 It's Wednesday, it's Wednesday. And this is the Chulon. I had to quickly see the shop this morning cause this brace onto there was loose so I had to tighten that up real quick. That all fixed up. Gonna be a good day. Cause it's snowing, so we have to say it's gonna be a good day. We have to make it one. Cause it's not gonna do it on its own. Let's get rolling. Mind you guys, the truck world is coming. And I'm gonna be there, I'm gonna be at booth 20. Love it if you guys could make it. I'm gonna be repeating this a little bit throughout the next two weeks or so. If you've already heard that, I apologize, I don't mean to repeat myself to you but it's for the new viewers coming in. I want everybody to be able to hear and have the opportunity to be there. Truck World is happening in Toronto, Ontario at the International Center. It's near the Toronto airport. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It's a big truck exhibition. It's Canada's meeting place with the trucking industry. You can go to truckworld.ca. Check it all out. And you can register for free admission using my promo code TWJOSH. It's a truck world, T-W-J-O-S-H. You can get in for free. I hope to see you there. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm coming all the way to Ontario from Manitoba. You're really cool if I got to meet you. As many of you as I can that live in the area down there or if you come from a little further away, I'd love to meet as many of you as possible. I have to release the trailer brakes, too. That always helps. Why is it not going? The trailer brakes. It also helps if you connect the airlines. Got the trailer all loosened up. Ready to go. It's gonna be right now. Roll it back. Empty. I'm gonna put you guys right here, okay? Hold on, don't fall. Hate to see you hurt yourself. And that's what it looks like when it's open and ready to be loaded. You can also slide this whole piece right to the front and you can roll up that back curtain. It slides to the front and slides back and forth. So if we need to load this back section, that's easy. Just slide it forward. And when you button it all up, it's almost like pulling a drive ant, right? It's almost, not quite. You're still gonna tie your freight down as if it was an open deck. This is just called a rolling tarp. This saves you the trouble of tarping a load. Much easier, I really like them. They're a little bit pricey, the trailers. That's why not everybody has them. If you're not hauling freight that needs to have roll tight, like the freight I pick up here, we have to have roll tights. That's why we have them. But if you don't need a roll tight, a lot of companies and a lot of places, they just opt to use tarps. It's a little bit of extra work. But you know, a good set of tarps is what? Correct me if I'm wrong, like 1500 bucks or so. Good set of tarps, bungees, everything you need for it. This, this is like an $80,000 trailer. 1500 bucks or $80,000. I mean, that's including the trailer itself. So I'm guessing the roll system has got to be at least $40,000, $30,000. And I correct me, I have no idea, but just correct me if I'm wrong, I'm all parking it here. I know the trailer itself is worth like 80. So yeah, tarps are the cheaper solution, but it's a lot more work. And they rip and tear and these are just a whole lot better. And you pay for what you get. So that's why it's been drilled into me. And I drill it into everyone that I talk to about these trailers. I deal with these trailers a lot. Almost every day, or most days, I'm dealing with roll tights. What's been drilled into me and what I try to drill into others is you got to be careful with them. Drive like you're pulling an $80,000 trailer because you are, be very careful with it. They are fragile, they're handy, but you got to use them right. And if you don't use them right and you don't maintain them, they're going to fall apart or they're going to rip and they're very expensive to repair. So I mean, some accidents are unavoidable. I get that and sometimes things just get old and you need to, that's where maintenance comes in. You have to maintain it. Because we all know if you don't maintain your toys, they will fall apart and then it'll be way more expensive to fix it after they fell apart than if you would have just done the maintenance to prevent that. But I'm preaching to the choir here. I realize that. You guys all know this. My fender was loose this morning on the driver's side. My driver's side, a half fender. Don't drive trucks, they'll just quickly give you a look. This is a half fender right here. And this was loose on there. I showed you that before, right? I probably just showed you the same thing twice. I was really worried talking to them about fixing it because I thought they were going to take it off and replace it with a quarter fender. And I don't want a quarter fender. These city trucks are the oldest trucks on the fleet. Obviously, highway drivers, they're in pretty much new trucks, right? But why have brand new trucks for city guys? Especially a city guy like me that likes these old trucks, right? You know, they come and say, hey, we should buy some new city trucks. Like, why? What's wrong with the old ones? It needs a couple of little updates, get a new steering wheel. And now I'm slowly cleaning it up. I am going to get it to look nice. And once I'm done with it, they'll see. They'll see. See, I see it in my mind, in my imagination what this truck could look like. This truck has potential. And I'm going to slowly, one piece at a time, show them that potential. One day I'm going to roll in there and they're just going to, yeah, you don't throw away a good truck like this. Nah, you just take care of it. You just polish her up, shine her up. You know, this dash could use a little bit of work. I'm not saying I'm going to go ahead and do that, but you know, get new buttons on here. The paint is peeling on here a little bit. This is all fixable, all fixable. Yeah, it's old, but these are like snap-on parts. You can just get replacement parts. That's not like wood grain or whatever. You can get like, I don't know, different colors, whatever colors you want, you know, fix that. That's easy to fix. This truck has so much potential. And like, if it was my truck, if I owned it, or if I was allowed to, I would just put a 36-inch sleeper behind here. That's all, because I don't want to close up that wheel base too much. I like the extended wheel base. But nah, these old trucks, you just got to take care of them. And it's not that old either, it's a 2007. It's not that old. There are trucks running the highways right now or that are from the 70s and 80s. A lot of trucks from the 90s. And as long as you just keep taking care of them and keep rebuilding them when they need it, they'll go forever. I mean, with the price of trucks nowadays and the price of fuel and everything, and all of the problems that a new truck comes with, I shouldn't sound like I'm throwing shade on new trucks right now. I don't want to do that. Because the new trucks are great for what they offer. But I'm a little bit old school in my brain. I just like the way the old trucks operate better. The new trucks have a lot of fancy gizmos. It's just, in my mind, that's a lot of fancy gizmos that have the potential to break. And then it's electric problems, right? And you know, technology is what it is and we have to keep moving forward. It's exciting to see what new technologies we're gonna see, like a truck world. I'm really excited to see all the new technologies coming into the industry. I think it's really cool to see what they're doing. And I think we can do both. I think we can have our new technology and our new trucks over here for those people who are really into the new technologies. And we can also maintain and keep up these old trucks for those of us who like the old trucks. I think we can do both and everyone can be happy. Yeah, these city trucks, they're the oldest ones on the fleet. So if you come here and work, you'll be in a newer, probably newer Peterbilt, maybe one of those Western stars. I've showed you all the trucks, right? We have T680s, Kenworths. We have a variety, Volvo's, whole bunch of different kinds of trucks, but they're all newer and nicer. Depends on your version of nice. But for highway driving, you do want a comfortable, reliable truck and that's what we got for that. This truck doesn't go too far. So I like it and that's all it meant, right? I like it. I'm very protective over it too, right? That's why, cause I'm cleaning it up, I'm polishing it up, I'm shining it up. So if I'm going to be making it look nice, I want to be the one who's driving. We'll see how far I get on it this summer. I want to leave it better than I found it at least, right? I found her, she was in a little bit of a rough shape. Good truck, solid truck, but she needed a facelift. I can do little things at least, just to at least make it a little better than how I found it, right? And I enjoy doing that. So it's a good weekend for me just tinkering and I think that was better. Still loading me back there. It's going to be a little while. That's okay, I got all day. That was a very intensive load. There's quite a bit of stuff in the trailer there. Usually it's pretty easy, you know? Couple of straps, boom, boom, bang, boom, done. Not today, today was a little bit more difficult, but I like that it challenges myself, right? Gotta keep your skills sharp. And it's snowing, we're crying out loud, it's snowing. It just won't leave us alone. Good thing I'm not going to Minnesota today because I can't imagine the snow that would be there every time I go there, snow. Minnesota, right? Just south of Minnesota, it's all we know. We have a new neighbor in town that just moved in from BC and we met them at the dog park on Monday. And we just got a little eight month old golden retriever. It's Kevin. Chevy loved him. Diesel didn't like him for some reason. Diesel wasn't a fan of Kevin, he was a bit of a bully. We'll work on it, but she's from BC and she's asking us, so when is Manitoba gonna get warm? Well, first of all, I'm sorry you had to move here from BC, but we should have a solid two weeks in July. And her face was just like, it starts to get warm mid-May and then we'll have really hot weather through July and August, like 110 Fahrenheit, like really hot. And then October, November, September, October, it's kind of like, yeah, it's okay, it's comfortable, it's sweater weather. And then November starts to get like this again on cold. But in British Columbia, out west, in Canada here, our western coast, they don't see snow. If you go down to the lower mainland, they don't really see snow that often. They have palm trees there. I've seen them with my own eyeballs. Palm trees in Canada. The only thing is, BC also stands for bring cash. It's very expensive to live there. Average house is selling for over $900,000 and that's like a two bedroom bungalow. The sign on the right side of the road here with flashing yellow lights on. The scale is open. Maybe they'll be impressed, I don't know. So this is the scale at Highway 7, right before Winnipeg. Everything is up to date on the truck. Passed my free trip, so I'm not expecting to get pulled in. If he wants to pull in, I mean, check out my logs, check out my trailer, check out my truck, should all be good. This truck just did pass safety last month. Let's see, we watched the sign off on the right there. It says next axle. Only at 10,600 kilograms on the drives. It's about 20,000, some thousand pounds. And on the tri axle on the back, only about 6,800 kgs and we got the green light. About like 15,000 pounds on the tri axle on the trailer. Drives them allowed up to 37,500. I've only got about 22,000. And my steers, of course, are around about 11,000 pounds. I'm allowed 12,000 near being overweight. I think this is mostly rain, but it is a little bit of snow. You can see it around the edges of my window. You know, I just wish that we had like San Francisco weather but here and not in San Francisco. Wish we could bring their weather here, but just their weather. Can't even see out the window. Ah, now it's snowing in here, but I have to have it open so I can see. I don't need this one open. I can see through this one. All right, I know. Oh, oh, do I go? Should I go? He's in the other lane. Send it. Oh, we're gonna send it. Full send. Oh boy. That engine brake. Put the don't hit me lights on. There we go. Okay, that wasn't so bad except that I missed the gear there because of my engine brake. Gear fall and on the downhill. Yeah, I figured that guy'd want to turn. That's why I got out of his way. Got quite a bit of weight in the trailer. I mean, well, you saw it at the way station. It's not too much, but enough to smooth out the ride quite a bit. You can always tell for those of you who don't drive truck, you can tell when you're loaded just by the way your truck operates on the highway. Just by how smooth it rides, the smoother the heavier. Come on, Manitoba. Why you gotta do us like that? Oh, a Porsche SUV. You know, for the person who wants to say, hey, hey, I make some good money. And I got kids. Nice SUVs. Never actually driven one yet, but I'm pretty sure we've hauled them before for some customers. Just here in Steinbeck again, we're supposed to be getting like three to five inches of snow tonight yet is what I heard, or maybe a three to five centimeters. I don't know, either one is bad. I gotta go and pick up some stuff for the wife. Oh boy, why did I take this way? Oh, this is mud and bumpy. Oh my, oh, Josh, what have you done? What have you done? Oh man, I'm glad I didn't take the semi through here. Man, I take forever to wash that off. This truck needed to wash anyway. Keep the semi cleaner and I keep my pickup. That's backwards to how it used to be. The semi's cleaned every day. I need to start washing this thing now too, otherwise people are gonna think it's weird. Yeah, I just gotta go pick up some food and stuff and dog food as well. Human food and dog food. And back on the pavement. Probably can't tell, but that was a mistake. We're going to Sobeys right over there. Sobeys and pet value. Hey, you stay there, little guy, little guy. I'm a bigger guy. I'm a bigger truck. A big truck has right of way. That's how it works, right? The bigger you are, the more right of way you have. I'm getting hungry. The food, it's always bad to go grocery shopping when you're hungry. Oh boy, you always get stuff you're not supposed to get. Way too much. Park back here, right beside that SUV, I think. Is that a parking spot? I think it is. I mean, it's a parking spot now. I think it's a parking spot, so therefore it is a parking spot. Oh, it is now. People can still get in? Ah yeah, we're good. So we just had the two-long freight to pick up today and that took the whole day. And tomorrow we don't know what the plans are yet. The plans are show up and find out. What are you guys up to today? What's working? Stay at home? What's new in your life? Let me know down below in the comments. Let me know. Tell me something about yourselves. I wanna get to know you too.