 A little humid out there today, but the smoke has cleared up. That's good. It rained all night. I probably helped I'm all dressed in my Sunday best again Gonna unload right away just around the corner here. I just have like those three big rolls of piping Drainage tile, maybe it's this drainage tile the bigger ones too I have to excuse my ignorance. I'm not familiar with all of the farming Equipment that sometimes goes on my trailer and exactly what it's used for I know how to tie it down and secure it and I know how to bring it to where it needs to be But I don't always know what it is or what it's for Big piping big rolls of pipe. I think well drainage pipe, right? I know it's for that It's drainage. I hauled a whole bunch of this stuff last year And I learned that it was for drainage tile underneath fields and that's what I learned what drainage tile was Common for farmers to put that underneath their field to help the water and moisture in springtime Drain away so they can seed it and grow food that I can eat Love food Therefore I love farmers So anyway, I'm gonna unload this right now and then I'm gonna take this empty trailer I just got to switch it out at our yard and Grab a different one Shops got to take a look at this one and then Go to canora. I don't know why I had to think about that for a second. Where am I going again? Canora, Ontario Which is east of where I'm from Winnipeg area sign back And then we're going down to Minnesota that will deliver tomorrow and from there I'll be getting home all blue has got a date It's getting polished up It's gonna be great. So next week should be all shiny and then after that He's got another date popular guy popular got another date. He's a Going in for a annual safety Making sure that it's safe to drive. It is by law. I have to get this truck safety once a year It can get pretty expensive. Let's hope it doesn't we'll see get it safety and Then well, what else happens diesel has his appointment next week as well which Little bit more intense than any other appointment. He's had before that's why he had the EKG last week He's gonna be put under some heavy anesthetic. He's got to get his mouth cleaned and maybe some teeth pulled So they're gonna knock them out all day and they had to make sure that his heart to handle it first So I haven't heard back but with doctors and stuff usually good news No news is good news Usually we'll see how that goes. What else is going on next week? There's a few other things yet We'll worry about that next week. Let's worry about today tomorrow can worry about itself look who showed up right beside me You guys remember Caden? Doing some city work. That's actually my old truck. I used to drive that truck. What's he got behind him? Can't see. Oh, he's got some So we're just at the Tim Hortons in On the east side of Winnipeg deacons corner. That's the word. I'm looking for Okay, then how's it going good? How are you good? Just got stuff for some tins nice nice I just got that as well. I don't know you guys all remember Caden, right? It's been like over a year since you've been in the video. Yeah, I'll try to look at the lens this time. Yeah, it's always hard But look at the lens. I'll look at you guys Yeah, good seeing you guys good seeing you and we'll see you guys in another vlog enjoy One day maybe he'll be driving his own W9 Or repeat 37 I like Peterbilt too. Yeah Yeah, they have a reputation Okay, well you have a safe one Yeah, Caden's a great guy. Good friend of mine. Ah, we missed the green light So I got a book at the canora. I've got to get there ASAP pronto stat I had to get there before they stop loading for the day And about two hours and 15 minutes to get there and it takes about two hours to get there At least he tied his stuff down Seen it more than once guys pulling these little utility trailers and stuff. They don't tie it down. See this is tied down, too, right? Sort of Let's strap to the front that'll work not tied down Nice the chain down there Looking good looking good. I find myself looking at other people's loads all the time now Not to be judgy or anything, but sometimes I learn stuff from them You know, I learn I see things done in ways that work really well But are easier than the way I do it and I'm like, oh I'm gonna do like that next time and sometimes I see things done in ways that I would never do it, but That's the thing it's your load when you have a load behind you that's your load It's your responsibility you tie it down Make sure it's done good There's more than one way to tie down a load usually But there is it is possible to do it incorrectly Trans Canada we're getting on to here Our one road on this road for 204 kilometers Structural travel That's how they say construction in French travel. This has what the sign say, but you just sort of got it No, all the cones, I guess they're supposed to be a giveaway slow down He's turning green look at this the trees are budding the grass look at that green grass. It almost makes you want to cry So beautiful Quick before the snow comes back. We've got a couple of months now to enjoy it Usually snow is around here in like November sometimes December. So we got a few months, but this is my favorite time of year I always talk about this Springtime where everything's just turning green and everything is so vivid and green because you're so used to seeing everything is brown and dull Suddenly everything's just bright green The mosquitoes aren't out yet in full force. Boats have no ice on them. They've been cleaned and swept That's why the trucks getting polished this weekend It's that time of year and we have all summer and fall to look forward to you. This is the best time of year just in time Instruction in Ontario in Ontario between Kenora and the Manitoba border Slowed me down a lot more than I thought it would They're twinning it all the way through right and that's very rugged terrain as you saw to Let the blast it away to build a Forelane through there right costs a lot of money takes a lot of time But I've been asking for it for as long as I knew what it was And it's probably not because of my videos, but maybe maybe they're watching my videos and they're like Yeah, you know what? Maybe this trucker George guy is right. Maybe we do need to twin the highway Maybe yeah, it'd be good if less people would die. I think that's a good thing. What do you think? Well, then they got to go through this whole government process all the bureaucracy Finally they convince all the right people that yeah people dying on the two lane is a bad thing Yeah, everybody vote in favor. Yay. Death is bad trying to get anything through there It's just trying to get them all to agree on one thing, you know Finally got them to build the four lane to canora now We need to keep the pressure on because we're we're asking for something big next We're asking them to twin the highway from canora now and all the way to toronto twin highway the entire way Because we want people to stop dying on the highway How about that? That'll be a big one for them to get through man That'll be worse than hurting cats I'll be like What's worse than hurting cats? It'll be that Trying to get through to agree to do something that will help and improve public safety But costs, you know lots of money and you know, we we don't have All that money even though everyone knows we do we just don't want to spend it on you We want to spend it over there on something that has nothing to do with you We want to send all our money over there. Let them use our money We don't want to spend money on actual canadian citizens now No, that wouldn't be good now Or we can spend a whole bunch I could get into a bigger rant here. I'll just cut it off right there Before I get carried away right carried away Uh What a circus right? What a circus Uncommon sense is what I call it when something just makes sense. It's uncommon sense So i'm waiting here to get loaded. There are very good people here There's a long lineup at the tarping station. I'm looking at it over there So two trucks can be in the tarping station at the same time They got to tarp their loads and they're supposed to move up and out of the tarping station once they have it Over they're supposed to tack it down in all four corners move out of the tarping station So the people behind them can come in and get started on their tarps that way you've got four guys Tarping their loads right and then once those two guys out front are finished They move out of the way and then the guys in the tarping shed there that have their tarps over Move forward and finish tarping outside in front of the building so the next people can get in right That doesn't always happen here people like think that they need to tie their whole load down visit for half an hour Have lunch Then tarp their load and have second lunch And you know visit for a while again, maybe have a nap Pills long days long days. You need a nap And then you know finish tarping eventually and then sit in there looking at your tarps for a while Meanwhile, you got three guys behind you waiting to get into the tarp station Okay, i'm exaggerating just a little bit, but no not too much You guys you know you're laughing along with me right now. You're like, yeah We all know those guys But uh, that is what it is. Hopefully they're all quick usually usually most guys most guys like 90 percent of 99 Guys or get in there get tarped and they're gone. It's just that few select people who are oblivious To The fact that others are waiting for them. Well, maybe they just don't care. They realize that they just don't care I don't know. I don't know how other people's brains work I can only tell you how mine works and my brain would not let me do that I cannot I get I get anxious when i'm in someone's way if I see someone waiting for me I will do everything I can to be as quick as possible and get out of their way as soon as I can That's just how I work. I think that's normal. Am I weird? Maybe I am weird because I got some of that uncommon sense I am a weird guy. I guess that would put me in the mine What do you think? I don't know. I'm just rambling on here. Bibble babbling There's one truck ahead of me yet that they got a load and then they're gonna load me And then how many guys do I see in line there? One Two Okay, so there's three guys in front of me in line plus these so four So probably four guys will have to tarp their loads before I can get in there So I'll be waiting a little bit here, but as long as I get loaded. That's all that matters. I'm gonna tarp it Get going after that And the reason I bring up things like this and complain a little bit. Yes, I acknowledge I complain I do some people like to leave comments for me as if I don't know that I'm complaining All you do is complain chucker josh and I'm like sitting here. I know I made the video I know right all I do is complain But it's about things that we all agree on it's supposed to be relatable Most of you are sitting there shaking your head laughing along with me. You know exactly what I'm talking about You know exactly how frustrating it is But it's the people who don't get it who get offended They're the guys holding everything up because how dare you tell me that I'm in the way Oh, you're such an awful person, right And the rest of us are like, yeah, you are get out of the way move Right, so we're all laughing along together. That's that's why I complain about things on on the vlog It's something to talk about it's something for us to all relate over and it's also Also for new drivers who are Honestly honestly just ignorant and that's not a bad thing. I don't mean that as an insult when I say they just don't know They don't know the etiquette on the road. They've never been taught Maybe I grew up in a family of truckers. So I know the etiquette of being on the road Some people may honestly honestly just not know and we shouldn't be too hard on them and make fun of them for that But we should gently guide them and teach them that hey That's not the way we do things. Hey, there's there's there's a better way of doing things really. Hey You're in the way This is how it should be done, you know that way you're not holding people up It's not nice to hold people up. You know, you shouldn't park in the fuel islands for your half-hour break. That's common sense That's becoming uncommon sense sometimes but Man some people may just it seems like maybe they just were never told They thought oh, well, I didn't think it'd be a problem parking here for a half hour. It is a problem It is a problem. You shouldn't do that. It's very rude. It's bad etiquette And it's just something you shouldn't do go find a parking spot take your half-hour break in a parking spot, right? So that's that's why I bring these things up on my videos to Get us all on the same page make things a little bit better for all of us you know Relate to the majority of people who can laugh along with me and chuckle along with me and maybe gently Share with you guys the the proper etiquette and the way things should be done And so we all work together we're a team We're all doing the same thing out here We all want to look out for each other and we all want to make we don't want to make life more difficult for other drivers How's that was that clear clear enough well put maybe Leave me a comment down below Let's see what you guys think about everything I've said am I am I right because we want to teach people right some people just don't know International Falls, minnesota the canadian side is for francis cross there quite regularly Gov ontario is so much nicer in summertime than wintertime This is an investment to only use a couple of times a year an airbnb or something out here I don't want a houseboat, but you know Go fishing every day. I don't want to take my kids fishing. I want I want them to experience that I want that to be a regular part of summer for them But that means I've got to make it a regular part of summer for me too Because it's not right now. I want it to be busy working Here off to the left. There's uh a lot of americans come here and they park their vehicles up here on the left And then they take float planes up north to do flying fishing to lakes that you can only get to by float plane Now that's some real fishing Right here on the left A lot of american plates in wisconsin, iowa, michigan A lot of states minnesota, I think I saw there obviously there right next door I'm still in canada. I'm at the inspection station, which is empty right now That's why I'm here. I'm the only one here Just taking a little break making sure all my paperwork is in order and that my load has been cleared for customs Before I show up there with this I haven't shown you my tarp job yet. Have I? Let me show you wrapped like a nice little present These loads are always uh Little heavier on the trailer than they are on the drives Just the way they load them and I guess the way it works and these axles here. I can't slide them. They're fixed in place So I'm still legal. I'm at about 33,600 pounds on my trailer here. I'm allowed to have 34,000 in the u.s And 34,000 is my maximum on my drives the two axles behind my truck up there as well And I'm sitting at about 32,000 Up there 30 30 2,500 so I got about a thousand more pounds on my trailer than I do on my truck which makes for very bumpy ride Because the truck goes over these bumps and then the trailer hits it and it just donkey kicks you just But It's not that bad. It could be worse It's just a thousand pounds I can just I can just tell right away is that the the weight isn't distributed the way I would like it to be But what's nice about hauling this lumber Other than other than the fact. Well, I had to tarp it. That's not the nicest part But that's okay. What's nice about this lumber though is that I don't have to slide my fifth wheel I'm not too heavy up on the front It's usually only when I have a flat bed and then if they load the freight a little too far forward I've shared it in like past vlogs before That I usually have my fifth wheel pretty far to the back like two thirds of the way to the back of where it can be On its track and that shifts weight along the frame off my steers or onto my drives And sometimes I have to close that gap to get more weight onto my steers Since I have such a long hood sometimes it's It's hard to get the weight from the back of my frame All the way to the front of the frame But more weight on my steers to distribute the weight better They they they want us to keep within certain regulations certain weights per axle Otherwise, we just destroy all the roads all the time and then We complain about how the roads are terrible and then Then they have to fix them and then it's Five years of construction and they only last for six months. That's a story for another time But yeah, so That's the way that works and I can't have my fifth wheel all the way forward all the time Because it depends on where the fifth wheel kingpin on the trailer is if it's further forward on my trailer on the trailer With less of an overhang like you know like the little pin that hooks into my truck If there's a a big overhang like on a van trailer or or even a reefer I can't have my fifth wheel so close to my cab because then the trailer will hit my cab and hit my headache rack when I turn right but my my Flatbeds that I haul the kingpins are pretty close to the front so I can bring it closer up to the front Put it more weight onto my steers It's a balancing act being a truck driver. He thought it was easy just holding a steering wheel all day Well, you could probably get away with with it for a while just holding the steering wheel But eventually you're going to get nailed for something because there's a whole lot more to trucking than just holding the steering wheel a lot of math involved a lot of balancing weights A lot of moving weight around on your frame on your trailer making sure that everything is leaving all the regulations they have Then our hours of service. That's a whole another can of worms There's a lot that goes into this job. It's not that easy We may make it look easy. You may think it's easy But i'm here to show you and to tell you that it's not always easy, but it's fun I enjoyed a lot Let's go to the us. Let's go. Oh, wait. Let's just double check make sure my load is cleared We do not want to show up to customs When they're not expecting us. They really don't like that Really really don't like that And then everything is all in a big kerfluffle. So let's uh, I have an app here All the paperwork is at the broker already. She's got to find my app Shitting it tracker there it is And then I just scan this little barcode That's on my paperwork And it'll tell me uh Scan barcodes tell me if it's clear or not Okay, so i'm gonna search it like there's an app for everything technology nowadays You know we say that things keep getting worse in some ways Things are getting worse common sense is just going out the window sanity is going out the window in many cases But there are so many cool technological advances that have made life so much easier And so much better and we can get so much more done in less time Let's see this. Uh, yes, they have it. I am port of entry international falls Custom certified Nice They are ready for me You hear that? America's ready for me. Hmm. Huh. Here I come America I'm not even on the road yet Get ourselves out of this little inspection station. Anybody coming? Ah look both ways. Yeah, there's somebody coming I'll need the whole road. There's somebody coming from the right and I'm turning right that I need the whole road So I got to wait for him It was not too out of the goodness and kindness of my soul Three supports a lot of people in this town I've made it here to deer river and this is where we're going to call it a night I am actually a little surprised at how chilly it is outside. What is the actual temperature outside? Seven degrees celsius Wow, that's in the 40s, right Man good thing my uh Bunk heater still working. It's my engine heater. That's not working I'm gonna have that looked at next week. I think when the truck goes in for a safety I want that working. I don't want to wait too long and forget about it or something Okay, so Now it's time to get all my stuff moved off the bed Get everything out of the way so that I can go to bed I'm so tired. It's been a long day again In a 14 hour day since I started so this next week I know I've been talking about it a lot, but Old blue is going in for a polish. She's gonna look so nice It's gonna look so good I can't wait. So the same guy who polished the truck last year at this time when I bought it is doing it again for me And then from there on throughout the year, I can use my bullsnot products to keep that shine at a max I can't wait to share some of that product with you as well speaking of If you made it to the end of the vlog you're very Very special and you're very lucky because I want you guys to know that there's going to be a couple of giveaways coming up real soon on my channel I have some great products from house that I want to share with you And also some great products from bullsnot. You know the whole bullsnot lineup, right? I've got House mugs. I've got house t-shirts house sweatshirts. They sent me this little care package And I want to get these things into your hands so Between house and bullsnot, we're going to be doing a couple of Giveaways in the coming weeks. I think we're going to do one per week Throughout the summer So I'm going to think of a creative way I want to be some kind of like Competition or some kind of riddle or something that you got to beat or solve And then the first one to answer it correctly or the first one to respond Uh, we'll get some free stuff no matter where you are in the world. I'm going to send it to you It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun So this is this is something that I'm planning to do very soon in the next couple of days Don't worry. We're going to make these competitions as fair as possible So I will announce well ahead of time when these competitions are going to happen And what they're going to be so that you're prepared and you have just as good of a chance as everyone else at winning And we'll do them at different times of the day so that no matter where you are around the world You'll be able to compete in some of these competitions or riddles Uh During the day because I know that if I do them during the day here My friends and brothers and sisters in australia, they're going to be sleeping. So that's not really fair Forcing them to stay up to win the t-shirt So we'll we'll figure this out If you have any ideas of some fun games to play, let me know in the comment section Maybe we can make this a big community thing where we all get together and have a little bit of fun and win some prizes All right, I'm excited to start on that next uh in the next come couple of days Time my tongue is my tongue is tied That means it's time to go to bed. We'll talk more about this in the morning Thanks for watching today. Give it a thumbs up if you like the video. Leave me a comment down below Let me know some fun games and competitions you think that we could play here on the channel Uh for to win some prizes from haus and from bolsternot And other than that I'm signing out. You take care. You have a good day