 Chevy Chevy you know what this is an honor Chevy. It's an honor to start the vlog Say something nice say something clever say something Chevy like Hey guys Excellent so today has already progressed quite a ways my hair is all over the place, isn't it? I desperately desperately need a haircut. How dare you look at me like this stop looking there you go Now you can look again We're here in Chilliwack, BC. We slept here overnight. We went into Surrey this morning to unload all of that glass We have an empty flat bed behind us right now We're on our way to Hope British Columbia to the flying J Where I'm gonna have a shower and wash myself all up and make myself all smell good again Not like a dirty trucker, right Chevy. It's true, man It's true. You smell like a dirty trucker You look like one too. He's right. He's right We just stopped at the gym snap fitness in Chilliwack, BC Which is pretty much just down the road that way from here. I'm just at that. There's the flying J right there There's a Chevron. I'm just parked at the old S. So here right now. Timmy's is just off to my right Right there And it's a good day. I'm feeling good We're gonna go up to Kamloops spend the night there and tomorrow sometime Mid-morning or so or early morning. We're gonna drive up to barrier BC Pick up a load of lumber. I thought it was in Kelowna It's actually in barrier BC and that's taken us to Eagle River, Wisconsin next week Not too sure if I'll be able to stop by at home on the way past or not Haven't figured that out yet for now. We're just going to Kamloops tonight. We're gonna enjoy a little bit of an evening there edit some vlogs Watch some YouTube videos Take it from there. So let's get on the road here. Let's go You guys need to go into your special little slot here hang on everybody hang on. Here you go. There you go You can hear me a little better, right? Okay Peter powder. Let's get at her. That's what they say, right? That's what they say down. That's right That's what I thought Chevy We're just just beginning here on the coca-cola highway We're still at the bottom. So the weather's not too bad. I'm guessing once we get to the top We may have to deal with a little bit more More nasty nasty white stuff Nasty yesterday coming through here It was pretty bad up at the top Lots of snow around that brake check if you're familiar with the route the final brake check on the way down to the mainland here So we'll see how it goes. We're losing our sunlight. So I'm not sure how easy it will be for me to vlog I don't have much Much said today already Also in such a rush to get unloaded first thing in the morning that I Didn't even bother talking to you guys at all. I apologize Not like I was telling you a chill-a-wack there and then we stopped in Hope British Columbia at the Flying J Just for some fuel This truck is I guess it was a pretty heavy load. Look that glass is a lot heavier than it looks It's a lot heavier than I Thought I guess it's Burnt a lot more fuel than I was expecting to My engine is still using a little bit of oil, which is concerning to me There's a little bit not enough to get like overly concerned But it's definitely enough to perk up my ears close attention to it right now Like I said, we're coming up to a million kilometers. We'll be at a million kilometers this summer some time and this engine is coming up to The time when it's gonna need a rebuild. I don't think it needs a rebuild yet Not the full rebuild and it might just need a new top end like I was telling you the other day new new valves on the top Because I think one of those valves is Malfunctioning like my dad was telling me. I don't know how to explain it exactly like he did But whenever something like this happens to me, I learn something new right? I learn what How a new part of how to fix something does that make sense? So after We get this fixed. I'll have something new that I can Pass on to my kids one day if they want to drive trucks Dad was telling me that there may be a valve that's sticking or maybe Hopefully it's not cracked, but it might be letting a little bit of oil through and the oil is coming out the blow by Pretty slowly and it's only coming out when the engine is very cold when you first start it up And when it's under high pressure by pulling that heavy load up the mountains It seems to drip out a little bit and a little bit of blow by is is normal. I don't think Oil dripping out of there is normal that that's definitely not so It's something I'm gonna keep an eye on and Again tell the shop about I mean every time I go home. It seems this truck's been in the shop lately It's getting a little bit depressing Eventually there's got to be a light at the end of this tunnel. You know what I mean? I'm not gonna give up though. I'm gonna keep going. I'm keep fixing it Eventually we'll find All the little problems and then new problems will arise. Hey, that's trucking. Isn't it? There's always problems wouldn't be trucking if everything was going smoothly Here we are not even at the top yet and lots of snow So the nice weather was Nice while it lasted Must be nice People to live down there must be nice to be able to afford to live down there Because that's the best place in Canada to live climate-wise. There's never snow hardly ever snow Good weather year-round rains a little bit Nice place to live so everybody wants to live there, right? Which means Housing prices are through the roof. Good luck getting like a two or three bedroom bungalow for under a million dollars Anywhere good luck Let me know if you find one there might be one or two left I might need some elbow grease might be some fixer uppers, but there might be one or two left under a million You want to buy a nice decent family suburban home? You'll be ready to fork out a couple of million Three million will get you a decent house, you know it'll probably get you what five hundred thousand dollars It gets you in Manitoba Man, you might even be able to get that same house for like four hundred thousand dollars in Manitoba But hey, you want to live in the good climate you want to live where it's nice and sunny, right? Nice and warm no snow Hope you got deep pockets We should be almost at the top here now. It's just gonna be a high mountain road All the way through till we get to Kamloops about a hundred and fifty kilometers from here 366 Then turn right Alrighty, let's do that So I'm here at the Petro Pass and Kamloops Just pulling up to it. This is where we're gonna spend the night about 45 minutes to an hour away from our shipper Or we got to go get our lumber tomorrow morning. I Just want to stay here because I know they have a 24-hour facility So if I need to get inside for any reason or something then at least to have a Shelter here right where I can go Drive that turn left and eat my signals on don't you see I'm turning You don't need to tell me twice Chattie all the time So today wasn't really much of a day just us rolling up here to Kamloops from I'm down there and hope BC where I started the vlog We made it through highway through hell. It wasn't too too bad actually this time. They say it's a highway through hell I've never actually seen hell on that highway before But they made a whole TV show about it. So it must be true arriving at 187 Evers little drive on left There you go So I don't need to fuel here. I fueled up the flying J and hope so I could get my points Let's see if they got parking here for me. I really hope they do Drive 1.3 kilometers then turn left on fuel and drive man. You don't get ahead of yourself. We're doing that tomorrow Go to sleep first And someone's in my spot too Bang it okay, let's see Looks like there's some spaces in the back there. I just like oh wait. There's one right here Nice I can nose in too There's quiet night that way you know what I mean Good enough for me So in a spot like this, I can just back straight out right in the morning And then I don't got to deal with trucks beside me Here we go And I'm right underneath the light to that's perfect Well, hello there The face behind the voice. I know I didn't show my face much in today's vlog Because there wasn't Much going on. I guess you're well aware of that by now since we're at the end of our day and you're like wait Where was the rest of the day? Some days in trucking are just like this just Not very far to go not very much to see I mean it is beautiful scenery But it got dark kind of quick because I took my time getting out of the lower mainland there Just because I I'm honestly I'm in no rush So I stopped Twice on the way out at the gym and for fuel for a shower Otherwise, we could have been here probably like two or three hours ago, but it's 9 30 p.m. Right now. I Could have been here at 6 30 I guess Wait nine eight seven. Yeah, that's three hours Chevy What do you think? How was the day today? Tell the good people don't be shy Don't be shy Gonna smile give me smile Give me smile Let me help you. Yeah, should I help you? Should I help you? No, you can do it on your own give him a smile Come on. Come here Okay stretch for a stretch. Okay. Okay. Now you're stretched you're pulling on all my cords here. Okay Come up here. Come here. Come here. Come on. Don't careful where you put your paws But you can come up. Okay, you don't want you're too scared. Okay, it's probably better that way They're better that way You're a heavy boy. I wouldn't want you to step on the wrong parts Yeah, yeah, don't talk when you don't need to stick your nose there. That's weird man. That's really weird He's been he's such a good travel companion. He's such a big puppy Such a good boy. There was never a better boy. Did you know that? Don't tell diesel don't tell diesel Chevy's actually Way better behaved at his age than diesel was at the same age way better And that's for Frankie. Well, I wasn't there when Frankie was this age, so Can't judge that but from what I hear from what Britt tells me Chevy's the best dog ever Learned so quickly. He's so smart And all he wants to do is love you. Look at this. Look at this Chevy tell him how much you love them All of them. He just loves all of you so much. He doesn't even have the words to describe it I love you guys. I love you guys so much. I like that pole Why are you staring at that pole? It's a good pole, man. It's a nice shade of gray. It is. It's actually a It's actually uh, never mind. You're colorblind. I get it. I get it. I get it. Everything is a Shade of gray to you, right? I don't know what I'm talking about. So tomorrow Like I said 45 minutes to an hour north of here to barrier BC A load is waiting for us that we have to tarp the lumber that we've tried that means it's fancy lumber If they want the tarps on it, that means it's fancy expensive lumber It goes to Eagle River, Wisconsin. That's going to take me three full days So, uh, let's say I load up tomorrow I'm only gonna get like a half day in tomorrow because I got to load it and tarp it and then go from there So tomorrow is Thursday. So I'm filming this on Wednesday Yeah, Thursday Friday and it's got to be there for Monday. So we have Friday Saturday Sunday to get there three full days plus whatever I can get done tomorrow. So I'm probably gonna end up just going straight there I might pass by home just to give the wife a kiss and then Continue on down the road But I won't be stopping at home for any length of time this time because I'm thinking from Wisconsin I'm probably gonna go back to Otona for in Minnesota for more glass, which is probably coming back here to Surrey And then maybe I can swing by home then Or maybe Brit will be ready be able to come with me on the truck by then. I don't know Because right now Brit was supposed to be on the truck this trip already She's gonna come with for a little while on the truck just so we can spend some good time together It was my idea. It was my idea and I'm really glad she agreed So she was supposed to be here this trip, but our Ice damming at home is causing problems. It's the water was leaking into the house The reason we're doing metal roofing just to respond to some of the comments you guys have said you some of you said that Metal roofing creates ice dams too It it doesn't have the same problems as this because what happens is The house goes down in the veranda on the front meets the house roof and it creates a little valley here, right? And underneath two two and a half feet of snow the bottom Well on warmer days the water sinks to the bottom tries to get off the roof, right? But it gets stuck in this little valley and it creates a little ice dam We have about four inches. We had about four inches thick of ice Right there and then the ice just the water Rolls down the roof towards this ice dam and it dams up At the ice dam right and that makes sense and then it backs up backs up backs up And then it gets really cold down to minus 30 and all of that water that was backing up there freezes What does water do when it freezes it expands? But it has nowhere to expand to because everything behind it is already all Compacted and there's snow on there. So what it does is it goes up underneath the shingles It pushes up underneath the shingles and then the next time we have a really warm day and it starts to melt again It's under the shingles now, right? And it starts to melt and the water goes through the nail holes that are underneath the shingles through the Nail holes into the attic down to the poly and then it finds a hole to get into the house and Falls down into the house and it's a big mess with metal roofing You don't have that because there's no shingles for the ice to freeze up and go underneath, right? There may still be an ice dam Which is unlikely because on metal roofing usually the snow just slides right off the roof, right? You got to be careful that it doesn't fall onto your vehicles or onto people trying to come into your house You just slides right off But even if they're even if hypothetically there was a hypothetical ice dam in that same spot with the metal roofing We're not gonna have the leaking issues not the same issues because there's no shingles for that ice to freeze and go underneath and then Come through you know what I'm saying. So metal roofing will solve this problem 100% That's why we're going with metal roofing. We're actually having our guy come down tomorrow and give us an estimate He's gonna look in our attic. He's gonna look at our roof. He's gonna measure everything out Well thirsty there, but you're a loud drinker, you know, you have to let the whole world know when you're drinking It's not a bad thing, buddy be loud be proud I was just saying anyways you guys that our guys coming tomorrow He's gonna give us a quote of what it's gonna cost and then we're going to try and schedule a time for him to Come and do the roof We got to save up for a while yet So we're gonna try to get it done before next winter before the rainy season and fall probably beginning of September like first week of September or last week of August that's That's right about when the dry season starts turning into the wet fall season So we want to do it before it starts raining all the time But we want to wait as long as possible to save up as much as possible. So We'll get it done. We'll figure it out We're adults welcome to adult life turn Josh Thanks for warning me. I should have listened everyone tried to warn me but Adulting is hard all you kids out there who still live with your parents I'm gonna sound like a broken record to you like every other adult that talks to you. Enjoy it Because if your roof started leaking guess what mom and dad would have to fix it once you have your own house like I do You got to fix it Right once it's yours you got to fix it So don't stay at mom and dad's forever. That's not what I'm encouraging you to do get out of the house Get your own place, but just be ready for it You're ready for it. Don't be a you know 40 year old bachelor living in your parents basement. Don't do that Don't do that Where is this conversation going? I have to end this conversation right now So subscribe if you haven't already all of you new subscribers. We've been having a huge surge of growth recently That's awesome. We're almost to our hundred thousand subscriber mark awesome Where are you all coming from? I'm so happy you're here. 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