 up and let's go play with some poles today and gotta deliver those guys in a winter peg and then I have two loads of new poles. Let's get going. Oh it's gonna be a good day. It's gonna be a good day I guess I should get my key out. This here, I'll come back for all that stuff. Good morning you beautiful beast. You and I are going trucking together today. Some action going on here though, look at this. Oh there's a van in the ditch. How'd you get in there bud? What'd you do? Well there's some skid marks here. The bright side doesn't look like anybody was killed. I hope that nobody had any injuries or serious injuries and look on the bright side somebody's getting a new vehicle. On the road to Portage La Prairie. Look at us go. Heavy. We're super fat. Number two because where I picked up these poles just sort of made sense to go around this way. This truck rides pretty rough. I'm not gonna lie but with a heavy load like this on it's not too bad but when you're empty man seriously gotta wear your seat belt so you don't get thrown out especially if you got the windows down. So it should be arriving there. It's before 1.30 now. It should be arriving there around 2 o'clock. I'll have two and a half hours to get all these poles off my trailer. That should be should be enough time for the weekend. Next week we'll be back in my regular truck. I'm pretty sure. The guy who's usually in this truck is on holidays this week. That's why I'm filling in for his thing. But they are supposed to be putting me in this truck a couple of times a month or something like that just so that my I don't lose my skills because you know if you if you learn new skills and you get new skills you got to use them. You don't use them you lose them the month or so we'll be in this but there's a regular driver that's usually usually in this taking care of all the poles and stuff. Somebody to talk to make sure I put these poles in the right piles. Just double check. I'm getting a little better at just figuring out which one they belong in already but oh yeah this is that tight entrance. I've been here before fairly squeak in here to find someone to talk to. Pretty sure they're gonna need to move that truck for me. Just like I thought he's gonna move that truck over there and then my 45s go on that stack beside him to the left of it and all the rest the 40s and when I go on the other pile over there. It'll be pretty simple once we get going. I'm gonna have to rush through this. The time is now two o'clock. I've got two and a half hours to get in there get set up get unloaded get cleaned up and get out the gate so they can lock the gate at 430. So that's just enough time. Just enough time as long as we don't hit any major issues or problems which a major issue at this point would be hydraulic a big hydraulic leak on the crane or something me hurting myself and that's not gonna happen. So in a minute I'll get in there and we'll get to work and then and then the most important part you ready and then we go home for the weekend. All right so the wind is sort of coming from that direction so I want to make sure that when I'm up on the crane I'm out of the wind. I mean that I'm not going to be right in the path of my exhaust and they always make these things so tight and hard to get into. Okay so my 45s are going right here my 40s are going right there. All right that was much easier now that other one the other day much easier because they didn't have a utility trailer parked in my way here. That helps. Okay today I already asked not picking up scrap I want to make sure I can reach it with the crane I can't reach that far all the time 35s are going here yeah I'm gonna come back a little bit further so that my crane is about right here so I'm not reaching to set them down so far. It's a bit feather just take a look at the other side once I get myself set up it's a lot of work to move again. I want to set it down right here yeah okay I'm happy with this. All right let's set her up. Chaos in here it's not really as messy as it looks I know exactly where everything is. Got my hard hat right there I'll grab it from the other side safety glasses 40 footers on the other side of me over there done done done I've already got my directions for Monday but before Monday we're gonna enjoy the weekend. I'm gonna head back to work now park this bad boy this bad girl however you want to see it. Cleaner all up set the next driver when he comes back in on Monday has a nice clean truck full of fuel and I'm not gonna think about work for a couple of days how about that and a side note it's now four o'clock exactly when did we get here just have a two o'clock right so it took two hours a half hour less than last time so I'm getting more efficient it's good let's get ourselves out of here without pulling down this gate on our way out well that was not designed with a 75 foot unit in mind but it works it works well I change it if it ain't broke don't fix it and it's not broke because I didn't break it so it's not broke I'll have to wait till someone drags their trailer over the fence it won't be me tell you that much I will stop for fuel first we used a quarter tank of fuel today whoo this thing is a piggy it's a big pig it's not just a regular pig not a run-of-the-mill pig this is a special pig it's a big fat pig eats a lot oh boy I'm gonna have to get aggressive here oh man and the Cadillac came in I should I should have gone I'm too nice maybe if I roll my windows down people will see me and they'll feel sorry for me they'll leave me a spot no okay these three vehicles here and after that SUV right there I'm giving her I've made up my mind no more Mr. Nice guy to get home we'll just have to wait for the train and it up is a train crossing way up there Portage La Prairie here is actually a pretty historic town in Manitoba a lot of history here a lot of things went down back when different histories and Steinbeck Steinbeck we have our own history because we are different than any other part of the province except for like the Winkler area we have a Mennonite German Dutch Russian or I guess Prussian history Ukrainian well it was a fun couple of days but the weekend's here now and it's time to go home these two straps here are ripped damaged unsalvageable where's this one see it's got a rip and is right by the hook I throw these out those six are from another driver who left a load strap down for me got to return those straps to him I saw his truck in the shop so I'm gonna go and just throw them throw them in there for him so he's got them first thing Monday and then we will go and enjoy a wonderful wonderful weekend all right guys you did good farewell thank you for your service you may be battered and bruised but you lived a good life thank you for your service all right you six are still in good shape I gotta bring you back to your rightful owner because I actually do that unlike a lot of people who just keep them not naming any names or anything but you know who you are stop taking our straps and keeping them I'm here those straps actually went to the driver who's in my old truck there's my old truck and surprise surprise the shop is working on it you don't say that old Volvo's in the shop again huh I would have never guessed I would have never guessed that is so unusual that is so unusual