 It's going to be another fun and cold day, but I'm ready for it. Double-triple-share all the time. I got to shovel the driveway. Yeah, he's getting behind on my duties here. Minus 29 on this beautiful, beautiful morning. What is it? Thursday? Beautiful Thursday morning? Oh, what do we got going on over here? Uh-oh. Oh, we got something to give him a tug. Oh, oh, no. What's going on here? Something happened. Oh, is the GM rescuing the Dodge? Oh. Yeah, go show off. You got a Subaru. All-wheel drive. We're very impressed. Very impressed. Oh, now the other one's purple. I'm pretty sure it was that one that was purple last time. Replace that one just for the other one to go. Or it wasn't that one, and they just haven't replaced that one. I wonder if they're not going to replace it then. Oh, I got these street lights going purple all over the place. Ooh, boy. It is minus 32 out now. It's gotten colder since we got to work. You know, the sun's starting to come up. You'd think you'd be getting warmer. No. This is Manitoba. It's getting colder. Okay, so it's gonna be a good day as long as this little girl decides to help us out and start. Let's go give it a shot. All right, we'll just check the oil and everything under the hood. It's all good. Come on. She was plugged in, so ready? Minus 32. Cold start. This is building up air. The air tanks are empty right now. I need them to start filling up. Parks had problems in the cold, not building air pressure. Hoping there's not gonna be a problem today. I'll let you know. I'm not seeing the needles move yet. Oh, there we go. Yes. Needles moving. We're building air. Nice. Oh, it's gonna be a good day. It's gonna be a good day. Awesome. Look at that. It's gonna fill up the secondary air first and then the primary air after that. I don't know why. It's just the way it does it. Wonderful. Today's mission requires a flat bed. That's a step deck. We don't want a step. We want a flat. I saw one over here. I think I was just hoping to find a better one. And this one has someone's stuff on it still. That was the one I wanted, but it's got someone's stuff on it. So I'm gonna leave it. Someone might be saving it. That one is fully loaded with snow. I need an empty one, not a loaded one. I want this. This. That's got something on it. I'm pretty sure I saw a flat right here. There she is. Only got a partial load of snow on her. We'll just quickly unload that before we go. And we'll have a nice empty flat bed for us. I'm gonna go load it up with stuff and bring it somewhere. Someone in Winnipeg wants some stuff. And that stuff is also in Winnipeg. It's just on the other side of Winnipeg. So it's a short trip today. These trailers actually aren't that bad. They're just not the new fancy ones. That's okay. They're the old fancy ones, right? That's okay. They work just as good. They're better in some ways, actually. Come on. Come here. Come here. Come here. You locked in? You locked in? You're not locked in. Hey! Give me my trailer. There you go. Didn't want to lock in for me right away. It's there. Cranky. No one wants to be awake in this cold weather. Not even the equipment, but that's okay. We got to get her done anyways. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter that it's cold. There's work to do. Are we locked in? Oh, no. No, we're not fully locked in yet. I don't like that. Second, what's going on here? Fully locked in yet. I don't like that. Okay, we're gonna go and uh, we're gonna go and try that again. Pull this out. I'm gonna have to mess around with this. There. Oh, there's one. There's two. There you are. That's the one I was looking for. Yeah, see, we're gonna unlock it. We're gonna try clicking it in again. Leave that here for now so we can grab it if we need it again. Fully locked in. You don't want to mess around with that because if you don't get fully locked in, you're gonna lose your trailer. See, that worked. There's a bit of a harder love tap there. You don't want to go too hard, okay? You don't want to break stuff, but sometimes it just needs a little bit of a love tap. Are we locked in? Yeah, looks like it. Looks like we're fully locked in now. I think. Looking at those pins. Yeah, we're locked. Okay. Always check. Always check, especially in the cold weather. Cold weather messes with everything. You can't let it mess with your brain though. Still got to use your brain. You don't want to lose a trailer on the highway and get somebody killed. That's a big no-no. Highly frowned upon. Highly. Always landing gear, all frozen, all the grease in there is all. Get a good workout in the morning. Rolling up the gear. Okay. Okay. This is for this. Actually, what is that doing there? That goes there. There you go. So much snow. You know what they say about lots of snow, right? Lots of fun. Trucking. You know what? These are the days when you go home at the end of the day after getting something done, getting your work done, and you feel really good about yourself. You feel like you really got something done. Because not everybody likes working out in the cold like this. I mean, let's be honest, nobody likes working out in the cold like this. But if you get the job done, despite the cold, makes you feel real good at the end of the day. Who cares if it's minus 32 outside? We got work to do. We're gonna get it done. Gotta keep telling myself that. It's harder than it looks. Easier said than done. But it's gonna be a good day. Change of plans. I just got this trailer sweeped out or swept off and just went around the corner started poking it down the highway to my pickup. And I got the phone call saying, turn around come back. Okay. So whoever grabs this trailer next, it's nicely shoveled off for you. You're welcome. I don't need it. I gotta grab a roll tight and go pick up a couple of forklifts in town. I don't know what's going on, but plans got changed. Remember, what are we? Truckers. What is this? Trucking. Plans changed. I gotta roll these things back down now. Oh, yeah, I get another workout. Two workouts this morning. It's good for me. It's good for me. Just keep telling myself. It's good for me. Really, I don't mind. This load I'm gonna go pick up now instead is actually gonna be a lot simpler to deal with than the mess I was gonna put on here and bring across the city. It was gonna be one of those loads that were aluminum and you gotta be very careful not to bend it and it's very fragile and it shifts around easy. Gotta make sure it doesn't shift and I'll go pick up a couple of forklifts and a roll tight instead. That sounds good to me. It's not gonna complain about that one. There we go. Well, 507, I appreciate your willingness to work with me today, but you can go back to sleep now. I know I took your nice snow blanket off you. You might be a little cold now, but you just have to deal with it. You're a Manitoba trailer. You have Manitoba plates that means you can deal with the cold. Where's my other? Just pull this pin out. Like that. Now the trailer is unlocked. We went through all of that work to make sure she was locked on. Now I got to make sure she's unlocked and go do it again on another trailer. All right. Ah, this is fun. I'm not even joking. I like trucking. I don't care what I'm doing as long as I'm trucking. I'm a happy camper. Can't see up my back window. I need to clean that thing. Oh trucker Josh, what are you doing? Got to watch in the mirror there. Make sure this. Okay. Well, they adjusted my clutch again. Gotta get used to it. We're free. Okay. Good. Yeah. Last week or on the weekend, they took my truck in, did a little bit of work to it. It had a little bit of a coolant leak somewhere. Must have been dripping out. There was a radiator hose that just had to be tightened up. It was way underneath in there. So they probably had to take it all apart to get to it, but they figured it out like they always do. And they adjusted my clutch while it was in there. So my clutch went from grabbing at the top to like grabbing one inch off the bottom. So you got to get used to it. Six, seven, one, two, eight. Roll tight. Eyes on you right there. You green beautiful beast. Six, seven, one, two, eight. That's mine right there. Oh, we're gonna have fun. We're gonna pick up some forklifts. That's a nice little skid steer up there, right? That's Kubota skid steer. I could use that. Wonder where it's going. It's not going to my property, unfortunately. I wish it was. Backer up, backer up, backer up. Can't see out the back window because I haven't cleaned it. I've got to back up like a real trucker now using my mirrors. Oh, oh, that was gentle. Nice. Are we locked in? Ah, nice. I didn't even feel it. Yeah, we're definitely locked in. That made my day. So first thing, let's just make sure we're locked in. Looks locked in. Locked in. Okay. We'll do a tug test before we leave yet, just to be sure. Let's make sure she's empty. Okay, I'm just gonna clean those up before I go yet. That should be, those should be on the in the box on the side, not in here. Here I'll have to take them all out there. Got those all ready to go underneath into the tool box where they should be. This here, I'm gonna have to adjust. That is supposed to be pinned in there, not loose like that. I'll do that from the outside. Tarp strap here. So before you leave with the trailer, you want to make sure it's all good. Ready to go, right? That's what we're doing. On the North perimeter highway, on the north side of Winnipeg, you're familiar with the city. If you're not, Winnipeg is in the heart of North America. It's right in the center of the continent. Center of Canada, right in the middle. Manitoba is the forgotten province, so I'll forgive you for never hearing about us. That's okay. There's not very many people here, and we kind of like it that way. It's quiet. You know? It's cold. It's quiet. But it's home. So, going around the north side here, I'm facing westbound right now. I'm gonna go down into the city right over there and like I was saying, pick up two forklifts. 53 foot flat roll tight behind me. We're gonna throw her in there, tire down, bring her back to the yard. Somebody is gonna hook up onto them and pull them on down to Ohio. Somebody in Ohio is in need of some forklifts that we have up here. So we're gonna do the right thing and bring them on down there for them. It's not much use to them way up here, right? So we'll bring them over there so they can make use of them. So I see it anyway. We've got a lot of snow this winter, which is nice. We've got a good amount of snow. Not too much, but enough to keep the snowmobilers happy and the you know, the snow enthusiasts, the cross-country skiers, the tobogganers, whatever you do in the wintertime. I could care less for the snow at this point. I don't own a snowmobile. I wish I did. I did when I was younger. Well, I guess my parents did, but I wrote it. I wouldn't mind having one. They're a lot of fun. But since I don't have one after Christmas and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, I have absolutely no use for all this white stuff. I have no use for it at all. It's only good for Christmas because you have to have a white Christmas, right? Christmas isn't Christmas without snow in my mind. It just wouldn't be right. I'm done with it now. It can now go away. Thank you very much. We have the last two weeks of January ahead of us here. We're in them right now in the first two weeks of February. Those are the coldest weeks of the year. We're going to get through these couple of weeks and we'll be on the bottom of the hill going down towards spring. Before you know it, it'll be truck show season again. Summertime. That means we got to get the pressure washer out or keeping things clean again. Sometimes I wonder about people's mental health out here on the road. Sometimes I'm a little bit worried. Every now and then you run into someone who's just like excessively angry at the world for no reason. And you know, it's easy to sort of shake your head at them and say whatever you want to say about them in the safety of your vehicle. You got to wonder like what's going on? What's going on to make them wake up and want to be just a mean person to other people, you know? Like does it make them feel stronger, bigger, better? I don't think so. I think they're lashing out because of something going on in their life. They're not happy. And sometimes those circumstances are out of their control. I got to get across this road here. I don't think it's going to happen. I can hardly see the traffic coming on that side because of the snow banks. And this side, after this little cluster of vehicles, I may be able to get across here. Everybody's moving so slowly, which is probably better because the roads are ice. This guy's turning. I think I'll be able to stick my nose in here. I hate doing this though because then I got to block the traffic, eh? And I'm not going to do it because that way has to be clear too. Otherwise I'm blocking all of these people. Hey look, we got a Mountie. I've never seen that guy there before. The Queen's Guard. Because I wasn't a Mountie. That was the Queen's Guard. Sorry. It's got the big hat. I think there's a difference. That sun feels really good coming through the window onto my face. Just outside this glass is certain death. It's very cold. But since the glass is here, all I get is the heat through the glass. It feels really nice. It feels like a nice summer day. Tomorrow I got to go pick up one of our trailers from the trailer shop again. One of our roll tights that got fixed up. And take that up to Toulon. Load some freight. Some freight's going to New York. Some freight's going to... Some freight's going to... Somewhere else. I forget where right now. But I got to pick that up, bring it back here. That'll be our morning assignment tomorrow. Once we get here, get the truck warmed up. It's supposed to be a warmer day tomorrow I think. I'll double check the forecast because I should do that right now. Why not? Let's do it together. It's a really cold day today. Oh yeah! High of minus five tomorrow. Nice! Oh but it's going to snow. 94% chance of snow. With a blowing snow advisory. You just can't win. It's either really cold and nice clear skies. Or it's nice and warm and there's a blizzard. Manitoba! There's some reason that... People live here. We haven't figured it out yet. I can't figure out why people move here. I mean our slogan is... Hey! Welcome to Manitoba. We were born here. What's your excuse? Who would move here? It's cold. It's blizzarding. Summer time is hot. There's mosquitoes. It's just extreme but... One good thing about Manitoba... So that I don't just keep ragging on my own home profits all the time. One good thing about Manitoba... Practically zero natural disasters and zero poisonous predators. I can go walking through the bush here and not worry about anything except black bears and wolves. I'm not really scared of them because they're more scared of me than I am of them. They avoid me. We have a few cougars. In the woods I mean. Those cougars. We have a few wild cougar cats out there. Those ones I'm a little more worried about because they see me. I don't see them. Oh yeah. That's... I got the fan blowing in here. Blowing cold air in the cab. That's why I'm cold. There we go. Silence. Not off to yell at you guys. Other than that, there's no poisonous snakes. No poisonous spiders. Yeah. It's a pretty good place. No earthquakes. No... Not many tornadoes. Oh, dear. It's the end of the day. There's a few tornadoes here. We're at the north end of the tornado alley, but we don't get that many. Not as many as like down near Kansas and tornado alley in the US. Ah, what else is there? We get no hurricanes. We just get really, really cold and in the summertime it gets really, really hot. So I guess it's not that bad. Yeah. Tomorrow... What does it say? Tomorrow... What's tomorrow? Tomorrow's Friday. Yes! Snow showers before midnight, becoming partly cloudy later. Low around minus 25 Celsius, winds northwest at 15 to 30 kilometers an hour. Chance of snow? 60%. Well, then why did the other page tell me it was 94% chance? Make up your mind, weatherman. But what's... What are snow showers? You mean snow flurries? Showers means that it's raining. When I go have a shower, I get wet with water. Snow doesn't do that. Snow showers. I don't know what's going on anymore. What is this? What world do I live in? Snow showers. I thought... I don't know. No one can agree on words these days. There's words for everything and everybody calls everything something different. There's just too many people. Everybody's got different ideas and we're all trying to coexist in the same space. Alright, okay. The truck is all parked already for tomorrow. I'm sure she's gonna have a good sleep. I know I am. It's time to go home. Eat some supper. Would you just look at that? That ball of fire is still above the horizon. And I'm almost halfway home. I'm gonna be commenting on that every day. Because I'm excited. I love seeing the daylight hours getting longer. If I told you yet, I think I told you yesterday. I'm gonna tell you again tomorrow. Such a good feeling. Summer's on the way. It's so much better than the other one. You know? I wish the daylight hours would just stay the same. But like we were saying last week, you don't appreciate the good without the bad. So we go through these brutal winters. Short daylight hours. So that when the sun starts coming back like this, we appreciate it all the more. You'll notice, if you ever visit Manitoba, or if you ever move here, or if you ever live here, or if you already live here, you'll notice that in summertime, Manitobans seize the summer. Everybody is out and about at the beach going. Camping, hiking. Anything to do with outdoors. Even if it's just sitting in your backyard. Barbecuing. Whatever it is, it's outside. Manitobans truly know how to appreciate the summer. I'm not just saying that because I live here. I'm just saying that because you notice it. Everyone hibernates through the winter, right? We were talking about this the other day, too. You don't see many people out and around in the wintertime. You forget everyone exists. Because they're all like hiding in their houses after work. But in summertime, oh, we got festivals and fairs and carnivals and all the other fun summer things. Truck shows. I'm looking forward to all of them.