 Well, good morning everybody. We're at the gate to get unloaded and we've got issues this morning My batteries are dead. I shut the truck off overnight. I woke up my my bunk heater was going my engine heater was going so the engines actually warm But I went to go start the engine I don't have enough juice to turn over the engine though. The engine is warm So somewhere I had a drain overnight and I lost all power my batteries There's two guys lined up behind me already at least two or three So they're probably gonna jump in front of me. I called the tow truck to come boost me already It'll be quick once he gets here because I've got the two I've got the two knobs just underneath my hood that connect to my battery so he can just connect his cables right onto that So it doesn't have to open up my battery blocks or anything But hopefully that'll work and hopefully he gets here quick because my engine is cooling off as we speak And once this engine cools off too much, it'll be much harder to crank it over. They said he's on his way right away, so Hopefully Hopefully it doesn't take too long not the start to the day that I wanted it's been That kind of month. I don't know why I've never had problems with my batteries before But I woke up and Beneath here I Have this here, right? It's a little cigarette lighter plug, right? Is it focusing on it? Of course not But that shows me my battery voltage And it's showing me he's bouncing between 11 and a half and 10.8 and it was flashing at me Which isn't good. That's not a full battery. We want to be closer to 12, right? You think it'll still turn over with 11.6, but Not enough juice So hopefully I'll get here soon. I don't like your attitude. I don't like your attitude lately so they came out Tiny tow truck. I told them all I need is just a bit of juice to turn the engine over the engines already warm Shouldn't take much. I just don't have quite enough to get the engine going like okay So they sent out a pickup truck like a little tiny tow truck right for cars. I Had my battery posts beside my engine exposed already my hood opens all he had to do is click Connect his cables real easy right out in the open Engine started up right away. All right less than 30 seconds like No more than one minute the truck was running. He had his cables already rolled up He was ready to go. So then the bill came You guys want to take a stab at how much the the bill was for that boost We have to remember that this is a heavy diesel truck. So it's in a different class apparently I've learned this today Base rate is a hundred and fifty US dollars just for them to come boost me On top of that for them to drive across town, there's a $20 fuel surcharge and then taxes So in total that boost that took less than a minute From a pickup truck that's you know made for towing cars like a little tiny tow truck 177 US dollars it came out to 246 Canadian dollars. I'm just gonna let that sink in for a second It took less than a minute But because I'm classed as a heavy truck I get charged more even though it's just as easy to boost me as it is to boost a car You just connect the battery. It's pretty simple. Can it can it That's all we had to do and they drove away In a car tow truck like they didn't even send the heavy wrecker out I usually that charge would mean that they sent the wrecker out right because it's more expensive to run the big wrecker big diesel fuel big costs the course Well, I said the little pickup truck out so that was a little disappointing and A bad way to start the day, but let's try not to let that get me down all day lesson of the day things are expensive My friend Trevor in front of me here He was telling me how he just had a bunch of engine problems He had a new engine installed in his truck and then they had a bunch of problems after they installed it They took months getting it like to running properly and then recently he just had his engine like pop on as well Just like mine except mine was an easy fix compared to his His they replaced a whole bunch of stuff that was on warranty thankfully, but his time is not on warranty, right? But the whole bunch of stuff didn't fix the problem And then they checked all the wiring wiring was corroded So they replaced all the wiring that fixed the problem For a while and then the engine like came back on and then he's had to get that looked at again So he's had a bunch of issues too. I've had some pretty minor issues compared to a lot of drivers out here A lot of them have had it a lot worse But that is the state of trucking. I love my job. I love what I do, but some days are really not so good So this day started off not so good, but let's make the rest of it good. Hopefully by the time we get in there My batteries will have enough charge. I can shut the truck off. If not, I'm just gonna make sure someone has cables around here And I can get a boost before I go One more thing on the list of things to worry about, right? So I'm empty now. I have a coffee and I'm ready to head out. My next load is in Bemidji About an hour and 45 minutes from here. So My loading appointment is this afternoon and it's 9 a.m So I'm gonna see if they can get me loaded a little bit early. That'd be nice So I learned some lessons today. First of all The guys here are so nice in Brainerd where I unload all the time They know me and they know my name and everything. I come in here all the time. They're great guys And oh Calm down Karen. Hold on my movie. It's already yelling at me so I go in there I let them know so my Batteries were dead overnight and I'm just charging them up But you want me to hide a little bit outside charge it up or or come inside if I come inside if they Don't start you a booster cables. He's like, oh, no, no, you're good. We'll get you go We'll get you going and you know what next time just come in and ask me I'll come out and boost you hindsight 2020. I guess I should just gone in gone in and talk to them I just didn't want to bother them. I figured man. They're probably busy getting ready for work. They just got here in the morning I don't want to get them to come out here and boost me so That would have been cheaper But lesson of the day is have a pair of booster cables in your truck with you all the time Trucker Josh didn't do that. Trucker Josh wasn't prepared Trucker Josh knew better. Trucker Josh is very bad. It's a bad boy. I Have these I have booster cables at home in my shop And I thought many times I should put those in the truck I should put those in the truck. I should put those in the truck And I never did because if I had them here with me my friend Trevor who was in the truck behind me Never in front of me there He was here at the same time. He would have gladly boosted me if I had Cables and have cables So that is a $250 Canadian or $177 American Lesson that I can teach you right now so that you don't have to spend that money when you have dead batteries in the morning Have a set of booster cables with you long ones that they can reach a long ways, right? And before you go and spend the money, you know Chances are there might be a kind trucker or a kind friend or a kind person around you who will give you a quick boost I would do it if someone came to me and said, hey man, my batteries are dead. You might give me a boost I got cables. I just need a little bit of juice from you Of course I've been there. This isn't my first time having dead batteries in the morning It's happened to me many not many times. It's happened to me before One that sticks out in my mind is in Kamloops, British Columbia while ago when I was driving that Volvo But it's happened to me before and when someone needs your help with something like that. It's super simple Let me give him a helping hand so That's my lesson for you guys get a pair of long like a long set of booster cables with long cables So they can reach your truck and way out past your truck to the next truck the longest ones You can find the longest ones you can store in your truck I'm gonna go and get a new pair as soon as I can. I have a short pair at home, which Probably wouldn't be too long the truck would have to be right up beside me But if you're gonna buy a new set get a nice long set. That's your lesson for today. 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They told me just to back up Right up to here close by so they can pick it up still And they'll load it on me. I'll tie it down. I'll be out of here. They're expecting me That's how I know where to park and what to do. I don't have to go into the office They say just wait in the truck and they'll be out here. I Like that. It's nice and warm in the truck. I like that option wait and see Still nervous about turning my truck off now. I'm just gonna let it go and I was still pretty cold outside is about minus 20 Celsius One second here my American friends. What is minus 20 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 20 degrees Celsius is equivalent to minus four degrees Fahrenheit. There you go It's minus freezing outside They're gonna leave the truck going running until we get back Probably until I can get it back into my shop so I can test the batteries see what's going on I've never had my batteries go dead overnight just from having my bunk heater on I've left my bunk heater on for 24 hours before and then run my engine heater for two hours to warm up the engine And then started it up. No problem with plenty with having my cooler running in here and my phone charging I've always been good until now. So somehow the cold got into my batteries now and cause problems for me this morning $250 Still haven't told my wife that one yet She'll know by the time you see this, but yeah, that's $250 Gone into the wind into someone's pocket. I still can't believe that that guy had a pickup truck And it took him 10 minutes to get to me $22 fuel surcharge for 10 minutes of driving to get to me and another hundred and fifty dollars us Just to click click his cables onto my battery posts 30 seconds turned it like immediately as soon as the power was connected to my truck cranked it over started up $177 us What can you do other than laugh at that right that is oh, but then I talked to the guys inside oh Man, and they warned me like oh shoot man. If we had known we would have told you not to call them. I'm not cool You're cold So here's my load rough cut 4x4 hardwood No tarp nicely tied down Ready to rock and roll Do one walk around here make sure I haven't forgotten anything haven't left any of my equipment On the trailer bed or anything Everything looks good. I Tied it all down the bands around the wood and the bundles are all still intact None of the dunnage is loose Okay, I don't know about you. I'm starting to get a little chilly. I'm gonna go sit in the warm truck So we're taking this up to Winnipeg Somebody in Winnipeg wants this good hard American lumber as hard American woods going to Canada And bring it there to Winnipeg and it's more morning after I deliver this I have a reload waiting for me That is being delivered into Saskatchewan The following week they'll tie it down Bring it to our yard nice secure yard Leave it there go home for a reset and I'll get going so I'm filming this on a Thursday, so tomorrow will be Friday when all this is happening go home for Saturday And half Friday and Sunday morning I'll head out again get into Saskatchewan deliver to near Lang banks of Saskatchewan been there quite a few times And we'll see what's after that I'll start the week off with a bang and hopefully we can make up for some lost revenue I'm gonna staying at the Flying Jay in Headingley, which is on the west side of Winnipeg Just around the corner from where I have to deliver this wood It's worth going up to the northwest side of Winnipeg So I'm just take Canada way Don't look at cops sitting there on the left sneaky sneaky. They're not even anybody in there. Oh, it's a trick. It's a decoy Well, good thing I wasn't speeding either way Still got me to look down at my gauges hours to get up to Winnipeg. It's not that far I Should have everything delivered and my next load loaded by around about noon tomorrow My loading appointment is 10 a.m. So I have to be empty and over there on the west side of Winnipeg near oak bluff By 10. I'm guessing we'll have myself loaded and ready to go before noon So I should be home at a decent time tomorrow We'll see what happens. I mean about this last night, right the plan never goes according to plan That was true again this morning when I woke up and couldn't start my truck. I gotta go test my batteries Why did they get drained? Was it just the cold weather? Was it a fluke accident? Like Are the connections not clean? I just had it serviced like two weeks ago. So they cleaned everything off It's just been like that cold night. It's like I'm stopping in St. Adult, which is south of Winnipeg. I'd rather get around this city section of Highway at night less traffic to deal with in the morning It's only like 6 30 in the evening So I shouldn't get a pretty decent parking spot and heading Lee that that's one of the reasons I was gonna stop and say it off just to make sure I got me a good decent spot We'll be there at what seven o'clock We're still gonna decent spot. I think it's a big truck stop there So I should be able to find one where I'll be safe overnight Safe from people backing into me. Let's hope I changed my mind I'm gonna stay an oak bluff. There's a Timmy's here I get Timmy's in the morning then and there's space to park at the back here That works for me Hopefully everybody's taken up. Oh, look there. We already got two guys taking them four spots That's that's nice. So there's a little snow on the ground covering up the lines people forget How much space they need they look at that could have fit another truck in there easily and they parked a little nicer But pay attention to where you're parking folks Don't take up more space than you need others of us that would like to park and sleep two keys Park right here beside this western star who's also taken up two spots. Oh Good thing I'm not too busy yet, right, but it's gonna fill up tonight that guy is stuck He can't back up because that little little Sorry tongue twisted right now at the back of his trailer there is extra set of axles See how they're jackniving on him so he can't back up Why can't I think of the name for that right now? I know that you guys will Get my comment section. Let me know Those axles right there the extra axle that I see they're jacknavig so we can't back up very much further But it can't go forward either Because I guess he's going a slightly uphill. He's got a heavy load. I mean honestly, what can I do to help him at this point? I can't pull him out with my truck trailer. I Might damage my truck or trailer doing that He could call a tow truck. I had to call one this morning. It was expensive He's trying. I don't know if he doesn't have tire chains But he's using chains from that he's like I was saying to secure his loads that wrapping them around his tires I could damage some stuff, but I mean if that works it works, right? You can get some kitty litter or sand put that underneath your tires out probably his best bet right now They do sell it inside the store right there. So what I would do if I was him instead of Is he gonna move is he gonna move no Same thing instead of kind of messing up my tires with the load chains I would just go inside buy a bag of kitty litter Throw that in front of my wheels and underneath my wheels to see if that would give me traction But who knows maybe he's tried that already. I think he just got out Yeah, I figured he'd be able to do it. He was rocking back and forth like six feet or any I figured he'd get it both to put the camera down and run out there and see if there was something I could do He's he got out Didn't even take him that long well less than less than 10 minutes there That's the kind of driver you want on your team problem-solving in all weather conditions Right on So thanks for watching today everybody. It was a fun day every day every day is fun We are not going to have battery issues tomorrow morning. It is really cool tonight It is down to about minus 22 minus 23 so the truck is gonna stay on I'm not risking everything freezing up over night again And then I'll get my batteries tested as soon as I can I guess Hopefully we don't have any further issues At least there's no blizzards today, right? Hopefully there's no blizzards tomorrow The plan for tomorrow is just to go down the road Unload this lumber come back pretty much right here You know bluff right in the same neighborhood where I'm staying at Pick up my next load and just go home, but I can't deliver till Monday anyways So thanks everybody again showed up to my members out there really appreciate it I'll see you guys tomorrow. Please be safe out there