 Morning everybody. We're in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We got to unload this freight that I picked up yesterday in Manitoba Unload it here and then run down the road to Mawson, Wisconsin pick up some utility trailers put them onto my trailer tie him down secure them And race on back home. That's the plan for today. Let's get to it. All right, so we got here We're in our unloading position. I'm gonna get all my straps and equipment off We'll get unloaded And then I have received my confirmation. I'm gonna keep telling you the same thing like 20 times now the load is over there Off my trailer not my responsibility that's signed for So now when they were loading it, they got a bunch of gravel on my deck I'm not impressed, but it happens. It happens can't really help it. It was a mud blot remember So I got to sweep all this off because if I don't when I go down the highway These are gonna fall off the trailer and go through someone's windshield or into someone's windshield I would hope that rock like this wouldn't go through But you never know you don't want to hitting people's windshield and I think it all mad and it's your fault I mean, I don't know what would happen in that situation Who would be at fault? I would assume ethically and morally I would be at fault because I knew that there was rocks on my deck And I didn't clear them off and it damaged someone's vehicle Legally speaking, I don't know who would be at fault Because if a truck throws a rock at you, right, it's not the truck's fault it happens But if it's because of negligence and you can prove that and then they got you right and they got you So we'll clear this off here so that we don't got a deal with that. I got this riser right here I didn't need it for this last load. I'm gonna need it for my next load. I'm picking up those trailers and Oh, I also figured out what was going on with my tires. Remember this inside tire We had patched it had a hole in it Got it patched and then it started wearing a lot faster. You can see this already You see how that Tire is worn and look at the tire right beside it You can see the difference, right? I Found out why Now when the guy patched that tire he didn't check the pressure of all my other tires all my tires are set to a hundred psi He felt this one to 110 psi So that tire was running at 10% more p on 10% I guess it would be a 10 more psi than this tire And that's why it was wearing down faster. So I leveled them out now. So that problem should be fixed though They are a little bit that one is a little bit more worn than this one now Hopefully they'll even out over time and it won't get worse But that was the problem tire pressure and a lot of you in the comment section had it, right? So make sure when you get your tires fixed or replaced that the guy who's fixing your tire balances the air pressure to the tire beside it If this one's at a hundred that one should be at a hundred costly mistake That wasn't my fault There's nothing I can do about it now right because it's weeks down the road And I've already put like 10,000 kilometers or 10,000 miles on them already since it's been patched. So Next time I'll just remind the guy who's changing my tires make sure you check all the air pressure Because they're set to a hundred not 110 it was late at night and I I didn't think of it I didn't think of telling him. So maybe it's partly my fault Maybe it's partly his because the standard for a lot of tires is 110 psi I run mine a little bit lower gives me a little bit more traction, especially in the snow in the wintertime. I Mean there's been studies shown that you can actually make tires last longer By having lower psi like an 85 to 90 psi in your tires And that sounds like heresy to a lot of old-timer truck drivers because they needed at least at 100 or 110 in their mind, right? but I'm referring to an article from truck news comm and I read it just the other day and there's been several fleets that have actually lowered the air pressure in their drive tires to 85 That's lower than I would want to go But they've found that their tires wear more evenly Have more traction on the road because more of the tire surface touches the road, right? And they last longer They're getting four five hundred to eight hundred thousand kilometers. That's like What three four hundred thousand miles five hundred thousand miles off these tires is crazy, right? I don't think these are that long. These are cheap Chinese tires. I'm they're not gonna last that long But that's okay because they're cheap. They don't have to last as long But I can get a few hundred thousand kilometers out of them anyways, right and so I run them at a hundred The studies are shown that with the weights that we haul here in North America We can get away with as low as 70 psi in our drive tires, but I wouldn't recommend you go that low That's really low, but it's not the tires that hold up your load It's the air inside the tires and Legally speaking if you look at the specifications of most tires not all tires most tires You only need about 70 psi to hold up the loads that we're carrying. I Just I wouldn't recommend going that low, but you know Around a hundred is where I usually have mine And a hundred hundred and ten. I'm trying a hundred out with these tires. See how that goes, you know I'll keep reading keep studying and researching and reading other people's research and seeing what works for people What doesn't work and From what I've from what I've all read and understood. I felt comfortable having my tires at about a hundred psi and As we can see if one is a bit higher than the rest that one's gonna wear down really fast Good thing is a cheap tire Otherwise that would have been an even more expensive lesson to learn There's always lessons to learn and in trucking every lesson is very expensive Seems every other week the US flags are at half-staff I have to turn left is no trucks straightforward, okay Tell you on this road for 11 kilometers Just about in Boston I don't know what town this is this Lisbon That was the sign said In very close. They're we're gonna get there with just enough time today for them to load me before they go Just gonna make it Now won't make it all the way back home today, I won't have the hours for that We'll get back into Minnesota somewhere. Maybe around Alexandria or Roth say maybe even for a girl we'll see what What trucking brings us later see how long it takes me to tie these things down I've hauled these kind of loads many many times before You got to be very careful with them because they're light trailers and even if they just barely move and touch each other Because they get loaded very close together Barely move and touch each other it can cause significant damage to them right away, and it's not good So you got to make sure that they're absolutely Rock solid tied down to the trailer without damaging them So that's the challenge, but I've done it many times before and so far knock on wood haven't damaged a single one We have the trailers on everybody's gone home for the day already. I've got them all tied down And it's time to hit the road our clock is ticking and there's a fly in here again. How every day every Day, I'm gonna get you. Oh, I'm gonna get you Every day there's a fly in you just one I kill it Like that Then before you know it It's back in here like my windows are open now it might have flown in but even if I leave the windows closed all day Something there's a fly in here Do you guys have flies in your truck all the time, too? Is it just me? Do they like me? I don't smell. I promise Karen's calling it a u-turn. It's actually just a sharp left how to get onto that road there with that motorcyclist I usually use miracle whip Well, this time I bought mayo mayonnaise needs a whole lot better. I never use mayo I always use miracle whip. How about you are are you a male person? miracle whip person Minnesota, it's a good place to spend the night. There was one spot available for trucker Josh Guess who took it. It's the next morning. We're gonna continue on now. We drove all the way from Mosmo Wisconsin all the way up here last night We got here really really late really really late So a little bit of a later start today, but we only have five hours left to go back to our yard So there's the good news. So we'll head over there to the yard. We'll drop this trailer We'll head to our shop. We'll tuck old blue in for the night And we're gonna go home for a couple days to pack pretty much actually Excuse me this weekend Is canadian thanksgiving so happy belated canadian thanksgiving to all of you out there my canadian friends and family I know in the u.s. Your thanksgiving is in november It's already winter here at that time So we do our thanksgiving a month early because our seasons are a little bit different than yours So happy thanksgiving everybody. Hope it was a good one We got a couple of family gatherings to attend this weekend lots of food to eat. It's gonna be good And we got to get back to work because we got to make some money. We got to pay for our new house We're moving in a few weeks still so we got just a few weeks to pack up and get ready Oh, let's continue on down the road We need to get out there. It is windy today windy windy. We're gonna test out my load Securement. I'm not worried 99.99999% sure everything is tied down Tight enough that it's not gonna blow away Let's get going. So this is uh, like I'll say in the big chief truck stop I've stopped here many times over the years. It's one of my favorite places to stop It's got a nice little cafe inside here Fuel pumps at the back off to my left Quite a bit of parking in the back here. It's a gravel lot. So you Are at the mercy of drivers parking straight and not taking up more space than they need to So as long as everybody parks properly, you can fit quite a few trucks in here a little cold out 9 degrees Celsius It's getting cold What is 9 degrees Celsius in fahrenheit? 9 degrees Celsius is equivalent to 48.2 degrees fahrenheit That's where we're sitting right now Definitely had to turn on the bunk heater last night Got a little bit chilly So earlier in this vlog yesterday for night and then take the entrance to the ride in 80 meters That's Karen interrupts me like usual We had a pretty uneventful night like I said driving late into the night drove through minneapolis wasn't a lot of traffic It was great. I like night driving. It's quieter, right? But it does eat into the next day. I wanted an easy day today I didn't want to have a long day of work and then get home all tired and No energy this way. I only got five hours to drive drop the trailer and go home off lots of energy Interstate 94 westbound. It's that cold biting winter air. It's just Getting sucked in here. Got that wonderful wind from the north just Oh, okay It's always those first couple of weeks Fall into winter where the cold hits us hard Then after about two weeks, we're like, huh, you know what? It's actually not that bad Then the rest of winter is fine. It's just that first bit is like, oh happy with summer I'm in morris Manitoba on the canadian side again Got my timmage Very happy. Let's give it a taste test Oh Decent smells good hot. Yep. It's hot. Good. Yeah, it's good It's only eight degrees celsius. I mean, what's eight degrees celsius in fahrenheit? Eight degrees celsius is 46.4 degrees fahrenheit not even that cold yet. It's gonna get a lot colder before it gets warmer, so Can't complain Yeah, let's get back out here Going to brit's families the day after or is it the other way around? No, wait I think we're going to brit's families tomorrow and my family the day after That's right Lots of eating ahead this weekend. Oh, oh And i'm hungry and we move into our new house pretty much all the leaves will be gone Except for this tree look on the right here that tree's still green What a trooper other trees have lost all their leaves already Yeah, we'll have to wait until next summer to enjoy summer in our backyard, but That's okay. We can enjoy winter Winter isn't the worst thing winter can be fun It's just when it gets down to the deep freeze last two weeks of january first two weeks of february where it gets down below minus 30 That's not as fun, but the rest of winter isn't actually that bad your body gets used to it pretty quickly That was a windy day I was nuts I haven't driven through wind like that in quite a while. It must mean the seasons are changing or something Feels you just feel it in the air something's happening Something's happening Might be the fact that all the trees are losing their leaves too might be that But something I can feel it in my bones Something's changing out there got a little blue in the shop here Since the weather was so bad today. I didn't bother washing it today because it would have been just as dirty if not more dirty Uh, let's see. I've got everything Take a few things with me here That's everything I need Okay Oh, did I turn that light off? That's why I went in there. I went in there to turn that light off Yes, okay the light and sleeper's off. I can't remember anything Okay, it's time to go home everybody. It's been fun So this vlog included all the way from moss in wisconsin No, actually from olclar, wisconsin down to moston back all the way home So about a 1300 kilometer jaunt or 700 800 mile jaunt Over two days I'm ready to go home. How about you all blue? 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