 Good morning everyone from Grand Forks, North Dakota, flying J on the south side of town. We had a little bit of a delay starting from last night. I'm just getting going now. The time is about 12 30. Everything's all good, ready to go. I'll show you what was the issue. Then we'll hit the road. It's going to Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. And I stopped here to check the load. And I noticed something. Something that grounded me right here. I noticed that. There's these little bolts underneath there, right? You see it? There's one bolt there. There's a bolt there. Same thing up there, there. These guys here. Another one there, there. All these aluminum pieces are being held in by bolts, right? I stopped and I was checking things and I noticed some of these nuts were coming loose. And if they come loose and those bolts fall out, that whole aluminum piece in there and those pieces in there fall out into traffic. That would not be good. That's why it's so important to always stop and check your load. Always double check, triple check, quadruple check. The back one was the worst. This one here also had loose bolts. So obviously from the vibrations of rolling down the highway, they'd come loose a little bit and there were no locking washers or lock nuts on there. So it's a very good thing I stopped and checked it. I wouldn't want anyone to get hurt. So seeing as this load is the way to Wisconsin, and we called in what happened and they sent out a team of technicians to fix everything up for us. I'm sorry if the wind is bothering you a little bit here. We got a little bit of wind. I'll jump in the truck here so I can talk to you. So I'm not sure if the bolts just weren't tightened all the way. The manufacturer, or if they vibrated loose because there was no walking mechanism on them. Either way, stuff happens, right? Stuff happens. And that's why I always say check your freight. Don't just check it once, check it twice. Check it regularly as you go down the road. Now I'm not perfect. I'm not claiming to be perfect and, you know, never make mistakes. But one thing I'm very paranoid of is any of my freight falling off my truck in a traffic behind me. One of those aluminum pieces could have easily bounced off the road and gone right through someone's windshield as lights out for them. I couldn't live with myself being responsible for that if there was something I could do to prevent that. So to prevent that, you check. Stop down here, checked everything I noticed. Oh, these things are getting a little loose, right? And at first I was like, maybe I should tighten these all up. Then we called in to let them know what was going on. And I know they wanted to send down certified technicians to make sure everything, like double check everything else as well. Because if some bolts were coming loose, they want to check everything else as well. So they came all the way down here from Winnipeg, checked it all out, tightened it up, put lock washers on everything, double checked and double secured everything now so that nothing can come loose. Stuff happens, but we should be good to go now. I'm just really glad I caught that. Something that's completely out of my control. There's no way to secure those aluminum pieces in there. They're secured by those bolts. That is the securement. And that falls under the whole thing of check your load securement. You get it. So everything's tightened up, everything's locked on. We should be good. Let's head down to Wisconsin Rapids. I've called the customer down there. They understand what happened. They understand there was a delay. So we're going to go and sleep right in their yard tonight. And tomorrow morning, we're going to wake up there and unload these things. First thing in the morning. And then I have a reload in Evansville, Wisconsin. That's taking me back home. It's actually taking me to Saskatchewan, but I think I'm going home and then we'll worry about that when we get there. Let's worry about today, one day at a time. We're not too far behind. I mean, technically we were a day behind. I was going to unload today, end of day. Instead, I'm going to unload tomorrow beginning of day. It won't affect me getting home at all. Thank goodness, because we have been here for a while. Why is my computer not loading up here? You should have long been loaded up. Oh, nope. There it is. You jammed or what? Oh, computer's technology, right? Everything's got to be all technology. Okay. So we've been here for almost 20 hours. It's been a little while, but we worked it out in a way that we're going to be fine. I still have some time now to get down there. So I'm not in a big rush, which is good, because I'm going to be stopping more regularly than usual now to double triple, quadruple, quint triple, quint triple, quint, quint, there's going to stop a lot and check it a lot. Makes me nervous. So the reason they wanted to send down their crew to fix it was, I guess, liability issues, because those things are coming loose. If I tighten them the wrong way, or if I break something while I'm trying to mess with their equipment, it could cause problems for me, problems for the customer, problems for everybody. So this way, all of their tightening and everything they've done here is all certified by the manufacturer now. So if anything goes wrong, right? It's not on me. I did my job. I reported the issue, got it fixed by the professionals. I don't like having issues, but I do like being able to get them solved quickly. And this was, this was good. This turned out well. There was no damage to anything. Feel good. Let's get out there. Let's go do some trucking. Turn on our beacons, because we're fat, we're wide today. All right, Flying J, it's been good. You treated me well. It's time to go. Let's just check our trailer one more time. Trailer's attached, trailer brakes work, and they release. Wonderful. Now, how do I get out of here? Which way do I go? A bit of a sharp corner going this way, so I'm going to go that way. Beacons are on, lights are on. We're not going to run this guy over. That would ruin everybody's day, especially his. So like I said, I'm going to be stopping more regularly than usual, but every half hour, I'm going to stop and go back there and check until I feel comfortable that it's going to stay. And then I'll stop about every hour to two hours, but at least I'll stop in a half hour. I'll stop in another half hour, another one, another one, probably four times. And if everything is still staying really tight, then maybe I'll start checking it every hour. We'll see as we go, see how comfortable I am. I'm going to check it as often as I need to for my own anxiety. How does that sound? But at least every half hour. These cylinders are made out of fiberglass, right? So they have a little bit of flex to them, and that's probably what helped to vibrate those bolts loose to begin with. And the fact that there was no lock washers or lock nuts on them, and that also contributed to it. So with all that kept in mind, we're just going to assume that, you know, they could come loose again. We're not just going to trust it. My anxiety is going to be like, whoo, having a heyday today, party, party of the anxiety, anxiety party. I love those wide load coming through, coming through. Excuse me. Excuse me. Thank you. I think this is the only way in and out right now. Might be wrong, but so we're in Grand Forks. Halfway to Grand Forks, there's a rest area. I'm going to stop there and check. That'll be less than half an hour, but that's okay. We'll stop there. We'll stop in Fargo. We'll check again there. We'll probably go down to Rossa, Minnesota on 94. We'll check again there. We'll keep checking every half hour until my anxiety behaves. Heal to you, good sir. You have the green. Or ma'am, sorry. One good thing about this delay is now that we're headed south today instead of yesterday, there's less wind. Yesterday I was driving right into the wind and this load was just a giant parachute behind me. So today we'll get a little bit better fuel economy. Still got a parachute behind me, but at least we're not going straight into the wind with a parachute. A little bit windy once you get out of town. I shouldn't have spoken so soon. Hopefully not as windy as yesterday. Yeah, this is halfway to Fargo. Fargo is an hour and a bit. We're pulling here, give everything a check, make sure everything's holding tight as it shouldn't be. Take to the right. How about I just go straight? There's only one road. See, now I can keep to the left. These rust areas don't give a lot of space for trucks to park here and get out. I mean, now there's lots of space, but I mean, when it's packed full, it's kind of, it gets kind of tight. You on this road for 57 kilometers. No, Karen. Gotta go calm our anxiety and go track our load. Hopefully everything is as it should be. Well, it's still there. That's a good first step. So this is what I want to check. Mm-hmm. Start with this guy here. All good. Tight. Tight. Tight. Not those there. They're tight. Tight. Tight. Everyone's looking good. Looking good. Looking good. They haven't moved. They're there. Oops. I bumped you guys on that. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. See, part of the reason why I didn't want to mess with any of this myself was this is all like one piece of fiberglass, right? And I don't want to do anything with tightening these bolts or securing any of this in here because I don't want to break the fiber glass. So if I break the fiberglass, well, then I've got problems. I'm liable for that, right? These are the ones that were coming loose before. Tight. Tight. Okay. Okay. First stop. Everything is looking good. The pressures are holding. They're tight. Okay. Successful. First stop. After all, still tight. Tight. Tight. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Good. I'm here. I'll kick the tires. Go back around to make sure we got air in all our tires. It's warming up. So we've got to make sure we adjusted the air in the tires, you know? Make sure that it's mild weather air. Just kidding. Flags are half-staff again. They're half-mass. Technically, a mast is on a ship. A flagstaff is on land. It's at half-staff, but most people call it half-mass because they don't understand that a mast is on a ship. If it's on half-mass, that means the flag is halfway up the flagpole on a ship. But society just usually calls that half-mass. I know I'm getting old technical and nerdy, but whatever. Beautiful weather we're having. Look at all this. I love to see all the snow melting. It's messy. Looking good. Feel good about that. Okay. We're going to stop again in Fargo or Moorhead, same town, different states. Here beside me, they're not going to be able to get out around him, but I guess he'll back up in that case. All is good. Let's go about another half-hour and check it again. Off to the right here is the way station one mile. Next one as the way station lights flashing. And look at this. Look how suspicious this is. Dude, I got an oversized load. What are you doing? Stopping right before the scale in front of me into traffic. It's oversized, so they may want to take a closer look to make sure all my permits are in order. Summonary scale. If the green arrow is on, you get to bypass. If it changes to the right, or if the green arrow is on the right, they want to take a closer look at you. They trust me. They're looking at me saying, I think you look pretty good there, Trucker Josh. You roll on by. Come by. We trust you. Someone's getting inspected back there off to the right. View Expressway. I got to go to the other side of the river. I don't think I can cross on this bridge because I'm being routed around to a different bridge. The river's right in front of us. I'm not sure which river it is. I have to look that up. But I get to the other side and then I'm going to sleep right at the cost. 300 meters. Turn right on. West River View Expressway W913. Bit of a sharp right. View Expressway W954. So I just took all of my clearance marker lights off for my wide load. I'm going to have a flashing. I've got two red ones for on both sides of the widest part of the load facing back and I've got three amber ones. Two for the front of the load on the widest point facing forward and one more to strap to the back of the load to flash. Everybody knows when they're coming up to me. There's a wide load. There's no excuse. You should know. So let's get out of the truck here. I'll show you where my parking spot is. Parking in this lineup until the morning. This is where I was told. So I'm not going to turn my beacons off yet. Right here is where we're going to sleep. First thing in the morning they're going to come get me and tell me where to go with this. Get it off my trailer. I'll be on my way down to Evansville to pick up my load of steel. So you saw it in my past clips right. I had the amber lights on this here facing forward. They were just steady on just to mark the outermost edge. Then I had the red ones back here facing backwards and then on the back here I had strapped the the other amber one onto here and that flashes so the back of my load has a flashing amber. We made it. Time to go to bed. Morning is going to come quick. So once again thank you very much for joining me today. I really appreciate that. 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