 Hey everyone, this is Tim from Carson River Island and you're watching Truckers House Vlogs on T-Day V Well, I'm filming this Monday, so it's time to go back to work. I had the whole day at home I've just got to run in and Get to work tonight Because tomorrow morning I got to make my way down to Lincoln, Nebraska with a load of lumber But tonight I have to go down to the yard, tarp it, I'll tie it down, tarp it And I'll probably drive up to like the US border and start from there tomorrow morning Home time has been fun, but it's time to go back to work Here she is This is the load She's got to throw a tarp over here real quick. We're gonna have to make sure to put corner protectors on this here Otherwise that'll rip through the tarp We've got a 53-foot flop bed tandem It's a little bit windy out here now. I didn't think it was that windy There it is. I'll throw the tarps on her and let's head to the border All wrapped up like Christmas present Backed into the dock here because no one's here using it and the wind is coming from behind that building Oh look how dirty my arm is when this yikes Crazy looks like I got a crazy black tan Anyways, yeah, so the wind was blocked. It was pretty windy this way Wouldn't blow my tarps away on me when I had them on before I could tie them down So I got these two straps here Those two straps are to keep the middle part down and to reduce flapping I got those edge protectors on all the edges to make sure that the tarp doesn't rip And I think it turned out pretty neat in the back too Hey, how about that? Like a Christmas present. I'm ready to pull this down to Nebraska And thank you to those of you who left comments in my comment section about these Binders screwing out and falling out into traffic that would be terrifying So what I've done is I've run a bungee through the bottoms of them all like that that way They can't turn And they won't be falling out into traffic because that would be that'd be crazy That'd be a bad kind of crazy not my usual kind of crazy Well, we made it to Latalia, Manitoba. This is pretty much right at the US border US border is probably about five ten minutes that way Diesel you got any deposits to make before we leave Canada? No nothing All right, let's go. Let's go to America And who to America So we're on our way to Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska with a load of lumber tarped lumber, so it's very special lumber It's a OSB board again And then after we deliver that tomorrow morning Lincoln we head over to St. Joseph, Missouri and pick up a load of steel, I think So something waiting for us there on another trailer tie it down and bring it back to the yard And that'll bring us back to the yard day after tomorrow in the evening unless if something goes wrong, but Should be fun, I'm gonna wake myself up here do my pre-trip We'll get on the road Load won't deliver itself Here's the load wrapped like a nice Christmas present if you guys watched yesterday's video actually I probably combined that in this video same one I'm actually pretty happy with the way this one turned out looks real nice. I should be a Professional gift wrapper maybe once there's any money in that The only thing I got to watch for is like these corners here. I Have a piece of rubber a rubber guard underneath there so that the tarp doesn't rip through but and then I got these Straps on here yet to set the center section doesn't flap around too much, right? Come on buddy. Let's go Let's go Okay, Paul's too muddy man. I just shampooed my carpets in the truck. I Got a protective blanket in there anyway, so All right, you ready old man Good boy You ready? Oh Man, I just did my whole pre-trip and I forgot to start my e-log Shoot Okay, well I have to sit here for 15 minutes and wait for this to catch up then All right. Well, how are you guys doing? It's hot like summer has arrived in Manitoba. It's hot. It was 29 degrees yesterday afternoon It's full school up to about the same today all night was Actually pretty hot as well I actually had to start up the truck and blow the air conditioning a little bit even though I had the fan Blung on me. I had all my windows open with the screens and stuff Oh It's that time of year again, and I'm not complaining because I like this so much better than the cold apparently according to the experts It's supposed to be the hottest summer in human history in Canada Which is confusing because I thought the carbon tax was supposed to fix that and keep the temperatures down So Not only are they stealing my money Because it's getting warmer But it's also not helping anything It's not fixing anything. So They're getting richer. I'm getting poorer. The weather's getting hotter Par for the course. Hey, but yeah We usually have really hot summers here in Manitoba, so I'm not too too worried about it. We did buy a Second air conditioner for our house because our house doesn't have central air We don't really need it. You open up all the windows you get a nice breeze through there We have a portable air conditioner that we can move from room to room But it needs a vent right that's our vent hole you attach the vent hole to the wall mount or the window mount And it blows the hot air out and blows cold air into the house But our room that we're using for for now because we're in the process of renovating our master bedroom We haven't started yet, but We're in that room. It's a little small all five of us sleep in there me and Britt and the three dogs and In summertime it just gets the cooking in that room just cooking so I bought a window mount air conditioner for that room for this this summer, so we're prepared Looking forward to that Right diesel gonna stay nice and cool this summer You're a cool dude, man This is the lineup at the border this guy and it goes all the way There and it doesn't seem to be moving at all wonderful Looks like a beautiful day Not too bad kind of figure. This is what was gonna happen today Take a look at this weather ahead of us as soon as I turn left to get on to the interstate here We're in South Dakota now interstate 29 Going southbound and it's been plus 34 Celsius all day this I Knew this was coming every heat wave is followed by a Downpour usually all that water evaporates so fast off all the lakes and rivers Comes right back down onto us Lightning storm out of it at least I love thunderstorms. So got quite a ways to go yet about six hours of driving We'll get close to around Omaha I was thinking of maybe stopping at the flying Jane Council bluffs, but by the time we get there, it'll be right packed Not too sure where we'll stop yet, but we'll get as close as we can to Lincoln Nebraska. Maybe we'll get through Omaha And onto the I80 there Not sure depending on I guess on what this weather Has in store for us at least it's not snow At least it's not snow What is this This is quite the dust storm The rain stopped dirty it moved over us. It's headed east But now we got this dust cloud. Where's that coming from? It's crazy It seems to be just getting whipped up by the wind off the fields You got an oversized load that wants to pass me really you guys are just flying Good for you. Here comes the pilot vehicle Well, it's actually a long load I guess one of those Wind turbine propellers all this dust is pretty crazy just for the wind whipping that up I don't know if the camera's even picking it up In a hurry. I don't know if I would be going this fast with this load myself I've got to be taking it a little bit easier check this out here it comes He's got to be doing like 75 at least 75 mile an hour. I Thought there was a maximum speed limit for oversized loads Maybe not here in South Dakota Looks like they got it all under control. It's not a big deal. It's just faster and I'd be going These are closed around Omaha here I 29 is closed all the way from north of Omaha all the way down into Missouri So we're on these like back-road detours No idea where I'm going. I got 24 minutes left on the clock I'm gonna go into I'm going all the way around into the south part of Omaha right now and there's a TA that I'm hoping There's gonna be a parking spot for us. Like I said, we don't got much wiggle room right now I wasn't expecting all these roads to be closed. I didn't check Google Maps Google didn't say that the roads were closed, but I just assumed it's an interstate the weather is nice Why would it be closed? I wasn't expecting that my dad told me today though at the highways were closed down here. I Thought he meant south of Omaha not north of Omaha, so Going to turn left right here But I've got a focus on finding a parking spot here now guys We're gonna continue this vlog in the morning as we go to unload in Lincoln, Nebraska We're back at it and it is hot Hot hot my gauge right now says 35 Celsius. I am kind of moving kind of slow right now So it's probably a little lower than that but hot We're here just East no pardon me just west of Omaha, Nebraska at their scale and It's blitz week So they got a truck over there to the right in the garage that they're inspecting a couple more to my right I'm hoping to be able to sneak through here without an inspection because I have a load to deliver Got things to do people to see You don't want to talk to me. Anyways, I haven't showered today yet. I don't want to talk to them either I don't like their uniforms You know as soon as they like change into something else and they wear anything else other than their uniform and they they clock out They're off duty great people. I'd have a barbecue with them. Definitely Soon as they clock in and put that uniform on I don't want to talk to them. You're not my friend Oh, yeah, let's see if they they let me through here That was a really quick green light Let's get out of here before they change their mind. Come on hammer down. I thought they might want to see me My steer tires are a little bit I'm allowed 12,000 pounds on my steer tires and I think they were sitting close to like 12,100 That's because I have my tarp strapped to the front of my trailer if I move them to the back of my trailer. It's all fine. I just Didn't move them I'm only sitting at 75,000 pounds gross, so I'm 5,000 pounds under Thought they might wanna, you know, it's blitz week any excuse to pull a driver in I was a little nervous, but We're okay Let's get out of here. It's gonna deliver this lumber. I gotta untarp it yet So those of you who aren't truckers and may not know What that was a scale house The officers I was talking about in the uniforms. I'm just joking around. I'm sure they're great people They're DOT officers the Department of Transportation in Canada. We call it the Ministry of Transportation Or in Manitoba, I think we call it motor carrier enforcement officer They've got a couple of different names depending on where you go, but in the US DOT As I like to call them trucker cops their main focus is on transports like me They're a necessary They're necessary law enforcement There's a lot of truckers out there who don't maintain their trucks And what these guys job is to do is to make sure that us truckers are obeying the law that we're Not driving illegally according to our logbooks that our trucks are safe to operate You know that a wheel is not gonna fly off into traffic and you know kill you and your family That all of our lights were that the trucks in good working order and that everybody's gonna get home safe That's their job. So they're good people. They're doing a good job It's just sometimes you meet the odd officer who has a little bit of a power trip and They will comb through your truck top to bottom until they find something That is questionable whether or not it was broken or not when they were looking at it Or if it just happened to break as they were looking at it. I don't know Some people have had bad experiences where they just that the DOT officer will Go over their truck again and again and again until they find something to charge you I've never had that experience so I'm talking out of pure jokes when I talk about how I don't want to talk to them I don't care if I got nothing to hide if I got to go in there. I got to go in there Doesn't matter to me. They're usually very nice. I've never met a rude officer. I've never met an overambitious Officer who goes on a power trip. I've never done it's just sort of like a running joke with truckers You know, we just don't want to talk to them None of us want tickets. We're already barely making it by because you know Prices of everything else keep going up, but prices of freight aren't going up at the same rate So truckers are making and taking home less and less and you know now in Canada Anyways, we got a carbon tax to deal with that comes out of my pocket personally when I fuel up at the pump So that's several hundred dollars a month People say oh, it's only five cents a liter. Oh, yeah Okay, you try buying six to ten thousand liters a month Add it up and tell me if you want to pay my share for me If it's not that much to you because I don't want to pay that that was money That would go on into food on my table, you know And it turns a tight situation into something even tighter now they want to tax everything let's not talk about that makes me mad Makes me mad Gotta deliver some freight. That's gonna make me happy Once I deliver the freight I Get money and money makes me happy. It's not the source of all happiness don't get me wrong But it definitely helps along the way Well, they took off the last bundle and we've got an empty flat bed and we've got an empty flat bed behind us That's it Done now I just got to get out of here and make my way to st. Joseph And all the roads seem to be closed around here, so I'm gonna have to take the back roads down 75 And it'll take a little while to be about three hours, but we'll do that tomorrow on tomorrow's video So I'm melting in the heat here with 34 Celsius Then I better get out of here. They all waiting for me and my waiting for them Thanks for watching today guys. I appreciate you taking along all the way to here Time to go pick up some steel and I'll see you tomorrow