 Diesel! Oh, we got a lot of snow. We got a lot of snow out there the last couple of days So it's Tuesday when I'm filming this and today is a holiday in lieu of Boxing Day, I believe However, we're going into work anyways. We got us a load. We got us a job to do We need to bring some freight from Winnipeg to Canora. The load is ready at 5 p.m So it's gonna be a little bit of a late day and with the snow outside It's gonna be a little bit slow moving. I'm probably not gonna be back home till Midnight or later and we gotta be at work tomorrow morning as soon as we're able to so I guess Without further ado Why don't we get out there and see how bad the roads are it's gonna be fun I was actually supposed to have this day off At home but my co-workers out there and he had two loads to do today two loads to Canora and back and uh I was thinking to myself and that's that's gonna be a long day Plus he had some other stuff to do in the morning yet Two loads to Canora and back the weather outside is still frightful And the snow looks very delightful, but uh on the highways. It's not as fun. It's not as delightful when it's on the run it's all over the roads today, so I'm gonna do one of the loads So that he's only got to do one and then I do one and together we will get her done and then Nobody runs out of hours or you know freight isn't late or However, whatever would happen. There's so many things that could have happened today It's not going to be that great out on the roads, but we're going to get it done We're going to be careful and I'll do one load He'll do one load and then we can go home and we got a couple days. We got wednesday thursday friday And then we have a long weekend again for new years So you're probably watching this in the new year already in the future How's 2022 treating you so far? Let me know down below. What were your plans on new year? So what did you do you just sit at home? I'm pretty sure that's what me and bretcher are going to do We're just going to sit here and stare at that black box hanging on the wall It's one of my favorite things to do. It's a very it's a very nice box All kinds of stories to tell you. It's all right boys. Anyone want to go outside? Yeah, I gotta let you out one more time before I go. All right, bret is at work today as well She had to work yesterday too. So both of these holidays in luov or stats She didn't get them off. She had to work which is fine and oh wait. No, no, no What am I saying? She was supposed to work yesterday But we both had the day off yesterday We got to sit in bed all day and stare at the black box hanging on the wall in our bedroom all day It was great. Haven't had a day like that in years So we pretty much just sat in bed all day And we finished off the yellowstone series and I'm so frustrated that they didn't release the last episode of season four Along with all the other episodes. Who does that? There's so many things left unresolved. I'm not going to spoil it for you guys who haven't watched it yet But yellowstone is an awesome series However, they didn't include episode 10 or the final Episode in season four and then season five is supposed to be coming. I hear like 2023 That's way too long for me to wait. I have to know what happens and I have to know what happens now Awesome. Yeah, we binge watched all of season four yesterday in bed It's absolutely fantastic. And now I've got to make up for Gotta go to work and play in the snow a large coffee with uh one cream and shot of espresso in it, please All right, do you want to try apple cutter with that? Yeah, sure. I'll grab one of those and could I also have a sausage uh farmers wrap With uh creamy barbecue sauce instead of chipotle That's sausage Pardon me? And that was sausage? Yeah All right, and you said an apple cutter. I'm sure anything else for you. No, that's it. How do you do it, please? Thank you Super duper Yeah, it's It's gonna be an interesting ride into canora It would have been tough to do two loads in one day today. Thanks. I gotta pick up my load in winnipeg at 5 p.m Which means I'm probably going to be back I'll probably about 1 a.m. If I hurry with this weather We'll see it is supposed to be you know two and a half hours there two and a half hours back But I have to go pick up the trailer in winnipeg and then drop it off again In winnipeg when we're done and then deal with these roads in between Somebody cleared the yard yesterday Or today probably today. Yeah, there's all the snow clearing equipment there. All right I can already tell there's less trucks here. It's good. Everybody's getting back on the road Getting the wheels turning going past the big vanatoba pyramids here The snow pyramids Back here and start my truck. I'm getting warmed up. I want to get going ASAP. I want to get going now A few trucks gone already Now the rest of these will be leaving in the next couple of days beginning of our day the sun's going down Welcome to wintertime if you're familiar with winnipeg. This is dugult and the east perimeter I'm headed north and going to go around the north side of winnipeg and sneak in down route 90 Go pick up my 53 foot van tri-axle It's loaded with goods. I'm going to take it out to canora drop it there and bring an empty trailer back And then go home Now on a good day when everything is going perfect And you don't have any weather Slowing you down like this You should be able to get it done in six hours. That's from leaving our yard to getting back to our yard I'd say six six and a half hours Any other day most days something slows you down Maybe you stop for a bathroom break and a coffee break or something. That's seven hours Six to seven hours, let's say So we'll see how late I get back today. That's okay. I slept in so I got a good sleep Plow coming up beside me, buddy. You can't fit beside me in that snowbank. Just let me speed up. You're going forward anyway. Okay All right going faster than you I'm gonna let you in front of me. Okay. It was unnecessary But that's okay. Whatever go fast. He's not he doesn't have his blade down and he's not salting So he must be in a hurry to clear something Came pretty close to my steps here with his With his blade Hey a little bit nervous We got it. We got it. We're professionals. We got it Even professionals get a little bit nervous sometimes But if he came he was still like three feet away I mean if he came any closer, I could always hit the shoulder and give him more space The roads are only slippery by the intersection out here. We got some dry pavement, which is nice Just by the intersection That's where everybody who doesn't know how to drive in wintertime like floors it at the lights And then they let their tires spin and spin and spin and that makes it very slippery If they wouldn't do that it wouldn't be so slippery there Roads are pretty bad in the city Something's going on here in the left lane. I don't know what's going on run route 90 south. It's a one way here See some police lights up ahead That lineup has been back Oh, probably a mile already What is this? Are they doing check stops in that lane only? What? I'm confused. I don't know what's going on over there They were stopping. Yeah, well, he's blocking this lane here We're supposed to go around, but I'm not sure why Only I see We're gonna be very very careful Oh, they're bright LEDs, eh? I want to be sure you see them. We're all backed up over here And there's like cones In between that lane maybe that Is there like some kind of sporting event on today or something? What's that sign say there? COVID-19 testing center. What? Are all those people lining up to get tested? No way No way that can't be what that is. That'd be insane. Oh, what's this? What's this? Oh, buddy, buddy, buddy. What are you doing? Bud pick a lane Can't have both lanes There's two lanes here. He's in the middle of both of them. Does that lane end? Oh, I see. No, it doesn't that lane doesn't end. There's still two lanes here I have no idea. Yeah, that's all going to the testing site No way You're all getting tested. It looks like they're all going to the testing center. That's insane Never seen that I still think there's got to be some other explanation for that But it does look like they're all going to the testing center So our trailer's just around the corner up here. I'm gonna hook up and uh talk to you in a bit there See if we can get ourselves out of this icy mess they call Winnipeg Okay, you can see behind me. We got our box There's gonna be a late night a cone in my lane right there So I have to go around it very carefully. These people are coming up not giving me very much room here That's okay. Yeah, there's police there. There's police here Looks like the lineup that was in that lane is now gone. I think But where are they all going? Still haven't figured it out I probably will never know So this is southbound. I want to go back northbound, which is the next intersection Way up there by that mcdonald's that glorious glorious Pair of golden arches over there. It's wonderful making me hungry. I brought a lunch along though. So no golden arches for me today It's supposed to go down down down to minus 32 maybe minus 35 tonight Okay, everybody Don't crowd me too much. I've got to get around this little cone here past that there 46 just under 47,000 pounds A product in the trailer behind me. So the ride out there. I'm not too worried about as much Like I've told you before I have more traction when I'm heavy It's the load back here. It's gonna be a little uh Interesting if they haven't salted the roads by then I'm very surprised that they haven't usually they do Pretty quick. Here's our turn Going left my friends. Let's not make this too hard on me. Okay Hurry up there, bud. Hurry up. I'll just stay in the center line that right lane ends just up here We're going night trucking We'll see you in canora Should be about two and a half hours away should be keyword Just going around the bypass of canora Karen thinks I should go that way I disagree I think we should go this way She's gonna be so mad when she realizes that I didn't listen to her Whoo, this is slippery Slippery slippery slippery Hopefully that guy behind me is gonna stop Slippery bud Okay, she's on board with my plan now. All right, so that guy behind me was able to stop. That's good Yikes So yeah, canora is right over here. We're just gonna go to the east side of canora and come in on airport road It's a much better. Uh, well, it's the preferred truck route. We've got a green light here Oh, look at that guy. I didn't give her. That's what I need for my pickup I don't know if I can get such a big one just on a 1500. This is an f-250 here beside me You might need a bigger truck I'm gonna have to get something like that when we live out in the country though Oh, come on. Come on. Let's go climb the hill Green light the weather's gotten a little worse into ontario, but we're doing okay We're managing Slow going that's all Helps a lot, especially climbing these hills now having all that weight in my trailer The truck I'm in right now, uh I have it down below in the description of all my videos, but I believe it's a 2007 Peterbill 379. It's got a Cummins engine in it 425 horsepower and uh She's got some miles on her just under, uh, about 1.2 million miles. I think something like that 1.89 almost 1.9 million kilometers Just around the corner here is our turn There it comes. You see the street lights full spots in my eyes those led lights, man Read the signs now because I got purple spots in my eyes Friendly reminder turn your brights off be careful with your jake brakes and weather like this too I've got abs on this truck though, which is very handy and it also works with the jake brakes. So before the jake brakes lock up the truck abs will engage so that I don't Get myself into a pickle. There's a couple of steep hills in here. I'm with further seven kilometers So about five miles down this road yet. I think this truck is getting louder Maybe it's because I've uh Been on holidays. I just missed it Sounds so good to be back in it. I love the sound of this truck. Look at that house. Little gingerbread house So look at this house All string lights for Christmas That's that's neat. That's interesting Lights it up nice. You guys see that Sorry guys. I'm trying to roll through here as quiet as I can Kind of hard to do with this truck when I got a heavy load behind me climbing the hills My truck likes to sing. I hope you like her song Sort of got a roll right through this residential zone to get into town Now this is a steep hill here And I want to mess around here in wintertime and there's a car coming too. Of course there is Let's not make this too easy There you go. See I'm just gonna that's got to be like a 15 grade that is I'm sure the video doesn't do it justice. That's Busy road tonight. Yikes. Shouldn't you all be in bed? Got to work in the morning. What you still doing up? What am I still doing up? There's a question I got freight to deliver. There is no regular work day to trucking Dropped my other trailer in the dock It's just on the the other side of these nice skirts and of course My rear axle here was frozen So I just had to crawl underneath there and Free those brakes. So those are rolling now It's good This one I dropped in the dock already Time to go home Time to go home you What's up with that? That wasn't very nice Always crawling around under the trailers every winter Yeah, funny enough This is what freed them. I didn't cut anything. You just had to tap them Just tap them right in their eighth spot and they start working again Okay, rock and roll but a lot of snow out here much more than back home Much more than back home It's 9 30 I'm probably not gonna be home till like two in the morning. We'll see. I'm just gonna Get going get there as fast as I can and uh Talk to you when we get back to winterpack. How about that? Should be two and a half hours Should be around midnight. We made it back Maybe that was a late night late night, but it was a late start too. So really it wasn't Really, it wasn't anything like out of the ordinary It's just for some reason the load was only ready at 5 p.m And it's a seven hour round trip You know, we got back and it was about 1 30 2 o'clock 2 o'clock quickly rush home get some sleep Probably do it all over again tomorrow Hopefully the weather's a little better. What a nasty weather day this day was But we got her done and that's what we do, right? We can't just stop because of every little snowfall even the big snowfalls We've got to keep going to the best of our ability And it's tough because you got to make the call sometimes and say hey, it's it's a little Too intense. We need to we need to stop. We need to Delay this till tomorrow because it's just unsafe to continue. But at the same time if you Call it a day Too easily and if you give up too easy Well, the weather we have up here, you'll be given up every day. Nothing's gonna get done So we still got to get stuff done We we can't just throw in the towel every second day because oh look it's snowing again Oh, no, it's minus 40 again. Guess we can't work. Guess we can't deliver stuff That's not how that works. We wouldn't get anything done. So you got a In different regions the line of where you shut it down is different Obviously for a white-out blizzard that doesn't matter where you are We don't have white-out blizzards here every second day. We have a couple per year So you got to make the call when those happen. Okay. It's time to shut her down. It's time to uh It's time to make some phone calls and say we're sorry Things are out of our control. It's gonna be a little late or delayed or something Yeah, this is a little bit of snow And some extreme cold you got to keep trucking the way it is here And that's okay, you know, we learn to live with it. We learn to work through it Learn to keep our fuel and our tanks conditioned so that it doesn't gel up on us We learn to keep ourselves warm take measures to prevent ourselves from getting in a bad situation You know over the 15 years that I've been driving and 10 years that I've been Doing this specific thing All right this place I I've had to learn the hard way sometimes that you need to be prepared Sometimes your truck is going to break down on the coldest day And usually if it's if it's going to break down is going to break down on the coldest day Yeah, I'd be prepared when it's going to be my s40 you got to be prepared to Keep warming your truck if it won't run. You got to have Uh warm clothing warm ski pants or wherever warm shoes extra socks Extra extra hats. I have two tukes that I have with me extra gloves Anything so that if your truck stops and you need to call for help always make make sure your cell phone is charged Always keep it on the charger always keep it at 100 because you don't know when you're not going to have Access to a charger and you might need to call for help Be prepared And then you get it done, you know, and that's how we keep things going and that's how all your Christmas presents arrive and how all of your birthday presents arrive and how Your computer or your cell phone that you're holding right now how that arrived to the store and how You know the couch you might be sitting on right now how that got to the store You got to keep moving Anyways, it's time for bed for me. Probably for you too. Take care everybody. Thanks for watching We'll see you tomorrow