 No more tree Now we're officially waiting for next Christmas. This one's over Finally some of you might say Taking everything down Right now we got to go pick up my pickup truck Which remember I told you was getting detailed in Steinbeck and bring that to the shop I've got my truck here at the house because I'm gonna get ready to go on a trip later today Or we left on our trip to Texas this last one. I brought my pickup truck to get detailed remember So now we're gonna pick it up and take a look at it. Come on boys. This is what we woke up to today Beautiful So it looks like winter is actually here finally we had such a mild beginning to the winter. We're very lucky But woke up today was minus 25 the trees are just coated in whore frost It's beautiful picture But the forecast for the week says it's gonna be pretty cold around the minus 25 range in Celsius Winter was coming one one way or another. It is gonna get us Here it is So I was actually kind of sick the last couple of days. I didn't film I've been at home for a couple of days I had a pretty bad cold And Finally getting over that That wasn't fun, but It happens to all of us. It's that season isn't it? I'm pretty sure I was able to distance myself in the house and sort of isolate myself a little bit from Britt and Theo They didn't catch it knock on wood. Hopefully they don't in the next couple of days But we did everything we could to make sure that it didn't get passed on to them. It was just me Texas, what did you do to me? Came down there and visited and you gave me a bug. I Didn't take a COVID test. I wasn't COVID. So it's just a bad cold and it really sore throat a runny nose and the next day I had aches and pains really bad headache and I felt pretty dehydrated And then today I'm like back up to 90% so I'll be good to go either tonight or tomorrow morning nice shiny Inside and out this truck hasn't been clean like this in a long time My seat covers over there. I don't know if I'll need them now. I Don't know if I want to cover up these nice things now. I Put the seat covers on the front seats because they're such a light color On my next pickup truck I would definitely get seats with a darker color because this color shows stains right away Right away Look at this. All right Now we had a little bit of an issue. I went there to pick it up the first time yesterday and I Had some mud splashed on the ceiling of my truck back there That was from when diesel was back there once and he had some he got a little wet He got into the back of my truck and shook the mud everywhere And they didn't wash the top of the ceiling. There's a bit of a miscommunication I guess but we got a fix they took it back in and they finished it all off for free or for the same pray without charging Me extra, which was awesome. They stayed in our good graces But everything else just Beautiful did a great job And this was a Dion Schrader at the Detail and Glass Company in Steinbach. I'd highly recommend All right It's time to get ready to go on a trip look at my eyes. Hey, you still tell I'm kind of still So getting over it We'll see how I feel tomorrow. I guess Or later today. I'm feeling pretty good now though pretty much like I meant 90% getting a late start We put the other bed Brits going to bed I'm going to work I've got to get the truck and trailer ready tonight. So I'm ready to go tomorrow morning All right, blue we got you all closed up tonight because I'm not going very far and I want to Keep as much heat underneath here underneath the hood as possible on this trip. It is getting pretty cold I think it's going down to minus 25 Celsius. So I want to be sure that It was much heat in there as possible to keep the cab one But it's time to get going. It's late. I got us telling you I was debating whether or not just leaving in the morning or leaving now and I decided on now that was the original plan anyway It's better this way. That's why I'm guaranteed to be at my customer on time tomorrow morning If I leave in the morning, I have a lot to do and a lot of things that could go wrong So what I have to do is I'd have to get all my stuff from in the house loaded into the pickup truck Get the pickup truck started. Hopefully it'll start in minus 25 I've been having problems with that block heater the past couple of years I think it still works. Britt was telling me that it doesn't Maybe it does maybe it doesn't I've never had a problem starting my pickup truck in like minus 30 minus 40 degree weather It just It starts up even if you don't plug it in but you know, that's something that could go wrong tomorrow morning My truck doesn't start. Okay. Well, now that's a delay. I can get it going, but it's gonna take some time I'm gonna get everything loaded in the pickup got to come all the way here to the shop Got to get everything from the pickup into old blue Settled in get everything in there get old blue warmed up get her all ready for the road I've got to get my tarps up on there yet on my catwalk so that I have them with me I'll need them for my reload after this Thunder Bay load because I won't need tarps on the way to Thunder Bay But my next load from canora south. I'm gonna need them So that's come on here and what if the truck doesn't start in the morning, right? Well, now that's another delay Gotta figure out what's wrong get it going wait for it to warm up. Okay. We get all that done Then we go to the yard go grab our trailer Now it's minus 25 The trailer brakes might be frozen solid might be seized like from the cold I can get them unlocked I can get them to release but again, that's a delay takes time And then I got to get to my customer And hope that there's nothing no accidents or anything on the road that I got to deal with That could be a delay as well so there's there's a whole bunch of Possible delays that could slow me down in the morning And I know me I'm gonna want to sleep in the morning and leave myself just enough time Get as much sleep as possible leave me just enough time with a little bit extra to get there And if I have one or like if I have two or three delays Well, then I'm late for my appointment. I don't I just I don't want to risk that. I know like it's like get up earlier, josh Yeah, I could get up earlier and have no delays and then be sitting there twiddling my thumb is for three hours Yeah, I get it. I could do that But the safest bet is to get everything done get the truck going get the trailer going make sure those brakes aren't frozen solid Make sure everything's good to go tonight. So that tomorrow morning I just make a beeline straight to my customer and I'm there on time Which is about 15 minutes early So that's the decision we made just to be sure double sure that we're on time Because you don't want to be late. It's not good So let's get everything in here. Let's get it started up Go get our trailer. Hopefully we can find one that doesn't have frozen brakes And then let's let's go to bed You guys remember when I was trying to slide my fifth wheel before the trip to texas And there was like a hundred of you who all said the same thing that I should grease This uh the pins in the fifth wheel here in the track I'm here at the shop. I'm happy to report. I have bullsnotted the daylights out of it greasable works great nice And grease those things slide in and out like butter now Slide in and out like a hot knife through butter It's beautiful And these cans come with like a little uh little stick Like uh, sorry for my lack of technical language, but uh Yeah, each can comes with their own Little nozzle you can stick that right in there and just get it deep in there Just get it deep heavy-duty lubricant and it works great Bulls knot saves the day again and greaseable We'll stay on there Water won't wash it off. That'll stay right there So this I still have slid pretty much to the back right put six inches from the back or not for it just from the back Once I get hooked onto a trailer, I'll probably move it forward again, and it'll be really easy to do it then Truck is dirty. Yes. I know it's dirty. It's wintertime. I get a free pass in wintertime When I don't have a clean truck. Okay. I can't help it. I you saw me. I washed it on the way home This is what it looked like when I got home That's just how it is out here in the wintertime Trucks at home again. Well, there's a lot of trucks out too The guys that park here, uh when their truck's not parked here Their personal vehicles are parked here where their truck usually goes Well about what half and half or maybe a few more home Maybe we need to fill some of these trucks up Anyone want a job? to fill some seats So I ended staying right here in the yard overnight Which is just fine it's snowing that is Maybe fine depending on where this goes There was an 88 chance of snow today. So I want to get going to go pick up my load. So That'll be in tomorrow's video So we're back on the road I'll see you tomorrow. We're gonna go do some trucking I'll see you then