 How's that for an inch? It's February 10th, 2022 today temperature outside is minus 11 Celsius or 12 Fahrenheit Looks to be a little bit windy out there. We're supposed to get some snow. There's a 99% chance of snow So they're saying there's a chance it might not snow. So that's good. We'll see how the day goes It's Thursday, so Tomorrow's Friday. We've got that A lot of flags everywhere nowadays A lot of flags. Here's another one. Is he gonna pull it for me? No, he's gonna let me pass I tried to buy a flag the other day just because I collect flags, right? I have a whole bunch of them All the price of Canadian flags has gone through the roof And you got to wait like four weeks on Amazon to get It's nuts very popular Very popular at least around my parks and from what I see they're pretty popular Everywhere right now, but especially around our area. There seems to be quite a few flags It was great to see pride in the country. I just don't like it when they're flown upside down Okay, I understand that a lot of people right now are frustrated with the government Okay, we're not gonna get all into that in my channel here. Okay. I'm trying to keep my nose out of that on my channel here, okay? Doing my part but here in YouTube land. We're just going to focus on what we love doing But I know a lot of people are frustrated But that flag represents us the Canadian people. It doesn't represent any politician So just because you're mad at a politician Doesn't mean you should fly it upside down that I want to say that The flag is to be flown upright all the time. It represents us the Canadian people I think that's why you see a lot of the flag around the country right now You see a lot of the Canadian people Flying their symbols around saying hey, I'd like to be heard We are the Canadian people. We want to be heard. Yeah, that's that's what's sort of going on right now But let's not focus that on here. I want to focus on brightening your day if I start talking about that We're all just gonna get mad Let's not get mad. Let's stay glad. All right. Let's go start the truck up here. Let's let's do what we enjoy Let's keep things moving around here So that the rest of the people here can continue you know Living their lives and eating The sun keeps coming up earlier and earlier The street lights are already off. I don't know if it's still purple We're just gonna have to assume that it's still purple and they haven't fixed it yet Maybe I should assume the best. Maybe I should say maybe they have fixed it. Oh boy. I can't see four-wheel drive We've got a clearing. Let's go Don't want to get stuck on a road here. Here we go It's a bit of a blustery day out here today, isn't it? Oh dear. Well, I gotta go up to two on today in this It should be fun It should be a lot of fun Might take a little longer than usual. I'm just gonna go ahead and Throw that guess out there All right, we're gonna give this a very cautious attempt We have some freight, but if it gets too bad, we're turning around and coming right back And we're getting close to that line of turning around But I've been looking at traffic cameras online of the roads ahead and it clears up as I go along So the worst seems to be right here according to all the live cams It's always nice to have those those are a godsend so we should be all right You can see traffic is moving faster than I am which I'm okay with I don't want to be the fastest one moving down the highway today Here okay good. I think we'll be all right. We're just gonna take it slow You know, this is Manitoba. This is Canada and trucking in Canada doesn't shut down just because of a little snowfall There is a limit where we shut down there absolutely is a line But if you draw that line too close or too short You don't get anything done because it's always snowing. You can't always shut down But it is a fine line you got to sort of learn where that is and it's all about personal judgment Unless if it gets really bad then the the RCMP come in and they tell you all right go home roads closed So far they haven't done that anywhere in the province yet all roads are still open So we'll just be careful We'll see what happens. The roads did end up clearing out. Look at this And that's why we ventured out slowly and carefully But now we're through it all and the storm has passed It's nice to be able to have the resources of those live traffic cams that you can look at anytime you want I'm pretty sure everywhere has those now, right? Unless you live like way way far away from the urban areas, but Since I'm delivering around the Winnipeg area, we pretty much have traffic cams all around the city and you can just log on to 511manitoba.ca and See what the road conditions are exactly where you're headed There's just a few delays on the perimeter on the way up to here up to too long here, but Didn't delay us too long. We're okay and Got our work done. We got our load in our trailer behind us Another successful day That's what I mean when you when you go trucking up here in Canada. It's Sometimes it's a hit and miss other times It's you know, you got to watch the forecast you got to look at the traffic cams and make a personal judgment And as for today it worked out in our favor We got another pickup truck coming up behind me like he's got the flags in the back again, too Man those guys are everywhere. I don't know if it's like that around the rest of the country But southern Manitoba heat Alberta's even more in Saskatchewan Crazy times we're in crazy times What a time to be alive, you know We're living through history and I know that sounds kind of like the course will be through history But we're living through events right now that are going to be talked about for the rest of the existence of our country Oh, no, this guy doesn't have any flags. It's okay. It's okay. It would have been okay if you had them, too I don't care either way We're living through times right now that You know, we're making history a course with this virus pandemic. That's going to be talked about for hundreds of years You know our great-grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be learning about this in their textbooks in schools And whatever story is going to be on those pages of those textbooks is up to us to decide What story are they going to be reading? And who's going to be teaching it to them and what language will it be in? That's not really an issue in Canada right now. It'll be in English or French But we're not facing any, you know, like big invasion or something from Russia. That would be scary to live through And you know my thoughts and prayers go I don't say that with a light heart I know that there's I know what the issues in Ukraine and everything there So I just want to say my heart goes out there. I hope everything gets resolved peacefully. I always hope for peace You know, I hate confrontation I think I'm your typical Canadian. We hate confrontation But if it has to be done, we'll do it with all that aside Looks like the weather's clearing up. We've got some pretty warm temperatures outside And I think this weekend is shaping up to be pretty good It's a good day to be truckin Zalazy weasel Weasel You earned it buddy Enjoy retirement Yeah, I think I will thank you Yeah, I'm really glad we have the resources we have now like the the live traffic cams and stuff Uh up and down our highways. It really helps a lot. You can sort of see into the future where you're headed How it's going to be and sort of get more of an idea of if things are improving or getting worse Uh, if you're in manitoba, you can go to the website 511 like the numbers 511 and then manitoba.ca I believe that's the website But it'll give you a map and it'll tell you which roads are closed and which ones are in bad condition Which ones are open and clear and you'll be able to click on these little camera icons And that represents the live cameras at certain sections around the perimeter and around the province And you can see uh live exactly what the roads are like there That helped a lot today So manitoba is a pretty small population So i'm guessing where you're from there's probably more people around there than we have out here And if that's the case, well, you probably have a lot more resources available to you already for the live cams and traffic updates and stuff Uh, if you're thinking about getting into trucking people ask me for advice sometimes one of my biggest pieces of advice would be uh Locate and get familiar with all of your resources For highways and highway and road conditions Stay on top of the weather always watch the weather forecast so that you're not blindsided by by anything by like a rainstorm or a tornado or high winds or snow or Extreme heat or extreme cold know what's coming in the future where you're going or where you're at Uh, and stay on top of road conditions before you leave I don't leave and then Realize on the way out. Oh shoot. Maybe I should have checked road conditions before I left I've done that before and you got to find a place to pull over and Try to remember to do that before you leave. I'm speaking to myself there as well. That's always a good idea What else would there be uh in the us more people use a cb radio there So if you have a cb radio in your truck, uh, and you have that on Very often drivers will give you a heads up if there's any accidents or bad weather coming ahead There's also a lot of garbage on there. That's Why honestly, I don't have one Whenever I went down there and if I go down to the deep south, I couldn't understand what they were saying on the cb Anyway, so it's kind of pointless for me to have it on Because all I would hear is just out of the blue That's all I would hear on the radio And I'm not trying to make fun of them, but I can't understand what you guys are saying Up here in canada the cb radios aren't as popular though some of the old school truckers still have them in their trucks Uh, but there's not as many people to talk to also out east in canada people use different channels I think they use channel one to talk on instead of channel 19 But channel 19 for whatever reason is the general channel that everybody's generally on In western canada and all over the us But yeah, you can get some updates there. It's a good idea to have a cb radio in your truck I should probably have one to be honest I just uh know before you go And always be prepared. Okay. Always prepared because we all know the weathermen are wrong now and then So uh be prepared to be stuck on the highways and with everything going on in our world right now with uh blockades and stuff Uh, a lot of these drivers are now stuck in traffic and stuck trying to cross the border And they don't have supplies in their trucks and they're running out of food And stuff maybe some of these drivers need their medication and they need to go and pick up the medication For their health And they're stuck on the road so always make sure that you're ready to be stuck anywhere for I'd say at least three days at least Have food in your truck for at least three days and if you want I should actually recommend you more like a week Always have a week towards a food like non perishable food in your truck just in case of emergencies I always had cans of soup and stuff Just in case you run out of food and you're stuck somewhere either in a snowstorm Uh a blockage on the highway or whatever that you're you're gonna have food and water Have lots of water with you all the time just stuff like that blankets if your truck stops running um Maybe some electric fans. I'll show you the fan here that I always had in my truck I'm actually using it on our window here right now Uh This thing is awesome. I got it on amazon and it runs off batteries You charge it and then it'll run for like eight hours Just in case you're in a hot climate and you want to keep some air movement and your truck won't run There's that so it's always pays to be prepared for everything Anyways, thanks for watching today everybody not much footage But like I said yesterday been a little tired this week. I've been trying to uh, keep up with a lot of things and my brain is just Exhausted my body is doing all right, but my brain is just exhausted and I've been taking it easy We'll see you tomorrow. Take care everybody. Stay safe out there