 Thank you. Oh, it's always busy there in the morning Get your coffee you get out. It's not like that. They're actually pretty nice Considering how stress that stress all that job must be in the morning, man, they work fast though Anyway, yeah, it's my last day at this Job that I'm doing right now And I am sad about it. I like the guys there. I I got along with them. Well, I think we got along well and I made some good friends. I think I made some good friends, but like I said next week Monday Like I was telling you yesterday and last week next week Monday, we go back to more familiar pastors. I'm looking forward to sharing more with you on Monday I'm gonna sit down with them in the office and we're gonna work things out and I'm gonna be home every night and every weekend As far as I know So they told me I don't really know what to expect But we'll be driving trucks and I think we'll be hauling a little bit more interesting freight Maybe there'll be some flatbeds. They said it'd be a lot of 53-foot van freight. I think I don't know I saw that they got a straight truck like a five ton since I left I saw that wandering around Winnipeg yesterday. Well, and you get one of those But I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be in the tractor trailer We'll find out next week first. We have a weekend in front of us. Let's focus on that because it's gonna be fun We're gonna do nothing Well boys and girls They're sending us off. Well our last day here today, and we get a drive the green caddy again So it's gonna be a nice smooth riding day We're off to Rosen or out in Yonzee Gotta remember that this 10 speed has a little bit of a different shifting pattern than the 13 speeds I'm used to one two Getting ourselves on the road here three four Now six is over here six Seven still getting used to this transmission One more one more Wait for it wait for it. So it's pretty simple one two three five six seven eight nine ten no splitter weird for me Took me like half the day yesterday to get used to this. There's no splitter So you can definitely tell this isn't my everyday truck just because I haven't got the shifting quite Exactly 100% fine tuned yet. They usually takes me a day or two and then it you know Just you just slip right into a new truck just like that But it just takes a little getting used to I haven't driven a 10 speed like this in a long time. I'm talking like since 2010 Eleven years So yesterday it was driving me crazy because it was taking me forever to Go from fifth I would always jump it into seventh and skip six because you don't use that in in the high range Or low range high range On a 13 speed This is a little bit of a different configuration, but we got used to pretty quick I mean like by the end of yesterday. I think I was getting pretty pretty solid with it already, but Yeah, the timing and everything that all just comes with time Day or two and it's all good and next Monday I'll be in another different truck, and I don't know if that's gonna be a manual and automatic or ten speed Manual 13 speed manual 18 speed manual. I don't know I can drive them all I don't know whatever truck. They put me in I'm happy I'm just happy to be driving trucks Like I said earlier, we're on our way to Rosen Ork Manitoba, which is in Yonzi on the other side of the river Mennonite territory on the West side of the Red River. We're on the east side right now where I'm from and where I live And we'll bring them their stuff. We'll have an empty trailer and we'll probably zip into Winnipeg from there So I've got this stuff all moved to the back already here. I'm waiting for them to come with their forklift and grab it from me There goes another one there. I guess they're all busy right now We're gonna get this unloaded and probably head into Winnipeg from here. I got a head nod. I got acknowledged I think they're coming right away Yeah, here he comes. All right, there's four We're gonna stop down the road and give her a sweep yet It's the gin where they want me to go. I'm assuming Winnipeg. I think I have Figured out the mystery of this green truck. I'm driving. I think I figured it out Have any of you figured it out already what this truck used to be or who it used to run for? Think who's got green trucks this color. Can you see it in my mirrors there or see my hood? If I put my head up high enough, can you see it? I'll give you a hint in the bottom left corner of the windshield there There is a sticker of some sort that says new Brunswick on it. I'll give you a sec I think I am ninety nine point three five seven percent sure That this truck used to be a midland truck I believe midland is based in Nova, not Nova Scotia new Brunswick. Sorry. Sorry. I didn't mean to mix you up Based in new Brunswick and they have green trucks like this And they run Freightliner Cascades So I'm guessing this was a Manitoba based midland truck Decap that they traded in for a brand spanking new one And now here I am test driving this For my boss and yesterday and so far it looks like midland took really good care of it It is in good shape. It The inside is all intact not torn apart and not damaged at all The only like I said yesterday the only criticism I have of this truck is that at highway speeds here I don't know if you can see it on my hand Probably not wheels are a little bit out of balance That's all it could be the rims. It could be the wheels. Remember I've dealt with bouncing tires Almost my whole trucking career already right from that Freightliner century that I owned for a while And then that Volvo I had had the same problems and it seems every truck I get into gets an unbalanced tire You got to be very careful with these truck tires You know if you hit a curb or you hit a pothole too hard It'll put the tire out around and then you got a shaking truck and it's Drives me nuts, but it's not so bad. It's not that bad That's the only criticism other than that this truck is running great. It runs smooth. It was quiet my review of it would be You know four stars four stars Taken into account that it's an older truck. It's got 730,000 kilometers on it. That's about 500,000 miles and The only thing is that it shakes a little bit on the highway, but that's fixable if it's just a tire or rim That's fixable. It's that's easy. I think it used to I think it used to be Just because I figured out the more I looked down There's like why is there a new Brunswick sticker on the windshield new Brunswick? We're in Manitoba That's like 5,000 kilometers away at 6,000 however far away new Brunswick is Cascade I get it. So I think we figured it out. I Think there might be two tires that around is definitely a steer tire I'm my best guess at the driver's side steer tire Out around or the rim is out of balance and one of the drives in the back So the only problem would be figuring out which one is shaking and then just replace it You got a nice smooth ride again Anyways, I was right. We are headed back into Winnipeg. We're gonna fill this trailer up For the last time the weather out that way looks nasty and it's just started just snow just as I started talking. Oh No, that's a low bridge up there. Wow. Glad I'm not going that way So we're going away from that nasty weather headed east into transcona. I guess we're gonna be dealing with a little bit of snow today I've got to go and pick up a few skids and then we're headed out with them We're going back to Rosenort today Otterburn again Oh, where was the other one? St. Anne or landmark or Steinback area somewhere in there And we end off in Steinback and then that's it Say finny That is all finito My last load We're just in the St. Boniface industrial area right now. We want to go over to the transcona industrial area This is an interesting little town in southern Manitoba coming up here One of those towns that you never know existed unless if you actually drive through it This is a highway tool five provincial highway it's east of the red river And this is Abigny Abigny Abigny Tiny little railway town by the looks of it or is it a river town? Probably a river town because we just crossed over the red river there This is probably settled way back in the day When we were coming up the river I don't know if it's a french town or what? Abigny, does that sound french? Abigny Every town has a church though. So there's the church It doesn't look like a big catholic People usually if it's an old french town it's got a big catholic church But there's a crucifix and that's catholic When you have a cross with an actual figure of jesus hanging on it That's called the crucifix and that's typically A symbol of the catholic Denomination of christianity The Protestants have a Empty cross and do you know why the difference? Because there's nothing wrong with either one first of all nothing wrong with either one However, the catholic denomination of christianity focuses more on the death of christ and the price that was paid by his death And they want to remember that And the Protestants They want to focus more on the fact that jesus rose from the dead and that the cross is now empty So they focus more on the resurrection Two different ways of looking At the same thing, right? So at easter time, uh, you'll see that catholics will Make more of an emphasis on the death of christ and Protestants will make more of a emphasis on the resurrection Now i'm not trying to generalize every catholic and every protestant here So it probably sort of crosses over sometimes and uh It could be uh Either or sometimes but generally i'm just generalizing here forgive me Uh, generally that's what it is a crucifix with jesus on the cross is catholic empty cross protestant I have a crucifix that i hang around my neck even though i am protestant. That's why i say there is some cross There is some crossover Both mean the exact same thing They're just symbols, right just symbols to uh make you remember It's been a busy day rush rush rush, so haven't been able to chat much But uh, we're done we're on our way back and there's been a few developments weather-wise Looks like we're hitting it heading into a little bit of a snowstorm tonight That's fine with me because it's the weekend snowy Hey, just make sure you got all the roads clear for monday. That's all i ask I'm gonna bring this truck back park it tuck it in for night Park the trailer there goodbye to whoever's there and uh head on home Texas about that weather we sent you uh last week uh there was There wasn't a return to sender option on that you were supposed to keep that I see you have sent it back It's kind of kind of rude to send back a gift that we sent you but uh It's okay. I understand maybe it was a little bit much sending you our weather And uh, you decided you know i just sent it right back Maybe me I don't know But here it is it's back here It's winter time again here. I thought it was springtime. No, it's manitoba It's not springtime. What are you crazy? It's not even march Oh, I'll just want to fall back on the bed and I remember I'm wearing a good shirt that went all full of dog hair Sorry guys So I just realized for the past couple of days or past week or so I think he just jumped off the bed Watch your back, man. It's an expensive spine you got there already What are you doing just jumping off the bed? Brad We have to be very careful with him that he doesn't do that often we try not to let him do it at all but Like you just saw it happens from time to time But he's had that ivdd in his back a couple of years ago We had that surgery and he's been like a new puppy ever since but we have to be very careful with him That's why we got steps for him up to the couch Not that he uses them. He has to be told to use them Yeah And there's this guy who just like belly flops off the couch all the time. Well, he lands on his feet like a cat but You're a bit of a dear devil, aren't you? Pretty good shape for an old for an old man Yeah, I think he's pushing like at least 15. He was 13 when we got him apparently I don't know how they knew that but yeah, we don't know ballparking I guess I don't know. He's about one year old in spirit But he sleeps like an old man Any growls like an old man. Yeah, he's grumpy So what I was trying to say there before that uh was that for the last few days I've just found out now that the stabilization on this camera was somehow turned off by accident So I'm sorry for the shaky video the past couple of days I was wondering why it was while I was editing because they did two two videos at once and uh By the time I realized it was too late So I made sure it was on now and I'll make sure it's on tomorrow monday. We start our uh Our new gig well old gig new gig old new gig We'll see what happens. All right, so I'm gonna go in there monday morning have a couple of meetings and then we'll uh Talk after that Anyways, I hope you guys are gonna have a good weekend. I guess it's saturday already by the time you're watching this or maybe even sunday Hope you're making the most of it. We'll see you again next week. Take care