 Good morning everybody That's snowfall. We were talking about yesterday evening did arrive overnight But our snow plows out here and our salt trucks have been doing a great job Gotten everything cleared already at least all the major routes They try to get it all cleared all the main routes cleared by the time the morning commute starts So I mean if snow is overnight when I wake up at 6 a.m. I look outside everything's already cleared And by the time I get on the road at 7 a.m Everything's salted good to go usually not all the time not every time but They're usually pretty good with it. They can't get to every road that early obviously so they do the main routes first Just so that everyone can get to work But it's Friday today. I don't know if you've noticed that or not. I guess you're watching this on Saturday Did you have a good Friday? Do you get excited for Fridays? I do. This is a new thing for me weekends So I remembered to have breakfast at home And I also brought along my own coffee so no need to stop at Timmy's today. I know I Just want them to know don't be worried about me. I'm still alive. Okay Just trying to save a few pennies every now and then it's Friday. What is this guy doing? What is this guy doing? There you go Yeah off to drive trucks I go. Let's see what today has in store I've been really enjoying it in the ditch this morning when I've seen getting pulled out So at least the tow trucks are out. We wouldn't get anything done drive safely. You see here We're coming out into the the open prairie where they don't have as much as much Trees the trees shelter us a lot now. It's gonna get really windy. We're really gonna see how windy it actually is All these houses on the right here. They don't have much shelter belt Of trees so it must get extremely windy in their yards That's one reason I really like living in the bush Shelters you from the worst of the weather I just want to take it nice and easy Don't let people behind you pressure pressure you into anything Nobody behind me right now, but if there was you know, they're gonna have to go my pace This is gonna be fun. Let's see how windy it actually is to get out of these trees here Take my pace Slapper and 4WD everybody. I don't care big trough like this out of the ditch So you want to avoid the ditch and it protects from wind It also protects from wind erosion on the fields Because the fields out here with the wind blowing over it what it does is the wind actually picks up This soil off the field and blows it away So the farmers are losing those valuable new trees in the soil to the wind so they they plant these shelter belts Sometimes between their fields to stop the wind from blowing everything away It also helps in the winter time to keep things a little calmer above the trees And it looks like we're gonna have a little bit of a delay here At least it's not storming as bad as I thought it would be out here in the open I honestly thought it would be a lot a lot worse than this This train is probably about a mile long At least It's a lot of grain moving though a wow My dad is driving on the west side of Winnipeg right now I'm on the east side and apparently there's a big pile up over there of trucks and cars and the Weather is much worse over there than it is here. That seems to be a regular occurrence It's always worse west of Winnipeg So if you're coming through here, and you think it's all good because you're on the east side The weather is not so not so bad you just wait till you get to the west side and prepare yourself It's always worse on the west side of Winnipeg always I can see the end of the train right now Over there Yeah, so it's one of those days. It's one of those days. I'm glad I'm over here in the east South-eastern part of the province. I don't know what it is, but as soon as you get to the other side of Winnipeg There's the town called heading link Right west of the city if you look at the map That's where the flying J is and then you head west across the prairies towards Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia And from Winnipeg to Brandon or Musiminsk, Saskatchewan somewhere in there It's always always bad weather. The roads are always super slick They often close down because they're too dangerous It's wide open prairies with very few shelter belts, so it's very windy all the time all year round and You can get pretty hairy there pretty dangerous So just a heads up if you're a new driver and you're coming to Manitoba and you're not from here All right, the east side is usually better the west side watch yourself between Winnipeg and Saskatchewan My dad's there right now He was just Telling us how How it looked as the traffic had come to a standstill on one side and the emergency vehicles can't get through Because the whole highway's blocked so they're having to find alternate routes to get around to these people who need them and these accidents up ahead I'm sure the news will be very interesting tonight. I hope everyone's okay out there be careful Train was moving really slowly to it's headed towards Winnipeg, so it's probably already slowing down for the city We're gonna turn the left here onto the trans-Canada divided highway. Oh That train's actually stopping there. There's another train there. They're meeting Okay, I get it. That's why he was going so slow took forever for him to get past He's gonna wait for a little bit of traffic here and we're gonna drag ourselves on to this highway Hopefully have no issues here. We go after Canadian Tire. Let's go. I have to wait here Traffic coming in this lane. Oh, there's a lot of traffic coming. There's a whole parade coming just for us Fantastic. All right, just what I wanted to do sit between the lanes between the highway here for Ten minutes. Oh wait. No, we can go now It's pretty slick. Try to spin your tires. You might be able to win this sort of playing with me already Playing games with me. I got weight in the trailer. Of course, this isn't bad As long as you don't overdo it, you're careful. You take it easy You'll be fine once you start trying to push it if you're in a hurry You try to rush or you try to show off or you think you know You're better than everybody else on the road. You push it a little too far That's when you end up in the ditch. Okay, it's got a sort of stay humble and big. All right. Well, I could I Feel like I'm probably more experienced than a lot of people on the road But I get yourself in no bad situation that you got to try to explain later All right, you know, no one wants to make that phone call Just saying I'm gonna throw that in there. Hey, it'd be nice Look at this guy's trailer here on the left That's gonna hurt but it flies off into some of this one too They're right unless you have a special like a machine thing or a special thing that you drive under that scrapes off the top of the trailer You it's a fiberglass roof if you walk on the roof, it'll just fall right through Messy messy day today messy messy It's hard to keep anything clean That's winters up here though, you know Pretty much all winter. You just hear me complaining how dirty everything is I never used to be this way Okay, just pulled in here to grab some fuel I was just reading the sign over there says authorized parking only It's one thing that steinback really lacks is truck parking Like now for me, it doesn't matter. I parked the truck at the yard and I go home But for drivers who are coming in from out of town and they need a place to park for night There's no parking in steinback none And I'm not really sure why either but uh I always found it strange, you know Say you're coming in from Ontario and you're delivering somewhere here in town and you want to deliver in the morning You want to stay somewhere in steinback here? There's nowhere where they'll let you park overnight Well, there's a few places, but you got to know all right. You got it. It's all about who you know in steinback They really could use a truck stop doesn't have to be a big glamorous flying jay or anything but truck parking I think I think it's an idea that you know could take off Even if they brought a truck stop like petro pass into steinback here with maybe like 10 to 15 parking spots As long as it's clear that You know all the local drivers in town I've got to leave those spots open for the the long haul drivers that come in from out of town Then at least there's place to park But it's it's got to be frustrating for people who don't live here because uh, you got to park all the way up by the trans canada I guess if you're coming in from ontario You could park in prada at the esso out there and come here in the morning Or if you're coming from the west you could park at the petro pass and deacons corner and then come here in the morning, but I don't know or maybe there's a place around here that I don't know about Very unlikely because I live here But uh, and I've driven trucks for long enough to know that you know if you're planning on spending the night in steinback in your truck Don't plan on spending the night in steinback in your truck. All right He's getting a little colder I didn't believe them. They said watch out for the polar vortex. I didn't believe them Let's see. What's the weather forecast is minus eight right now celcius Yeah, the polar vortex is not coming It's gonna be minus six tomorrow minus sixth the next day And then it goes down to minus 20 at night, but that doesn't count at the night time I'm not awake then so I don't care what happens Uh minus 15 minus 13 monday and tuesday and then back to minus one next monday. This is a very warm january Incredible Not complaining just want to be clear with that. I'm not complaining I take it. I accept this offering Of warm weather. Thank you Who needs spoons? I better shovel it in a little fruit cup After the year that we had A nice warm winter Is nice grateful for Okay Onwards This way and we're done working the weekend has begun The snap of the fingers Chevy Chevy are you excited excited? It's the weekend, man. It's the what? It's the the weekend It's the end of the week. You see we couldn't come up with a proper name for the two days that everyone gets off every week So we just put them at the end of the week and said it's the weekend but if you Think about it. It's actually the week beginning Because saturday is the weekend sunday is the week beginning. Oh no We're gonna have to change everything So thanks for watching today everybody. We had a fun day at work. We're really enjoying what i'm doing. I'm doing pickup and deliveries around Winnipeg And uh, you know southern manitoba and you know stuff that can get me home every day Really enjoying it excited for the future I think that this is where we're gonna be for a long time yet. So Monday is a new day. Let's put our best foot forward but before that We're gonna enjoy the weekend. Okay, or is it the week beginning? I guess we'll never know You decide let me know. What is it? Is it the weekend or the week beginning? Don't say weekend just because that's what everybody else calls it. You don't want to just Follow the herd, you know, you want to sometimes stick it. It's a week beginning I heard my name over there. What's happening? What? I'm being signed up for stuff over there. She's talking to her mom on the phone Oh, absolutely absolutely I'm signed up for dog dog duty. They're gonna have a girls trip out as soon as you know We're allowed and things open up a little bit more again restrictions go down They're gonna have a girls day and i'm gonna be Mr. Dad Watching the boys, right Chevy? You excited? We're gonna have a boys day We're gonna throw balls around We're gonna go chase our tails And probably go running around in the woods chasing rabbits Chasing cats So much time for activities, man Guess we'll see what happens. But for today, I'm just gonna wrap this up Thanks for watching. If you like it hit the thumbs up button. Leave me a comment down below Let me know what you think. Let me know what you would like to see more of And I'll see you tomorrow