 Good morning everybody, it's Tuesday. I didn't film a full vlog yesterday my first day in my new position I was focused more on well, there's a lot of stuff going on And it was a little bit of an abnormal day I think but I guess we'll find out what my regular days will be like. I got to work the truck wouldn't start Then I had a bunch of meetings in the morning, you know making sure the payroll goes to the right account and Going over my contract and all this other stuff and then I was supposed to have a social media meeting in the afternoon but I went to go Bring Andy the Kenworth guy that t680 and then he gave me a ride over to beaver Volvo where I picked up that Volvo and I brought that back but that Volvo wouldn't start so I was stuck there for a couple of hours Well, they were trying to get it started because it was too cold and by the time I got back to the yard It was too late for our social media meeting. So I didn't film the whole vlog I sort of want to wait to put anything together until I sit down with them and we agree on everything and You just have a chat at least And that's supposed to happen today like late morning afternoon. So if you're seeing this everything went really well There she is Needs a bath but that's okay. We'll get to it. We'll get to it It's not that cold out today. It's minus three Celsius, which is Close to freezing point in Fahrenheit, whatever that is just above freezing So it won't be that much of a cold start a Little bit. Let's go see how she fires up Good morning, my new friend We are going to be really good pals Yes, oh Okay It's ready for this cold start at all. It's not cold enough today. My interior light doesn't work there Any of these things work? Maybe there's a trick to it Are they all burnt out? Okay, there must be something wrong with the switch somewhere. I'll figure it out I'm gonna get the interior lights on in. Oh this maybe no, no, that's for those Could be that They're all just burnt out. Look at this Are they there they are you remember these guys? So we have a 53 foot flatbed here. We've got to bring out to Eli Manitoba It's probably about a an hour drive from here. I'm just gonna make sure there's air and all the tires make sure all the lights are working We're gonna drop this there So it'll be loaded I was working on this thing next start to the day. I Don't think I'll be loading there. I think I'm just dropping it there, but I Don't got much equipment to tie a load down right now So if they want me to actually load I'll have to double check and make sure it was off to Grab some extra equipment before I go. Oh, let's make sure that there's air in the suspension back here It's one thing you always want to make sure a lot of drivers when they drop a trailer We'll drop the air first and that saves the the landing gear up front from being Bent and such Usually on the driver's side here, you know, it probably help if we charge the trailer first the trailer The trailer will be much more pressurized If you first pressurize it I'll walk around again make sure we don't hear any air leaks back here I didn't hear any at the front of the trailer there at the glad hands So you hear that noise That's not an air leak. That's the system charging with air pressurizing see these bags are still Empty you want to see those things fill up with air before you pull this thing anywhere sounds like everything is Working just fine here and the needle is starting to move up very slowly, but it is starting to move up So that's good that means there is pressure to the trailer Yeah, we'll give it a minute here to fill all the way up And we'll take off off to Eli we go Can you see it now the trailer deck is lifting and you'll see in here that Their bags are now filling with air You don't want to pull this trailer away or any trailer away Until you have air in those bags You can make some very costly Damages if you don't make sure that the trailer is filled with air before you leave Like I was saying before a lot of drivers drop the air when they drop the trailer to save the landing gears That doesn't twist the landing gear Some people do some people don't just make sure you always double-check on by next by next week It's supposed to go all the way up to 10 degrees above zero. So it'll be pretty warm by next weekend So I'm gonna wait till all of that mess is gone because in this season. It's impossible to keep anything clean I'll wash the windshield, but you know by the end of the day it'll look like this again So why don't we get a chance today? We'll scrub her scrub the windshield down at least making this Pete She's old, but this is this is the good old. This is pre everything Annoying that they put on the new trucks, you know pre def pre everything transmission wheels go Just put diesel fuel in it and give her that's the kind of truck this I like it the steering wheel here Is like the only thing I could say it needs a little bit of work west of Winnipeg right now I got you stuck on my head so you can see what I'm seeing pick it up Maybe someone else to go pick it up probably Bob tailing back, but I'll call in once I get there and see if something's come up Nothing's come up. I'll just be Bob. It's just about an hour drive from where we're located there boss They wanted it full day today was sort of like a half day because of those meetings Part of what this is on the right. You got a park right beside my pickup traffic of the yard early day today But yeah, it was a good meeting I'm happy to be able to show you a lot more now and we'll start with that mostly to moral I'll show you the truck here now But the truck is really dirty right now and it's gonna stay dirty for the rest of the week because we got snow melting right now It's springtime here and it's gonna get warmer and warmer throughout the week So the roads gonna get more and more slushy and mucky. It's gonna be impossible to keep this in clean So we're gonna wait till the snow is gone and then we're gonna spend some time Polishing and cleaning this truck making it look mint For now, I'll show you the truck. Just keep in mind. It's not always gonna be this dirty I hate having dirty vehicles, but in at this time of year. There's nothing I can do about it There she is this is what I'll be rolling around in believe it or not it is actually a white truck She's an old one and she's got these little horns on her here. They used to be mirrors, I guess Came off the side here and someone I guess thought it would be funny to make it look like horns. I Didn't do that but Whatever That's funny and Yeah There's that side of her there She's an old one she had a little bit of rust around the windshield there, but that's okay because this is an old-school truck No DEF none of those crazy computer things that all the new trucks have nowadays that always break Straight up put diesel fuel in it and go. It's got a headache rack on it. I'll be doing some flat bed work Stretched wheelbase. I'll call it that because it's not actually stretched There used to be a sleeper on there and then This used to be one of their highway trucks way back in the day. I can still remember it I was still I was working here already when this truck was on the highway a nice little sleeper back there They needed some city trucks, so they bought Like there's a Western Star over there. That's one of their newer trucks in their fleet I drove one just like that that one's unit number 30 79. I was unit 30 80 for about three years Drove one just like that and they got the new trucks and they turned these into little city trucks This is what I'm gonna be torquing around in Most pipes sound great. That's another reason why I don't care if it's an old truck. It sounds Old trucks are better anyway, so Don't quite take a mental image of this truck as it is right now just wait until next week We're gonna get it all cleaned up. My pickup is Somewhat clean cleaner anyways, right? See before I Let's go this way where there's less wind Before I left here this first time. Oh, it's even windier here. I was in a truck exactly like that the Peterbilt It's a lot bigger inside than it looks and then right behind it there That is 30 63. I believe and I was 30 62. That's the Volvo So I've driven that truck a truck just like that here driven the Volvo here Driven their Western stars here each one for a couple of years and Here we are In this right now. I'll show you the truck that they were actually gonna put me in at first They're gonna put me in this 2025 Which is a nice truck same idea? I think it has better headlights actually. Oh, no, very much the same Very much the same, but it is older if you go inside here It's just got a bit of an older cab. It was just freshly detailed Can't see out the back window though. It smells great in here It's ready to go. I think they had a detailed for me But when I got here yesterday it wouldn't start Wonder if it'll start today the key in here. I Don't know she'll start today See the eight the the gauges are a little more old-school. Oh now she starts Now she starts this would have been our view But Since this truck didn't start for me because it was too cold yesterday morning They put me in the other truck see that one had the black logos black hood black fenders nice color scheme I Can't see through the back window though you guys remember Traveling around in this I took Brit and the dogs up in Not exactly this truck, but a truck exactly like this It was just 3080 We took it all the way up to Yukon remember up by Alaska the truck exactly like this This truck's got a little bit more rust there, but And I'll show you the interior of this one again Okay already got my phone mount on there and Little bit of a newer model in here, right? And I like this truck. I got into it yesterday and I figure you know what? Why don't I just stay in this one? It's running Issue with a steering wheel there, but it's not anything that I can't deal with it's just Someone's had their hand here for so long that it's actually worn through I'm not kidding. It's old. It's old, but it's gonna be our truck and I got the window that I can see with the back I don't use it often, but it is very handy to have that at times, especially in the city. So anyway Videos from now on should be a lot of fun. I'm excited to show you what kind of freight we haul I'm excited to see if you guys maybe want to come and join me here and work with me It's a great place to be Put links on my Facebook channels and stuff. Maybe I'll put a link down below in the description of my videos as well I'll have to get to that probably this coming weekend, but if you go to my Facebook I've already shared it there. They're looking for drivers and be cool to work with you We hire all across Canada coast-to-coast. We're focusing on The regions of the prairies Ontario and also the Maritimes out east But if you're from anywhere else, that doesn't matter give them a call anyways, maybe it'll work out It's just in British Columbia the freight lanes that we have it may be difficult to get you home sometimes when you want to be home That's the only reason why they don't focus on that, but if you live there, don't be shy Maybe there's a job in a truck waiting for you here. We'll talk about that more in the upcoming videos I'm not on the clock anymore. So I'm gonna get my stuff and go into my pickup and go home It's an early day today This place is so much busier. It's only been what like two months Since I was here And it's already Way busier. There's not one place to park Which is good. It's good. They got lots going on. They got lots to do and That's why I'm parked all the way in the back corner now by the tire shop That's where they keep the city trucks or the day cabs and then I keep my pickup there right away, too So we have our own our own little corner all the way in the back That's okay because during the summertime even though we have a paved yard there It's impossible to keep your vehicle clean because of all the traffic coming and going coming and going all over in the yard That all that dust just gets kicked up and it sits on your vehicle So it was impossible to keep this vehicle clean now that I'm all the way in the back corner there I think it'll be a little better for that Whoa, whoa, whoa Thought we already got the rock star welcome out of the way I was gonna show all the people how in a good boy you are Guess he just really wanted to say hello to you Really loudly. How's everything going in here? Who got a big rope? What is this? What is this? That should take you a while to chew through me Is this your favorite? This is diesel's favorite toy right now besides his frogs. This is his monkey He's a very angry monkey He's a very angry monkey But he's very fast We sleep with a lot of blankets I have to have a separate blanket though Especially now that we got like this smaller twin bed. We're saving up. We're gonna get a queen size in here Our old king size we gave to the dogs Right there so I got the king size and the reason we want a queen size is because It fits better in this small room of this small house King size takes up pretty much the whole room and there's no room for Anything on the sides and we have our dog beds beside us here Usually there's another one right here, but we take it out to the living room during the day Got diesel's bed there Chevy's bed here. Sometimes they switch and Then Wiener and Frankie's beds are here got Wiener and Frankie and then we sleep here So it's like one big family here at night and we all have dozens of blankets My ender Brett had her day off today. I told her that she should Well good she doesn't know how to take a day off So I told her this morning I didn't ask her I told her you had to relax and put your feet up I only did a couple loads of laundry and vacuumed and played with the dogs outside That's all I did. Well playing with the dogs. That's like a day off type of thing Well, I took out the garbage and recycling and I did some dishes Okay, I have charcoal Well, I'm the same way on my days off in the weekend. I do all the laundry of the house, too It's a sickness. That's how we get things done. That's how we keep this house Nice and neat. Mostly her. She keeps the house nice and neat. I help. You can't see the dust on camera. I hate dusting Wiener, what would you like to say to the good people? Everyone has been asking about you No, they haven't Everybody they all want to know how are you doing? Put me on the spot. I got nothing to say Say it Wiener. Does this make you uncomfortable? This is what Chevy was doing to me in the other room Getting his nose wet and it's all over the lens Diesel? No, you good? Got home a little earlier than usual today, but again, it was only my second day So I don't know what usual is yet Yesterday I got home at what 6 30? Today I got home at 4 30 Just nice to have the sun still shining when I get home