 that Karen has now joined us once again to boss me around and act like I don't know what I'm doing. So this weekend was kind of interesting. We had a driver who broke down in Sock Center, Minnesota, and the load was going down to Virginia and had to be there for Monday. And so I was called up to ask if I could cover it. And I said, yeah, sure. They were going to put me in truck 3105. I had all my stuff moved in already. There's going to be a lot of fun. We were going to head down to Virginia and back. It would have been about a week trip. I was really excited about it. And just as I was ready to leave here, I just moved all my chains and my equipment over to the truck. I was about to roll out of the yard here. I was going to bobtail down there and recover the trailer in Minnesota and continue on down to Virginia with it. When we were just about to leave, they called up and said, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, we got the truck going. I guess they got it into a shop and they fixed it. It was a coolant leak of some sort. We needed a very specific part to be fixed so they didn't think they could fix it. That's why I was on my way down there. We were going to go to Virginia. It was going to be really fun. Turns out no Virginia for us. I was kind of excited because I got friends that lived down in Virginia, Moses and Colleen. And I was hoping that I'd maybe be able to run into them while I was down there. I would have been kind of cool. Moses was a groomsman in my, it was kind of a bummer. But in the process of getting everything moved into the truck, of course, I was going to take Karen, my GPS with me. Oh, I forgot to, ah boy, this plug isn't working very well here right now. Oh yeah, since I had it here at work already and I had to move all my stuff back into this truck to be ready for Monday today, I left my GPS here. I mean, you know, it'd be nice to have some company on the road. I missed being bossed around by Karen. She was an integral part of the vlog for many years. Well, first we had Mandy and then Mandy retired and we got Karen. Uh, so, uh, see how this goes. As I probably turned her off with a auto, Williams all the way up. This is a shot. I don't forget what it's like working with her. I hope I won't regret this. First assignment of the day, trailer 518. That's this right here, tarp load of lumber going into Winnipeg just down the road in the city. So I got to go there, take the tarps off, roll them up, organize all the equipment, bring it back and set it aside for the driver that it belongs to. Nice and easy. Come on. Come on. There it is. All right, so I tied this front flop down right over the trailer number. Good thing we have the trailer number on the side. We can double check, make sure this is actually 518. It says 518 over there. So there's three tarps on this. I'm not too sure what kind of wood is underneath it. I just know it's lumber, but if it's tarped, it's probably a fancy lumber. It's definitely lumber that wasn't supposed to get all dirty on the road. Very often they get us to tarp these loads just so that the road salt and road grime doesn't get onto the product in the wintertime. And since it's getting colder and it's already snowing up in the mountains out west, could be why. And other wood is just really fine finishing wood. It's expensive lumber and it can't get wet or dirty. Well, you get it. Tarps. It's pretty self-explanatory what tarps are for. Signals, brake lights, marker lights all working. License plate light working. Tires and mudflaps are in place. It does have tires. That's great. And bonus, they're all filled with compressed air. That's awesome. It's the way I like them. I like them better that way. They work better that way. You've got premium winter air in there because it is getting colder. And you can tell that it's winter air by the way that they are. Marker light, signal light. I'm just kidding about the winter air. I always have to say that because there's some people that believe me when I say that you have to change the air in your tires in winter. I mean, you can do that if you want to, but you don't have to. You just sort of have to adjust the pressure sometimes. But all good. All good. I don't blame you. I mean, crazier things are true, right? There's a reason we say that when you come visit Winnipeg, leave your GPS at home. Very annoying. They're very wrong. They're all going to take you right through downtown. So I've been arguing with Karen the whole way here, that this is the faster way. And no, she wanted me first to go through downtown. Then she wants me to go through the east end of Winnipeg and take city roads down McPhillips here where we are now. She didn't believe me to take Inkster over to Route 90 down and across. No, Karen. It was there a couple of weeks ago. We delivered that lumber right by the virology lab. Remember that? I've been there. She's still trying to tell me to take the long way around. This is why GPS doesn't work in Winnipeg. I've got to turn off my fancy Jake brakes now. City people don't like it when you use them inside the city for some reason. I mean, I think they sound glorious. I think they sound all, I think it's a treat to be able to hear them that close to your house first thing in the morning. What better way to wake up than to the sounds of my people? But no, people frown on that. I can get a ticket. So I guess they'll just have to be satisfied with me just silently rolling past them. Pipes are still kind of loud when I take off though. Mosey my way through the city now just a little bit. Karen still wants me to turn right here at Lila. Go all the way over to, oh, come on, Karen. First day on the job and you're screwing everything up already. I turned left up ahead. So I got myself in this lane. Karen, I'm not going to take the long way around. I'm not turning right on Inkster. I was just telling you about this. She's still trying to get me to go around the long way. I'm in the left lane. I'm not turning right from the left lane. You all know somebody who's done that. We call that lane diving. Diving from the left lane. Oh, there's my exit. Diving across three lanes of traffic to get to the exit. I'm on. Let's go. It feels weird being in the left lane. Hey, buddy, you don't need to take it so wide to turn left. That's one thing. Karen, Karen, she's persistent. I was going to say, you know, when people turn into the left turn lanes here, they often think that they're pulling a trailer in their little car and think that they got to cut into this lane to turn left. They could take it wide, you know, get that imaginary trailer around the corner. Karen, stop it. I'm not turning. This is a perfectly good truck road. It's like half recalculating. Yeah, you rethink that, Karen. South down to Logan and come back to McPhillips. This same road. Why don't you stay on? How about new? Okay, okay, you're not going to give me enough space to get by you, eh? Behind me, it doesn't want to move. And once you get it going, it doesn't want to stop. I'm not turning right on burrows, Karen. You have been wrong over and over. It's your first day. I think she's going to get fired. Then again, I like the company, you know, someone to talk to. I mean, I talk to you guys. But she's always arguing with me, see? She's always bossing me around, thinks she owns the place. First day back at work gives me something to complain about, right? I haven't seen a lot of complaining about my complaining in my comment section, so I'm trying to complain more to give the complainer something to complain about because I'm complaining. You think it's going to work? Oh, I get why she's trying to get me to go around now. Okay, okay, maybe I shouldn't have gotten so mad at her so quick. She thinks there's a low bridge ahead. A low bridge ahead. And she would have been right. But I need to update her because they've made this bridge higher recently that we can get under there now. She doesn't know that yet. Okay, Karen, you're off the hook for today. Violation. See, she thinks that I'm going to hit the bridge up ahead. Warning, bridge clearance. She's trying to tell me that there's a low bridge. It's just up here. Everybody knows the McPhilips bridge in Winnipeg. They've recently dug it out deeper. That's right where the train is going up ahead there. I'm going to go under the train. It used to be 3.9 meters and our trucks are 4.2 meters. But if you lived in Winnipeg and knew what you were doing, you knew that you could actually get a truck under there. They said it was lower than it was, but that was not perfect. You could just barely get underneath there. But recently they've dug it out deeper so that we can get underneath there. So now I think 4.3 meters or something like that. We'll see once we get there. She thinks I'm going to hit this bridge. Not true, Karen. Not true. But that's not your fault. I haven't updated you yet. That's my fault. Okay, the whole time I'm getting mad at her. And it was my fault. That's terrible. So it's exactly enough for a truck to get under. 4.2 meters is 13 foot 6. See? No problem. You see, Karen? You could have just trusted me. That's not her fault. Not her fault. All right, all right. Now she canceled the route. She forgot what she was doing. She got so scared. Oh, now I gotta tell her what to do again. No illegal route can be found. Okay, Karen. I know where I'm going. No thanks to her. Just up here we gotta turn the left onto Elkin Avenue. Is it this one? Where is it? No, it's after the train tracks, right? Yeah, after the train tracks. Right after. And I guess Karen doesn't know. I have to use Google. Google knows where to go, but Karen doesn't know. Karen probably doesn't know that this is a truck route, because it doesn't really look like one. One second. Oh, this is inconvenient. This guy's gonna block traffic there, but I can't get through until all those people go past. It was too intense for Karen. She didn't want to do it. Park up ahead here. See, there's another truck right there. This is a truck route. How else do we get to our customer here? Karen just, she didn't have the stomach for it, I guess. Park right here. There's a sign that says I can park here for one hour. I'm gonna take up the whole thing. I'm gonna call them and ask them where they want me. I think they're gonna want me to turn left down this road there, right, where that truck is facing. That's why I'm gonna stop here and call them and make sure. So the moral of the story is, clean your camera lens. Is that dirty the whole time? I'm sorry, guys. Oh, I'm gonna have to really... Oh, no. One second, one second. I'll clean you up. Is that better? It's hard to tell. Sorry. Were you guys staring at my fingerprints? There's a fingerprint on there. Is that dirty the whole time? I'm sorry, man. I hate it when that happens. It ruins all the footage, but I've got to use it anyways because it was a good story. And the moral of the story, let me click you back in here. Remember, the moral of the story is, do not trust your GPS. At all. Always double-check their work. And if you ever come to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Canada here, definitely don't trust your GPS. At all. At all. All right. Ask a local. We'll tell you how to get there. Pretty much take the perimeter to your closest access point and then go in from there. Okay, so I've got my paperwork out here. This lumber came from British Columbia, so I'm just gonna give them a call real quick here and let them know we're here. As soon as I can figure out where their phone number is, I'll always give the phone number. There's no phone number in here. I'll have to Google it. You can't find the phone number of your customer. It's pretty easy. You're just going to Google Maps and I have it right here. It should give you a phone number. Here we go. I'm going to give them a call. Let them know I'm here. Ask where they want me. Hi, my name is Josh. I'm a driver with Keystone Western. And I just arrived here. I'm on the street close to your location. I have a load of lumber from British Columbia for you. It's under a tarp. I'm just wondering where you would like me to go with this. I know you guys have a separate yard across the street. Okay, I'll go and take a look. Okay, thank you. Okay, so I called in. Obviously I got their front desk and what they told me to do is park on the street just like I am right now and walk over and find their shipper out in their yard. So I'm going to go walk over there and leave you guys here if that's all right and figure out where he wants me. They have a yard on one side of this street and they also have a second yard on this side. I just need to know which one they want me in and then let them know I'm here. I was right. I'm going to be unloading just to the right here. They just got to clear the driveway for me and I'll be right there. Seems everybody puts me in the back corner. Perhaps and my tarps off and then go get them on a ramp. I haven't seen them before but okay. All right, so I'm sort of off on my own back here. Putting my hand out here. I can feel it's pretty windy already. It's going to make it really fun for rolling up the tarps. So I'll spare you watching me you know mumble and whatever else I do under my breath while I'm trying to roll these things up. I'll talk to you after. I'll show you the load here. It might be a little windy. Just watch out for the wind noise. It's not too bad. I'm going to quickly get this done so they can get me unloaded and the wind is coming from that direction there. So I'll probably roll my tarps up on that side and the truck will sort of block the wind. Rolling up tarps in the wind. Good times. Good times. I want to show you what was underneath those tarps and I've got these tarps all rolled up now. The wind did not help. The wind picked up just as I started rolling the first one. So it was a nice day playing with very big heavy kites. Yes, but we got them rolled up. With a lot of things said that shouldn't be repeated on YouTube, but there they are all neatly rolled up. I want to show you what was underneath the tarps now because on my straps I got to roll up. It is fancy lumber. It smells so good. I wish I could share the smell with you. It smells so good. I've got to keep you out of the wind here now. That's why I'm backing up. The wind is coming from behind me. A couple of different types of wood, but on the back here you can see it's the kind of wood that you don't want to get, but I don't know if you call it finishing wood or what. Came from our west coast here in Canada. This is Canadian lumber. Western red cedar back here. This is a product of Canada. I'm not sure what's underneath there, but you can sort of see it up there a little bit. Yeah, that's what was under the tarps. And my compliments to the driver who tarped this because holy smokes, man. Did you spend like 10 hours tarping this down? Now, I mean this as a compliment. That was the most elaborate, detailed tarp job I've ever seen in my life, and I've seen a lot of tarp jobs. The attention to detail and the amount of equipment that was used in bungees and this way and that way and that way and this way. This is over that and that's over that. Like, wow. I'm actually impressed. I'm not even mad. I'm impressed. I took a long time to take apart. That was a work of art. It's a compliment to the driver. You went over above and beyond. Most people would call it severe overkill, but you did a good job. I appreciate your artwork. And that's it. It's all over there. Bring these, I'm going to bring these tarps back to wherever they belong to, along with all their straps. I got them in my compartment down there. Another mission complete. That's it, guys. That's the conversation for today. Don't trust your GPS. What I'd like to hear from you, though, in the comments section down below, have you ever trusted your GPS and had that get you into a tight spot? Have you ever followed your GPS down somewhere and you've probably shouldn't have followed GPS down in a truck? How about in a car? What are some of your best GPS fail stories? I'd love to hear. Back in there where it belongs. Zip it up so it doesn't fall out. Still, I'm still like blown away by that tarp job. Who does that? You could have sent that thing into space. I don't know what you'd need a tarp for in space, but hey, it'd be ready. It was ready for anything. Not a drop of water would have gotten under that tarp. I always say it's better to be too overkill than to put too little securement on, right? That tarp was definitely not moving, not even one millimeter. Very impressed. Someone took a lot of time and a lot of care. Into doing that and doing a good job at that. Hey, is it going to head home now? Tomorrow's another day. We'll find something else to talk about tomorrow.