headed home. We got to deliver this load behind us to Portage La Prairie on On On two days from now Thursday Thursday because it's Tuesday today. So this is where we're at This is my view Waking up. We're at that petrol pass beautiful Chevy Chevy, that's not a toy. That's the mic. How you doing tell the good people tell the good people How are you we do? How you doing? Hey, that's the mic Chevy. That's not a toy. You look like a toy to me man Don't sniff his butt You caught me man, sorry You guys want to go outside? Let's do this Me and my dirty sweater It's the only one I got my jacket is too warm and My sweater is dirty. So I guess I'll just be dirty. That's okay. Look at this Look at this beautiful beautiful beautiful British Columbia It's actually their slogan beautiful British Columbia All right, you guys wait. Okay, Chevy. I'm talking to you. Don't push your brother off the seat wait Okay Just need these steps. They're all dirty because uh, I had them mounted outside the truck for a while And I'm gonna have to do it again once Britt comes on the truck But for now I'm gonna try to save them. I'm gonna wash them at home As soon as I get a chance Wait, wait All right, bud Okay, here we go Hold on diesel. I'll be back one at a time. I can only handle one of you So there's the load Looking fancy All nice and wrapped up Chevy. Oh, you're excited for the day. Look at you go Okay, let's go to the grass over there bud. Come on Right over here Come on man. Oh slippery watch out Whoa, whoa, whoa Get in there Chevy. Get in there I've trained both diesel and Chevy to go number two in the long grass or in the bush So that they don't go on the lawn. So the big guys they never poop on the lawn Frank I Was never around and he has a puppy to train him like that and I don't know small dogs they're a little harder to train sometimes but He likes to go right in front of the door on the driveway, but that's okay at least his are easy to clean up The big guys though. Oh, it's such a relief that they I don't have to go around the yard picking up after them all the time so that is a thing you can do if you're wondering how to get your dog to Just stop doing his business on your front lawn just from pup From a puppy train them to only go in the long grass or the bush Chef I haven't opened the door yet. Yeah, you can't get in until I open the door I am the opener of doors. I am the opener of doors. Yes. Yes. I am I'm also the giver of food. Oh, oh, you just sacked me man. Oh on camera Okay, I deserve that. I deserve that all open the door. Okay, you got to start from the bottom though. Okay, there you go Yikes he wanted to go inside Okay diesel hook you up here. We need to wash our truck. We always need to wash this truck This is Canada right diesel everything is always dirty all winter because of the roads Come on. Let's go a little further. Let's go to the let's go to the long grass here diesel. Come on. No, no, no, you know better Long grass. There we go. Watch the ice. Don't pull me down on the ice buddy There you go So we're above freezing here. There's as you can see there's hardly any snow here Just a little bit of ice. I'd say we're probably around zero outside right now at 32 Fahrenheit I really got to learn Fahrenheit. I know how to do the conversion. I'm just really not good at the math Doing it in my head, especially the first thing in the morning But it's a good temperatures what I'm saying and these mountains around us here There's more behind there They're the Rocky Mountains. They hold the the warm air out west here and they keep the cold air on the prairies So as soon as we get over the mountains later this evening It's going to the temperatures going to drop pretty quickly. Alberta's not too cold yet I've already checked not too worried about that. Saskatchewan starts to get really cold into the minus 20s But that polar vortex Is hovering over Manitoba right now because the cold Arctic air comes down from the north From over the Hudson's Bay and gets pushed down through Nunavut Over Manitoba and into Minnesota, North Dakota. So we're all experiencing, you know, negative 40 degree weather this next week As I've been saying, I know I'm repeating myself These are you block and I know I've been repeating myself But that's just because I'm not looking forward to it and this is a normal Manitoba winter It's not like we're surprised that it's minus 40 outside. No, it happens every year at the same time But every year when it comes around I found I Never like it any more than the last year. I never really get used to it. It's always It's always just Well, it's January. It's winter But summer's coming Are you done diesel? Are you done? Come on, you old man According to the internet, you're a senior now Do you know this? He is a seven and a half years old now Close to it anyways, and he's going to be eight years old and he's got two more years of being a senior until he is classified as Elderly they had a special word for it, but I just call it elderly. It's so sad. It feels like I just got him I'm not ready for you to be old yet diesel All right. Come on. I got your old man steps here Come on old man All right. Let me take your leash off All right, I'm gonna go inside we're gonna go for a ride today. Okay, right up the old man steps Good boys. Good boys All right, so I'm gonna move a little closer to the building here I want my truck start diesel. I need my mirror. Get down. Thank you Back out of this little spot and Park a little closer to the building This parking lot is ginormous And I'm feeling lazy we're gonna go inside and Grab a coffee wash our face and stuff Brush our teeth And we'll be ready to rock and roll I like these trips where I'm not in such a rush not Constantly just like go go go go go where I can sort of you know, take the time to take care of myself, you know brushing my teeth Taking nice long showers, which I did here remember this shower. I didn't show it to you this time So I showed it to you last time the shower here has like the jets or the showers on the side That spray you from the side and they got like the raining one that rains down on you from right above you It's got another one in front of you that sprays in your face. It was awesome. I love it. I Want a shower like that at home But yeah, I have the time to do that Which is nice. Oh these potholes Seriously, you could drown in one of these potholes Seriously look at these things a child could drown in that welcome to Canada a watch out through the potholes I'm recently. I think it's three times in a row. I don't know if he was drunk He looked like an older guy family guy then But I started noticing this van that kept hitting the shoulder and kicking up dirt and stones that the vehicles behind him, right? paying attention Reserve judgment for a little bit, but then he started wandering into oncoming traffic Twice he went fully into the oncoming traffic lane with vehicles coming and he forced a big pickup Dooley truck In the ditch to avoid him. It was bad And then you think that would have scared him awake right scared him straight No, he did it again after that. They still had to avoid him by going around on the shoulder And then after that if that wasn't enough to wake the guy up But a half dozen times after where he was almost hitting the ditch So he was all over the road on both sides This was within about 20 minutes of us approaching town So at this point I had my headset on already and I was getting ready to call the police as soon as I get Licensed plate number, but there was a pickup truck in between us Understandably didn't want to get too close to that vehicle because they were going to cause an accident So I couldn't get the plate and the the vehicle was dirty Thankfully he didn't hit anything and I pulled up beside him at a traffic light. I got his plate number I got his description of him and I had gone to roll his window down because I wanted to see if he was like slurring his words badly or not Because I wanted to report if he was drunk or not. You've been drinking you're gonna kill somebody He gave me the one finger salute. Well, all right then that's the final straw So I he pulled off into a parking lot and I pulled off a little ways up the road because I couldn't follow him with my truck into That parking lot. I wanted to see where he was going And I had the police on the line and I gave him his plate number vehicle description Physical description and I told them what had happened. It's a small town. I mean they're gonna find him And hopefully Check on them make sure he's all right Maybe he was on medication Maybe he was drunk. Maybe he was high and this is British Columbia and marijuana is legal Canada wide now You can buy it just like you can buy a call And BC is known for their bud Call it the BC bud, right? So I don't know what he was on but he was he shouldn't have been behind the wheel Anyways, he's gonna get someone hurt. So they're gonna look into it. My point of telling you this whole story again is This is the third time pretty sure third time in a row coming through here that I've had to report someone for Reckless or intoxicated driving. I don't want to create a stereotype or anything, but If you're driving through here around salmon arm sycamus area of BC Keep your head up because not everyone else is Kind of freaky so glad he didn't have an act that could have been bad That pickup that he forced around him onto the shoulder into the ditch Then the pickup didn't hit the dead like didn't crash or anything, but Oh, it could have been bad I could have been a first-hand witness to a head-on collision at highway speeds on spinning ticks Scary stuff scary stuff and you know, I don't like to be a little snitch or anything, but For the sake of everyone else on the road I figured I should probably Alert somebody to this guy somebody needs to get him off the road. I'm not the perfect driver either sometimes Everybody has it where they they wander a little bit onto the line or whatnot He was fully in the opposing lane of traffic if I would have seen that First hand I've never seen an accident like that first hand. I Don't want to I thought I might today. It shouldn't be driving Or just don't drive just stay there stay where you are This is an older guy, too, he should have known better. He looked like he was in his Forties fifties forties, maybe late forties. That's what I would yes, you know every time it's the same description Middle-aged guy alone in the vehicle Fearing all over we got a long way to go today yet Good morning, you beautiful people. I'm filming this on Wednesday Hope you're doing fantastic. We slept here at the Petro Pass and medicine hat Alberta good sleeping just rolling out I'm just gonna wander over towards the pumps over here where the garbage cans are because These truck stops they don't have garbage cans Nicely spread around the parking lot. They just have them at the pumps. That's okay I'm just gonna throw up my garbage bags. So That I don't carry it around. They don't like carrying garbage around with me every morning. I got to go and Throw it out. So today it's going to get cold. I just talked to Brit Back at home in Manitoba and it is minus 37 without the wind chill right now So it's going to get cold. So we're gonna be very careful. We don't want to get into any trouble in the weather Make sure our fuel doesn't gel Which our truck stays running and that we stay warm and that we only stop at places where there's a warm a Warm shelter so that if the truck suddenly stops running and we can't get going again Or if we freeze up while we're parked there, we have some more warm to go inside to Know that all the garbage is gone Here This truck is ready to ready to rock. I Just want to reset my tripometer I do that every day still just so that I can get an idea of how far I've driven and how much further I want to go yet I don't know exactly where it starts to get cold. It's not that cold here. I was outside now and just a t-shirt. It's The truck says it's plus three here right now That's three degrees above freezing Regina one province over about six hours or seven hours from here. No, no, no I'm not from medicine had four or five hours from here something like that There it's already about minus 25 so Somewhere in between here and there the temperature drops There's a whole bunch of air that came from the Arctic. I explained this yesterday, right came from the Arctic It was hovering over the Hudson's Bay like it always does and then at this time of year every year It sneaks out and comes south from the Hudson's Bay over Nunavut Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Western Northwestern, Ontario, and then it goes into the US from there Then it goes over to the Great Lakes like Michigan Illinois North Dakota, Minnesota That's all coming from the Hudson's Bay up north It'll only last about another week And then it'll start getting warmer again Every year the the first last two weeks of January and the first two weeks of February are the deep freeze They're the coldest months. That's when weather like this comes down from the north but Later in February just like every year it'll start warming up again and by the time March comes around. Oh It'll be feeling like springtime April all the snow will be gone And then we're on our way to camping season It's starting to get really cold and windy Coming up to Regina Saskatchewan here And I'm gonna go up to Brandon tonight. It's going to be minus 34 in Brandon overnight, but I'll be able to park at a truck stop That's 24 hours so if You know the worst happens and my truck stops running Being the dogs have warmth close by we can go inside and keep warm I was gonna go straight to Portage La Prairie, but they as far as I know they don't have a 24-hour truck stop They do have the flying J there on the east side of town, but they closed for the night So if my truck were to freeze up there I would have nowhere to go and I guess I could always go find a place in town to park near Tim Hortons or something but Now I'd rather not drive too far into the night It's gonna be so cold So Brandon is about four hours ahead of us We'll get there. It's a good parking spot, I hope and I've got to be in Portage for 10 a.m. Tomorrow morning and it's supposed to warm up a little bit tomorrow I'm supposed to go up to like the mid minus 20s So at least I won't be rolling up these tarps in minus 35. It'll only be minus 25 Makes quite a big difference. It's still cold We got good fuel in the tanks. We got fuel conditioner anti-gel in there I'm gonna fuel up in Brandon again so that I go to bed with full tanks put some more anti-gel conditioner in there And just hope for the best it's all you can do it's winter time Comes around every year Can't act surprised Even the trains are still going look at that Wonder how they keep their fuel from the gelling up over there Economy's got to keep going We got to keep running Country doesn't stop just because it's a little cold. Can you imagine if we wouldn't work through this weather? People would notice really quickly It wouldn't have fuel in their cars in the morning Wouldn't have food on the shelves. You guys know that whole spiel Just got to do it. Just got to make it work And be prepared none of my dash there right now says minus 19 Celsius right now When this guy's got his bright fog lamps on oh good for you good for you I'm glad you can see I Don't see any fog, but you know It's one of my pet peeves People who have all their bumper lights and fog lamps on all night every day even though there's no fog I Just want to take a hammer and just go there and smash them every time I see I Woke up and it was still minus 30 outside You know all of these drop trailers here there there there there I'm guessing those are all trucks that froze up and had to be towed out of here So I'm actually kind of nervous My truck is still running, but that doesn't mean she's gonna Pull for me yet. So we're gonna Get ready here and see what she see what she can do Well once again just as I was waking up and getting ready to do my stuff My truck decides it's time to do a regen Almost every morning already as soon as I come out of the sleeper. It's like it senses it I sit down in the seat here. I Start fiddling with stuff start waking myself up a bit and she starts to do a regen Weird coincidence So I'm gonna take you with me for a little bit yet just to make sure this truck keeps running or Alright make sure that it pulls it's something else It could be idling but still might not be able to pull because if fuel did somehow gel a little bit Even though I put in lots of antigel as soon as I start pulling it needs to suck more fuel through the fuel filter to get The truck moving and if there's gel in there that plugs up the fuel filter really quick and then Suddenly you're not moving at all. That's that's the real test once we get out there on the road It's one driver beside me now that I stopped pulling It's just pulling up. Oh He stopped Not sure if he's frozen or not always just going back and forth right now I'm a little nervous. I really hope that I'll be able to get home and get this load off my trailer I got four tarps to unload or four tarps to fold up in this today That'll be in tomorrow's vlog, but man. I am no fan of this cold weather I'm only living in it because I have to That guy didn't even clear off his tail lights. The tail lights are completely covered with snow Five-star pre-trip buddy All right everybody moment of truth I've already moved up a little closer to the store here so I can go in and grab a coffee and We seem to be fine truck has done its regen and Done my pre-trip it's time to see if this baby is gonna get us up to highway speed Or if I'm gonna have to call the shop We'll park it indoors overnight. I think we're gonna be fine. I got a pretty good feeling about it because I prepared so much for it But if I freeze up or gel up now there was nothing I could do about it I did everything I could to prevent it We're moving so that's good It's just I don't know if it will be able to get enough fuel through the fuel filter if there is gel in there To pull us up to highway speed That's what I'm worried about But at least this way I know I can at least limp it to a shop somewhere and they can pull it inside So that's good Truck is heating well Temperature outside right now is minus 28. I Think we'll be okay Think we'll be all right now that the Sun is up in the sky. It does give a much warmer effect Warmer effect. That's what it does. It's the Sun. I know You know what I mean Warms it up a little bit makes you feel better. This is some of that good old vitamin D Right. Is that what the Sun gives you? So far so good Feeling the lack of power. I checked the fuel filter and it's a little higher The fuel level and it's a little higher than I'd like it to be But it wasn't up to the top And I know that I got to get this truck service soon anyways, so it wasn't anything that set off any alarms to me Yeah, we're fine We're fine. Oh, thank God all our preparation paid off And this is where I'm gonna end today's video. You guys know that we're safely driving again We got to start tomorrow's video where we're gonna deliver this freight And then later on we're gonna go home, so I'll see you then guys Thanks for tuning in today with me keeping me warm. I'll see you all again very soon Don't forget to subscribe