 Another minus 30-day another day of trucking. It's gonna be a good day. It's gonna be a busy day We better get to it. The old Pete is running. She started up just fine. No issues She's been a really good girl this past couple of weeks. I guess we worked out all the bugs And it's always like the beginning of winter to write everybody gets used to summer and just like our human bodies It takes us a month or two to Get used to the cold weather the trucks the same thing if you If you don't properly well if you don't have a place to park them indoors, you know when the first couple of cold snaps All the moisture that's built up throughout the summer that maybe you didn't notice or didn't pay enough attention to it freezes up And if that's in the lines, it'll freeze up your valves. It'll freeze up Your fuel lines. It'll it'll freeze. It'll it'll wreak havoc on your truck It's always best to be able to park your truck indoors, but I mean we have what 200 trucks We can't park all 200 trucks indoors. So we have to be able to cope with the cold So next winter we'll do things a little differently and we'll try to prepare a little bit better I'm not sure if that's what the issue was but there was obviously an issue with moisture in this truck It could just be that it's old. It's got almost 2 million kilometers on it like 1.6 million miles or something It's it's old So we expect issues to arise but we want to do our best to make sure we take care of it So that When they do arise that they're little issues. I'm not big issues We're lucky that this winter has been little issues just little freeze-ups here and there's needed to be like thought out a few times I had a couple of valves replaced and A few other things has been pretty minor and now it's running well got her all accustomed to the winter So we got a couple more weeks of this yet before it starts warming up So we're gonna make the most of it. I got to go hook on to that trailer now It's waiting for me. I bring it into Winnipeg and remember I explained this yesterday And bring that trailer into Winnipeg then we got to bring it somewhere We're gonna get loaded for our winter ice roads up north Gonna drop that they're gonna run over to another place grab a trailer bring it here run back to that place Grab another trailer bring it here grab a trailer from here Go back to the place that we dropped the first trailer at and load up another load for our winter ice roads and do As many of those today as we can we'll see how much time we have today I mean we only have a certain amount of time to do this all in but we're gonna get as much done as we can We've got our trailer pulled out. I showed it to you yesterday. I'll show it to you again now The axle is frozen or the brakes on the front axle are frozen So we got to go there and convince them not to be frozen With my snake bar and these Not the gloves though the guns under here Don't look at me like that They're there. It's just a baggy jacket my front axle Where's my bar? Gotta go do some convincing this front axle here is frozen. It's stuck So you can see some sliding a little bit here. It's just ice all the way over here So I've just been trying to get it unstuck Not having much success It's like the airbags are filled with air or are they? Have to double check a whole bunch of things Winter truckin. Let's go already. It's that front axle. All right. You keep an eye on it You tell me if it's released or not or if we need to do some more convincing Really this trailer is an attention seeker. It wants some more attention I got a crawl under there and see if I can break them free But when I say break them, I don't actually mean break them You still gotta be gentle under there. You don't want to break anything He's got to hit just the right spot on the brake pad underneath there should release We'll see how stubborn it is. They're negotiating with it for quite a while now I'm just gonna put you down here and let's see if my negotiations have paid off So all that work and all that effort getting that trailer ready this morning and not only that not just the frozen axle we also had to deal with ice built up in the The winches the winches slide along the bottom of the trailer where you tie the straps into This trailer looked like it had just gone through a monsoon and then instantly froze There was six inches of ice on everything it obviously came from a very wet climate and then into a cold climate here in Manitoba very quickly I Couldn't get anything to work. And then we when I finally got that little tiny load tied down The logo cancelled for me or got pulled off me and given to someone else and now I have a different load behind me All those hours spent into getting that trailer ready to go in the morning. Someone else is gonna take it I got a different load. I'm on the way to Brandon. I'm actually almost there This is turned into an overnight and that's a new development as well This wasn't gonna be an overnight when I left. Otherwise, I'd probably have a sleeper behind me But I'm getting they're setting me up in a hotel tonight In Brandon because I have to be in Dauphin in the morning, which is a little north of Brandon There's a trailer there. So I'm gonna try to get this unloaded today yet in Brandon gonna drop the empty trailer there And in the morning, I'm gonna bobtail up the Dauphin grab a trailer there bring it to Russell, Manitoba Near the Saskatchewan border then bobtail back to Brandon grab my empty trailer and go home Okay, and remember this is trucking. Okay Remember this is trucking so it might change Two or three times yet. Okay. The day is still young the Sun is still in the sky That's my story for today, and I'm actually not complaining whatever This is a pretty good load. I like going to Brandon It's about a two and a half two and a half hour drive from Winnipeg And I was expecting on headed heading back home from here but now I can go kick my feet up in a nice hotel room and Maybe order some pizza. I always like staying in hotel rooms. I don't know why I Think it's because it's like it's a room that I don't have to clean Not that I do a lot of cleaning you know my wife does most of the cleaning and let's let's give her the credit That's due to her But I don't know something different. Maybe there'll be something good on TV tonight. Who knows I didn't Brandon It is 110 here headed south That's Brandon over there. You can tell by that big exhaust plume coming out of the horizon there It's one of their factories. I'm not too sure what they're making there But they're very they're working very hard all the time. You can always tell I was got to go down here and come in the east side of the city quickly deliver all this The time is now Four o'clock and they go home at 4 30 So we're gonna have to hurry it up when we get into their yard there and then I've got to go and find a hotel to stay at I don't know where we're gonna stay yet Find out what Brandon has to offer Brandon is the second largest city in Manitoba Just before Steinback, there's Winnipeg then Brandon and Steinback It's in the west southwestern part of the province If you keep going straight south here, eventually you'll end up in both central and North Dakota Now Bismarck is pretty much south of here Give you a little frame of reference. Now windows are kind of dirty, aren't they? Yikes Let the pipes sing in a little second here in a bit in one second one little second Transformers and stuff on my trailer behind me The Asiniboian River this river goes through Winnipeg and meets up with the Red River downtown Winnipeg that way other things we like to do too and then from this direction before I'm trusting you Google I double-checked your work you better not have changed your change your routing sometimes they do that Gotta watch them carefully Wasn't in Steinback in the surrounding areas? And if Brandon's bigger, I'm guessing they probably have close to a hundred thousand. It's a pretty big city Maybe 200,000. Is it the size of Regina? I don't think so. I think it's much smaller up. I don't know I'm from I'm from the southeast of Manitoba. I don't know this part of the province very well Well, it sure was an interesting day It started off like we said yesterday with a very busy schedule and Then it just turned into one thing to do and then that one thing to do kind of stretched out And it's gonna go into the next day now but that's trucking things change and Stuff get moved around. I'm in Motel 6 in Brandon just off Highway 1 right by the McDonald's sort of Just east a little ways east of the the Timmy's there that we stopped at with big blue and The husky truck stop just down the street. It's a it's a decent Motel 65 bucks a night For truckers. I think it's 95 bucks a night for everyone else But if you come in here and you show them a commercial driver's license you get the trucker's discount and It's 65 bucks a night. It's not the fanciest, but it is pet friendly all Motel 6's are pet friendly So if I what if I diesel with me could have easily stayed in here for free no extra charge That's why I always stayed in Motel 6 It's just a habit for me already because when I traveled on the road with diesel I would always I would always want a pet friendly motel. So I'd always go to Motel 6 minutes It's definitely not dumb It's very nice. It's all like a cheap kind of nice. You know like a cheap IKEA kind of nice No events to IKEA You know Just wake it up here the next morning. I got in here last night had supper and pretty much went to bed And now it's time to get on the road again. So I'm gonna have to continue that in tomorrow's vlog so it was a little bit of a Up in the air day So I didn't really have much to share throughout the day But I did take that loaded to brand in here We got it unloaded and now I dropped that trailer there at that place and I bob tailed here Now I'm gonna bob tail up to Dauphin. I have to pick up a big heavy trailer. I Have to have permits for it and everything Which I've already got and then I got to take that just down the road about a hundred and seventy kilometers or still were hundred miles But the thing is with the trailer I could only drive 70 kilometers an hour or about 45 miles an hour That's it on the highway. You just have to put your hazards on and that's as fast as you can go with that trailer Can't go any faster. So that hundred miles hundred seventy kilometers is gonna take Probably two and a half hours and then once I drop that trailer there it's all you got to do is just bring it there drop it and then Take that trailer or no drop that trailer there bob tail from there back over here where they've reloaded this trailer hook onto that and go home and like yesterday Things can always change Yes, I kind of like that about trucking. It's unpredictable it's It's always changing. It's never the same mundane tasks every day I'm doing something completely different from day to day very rarely. Do I do the same thing two days in a row? I mean we had a week like that the other week and I was mentioning it It's strange. I've done the same thing every day for like three days in a row very rare and I kind of like that it switches it up and Keeps my mind fine-tuned But I'm gonna I'm gonna leave this vlog here though and start tomorrow. I'll grab some breakfast and We'll see you then So take care everybody. I hope you had a great day From Brandon Signing off. Oh, I did that the wrong hand signing off from Brandon. Is that how I end these things now? Why not?