 Good morning, you fine people. You fine person sitting right there and all of you in the background. I see you there, too I'm watching you That's a lie. Did I creep you out? I can't see you. I have no idea who you are I have no idea where you are. Let me know down below if you want if you want me to know But other than that. Hello anonymous Eyeballs watching me on the internet I am Trucker Josh if you didn't know that if you haven't figured that out. We're here in Minnesota right now And I'm just on my half-hour break We're going home and I live near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, which is straight north of the Minnesota, North Dakota state line Straight north up into Canada Winnipeg is the capital city of Manitoba. I actually live outside the city I'm not a big city person myself. I like the countryside. I like the privacy, but Here we are live in life Putting it on the internet for you to watch so sit back and relax enjoy the day Supposed to be a snowstorm rolling in it's it's just starting to snow really lightly right now But they're supposed to get up to 12 feet of snow today. I'm filming this on March 9th 2019 Videos are a little bit behind I apologize for that. That's just I Explained it in yesterday's video just the way it works out for me to do it I got 10 more minutes left and then I can hit the road because the government says I need a break I'm not allowed to decide for myself. How long my break should be they they decide for me They tell me it has to be at least 30 minutes 29 minutes is not enough of a break 28 minutes forget it You're not rested after 28 minutes. You need 30 minutes The government says I have to stop for 30 minutes That's the US government Canada our government They let us decide when our breaks will be and how long they'll be as long as you take a break and check your load And in reasonable intervals so they can tell you're being responsible like that That's all you need if you want to stop for 17 minutes for a break. Go for it. That's awesome You want to stop for 29 minutes and 30 seconds? Go for it Canadian government doesn't care American government they're a little bit more Invasive aren't they and they like to know what you're doing You like to make sure you like to make sure you're following the rules and taking your breaks because taking a break is the law You know trucking is the only Industry where you can actually get arrested and go to jail for working overtime. Did you know that? If I work overtime and I get caught They will arrest me and bring me to jail That's true in Canada too. I don't know if they would bring me to jail They might just find me there. I might get a big fine and have to shut down there But in the US I'm pretty sure correct me my American friends if I'm wrong if you run over your hours They'll rest you won't they they'll put the cuffs on you They're serious down here Take your breaks or else. I love America though Great place great place. I love this country, but don't break their rules They're serious about them. I kind of wish I didn't have to take that half-hour break because now the snow Was starting to come down pretty heavy And from all the reports it's only supposed to get worse I wish I could have taken that half-hour and just kept driving so that I could get out of this weather. I Didn't need a break yet. I was fine Before I got to the Canadian border. I guess I could have taken the half-hour break a little later I just couldn't get all the way to the border before my eight hours were up the way it works is in the US You can only be on duty For eight hours before taking a half-hour break and you have to take a half-hour break Somewhere in there and after you take your half-hour you're 30 minutes Then you get another eight hours given to you before you need your next break But all in all you can only work 14 hours in the day then you have to shut down You can only of those 14 hours you can only drive 11 of them so I Couldn't get to the Canadian border within my eight hours I would need to have a break first unless if I wanted to break the law and risk them putting handcuffs on me I May be wrong on that. Maybe they won't arrest you for Going over time, but I've heard that they would I know it's breaking a serious law and you can get in a lot Of trouble for it. I don't know if they'll actually call it the cuffs. I'm pretty harmless. I don't think they'd need to actually cuff me I just Go peacefully But I Wouldn't break the law to begin with I am a guest in the United States and I intend to respect their laws Well, I'm here. They have their laws for a reason Starting to snow even worse now as I'm talking. Oh, this is not good. This is not good I better not get shut down It's supposed to get better as we get closer to Canada, so let's just keep remembering and telling ourselves that Things have progressed in a negative way Dealing with quite a bit of snow now and dealing with drivers in front of me here that I have no idea what they're doing They have no idea that they need to keep their tires in the tracks and off of the slush Because they keep hitting the slush and almost wiping out Pretty straight right now. They're also going Slower than I'd like to go which isn't a bad thing, but I would like to get past them But at the same time I don't want to scare them It's a decision you have to make as a Truck driver professional driver sometimes I could easily get around them. No problem and the wind is right So I wouldn't be giving them a whiteout snow would all be blowing away from them It's just you have to make that decision about the safety of other people, right? If that was my wife and if we had kids and those my wife and kids in that van in front of me Would I pass them still if that was my Sisters or my family in that van would I pass them and risk scaring them? after Seeing that they probably don't Exactly have the most experience driving in bad weather. I wouldn't know I wouldn't I wouldn't want to risk it So why would I risk it with this family? There's a lot of super truckers out there that I'll just blow past them in that way And it looks like there's a lot of snow in that left line. That's just a light dusting that's covering it I wanted to go around and I'm in a hurry to get home. It's just I Don't know who this Who's in this minivan here and doesn't really matter who it is Someone's in there and I have a feeling that if I try to pass they'll probably Get scared and move too far towards the shoulder to stay away from me and hit the slush And wipe out possibly roll into the ditch. Maybe maybe you end up someone dying Maybe they'll hit my truck too But I'll just wait They have a smaller fuel tank than I do. So eventually they've got to pull off the road to get fuel Even if they are going right across the country Eventually they got to pull off the road and then I'll get past It's not like they're driving like excessively excessively ridiculously slow Remember that when you're on the road you're thinking about passing somebody in the snow and you know you can do it Just think about it if that was your family in that minivan Your wife was driving and you know that she doesn't like winter driving and you know that she's nervous on the ice already If it was her in that van would you pass her? If the answers no then You should probably just stay behind them Just arrived in Canada, can you tell some good news to talk about today because we often talk about bad news Look at that. Look at that sunset The time is almost 6 30 in the evening The Sun is still above the horizon That means that the daylight hours are getting considerably and noticeably longer And that is good news. We're halfway towards the summer solstice I'm excited. That means summer is around the corner It's supposed to get warm this week. I Believe it So the snow has stopped it stopped around just north of Grand Forks, North Dakota Just like the weather people said it would I love it when they're right It's like a special treat Action going on over there on the left. What's that amber flashing lights on as a cop behind them? What is that? Well, it's a tow truck and there's a par CMP officer Somebody's getting their car unfounded It's an American American plates Oh, I wonder if they got a DUI That's usually One of the options that could be true If the police are there and cars being towed away, but there could be other things as well It could just be illegally parked there for too long or could have been stolen and abandoned there Or he could have been you know Going a hundred miles an hour instead of a hundred kilometers an hour It's happened happens actually Well, I don't want to say often but it happens Americans come up to Canada and they don't realize or they don't know or something that our measurements here are in metric So the speed limit on this road Is a hundred and ten kilometers an hour That is the same as 70 miles an hour So all it says is maximum 110 and when Americans come up here, they think that wow 110 miles an hour and they just fly down the highway and they end up getting pulled over by the RCMP That's the Royal Canadian Mounted Place They're not mounted anymore, but they haven't they just sort of held on to the name They get pulled over and get their vehicle and pound it and get deported That's a that's really fast a hundred and ten miles an hour is about a hundred and seventy kilometers an hour That's fast that's really fast So if they don't realize at that point that huh, maybe something's off here I don't think the speed limits a hundred and ten miles an hour if they still keep going hundred and ten Well, yeah, you know sympathy here You know that we're metric I don't like the fact exactly that we all switched over to metric myself But it is an easier measurement system to understand if you're brought up with it much easier to understand But Yeah, it's the heads up move your Change your speedometer over the kilometers now over to metric if you come up here or if you go to Mexico, too They're also in metric So so is the rest of the entire world except America and like two other countries There is an option I guess if you live in the US and you never have left the US in a vehicle You may not realize that your vehicle Has an option to show speed in kilometers an hour Do we make it home? Who's that over there? Yeah me What you got what you got it's too way way too busy for me way too busy and cool for me He's getting to the teenager stage Too cool for dad So last night when we got home Just to close up this log It was a pretty stressful night because we got home and realized that our roof was still leaking Which we expected it to we're getting it fixed in spring once the snow and ice is melted off, but We got a whole bunch of new leaks coming through here now Came through there earlier this year there look at all this here. It's bad. It's bad Matt there we got some coming through here and The worst part and we got home last night the most frustrating part of all in the bedroom There was a bed here leaked right on to our mattress soaked the whole thing No soap a good part of it. So that's That's where we're at right now Though the reason the roof is leaking is because the people who lived here before us redid the roof and they redid it wrong There's a part where our We have a porch right outside of here and that roof is at a different angle Then the house then the house roof and there's a little valley right above that, right? And they did it wrong. They didn't put a new tar paper or anything Underneath these shingles right the valley And what's happening is we're getting ice dams There's about four inches of ice that have built up that we didn't realize soon enough And it's pushing the water up underneath the shingles and now that it's getting warmer outside finally That's nice. It's melting and it's coming through the nail holes into our attic and coming through into our house So we've already talked to our lawyers about it because it's clear that this problem has been Here since long before we bought this property. So they're looking into what they can do legally with the previous owners Before we actually go after them because they sold us a house under false pretense They told us that there was no roof leaking and there's obvious evidence in the attic that this has happened before and they There's no way they didn't know about it We've talked to our insurance our home insurance and we were waiting for them to get back to us I'm gonna call them again tomorrow. Let's see what happens and other than that My cousin will who's driving truck right now. He used to be a roofer and We're gonna call up his old company because he says that they're the best and I believe him and Get them come give us a quote and see how much it'll cost them to replace our entire roof look into the attic fix everything in there and Once we have that quote, we'll be able to give that to the insurance as well because they're gonna be asking for that And if insurance won't cover it because it's an old house Where in terror because insurance companies are in it for profits. They're not in it to pay out then we'll probably be saving up this whole year as much as we can save save save save save and Hopefully be able to get it done later this summer Maybe in late August before it starts getting a little more rainy in September. What's that? It's not well. We probably could make it through another winter. I don't want to at all I don't want to go. I don't even want to go to the end of summer, but if we do go through another winter what I'd have to do is every time it snows get up on the roof and Literally take a brush or a broom and just Brush off all the snow so there's absolutely no snow on our roofs that no ice can damn Which means that you'd make less money that way. Well, I could still go on the longer trips Yeah, it's just I have to shovel the roof off when I get home. I can't wait for it to warm up Yeah, but the sooner the better That's still have to go on long trips. I still still go to work I was pointing that now I can't go on the truck because of this I gotta be home to empty the buckets and mop up the mess constantly and I Was gonna go this week Yeah, she was gonna come with us to BC and Now she's got to stay home and babysit the house Because when this water does leak through we can't let it sit on these floors for very long because it'll destroy the floors We already are gonna replace them, but I don't want to do them this year when we're already doing the roof So they need to be ripped up anyways because look at all these cracks between the Between the panels or the Yeah, words it's not well done, but it is a beautiful floor. We want something just like it Just maybe a little more waterproof. Yeah waterproof floor because when it leaks out of here Down here it gets into these cracks, right? And then the wood swells up and then you get these big ugly bumps in your floor and it looks terrible I think this is real wood. I think this is vinyl, but either way it still swells it The material still absorbs the water So that's what's going on this year for us got to redo the roof and then after that We got to redo the inside we do all of this drywall We do the whole roof and then eventually what we want to gut this whole house and and redo it all anyway over time Over time, but we're gonna start with the roof this year and maybe next year and maybe through the winter We can start inside the house Life right? Yeah, that thing they call life Likes to kick you around every now and then but we'll get through it So I'll see you guys tomorrow. I've been talking for long enough at the end of the day Take care tomorrow. We'll be headed in the truck again towards BC. Just mean diesel