 because this is the first day of the week we get to go trucking. So it's a good day. It's gonna have no idea what's on the agenda for today. We're gonna get the bright and early coffee along here. I got two uh what do you call these thermoses? We did our budget this uh this weekend. And you never really truly know how much you're spending on useless stuff until you put it all on paper and look at it and then do it on an excel spreadsheet and then have the profits and losses. I mean my mom's an accountant. She probably does this every day when she's working. But uh for me I had no idea how much the little things added up. I know you guys tried to tell me. I saw your comments. I saw your comments. So I was like you know what I was figuring out. Let's figure out how much useless stuff we're buying and put it all on a on a budget spreadsheet and oh I'm gonna have to make a few tweaks a few adjustments. So brought coffee along today. I know. I'm finally listening to all of you. All right. Pat on the back trucker Josh. Finally listening to people. We made it. We made it. Monday is just about underway. Just about. You know coffee is never as good when I make it as when like Timmy's or Starbucks makes it. But that's okay. We're just gonna deal. There's my old truck again. Still giving her. And there's mine all the way on the side on the right. Come on there. Come on. See this. Those lights look like they're a little dim. I hope my batteries aren't dead. I didn't leave the lights on or anything. The oil's good. Monday morning. There you go. Hopefully the batteries aren't dead. I don't think they would be. I'm sorry I doubted you. She's not even that grumpy this morning. Not bad. It's gonna be a good day. Said that already. It's gonna be a good week too. Let's pull the old girl out front so that we're ready when they give us an assignment. Been left the yard yet. Me and myself. Make sure I got my coffee with me and my thermoses. I hope they stay warm until at least like mid-morning. That'd be nice. They're really good Chevrolet thermoses. So this one was actually Brits because she has a GMC. I have a Chevy. But she lets me use both of them. Or die lucky. Okay. Which way do I point my nose? Where you want me to go? What you want me to do? Got ourselves a trailer. Or 12. Apparently it's got a pump on it of some kind. Got to bring it into Winnipeg. Working with. There's my gloves. I hate it when I don't put them back in their rightful spot. There we go. We're working with here. Oh, there's more than just a pump in here. Herbie, is that you? Hull and Herbie today. Nice. Great shape and everything. Wow. Okay. Look at this thing. This thing. I want to take it home. Okay. Well, I guess we can't see past these. There's supposed to be a pump back here somewhere. This is on the back. I'm going to have to go look in the back. I'll take good care of you, Herbie. Don't worry. We'll get you to the track wherever you're going. See if we can see in the back here without opening this whole thing. Can you see it here? I'm going to stick you in there. All right. Tell me what you see. That look like a pump. That look like a pump to you. What a pump is that? Back here. Oh yeah. That's a chain going right here. Looks like she's tied down to the office to get the paperwork I go. We're in Winnipeg right now on the south side. So the perimeter highway, if you're newer to my videos here, we're going around Winnipeg, Manitoba up here in Canada. We're straight north of I-29 in the U.S. When you go through North Dakota, you hit Canada, you keep going up that same road. It's 75 on the Canadian side. You end up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, about an hour and a half north of the U.S. border. So now y'all know where I am. The perimeter highway is the highway that goes all the way around Winnipeg. It's a circle. We call it the perimeter. I'm on the south side headed east. Just up ahead there, we'll start headed north. So you have an idea of sort of where I am. I got to go all the way around to the north side, the northwest side. It's faster going around this way. I got to drop off that big pump, whatever that is in the back there. Good day for trucking. It has raining just a little bit, but just enough to cool you down when you're working outside. So it's like a little mist, right? It just cools you down. It's still pretty warm outside right now. I'd say it's probably about 20 degrees Celsius. We're talking probably like 60 Fahrenheit, 55 maybe in there. So it's comfortable. And after the hot couple of months we had in July and August, this is really nice temperatures. Look at this truck, big old 2500. I'd love a truck like that. But that'll probably be a dream. I have lots of dreams. I got to remember all my dreams are just dreams. Very few of my dreams actually come true, but some of them do. Some of them do. So keep dreaming. Keep dreaming. You never know. You never know. Never give up. Destruction zone. Look at that nice brand new boulevard right there that everybody is going to nail in the wintertime. Oh, that'll be fun to see all the wrecks off that. Hopefully no one gets hurt. See on that side in the construction zone, they always have that mobile speed camera. That's a cop sitting there taking your picture, literally 60 kilometers an hour, folks. So what they have their limiter set to, like if you go past them at 65, will they still take your picture? I'm not going to try it. You let me know. You try it and you let me know. How fast can you go before it'll snap a picture? 10 kilometers over? Like can you go 70 past them? Can you go 75? 15? Or is it like bang right at 60? Somebody go try it out and let me know. I'm just kidding. Don't go speeding. Don't go speeding. Okay, I have to put that disclaimer in there. Trucker Josh did not tell you to go speeding through construction zones. We're just coming into Winnipeg here down Route 90. So we're facing south now. I guess I should turn those off. I don't think anyone in this neighborhood minds because this is trucker neighborhood. As you can tell, trucks everywhere. You got the international dealership right there. You got the Peterbilt dealership right there with a couple of beautiful peats sitting out there. You got Andy the Kenworth guy at Inland Kenworth just around the corner here. I could have gone through. I could have, but no, I'm not going to. Now what else do we got? We got the truck maximum truck and trailer shop here. We got ocean trailer rentals in this neighborhood as well. What else do we got here? There's Western Star, the truck dealership up here. Just down the road on the right. Got Volvo a little further down the road. You have Freightliner over here with a massive new building. Have you guys checked out their new sales lot yet or their new building? It's amazing. Way better than their old location. I remember their old location because when I was a kid, my dad always drove Freightliners. He still does. He loves Freightliners and he would always go to the dealership down the road here on Logan, but now they've built a whole new dealership just in the northwest corner of the city here down off Inkster over that way. That's a beautiful big dealership. So this is Trucker Central, the northwest corner of Winnipeg. Anything and everything to do with trucking you can find here. Look at this guy's got two 53 foot trailers. Have any of you pulled these units before? That's something I have not done yet. I don't really have a specific interest in it, but if I was asked to do it, I would gladly do it. I'd love to try it once or twice. I don't know if I'd want to do it like every single day. It's a lot of extra work, but if I was given the assignment, I'm not going to say no. I would do what they asked me to do. Something over here in the international lot. Got all the dirt dug up over there. This corner of the city, you also have West End Tire. That's where I bought my recaps when I had that Volvo. That's here as well. You've got CalTire across the street here. If you're tired, you've got a flying J, a pilot flying J. It's not a travel plaza. It's just a converted, an old fuel station that's been converted, but it is a flying J. Very small. No parking, except for bobtails. Parking is just around the corner here. Here you've got pride truck sales. See what I mean? Everything to do with trucking here. I guess these are used trucks in here. Looks like mostly freight liners. And then there's a petro pass up here at the lights. That's where we're going to stop. There's parking at the petro pass. It's probably about 15 spots. Here's the western star dealership. My dad bought a truck from there once as well. I remember that. It was a beautiful, it was like a maroon colored western star. I was back in the late 90s. Back in the 1900s. So right here's the petro pass, you see? I need to grab some fuel because I was bad and didn't fuel this truck on Friday. So I got to fuel it now and get it ready for the week. And then we're going to go just down the road, actually down this road here and drop off this pump. Green means go. Stay, you stay green. Stay, nah, that was not very nice. That was not very nice. I was already in the intersection. Oh boy, it looks busy here. I'm going to go behind this bobtail guy here. Hopefully he purries up a little bit. He's got new Brunswick plates. Long ways from home. Now he sees me back here. So oh, he's still got to fuel up his passenger side. So he knows I'm here now. So hopefully he'll hurry up. Some drivers don't and you all know, you all know, you probably all experienced this too. You pull in behind someone and they take a half hour in the pumps. No one knows why. But you pull in behind them, they see everybody's waiting. There's big long lineups and they just take their sweet time. But hopefully that's not the case this time. Hopefully he'll, it looks like he's on the ball. Should only take five minutes or so. And I'm at a quarter tank already, so I'm probably going to take about eight to $900 worth of fuel in this truck myself. Get this freight off the trailer. Quickly get that unloaded. And if I don't talk to you before then, I'll see you back at the yard and see what our second assignment of the day will be. Took a while to fill. $727.6 liters, $952.43. Ouch. Man, fuel's gotten very expensive. Remember that's Canadian dollars. In the U.S. when they hear the word dollar, they assume it's American USD. No, that is CAD. A little bit different. This trailer is completely crooked on this side. And I had to get pretty close on the end there. And if you go on the other side here, this trailer is crooked too. So I figured, should I line myself up with this one or the other one? So I lined myself up with neither. I'll make my own tracks. Did I at least hit the cement? Probably going to have to go back further. No, I'm on the cement. Barely, but I'm on the cement. The cement ends here. That'll be good. Change my mind. It's not going to be good. Got to be centered. Six inches. Six inches. Right there. I lost a glove. Better. There you go. Smack dab in the middle. Look at this. They're all lined up. All tucked in for night. All the kids, all in one place. Off we go. Another day behind us. It's a bit of a slow Monday. Mondays are sometimes like that. And it takes a little bit to get the wheels rolling on the week. Britt's got a work late tonight. I think she'll be home around 8.30, I think. I'm not too sure. I'm trying to get to bed earlier. Or as my neighbor Tony says, I'm not trying to get to bed earlier. I'm not trying to leave for work earlier or trying to get up earlier. You don't try to do those things. Either you do them or you don't. So I'm getting to bed earlier. I am greatest neighbor. Our other neighbors on the other side are great too. We have great neighbors all around us. I really, really like the spot that we have in town there. But Tony is retired and he's British, I believe, but he's been living in Canada for quite a while. He still has that accent just a little bit. A little bit, you can tell. There's some British left in him. Nicest man you'll meet. And in the wintertime, I like to shovel his driveway for him so he doesn't have to shovel it. And that's sort of how we became friends. It's good to have good neighbors. You always want to be good on good terms with your neighbors and respectful of your neighbors. That's another reason I take my motorcycle down to the street to point the exhaust away from our houses. It's sort of like just an extra courtesy so that he's up anyway around when I'm awake. But just go a bit of an extra mile to be a little respectful of the neighbors and neighborhood. Because I can't imagine you see these like horror stories on YouTube all the time on TikTok of people like with these nightmare neighbors. I couldn't imagine living beside someone that I didn't get along with. I've always gotten along with my neighbors. I've always made an effort. If I'm going to live beside somebody, I want to be their friend. Okay, we don't have to talk every day. We don't even have to hang out every day. I just want to be on good terms. I want to be on a first name basis. I want to be able to, I want them to like me. I always try to do that as soon as we move into a new place. I want to know who my neighbors are. I want to know what their names are and maybe have them down for a barbecue every now and then. I don't want to be that annoying neighbor that's always like in their face trying to talk to them. I want them to know who I am, that they can trust me, that I'm a respectful guy, that I'm going to take care of my place, take care of my yard, that I'm going to have my eyes out in the neighborhood to make sure there's no troublemakers messing with their stuff. I'll keep an eye on things when they're not around. I'm just a trustworthy neighbor. I like them to know I'm a trustworthy guy. I want them to like me. Do any of you have any stories about your neighbors? I hope you all have neighbors that you enjoy living beside as well. But if you don't, do you have any horror stories? Those are always entertaining to listen to. Let me know down below in the comment section. Do you have any crazy neighbor stories? What do they do? What happened? Minnesota plates on that SUV that just passed me. It's nice to see those plates around again. Our borders have opened. It is kind of difficult. I think we talked about this in a past video, right? It is kind of difficult to get all the right paperwork and everything to come across, but it is open. If you look into it, buddy of mine that I work with, his wife actually lives in the US and they haven't been able to see each other for over a year. She's now finally able to come here and visit him. I was so happy for him. He looked so happy at work. He's really excited to have her up here. I'm excited to be able to have friends come up here and visit as well. So far as when I'm filming this, the border into the US for non-essential travel is still closed, but we're hoping they'll reciprocate eventually yet and, uh, you know, let us come down there and visit too because I'm kind of, uh, I kind of miss them. I'd like to take a trip down to Fargo or something. I'd love to go to Sturgis bike rally, but I can't because apparently that's not essential according to the government. I think that's essential to me. Bike rallies are essential. Everyone seems to be in a real hurry to get home today. Got these people right behind me. They backed off a little bit already, but I got my cruise set. I don't care. You want to speed be my guest, but you're not going to force me to speed too. You're going to have to get around me and since it's rush hour on the way home, there's so much traffic that can't pass, right? And people who want to speed get so frustrated that they aren't allowed to break the law and speed because you're in their way. They have to get home. They're going to miss their show. Right? Come on, bud. There's a clearing now. Go for it. Go over here. It's going to tailgate me. Okay. Come on. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Use your signals that didn't even use their signals. There you go. You're free. I'm happy for you. Why did you give me a dirty look? You're the one breaking the law. I'm sorry for existing. Sorry. The guy behind me, this pickup is the next guy. He's not following as closely as the other guy was, but he's going to want to get past me too soon. I saw him passing cars behind me. I already look a madman. I don't know. Something about the 59 highway. If there's any cops watching me right now. Hey, how's it going? And you work in this area? I'm just going to put it out there. I mean, I don't want to be a stench. Okay. So I'm no stench. But if you were to monitor the 59 highway, say during morning rush hour and afternoon rush hour, between, I don't know, like Ildeshane and St. Pierre. Oh, man, I'm pretty sure you would be able to keep yourself very busy. I'm just going to say that. I'm just going to say that. Every day, there's people driving like madmen, making dangerous passes. I've seen so many close calls. People just, they have to get by you. They have to get by you. And it's always on this stretch of highway here. This is, I avoid the stretch of highway on my motorcycle for that reason already, because people are so nuts. So I usually take either like the, the trans-Canada around or I take the lesser traveled two lane roads. This highway is just 59 highway just nuts. Get all my stuff. Put it down. All right. One second. I got to prepare myself for my rock star. Welcome. You ever want to feel like a rock star? All you got to do is come home after a day of work. It's me. I know. It's me. I'll sign autographs in a bit. I'll sign autographs in a bit here. Careful. He'll bite you. Hey bud. Hey bud. Hazel. Hazel. He's going to bite you. He's the little guy that's going to bite you. Just call me rock star dad. You guys need to go outside or something? What? Where is the wiener? I'll let you guys out and I'll go find wiener. Okay. So you don't trample them. Get crazy horses. Wiener. Hiding. You got to go outside too. All right. There you go. Hey buddy. Hey buddy. Hi. You're actually a little excited to see me too. Yeah. You don't treat me like a rock star like the others do though, you know. Thanks, Jeff. Dad, come look what I did. I left something for you on the grass. Are you coming? Show me. Show me. Where is it? Where is it? Show me. It's not that impressive. Wasn't even, wasn't even that big. Jesus. Why are you so mad at them? They've always got to show off when I get home. They do the same thing when we have guests over. Soon as someone new comes in or if I can come home for a minute, they got to show off and show me how tough they are. Hey guys, go do your business. Come on. Diesel, let him go to the bathroom. You're mine, man. What was this? There you go. Get it down, man. You got to mow the yard. Wiener, you want to mow the lawn for me? Thanks for hanging out, everybody. Had a lot of fun today. Hope you want to hang out again tomorrow. There'll be a new video up here. If you haven't already hit that subscribe button so you don't miss it. If you want to see it early, it's always up early on Patreon. The link is down below in the description. Take care, everybody. I'll see you then.