 Morning everybody is Monday again another one rolled around. It's a minus 14 Celsius outside. I'm just gonna minus 14 Celsius to Fahrenheit We're looking at seven degrees Fahrenheit outside right now. It is Monday March 14th, 2022 and We got a load weight for us has taken us to a sense so central Manitoba near Portage little Prairie No time to waste we gotta grab fuel on the way as well The Western Star is still carrying us this week Maybe my truck will be out of the shop this week We're not too sure takes a little while to order parts nowadays Everything takes a while nowadays everything's backed up and parts are hard to come by sometimes The truck is in for a safety And as soon as that's all complete This truck will be I'll be switching to that truck again And we're gonna be looking to put a highway driver in this truck It might be you if you want to drive our trucks you're a Canadian citizen or permanent resident Don't forget email me at the email address in the description trucker dr. Keystone Western comm This truck is looking for a driver could be you So this morning we're grabbing a trailer a roll tight a green one just like this one here This isn't the one though ours is right over there. I'm pretty sure. Oh Wait, no might be right here. Is this the one? That's the one right there. It's supposed to be pretty warm this week I'm actually kind of excited above zero temperatures All week even through the night some nights So all of this snow around here is gonna start melting this week and it's gonna start getting very very messy So I hope you all have your washer fluid handy You're gonna need it double check that we're locked in here. Everything looks good. All these bad boys up These trailers have lights in here No, oh But these ones had lights in here. Hey, that's something done. Let's have to trust me There's a there's a load of freight right here We are out of here before anybody's even in early start today They want this freight out their first thing this morning and then I've got to be up in Toulon before noon Which is north of the city? Shouldn't have any problem. I should still be early for that, but just in case we're getting an early start So like I said earlier, I'm filming this on March 14th yesterday. We had daylight savings time So we sprung ahead an hour So it's still dark when I'm getting going now And this light is still purple at this intersection if you're wondering And I've been noticing more and more than turning purple make a left turn up here I think the customer is right about over here somewhere. It's right near a little town west of Portage, La Prairie All right, this should be it. What is this 65 north? This is 65 north. We're facing south So east should be this way Okay, well, there's not gonna be many places to turn around on this road So I hope they gave me accurate directions forget how far they said it was down here Shouldn't be too far and there's not much else here So not be leading me into a giant pickle in Manitoba here. These are grid roads like farm roads so I mean If I am going the wrong way, I can just take the next mile road. There's a road every mile in every direction it's a Big square square miles When this area was settled Canada still used miles not kilometers Kilometers only came into effect. We only started following the metric system in like the 60s or 70s 70s, maybe We used to be just like the United States. I don't see anything. Oh, there's something there. What in the world? Number is this? Oh, that's definitely not where I'm going interesting. Oh, how about this one? This one's probably it here. They got a big shop Make anything. This is it. It's got big driveway big shop. I'm putting my signal on that's how confident I am that this is where we're going big driveway for trucks This is it. Yep, this is definitely it All right Nice and slow Man, I'd love to have a shop like that in our land one day. That's bigger than the one I have right now That's what I'd love to have. Wow Nice fifth wheel here, too. Beautiful I don't know where we're gonna unload They got more yard over here. Okay. Yeah, they got some yard over here Beautiful home beautiful shop. This is the dream property right here Wow, this is what our property is gonna look like one day with less machinery because I don't own a construction business obviously and more trees our land is Got more trees, but that probably about Something like this Okay, do I want to turn around I want to turn around so that I can Where where do I want to turn around? Where do they want to unload me? There's some more space back there I see I'm gonna park here for now It's gonna straighten out a little bit and then I'll figure it out from here I'm gonna go inside and find someone to talk to Actually, you know what I have their phone number. I'll just call it might be in the house I'm not just gonna go and ring the doorbell They might have kids that are sleeping or something the guy actually came out here and Said hi to me. I didn't have to Call her and they saw me pull in So we're gonna unload at the back here He says we're facing south here now right because there's the Sun. It's rising in the east. It still does that every day And we want to face that way, but back up Over here. He's gonna unload me in this little section here On the south side So it'll be off my driver's side right in this area here is where I gotta line up to a lot of stuff back here I want a lot of space. What's trailers? That's awesome. Yeah, I think this will be good here Show you what we got in there. There's so much stuff always had so much stuff come with me Oh, that's a beautiful picture right there. Oh boy, that might be a thumbnail One seconds that might be a thumbnail right there. Show you what we got in here now See that So they're all belly-wrapped held together in there. They're very heavy that right there is about 40 Good little over 40,000 pounds thing get this thing opened up. He's taken one off already When we have these chalks on either side right so they don't just roll off on their own So he's got these pincher forks on his tractor there they sort of grab the pole and sort of pinch it and then he can Pull it off the trailer like that Let's see. He's still got one two three four five to go. So he's half done He's going pretty quick. We're all finished up now. He's gonna close her up We're ready to go. I'm gonna do it from up there though. So I can't get much traction down here Or as much Up here. They've got these You know the grooves on the trailer trailer is made for traction Junk up here just left over We'll put this at the front of the trailer We get to a garbage can I want to be careful with those because they have nails on them You don't want to put them just anywhere. All right trailer come with me You're gonna cooperate right right we're gonna be friends Let's see it's easier if I push There we go and hit the road buckle myself in so I don't fall out. Thank you random voice Oh There you are There you are. All right I'm gonna go boat the same way we came in we're going to too long now Our own 45 minutes from here much lighter now. That was a really heavy load Doesn't look that heavy when you first look at it though, right? But yeah, it was heavy. It's sitting over there somewhere ready for whatever Life needs it for hard to tell where the driveway is here is everything so white it all blends into each other He's already just got a guess and hope for the best Look at where other people have been driving here. They got these hills So he sort of assume it's on this side of those hills. I can't wait till we can build our house Hopefully sooner than later It'll be a little while yet though. I'm thinking probably five years We shall see Maybe more I want to make sure we do it right and then we only want to move one more time So we want to be absolutely sure that when we build and where we build is exactly what and where we want Exactly, I don't want to ever move again. It's a whole point of building a brand-new house so that Hopefully you don't have to worry about too many big Problems in your lifetime yet, right other than the regular maintenance and hopefully I know there's sometimes problems with new houses, too But hopefully less than the old houses we've had I Don't know where the edge of the road is here So I don't want to go too far this way It's a guy over here. I want to suddenly slip into the ditch have to make that phone call. Hey Doctor hook. I need a tug And they get a pull me out. I'm stuck a nice piece of land out here though. I mean, it's very open because it's on Yonzi that's on the other side of the river. We're on the west side of the Red River right now So this is like a very wide open It's been cleared for farmland for the most part aside from right here, but around out there and stuff Where we're building our house. It's on the other side on our side of the river east side and There's no cleared areas not as much cleared areas for farming. Our land is all tree everything. I Really like that. I Like the privacy and the nature that the bush brings, you know when you have You know here in Manitoba, we call this the bush Or some people might call it the woods or the forest like we call it the bush And in the bush you get all the wildlife, you know, you get all the birds and squirrels and deer Bears and wolves and all the fun stuff, you know it You don't get to see out in the open as much or in the city You gotta sort of be a little bit closer to nature and there's a little bit more of nature on the east side of the river because it's Mostly provincial parks on the east side, so it's mostly untouched whereas on the west side of the river All the way to the Rocky Mountains on the other side of Alberta like 1500 kilometers away or a thousand miles away It's just a thousand miles of farmland that way If not more probably more than a thousand miles like 1500 miles. Oh I'm spinning Traction control it doesn't help anything All it does is it makes you get stuck more There you go. Come on. There you go. Come on. It's okay if you spin a little bit. Come on Come on girl. I Don't like traction control. I'm a traction control. I will judge when I need to let off the throttle You know, that's my job. I'm the driver. Why are you driving for me? I don't like trucks that drive for me. I'm supposed to be in control dog or something on the highway here Up here on the left. I thought I saw something moving there. Yeah, there's something moving Right am I crazy? Am I crazy? No, there's something there There's a dog there I'm gonna honk at it Go home buddy. You're gonna get hurt here. I shouldn't be playing on the road, buddy Makes me sad and scared. I hate to see dogs get hurt on the highway. I Got a significantly large heart for dogs What is house? I've been totally redone old-style house Beautiful see small town But for the most part they're taking care of it Some places need a little bit of updating but they'll get there They'll get there not everybody has the cash on hand to do it right now, but you know Some small towns that you roll through you can tell that it's sort of just you know going downhill because no one's renovating or updating anything That's not the case here. It's good to see We need to keep our small towns thriving The big cities are just gobbling everything up and I'm a I'm a small town boy. I'm a country boy. I like the Outside the city. I don't like I don't like the city I don't want that. I don't want you to take that the wrong way because I realize a lot of you live in a city But I just don't like cities. I I don't know too many people all in one place all breathing the same air I need my own space Excuse me coming in coming in there, bud. Excuse me Looks like he hit a deer driver side of his car was all banged up all right, so we go all the way back to Winnipeg this way and then About a half hour north The roads weren't this bad the whole way. It's just this little stretch of road Well, it's a bright yellow. I've never noticed that. Wow bright yellow house. I Come past here all the time We're just in too long. We got to pick up some freight We are Barely on time. I think we're about three minutes early. So we're still on time. We're still on time. Hey, they got the yard All full today. Okay We're gonna find a way of turning ourselves around in here and then put those things right there those gray long things There's two there and two over there. I believe those are mine Throw those on to the trailer tie them down and Bring them back with me. I still got lots of room here. Oh, yeah Yeah, no problem. I wonder if he wants to load me out here then. I'll just line up right in here Yeah, I'll just back right in the middle there. That's usually where I parked get myself lined up and Show you what we're working with after that See if I can get into that corner without getting stuck in the back here Don't get stuck. Okay, we're good Little bit of a blindside back. It's nice to have that little window back there. There's my trailer I can see my trailer through there. You see that useful. Oh, no, we got it. We got her in the middle Perfect. I worked out. Well, let's go reload Now we can go home opened up a lot easier than I thought it would 25 minutes On the time I stopped at the time I'm rolling out. I wonder if I can get past this guy He parked right in the driveway to unload Just gonna have to wait a minute or two. Here we go Sneak past here. Oh No guard wine wait wait wait wait wait. Oh He's not gonna wait. Okay He can't get in here anyways until I get out We're all in his way. Do your slip into the ditch there, that wouldn't be good then I'm really blocking everything That was fun. All right, so we got an hour back to the yard We'll see if they got any afternoon stuff for us. It is Monday, so Well, you never know. I would usually say it's Monday, so chances are slim But if I say that out loud then when I get back there will be tons to do and I'll be proven wrong So I'm just gonna say, huh? We'll see what happens when we get back. It's almost 7 p.m And this guy is still bright that daylight savings time that messes with me I don't know why we do daylight savings time. I don't see the point of it. Why? Why do we need to mess around with everybody? Now Saskatchewan's got it, right? They don't ever change their clogs. They said no, we're not gonna play with that No, we're not playing that game. Nope Good on them Early wish Manitoba would go the same way, you know, just pick a time and stick with it. I don't like the So what that's not as bright or in the morning or it's not as bright in the evening sometime sometime during the year like What do you guys think I don't like I don't see the point of daylight savings time I think it's useless. I could do without it. I have a couple of things from the pharmacy on my way home Shower by that time it'll pretty much be time for bed do it all over again tomorrow. I don't have a plan for tomorrow yet. I like to have a plan the day before but Often there is no plan till I get there in the morning. So I'll show up there first thing bright and early Make sure I'm ready for everyone when they get there and then whatever they need me to do Well, that's where that Jamaican store is Jamaican grill Jamaican me hungry We have a Jamaican restaurant in town now. I'm gonna go take Britt there and try it out sometime I don't know what Jamaican food is, but I'm gonna find out. It's gonna be great Now it's just my foot. Hey Frank. They're going buddy shake a shake a muzzle shake shake shake shake my hand