 Good morning everybody, good morning, but once again we're gonna have to find a way to be creative and make this a good day. The weather's even worse than it was yesterday, it's April 13th, 2021. This is not characteristic for even Manitoba to have snow like this on April 13th. Where's the lane? Am I in the lane? I don't know, I'm on the road. I'm on the road. Oh yeah. Okay, there's the lane. Okay, good. That was in the lane, I think. On our way into work, we're gonna have some fun today. Can you just feel it? Can you feel it in your bones or is that just the chills? Look at this. We thought yesterday was a mess. They broke out the snow clearing equipment again. Crazy. Is that Bill? Yep, that's Bill. He's a happy guy. I've never seen him in even a slightly bad mood. He's always in a good mood, always smiling. Look at this. Look at this. Are you guys looking? Look at this. What is this? January? Well, it's gonna be a good day. We're gonna figure it out. It's gonna be a good day. Our parking spots back here were so soft yesterday that two of us got stuck trying to park our trucks. So I got pulled out and I parked over here to the right just to stay on a bit harder ground. There you are, my pretty. Oh, look at her. She does them. I didn't want to get up. I didn't want to get out of bed either, but here we are. Got responsibilities. We've got to go to work. And being parked out here, I wasn't expecting it to get worse today. The forecast, I looked at the forecast. It's not that cold. It's only minus three Celsius outside and that's all I looked at. I didn't know we were getting another foot of snow, but she's not plugged in all the way out here, so let's go see if she'll wake up. I'll just quickly check her oil in. We'll jump in there and see what she has to say this beautiful morning. Good morning. Or should I just say morning? At least she had a nice blanket on her all night. I mean, it's a blanket of snow, but everyone deserves a blanket at night. Okay, here we go. Let her do her thing. Problem noted here. I feel bad now. Of course, she's gonna start. Well, the weather is better today. We don't have all that snow blowing around. It's not so windy. We just have about six inches of snow on the ground. So I'm looking for trailer 546. I have instructions to hook onto it and go get the paperwork. Find out where it's going. It's going to be a roll tight. I see one over here. Is that it? Nope. That's 412. That'll be here somewhere. Locked up here. Oh, and this is what the load is. The whole bunch of circles, cylinders for you technical people, whole bunch of cylinders. I'm just going to go down here and check to make sure all the securement is proper and up to my standards. Like this. This is not up to my standards. I should not be able to move that. Let's check this one. That's loose too. Wow. They're all loose. Okay. Well, I'm going to go down here and make sure they're all tied down correctly and then head on out. It turns out that load we hooked onto doesn't need to be delivered to later today. So in the meantime to keep us busy, we're going to deliver one of our trucks to Volvo to the dealership. Probably need some work. And we're going to go pick up one of our trucks at Kenworth and bring it back here as a little swap. It's bob tailing. This is the first truck we're getting into here. It's one of the new Volvos. This thing runs so quiet. Sleeper's closed off. We're going to respect that. That's somebody's home back there. We don't want to go back there. That's all his personal stuff. This is what it looks like on the inside. Very, very similar to the old Volvos. They didn't change much. They just sort of, they made everything a little bit more boxy in my opinion. But she runs really quiet. And I'm sure she's going to be like, like Andy says about the T680s, like riding on a cloud on the highway. I prefer the T680s a lot and I'm probably going to pick one of those up. I'm thinking that's what I'm going to pick up on the way back. So I'll show you the interior of that truck too once I get it. At least the front area. Like I said, we can't go back there as somebody's home that's like sort of walking into somebody's house. It's weird. And he already closed the curtain and that's sort of a clear signal. We'll just stay up here. We're over here at inland. Andy wasn't in his office so we didn't get to say hi today. But if you're watching this, hey Andy, this is the truck we're bringing back. It's very, very similar, I would say actually to how the Volvo looks. But once you seat from this angle, you'll be like, no, no, no. That's different. Okay. Let's warm her up. Let's take her home while I'm waiting for it to warm up here. May as well show you around a bit. The curtain is not closed on this one, but I'm not going to go back there. I'm going to stay in the seat here. Look at this. I got all the snow in there yet. I'm going to wait for the engine to warm up before I move it anyway. I'm not going to lie to you guys. I like the Kenworth way better than the Volvo. Way better, like not even a slight comparison. If I had to drive that last Volvo or this T680, I'm picking this one every single time. And that's not just because I'm a big Kenworth fan. No, no, no, no, no. That's just because I like it way better. I like where this is better. I like that the gate set is higher. I like the gauges better. I like the design better. Look at this. Back here, you got a little table and a mount for your TV that actually works for the bed. The other one, the Volvos have a TV mount that's up higher. And sometimes it's hard to see the TV from your bed with the top bunk down. The only thing I got to give Volvo though is they got the sunroof right here. And I'm a big fan of that. A lot of people aren't. They don't like that at all. They cover it up anyway. But I like as much light in here as possible. So I would like to have a sunroof up there. But I am a little biased. I like Kenworth. I'm a Kenworth guy through and through. But I'm not hating on Volvo. They are very good trucks. Okay, Volvo is a good truck. If you own a Volvo, if you're going to buy a Volvo, go for it. Great trucks. I just like the design personally better of the Kenworths. I just think the interiors are a little bit, a little bit classier if that's, that's okay to say. This truck heats a lot better than both of those trucks. You would think the newer trucks would have a better interior fan, but both of those trucks that I was in, they were cold. I couldn't get them to heat properly. Maybe even just spoiled with this truck is, I mean, this truck will burn you if you leave the heat on for too long. It gets so hot in here. I like it. Okay. So we've got that load of steel behind us now, tightened all the straps in the east side of Winnipeg there. Get rid of it. The time is noon right now. So depending on how long it'll take, at least I don't got to untart the load. I just got to roll the, roll the sides back. Of course, always say that, you know, you don't drive a real truck unless you're in Peter Belger or Kenworth with a hood. I don't have the longest hood, but it's, it's a little bit more of the classic style, right? And this definitely feels like more of a truck when I'm in it. Those other, like the, both the Volvo and the T680, they, it felt like oversized minibands, you know, but they're very comfortable. Very nice. I'm not saying anything bad against them and they just don't feel like a truck. I like this truck. I'd like to just take care of the rust that's on it so that it lasts longer, but you know, one problem at a time today, I'm dealing with a snow storm. Let's just try to get through today, do something with that rust, at least cover it up so that it doesn't spread further or something. Do that later this summer. It's not an interesting day, but you've got to take it easy and you know, this is, this is what we do, like I was saying yesterday, right? Just because it's snowing doesn't mean the economy can stop. We've got to keep going. People still need their stuff. Here. Luckily, there's not much traffic. Most people, I guess, are staying off the roads, which is nice for us because we don't have a choice. We've got to keep the roads moving. We've got to keep moving on the roads. The less cars that are on it with us, the better. I wish that there could be a world out there where there was highways just for trucks, trucks only, you know, there's so many interstates and expressways out there that are cars only, no trucks, tons of roads there, but there's no roads anywhere that are trucks only. Speaking of minivans, those new minivans look like little spaceships. Wait, did I just say that it will out? Just because I like the designs better than the old designs doesn't mean I'm going to buy one, okay? We are not minivan people. We'll buy at SUV. I insist on having four-wheel drive on all our vehicles because of weather like this. Two trucks in front of me here yet, one each of one, they said it might, but I have a feeling it's not going to be that long because there's just a few trucks in front of me and I think they're going to sneak me in there and it was all indoors, which was nice. Usually when you unload steel like that, it's indoors, makes it a lot easier and faster. I delivered was 24,000 pounds, actually it was aluminum, or as you people on the other side of the Atlantic call it aluminum, I think you're adding an I where there isn't one. I don't think that E is there. West Virginia this morning, the Volvo and the pipes on this truck, the wintertime or on bad roads. Have you guys noticed this as well? It seems like whenever the weather is terrible, people's driving ability gets worse. There's a correlation there. You know it. Somewhere there's a scientist who's doing a study right now. As soon as it snows, it's like people will drive all nice and casual when it's a nice sunny day. As soon as it's weather like this, a big blizzard, they're all just pedaled to the metal. Everyone's going too slow. Everyone get out of the way. Everybody ends up in the ditch. We're just very angry at each other. Well, how about this to end the day? The snow has gotten worse and that's not the best part. Oh, we're stuck. We're stuck in our parking spot. You could say I should have known because it was soft yesterday, but I thought it would have packed itself down a little bit through the day today already and I figured I'd give it a shot. Rolled in just fine. I'm like, okay, good. Well, we're good to go. Tried to back out and so I'll talk to them. We might pull it out now or we may just wait till the morning and pull it out in the morning because I'm in my parking spot. So I'm out of the way. We'll just pull it out first thing tomorrow morning. We'll see. It'll give us something to do first thing in the morning, right? Hopefully it won't be snowing like crazy then. At least the pickup will go through anything, right? Oh, man. Take a look at this. I forgot something in the truck anyway. See, I didn't realize how big that drift was and I think I'm mostly just hung up on that drift. Yeah, we'll get it out the morning. I mean, I could just pull it out with the pickup too. But I need somebody in the truck to hit the brakes for when I pull it back. I don't want the truck, the semi truck to keep rolling back into my pickup truck. That's all I need. I'll just go talk to the yard guys and let them know what's going on that I'm going to be needing some assistance in the morning. Unless they want to do it now. I mean, oh, look, here he comes right now. I'll ask him now, this is Bill, got my truck stuck again. Yeah, but I was dumb enough to go right where everyone else got stuck yesterday. I thought it would be like, ah, today will be all right. That was a bad idea. I'm stuck. We can either do it today or tomorrow morning. Yeah, 7 a.m. Oh, yeah. Let's do it in the morning. Oh, good. At least I'm not the only one. Oh, nice. Well, I'm out of the way and I plugged it in just in case it gets cold tonight. So I'll figure it out tomorrow. OK. Sounds good. Yeah, you too. See, he is such a great guy. You know, it makes the workplace a really enjoyable place when there's enjoyable people to be around, you know? One thing I really like about Keystone here, everyone here makes it a fun place. Well, this is the ride home today. I don't know why we're all stopping here exactly, but traffic was moving along. These poor tow truck drivers sitting here. Yikes. Well, maybe I shouldn't say poor them. They got a busy day. They're making money today. For some reason we're stopped and I'm hoping traffic coming up behind us is going to see this. Oh, it nuts. I know there's a plow in front of us and I think there's another accident in front of us here just now and I don't think the plow can get around them maybe. One car in the ditch off to my right there wasn't too far in. There was another car here on the shoulder, but he's gone now. Oh, it's another tow truck. Oh, I see. Probably just finished pulling someone else out. Maybe that's why we were all stopped. They need police there warning like people coming up there because, you know, we were going a good speed here. We could slow down, but there's probably a whole bunch of people barreling down the highway here. Like nothing's going to happen. I think it'd be a good idea to have an RCMP officer out here just making sure no accidents happen. On there, Mr. Tow Truck. Hold on. I've seen, I think about four vehicles. I can remember four vehicles in the ditch just on my way home from work. I think this is worse than any snowstorm we had in actual winter. You see what gets people is there's these sections of road here that are doing just fine, right? It's just wet pavement. We can speed right up to the speed limit if we want to. But suddenly you get into a big section of road where it's all just snow and slush and people don't realize that's coming and then they hit it and their car goes crazy and accidents happen. Everybody's in a hurry, right? Not as bad as in the morning though. I find that in the morning it's a lot worse. People are way more aggressive and grumpy on the road in the morning. However, in the afternoon they might be in a little bit of a rush to get home but they're not as aggressive. You guys ready for this? I don't know if you're ready for this. I don't think you know what's out there. I've been out there all day, man. You're not going to like it. You're not going to like it, Chevy. Or maybe you will. Whoa. I saw the comments in yesterday's video. You guys all laughing. Yeah, put out the patio furniture and it snows. Look at this. Look how much snow is on there. Unreal. Unreal. I mean, it's very real. I don't mean unreal in that sense. It's very real but unreal. Look at this. It makes me sad. Not whatever. It's part of living out here, I guess.