 Good morning everybody, one right beside me, so you know what that means. Diesel! How you doing buddy? You ready to do some trucking? So a couple of weeks ago we were going from here down to either Buxton, North Dakota or Wappen, North Dakota. Today I've got two loads coming out of here, they're pretty short ones. We're just taking one load over to Portage La Prairie in South Central Manitoba and we're taking the other one to Ridgeville, Manitoba, which I don't even know if I've heard of before. South East Manitoba, close to the US border. Okay, Southern Manitoba, south of Steinbeck, which will work out perfect because then when I'm done delivering that I'll go home tonight. If everything works out perfect, it also depends where they want me tomorrow morning. I've got my big winter jacket on today, it's that time of year where it's a little bit too chilly for a sweater but it's a little too warm for a winter parker. It's not a bad problem to have, it's that wonderful time of year when it's really easy to sleep. I need it cool when I sleep, if I'm too hot, I can't sleep. If I'm too cold, I can't sleep. This, the temperature outside this morning is four degrees Celsius, so we're looking at just below 40 Fahrenheit, I'm guessing. Let's see what Google says. What is four degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit? Celsius is 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit. 39.2. A little chilly but it's going to be a good day. Got the weasel with me. I've got a new mattress back there. You guys watched yesterday's vlog. I've got a new mattress from Odyssey Truck Mattresses. Wow, life changing. It's one of those like super soft pillow top ones where it's almost hard to turn over because it's so soft, you know, you push your arm down and push yourself over and it just sinks into the bed. It's a good problem to have because you just, I just, I felt like I was sleeping on a cloud all night. It was amazing. It's nice having a new mattress. It's a little shorter than my old mattress. Let me talk about it more later once the sun comes up but it fits in here just nice. A little wider, a little shorter. The measurements didn't come out just right but it works just fine. I like it. They should get to loading me very soon here now. They're just getting into work. I slept here so I'm ready to go. Got all my equipment ready on the trailer. It's different than the black ones that we hauled last time, right? This one's got this this covering on it. Maybe someone in the comment section can tell me what that does or what it's for and why these ones have it and those ones don't. What I do know is that I'm loaded up. I have a tri axle just in case. You never know how heavy these things might end up being. Tri axle was the last step deck left in the yard last night. I needed a step deck for this load so I grabbed the tri axle. Maybe tomorrow we'll get a heavy reload. I don't know. We're pulling two of these today. This first one's actually going to Ridgeville, Manitoba. We're going to do it opposite from what we had thought before and we're coming back for another load like this which is going to Portage La Prairie. Weasel, you're not on your throne man. One second here, one second. My big jacket back there is taking up all the space. You get new seat covers. I keep forgetting. That looks terrible, doesn't it? Don't look at that. Don't look at that. Stop it. Oh nothing. Coffee here. Cups this week by accident. I have to make like three of these every week. Hey Diesel, what's wrong? You don't like your throne that I built for you? Look at this nice plush blanket. Nice and soft. Ah great. Street sweeper right at the intersection. Gonna have to wait behind it. Diesel, come here. Come check it out. Come see Carmen. Come here. Come here bud. Come on. Help me navigate, man. I don't want to get lost. Good boy. Good boy. You tell me which way to go, okay? Okay, man. We're gonna go left. We're gonna go left at the stop sign. I think he's gonna do a U-turn and come right back here. Yep. Wish I had a broom like that for my shop. That'd be nice. Oh, sneaky, sneaky. I was at the driveway first, man. You were supposed to wait for me. I came up to the road first. That's how it works, right? All right, so I'm gonna go down south and on highway, what is this? Three? No, 12? 13? Highway 13? All the way to highway 14, which runs east-west. That's the highway that goes through Morden Winkler. Been on that road quite a bit the last couple of months. I would take 23 across. That leads to Morris, but that road is in really bad shape. And I'm trying to be nicer to old blue after taking her down 280 up north last week. Take her down the better highway. Though the 14 is getting in pretty bad disrepair as well, but look at that diesel. Look at that. What a nice little town, man. Look at this. Look at that. What's this? What's that? Very nice. Very ethical pharmacy. Very nice. Got a tiny west. Of course they got a tiny west joint. Diesel every town, everywhere has a Chinese restaurant. I love Chinese food. Oh, what they doing here? Oh my goodness, they're building a building. Get it? It's a bowling alley. Looks like a fun town, right, Diesel? Very nice. Very nice. Sneak our way through here. Oh, what's that smell? Fresh asphalt. I know, right? It hits you right in the face. I like that smell, though. Whoops. There we go. Let them sing. There they go. The wonderful harmonies between the turbo and the pipes. The hum of the tires. It's like a symphony orchestra. Nothing better first thing in the morning. The smell of diesel fuel. I love it. Oh, we got some action over here. What's this? A fire truck. Look over here on the left. Diesel. Look. Fire truck. It's exciting, right? What are they doing over here? Just hanging out. Must just be testing it. Oh, Diesel, this is just our luck. Delivery down a gravel road. A Google bringing us straight to the farm. I think it's a farm. Anyways, maybe it's an open field. It's about a mile and a half east at the next mile road. It's all right, Diesel. Don't worry about it. Diesel really doesn't like gravel roads. Make some nervous for some reason. Man, you're going to ding up your nice truck, man. She's terrible. She's going to walk all over the pace. She walks, gets stuck in your tires, and you're going to throw it all down your people. In 400 meters, turn left onto Road 3 North. It's going to be a tight corner. I'm running to. Take the next left onto Road 3 North. Yes, yes, yes. I heard you. Yeah, that's a narrow. We can make it. No problem. Continue on Road 3 North for three kilometers. Or two miles. Of course, we've got to meet a farmer yet, too. This is going to be fun. We are on the farm roads. Highway tractors belong in the highway. We're now on the farmer territory. US border is just like five miles that way. Oh, we don't got to pass the tractor after all. He's going down that way. We're very close to the border with North Dakota right there. Actually, sorry, we're on the east side of the Red River. That's the border with Minnesota right there. I wonder where he's taking that thing. Big piles of manure over there, Diesel. A bunch of politicians sitting over there. In 500 meters, your destination will be on the left. 10-4. We're here, Diesel. These guys are laying the drainage pipe in here. You can see how they dig a groove in the field all the way down, and then they lay the pipe or whatever you want to call it in there, the drainage tile. And then it drains the whole field of water, or it helps with it a lot. I believe that's what it does. So I've pulled myself right onto the field, and we're going to unload them right here. I'm going to roll them right off the back, put them on the ground, and then try and get out of here. That entrance way there was a little bit small. Hopefully I won't have a problem getting out, but I could just barely, barely scoop my trailer through there. Just getting all my straps off now. Hopefully these things roll easily. Okay, now for the fun part. Let's put you guys down over here and see if I can push these off the back. But it's a lot easier. I don't remember, but if I was, that'd be driving down the ears too. Okay. Guys, you're complimented my truck. They're not my friends. That was nice. So they helped me unload, as you can see how struggling. It's not that it's hard to roll them, is that when they're on the deck for a while, they settle, and they create that flat spot on the bottom, and it's hard to get it off that flat spot. But once you get it rolling, it goes. They just did the rest with a tractor. Much easier. You saw I knocked it over on its side. It's not supposed to be like that. They can fix it with their tractor and put it back upright, but oops. It's going to be a little difficult for me to get out of here. So it should be fun. Okay, let's get out of here. The driveway is very narrow, and I could just barely squeak in here. So my rule of thumb is if I can get in somewhere, I can back out. If I can drive in, I can back out. It is possible. I'm putting my trailer that way because I want to go on the driver's side out, right? I don't want to blindside it onto that narrow road, and we'll just go around the mile road. So I would like to go that way, but it's just better, easier, and safer to not blindside out of here. See if I can do this in one shot. I don't know if I'll be able to. Got to hug this side. Like crazy. The car's coming. Put it in the ditch. Get stuck. How about that? Close here. I guess I can go in here, back in there, and then go this way. That way it's less gravel road. Then again, there's a mile. So there'll be a mile gravel road that way and a mile that way. Going back there'll be a mile. This way and a mile that way. So either way, there's a mile, two miles of gravel road. The thing is, I know this gravel road because I've already gone down it, right? So I'm going to go back down that same gravel road because I don't know. This might be a mud road up there. I'm not familiar with this area here. So the way I'm going to turn around is I'm going to pull in here. Stop and back up. Go back the other way. I'm going to put my trailer as far to that side as I can because I'm going to need to take this wide around this corner here, right? This is a good thing. These are farm roads and there's only like one or two people that drive down here per day and I'm one of them. Back this way. These are what we call grid roads or access roads, farm roads. The only reason they're here is for farmers to use to access their fields. And to get to their homes, obviously, because they live out here too. We're getting dusty today. Show you how narrow this access driveway was that I just backed out of here, right there. And that's them laying the pipe into the ground there. That goes into farming. I don't think the average person realizes. I don't think I even realize it and I grew up in a farming region. I don't think any of us really realize how smart farmers are and how much education you need nowadays. Like I got a family, like better farmers, extended family anyways, and friends that are farmers, like and they go to school, they go to university. You know, it's not just putting seeds in the ground and watering it, hoping it rains. There's a lot that goes into a lot of science. I think people who live in dense urban areas and like in cities probably, you know, have no idea and I don't blame them. You live in an urban jungle. How would you know how these farms work? It's definitely a completely different lifestyle. I grew up in a family of truckers. This is my life. And I try to show you the best I can. Oh, there's those politicians again. That's their speech next time they're on the air. Right, Diesel? Not all politicians, let's say. There's some really good politicians out there. There are. It seems like a lot of them dump a whole pile of that stuff all over the place. Different topic for a different time. I try to show you the best I can, what my life as a truck driver is. This is all I've ever wanted to do. This is my dream. And I love sharing it with you. So those of you who don't drive trucks and aren't around any people who drive trucks, maybe this is the only view into the lifestyle that you have. And in that case, I want to remind you that I'm just one of millions of truckers. So my life story and my trucking life story here is unique to me. There's a lot of other people who have completely different experiences, but I can only show you life through through my eyes, right? We got ourselves some action. A whole bunch of flashy lights over around this corner. Either not paying attention or going way too fast. These guys are flashing their headlights at me like I don't see all the flashing lights. Did you see that? This guy right here, thanks, bud. Thanks. Yeah, I can see the flashing lights there. Oh, here comes the cops. Somebody. Are we getting pulled over? Slow sign here. Yeah, that cop behind me, you know, that pickup truck that was flashing his lights at me to let me know there was something ahead, even though I could see all these flashing lights. That guy got pulled over. I wonder why. I'm thinking he went through the stop sign here or something. Right behind this first record that's facing us. That's where the truck is and on its side. The truck just got tired. Sign said slow. Sign said slow. Is this slow enough? What a mess. That's an expensive, that's an expensive rescue. Can you imagine how many records were there? The two big ones, at least, right? Plus that, no, three big ones. Plus that supply truck that we just passed, there's this four and then all of the support crew that's there yet. I bet you, I don't, I don't drive tow trucks for a living, but I bet you anything that cost between $6,000 and $10,000. That's my best guess. Somebody, who knows what they're talking about? Put it down in my comment section. What's a good estimate of what that would have cost? The only one in line, but load up some more of these in the morning. We're taking a load of these to Dauphin Manitoba from here, which is in Western Manitoba. And we'll see. I made myself available to work over the weekend to make up for when my truck was in the shop earlier this week. We'll see what they come up with. Maybe, maybe I'll be working this weekend. Maybe I won't be, we'll see. We've got nothing going on at home this weekend. So they got something for me. I'm available. We'll see.