 Good morning TJV fans. This is the A9 towards Inverness in Scotland, gloomy day. But it's gonna be a good day. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Good morning, everybody. This is our load for today. I'm just tying it down. I've got one more strap to throw. I'll take you along with me for it. We're in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and this load is headed down to Park Rapids, Minnesota, and the United States. I've got the one strap here. I'm gonna throw it over from the other side. Reason being is you'll see it from the back here. This side has a straight edge down, right? Obviously this side doesn't. Now I don't want to throw my strap from there and pull the load that way. I want the strap to go over from here, hold that bottom piece in, go over here and pin this whole piece straight down. Not pulling it over, but pinning it straight down. Does that make sense? We've got old blue sitting at the front of this train. Ready to work. So I'm gonna throw this one right over here. The thing is they put these right up to the edge of the rub rail here, and I can't fit my hook through here, right? So I'm gonna unroll the whole strap and feed it through here where I want it. Right about here, yeah, because the strap has to be inside the rub rail. That's very important. If you don't want to attract the attention, unnecessary attention at the scale or DOT, MOT, wherever you are, never put your straps over the rub rail, always inside the rub rail. It's called a rub rail for a reason. If you rub against anything and your straps are on the outside, it's gonna rip your strap right off, and then your load's unsecured. Rub rail's there to protect your straps. If at all possible also, you don't want to be attached in these hooks to these rub rails. On these trailers especially, because this is a very, this is just welded on. It's not as strong of a rub rail. You can see it over here. You never want to secure your load to this. You always want to go under to the frame on here, or in this case, this trailer has these where I hook them into. You can see this one is hooked in right here, and that's where it's supposed to be hooked into. That's another way to get bad attention if you strap your load to that, because that's not rated for very much weight. That'll just rip right off. You know, you hit one bump, the trailer goes like this. It'll just rip your rub rail right off, and your load will fall right off your trailer. That's what they're trying to prevent anyways, I think. This one last strap to throw over, and I'm not claiming to be perfect or all-knowing either, just so you know. I'm learning every day too. Little tips like that are just that. They're just little tips, things that I've gathered in my years of driving truck. I've been driving trucks since 2006. So I've learned the thing or two in there, but you know, there's always more to learn. You always got to be open to learn. Sometimes I'm wrong, but if you go to DOT and they're trying to give you a ticket, or if they come to you and they're trying to give you a ticket, and you try to get out of it by saying, well, Trucker Josh told me to do it this way. Well, guess what? They're not gonna buy it. You're getting a ticket anyway. So I try not to give you any false information. I do my absolute best. Coming down here. Got this one coming down, right over this here. So we're here, and these straps here will pin this piece here. Straight down to here, and the other side will hold these bottom pieces together like that. And then through the magical powers of friction, this load isn't going anywhere. Park Rapids, where this freight is going to, is about a five-hour drive from here. So I'm gonna quickly finish tying this all down. And we'll start making our way south. Hopefully I can get unloaded today yet. And most times there's more than just one way of doing things too. It's not like I'm telling you this is the way you do it. It's my way or the highway. I just show you how I do it, and what works for me. There are other ways of doing things too. I always say there's no right or wrong way of tying down a load. I should phrase that carefully though. There is a wrong way of tying down a load. As long as the load is secure, there's not always just one way to do it. I mean, there's many different variations of techniques you could use. You sort of just gotta find out what works for you. And as long as the load is legal and good to go down the highway, don't overthink it sometimes. Don't second-guess yourself. But just make sure you're confident in your load, because if anything falls off that load, it's your fault. I want to see something again. I think I might have missed something actually. I'm going to be there 440. Just to their closing time, I like to give them a heads up and ask them if it's all right, if I show up then. Because sometimes they use that time a day to clean up and get ready to close. Leaving new freight at that time, even though they are open, it's understandable. They close five o'clock, and that's a decent time. Right there for me, and they're going to unload me when I get there, which is awesome. After that, I have to get unloaded today, because I have to get back to work tonight yet. I have to hook on to a van trailer. We're going to be a barn door swinger for a couple of days. We're picking up a load in Portage La Prairie. That load is taking us up north of Thompson Manitoba, to Northern Manitoba. Never been that far north of my own province. I've got to be there first thing Monday morning, so I'll be headed out there over the weekend. A little bit of extra cash on my week. We're trying to catch up with a whole bunch of stuff and get ready for the baby. And save up to build a house. And it just seems there's surprise expenses keep popping up. And then there's the price of food and inflation. And now our government is tripling our tax on our home heat. So this winter, our heating bills are going to be so much higher. They're tripling it. So overwhelming sometimes. So trying to get an extra day in here wherever I can, just to make ends meet and still try to advance forward with all of our plans. And once again, empty. And like always after they unload me, I come back here to make sure that there's nothing loose on my deck. It's nice of them to stay just long enough to unload me. Got here at 4.40pm. I think it's about five o'clock exactly now, so they're all headed home. And I got to get out of their yard so they can close their gate. But I'm going to leave this piece of wood here with them. Because this was part of their load. Looks like it's broken. Some of the dunnage, I guess. It's theirs. Okay. Looking good. Looking good. That was a rush. That was not the good kind of rush either. I hate rushing. I really hate rushing. I like enjoying the ride, but this is trucking. And let's be honest, almost everything is a rush. Everybody wants everything yesterday, right? So we're headed back to the yard now. Gonna grab that van trailer and head over to Porter's little prayer. Get ready for tomorrow morning. Busy busy. Back to the north we go. Just barely made it. Just barely. And it worked out perfect that I was there for exactly 30 minutes. So I got my 30 minute break. It was a good day. Ready to be harvested now. Next time I come down, that corn will be gone. But it looks like a Christmas tree farm or something. That looks fun. Maybe it's just a bunch of evergreens planted in perfect rows. Next time I'm in this area, there might be snow on the ground. It's the best thing about this job. Something different every day, regardless of where you are or where you're going. Helping majority. I'm talking like 99% of people you meet and talk to and deliver to and pick up from. One kilometer. We're good kind people. Township road nine and then. Turn left in 16 meters. Even these guys here, I mean they didn't have to receive me today. But I called, I was polite. I tried to be as polite as I could be. Asked them, told them the situation, what my ETA was. I was honest about my ETA. Don't go and ruin it for the rest of us. And give a fake ETA and say you'll be there like a half hour, 15 minutes before you are. Turn right on. Township road nine and then. Turn left in 16 meters. I've had a couple of receivers actually surprised when I show up. When I say, when I say I'll be there. I say, oh most truckers lie and say they'll be here like a 15 minutes earlier or something. No, I try to be as precise as possible. That next time when I call them, hopefully they recognize me. They'll trust me when I say I'll be there. If you wait an extra two minutes for me, I'll be there. You know me. This is Bagley, Minnesota. Diesel price here is $5.20 US per US gallon. That's probably about $1.88 to $1.90 Canadian per liter. Just for comparison, back at home, diesel is going for about $2.20 a liter right now in Manitoba. So still considerably cheaper down here in the US. Just like I said before, I'm going to pull it up to Portage La Prairie and grab a load with it in the morning. Bring it back here. And next week I'm going to pull it up into Northern Manitoba. It looks a little strange to me with a box behind it. In order for it to work for me to pull a box behind me or a van trailer, I have to slide my fifth wheel all the way to the back as far as I can. Because the pin on the trailer is further in than on the step decks, there's more overhang. So it comes closer to my truck. And if I leave my fifth wheel, where I usually have it when I'm pulling quad beds, when I make a corner, that comes around and hits my headache rack and could cause some pretty expensive damage. So now there's just enough room in there. Not much. I got no extra space, but just enough room to make a corner and not wreck my truck. Still, let's get going. You guys ready to pull a van? Let's make sure it's not going to fall off first. Okay, one more time. All forward and spike. And triple triple quadruple check. That thing is attached. Nice. Peace of mind. I still always watch it like a hawk for the first like half hour. I don't know why I'm paranoid. You guys want to see how close the trailer comes to my truck when we turn? I know I do. I want to double check on that. I'm going to make a sharp corner right here and then we'll go check it out. Okay, turn. Let's go see how close it is. Say we still got plenty of space in there. I might have even been able to leave it where it was. I usually have the fifth wheel centered between my axles here. And now let's just set back just a little bit. But I could have left it where it was. But just in case if I hit a driveway connection and the truck goes up like this, I want to make sure that the top doesn't touch that. So yeah, it'll be good. And yes, I'm still waiting for my decals that I ordered four weeks ago. Haven't heard back from them. I'm kind of upset about it. I might go to a different company. Four weeks. Haven't heard one peep. Not nothing. Usually they would send me a template of the design for my approval. Nothing. And I called them last week too. After three weeks, I called them and said, Hey, what's going on? I said, yeah, yeah, we'll get right back to you. It's been another week. Haven't heard back from them. So creative print all on Steinback. I'm waiting to hear from you. I'm anxious to get my new decals. Don't forget about me, please. What is this thing? That's a big tank for something. It feels so weird. I had to put my tarps inside the trailer because there was no room for them on the back of my truck. Open says me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Do you not see this big glorious hood here? Got to get right up close and personal with it, eh? Come on. Today, Junior. Such a slow gate. We're good to go. I'll talk to you when we get there. Manitoba found one of the very last possible swallows we could park. Their sign looks like you could use some help there, doesn't it? This is where we spent the night. It's the next morning for me already, so I got to start tomorrow's video. I hope you tune in for it. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Make new videos of my life on the road as a truck driver across North America. Next week will be actually a little fun. We're leaving Sunday. Getting an early start to the week and we're headed way up into Northern Manitoba, further north than I've ever been in my own home province. Pass Thompson. So it's going to be interesting. I hope we'll be alright. I know we'll be alright. I don't know what kind of cell service they got up there. There's not much up there, but tune in then. It'll be a lot of fun. Until then, we're going to see what we have up this weekend. I got to go pick up this load first in tomorrow's video and then go home Friday, Saturday. And see what adventure awaits. See you later.