 The time has come Finally Chevy It's your job to take the tree down Okay, let's stretch it out. I got this The trees this way Putting away all the Christmas decorations Flip that sign around to home sweet home again. Oh, she's already got this one We leave everything up for Ukrainian Christmas We're not Ukrainian but it's an excuse to leave our Christmas decorations up for an extra half a month Part of the Disney collection these things aren't cheap You had to bear careful with it. When did we get this one? Okay, so we ordered that it wasn't Thanks, Jim Same Jim that got me my steering wheel and shift cover and the cover for the Actual gear shaft or the shifter shaft is waiting for me at the post office. I'm picking that up Well, I was gonna pick it up today, but I won't get there in time So I'm leaving a little late today Maybe on the way back. It's waiting there for me though. I'll be very careful with these very expensive I got Brit this one for Christmas this year. We already put it away, but uh, we showed it to you um That one It's not focusing. That's that one it was on the Not too sure where this goes and Thinking on Pluto to protect them. So we're just gonna smother Pluto until next Christmas That would make sense. Yeah, he's Way up there Smother them see you next year, buddy go to sleep Having fun yet. No, you are helping. Oh, you're gonna okay. I was gonna grab that We didn't have these lights on all Christmas cuz We didn't want it flashing all the time But there's no way on this piece to have the lights just on not flashing That's too bad. Yeah And as you heard it sings through all the songs I don't want to get copyright struck but has a bunch of Christmas songs that it plays. Oh can't complain to me It's a beautiful piece Again, it's Disney so comes with the Disney price tag this salt on the ground in my shop Hey, it's from all the melt off the truck when it's in here. I have to clean it out So all blue is running just outside the door here got her fully serviced Got a couple other minor little things fixed up on it, too. She's ready for the road again I just got to get a couple of my things out of here like my cooler some paper towel Some parts and stuff out of my fridge over there I will be taking off cleaned up the Christmas decorations today We had a late Christmas family gathering on my mom's side. It was nice to see everybody again My aunts and uncles and a few of my cousins But we got to go to work got to work as hard as we can Today Brit is 29 weeks, which means there's only 11 weeks left to the due date And I'm taking off two weeks before that that means I only have nine weeks left to earn as much money as I can Before I'm off for four to six weeks You guys ready for baby vlogs there's gonna be four to six weeks of Me being at home, so maybe we'll come to the shop every now and then we'll check up on old blue But that's coming nine weeks. Okay. I know a lot of you like the truck and stuff So here's a heads up for you right now. There's some non-trucking stuff coming in nine weeks. I Hope you guys stick around and follow our journey. It's a very exciting time for me for my wife for our whole family I'd love to share it with you Grand Point, North Dakota Settled in here for the night The simonson truck stop You know, I'm still surprised how many guys idle their trucks through the night. I know I'm I'm running the risk here of sounding super judgy because I mean, you know, you do what you want, right? I mean in some states, you're not allowed to but here it doesn't matter It's a really nice night out. It's like zero degrees Celsius 32 Fahrenheit now if you have a bunk heater, I have a wabasso heater running right now It doesn't run all night at this temperature just brings the the cab up to the temperature I want it to and then it sort of you know Peters down until it gets a little cool again And then it just keeps the cab at a nice temperature and I have an engine heater as well too Which will warm up my the water temperature in the engine So that it's easier to turn over in cold weather But and I use it, but I don't need it in weather like this. It's a nice night zero degrees 32 Fahrenheit You don't need to idle your truck in this weather if you have a bunk heater, okay? So so I'll cut some guys some slack. Not everyone has a bunk heater. I don't know why You a lot of guys also have APU's and I've been asked a lot if I would put an APU on old blue. Well, of course I would I Don't have any room on my frame now for it Like you've seen the side of my truck the frame is all taken up There's no place for me to put it now once I stretch the frame out of the 24 inches I'll probably have some space to put one and maybe I'll consider it when I do my restoration on this truck In 2026, I'm planning on doing all of the the full restoration like everything pulling everything off Putting like replacing all the old parts pretty much making this into a brand new truck again We'll see how the engines doing at that point. I'll consider doing a rebuild then it may not need it yet But it might it'll be close to it at that time, but you know get the frame painted get the I'll check the condition of the diffs. I might need to replace the diffs I'll be I'll be spending spending a lot of money into a full restoration of old blue At some point If not in 2026 then at some point because I want to keep this truck running right and at that one Maybe I'll put an APU on the truck what an APU is it's an it's an auxiliary power unit auxiliary power unit You can actually set them up. It's like a separate motor like a tiny little almost like a lawnmower engine a little quieter but Runs on the side of your truck and that keeps your fluids warm in your engine The same thing that my engine heater does now it also keeps your batteries charged That's something that my system doesn't do and keep your batteries charged So your batteries aren't dead in the morning. It'll keep your cab warm And also in the summertime it'll keep your cab cool It runs the air conditioning in the summer that's something my truck doesn't do I my my old basketball heaters They they don't keep the truck cool I have to open the windows and I got those screens like you can probably see them They're behind my stuff right now. I got those screens that I can put in my windows Like my windows down get a fresh breeze through here But an APU is a lot better saves the engine of the truck and you can still stay comfortable in here A lot of guys have that they're about twelve thousand dollars Canadian or ten grand American to install not cheap But over the course of a truck's lifetime. Oh, it'll pay for itself over and over again, right? but anyways back to the point of idling trucks at night and Some guys maybe they're newer drivers out here so this is some tip for you new guys of how to idle your trucks if You need to idle your truck to either stay warm or cool. You want to make sure you're not idling at Like 500 rpm at the base of your idol You don't want to just start the truck and just let it idle like that The reason is you got to look at your oil pressure when you idle your truck at like 500 rpm You're probably running at about what 20 psi oil pressure as Not enough oil pressure to get your engine properly lubricated get the oil from the bottom of your engine up to the top to Lube up the top you're gonna wear out your engine very fast idling so low For me if I do have to idle through the night Or for an extended period of time or any time really I always bump my idle up to 1,000 rpm Or close to it, maybe even 800 rpm You want to look at your oil pressure though and make sure you keep your oil pressure at a good rate So that you know that the oil is getting lubricated through your engine properly Because if you if you sit there I walk through truck stops all the time with drivers idling and I'm not gonna rag on you for idling I do it too. Sometimes there's no choice. We live in the northern climate up here. Totally get it That's not my issue. My issue is so many trucks that I I walk past at night or idling like really low Really low. I know Volvo trucks. They don't even let you idle your truck up past like what 800 maybe 800 Which is bonkers to me because I want Every engine's different every truck is different But you want to up your idle Especially if you're idling for a long period of time get that idle up there You know as high as Volvo will allow you on mine. I bring it up to about in between 900 and 1,000 maybe about a thousand Maybe even higher if it's really cold first of all that'll keep your engine warmer So you stay warmer in the cold weather, but it'll also make your engine last longer It's never good to idle your truck for long periods of time in any situation Whether you're at the higher idle or the lower idle, but if you have to you want that idle up high but what I see another thing that confuses me is I'll see drivers on a perfect night. Let's say like 15 degrees Celsius or like a nice. What is that in Fahrenheit like a 60 65 Fahrenheit like a nice Comfortable comfortable night, right? Not too cool. Not too hot And they have their trucks idling through the night Sometimes there's a good reason for that Maybe they have like a sleep apnea machine that needs to be running off the batteries So you can't judge everybody just just because that sometimes they have to have their truck running for for reasons like that But I know not all of them have have that reason some of them just idle the truck regardless You know, they might be company drivers. Maybe they just don't care about the wasted fuel They don't care about wearing out the engine There's probably explanations like that a lot, but For me anyways, you don't have to do it like I do it There's a million of us out here millions of truckers out here We all have our own ways of doing things so I can only show you the way I do it I'm not saying that's the best way to do it. I Feel like it is but I'm learning every day. I learn new things every day. I don't claim to know everything about trucking I don't want to be that trucker guru. I don't want you to see me as a trucker guru Anything I say to you like me double-check it yourself like just check it out I'm I've been doing this a long time. So I may come across as confident in some things I've been driving trucks since 2006. I've been over the road somewhat since 2011 with very short breaks in between just a few months here and there and I've owned several trucks of least a few trucks now I have this truck of driven company trucks city trucks highway trucks So I feel like I know but I'm always learning you learn new things every day. So That disclaimer out there. I Always shut old blue off for the night if at all possible the coldest I've shut her off for was it minus 23 Celsius Which is pretty cold Where's my phone right now? Well, someone wants to come say hi to me. I was just talking about how I shut off old blue for the night Yeah, and He walked up. What's your name Wiley Wiley? Yeah, he's been watching since I was in the other W9 which is now owned by Brian That's been many many years as many years just start subscribing. I just made my first YouTube account But yeah, I've been watching since then so yeah, that's awesome. That's a nice little treat little surprise Yeah, I caught me blogging to you guys There he goes What a nice guy Doesn't live too far away from here. You'd be a good friend to have I Hope I meet up with him again sometime soon. That was a lot of fun talking with him He talked to me here for like an hour. So it's always nice to meet good like-minded people on the road One great thing about this job is exactly that The people you get to meet that you would have never met otherwise Pretty cool, so I'm gonna go to bed now. Thanks for watching everybody Don't forget if you did like the video hit that thumbs up button if you didn't like it You can hit the dislike button twice And I'll see you tomorrow