 This morning good thing. I was just around the corner from home, and I could quickly run back and go get it That would have been a tragedy You imagine I have this thing about food. I've said it before a couple of times Now I'm feeling I'm not the only one I Like food and I like to have food every day It's just a thing I have going on I don't know so if I forget my lunch it's kind of gonna ruin the day Hey That's all I was able to swing back and go get it no big deal We did get Timmy's this morning Sometimes I get coffee from home. Sometimes I get Tim's on the way For some reason Tim Horton's coffee that they make in their store is just so much better than anything I can make at home like the stuff I make at home is good. I like it. It works But it's just not the same as when the store makes it. I don't know But you do have to add an espresso shot into the Tim's coffee to make it coffee Otherwise, it's just coffee flavored water, but still It's just the perfect mixture. I don't know what it is about Tim's really but Canadians go crazy over it coast to coast From St. John's Newfoundland all the way to Victoria Vancouver Island. It's like 7,000 kilometers It's not more across. I don't know what they put in it, but whatever it is. It's good It's supposed to be a little windy today They're saying up to 60 kilometer an hour gusts or winds that's 40 miles an hour, so it's not like it's not the worst. It'll be fine But a little windy, but at least it's not so cold. It's only minus six so minus eight according to my truck right now It's supposed to get up to minus six today, which is you know, probably around, you know High 20s Fahrenheit, so it's not even that cold the weekend. It's supposed to go down to minus 40 again That'll be fun. That'll be fun. We'll be hibernating in the house for the weekend Thank God for natural gas to heat our house Looks like we got ourselves a train first thing this morning No end in sight yet over there. Oh Wait wait it just popped over the horizon. There it is. They got an engine at the end there pushing You know it used to be when I was a kid that all the train engines would be at the front They'd have like three or four maybe even five engines all pulling But the way they do it now like I'm no train expert But they always have one or two at the front and then sometimes they have one in the middle somewhere And then they have one at the back pushing. I Would think that that would be a much better idea than having them all pull, you know, especially once these This thing hits the mountains. That's a lot of weight. Each one of those containers is one semi trailer Look how many there are. There's two per train car There's dozens and dozens of hundreds of truckloads worth and they got to pull that over the mountains when they get out west For now this train is just arriving here in Winnipeg from out east This stuff probably all landed on our eastern coast Or probably came from the port of Montreal or Thunder Bay or something And it's all freight going inland Who knows There's the NC's got the engine pushing it And they're all controlled remotely by the engineer in the front as far as I know Pretty neat That would be a fun job. I would love to do that But alas, I'm a truck driver. This is my part of society. This is my role to play back roads, I Nope, just went to pack Just when it's so hard to keep this thing clean as well Everyone sort of kind of gives up For the most part. I still do my pickup once a week dirty it gets I guess driving down in the u.s their roads there The further south you went like away from the cold weather where they got to use all the salt and stuff The further down you go the the cleaner the vehicles are because they don't have to deal with this mess all the time He's thought of the truckers. Finally. They've been watching my videos There's actually truck parking so that you can run in and get your timmies And we got a train Fantastic. It's exactly what I needed. I just wanted to sit here and waste time waiting for a train That's on the other side of the road That means that this light won't turn green till that train is gone Even though I want to turn left But anyways, yeah, the timmies across from deacon's corner. Everyone knows it. There's a new one there, right? There's some truck parking that timmies made for us there, but you have to promise us you're not gonna wreck it Okay, that's not overnight parking You can't sit there and you can't drop your trailers there. You can't leave your rig there for a long It's just there so that we can just swing in there for like a five ten minute Break just to run in and grab our coffee and then you can come back here to the petro pass and spend the night here That's just so that you don't have to walk like a quarter mile to go and get your timmies They're very nice to us. Let's not ruin that for everybody. Okay Timmies doesn't always build parking for us truckers So when they do we want to make sure we don't ruin it because this might be a test If they find that truckers are abusing the parking spaces and just leaving their rigs there or spending the night there They're probably gonna put up barricades or something or sell that land to another Business because they could put up they could put another business there and rent it out to another business make money off it Right, but instead they're allowing us to park there for free while we go run and get our coffee Let's not ruin it. Okay. Just go there get your coffee and come over to the petro pass spend the night here Just so you know, okay, there's parking there. Don't tell anybody Let's all be nice and courteous so that they don't take it away from us Finally this now all we got to get them to do is uh get them to change these lids You know one good thing about these lids is it forces me to uh Clean my dash here around my cup holder every day because there's coffee all over the place every day because the lids leak There's gotta be some kind of better setup for when a train crosses over there because if we're backed up like half a mile behind me here All the cars are backed up into the petro canada parking lot to my left here They've got to wait for traffic to clear before they can even get out of the parking lot I guess that is what it is right Complaining about it doesn't fix anything nobody does anything Okay, so you're going straight you're turning you're turning you're turning so i'm turning all right See what we did there. We used our turn signals to notify the other drivers of our intentions See how smooth that worked Another day complete another dollar in the wall. It was a good day I got a coca-cola and dropped some paperwork off With my mom because she's my accountant. She's been an accountant for uh 40 years I think over 40 years. I mean she'll have to correct me if i'm wrong on that, but she runs her own business So i've always got my taxes done for free I wish she would at least teach me how to do tax because one day i'm probably gonna have to do my taxes myself I've been very fortunate so far very fortunate I'm gonna go drop off some tax papers from quarter four or for the fourth quarter with her from last year already Get my gst done It's almost the end of the well halfway through the first quarter already I guess i'm doing better than I do sometimes sometimes it takes me like to the end of the end of the next quarter to Bring her my paperwork from the previous one I'm so bad at remembering things like that. I would be a terrible accountant people would bring me their paperwork and I'd be like What's this for? My taxes What about them? That'd be terrible Okay, buddy. I slow down you slow down. I speed up you speed up pick There you go Paul that's one of my biggest pet peeves on the road when people You can always tell people who don't like appreciate driving. They just want to get from point a to point b And you can tell who they are just by their driving habits and the way they drive right and you can always tell one one way you can tell Is because uh is if they match your speed whether you speed up or slow down They're not actually looking at their gauges. They have no idea how fast they're going They're just matching your speed I mean you go in 120 they'll just match you you go 30 kilometers an hour They'll just match you they're trying to keep up with traffic. They don't actually pay attention to what they're doing They're trying to stay with the flow of traffic. That's one sign that You know driving is not really their forte. It's not really their thing and that's cool. It can't be everybody's thing It's my thing. I love driving. I think driving is an art form everything from using the signals at the proper time to breaking at the proper time to lane changing Everything is an art form but to some people they just want to get from point a to point b and They just need something with wheels and a motor to get them there, right? They don't care what happens in between Those are the ones you got to watch out for on the road those are the ones that uh They might get you into some trouble You don't pay attention. See on the road The biggest thing you got to watch out for you You don't necessarily have to watch out for yourself. You have to watch out for everyone else on the road with you I trust myself driving and I trust the people. I know it's the people. I don't know You're looking at them. What are you thinking? What are you doing? Why are you on facebook? You're doing like hunter calmer an hour down the highway. What are you doing on twitter? Who uses twitter? I hate twitter I hate twitter such a terrible toxic platform and facebook now and I guess i'm on these platforms I am on there because I want to reach the biggest audience possible and I realize some of my viewers use twitter So I don't mean to insult it's not you. I I just don't like the platform. I I don't like The way they're run. That's all personal feeling I still use it So I guess I'm just one of the herd, you know I didn't quite catch the sunset today But uh as I was leaving work These clouds that are above us here were just a bright red and bright orange. It was gorgeous By the time I thought of home, maybe I should share this it was already gone You know those those sunsets they're gone in seconds Sometimes sometimes minutes, but you don't catch them right away, you know, they're gone And you'll never see that specific sunset again Everything will be different tomorrow, you know different atmosphere different clouds Different position of the sun Like this the sky is still bright out west and it's six o'clock That's awesome. As soon as daylight savings time hits We're gonna spring forward, right? So this will actually be seven o'clock and still light outside That is awesome because it gives us hope summer is coming beaches swimming Camping outdoors bonfires wiener roasts The list goes on and they heard that it was me Brits at work, so There's a bunch of howling wolves in here Hey you guys Mom forgot to leave the light on in your room That's okay. Wait when you're happy yeah You smell like diesel fuel. Oh my god, you see when it's working without me Hey, buddy Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay Careful Hey, hey, I got this I got this Oh, it's my shield my shield Fight you Okay guys, okay, let's calm down. Let's calm down Let's calm down Wiener mom's not here yet. Where is she that you do this out? Why don't you do this out? Where is she? I don't care really about you. Where's mom? See Brits been at work all day. She should be home soon Uh, so I got home before her We've got the house to ourselves for about 10 minutes probably All right, so let's let you guys out Guys want to go outside Is that a yes you want to go outside? Are you just excited to see me excited? I missed you too, bud. I missed you guys too All right, let's go inside. Let's go inside Come on Frank commander. What's taking you so long? I gotta go Careful All right guys, come on Come on. Come on. Come on Wiener. Let's go in the yard in the yard, man Oh that backyard light is so nice when it's been charging all day that we've been having longer daylight hours So it's had longer to charge. Look at that. That is awesome I still gotta move this Uh, you probably can't see it the little charging pad the solar panel Gotta put it on top of the roof yet so that it uh Charges even better yet because this light will last about this brightness For about like 10 minutes and then it starts getting dimmer already. So Gotta get more sunlight to it. Tiso, Tiso Tiso everybody's been asking about you, man. Everybody They all miss you So you can see the light getting dimmer already, man You guys eating over yourself eating, you're not eating yellow snow, are you? See what we do usually because that light doesn't last long enough all the way through the evening We turn on the Christmas lights so that we can see in the backyard See how they go all the way around the yard What we're actually planning on doing is well once spring comes I'm taking all these Christmas lights down obviously like a month or two once it starts warming up a bit Uh, put them away nicely and then we're going to Uh get patio lights which sort of like patio string lights That we can string out all the way around just like these icicles here, but all the way around our whole yard And it'll light up the whole yard. So we won't even need this light that much The whole yard will be lit up when we want to be back here having a bonfire or whatever That'll be good. That'll be good. I think I don't know. I don't think it'll be good How was your day today diesel? How was your day? Went trucking without me, man Yungu, yungu. Good smelly I know buddy. I'm getting a little old. See all this gray hair on here Getting a little old for the truck, man I got no more for you to sleep now either Yeah Just got a hard seat And maybe you could come along on a short day sometime, but I don't think you would be very comfortable Yeah Yeah, retirements treating you well though. I ain't getting pampered at home Boy you've put many miles on this weasel right here has more than 1 million miles on them That's miles not kilometers It's been over 1 million miles on the highway Been to every province of Canada and every territory except Nunavut It's been to almost every US state except Alaska and Hawaii And you're a well-traveled weasel You've lived a good life. You got lots of life ahead of you yet, but you're gonna be right here Thanks for watching today everybody. I appreciate it. We'll see you again tomorrow