 Look at all these clean trucks If you guys watched yesterday's video you saw that they had the mobile wash guy come here and Wash as many trucks as he could in the day. He was here the whole day washing as many as he could I didn't get a chance to get mine in the lineup, but mine's still pretty clean from the other day We don't have a permanent wash bay here, but we have a mobile wash guy who comes here and washes all the trucks I don't know how often he comes but It was pretty nice Pretty nice to see him, especially in this season now that the the dirty season is behind us mostly the dirty season meaning Fall winter and the beginning of spring so six months of the year It's impossible to keep anything clean just because of the climate. I've explained this to you yesterday and so We're finally getting into the season where when you wash something it's actually clean for a while You know it lasts a little while more than 15 minutes So we already got our assignment for today Gotta go get the truck started I wasn't gonna leave it hooked up But since it got a little cold tonight. I wanted to plug the truck in just in case So I can get it started this morning with no problems I'm gonna go hook up to that Conestoga trailer again the covered wagon and pull it up to Arbor But two hours north of here, and we'll load her up and Bring her on back here for the lucky driver that the load we're picking up today is Going to end up in El Paso, Texas That's pretty cool. Good morning, my friend How's it going? Hey? You have a good night Well, she's got a little dirt on her stacks there now that's from yesterday. Yeah, I guess she is a little dirty Hey Maybe on the weekend when I have some spare cash laying around for it. I'm just gonna get some Some polish and some polishing tools just I know it's a work truck. Okay. It's a work truck I'm not expecting to make it look like you know It's gonna be an entry in Gats the great American trucking show what I can to try to at least Keep it as clean as I can right you got to take care of the equipment that you're entrusted with I have been assigned to this Wonderful truck here. She's a little bit old not the Not the worst either What's that We're talking about how beautiful you are so I have two older sisters, but They're older than me my my closest sibling in age is Eight years older than me eight or nine years older than me So I sort of grew up as kind of like an only child kind of I was so far behind them That was a lot younger than them and they were way too cool for their little brother It wasn't like that, but they had their own lives, right? And so I sort of grew up doing my own thing hanging out by myself Can you tell? Because I can have a conversation with pretty much any Buddy and anybody anything I want to including a truck and my dogs I'm perfectly fine. Just entertaining myself Okay, we got her all warmed up You're ready to rock and roll still got the steering wheel, but that's okay. She's beautiful. Okay She's beautiful doesn't matter So I got to go hook up on to that trailer 603 and pull it north I'm sure glad we had this extra GoPro hero seven Because I drove over my other one last Last after yesterday. I was gonna say last night, but it was late yesterday in the afternoon. I was tired It's time to go home And I was just gonna film myself parking and the wind blew my camera off the ledge where I had it and right into Where my wheels were going and I didn't notice in time and I drove over it with the trailer But she served her purpose and the cameras actually made a lot of videos probably made close to a thousand videos with that camera So we have this other one here that we had as a spare. It used to be Brits camera Now it's here so you guys are all nice and shiny right now this camera's brand new For the most part How good is we had this let's be extra careful with this one Off we go Petro pass here in Norbert quick little check in the trailer here make sure that everything we Knock the climb underneath it to the back over there And this is going all the way to El Paso, Texas But I'm just taking it back to where you are. We have another driver who's going down there I would love to take it though Now that I'm just gathering freight for our highway driver Now they got all these loads and routes going all over the US all kinds of places that I haven't been in like 10 years In California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada Those are all places that I always wanted to go trucking to Maybe one day we'll take a trip here or there, but for now they need me here picking up these things and I've also got things to take care of at home I'm liking the schedule a lot. It's working out really well for us Let's go and see. I'd love to take Britt with me But if she comes with me We've either got to take all the dogs with us Or we've got to find somebody who can at least watch the big guys, right? Or watch all of them. Dogs is sort of like having kids You can't just pick up and leave and go to El Paso in a truck It'd be very cramped having all of us in there and Britt can't just You know take two weeks off work to go down there and right now I've got a position here that I really like So for now, we'll leave that to our highway guys. Maybe they'll send us some pictures from down there But if you live between here and El Paso, so anywhere's down the i29 corridor, I guess North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas Today is uh, Tuesday the 24th of March 2021 If this is headed out right away, it'll be down there in a few days. It should be down there Uh, actually I can tell you It says right in my computer here when it's expected down in El Paso at the end of next week Not sometime next week. If you see this big blue covered wagon rolling through there with one of our trucks Give them a friendly wave. They may not know why you're waving at them. So Don't go and bug them. That's the trailer that I loaded A lot of the people here watch the videos that I make but not all of the drivers Watch my videos and not all of them know who I am so Maybe they'll wait back. Maybe they'll wonder why you're waving at them bad trailer. Maybe it'll be my dad He's still trucking. He's somewhere down and uh, where's he going? Where was he going? I think he's on his way out to new england right now In the area not anytime soon We're trying to make one of these things that you call a baby Very important and I need to be here for that Apparently it works a lot better that way And then once we have said baby I'm gonna need to be around To raise them for her My best memories growing up with my dad is being in the truck with them In the summer. So that's definitely an experience I want to share with my kids one day if they want to come with me If they want to go on a trip down to El Paso when they're, you know In that age where dad's still a superhero If they say I'd love to go on a trip, you know what? Well, I'll go with them for sure We've got to turn them into truckers somehow, right? Best way to turn them into truckers is to immerse them right in it My whole life that's all I've known is trucking, trucking, trucking and accounting. My mom's an accountant But I didn't take after that as much sitting in front of a computer and paperwork does not Excite me as much as Big diesel trucks Grab this thing back and the driver who's taking it down. I don't know. I have no idea who it is So we made it back here put this trailer in the loaded lineup For the driver, I was just going to show you How this lifted axle works in the back here because up until Just about a month ago. I had never pulled a trailer with a lift axle like that before I think they're pretty cool See the load is Light enough that we only need two axles on the ground to be legal But if I was hauling more weight in here And legally I would need three axles on the ground That's where this axle comes into play See how it's not even touching the ground It's lifted up by that airbag there And the way we put that down It's in a different spot on different trailers I believe it's up at the front over here in here See it's in the up position We just put this to Down like that You can see that deflates And the airbags over there push this axle down Now it's a tri axle If I go to the front and I flip that little switch to up You'll see it lift up Take a look at this Figured I shared that with you Something I haven't shown you before So the reason we would want that axle lifted up at all is two reasons On the long distance highways from here to El Paso Let's say because that's where it's going Having one axle off the ground reduces drag Which means that's one less axle the truck has to pull Down the highway saving fuel The second reason is pretty obvious, I guess if the tires aren't on the ground They're not getting worn down Saves on wear and tear and you don't have to replace the tires as quickly On a minnesota I thought maybe that one shipped out already I don't know, we got a bunch of those in the yard all the time We're always here Random bag in the yard that might be for the dogs So I moved the solar panel for that light onto the roof So we won't be able to see it from back here, but It's on the roof so it gets direct sunlight most of the day Now we're on the shade of that house already But man does that make a difference This light used to be bright and last for maybe like Three to five minutes tops In wintertime it would last for about one minute because even less sunlight then right Since I put that uh solar panel on the roof The last couple of days It stays bright out here all night For as long as you need it It's amazing what that little bit of difference does direct sunlight. That's what it needed Where'd everybody go? Just finished editing and I was gonna film an ending clip and They're probably outside, aren't they? Ah enjoying the light That I was just talking to you about And the lights I put around the yard to light up the perimeter Let's go see shall we? Let's go see. I was just talking about this light in the vlog before And I have seen the requests in the comments for more of brit and more of the dogs in the videos I understand. I don't always uh Show them because I get home really late sometimes And she's already in her pajamas and ready for bed and not really Not really in the mood to go and be on the internet at that time. Yeah, she's already all sleep attire And I'm really tired as well when I come home and I'm not really always in the mood to film when I get home yet so It hasn't been on purpose and bleeding. I agree with you. I'd like to have them in the vlogs more too They're the biggest part of my life And they should be in In the videos every day. Let's go see what they're up to shall we? Hello Hello. Oh, I found a vina It says a vina. He's in the dark. I can't see him There have been requests for more of you Mm-hmm little sure you're not talking to frank. No, I'm talking to you I want to see more of you So I was just telling them about this light. Isn't that a lot brighter now? YouTube's gonna dull it down anyways. Yeah, I can't really the He doesn't do it justice, but uh Yeah, that stays on for like as long as we need it now. It's amazing what direct sunlight will do You're just teasing me pretending you were gonna go to the bathroom and it's a no-go He does that a lot He just wanted to sniff around. Yeah, we so We so We so Is he gonna go for it? Is he gonna go? Behind the carport. Oh, oh, he's doing the waddle. He's doing the waddle Oh, no, just teasing us again. You want something on the lawn? Chevy out here Chevy Chevy, what are you eating over here? Chevy man, I love that. I was I was so disappointed already because I thought that we had uh Bought this, you know, it's a solar light. I didn't know how good it was going to be and I was so disappointed with it I was like, oh, what a waste of money and it's pretty expensive too Now I'm happy with it. Hey weasel Let's go inside. Come on every time you put footage from this camera onto youtube for some reason youtube automatically darkens everything and it's Not a setting I can change because you can go in there and brighten it But it just makes it look terrible. It doesn't actually bring the light back Just makes all the redness poke out. Yeah So there's that. I've always got to make sure I've got really good lighting. It doesn't matter what camera I use Other youtubers can understand I'm sure Okay, me and uh vakum here have a date