 It's February 8th 2022 today. It's minus four Celsius outside but 25 Fahrenheit. It's a lot warmer. It's gonna be a good day. It's six a.m. It's time to go. Good morning from the highways and byways of southern Manitoba. Coming up to Winnipeg here. This is Highway 59 northbound. Sun's coming up behind me there. It's a beautiful day. It's good temperature out today too. It's like near the melting point. It's gonna be good but we're supposed to have snow storms later today. So that's the thing with Manitoba. You have two options in winter time. Two options and neither are good. You can either have it really cold but clear skies, sunshine, but really cold. I mean like really cold or you can have it warmer and more comfortable but blizzard. Those are your options. That's it. Today looks like we're between. Like the lull between the sunshine and cold and the warm weather and snow. So it's warm weather right now with the sun coming up but you can see the clouds out west congregating over there already. Preparing themselves for their party that's coming this afternoon here over southern Manitoba. So we're gonna have to brace ourselves for that. There's an 89% chance of snow storm which is a pretty good chance but there's still a chance 11% that it won't happen. Okay we're gonna focus on that. I got some freight on my trailer. It's the same stuff and the same trailer that I was pulling yesterday on the way back from Nipah Wat Manitoba. I got to deliver that into Winnipeg today and we'll figure out what we're doing from there. It was too late by the time I got back yesterday to drop it off then so we're doing it today. I'm about to have my backing skills tested. Got this flatbed empty here and I've got to get it in this lot back over here through that gate. It's not the tightest fit ever. We should be okay. It'd be a little bit of a blindside background here but I'm in a day cab with a rear window so that helps a lot, makes it a lot easier. Back in here around to the left and all the way to the back of this lot over to back there. There's enough room. There's enough room. We shouldn't struggle too much. Let's see. Let's see what happens. An empty step deck behind me again if you can see through this dirty window. I need to clean it up here but two jeeps on the front, one on the back here, right here is where the big heavy cargo would sit. I wonder how much weight you can pull on this thing. I'm not a heavy hauler and I haven't done heavy hauling. That's one part of my career that I haven't explored yet but hopefully one day we'll get there. Can you imagine pulling that down? What a boss. Priaxle drives. Bet you he's got full walking diffs on all three drives too. That thing will only move if the driver wants it to. Look at that thing. Oh it gets me all excited. He's parking next to me. Making me look like a tiny little mid-sized pickup truck beside him. Supposed to be there's three of his drivers that came here for a more winter road freight. It's going up north on the winter roads and the two drivers that are in front of me they're loading up and I'm the overflow driver. If there's anything that won't fit on their trailer they're going to throw it on my trailer and we're going to head back after that. Chevy. Chevy. Chevy. What you got to say to the good people? I'm Chevy. My dad's home now. Super happy. Super happy. We're gonna we're gonna play tag and we're gonna wrestle and and and none of that stuff that stuff's on the game. Hi guys, it's Weezo. We're gonna do some much cooler stuff than that. Yes. We're gonna be farmers on the playstations. Super cool guys. Super cool. Way cooler than that. I feel like my ideas were fun. Chevy. Who's that? Maybe that's Frank. What y'all doing in here? Y'all doing in here this weird little party in here? You guys going out there? I wouldn't mind going too. I wasn't going that way Frank. I wasn't going that way. Well since we're here what do you think? So getting ready for the winter roads. I'm not going on the winter roads as far as I know. I was asked if I'd be willing to and I said yeah sure I'd be willing to but I don't think they're gonna need me. Mainly because I've got to stay close to home. Again, I know I'm like a broken record IVF. The wife and I have a lot of doctors appointing us in the next couple of months and we have to be ready for them. They're very expensive and I really don't want to miss even one. So I have to be there for all of them. Even if it's just her that needs to go in I want to be there to drive her there and drive her back. Be a part of the whole process. So I can't just up and leave for however long it takes to go up on the northern ice roads and then risk getting stuck up there. You know if you get literally stuck or just you know snowed in stuck and then not being able to be back. I don't think they're gonna use me on the winter roads but maybe next year we have a few drivers and a few trucks that go up there regularly this time of year and it gets really busy because there's only a limited amount of time that we have to get everything up there and I'm not really in the loop on that so I'm not really the one to tell you how it works or how it goes. All I know is it's really busy right now. That's all I know. You know everything I know now. But one day when I do go up there I'll definitely take you guys with me and show you what it's actually like really like from my point of view going on the ice roads. I know we've all watched the TV show Ice Road Truckers. They are from my area in Manitoba. They drive down the same roads that I would be driving down that we drive down. So you may recognize them in my videos. Maybe it'll be a little more down-to-earth and realistic. I love the show. I love the show but when you go up there I've said it before when we go up there there is no camera crew following us around. It's just me and my little GoPro. There's no like medical team in a helicopter just out of camera range and earshot. It's just us and if something goes wrong it's just us. No cell phone service. Nearst town is like hundreds of kilometers away if not more. So it's a little intimidating but you know I'm always up for a challenge as long as I'm going up there in a convoy with one of our other one of our other drivers so that they can sort of show me the ropes guide me through make sure that I don't do anything dumb and get myself stuck. Break through the ice. I know it'd make Brit very nervous too if I went out on the ice but you know we're professionals so we know what we're doing and take all the measures we can to make sure no accidents happen and that's why I will go up with someone who's done it before and I'll be able to show you it'll be pretty pretty fun but probably next winter I'm thinking probably next winter we'll see right now we're just waiting for Brit to come home actually right yeah mom's coming home she is like very soon she should be like in her vehicle already well best day ever you say mama did I hear you say mama don't lie to me lie to me I'm gonna go back here I'm gonna get my hi-ya is he threatening me again Chevy yeah he is if mama's not on the other side of this door I'm gonna use my karate and I'm gonna hi-ya you rotten your vice just kind of violent Frank he is a war veteran great milk bone war right veteran little guy down there he has seen some stuff man he doesn't like to talk about it now I am super spoiled every day my wife makes my lunches for me she makes the best lunches tremendous but when she works late like this sometimes I try my hand at it and just says she doesn't have to put it together when she gets home from work I'm sort of like a lost puppy looking for food I don't know where everything is but do my best there's food in there but I don't know what's for lunch one second I'm I've already had one I'm gonna have a bit of a party animal here old duels talked to you about these yesterday right great taste and stuff there's the bread now what found the bread I take the bread out of the freezer step one okay what does she usually put on here she usually makes me one peanut butter and jelly and then one meat cheese and meat sandwich I know I'm spoiled that's the difference you see I know what and I can admit it and I can enjoy it what's funny is right after I finished that clip she rolled in the driveway and then ended up making my lunch for me anyway well I am capable of making my own lunch but it's always better when she makes it for some reason she makes it taste better I don't know what she does to it but I can't make a sandwich the same way I can't make a what does she put in there all the little things that she she makes my lunch is pretty healthy and if I make my lunch they're never as healthy we'll just put it that way she's trying to keep me in good health though I'm not always complying because I like to eat goodies and you know when she's not around to supervise me sometimes I get carried away oh well oh we got snow coming down outside again lovely this winter has been nuts nuts I shouldn't say nuts it's it's a regular Manitoba winter so the last couple of winters have not been like Manitoba at all and we sort of got used to it and got spoiled again speaking of being spoiled but yeah if if it's not minus 30 minus 50 outside like freezing cold it's a blizzard and if it's not a blizzard it's warm but everything's melting and slushy and messy and you're going through two gallons of washer fluid every day uh or it's a blizzard did I say that already those are your options those are your options just a mess a blizzard or freezing cold and that's a regular winter for us here so I shouldn't be surprised by it just the last couple of years it's been pretty mild and we haven't had a lot of snow uh this snow is good for all the farmers they'll need it for their crops in the summer and the last couple of years I know they were suffering because they didn't get enough snow and enough moisture through the winter so hopefully this year will be better for them and they can get a really good yield on their crops at the end of uh at the end harvest season 2022 uh wishing them all the best I'm a farmer myself actually don't mean to brag but uh on my playstation farm simulator 2022 I've got a little outfit going on I'm uh I'm the boss there I have no idea what I'm doing yet and I've only harvested one crop but man that game is pretty cool I'm kind of addicted to it now so I'm gonna go play some of that we'll talk to you tomorrow everybody take care and uh stay safe