 Is there a weasel back here? It is here. We had a fantastic weekend. It's time to get back to work. Today, we're going to take out the knuckle-boom truck and bring some poles from Winnipeg down to Morden. The week can begin now. I'm exhausted. We had a busy weekend. I could have done with the boat. Six more hours of sleep. It was a good weekend though. I guess we spent so much time in the sun. I wonder if we spent a lot of time in the sun. It just drains you in. Not complaining. Not complaining. We'll catch up tonight. I'm feeling alright. I'm just... It's just Monday, you know. Like I said last Monday, the first five days after the weekend are always the hardest. Before you know it, it'll be the weekend again. So yes, we are in the pickup this morning. Not going to take the motorcycle in today. The clouds are clearing up pretty quickly. But when I woke up, it was raining. And I slept as long as I could. So I'm a little bit more in a rush than usual. Not too bad. But I just hopped in the pickup and went now, whatever. We're right in tomorrow. Like I was telling you earlier, today we take out the knuckle-boom truck 3106. I have to take a pole trailer and go into Winnipeg, pick up a load of poles. I think they're going to load me with their crane there. And then I take those poles all the way out to Morden to a job site. And I'm going to have to use the claw and unload the poles at the job site there. The first time I'm doing this on my own since I was trained for it. I'm not nervous, but I'm pretty excited. It's something different and I'm glad that I'm broadening my skillset. Like I always say, I want to be as useful as possible. The more I know how to do, the more things they can get me to do. And when you say it like that to a lazy person, that would be a bad thing, right? But I like to be useful so that when I go to the yard and there's nothing to do for my regular work, like if there's no work to be done, well hey, I can do other things too. Maybe there's work in other areas, in other places, in other departments. So the only thing we don't do really as far as I know, unless it's some kind of some kind of thing I don't know about, we don't do any refrigerated freight. We don't have any reefer trailers. We have we have our fingers in almost everything else except reefers. Let's get to work. Let's go have some fun today. Let's go start up the old Kenworth, the old beast. Hook up to a trailer and let's not make a fool of ourselves today. Let's do the job good. Let's do it right. Here's our truck for today. I'm going to start loading my stuff up. I've got to get a few things out of my truck just down over there yet and put it in here, like my chargers and Bluetooth and stuff. I'm going to be on the way. I feel like we're old school trucking today. A little research and find out what this truck actually is, but it's a beast. I've got a pole trailer behind me. It's empty. I've got the crane behind me attached to the frame and a little bit of a sleeper behind us here. We'll be using that when we do overnights. Two of us that run this truck will probably use it from what I've heard it'll be about 50-50. We're not going to need the sleeper because we're just going to go pick up poles here in Winnipeg and bring them down to Morton. Since this thing has a 20,000 pound axle you can really tell that it's a little bit more of an aggressive stance right beside me. Well, he's over there grabbing poles from my trailer. So they load me up with that big guy. Throw them in here and I tie them down in here and then when we get to the job site or to the site where we're going we unload it with this. This is the truck we're in today. Like I said before, I'll have to do some research to find out the year of this truck. It's a little bit of an older truck. It's an older truck. There's a bed in the back for overnights. I'm not too sure how many overnights I'm going to be doing. I don't mind doing them once in a while but I know that the overnights this truck does is like one maybe two nights on the road. And the other driver usually takes care of those so I don't know how many of those I'm going to be doing. I think I'm going to be in this truck all next week because he'll be on holidays but wait and see. I told him I don't mind doing it overnights here and there. I might find ourselves going up to Thompson or who knows where. Thompson is far north in Manitoba. So you'd go up there spend the night in the truck and then come back the next day. I really don't know what to tell you guys. I really don't know what's going on. He's got another load of poles there. Throw it onto my trailer. You see it in the mirror there? 3, 4, 5, 6 at a time I think. Yeah, you feel that for sure. You definitely feel that. That's a beast of a machine and obviously they don't have those handy machines everywhere we go hence the crane or we will call it the claw or the knuckle boom or the picker truck. I don't know what the proper name is for because it's called the knuckle boom but people also refer to it as the picker truck. People refer to it as the claw truck. The blue truck 3106. There's many names for this girl. Many names. I will mention one thing though the other driver on this truck seems to be very neat and organized. So when I leave this truck I must also leave it very neat and organized because I know that there's nothing more frustrating than spending all the time in the world organizing your truck and all your equipment and then someone else uses it and it's everywhere all over the place dirty and everything so better remember to make sure that we leave it as clean as we found it if not better leave it better than we found it. There is no passenger seat in this truck it's just a one-seater truck so you know I've got my backpack here my hat sweater just in case gets cold I don't think it's going to get cold today but my lunch phone safety glasses sunglasses all my stuff so I've sort of got it all organized like sort of thrown in here for now but have it as organized as I can I've got an extra garbage bag just in case I brought my garbage can oh I've got two extra garbage bags apparently oh we can have a party I didn't know I brought two just in case all your garbage goes into the garbage can I see we have some artwork here beside the road I stopped here in Brunkield, Manitoba down highway 3 I'm just going to do a load check here pulled into a little pull out in town we're just going to make sure that all these straps are still tight I'm guessing they're probably going to need another notch or two in them because as you travel down the bumpy road this truck is a little bit rough you can tell it's a heavy duty truck because it runs pretty rough as it bounces down the road the log settle right which means that the straps get loose and need to be tightened see that should be tight three notches yikes and I already stopped in Oak Bluff once about 20 minutes that way tighten them so this is the second time I've stopped already an extra two notches on that that's loud this one's still tight one more out of it so I've got some straps coming this way some straps going that way I'm going to go tighten the ones on the other side as well and then we can get out of here the pull out in this road in this town is just on one side here there's a truck coming we'll wait for him it's sort of like a little pull out area here on this side you can tell a lot of other drivers stop here to tighten up as well okay let's quickly do this just got a couple of straps here one more there so this end is still tight I don't want to use the packaging two three wow okay there we go just doing here I want to run this over okay we're all tightened up again just back in there only want to make sure you stop a couple of times I stopped just outside of Winnipeg which was probably about 10 minutes down the road like I told you in Oak Bluff tightened it again drove another 20 minutes down the road to Brunk Hills here tightened it again I'll probably stop one more time before we get to Morden Morden's about an hour away yet or so give or take maybe less than that from here just to make sure you want to make sure everything's tight and while you're out here just make sure everything else is in order I don't know why these bungees are here but the other driver has put them there I'm wondering if that's to stop this from opening on its own but why would it open on its own it has a latch it was there so uh I don't know I don't like how this is all just cluttered here I feel like I've got a lot of clutter but just in case just in case and back there I haven't gone back there yet I have no reason to go back there but it's just a small little sleeper just enough for one person to get some rest on the road and I guess the other guy's got a garbage bag over the back window because there's no curtain obviously don't want that light shining in your face if you're trying to get some sleep during the day okay let's while we're here let's see how far away we are from Morden approximately we're 73 kilometers away 46 minutes so about 45 minutes and we'll be there we'll probably stop once more to tighten the straps on the way there I'll keep an eye on them in the mirror alright to get back on the road now these two vehicles here and we'll drag our butts back on there that out and then we'll train setup start unloading alright so I found who's in charge here I also found a fly you're not my friend get out of here get out of here you have the whole world to fly around and you want to fly right in the truck no pick somewhere else go bug someone else flies okay so I gotta get in there and unloading that far pile off on the right there let's see if we can do this a little bit get a better angle of this that trailer's kind of in my way there this truck doesn't turn very sharp either that's going to be tight it's going to be tight to wiggle back and forth of this truck because this truck it's difficulty turning I don't want to hit that little black utility trailer there that's a terrible spot to park that I don't think I'm going to make it probably not but maybe but maybe hey you never know I'm not going to make it I'll show you this here these things here I wonder who parked that there well we'll just keep wiggling I'll get her in there don't tell me I can't because I'll show you I will because I'll show you I can don't threaten me with a good time get her in here move it by hand some of these trailers are so light you can just move them by hand just push it back just push it back in there because this is where we need to come I need to come down here and swing in right through here to make it in there let's see I don't think I'm going to move this thing that's a heavy trailer we'll shoot I'm going to have to come as close to this as I can have my trailer right along here so I'm going to back out try to get it along there oh the joys of trucking right the joys of trucking that's perfect airbags on this truck like to make a lot of noise when they go down I'm going to deflate the air in the trailer as well so that we're working with a more stable surface here I'm going to climb up there and get these poles off I guess we got to take the straps off first you get it you get it there we go we're working with a the air is in the suspension while you're taking the poles off the trailers all wobbly right you don't want that is there a weasel back here