 Good morning everybody this morning, and we just got this mower left to deliver This is going to vagraville, Alberta and then I have to run south of Edmonton to Niskew Pick something up there So I have this thing chained down one at the frontier with protections around it one at the back And then I have this strap here that sucked into both sides. We call that a belly wrap Was around this what's holding it down. It's also holding it this way and holding it that way So that tongue right there Cannot move anywhere. I mean it's got the chains on it. So it's not but strap is extra insurance Just getting everything moving here getting the blood moving and old bloke and then we're gonna hit the road I think it's about another half hour down the road where this goes And then about another hour hour and a half from there to Niskew I don't know what it is exactly. I think it's parts for an excavator or an excavator itself I'm just gonna go up here on the kick on the front of my trailer and then tomorrow It's a sketch on on my way back home. I'm picking up a 40-foot culvert excuse me No, for you a couple that's gonna go on the bottom here That's gonna fill up most of the rest of my trailer and I'm gonna take all of that back to Manitoba It's another beautiful day. It's already hot out. I can tell it's gonna be a hot one Definitely gonna get a farmer tan Yeah, it's already there look at that then I get a tan line where my gloves are too I was telling you this yesterday So I have like white hats and something from here to here That's where I get tanned and then around my neck here It's a blessing in a curse It's nice to be able to tan so well because when your skin tans that protects you from the Sun, right? That's why it does that it's His bodies are amazing machines. It knows how to protect you from the elements somewhat So when I go in the Sun once I might burn once but after that Skin doesn't burn just just turns brown But at the same time the skin that never touches The Sunlighter that the sunlight never touches stays Pasty white. So when I go to the beach, I always look like I'm wearing a white t-shirt in summertime It's a little embarrassing and frustrating But there's no way to get an even tan as a truck driver. What am I gonna do? Like have my shirt off all the time. I'm unloading freight going into the customer with no shirt on Hey Got your freight Don't mind my nipples It's for the tan working on my tan. I don't think they'd like that very much So I'm and I could wear like a muscle shirt with no sleeveless sleeveless shirts But then I still have a white muscle shirt. I can't win Oh well Can't complain though. I like who I am. Hey, then I've got an empty trailer behind me now Got that last moron for there Move my tarps up to the front here where I like to have them It's time to go get our next one It's an hour and a half to nisk you approximately that's where we're gonna go and pick up So we got to go around the east side of Edmonton a little west of here Still don't know what it is, but I have it's got to be some kind of excavator stuff or thing or something for an excavator I don't know what's going on But I do know that this load is done So I have to mark this down in my paperwork because I'm old-school that way I like to write everything down That way I have record of it And then when my paste up comes through I can match that to this and it should it should match And if it doesn't oh Then I give a friendly phone call Yeah, that never happens sometimes there's a discrepancy the payroll people who take care of payroll for me are super nice Super nice. I like them. So if there ever is an issue They take care of it right away, but they're really good at what they do really good Like it's been 12 years now, and I don't think they've messed up once for me. Anyways, maybe that's called lucky I don't know what never messed anything up and I always check their work, right? always does this has to do with money with my my living how I feed myself my family and pay my bills right so of course I'm gonna keep track everything and double-check everything, but Like they're really good never had a problem Okay, so my odometer is at two million nine hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and eighty six kilometers Write that down almost at three million kilometers. That would be two million miles almost So two nine eighty eight eighty six and do some math and figure out Along this trip was so eighty eight six subtract 37 so this was really 3,149 kilometers this trip. I guess so yeah from Davenport to here because I went through home It would have been shorter to go through Saskatchewan, but I wanted to go home for a reset. I wanted to see my baby boy. What? Dressed me. Yeah, 3,149 kilometers longer one 149 kilometers we take that number we divide it divided by 1.61 1,956 miles 1,956 miles and then I take the rate and divide it by the miles to find out what I made per mile And then I take all my expenses at the end of the month for fuel maintenance and everything The shop and I figure out how much it costs me to move the truck per mile and how much I got paid per mile And how much I kept per mile that way the next month I sort of get an idea of how last month went and then if I want I can compare it to you know all the months previous to see If it's going up or at least staying the same or you don't want it as they're going down But I did take a lot of time off for Theo's birth. So this month will be a Little different than most months when it comes to the numbers be quite a bit lower 22 degrees Celsius outside sunshine not a cloud. They're barely a cloud in the sky some a little bit of a haze over there You see in the sky, but Beautiful day. It is a great day for trucking and I say that a lot But don't get me wrong not every day is a good trucking day I just don't like to focus on the ones that aren't that good. It's been like that for my whole life This this town's still thriving. It's a pretty I should say it's a small city But I don't come through here unless if I have a reason to be here, right? The place where I'm delivering this mower to is on the other side of town It's just one road straight through town down the main main street here Just like they used to build towns, right pretty much down one road Old Western towns from the shipper all the way to all my receivers. Everybody was in a good mood I think that's what springtime does to people do a horse race before here, Kentucky's good for that, right? A lot of horse races there Winnipeg is actually known for their horse races, too We've got a huge horse race track west of the city never been there to watch horses run around in circles all day What they're serving there and that can be fun, right? Just watch people make left turns all day Go to the horse races. You watch horses run around a circle all day Great fun. I'm not even joking. I'm not even being like sarcastic. That's a lot of fun I've never been to a NASCAR race either. I'd love to go Look, I know some people that are involved in NASCAR I don't know if he wants me to name him or anything here, but I know one of the drivers that drives for a NASCAR team He's watching right now. I still want to come watch a race sometime. That would be so much fun Karen we're talking about NASCAR way more important than anything you have to say Quiet. We're talking about the NASCAR races, right? And you see it on tv and It tells you it's just an amazing experience. I have to experience it at least once in my life, right? Maybe once Theo's old enough to take him to see a NASCAR race I finally took him a little longer than I thought to get here, but there's nobody here Thanks Karen didn't need that but appreciate it just in case just like the interstate a bit of a situation My trailer is still empty And the sun is getting lower in the sky My load fell through here and well an ISCU or an Edmonton Wasn't able to get it loaded It was just LTL. It was just a little bit. It was to add to my main load that I'm picking up in Saskatchewan tomorrow So that sucks, but What can you do, right? Just didn't work out So I'm going to head back to a town called Clavitt Saskatchewan, I believe that's how you pronounce it It's just southeast of Saskatoon. So I'll probably go to Saskatoon tonight or maybe even straight to the town It looks like there's a little truck stop right by the town there. I'll go to that one And we're going to load up a 40 foot piece Of culvert I think it seems pretty easy if it's what I think it is. It's just a few straps over the top you get some uh Dunnage along the bottom just to make sure I can't roll anywhere just in case and Bob's your uncle, you know you're off to the races Made me sad that I lost that load, but I didn't really lose it The thing I was going to pick up it was a skid steer But the only way we could make that skid steer work on my load is if I put it up here on the kick up at the front But I'll show you here one second. This is like a Two foot almost drop onto the lower deck. So I'd have to load it from the back drive it up to here And then get it up on top of there And it had no bucket on it. So I couldn't even use the bucket to push myself up onto here Wouldn't have worked There's just no way we could load it. You can't load it with a forklift. It's too heavy So they're gonna send another truck They have to send a different truck with a different trailer there to pick that one up that one didn't work out for me Uh, they'll take care of me. That wasn't that wasn't my mistake. So Now we'll head into Saskatchewan We'll pick up our main load and I'll probably even you know if I if I load that first thing tomorrow morning I might even get to deliver it tomorrow evening yet and then go home That's what we'll try to do Find the bugs on the window right in front of you. There are friends It means that spring is here. I don't mind the bugs at the beginning of summer anyway It's just because I'm sick of the snow. I'd rather have the bugs in the snow And uh, I can't get off of that. I've tried I gotta stop and uh Squeegee them off yet and I still got a winter wash and fluid in there So I don't think that eats at the bugs as well north battle for Saskatchewan On our way towards just east of Saskatoon where we got to pick up that big culvert tomorrow So far everything's going good waste of a day Trying to figure that out I'm hoping to get something out of it yet because uh, you know, I I went all the way out there's 200 mile Excuse me 200 miles out of my way and I don't get paid by the mile. I get paid by the load on my truck so I uh When I'm on the truck's empty. I'm not making money like right now I'm not making money loads I pick up. I've got to compensate for that They've got to be worth it for the deadhead to get there Deadhead means driving with no load empty You always have somewhat of a deadhead because you very rarely load where you unload it, right? Wasted that time and fuel it would have only been well, it would have been about a 300 mile deadhead for this load I'm sure we'll figure out something this petro pass done. Is there parking there in north battle for for trucks At the petro pass nice Nice, I've seen a lot of new truck stops coming up I've seen a lot of new truck stops esso and petro pass in canada have been building them like crazy And that's so good to see you always hear about oh, there's not enough parking I'm one of those people that say that because it's true. There's not enough parking But it's good to see the big chains up here of truck stops adding lots of new parking spaces Maybe they watched my video Esso just south of saskatoon. I haven't really tested it out in the dark yet compared to my gopro This is my sony a7c I can hardly see where i'm going here with my own eyes camera can see way better than me Sorry, i'm just sort of Messing around my gizmos here going in for landing here in saskatoon Wonder where it came from a beautiful night I'm out here in a t-shirt Look at this, hey amazing I am so glad Wintertime feels so long Maybe because it is but with winter being so long It actually makes you appreciate summer A whole lot more i turn all the pretty lights off night I'd like to leave mon all night, but that means I have to leave my truck running Though all the lights are led and they probably don't take that much power Oh, I could probably still turn over my truck in eight hours But I don't want to risk having a dead battery It's not like back in the day like when I was riding in my dad's truck when I was a kid I was like eight to ten years old back then led lights weren't a thing. They weren't invented yet So guys who had lots of lights on their truck like me and even more Those were all those old school incandescent lights that would always burn out all the time and they'd get really hot You couldn't touch them It's total fire hazard. Oh, but uh everyone had them and lots of them, right? If you left those lights on in your truck overnight even just for a few hours Oh, that would drain your battery fast. That took a lot of battery power Some guys had to put in a second alternator On their truck. I remember this they had to have a second alternator on their truck just to power all of their lights Now All the lights I have on my truck use about the same energy if not less than just one of those bulbs That's probably way off, but you get my my drift. I'm not a scientist. I don't know but They use way way way less just a fraction a tiny fraction of what the lights used to use Amazing how far we've come So I wanted to show you this I think I'm showing you this already, right? This is for the underglow underneath my uh Dashboard here one of these evenings when I have time I want to install them They're blue. I got four of them They'll match the lights in the back here and they'll sort of light up the floor in the front blue I bought them with money. I got for my birthday from my mother-in-law So thank you Kathy This is what I got with my birthday money Part of it can't wait to install those I want to hook up the power to the other ones in the back, you know, because I turn my lights off like this, right? When I turn them on I want everything to light up blue One day after uh, like after a few years, we got some good money in the bank. I want to have uh I want to have quite a bit saved up before I do this, but this is the plan Here here we go. I'm gonna completely restore this truck top to bottom Just give me some time. Okay I'm gonna do everything. I'm gonna sandblast the whole frame repaint it. I'm gonna put air ride front suspension on the front All of the lights will be replaced again with those dual revolutions so that they're a clear lens, but They have amber Like amber lights just like it is now, but I can flip a switch on my dash here and they They all turn to blue Everything my whole life my whole truck's gonna glow blue inside. No New paint the exact same paint that I have right now. I love the paint and the color on this truck I'm just going to I might even just because I just need the doors painted really but if I paint the I'd like to repaint everything. I want to get a new hood for the truck which have fenders It's like more of a custom hood have fenders that come down a little bit lower on the sides I haven't quite decided which one yet. I want to get uh stacks that come straight out from underneath and straight up without this, uh a muffler Why can't I think of words right now the word the muffler guard that says kenworth on it I want it just to be like just pipes coming straight up Same size as the ones I have on the top there now. Those are just extensions. So I think they're eight inch I'll probably stick with eight inch But uh fiberglass fenders on the rear. I want to stretch the axle by 24 inches I've done my measurements and for canadian, uh law Your entire unit from bumper to bumper can't be more than like 75.2 feet They they measure it in meters, but as a canadian We're weird that way with our measurements some stuff we do in metric some stuff we do in american We do both so you hear me saying like kilometers and miles interchangeably That's just a canadian thing at least in western canada here where i'm from Uh, we get paid. Well, I don't get paid by the mile. I get paid by the load But uh, if you were to get paid by the mile, it would be by the mile not by the kilometer Uh I do all of my uh fuel measurements and miles per us gallon and also liters per hundred kilometers So, uh Where was I going with this something about measurements? Yes So I've measured my truck and the trailers that I pull and where my fifth wheel can go and slide I can add 24 inches to my frame and still be legal And that'll give me an extra two feet Why would I do that? Well? It looks cool That's probably the first reason looks you don't buy a w 900 for fuel economy You buy it because it's a truck that you love and it looks cool and it's a w nine Why else would we buy these trucks? Why do you buy a 389 peterbilt or a 379? You don't buy it for fuel economy. You buy it for the looks What? So it'll look better with a longer frame Uh, another thing that uh helps is with a longer frame the ride is smoother. It's a smoother ride other than that it's uh I'd say it's like 90 for looks 10 percent for a smoother ride But this truck is uh supposed to be entered into truck shows I'll probably have it. Well, I want to have it in the one in steinback coming up this year the southeast truck show It's gonna be in steinback in june. I believe I'll talk more about that as that comes close But it's not quite ready to win the big prizes that like the big shows right Maybe one day I can have it to the point where I can have it at like mid america truck show that'd be cool But that is pretty corporate and pretty big. I'm probably thinking more show and shines like around canada and around the the us closer to where I am Uh, just truckers hanging out showing off their trucks, you know, you go you have it all polished up You clean it up you go park it along with everybody else's and you have a big event and there's hot dogs and food and live music Uh, that's the kind of stuff I'd like to do in the future and that's what I'm working towards Yeah, so well one step at a time make this truck more and more my own You know, I've already I've changed a few minor things on it already just to make it mine So now I feel that this truck is mine Uh, since I bought it It's uh, I gotta put my own touch on it. I've been talking here for long enough though. So thanks for joining me today. Uh We're hanging up the work hat because I'm off duty. 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