 Good morning everybody Starting the day off and Tim Horns It's gonna be a good day today We're gonna make it a good day. It was kind of sad. I had to leave home, but we're going to work Got a load that's taking us out west to Regina I'm just gonna go pick it up and Head on out You can take up pretty much the whole trailer, hopefully I'll hit the room at the back for my tarps And these like I said are all going to Regina's the sketch one. It's like a six-hour drive from here It's not very far, but it gets the wheels turning. I believe from there I'm heading up to Meadow Lakes to sketch one pick up a little lumber Which is gonna take me down south into the US and there's a load waiting down there somewhere for me That's sort of the rough plan right now. We'll We'll see what the plan turns into for now the plan is we're going to Regina with this The flying Jane headingly just west of Winnipeg. I worked up quite a sweat Tying this load down. It's a pretty warm day So I went in for a shower as you do When you sweat and you get all smelly you go for a shower Or is it just me? That's just something I do well Now you know more about me May as well because I didn't want to sit all day. I was thinking I could wait till Balgony, right? Six hours down the road right by Regina. That's where we might spend the night Well, we'll probably spend the night. I was like, oh, we can wait till there I'm gonna shower at the end of my day right and go to bed clean and I was thinking Means I've got to sit here in my filth all day Driving why when there's a perfectly good shower right here. So I've here shower now I don't have to sit in my own filth all day and drive Feeling good and clean smelling good looking good No It's subjective. Just putting my shoes on if you're wondering what I'm doing. I Want to show you the load. I'll show you my load one second here turn you around. It's ready. Oh Oh, let me be exciting Here she be. I have no idea what it is big Oh, I think maybe HVAC HVAC stuff like I can't even get underneath it to show you but Well load of it. It's super light super light my tarps at the back there Now we're going on to Regina with us All of these bundles are maybe a couple hundred pounds each Few hundred pounds each we are set. We are ready. We are showered. We are smelling good We are looking better or are we looking good smelling better? Well either way we're smelling good The other stuff is debatable. I guess Let's get out there. It's gonna be a good day lights on Load tied down trucking gear Release the clutch on the steering wheel. Let's go six hours Six hours to go. So my delivery is on the west side Light left on. Can't manage to road and then turn left in 270 meters That's Karen everybody. She likes to talk over me a lot Very annoying and she swears no swearing Boys got to beat that out whenever I'm about to make a turn. There's a ding that may GPS makes that's what that is It's supposed to alert me. Hey, you remember the thing I just told you five times you're about to do it's now time to do it ding ding elevator, right? Your turn has arrived That's a stale green green for way too long. There's that ding again. She tells me I got her left in a bit and then ding ding Your turn has arrived. What was I saying? What's I talking about? Yes, we're going to the west side of Regina and Balcony is on the east side, but I can't think of any good truck stops on the west side of Regina So I think I'm going to go to Balcony the flying J there and spend the night there. We'll unload in the morning Drive over there. It'll probably be an extra 30-40 minutes Once we're unloaded like I was saying we go up to Meadowlake We're on this road for 85 kilometers I think it's still tight as it should be. I guess you could say I get a little I think it's a good thing I'm not scared that anything's gonna fall off. I'm sure when I roll away with it. I am double sure that it is all tied down But I still like to double check and make sure so the way I do it I've said this before but for the new people I tie down a load Make sure it's tied down and then I look how it's tied down and then maybe I'll add one or two straps or chains Just to make sure as I travel down the road I go about 30 minutes 30 miles 50 kilometers and I'll find a place to pull over I'll check my straps because as you bounce down the road your freight usually settles right Either in its packaging or onto the trailer or it wiggles together or whatever it settles and your straps become loose For a half hour. I stop check my straps tighten them if need be and then I go down the road and about two hours down the road I stop again Make sure that everything is tight same thing as before Usually it stays the same And I don't have to adjust it again after that first time depending on what you're hauling though because sometimes you Sometimes we haul stuff that settles slowly and consistently and constantly so the whole trip it's Settling down and compacting and you have to stop like every hour to keep tightening keep tightening And some other freight you don't want to keep tightening like the stuff I'm hauling now has aluminum frames around it and sensitive components on the inside So I can't tighten it too tight. They always say, you know kind of leave it uncomfortably loose Because it's got to be loose enough that you don't damage it But it's got to be tight enough that it doesn't go flying off the trailer And find that fine balance So that's why I stop and check I stopped and checked uh Little ways down the road now that i'm in brandon about two hours down the road stopped again Everything is good to go and then after that I stop about every Four hours or so two to four hours whenever Yes, you know do a walk around usually I get out stretch my legs and I just do a walk around the truck just You know pull on every strap. Just make sure it's all tight. Look at the load Make sure it's all as it should be that nothing's shifted and blah blah blah do the walk around and then you go inside grab your coffee or Go for your walk or whatever you do on your break Whatever in canada here like I've said we don't have to take a 30 minute break In the us you have to buy a law take a 30 minute break within eight hours of starting your day You can only work for eight hours and you have to stop for Up here in canada, we don't have that regulation. We don't have that law So we don't have to have to stop for a half hour. I can stop for 21 minutes if I want to I can stop for 29 minutes I'm gonna stop for 15 I don't legally have to stop at all but They're gonna want to see that you stopped at least, you know every every couple of hours two to four hours Just you know, especially if you're on a flatbed and you have to mark it down to the load check They're gonna want to see that you check to your load because if you don't show proof That you check to your load and something goes flying off the back or something and hurt somebody And they the lawyers are going to go straight for your logbook, right? They're going to make sure That you are within the law. They are going to Tear that apart to see if there's any way they can get you That's the lawyers of the people that you hurt, right there. They're always going after the truckers As uh, as it should be, you know, if my family got hurt by a careless trucker I I would send my lawyers after them tooth and nail to just look for anything nail them for everything So you want to make sure that you cover your butt So you want to be able to show that you stopped and checked your load at regular intervals Maybe a strap broke. Well, did you check? Were you stopping regularly? Or did you load it up in Winnipeg and just drove straight to Calgary and didn't even care to look in your mirrors, you know They'll look for anything you have to cover your butt because when bad things happen on the road It's always your fault as a truck driver I know it's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty You know that our our, uh Court systems Don't always work that way Legally, you're innocent. Yeah until proven guilty, but by the court of public opinion You're guilty until you prove yourself innocent and you gotta you gotta pass both courts Thankfully, I've never had to go through those courts I never want to you want to make double sure that you stay out of trouble like that because it can drag you down fast Because if if anything happens, especially if someone gets hurt and absolutely for sure if someone dies They're gonna come after you for absolutely everything they can So make sure all your ducks are in a line all the time. That's my advice to you new drivers out there You experience guys you already know this so pretty sure the choir there All right, let's get out of here and off bibble babbling bibble bibble babble. That's a new one bibble babbling coin that phrase It's josh trucker josh Now put it on a t-shirt bibble babble too much bibble babbling Would you buy that t-shirt? Makes me so happy Favourite time of year all summer yet to look forward to it's already warming up to wear a t-shirt outside But it's not too hot. There's no bugs out yet. No mosquitoes yet I'm j travel plaza I see it. Thank you find the best one. Let's circle the lot a couple of times make sure we get the best one I will settle nothing for nothing less than the best Ah, I see that spot right there already. I want it straight in there in front of the pumps I want a straight shot out right little spots are taken. Hey, they patched all the potholes That's nice. That should last a few weeks right on This guy knows what he's doing to neighbor on this side And I've got a neighbor on this side and I've got a straight path Straight out here in the morning Perfect. I'm gonna go all the way back here. Make sure that we're all good Make sure that we are straight Nothing is out of place that I didn't rip the mudflaps off These mudflaps are high enough that they don't get caught on curbs actually And even if those were to get ripped off, which that would still wouldn't be good. We have these back here Gotta be careful when you're backing in your trailer Uh, if you hit the curb and your mudflap is too low It'll actually rip the mudflap right out of the hangers Done that before been there done that pretty nice little back here too Head on into the sleeper and I'm just non-stop. We arrived here just the right time. I just talked to this driver next to me here. Really great guy great guy Truck says he's from Saskatoon, but he just picked that up in uh Southern Manitoba that load of pipe And he's bringing it out to Where does this swift current? He was working beside his uh truck there just tightening his straps on his on his load And I want to walk and pass and say hey, how's it going? It's good. Good. Good. I'm so glad you parked next to me Just thank you. Thank you for picking the spot next to me Because as soon as I saw him roll in I passed him on the highway already And as soon as I saw him roll in and start backing up I'm like, hey, thank god This guy knows what he's doing. He's been doing this a long time and sure enough Yeah, when I talked to him he's been driving for probably 20 years or so if not longer He said the same thing. He's like, yeah, I was just so glad to have two neighbors right off the bat Are you staying here for night? Oh, yeah, I'm staying here for night good And we both know our trucks are safe. He owns this truck too That's a constant struggle getting to getting to a truck stop and getting a safe parking spot because there sometimes there's a lot of parking And you can't complain that when you find parking you find parking if you need a spot You're thankful that there is a spot, but Some spots are better than others. Not all parking spots are created equal I'll tell you that right now So this is like a perfect spot. He said the same thing as me before I could even say it He's like, yep, this way we know we can drive straight out. We're not going to get blocked in by people parking like, uh Over here, how do I say this? Over here, we don't have to worry about people parking that way over there and blocking us in Look, that guy's got some backup lights over there, right? No one's gonna miss the fact that he's backing up It's just nice to meet up with a driver that you can just relate to right away It's gonna be a good night So i'm just making some food here for myself now and as soon as my hot water kettle is finished heating up the water I'm gonna put all my stuff away here. Shut everything down. Shut the truck down And uh That'll be it for the day Have I told you already my my engine heater is on the fritz or it's uh Giving me problems now, which is okay because the weather's warmer now and I don't really need the engine heater I just used it to like warm up the engine a little bit anyways, but in wintertime. I really need it It's not working now. I think I need to clean it out. You can hear it trying to fire To start it up I have a wabasto like engine style engine heater just runs off like a little bit of diesel fuel And then it warms up the lines going through the engine It helps me start my truck in in the cold of winter without plugging it in And I tried to start it up this morning. It wouldn't start up And I was having problems with it last week already. It was giving me kind of like When it first started up it smoked a little bit and it doesn't usually smoke I noticed that right away. I noticed everything about this truck. I know how everything is supposed to be So I noticed that I'm like, oh, that's gonna need a cleaning very soon and sure enough today. I tried to start it up wouldn't fire so It's probably just They open it up or you open it up. You just clean it out It's got a bunch of soot build up in there and it can't ignite the fuel That's probably what it is best case scenario worst case scenario by next winter I have to replace it and get a new engine heater But good thing. I don't need it until next winter. So we have a good six months To worry about that problem. We'll get it fixed as soon as possible because I don't like to let a problem fester I like to fix things right away So that I don't have to you know, be surprised by it later and be like, oh, yeah I have to fix that. Shoot. I forgot about that. I didn't budget for that now You know, I just it breaks boom fix it. Thanks everybody for hanging out with me today It's been fun. We're in Balgoni, Saskatchewan Tomorrow we deliver down the road in Regina just on the west side of the city And then we go up to Meadow Lakes of Saskatchewan. I've already got my next load planned out I'm going to pick up a little lumber there. We're going to go straight to Minneapolis, Minnesota Where everyone is so happy all the time because it's minnehapless We're going to go there and then from there. I don't know the plan yet. Okay, that's all I know so far But I'm most likely going to be going home From there Because we got plans a few days after that It's a very special day coming up By the time you watch this, it'll probably be it might be closer or gone already, but It's Mother's Day And it's a very big one for Brett Very much her first Mother's Day as an actual as a mother As an actual mother And I want her to be perfect. I want her to be great So I'm not going to tell you what the plans are in case if Mother's Day hasn't happened yet because I don't want to spoil it for her She says she wants to do something low-key So not something overly big I've already got one gift for her which is the big one but that's going to be happening on a different day than Mother's Day because My plans If a lot of other people had the same plans for Mother's Day, and it was already all Filled up. That's all I'll say But we'll just have to do it another weekend, but it'll be for Mother's Day Anyways, don't forget to hug your mother and tell her you love her on Mother's Day, and uh, I'll see you tomorrow. Take care