 Monday morning It's a good one, isn't it look at it? Good Monday morning We're head to the truck. Remember we have to drop off that roller trailer and Winnipeg first thing this morning and After that we come back grab a roll tight and head to Toulon Got some freight there to pick up. I had a great weekend great weekend. Well, we worked on Saturday I was on my way back from Minnesota then remember and Sunday my mom and dad were able to come down and visit So it was a good weekend I'm ready to go Ready to go back to work for a week. I just think about that for a while Do I really want to say I'm ready to go back to work? Yes. Yes. I'm ready to go back to work. I love my job I love what I do. I love the people that are around me there. It's a good place Yeah, I'm actually excited to go back to work on a Monday. I Said that out loud And I mean it it's gonna be a good day So I'm back in the Volvo My Peterbilt was feeling a little under the weather this morning The air compressor wasn't building air it was running and it was pumping into the air tank But somehow it was getting out somewhere, but I couldn't find the air leak So the shop's gonna have to look at it. It's it's losing air is not building any air pressure So I still had the keys to 3056 here because I used it Friday Saturday, right? And I had to get this roller trailer here to Winnipeg first thing in the morning and no one was in the office yet So I quickly jumped in 3056 got it warmed up Hooked onto the trailer and I brought it in here to town by the time I get back to the yard The office staff will all be in there and I'll let them know like hey My truck's gonna be in the shop You want me to just stay in this truck or nobody's assigned to this truck yet But I think they have someone earmarked for it for the end of December So it shouldn't be a problem, but I'm by the time I get there They'll tell me if they want me to stay in this truck if I use a different one while my truck's getting fixed I have no idea what's going on with mine. Like I said air compressor is running and it's definitely pumping air into the air tank But it's losing it somewhere and I can't figure out where so that's a job for the shop Anyways Got the job done this morning. I had to bring this back here so at least I was able to get that done I'm just about to drop it here and Be back headed back to the yard It was fun Friday and Saturday with this thing. It was a fun trip down to Minnesota now. It's gonna be reloaded see What else is in store? I have to go to too long today, too So I'll probably stay in this truck for today and then See what happens with mine Maybe my truck just has a frozen valve and they just got a towed into our shop and let it thaw out and Maybe that's all it needs Like I said, that's the job for the mechanics at the shop I'm a driver. I Have quite a bit of knowledge of how to fix small things on trucks I can fix all the small things, but I can't figure out where that air leak is and I'm guessing it's probably It's probably just a frozen valve and it probably just needs to be warmed up It'll probably be ready by the end of By the end of today probably I said probably quite a bit there probably So I did end up staying in 3056 for today and they're gonna try to get that air compressor fixed on my truck 3006 as quickly as they can. We'll see they're pretty busy in the shop See how long it takes my freight goes that I pick up almost all of our freight well a good Overwhelming majority of our freight goes down to the US. That's why in order to drive a truck here You have to have the ability to cross into the United States You have to so if you know a lot going down to Georgia a lot going down to the Southwest now Actually, we got a lot going everywhere when I first started here. We were mostly in the southeast of the US These guys here where I'm going going down to California, Arizona, Utah New Mexico all the time We've got a good variety of roads and we're busy busy busy always looking for new drivers This is one of our older highway units It's just like the Volvo I used to drive Volvo's and a bunch of Peterbilt's bunch of can warrants and a bunch of Western stars We've got a variety of trucks. I'm pretty sure they're sort of they don't want to put all their eggs in one basket, right? These steps are higher than mine on my Peterbilt Going nicely good Beautiful that rolled really smooth that means the bull snot that I Put in here, which is a it's a lube. It's bull snot lubricant bull snot is the brand name if you're if you're new here I greased this up probably a month ago. It's still gliding smooth like butter Good good. Let me put my High-tech brake system on here that we don't oops. Oh Come on I'm gonna stay Perfect it's not going anywhere So this Volvo can turn way sharper than the Peterbilt It's actually much more of a handy city truck, but this one apparently has a driver Coming end of December like I was telling you earlier as earmark for someone. It's a handy truck to have Loaded up. They're always pretty quick here Sure, that's all on there. There you go. Get up at the back so that this isn't all floppy You don't want that to be all Flapping in the wind and loose Little screw thing here. See this little piece here. See it goes behind that As you screw this in It's gonna push The trailer back this way and pull it tight Tighten it up tighten it until that wheel Reaches that pin Turn that pin now and this side is completely tight ready for the road now. We do the same thing on This side watch it pull it back from here folks. Take us to to we're going to Tennessee Tennessee and The last two are also both going to Tennessee four different drops in Tennessee, so watch out We got ourselves a trailer going down south I wish it was me, but Maybe one day one of our other drivers will take it down You know if you do come and drive for us it could be you going down to Tennessee You consider yourself a paid tourist We're gonna go jump back in the Peterbilt Whatever it was it must have thought out or the shop already had it in and fixed it But I came to check on it as soon as I got back from this too long trip And it was working again air pump was pumping up pressure just like it should air tanks were holding it blow off Alva's working just fine. It works. I'm jumping back in that truck saying goodbye to the Volvo going back to the Peterbilt It was nice We were friends for Friday Saturday and half of Monday, so when we park trucks here In wintertime we always plug them in that plugs the block heater in keeps it warm enough So it'll turn over otherwise You're not gonna get it started on a cold day last but not least Lock everything up and make sure the lights are turned off. I Cleaned off the lights when I fueled up on the way back as well didn't do the windshield. I know Now we're gonna take the pickup. I'm just gonna go park it in my regular spot over there by 3006 And we'll continue our day Peterbilt style Monday Peter mobile and here we come All right, Peter, I don't know disappoint me. I've missed these pipes. Let's hear them sing Doesn't that sound so much better than that Volvo? Space in here, but I do like this truck It's very maneuverable Got pretty good visibility. I mean after being in a Volvo like I don't know if I can call this good visibility But Volvo does have very good like huge windows. They take forever to clean. This is like white white white clean the whole thing And I can clean my passenger window sitting in this seat when I'm stopped Amazing so I've got a flat bed behind me. I had to shovel a bunch of snow and ice off of it because it hasn't been used in a while I got to bring this into a Into a customer in Southwest Winnipeg all sort of southern south-central Winnipeg And they have a loaded one waiting there for me. How convenient drop this one there. I'll pick up the loaded one I'll tie it down bring it home Exciting day. I know it's not the same as bringing a wide load down to Minnesota, but I'll admit though not every day is as exciting as the last When you do a daily vlog, I mean it's impossible Nobody lives that exciting of a life that they're gonna have an awesome exciting genuine vlog every day Okay, and the people that do fake fake Nobody has that much fun and is that exciting naturally every single day. So I'm just showing you real life I decided that a long time ago. I didn't really want to put any acting into it I just wanted to show you the actual life that I live. I think it's fun love driving trucks and Apparently a lot of you like it too. So here we are hanging out. I had to be very careful tying this load down I'll show you why This is all fine up here. This is all fine It's these back here these fins You can bend them if you put the strap over here. Look if you put the strap right over there And down here, you'll actually bend this in you'll damage it cost a lot of money Now they put these wood boards on here Through here and that's where you have to put your straps over That evens and distributes the weight of the strap evenly and it won't damage the freight See that and each one of these Is like that. These are a little bigger here Takes a little bit of extra time You got to make sure you put your straps on the wood trucking isn't just about Getting the freight from point A to point B safely. It's about getting it there and not damaging it in the process Sometimes can be a little tricky. This isn't too tricky, but this is why those are there. If you ever see something like this Very careful. Do not bend these People will get very upset A lot of fingers will be pointed at you that you don't want pointed at you. That's not the kind of attention you want I mean even as a youtuber. I like attention Not that kind of attention That's not this thing I wake up in the morning and Hope to happen to me. Let's take this back to the yard And a highway driver Is gonna take it to where it needs to be and this needs to be in where's it going Edmonton, Alberta? Edmonton I got some stuff for you. I'll send it out straight away and to bring it back to another guy He's gonna bring it over there. Maybe she I one of our drivers will bring it there for you So we picked up freight for Tennessee today and we picked up freight for Edmonton, Alberta Two totally different directions from here Now we're gonna go back and Park it in a nice spot make sure that the landing gear is on the cement pad Because some people forget that it's one of my pet peeves drop your trailers on the cement pads and Yeah, highway driver can leave with it. What does it say needs to be there doesn't have a delivery date ASAP? I'm sure It's on the way This is gonna be a little interesting getting out of this Street Turing rush hour was a quarter after four right now. Oh joy. Oh Joy We're pretty far into the city. I mean downtown's right over there. I can see them a little ways off yet But it is a busy part of the city and this highway here is going to It's gonna be interesting to get onto because I have to turn from the left lane here So if anybody's turning this way, they're gonna be shocked to see me in their lane This is Pembina Highway. We're gonna turn south Gotta take it wide from the left lane here. It confuses people sometimes if they want to turn down here And this building is right in the way So I can't see and my nose is so long that I can't poke it out too far But just far enough that we can see what's coming There we go. I still wouldn't trade the nose in I like it. I don't even have the longest nose Pete I have a 379 It's not a it sort of looks long because the fisheye lens here, but it's not the longest you can get yet Still looks nice Classic Peterbilt hood with the rivets. It's nice Eventually, they're gonna have to get a red light Aha. Nope. Nope. Did they get red? Nope. Aha. Now turn yellow. You see it over there? Probably not I'll see this person wants to turn left here Confuses them. He was swearing at me. I thought they had a red light And then you got to cut into traffic before The gap closes. Okay, here's the gap right after this minivan Hopefully no one comes up beside me on my right there Okay, here we go Need the whole road There you go Wonderful. There you go. You see Wasn't that hard Just had to be patient and get swore at once. Not so bad. I was only once not bad As a truck driver you get used to being swore at People really don't like us We're big. We're in the way. We're slow. I can't see around us They have no idea what we're doing because they don't understand how we operate and that we need wide corners And they blame us for all of their bad decisions on the road. That's just part of being a truck driver It's kind of fun. How many times can I get the finger today? How many times will I get swore at today? I'm just kidding. I don't actually play that game I try to I try my best to stay out of people's way and try not to upset them But sometimes there's just no other way I'm sorry. I'm a big I'm a big dude Big long trailer behind me. Why do you want me to do? I'm doing the best I can to stay out of your way. Good sir, you know They're gonna get mad anyway So the key is when you're a truck driver people getting mad at you swearing at you honking at you You know giving you the bird and everything like that Don't bite, okay They're tempting you to to lash out at them. Don't lash back Okay Never a good idea. We are professional drivers That means we can take all the abuse all the verbal abuse and everything else And take it with a smile and just keep doing our job You don't get back in their face Just smile not or just ignore them all together. That's what I do makes them even more mad. Just ignore them all together And do your best to stay out of their way, you know what it you know what I mean Hey, Chevy Down down Chevy. You can't jump up like that. No, nobody likes that. Nobody likes that. No stay down You taught him how to do it. I taught him how to hide you now. I get the gold side got a poop Yeah, not even a hello to me you want to go straight outside. Where's Wiener? Hi, yeah. I'll hire you again Is that where you're learning that from? Is he teaching you how to hide you you were about to do it again I'm a carol tight master. Geisha who got home in time to be on the vlog My beloved puppy, he's my son. What are you doing with him? Hey? Chevy I want to be a part of whatever diesel's a part of what are we doing? Made it home a little bit earlier today, so she could be a part of the ending of the wall Yeah, I had nothing to do with them all being slow nothing She doesn't get to be in the vlog a lot during the week because we work off as it shifts mostly but Today's a special day We can watch some TV Yellowstone For Christmas stuff the options are endless Frank hi Look at how excited he is his legs shaking. I'm doing the shake for your mama I'm doing the shake shake I'm somewhat of a dancer She true for a beautiful dancer, but you top ballroom in your younger years