 Think we've made it through ice yesterday. It was like 20 degrees. That's like 60 I think but it was nice and warm his t-shirt weather outside and from the looks of the forecast It's all headed down from here down down down to the dreaded season The season that must not be named. No sun at all anymore now when we get to work The sun is hiding from us From what I heard it's hiding in Australia We'd like our son back, please. I'm gonna go hook up to a flat roll tight Head north but putt putt my way out of here We're doing really good for time. We're pretty early. We'll probably arrive to our destination to boat half an hour early this morning Be there ready for them when they're ready for us They'd probably be back here around noon Somewhere over here is a flat roll tight for us to take. I see this one here this blue one But I don't want this one, but I don't have to take it. I have a choice. I'm gonna take one with a door in the front That's this one right up here Perfection. I'll see you when the sun joins us Both right now when I have nothing in my trailer. Maybe I'll go pick it up tomorrow on the agenda for when I get there But that happens at least that would have been on time, right? Nope. No take that back I would have been early track to be about 15 minutes early by the time they called so I'd lost a little bit of time Going around the city with the traffic I'll consider that on time within 15 minutes You don't want to be too early some places you get there too early and they'll turn you away like get out of here We don't need you here yet Then we're busy loading other trucks and we've got a small yard or something like that depending on the place Where you go, but This place is usually pretty good. I go up there all the time the shippers know me. I know the shippers They're great guys. I like them. They're good to talk to and if I'm early I know where I can go park and be out of their way until they need me most part They're usually usually ready for me earlier than expected I've got a Jeep behind me. Okay. He's making a left turn. Thank goodness Man, he was like six inches from my bumper for a while It doesn't really bother me because I'm like 75 feet up from that. I'm way up here in the cab But it worries me for their sake because if I have to slam on the brakes say if a deer jumps out in front of me or Something for whatever reason I got a slam on the brakes. I don't know if they would live through that Like they're gonna plow into the back of my trailer. I'm barely gonna feel it I'll feel a little bit of a thumb and it'll push me forward a little bit obviously like but it's not even gonna give me whiplash I'll probably just want to oh shoot. What was that? Look back and see a car crumpled to bits behind me half underneath my trailer, you know And not very likely that they would live to tell the tale about that. That's what worries me. I don't want that to happen to me. I Can't imagine There you go. You see I don't know how to get out of the truck properly Okay, so I'm just unhooked from This roll tight that we're not gonna need anymore Set her down here nicely with all her empty friends I've got to go pick up Some tankers a super be actually so two trailers connected to each other a super big from I think it's on the north side of Winnipeg It's gonna be a bit of a tanker yanker for the rest of the day Actually, I doubt this will take the rest of the day, but it is a new assignment anyways Let's get going sort of I heard he had like my mindset. Are you guys like this too? You already sort of you've got your assignment. You know what you're supposed to be doing You sort of get your mindset on it and you get in the zone Like we're headed this way. We're gonna pick this up get back around this time and then everything sort of It's the rug gets swept out from underneath your feet and you sort of do a backflip and luckily we're landing on our feet and we're grabbing another Grabbing another assignment right away, but not what I was expecting to be doing today, but The point is we're still trucking so At least there's that I've got two tanks behind me. That makes me a super tanker yanker Super be tanker yanker So I'm hooked up. I got to bring this just down the road not very far They just need to move So I had to back this out of where I picked it up there and I Had to sort of do a u-turn so I had to back in like this and then come out like that So I got some good Backing experience with super bees today. I actually got the hang of it pretty well. I think I Got it pretty good There we go We're super trucking today He trucker Josh It's just empty and it there wasn't any hazmat in it It's not used for that so I don't kind of worry about any placards or anything back them in again where I'm Bringing them to and then I have to separate them And I have to bring the front one to a different part of the yard and the rear one got to leave it We're at the back somewhere. So we'll figure it out when I get there, but we'll be We'll be practicing our backing skills again Arrow header wouldn't wouldn't farmers usually use a wider header. I don't know I'm not a farmer But I am a farmer on farm simulator 20 20 or is it for no I got farm simulator 2019 here comes Mr. Farmer You also show you how much horsepower he has all together now pretty impressive It's gonna have to get a new oversized load sign though this truck could go a lot faster, but Company policy we're all limited at what they say is a hundred and one kilometers an hour But my GPS says that it's 99 kilometers an hour, which is either way it's about 60 to 62 miles per hour Okay, so I'm gonna separate these here, and it's actually gonna be pretty easy I don't have to back up the whole super be here, which is a kind of convenient for me I'm not the best at backing up super bees, but I Get the job done. I get the job done one of these days. I'll get to show you my Not so superior skills I don't do this every day. Otherwise, I'd be a little more confident with it, but I'm confident enough to tell you that Give me a spot to back it into and I'll back it in there. I'll get it in there I'm just not gonna promise you how long it'll take I'll get it in there. Okay. I'm getting better every time. I don't haul these every day I always very rarely so when I do I really like the opportunity to practice so that I can master it But it's it's sort of pretty straightforward We just sort of follow the trailers back and this is how they're connected here You see this rear trailer is connected to the frame of the front trailer. There's no Jeep in the middle or anything here. There's no Buggy in the middle here. Whatever you call that the pikes have that's why you can't back up a pike with 253 foot trailers because they actually have a separate fifth wheel on a separate axle here that connects on a hitch to the front trailer So there's one two points of pivot A two pivot points here then on a super B There's only one pivot point on the rear trailer. So one and two at the front two all together Where I was on a pike there'd be three you guys get it And then there was one so I just got to pull this rear one Around to the other side a little baby baby one They both they can't fit both the tanks in their loading area at the same time So they'll fill this one up today And they can switch them out next time they want to fill that the front one and they'll reconnect them together And we'll take them somewhere else. It's pretty pretty simple super bees Like the combination of trailers I was pulling there before They are as Canadian as hockey and maple syrup You see them all the time up here. They're everywhere. Everybody's pulling super bees Super bees everyone knows what a super bee is you can haul a lot more freight a lot more weight but apparently They're not very common in the United States. That's that makes sense because I've never seen them down there apparently you can use them in Michigan for some reason and You can bring them into some US states from Canada But only at the legal weights of a regular trailer or something like that, I don't know But you don't see them very often across the United States So I was today years old when I learned that super bees Are a Canadian thing. That's that's something we do all the time Flatbed behind me now. We're gonna go pick up a little lumber almost where we dropped off that super bee I had to run back to the yard grab a flatbed and Whoops, this is not my turn off yet Not my turn off yet. There we go. We're gonna turn at the next one instead. That one's way better. This is a new road here off me Confusing me There we got to go pick up a little lumber and bring it back to the yard There's a driver waiting to take it to Missouri All right, I'm on my way home. Sorry to make you wait all the way till the end now to for our topic of discussion I Think I'm gonna name this vlog new truck versus used truck If I remember I might call it something else, but The article I'm referring to today comes from truck news calm. It's a Canadian truck news outlet So it applies a little bit more to me, but I think it'll apply to everybody in general Now on October 19th in their economy and equipment section There's an article called Continuing continuing to see truck prices increase or use truck use truck prices increase that That's what they're calling it So they're saying here older trucks are selling for more money at the auctions the company reports as owners hang Onto equipment longer due to supply chain disruptions affecting new vehicles. You need to hire a little bit of an editor What's going on here a couple of spelling grammar errors here, oh well Okay, it's they say transportation equipment prices are hitting new record levels while medium earth moving or aerial Vocational truck prices also continue to climb Doug Olive says senior vice president of Ritchie Bros. Auctions For the quarter ending in September 30th truck that was a third quarter of 2021 truck tractors were fetching 17% more than the same period last year in Canada with vocational trucks commanding a 23% premium that lags the US increase of 46% and 35% respectively, so they've gone up even more in the US New truck or use truck? Now we have fairly new equipment here that we have for our highway drivers a fairly new Within the last couple of years they got all the latest of the latest in them And we that's because we want our highway drivers to have good reliable equipment when they're on the highway That's not going to break down That's as comfortable as possible and as fuel efficient as possible to save as much money as possible For the city guys like me one second. I'll show you my truck here Yeah, old school old school old school This is The other driver my co-worker his truck is old school like ours, but it's in the shop right now So he's driving one of our Western stars that we have. Let's go take a look If you guys have been watching my channel for a few years, you'll remember when I was in a Western star the unit was 3080 I was a Western star for about three years just like this. This is actually unit 3081 These trucks are a little bit older already A little bit of stone chips in there One of our highway units, this is one of our the older model of highway units that we have They're slowly all being replaced with Lately they've been buying Peter belts Like the one I drove just before I came off highway. That was a nice nice Peter belt, but this is Like a highway tractor that has more of the bells and whistles and our city trucks are old school You'll probably notice that it's because it's much cheaper to have these as city trucks Getting a little cold out there already so these city trucks, we have one new Kenworth here. I'll show you over here one newer Kenworth day cab and The rest are pretty much all older Vehicles some of our regional trucks are like the volvos that I used to drive those are those are pretty new as well I think it was what a 2013 no 2014 our highway trucks are all newer than that, but I'm gonna show you here. You have one newer Kenworth And I'll explain what I'm showing you here in a second. Oh The Sun is gonna be right in our way here. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. You ready? It's a dark hole And it's ours these trucks here from what I've done my research on a day cab like this runs for about a hundred and forty thousand Dollars And it's just a day cap You don't make much money with a day cab daycaps are more of convenience running around the city bringing loads here for the highway drivers You make more money with your highway units, right? That's a lot of money to invest into a city unit the city unit that I drive is long been paid off and you know, I'm not in finances here or anything so I don't want to speak out of turn here and Tell you any wrong information, but I'll tell you something. I do know a hundred and forty thousand dollars for this and it's just a plain old Kenworth, right? Not nothing too fancy or special about it, right? I'm gonna answer your special. It's a nice truck But you know, it's pretty plain. It's a truck. We'll do the job you could turn my truck into a You could completely overhaul it repaint everything turn it into a brand new truck plus Overhaul the entire engine top to bottom make that a whole brand new truck. That's gonna last another 15 years For less than half the cost of buying one of these so why would You know why spend money on a brand new truck when you can just overhaul and restore an old truck for half the price, right? So that's sort of where the market's at Sort of makes sense, right and these city trucks. They're older. Yeah, but we don't go very far I mean the worst happens you break down. You're not far away It's not like you got a range of hotel room for me or anything Come pick me up and we'll bring it back to the shop. We'll get it fixed But these trucks don't break down. That's the thing about older trucks older trucks don't break down because they're more reliable They don't have all these new electronics and emission stuff in there. They last longer. They're more reliable and They're a lot cheaper to keep going So a lot of companies are just opting to keep their old equipment and just restore it and Right, can you blame them a lot cheaper? That just doesn't work for if you run, California though So If you run California, your trucks got to be new because they may they work that into their laws there So my truck would never run on California roads That's a long ways away from here. Why would I be way out in California with my day cap, right? So the topic of conversation is what do you prefer? You know, there's advantages to having new equipment new trucks That's why we have our highway trucks being like new top the top notch And there's advantages to just restoring and using old equipment. What do you think is better? What's what's your favorite? Way to do it. I guess that depends on The situation and where you are if you're in California, obviously, you don't have a choice. You have to have new equipment But me I like the old-school trucks You know, I wouldn't want a brand new truck like this $140,000 you just get a plane truck you can make Completely restore those old trucks and make them look mint like show truck worthy for half the price of that So Yeah, the the prices of trucks are going everything's going up. I know that's all I keep telling you guys The prices are going up tires are going up fuels going up The overall price of the truck is going up and I have a good buddy of mine who used to be a roofer and He's getting his roof redone and we're talking about you know shingles and stuff today We're on the phone talking and he told me shingles as well. They're going up 50% You know the highest increase in one year like ever So it's not just trucking. It's everything. It's It's the world we live in right, you know, something's got to give something's got to give after these last couple of years We all knew it was gonna happen, right? You can't shut the entire world down and Then just start it up like that, you know It's it's going to take a while for us to get the wheels turning on everything again The economy is gonna take a while to rev back up and let's hope that we're moving towards that way I've got a lot of catching up to do. We're very very busy as is everybody else But I That's good, right lots of work We'll be okay. We'll catch up and you know what it'll be better than before I really hope so anyway