 similar but different. I'm in the picker truck. The crane truck. Not all blue. Though it is a blue W900. It's a little bit older than mine though. I gotta bring them across the city doing some local work today. Our regular picker driver. This shifter seems so short. It's like way down here like at my butt level. It's like gotta reach way down to shift. So used to my... But yeah I'm doing a favor. The guy who usually drives this truck is injured and I'm trained to drive this truck. I gotta pick those poles off with the crane, right? So I have training on this and I'm one of the few people that is qualified to operate this thing. So here we go. Trucker Josh is filling in. The load guys have done me many favors over the years and when they need a favor from me, if possible, I like to come through for them. I can't every time. They've asked me like two other times to fill in on this truck and both times it didn't work out. But this week it did two or three trailers to unload today. We have some other local drivers that are coming with one or two other trailers. They're gonna see if they can fit it on one trailer but it might be two. The poles I got on me are 65 feet long. I have a trombone trailer, tri-axle flatbed with the baskets for the for the poles. So it's stretched out about an extra seven feet just to accommodate these long suckers. It feels so weird shifting way down here. I can't get used to that. We're just doing this for today. Tomorrow I'm back in old blue. I'll be doing some local stuff again though but I think I'll be pulling a roll tight. That'll be back in my truck which I'm a lot more comfortable driving my truck. I don't like driving other people's trucks. That who regularly drives this one has it nice and organized. It's actually very nice. It's an old truck but it's organized. Quite often on the highway like this guy wasn't too bad but I noticed that when people pass you and they take a really long time on a four line highway and there's nobody behind them you know there's no real rush. Sometimes they cut like right in front of your truck like they cut you off even though there's nobody behind them pushing them or pressuring them. You guys ever have that happen to you? Happens to me all the time. I always wonder why people do that but if there's no rush to get out of the left lane I mean I'm not going to judge you for staying in there a little longer to get more distance between us before you turn back in right? But here's what it is. Oh what's going on over here? Someone stopped in the middle of the highway? On the other side there look at that. That's messing up traffic. Is that a cop? Cop isn't it? I have so many questions every day while I'm driving around I see all kinds of stuff. There must be a very good reason. At least it's a cop right and he's got the flashing lights and it's not just some random person just you know taking a break in the left lane but I got to take these pulls at all. Hell's maybe. The car behind me has been following me the entire way. I wonder why. In my slipstream sometimes people will follow like right behind you. They're trying to save fuel so that you'll break the wind for them. What I end up doing then is just keep slowing down, slowing down, slowing down until they just get too frustrated and go around me. Fancy blinker. Construction, construction everywhere. I'm always making things better. That's what we're telling ourselves right? This is Deakin's Corner. Anyone who's come through Winnipeg knows Deakin's Corner. Very popular stop for travelers. It's on the east side of Winnipeg so anyone coming from Ontario this is the first big stop. They got the Petro Pass for fuel. They got Tim Hortons right here for caffeine. There's a new SO gas station here too. I don't know how much business they're getting because Petro Canada kind of dominates this corner but I guess they're getting enough to stay in business. I find it so funny that the gas station there sells coffee and they're right beside Tim Hortons. I bet they don't sell one cup a day. Oh yeah, they got a subway here too. I could have stopped here for subway. I got subway in Ildershane this morning. Got myself a little bit of a lunch going because I'm going to be out here for the whole day. Like I said, I got to unload two trailers. I'm just bringing one here. There's another guy bringing another one and it might be three but they're going to try to do it in two. We'll see what happens. I might have to unload three trailers today so I've got myself some food while I'm here. Excuse you. We had a little bit of an issue with the crane today. There's a leak and I think there's more than one. This whole area down here is soaked. There is there while I was unloading those poles suddenly a lost or lost hydraulic power and hydraulic fluid started. Not spraying out but coming out pretty steady and so I was able to get this thing folded back up thankfully but they're going to have to pull it apart and figure out where the leaks are. Not only is this all soaked down here, it's also on the other side. I mean if my truck's called old blue, I guess this would be what? Old old blue, older blue, senior blue came all the way down here just pulling up on here. Those hoses there oh you can still see it's still dripping big leak in those hoses there. So I don't know what happened but of course it had to happen when I was using it right. It wasn't leaking this morning. I checked everything and when I started it wasn't leaking so we have it at the repair shop here now and I'm getting a ride back to the yard. I hate it when stuff like this happens when I'm using it. It sort of messed up my whole day but I mean the load still got delivered thankfully. We were able to get them off loaded there someone else came to unload them and we got this truck to the facility where it can get repaired and thankfully I had enough hydraulic pressure in there that I could still fold it back up because if I hadn't have folded it up when I did I might have had to leave it right there and like they might have had technicians come fix it on site there or get it folded up and yeah it would have been fixed on site. That would have been way more expensive so I got to fold it up we got it back here. You know it's not my truck but I still care about it because it's the trucks that we have to use part of our team you know. We're gonna go back to my truck now. We're gonna hook up to a roll tight. So now I gotta wait here for my ride that'll take me back to my truck in our yard. See I'll be grabbing a roll tight and going to go load it in the morning west of Winnipeg and Headingley and then I have four deliveries around southern Manitoba with it tomorrow so it's another local day tomorrow but I'll be in my truck be a lot more comfortable. I don't like driving other trucks. Bad things happen when I drive other trucks apparently. Funny looking truck. Just me? Maybe it's just me. I don't know. So sorry. It's not like that. You're still my only kid. Not with another Kenworth. It wasn't like that. It wasn't like that. I was just doing someone a favor. It doesn't sound any better. Don't forgive me. Hey Manitoba. I'm ready to get loaded tomorrow morning for tri-axle, flat, some steel and just running around Manitoba a little bit. I have to compliment Headingley Flying Jay. This truck stop is clean. Look at this. You guys see any garbage anywhere? I don't. I mean there's a little bit in the grass here. Okay. Okay. But compared to some truck stops, this one's doing pretty good. Compliments to the Flying Jay and Headingley Manitoba. So yes, this is my roadside for tomorrow. I just got here a little while ago. I went inside and had a shower already. Had a haircut and pretty much just putting this together and going to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will go well. It was too bad about what are we going to call them? Like senior blue? The Picker truck? But how can you do, right? Things happen. I just hate when they happen to me. Look at this guy. Look how crooked he is. Look at this guy. I'm not talking about the guy with the green rotate here. I'm talking about this other guy. Look at him. Who parks that crooked and just leaves it like that? Right? I'm just picky. I'm just picky. He's in the lines. He's within his lines. Barely. But we'll forgive him. Thanks for hanging out with me today. Short little video. Not much happened, but boy, this guy's back tarp here is going to rip open. If he doesn't fix that, those are supposed to be like mine here, like pinned in here. It's not my problem. I've had enough problems today. I'm done with problems. I'm going into the truck, putting this together, watching some YouTube for a while. Maybe I'll watch some Netflix. Then I'm going to bed. Thanks for hanging out with me, everybody. I appreciate it. Hit that like button. Go below the video. Make sure you're subscribed to me on YouTube. If you aren't, please make sure you are. It helps me out a whole lot. Leave me a comment down below. Let me know what you'd like to see in my videos upcoming. Other than that, I'll see you tomorrow. Take care.