 Good morning everybody. Another day is here. Are you excited? I think I am. I think it's gonna, nope. You never say I think I am. I am. I am gonna have a good day. And so are you. So welcome to the vlog. If you're new here we make videos almost every day. You can go back over the last 10 years that I've been making videos. You can go down to the description of this video and find everything you need to know about me and everywhere you can find me on the internet other than right here. So yesterday we talked about the spike in diesel prices. Today the topic is going to be from Transportation Nation Network again. They haven't asked me to shout them out or anything. I just find that they have really good trucking news there. You can go to transportationnation.com if you want to know what I'm talking about. The link is down below as well. We're going to talk about another spike in prices. The spike of tires. You can go onto their site and find the article. I'm not going to go through the whole article with you on here today because I want you to go there and read it yourself and give them your your traffic. But Yokohoma. Not too sure if you use their tires or not. According to Transportation Nation they've got really good reporting. Their prices have spiked. Now this is the second time they've spiked in three months. And they're citing the reason to be supply chain issues and the cost of manufacturing and the cost of raw materials that keeps rising. So if you do use those tires get ready for another price spike. It seems that that's all the news is nowadays. Everything's getting more expensive. It's been a windy couple of days but it's okay because the wind is coming from the from the states down south and they're giving us all their warm weather. So we're having a very warm October here in Manitoba because of this wind. So thank you Americans for sharing that with us. You're very kind. Thank you. I'll take some more please. Oh my. There's a lot of dust on my truck. I hope no one notices. Look at this. Can you see it? It's not showing up in the video. There's a ring there. Somebody put a coffee mug or something on my hood. I don't think it was me. Don't put stuff on my truck. A lot of work keeping this thing clean. I wonder if it was mine. Was it me? Let's see. These are the coffee mugs that I use. No, that's not the bottom. Let's see if it matches. Was it me? Nope. It was bigger than mine. Who did it? Who did it? Who put their thermos on my truck? I wonder if it was Britt. She did it at home because why would anyone come all the way to the back corner of the yard here just to put a coffee mug on my hood? Why would they do that? I don't think that that was what happened. Maybe it was me. I don't know. I don't try not to do that anyway. I gotta clean this dust off of here. It's dirty. It's another good thing about parking all the way in the back corner. If your truck is a little dirty, not as many people notice. Thanks. Squakers. Whoa, whoa, don't fall down, guys. Don't fall down. You're gonna fall down, aren't you? You're gonna fall down. Better hold you. So yeah, we don't use Yokohoma tires. I don't think. I haven't seen them on any of our units. For our drives, we usually use Retreads. They're cheaper and they're really well made, the place we buy them from here. They're the same tires that I put on my Volvo. If you guys have followed me long enough, remember I got those Retreads. The steers cannot be Retreads. Those have to be what they call virgin tires, never been used. But the drives in the back, they can be Retreads. We'll talk about that maybe later or another time. But if you do use Yokohoma tires, let me know if you do. Have you noticed this price increase already? What do you think of it? Another exciting day of trucking begins. We have a 53-foot roll-tight flat today. Headed up to Arberg. Like I was telling you yesterday. Got 26 feet of freight to pick up. I think that's what they said. So it'll be about half the trailer. All right, I've got the truck off right now so you can hear me talk, but mostly so we can hear if there's any air leaks. I have this trailer filled with air right now. Let's go back here, see if we can hear any of it escaping. You know what? Let's turn our lights on first and our brake lights. Then I don't have to walk around twice. All right, I checked my headlights when I started the truck working. Brake lights under here are working. There's no air leaks from the air system whatsoever. Signal lights under here is working. Filled with air. Filled with air, not flat. Filled with air. Now this lift axle does not have any of these ratchets anywhere near it. These will stay to the back because the trailer slopes that way. License plate lights working. There's no marker lights up there, but those three are very important. They have to be working. We're all good. I'm going to try to keep you guys out of the wind here. The Americans are sending their warm weather up pretty quickly. So there's quite a bit of wind coming out of the south towards the north here. Try to keep you out of it. Lights working. All right, storage boxes are closed and locked and marker light on these trailers. There's no marker lights on the top, but there are reflectors and they have to be present. Trailer 603 TLR. I've got another question for you. Can a trucker really climb into his cab and sit down behind the wheel without giving the stick one of these? Is it possible? I don't know. Every time you sit down. Let's see how this thing slides today. Got her all unhooked already, so not bad though, not bad. I haven't grease-able this one yet, but it's doing all right still. I can still open it with one hand just on one side. Let's just put my high-tech brake system in place here. Oh, oh, oh, I'm all right. It's got to be in there like that. There we go. I ain't going anywhere. All right, I just got to wait for him to load me up here and I'll be on the way for my day cleaning it up for the next driver. If you're in a van, if you're in a van or if you have a van trailer, sweep it up for the next driver. If you've got a roll tight, make sure it's all neat for the next driver and put away everything's put away properly. You've got a flat bed, make sure there's nothing left on the deck. I'm preaching to the choir here. You guys are with it. So while I was here, I polished my whole truck. It's nice and shiny now. Well, as shiny as it can be. What's that saying? I always say, if it can shine, it'll shine. Or if it can shine, it should shine. All my stuff in the back, including my weasel bed. Truck's going into the shop tonight. My reverse light needs to be repaired again. Keeps burning out. They're going to take a look at it and make sure it's all good to go now. They're also taking a look at a few other things on the truck. So it should be all good to go. Probably top off my oil and I'm done for the day. Everyone's always in such a rush. This guy's right behind me. Why is everybody in such a rush? They want to get home to their coach as fast as possible. They have this sneaky suspicion that there's some dogs in here somewhere. I can't smell them. This house actually smells really good. Some people think, oh, you have dogs. It must stink. No, our house actually smells really good. You just have to clean your house and keep your dogs clean. Let's see if there's any dog in here. Remember last winter's diesel. I missed you too. I missed you too. Oh, yeah. That went to Albert, but you went without me? Wait a second. Let me get a drink. Let me get a drink. This is serious. Chevy, where did you go? Where did you go? Let me out of my hand. Serious, mate. I got one brown and ready. I need to go out. Okay guys, you guys go. I got to go find Weiner. There he is. Weiner. I'm here. Hi. Hello. Diesel. So about this trip you went on today without me. Okay, I love you. I love you, but I'm mad at you. I'm so mad. This is my mad face. Super mad. Why didn't you take me? I should have, Diesel. I'm sorry. It would have been a good day to take him. You're retired, man. And it says you. It says you said, I never said I was retired. You said I was retired, man. It doesn't mean I'm young. I'm trying. I'm still a young puppy. Look at his face. Does this look like an old face to you? Look at this side. That's my good side. Do you look old? Don't answer that. Don't answer. I'm not old. Can you open the door now? I have to pull. All right, I'm going to diesel. Come on, guys. Go, go, go, go, go. Don't step on Weiner. Be careful. Oh, Weiner has just no fear. Just runs right underneath them. I'm going to be so careful with his back. He's had expensive surgery on his back already. I got to be careful. That is my wife's pride and joy. You thought that I was her pride and joy. You kidding me? That's her pride and joy right there. So the goal of life for me and every husband is a happy wife, right? Everybody wants a happy wife, happy wife, happy life. So I've got to keep that guy going. He's 11 years old. Okay. I've just, I've got to keep him going. That's, that's what keeps life going right now. She really loves him. I know she loves me too. I'm just joking, sort of half-joking, but there's some truth to it that she really, really, really, really loves her dog. Just like I love diesel and just like we love Chevy and the commander too. But Weiner was, he's been with Brit since he was like 10 weeks old. He's been with her through thick and thin, through a lot more than I've even been with her for. Just like diesel has been with me longer than Brit has been with me. So in a way, diesel is my pride and joy. You know, when, when the time comes and you know, diesel is, uh, and when it says time to move on, it's going to be very, very difficult for me. It's going to be very hard, but we're not going to think about that yet. Okay. Cause we're going to feed them right. We're going to give them all the healthy stuff. We're going to keep them healthy and we're going to make them live forever. That's our plan.