 Good morning everybody. This morning we're getting rid of this bad boy and pulling her time to drop her off with her rightful owner. So I stayed in Pickering, Ontario, which is a little further past Toronto. It's the closest parking to where my customer was. I was going to park on the street right outside there, but when I got there there were no parking signs everywhere. So here we are. We're going to drive about a half hour back to where they are and bring this genie aerial lift truck. Is that what it's called? I don't know. It's a four-wheel drive though. That's pretty cool. Alright, let's get going. This guy parked right in front of me here, he's bringing fuel to the Petropas fuel station here. Let's see if I can sneak out past him right beside me on my right. That was going to be a little bit tricky, but I think I can do it because I'm a professional. This place here doesn't have a 24-hour store, so I don't like stopping here in winter time, but it's not winter time, so let's not talk about that. In winter time I like to park at stops that have 24-hour stores just in case my truck stops running, that I can go and stay warm somewhere. Just in case, you know, I've had a few misfortunes in the past, I've learned my lessons. I'm pulling a tri-axle step-deck behind me right now, as you saw or you might have seen as I, but I showed you the little- Turn right on, R-22. What that means is that much more than the usual tandem, which is a two-axle- Look, this guy's got a tandem. Turn right on, Bailey Street, R-22. He's going to be heavy. Pulling heavy steel from here in Ontario out to Alberta in the oil fields. It's a good load. I'm going to have to shave my face. I'll tell you more about that later. Putting up the gate for me here. Perfect timing I got here, just as they all got here. It's good. I don't like wasting time. It's good. Got a few other machines here already. They're going to want me to go around and back up against that thing. I guess this is crazy. Very small yard for a big truck. Mud yard, of course. Of course, I was hoping to get my feet all muddy this morning. You'll see the dock. There she was. That's mine right there. They left the beacon on. Whoopsie. I'll have to let them know. Whoopsie-Daisy, as they say. Right. So look at this. Oh, that's a bright sun. Oh, ball of fire. Oh, my God, are my tarps. I'm going to need those for my next load because I have to tarp that steel. All empty. I just got to clean everything up. Got my straps, my equipment here. And apparently, all I've got to do is just go to the gate over there and honk. And they're going to let me out of here. Any excuse to use the air horn. I'm still a kid, I know. I'd like to go now, please. The idea where they are, they just told me to honk. And I'll see anyone in any of the windows or anything. Maybe they're watching me on the camera. Anyways, it's off to our pickup. Let's go get our next load. A little excitement for today. We're going right past downtown Toronto. I've never been down this road before, and I've never been this close to downtown Toronto. There, can you see it? Look at this weird building. The taller one right in front of us, just a little to the right of the road right now. Wait till we get closer. What is that? That's the height of Lego. Leaders, keep to the right on Don Valley Parkway. Sorry if I'm not talking loud enough. I keep forgetting to talk louder, because I'm not using that big mic. That was giving us all the audio problems last week. So I got to talk a little louder now, I forget. I just want some music over this. You don't have to listen to my voice the whole time. What do you want? Gardenier Expressway. Continue on this road for 14 kilometers. There's the CN Tower. You know, when the CN Tower was built, the tallest building on the right were pretty special. That was quickly surpassed, but hey, for a moment we had it. We had the title. It's that big pointy building there. And I'm going to pick this one. Excuse me, oh good, that lane was ending. Look at this. Look at this. Look at all the people. Look at all, wow. I've always wanted to come through downtown. I am a country boy, for those of you who are new. I live like out in the middle of Northern Manitoba, so when I come to downtown Toronto, this is pretty exciting. I'd rather not be here in a 75 foot big rig, but here we are, living the dream. Look at this place. The buildings are all so interesting. They all look like Lego buildings. You notice that? They look like they're made out of Lego. But this one is just off here to the left. This sort of like glass tower here. Can you imagine what the rent must be in there? Or if they're condos, how expensive those condos are? I'm just going to throw a number out there. I bet you they're like $4,000 or $5,000 a month. Let's go with four. Let's be a little conservative. $4,000. This is a very expensive area to live in here. From what I've heard. I mean, I've never lived here. Can you imagine Trucker Josh living in this mess? I'd be so lost. I just stay in my little apartment. That's not true. I love cities. I always think cities are exciting because there's always something going on, right? There's always something to do. It's just like five minutes away. Everything's five minutes away. Where I live, if I want to go get groceries, it's a whole afternoon trip. You got to plan it out. And you don't go unless you got another couple of things to do also, because then you make it worthwhile. It goes right through downtown here. Hashtag impressed, Toronto. Hashtag impressed. Now all you got to do is win the Stanley Cup. Hey, you can't win everything. You can't have it all. You're a big, fancy city. You can't have it all. Here's Rogers Center off to the right here. That's where the Blue Jays play, I believe. Right? Correct me if I'm wrong. Torontonians. Yeah, there's a sign right there. Toronto Blue Jays. It's our one Major League Baseball team. No, wait. We have another one in Montreal, don't we? One of our... It's one of our Major League Baseball teams they play here. Right downtown. I bet you there's more people living in this condensed area than in all of Manitoba. I bet you anything. Since we hit these big buildings in this clip, I bet you we've passed more people than living my entire province. Everybody is on lockdown right now. Not quite locked down there on quarantine. If you're watching this in the future, COVID-19 is making its way across the planet right now and we're all currently on essential travel only. A lot of people are quarantined in their little boxes in the sky here. Man, they sure got a good view, eh? I think it'd be exciting to live in a big city. I don't know if I could do it for long, but if I was ever super rich one day, I wouldn't mind owning a condo in a big city somewhere like close by the beach. Maybe have a boat. It'd be awesome. That was our biggest city, Toronto. Our next biggest city, or one of our other bigger cities, is up ahead here. You see another downtown coming up? That's Mississauga. It's a separate city, but it's all the same to me. They all blend into each other. Super exciting, glad we took this road. To live in cities, maybe you find the countryside where I live a little more exciting than I do. When I come to the big cities, I'm always just... I'm always sort of in awe of what of what humans are able to build and create. Massive buildings that stand and don't fall over. It's incredible what we've been able to accomplish for the materials to do it. I'll just drive my truck. You build your fancy skyscrapers, I'll bring you your stuff. I get to see these places. Like if I wasn't a truck driver, I would never get to see them. That'd probably never be in Toronto. I live in western Canada. That's a long ways away from here. It's at least a full two-day, two-and-a-half-day drive from here where I live. Just to the next province. There's ten provinces in three territories. It's a huge country. So why would I be here? Maybe for a special trip one day? I feel like a paid tourist. Well, boys and girls, believe it or not, take a look at this. This is my load. We're ten foot wide. So we're going to need to use flags and stuff and oversized load signs. Legally, I'm not required to use my beacons. That's what people have told me. I don't understand why you wouldn't use your beacons because don't you want people to see you better? Right. Anyways, ten foot wide, under this tarp is 63,000 pounds of steel. 63,000 pounds of steel, according to the paperwork. That's nuts. Hence the tri-axle. I'll show you what it looks like before the tarp's on. There's another load over here. The same thing someone else is picking up, I guess. Take a look at this. This is what looked big before the tarp was on it. Just those four sheets. Sixty-some-thousand pounds. Why is that strap just sitting there like that? Oh, messy. Not mine. Yeah, this is for someone else. It's a load though. It's crazy. Just four sheets at a time. And there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them going to the oil fields. What they do is they build those huge container drums that hold a million barrels of oil. Those huge bins, huge storage containers. That's made out of hundreds of these sheets put together and we haul four at a time. Sixty-some-thousand pounds a load. It's crazy. Gravity, I tell you. Gravity is crazy. So I've got to put some rug underneath here. I've got this right here. Because the corners here are sharp, right? And they'll eat through my tarp on the highway. So that's no good. That's no good. We don't want that. These tarps are expensive. So I'm going to put you guys here on the end of the trailer and I'm going to quickly put these pieces of rug underneath here on the corner. Never throw out your old rug. Very handy. See? It's right in there. It protects the freight because it's soft and it also protects your turps. It's best if you can secure it on there like tie it down with a strap. But I wasn't able to do that this time. I'm going to put that in there. I guess just like that. For now, that'll just hold it. You can use a combination of straps and chains to tie this down. However you feel most comfortable, I use whatever works. On steel, a lot of people like to use chains. So that's always nice. Chains, you know, aren't going to break. Straps, you've got to worry about breaking. You can do a combination of both. A few straps, a few chains. Or you can do just chains. It's really up to you. But all depends, right? All depends. I always say, the more securement, the better. There's never too many chains and too many straps on a load. Don't let it bother you if people laugh at you because you put too much securement on your load. Who cares? Laugh at them because they didn't put enough. Actually don't laugh at them. Please go and tell them to put more on so that they don't kill somebody out of that. We stopped at the on route just north of Toronto. I don't know if it's open or not. I mean people are here, so I'm assuming it's open. Hoping Timmy's is open. I don't know. I heard that Tim's closed down all across the country. You know it's bad when Tim's shuts down. So you want to see the load? Here we go. There are two tarps up there that I don't need. Nice and simple, huh? These straps over the top are just to hold the tarp down so it doesn't lap too much. The sun went down on us again. Does that every day. So we have a wide load so I had to pull over before the sun went totally down. Had to be parked before, a half hour after sunset. I think I said before sunset before. And according to Google the sunset at 7.44pm which means I could drive to 8.14pm and I think I stopped at about 7.30 or 7.15pm. There wasn't any stops from here within the time that I had to stop so we're here in North Bay, Ontario and this is where we're going to call it a night and start our day tomorrow. Three long days out to Alberta from here. It's going to be fun. And then we go home for a bit. That'll be awesome. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe.