 I had a dream just now before I woke up that I had a lush head of hair. So much I could like run my fingers through it and style it. What's up, big Frank? Our apple tree is still continuing to blossom here. I think it's fully, fully blossom now. It looks really nice in the springtime, right? But in fall time it gets a little bit annoying, I'm sure, even though we haven't been here through a fall yet because all those apples fall to the ground and then we have to pick them up or the dogs will start eating them and it's not that that would be bad but they get rotten. I don't want them eating rotten apples. So we're remembering the camera today. Yesterday I left you guys at home by accident so you guys had the day off yesterday. I hope you enjoyed it. Those dreams can seem so real. Weird. I've never had hair like that. My hair grows funny though, even on my face, like my beard. It grows in a swoosh. It starts from here and it grows this way. So if I want to grow it long I have to get it past that awkward phase where it's just like growing all crooked and then after that I got to use a bunch of like beard products and then comb it out a couple times a day to make sure it stays straight. So I just keep it shorter, I think it looks cleaner. Not too short but just short enough. I can't shave it all the way off because I look ridiculous without a beard so thank God I'm not losing the hair on my face. Anyway, hair aside, it's time to go do some trucking. I've already got my instructions for today. We are once again heading up to Aarburg. Distinguished. Yes. I'm going to head up there, we're going to pick up some freight, we're going to bring it back. It's going to be great. It's going to be a good day even though it's going to rain later today. It's going to be a good day because it's probably going to be a pretty good thunderstorm so we're going to get, probably get a little bit of a light so this evening I hope. And then it's going to rain the rest of the week and all of next week. But that's good because the farmers need it and we need food. I really like food, I like to have food every day. So I'm kind of obsessed with it just a little bit. So if it's good for the farmers, they make the food, it's a good thing. There's a little song about that too isn't there, a little rain is a good thing. I'm talking about something totally different but we're going to make the most of it. Hey at least we got a truck waiting for us to drive around today and burn some diesel fuel. So I've been trying an experiment with my pickup. I've been putting for the past two weeks I put premium fuel in here, 91 octane. I wanted to see if it would really make a difference. Right off the bat I noticed that the engine ran a lot quieter and after two weeks I'm actually getting better fuel mileage which is what I expect both of those things. I don't know if the savings and fuel mileage will pay for the extra price of 91 octane but it is helping out a lot. Like I'm averaging, well the Americans don't understand leaders, I understand that but that's what I speak in and I'm saving about a liter per hundred kilometers. So that's the savings of what I drive about a hundred kilometers a day so that's the savings of about $1.40 per day right now or $1.30 per day at regular gas prices at premium gas prices are about $1.41 I think, $1.42 I think that's where it's at. About $1.30 per day I drive five days per week that's six, seven bucks a day and it costs about an extra ten bucks to fill the tank so I'm still losing out money I'm not balancing out at all it still costs more money to run premium but in the long run a couple more bucks a week in fuel I think it treats my truck a lot better, the truck's paid off so I don't have any truck payments on it I don't know what are you guys running your vehicles your personal vehicles do you run regular medium premium what do they call it where you live do they still call it premium there like the best of the best fuel I feel it's shell they got the best gas and the best fuels and they call it their V-Power I think, V-Power, nothing we're not taking the best fuel you can get something like that I don't know it says on their pump I used to fuel at co-op in Steinbach because at co-op you get money back at the end of the year but co-op for some reason where I'm at here I think it's saying that co-op they hang on to half of it and they don't give it to you until you retire or as Red River co-op they'll give you the whole check back you get like something like seven to eight cents back per liter at the end of the year so I don't know why St. Enkole holds on to half it without even asking I never asked them to do that I don't want them to do that but they do it anyway so I have money sitting in their bank account that they won't give me until I retire and I didn't like that at all I don't like them taking my money and holding on to it for me especially in the inflation climate we're in right now I want to invest that summer where it's gonna gain money and not lose value or gain value not even but no I can't get it out of them so I stopped fueling there maybe angry you're gonna hold on to my money fine just go get air miles at Shell even though I can't really fly anywhere right now hey I'll have a bunch of air miles you guys have any special promos where you feel like I don't know let's just get to the truck yeah let's go do some trucking so we got a hookup to a roll tight right away and head up there we're gonna be grabbing a step deck which they don't always open the best so it'll be a little interesting but the guys up there I'm hoping will give me a hand if I need it if not I'll just struggle away till it's open that's okay there she is let's go check the oil I'm assuming the oil is exactly where it was yesterday as it always is doesn't burn it burns a little bit a little bit towards the end of the oil's life when they're about to do a service again you can tell that it's gone down just a little bit on the dipstick it's not bad for a truck that's got over a million miles and since it's a city truck now it gets beat up a little bit more than a highway truck not intentionally we don't we're not rough on it intentionally but you know it's constantly stop start stop start because you're in the city and you know hooking up to the trailer unhooking all the time so it just it gets used more regularly than just a truck just rolling down the highway all day anyways it's still doing really good it's got a Cummins engine in there the engine does need some work around a little rough when it's cold but they know about it and so far it's it's still still running great I like it anyway okay I'm gonna get my stuff in there I'm gonna get myself in there I'm gonna buckle myself in so it won't fall out we're gonna go on up to Arberg it's gonna be a good day lights are working trailer still filling up with air back here for some reason this trailer specific takes forever to fill up it must have a very big air tank it's got three axles so always takes a little longer to get this thing ready to go once I give it air you know that's okay as long as it does work air suspension filling up in the back here that's good all of our lights working back here license plate light working these are all last shut oh fantastic a big mess and a big mess on the fly just swept this one out last time I loaded it like last week it's all just filthy again and what's with all this here okay well guess we're just going to take a few minutes here and get this organized gonna do my gloves I should have been expecting this right I was just expecting to come in here make sure the trailer was empty we'll clean it up so we just got going a little further behind than I wanted to be wanted to be a half hour down the road already but I had to clean up this trailer I will say hello to Wilbert and all his cousins here today or good old Canada geese friends running a little bit further behind than where I wanted to be because I had to clean up and organize inside the trailer let's see where our friends are in any of their little baby geese yet don't sleep in or what bunch of lazy geese it's time to get up only three of them our geese friends at least we haven't seen too many get that have been hit this year yet those things can do some damage to your vehicle especially if you got a car that rode rides a little lower even a pickup like anything all the bumpers of today are mostly like plastic or aluminum or whatever those geese still damage your car discovered that there are some of you that live around here you came and said hi to me last time I was out here waiting to get loaded special shout out to you guys nice little town I got going on here I don't know exactly how big it is or how many people live here like I said I'm guessing oh no more than a couple thousand mr. fancy pants watch out I'm coming nice Lincoln want to ding that thing up with his old truck she smiled at me so at least she's nice Mrs. Fancy pants oh nice those luxury vehicles are until you get in them we move a lot of cars as you know and a lot of very nice cars and every now and then I get to physically move them off the trailer or whatever or just haul them in the trailer and you can take a peek inside and the the options that come with these cars are insane years ago not even 50 years ago 10 years ago my pickup truck would be considered like the Cadillac of trucks you know it's got mobile Wi-Fi on it it's got a touch screen monitor and it's just a basic work truck right now you know air conditioning power windows a couple of decades ago I would have been driving I would have been mr. fancy pants you know but now you get into like a Cadillac nowadays and everything is like a digital touch screen the entire thing and that's just a Cadillac then you go up in brands you know you start getting into your Porsche's Bentley's Aston Martins start getting into the supercars like you know the 4 GT or the the Lamborghini's Ferrari's and it makes my pickup truck look like a primitive thing from 100 years ago the amazing what they put into these vehicles it's just never would have known if I wouldn't have sat in one because why would I be at a Lamborghini dealership right why would I be at a Bentley dealership you can be like hey this guy can't afford one of our cars what's he doing here security security get this truck to George guy out of here this is a gentleman's establishment that's where we pick up our freight I know the shippers there very well they actually watch my video so hey guys shout out to YouTube hopefully they don't got too much right but if they do that's okay too at least it's not raining up here the sky looks like it's blue here further south in Steinbeck it's supposed to have thunderstorms later on this afternoon I think I told you that already I'm looking forward to that I'm hoping we're gonna have a really good thunderstorm I mean if it's already going to be raining we may as well make it worth it and just have a an awesome thunder and lightning show I love thunderstorms as long as the lightning doesn't hit anything that starts a fire I mean I just like the loud bangs it was a very small pickup probably just like 1500 pounds or so I haven't checked the paperwork it's very small I put it on the tail of the trailer and once I get it to the yard they can do what they want with it they're either gonna add something more to the trailer or add it to another trailer we're coming into too long here so Arberg and too long you guys know those names very well already because that's where I always seem to find myself I have a regular pickup here and regulars out in Arberg but if I go up to Arberg I always stop in too long at the co-op here anyway this is my coffee stop and bathroom stop I'll stop here to use their washrooms real quick and then I don't like going into a business and using their washrooms and not buying anything I always feel bad about that so I always go in there I buy a buy coffee and use their washroom and then this is exactly halfway between work and Arberg so it's a bit halfway point just a quick five ten minutes stop and we're on our way it's just up here on the left I'm here almost almost every day it's even because even when I come to too long I usually stop here anyway almost every day I'm sure they know me by now nice little small town you know gas bar general store you got the diesel pumps here I fuel across the street at the Petro-Canada if I if I need to get fuel while I'm out here I don't have a fuel card for co-op just go around the back here and unless if somebody parked back here and blocked it that's always nice and they got a little truck parking area and over here I usually just park right along the fence dragging my trailer into the fence that is key there you go see you come back here you hook it back around and you line yourself right up here beside this like super fast-looking van it's been here for weeks kind of spoiler on the top and everything that is fancy that's actually pretty cool I like those old vans really travel vans I think you can get like a bed in there a little sink maybe travel around on those things people used to do it all the time put myself I am officially off duty for the next few minutes I'm gonna go grab my coffee and he won't head and down how many of you stop at this place here you guys know what this co-op is have you been here before it's a nice little place very clean inside and while we're stopped here let's go check on our freight make sure everything is still as it should be if I left it okay there she is everything looks as it should beautiful oh hey look oh these things are awesome I take that he's all good yeah straps are still tight a little mouse I was supposed to be like that we all got a crate in the back there all of those spool looking things are strapped down onto this piece that strap down to the deck try not to bonk my head on the way out walk this bad boy up aren't you lining up here usually it just lines right up and then just like every time when I stop just do a walk around the trailer and make sure everything's in order again make sure there's air in the tires make sure nothing's hanging off if you have compartments on the side of your trailer where you put equipment and stuff make sure the doors are latch shut properly sure these are all latched properly back here what's this doesn't need to be hanging out here oh it's just part of the there's an X across an X that goes in here two straps that stop the trailer from wobbling so much it's supposed to be there everything's looking good to me wonderful we've got our coffee somebody's getting us banking we just passed the scale too so I wonder if it is the trucker cops MOT over for all his signals aren't working properly now I need to get into that lane are you guys all going so slow now this guy right here is a trucker cop stay back there don't turn your lights on oh it was a good day just like we said it would be it was a good day it's not over yet though it was supposed to be raining this afternoon instead we get these clear skies I could have ridden my motorcycle to work today and I totally would have if the weatherman wouldn't have lied to me three days in a row now I could have ridden into work three days in a row lost opportunity to ride but I got my tires put some new tires on here today these back ones are new it's also new rims they're shinier than the last ones let's check this out and I've checked this side yet oh yeah they're much better than the other ones okay so I'll be able to shine them up they need a little bit of love this whole truck needs a little bit of love but you know maybe I'll talk to them and if we can put just a little bit of love into this truck we can actually make it look really nice it's already got the nice extended wheelbase I like that but yeah a little bit of love and that would be one beautiful truck that'll go for a long time yet you know I'd love to be able to have a truck that I could take the truck shows you know maybe one day that's all you can do in life right keep dreaming maybe one day it'll work out so today is done anyways off we go four o'clock I got here at 6 30 that's a nine and a half hour day we were gonna get those tires switched around tomorrow but since we got them done today don't got to worry about that then gotta be up in Arbor early again tomorrow gotta pick up 40 feet worth of product now I don't know if that's 40 feet like it there's two orders both are 20 feet long very often they're side-by-side then that's only 20 feet of trailer it sounded like it's gonna be 40 feet of trailer but I've been there before and they were a they were able to put it side-by-side and then it's only 20 feet of trailer you see take up less space you can put other stuff on there make more money we like that we'll see what happens tomorrow that's the plan I got to be in a little early again tomorrow so that I can get up there I'll be here again at 6 30 tomorrow morning ready to go so that I can be rolling out of here at 7 a.m. be up in Arbor for 9 9 a.m. wish I would have taken the motorcycle look at this beautiful weather you know what I think we're gonna go home Brits work until 6 30s 4 o'clock now I'll probably be home at 4 30 I think I'm gonna take the bike I'm gonna go for a rip anyway weather man lied to me he's not gonna stop me from riding