 I hope life finds you well and healthy In British Columbia right now headed east Got a couple more deliveries to make today, and then we start heading Towards the house. I got a load that's waiting for me on the way there. I'm gonna pick up drag that thing home and Get home and start doing some prep again things seem to be heating up every day, but Like I said yesterday, you have to remember please remember my videos are about a week behind Now a lot happens every day So it might be completely different by the time you're watching this. So just keep that in mind Home is still safe and healthy For a case worldwide is still rising I've heard reports that China might be on the verge of a second wave. I hope not, but It's hard to know what to believe nowadays, you know, it's Everybody is saying different things I don't trust that government over there at all to tell the truth about what's going on So all I can really do is see what's going on in our part of the world And so far it's getting worse But maybe maybe if we're lucky by the time you watch this it'll be getting better Let's hope So I'm coming up to Salmon Arm British Columbia here It's where I gotta stop make one stop then we go to Vernon British Columbia a little way south and then I go to Kelowna, BC Little way south more and then we go empty into the next province to the east to Alberta Well, look at this car turning in front of me here, what is that? Nice What that just looks like a Chevy of some sort There's a puppy in the back window just hanging out on the dashboard in the back We're in Vernon, BC again here, and I have an empty step-deck trailer behind me I'm trying to keep my mind off of everything today and just Trying to get the job done. So we have this This job done and now we're headed to Alberta. It's about 800 kilometers 500 miles empty But it was either that or no freight So it's Saturday today. I'll be there. Well, I could get there late tonight But I'll probably stop somewhere along the way maybe in golden or something. I don't know Spend the night sleep in tomorrow relax and make my way towards there so that I can load on Monday morning Some kind of utility trailers and those are going back To Winnipeg. I just got to drop them off at our yard. So far this truck is running. All right I've got my eye on the water pump that we're having problems with yesterday That's going to need to be replaced, but it's still doing fine. It's just Needs attention soon So I'd rather have have the guys at home work on it so that I can be at home with my wife during this crisis While my truck gets worked on It's the whole plan I don't want to be in a hotel right now I don't want to be anywhere but home right now or in this truck Even a hotel room. I don't know if they're cleaning them properly the guy I know that they say they are but you know, what if they missed one of the germs and I get it Rather just go home We've got to get this injector looked at too. It's just a little cranky. It's not like I have a big problem with my injector it's triggered my Engine fault very briefly a few times, but it goes off right away But that does mean it needs to get looked at so let's hope there's no big problems with it on the way home As you can tell for now. We're still still doing fine. So probably I need to Replace that so hopefully just one one injector that needs replacing my water pump and I can be out of there for Dare I say around $1,000 I Really don't want to spend more than that right now. I don't want to spend anything right now I want to spend it on food But in order to spend it on food I have to be able to make money to buy more food and in order to make money I need this truck to run So it's a dilemma you see I Have to spend money to make money In the middle of a pandemic What can you do? We're still doing fine. We're not worried at all all of our families I mentioned that today already all of our families are well all of our friends are well My dad is still trucking which worries me a little bit Hopefully by the time you watch this video, he'll be at home No, it worries me a little bit with him Trucking around I know he's being safe. He's being careful and you know, it's Cleaning all the surfaces and everything making sure that he's not gonna catch anything but I Don't know I'd I Know he's got to work just like me be really nice if he could be home though So maybe by the time you watch this he'll be at home I'll have to talk with the family and see what he thinks and See what they think and maybe in the coming days Maybe after this trip, he'll be able to stay home till till this is over It's right it out until the worst of it's over, you know, he's turning 65 this year I don't really might be mad at me for telling you but I'd really like it if he'd be at home We'll see see where it goes I've got to keep trucking, but I'm the younger one, you know if I got to help him out I'll help him out pull together as a family support each other and Protect them all I'm hoping that you're watching this video right now in the future and everything's better and you're sort of like wow That was bad. I can't believe how much he was panicking or how much he was worried or how worried he was at the time Things were just fine You know, I hope you're not watching this in the future Looking at me wishing I was panicking more Ah, don't worry about us. You just worry about yourself. Okay? You guys take care of yourself to carry your family And we're definitely gonna go farther than this Sun is still up. The time is 6 30 here. Are we in Pacific time? Yeah, we're still in Pacific time very specific time We'll stop at the husky ESO the ESO husky however they want to call it make myself a sandwich at the same time This road this specific I don't think you know what road I'm on Karen. I don't think this road goes more than two kilometers Get your stuff together That guy is shoveling water Park parking just off to the left except that one guy is taking up the whole lot though I don't know why he would park there like that I'll figure it out. I'll find a parking spot and we'll talk to you in a bit Certain death lays over that cliff to our right. I can see a train down there Anybody looks like a little toy train. That's what we could do to move traffic and freight through our Through this mountain range. This mountain range is exceptionally big and rugged. I Really think we could do better than this but you know, it's amazing how all of our resources in the country Sort of being focused on the country, right? Sort of what we've been wanting make for them to finally change the instant policy I know that wasn't the intention of it But if we would just spend more of the money in the first place here, you know, we could have a nicer road through here What's the word I digress For the edge here You know, they do put up the little baby barrier just just in case at least they did that right? I mean the Alaska Highway. It's more dangerous than this and they don't have they don't have barriers on the side of the Alaska Highway I've been up there once Britt was with me. She'll tell you dad's gone up there a couple times, too Those roads are crazy. I went through there during a snowstorm No where to stop you just got to keep trucking. You don't want to stop in the middle of the road Right got to keep slowly trucking along man That was that was some white knuckle driving my first time up there, too So I didn't know the road at all, but I'm here to tell the tale. I I lived to I Lived another day survived to live through the pandemic The corona apocalypse Have I said that yet? I've said that have you just fly right through here I checked on my water pump when we stopped there at the yes, so husky and still doing good still doing good so far So we'll see Okay, this automatic transmission. That's why on my new truck I am definitely having a manual is automatic it always wants to bog down the engine like as soon as you're not giving it just a little bit of gas a little bit of fuel Like bogs it down to 800 rpm and then when you need The throttle you press on the throttle I have to sit it has to sit there and think for like five seconds to figure okay, okay He wants to go somewhere else to go faster. How much how much fuel do we need? Let's do the calculations Okay, we've calculated how much fuel we need all right now Which gear should we need maybe five maybe four? No, I think six no too low. Okay, let's try five still too low Let's try four or oh that one worked. Okay good good That's how my automatic transmission thinks That's why I was telling you my live chat last week that it's just a whole mother can of worms and plus I need to get my Transmission fluid changed when I get home as well so But whatever we got lost to worry about that's that's life, right you all got stuff to worry, but I'm not the only one I'm not thinking or saying like I'm the only one. We're all going through some tough times These are just my tough times. I get to share them with you Don't worry, there's a lot of good mixed in with it See we can find a parking spot here I wasn't gonna stop near Cochran at that petrol pass But they had a crazy blizzard out that way and I just wanted to get away from there And a good thing I did because now we don't have any snow here There's some snow on the ground, but it's not falling at least Find a spot to park. I found the primo trucker Josh spot I'm not gonna show you where it is. Otherwise you guys are gonna take it Every time I start telling you where my spots are I come in the sun was in my spot. Let's just say I'm on my own Off in the back. It'll be nice and quiet I know I'm kind of panicking and I know I feel kind of whatever like everyone's a little panicked with this whole situation going on right now, but I Hope I don't turn into like a hypochondriac. That just thinks that he's sick all the time But I think I'm just really tired right now and I think I'm gonna feel a lot better tomorrow, but