 Have you ever had anyone pass you on the highway on the shoulder? It's happened to me more than once It's happened when I was going highway speed too Which freaked me out which I found to be very dangerous But most often you'll see this when traffic is backed up whether it's an accident or construction and people You know just want to get to the next exit or just want to get to their turn up ahead And they end up passing on the shoulder, right? I've always found that to be very dangerous in considerate Impatient rude the shoulders are supposed to stay open for emergency vehicles. And what happens if you? Come up to a point where you can't go any further down the shoulder Well now you're stuck on the shoulder and you're blocking the entire roadway so that any ambulances or emergency vehicles Cannot get through now to get to the accident or to get Anywhere get to the hospital wherever they're going Provided be very frustrating has this ever happened to you? It's Monday morning, and we're just making our way up to the truck No idea what's on the agenda yet, but I know that there's one thing on the agenda snow We got a lot of it this weekend, and you know what Manitoba really pulled through. I'm kind of impressed We got about a foot of snow Maybe more in some places But for on Steinback here, it's It's looking pretty good Boy, she's looking kind of cold this morning. Don't worry. We'll dust y'all get y'all ready for the day Happy Monday time to wake up a little close didn't I? Well, the Sun's joining us and just a few minutes. It looks like maybe about 30 minutes It'll be up in the sky trucks all warmed up here Gonna pull it out front Dust it off a little bit and Get ready For the first assignment, whatever it may be Well, we're not gonna need this old girl today We're gonna need that one We've gotten overnight to the paw Manitoba so what that means is I gotta get enough stuff from here. I don't need to take a lot with me Take my backpack. I Won't need to move by GPS over there or anything because it's already got Already got my phone. I don't want to move too much over. It's just for one night So the palm and a toba is about six and a half to seven hours from here I got to go pick up a trailer there and bring it back here However, I won't be able to get that done on my hours of service with my e-log So I'm gonna have to spend the night in the truck. I'll make it close but not Quite far enough. So instead of you know paying for a motel room for me I'm gonna jump in this Volvo over here unit 3070 and get it running I don't even got to move any equipment over because it's a van trailer that we're gonna go pick up It's got to go there hook on pull it back here. Super easy So forward a little bit further here Just so I can get my stuff in there. I'm gonna get the truck started Switch it up a bit today. I got the key right here I don't need you today. I wish I had a sleeper on it I've told them that it'd be nice just to have a coffin sleeper like a 36 inch sleeper on here This truck would be a lot more useful than I could do overnights like this in this truck And we wouldn't have to find me a truck like this To use for the day, but that's okay. I mean Whatever I see it's plugged in here. It wasn't plugged in before I did this So it's it's not that cold out right now. So it'll probably start just fine, but just in case I Wanted to plug in this truck looks very clean So we're gonna keep it that way This will be our home for today and a little bit of tomorrow. So this is what we got under the hood Volvo what kind of motor is it? Does it say Volvo? It'll say up there It's facing the other way I can't read upside down. I'm not a magician come on Okay, so we want to make sure all the belts are tight. We're gonna check this engine oil Lots of antifreeze coolant Fuel filter looks good Well, it's all over here. I can't read it from here either off the climb up there Figure out what kind of motor this is, but it is Volvo. What is it? Oh, it says it right here It's a Volvo D13 Volvo power so all you Volvo fans in my comment section are gonna be thrilled, right? Driving a Volvo today Now everybody's happy right drove a Peterbilt and a Volvo in one day. Everyone's happy Let's see if she'll start Come on. All right, girl Do you like me or do you not like me because you don't got much of a choice mean you are gonna be friends Okay, better cycle through her things Come on. Come on. Come on. There you go. Good girl. All right Good, it's got a build-up air pressure. It's been sitting out here for a while. Okay. I'm gonna let this truck warm up a little bit And I'm gonna go get my stuff and get ready for an overnight So I had to quickly run home grab my overnight stuff my pillow my blanket my sheets for the bed Toiletries, you know like toothbrush and stuff like that toothpaste Not too sure where we'll make it to tonight yet But I'm gonna get there pick up the trailer and get as far back as I can I Want to be back at our yard as early as possible tomorrow so I can still get in my full work day tomorrow yet We'll see all depends on what kind of weather situations we run into while we're on our way up there The pause sort of north to me is northern Manitoba, but it's not really northern Manitoba it's sort of it's right by the Saskatchewan border and sort of Not even halfway up the the province To the border with none of what it's not that far up there But it's like Canada's a big country Manitoba is a big province all of our provinces are very big So it's gonna be at least a seven-hour ride just to get there And that's not even halfway across the province But it's kind of a remote drive getting there so we don't want any problems We want to make sure we're prepared for everything Got all my stuff in here Ready to go. I'll make up my bed later once I need it for now We need to get going. We're gonna be bob-tailing up to the Paw Manitoba So hopefully it's not too slippery because you don't have too much traction without a trailer All right, we just stopped inheadingly Picked up some fuel and we're ready for the highway now Haven't gone on an overnight in like a year, right? And that's what we all we used to do is overnight and you know, we'd be gone for two three weeks at a time And I'm in a little bit of a different phase of life right now, I guess Really enjoying what I've been doing but there are times of course when I miss the highway and when an opportunity like this comes up where I could Take an overnight in a truck like this or even a little further if they sent me on Calgary the other day I was gonna go to Virginia actually. I think I told you guys about that, right? And it just didn't work out. The last time we came through Amaranth Manitoba here was when we Went to Dauphin with that big blue box The big blue trailer now. Oh, look at that. They redid their siding nice very nice Now the weather's a little different now Little bit more of that white stuff on the ground wilderness for the most part. There is a little town in here But it's amazing how quickly Manitoba just turns to wilderness as soon as you get north of Winnipeg or North of that line. There's not much going on in Manitoba, and that's why not many people know about Manitoba We are the the most flyover of the flyover provinces It was the RCMP station. We have a lot of forest here The weather has been very sketchy out here Well, actually it stopped raining just now as I started talking about it But it's been raining all the way up here and now the sun's starting to go down. It's like four o'clock and Of course everything's turning to ice So it is a good thing I took up this sleeper truck with me. I Was debating in the morning whether or not My regular truck would be able to make it there and back But we decided that I better take a bed with me because it'll probably be an overnight and We were right. There's no way I'll be able to make it all the way to the paw and back with this weather on my hours of service I Kind of wish they put that little sleeper on the other truck just in case you know for days like this And I don't got to switch trucks. We're lucky right now. We have a spare truck But if we didn't have a spare truck With it because there's no driver in this one That wouldn't have been able to do this or they would have had to pay for a motel It just makes more sense to always have a sleeper on the truck just in case And the truck I drive I mean there's plenty of space on the frame for it, right? And that was town. That was it I don't know what the main industry up here is in Amaranth. I mean, there's probably about a thousand people by just a rough estimate I wonder what the the The biggest industry is like what do people do for work up here? Not a lot going on It's got to be something right everybody's got pretty nice houses Most of them a lot of them have been redone recently now. It's a pretty secluded roadway all the way up till Pretty much to Dauphin. This is highway 50 in Manitoba. It feels good. Just Stretch our legs a little bit The ride is so different in these trucks than the Peterbilt that I'm in usually now That truck is so bumpy and so rough. I get so used to it. That's just normal to me now. I get into this truck. It's like, oh You're just like on a boat Just floating along the highway. It's like a Cadillac It's wonderful So now we're on highway 68 This is gonna take us pretty much up to Dauphin and from Dauphin we got a shoot up north So we're about four and a half hours from the pause still it's gonna be Dark obviously by the time we get there. It's almost dark already When's the last time I was in the paw? I Don't even know I don't even remember but I do remember the last time I was there We vlog going through there obviously and one of you guys actually ended up living there And I almost met you without even knowing it. I Remember that we almost ran into each other. I Think you saw your vehicle in my video or something. I don't know Yeah, so shout out to you guys in the paw Swinging through your town tonight. This is Swan River, Manitoba We're on the western edge of the province now not too far from Saskatchewan. That sign says the paw is that way The pause belt THE like the Space paw PAS the paw Manitoba I've been here quite a few times to Throughout my driving life So this is a straight shot north now for the most part into the paw from here It's about two to two and a half hours north. That's the co-op right there. I knew I recognized this town I've stayed the night at that co-op more than once. There's truck parking at the back. I think Yep There's that wash and then behind there. There's about five for six truck parking spots Yeah Me and diesel stayed there a couple of times and there's like a field behind it there Where I let him go and run around for a while last time we were here Good times Good times This is fun I'm gonna ask to do more of these I want to do more of these I Really miss the overnights. I don't want to go crazy and go back to being gone weeks at a time I like I said earlier. I got to be home I got responsibilities and I got appointments and everything at home and I got a good position But I really want to make myself available to do these overnights more often. I like it. Oh Okay, here's the paw snuck up on me a little bit all of a sudden lights I'm gonna pull into this parking lot here and Consult the Googles Trying to figure out where my trailer is I have an address. I just got to figure out where that address is. I'm gonna go hook on and I might Maybe I'll come back here and sleep here I don't know if I'm allowed to because it's a hotel parking lot, but there are other trucks here They're just obviously using the hotel. I don't know if they let overnight truckers just park Haven't had that problem to worry about in a while. All right for now Just got to figure out Where we're at and then I got to go and make my bed getting kind of Tired we've been driving for a while. It's late already. It's past my bedtime if I'm on my usual stuff Oh, it's almost 10 o'clock. Oh, they Okay, Google Tell me where my trailer is Where are you? The paw you're somewhere in there hmm One sec, I'll figure this out. We'll go get it Okay, I think it's more light on me. I'll stare straight at it. Okay Getting you says new. Those are really bright lights Wow, that's impressive. I really like this truck That would be very convenient to have a sleeper behind me because I would like to do these over overnights more often and That way I don't have to switch trucks right away, right? It takes quite a bit of effort and time to move all my equipment over from truck to truck and all my stuff from truck to truck We've got to figure out which one's available I'll worry about that tomorrow for now. Let's go get our trailer. It's on the north end of town at a grocery store currently we brought a load there and dropped it and Now the trailer is empty and I'm going to go retrieve it and bring it home This windshield is so big so are these windows There's so much visibility out of these trucks. I'm used to that tiny little cab. I Forgot what it was like to be in one of these trucks Feel like I'm just you know floating just gliding down the road Like I'm on a cloud so I got to make a left turn up ahead That's why I'm in this lane, and I believe that's a parking lane anyways Seems like everybody else is in this lane, too And I'd like to congratulate the paw on two traffic lights congratulations Way to go I Thought this was a Blockbuster at first the blue The blue sign there I guess made it look like the old blockbuster stores you guys remember those of course you do Maybe the young people don't I can still remember going to the store to rent a VHS movie cassette Or is it not called a videotape VHS? And you had to bring it back and they charge you money if you didn't bring it back on time And you always had to rewind it before you brought it back be kind or a wind remember that oh Wait, I want to turn right here, right And they got a McDonald's too well, this is a happening place I'm very proud of you guys should be here on the left I'm gonna have to make a left turn Oh, oh, I think I see the store over there now. How do I get over there? Before that corner, I have to turn in here somewhere is it here no Or maybe it is around the corner. Yeah, I guess it is Roll down my dirty windows. I can see where we're going Fancy old church there. Oh wait. Nope. Nope. That's not it yet. Not it yet. Nope How do I get over there? Should be where it is. Ah, there it is Trailer 5052 I'm supposed to pick up. There's two of ours right here It won't be this one. It'll be the one on the other side. I think or I Guess we'll roll around here and find out I don't know what they're doing all the way out here, but Don't worry. I'm here to save you Or I guess not save you I'm here to bring you back home. Okay, so 5052 I see 5056 here and And what trailer number is that 5052? Oh, so what is that one with the new logos? I thought 5052 was the old series with the old logos still because they must have changed it because 5056 has the old logos on it 5052 has already got the new ones. Okay Okay Cool found our trailer How am I gonna get it out of there? Are you kidding me? I'm gonna have to move this one first Hot in tarnation. Why would they put them in here like this? They must have had a reason I'm sure there was a very good reason Don't take a look at this Come with me everybody. So I got to grab that trailer and there's a curb there a curb here Can't go that way. I'm gonna have to go around this way. I wonder if I can make it. I don't think I can I mean I can try Yeah, maybe if I if I swing it all the way out here I don't watch this tree here go all the way around. I might be able to I Bet you I could because I could wiggle it back and forth and then point the back of the trailer Back over there into that corner and then make it around. I can do this. I don't have to move this one. I can get it out Say I'm some kind of genius, but I had a genius thought just now which might just make me a genius Instead of going all the way around That way around there and struggling to drag it around this trailer There's nothing behind us My brain is amazing sometimes watch Watch watch watch. Let me enlighten you Why would I drag it all the way around there? That tight corner When there's nothing behind me, why don't I just back up and then go out the driveway right? Way better idea and that worked great So they're unloading the other trailer right there right now I guess they do that overnight and we'll probably come get that tomorrow I'm guessing maybe I can come back and get that one because that'll be empty by the morning probably Come back and get that one. Maybe you got to bring them an old one. There's all the freight over there But yeah, I'm just gonna do the free trip on this thing now I just got it out of their way now because they needed the this trailer moves they get at that trailer So I just made sure everything was good backed it out just Just like well, what is it's like 180 feet or whatever Now I'm gonna input my pre-trip into here, sorry, I did my pre-trip over there I got an input into the computer now to confirm that I did it So that the government knows that this trailer has been given the green light By trucker Josh himself. So if anything goes wrong with it, it is my fault my responsibility I made it to Swan River But I went through quite the snowstorm to get here Whoo, I'm tired now I'm gonna have to go clean off the back Tail lights. I'm pretty sure take my gloves with me. I found a spot here at the co-op There should be okay here for the night. I'm out of the way All the parking where I wanted to park on the other side is full I'm not blocking anything in here off to the side Let's go take a look at how the back of this trailer looks like this Yikes Boy and it's windy Fantastic, I'm ready to go to bed. Oh Yeah They're not totally covered, but I went through some snow here. I'll put the glove on The right one on here. Okay, right one on the right hand That's the way this works Light man glad that Snowstorm isn't here. I got to Swan River and it cleared right up Time for me to set up the bed here and go to sleep. The weasel didn't come with me Not my regular truck not my truck didn't want to Take the liberty and bring me though. They probably wouldn't mind my boss often says I'll take the dog to work every day Can do a lot more of these Type of days even though I drove through a snowstorm today It was a lot of fun a lot of fun Let's make up this bed now go to sleep and we'll see you right here tomorrow morning