 Good morning everybody. I just left home. We got to the truck. You can see everything's still all over the bed in the back I have to organize that but I'll give you one guess as to what I'm gonna say next. All right I'll give you a second. Yahtzee you win. I'm in a rush But I wanted to share a special little thing here might when I got to the shop this morning batteries on the truck dead Now I can't figure out what I left on So my batteries might be going it's the second time now that the batteries have just unexpectedly died But it was really cold when I brought it in there. Remember it was full of snow I had to get some fix some wiring on the lights and stuff because the snow had buggered up some of the wiring I Fixed that all my batteries were dead. So I want to give a shout out to Jim right now Thank you so much. This is my booster pack. It's a 6,000 amp avapowl Is that how you pronounce that avapowl? I got to test this thing out today Fired up my truck like that. It was amazing. I just see here's the booster cables in here, right? You just hook them up into here. I had this thing charged already. My batteries were completely dead couldn't turn over the engine tick tick Whoa truck started up just like that. It sounded just I don't know what was with the sound effects there, but Amazing what these little things can do this boosted my old model truck Just like that. So again last time I got sort of stranded in Brainer You guys remember that I had to call a tow truck spent like two hundred and fifty dollars or whatever it was in getting a boost I Now never have to worry about that again because if that happens like it did just now in my shop I got a big booster pack on the shop like a big booster itself, but I didn't need that This jumped the truck is just fine and this isn't an ad for avapowl or anything But this is a brand that works if you want my opinion Jim has been such a good friend to us over the years and has helped us out countless times and I'm so thankful So thankful for everything you've done Jim to make our lives easier and to make sure that we never find ourselves In a rut anywhere. There are really good people in this world speaking to everybody now You see the worst of them on TV all the time on the news don't pay attention to that bad news sells The majority people out there are amazing people and there's a select few people out there that are just godsend They're just amazing people Jim you're one of them now He sent me this booster pack just to make sure that I would never be stranded again, and I just want to let you know now it worked I wouldn't have been stranded. I was in my shop, but at least I got a test in the shop So now I know if I ever am out out in the wild out on the road, and I have a dead battery I'll be just fine. Thank you very much. You want to know something? I'm gonna brag on you a little bit here Jim But I've never met him in person and over the internet through my videos here years ago Has it what how long has it been like ten years? And every time we found ourselves in a time of need He's reached out We never had we never asked for anything. We've actually said no on a couple of occasions said no We can do this on our own. We really appreciate that. We really appreciate the offer to help But we got this But every time we have been sort of in a snag or in a rut Throughout the years. He has always been there as As a steady friend to be like, hey, you need some help. I'm here All the way back from when you remember our little wiener dog wiener. That's what we call him. His name is Frankie When he had IVDD in his back and he had to go all the way to Saskatoon for surgery and we had just bought a house We just drained all of our accounts. We were in a very bad financial spot. Technically we over We went over and above what we should have done We got into the house that we maybe a little bit too much for us We ended up selling it and getting making money off the house So it was it was a good deal in the end But we were right in a spot where we had sort of placed ourselves Precariously on a financial cliff, right? We're like we took a risk we gambled and The gamble paid off like I said, we made good money off it, but right when we were on that ledge there That's when one of our dogs Decided that you know, it's time to have some IV while I didn't decide he had IVD Which is the back issue yet going for surgery and it was that was like a seven eight thousand ten thousand dollar surgery We had no money and so we had reached out and said hey like This is something we weren't expecting. We were in a bad spot now Now we're in a much better spot for stuff like that to happen. Even though we just did go through IVF which did Put a bit of a weight on our shoulders, but we're doing fine. Don't worry about us and He stepped up and helped said anything you guys need just let me know I'm here to help He made sure that we were able to get to Saskatoon, you know, everything was covered that We were all all right Friends like that that you know, we've never actually met in person But they're there for you every step they exist out there and I almost get choked up a little bit Talking about it because I've never even met this man and yet. He's been so kind and so nice over the years and Again, he saw that I had trouble with my truck that I broke down one that I had to pay $250 for a tow truck just to come and hook on to me and boost me He said no, no, no, you don't gotta worry about he sent me a nice booster pack So that that would never happen to me again like wow Even when we say no, no, no, we got this we got this. He's still there saying hey, I know you got this but Here if you need me, you know, thank you Jim. This is what I'm trying to say here. You know who you are out there The bottom of our hearts like wow Thank you. You are you're an amazing human being This world needs many many more people like you. I hope that I can pay it forward in full in the future to others around me All right with all that being said I wanted to get that off my chest on the video here So I want to let all of you know that there are such good people out there And you guys are all amazing people too I hate seeing that the news is filled with all the worst people in the world It makes it gives you very negative opinion of the world, right? One big thing that I've learned being online here is that the internet is filled with amazing people They're just quiet It's the it's the obnoxious loud ones that get all the attention, right? They're obnoxious. They're loud and they're doing things that they Shouldn't be doing and they get all the attention. Everyone's like is this what the world's come to what has happened to our countries, right? No Our nations here Canada and the United States are still filled with amazing amazing people. They're just quiet They don't make a lot of noise Make a plan and plan for the plan to change The plans have changed This is trucking don't forget so we're not going to Feed River Falls today now now we're going to Canora, Ontario And there'd be pretty much nothing for me to do early next week So I'm gonna grab a load today that I'm gonna deliver on Monday That'll give me something to get next week started And then tomorrow we're gonna go to feed River Falls and grab one load and come back with it Then Monday morning leave with that other load we're picking up today That's the way to keep everybody busy and Turn everybody's happy. See if it changes again. I think he's full Snow clearing turn left on time 812 Now that's a snowblower. I think he's one of those blow my driveway 30 seconds This plan is gonna work out a lot better and trucking everything sort of Nothing's ever for sure for sure until it's done Nothing's ever written in stone until it's done then you can write it in stone that it has been done Who knows like I still got like 20 minutes till I'm at my shipper here things could change I don't know they cancel the load or remember when I was in Quebec a few weeks ago I got right to the shipper and they had a work accident and they had to shut the whole plant down And my logo cancel because of it. I did get reimbursed though for that. I didn't get a truck not used Feed or whatever they whatever they call that, you know when they you order a truck and it shows up and then For whatever reason the load gets cancelled when the truck's already there Gotta pay the fuel to get there So I didn't get reimbursed with the fuel at least not really for my time, but it was something but it that kind of stuff happens what what I'm getting at here is that it's Nothing's ever for sure for sure until the freight is on my trailer strapped down tarped and I'm leaving with it And I get a good distance away and then I deliver it and then once it's delivered that load That plan happened sometimes you wish things could be a little bit more concrete But you know right now my plan is to drive down this road in this direction until the shipper anything between here and there is Still up in the air until I arrive there and then you get it must be nice those guys who work, you know 95 74 whatever your hours are Scheduled day get scheduled days off. You know when you're gonna be home. You get to go home and watch TV in the evening See your family I'm not saying this out of spite. I'm just saying Some of us we got to work 70 hour weeks It's a good thing. I really like my job There's no way I'd work 70 hours a week at a job. I hate it. There's no way you couldn't make Okay, maybe you could make me if it was like a million dollars a year talk I have my price well, I Arrived at a pretty decent time. What time is it now? one o'clock Just so seems that a bunch of other guys arrived at a pretty decent time, too Three guys in front of me in the lineup that about four guys in the staging area getting loaded right now two guys in the tarp shed and All of those trucks have got to get tarped Loaded tarped anyway and out of here before I can tarp my load There's only two bays to tarp in now. I've said it before in this location where we pick up To tarp bays If you do it right the way you're supposed to do it as you go in there And they have a machine a crane that'll lift the tarp over the load for you That's so that you don't have to get on top of your load. You're not allowed on top of your load here They're very serious about that So you get the machine To put the tarps over the load for you Then you tack it down on all four corners make sure that it won't fly away And then you move out of the tarp shed And you finish bungeeing it outside the tarp shed is only there to get the tarps over the load But so often I'd say more than half the guys well over half They use the tarp shed as a place to do the entire tarp job bungeeing Everything sometimes it's a load that hangs over the back, you know tagging it and flagging it Excuse me. I need some water but so It should take you no longer than 30 minutes Inside the tarp shed, you know, you throw the tarps over Get out of there finish bungeeing it down outside The next guy can come in because the next guy sitting outside He can't put his tarps over his load until you get your butt out of there Right because you're not allowed to go on top of his load outside the tarp shed So he's tarpsheds that he can put his tarps over get his butt out of the tarp shed So that the next guy behind him can get in there and do the same thing, right? And there's signs all over the place. Let's say this right like the tarp shed is only to put your tarps over Once you have it tacked down that won't fly away and get out of here and finish tarping and bungeeing Outside then big signs in there, right? Plus you have to like there's orientation that you think that you go through where they tell you this, right? 50 75% of the guys I don't want this to devolve into complaining. This is an educational moment I don't I don't have these all the time. I say I'm an entertainer not an educator The tarp shed shouldn't be more than 30 minutes truck Not three hours Because imagine this I've got one two three four five six seven guys Getting loaded in front of me two guys in the tarp shed Just the guys getting loaded here because they haven't started tarping yet seven guys if they each took three hours Now two at a time so two four six Three six nine, that'd be nine hours that I'd have to wait if they all took three hours So they don't all do that but Nine hours and then I've start my load yet So just remember be Courteous out there a lot of places have these tarp sheds a lot of places for liability reasons They don't want you on top of your load They don't want you falling off and hurting yourself. First of all, they don't want that to happen here They don't want you to get hurt second of all it shuts down all of operations when someone gets seriously hurt, right? And it hurts everybody hurts everybody us picking up the loads hurts them making the freight hurts everybody So we don't want injuries to happen here So wherever you go around North America, and you find yourself a tarp shed read the instructions carefully I'm not gonna say every single place is exactly like this one, but read the instructions carefully And if there's people waiting to get in behind you Let's all try to do the courteous thing and get out of that tarp shed as soon as we can I Personally would really appreciate that if we did that So with all that being said seven guys in front of me, let's say they're all pretty good at what they do They don't take too long tarping I should be out of here and It's gonna be a few hours. I don't know how I'm gonna make it home for supper one o'clock now. Oh, no No, I don't think I will Even if I was getting loaded right now about two hours till I'd be rolling out I'd be rolling out here at three o'clock at the earliest of the two two hour drive back Got to drop the trailer bring the truck into the shop park and get it ready for night three Four or five I'd be back. I don't think so. No, I'm not gonna make it for supper tonight That's disappointing because my parents are having What is it string? String spaghetti or some kind of oh it's gonna be delicious We're gonna go over there and have supper. I won't be able to make it All right, so Show you my work It's on a flat bed, so it's arranged a little differently There's four lifts here to any side four there so eight and then there's three stack in there That's why I got that strap there keep my taps keep my tops from flopping too much I got this here to hold that back. So it doesn't slip forward on me Oh, that's that we're loaded headed home We might be home for a late supper. I might make it home. It's 3 30 now 4 35 30 Really late supper. We'll see what we can do. I probably won't make it, but maybe straight up a hill Source it in a girl's weight of about 78,000 pounds Perfectly loaded and legal for the U.S. On trans Canada highway highway 17 a Back towards Manitoba with this one for now. It's Friday when I'm filming this That means I can't deliver this till Monday's turn left on trans Canada highway highway 17 a So this is a Monday problem now. It's time to go home Still got some more work to do tomorrow on Saturday yet, but that was by choice Had a couple days off in the middle of the week for the egg retrieval IVF surgery procedure My wife a little bit harder this time than the last time It's just quite a bit of pain the day after so I stayed home as long as I could I Was supposed to go out the next day pretty much Ended up staying home the next day It's been a day. It's always something so I got all blue in here You can see that I look like a pack rat hoarder, which Maybe I am oh no I'll get rid of some stuff, but all the stuff that's over here Was over here. I had to clear some space because as you'll see here this cable Broke off or detached from up there So there is a overhead door guy Coming to fix this in the morning. So I just cleared some space for him here moved everything over there for now Didn't have time to work on anything on the truck I just met well not messing around with the door We're trying to figure out what was going on because first of all I got here the door opened just fine And then when I tried to close it only went halfway. I was like, huh weird I didn't want to force it. So I brought it all the way back up and I put it all the way back down Felt a little harder than usual to bring it down and then I'll snipe her tiling ting ting ting ting of the this cable it just Detached is it broken Detached I don't know. I'm not a garage door guy. I'm a truck driver guy. I Do that I don't do this and I don't have time for this right now because I got to go home I missed supper at my parents house, but they brought supper to our house So I'm gonna go catch them yet before they go home and I want to eat some of their food They brought some food for us Very excited. So I don't have time for this right now repair guys coming in the morning. This area is cleared That's a tomorrow problem Thanks for watching today everybody. I'm gonna run home real quick and grab some food. I Have way too much stuff. I would or maybe just looks like a lot of stuff And I just I just need shelving and I need to organize it. We tried that once right? I tried organizing it It just sort of organized the mess. It went from a mess to an organized mess Yeah, it's time to go through and purge get rid of all kinds of things that I don't need like those helmets I don't need those helmets those were from when I was younger and had a snowmobile and snowmobile around I don't need those anyone. I could For the quad now. I'd buy new ones. Anyways, I don't like them. They're they're not old, but they're still good And get rid of them. Don't need to store them There's no fire here Why do I have that I'll get rid of that all kinds of physical TV right there Find spots without maybe hanging on the wall it is what it is. Okay worry with us tomorrow My book