 G'day, g'day everybody. We're here in the shop fixing up a few things getting ready to go back on the road So over here on the passenger side of the truck This cubby hole latch has seen the end of its days. Look how rusty that is, eh? The spring inside there just disintegrated So I went out and got new ones ordered them through PBX and I'm gonna install them on both sides They were getting a little rusty anyways. If you go around and look at this side of the truck I wanted to replace this one just for like aesthetics and looks like See how the rust is gathering in there already. So we're gonna replace this thing as well too. It's super easy to do It's just four bolts and see them here One two three four And they just go straight through you screw it on Hook this up move the lock from here to here I was hoping that a new lock was gonna come with it But alas I am not that fortunate because I'd be even more expensive. If you're wondering how much one of these costs This is a hundred and fifty dollars. I got two of them. Yay so now that I've got the latch out of there. I'm just soaking it with a bit of bullsnot from over here Just using the visible just gonna clean it off a little bit Wipe it off so that the new one is installed on a clean surface May as well since I have it off may as well clean it underneath there, right? We got the new one installed Just screwing her in and it was pretty easy. So I had to disconnect We're just gonna take off his back. This is usually a cover that's over this right here Just took that off and exposed this. There's four nuts on the back there. Take the old one out Put the new one in Trucker Josh is a mechanic Just like that Who needs service technicians Right I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm not very good at fixing. I'm not as good. I can fix some things the goofies I'm being I'm not always the best at fixing Big problems to do with the motor like mechanic work and stuff fixing stuff like this is easy this lights You know anything nuts and bolts anyone can fix these things you save a lot in labor If you do these things yourself if you own your own truck, you should be prepared to do these things on your own Because I would be charged at least an hour At least to get those to replace that's a hundred and thirty dollars that I didn't have to pay Plus tax out of my pocket. So I made a hundred thirty dollars today or I saved a hundred thirty dollars by doing it myself There's some things though that I do need their help on and sometimes Paying the labor cost is worth it to me because I want to spend time at home with my family so it's a balancing act sometimes there's stuff that I can do but You know my family needs me at home. Well, then I pay someone else to do it for me How much is your time worth? How much is your family worth? My family's worth quite a bit to me. So when they need me at home Usually I try to get someone else to fix the bigger things for me, but these little things I Had a little bit extra time today. Why not I do myself? We go one more to do one more to do Other side So if you want to know what happened, I kind of explained it already, but I can show you now This thing here is on a spring, right? You pull the latch on the other side It goes in and then a spring pushes it back out. That spring is in here Now for some reason on my old one it stopped pushing back out and this thing wouldn't stay closed and I had Chevy's steps in here, right? Wouldn't stay closed. So I pride back this metal piece here You're not supposed to but I did pride it back and the spring literally Sort of crumbled out. It didn't even pop out. It just crumbled out and disintegrated in my hands There's some of it probably still down here. I got to clean up. So it was no good. So I replaced the whole thing now Now it's good to go. It's the next day It's just the next night and we're headed out on a trip with a familiar trailer So we dropped it here last week Thinking that someone else was gonna continue with it to Saskatoon Silly me turns out. I'm taking it to Saskatoon. I'm the driver who's taking it always ask a tune So I took all my equipment off right like we usually do. I could have left it tied down So now I have to tie it down again And then start heading out to Saskatoon. I'm leaving tonight just to get a little bit of a head start It's a nine-hour drive, but I want to see how far I can get tonight yet I just get the wheels moving. I'll get the blood pumping so to speak So let's get hooked up. Let's get her tied down again Let's get going. It's a pretty easy load to tie down. I mean, it's just three dumps 8,000 pounds each so two straps per dump is Good enough. I had three on each on the way up. Oh, better to be safe and sorry, right? I wish I would have left the tie down Had I known right? Had I known? Oh well, it's not gonna take long How far I'm gonna get tonight. I was hoping to at least get to Brandon That's about two and a half hours from here If I wanted to get into Saskatchewan, maybe to Musamin I mean, I was gonna go all the way to Balgoni at first. That's about six hours from here It's already a little bit late Saskatoon's not getting any closer. And she's all tied down again I thought about just going two straps per bucket or per dump You know because that's all I need. They're 8,000 pounds each I only need two straps. Two straps cover me up to 11,000 pounds from 10,800 pounds We'll be plenty enough, right? But I'm looking at it and I'm like, you know what? I better set a good example and just I just better I just better go overboard. Yeah, I just better just throw another one on there That is my golden rule. If you think it might need one more put another one on Maybe put another two on in this case. I just put another one on each of the three on the whole load Did it need it? Nah Nah Did I feel like it needed it? Yeah Let me just looks better this way, right? You roll over the scales and they're looking at that to like man This trucker knows what he's doing. He's he's he's gone above and beyond to make sure that his load is safe for the highway We're gonna give him the green light At least that's what I hope goes through their minds. That's what I'm going for anyway Okay, we're all loaded up. We're tied down Let's go. Flying Jay in Portage La Prairie This is just a little card lock here and Behind those trucks out there. There's a little building. It's not 24 hours, but this is where we're gonna spend the night tonight We're parked Along the back. I guess in the back row Lighten up the night a little bit back here Originally my plan was to make it to Brandon Manitoba tonight That's about an hour and a half from here a little further down the road But you know as I was coming up the portage here I saw the open parking spot and I was thinking Doesn't really matter if I stop here or if I push it down the road a little bit further It doesn't change my arrival time to Saskatoon Saskatoon's above the seven hour drive seven eight hour drive from here tomorrow, and if I go to Brandon, okay So it's a six or seven hour drive It doesn't change the time when I get there tomorrow And I don't think I'm gonna get there with enough time to be unloaded before end of date They weren't expecting me tomorrow anyone expecting me the day after tomorrow in the morning So it doesn't really matter if we get there After hours tomorrow, we deliver the next day, and we're still there when we were expected to be there I just like being in a day early. I like I like pushing it, you know We'll see we'll start from here first thing in the morning tomorrow We'll see where we get if we get there a day early good if not well At least we're not behind schedule, right? So we'll start right here tomorrow, and I'll see you then