 Hi, my name's Clarence from St. Paul, Minnesota, and you're watching TJV on YouTube make sure to like, comment, and subscribe Enjoy. Good morning there. It's raining. It's raining. It's raining raining over there, too Is there raining back here, too? I have a nightmare of a load behind me It's actually a really good load. It just took four hours to tie down yesterday. It, uh a lot of little pieces A lot of little pieces. I'm gonna shoot you back to yesterday's videos here as we were leaving in just a second And then I'll meet you back here. I'm gonna show you the load after that, but I Didn't have time for anything. First of all, we got a late start yesterday And then I realized when I got there, oh, this is gonna take a little while longer than I expected I was done tying down and tarping. We had to tarp some of it some of it not all of it some of it I was on it like 11 o'clock at night So we drove till five in the morning central time, I think Sometime around 4 a.m. Here. I'm in I'm in Whitewood, Saskatchewan right now in Old Blue And obviously it's very difficult to make a vlog when it's two in the morning And you're trying to get as far as you can and we're at it again Trip number two in Old Blue It's gonna be a good one Just Bob tailing right now My trailer is waiting for me pre-loaded In a town in south-central Manitoba. Oh, just sort of southwest of Winnipeg A little town called Bronkild Manitoba. I Gotta grab that and that's taking us west towards Alberta Part of it. I'm gonna have to tarp from what I heard That's okay. That's what I'm here for Get hooked up onto that and we'll see how far we can get tonight yet I'm I'd like to get about to Balgoni the flying J there Have a nice shower then We'll see Alright, I haven't quite hooked up yet. This is the load Some complex stuff Now I was told. Oh, wow, that's sort of just piled in there like that. Okay I was told that something in here needs to be tarped. I'm guessing it's this needs to be tarped Wow Or is it just this no just these these need to be tarped. Yes, it had the red tape on it It looks like that's like the same as all those this they just left outside. I was told just the back part I'll need to tarp Okay, that would be that This is gonna be pretty hard to tie down It's not gonna lie. There's this here. This is just loose on there. Okay Okay Well, that's what I'm here for right I'm the professional I'm the one who's supposed to know what I'm doing. So We'll figure it out Right We'll figure it out. So none of this has to be tarped. So that's good. It's just that back piece I'm pretty sure It's gonna be a little difficult just to tarp the back part without tarping the front part too. We're headed to Alberta Beautiful Alberta north of Edmonton. So it's a longer trip. It was about 1900 kilometers or like 1300 miles or 1100 1200 miles. I can't do that. Let's see. This is our route Zoom out here. We're going to a small town Called Tangent And then we have a second drop in a town called Guy or Guy, but it's spelled Guy But they say it is Guy. I think I'm not from there. I don't know. Let me show you the load Come with me One second Karen busy pushy Here's old blue Getting a natural bath Always raining And there's the load Wait, so you see the other side Got everything tied down. It's all tight and secure I stopped several times on the way here last night to make sure that corner protectors on everything Wonderful wonderful and then I had to tarp this last little piece For some reason obviously because it's the most important part that doesn't mean the rest of the load isn't important Don't make him feel that way He's just important to her got my tarps extra tarps up there This all tarped down and here we go on this side and old blue is all warmed up and ready to go So let's get going whitewoods this cash one got another 1500 kilometers to go yet That's a ways in miles Are you ready to rock and roll diesel? You look ready. I'm ready my boy ready man. Come on diesel. Come here. There. Let's rock and roll You want to stay back there? Okay? You stay back there. I don't blame you get the whole bed to yourself. All right lights are on Truck is in gear Rain is falling down Everything is normal. It's just uh, oh I got a little tug there Very good. Very good Trailer is attached guaranteed for sure now off we go diesel Another adventure These loads definitely aren't my favorite when there's so many little pieces and it's like tin or aluminum too I think it's tin and it bends very easy. You gotta be very careful with it This spring has been just exceptionally wet. It's been very moist On the prairies just rain rain rain It's all we seem to see I Mean last year the last few years we've been in a drought, right? So I guess this is good. I Don't know what's good anymore. These too much water is not good not enough water not good just enough water That's fishy. Not good. What's going on? I was rolling around Regina Saskatchewan about to head up 11 North towards Saskatchewan or Saskatoon Saskatchewan What do they got here traffic lights? Saskatchewan, what you doing to me? You and your funny construction habits Come on Hold on Karen hold on a god deal. Let's Saskatchewan here first Look at this. I can make this card disappear Just about I don't want to get too close and scare them, but I Can get close enough to me wouldn't even be able to tell there was a Honda Civic there Okay, so you turn left you go against traffic you go through opposing traffic and you go up the wrong ramp Onto the wrong side of the highway and then they shoot you over to the right side and then you're off to the races That's a green light. You're my witness Here's mate Hot freight coming through excuse me Fines triple in Saskatchewan in Manitoba. We only double the fine in construction zones We're not quite as serious as Saskatchewan about our construction zone speed limits So Saskatchewan they mean business and The fines up here in Canada when you get a fine from like the police you pull over for some our fines are astronomical immediately Immediately I hear people in the states getting a speeding ticket. It's like I was like 80 bucks What were you doing half a mile an hour over up here? It's like if they start at like $400 there we go They spit you onto the right side of the road and you have all the freedom to give her all the way to Saskatchewan I've been stopping to check my straps Much more often than usual with this load I really they make me a little nervous all of this real like really light tin stuff I got telling you before you gotta be very careful not to bend it so you can't tie it down too tight But you also have to realize it's very light and the wind will just catch it and blow it right off the trailer If you don't tie it down tight enough So you gotta find the sweet spot, but if you go too far you can't go back. All right. You can't bend stuff back How do you know you I don't know you just sort of got to Do your best after doing it? I guess after hauling these kind of loads multiple times you sort of Sort of get it I guess but been doing this I'm in my 16th year of trucking and Tell you what it still makes me a little nervous when I'm hauling this kind of freight I don't like it. I'll do it. No, I mean I got to like it diesel We made it to Saskatoon Just sketching my tune You remember this place? This is where your brother had his surgery Little wiener had spinal surgery here You remember we went to the dog park. It was just around here somewhere behind us. Is it up here? I think it's just up here Saskatoon has like the best dog park Just massive. It's a huge park all fenced in and It's a it's so big you can't really find the fence Dogs just have all the room in the world to roam around and play with other dogs. We were really impressed You ever come to Saskatoon check out their dog park. I forget what it's called But it's right along Circle Drive here Just on the east side of Saskatoon I don't know some Saskatchet tuner in my comment will probably Tell you what the name of the dog park is in the comment section But it is the best one I've ever been to I Think diesel agrees right diesel. Yes, sir. It was very nice very nice. I remember it. Well just up here Yeah, so it's past Preston Avenue University of Saskatchewan campus because that's where the vet is It's one of the most advanced veterinary schools and clinics in the country. It's in Saskatoon here We're just getting to Lloyd Minster, Saskatchewan and Alberta. It's the same town both sides of the border Haven't been here in a while just at the scale right before town scales closed I figured it was safe to come in I'm gonna go check on my load and then we're gonna walk diesel and Then We're gonna keep going it's 1030 at night here right now a few other trucks here already This load is just chaos It's all tied down tight though Nothing's moved. I know it's probably kind of hard to see because YouTube likes to darken everything for you But there's the scale house right there Haven't fun It's been a good trip a little bit rushed And so far my experience with old blue has been the same it's been running I don't want to jinx it but It's been running very smooth. It's been doing really well Let's knock on wood. Let's uh Keep hoping for the best, you know, it's an older truck But it's been very well maintained So it doesn't feel like that old of a truck plus the engine is pretty new Only about 380,000 miles on the engine 600,000 kilometers, which you know isn't brand brand new But that's not bad. That's that's that's pretty good But these engines will go Oh, some say a million kilometers some say two million I'm gonna go right in the middle and say I can probably expect on this engine If I treat it right and maintain it well I can probably expect to get one and a half million kilometers out of it before I'd need to rebuild it again so A little less than a million kilometers I do about 200,000 kilometers a year. Let's say doing this two four six eight ten. It's about five years That I have About every five years is when you want to five years And we don't know what the future holds. That's just a rough guesstimate. That's what I'm hoping for. That would be nice You know, I want to keep this truck running. Of course, I want to keep the engine top of the line and nicely nicely tuned so that it's The longevity lasts of the longevity of the engine lasts into The decade to come. I'd love to have this truck running another 10 years. Maybe more More I don't really like all the new trucks I don't like all the All the new things that every new little thing they put into them is another thing to go wrong And I don't want to I'm not an engineer. So I don't want to tell them how to do their jobs They're doing a great job. All these new technologies coming out. They're really cool Really fascinating and a lot of brain power went into them. I could never think of that All these new little technologies that they add in there In my own opinion though as a driver who drives these trucks every day They're over engineered. You guys just need to calm down. Okay, stop trying to outdo each other They're already good. Don't mess with it. If it's if it's good Stop adding things to it because the more you add to it the more things go wrong on our end when we have the truck And you get all the awards and all of the you know The paths on the back for creating new technologies and implementing new things and adding this here and adding that there Yeah, you go home. You feel good about yourself and you get a massive paycheck And then we get the truck that you engineered that you over engineered I don't want to make this sound like i'm pointing at any fingers either I should just say we get the truck that was over engineered by whoever you know the teams that that do this stuff No one is specific really. I don't know who did it But it comes down to the line to us the guys who actually run these trucks who actually pay to maintain them They're the ones who need to keep them running to feed their families And we're running into big problems because there's too many things on here now that can go wrong And that's why I went with an older truck. You know the older the truck It seems the less things that there that there are that could go wrong But you know that could I could come back to bite me too in old trucks in old truck You need to fix them when they break you got to fix it and uh You know Buying a truck's a risk this truck buying this truck was a risk. It was gamble It was an educated gamble though. Uh by that. I mean it was an educated guess. It was an estimate uh A calculated choice. I didn't just jump into it. I've been thinking about it for a while and uh, I did a lot of research Into this specific truck too Uh And like I said the owner who had it before me. It was a great guy I didn't know him before this transaction, but now I know him Fantastic guy fantastic guy really glad I bought a truck off of him and that I can continue his tradition of maintenance Uh that he had on there that he can feel comfortable knowing that he's giving his His baby to someone who will treat it just as good. Maybe better. I don't know. I don't know if I could treat it better than him He did a really good job, but at least I could at par same same same thing, right? Uh, so I felt good about it had a good gut feeling about it I felt good in my heart and in my soul about it And uh, I went for it dove in See the the thing about uh taking risks in life is eventually you just have to jump in the deep end and and swim learn to swim The only advice I can give you though is before you jump into the deep end of the pool Just make sure that there's water in the pool Okay, that's what I mean by making calculated decisions Like do your research figure things out And you got some dust on you. Excuse me. It's probably been there the whole time But it figures things out first make sure that when you jump in the deep end there's actually water in the pool Because if you jump into the deep end and there's no water in the pool You're gonna hit the bottom and it's gonna hurt. You're gonna hit the bottom and smack down and you're gonna You're gonna turn into a little pancake. It's gonna be a big mess And now you're at the deep end of the pool and there's no ladder to get you out. How do you get out of a pool? And then you realize it's all deep end. There's no way now. You're stuck in this empty hole in the ground, right? First make sure there's water in the pool Then you jump in the deep end and you learn and you tread water you swim and eventually you start doing laps. All right That's my analogy for tonight. I'm feeling feeling quite And and now and now a jedical Did it make sense It's late. I need to get truckin We've passed midnight I've gotten my extra time on the clock there You get to go diesel. You just had a late supper Oh, it's such a messed up schedule right now Let's get out of here Some people ask if I uh have asked me if I float the gears or if I clutch To be honest with you, I don't even know anybody who uses the clutch Except to start So no, I don't I only use the clutch to get going stop sign. There is a stop sign for me over there Casino found a parking spot Sun's starting to come up time to go to bed Though we're pretty far north right now The sun doesn't really go down It's just always up It's almost as dark as it gets Yeah, yeah, yeah, how do I get back to where the truck parking is? I gotta go around the back of the store or what? This thing's so And everybody knew this truck stop was here. This might be a new one Gas here is a dollar 86 per liter. I hate to say it, but that's cheap juice It's 209 in manitoba. It's about uh A little five bucks a gallon american Maybe a little more 550 185 years probably around probably all around five When you do the conversions and we'll find some park here There's a bit of a drop off here. I'm glad I saw that slow down. There it is. So it wasn't so bad Could have parked there, but now I want to go park further in the back by myself I got a walk diesel so I like to be on my own in the back Definitely ready to lay my head down. That's for sure. We'll unload this freight first thing tomorrow Hey diesel, so park back here. I'll buy ourselves So I'm actually probably just let it roll back Since we're on a hill. Hey, I think that's good. That is the end of the day ladies and gentlemen Diesel you ready to go out man I'm ready to go to bed. I'm gonna take him out and go to bed. Thanks for hanging out with me today It's mostly just road footage uh head cam. Hope you guys like that It's been a rushed kind of day. So I did what I could Now I gotta rush to bed and rush to sleep because in the morning I got a rush to the customer And then hopefully we could take it easy on the way back Ah, my voice is even going all over the place. I'm tired But it will be on the way home. So of course it's gonna be rushed All right diesel we'll say anything yet Yeah He's good. He's good. All right, everybody. We'll uh, we'll see you tomorrow for the delivery. I got two stops