 in front of this van in front of me who suddenly decided at the last possible second that they wanted to make a left turn slammed on their brakes and had to wait for oncoming traffic because it's pretty busy right now so stop the dead in the middle of the highway just boom so the car in front of this guy just will slammed into him the van just will slam into that car and i hit the shoulder because that's what i always do as soon as i see people slowing down i don't want to wear out my brakes so i don't want to slam on my brakes lock up my tires ruin my tires ruin my whole vehicle so whatever i just slowed down slowly beside the traffic right and i had to hit the brakes pretty hard that could have been a big pile up guy behind me had a lot of time to slow down at least because i got out of the way oh there's whole families in these vehicles yet you know it's all because of one person who wanted to make a last minute turn not thinking about all the people behind them all these families in these vans you know could have been crushed in a pile up yeah i know it's tough in the split second you see your turn oh that's my turn and you quickly you don't want to miss your turn right but guys it's not that hard just to go a little further down the road and do a u-turn and come back and you don't have to slam on your brakes to make the turn but i understand it's tough right in the moment like it's like a split second decision oh i better not miss my turn i better stop not thinking oh there might be people behind me not expecting me to stop dead yeah i got the blood pumping a little bit the van driver in front of me uh he he was quite upset i mean he i could see he had probably like five kids in his van i'd be pretty upset too you put my whole family at risk because you didn't want to miss your turn but then again you know we should all be following at a safe distance so that when people do do that we're prepared for it right and everybody was that's why there was no pile up everybody was following at a safe distance nothing happened you're you're just even though you're following at a safe distance you're not expecting people to come like to a dead stop very quickly in front of you right and you catch up to them very fast that way it's a tough call to make you know you just gotta watch out for people on the road because most of the people it seems it seems that way a lot of the people out here have no idea what they're doing no idea they're just they're just holding the steering wheel hoping to deer go hoping for deer life that they're gonna get to there they're going safely it is kind of scary because you know a lot of people they don't take driving as seriously as we do to me driving is an art form there are rules of the road and there are ways to safely maneuver and you know handle your vehicle maybe because it's what i do for a living they call me a professional driver but a lot of people they don't care much about it all they do is they get their driver's license just so that they can get from point a to point b they don't understand you know stay in the right lane people pass on the left lane they don't understand why people get mad when they drive slow in the left lane or or you know when they cut into traffic or when they slam on their brakes in front of a semi they don't understand why people get mad at them when they do stuff like that because to them it's just they're just getting from point a to point b that's that's the extent of their driving i don't want to say capabilities but that's their extent of their skills because that's all that they've developed them to be because they don't care much not everybody can be interested in driving it's not everybody's thing i don't blame them i don't like knitting that much so i'm not very good at knitting i don't spend a lot of time practicing knitting and i don't really care much for it so when people some people driving is just not their thing and that's whenever you just gotta watch out for them on the road just heads up keep your head up that's what your hockey coach always told you growing up right when you're on the ice you keep your head up or you're gonna get nailed right let's get ourselves onto the road here we go back at work feels good the windows all fixed up 24 kilometers windows all fixed up truck is smelling nice they put some of that some kind of product into the air system here the interior air system so that it takes the smoke smell out seems to have worked good now it smells like something else but it's not as bad as smoke but that that smoke smells so hard to get out of everything it's just it sticks to everything forever long break at home this is the interlake of manitoba sort of in the central part of manitoba right between lake manitoba and lake winnipeg we're closer to lake manitoba right now we're about two uh a few minutes here so about an hour or so we're about to go through the narrows which is a narrow part of lake manitoba the narrows that's what they called it makes sense i think right bridge over the narrowest part of the lake and we'll be on the west side and headed towards swan river then wild and empty up here spread apart quite far a lot of people up here most of the population of manitoba lives in the south where i live so i live in the most populated part aside from winnipeg and winnipeg is in southern manitoba so you come up here just a little bit north of the city and you suddenly find vast open spaces and big huge forests pretty much is trees all the way up to the tree line where the trees stop growing uh near church hill manitoba and then you uh run out of road but even though you run out of road there's still a territory of canada up north of that yet called nunavut they have no roads leading there it's all fly in or you can get up there in winter time on the ice roads but there's a few thousand people living up there i don't know what 30 000 people in nunavut am i right something like that it's a big territory it's a big territory it goes all the way up to uh the northern most part of canada in the north pole there we got some construction going on here we got some action whoa what's this you're not putting rocks on the highway again are you you're not gonna wreck my window again i just left i'm wrecking it what is this this is no signs have you guys seen any signs that i passed them no sign saying hey construction ahead watch out flag person or something what are they doing here and there's oncoming traffic so do i go around nobody here oh now someone's getting out of their vehicle i'm not going past there with a car coming no there's a car coming man he's trying to get me to go into oncoming traffic what is this wow they got an outhouse here that's weird now i'll go doing construction or anything i think we just got on to a a reserve blocking the road to like certain traffic or something this is a provincial highway and here is the narrows where the lake is the narrowest i know manitoba is very clever with their naming very clever down there is a big lake and up there is a big lake what a great place to build a bridge at the narrowest part okay i'm done you get it look fishers i wish i was fishing that looks fun on the pontoon my wife hates that song i have to sing it every time i see a pontoon look there's another one on the pontoon damn it i don't know the words actually that's all i know well now we are on the other side of the lake that was nice that was very nice nice bridge oh karen first we're gonna stop and let diesel take a little weasel break how's that sound this is a scale but it's not open don't like to pull in here when it's not open i don't like to pull in here ever but weasel needs his weasel break 10 left on my camera here have to charge it oh it's a beautiful day up here it's like 9 30 in the evening sun is still up behind the clouds over there i like pointing that out it's my favorite part my favorite part of living in canada it's the summers summers are awesome let's not talk about winters that's the forbidden topic oh yeah oh i gotta get the keys uh diesel's stairs perfectly in my cubby hole on my passenger side now so it's super easy to store them and i don't have to keep them in my cab well we made it to swan river parked at the co-op here and venture off all the way into this deep sleeper in the back here and organize a little bit and call it a night tomorrow we deliver here in town and then i head off to uh carlyle carlyle sascatch one and then regina sascatch one we have 10 drops on this load 10 so uh it'll be a lot of running around in the next couple of days and then i don't know what my reload is yet i'm kind of hoping it'll take me far south but uh you know we'll see what happens i'll see you guys tomorrow thanks for tuning in and hanging out