 Happy Wednesday, everybody. Another beautiful morning. Week has been great. Good. There was one pickup behind me that hit the ditch just now in front of me. Now he went way in there. Way in there. My tow rope can't even reach that far. So he's gotta get a tow truck out there. The roads are, the roads going to be taking it easy. Feeling there's gonna be more people in the ditch because like I said yesterday, in the morning seems to be when people are the most aggressive. What's this guy doing? Well, it's not a good place to pull over unless it's an emergency, but I hope you got, well, I hope you don't got an emergency, but I hope you got a good reason to pull over there like that. That is slippery. I would say don't pull over on the shoulder. Find a road, like one of that gravel road that we just passed there, if there's no turnout or like, if you're not on an interstate or something, find a road, just pull onto that road, get off the highway so that people aren't gonna hit you. It's slippery out here and like this, all some icy patches pop up. If people aren't paying very close attention, they hit these icy spots and they'll start spinning all over the highway very quickly. So hopefully there's no big accidents this morning. I hope everybody's paying attention. We've had two days of practice in driving in snow now already for April. Snow that fell was very wet and very sticky, causing this to happen. It's just pretty much packing into solid ice on the highways. And we have a salt truck in front of us here who is putting this little tiny little line of salt right in the center of the lanes where nobody's driving on. But at least he's salting some of the road. He's out there across the whole thing, but maybe that's not how they do it. I don't know, I'm not a salt truck driver. Taylor this morning and head up to Arbor. And from my experience, it's always worse up there. Hopefully today we can officially say that Arbor is not as bad as Steinbach weather-wise, but I'm not really counting on being able to say that. But we'll see, we'll see. At least I get a nice long drive up north this morning. It'll be a good day. Be in my nice warm cab. There's Bill, we've got to pull out my truck. He sees me here. Is it out here already? Everyone else's truck here. Oh no, it's still over there, it's still stuck. All right, we gotta go and get the old girl unstuck. Good. If you watched yesterday's video, you'll know. There she is, just gonna need a little bit of a tug this morning. Oh, that's a deep snowdrift, I'm gonna go around this way. Don't really feel, oh, there's a deep snowdrift on this side too. But it's all full of snow first thing in the morning. There's no, I guess there's no better way to start off the morning than that. Let's get her warmed up. It's an adventure, always an adventure. Got my stuff for the day, including my winter jacket. Seems I need this thing more than I realized. So, all our stuff in here now. I guess I should put my seatbelt on to cross the lot. Thank God for Bill. Always in a good mood. Joking around. You can make a stressful morning, not so stressful. There's actually two bills here. There's a bill who works in the office. He drives that nice, clean Chevy I was talking to you about last week. Always has his vehicles clean every day. I've never seen his vehicle dirty. I'll refer to him as office bill. And then there's Bill out here in the yard. He's the yard manager. I'll call him yard bill. Both great guys, I like both of them a lot. It's gonna be a roll tight again. 605 instead of Stepdick. What's this trailer here? This is 546, just to our left. And 414 DTR, that's a Stepdick. Neither of these are the one I'm supposed to take. Searching, I see another one over there. I should know these trailers at the back of my hand already. I'm the roll type guy. The numbers, I should start memorizing them. This is 412 DTLR. I should really start memorizing what they look like and their trailer numbers so that I can spot them across the yard and tell you what trailer number it is. I'm gonna start putting some energy into that because I'm, like I said, I'm the roll type guy. I should know which trailer is which just by looking at them. And up here, one of them has got to be my 605. But this is the loaded lineup. I thought it was supposed to be empty. It's 411 and there's 605. The second one. If it's loaded, why would it be here if it's empty? Gotta be careful, it's just pretty slippery. I've had my balance tested twice already. Just about, bet it, twice. So we'll walk like a penguin, very, very carefully. Okay, we'll just waddle along. Penguins got it right. They know how to walk on the ice. Anyway, okay, check all the tires here. We have a tri axle with lift axle in the back. The axle is up. That's good. All the tires on this side are filled with air. I love it when that happens. What's this doing here? Oh, it's probably to stop that from flapping. Okay, let's grab that. And hook it on here. There you go. See, I guess that's still gonna flap. Is there anywhere else we can hook that on to? Okay, well, oh, this trailer, that's right, K. Let's remember, it's 605 that has the wires crossed. It's still okay that the inside ones are the signals and the outside ones are the brake lights. As long as they're on each side, it still tells everybody behind me what I'm doing. It's just, I'm pretty sure that that's supposed to be wired differently, but I don't know. What does it mean to be, to say it's supposed to be done a certain way? I don't really know. This one was just done different. That's all I have. Mud flaps are in place. I like these things. They stop the mud flap from flapping up so that I can be certain I'm not gonna be throwing rocks at people. This axle doesn't look like it's lifted up yet. Oh yeah, just barely. Just barely, it's just the angle we're at here. It'll lift up higher once we get on flat ground. Just making sure that they're filled with air. Not checking pressure or anything right now. I'm gonna get it out of this spot here because this is all water. Can't do much here. We've got a little bit of freight in here right now. And that freight that we have in here is going to Florida. We're gonna go on, oh, ah, no, no. Oh man, oh, that was just about a booter. That was close. Can I get through here? Oh man, everywhere I go. Nothing worse than a booter first thing in the morning. Ah, we're gonna go quickly. Quickly, quickly, quickly, at the pink one. Okay, man, what was I saying? Okay, this freight in here is going to Florida. I'm not sure exactly where in Florida. Maybe it says on here, where is it going? Wesley Chapel, Florida. That's where this stuff's going. We picked it up here in Manitoba. It's going all the way down there to the land of palm trees and freedom. Good for it, I'm happy for it. The rest of this trailer, we're filling up with similar freight and it's going to Mississippi. Just as good. Both of them are probably much better climates at this point. I doubt they have any snow there. And I'm gonna really hope that the snow from here doesn't follow the freight there for you guys. Okay, I wouldn't wish that on you. Okay, I'm all about sharing, it's caring, but I'll keep the snow here this time. Just this time, okay? Cause I like you guys. Next time I might send someone. Ice roads, north of Winnipeg, north perimeter. If you're familiar with Winnipeg, this is between McPhilips and Road 90. The next interchange, I'm going north of Highway 7. If you're not familiar with the area, just north of Winnipeg, onto Civics. There's snow like this, let's say in Georgia or Florida. Everything was shut down. Here, this is another day, this is just Manitoba. Do you understand why we ask you? Why did you, why would you come here? What are you doing here? I was born here. What's your excuse? Oh, it's gonna be a big bump, big bump. Oh, behind me wasn't ready for it. It wasn't ready for it. I wish I could have a camera behind my truck. I almost took out this little car that's coming past me on the left, who obviously isn't even fazed by the fact he almost died, he's still giving her. There he goes. Hand it to Winnipeggers. They may drive like mad men and crazy people on the ice and snow, but I don't care if you put yourself in the ditch. But I do care if you take out a family in a van or something on the way in, you know? Or if you take me out with you. How much snow, little did we know. Tuesday and Wednesday were coming. They would make Monday look like a cakewalk. Jeer ice. I hope the scale is closed. They have a scale just up here. They better have it closed. Cause that would just be rude. I'm already dealing with all of this out here and now you're gonna pull me into the scale. That's just rude. Now let's quickly get past these flashing lights on this side, or the lights that do flash when it's almost, get past the sign before they start flashing. This Petro-Canada here in Arberg. I thought I had to fix the air compressor that had unscrewed itself. The hose, the air compressor itself was fine, but the hose unscrewed itself, fixed that up. Today I had to fix something else. My washer fluid nozzles or the line must have gotten plugged. Cause about 15 minutes before I got to town here, it stopped spraying washer fluid onto my windshield. I thought that I was out. That's weird, I haven't used that much and I checked it this morning and it was full. I pulled in here and grabbed fuel right away. Well, I was trying to figure this out. It was still more than half full, so that wasn't the problem. And I heard the pump running, so I located the washer fluid pump. I found out that it was still pumping good. So that must mean that there was a blockage of the line from the pump to the wipers because both wipers weren't working. And I have winter washer fluid in there so it shouldn't have frozen, but you never know. So I just disconnected the hose, blew into it, that seemed to have fixed it. The simple things, right? Call the shop. Hey, my washer fluid isn't working, eh? Just for them to do what I did and I haven't fixed it in less than two minutes. That'd be embarrassing. Washer fluid again, must have been something in there. Maybe a tiny little bit of the washer fluid froze, but that's weird because it should be good down to minus 40 and it's only minus three today. So that shouldn't have been a problem, something maybe a piece of dirt, I don't know. An hour's fine again. Keep dreading the ride back with no washer fluid. That would have been interesting. But, Britt and I have our final IUI appointment at our fertility clinic tomorrow. So I won't be in at work for tomorrow or at least the morning, but it'll probably turn into the whole day because our appointments are spread out throughout the day. I have one at eight, one at 10.30 and now I just realized we have another one at 2 p.m. All in Winnipeg. We'll be sitting tomorrow. I was just gonna get him to fix it tomorrow then, but no need to call the shop. Trucker Josh fixed it himself. I'm somewhat of a mechanic. By somewhat, I mean that I can fill the washer fluid and unplug the lines and also screw on an airline hose. Not bad if I say so myself. I better watch out, they're gonna start asking me to work in the shop on the weekends. Well, which way are you going, bud? Which way are you going? Nobody? Okay, hold on, oh, now you get a, okay bud. I take the turn super wide to get around him because he won't back up and he didn't have his turn signal on and I didn't know which way he was going. And as I take the turn super wide, he goes the opposite direction that I thought he was going. My friends, that is what your signals are for. To signal me, to tell me which direction you're going. They're not for you, but I guess I digress. It doesn't matter how much we talk about signals. Message will never get out. And it's good news, it's a message of good news. Out of great joy. Turn signals. Well, we're gonna skip forward a little bit here. We're already back at the yard. Nothing too exciting to show you during loading. It was pretty much the same as other times I've showed you. I don't like to repeat myself over and over too many times, but this is what we loaded. This was already in the truck. I don't know who loaded that, I didn't do that. This is what I loaded today. This is these two pieces here. And these pieces are going to, where are you going? Hazelhurst, Mississippi. I'll tell you what, I might just tag along. I wish, eh? It was very simple, very simple. I had to wait a while to get loaded because there's trucks in front of me, but once I was there, open the cover, maybe 20 minutes when we were out of there, and I drove all the way back already. Roads were much better in the afternoon. The morning were terrible, but they did get a lot better throughout the day. So now I believe we're done. We're gonna head home. I'm happy with this day to day. This one trip, I didn't really have to get too, too deep into the snow. We'll say, I gotta sit in my cab for most of the day, which was a nice little blessing. All right, let's go home. Trucks are just parked all over the place. One over there, one over there, one over there, one over there. Wherever we can find solid ground, because everything is so soft right now. So I parked mine off to the left over here. That's mine. Right beside my old one. Had a little bit of a soft spot there. Even my pickup is sinking in. Yeah, well, at least most of the snow was melted already. All right, you're looking around. It's pretty warm outside. It wants two degrees outside right now. Give it a few days, all this snow will be gone again. That will be in the clear. And I think that time it'll be for good. I think that time is gonna be for summer. But, I just remembered, we have had snow on May long weekend before. Not this much, but I better keep my mouth shut. Anything could happen. They haven't seen me yet, but they know I'm here. Let me announce my arrival. Oh, I missed you too much. I missed you too. You're busting. You guys are terrible at howling today. He knows not to put his paws on me. Put your paws on me. I'll put my paws on you. I'll put my paws on you. You may have figured out already, Brit's not home. That's how I get home when I get home alone. She said it works still. So let's take these guys outside, shall we? Let's see what the yard looks like. Is it getting kind of soggy out there? All right guys, a lot of the snow melted. So it's a little bit better than it was yesterday. You guys ready? Come on. I'm on. One more. Oh, there he is. There he is. I'll go all the way in the yard. All the way in the yard. No peeing up here by the patio furniture. Chase him back here. Oh, and we got sheer ice here again. Like usual. You get him. Get him. Get him. Get him. Oh, I don't know what I was trying to do there. Oh. Okay, Diesel, that's not what I meant. Diesel, stop. That's not what I meant. Thanks for watching guys. Thanks very much. Thanks for watching the video. So you left your snot on there. You left your nose stuff on there. There. Sorry about that. Thanks for watching the videos. You guys are great. Don't forget to like. Can I go now? Okay. He wanted to be a part of the vlog, so. Commander, you wanna say something? No, nothing? Chevy, you wanna say something? You wanna say something? They're right here. They're right here, say something. No? No, you're a little shy? Okay. Why are you lurking out there, Commander? Making me nervous. Breathing down my neck while I'm trying to edit here. Anyways, thanks for watching today. Don't forget guys, give the video a thumbs up below if you can for me. If you wanna help out the channel, that's awesome. If you wanna share this as well too, that's an even bigger way to help the channel. But just by clicking that thumbs up down there, it helps with the YouTube algorithms and helps me out a lot. We'll see you tomorrow. Hopefully, hopefully there'll be less snow when we get up. We'll see.