 is not the way anyone wants to start their day. A slight, I had one of the headlights smashed out. The truck's there and the other truck had no damage. That way to start today, but you know, I hope everybody's okay. Behind us, we should have plenty of room on today. So I'm gonna bull snob this one up too and grease it up real good so that it slides back and pours real nice. Yesterday we tried the bull snout on the roll tight and it worked way better than that other stuff we were using. So I'm definitely gonna bring it up with the people who make those decisions. Maybe they can start, come January when it's available in Canada, maybe they can start using that instead. We'll see. See how convincing I can be. We're up and waiting for my friends to come out and load me up. I like the shippers here, they're very nice people. Let's see how easily this one opens up. Maybe it'll be better than the other one. The other one was all seizing up already and I had to get it all greased up. Maybe this one's doing all right. Usually they come back and I gotta grease them every time. But we have to unload this first so we gotta roll this forward so they can unload this before we start loading. Then they'll probably start loading from the front. See how well this rolls. Not too bad, but this is one of our newer trailers. This was the one that was fully refurbished just recently. So I guess it's not surprising that it's not all seized up yet, but it was a little bit sticky. So I'll grease it up anyways just so it rolls even easier. Let me show you what we got. I've already disconnected the airlines and unlatched the trailer or unlocked the fifth wheel. So I'm ready to pull out from underneath at the landing gear down. I'll show you what we got in there. So this load took up pretty much the entire trailer right to the back, 53 feet. It is headed down to the US. It's going to Halifax, Pennsylvania. I'm about to be confused with Halifax Nova Scotia on the East coast of Canada. Halifax, Pennsylvania. And I got my orders from Monday already. We're going down to Thief River Falls into Minnesota again. Twice. So we're doing two round trips again just like we did last week. So it should be fun. I'm looking forward to it. I love going down there. It's a good day's work. It's just mostly just highway the whole time. And just like yesterday, all of these rollers on this, I put some bullsnot lubricant on all of them now and it's rolling like butter. And this is the newest one we have. This one, like I was telling you before, just got refurbished. The whole thing. I think it's because this trailer was involved in some kind of a rollover or something. Anyway, they had to replace it all. So now it's all brand new. So it already rolls pretty well. It's when they start getting older and maybe they're a little bit bent up and maybe the equipment gets old. That's what happens. And they don't want to roll as nicely. So that's where I come in. I deal with these a lot. I'm not the only one that pulls these things at all. But out of us local guys, I think that I pulled them the most, but I've declared myself the roll tight guy. But since I feel like I have them quite often, I take it upon myself. And they've also asked me in the office just to make sure that the wheels on here stay greased. So every time I have a roll tight like this, I open it up. I grease all the wheels so that when the highway driver hooks onto it, he doesn't have to sit there fighting with it. When he gets to his first delivery, he should open just like butter. And now that I'm using bullsnot instead of that other lubricant, it should last longer. But the jury is still out on that one. We're gonna find out, see how long this lasts. If it lasts longer than one trip, it's already done twice as good. Is that other stuff? Every time I've greased the trailers, it'd come back and it'd need to be greased again almost immediately. It's like as soon as it goes through a rainstorm, it just washes it right out. And I know the owner of Bullsnot, Mr. Brown, and he says that his products will not do that. And I trust him. He was right about the visible, the glass cleaner. He was right about the polishable. And all of his other products, the tire butter. Remember he said that dust won't stick to it? He was right. So I trust him when he says that his products will last longer. I'm just gonna prove it to you now and prove it to myself. And we're gonna hold him to his word. I'll let you know. There's not much more for me to do this afternoon other than get everything ready for Monday so that I don't have to spend all morning getting ready to go down to Thief River. I can just get here and go. It's gonna be a busy day. It is a long day when you do two round trips. But I enjoy those days, right? I enjoy driving. I enjoy the highway. And I also enjoy going home at the end of the day. It's sort of like a, it's a perfect full day. Makes me a happy trucker. All right, let's jump down here. That up, put the pin through there. So if she stays locked up, just like I told her to. Otherwise it doesn't listen. We're putting her to bed here for the weekend. Haven't seen a driver for the other truck. Where is the other truck? That's 3010, 2025. Not sure if we're still looking for a city driver for that or not. For owner operators and new drivers all the time. I know we're always looking for new drivers. I mean, if you're looking for a good place to work if you're had the legal ability to work in Canada, you got a work visa at the very least or your residency, why am I taking this off? Then I just got to carry it inside at home. No, I got it. I'm just gonna keep wearing it. I wanna take my sweater off because it's hot. That's what I was thinking. Forgot what I was doing halfway through doing it. I forget stuff. But I didn't forget what I was talking about. We're always looking for drivers. I think we have a city truck. We're looking for city drivers. We'll have to call in and check though. I don't know the exact needs that we have, but we're always looking for owner operators. You guys have seen the routes I've done over the last nine years and stuff. We go all over Canada and the US and we're always looking, always looking for drivers. Company drivers too. We've got van division, deck division. If you're Canadian or even live in the neighboring province on the prairies, Western Canada, Eastern Canada, Ontario, we hire drivers out of Ontario all the time. We have a terminal in Waterloo, Ontario. I believe that's where it is. Down in Southern Ontario there too. Hiring drivers out there too. I don't know what our needs are exactly right now, but if you call in and talk to Max, he's the recruiter. He'll tell you exactly what we need. It's a good place to work. And you know, they don't ask me to say nice things about the place. They don't ask that at all. I choose to. I've been here for 10 years next month. October 26th, that'll be 10 years. I had a small little gap for a couple of months at the beginning of this year, end of last year, but three months where I sort of, I don't know, lost myself. We had some miscommunication. I didn't know that this position was available here and I was looking for something local to be home every day. Little bit of miscommunication. And I ended up trying to go and find local work elsewhere. And then when they realized the error and that, hey, we actually have a local position here, they called me back and said, hey, can you please come back? We need you. Absolutely. This place is like a family to me. It's not a workplace that I come to every day. Everybody here is my family. And I care a lot about all of them. And I really believe in the place. I believe it's a good place. I believe we're moving in a positive direction. I believe they do good work. I believe all of us here that we do good work. So, you're not a unit number here. That's a big thing too. I've been here a while, so everybody knows me already. But when you start here, right off the bat, you'll notice that people will take the effort to learn your name, to know who you are. And maybe you can get to know your family. They take a great interest and they're a very family-oriented place. I've told you this before, like, Britt and I were trying to have a kid right now. And you know, they all know about it too. And they're all on our side rooting for us. We're hoping to have a positive result soon for Britt getting pregnant with our first child. We have IVF coming up in the next couple of months. It's gonna be pretty expensive. But I know that at least here with my work family, everybody's rooting for us. Everyone's on our side. That's one thing that really makes it awesome. It doesn't feel like I'm coming to work in the morning. I'm gonna show up for work and everybody's here. We're all in good mood. We all have our days. Sometimes we don't see eye to eye, but you know what? In the end, we all know we're on the same team. And their method of family-orientated workplace seems to be very successful. I mean, not everybody's gonna have the same glorious, awesome experience. But I think for the most part, everyone will. I don't know. I like it here. If you guys wanna work here too, we're always looking for new drivers. There's been a driver shortage for decades, for longer than I've been alive. Now the news is finally catching up with it. Oh, there's a driver shortage. There's news all over the world. They're blaming it on the pandemic and stuff. No, no, this is nothing new. There's been a driver shortage for longer than I've been alive. I've always called your commercial driver's license Employment Insurance. As long as you keep your driver's abstract clean, you keep your criminal record clean, all this stuff, you stay a good citizen and you have your CDL, your Class 1 license. As long as you have that, you got Employment Insurance. You'll always have a job because there's always somebody looking for a job. The thing is you wanna find the best drivers with the best work ethic and the best attitude. So if you have a positive attitude, if you have a good work ethic, maybe this is the place for you. Maybe this is the place for you. I don't know. Maybe this is the place for you. We're always growing. Time to go home, though. I think my rock star welcome is waiting for me. Do I have everything? I probably forgot something. Wallet, phone, keys, truck, head, all my stuff in there. Back there, lunch kit, electronics, backpack. I think we have everything. I think so.