 It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Wind gusts of 50 to 80 kilometers an hour What is that 40 to 50 miles an hour? Somewhere in there boat 10 centimeters of snow expected snow clearing operations and full swing It actually looks a lot better now when I first woke up. I have my eyes one a little wide I looked out my front window. I couldn't see across the street like oh boy This is gonna be a four-wheel drive type of day. Okay Here we go It'll be a little bit of a slow moving day, but we're gonna get stuff done We'll stuff done. That's why we got the good old Chevy pickup truck Four-wheel drive for days just like this, right? There's so many people out here with these small little two-wheel drive cars Most cars are front-wheel drive, which is better in the winter time, but there's such low clearance I can't get over the snowdrifts and stuff But you save a lot of fuel throughout the year. So I mean the one or two days, I guess Personal choice. Personally, I like to drive bigger vehicles But you don't buy them for fuel economy. So you got to pay for it at the pumps, especially nowadays So off to the semi we go. I got a trailer to pick up in Winnipeg And then I'm gonna put some freight on it. We'll see what time we get back. It shouldn't take the whole day I might get another assignment this afternoon yet It's supposed to clear up yet and then start blowing again this evening Manitoba, I love my home Lovely day Such a lovely start to the day We got less than a quarter mile visibility here. I can still see the lane. So that's good a Lot of snow and a lot of blowing snow It was worse on the last highway. I was on Because the wind is coming straight out of the south so that's where our warm weather is coming from But when it was blowing over the road visibility was four feet at times I was actually considering turning around, but I couldn't find a safe place to turn around So I had to keep moving. You don't want to stop on the highway, right? You don't know who's coming up behind you. So then I got onto this highway, which is a north-south highway I'm headed northbound right now with the wind so the wind is sort of just pushing me along and The visibility is actually a lot better But you got something going on here. Someone's in the ditch. Okay, we're gonna slow right down Slow right down here. I don't got a tow rope that can pull them out either and I got no flashing be oh, there's a tow truck right there Okay, good Usually if I see someone in the ditch if I can reach them with my tow rope I can pull them out But in weather like this I don't got any flashing orange beacons in my pickup Which I maybe I should maybe I should have them for when stuff like that happens But if I don't have any way to notify oncoming traffic that I'm pulling someone out I find that to be more dangerous than just you know as long as their car is running and they can stay warm And it's just wait for the the professionals to get there With their towing equipment and you know beacons and signs and stuff It's a clear day. I can pull them out Yeah, so we're putting along here It has gotten better so I'm gonna keep moving forward for now I'm more than halfway to work So it's closer to go to work and stop than to go back home and stop And I don't know how much we're gonna get done but at least I'll be at work and Hopefully this weather will clear up in the next couple of hours and we can start getting stuff done That's more oncoming traffic here. Let's just make sure that they know where the lanes are too Everybody's doing good that car in front of me. No, don't pull over on the shoulder, man Do not pull over on the shoulder. Oh, he's pulling over on the shoulder Such a bad idea such a bad idea in a snowstorm and leave your lights on at least man Put your hazards on maybe If you want to stop I understand I totally understand if you want to stop But just turn on to a different road get off the highway Freaks me out, you know, I hope nobody I'm sure they'll be fine, but still makes me nervous We made it Well, we got to get around the corner yet, but we made it Man, you wouldn't believe it. I saw like 15 cars in the ditch There was one car that got scared. It was a little Nissan Versa little tiny car got scared stopped in the middle of The road and I don't mean in the middle of his lane. I mean the middle of the road like between like on the middle line stopped and Because he did that there was about six other cars that just about hit him All hit all went into the ditch traffic came to a dead stop almost caused a pile up and he just sat there frozen frozen in fear I guess geez I have you guys strapped to my head, but my camera head turned itself off Well There's not too much snow built up back here And I can see the truck from here. So I mean that's pretty good let's go get it started and Get it warmed up. I'm gonna go back to the front and see what the plan for today is because Mother nature has her own plans, so we'll see if we can make our plans work with hers Another one of those days. It's gonna be good. You know the next warm day. We have we're gonna appreciate it so much more There she is In part right here. I don't think we're getting anything done today Yikes He's gonna try to get his truck through this snow here. Yeah, yikes And nothing's moving. The word right now is that we're gonna hang around till noon and see if it improves Most likely going home early today Brutal Visibility out there at the yard guys working hard here clearing snow back We've all got stuff to do Problem is Mother nature she's got a lot of opinions today So we're waiting around like I said till noon see what see what what happens if it clears up good if not we'll bring all these trucks back to the back and park them in there if we don't get stuck on the way and Call it a day Right now it's not safe to be out on the highways and there's probably a lot of people in the ditch Very low visibility the plows might be out already, but even if the plows are out on the roads The snow is gonna build up right away is again right behind them See what happens. I'll just keep the truck warm for now My lunch in the meantime while I'm waiting Not much to show you guys other than this thing Well, the weather did clear up I got you strapped to my head and we're headed back home. I went around the trans canada Uh, it's a little bit longer to get home, but it's also a four lane divided I felt like that was just a better choice to make today But around about one o'clock I think is when it cleared up It's still snowing and blowing just a little bit, but it's nowhere near blizzard conditions or anything Roads have been salted. They're doing pretty good Not slippery like well Depending on what your definition of slippery is I guess I But we're doing good Didn't get much done today But I did go pick up a trailer in the city and I also picked up a few parts Our winter trucks are getting ready to go up on the winter roads And uh, they needed an extra fuel tank So I had to go pick that up in the city In the in the work pickup truck Nothing to show you today Trucking wise though I'm gonna go home and enjoy the weekend now and hopefully by monday. That's all I'll be cleared up My beard is getting a little longer, isn't it? I'd say it's getting long But there's a lot of guys out there would be like, yeah, no, this ain't long yet. We're just getting started You know I don't want you to hate me just because I'm beautiful I want to grow it out at least once in my life And I always end up giving up because it's really hard to get past the awkward phase And then to the point where it's an actual like glorious majestic manly beard One of these years I'll get there For my excuse this year I'm using the fact that it's been cold and then it's winter and winter's cold And I'm using it to keep my face warm I don't know what's gonna happen when spring comes up I'm gonna have to come up with a new excuse to keep growing it then I don't I don't know Well, we're back at home Putting this together the next day friday was When I filmed all this this vlog day. It was nuts. That was nuts If I would have known how bad the roads were about halfway to work I wouldn't even have gone in in the morning. It was uh, the roads were pretty bad But when they got so bad I was already over halfway to work and it was closer just to go to work than to come all the way back home Because the weather got worse in a hurry And there was like Four feet of visibility at times and I was creeping along at 20 30 kilometers an hour And you got these nutcases barreling through that at highway speeds And they're almost running into you from behind even though you have your hazards on And then you get those other people who are so scared that they stop dead center in the middle of the road And you don't see them until they're four feet in front of you and you try not to hit them I don't know how those guys who are going like highway speed speed through that are missing these people I was expecting there to be some kind of massive pile up and there almost was Only I was telling you there on the way to work that one car that stopped like it's a four lane divided highway This car stopped dead center in the middle of the lanes the northbound lanes So the center of the road blocking both lanes Just stopped it was idling there where it wasn't stuck Wasn't in the snow drift could have easily moved forward and gotten over onto the shoulder The visibility at that point was probably about I don't know 50 meters or 50 100 feet like a little further than four feet you could see them ahead you could see the shoulder All right, so you could see Where the shoulder was you can get onto the shoulder. It was an open area. It wasn't covered in snow Get onto the gravel get out of the way. They wouldn't move And everybody's piling up behind them almost hitting each other A few people went flying into the ditch on both sides trying to avoid this person. They didn't even have their hazards on Parked in the middle of the road. No hazards lights were on. Yeah, but just stopped In the snowstorm I'm sure of it like I got around it and I'm not going to stick around because I mean their vehicle's running Right, so they have heat and they have what I'm I'm I'm not stopping in the middle of the road and creating another road hazard I don't want to get schmucked So we're gonna so I kept going down the road And uh, just hoping hoping that no one was gonna hit that car But I wouldn't have been surprised if someone just plowed into him just I know I don't want to get upset at people for being afraid and being uh nervous in snowy conditions But first off you shouldn't have left the house if that's how you are in this weather You looked outside you saw what the weather was like You made the decision to get behind the wheel and get out on the road You got out of your driveway onto the little road that leads to the main road You still decided to keep on going you got down the road a little bit and you realize that this is a little bit bad It's a lot bad. You still continue to keep going until you were in the worst possible spot to stop Ever in the middle of the highway, and that's where you decide to stop I don't know what to say that terrible decision terrible decision That's asking to get people killed So yeah, I I sympathize with people when they're afraid of bad weather conditions But in if you're if you know Just don't even get on the road and if you get on the road and suddenly it gets bad and worse than You thought it would get and it's something you can't handle You gotta you gotta suck it up just for a couple more seconds and get off the road Just don't stop on the road in a blizzard. Uh, this is I'm preaching to the choir here You guys all know this but there's that one person out there and by the the small slim chance that they're watching my video right now I hope that they take this to heart next time you're in a snowstorm Get off the road before you stop. You're better off to just plow your car into the ditch. You'll be safer there And just wait for help to come If you can if you can handle it Get off the road onto an on ramp an off ramp a side road anything that's not the road or the shoulder but Oh, boy that made me really nervous and I probably should have stayed home But by that time I was closer to work when it got that bad and you know I'm a professional driver If it gets bad I'll get through it or I'll get some more safe And we made it through and it cleared up at about noon And so we did get some stuff done in the afternoon yet Not as much as we wanted to get done but we did get some stuff done And it turned out to be somewhat of a productive day after all Now I have snowdrifts in front of my house that are about four to five feet or four feet high Our yard where we let the dogs out was just covered in snow I had to shovel it out so that they could even get out the door We had to push our door open on the side. It was all snowed in We're lucky our front door opens this way instead of that way because our side door you got to push open Our front door opens opens this way, right? Excuse all my laundry here, but it opens this way So even if you're snowed in you can at least get the door open and start shoveling This is what it is a short video today a couple of short videos this week, but I'll see you later. Everybody. I hope you take care. Chevy. You got anything to add? Uh, just stretching. Oh, it's been a good day. Hi guys