 morning everybody all season once we get to Gillam we can unload this stuff and then I got to pick up like a big boom truck or something and bring that back to Winnipeg this road is interesting to say the least I've asked many people up here as well with the condition of the road is and they all say the same thing that's about it so it's gonna be slow moving slow going 300 kilometers from here I'm hoping to be able to tackle that in four hours we'll see how bad it is and my shipper is expecting me my receiver is expecting me so everything should go pretty quickly let's see what happens old blue is just purring away here warming up a little bit I'm checking all the nuts and bolts checking all the tires checking everything to make sure she's good to go out into the bush it's pretty remote once you get onto that road there could be no cell signal for an hour or two at a time so you want to make sure everything is running as it should you don't want to get stranded out there Gillam is very close to the end of the road for this time of year you want to go further in this you need snow and ice the winter and ice roads go further north but Gillam is pretty close to the end of the road a little bit further but it's power-generating the hydrogams up there I don't know if this stuff specifically is related to that but coming up to our turn off here be honest I'm not looking forward to this because there's other traffic on this road obviously they're gonna be throwing rocks at me and I'll probably go in slower than some guys want to go so they're gonna want to pass be anything to throw rocks at me that road is collapsing right there I don't know if you saw that or not well the load is strapped down tight we're good to go old blues is ready as it's going to be a food with me I got a coffee I got water lots of water got my cell phone that's not gonna be too good but whatever I have it highway 280 the infamous highway 280 in Manitoba anybody who's been up here before is chuckling right now especially because you guys all know how much I hate taking old blue down gravel roads old blue just keep thinking of the payday keep thinking of payday all right a lot of dollar signs up here 261 kilometers then I just got a turn and it's another 40 kilometers after that yet holy smokes there we go don't be fooled this is just the beginning they keep this part kind of smooth so that you don't get too scared and turn around they want to wait until you're too far to turn around and then they'll let the road go right that's for you to pull over and think about it if you're having second thoughts so far so good first like quarter mile I feel so bad is what it is it is what it is right stop complaining trucker I know I can't complain the things I do for money oh oh okay here it's starting to get soft okay not too bad not too bad we're still doing good okay if I can just if it could just be like this the whole way then that's perfect that's totally fine totally fine there's not too much loose gravel here as long as I stay in the tracks that's actually not bad why is there a red sign there is there a big bump coming what's going on what's going on what are you trying to warn me about see it's right there what are you trying to warn me about really that's it okay don't cry wolf on me okay you're supposed to put those signs there when there's a big bump coming they keep putting them there when it's like a little dip and then the next time they put a sign there and you're like oh it's nothing and then a slam slam into a big pothole I wish the window would have stayed a little cleaner from Thompson man I was looking forward to showing you the sights up here because it's beautiful country up here beautiful so excuse the bugs on my windshield I'm sorry oh kind of wash them off here the best I can but they'll be right back there's tons of bugs up here right now and so far the road's doing really good so if we can if it stays like this then I'm okay with that that's fine anyone behind me good I don't want anyone pressuring me to go faster an empty trailer now Gillum is just up the hill and that way that's where I dropped all my stuff off it's real quick nice little extra freight to bring me up here right and so I'm picking up the main part of this trip up the hill over there right away I'm waiting for my guys to come here and guide me and they're gonna be coming from up there I think and then they're gonna guide me in there everything got really dirty it was a pretty wild ride up here but not the worst the road wasn't actually that bad so I don't even know if I can say it was a wild ride for me it was because I'm I don't drive on these roads every day so I mean look at this thing look at this trailer and poor old blue up there just wondering what is he doing to me what is this we're gonna have a nice bath and we get back don't worry don't worry we get back down to civilization we're actually pretty close to the Hudson's Bay a couple more hundred miles which direction am I pointing that way is the Hudson's Bay and Churchill Manitoba where you can find polar bears so we're not too far away from where the polar bears live they live above the tree line though here you can see that the trees are still doing pretty good they're not as tall as the ones further south but we go a little further north of here and the trees stop and it's just open tundra and then you start seeing polar bears few hundred miles around here you'd probably have a lot of black bears wolves coyotes all sorts of stuff like that a lot of beavers I wouldn't be surprised if in that pond over there is a bunch of beavers that is one rodent that is absolutely everywhere on the prairies and in northern Canada everywhere beavers we can shut this off now just drive it right on I got to get this back on here so these two loops on the end there two keyholes that fit over that and that there's a piston I had to clear this all the dirt out of here that's this guy right here that goes into there and then it's an air piston once I release it the air goes down there actual source since the air has been released I'm out hooked up right now it's gonna go up here it's gonna click in there on its own on its own and then I will double check that it's clicked in before I do anything okay and this beast of a bad boy weighs 45,000 pounds so my chains are rated at 6600 pounds each I'm gonna put eight chains on this thing plus two straps over the basket over here eight chains it's good for up to 52,800 600 pounds my math correct it's good for over 50,000 pounds so here's my plan here's my plan every driver has their own way of tying stuff down here's my plan I have two hooks in there I have two hooks right here one chain two chains here now I could go forth the back here but there's no loop to hook my chain in except for way over here see then I'd have to have the chain going like over this here I don't like that so one chain there one chain there I got this right here I take one chain bring it down to there and take one chain bring it down to there do that on the other side as well so now we got one two three four five six chains on this thing another two chains back here down to there and down to there so this thing is held down by eight chains and my two straps I'll go right over that basket down there I think I'll just go right over this right oh no underneath the basket that's what he's talking about so put the strap underneath where abouts thought he said underneath I guess just over this thing here just to hold this down so that that doesn't rattle around too much and that's my load pretty cool I don't get to do this every day so this is a special thing for me I'm doing this on the weekend it's Saturday today there we go trucker Josh doing new things all the time I even work weekend sometimes now I have to slowly back up and hit those right there load check I haven't gone very far yet but I don't check everything anyways and show you what I did we're about to go over what is this the long spruce generating station it's the bridge over to the other side oh these gloves are brand new like two days ago when you're dealing with chains man you deal with chains it's just dirty dirty okay the gooseneck double check everything here I did triple quadruple check it before but you know I'm paranoid I'm paranoid the pin is down the safety is over it the fuel is off yeah okay everything here is connected come out okay storage arm locked there we have our chains here tight tight tight our tarps here crisscross chains back here both tight straps back here both tight lights all working covered in dust right away anyway at least for the next you know three miles we'll have lights that people can see okay I just find it so crazy that this is like our main electricity generating area river of the entire province this is the Nelson River all of the electricity a lot of it all a lot of the electricity I use comes from along this river here all these dams I just can't believe that we don't have a paved road leading up here there's a lot of heavy traffic like this that comes up here all the time a lot you would think that they would have a transportation system in place to get the equipment to the generating stations right nice paved roads nice maintained but hey maybe I'm just dreaming it's tight tarps are in there this is all tight tight tight that's okay tight tight crisscross chains the front again tight and here everything is lined up okay so everything checks out we're ready to head down the gravel road I have about 200 miles of this gravel road ahead of me until I hit the paved road let's get her done let's go it's nice being up here it's nice seeing the sights and stuff but we got places to be and it's not here right yeah I know I left my lights on okay guys the sooner we get going the sooner we get back onto the pavement you know we drove about seven hours down the gravel roads today you can't even really tell yeah you can tell especially since my hands are a little dirty and greasy right now I cleaned them up a bit I had to fix an airline so about say 30 miles or 50 kilometers from here suddenly my splitter didn't work on my shifter my splitter valve wasn't working I was stuck in I guess low range of the split you can split each gear right it takes air pressure you press that little thing on the on this on the shifter just make it simple it shoots air through an airline into the transmission and it pops it over to the next half of the gear while that airline suddenly well the splitter stopped working so I drove to the end here where I could park safely and where I had cell service just in case I couldn't like I was worried that if I stopped maybe I wouldn't be able to get going again so I wanted to stop somewhere where I had cell service so I had cell service I pulled over I checked my other splitter valve up and down worked fine but the other one an air leak so I shut the truck off put it forward and open my door I could hear this coming from underneath my truck this has happened to me once before already so I knew exactly what to go and look for I crawled underneath there got a little bit dirty and sure enough the bouncing and maybe a rock hit it just right the tiny little airline that goes into the transmission had popped out of its valve and it was just shooting air straight out to the towards the ground that doesn't work very well so luckily it was one of those self man why can't I talk right now it's been such a long day already I'm just glad to be off this gravel road soon you just push it back in you push it back in now it's working I'm gonna have to get that valve looked at a little bit closer I don't know if it popped out for a reason I mean the road was pretty rough so I'll keep my eye on it on the way home I know what the problem is and I know the little valve where it's been replaced before last time tbx did it for me but this time I know it's been replaced recently so I know I'm not gonna have to break anything off and you know torch whatever torch it off because it was just put on there six months ago so that's the issue easy fix I can take care of it myself but right now I believe it's fixed I fixed it we'll see if it stays fixed or not now is my story I guess you could say the gravel road did break old blue but it was just a tiny little flesh wound it was a tiny little battle scar and I fixed it up I fixed them up and clean off my lights now everything looks so dirty so I'll see you I can show you the airline I'm talking about see we can see it from here everybody got your your knee pads on okay let's see so underneath here and it's hey hey I can't really see it it's that one right there this one right there see that blue line that's the one let me focus it come on come on there we go that blue line had popped off so I popped her back in now she's working again some things I can fix and it feels really good when I can fix my own truck more and more as I find as my career goes on I've been driving truck now 17 years can you believe that but I've been going over the road for 12 now and every time something breaks I learned something new how to fix it so that broke once already so I already knew how to fix it you got to fix your own truck as much as you can I still like the professionals take a look at it every now and then because they see things that I miss but let's see if this holds up so that blue line up there is here sorry here into the transmission and the line goes up into the cab and in here it controls this splitter valve right here you hear that that's that valve that I fixed listen it's working this one in the front here these are all powered by air air pressure this one when I put it forward like this it would just hiss out air seems to be working but I will keep my eye on it and keep my ears open I may need to replace it they wouldn't keep this short and sweet we've had a lot of filming today already had a lot to talk about had a lot to show you it's late it's time to go to bed lots has happened this is a very long day I'm back down here in Grand Rapids Manitoba and this is where I'm spending the night I'm the only truck here makes me a little nervous usually this place is a little bit fuller I didn't see any signs here that said something's changed that says I can't park here now but no one's looking at me funny yeah I guess I'm just the only one here tonight and that's fine by me it'll be a quiet night I'll talk to you in the morning I'll see you then hit that like button if you did like the video and I'll see you tomorrow I said that already did I say I'll see you tomorrow yet see you tomorrow don't forget to subscribe hit the like button hit it's been a long day okay okay that's a wrap