 good morning everybody it's a little colder out now we're on our way down to vita manitoba i got a step deck tri axle behind me i don't think i'm going to need the tri axle but at least i have it right it's the only step deck available i needed a step deck for the slowd we're going to pick that right up and we're going to deliver it into rug beat north dakota today trying to keep us up north in the cold you know just having the load here we've got a crisscross chain in the front to hold it in there strap down through the middle through the top and same thing in the back i'd say we're ready to rock and roll let's get out of here there's a button down tight to have triple quadruple checked everything i'm gonna stop down the road oh hey i replaced my hub cover somewhere are you proud of me i'm in my truck here i just hadn't put them in yet i was chilly yeah i'm gonna put a sweater on delivering to a farm in north dakota near rugby trailer still attached as it should be expect anything different if you never know you always got to check anyway just in case forgot to show you my new headlights i'll have to do that next time i stop i really like them they look cool or they look good much better job pounds which will put me in the ballpark of about 69 70 000 pounds gross weight liver today i come straight back empty i got a load to pick up an oversize load to pick up in winnipeg tomorrow that's going to take you down to wisconsin good car you know a good car what a long ways for me 16 years old then the customer knows i'm coming i'm going to be unloading on his farm we're hoping to be able to get unloaded before the sun goes down that'll be at about 5 30 and i'm hoping to get there around four so we'll have an hour and a half or so to so that should be enough should all work out just fine i know i say that about most small visit every now and then living and spending time in i'll see these every now and then slight ride on main street west 95 slight right that looks like a hard right straight up right turn what do you mean slight right slightly 90 degree angle turn slight slight turn slight right main street or something close to a big city how about that then you can drive there anytime you want you know you can go to the hockey game you can go to baseball games new steer tires and newer drives so they're picking up a lot of the rocks it happened again guys got dark so fast i got here and the sun was still above the horizon i haven't been here that long at least hasn't doesn't feel like it's been that long i'm already empty but so hard to show you guys anything is so dark right away but i'm in the middle of a pasture i believe and farm in north dakota brought them some cattle fencing so now they can keep their cows and they got a thousand calves just over there makes me hungry so i'll show you my new headlights since it's night time now check that out all sorts of blends in look at this how cool is that i like it so it's got the halos those are my running lights and if i turn my signals on look what happens to them my four ways on here for you real quick but now my marker light over there just went out so i have to fix that yet right go and you got all the rest of these and these lights are so bright see the signal light still works well on the passenger side there that means the signal wire and the ground are good but the the marker light line i must have bumped or pulled on a little bit too hard when i was installing the lights on this side and i probably pulled a little too hard so i gotta fix that yet but it's an easy fix i don't know what do you guys think you guys like that halo look i do i just pulled off the farmer's land over there so he could go home and go to bed i wanted to show you these lights with my better camera gives us a much better night shot right that's just from the the halos focus on this light so you can see the difference very typical planes or prairie farmer just the friendliest person you could ever meet i love our farmers yeah get out of all these layers oh so one thing i don't like about winter the one thing one of the things that i like about winter not that i'm complaining is that i have to carry around all these layers everywhere right so i got my winter boots on here i got a sweater and i got a winter jacket and then i got my big fleece winter pants and if those aren't warm enough then i have like my big winter coveralls yet that i wear and then all of my face shields and face masks i gotta take my boots off now it's like i'm disassembling disassembling my leg or something yeah okay they're really warm i get uh these are my winter shoes that i wear they're uh workwear i got them from mark's work warehouse they're waterproof really warm but don't wear them in summer because they're really warm feet will get uncomfortably hot i wear these these are my other new shoes it's like it just actually got these these are dakota brand fitting as we're in north dakota right now i'm not trying to sell you anything i know you get it showing you my shoes okay they're blue look they're blue of course they are those are the shoes that i wear in and out of the truck stops uh when there's pavement when there's not a lot of deep snow and when it's not too cold because those shoes your feet will get cold in even with wool socks they breathe very well so your feet won't sweat whereas in these shoes you wear them for long enough your feet will sweat and they'll stink but your feet will be warm and dry all right let's get some paperwork all organized here then i'm gonna head back to winnipeg uh i gotta drop this trailer off in our yard pick up a different step deck one of those lower deck ones uh we call it boat trailers one of the lower ones we gotta pick up that because i have an oversized load to pick up in winnipeg tomorrow that's gonna take me to wisconsin it should be fun let me clean things up a bit here and we'll go just to give you an idea of how bright these lights are those are just those running lights right i'll turn on my dims and my high beams kapow back through cavalier north dakota now at night got all this garland and wreaths lit up leaders slide left on division avenue n d18 so this town does christmas right look at that big christmas tree off the side there every lamppost has one too right this door has been giving me issues too lights there we go so let's see what we're doing and now i want to use one of these these pairs of gloves because they're insulation i'm gonna leave this trailer here i was supposed to pick up what we call a boat trailer like i was telling you earlier it's a it's a step deck but it's got a lower drop than our other step decks right i need one of those for my load tomorrow because it's an oversized load and i need the lower deck i'm not seeing any anywhere like this is a boat trailer here but it's red tagged so i can't take this one right this one right here's got a red tag on it and that is because this one has a broken airbag mount under there so definitely can't take this one but that's a boat trailer see it has a little bit of a whereas where's an example of a regular step deck i don't see one way out there but the fisheye lens will probably won't be able to tell it's not quite as low right i'm so glad my bunk heater is working now i forget if i told the vlog already or not but uh this weekend in the shop i ran straight kerosene through it for a few hours on high i was told by google by the internet that if i want to fix my soot problem inside my bunk heater i should run it on high for a few hours just on straight pure kerosene so what i did was i found out where where the pump was taking diesel fuel out of my tank it's on the driver side i took it off the fuel tank and i dipped it into a jar of kerosene and i cranked her up and i let her run for like three hours and now it's running just fine so now i don't got to get it fixed so it did work google was right if you're wondering how to clean the soot out of your bunk heater you should be doing this regularly from what i've heard hear it running now that sounds good and healthy and no smoke and you see that solved my problem just burning it for three hours on kerosene if you do that every three months even every year once a year crank her up on straight kerosene that's supposed to keep it clean so that's something i'm going to do regularly if not every quarter every six months like every three to six months just to keep that thing clean kerosene burns a lot hotter than diesel fuel right and you let it run on high to burn off all the soot on the burner inside of there i don't know all the science of it but google was right it worked so if you're wondering it worked saved me some money a few hundred dollars at least and all it cost me was a twenty good twenty dollar jug of kerosene and i only used half of it so ten dollars of kerosene fixed a few hundred dollar problem let's get rid of this trailer and i'll do a loop around the yard to see if i can find a boat trailer i didn't see one oh this is one of these kind of likes to groan i know you're sad to see me go it's crying i know let it out let it out still gonna drop you right here got my tarps off here yet too but i can't believe how well that worked i kind of had my doubts i was like no this can't work very happy very happy and i think next weekend just to be safe i'm gonna do it on another cycle of kerosene i'm gonna do it again just to extra clean it because it's obviously been so long since this thing's been serviced at bunk heater it's a airtronic that's the brand name i should have loosened this earlier before i got in here there we go the thing fires up now right away first try i just can't get over that i mean definitely hashtag and press oh the flatbed life all these drive-in drivers you know they're looking at me right now all they do is they pull in roll down the dollies pull the pin take the airlines off and drive away just drop the trailer and go not so for the life of a flatbedder it's drafts to roll up i have a little thingy that rolls it up faster but this is just a short one it'll be fine so put that there pull this out because i'm gonna be using this so i have two end tarps and one center tarp the way i tell them apart when they're rolled up is the center tarp i put three bungees on the end tarps i just put two bungees on so i always know which one's my center tarp and i don't unravel this whole thing just to find out it doesn't have an end flap on it that's annoying roll it all the way back up for no reason i'm gonna be buying new tarps within the year hopefully they'll be blue again but for now these are holding out still got a pretty good patch kit for them these tarps all together are about 230 pounds plus all the snow and ice and water that gets stuck in them so probably 240 250 pounds just to look out of here i'm just gonna tie them right on here that way just in case if i need to go bobtail somewhere in the morning i'm not gonna worry about tying them down then right that's what i do is i take this toss it over fail what i do then is toss that over there like that walk around to the other side and the yard's quiet tonight take it from here and hook it onto my frame under there those tarps stay very close to me all the time this side onto this side of the frame giving a few cranks the rest of this going nowhere he's got to release that pin on there yet and here is the last thing i do decoupled and this truck and trailer or boat to have a divorce and separate they've been married all day i'm going to go and do a little bit of a roll around the yard look for a trailer if i don't find one i'm just gonna park somewhere in the yard everybody gets into the office at 7 a.m tomorrow well everybody gets 7 to 7 30 a.m they get here and we'll figure it out then we can't find one just an inch just to get out of the the pin lock there that's attached but i don't go out from under the trailer yet just like that and i set the trailer down that's what i call it i take the the air out of my airbags in my truck i lower the back end of my truck that sets the trailer down nice and easy and then go kuthunk on you but then you stop the airbags to inflate again you don't want to drive very far at all with those airbags deflated especially with mine i got those half fenders and i don't want those half fenders to rub on my tires they don't but you know they're very very close there's somebody there is that a boat trailer nope that's flatbed hey good day sir that's brian oh hell good day what you doing up so late nine bucks on amazon for all four bright two mine is one of my good work buddies here he drives uh that kenworth w900 that uh i used to drive back when i first started making vlogs in 2011 now those videos of me driving that exact truck are on my channel going to my playlist to the very beginning as far back as you can go you'll see me driving that truck it's it's a good truck and now i have a very similar truck but that is the truck that made me fall in love with kenworth w900s i mean i already liked them but it was always up in the air for me you know between the peterbilt 379 389 and kenworth w900 and then i got into that truck ever since then i've been a just a diehard and w900 guy that doesn't mean that the the 389s and 379s aren't nice too in their own way they're beautiful trucks i love to drive one would never complain about driving one but for me personally i'll always take the w900 and uh yeah living the dream here and uh so we're parked here at work uh brian's here as well too burnt down over there he's gonna sleep here as well he's got a head west tomorrow and i've got a head south the only thing is there's no trailer here for me there's no trailers at all like any stepdecks whatsoever except for the one that i brought back unless they want me to take that rental the the tri axle but from the sounds of it like the load i need to pick up tomorrow morning i need a specific trailer a type of trailer that we have and there's none in the yard so maybe they have something in mind maybe one is coming in tomorrow morning i don't know how early i have to be there to load i don't know when i have to deliver all i know is i'm picking up a winnipeg it's oversized and it's going to wisconsin and i need a specific trailer for it with a low deck that's all i know so i'm going to bed right here and figure it out in the morning thanks for joining me today i'm tired it's time to wrap this up so remember drive safe out there one second oh he's trying to hold it back until after oh but i couldn't i can't hide it guys i'm tired that's why i'm going to bed makes sense so remember guys when you're on the road drive safe please just take the extra time look one more time before changing lanes before crossing traffic keep your stick on the ice and that means uh that's sort of canadian for be ready for anything be prepared and so i'll try to get home to our families i'll see you tomorrow