 Good Monday morning everybody. Monday has come around the corner again. I could have uh I would have been totally all right with it if it would have waited another day, but here we are Headed into work. I think I'm headed up north today. I'm not too sure Uh If the plan is still the same as last week I've got a load up a pallet In uh at our yard which goes up to arberg and deliver that and then load up new freight in arberg Bring it back. It's trucking though, right? It might change We're letting me in again Open sesame A lot of trucks in the yard today again. It's monday morning. So a lot of these trucks will be headed out today. I'm sure Very often the drivers like to be home for the weekend and that's understandable And with a lot of trucks in the yard comes a lot of trailers Yikes, I've got a little bit of snow on the ground this morning Not too much bud. It's getting there. Yeah, we're right filled up There's even a trailer park there in the center against that fence there Just the guys in the yard will probably put that away once they get in Can always tell it's either a friday or a monday. Everything fills up and gets really busy All right, let's go start up our old truck. Let's get her going get her warmed up get her ready for the day Like usual, I'm way out here in the back corner This is where I like to be nice and quiet peaceful Away from all the ruckus of the rest of the yard This is our tire shop where all the tire stuff gets done Oh, she's got a little bit of frost on her Oh, she looks cold I wish I could bring her inside for the nights, you know So if you're new here, welcome We're about to go out get our trailer hooked up. I think I need a flat roll tight Then I gotta figure out which pallet I'm supposed to load on there. It's supposed to go up north with me Got my late morning coffee with me air freshener because you want the truck to smell good Phone because you like to communicate with people And keys because you like to open stuff All right, so I got these hustle the truck is nice and warmed up Nice and toasty in here It's gonna be a good day Can you feel it? Okay, let's get at it Let's get something done today We're working slowly back to ourselves out of here Since it gets colder at night I've been plugging this truck in Set the block heaters on So that's another thing we've got to remember in the morning is make sure you unplug your truck Otherwise, you're gonna pull the cord with you And then I have to explain to people why you need a new cord All right, so I'm taking one of these trailers. We have a step roll tight here and we have a flat roll tight right decided I can't quite remember if I was told to take a step or a flat When they told me about this load on Friday I'm just gonna see make sure these are both empty And I shot them a message just to confirm Which trailer they want me to take I'm pretty sure he said flat, but uh, no, none of us will figure out in uh figure out in a few minutes one of these two All right, so the step is loaded It's a little confusing sometimes because our loaded lineup is Behind you guys over there and we have our empty lineup and this lineup along the back Could either be empty or loaded. It's both. So you gotta check each trailer individually. The flat is empty step is loaded So this is 547R. I'm pretty sure this is the trailer I'm gonna be taking because I don't see any other roll tights here. This is the only empty one we have All right, so I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be taking this one I'm just gonna do a Quick putts around the yard here make sure I'm not missing one Might be another one here somewhere and I'm gonna go into the office see who's in already And uh, just double check I was supposed to take something north with me to drop off before I pick up I'm sure what's going on is Monday morning. I gotta find someone who does know what's going on I'm not seeing any other roll tights Oh wait, wait, there's one over here Oh, I see one more here I think this is another flat though Right here. What is this? 605 Ah, but this one's got a red tag on it so I can't take it This is dolly legs on it I guess the dollies need to be fixed I think I know what they're talking about to the uh, the gearing system in there The high gear is broken or just the low gear So it takes forever to roll up the dollies I guess the shop hasn't had a chance to take a look at it yet It's been red tagged here for a few days, so I guess I'm gonna probably get a look at it soon Can't take that one And there you are Okay, so 547R it is the only empty one and I have to have a roll tight We've dragged ourselves up to the front top to the very nice office stuff and See if we can find someone who knows what I'm supposed to be What I'm supposed to be doing for sure Before I hook up onto anything and then have to unhook and waste time The dispatch got ahold of me before I could get ahold of them I like it. I didn't even have to go halfway across the yard. They called me up and Knew exactly what I was needing I guess we just connect on like, uh, what do you call that? Uh, can tell tell telepathic. We're a telepathic company now Dispatch just thinks what you're uh, you're told that it just gets shot right over there. Wouldn't that be cool? Way faster than instant messaging even it's like, hey, what's my load? You can send them the message through your brain waves and they send you the information you need right back and you just We're getting there one day. It's a scary future, isn't it? That would be scary Anyway, he uh Dispatch called me up told me what I needed. I need to go see one of the yard guys. They know which skid I'm supposed to take I'm gonna let them know that I'm looking for it. They're gonna go fish it out or wherever it is I'm gonna go hook on to 547R They're gonna load me up with that And then we're gonna start trucking north Gonna be a good trucking day And I go figure out where this yard guy is now. See if I can telepathically summon him too Is it working? I probably just look like I have to fart We'll see if it worked. See if he comes running around the corner You call Can you see through the window? Can you see? There you go. There you go. Oh, someone dropped it pretty high. There we go locked in That's why the Fifth wheel has that opening like this. So if you're a little off-center It'll just grab the pin and just suck it into the center It was just a skid of boxes. It's going to the same place that I'm picking up So they'll unload that there first and then load me up with Apparently 29 feet of freight and then I'll bring it back here So our work is two hours north of here those of you who have been watching for a little while You're familiar with this road of mine. I go there quite often It's a nice drive north It sort of goes right to the edge of civilization in southern manitoba There are more people living up in northern Manitoba that guy's coming. Let's go go go go that guy's in the right lane So we will go in the left lane put on our don't hit me signals Wait for him to pass and then I'll slip back into the right lane there We speed as fast as I can so I don't inconvenience too many people You all know how in how people like to be inconvenienced in the morning Especially on a monday morning How dare I turn in front of you? Surprised I didn't get the bird for that one Even though I didn't even come close to cutting them off and I had my hazards on you know People don't like to have to change lanes to go around you. It's very inconvenient for a lot of people I understand, you know moving your hand from here to here is very difficult on monday morning So I completely understand I'm just joking around a little bit. It's actually not that bad people are nice for the most part But it seems to me on their commute in on the mornings like I've talked about it before people are a little more edgy a little more in a rush a little less patient Maybe that's just human nature. I don't know but I do notice it Just during the commuting hour for the most everybody else everybody's mostly a good person You know, I gotta think think the best of people and hope for the best I'm not really a morning person either, but I'm I'm I'm getting there. I'm slowly turning into a morning person because I start earlier now So I sort of like being awake when the sun comes up like this right now seeing the sunrise every morning That's my favorite part of the day now Because you have the whole day to look forward to the whole day ahead of you yet I find that better than the sunset, which means the day is ending West of the us a couple of weekends ago I had a chance to go down to colorado to cover a load that needed a driver It turned out that they didn't need me for a region one. I shouldn't say my favorite But it's I really like the the western united states because I'm a western canadian ever who's taking Start mosey and all down here's our turn. This is our favorite corner You can call this suicide corner Because apparently that's what the developers were thinking when they designed it It's a terrible terrible corner. You guys have seen this before in my videos So I got to turn right to turn left Right, you'd think it would go over or whatnot. No, no, no, no This is a very busy four lane divided highway that we're turning on do and I want to go that way So you turn right if this makes sense to you you see 59 south Got to turn left Okay, so we got to cross over the busy highway to go south For the majority of you have already explained this to you But I'm just doing this for the benefit of people who are new here now And this wouldn't be so bad, but it is a pretty busy road You can't see traffic coming from that way because there's a bridge. So by the time you see it, it's too late Can't see traffic coming from that way because there's a curve by the time you see it Ah, it's pretty much too late So a lot of the time you just got to send it and hope for the best I'm joking obviously you want to do this as safely as possible, but uh You see now I can't go because there's traffic coming from there And they're on this road The tricky part is you don't know always know clearly if they're on this road here where these pickups are Or if they're on the exit lane, which takes them on to The perimeter highway westbound Okay, now we're clear here after this black vehicle And we have a car coming here, but we're gonna Send it like I said Lay around the corner because you want to go easy on your freight in the trailer Put your hazards on so people don't slam into the back of you Though there is nobody coming behind us. So that's good I'm gonna get into the right lane as soon as I can safely It's on until I'm up and over the hill and up to at least 80 kilometers an hour or 50 miles an hour feel like there is so much I feel like there's like a much better way that that could have been designed turn my hazards off now We're up to 80 But I always love hearing your guys opinions in the comment section about that intersection Is that an intersection that you can relate to is there one like that in the city where you're from? It's one thing I miss about driving in the us their highway systems make sense for the most part If you're driving down a highway like this There's an exit ramp up the side to a stop light or a stop sign and then you turn left or right Or you can go straight over and merge back onto the highway to me that makes so much more sense The whole point of an overpass is so that you don't have to cross over lanes of traffic, right? I feel like there was a missed opportunity when that one was being designed, but it was designed when this road was a lot less busy But this highway 59 south has really picked up a lot of traffic because of the towns down here That are growing so fast with city people trying to get out of the city But they don't want to go too far. So they'll move to towns like grand point ill to shane neverville Even st. Pierre all the way down there further down south And all of those people have to commute up and down this highway then every day So there's hundreds more vehicles on this road every day than there was Five years ago or 10 years ago And they're trying to keep up with it This used to be a two-lane highway here and it would go down straight ahead there And cut through the bush that way it was a two-lane So they built this four-lane divided highway while I was in high school I remember that because it took them 10 years To complete it and we had a field trip to the manitoba legislature once And I actually got to talk to the uh Or our whole class we had to sit down talk with the m la for this area right here And we were able to ask them questions in front of the whole class and in front of like all their colleagues and stuff And they called on me So I got to ask this m la In front of everybody all of his colleagues and all of my classmates Why took 10 years to get this highway done? And he started sweating and stammering and stuttering But his best answer was that they ran out of money So my follow-up question was why did you start a project that you didn't have the money to finish? I have an answer for me And I think I embarrassed him a little bit, but you know what? I think that's okay Because why should it take 10 years to complete? 10 kilometers or like six miles of highway Right. I was upset. I drive this highway every day when I was in high school I drive this highway to go to school and back because I went to uh A school in Winnipeg from on the spot with a real question. They weren't expecting real questions from some bunch of high school students I've always been big into highways and transportation. I've always wanted to be a truck driver So here I am. So I was always interested in infrastructure and highways I had a good I had I thought it was a good question Why is it taking you 10 years and why did you start a project that you didn't have the money to finish? Why are you always going over budget? No answers Gotcha I learned very early that government doesn't have answers They're just winging it flying by the seat of their pants Okay, so I got Back to the yard here and for the rest of that trailer space looks like we're gonna put a big f250 in there It's also going down to florida. I guess the snowbirds are beginning their migration down there and they want to take their trucks with them Or their cars. We have a lot of vehicles that we're shipping right now down to the To florida phoenix california Anyone with a house down south Is headed down there to avoid winter right now. So they want to have their vehicles there with them, right? But they don't necessarily want to drive them down That's where we come in I'm just backed up to our outside dock here right now Or we can drive it right up Then again, we might not be able to fit it in here Okay This trailer is smaller than our other trailer is shorter Even with the tailgate up it might not fit in now It's not gonna fit. It's not gonna fit. They're backing it off Shoot I thought for sure we'd fit it in there, but those pickups are huge Like when when they asked me like, hey, is there room for a pickup on the back of the trailer? I was like, oh sure looks like it. I forgot that the pickup trucks in you know, 2021 are bigger than tanks It's like it's like a 30 foot truck That's I don't think it's actually that long. How long did I say it was 20? Anyway, that was that was a f-250 super duty as a pretty big truck. It's gonna go on a different trailer. It's a Little bit more of a comfortable ride for you. Don't want to squeeze them in too tight Uh, you don't want to risk damaging anything you want to give them You know space to breathe sort of you don't want them to move But you just don't you don't want to put them up too close, you know Because the suspension and whatnot the vehicle still wiggles a little bit, right? You got to be careful and still Didn't work out they're gonna put on a different trailer. I'm gonna go park this trailer in the loaded lineup and uh We'll see what they have for me next So first I have to roll down the tarps in the back Close the doors I don't have any barn doors to swing, but I have to roll down the the flap Pull forward just a touch See when you look at this here It looks like you could fit a pickup truck easily in here, right? right No Three feet short They make some big trucks nowadays Tell me what you think of this one of the vehicles we got in here. It's not a Jeep It's a Mahindra What so is this like a on the highway vehicle it says rocks Rocks sir off-road Mahindra rocks sir. That's what this is a rock sir off-road I have never heard of this before Diesel only so it's a diesel I mean it looks like a Jeep, right? You'd think it was a Jeep I wonder if Dodge Jeep knows about this I wonder if they had a hand in this or Look at this all kinds of interesting vehicles come through here You get the mirrors up here that fold in or out Interesting Yeah All is 99 out of 100. There's only 100 of these made. That's interesting I'm not sure where that's going or where it came from, but We're shipping it out. Oh and we do You guys miss me You miss me. I'm already all showered up. I've got my PJs on Getting ready for some supper So I don't know what that Jeep was all it's not a Jeep. It was a Mahindra Looked just like a Jeep though, didn't it? What's going on over here? I was vlogging over there Oh, he does they're just your typical 30 year olds watching cartoons on a Monday night