 Well good morning my good friends once again, so the election is over it was over last week for you here in Canada and nothing really changed. A few things here and there but overall the big picture is pretty much exactly the same as it was before so all that work for nothing. On all sides nobody really won nobody gained ground really not not anything to speak of but yeah so that's over we can get back to our lives now. I'm going to work we had a late day yesterday and I'm on my way back to work already before the sun. Time to go back as soon as the law says I can start I'm gonna be ready to start. We're going back to Thief River Falls today but I think we're only doing one run today. We ran into some problems that delayed us yesterday gotta watch yesterday's video for that is a little bit uh frustrating we had a few setbacks but we got her done and we're going to go back again today and see how we feel after one I don't know if he needs me to do two or not but we shall find out I will see you when we get to the truck hope you're having a great day. A little bit of a shorter night that's okay we got some trucking to do let's get to work we'll hook on to an empty step deck and make my way back down to Thief River Falls so like I told you before it's a two-hour drive from here approximately and about a two-hour drive back but it usually takes longer than two hours I mean in theory it's a two-hour drive but trucks are a little bit slower gotta remember that I learned that yesterday takes a little bit longer than you think it will I wasn't dragging my feet either I mean I had to fuel up in the morning that took some time out of my day other than that like I wasn't dragging my feet I didn't stop for lunch at all I just kept going it's just everything just takes a little bit longer than you expect it will and I said that before that's trucking however long you think it's gonna take it's gonna be a little bit longer than that safe to assume all right so we're gonna find one of these empties there's a step deck right in front of us right there you see it you see it some tri-axle or the tandem that's a tandem I'm gonna take it I prefer to take tandems when I go down there because they're very light loads you don't need a tri-axle but if there's no tandems available then you take the tri-axle it's just then if you need a tri-axle here and you don't have a tri-axle here that's why I prefer to take the tandems uh the tri-axle's got three axles for those of you don't know what I'm talking about three axles means you can haul more weight if you don't need the third axle it's not a big deal you can still pull light loads with it it's just why use it if you don't have to right so I'll take them if I have to we've got a tandem today let's go hook her up oh it's a beautiful morning though not a cloud in the sky nice crisp air it's not cold not even chilly it's just crisp you know what I mean you need a sweater I stepped in a big pile of mud I don't ruin my morning it's not gonna work it's not gonna work you're not gonna ruin my day first thing in the morning stepped in a big pile of mud it didn't look that soft didn't know it was that big or that I didn't know was that squishy just thought it was water all right you know the drill let's make sure everything's working there's a light right there fantastic fantastic but since there's any more lights there's a light right there fantastic any more light that one and it's blinking it's called a blinker because the light goes blank good working compressed with air fantastic all right let's see let's see just got the brake lights working and you got the signals working just make sure this license plate lights working it sure is all right this light is not on that's good you don't want that light on most lights are good some lights aren't that lights on that light over there is the ABS light usually when that light's on usually means there's a problem with the wiring but worst case scenario there's a problem with your ABS system on your trailer so it is a big deal but usually it just means the wiring is something wrong with the wiring that's usually all it is it's all it's ever been for me in like 15 years of trucking whenever the ABS lights on it's usually up at the front there where you connect the lights to the trailer something there isn't connecting properly and it's almost almost every time but still you want to make sure that lights off it's always on the driver's side the back of the trailer and it's yellow and you just this ABS right beside it that's for the ABS brakes you get it all right this trailer has passed my inspection my scrutiny my thorough pre-trip blinding gear is up it has my approval to enter the public roadways I will vouch for it personally to the government I've got to fill it out now saying I Josh hereby certify that this trailer is okay and that nothing's gonna fall off and kill anybody that all the brakes work the tires are filled with air it's cotton mud flaps I'm not gonna be throwing rocks at people all the lights are working I can vouch for it it's safe to go so since I vouched for it if I missed anything and an inspector catches it it's on me and the fine goes to me just giving my dashboard the bullsnot treatment here first thing this morning gotta take care of her I use the visible glass cleaner and it cleans my dash really nice probably do this every day but yesterday was a bit of a long day I ran out of time in a big way so I didn't clean it yesterday I could tell right away it's got all kinds of dust I don't know where all this dirt comes from but every day it collects all the dirt it can like it it's like it calls out to it and invites it into the truck or something because I sure don't invite any of this dust in here let's start with that and then I end off with a nice little uh nice little dust through here that catches all the dust particles that this doesn't catch this is a microfiber cloth but it doesn't catch all the particles that picks up all the last ones it may be an old truck she may not be that pretty don't don't say that don't you gotta keep your environment in here somewhat clean I'm not the cleanest guy I'm gonna admit that to you okay disclaimer I am not a clean freak I'm not a germaphobe but I still like to have everything you know decent I'm ready to go let's rock and roll to Minnesota so we just crossed into the United States thought I'd be a little bit more tired because I had a long day yesterday but I actually feel pretty good I feel pretty good I went home I showered up I went straight to bed like a good boy got up on time this morning got to work at my regular time just another day I'm kind of worried I was like I hope I'm not going to be tired all day it's always difficult getting through a whole day when you're just tired from not getting enough sleep but no I'm doing fine I'm gonna go pick up some more of these snow machines bring them back to Canada somebody's planning on having a whole bunch of fun this winter all right so just like in the morning we have to do a pretrip on this trailer now because I have to vouch for this trailer to be safe to travel on the highways so I'm gonna go around here we call it a pretrip it's pretty self-explanatory but it's me making sure everything is in good working order and that it is that it's safe once again if anything is wrong with this trailer and I get pulled over or pulled into a scale or if the worst happens I get into an accident or something because of faulty equipment I vouched for this trailer so that means I'm responsible for it if anything goes wrong with it or if anything isn't as it should be the fine goes directly to me not to the company or anything to me I'm signing off on it so if it's not safe it's up to me to not take it on the highway we got our lights working landing gears up pin locked in yep okay lights working signal lights marker lights tires are not flat when I kick them I'm obviously not checking for exact pressure I'm just checking to make sure they're not flat because if this tire the outside tire is still inflated but the inside tires flat sometimes you can't tell just by looking at them you got to go and kick them just to make sure or hit them with a hammer that works too marker light on the back is on abs light once again this trailer has a little bit different but it's still here that's off sounds good so on the back all our lights are working properly brake lights signals tail lights marker lights license plate light that's important not to forget that one that one's easy to forget because especially during the daylight hours you know it doesn't do much during the day but once the sun goes down it's definitely needed and you're still going to get hassled over it if it's daylight hours and you get an inspection and that light's not working they're still going to give you a hard time about it so even during the day it has to be working doesn't necessarily legally have to be on in all jurisdictions but I would say turn them on anyways turn all your lights on all the time regardless of what the weather is like or where the sun is always have your lights on it's for safety good habit to get into okay I don't hear any air leaks my truck is adjusting the suspension I can hear the air filling up in the trailer I'm going to wait for it to finish and then just go around once more with the truck engine off just to double check make sure there's no air leaks and then I will sign off on it and tell the government that hey truck of jobs is this trailer safe and good to go if anything goes wrong with it you can you can blame me is it coming with yep that's good so we have about a two hour drive back to the yard park everything get everything cleaned up ready for tomorrow we're going to do another round like this tomorrow so far there's only one trip to do tomorrow uh but how many times that I just say tomorrow one trip tomorrow might turn into two so I'm going to get everything ready to go and then head home one of these days it's a nice ride down here two trips fills up the day just nice as long as everything goes smoothly if we get hung up anywhere it could get tight very quick my e-log and take all of my stuff home yes I have a lot of stuff where do you all put it when diesel comes with it's squishy I'll just say that I find places I can put stuff underneath this uh this bed there too I built it in a way that I can put my put stuff like under that uh platform we make it work we make it work but he didn't come with today uh possibly could have I don't want to bring him with every day I've explained this before you guys get it some days is good but he is retired okay so sometimes you know sometimes he comes with just for old times sake but for the most part he's an old guy already and uh it's sometimes is better for him when he can spend the day at home with his family in the yard other times when I know Britt is going to be working all day and he'll be at home alone with his brothers anyway then then I take him along but time for me to go home I'm starting to get tired now I was feeling good before I wasn't feeling the short night before but now as the work day is coming to a close it's starting to catch up with me I need to go home but I can't go to bed right away because then I'll just sleep right through the morning I can't have a nap and then wake up that doesn't work for me so I got to keep myself awake until bedtime and then I'm going to sleep like a rock and rocks sleep good they sleep the best it was a good day though beautiful day weather was just perfect you know the morning was just like we said it was crisp not cold not chilly just crisp and the rest of the day was just perfect not too hot not too warm just perfect now it's time to go home I've got to keep myself awake for a couple more me it's me Frank your favorite dude it's me how you doing guys how you doing you have a good day or what you have a good day oh I would get fantastic day wasn't it all right boys Frank's got a poop come on let's go in the yard in the yard guys there they go scatter off oh sweet caffeine it's the good stuff you know Pepsi max or Pepsi whatever this is zero whatever this has a a lot of terrible things in it but among all of those terrible things is caffeine 69 milligrams to be precise higher than your average sugar water you shouldn't drink pop kids you should drink water don't be like sugar josh you'll end up with one of these big bellies I've got to get rid of that actually Brett and I have committed to trying really hard this year to get in shape for our anniversary next year our anniversary next year is our fifth anniversary so it's a big one it's a it's a whole five so we want to be fit and in shape for our five-year anniversary photos we want to do the little photo shooting stuff so gives us a little bit of a year it's not too ambitious but uh we'll see what happens I'm too tired to think about that right now okay that's why I have this I'm not perfect okay I'm sorry to shatter the image of perfect trucker Josh in your mind I am not perfect