 Just about forgot you guys at home this morning. Shame on me Shame on me Already in the truck and down the road. I had to turn around and go back and get you You guys are still sleeping. We're on our way to drive some trucks. No idea what we're gonna get up to today I think the mistress should be out of the shop today. I Want to go talk to them yesterday and they said they should be done a glass night Which is a day early from what they had said On the ball. I like it. I thought it might take a day longer and I wouldn't have held it against them I mean, I know how it is you take things apart and it just thing takes longer than you expected usually, right? At least that's how it is for me but oh, they apparently know what they're doing because They told me they're gonna get it out to me a day early half the time Guess we'll find out when we get there I'm not sure if I got my truck done or not. I have to go check in the shop if it's not back here And we'll just start up 2025 and get that warmed up go over to the shop and see what's Just go home. Maybe it did take a little longer than expected. That's okay because they did say two days to start So 2025 right here off to the right There she is Ready to go Nice there she is the mistress Okay, let's go and get her on them. So we should have a new rear diff in here or The new insides My new brakes on the back there. I see that Snowfall before summer hit. Hopefully it's not gonna give us too much Georgia, I believe. No, wait. No, what I have for them came all the way from Minnesota The other stuff in my trailer that's going to lack to Bonnie This afternoon after I'm done in Gimli that stuff came from Georgia. I believe Here to the top of the earth Sort of north of here in Manitoba. This is the top of the earth in Manitoba You know in a lot of ways, you know, there's a lot of land up there. Yeah, I'm in their bus. Okay red light I guess not build up with ATVs Now I've delivered five of them into Winnipeg here already in Transcona. I got one to deliver up in Gimli and two I believe in Lack to Bonnie or lack to bunnet It'll take up a good chunk of the day one is 10 o'clock now being Gimli And take up a good part of the day I'm guessing we'll probably be back mid-afternoon sometime, but we won't waste any time I'll get back as soon as we can so that we can get a few things done if needed All right there bud green means go mr. Saskatchewan Saskatchewan plates anyway, so sometimes I have to park a little ways away from Where I bring them to but how to drive them across the parking lot then it's easier than you know Wiggling the big truck into these tight spaces convenient that we can just drive it off We hold these same things On flatbeds too sometimes, but those are in crates and disassembled So it's a lot more work for the customer to you know assemble it put it all together when we deliver it It's also on a flatbed and open deck open like Down the highway to all the elements Road salt rocks anything else can fly around on the highway the wind the weather This way It's assembled or partially assembled mostly assembled They can back them right on to the trailer and we can drive them right off Saves them time from having to assemble it and it also keeps them inside in enclosed trailer Okay, so our next stop is in Black Dabana in Manitoba And I had to quickly look up all of the spring restriction roads to make sure that we don't end up on a restricted road and get a big ticket So I think we can go down to Selkirk. Well, we're on highway eight here now if you're familiar with Manitoba I've got to get over to highway nine. There's an unrestricted gravel road highway 17 I believe down here. That'll take me over to highway nine, which is unrestricted But on highway nine to highway four go around the north side of Selkirk That'll take me to the 59 and I believe 59 I take down to the 44 I think there's a little shortcut like the 217 or something. Yeah, the four to the 59 go south down 59 And then there's a little shortcut here. That's apparently unrestricted We'll see what the signs say when we get there, but it's provincial 212 And that is supposed to take us a little shortcut down to highway 44 Which is gonna take us to sedans corner and then we take highway Milton Ridge Road highway 214 all the way up to Lack-de-Bonnie Lack-de-Bonnie is more so where the cottage country is yesterday or the other day I said that Excuse me. I said that pine falls is caught a cottage country. That's not exactly true Not exactly do the more close to Lack-de-Bonnie Sort of up in the you know Eastern side of Manitoba. That's where all the cottagers like to go. There's lots of lakes There are tons of freshwater lakes tons of fishing tons of big massive million dollar mansions There's a lot of NHL hockey players that have their getaway Cottages I would refer to them as more than a cottage, but I guess perspective Getaway cottages out in that area So they're very nice. They're very nice But we're not gonna be going into cottage country, I can't get a truck up there It's just narrow roads. We're gonna go to Lack-de-Bonnie and deliver the rest of this trailer And we'll pull this empty trailer back and see what they have for us I'll probably be back around three o'clock. I'm thinking You might have one more thing for us to do at the end of the day I love making people happy delivering freight Specifically delivering freight that makes people happy who wouldn't be happy to receive that The highway ain't there so go all the way back down to Winnipeg Okay Oh Go all out there today, huh? So I just delivered my last two two units into Lack-de-Bonnie here and I delivered this big unit. It was like a six-seater, right? This truck keeps Yeah, it's distracting me This truck keeps groaning. It's weird. It's the hood Whatever but the the owner here or the person who Was receiving this big six-seater side-by-side ATV it was actually theirs They got her for themselves and for their kids and she was telling me about how How excited her kids were gonna be when she comes home with this new machine today and they're gonna love it And they're gonna have the best weekend ever and best summer ever That's the kind of stuff I live for that makes me so happy to be a part of that You know their kids have probably been waiting unless if it's a surprise for the kids I didn't ask that that would be even better But either way just to know that these kids out here in Lack-de-Bonnie You're gonna have the best summer ever Because their mom and dad got them this big side-by-side machine and I was the guy that delivered it brought it all the way here Well, I didn't bring it all the way here We picked it up in the US Took good care of it brought it all the way up here to Canada Brought it to our yard I hooked on to it and I brought it that final stretch to the customer and just to see the smile on their face And hear the story of how it's gonna make make their summer so great That's awesome That's the feeling of being a trucker, you know Bringing people the stuff they especially when you're bringing them fun stuff like we deliver fun stuff Well, sure we deliver all the boring stuff too on just the boxes and skids that Whatever it's important, but it's not exactly exciting like life-changing right, but we we specialize in specialty freight like like these ATVs And you know classic cars and sports cars and exotic cars And just to see the face on the on the customer when you bring them their toy How happy they are? For 10 years now, it's never gotten old. I Love that. I love that feeling. I love seeing their happiness and being a part of that. Okay. Anyways enough Let's go home. What's the time now? Oh got a fancy pocket for my phone now because I'm a fancy gentleman distinguished. Yes One second one second Yes We have a pocket for our phone distinguished, yeah, I Think we heard that on tech talks over my wife heard it She started saying that all the time whenever something fancy whenever we'd feel fancy You'd always be like, yes, look at us so distinguished now. I can't stop saying it Uh This was minus eight up here right now. That's why it feels a little cold. It is 226 let's see how far away from work we are hour and a half we left right now Head north on drifter's bend. Oh This took a lot longer than I thought it would we're only gonna be back around like four o'clock. I Told them three o'clock. I better I better fix that The daylight savings time happened or where did an hour ago? I drove straight here. I misjudged Okay, we will fix that right now I have such a huge gap between my cab and the trailer It's the wind swooshes around my cab And just hammers the front of the trailer. It's like a big billboard that I'm pulling behind me It's definitely worth it Looks awesome. I like it anyway. No way to speed. Ain't just there There's a bunch of lakes And sort of the place to be will one of the many places to be In summertime one thing you'll know or you'll realize about Manitoba if you ever come here is that we we thoroughly enjoy our summer season Thoroughly better than most people who get to enjoy summer all year round, I think At all of these lakes and everything as soon as everything warms up Everybody's outside Everybody wants to either be camping or on the lake or on a boat or fishing We're very outdoorsy people We're no exception this summer. We're gonna be spending a lot of our time pretty much every weekend at our land Beginning to develop it and also helping my parents develop their lot around the corner Wait and see Pretty much exactly a full day for this rose a nice rounder today. I didn't waste any time anywhere So it was just everything timed out just perfect Took longer than I thought it would but it always does, you know, it always takes longer than I think There's the home for our trailer All right, let's get her in there. We have here. I'd love to show you guys inside But I don't touch the cars unless I have to She's a forward just one of the many interesting cars that we move for our Very happy customer. I would love to be there When he receives his car Just to see his smile. He's moving it from one point to another I don't know if if they bought it and then had us move it from where he bought it from to here Maybe he's a snowbird You know, you can still go and visit the US. You can fly in there But you can't drive in you can have your car shipped commercially So you can go down there to your summer home in Florida, let's say where everything's open and Have your car shipped to Florida and look at this you're in Florida and you got your own classic car to roll around in Nothing's stopping you if you just you know So Yes, no birds go back and forth and they don't want to drive their expensive cars back and forth So that's where we come in we take really good care of them We take pride in it and like I said before the best feeling in the world is when you deliver a Nice shiny toy to the customer and see their smile and give them the keys and say there you go, bud We'll see you next time. I love this job. I love trucking Let's go home. All right, everybody. Come on in the yard in the yard. Let's go go go. No, not here diesel in the yard Frank, go on. You're gonna know that way. Go on. All right. So Brett is working this evening. She'll be home later. Oh The lake back here has actually gone down quite a bit. It's been cold today. So it's frozen again Do we can walk on it now? Oh? Oh So Well thin in places This is all water. So we have a low point in our yard here Here goes all the way over there We're going to fill this up and level it off pretty much with this Carport here because that's raised up. We want to get it all about that height. That's not so bad It's already going down. It was worse a couple days ago and then back here this also It's all ice now, but big pool of water So it's not so bad We'll get it fixed up a couple of loads of dirt get dumped on the driveway and we'll wheelbarrow it in All fixed Think I'm about to break through. Okay. It's thicker again here. Oh, there it goes See if we can get back over here without falling through