 morning everybody we're here in Eli Manitoba about half an hour west of Winnipeg Manitoba a few hundred miles north of North Dakota picking up my load here it is now the people here were awesome to strap it down for me all I have to do is I have to reroute these straps through the rub rail can't put them over the rub rail so they did tie them up real nicely here on this side I have to redo that that's okay I want to make sure I'm legal that I'm not going to be getting into trouble down the road this side's a little bit messier that's okay I'm gonna redo it anyways right and they knew that I'm just gonna slide this all through the pockets because you like I said you can't have your straps going over the outside of the rub rail I've hauled this stuff before it's a great load to have very light simple but it does have to be tied down a specific way at specific anchor points now I'm picking this up on a Sunday I'm filming this on a Sunday so in order for this load to get out today they're obviously not in the office it's the weekend they tied this down for me on Friday which is awesome I love it when people do that they're just my favorite and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside I love that so thank you very much you guys watch I really appreciate that we're gonna take good care of this we're gonna take this on to Alberta this load is going just north of vermilion Alberta I've got to be there tomorrow before noon won't have a problem old blue is doing good the truck show yesterday was a lot of fun I'm still kind of hyped up over it I love those I love those kind of events like just all these like mighty trucks and machines together and everybody that loves the same things that I love all together in one place and it's just us like one big trucking family right it just gets me all on this like trucking high so I'm all revved up ready to go let's finish tying this up I just have to take my tarps off from where I have them stored there I'm gonna throw them in here right in there tie them down in there and we'll be on our way this thing well I was gonna say this thing isn't gonna tie down itself clearly it will tie down but they just tied it down to secure it's quite light and if there's a big wind that came through here on the weekend you don't want this freight falling off and can you imagine I get here on a Sunday morning and the freight's lying on the ground beside the trailer and what am I supposed to do they'd have to come back in to work on a Sunday and waste their weekend putting this thing back on the trailer it would probably be damaged so it the load would be cancelled and then they're upset I'm upset and nobody's happy and it's a bad Sunday so they tie it down just so that it doesn't fly off the trailer like obviously they didn't do this so that you go down the highway like this this is just to keep it neat so the wind doesn't blow it around everywhere and great guys great guys super happy so let's finish buttoning this down let's get out there head westbound Alberta beautiful beautiful Alberta all right the whole load is re-secured got my paperwork you can't go too tight on these things either right you don't want to bend it it's very fragile aluminum so it's got to be just perfect so our signal and marker lights all working tires all have air wonderful ABS light came on when I turned on the ignition turned off again and stayed off good brake lights marker lights and signals working and there's no audible air leaks fantastic we're ready to rock and roll rolling rock got all the straps inside the rub rail I have to make some room here on this one we made it work come back and fix that and remember when it all possible which is pretty much always you never hook your straps onto your rub rail it's called a rub rail for a reason is to prevent your straps from getting damaged if you were to get sideswiped in an accident or rub your trailer up against a building or a cement barrier or something that whole rail has to be free of your straps so that it can rub against things without damaging your straps we've said this before if you hook your straps up to the rub rail someone comes alongside you sideswipes you or you rub up against a tree around a corner or something and you snap all those straps off boom well now your load isn't secured rub rails are not rated on any trailer every trailer that you that you hook on to has either pockets underneath where you can hook your hook into or some trailers require d-hooks or it's like a like a triangle and then there's hooks that slide longer hooks underneath there that you hook that onto there's always they don't make trailers at all ever that forced you to use the rub rail to hook on because I've heard this before where people are well I have no choice this trailer only has the rub rail I have to hook it on to the rub rail and it's rated no no no your rub rails not rated that's not a thing there's pockets underneath or you need to have different kinds of straps with the triangle hook that hooks onto those hooks there's always a proper way of doing it the rub rails never a proper way of hooking on your strap I see a lot of guys doing that and honestly I'm not gonna speak for everybody but I think that that's a little bit of laziness because it's very easy to hook it on to right because sometimes the pockets are underneath my trailer and the hook has to hook up into it but when you throw your strap over your hook always wants to fall out of that pocket and then you go around to the other side you pull on the strap and oh it's out of the pocket again you got to go around the other side put it in the pocket but back around the other side it pops out oh it's out of the pocket again and it wastes a lot of time gets very frustrating if you just hook it on to the rub rail oh look at that it stays there and you don't worry about it falling out of the pocket I get it I have been driving long enough that I know all of these little cheat tricks too you're still gonna get dinged for it I mean it's up to you you want to risk it go ahead I know drivers that have been pulled in for inspection and gotten a separate fine for faulty equipment for every single strap that was hooked on to the rub rail and if you got a strap a load of 12 straps and they're all hooked on to the rub rail each fine is like $200 I think it was between 150 to $200 per strap US let's say about 175 dollars per strap you have 12 straps whoops plus each one of those is an at fault faulty equipment which could possibly give you demerits on your license or go on your driver's abstract as faulty equipment it doesn't explain what it is it's just so it's faulty it's this can happen all depends on the ambitions of your inspector but it's always before you pull any trailer out it's always best to find out where is the pocket for straps to hook into I'll show you really quick on this trailer see the pockets are underneath here so your strap goes inside the rub rail right inside the rub rail and hooks into this pocket right here that's the pocket that's rated you put your strap in there and then this one has these fancy little sliders you slide this over your strap and that holds it in the pocket now the reason some guys just you know wrap it around onto the rub rail like that is because maybe they don't have these sliders or they don't realize that the sliders and they hook it into this pocket here and then they walk around to the other side of the trailer and by the time they get there the wind is sort of flop the strap around and this is falling out of the pocket and then they pull it on that side and strap just pulls right out of here it's very frustrating very frustrating believe me I've been there with you 100% over and over and over again that's why these things are very handy some trailers they'll have sliding hooks in which case you need special kind of straps that we call them de-hooks it's like I said a triangle on the end and it like hooks onto the the actual like a hook underneath your hooks onto that but if you do hook them onto the rub rail I'm just warning you depending on your inspector it could nail you I've been told before many different kinds of stories like when there's no other option okay I've been told other stories that there's no tolerance I'm not an inspector maybe you are maybe you're not and all depends who you get just make sure you know your trailer before you go know before you go I've always been told by inspectors myself that there are exceptions common sense exceptions to most things like that I can the rub rail I have now is actually a part of the trailer itself so if there's no way for me to get a hook into that pocket and the only way I can hook it on there is by wrapping it around a rub rail and it's just one strap it's not all of them and I can show it's obvious that that was the only way I could secure that strap on there and it's because that's exactly where the strap had to go over the freight I couldn't put the strap anywhere else that was my only option people I've talked to you said you'll be okay but I don't want to say you'll be okay because then you're gonna not be okay and you're gonna be okay I said I didn't know said I didn't know that's just what I've been told by people I've talked to and I keep hearing different stories but I mean rules are rules and all depends on the ambitions like I said I'm the guy who's inspecting you but if you explain within reason I mean it is what it is sometimes right I don't want to tell you what to do or what not to do I'm not a trainer I'm not an educational YouTube channel don't come here how to learn how to do things just perfect because I'm learning every day to and I don't want to be responsible for you getting into trouble okay I'm just here to entertain you share some tips the things that I know and things like this regulations that I know of but again I'm always gonna tell you that I'm always open to being wrong and I'm always open to being corrected I get things wrong sometimes double check it maybe your region or your country that you live in has different rules than here maybe I got it wrong all together that's what the comment section is forward down below go down there we can have a discussion about it there you can prove me wrong I'll accept it but I am gonna say that even if you can prove me wrong about this whole rub rail deal because I am like 99.999% sure that I got this right but even if I was wrong I would still personally I would still go above and beyond to make sure that every single strap that could be inside the rub rail is inside the rub rail because the fears that I've shared with you before what if something happens and something rubs along the side of my trailer and now I got my whole load on my trailer unsecured I don't like that thought in my head I never want to have an at-fall accident or anything where it's my fault because I didn't tie my load down properly and now somebody got hurt or even worse died I don't want to be that guy so I'm just gonna keep putting them inside the rub rail keep telling everybody to do the same thing because I I really feel that I know that that is the safer way of doing it but again comment section down below we're gonna have a conversation about petro pass truck so look at all that truck parking the parking spots backwards you got to blindside it into every spot really well I hate it when truck stops do that you can tell the people who designed it aren't truck drivers shoot was before but just heads up if you come to this new petro pass north battlefield you're gonna have to blindside it into a parking spot that's the only option you have there no parking spots diagonal parking make sure that when the drivers are backing in side right so if you're facing straight forward that the nose of the truck is pointed to the left those of the truck to the left with people backing in to other people and trucks getting damaged I'm hoping to get past it to what's that town called again I can get to there be at my delivery before noon so I'll probably show up there around like hopefully we get unloaded quickly and then my reload isn't until the next day and Edmonton or I'll catch up on editing some videos and stuff orders to scatch on Alberta if you're not from here today I stopped for a two hour nap already I'm gonna sleep good tonight again I couldn't make it any further a truck show took a lot out of me yesterday so we made it to just before Lloyd Minster's to sketch once we're still in the to sketch one side here I'm gonna call it a night it's two hours to my destination from here in the morning I can do in the morning better to get a good rest and then all I got to do is drive to Edmonton down to the south side there to Niskew and I don't reload until the next day anyways so I just have a few hours to drive tomorrow and then I'll be sitting most of the afternoon and evening so it's not like I got a long ways to go just go and make sure we're straight I might need to move up a little bit I got some room here yet wanted to leave them enough room to get her on the front of me it's a nice truck let's go see how far we're sticking out in the back then oh yeah I see because they got this thing here it's gonna be hard for someone to come around and get into here there's a scale house right over there I don't like really sleeping at the scale house but my body sure doesn't care where I sleep right now as long as I sleep so even though I'm tired so I'm gonna walk around here make sure that I'm out of the way probably move forward just a little bit more give them a little bit more space it's a beautiful evening out oh such a beautiful Peterbilt right there beautiful well they can always go in around it there and then go in they can do it that way too and figure it out people are smart right they'll figure it out to hit that pillow with my face so these are the six inch side window visors that I won in the raffle at the truck show yesterday and they're gonna go on the outside right in there and that film will come off it'll be a nice chrome look a little different than that obviously it'll be on the outside it has 3m tape on it that you can just sort of stick it up in there it's supposed to stick but I don't trust that and I don't want to fall off and fly out into traffic because if someone's driving a convertible and that bounces over their windshield that's gonna slice their head off right there I don't want I don't want to do that I want to do that I think everybody's heads should stay firmly attached to their bodies it's just the way I like everybody to be you too yeah it's just I think it's a lot better that way so they have those holes in the side I can screw them in I brought some screws with me and you can actually like screw them in and secure them to the to the door frame so that it definitely will stay there might do that tomorrow because we'll have some time like I said I'll see am I continue this vlog tomorrow too toward delivery I don't know I just can't believe how tired I am like I guess I really haven't been sleeping as well as I thought I have been we're gonna catch up tonight though no one's straight back there to bed do not pass go don't collect $200 nothing no extra stuff no video editing no YouTube and no Facebook no Instagram nothing plant my face right into that pillow and I'm just gonna give in completely just drift off I gotta stop talking so I can go do that if I see you in the morning I see you in the morning if not then thanks for watching this video today I appreciate it and we'll see you my next one or in the morning