 good morning everybody it's another new day where else are we going to start our day so how's everybody doing on this wonderful friday morning actually you're probably watching this saturday or something some other day but how are you doing it's friday it's going to be a fantastic day we're gonna go drive some trucks bring people their stuff oh when i'm getting cut off right very nice very nice well it's time to wake up the beast and go hook up oh i was gonna leave the shop somebody's closing the door on me uh-oh are my lights not on aren't those lights on up there that's better pre-trip uh just at the back at the top the marker lights aren't working that's a pretty big ticket if i were to get caught with it like that you know the thought didn't cross my mind i mean i'm doing my lights inspection or a roadside inspection hint or something and the truck gets inspected and it's found that i had faulty equipments that are burnt out doesn't matter if it contributed to whatever accident happened or not they could they could issue me a big ticket and who knows what else if there was people hurtfully in the worst case scenario it was best to get it fixed right away and we got a great mechanic there who on the ball right it was every time i've had an issue with this truck like i haven't been there long had an issue with this truck while you want to do your pre-trip and make sure your equipment is working because you know i really don't need my lights i need my lights now but after an hour or so the sun's gonna be up but i always do have my lights on anyways for safety always whether the sun's up whether it's nighttime raining daytime snowing whatever the weather i always have my lights on that's so that people can see me better all right i want to be as visible as possible to everybody on the road even though i'm a big truck some people i don't know light catches their eye better than a big moving object i don't know how it i don't know i always have my lights on so it's important to me that all my lights work properly at the beginning of my day i don't want a ticket and i don't want to be responsible for uh you know getting a fine or something or god forbid the worst case scenario someone has an accident because they didn't see me or my signals weren't working or always make sure your lights work okay plus another day so now that we got the truck all the lights working properly everything's running great we're on our way into winnipeg i got some stuff to pick up on the west side of winnipeg it's gonna be great it's gonna be huge we got three skids i think and then from there there will probably be more but for now we're gonna head around to uh the seasons uh around south of tuxedo what what areas of lindenwoods south of tuxedo south of ica around road 90 around migilvery area there is no what i'm talking about right everybody from outside the country it's like ha canada has roads we sure do you know a funny story okay funny story there's a lot of these funny stories and i'm gonna tell a funny story and this doesn't apply to everybody i'm not going to generalize and say everybody but i was in florida once right long time ago and i just gotten my truck license well not my truck license i just gotten my over the road job so this was like 10 10 years ago one of my first trips was to uh florida because i was excited to be down there right i was excited i was telling people yeah i'm from canada isn't that cool and i'm in florida look palm trees i'm excited and they were kind of excited like wow we never met no one from canada before but yeah that's that's where we are and i'm not lying and i'm not saying this to make anybody look bad but it was hilarious and it's worth a share they looked at me it's a seer from canada and then they looked at my truck serious face they said well how'd you get down here in that it was like four days it was great actually first out laughing i hope i didn't make them feel bad but i'm like what okay well did you buy it down take your sled down here and then jump in it here and then drive to here like did you get in your truck in minnesota and then come down no i i got the truck in canada and drove it from canada to florida they had this idea honest to god they had this idea unless they're very good actors but this has happened to more than just one person so they thought that canada had nothing but dog slits that we didn't have any roads that maybe we had snowmobiles and stuff but they thought that we were just an open open line with no roads and you know they're not completely wrong if you think about it because manitoba especially we're like the least developed province and we like it that way at least i do it's quiet not a lot of people here so southern manitoba along the us border is exactly like america you've seen it in my videos here exactly like america the roads aren't quite as nice maybe in some areas i don't know depends who you ask but if you were to be blindfolded and brought from north dakota into manitoba from the road signs and all the speed limits being in metric you would still think you were in america and vice versa you did the other way and you dropped yourself in north dakota you looked around you would think you were still in canada it's exactly the same people for the most part look the same we talk the same we speak the same language we have the same heritage mostly all farmland all our buildings look the same we drive the same kind of vehicles we all drive on the same side of the road if i didn't tell you i was canadian would you know just first glance people usually think i'm from wisconsin americans come up here if they don't tell us they're american if they don't have that southern twang if they don't tell us they're american we just assume they're canadian that's how similar we are so back to the story this person from florida obviously well they live the long ways away you gotta hand them it's a long way canada's a long way from florida okay what's the school bus doing why are you putting your hazards on why don't you turn there they are there they are see now i turn my hazards on and i slow down and i let everybody behind me know that i'm coming to a stop because the bus is going to be picking up some kids i'm always very careful when there's kids around i never want to be in a situation where i have even a close call with a kid almost getting run over or something one day i want to have kids and i hope that other drivers are just as careful let me pass what a nice bus driver what a nice bus driver a lot of them wouldn't do this let's give them a friendly wave everybody's give them a wave hazards there you go flash your lights back at him so that he knows that you're grateful that he did that he didn't have to do that that's my story from some yes we have roads very big country i don't know bob from toronto i don't i don't know anyone from toronto actually no one opposite part of canada from where i live so when you look out my camera right now you're looking at your screen and i'm telling you to me this is canada this right here this is where i grew up this is what i think of when people say canada there's people who live in british columbia completely different experience there's people who live in toronto completely different experiences people who live in newfoundland completely different experience and completely different accents good luck trying to understand what they're trying to tell you i love going to visit there they're very friendly but they talk so fast they're like born auctioneers great people go and visit sometime when they when all this pandemic's over great place go in the summer though avoid it at winter avoid it in winter but anyway the point that goes around the perimeter of the city what should we call it i say we call it the perimeter it better here than that there we go there we go one more there it is okay you guys ready for this urge of mr flatbed is gonna give us room check this truck coming out coming up here on my left you know i try to help other drivers let them know when it's safe to merge back in turn the lights off and back on and they don't see it if they don't want to hey you know i won't judge you too harshly unless you stay in that left lane at the red light that's a pet peeve of mine but see it's gonna turn red he's gonna come back in this lane see he's a good driver that is a professional right there when there's a stop light if at all possible you want to be in the right hand lane leave the left hand lane open for cars like this guy so that they can get moving they got places to go to and they're their quicker accelerating than us now if a truck comes up in the left lane here beside us now we're plugging up both lanes and we're both accelerating very slowly and it's just not very nice to the cars that have places to be right you just want to be a little courteous and extend that courtesy try to be in the right lane at the stop lights on the highway especially in the city i know it doesn't really matter because it's the city but on the highways if there's a truck you get it you get it see we're gonna take off nice and slow here and all these cars can you know get past us and get on their way to wherever they're going they got places to be we're at our first stop want to make sure we're straight everything looks good let's go in and see what they have for us so when you go in you always got to make sure you got your mask on you've got to properly cover the nose mouth and chin i always bring my gloves along just in case they need me to help out with anything or if i need to move the pallets around in my trailer with a pallet jack i'm always prepared and i always bring my phone with me too just in case i need to make a phone call i was talking too much on the way in i was too excited to wire up my coffee i can feel it now gosh you've been talking too much and it's not even what's the time not even 9 30 in the morning yet my body's like why are you talking so much stop it okay so i picked up two skids here they're going across town somewhere let's get this and start let's get out of the dock so it's open for others figure out where we're going with us most times i can just google the where it's going google has most of the answers what's next come up with clever slogans and make you laugh makes you want to buy their product right now i sort of want to go out and buy some peanuts you got to go right through the city right now these skids straight there keep buzzing around the city today but have i mentioned yet today is friday more and more this is becoming a a highlight of my week sort of like there's hump day where you're excited that you're over the hump what is that guy doing making sure that ground was i days of obviously friday so what do you guys have planned for this weekend what's your big plans go out to our spot let the dogs run around because they've been cooped up inside because of the extreme cold what a lot of chance to go out and exercise so this weekend we're probably going to spend a good we shall see this guy he's speeding up slowing down the city here my experience delivering pepsi back in the past he comes into play here i know where all the truck roads are and i know how to get through the city i know where the low bridges are definitely comes in very handy and gets me from point a to point b a lot faster knowing where i'm going already not having to sit there and figure out what's a truck road and what's not i'm not sure how it is in the city you live in or cities you drive through but a gps for a truck driver in winnipeg is absolutely useless there's no point it doesn't know where the truck roads are it'll always route you through the most tight streets where you can't get into and it won't warn you even the truck gps if you use those to get into winnipeg useless the only way you can really learn how to get through the city properly efficiently and quickly is by experience that's the only thing that's going to help you out and i'm sure a lot of cities are like that but i did notice that when i was in the us because most gps manufacturers and people who build these gps systems right and google maps and everything they're all americans they're all built for americans and they just you know throw in the rest of us just to include us so that we don't feel left out right so when i'm driving around in the us the gps works great there for the most part the truck gps will route you around low bridges most of the time a lot of not all the time but then you come up to canada especially around montreal where everything's in french no you can tell that the gps was designed by a foreigner who's never been here because nothing makes sense see the train is way up there but these lights here won't turn green otherwise you know people will plug up this whole intersection and then block it for the people going that way right so they just leave us here at the light so if you wanted to make a left turn too bad you got to wait till the train over there is gone we are going straight so we got to wait anyway doesn't matter all right train's gone we're free sometimes they take forever when you catch a train in the city because you know they're slowly going through the city or they're going into the train yards whatever they do and sometimes they slow right down sometimes they stop sometimes they reverse and you're stuck sitting there forever look at this big lineup on this side trains are a big convenience that's why most modern cities build overpasses and underpasses you know but that's fancy that's way too fancy for winter pegs so we don't have those they got to fix the road somehow but it looks like they're fixing a water main over there winter peg is well known at least around here I think to have water main breaks in the winter time because the water systems aren't designed for the cold temperatures I think I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure that's what's going on because they keep whenever it gets really cold that we had a really cold week this week the pipe seemed to freeze and then burst and then you get a mess like this where they got to close down a busy road to fix it I'm thinking that's what happened it would make sense seeing as we had such a cold week in a town here might be mistaken though one thing you'll notice if you visit winter peg is there's a lot of these wall murals everywhere this one's a little old already but on the right there shows what winter peg looks like in the current day and ahead of us here this is the first settlement along uh upper for gary adley it shows the history of the area and how it's changed I'm supposed to be in that was facing the wrong way until it was too late I'm in two weeks today so two weeks ago almost exactly local city driving that there's more soot being built up two weeks that'd be twice a month well we didn't get very far we ran this thing through three cycles of a park region or a forest region whatever you want to call it and uh all three attempts were uh failures because the light is still flashing and that means that an urgent park region is needed it's going to start derating the engine I believe uh feels like I've already lost a little bit of power maybe it's just in my mind check engine light came on as well so the shop back home uh said don't take it any further so we're parked here on the north side of winter peg at maxim truck our shop mechanic is driving all the way out here he's got his scanner that he can plug in here find out exactly what's going on why this thing is acting up hopefully get it fixed right here and then I can take it home then I have another driver that's coming to take the stuff that I have in my trailer and put it in his truck and he'll deliver it for me and this is probably going to be the rest of my day I'm thinking depends how quickly our mechanic can fix it he is pretty good at what he does I was just talking about him just before like he he's very quick to fix things and this thing like I said two weeks ago the same thing happened and he had it fixed before I even got to work the next day so he probably knows what to look for already but he wants to come out here and be sure uh because with these trucks any repairs get very expensive very quickly believe me I owned my own truck for several years and or at least the truck and I was responsible for all of the maintenance and if you don't fix things when they're small they turn into massive things very quickly so we don't want that we don't want a small thing to turn into a big thing so I've been instructed to sit here and twiddle my thumbs and wait the mechanic is about an hour away at least so uh well I guess between now and then the other driver's going to show up here and that'll probably take up a lot of the time while we shift freight over it's a little bit of awkward freight they're really long pieces they're heavy but they're narrow we gotta sort of lug them into his truck he's gonna back up to the back of my truck oh that'll probably take a good 15 minutes at least and then the rest of the time I guess I'll just babysit the old grumpy girl I don't know why she's so grumpy at me it's Friday she's supposed to be in a good mood it is what it is but at least we're getting it uh looked at now before anything bigger happens because I would hate to see the uh the truck you know get thrown into the shop for something big again they they just did a I believe a top end rebuild on this truck I think that that's what it was and the owner is a really great guy and I I don't want him to have to pay for a massive repair bill I know how big they get you remember that weekend we had in uh in uh BC around new years right wasn't just after new years 2020 I think yeah that was just before this whole pandemic thing started they were still sort of talking about it but it wasn't here yet right it wasn't a big deal yet we had we still hadn't heard of masks wearing masks at that time yet now look at us a year later I got mine here and I got an extra one in here just in case and if those both go I got a box of disposables just in case oh here's my guy and I throw the stuff in the back of his truck right okay came to save the day he's behind me over there backed right up to me like a boss and now all of the stuff that was mine is now he is he will deliver it to its rightful place and I wait here for the mechanic and twiddle my thumbs boss's orders he didn't actually say twiddle my thumbs but he did just say sit tight getting tired of twiddling my thumbs I'm getting a little sore it's like it's stroke my beard like a wise man for a while I need to shave this thing should I let it grow again I don't know I'm not really big into my big beard look you can already see how it grows this way it's like swoosh this way that's why I never grow it out anymore because it doesn't grow straight it's very hard to maintain but maybe now because I'm home every day maybe it would be easier to maintain I don't know our mechanic guy came and saved the day really nice guy I got to sit and chat with him for a while when he was working on the truck he's following me now to make sure that everything goes well that I can get back to the shop and he'll take a much closer look at the truck in the warm shop so that's where we're headed now I guess that'll be it for this week that's it go home for the weekend and and hopefully get this thing back in tip top shape Monday morning or maybe over the weekend I don't know when he's gonna look at it probably Monday morning I'm guessing that is what it is he'll get her all fixed up probably won't take him long once he's there he's got all his tools and equipment there we did what we could so we can get it back there there we go guys today's vlog was very long I got a little bit yappy today I no I don't apologize I was gonna apologize I don't apologize regret nothing I'll just keep this end clip kind of short so I hope that uh how I explain things makes sense to you guys and uh I keep getting comments about why I don't show my truck I hope that that makes sense to you now as well I have an agreement in place and I want to honor that and make sure that I can continue to make videos for you guys here as well as drive the truck uh daily because there's nothing I love more than driving trucks well I shouldn't say there's nothing I love more there I mean I love my family more but that's why we're doing this being home every night and on the weekends right but I really do enjoy where I'm at I honestly think that it's a great position and I hope to be there for a very long time so I'm gonna follow all the guidelines that we have set up and we'll see what happens in the future other than that the truck got back to the shop all right the mechanic followed me all the way back he's gonna take a look at it either over the weekend or Monday and hopefully uh it'll be a quick fix I don't I'm pretty sure it's all just codes he has all his equipment that you can just plug into the truck and shows you everything uh we were trying to do another regen there but since the temperatures are so cold he was saying something about uh uh that he couldn't get the exhaust temperature up to where it needed to be to do a proper regen I'm not a mechanic so I'm not gonna say anything because he was talking mechanic talk but it made sense the way he explained it to me anyway so it should be okay it probably just needs to be warmed up and he'll be able to fix it in the shop it'll all be good so thanks for watching today everybody tomorrow is going to be another video it's the weekend I hope you're having a great weekend I'm just putting this together here on Saturday it's 3 30 p.m central time here in North America by the time you watch this it'll probably be the evening already take care and I wish you all the best see you tomorrow