 Cross the street right now and head back. The snow storm has hit the south. I'm up here in Thompson, Manitoba. No snow here yet, but it is foggy. We'll be driving into snow tonight. I hope that the snow is going to be kind of dying down by that time, but we are missing a lot of the storm by being up here. So far that plan has worked, but we do have to go back south. We'll see what happens. Let's go get this freight off the trailer first and then we'll worry about heading back. Sitting here waiting. There's nobody around. There's a massive, massive place and there's no signs telling me where to go. I called the number that I was given and it doesn't exist anymore. Okay, I can figure this out. I went on to Google, right? Google's got all the answers. Google looked up this place, found the phone number. The phone number sent me to like an automated voice system right now. Press 9 for this. Press 4 for this. It says press 9 to speak to the operator or something. Speak to the reception or something, right? I'm like 9. It's like rings for two seconds and says, This number is no longer available. Click hangs up. And every option I had led me to that. They have no phone number listed anywhere. Weird, right? So, I had to walk over and find their security building because they aren't in their security shack. So I had to walk over to the main office building, track down a security guard and tell them what was going on. And they're sending an escort here for me now. I think this is my guy showing up here. I'm probably on the wrong side. Oh well, it's been a little bit of a frustrating situation but I think we're all settled now. This guy here gonna come talk to me. We figure it out, right? That's our job. That's what we do. We figure it out. When things get tough, you figure it out. He's gonna come and talk to me. Here he comes. That's my little escort there. So he's gonna guide me into this plant here. It's a massive, massive place. Big signs everywhere. Authorized entry only, authorized entry only. Do not enter private property. We reserve the right to search all vehicles for illegal paraphernalia and stuff like that. So one of those places. That's okay though. I'll be in and out of here quick. He's just gonna bring me to the main warehouse. Get these two bundles off my trailer and... I'm outta here. I promise I won't be any trouble. The only trouble I was was when I was trying to figure out who to talk to, where the humans were. I found the humans. They were hiding. I've got a new escort now. They traded off. It's a relay race. Bring Trucker Josh to his destination. We're going way back into the bush. That's probably where they're gonna unload me here at this little shop. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe we'll go flying right past and keep going. Maybe they'll switch off and there'll be another escort. How many escorts does it take to get Trucker Josh to his unloading point? Success! Field goal! I don't watch football. How's it going guys? I'm excited because I got unloaded. And that was very confusing and very hard on my brain. But here we are. We figured it out. That's what we do. We figure it out! Empty trailer behind us once again. And they covered me for coming up here and going back empty. So that's what happens very often with northern loads. And this is the way it is. Works out for me as the driver I'm taking care of. So... Off we go. Hopefully it doesn't snow too bad because I got no freight on the trailer and it's gonna be a little bit slippery. And snowy. And blizzardy. This is like a whole community in here. This is such a big place. A lot more snow here than we have up north. I had my map open there to make sure I was going the right way. I'm pretty sure I go this way and then I go to the second stop light and turn left. I can get through all this slushy snow. It's still very nice here. It's only minus one Celsius. About 28 Fahrenheit or so. That's exactly why it's going to be snowing later. It's already snowing back home. I talked to my wife and my dad. They're both saying it's coming down pretty hard already. I really hope that it passes by by the time I get down there. We're about 800 kilometers from the yard. 500 miles. This is a bumpy road. Yikes. It's all the snow that's packed on it, right? Highway 391. Asher and Manitou. We've got a new assignment. We're going back to Kanora and back, not set in stone yet. Grab a trailer tonight. And it's home in time for the weekend. Looking out pretty good, I think. It's a nice smooth week. I've got an extra day in because we start with some things around. Let's go with that more as that gets closer. We're back at the yard. That's the van trailer right there. We're not taking this one though. We're just parked right beside this one just to say hi to 5101. Hello. I have a better reason though. You'll see in a second. I grabbed a step deck. Still got to clear it off a bit. It's got a little bit of snow on it. Hook that up. This is the trailer I just dropped here. 541. And there. Onto here. That's why I came and parked right beside here. Works smarter, not harder. I don't need this trailer anymore. I should have kept the step deck I had the other day. That's what I should have done. But oh well. They wanted me to take a flat up there. I think we all thought it was going to be a little bit more freight. It turned out to be a lot less. Terps are probably about 50 pounds each or so. That's what I'm thinking. What's this here? Don't fall off, Josh. Then I don't have to lift them off the ground. Life is too short to work so hard. Gotta find ways to make things easier on yourself. Okay? I need this thing now. Ratchet those down. We'll be off. Took an aura. The trick is not to fall off and break your neck. That's the trick. If you can do that, you're golden. Right through. I can put it through here, I guess. This is how I do it. Because this strap that I'm using here doesn't have a hook on one end, right? Someone cut it off. Normally I would just throw it out then because it'd be garbage. But no, no. If you have a spare ratchet on both sides, you just ratchet it down on both sides then. It's like a double whammy. Pull that through there. Remember? Straps always inside the rub rail. That's what this rub rail is here for. I had some feedback or a comment on my last video or I mentioned that. I said that's not for protecting the straps. That's for protecting the trailer. You really think this thin piece of aluminum here is to protect the trailer? The trailer's solid. It doesn't need protecting. It can protect itself. However, that's why they have holes in here. It's specifically so that the strap goes between here. That way, let's say you take a corner a little too tight. You rub up against a pole. Or even worse, let's say somebody side swipes you on the highway. They get a little too close so they lose control beside you on the ice and they start spinning around and then they bump up against your trailer here. If you have your straps on the outside of the rub rail, what's going to happen if a car or vehicle rubs up along here it's going to rip every single one of your straps off your load. Now, guess what? Now your freight is unsecured and they're spinning off into the ditch and your freight on here is loose and falling off into traffic. That's why they have the rub rail. Just in case if something rubs against you it's not going to take out your straps. See now if a car comes on here and rubs up against here, hits you while it's wiping out, goes into the ditch your straps are protected your load is protected. You're not going to have loose freight on your trailer then. That's what a rub rail is for. Some trailers have a little bit of a different kind. I'll show you if I can find one. Like this one's kind of built right on to the trailer, right? It's part of the trailer. Let's go over here, this trailer over here you guys are making me run. Look at this trucker run. Here he goes. This is trailer 501 it's a Manak model it has a little bit of a different kind of rub rail and it's not as strong. See this here? This is what a lot of trailers have and it's just sort of welded on here. You don't connect your straps onto this because these welds aren't designed to hold that kind of weight. Right? It's not what this rub rail is here for. You can protect your straps in case you get side-swiped or something hits the side of your trailer. You connect the straps to the frame under here, under the trailer. I hook them right on here right there. I see a lot of people hook and straps onto this kind of a rub rail. In the case of an accident that rub rail is going to rip right off and then your load is loose, unsecured and off you go explaining why you didn't secure your load properly and also having to pay all the fines for not securing it properly. Now it doesn't happen often it depends on the ambitions of the DOT officer pulling you over but if he does see straps outside of the rub rail it's a few hundred dollar fine for each strap and it's a separate infraction for each strap. Not only does that go on your record as a driver it goes on your company's record as well. So it's very important straps inside the rub rail unless if there is absolutely no other way let's say you have a wide load that sticks out to here well you can't exactly go here and then up under in there there are exceptions within reason and it all depends on the DOT officer that you're dealing with but with a legal load that's not wide straps inside the rub rail just in case something rubs up against you you don't want that to rip those straps off there's your lesson for today lessons with Trucker Josh I tried to explain myself a little better that time how did I do does that make sense now why you put the straps inside the rub rail never over in rare circumstances there are exceptions never say never there are exceptions but they better be pretty obvious exceptions otherwise you get one of those DOT guys who's like over ambitious and like ticket happy they'll rate you up a ticket for each and every strap and I think it's like 200, 280 bucks per infraction I think I know a couple of guys that got nailed with this this is why I started talking about this right and this is why I'm repeating it again because my comment section sort of pushed back against it a little bit I know a few guys now that have gotten tickets for putting the straps over the outside of the rub rail and they're very expensive and it's just the more you know the more you know just gonna tighten this up here and it'll be off to the races it's kind of a long clip already guys still watching congratulations give yourselves a pat on the back go ahead do it right now and give yourself a pat on the back still watching thank you I should have tightened it on the other side that's what I'll do too close to these trailers here my bar is just too big you know what I mean I need more space lots of space here beautiful I'm also kind of excited I've ordered new marker lights for the top two rows you'll notice my the center three on the bottom row here on our left right now see how dim it is I don't think it's burnt out it's not burnt out but it's on its way out and on the top row on the other side in the center the right center one is also on its way out so I have ordered ones to match my rear lights with the amber with clear lens I've also ordered matching fender lights like this also with the clear lens to match those and to match the rear lights they aren't the dual revolutions we're going to move towards those in the future but for now for now I need to I need to do something about that and I can't just replace one because they're all kind of malfunctioning they're supposed to be LED lights all around the edge the bottom and they're all not working properly they're working well enough but how long to work properly so that's our newest thing they should be here in a couple weeks got a whole bunch of stuff to do I haven't got to install those yet I got new backup lights from RC Man it's his YouTube handle I got them in my shop it's going to replace these with nice bright LEDs and I've got another set of LED flood lights that are going to be going on top of my headache rack up here you see there already is one here see but the one on that side that matched it will look off so I don't use this but I'm going to replace that and that so I'll have two on each side bright LED lights that'll illuminate everything back here and I've also got train horns yet that is a project in the works alright guys the windows open sorry old blue did that again that's it and I'll talk to you there at the end of our day and uh touch space with you then that's that everybody the day is over another day 1048 kilometers behind us today what is that about 600 and uh 30 miles let's say 650 miles so we're back here we're going to pick up lumber again tomorrow we're not going to that culvert place we're here at the lumber place and pick up some lumber uh gotta load it up in the morning gonna unload that the next day in the morning and then after that we have a load waiting for us thief river 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