 Tony here watching the ups and downs of trucker Josh Poison Oak and all have a good day Good morning folks in the truck stop. I stayed at the husky Down to my customer, which is I guess on the south East side of Brandon on the 110 here and then drop off these big steel coils I got on my trailer had them on me for three days now. I don't want them. I don't like them anymore Really heavy. Hopefully this will be quick not to take my tarps and chains off until I get there Apparently some drivers like to take it off at the truck stop and then or take the tarps off the truck stop So they don't have to do it the customer Sometimes that that that is nice for the customer because they don't have time for you to take your tarps off and roll Them up on their yard as they're busy. They got a line of trucks But other times like this they asked you to leave it on they want to see that it was properly tarped Probably want to take some pictures of it There's any discrepancies if there's any damages, you know, they can blame me Which is good. I mean I Had to take pictures of it before I tarped it and after I loaded it They just want to make sure that nothing happened on the way here It is my responsibility And I should be held accountable But I've been very careful with it very careful. It's hard not to be careful with it So heavy I can't go very fast takes me forever to speed up and forever to slow down So I pretty much just put it my way through Ontario I'm not worried about there being any damages Never actually been to this part of Brandon. I don't go into Brandon very often I go past it all the time, but I never actually go into the city. It's the second largest city in Manitoba, I have no idea how many people would live here someone in Brandon could tell you in the comments I'm guessing probably 100,000 is that too much I Wouldn't think more than 100,000, but I could be wrong, but that's my guess Manitoba is not a very populated province and there's there's a reason for that Nobody wants to live here and that's okay with us It's okay with me. I like this occlusion the quietness I like how there's hardly any traffic ever I Like how property values are much lower Because they can't put them too high people already don't want to live here And it gets down to minus 50 degrees Celsius all winter 40 degrees Celsius in the summer, so we're looking at a Down to minus 50 Fahrenheit to a hundred and five hundred tens sometimes Fahrenheit That's the we have a lot of fluctuation in Manitoba Don't get me wrong. I love my home. I just like it exactly the way it is I don't want there to be a whole pile of traffic You stay there stay stay you didn't stop at the stop sign mr. Harris Shame on you now you're on YouTube a lot of people don't understand how I just like it to be you know Secluded quiet not a lot of people low property values to say oh, that's bad. That's bad. No, it's good No, I want property values to stay the same I Don't want them to go up because as soon as like you know a whole big group of people pile into an area What happens? Housing markets skyrockets, right? People do that to get rich But then what they don't think of is that their kids can't afford a house then If the housing market keeps going up, no, no, no, let's keep the population. Let's just stay where we are right now Let's not change anything Because I want my kids when we finally have them and they grow up. I want them to be able to afford a house You know if you keep skyrocketing the housing market because there's not enough homes. Well How are they ever gonna afford a house? Everything's already skyrocketed so much because there's a shortage of everything right because there's so many people being piled in Let's just coast all right anything we should bring the housing market down a few knots But I know that would hurt everybody because then everybody loses on their investment including me You'd have to take a hit But if we could just keep it at the same set if I bought my house for a certain amount of money You know in 10 years if I could sell it for the same amount of money not lose any money Just get the money back that I put into it. That's good. It's a good thing I don't need to make a bunch of money on selling my house My kids need to be able to afford a house when they grow up. We can't keep raising everything. That's just my rant for the morning That's my main reason for I just want to keep things the same. It's just coast Cost of living is so expensive in Canada. I live in a very low Cost of living area You go to Vancouver or Toronto places that are that draw huge amounts of people as people moving there in droves Constantly the city's growing so fast because people come from everywhere to move there. You know what that does Shoots up the housing prices now. You can't find a house in Toronto or Vancouver like a two-bedroom bungalow for under a million dollars Who can afford that? No, no, no you grew too fast Coast for a little bit Anyways, I guess I was on my my what happened. Okay, I got a turn. Oh, here's my customer. Okay. Oh nice big yard Oh, they got a garage. Oh, can I unload indoors? Unload indoors I'm excited. I might get to unload indoors Well, I know I skipped a bunch, but we're empty I Had to quickly get that unloaded They were in a little bit of a rush. That's okay We were indoors though, so that was nice. I had to take my tarps off outside though in the wind sort of suck That's all right, at least you got to unload inside. Oh I can already feel how light we are Nice people here really nice people All right, and now we need to go back to the yard and then we go home. We're home till Tuesday now I requested an extra day off just because I missed my wife and I got a lot of stuff to do at home and Two days isn't always enough Especially in summertime when I have so much yard work to do Ridiculous and I want to spend time with her too, right? And I'd like to go see my my buddy James Yeah, we'll see I am sweating like a pig I need to pull over here and change I am soaked I was just attempting to pass there. He had like the patio on the back of his tanker for some reason Oh, here's a cop up ahead. Hey, maybe you want to pull this guy over. He's on his phone The guy behind me now You saw how I was passing him right and then he speeds up So that I can't pass him sits beside me Now of course the cops not gonna be cop was looking down That cop. I mean a cop that trucker Spit up while I was trying to pass him right and it comes up sits right beside me not even looking at me Looking down at his phone texting Our our cabs were right beside each other. I was looking straight over at him He's there sitting there texting along as they're speeding up a little bit slowing down speeding up slowing down not letting me pass him And I'm governed right So I honk at him Looks over at me shakes his head goes back down to his phone texting right beside me. I Lay on the horn again. I Gave him one of those like what are you doing looks? He gives me one right back like what's your problem? Well besides the fact that you sped up when I was passing you which already got on my nerves What are you doing texting and driving when I'm right beside you? Okay, I really don't care what you do in the cab of your truck when you're alone on the highway There's no I'm right beside you man. You're not even watching where you're going now. He slowed down now He's way behind me probably still texting away Probably still texting away What you know, I know it's illegal, but I'm never gonna like rag on a driver for doing that whatever if you want to do that You're just a little you're alone on the road I don't recommend it because it's illegal. Okay, don't say trucker. Josh said it's okay when the cop pulls you over Okay, you're gonna get a ticket if you get caught just at least Okay, at least don't do it when I'm passing you or when you're passing me That's my only request I've got all my nerves a little bit What bothered me the most though was that he looked at me as if I was the problem like I was honking at him Like he didn't know what I like he didn't know what he was doing wrong For Pete's sake, I don't even know if you're Pete, but for Pete's sake But you know, we're all sort of guilty of that. Nobody likes being called out when they're doing something wrong I don't like it when I when I get called out and I know I'm wrong I get embarrassed just like everyone else right and the first reaction When you get embarrassed is anger, right? You're angry that someone called you out and caught you doing something you shouldn't be doing You're angry. So you blame it on them the people who called you out I think that's human nature. So I don't hold it against that guy it's just Little things like that bug me on this a pet peeve, I guess you'd say pet peeve Not a big deal diesel. Can you lay down? Please? We're moving. Can you lay down? I know you can Hey, you got to shake it off. All right, buddy. You lay down now kids. They don't listen Lay down buddy Thank you. I feel much better when you're laying down. Good boy Unless he's coming to the front to sit up here with me. Sometimes he just stands back there and stares at me. It's creepy So I'm coming up to Headingley here now. I'm gonna pull into the truck stop grab some fuel I don't know that guy's gonna pull into and grab fuel too. I hope he doesn't come and Talk to me and less of it is to apologize But sometimes when you catch people like I said when you embarrass people like that they get mad at you And they'll come and yell at you later, right? I try not to let myself go that far, but I don't like being called out either But it's good to be called. I want people to call me out when I'm doing something wrong. I Tell my family that too. I've even told my in-laws that I said if I ever do something do spaggy Or if I ever do something that You know Doesn't serve the best interest of others around me. Don't call me out on it Tell me let me know. Don't just let me go on in ignorance or in Whatever let me get away with it Sometimes everybody needs a little correction because sometimes you don't see it yourself, right? You don't see it You don't know when you're making a mistake It's just a good idea to Confront people calmly and with love and Gently and not you know throw in their face You know what I mean You guys are probably all really good at this stuff, right? And the scales open. Oh goody-goody gumdrops. I hate scales. I'm empty though They better not pull me in for an inspection though. I want to go home I should have taken Roblin could have gone around this scale No, well Oh well I'm all sweaty and disgusting. They don't want to see me right now. Anyways, I stink I Really don't like scales that are open. I think they work much better when they're closed You know just put them there so it looks like you're enforcing things, but don't actually Okay, I'm lying It's good that you enforce it because there's some drivers out here that really do need a good spanking every now And then I Get it. I get it. I'm thankful that we have laws here that you know regulate Our industry otherwise, you know how people are Look how many bugs are on my windshield though, and that's a good thing. That's a good thing. That means we're in warm weather All right, buddy. He's saying next axle move. Come on, buddy. Come on. I'm impatient. I want to go home All the guys right behind me now. Well, hey, maybe he'll get pulled in for an inspection Is that is that wrong to wish that on somebody that guy I was talking about before right behind me This guy in front of me got the got the green light Okay, so You got to stop here unless if they wave you forward He's already saying next axle, so I'll just put my first axle on the And they're giving me the green light already cool. You see now That's a nice a nice scale lady in there. I think it was a lady You never know nowadays Could have been a guy with long hair or it could have been a I don't know I guess we'll just say what appeared to be a female officer inspector in there Gave me the green light. So I got out of there before they changed their mind So this is heading way right here It's sort of like an intro to Winnipeg heading east from the west It's it's Winnipeg. It's just on the other side of the perimeter highway It all connects But it is its own little town. I think I Don't want to be in this lane, buddy. So I hope this Arnold Brothers guy is slow so I can get in front of him If I was loaded I would never be in this left lane. I don't even like being here empty So it's kind of fluke. I couldn't get back into that right lane because there's a big creepy van One of those like molester vans That wouldn't let me in there. Oh Great, he's empty too. Oh great. Okay, so I can't get in front of him Wait, no, no, I got him. I got him. I got him. Come on. Come on. It's right here. It comes here. It comes and Slipping in front give him a four ways as a sign of Victory Well, they got a new Canada flag over there at the Husky They got a smaller one. Why would you get a smaller one? If anything you should get a bigger one And one last fuel up before going home. It's already 1.30. Yikes. I'm not gonna get home till supper Let's fuel her up and we'll be all ready to go to Lincoln, Nebraska on Tuesday That's where we're headed to And from there we go to St. Joseph, Missouri and then back home. So I got my home next week planned out already