 Went to bed yesterday and the temperature was pretty mild around minus 8 Celsius. I Woke up and it's minus 17 now and it's supposed to keep dropping till about minus 20 throughout the day and Over tomorrow night or I guess tonight. It's supposed to go down to minus 31 So it's getting colder again today the plan is to deliver half my trailer here into Thompson and Then go up to Gillam Manitoba, which is further north than I've ever been before in my province of Manitoba Way up north. It's like a hydroelectric town. There's a big generating station a big dam up there and our delivering some stuff to that town and drop that stuff off and Head back down to Winnipeg and hopefully get out of here before the cold sets in I'm not sure if we'll be able to Get all the way back today But I'm hoping I can set it on a little timer. So it starts I wanted to start the truck at about 715. So I started it at 515 That way by the time I wake up, I can open the hood check the oil check everything underneath there close it up and turn it over and It's nice and warm Cranked over just fine in minus 17 usually in that cold of weather It it should start if you got good batteries and a good starter But it's kind of getting to the point where it's like if you don't have like it plugged in the block heater plugged in or an engine heater running It may be difficult to turn over and start it in the mornings tomorrow night would definitely be minus 31 That's very cold So for my American followers, let's just do the conversions for you here real quick Because I know you guys speak in what you call freedom units. The rest of the world just calls it Fahrenheit So we went to bed yesterday. It was minus 8 Celsius What's minus 8 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 8 degrees Celsius is equivalent to 17.6 degrees Fahrenheit Okay, so that's when we went to bed a nice mild temperature is pretty warm. What is minus 17 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 17 degrees Celsius is 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit Okay, so we're almost at zero Fahrenheit and tonight like tomorrow night is supposed to go down to minus 31 What is minus 31 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 31 degrees Celsius is equal to minus 23.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay, so Now I know that a big chunk of my audience is American So now you understand the temperatures that I'm talking about It's supposed to get cold this week up here, but stay relatively warmer down south around Winnipeg That's why I'm trying to get everything done today So that we can run back south and okay That's over. Yeah, it's cooling down pretty quick And we're still only at minus 18 come on Josh stop being such a baby It's gonna get twice as cold tonight All right, let's man up Man's not cold. Oh, I feel like swimming on a beach Palm trees, it's not working. It's not working. I'm picturing it in my head. There it is. Yeah, there's the nice beach Nice warm blue water. No sharks. Yeah Open bar all inclusive Right beside me. It's nice teakie bar I'm on vacation Palm tree over me There it is. Okay. That's enough of that. Now we got to go north or then we are already Okay, Gillum Manitoba is about 250 kilometers from here That should be two and a half hours on good highways. We're not going down a good highway. So it's gonna be probably Four hours. I'm thinking four maybe more four maybe more So it's a quarter to ten now. Let's say once by the time we get rolling here gonna get on my gear off Gotta make some food Ten well one two which be there by two. I have two drops over there Get them off before five o'clock. I should be able to get empty tonight or today and then head back As far as I can And point our nose south and just don't stop ever don't stop until you see palm trees just like we're facing south right now Okay, straight south till we see palm trees What hours of service? It's not that bad. Whatever we live up here, right? We have to well I don't live up here I live in the south south part of the province, but it is still my province so my country You got to love every corner of it, but no one says you have to love every corner equally I like the warmer parts those are nice I Know Canada does have warmer parts people in the south of the US right now are laughing at me What warmer parts? Well, you know, if you go to Vancouver out on our west coast They don't get snow ever, you know, we could go there. It's just there's way too many people there Everybody else had the same idea. They don't want to live where the snow is So it's just packed full of people out there and it's so expensive to buy like a two-bedroom bungalow house like a single-family house It's like three million dollars It's like two million American dollar two and a half million American dollars for two bedroom bungalow like built in the 60s Yeah Gotta be rich to get out of the snow Okay, I'm gonna go right back into Thompson back to that petrol pass I just want to stop in there and collect myself check the map Call ahead to the customer make sure they know I'm coming Ask them how the roads are up that way I'm guessing they're not good highway 280 Which takes us from highway six north of Thompson here east northeast to to kill them up the Nelson River Don't stretch is where there's no cell service no services no nothing but Wild wilderness because they're very hungry. It's winter time bears are hibernating I always don't want to eat you. They just want to kill you out of spite That's a nice beautiful northern Manitoba day. I Don't know what you were expecting, but this is what I was expecting The snow was supposed to taper off Into the afternoon. What's falling now should be the last of it, but you know the weather man's never right So we'll see what happens. I'm pretty sure all they do is look out the window and look hey It's snowing tell everybody That's all I do and I'm just as accurate as they are Definitely snowing out just a little bit Park here for a second check my equipment Check my truck Make sure I've got on clean underwear because you never know what we're gonna experience out there on the winter road It's been through some weather Lovely I bet you he came from where I'm going to My trailer was loaded a little bit backwards It's just the way it turned out Well the first drop is usually at the back of the trailer just like a van trailer And you unload from the back and you move your you move your way forward because you always want weight on your drive Axles behind your truck. You don't want to be pulling the weight on your trailer axles This load was loaded a little bit funny All of the Thompson freight here was loaded at the front of my trailer the front half now the stuff I'm taking a gillum is at the back So the nice guys here in Thompson I asked them for a favor and they moved that freight from the back of my trailer to the front now I tied it down again at the front of the trailer. It's going up this winter road. I Need weight on my drives because if it's all on my trailer what it does It sort of lifts up my fifth wheel a little bit, right and I'm pulling the weight Which means I'm gonna be constantly spinning and getting stuck and I could also have less traction and Less stability so you want to have more weight on your drives all the time they move the freight forward that was nice of them now I'm just about ready to Head out head up the road So I got a hold of my customers up there. I got two of them and The guy said he's like be careful. It's crazy out there They got like three feet of snow in some places. They're working on clearing everything So hopefully by the time I get there It's all cleared and stuff, but he says we don't know how that road is the 280 from Thompson out like past split Lake Out to Gillom. So this might be a very interesting day. We're gonna take her easy and We're gonna see what happens Let's do this Okay We're ready. My lights are cleaned off Checked over my whole truck again. Tires are all inflated lights are working lights. I just said lights are clean Got lots of fuel Lights are on Let's do it Let's do it 306 kilometers Into the bush. Let's go Into the snowy snowy cold cold bush Karen knows swearing on this show. It's a family show. I Know I'm thinking the same thing though. Let's go see how bad it is Hmm today's gonna be a good day, right? It's gonna be a good day. I Just don't know how it's gonna be a good day yet, but no, we'll figure it out We got lots of food in the truck. We got extra blankets lots of warm clothes Someone's jogging in this weather. Hard core Look at this guy go commitment man. Wow Good for you. That's dedication. Oh I saw this guy who's parked at the petro pass overnight as well Yeah Well, he'll he'll call one season Thompson I'm going to Gillum and I'm hoping to come back this way tonight yet Nine one nine one one might work on your cell phone still that's supposed to work anywhere Yeah, well, you kept it upright. So that's good pick up truck Who is there who stopped is gonna go into town where there's cell signal because there's no cell signal here, right? And he's gonna call his boss and get a tow truck out here Unless there's a grader coming up ahead here He may be able to hook up his chain and pull them out like our worst nightmare, right? There's no cell signal you're out here on this remote road He said he passed someone and it was a whiteout and he couldn't see where he was going by the time the snow cleared He was in the ditch so on our way back. We'll check on him. Make sure he's all right He said he's got plenty of diesel fuel his truck is running. It's upright. He said he's fine in his truck He's off the road. He's not worried about being hit So he wanted to stay with his truck Here comes that grader Maybe he can pull him out. I don't know. He was fully loaded. So it's gonna take quite a bit to pull that truck out of there And he quite a bit and it's so far out here in remote Hey, it's gonna be tough to get that out of there. The road now is cleared. That's much better. Look at that We have half a road now. That's way better than one lane. Now. We got like one and a half lanes Nice. This is one of our generating stations Gotta go Over top of it to the other side of the river And cross over the Nelson River Which is the main powerhouse of Manitoba is where a lot of our electricity comes from just this one river This is the water that comes up the Red River into Lake Winnipeg and then overflows in Lake Winnipeg on the north side into the Nelson River Comes all the way up this way It creates electricity for all of us and for parts of Minnesota Huge Wow That's amazing. I'm gonna be able to get past this guy. Uh-oh. I can get past him. I think I can squeak past We'll see This is where some of our electricity comes from Can't really see much from the road. I guess It's all underneath us big turbines that spin from the Energy of the water we take the energy of the river And we capture it and we send it south so that when I go home I can turn the lights on doesn't that cool No emissions that everyone keeps talking about nowadays, right I Don't think it gets much cleaner than that that I'm any expert on it or anything. I mean I'm a truck driver Just about empty And we go home Won't make it all the way home today yet, but we'll get as far as we can I'm gonna show you something on this looks pretty cool. You don't see this all the time Huh Isn't that engine you think that that would cause my tires to be really like imbalanced, right? I didn't notice it nice smooth ride The other ones did that Yeah, look at that Interesting right that was pretty cool The motorcycle doors all the way back on is gonna go down really soon though And I really don't want to be up here on these winter roads Or on these northern roads At night if I don't have a rating station, I'm just I'm always just amazed at humans Amazed at what people have accomplished what they can build Roughly right all being held back by a man-made dam That's creating electricity that's being shot down some wires Hundreds and hundreds of kilometers down south so that when I get home I can turn on my oven and make myself a pizza pop all of this You know makes you appreciate every single pizza pop whether you cook it in the microwave or in the oven It's better if you cook them in the oven or if you bake them in the oven That's better. I would love to go down and see the Hoover dam one day In the US and then you know if I ever get like lots of money and feel ambitious I'd love to go see what's it called five gorgeous dam in China at the world's largest water dam generating station Not be interested to go see that too Shoot, but someone's coming though Okay, oh shoot. Do you got food and water? Okay? Okay, take care Stay warm made it back to Thompson It's a lot quicker On the way back because the roads had already been plowed and then try to trip plan With the amount of hours I have left on my log from Thompson to Gillum back to Thompson Today was 714 kilometers Pelican landing grand Rapids Manitoba This is where we made it with about seven minutes left in our clock yesterday What a day that was a long exhausting day I was so tired I just went straight to bed But tomorrow's another day. So thanks for hanging out with me through those crazy winter roads Excuse me we made it we made it So I'll see you right here tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe We make a new video almost every day my life trucking around North America or around the Midwest mostly And sometimes we include a little bit of stuff from home as well So there's a big variety on the channel. So I'll see you right here tomorrow Take care