 Seven twenty six in the morning. Are you sure you got to go outside already? Oh Morning folks. We're here in the Hotel Sandman Sandman hotel trucks in the shop getting a few things up there getting fixed Should be ready today sometime. I was thinking we would sleep a little bit longer today seems we got really nothing to do but Somebody had other plans Come on, bud. Let's go outside. Let's get my shoes on. Okay. Excuse me Excuse me my shoes on dirty old work shoes. I'm gonna take you outside Didn't we take you out? We did take you up before bed. You drink a lot of water All right, bud Can you open the door? We're going outside for you. You think that you'd open the door? No, okay. Don't forget this on a mission this way It's a rainy morning. Don't eat that. Don't eat that somebody threw their McDonald's don't it's not very nice You should clean that up. Look at this. See if I got a new Chevy it would be this It's a blocked out Silverado Z71 trail boss Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Very nice This is the hotel that we're staying at Sandman Diesel you woke me up to go stand out in the rain. All you want her to do is look at the Chevy That's my boy That's my boy the only thing different I would get is the LED front headlights, it's the only difference I want but that that would be the truck that I'd want right there, huh? Beautiful Come on bud Let's go on says charge to the mud man. Let's go inside Got myself set up here I couldn't fall back asleep after we got up at 7 30 this morning So I just stayed up and catching up my videos here I guess you guys have probably noticed I've started scheduling them again at 4 a.m. Central time. I really I Like that system and we did that for years before and I sort of miss it. So I'm gonna try it again for a bit and see what happens Just making coffee for myself over there. I've been running off coffee. My truck is still in the shop Apparently they have the same tech that works on it Which I sort of like but he gets off at midnight yesterday and he hadn't finished and he starts at 11 30 this morning So they don't put someone else on my truck in the meantime. They wait for him to come back in today So it's the same guy that works on the truck the whole time. So it's actually 1145 now, so he should have my truck back in the shop right now I'm trying to diagnose that engine light. They replaced the air dryer yesterday and Now just get that engine light diagnosed sort of got my stuff full Over the place here. All right. It's update time. So talk to the shop Not good news not good news So they dove into the engine light and they found that there are Not just one or two error codes But several error codes and that there are also power problems that I knew already But I thought I had had that fixed at the last shop that I was at in Steinbeck They were supposed to have cleaned all my battery terminals turns out they only cleaned the battery terminals They didn't clean the grounds and somewhere in my truck Something is drawing power drawing power and that might be what's causing some of these engine light problems There might also be an injector that's on the way out that I need to replace So all in all It's been eight hours at a hundred and sixty four dollars an hour To diagnose this engine light and they're still working on it They have replaced the air dryer system and they've got that all working fixed all the air leaks and everything That's that's good. That was five hundred dollars approximately and They think that this is going to get pushed to Monday today Saturday when I'm filming this So it looks like I'm going to be in a hotel here for two more nights and My truck bill is going to be in the thousands of dollars. I was hoping it'd be something small but they could just you know Push some buttons in their computer and fix it Looks like it's gonna be a little more serious than we thought So Here we are It's five thirty right now. They told me to give them a call around seven o'clock if they if I haven't heard from them yet Just to get an update They'll tell me then whether or not I need to book this hotel room for another two nights or not Not too happy about this but at the same time I'm glad that we're catching this all now because if there is an injector on the way out I would much rather have caught it now then have it go out on me while I'm out on the road somewhere and Get me stranded and have to pay for a tow Whatever's going on with my power system my power supply through my batteries through my system whatever's drawing power I'm glad that they're looking into it and fixing it because I was getting tired of my battery draining so quickly and Unexplicably like sometimes I would it's happened to me twice now where I'm at a customer and Just unloading right and while they're unloading me like sometimes it takes them a little while to do their stuff Sometimes up to four hours right and I'll usually play my farming game or edit some videos or something on my computer And just having my computer plugged into those batteries for four hours Drain those batteries twice. That's why I got them looked at in Steinbeck last time and they told me they were good to go Batteries might be good to go. The system is not somewhere in the system It's not delivering full power to the whole system of the ECU the computer components are not getting full power I'm not a mechanic. So excuse my simple talk. I don't know all of the Fancy terms for everything. I should know more about how to fix a truck and I'm learning as I go It's called the process of life. So one day I will know more about that, but excuse my simple terms here so Getting that looked at I'm glad they're fixing it now because like I said, I don't want to be stranded somewhere with a dead battery Because I had my computer on her because I was charging my phone overnight, right or like my bunk heater on or something So that'll be fixed. It's a good thing. We're getting this all fixed now. I'm happy about it I'm just kind of scared to see the bill and I also have another problem This one's not quite as big, but it is kind of a problem. Uh, the pizza's almost gone Chuck checks out robotic cars. There's no better meal than a robot meal In one of the fastest vehicles On the entire plan wants to be Final update of the evening. I know you've just been looking at me sitting in a hotel room all day tomorrow We'll try to get out and do something different. I'm going to be here for tomorrow and part of Monday But I do have some good news to update you with right now. Oh Finally some good news. Okay, so they figured out what was wrong Remember I've been telling you guys that my batteries need to be replaced But the shop that I brought my truck to to get safety that said that they tested the batteries and said they were fine But I wasn't just here. What was going on there? Okay, well, they tested the voltage on my batteries here and these batteries were junk They were junk. So they replaced my batteries and that actually fixed all the problems because the problem was the engine light was coming on because the ECU and he labeled off bunch other technical Parts that need power weren't getting the correct voltage and because of that it was kicking my engine light on Now there was another problem that we caught luckily Must have happened just recently, but my turbo actuator was seized shot Which isn't good. I believe I could have blown my turbo if I ran like that for too long Which is a very expensive part now this actuator isn't cheap in itself either, but it's a lot cheaper than a new turbo It's a $1400 Canadian dollar part, which is let's say just over a thousand bucks American or so 1100 bucks It's for you Americans, but we're gonna talk on Canadian dollars here. So a $1400 part for that they replaced all four batteries, which was $367 The total labor that's gone into diagnosing these problems is $1200 They replaced my air dryer, which was $400 and I believe there was an hour of labor on that too Which was another hundred and sixty four dollars so they're sending me a bill to my email and I can look it over over tomorrow and Give them an answer on on Monday Or well workout pimp the trucks not gonna be ready tonight yet They're gonna need a little bit of Monday to get it done yet So with all that being said, I believe what I'm thinking right now. I think we're sitting around Either around $4,500 to $5,000. I think is what I think the total is gonna be We'll see how close I am when it actually comes through. I'm supposed to be getting an email from them soon Show up yet They're gonna email me. Oh here it is. Yes. Okay. Oh I'm nervous. Are you guys nervous? It says hi Josh Attached is the estimate for repairs before taxes and shop supplies Core charges will be removed once repairs are completed Please review and advise how you would like to proceed Here we go opening her up the quote right now. Oh, it's more than I thought It's more than I thought Okay Hey, they said the core charges will be removed but right now the quote is at $5,585 and 65 cents Total parts two thousand six hundred seventy five dollars total labor two thousand three hundred eighty five dollars Oh core charges five hundred twenty four dollars. Oh, okay. So five hundred twenty four dollars are coming off of this yet Okay, so I was right. It was around five thousand dollars. I was hoping forty five hundred to five thousand but so five thousand plus taxes Now we're in British Columbia. So they're pretty tax happy out here on the West Coast. I Don't know what their tax rates are here. I think they're in Manitoba our tax rates are 13% Say five thousand dollars plus. Let's say 13% $5,600 so let's just round it up and say it'll probably be six thousand five hundred dollars There's always hidden charges. There's always hidden charges Well, if that doesn't knock the breath out of you, I don't know I don't know what will and if that doesn't convince you to join the trucking industry I don't know what will But I love what I do. It's priceless to me. I love trucking You know, I My parents sent me through a private school I got accepted into University at two different universities to go through criminology courses I could have gone through that been a lawyer or a cop or whatever I wanted to be I decided I wanted to be a truck driver And I've never regretted it. I've never regretted it This is what I've always dreamt of being my dad was a truck driver growing up And this is what I've always wanted to be wanted to do And here I am living the dream and this is one of those parts of the dream that aren't very fun. They're expensive They'll set us back but we'll catch up and uh We'll make it happen We'll make it happen Pretty good guess though, right? I said 4,500 to 5,000 Almost bang on 5,000 The high end of it But uh, yeah, so that just goes to show like uh, you got to love what you do You don't have to be a truck driver But I just hope that whatever career you find yourself in that you enjoy your career as much as I enjoy mine Even on the bad days because even on the bad days now. I haven't had one thought go through my head Going like oh, maybe this is not what I want to do with my life You know The only thing that makes me think that is the fact that I don't have my wife here with me That is the hardest part of this job You know, I started this job before I met her even and uh, I knew it would be hard ones I got married but man some of these days out here being away from her and we don't have kids yet But once we have kids That's the hardest part of the job But no job is easy And it's always worth it to do a job that you enjoy Otherwise, you're completely miserable So I'm going to end the vlog here. I've been mostly just sitting around Maybe we should just like move around a bit change the scenery a bit for you guys Let's stare at this uh Art I think that's art. Anyways could just be a random picture of You never know You never know could be worth like thousands of dollars That's me trying to add something else into this video other than me just sitting around talking about my truck Thanks for hanging out with me this long. I know it's probably been quite a bit of talking today If you've made it to the end, I appreciate it. Uh tomorrow, we'll try to go out to find a dog park For me and the weasel to go for a run Sure, he'll take me for a walk because I've been Kind of stressed out today and haven't gone out much We've gone on a few short walks, but haven't gone out much. I've just been Slowly losing my mind waiting for this bill to come in that I read off with you Right here right now. So I'm glad it was close to what we were expecting So I'll see you guys tomorrow for another day hanging out in british columbia Tune in we'll try to make a little more exciting than this. I promise