 Oh, she's warming up. It's gonna be a good day That's not smoke if you're wondering. That's not smoke. That's just water vapor sort of a Little bit of smoke maybe It's cold and when diesel engines are cold they they do that That's how you know when they've warmed up when they stopped doing that for the most part depending how cold it is though If it's minus 40 outside, you're gonna be having white clouds come out of your exhaust Anyway, it doesn't matter what you do. It has to do with the temperature. Well, we're here. It's Wednesday. We're very excited very excited I'm here to tell you that Three more days and it's the weekend Very excited At noon today, we are halfway to the weekend And who knows I might end up working on the weekend What do I have going on this weekend? Britt and I have a lot of doctors appointments coming up I should actually say Britt has a lot of doctors appointment because you guys know that have been following for a while Just filling the new people real quick. We're going through in vitro fertilization We have a lot of IVF problem. We have this big procedure. That's coming up in January February March in the first quarter of this year anyways, so there's gonna be a lot of appointments and stuff to get to On her part and I want to be there with her obviously every step of the way Doctors can't find anything wrong with us at least not yet, but This should increase our chances of having a child So we haven't had a baby yet and we have been married since 2017 and we would like to create a little a little life form that looks like us and We're very excited about it so Anyway, this procedure is gonna help that Happen hopefully so in the next quarter, that's what we're gonna be focusing on a lot We've already focused all of our finances towards this. We got that covered now. Thank goodness We can start redirecting that back towards our debt again get debt paid off But anyways, that's what's going on in our life right now if you're new here welcome here down below in the description There's a whole description of what I'm doing what I'm at where I'm at in life right now This is a vlog channel. So it's a story channel a lot of talking sharing my thoughts and down below in the comments section We have a little discussion. You can leave your comments there I go through all the comments all the time. I respond to as many as I can Sometimes there's quite a few but I encourage you go down there be respectful to others down there That's the only request I have and I just share life from my point of view. I'm a truck driver in Canada So join the conversation welcome here. Don't forget to subscribe. I've been doing this for a long time We're on vlog. What two thousand four hundred and forty now. I think so there's been a lot of logs made already There's been a slight change of plans It has been one of those mornings Cold which means everything is going wrong Actually, not everything's going wrong. We're still getting it done Technically everything's good, but I am in a different Peterbilt My truck is not liking the cold so much The shop's gonna have to take a look at it. It's not building air pressure again Same issue as the last couple of times So they'll take her in there fix her up and we'll be back in it back in the old beaten no time. I'm sure This cold weather messes with trucks like crazy It's difficult to keep them running when it gets down like it's minus 25 right now. It's not even that cold But it gets down to minus 35 and below and it's it's hard to keep trucks running It doesn't matter if they're brand new sometimes if they're new that makes it worse because they got way more things that can go wrong And the older trucks, you know, they get cold parts break in the cold It's wintertime. So we're talking about this morning. All right, but we got to keep going So I hopped in another truck. I got this one going and we'll pick up our load in this one This is identical to the one that I drove on the highway This unit is 3099 This brings back so many memories the last truck I was in when I was on the highway And it was me and diesel was a Peterbilt 579 with an 80-inch sleeper just exactly like this Identical this is an identical twin truck great trucks and the driver that was in this truck I don't know what happened, but this truck is available now So in the in the interim while I'm waiting for my truck to get fixed I know they want to do a whole bunch more work to it yet But they're waiting for an opportunity for some time in the shop. They're very busy We have a really big fleet of trucks and then they're busy and You know everything's in a priority sequence, but there's more that they want to get done to my truck yet We're just waiting for an open window. Maybe this is it Maybe I'll stay in this truck for a little bit and I can do whatever needs to get done on that one Because I think my truck is the last one of the city trucks that hasn't been like rebuilt or had some heavy work done To it. I think mine's in line to get some more work done to it soon That'll happen when it happens as long as it's running and passes the safety and It's good to go and don't mess with my pipes. Okay. This is a message to them there. They're good guys I like them there, but when you take it in and fix it up Those pipes have got to be loud. I like the loud pipes. Okay, that those aren't a problem They don't need to be fixed. They need to be louder Loud pipes If you're gonna do anything to my exhaust make it louder, please So for those of you that have never seen inside of Peterbilt 579 before I figured I'd give you a quick look around in here. I Really enjoyed spending Spending time in this truck when I was on the road and it's very spacious It's a lot more spacious than it looks on the outside you get in here and yeah, the roof is a little bit lower It's a mid-roof truck. I'm 5 foot 10 There's a good Six inches or so from the top of my head. I can stand up straight here and in the front cab as well I'm just touching the roof. So this is about 5 foot 10 Just got to duck a little Yeah, just got to duck a little bit to go underneath that there Yeah, this is a bed up here This comes down and there's it's actually two smaller mattresses that Go side-by-side and then you have a bed up here Obviously just papers and stuff. This isn't my regular truck. So it hasn't been detailed We had a driver in this truck That's no longer with us from what I heard And we haven't had the chance to detail it yet, but I'm in the truck today. So here we are nice big bed that you can stretch out in and see my head is Touching the back wall here. Remember I'm 5 foot 10 and my feet can just barely touch the seats So a Lot of space and it's nice that this folds up here half the bed so you can sit down here and not worry about bumping your head Through for your cup holder there. It is an automatic transmission. I'm not a fan of these transmissions For one, I like to have manual transmission. I want to shift my own gears on being in control of my own truck 100% But for automatics As far as this one goes it likes to bog down a lot I remember when I was in this truck in the hills like even if the hills of Quebec or of Appalachia or Rocky Mountains It wants to bog down. It doesn't quite have enough gears. It's a 10 speed And I think it should be at least 13, but that's the transmission. That's in these specific trucks They work, but when I get to the hills I just turn it into manual and I I shift it myself just with a button on the little shifter there Yeah, lots of room Lots of storage up here and a fridge down here and a freezer a closet in here to Hang your jackets and clothes to windows on either side of the bunk that I would usually have open if I was in this truck all the Time is that like I like the natural light to come in then over here on this side you got an extra little Storage in there yet Not quite as fancy of a control panel back here as the t680 has Either two lighter plugs here. You can charge your phone right in here You have a nice little desk right here that I always used as a little editing space for my vlogs but Use it for whatever you need it for The t680 obviously takes the cake for me It is a little bit of a nicer truck the t680 sitting over here has that swing out table over here and a lot more space, right? But for a mid-sized roof It's a very comfortable truck and it rides like a Cadillac it rides very smooth a Neat feature that this truck has that most trucks do nowadays It has an auto feature on the thermostat here See you could like turn the thermostat to like 72 degrees and just press auto And it'll keep your truck at an even 72 degrees in here So if you're very fancy and you like to have a very precise temperature in the truck while you're sleeping Peterbill's got you covered This is what the exterior looks like It doesn't have the long nose for those of you not familiar with what Peterbill 579s are But it does have quite a bit of space in the sleeper there It's not gonna be my permanent truck obviously, but it is identical to the one that I was in with diesel 3099 So you may have noticed I have a box behind me. I have a new mission We finished our first mission and we did it so well. They gave us another one. That's what we're gonna tell ourselves I had to quickly run into Winnipeg here where they grab a few pallets home a few 24 pallets Apparently, they're smaller than usual Cuz there's already like four skids in here and they said they're gonna put another 24 in They must be like three by three pallets or four by three or something. They said they could fit it all so Here we are here. We sit here. We wait Of course being in this truck gives me all the warm fuzzy memories of being on the road with diesel That was good. Those good times Maybe one day again I'm having good times now doing this. So, yeah, I keep saying this, you know I'd like to just do everything. I'd like to be everywhere at once and do everything at the same time I'm only one person and we got a lot of doctors appointments coming up in the next couple of months So it's a good thing. I'm home every night Not too sure what the schedule of them will be. I think we had one meeting on the 10th got another one shortly after and Then throughout the next couple of months, I guess they won't be like all the time But every couple of weeks for sure So I want to make sure that I'm at home and you know not stuck out in New Brunswick or something like we were last Time that was a truck just like this that was 3101 remember we were stuck in New Brunswick because of a sensor Or something like that. I forget what it was. We stayed in a motel there overnight Yeah, I was That was good time. You know I had fun, but that trip We missed some important windows With our fertility journey here and stuff and I started realizing you know what if I don't come off the road This may never happen so to give us the best shot possible I need to be around home every day and then We started this Journey that we're on now But yeah being in this truck it definitely does Bring back all the good memories. I don't got diesel with me Yeah, it's not my truck. If this was my truck that I was assigned to oh, yeah, he'd be with me every day sitting back there Photo bombing me in every shot making me making me retake all my shots while he's bathing himself back there You have no idea how many times I had to re Re-vlog something I had a really good point. It was really funny, and then I rewatch it and diesel's back there giving himself a bath In what may be deemed inappropriate ways on YouTube. He's a dog. It happens, but I don't want that behind me Well, I'm trying to give you a funny joke or tell you talk to you about something serious My dog looking himself in the back there Yeah, if I was assigned to this truck or truck like this, I'd definitely bring him with me every day again I miss having him with me, but Definitely definitely not getting tired of being home every night and every weekend getting so much done And it's so nice to actually have family life at home right now But you know once you get on the highway and that gets in your blood. It's always there that that is always gonna be in the back of my mind That's never gonna go away That's why I say maybe one day we'll be back out there maybe maybe I'll get my W9 one day Well, let's see if they fit it all in there Now straight over to the back here Well, I get in here two four six eight ten twelve fourteen sixteen eighteen twenty Twenty the paperwork here says Doesn't say oh ten sixteen seventeen eighty nine twenty twenty. Okay, so it's not twenty four twenty Perfect Time to go whatever Frills up in my truck that time we got towed froze up again I don't know if it's the cold that's doing it then because they replaced at least they told me that they replaced everything that was bad on that air system, so obviously there's something else that's Causing problems and all in the old P But they'll get to the bottom of it, you know, like I said, that's to be expected It's an old truck, you know things break things break on new trucks, too You get a new truck and you get a whole bunch of different new problems They're different, but they're new problems sometimes they're even more expensive because you got to bring them back to the To the to the dealership to get them worked on for warranty, you know once warranty is gone Well, then that's when all the sensors decide to go out and there's a million sensors on all these new trucks They're all like a thousand bucks each if not triple that So trucks are trucks Well, this will be home. I mean the sun is still up and I'm on my way home, so that's progress, right? That's something good. The days are getting longer again. That's nice Glass is half full Yeah, that's cold outside and everything breaks in the cold But hey, we got a nice warm home to go home to thanks to our natural gas Imagine if we didn't have that. I Mean, I guess you could have an electric furnace Imagine your electric bill electricity is more expensive here than natural gas Even though Manitoba has some of the cheapest electricity rates in North America at what 8 cents per kilowatt hour and it's all I think it's like 99% Clean renewable energy in Manitoba from our hydroelectric dams up north Manitoba is one of the greenest if not the greenest province of Canada. I Mean British Columbia would try to probably pipe up and say hey, what about us? Yeah, yeah You guys and all your taxes out there man, why are you doing? It's just gonna I'm just gonna you weren't could you take my cow, man? What are you? Maybe Can I see him? I see him. Oh, he's so nice He's so nice. Look. He wants to sit and look at you He wants to sit and look at you It's Slimy already so slimy like the slime back on the weasel. It's your special cow Chevy, I know I'm not allowed to touch it No, you're not because what would you do? I want to find out what's inside We're not gonna find out what's inside diesel's cow. Okay, I guess, okay, I know it's it's difficult It's difficult. I know Stop you looking at him that way Inside you belong when you're inside. Well, maybe there's a squeaker There's only one way to find out Just saying it's a little bit of a frustrating start to the day for me with the Truck situation, but it ended up pretty good got to drive that nice Pete around all day You're driving it around tomorrow, too But I told you yesterday I was gonna talk about our crawl space today We have a small little crawl space entrance way And I can barely squeeze down into that'll be for another day on a weekend vlog sometime when I take you down under the house our crawl space under our floor is only about 12 to 18 inches high depending on where you are under the house and there's a Support beam that goes down the center of the house here and that's just about maybe six to ten inches off the ground See, I don't know if I could I don't know if I could fit between there. I didn't try I just stayed on the one side of the house I have to go underneath. I think on that end of the house There's a little bit of a dugout someone dug out a little bit of spot So that you can get under there and check the other side But Yeah, I went under there because I wanted to check on things. I hadn't been down there yet Yeah, our inspector went down there when We bought the house But I don't know if he didn't go all the way under there or what I went all the way To the front of the house here and I noticed that two of our vents for our vents in our living room here One second here. Let me turn the lights on here for you so that I can Share this with you a little bit more. So you understand what I mean? The duct work I'd come apart Okay We have two vents in our living room We've won there and we've won there and I was wondering why no airflow is coming through there, right? so I Kind of figured what was going on. That's one of the reasons I went underneath into the crawl space I wanted to figure out what was blocking it or what it happened turns out that the the whole pipes had fallen down someone had cut them just Barely long enough that they just barely sit and If you like shake the floor or anything they would just fall down just my luck with houses, right? So I went under there and I actually taped them together so that they wouldn't come apart again And I put them back together now. We got good airflow back here in the living room again, so we've had a little bit of a But having issues with humidity in this house a little bit. We've had to manage it pretty closely. We have a deep humidifier here and We have fans in all the rooms circulating the air but it's It's strange right in the wintertime that we have high humidity in the house When there's no water running no standing water anywhere nothing besides us and the dogs that are creating more moisture in the house There's no moisture in the attic the only thing I can think of is that it's a dirt floor in the crawl space down below and But it's been like that since the 70s and I've been down there and there's no mold buildup There's no mildew. There's a little bit of condensation on the outside foundation walls though The crawl space is heated. They do have a furnace vents that are going down there That are circulating the air down there because it's not a vented It's a sealed crawl space. I want the air to keep moving in there, right? So that it doesn't sit still so the fan is usually on on the furnace keeps the air moving in there So it doesn't stand still but it also gets heated that way and that makes sure that our pipes down there Don't freeze. Otherwise, it would it would freeze everything. We'd have bigger problems So that's where I'm thinking so my plan For this summer or late fall before next winter is I want to put a vapor barrier down on the dirt completely seal it off insulate the entire crawl space edges the walls the cement walls Insulate that off and seal it all off so that The moisture from the ground stays in the ground and doesn't come up and possibly cause problems in the future But this house has been here like I said since the 70s as far as I know that's what we were told when we bought it Thank you for watching and letting me rant to you there a little bit Projects always fun, right if I'm not working at work. I'm working at home, and if I'm not working. I'm sleeping. That's my life I'm an adult So all you young people watching me right now Get ready for this this will be your life one day. You can't get away from it. All right You can't be lazy. You can't let everybody else do the work for you. All right. Don't be those people Don't be those people Okay, some things you got to get professionals to do. Okay, I understand I might even get professionals to install the vapor barrier for me just to make sure it's done, right? That can be a kind of a a tricky thing. I've never done it before and I want to make sure that I don't waste my money and time doing it wrong Whatever either way even if I hire someone to do it for me I still got to go and spend time working to get the money to pay them and then while they're doing that I still that other work to do to maintain this and this is a tiny house Lots of maintenance, right? So get ready kids and appreciate your parents Because they're providing a home and a roof over your head and you have no idea what it takes to keep that there for you I didn't when I was a kid. I lived at home mom dad I had no idea everything that goes into owning a home or providing a home And keeping it standing and in good shape Anyways, I'm not trying to lecture you. I'm just trying to bug you a little bit. Enjoy your childhood, okay? Don't listen to what I just said. Don't worry about your future where everything's gonna be work work work all the time Enjoy your childhood. Go have fun garage bike What are you kids doing nowadays? I rode my bike around when I was a kid. Do they still do that? I don't think they do don't they probably put your phone down and go outside and do something fun, okay? Build a snow for it. I don't know. I don't have kids. What do I know? But I will I will one day, okay? Thanks for watching everybody and putting up with me I'll see you tomorrow