 Good morning everybody Kind of a wet morning. I'm not used to this this summer It's been a very dry year, but I'm sure that this rain is much needed It was probably needed about last month, but it's here So we'll enjoy it. I'm about to head around the corner here and head into work. I'm Much earlier than usual. I have two loads of those poles to deliver today with the picker truck with the claw So it might try to be a little bit of a longer day, but we're gonna get her done Be the first one in and we'll see what time we get done So on Google like I stopped to confirm this but on Google anyways Starbucks in town here only opens at eight o'clock today for some reason. Maybe that's a mistake I'm not gonna risk wasting my time running all the way over there. We're just going to Timmy's since we're so much earlier today It's not nearly as busy and you see this whole intersection is always all blocked by the people going to Tim's and if we get here at this time Only one person in line in front of us Today is gonna be a good day. I guess I'm a creature of convenience Could I get a large coffee with one cream and a shot of espresso? Yeah, yeah, and could I get a farmer sausage farmers wrap? Yeah Sure, yeah, you got the espresso in my coffee No, thank you, that's fine No, you have my espresso in the coffee though, oh, yeah That's it. Thank you You heard me ask for espresso three times, right? I'm not just Losing my mind this morning And they were short with me and kind of rude at the window, too That's why I go to Starbucks now It's exactly why that and the long line-ups, but you know like I was telling you before we ordered there a creature convenience Today it was just more convenient to go to Tim's Because Starbucks apparently isn't open till eight I still have to double-check that that might just be an error on Google because every other day they open earlier But on Thursdays, I don't know what's going on anymore. I got my coffee. I got my food Let's go get in the truck and we'll deliver some poles Okay, I got a look for my trailer first See what we're working with today Supposed to be in the yard somewhere Again, I'm in the empty empty lot looking for a loaded trailer loaded lineup to find our loaded trailer She's left her tie down for me. That's nice So all we got to do is hook on and go Let's go get the truck. I'm not too sure how long this is gonna take Because this is my second day Being alone on the picker truck After my training of course, so I know what I'm doing. I'm not worried about that. It's uh, I Don't know how long it takes to unload all the time Hopefully it won't be raining all day because I got to sit up there on the crane But if it is that's okay a little water never hurt me. We're here Everything is nice and neat in here again very clean We got half tank of fuel that's okay. That'll be enough We can fuel up along the way or that'll get us through our day We'll fuel up at the end of our day leave the truck full of fuel So we leave it better than we found it. There's my gauge cluster. This is an older truck This is definitely an older truck, but she runs good. She's powerful She's a lot of fun to drive Actually this truck's not as old as I thought it was This is a 2005 I had to double check on the cab card may as well find out. I thought it was like mid to late 80s Just judging by the front end style of the truck. It's got the crane on it, obviously Like I said last time we used this truck this truck means business. It's built to work and work hard, so With that being said, let's put it to work. Let's get out there first order of business Slam the seat down and slam it back. There we go much more comfortable I don't know who can sit with their head touching the roof. That's just not comfortable to me Visor freaks me out a little bit It's on there tight, but it sure likes to flap around in the wind a little bit I'm on the West perimeter around Winnipeg. So Winnipeg is right over there We're headed north and head up to highway six and then Go up towards Asherman that way a little bit of a delay this morning So I'm further behind than I want it to be I noticed that on my trailer. It was tied down. It was tied down very well But in the center of the load there was a pole that was sort of laying in a valley of the other poles you know what I mean and There was nothing holding it down It was literally just rolling around in there and it could like vibrate and shake off the back and that you can't have that So I had to take the truck around to the back set up the whole crane and then readjust the load So that the load was all tight together and then restrap it But I'm quite a bit further behind than I want if Asher and goes like really well according to plan and everything is No delays. We shouldn't have a problem I just have to be back in Winnipeg to load my second load of poles Like around two to two thirty that would be nice because they go home at three thirty And they won't be very happy if they have to work overtime and wait for me It's highway six coming up here stop lights way up there. That's where we're going to turn left and then it's a Probably about an hour and a half north yet Maybe just a little less than an hour and a half north hour and 15 minutes big kitty cat underneath this hood Big caterpillar motor in there. I believe a c-15 twin turbo It it's a beast It's a beautiful beast Oh look at that. Oh, it's an oh, oh It looks like a tipped over or something some damage on the side of it. Oh Oh Probably coming back into Winnipeg for repairs and then headed back north somewhere. Hey, but it's pretty heavy 40 poles back there Can I tell that there's something back there? Even on a tough truck like this She's not struggling definitely knows we're pulling something So just around this corner up here is where we got to bring this first load of poles It's the Pepsi days. There'll be someone here to Sign off for me and tell me exactly where they want them Pretty sure that's the piles right there So I'm gonna go park in there right now and I need to move then I need to move but those are old ones over there Obviously, it's probably the ones that I'm replacing here. I might need to shift a little over because I think I'm dropping them in that pile over there but I want to be straight too I think some of them might be going here. Those are 35 45 I got 35s and 45s on my trailer. I'll go ask questions All right, I gotta hurry up here because I got a second load waiting for me. So uh I'm gonna quickly throw these on the ground I'll talk to you guys after hopefully we can make it there for that second load Oh, the sun just came out making it a whole lot better of a day 40s on the other side Now two more 35s on there yet. That's why I came down. I wanted to see because they're labeled on the On the end of each pole, right? 440 on there. That's a 40 footer class 4 But they only label them on one side and sometimes I can't see it from up in the crane's chair there If they put the labels on the other side over here See there's some see you see that one there that green sticker that's 35 and this one's a 35 The rest are all 40s. I believe there should be 20 40s other than those two one two three four five six 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Yeah, there's two 35s right there And so those on that side the rest we're gonna go into this right here There's a railway pole. They're bad old plans changed Spent the whole day in ashram and look Had to load up all those uh a load of those old poles And we didn't know about that. So The second part of my day kind of got messed up. We're gonna have to do that tomorrow. I guess because uh Ashram kind of hogged me to themselves all day today So i'm gonna bring all of these old ones back into winnipeg tomorrow morning Reload for steinback then and uh Go do steinback then I guess nothing I can do but They didn't tell us that we had a bunch of returns going back but Needs to be done. It needs to be done. So it shall be done It doesn't really matter to me where i'm working for the day whether here or steinback As long as i'm driving trucks Playing with claws and cranes. I'm happy. So we stopped here in uh ericsdale Get a drink and uh a couple of snacks for the ride home We're in this truck again tomorrow two loads to deliver tomorrow again. Hopefully uh those two go smoother than this one did I had two today as well, but the first one took the whole day West at winnipeg Nobody is uh, okay. I get it. I'm a truck. You don't like trucks All right since this truck was not left uh full of fuel I've got to go fuel it up today used over a quarter tank This thing is a pig. I'm gonna be using this truck again tomorrow. So well even if I wasn't using it again I always Bring the truck I used back full of fuel I thought that was a general rule But this truck was left with under half a tank And I didn't realize like I was told that this truck is a pig But I didn't realize how big of a pig it was Sell some go-go juice as well be me, right? He is. Oh, it's busy right now. Okay Let's see. Let's see. Where should we go? Hope people aren't just parking in the pumps That's always fun Waiting for people who just you know go inside and grab lunch Why's this guy got his backup lights on? It's like everybody's just hanging out That truck and that truck are both not fueling. They're just parked there This guy's not fueling either, but he's got his cubby open on his trucks. I don't know what he's doing this guy's got Fuel nozzles in his tanks at least so I remember this frustration I remember it. Well Parking your trucks in the pumps and going inside people This guy was doing absolutely nothing. He was uh Washing his truck with the squeegee Not his windshield. No not his side window not any windows. He was washing his truck with the squeegee Man, this truck is just a beast I can look over the pumps Lost a boat. I'll talk to you guys a little later. I'm gonna take my janitor keys Keys to my life literally every key I need in my life I have them all on this little hook here So whenever I drive my pickup, I can just take my pickup key off And so that my all these keys aren't hanging in my ignition. I want the same thing with the motorcycle and Everywhere I go And I'll get my pickup gonna leave the this truck's 3106 parts right here hooked up because I'm going to deliver those Poles into Winnipeg tomorrow. So we're just here in the Back of the loaded lineup There's the empty lineup And my truck is just on the other side of that building over there I'm gonna go get it and drive it over here And get my stuff out of that truck I'll take it all out and clean it out just in case if plans change And they get me doing something else tomorrow then Someone else doesn't get in there and take off with my stuff at home And do it all over again tomorrow. Like I said, we have two Deliveries tomorrow one st. Anne went for a little break And hopefully it all goes smoothly Hello my pretty Hello, let's take my Pickup keys out of here. Oh, I gotta There we go Oh, that's just my pickup piano Now when I always leave the radio on every single time except for once on some 99% of the time I leave the radio on I like how I put my seatbelt on just to drive over to the truck across the yard You never know you never know better safe than sorry You never know I might hit a bump and fall out and wear your seatbelt You guys remember my old Volvo? It's right there Remember I put that Bug deflector on it. It's now a local or regional truck The guy who drives it now is a really good guy We spent about three years in that truck Lots and lots of memories Went to British Columbia in that truck went to Newfoundland in that truck All over the The US in that truck Good times good times. Those are still the tires I bought for it on there. I think unless they changed them again But I don't know my stuff out of here and lock her up for the night tuck her in It's a nice evening It's the perfect perfect temperature out here right now Absolutely perfect kill of my other friend. I got my sweater. I actually had to wear this today It was a little chilly up on the crane in the morning When I got out there, but then it heated up pretty quick Come back for you one second one second. I like the crane work. It's I actually really enjoy it A lot of fun Of course, it's something different. I'm the kind of guy that uh, I like to be challenged. I like to have new things I like to try new things do new things I want to do more things. I like all the things I do already like the roll tights. That was something new Uh, I remember when I started on flop beds That was something new when I first started here in 2011 Right here these van trailers. Some of these were the very first ones I ever pulled 53 foot van trailers I mean, I I did haul Pepsi before that but Long distance That was the these are the first trailers I pulled And now look at us now. We're grabbing a crane truck home these bad boys around Oh, we just keep moving along keep moving along Oh, this is my garbage too. Oh, and that's my hand sanitizer over there Second really you can come with me too My friend walk the doors. I have to dust that dashboard tomorrow This is my whole thing my whole kitten caboodle Just in case I'm gonna have it at home Oh got my safety glasses And I've got my safety glasses shades my safety shades I am set ready to rock And my just driving shades is that's all tangled up in this charger That's lovely. How did that happen and cheezies cut some fat