 Oh it's a nice day out here. Come on boys. It smells like rain though. I wonder if we had rain overnight? So good morning. How'd you sleep? I slept alright. It felt a little short though. But it's Friday, so before you know it we'll be back here. We'll be enjoying the weekend. Maybe we'll go clear some more of the bush at our land. Make ourselves useful and productive this weekend. So what's going on in the trucking world today? How are those fuel shortages going down there on the east coast of the US? I heard about that whole pipeline shut down and crazy situations. I've seen all kinds of interesting situations where people have been finding interesting ways to store fuel. I saw one person who put fuel into plastic bags. There was another one who was putting fuel into like Walmart storage bins. Did you get your fuel? Are you hoarding fuel too? It's crazy when people start panicking. That causes a bigger problem than the original problem itself usually is when people start panicking. But what do you do? If that happened here, I would likely do the same thing. I like to try to be prepared for anything like that, but you can't ever be prepared for everything. And suddenly everyone says, oh, there's going to be a gas shortage. Well, you can bet I'll probably be taking the jerry cans that I have and running over to the gas station and filling them up. I think that's a natural reaction. Putting them in plastic bags, that is not a natural reaction for me. That is strange. And putting them in Walmart, don't do that. Don't do that. I heard that one guy's Jeep blew up because he put gasoline in containers that were not made for gasoline and something happened, static electricity. That's the thing. If you put gasoline into these containers that aren't made for it, the static electricity generated as the vehicles moving can spark and set that off as a bomb in the back of your car. That's why they have to be in proper gasoline jerry cans. Properly contained so that that doesn't happen. I heard that somebody, somebody got lit up and had to learn that the hard way. I hope they're okay, but you gotta be careful out there. People are crazy. Good to be back in the truck, up the workshades on and we got the bullsnot hat for a good day. Don't forget, still got the Timmy's. Usually I finish it before I get here, but whatever. It's Friday. Let's go crazy. The motorcycle to work today is going to be a hot one. Done this whole walk around already, but I'll do it again for the sake of you fine people. We have the landing gear rolled up. We're taking this 53 foot roll tight up to two long and we're loading some stuff in it. We're going to put some stuff inside it and then we're going to bring it back here. And it's going to be fun. You just wait and see. I don't know why I'm kicking the tires again. I already did this. There you go. I'm pretty sure this was the one with the hole in the roof. I just thought of that now and I did my pre-trip there. I did check it out. Let's just, I didn't notice any hole and I wasn't specifically looking for one either. Just quickly peek in there. Oh yeah, there's a big patch over there. You see it on the roof there? Can you see it? Yeah, they patched it up. Okay, good, good, good, good. Good, good, good, good. I would have noticed it before, but since I remember that this was the one with the hole, it's good to just double check to be specifically sure that everything is tremendously perfect. Tremendous. Look, we got a little, a flashy blinky light there. Very nice, very nice. All right, guys. Hold on so I don't fall out. I like to drive with the windows open, so make sure you stay in the truck and don't get knocked out with one of the Winnipeg potholes. Let's just make sure that this trailer is not going to fall off and spike those brakes. It's connected. Wunderbar. A bunch more right there. Whatever I'm doing is working. We'll just say that, okay? We're rolling so fast in this area in the southeast. All these new homes being built. That's if they must be with the price of lumber right now. I was talking with my buddy, Will, yesterday. Yeah, how soon? Or at least looking into it, you know? Looking at his options and everything. The price of lumber right now is insane. And the price of houses is already insane. And then on top of that, the lumber's going up. And at the housing market, everything is selling so fast right now. And people are paying more for the houses than they're worth here. A lot of these homes that are selling have, you know, like seven to eight bidders, like having a bidding war over them. And they're, they're paying way more for them than they're worth. Which I'm wondering, when is that going to come back to bite them in the butt? Because let's say you buy that farm right there, that's a beautiful farm. I'm going to guess it's probably worth not as close to the city. My best guess, five to six hundred thousand dollars. Maybe more. Being like six, six, like, like five hundred and fifty is six hundred thousand dollars. Like, almost a hundred thousand dollars more than the asking price. And some, in some cases, sometimes like fifty thousand dollars more. Like, we made a pretty good chunk of change on our house and we sold it too. Paying more than the house is worth. And, you know, ten years down the road you want to sell it. How are you going to get that money back when the housing market goes back down to its normal level? Assuming it will. Or no, you can tell that I'm in my thirties now because ten years ago this was not the same things that were going through my head. I had a totally different, totally different set of thoughts when I was like 23. Well, actually I bought my first house when I was 23. So maybe like 15 years ago when I was 18. I've been a very independent guy and I've always wanted to get into a house because I know that that's a good place to store your money. If you got a bunch of money you leave it in your bank account. Hyperinflation is coming, whether you believe it or not. With all of this money that's just being pumped out to people, free money being tossed out here and there. Eventually there's going to be so much money circulating around and not enough people working. It's going to hyperinflate. So you have fifty thousand dollars saved in the bank right now. What could you buy with that? Let's say you could buy a brand new pickup truck and cash. Fifty thousand dollars. Well, five years down the road that fifty thousand dollars isn't going to buy you half a pickup because now that pickup is going to be worth seventy five thousand dollars. You know, a hundred dollars. I've been really looking into getting my, uh, getting savings and then putting that investment into something other than currency. You know, I'm not a financial advisor. Don't listen to me for financial advice. But you know, like things like, uh, cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin or gold, silver, anything that's going to hold its value. Because I'm in with all of our money being pumped out. And I really think there's going to be some kind of inflation coming. All right, we're here. We're actually an hour early. So it looks like they're ready for us. That's good. Let's get this cover open on the trailer and let's get loaded and get out of here. Just rolled it all the way to the back today. I'm going to load everything up in the front portion of the trailer. It's not going to take up the whole trailer. So this one, like I said, the flats, they roll really nice. The guy here helped me too. And it just rolls like butter. Much better than those step decks. I don't like those step decks. But you know, like I say, they're slowly getting them refurbished. So as that happens, they'll become easier to deal with. Just like these flats are nice and easy to deal with. What have we got in here? What's this? What's this doing in here? Did someone cut this off? Did someone cut this? Why? What is that cut? What? Why? So instead of properly dealing with this, someone just cut that right off like that and wasted a strap. I'll fix it. Oh, fix it. Always fixing other messes. I flipped it around. I see what's going on here. See that bolt right there? It pinned this section in there so tight. I can't get that out of there either. Right now it looks like that. Now it looks even worse. Dang it. Yeah, she's stuck. So just got to roll this closed. There's four stops on here going down to the US. Let's see where they're going to. If you're curious where our loads go to, if you want to come drive here with us, this load is going to, one's going to Waynesville, North Carolina, one's going to Fort Olglethorpe, Georgia, one's going to, looks like Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and the last one's going to Carter'sville, Georgia. That doesn't make sense. Why would a Pennsylvania, I must not be in the right order. Fort Golthorpe, Fort Golthorpe. Oh, it looks like two of them are going to Fort Golthorpe, Georgia. Okay, that Pennsylvania one, that was different. Sometimes the consignee is different than the Ship 2 location. Sometimes the business is in another state or province, but it's being shipped to a different location. So yeah, that's just three stops on this load by the looks of it. And then we just have to pop our head in here, make sure that those hooks have hooked on properly, and then go tighten it up at the back, and this load will be officially on the road to Georgia and North Carolina. This is very little fuel, and takes you down to the warmer weather. Well, hopefully they got their fuel situation sorted out by the time this truck, by the time this trailer gets down there. I know North Carolina and Georgia are in the middle of that pipeline fuel crisis. What a mess, eh? There's a bee in here. There's a bee that just flew in over there. Be gone, bee. Did you see that? I gotta wait for that truck anyway. He's in here somewhere. Where are ya? He's in there somewhere. He's hiding behind there. There's a big wasp. Oh, guys, we're taking him for a ride. Well, he finds his way out to freedom. You heard me say that this is going down to Georgia and North Carolina. Maybe he wants to go down there. Switch trucks, because this truck isn't going down that far. Still at the window, but it is Friday, so it's a 20-year plan. Of course it is. In 20 years, they'll start thinking about it. And then they'll decide not to do anything. Okay, so we got people coming from that direction right now. This road, we're gonna have to wait till that direction is clear. And then, I don't know, we got people coming from this direction here. By the time you see them, it's too late when you're fully loaded with a tractor trailer. It's easy to get across here on a motorcycle or in a personal vehicle. It's not that big a deal. But, you know, like usual, when they create these things, these intersections and interchanges in Winnipeg here, they don't think about the truckers. That would be silly. Why would they think about the truckers? They're not important. Always forget my engine brake. Always do that. They try to come around on the right side because they're impatient. There's a road behind me. 39% guarantee that they're not going to even give you a chance to think about, you know, getting over into the right lane because you merge onto the left and then eventually you move into the right lane as soon as you can, right? They don't got patience for that. They'll just zip around you on the right. Another pet peeve of mine. I got lots of pet peeves when it comes to driving. Well, that guy's got green grass. Wow. How'd you get your grass so green, man? You almost want to swing by there and knock on his door or ask him a few questions. Just looking at your lawn there, bro. How'd you do it? Treated with something because there's so much traffic. All the dogs running it down all the time. I know there is some stuff. I have seen stuff on the Internet before of what I can use on it. I just can't think of it right now. I'd have to go research it again. But like I said this morning, maybe a few of you have some good ideas what I can use to get that grass green and growing lusciously in our backyard, even though the dogs are back there all the time. So we parked it in the loaded lineup. That's the load I refused the other day. All of those white pieces, they were loose before. You can see how they fixed that by banding it together. All those green bands weren't there. So they did fix it. And someone else went and picked it up. This one however, looks like it's, they didn't fix this one. Someone brought this back here and this was still loose. I can't move from here because it's a bit of an awkward angle but that can bang against that and that is completely loose. I should have banded that. I still wouldn't have taken it until I banded that myself personally. They did fix all the rest of that stuff. So that's good. I realized it after I posted the video that I didn't actually show you why I refused it and what was loose. I didn't show you, I apologize for that. I should have shown it in that vlog. But after the day is done and you're editing it together, you can't just go back and film an extra part, right? Let's see that white piece there. That was loose as well. I'm gonna climb up here and see. Looks like they did band this piece in here but not very well. Look how loose that band is. They obviously put it on the... They tried. So that again wasn't. They banded these together now. You see that there? And there's another band there that's totally loose but none of these bands were there. They just had all the freight just laying in there. And there was no way for me to secure it. So I called in. I sent pictures in to dispatch right away. This is what I'm dealing with. I said I can't take this on the road and they know that if I say I can't take a load there must be a good reason because I don't refuse loads ever. I don't care what they throw at me. They throw at me a mess like this as long as it's loaded correctly. I'll figure out how to secure it and I'll get it to where it needs to be. I'll do whatever I have to do. The only time I would is if there's just nothing I can do about it. The only way to fix this. Look, I don't carry bands like this around. I mean it's not really something that most truckers would carry with them. That is supposed to be loaded correctly. So one sec. Let me climb up here. Let's go see what they all did here. So this band didn't help anything but I only tried. Someone got it here. These are all banded together. That's good. This band here is loose. Right here. That band is also loose. I see that he put the tires down. Remember they were stacked six high? So they moved four tires to here. Move those down because the way they were loaded there before. Be very hard to secure that. Strap is pretty loose. Okay. And this is the part up here that I was mostly worried about and this is why I refused it. The main part in here. Aha. You see there's a green strap on there now. Green band. But those are all banded together now and can't move. You see how this wood isn't touching it? These are just sitting in here. Like floating. Just sitting on that wood there. How am I going to... Right? You get it. You get it. This right here. Oh. This is still loose. They didn't fix that one. Those are fixed. This one here. Oh and look at this. This is why it climbed up here. I wanted to see this. These guys right here. Oh they did band them together all the way at the other end over there. I don't know if the GoPro because the fisheye lands. These were just loose. These are the main reason that finalized my decision. They were literally just sitting in this hole in here without any securement. And I was not going to pull that out onto the road. But they did fix it. They made it better. And another one of our drivers went and picked it up and obviously gave it a good look over because he would have known that it was refused. And they felt confident. Tied it down and here it is. So yeah when a couple of you were asking in the comment section what happens when I refuse a load well it doesn't happen. That doesn't happen very often. I think that's that might even be the first one ever in 10 years that I've actually said no to. Usually I'll figure it out. What happens is you take pictures of everything. More pictures the better. Take pictures of everything. Send them in to the office to the right people and then explain to them why it's unsafe and they'll have to rework it. Like the people who loaded it had to come out and rework it and band it together. And they did come out. The shippers came out and they looked at the freight and they agreed with me. They're like oh that must have must have been overlooked and you know accidents happen. Mistakes happen. I'm gonna crawl to the back here. Can't hold anybody to perfect standards because you know it happens. So they came out. They agreed. They're like yeah we're going to fix this for you. Meanwhile I took a different load and this trailer made it back here eventually. So oh I'm way too uh ow. Not as limber as I used to be. Okay wow. Okay let's drop this trailer. I have to pick up a a van trailer and just quickly rip into the city pick something up and bring it here. So I'm just gonna go and do that on my own if you guys don't mind. I've already filmed quite a bit today already. So I will talk to you guys when I'm back from that. That was just a quick pickup. A van trailer. It was a load going to Minnesota. I forgot where. Windrook or Windrook or wind something? Minnesota. Not going very far but it's there and it's ready for the uh the highway driver. Now we're getting out of here. It's the weekend almost. Just about. We just need to get through this gate. Come on. Come on. Let me out. Let me out. It's the weekend. Just on the other side of that gate. It's waiting there for us. Can you see it? He's calling us. Trucker dash. It's the weekend trucker dash. Oh oh oh oh oh. Don't spin the tires. Don't be too obvious. Don't don't get too excited. Oh it took everything in me not to just peel out. Okay. It's officially the weekend. We've left. Technically I guess we got to get off the driveway right? How technical are we being here? There I'm on the public road. It's the weekend. Look at that nice Peterbilt over there on the right. That green one. Nice.