 Good morning my friends, I'm feeling good today. Today is Thursday, it's early in the morning, so it's 7.30 a.m., I'm just on my way to get my load that I was supposed to get loaded yesterday afternoon, but it's getting loaded this morning instead. That's the way it is, it's not that bad, could be worse, and there's a silver lining, I got a nice warm night where I didn't have to idle the truck. Well I got to save money and fuel. I just gotta go just down the road and check in there, and then once they're ready for me they call me into the yard, it doesn't take too long to load me, it's just I have to tarp it afterwards, and I can't tarp it in their yard for insurance reasons, ah, right? I don't know of any other company that ships product that has to be tarped but doesn't provide a tarping station, or a tarping area, none. You cannot tarp your load in their yard, I tried it once, they got really mad. No tarping on their property, so what they want you to do, what I end up doing is going on to the road, and parking on the side of a road, like an industrial street, and tarping it there, right, whatever. I'm not complaining, I'm just pointing out that that's really odd in my opinion. Oh no, in this traffic, oh man, I'm just coming over to TransCanada right now, I'm gonna be merging onto this highway, that's underneath me right now, and it's busy. Oh, bumper to bumper. No, no, no, no, no, I can't be late. Yo, Weezo, oh man, are you excited for a new day, or what? You excited? I'm very excited, thank you for asking. Have a good sleep? Hey. You have to speak into my good ear, man. The old man, did you get a good sleep? I slept quite well, thank you. You had your truck a little bit hot, though. Could've cooled you off a bit, I was really warm. One second, you find people, you find people. Let me set you up here. There you go, there you go, see? Good people, now you're all ready to go. Okay, we're in Rubble Stoke, British Columbia today. Didn't make it too far yesterday. Yesterday all we did was spend all day loading this load I got behind us, and tarping it, and then didn't get too far. But today we're gonna get as far as we can. We have about 1800 kilometers left to go just over a thousand miles, I don't know, 1200 miles or so, to go to get home, I wanna get home tomorrow. Apparently we got lots of snow at home, so we got some snow clearing to do. We have a guy that comes and clears our yard, but it's sort of like his side gig, I think, so he can't always come right after the snowfall, so I just messaged him and asked him if he's coming out or not. And he says probably this weekend, so hopefully he'll get there before I get there, or I'm gonna get stuck in the yard, apparently. Apparently we got like three feet of snow on our driveway again. But if he's not, that's fine, that's cool. That's why I have a snowblower. It just takes me like two hours to do with the snowblower, and it takes him literally less than 15 minutes to do with his fancy little skid steer. Man, would I love to have one of those. Less than 15 minutes, I think it was like 12 minutes, and he had the whole yard cleared. With my snowblower, the last time I did it, it was over two hours, over, was it two and a half, two? No. Still, the difference a machine makes, right? Okay, so let's get out there, let's walk the weasel, and then let's get on the road. I wanna get home tomorrow for around supper time. Store's been giving me problems lately. It doesn't wanna let me out. Guess my truck really likes me. All right, so here we are, parked in this little area right here. I'm ready to get out there with all these fine people who are probably going extremely excessively slow. That's okay, I guess that's better than going extremely excessively fast. I want a snowmobile. This is a snowmobile country. There's a big resort just off here, a snowmobile resort, and with all the snow we've gotten, it'd be a big hit right now. So this is my load here. All wrapped up, like a nice birthday present again. It's right to the end of the trailer. I'll have to show you on the other side. What if they see all these guys at the sleds that are going in there, up at the top of that mountain. It's Mount Revelstoke, I think. There's a huge snowmobile resort. I would love to be able to go up there and have fun with everybody. But somebody's gotta do this. It's a pretty slippery road out here. The next town we go through is Golden and that's where I'm gonna stop for my coffee, Coffee Numero Uno of the day, so I'm not exactly in my right mind just yet. Coherence to know that this road is slippery. We've gotta be careful. There is salt on it. So I mean, it's not a sheet of ice. It's just a little slippery, a little bit, not too bad. I've got pretty good weight on my truck behind me. I've got about 12,000 kilograms on my drives, 13,000 on my trailer. So I would like there to be more weight on my drives than my trailer, but when you're hauling a flatbed, sometimes you just don't have a choice. You just load it how it works, as long as it's legal. But that is some advice I can give you guys. Always try and make sure that you have more weight on your truck. You always wanna carry the weight. You don't wanna pull it, especially up the mountains here. My dad reminded me of that again. Yesterday when I was talking to him, he's hauling dry vans, and the people who loaded his trailer put all the weight at the back of his trailer, so he had a lot of weight on the back, but not so much on the front. And he didn't like that because you just spin out on the hills then very easily. So you're pulling all this weight up and you got no traction. So he had to adjust it and adjust his, he can slide his axles. I can't do that on my flatbed. He had to slide his axles and stuff to push the weight forward. And after that, I think he, he said it was still slippery, but he had better traction. Of course we'll be meandering our way around Calgary. Tonight I wanna get to past swift current. Like if I get to Moose Draw, that would be great. In Saskatchewan, we'll see. I'm not too sure how far I can get, but we'll definitely get to swift current. The temperatures have plummeted. It's at minus 20 right now. Going around the north side of Calgary. It seems as cold weather has been messing with a few people's heads and they have lost the ability to drive and maintain a speed. In 1.7 kilometers, you can plant onto my way to Old One East. Well, honestly, it's probably because you're not supposed to use your cruise control in the wintertime. And some people take that very seriously, speed with their foot on the pedal. That was just before when traffic was a little heavier and it seemed like everybody who wanted to go slow was in the left two lanes. Interesting how that happens. That's what happens when you get so used to driving to the countryside and suddenly you have to drive around a big city. You get all the city drivers, right? They don't understand highway travel. They're the kind of people that, you know, they get on the highway and they think because there's no street lights they gotta use their high beams. I've actually heard that excuse more than once. More than one person has defended using their high beams on the highway in traffic by saying, oh well, that's just the way you do it. When there's no street lights that's what your high beams are for. You turn them on when the street lights go away. When you go outside the city. Continue 2.2 kilometers. Then you plant onto highway to Old One East. Yep, those are the kind of people that maybe they should just stay in the city, you know? 0.7. Why are you talking so much? Plant onto highway to Old One East. Really? How many times has she told me to do that now? Four, five? You guys been counting? She's gonna talk to me again, isn't she? I know what to do. I need a new GPS. Saving up for one. Well, I'm in Brooks, Alberta. Hour or two west. No, pardon me, east of Calgary. And I'm gonna fuel up here at their flying J. Got about a quarter tank left and I don't want it to go any emptier than this. What's possible? Make a U-turn. That turn left. No, I'm gonna be fuel. So I gotta put some anti-gel in the fuel this time because we're going into weather that's supposed to go down below minus 30 again. We're almost out of this season though. You know, the first two weeks of February, maybe the third week of February after that starts to get warmer again. Does this every year, so we're almost out of it. A little while longer. So this is more of like a card block than a, you know, we can fuel over here on the left, too. People don't usually realize that. There's just no satellite pump if you do it this way. You gotta string it across, but it still does work the fuel here. See, it's this pump right on the end here. It's got that longer hose. There we go. Well, the sun is staying in the sky a little longer already. It's time now. Time is six o'clock here and look at this. Still got light in the sky. Not bad. So we're just leaving the Brooks Flying Jail now. You knew that because I just told you we were just arriving. I'm a little tired. No, I don't feel tired today. I'm a little, I don't know. Feeling quiet, not as talkative today. And I got the anti-gel in my fuel now and we'll have to stop. I'll stop and pick up some more of that very soon. But at least for now, we're set. We bought 550 liters of diesel fuel. Cost about $650, $660 somewhere in there. I don't know the exact amount. I didn't look. Doesn't always matter to me the exact amount because either way I've got to pay for it. I don't really have a choice. The freight needs to be delivered and I need to put the diesel fuel in there one way or the other. It doesn't really matter. Though lower numbers do grab my attention. It's a lot cheaper here than out in BC. BC diesel fuel was about $1.30, $1.40 a liter. Take ramp on right to Highway 1 East. Out here on the Prairies. I think I paid $1.18 per liter here. Still pretty expensive. I mean, in Manitoba right now, gasoline is selling for about 87 cents a liter. I think diesel is about 90 something cents, 93 cents a liter. But that's still expensive if you ask me because when I grew up, I can still remember gasoline selling for 30 cents a liter. And I'm sure people who are a little older than me remember it selling for even cheaper than that. I mean, just imagine how much cheaper everything in your life would be if it only cost me a quarter as much to get your stuff to you. Imagine all the money you would save. Like right now, I'm delivering insulation for a commercial building project in Manitoba. 560 kilometers on Highway 1 East. And it costs a certain amount for us to get the freight from BC out to Manitoba for them, right? Costs probably a little over $1,000 in fuel. Now imagine if it only costed me $400 or $500 of fuel. Then I don't need to charge them so much. And then their building costs half as much to build. And it goes right down to the groceries on the shelf, gasoline in your fuel tank. Imagine if everything was just cheaper to get to you. How much you would save. But a lot of people don't understand that factor of it. And they think that higher prices, I'm referring to the carbon tax right now, I think making fuel more expensive will make things better. I'm sorry, you're wrong. It'll only make everything in your personal life more expensive. You get where I'm coming from? I know most of you get where I'm coming from because a lot of you have something to do with trucking, you know, that's why you're on this channel or maybe you're interested in it or you've heard my rants before. But what do I know, right? I'm just a lowly peasant truck driver. What do I know? All I know is what would make it a lot cheaper. But no, no, that's silly. Don't listen to the silly truckers. No, let's raise the prices of everything, make everything more expensive. That'll save the planet. We are at the end of a long and somewhat boring day, but it was a day. 60650 meters, then take ramp to highway one east. No, I'm my own man, I'll do my own thing, thank you. We're here at the Husky in Swift Currents, Saskatchewan. This is where I'm gonna spend the night. If I can find a good parking spot here, it's just off to the right. Nice, quiet place to spend the night. We're about nine hours from home or from the yard anyways. We'll do that tomorrow. We'll get going early in the morning. There it is. I'm a little tired and it's time to go to sleep. All right, we just gotta find a parking spot here. Looks like there's plenty in the back. I wonder where it would be the quietest place. There's a reefer over there, so no thank you. I think I can park all the way on the edge. Left, this guy left his lights on. Oh, that's just his running lights. I'm always surprised when I see guys who leave their headlights on overnight, you know? You not see that? All the way around here and we're gonna back up against the edge over here. Actually, you know what? No, I could park here too. So I know this vlog was sort of two days condensed into one shorter vlog, didn't do much talking, but hope you guys enjoyed the ride anyways. Tomorrow is the ride home. We're getting home tomorrow, so you know what that means. Non-stop, only stops of necessity. What was I gonna say? Only stops that are absolutely necessary. There's a word I was looking for there, but I need to get to sleep anyways because I don't have lots of energy. I don't have energy when I get home tomorrow yet and I wanna enjoy my time there because like usual, it's going to go by too quickly and we'll be back on the road before we know it. Right now we have plans for arriving home tomorrow, which is Saturday, today's Friday when I'm filming this. And then Saturday, no, Sunday, my parents are coming over for supper and Monday, I've gotta deliver this load into Portageal Prairie. And then Tuesday, this truck is getting serviced and then Wednesday, it's back to work. But who knows, maybe they won't have anything for me and I'll get an extra day at home. I wouldn't fight that. We'll see. I need to get back to work but at the same time, it'd be nice to have that extra day. We'll see what happens. I'll have a new video for you tomorrow. 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