 Friday morning everybody. It's Friday. Are you excited? I've got to work tomorrow, so it's not a real Friday for me, but it's still Friday. On my way to the truck, I am going to be starting up the beast this morning, the Picker truck with the claw. We got some poles to deliver, so it should be a fun day. I'll see you there. Another day is here, but we're not gonna be in that truck today. Or that truck. Or that truck. Or that one. This is our truck for today. And we'll bring some poles to someone who needs them. Hooked up to the pole trailer. I don't think we're going very far with it today. I think we're just delivering in Winnipeg, so it's not like we're going across the province or anything, but we do get to play with the crane, so that's always a fun day. We've got the tri-axle stretch trailer. I believe I'm picking up 65-foot poles. This is a 53-foot trailer. Pull up the stretcher just a bit, and it'll probably overhang on the back a little bit, maybe. Figured out when we get there. Alright, he's over there grabbing my 65-footer. I've stretched this out. One hole. I'm just gonna make sure that I put it in the right one. Yes, I did. This pin over here was in that hole there, so I stretched it up one. I called up Anthony. He's the other picker truck driver just to ask how far he thinks I should spread it, and this is what he recommended. So he does this every day, or almost every day, so that's why I called him. We're gonna get this thing on here. We'll be hanging over about six to eight feet somewhere in there. We'll see how he loads it, and we'll have to flag it up front and back, and a red flag at the back of the pole. There he comes over there. I'm gonna wait in the truck while he loads me. The truck is just a beast. You just feel like a king driving this thing down the road. This thing is a beast. 65 feet. So I'm gonna belly-wrap it front and back. Put two straps over the center, just to keep it from bouncing around. Mosey on over to the east side of Winnipeg. They want this in a new development there. Right by Lajomotie and Concordia, if you're familiar with Winnipeg. All right, so we are right at the front here. We stretched it out. This is probably six feet. Five feet, or five feet. We got her belly wrapped up there around the bottom and over the top on both sides. Something on both sides. So it's not gonna roll back and forth. These in the middle are just to stop it from hopping in the middle and bouncing around. The same in the back here. And then we've got the flag on the back of the pole there. So I just talked to the receiver there. They're waiting for me. I'm gonna unload this on the side of a very busy street. I'm paying attention to my flag on the end of my pole. Running right into my pole with that window. It's a little bit chilly outside. I like the fresh air, but not too much, you know? Or that's under the hood of this thing. It's got a big cat engine underneath there. We only got one pole, but it is a heavy pole. I mean, I'm gonna tell you, it is heavy. I couldn't lift it. Let's just say that around this corner here. As long as everybody else is paying attention, you know? I got all my signs out, got my flags out, but I did. Thought I might have been able to make it, but I figured I'd better stop. Great, we're in a neighborhood that trucks shouldn't be in, but this is where I've got to go to deliver this pole. Got to turn right up ahead here. Oh, this will be fun. This will be really fun. I hope that guy's ready to back up. I'm not gonna be able to make it around here. Oh my. Okay, now it's a big long lineup of cars. I'm just gonna have to wait for the light. I mean, I don't think I could make that. I'll have to wait till they're all gone. I can't make them all back. And go, go, go, go, go, go. Right on the red here before more traffic. Lights gonna turn green right away. A big truck turning. Nobody pays attention. Not two, not three, not a whole load. No, I'm about to make a lot of people upset here. Okay, that's all right. Traffic lights and stuff. Very fancy. I didn't even know these greenhouses were here. Look at that. Yeah, I'm gonna need this whole intersection again. I got to turn right. And it's a sharp right. Oh boy. Oh boy. I don't think I can make this corner. Nope. No, I can't make this corner. I'm gonna have to figure out a different way of getting in here. Down there somewhere. Oh boy. We're on region Avenue. We're gonna be turning left just up there. That's why I'm in this lane. With a load like this, I just get into the lane I'm gonna need to be in and I just hold that lane. That way I don't gotta mess around with traffic. That far right lane is closed anyways up there. Gas is still a dollar 32 liters. I remember when that was British Columbia prices and we used to laugh at them how expensive their gas was. Imagine how expensive it is out there now. It's ridiculous already. Here, Sue and I got my GPS on the cup holder. Bienvenue Street, which is French for welcome. 400 meters turn left up to Bienvenue Street. Aye aye, Captain. It'll be this next road over here. I wish they would have told me that in the first place. Like I said, they told me to go around the other way and I can't make that corner. They told me I could. That's why I called ahead. Call ahead. Can I make this corner? Oh yeah, trucks do it all the time. Not trucks like this. Down this little street right here. Excuse me. This truck does not turn nearly as sharp as mine. Nobody has hit my pole thus far. That is good. I haven't labeled and flagged out there for hours. People better be paying attention. Always stuff being built everywhere. Always stuff being built over here. Always building stuff. I guess it's good. Keeps people working, right? I'm just like wondering where are all these people coming from? Like that building there is going to hold, what, 1,000 people probably? That's 1,000 people. Turn left here. Transcona Boulevard. Fitting as we are going through Transcona. Is it a suburb? I don't know. Transcona. It used to be a town now. It's just part of the Greater Winnipeg area. Oh, oh, where did you come from? You were in my blind spot. See, that's why I stop and look twice. There comes a pickup. Heads up, buddy. Heads up. Here I come. Okay, so now we're on the right, that right street. We can just drive straight through that intersection that I couldn't turn right on before. And it's a much better road. Look at this. Why I always say don't trust your GPS. Call ahead. But sometimes even when you call ahead like I did, sometimes you end up in a, well, I'm not really in a pickle, but you know, you end up in places where you can't go. I'm already going to be going down this street up ahead after those lights. I'm going to be on a street where normally trucks wouldn't be allowed. And that means I'm not supposed to be there, which is going to be fun because I'm going to have to block the road to unload this pole. The guys at the site there said they're going to manage traffic for me. So at least there'll be that. Otherwise, it's like, this is busy. Like all these people here, all these townhomes, like they're beautiful townhomes, but lots of people around here. And since it's a developing neighborhood, not all of the roads have been, you know, properly expanded yet. They built the neighborhood before they finished the road expansions in some cases, but they're getting there. They're working on it. Okay. So this is the road we went through that way before, right? We couldn't make that right turn. It was way too sharp of a corner and that light pole for the traffic lights was right on the curb. There's no way I could have dragged this 65 foot pole on my trailer around that. So you'll see what I mean. We're not supposed to be going through this neighborhood, but normally much easier. See, it just goes straight through. Okay. I can turn the GPS off now. All right. This should be fun. Oh, and everybody's parked on the street too. And there's oncoming traffic. This is fun. This is fun. Yep. I'm going to let that jeep get through here. He's way over there. I'm going to let him come all the way through here. And I definitely don't want to hit that dirt there for any reason because that looks freshly laid. There's probably grass seeded there or going to be seeded there. Go away for me. I'm going to put my hazards on so they know I'm big. He's not going to be able to go anywhere. What you going to do, but not going to work? What are you going to do? Try to get out of your way as much as I can, but I don't think it's going to be enough. That's all I can give you. Is that enough? Not enough? Yeah, they're going to make it through. All right. Worked out. I don't know why these poles or these cones are here. There you go. Everybody's happy. And I didn't even hit that cone. Like a boss. Whoa. Whoa. Here comes another guy. Didn't look. Didn't look down the road. Where are you going to go, bud? Oh yeah, he's going to go in there. Ah, smart. Smart. He's going to get out of the way. You're going to have to give me a little more space than that, though. Somewhere down here. Oh yeah. I'm going to go up on the ground a little bit here, I guess. At least it's not fresh dirt. Okay. Slowly, slowly just getting, oh boy. All right, so there's my guy up there. He's going to manage traffic for me. Talk to you guys in a bit here, okay? Figure out what I'm going to do. I had to get in and out of there fast. So the pole's off already. It was such a small residential street like you saw. I had to be in there for as little time as possible. So I just quickly got the pole off and now we're empty. I squished the trailer back together here. I'm just going to take off my D-signs. After this, I just got to roll up the one on the front as well. Put them away because if I don't have an oversized load or over dimensional load and I still leave these on and displayed, that's a big ticket. So you only use them when you need them. Sort of like when you have a giant pole hanging eight foot off the back of your trailer. You know, some people might need a little bit of an extra warning. Okay. Watch out. Danger. I always walk along the curb side of the truck so that I'm not putting myself in the line of traffic and I don't get hit by someone who's texting and driving. Am I talking to you? I don't know. I'm not saying it's you. I'm just saying some people out here are texting and driving and you sort of got to work defensively. Here comes a whole bunch of cars, so I'm going to wait for them. In the meantime, I can take this one off the front. Down to Thief River Falls yet this afternoon. So it's 7.30. I got to grab fuel because I'm almost out of fuel there. Got to go to Thief River again tomorrow on Saturday. We're busy. Like I keep saying, we're busy, busy. We need drivers. You guys want to come help us out? We're busy. Got a guy over there backing her in. I'm going to give him some, give him a space over there. He's like jackknife in that thing. Can you think you can get it in that hole, man? That's pretty tight. Hey, Mr. Flying J. I need some go-go juice. Fill me up. I need lots. Okay. I'm guessing we're probably going to have about another thousand dollar fill up here. What do you guys think? Don't hit anything. Don't hit anything. That is the goal every day. Don't hit anything. So yes, you've seen how busy we are. We're busy. Working tomorrow as well. It won't be as long of a day. I've got to do one run down to Thief River Falls. Lots of work. Lots of work if you're looking for work. I know everybody's looking for drivers, but not everybody is the best place to work. That's us. I'm sorry, where there can only be one best. Best one, sorry. On duty fueling. Here we go. Let the government know what I'm doing and nosy people. I'm going to fuel it up. You guys think about whether or not you want to work here, all right? Let me know. Final total, 975 big ones for 745-ish liters. Oh, that's one week. And I didn't even fill them right up to the top. I don't fill these tanks up to the top. You know, I just fill it till they click off and then I hang up the nozzle. And you don't want to fill up your tanks too much, but I could have easily fit well over a thousand dollars into the tanks. I know even my phone is like, what? You hear that? Yeah. It's another week in my life. When I was on the highway, I'd go through that in two days. Oh, another long day. And we're going to do it all over again tomorrow, minus the picker truck part stuff in the morning. We're going to skip that. We're just going to go straight to Thief River. But I'm going to come in a little later than I usually do, because I just got one trip there and back. It's just some Saturday work. So I guess I'll see you guys then, eh? That should be fun.