 Good morning everybody. We're getting the truck ready to go. We're headed up to Thompson, Manitoba about eight hours north of here. I'm gonna pick up my load of Winnipeg once we get all blue ready to go. It should be a fun trip. Before we get started here, today's shout out goes to our friends at Bullsnaught. All of the cleaning products you need to keep your truck shining. Go down below to my description where you can find a link to their website brownox.com for the US and Bullsnaught Canada for up here in Canada. Go check them out if you like a clean rink. Let's get on with the video. We've been at home for a little over a week now. I was hoping to be at home for another couple of days. I have a whole bunch of stuff as you saw in yesterday's video. We put together that treadmill and I have some stuff here on YouTube to catch up with. Some office work to do you might say. But oh well duty calls. The road calleth to the and you must answer the call, right? They got swamped. So I had talked to them and said hey I need to get all of this stuff done. And they said yeah sure no problem and then they called me back later that day and sent me a message saying hey they're getting pretty swamped. I said okay well no problem. No problem you're getting swamped. I'm your guy. I'll grab one of the loads that needs to go and this one goes up north. So Thompson, Manitoba looks like it's sort of in the central part of Manitoba when you look on a map. But to us here in Manitoba that's in the northern part of the province. I call it the end of the paved road. It's not actually the end of the paved road but it's the last big city. It's not a big city. A big town city before you head up into the seasonal access communities up in northern Manitoba where a lot of those communities up there you have to only fly in. In summertime there's no roads going there. Or you have to take the ice roads or the winter roads in winter to get there. So we do winter roads as well here. I don't do it personally. I don't want to take old blue up there. On the winter roads they get pretty rough. But we do have a lot of friends that are up there that were up there. They're closed for this season already. It was a pretty short season. But you can imagine how busy it gets up there. Because all of their product as much as they can for the entire year has to get there on the winter roads when they're open. So it's just truck after truck after truck after truck getting everything in. And during the summer when they need stuff they have to fly it in which is a lot more expensive. So the hardest thing about getting going all the time is getting everything into the truck. Or back into the truck. Because every time I go home for more than a couple of days for a weekend or for two nights or more I take everything home. Mostly everything home. I take my cooler out of here so I can clean it before I bring it back in. Take all the food out of there. Go through it. Make sure there's no old food obviously. Throw that out. Keep the good stuff. I have towels on my floor that keep my floor clean. That is not perfect but it keeps my floor a lot cleaner from all the dirt and everything that comes from getting in and out of the truck all the time. Those come home they get washed and then it's pretty quick to vacuum out the truck after that. And so you see all of my stuff back there. Usually when I get going I sort of just throw it all up on the bed there. It's kind of organized but throw it onto the bed and then I get out there. Deliver my freight or pick it up whatever and at the end of my day I'll set up my bed. That way I get as much time at home as possible. Otherwise I have to leave home even earlier if I want to set up my bed and put everything away before I leave. I'd rather just get everything into my truck. Get out there. Stay home as long as I can to my family. Rush over to the truck. Throw everything in. Get going and then you know as we go through the day we'll put everything in its rightful spot. Speaking of getting going got a few more things to get in here and we got to get this truck out of the shop. I know on the road we had some snow overnight and yesterday so we got we got some snow to deal with today but I checked the weather as we go further north there's less snow. Weird right? That's how it is. We've got a 53 foot step deck behind us. Speed limits a little slower than I'm not here but construction is fantastic. So our pickup is on the southwest side of Winnipeg. We have a 53 foot step deck behind. It's an empty c-can from what I understand. A 40 foot c-can. So we're going to put it on the bottom deck there. Chain it down and pull it up the Thompson. I'll be in Thompson late tonight. Sleep there at the Petro Canada. This thing off my trailer first thing in the morning and book it back. It's a pretty simple trip. As long as you don't hit any bad weather as long as the forecast is correct. We're on the south perimeter of Winnipeg facing westbound right now. We're coming up to that new overpass that they're building on St. Mary's. Looks like my lane is ending. It's about time that they get this done. We talked about this before. I'm really happy to see this. Speaking of bridges. This is old news for you already. I know but did you guys see that bridge in Baltimore that collapsed after that ship ran into it? That was crazy. If you don't know what I'm talking about or haven't seen it yet. After you're done with my video go online and look up like Baltimore bridge collapse. You'll find it with videos of it. Terrifying. People were on the bridge. There's cars and trucks on the bridge and there's this big cargo ship that lost power and drifted into one of the support beams and the whole bridge just collapsed into the water. The water was freezing. I believe they rescue two people. They're still looking for people at the time I'm filming this but of course nightmare right. You're just driving along on a bridge and suddenly boom you're in the water. Instant. It's crazy. Grabbing one of these containers in here. Never loaded here before so no idea what to do. Just following the signs. I really appreciate it when shippers and receivers put nice legible signs with arrows and stuff where to go. This container loading area this way. I like that. Look good. I can see the next sign already. Container loading area that way. How many places you sort of just got to guess where to go? Oh someone else is getting loaded here already. One of our guys I don't think. Nope that's someone else. That looks over height don't you think? I brought a step deck so I wouldn't be over height. All right so I just talked to that driver up there and he already called in. There's a phone number on a board in front of him there. He already called in so they're on lunch right now. They'll be here right away. Container as well. There's my trailer. I'm guessing that guy's getting unloaded because he doesn't have any chains on. He's probably getting unloaded and there's the machine over there that's going to be doing the unloading. So he's got to wait. I kind of figured that that would happen though. I was looking at the time and I was thinking I'm going to get there right at lunch hour aren't I? Yep it's 12.20 so I don't know if they have lunch till 12.30 or 1 o'clock. That's pretty quick. I feel very important very special. I don't go to these seacan yards very often. These forklifts are huge. The guy here like with those forklifts what he's doing there. That's the can he took off for the last truck right? That'd be fun to operate that thing. There he goes. So he's going to go find mine. He knows which one it is. I don't know which one it is. I don't know anything about it except that it's 40 feet. He asked me if I wanted up against the step or at the tail of the trailer. I told him put it up against the step and then once he has it on my trailer I'm going to chain it down. I'm going to cross chain it from top to the bottom. I'm hoping I can reach the top in the back. That's the thing. I wonder how I'm going to get up there. I wonder if I have a ladder around here or do I want to go from the top corner across and an X in the back. Same thing in the front. It's just an empty can so that should be enough. But wait and see what they come up with. Or what I come up with. Really tying it down is my job. Let's see what I come up with. So I've got the C can on the back. I'm going to see it in my trailer or in my mirror there. I'm going to use these steps right there to get the chains hooked onto the top. I'll show you what I mean here. So it's an empty can. Pretty light. I'm going to use those stairs because I've got to get the chains hooked up in the corners there. So I'll go from that corner there down to here. That corner there down to there. Same thing in the back. Criss-cross. And then it'll be secured. Okay. Oh my god. I'm in here. Remember when you use these bear trap binders? You got to have those safeties on there. Criss-crossed in the back. Criss-crossed in the front. That'll hold it down and it'll hold it from going forward and back. It's an empty C can so very light. That was telling you. I've also wrapped it around slightly on the front here and on the back. It holds it in place. There you go. That ain't going nowhere. And just for fun has an extra precaution. Just throwing a few straps over it as well. Just for an extra piece of mind. The chains are doing all the work but just in case. I'm going to swing into Flying J and heading west to Winnipeg. Grab our fuel here. That'll get us all the way up to Thompson. Maybe even all the way back but at least all the way there. Busy, busy. I choose this lane. We filled up for 435 liters here in Winnipeg. I have full tanks now. You should be able to get me to Thompson and all the way back but I am pushing into a wind on the way up. So I'm going to be burning a little bit more than I'd like to on the way up there. So we'll see when we get up there if I need to fuel up. It's a lot more expensive to fuel up in Thompson than back down here. So if possible I want to get all the way back down here before I refuel again or just and fuel up just enough up there that I can get back here. It's time to go though. We're officially loaded, tied down, fueled up. Brakes are released. Slide left at 130 meters. I know how to get back on the road. Thanks Karen. 100 meters. Slide left on. Cat man to road and man. Turn right into 170 meters. Riving. Oh eight hours plus at least one stop for bathroom break and such right. So it's quarter to three right now. Let's just round it up to three o'clock. I'm guessing I should be in Thompson before midnight. Between 11 and midnight. Probably around 11 30 which has tons of space here right but they don't clear it in winter time. So all of this space sort of gets wasted. We're on this way actually. Behind the building remember last time we were here this is a big time it would definitely attract bears. Ah it's still there. So I wouldn't stay here just because of that pile of garbage. Oh it's gotten bigger. Spring snack. I just stopped here for a quick bathroom break. It's all I needed. It was just a quick bathroom break but I don't understand the garbage behind the place there. Like probably not to be too judgmental here but at the same time that's been there for years. That garbage back there and if you can tell it's been torn apart by animals and stuff. It'd make me question the sanitary conditions inside if that's how they present the outside. I know they're trying to hide it behind the building but I mean it's your choice. Your choice. It's just a friendly warning to you if you do come up here. Just at night time if you stop here and you're walking from your truck and it's summertime just be aware there's probably scavengers including black bears and you know depending on what time of year it is they'll probably have cubs with them because this is where they found food. Garbage is right out there. This is right at the corner of 60. Not 60. It's highway 6 in Manitoba and highway 60. It's just south of that or just before that intersection. It's the SO. It's too bad because this place has serious potential. I mean it's at a great location right at that intersection. Lots of trucks. This is the only road that heads up into northern Manitoba right? So anything going into northern Manitoba comes right by here. It's an excellent location but you don't take care of it. You lose a lot of business. I thought this place was closed down once already but apparently it's still open. We're actually making really good time. I might even get to Thompson by 1030 or before 11 at least as far as I know. Can you turn if possible again? Turn left in 115 meters. The right here beside this guy on the left. That's a good sign. I suppose I could come all the way back here but yeah that's Rumpark anyway. Should be good. I don't want to come back too much further because my truck is on level ground right now but you can see my trailer. The passenger side is up a little bit higher. So if I move further back my truck will be leaning towards the driver side and that's the side where I put my head and you don't want your head lower than your feet if it all possible. Oh look one of my lights and put everything away and set it up the way it should be. Got to be up at about 730, 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Just going to run down the road where I got to drop off the C-can. They're going to take it off. The trailer will be empty. I'm going to go straight home. So as usual you know the drill. 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