 good morning everybody we're back I've been sick all week well actually I was sick Monday to Thursday Friday I was doing pretty good already in Saturday yesterday I was completely fine so today is Sunday time is four o'clock p.m. already I'm feeling great all my energy is back back to normal and we're back to work gathering all my stuff together here going over to the shop we've got loaded all up we haven't been on the road now for over a week it's gonna feel good to get back out there but you know you get used to being at home every day pretty quick it's pretty hard to leave home it's hard to leave home every time but especially when you spend like an extended time at home you get used to that you know that was nice but you know we got to go do some trucking too we got some bills to pay but thankfully you know we live a pretty low-budget lifestyle right now and having to take a week off cuz I was sick isn't gonna cripple us so we're thankful for that I got through it and let's go see how old blue is oh blue did you miss me oh you did didn't you there you are morning time to get back to work I've got this mattress here waiting to go to the dump the box the mattress is right there I haven't forgotten I want to tell you guys all about that Odyssey truck mattress if you guys are looking for their logo that's the mattress I have in my truck right now honestly the best the best mattress I've ever even heard of there being in a truck like take a look at this it's like having a home mattress in your truck open up okay look how thick this thing is all mattress there's my hand there pillow top Odyssey truck mattress they wanted me to try it out and get my opinion believe me my reviews are if I could give like if it was a five-star rating I would give it 15 best sleep my life in there so I'm gonna get all my stuff in here now load it up we have a trailer that's waiting for us at the yard that's already tarped so we're not gonna need my tarps but I'm gonna take them with anyways I might need them for my next load so I'm gonna go grab that trailer thanks to Caden he went and picked it up in canora for me and tarped it for me got it all ready to go nice and pretty I haven't seen it yet but I trust that he made it all nice and pretty he picked it up for me we're gonna bring it to Brainerd Minnesota I'd like to get there tonight yet but like I said it's about 4 p.m. right now by the time I get all my stuff loaded up in here it's probably gonna be well it's definitely gonna be after dark because the Sun sets at crazy hours these days and we hardly ever see the Sun anymore but when we do get going it'll probably be dark and I'll drive into the night see how far I can get I hope he loaded it legal I hope he scaled it of course he did course you why would I even say that Caden knows what he's doing I got these in the mail to replacements see them I haven't unpacked them yet they're the replacements for the front right up here my headlight I put these new visors on here right and then these lights under here which are marker lights and signal lights now the marker light on this side stopped working and this one also got moisture in it starting to do this color stopped working but the signal was working I took it all off I realized that the wire at the motherboard there's a little motherboard behind here the wire at the motherboard broke off and there's no way of me even soldering it back on so I just bought new ones in the meantime what I did because the marker light wasn't working on this one but it was working on that one very imbalanced couldn't let that stand it was bothering me so I cut the wire on this one so that only the signal works on this one too so that both signals work but the marker lights both didn't work so I'm taking this one off I'm taking that one off or actually no I'm not gonna take this one off this one still works I'm just gonna reattach that wire all I did was I just snipped the wire so that just the marker light wire I'll just reconnect that and we'll be we'll be off to the races I just have to replace that one yet before we go load all my stuff up in here get old blue warmed up ready to go and you might notice my red Ensign flag is gone there guys are wondering I can they're going back up don't worry remember they had those little squares in them from the packaging I took them home and ran them through the dryer just a little bit just to even them out and I'll hang them back up as soon as I can I haven't been my pickup I've got the wire repaired here that I had snipped that's for the marker light tested it already it's working good just got some some shrink tube on there right now if I can get my torch going to shrink that on there and seal it up a little dark in here it's trying not to block all the light for you what I'm doing here is I'm just sealing the wires in reconnected them in here and this is shrink tubing it when it's heated up like that you've seen it before in my videos it shrinks onto the wire wiring in electronics is one thing I was always interested in growing up that's one thing I can do myself just wiring up lights you just bring power from the power source to the lights and connect them positive and negative on the ground it's pretty simple but something I like doing this is all my shrink tubing that I've got I used one of these for this but all kinds of different sizes so that was just repairing the wires that I had cut myself now I've got to replace the other side I'm wondering if I could just replace the little light bar and save the the whole like surround I think I can put this out of here I had to order them two at a time and they're about $50 $50 Canadian each nice and shiny you see this one's a lot better quality here and you can see there's screws right there they come around to the back right here right I think I can just replace this light bar pretty sure then I don't have to take that whole thing out of the surround right not it's only six yeah it's only six screws in whatever if I have to replace the whole thing after place a whole thing if not I can save it keep it as a spare but I couldn't order just this light bar I looked everywhere you probably can get it somewhere I just got frustrated couldn't find it and gave up you're gonna make it that hard for me to find your product I guess I'm just not gonna buy your product that's the whole point of selling things right you want people to be able to find you and you see this is where this black wire is for the running lights that's the white one the black wires for the running lights and it broke right off of the motherboard on my other one like right off from in there no way to solder it in I'm not a professional soldering dude so I tried all right let's do this come with me see I got the I got the creases out of the flag but now it's all wrinkly whatever you know whatever the Kango just have to forgive me seems like a nice guy thank you forgive me right right not gonna throw me in the dungeon is he do they still have thick they still have the dungeons of course they do as a heavy hood okay so this right here is what I want to replace I don't think I have to replace all of this though it does need a good wash already but you know I don't want to put a brand new one on right before winter and then destroy it through winter I'd rather replace both of them in spring when I polish the truck and then I have two new in the spring you know what I mean but the light does need to be replaced because that's functional that's a functional device I'll see what I can do I'll get back to you in a bit I had to take the whole thing off anyways and clean it off here a little bit but did manage at the light bar out of there but I was caught in the back I just cut the wires for it right there I'm gonna connect those wires just to the new light bar take it from there always something to do always something to do clean this off this is just garbage here you can really tell the difference between the old one that I've had on there for a few months and the new one that hasn't seen a truck yet but I'm just gonna take the light right now we're gonna save these for spring or in case one of those breaks nice and shiny we're gonna put that on and let this one hang out on there over the weekend over the weekend yes I wish winter was just a weekend I'm still in dream world is back to work already Josh come on we're at work again we're not at home in bed we use some visible bull snout glass cleaner here I'm gonna clean this off and then move the light bar over we'll be on our way I do need to get going because I want to see how far I can get tonight yet I'll be driving probably 12 over one in the morning so we got the new one in there pull this up a little bit yet but screw that in make sure it stays in there tiny bolts nuts in here not in there we're screwing it in from here okay got the wires connected here we have a lot of extra wire on on this side so I kept all the wiring from the last one and just reconnected it to the new wiring on this one better to have more than if I need to shave it down later I can I have that option better than you know having to replace the whole thing later because you don't have enough we'll stash it away in there neatly tuck it away there's nice and safe but it should be working now so turn on all our turn on all of our lights and the signals okay it should be working beautiful that's right there working as well okay just gonna screw this back on here tuck that wire away nice and neat I'm just gonna organize the inside of the truck yet open up the door and we're off we are looking for flatbed trailer 538 it's gonna have a tarp load on it it's gonna be a flatbed that's not it what's this nope that is 501 all right it must be in the lineup back there though oh there it is I bet you that's it right there I bet you that's it right there oh my high beams aren't that bright right now I want to change my incandescent bulbs in my or my headlights to be like my low beams LEDs is this it that's 532 okay so it's gonna be a load very similar to that it looks like the load that Kate described to me though oh no 532 that is my load why did I think it was your two looks like an eight upon further inspection it's a two okay well that's our load then it's up 532 you and I know blue we're gonna be friends for a bit all right I'll treat you good if you treat me good before we head down I'm gonna grab some fuel up here some beautiful clear winter diesel none of that biodiesel stuff that likes to gel up my fuel filters when it gets cold fill us up we're in St. Agath Manitoba a little bit further ahead here Josh how about that my fuel tanks are behind the motor there you go I thought it was gonna roll a little further oh it's been a week of a little rusty here am I wonderful wonderful okay shut this bad boy off keep my engine warm turn them engine warmer on okay do up my belt cuz everybody's always like let's hang it out of your shirt it's my belt I have been losing weight have you noticed I've been eating in the truck trying to stay healthy here somewhat let's move ourselves on to fuel there we go let's tell the world we're fueling so I got a bit of a ways to go today I probably won't make it all the way there but although as far as we feel like it until we get tired we'll do the rest tomorrow about five and a half hours of driving from here it's already quarter to nine so I don't really like driving past midnight you will see how far we get I gotta get into America first my load has been cleared for Pemina, North Dakota to cross from Emerson Manitoba I don't know if it's cold enough for this out there you have it to put it on anyway wonderful how are you guys doing you guys have a good week there's been a lot of people sick recently actually ground into one of my friends that worked there one of the other drivers talk with him and he was sick this week too a lot of people I know I've caught some kind of bug going around it's that season right I am so grateful that this world has calmed down since the height of all the craziness in the pandemic in the last couple of years it used to be you know you get sick and you were treated like a leper and people would just like flee in every direction away from you and like everybody would freak out and they think you're gonna die and then I'm like reading you your last rights and making funeral plans and like just calm down bud you just got a cold cheese crying out loud you know what I mean I'm so glad that we were back to the spot where like maybe we're a little smarter you know if you're sick you stay home that's how it should have been before anyways but you're sick you know you just stay home get better once you once you better go back to work so much easier right no government involvement so much better so much better but we followed all the recommendations of mental health anyways and yeah it's good to be back or good to be trucked let's go get some dinosaur juice I've missed that okay everybody I'm ready to get rolling how about you locked and loaded full of juice the temperature outside is minus five Celsius we're sitting probably about 25 Fahrenheit or something let's go to America see what they're up to haven't been there since before their Thanksgiving look at this guy this little guy here that bugs me when people do that it's a little tiny box truck that could literally park anywhere on the other side but he took up a full truck spot it's not that big a deal because there's empty spots still available so whatever give him a pass today but usually that would bug me a lot you don't need a full 75-foot spot don't park in a 75 foot spot a lot of drivers come off the road after a long day of driving and are pretty disappointed when there's no parking for them because you know all these little box trucks and bobtails took up all the spots but whatever you do you I'm not gonna tell you what to do I'm just gonna tell you what bugs me because that's what I do I complain and then I read the comments complaining about my complaining and it's fun I enjoy it all blue is very excited to get back on the road I tell you how much she's just ready to go just rolled into Grand Forks North Dakota once we cross the river which is right there it'll be Grand Forks Minnesota I love all the Christmas decorations coming out everywhere as you guys know we we decorate early early as we can but now that we're in like good well into December a few days I mean even the people who put it off all the way to the last minute are already starting to put up their decorations you know I don't understand how some people like these people exist and you might be one of them there's nothing wrong with this but I don't understand how some people decorate like Christmas Eve or like the day before Christmas and then take everything down the day after Christmas it's a lot of work just for one day you know that's it our first day back drove till oh two way out of rest area on US Highway 10 in Minnesota just gonna check to see what town this is what town would they consider this just says rest stop by phrasey FRAZ EE phrasey frasy phrasey Minnesota and that's that I'm so tired I'm going straight back there onto that beautiful mattress as soon as I get all my stuff all organizing over there I want to bed my lips have been really dry really annoying I've got this lip smacker stuff that my wife gave me am I pretty now so the first night in the truck is always for the first day in the truck on first day of the week or first day of the trip is always a day of just getting organized at least everything is clean everything smells like laundry all the time all day and it just needs to be put away so I need to get everything in its place and then lay my head down and go to sleep and then the rest of the week is more like when you stop it's if I want to edit my video and get straight to editing got nothing to set up everything's already in place feels good to be back really love this truck it's a very small truck right interior it's just big enough for me it's cozy right cozy