 Good morning This is what I've got on my truck today or on my trailer. It's not on my truck. Thankfully my truck's right there trailers on my truck This is on the trailer Two rack systems that are going back to Winnipeg. We're in Langbanks a sketch one It's about a five five and a half hour drive back to Winnipeg with this stuff It's the same place that I delivered so I delivered and I picked this up at the exact same place zero empty miles I Love it the way it should be They take my shoes off and then when I come back up to the front and forget that there's a puddle here And I step right in it my feet are wet and cold every time Try to kick the snow off my juice room. All right, so It'll be a good day. I don't know what's planned for after I get to Winnipeg I'm trying to get a hold of the load gods and figure out if they have anything for me Or what's going on? But I'm trying to get this unloaded this stuff unloaded today yet So I'll have two loads delivered today, which is a great start to the week. It's Monday today Just waiting for a phone call just to make sure that I'm confirmed where I'm going I called the receiver where I'm bringing these racks to they receive until midnight tonight That's awesome These new members are Mark I'm so sorry for pronouncing the last names wrong guys. I'm so sorry Mark Minnegoal Jeff Howell Jose Carlos Benjamin women Jimbo Slyce Mitch Rivard John Cipher and William Shingus senior All the newest members welcome aboard Today, I'm hoping that there won't be any snowstorms as we're headed east Forecast says snow all day But if it's snowing like it is right now, that's okay here. Look at this Taylor come with me come with me Like you see can you even see it falling? Oh There was one like you see it oh There was another flight see Snow like this is okay It's once it gets heavier and once it gets on the road and stays on the road I don't mind it when it's in the ditch We can have all snow we want as long as it's not on the road once it's on the road That's when I start not liking it as much But I have to midnight to get to my customer like five hours away He's oh, yeah, as long as you're here before me. They leave at midnight So we just have to have you unloaded before then how often have you heard that? How often you sometimes just 24 hour receivers, I guess but this is just first come first serve. Yeah, whatever you get there. We'll just unload you. It's all good Timmy's Timmy's been around for 60 years or what's with the 60? There's 60th anniversary They're not the same as they once work and they really celebrate their 60th anniversary if it's not the timmies of yesteryear I don't know what it is, but we just keep going back even though it's not the original timmies It's not the same Yeah, here I am Then swinging at mooseman. I saw Timmy's there. I can't drive past you again, Timmy's I don't know who you are anymore, but I still want your coffee and I don't know why I've heard if you want the original Tim Horton's coffee, you got to go to mcdonald's and get coffee I don't know what their attitude is to that but they changed the recipe or something a few years ago and worst of all worst of all Tim Horton's changed their lids a couple of years ago These are Canadian problems, you know You ever heard of first world problems 100 meters turn right on trans canada highway highway one. These are Canadian problems Tim Horton's what have you done? And why do I keep going back? I'm gonna keep going back too. All right. I got a truck coming from my left He has his signal on I believe but I don't trust him just yet Okay, I trust him 328 kilometers Overpass that they've been working on for how many years? I think they've been working on that overpass longer than I've been driving truck I've had my class one CDL for 17 years I've been doing this 12 years now They've never finished that bridge But it's finished portage laprari propo you completed a project So I was just talking to my friend adam we're losing the portage area and uh He says apparently that overpass has been done since late fall Or just before all the big snow came it's not completely finished yet They got into the finishing touches like the grass and the centerpiece the medians and stuff He didn't tell me how long it actually took I'm pretty sure they were working on that for like almost two decades But maybe maybe I'm exaggerating. It's been at least a decade, right? Say it's been done for a little while. I guess I just don't come through there very often anymore That truck went through a solid red light That was solid red man And you had those warning lights back there gasoline right now is a dollar 13.9 per liter for gas diesel fuel sitting at $1.59 nine I have a different price on my fuel card. But uh left on oak forest crescent. Why is the diesel so much more expensive than the gasoline? I've never understood that I've heard many like attempted explanations Is it because it's more in demand? But you think if it's in more demand and you're selling more of it in bulk that it would be cheaper, right? Sort of like going to Costco you buy more at one time you get it cheaper. Why is it more expensive? Buddy, what are you doing? I don't trust you. What are you doing? Stopping over there I'm going to this last one. I can just now you're backing up I changed my mind I just checked the fuel price for petrol pass on the east side of Winnipeg at deacons corner And it's seven cents per liter cheaper Than here at the flying jay today So false alarm. I pulled in here for nothing. We're going to go deliver this load and then on the way to canora We're going to fill up at deacons corner for a little bit cheaper Sorry flying jay you've been out bid Petro pass has got cheaper juice than you And I don't think I'm going to need to fill up completely either I'm going to put in just enough so that I can comfortably get down to brainer Now I'll fuel up down there So I don't think it's going to get super cold tonight I think that polar vortex has for the most part passed us by at least this one My delivery is just down the road from here On McGilverry boulevard a little ways down the perimeter south The perimeter is the ring road that goes around winnipeg. It's just winnipeg speak for the perimeter highway. That's what it's called It's a circle that goes all the way around the city I was always told That that perimeter highway was built as a quarantine zone Because we have the national bio lab research laboratories Here in winnipeg. So all the most dangerous diseases of viruses Karen I'm trying to tell the story All the most dangerous viruses and diseases are researched Here in winnipeg and if anything ever got out like a like a 2019 situation Everything inside the perimeter of winnipeg would be quarantined inside the city immediately. You wouldn't be able to leave the perimeter That's what I was told. That's why they built it now That would make sense right the reason not to live in the city But it makes sense right because if you get like some kind of massive virus leak and start spreading in the city All you got to do is militarize and shut down that ring road around the city. Nothing leaves. Nothing goes in You can contain the virus that way If only some other places around the world had some kind of system of containment like that for when those kind of things happen Uh, probably could have changed the course of history a little bit at one point or another You'll price on the other side of the city Just before I got out to start pumping. I'm like, you know, I better check I'm gonna go past there It's very hard to have a conversation when you keep speaking over me karen The party who just keeps talking over everybody else Walking like you have a conversation with your friend and someone just sort walks in at a door and just starts talking about something completely different Interrupting the whole conversation. That's you karen. This is mcgillivary boulevard crossing over the perimeter here. I got to turn the left Look, we got the d o t or m o t. That's what we call it here in manitoba ministry of transportation turned left on highway 3 Or you could also call them mce motor carrier enforcement They drive trucks just like this. This one says peace officer Oh no motor carrier enforcement it says on there You stay there. You leave me alone That's manitoba d o t And those are the guys that'll give you tickets not today Can I make this corner? I don't know. This is gonna be tight You got to turn left here. I think there's enough room as long as traffic over there on my left Doesn't creep all the way up here like that one car is just out of frame As long as they leave me space, I'll be able to get around there Oh, yeah, that's a fancy trailer I wonder how much it costs to get a custom paint job or custom wrap drop like that done to a trailer Or I wonder if that's a wrap or if like that's Because that's a roll tight, right? A con of stoga A rolling tarp. I wonder if the tarp is actually painted or it's interesting All right, my turn my turn Yeah, oh no one more. That's my turn. Yeah. Oh and that car pulled all the way forward to All my left. I don't think I can make it around them. I should have no problem I can't move on this road for seven kilometers Okay, so seven kilometers are about five miles down holding right before me, of course And first he went this way at all that actually went as smooth as uh, we could have hoped for I'm already empty and that only took 15 minutes from the time I got here to the time I'm rolling away now That's good. So let's head east. We're gonna stop at Petro Pass On the east side of Winnipeg like I said for fuel I'm not gonna fuel up all the way, but just enough to get me to To Brainerd comfortably. I'll fuel up down there fuels cheaper down there It's not supposed to get too cool tonight. Let's see what the low is for tonight And if it's gonna get too cold, then we got to fill it up because I'd rather have full tanks It's only supposed to go down to minus 15 today Celsius Bit of a tight lot in here, but there's enough room Just barely so it's not gonna get too cold tonight minus 15 Celsius. That's not uh Not the end of the world anything below minus 20 I get more uh concerned about regarding my fuel levels But remember my body's also climatized already to this winter season So minus 15 doesn't feel that cold to me at the beginning of winter That was really cold. That's actually kind of nice Oh minus 15 break out the t-shirt There's that trailer again on the left lose the trailer Just sit there No, Karen, I'm gonna go and get some Timmy's I know Timmy number two with a day Two coffees in one day. Who am I kidding two coffees in one day? That's not That's not bad only two Usually when I'm on the road I have two coffees a day Seems like when I'm at home I have a bit more but it all depends because the volume is different, right? I'll usually have like one large coffee And one small coffee Looks like all this mess is done here now. Well, it's only been like 20 minutes. They got all of this construction cleaned up here This is where those dot officers were and where all those pylons work. I was like 20 minutes ago Wow Here we go to timmy ho At the roundabout take the third exit in one kilometer How about no, how about take the next left right now and go get yourself some timmy hoes Karen Having issues with her today I don't know what she's talking about. She's stuck in weekend mode. I think it's still drunk I will set the example and actually park in a parking spot. This is a Is a revolutionary thought that does not cross the minds of a lot of people who frequent this tim Horton's You know, you could actually park in a parking spot and then go eat your timmy's instead of blocking everything blocking the phone I'm a little salty today, aren't I? I'm a little bit irritated. I don't know why one of those days. We're just everything's irritating Not really like I'm not really physically irritated. It's mostly for conversation here on the blog It don't get me wrong. It doesn't bother me that much But I find it funny to point this stuff out because I think everybody else sees the same things I do And they're all kind of confused Just like I am like, why would you do that? Well, why? But there's so many people out there that do these questionable things every day. It's entertaining I can make a whole channel just on that just People who don't have a clue or maybe they do have a clue and they just don't care That's the question. Do they really not know or do they really not care? That's the question when you're inconveniencing everybody else around you One has to ask why? Right? It's just it's just me, isn't it? It's just me. That's why you watch me because I complain all the time Here come the comments stop complaining trucker trucker. You're all you do is complain I know I was there I heard it too. It came out of my mouth Tosh you always complain Yeah, try being me. I have to listen to it all day You only have to listen to like 20 25 minutes of it I have to be me and listen to me all day Every day No breaks You get annoyed with me just after 20 minutes, man I don't know. I'm feeling weird. I'm feeling weird It's been a good start to the week. I'm happy that old blue is running. Well, I'm in a good mood because of that And uh knock on wood You can keep running well And this was a really good start to my week like Monday. I got two loads done So I started yesterday Sunday Went to Langbank got all prepared and ready there Someone cut me in line this morning, but we did get unloaded promptly Even though I got cut that's okay Not upset about that not at all not at all You know, I only took time out of my time with my family to get there the night before so that I could get unloaded first But that's okay It's okay. Sometimes you just get cut and nobody cares. Do they care? Do they know did they even realize they had to realize I was right there I guess that means they don't care So that's where this all started Ah, yeah, that's gonna be a good day. It's been a good day so far. That wasn't that bad. I got out of there Got my second load right out of that same location delivered that now. That means I've delivered two loads in one day A two-for-one special that makes it a decent Monday It's Monday today, right? Yeah, when I'm filming this it's a Monday if you didn't know I'm gonna get my coffee now. You think I'm wired now Just a partial fill up. I just put in 150 liters which is 39.626 gallons Price for me here was a dollar 21.37 1.2137 per liter or whatever. Let's just say a dollar 21 per liter It's always just confusing when they add the extra decimal points Cost me 182 and six cents just for 150 liters there And that was seven cents cheaper my price over at flying j in heading over there was a dollar 27 This is a dollar 21. Pardon me six cents. I lied to you this whole time. I'm sorry. At least I admit it I didn't do that on purpose Okay, so let's say we saved six cents per liter bought 150 liters. I saved nine dollars by fueling here So now I've got about two-thirds of tanks that are full That'll get me to canora. We'll get loaded in the morning down to brainer unloaded And I'll fuel up down there where the prices are more so around A dollar 10 per liter 10 cents cheaper than here yet And throw that back there because not only do I keep records in an app on my phone called fuelio Uh keeps track of all of my uh fuel economy fuel ups all of my finance stuff all on an app in my phone I also keep track of it on paper old school And I also keep track of our overall finances In an excel program and microsoft office on my computer But that covers everything all of the money coming into our accounts And all of the expenses going out and then at the end it shows us How much we made uh if like our net so all of our expenses and it'll I also break it down into where we spend it Do we spend it on groceries eating out? Uh brit eating out me eating out vitamins vet bills and uh pet costs uh credit cards interest taxes Everything is all separated on a nice uh spreadsheet It's all nicely made I used to do this back when we lived in the small house and then I stopped doing it probably about a year And it's so easy to get Lost and lose track of your spending when you're not carefully Micromanaging every dollar and cent that goes in and out and I don't get me wrong micromanaging. I don't mean that we go and You know, uh, I don't micromanage what my wife spends or anything. She It's my money's her money her money's my money our money isn't there together But together as a unit we we do manage everything that we spend so that we know where our money is going Then at the end of the month we look at our net and we look at all of our expenses And we'll be like wow we spent way too much money on like dog treats that Said no one ever we've never said that before What's a better example? We spent way too much money eating out or we spend way too much money on uh Nothing That snacks for us or something We've got to bring that down or we spent too much money on groceries That's a tough one because don't we all feel that way? We all feel like we spend too much money on groceries because groceries are through the roof right now But at least we can keep track of like okay We spent like what a thousand dollars in groceries this month or over a thousand maybe 1500 or whatever We spent 300 dollars more this month than last month What did we buy this month that we didn't buy last month? We can go over it and say was it worth it and we say yeah It was worth the extra 300 dollars or if we look at it. Well, we didn't really need that Uh, maybe next month we won't spend it on that or something right keep track of every little Nickel that comes in and goes out Keep track of my fuel my fuel economy my fuel mileage Keep track of my trips my trip mileage my trip numbers. Keep them all organized My pay statements, uh should match my records. I match everything up. Can you tell I have an accountant for a mother? I'm not an accountant myself. I'm not as good as she is at keeping records But I definitely did have it drilled into me my whole life keep records Keep records of everything So that's what I do. I keep records of everything and it's helped quite a bit actually I can go back to any point since I bought this truck any point In my booklets and if I don't have my booklets with me I have my app if I don't have my phone or my book with me. I have my computer I can go back and see exactly where each dollar went Do I need to do all that probably not Is it a lot of extra work? Yeah But doesn't make me feel good Yeah, and it does help me to not spend useless money as much. I still spend more than I should in some areas and Gotta be better in some area But it at least gives me an idea of where everything's going. So at the end of the month if I'm broken I'm like, where did all my money go? I can go and see a detailed list and be like, oh Oh, that's where it went. Oh there there there and there. That's where my money went Okay Off we go to canora And if a fuel is out onto the road now yikes Glad I got mine Made it here to canora Sorry, I can't get good light on me Made it here to canora and we're gonna shut down here for the night. 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