 Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's deliver this lumber so we're not delivering it today. We're going home today Taking this lumber to Hortonville, Wisconsin though, but we're stopping by at home for a reset on the way And then from there I've already got a reload. That's taking me Back to Winnipeg from Chicago So I'm delivering this load Tuesday morning they figured out a date. They don't they would rather have a Tuesday than Wednesday. I Figured because they told me you can already the Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm doing well They probably wanted as early as possible. So Tuesday first thing in the morning. We're gonna be there to unload this lumber And then Tuesday afternoon, I guess we're going from Hortonville, Wisconsin to Chicago because I've got a load my next load of steel in Chicago three o'clock On Tuesday, so let's see how far away this place is I go Directions from Hortonville So I figured out if there's any Tim's living in Hortonville, I'd call him Tim Hortonville Hortonville, Wisconsin. Okay, let's say Google say, oh, it's three and a half hours away Well, we can do that right if I deliver it first thing in the morning like eight in the morning be empty by nine And then I have till three to get into Chicago three and a half hours away on plenty of time That'll work Beautiful. So that's the plan and that load is taking me back home to Winnipeg for the next weekend Off we go. We stayed on the west side of Swift Current. So we're just driving through Swift Current right now Just starting our day Towards the east We'll be home tonight. So that means we're gonna give her today Try to spend as much time at home as possible. It'll just be a reset Which is about a day and a half I'll leave Sunday evening sometimes. It'll be a little more than a day now. It'll be two days. I'll make a roadblock So Hortonville, Wisconsin is just a little more than a day's drive from From home. So I'll have to go a couple of hours Sunday night. Yes, so that I can make it there Monday night Wind is gonna be at my back today Yesterday, I was disappointed. Remember I said whenever you go across the prairies one thing you can count on is wind They are not going to disappoint you I Had a strong wind that I was fighting on the way into Calgary on the way out of Calgary yesterday Guess what? I had a strong wind that was fighting. It switched on me. So I was going against wind yesterday again and today I haven't even looked to see what direction the winds coming from. Ah, I didn't even bother. I'm like, it's gonna be windy Let's cross our fingers and hope that wind is gonna shift and push us home And not drag us down on the way home Be nice to have a little break Because it gets so windy out here. There's nothing to really slow the wind down, right? So if you can get the wind in your sails and get it behind you It can help you a ton. You can practically put it in neutral. I'm exaggerating, but you know what I mean It just sort of helps you all the way home. But if you're against that wind, oh boy Your wallet is going to be drained very quickly at the pumps Usually the wind is coming from the west towards the east so it should be in our sails today Cross the prairie is just barely Looks like they closed the road Just now we just barely made it through before they closed the road That was slippery from, uh, but halfway from Portage La Prairie to Winnipeg. It suddenly just got Sheer icy. You play hockey on the highway. Oh, yeah, they're closing the road Oh, we made it through help to some of the drivers out there some of the people out there are nuts That's why they're closing the highways though. All these people are all stuck here now looks like this lineup's gonna Add up quickly Who knows how long they're gonna leave it closed for I'm just glad I'm not stuck out there I made it through I get to go home and nice warm bed and sleep beside my wife You all have to sleep on the highway That's not very nice. I know But it's true. We understand why they closed them, but I can't I can't really get out of your way here Way too much snow in here coming up right beside me here yet, too For some reason the snow was always so bad between Winnipeg and Portage And you got another guy up here another winner. Looks like he parked right in the lane A couple of people were doing that on the highway like oh, I don't know how many times you got to explain this to people But if you're scared and the weather is bad The absolute worst thing you can do is stop on the highway, okay? That's the worst thing to do first off. You're scared. You need to get off the highway Completely not on the shoulder not on the shoulder find an off-ramp find a side road Turn off the road and get a full truck length off the road away from the highway I've been watching videos this week, you know, sometimes I just watch crash videos on YouTube. It's like any normal human being I For some reason Watch people crash and so many of them are just you know in a snowstorm around the ice People don't realize that if they stop or slow down too drastically too quickly They're more of a danger than the people or just as much of a danger as the people going too fast. You're going too slow People coming up behind you I'm gonna run you over and you're gonna cause a big pile up like these videos. I was watching on YouTube just Massive pile ups up on US interstate. It's all because some guy Got a little too scared at the front and I feel bad for him, but we're her But it stopped Sort of on the shoulder, but the trailer was still in the lane or even if they're on the shoulder You can't really see where the lanes are so the rear ended bad by somebody and then they blocked the whole highway And then from there it was just dominoes truck after truck after truck after car after car and there are several people who died You got a sort of pin it on the people who stopped on the highway People are dead because of that I understand It's scary, but the best thing you can do is get off Far off the road and wait till conditions improve or call for help or wait it out or just somewhere Not on the shoulder Definitely not in the lane Some of the videos I was watching I said the people stop right in the lane in bad weather It's not like they couldn't see like visibility was really bad That's what people were doing today again to pretty much stopping right in the middle of the lane Is it was a little slippery? Good just gracious It's tough, you know, you know people are scared. You don't want to push them past their limits But honestly if you're too scared that you can't even Navigate your vehicle off the road when the weather gets bad You should not be driving in the first place because that's gonna happen sometime You know sometimes you're gonna be driving and you're gonna have to have the courage That when the weather gets bad and you get scared You're going to have to navigate that vehicle to a safe stopping safe stopping point That's part of the responsibility of taking command of Thousands of pounds of hurtling steel on the highway whether you be in a car or a big truck Part of that responsibility is you need To have the ability and the courage Get off that highway when before causing a big pile up I Get it. It's scary. I got some white knuckled sometimes too, but you know, I feel like I was sort of born for this I don't I don't really get unnerved by bad weather that badly. I just keep on trucking Doesn't faze me that much, but there's some white knuckle moments, you know, and I can understand how it was scare some people I've been yabber yabber yabbering here because I didn't really film much today I apologize for that, but there was just prairies. You didn't miss anything. I promise I promise you missed a lot of telephone poles fence posts There was a bridge that went over it went over a river Sorry, I didn't capture that moment, but other than that You saw everything You saw the whole day didn't miss anything. I guess I didn't film when Traffic was getting crazy. I mean usually in tense situations like that my first first my first thought isn't to vlog. It's to Maintain my unit on the road, right? And then I'll talk to you guys when I'm in a situation like this when everything's calmed down There's lots of space all is good We're gonna be home a little later than we want it to be but We're gonna get home. That's that's the point. We are getting home We aren't gonna be in a ditch and we aren't going to be in a hearse We're gonna get home safe And so is everybody else on the road with me. I'm not gonna take anybody down. I'm not gonna cause any accidents I'll just take her easy, you know this van in front of me is going way too slow for my opinion Way too slow, but if you want to go that slow Take the entrance to the right on I don't push it I'm guessing it's a because the minivan there's possibly a family in there. Maybe young kids And I could go around them, but at this point it might just cause more problems than just Being patient behind him I'll get around him yet. It's not even slippery here anymore. It's a dry pavement Still doing less than half the speed limit. Okay, here's a little icy. Okay, that's icy Bring on to Highway 100 perimeter road perimeter around Winnipeg or the bypass from Winnipeg and What happened in Winnipeg today? Like why are the roads so slippery here? Did it rain? It seems like it rained and then it froze because it's It's been pretty bad It wasn't that bad just like two hours west of here They must have gotten some rain today and it and it froze up So dangerous when it does that Rolls are a little better here now