 Good morning friends and foes. It's another day. What is it today? Thursday. Thursday. One more day to the weekend. One more day. But who knows, we may be trucking on Saturday too and that's okay. At least we got something to do. So I've got a roll tight flat behind me. I've got to go pick up about 20 feet of freight over in too long. Bring it back here and then I thought I might be going down to Minnesota tonight or today after I get back. Looks like that plan may change. We'll see when I get back. I may just be going into Winnipeg to pick something up for one of our highway drivers. The main thing what I do is during the week here is I go around the region and I collect a bunch of freight and I bring it back here to our yard and one of our highway drivers, the same kind of job that I used to do, highway drivers will take the trailer and book it on down usually to the US or wherever the freight is going to deliver them. That way they don't have to eat up their E-Log time because we're only allowed to drive and be on duty for a certain amount of time a week. And if they have to go and pick up this freight, sometimes I have to sit there for a couple of hours waiting to pick up the freight. Well, that comes off of their 70 hour clock and that's less time that they can be working out there on the highway. They lose money that way. So I go along with a couple of others of us here. There's like one, two, three, four, five of us city drivers I think. Five or six? Six I think. Now we got a new guy. Six. And we gather everything we bring in here and then the highway guys don't have to waste their time on it. It gives us something to do and it makes their life easier. Also, when they get home from a trip, they may not have the hours left to go deliver it or maybe they just want to go home and spend time with their family after being on the road for a few weeks. They bring it here to the yard and then I'll hook onto it and I'll go deliver it. Because sometimes at these deliveries, same thing as pickups. Sometimes you gotta wait a couple of hours to get unloaded and it's a big hassle. It's just easier if they can go home to their family, makes their life easier and I'll go deliver it. If you're new here and you want to know more about me in the description of this video and all my videos, it explains everything there is to know about me. There's also my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. You can find that all down below in the description. The social media I use the most is Facebook. I'm on Twitter but I don't like Twitter. I don't use it much. Every time I go on Twitter, it just frustrates me. Instagram. I use Instagram quite a bit. I post my thumbnails for my videos there every day and then I post the link to my latest video in my bio on Instagram. What else is there? Snapchat. Don't use it. Use it to snap my friends that I know personally every now and then. Don't release. But it is down there if you want to follow me there. Maybe one day it'll take off. I also have a TikTok that I don't use. So what I'm saying is I pretty much just use Facebook and YouTube. But whatever you want to follow me on, it's all down below in the description of this video. While you're down below the video reading that and you pass the subscribe button, don't forget to hit that subscribe button. Helps me out a lot. It's a logistical nightmare. Try to get everyday common goods to Alaska. I was like, what? One highway leading up and you've got to come through us. You've got to come through us, right? It's your Canada. Unless you want to go by port and then you go out by ship. But still man, it's a long ways away. Northern Canada is. So we understand. We totally get it. Northwest territories are logistical nightmares. But imagine this. Nunavut, the territory of Canada that's just north of Manitoba where I am. No roads go there. Not even one. Only in winter time you may have one or two winter roads on the ice roads that you can get up there. But throughout the entire year, for the most part, you have to fly all the goods in or ship them from Northern Quebec through the Hudson's Bay to a port on the coast of Nunavut. The Hudson's Bay there up north. That's a nightmare. But we make it work. That's what we do. We're transportation. We'll get it there. So with that piece being brought back to the yard, it's going to be combined with something else going to the Alberta area. I think we take it to Alberta and from there someone takes it up of the Alaska Highway to a lot. I'm pretty sure I'm not part of that line of the chain here. My part is done. I picked it up from the shipper, brought it to our yard where the next chain of the next link of the chain will take it from there and get it up there. So for now I'm hooked up to a big old box trailer, a van trailer actually. It's very exciting. I haven't been a van driver in a while. Backed into the dock here just on the north side of Winnipeg. A little bit of gravy for this afternoon. I always wonder why do they call them van trailers? I've been driving since 2006 and I still don't know that answer. Should we ask Google right now? Should we ask her together? One second. Let's ask her. Why are van trailers called van trailers? It gave me a bunch of trailer dealerships to buy a trailer. One second. Why is it called a van trailer? Here is Fleet Stop trailers limited. Why is it called a van trailer? She doesn't want to tell me. She wants me to read it myself. This is what is a van trailer. A dry van is a type of semi trailer that's fully enclosed to protect shipments from outside elements. It's also called dry van trailer or box trailer. Dry vans can be used for a variety of less than truckload or LTL or whole truckload shipments. You don't say you could fill it right up or you could not fill it right up. It's good for both. Thanks Google for that bit of information. Very, very good. Now why do they call it a van trailer? What does van mean in trucking? Same thing. Why is it called a van trailer? I gotta figure this out. Why is it called a van trailer? Here we go. Dry van trailers named for their ability to protect goods from rain and the elements. In general, these fully enclosed semi trailers are used to haul many different types of goods and materials. That doesn't answer my question Google. Why is it called a van trailer? It doesn't want to answer my question. Google always has the answers though. Huh. Let's ask her one more time. Okay. Come on Google. Don't disappoint me. Why is a van trailer referred to as a van trailer? Well, I think it's safe to say we have stumped Google. I don't know why they call that a van trailer because when I hear the word van, I think of mini vans. You know? Is that what you think of? Because when I was a kid, I remember my dad used to always tell me, you know, he hauled vans. It was way back in the day. He hauled three pop trailers behind sort of like highway trains today except a little short, a little different. But he always referred to them as vans. He hauled vans. And in my child brain, I thought that my dad was hauling mini vans around. And so when he took me to see his truck once, I still remember looking at it and wondering, well, where are the vans? Until he had to explain it to me and say, no, a van trailer is just a box trailer. Why would you call it a van trailer and confuse me then? Right? I was all confused. So have you ever had that moment? Was there a moment in your life in your childhood or maybe in your adulthood? That's all right. If you didn't grow up around trucks, if you're just learning this today, a box trailer is called a van trailer. A little bit of a shorter video today. Not much going on. Have you ever thought to yourself, man, I'd love to see into the future? Let me give you a sneak peek of the future for you. Not going to tell you where I am or what I'm doing though. But this weekend, we got some overnight's coming up on the road here. So I'm not going to tell you where we're going. We will start on that tomorrow. Today's video was a little bit short and whatnot. And I still haven't figured out the origin of the word van trailer and why we call it van trailer. I'm sure that I could learn something from you guys about it down below in my comments section while you're down there. A little bit of a short video today, but tomorrow I'll explain what I'm doing in this wonderful Kenworth T680. This thing is a condo on wheels. I don't want to show you too much now because you'll see it on the weekend, but wow. Really nice truck. I'm really excited to drive it and I'm excited to show it to you. So don't forget to hit that subscribe button and we'll see you tomorrow.