 We're in Balgoni Saskatchewan Nothing says good morning like a good old truck stop croissant. It's actually not bad Tastes better than it looks We're ready to go All set truck is ready to go I've double-checked my route. I Was reaching for the clutch. This is an automatic truck. There is no clutch. All right. Let's keep that in mind today Put her in D. I guess And hope she knows what to do There we go. There we go. We're sitting at about 80,000 pounds. This load came out of the US So it's loaded to the max for US standards Drag my butt out of here without hitting anything. I don't need to grab fuel here I'm gonna fuel up in Saskatoon later today. I have to go there and pick up a pickup truck Pick up a pickup And that's my reload. What's this guy doing? Excuseing me. I need to go straight a little bit of a kerfluffle here this morning. Oh And another guy's coming. I would have gone through the pumps there, but the pumps are all blocked up right now And another guy's coming Okay rush hour in the morning, you know, there wasn't one truck moving around the lot when I started rolling But that's how it happens, right as soon as you start moving that's when everybody else starts moving Are we good to go now after this guy? Oh, and there's another guy What are these guys doing parked here? What chaos? Yikes These guys should not be parked here. How are all these guys gonna get out? those guys there So I see truck stops for exactly the same nothing's changed Everybody's blocking each other in I was guys grabbing that trailer there Okay Yeah, I think this these guys here parked here and are sleeping here This guy's having a hard time just hooking up to his trailer. He's lucky. There's no one beside him here and Yeah, all these people you can see the tracks they've had to oh Boy that that's not cool when people do that and block everybody in like that That's not going look at this guy here, too. He's blocking everybody in as well. Oh truck stop chaos this morning How are these guys gonna get out? He's sitting in his cab at least so I guess he's not sleeping there guy here. Wow So this is actually the worst I've ever seen Balgoni Usually I would come out through the pumps there, so I Wasn't expecting you to be so congested on this side here Usually you can get tons of trucks like both directions on that side. I was lucky. I didn't have any trucks coming This way that would have been a big mess These guys parked on the street here already I'm glad I got here early last night It definitely pays to be early when you're Looking for truck parking. It's gotten so much busier just every year It just keeps getting more and more and more trucks and the truck stops aren't being built fast enough So there's always a lack of parking and then you know they go when they build a you know 150 spot truck spot truck stop and everyone's like wow awesome just in time and boom It's filled up and now we need another one and then we got to wait years for another Hey, we're out of there. We're out of there. We can now start our day officially. I Have 25 kilometers or about I don't know 12 miles 15 miles Gonna take these tarps off the load behind me get that freight off of there and Oh wait, no, I want to go left. That's right. I'm going left. I Can take this route into northern Regina and that'll get me in there closer. Are you gonna stop buddy? You are a hauling You're gonna stop okay, man school bus aggressive Got a red light bud Guess he was turning Is this a little spit us out into northern Regina I'll get this trailer unloaded. We're headed up empty to Saskatchewan It's supposed to be a one-ton pickup truck. So I'm guessing it's gonna be like a Dooley pickup or something I don't know pretty simple to tie it down. I have tire straps. So four tire straps one on each tire and We'll be off I don't know if I'm gonna make it home tonight though It's gonna be quite a long day. I might just sleep in the truck tonight. I'm thinking that's probably what's gonna happen Otherwise, I'll probably end up being home at midnight or later I still got to bring this truck back to the yard park the trailer park the truck get my stuff out of the truck Don't worry about that later. That's an evening problem. That's a tonight problem. Let's worry about this morning problems Let's get this freight off this trailer Feels good to be back out here near Regina haven't been here in a while People out here are very nice You guys remember this big old refinery here in Regina correct me if I'm wrong But I'm pretty sure this is where they refine diesel fuel We got a refinery here, and we have a big refinery in Edmonton, and that's where most of Western Canada gets their diesel fuel from Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a scientist This is obviously where they keep their snow now and that's nice and neat and organized like they got little yard lights in there and everything Okay, look at all that snow that they've dumped in there, right? Winnipeg has a couple of snow hills too except instead of like taking up so much space They create like a big snow mountain a few of them in the city. There's one on in the southwest corner There's one on the south perimeter One on the north sort of like in all corners of the city And they had these massive bulldozers that the dump trucks come in dump their load of snow like this guy right there And then there's massive bulldozers that just come to the bottom and just push all the snow to the top That'd be a pretty good job to do all you do is just go back and forth and back and forth all day Just pushing snow to the top Apparently they get like 40 bucks an hour or two and that was 10 years ago. I bet they get like 50 bucks an hour already Wouldn't be surprised those heavy heavy bulldozers heavy equipment operators. I Bet they're sitting pretty fine. They got a nice heated cab That's a pretty good gig I think but Still doesn't be truckin I think this is the best gig to have Who wouldn't want to be a paid tourist? Oh that refinery stinks a bit. Whoo It's a really warm day outside so my window rolled down It's only minus seven outside So that's probably About about 20 Fahrenheit something like that. I don't know. I thought the right lane ended. That's why I was in this lane It's hard to tell with all the snow on the road Okay, so we got a thousand meters to get into the right lane there shouldn't be a problem I'll just let all these little four wheelers go Give her a bite come on 4WD. Give her come on. Thank you after the intersection and make my move Hold out of there. I got to drive into that Empty door there load inside which is awesome Gonna roll the tarps up inside. I'll have to talk to you guys once I'm done here though Yeah unload right in there drive in and back out This is a treat I Was ready to do all this in the cold snow this morning I got here came around the back and saw that it was an indoor An indoor drop Made my day and the guy here helped me take my tarps off and roll them up So it's really easy turned out really good Backed out of there all done Empty step deck behind me. We are off to Saskatoon It's gonna be a good day It's gonna be a good day man. I love this One day one day. I'm gonna have my W9 And we'll be back you'll see One day. I just love driving this Kenworth Imagine if it had that nice long hood in front of it yet the studio sleeper behind me Big pipes you can hear me coming from a quarter mile away Maybe more than that half a mile away. Maybe a mile away. Who knows? The options are limitless One day we're gonna have some fun Well, yeah, we're gonna go to Andy the Kenworth guy and we're gonna get set up I'm gonna wait for this little dude. Where are you going little guy? Give her bud Now how do I get out of here? Where am I going? Where am I going? Guess I should have figured that out before I came down the driveway here. I'm gonna go to Saskatoon Saskatoon, let's see here. So we're facing south right now We want to go Right and then right again, and that'll turn us Spit us out onto the 11, which will take us up way up there to Saskatoon Okay, I think I know where I'm going now. Is there nobody behind me? Okay, there's nobody behind me Park right here in the driveway and I'm gonna figure out what my address is that I actually have to go to Put that into the GPS right away Karen Where are we going Karen? Let's see Can you guys see it on there? Let me take you off my head for a second so you can zoom in. Okay So See us there that's Saskatchewan All right, here we go. There's the US. Here's where we are. We're above Eastern Montana right now There's home over here Southeast Manitoba, we're gonna go from Regina to South Saskatoon and then back to Winnipeg Right there you have 11 hours and 54 minutes of remaining drive time Okay, so we got Actually, I have 1154 until midnight and then I have another 30 minutes That doesn't make sense. I don't know. We'll figure this out later We got plenty of time to get to Saskatoon about a three-hour drive It's gonna be good. So I want to turn right here. No, I won't turn left. It's telling me to turn left. Okay left Here we go And of course rush hour comes just as I push in the brakes That is the story of my life That's okay We're trucking though as long as we're trucking. I'm happy. Oh, this guy's got his left signal on He's probably coming in here Okay, I'm gonna go Good timing. There we go Get out of his way They sure got a lot of snow here yesterday, thanks That blizzard that I went through must have gone through here first is by the time we got to Balcony last night We were through the blizzard, but all the way from I'd say like Moosman, Saskatchewan all the way up to Balcony was just a bad blizzard bad You just scooched through here. Excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry. Sorry. Thank you So I'm gonna turn left up ahead on Ross Avenue. That's gonna take me up to Ring Road, I guess And on to the highway Timmy's Timmy's I See Timmy's I bet you anything they don't have truck parking. I bet you anything they don't have truck parking We're in Davidson, Saskatchewan between Regina and Saskatchewan on the truck parking here I spent many nights here before that's a space here. Oh, oh somebody hit that light pole over there I wasn't like that last time I was here Karen we're going to Tim's calm down Timmy's Tim's Tim's Tim Tim to Rouge Tim Tim to me Tim Tim Tim Tim Tim Tim's Tim me Tim me Tim Tim's What is that that looks cool nice you anybody know what that is What's that guy hauling over there? Fascinating one of the cool things about the job is you get to see all the different kinds of things All the different machines in the world, you know and how we transport them I'm gonna come in right beside Mr. Co-op here and they're just gonna grab a wrap I don't have any food in the truck, which is not very smart I don't recommend that you should always have food at least three days worth of food in the truck with you Everywhere you go, especially in wintertime. I'm a little nervous. Usually I would bring food along, but This is gonna turn into a two-nighter. I'm not gonna get home tonight yet And I'm fine with that. I'll probably get very close to home I might even get to the yard back in Manitoba, but I'll probably sleep in the truck Otherwise, I'll be waking everybody up getting all the dogs and Britt Wake them up at like two in the morning when I get home because when I get home the dogs Of course freak out and then they're wondering why I'm home in the middle of the night Because first they think I'm like some kind of thief and they go nuts and then they realize it's me And then they go nuts again and then Brits all wide awake by the time I get them calmed down. So it's just better We don't have kids yet, but I'm imagining once we have kids That's definitely gonna be a big no-no coming home in the middle of the night. You may as well just sleep in the truck Yeah, just gonna this place is pretty busy Right there. I'm gonna go across grab a coffee grab a wrap or something something for my belly and We'll pick up some food in the Saskatoon again before we leave there I just want to make sure I got something in my stomach that I can go straight to the customer now load up this one-time pickup and Not have a grumbling stomach the whole time This place is really busy though. Look, you have more trucks come steady stream coming in and out It's only been a year since I've been out here And every place I stop at is way busy. Noticeably way busier already The roads here in Saskatoon aren't the greatest Covered in snow and ice and slush and salt We're getting there. We're just about to our pickup boat half a mile away just up here. I just can't go very fast because Gonna throw myself out the window if I do good thing we're in seatbelt We're loaded up to scrap fuel at the flying J. I guess I gave my position away on Facebook a little There's a bunch of you out here in Saskatoon and that tracked me down Shout out to you. All right, so Let's go show you what we got. We got an old dodge We got an old dog like an old dodge. I don't know how old it is. Well, I didn't do it. Okay, I Didn't do it Loaded like that. I put protection in here So that the lug nuts wouldn't mess with My tire straps it's a ram 5500 heavy-duty one ton the flatbed box or flatbed on the back Excuse me. Oh my god, the wheels tied down all the way around Someone a man of Toba picked it up So they're obviously gonna do some work to it. What I found interesting is here. Look at this What is this? Is that a wheel or something? At first I thought that was an airbag What would an airbag be doing there like for suspension or something? Well, it's just maybe it's just a bump stop. I I don't know but this So little girl seen some better days Windows don't go up This door back here is all messed up That window shattered out and doors all messed up there, but it's closed Staying closed. It's coming back to Mount of Toba with me Someone in Winnipeg is gonna show it some love and or maybe it's just for parts. I don't know We know it's not my business my business is just getting it back to Winnipeg Okay Shall we roll out? Roll out rolling out. So I tied that truck down about a couple miles away Came here checked everything made sure it hadn't settled or anything tightened it up a little bit Well, what's this? There's like a oh, he's got it. No, he's only taking part of it. What's going on here? He's piling snow in the driveway That's an Interesting place to pile the snow. Oh these guys just giving her This is the only entrance and exits my friends. I'm not gonna tell them how to do their job Oh, I just smoked it. You see that? He's having fun. He's having fun. Those guys just giving her can I go now? I'm going. I'm going for it. Oh Oh, no, he's not done He's not he's not done. I'm going for it. As soon as he goes that way. I'm going for it Sanding it my turn Look at all that snow eggs. You got to clear it up somehow, right? Okay, so we're gonna go about a half hour down the road stop again check those tire straps again Each one of those tire straps is rated for just over 3,300 pounds So about 6,600 pounds for the front and for the back that gives us about what 13,000 pounds and The truck is registered as only 5,000 pounds But even if it's a little bit more than that, there's no way that truck is more than 13,000 pounds So we're good those that's what those straps are made for they're made for specifically for this We have a whole bunch of them. We haul a lot of vehicles. So we got all the equipment for it That's why I brought them along now I got to go there and then there and then whoop around there and then we're gonna go down the 11 We're gonna go through Regina on the way home It's 50 kilometers or 30 miles further But it takes just about the same amount of time as going down the two lane Yellowhead highway if you're familiar with the areas out here and plus this way you get four lane divided highway all the way home This is where we were when our our Frankie had his surgery. We stayed at the motel just down the street there And we went to that nice big dog park. I drive past. I think about it every time Have an awesome dog park here in Saskatoon Yeah, yeah Karen you and all your fancy talk All you have to say is you got an hour left So we're in Brandon, I'm gonna call it a night here and do the rest of this tomorrow Got an hour left of my drive time as Karen so eloquently Let let me know there I Won't need it though because I just need to get to the other side of this parking lot over here Shut her down Soon as I'm into the lot here. I Turn my headlights off leave my marker lights on Once again, that's just to be polite That way when I'm moving around here. I'm not shining my headlights into anybody's cab courtesy goes a long way. I saw that my spot was still available here somebody Must put my name on it or something all the way at the end here in the corner. That's where I always park Well, this guy's fancy undercarriage lights. Look at that right in the back over here This is where I like to park and that's it everybody We're parked and ready to go to sleep. I'm pretty tired. So I don't know why I'm wearing this vest again It's such a habit to wear it in the truck already. I don't Don't have to be wearing it, but Here I am Some questions just don't have answers. Why is he wearing his vest all I don't know. I don't I'm wearing I don't even know And I'm not gonna waste any time thinking about it though I'm gonna go to sleep. I hope you have a good night. I hope you have a good day Wherever you are hit the like button and hit subscribe. It's been a fun trip tomorrow. We'll get home and Monday we'll be back at it