 Good morning, weasel. Are you doing my day? Thank you. Thank you. We're good We're here in South Dakota South Dakota to coffee time truck stop So I didn't film anything yesterday For me Yesterday was the day after our whole federal election, which we won't get into here. I took a day off Filming so you didn't miss much. Don't worry. Pretty much all I did yesterday was I spent I Spent all day pretty much picking up this load that I have behind me. It's a load of OSB board. I had to tarp it In the cold wind it took Yeah, most of the day And I'm taking it down to Lincoln, Nebraska. So we made it down here to South Dakota. We got to go the rest of the way Excuse me was six hours down to Lincoln From there we go over to St. Joseph, Missouri We pick up some steel and we head over to the great and the beautiful Alberta gotta deliver that steel to Calgary, Alberta. Somebody over there needs steel from over here So where are the people to bring it to them? And it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun It's gonna be a little bit of a new scenery also from Missouri to Alberta Because we're taking a different route again than we usually do similar to that route We took a few, what was it about a month ago? Where we went and saw that massive big truck stop there in Nebraska Through Montana and all those states over there. It's gonna be fun. So it's been An interesting couple of days But we're ready to get back to trucking and exploring our continent here We live in a beautiful beautiful part of the world and one of the most favorite parts to me of my job I'm one of my most favorite parts. Sorry. I'm still waking up. My English isn't good yet One of my favorite parts of the job is exploring and seeing everything Because you know, you can hear about it. You can learn about it But once you see it you really see it feel it experience it. It gives you a whole new appreciation for For the land that we live that we live in both Canada and the United States. I live in Canada, but you know Technically I live a lot of my life in the US. I'm just not a citizen here But they are kind enough to allow me to come and visit Quite often so I'm down here almost as much as I am up there Great people down here. I love visiting the United States So I'm gonna go in and grab my coffee here. I'll show you the load here real quick before we go and We'll head on down the road. All right, let's don't take a look at this here I was gonna take a look at this here So there's my load. It's like a brick wall that I'm Pulling my I don't know why they stack it so high they could stack it lower and use the whole Trailer but they decide to stack it up like that in the center of the trailer and it acts like a huge Parachute behind me and I use a lot more fuel because it catches so much wind, right? That tarp is it was so windy. I was lucky enough to have another driver who was tarping there helped me out a little bit That's the little oops looks like I'm gonna have to grab another bungee Bungie that in there supposed to be in there Okay, well, I'm gonna complete my pre-trip here and everything gonna continue doing what I got to do We'll get back on the road just Keeps on going remember such a wet autumn or wet fall before I Mean, I know we had a lot of snow and rain the year on end of 96 so we had the flood of the century in 97, right? I wonder what next spring is gonna be like Because the river is up in Manitoba all the water from here flows pretty much into the Red River of the North, right? Just off to our left and That all flows up north to Canada It's the only river in North America that flows north it goes into Lake Winnipeg and from there it drains into the Hudson's Bay But all this water here a lot of it anyways not all of it But a lot of it goes up to Canada up to Manitoba where I'm from and our rivers up there are pretty high I Think I just read an article this morning saying that the Red River in Manitoba. There's about ready to Rise over the banks. I think it's crest is what they call it, right? That's at fall time We got to get a whole winter of snow in yet, and that's all got a melt in spring So it'll make for a very interesting spring next year I'm glad we're kind of up on higher ground Don't really have to worry about flooding much and we don't have a basement either We just have a crawl space So the water would have to be exceptionally high and most of Manitoba would have to be underwater before our floorboards would even Start to get a little wet There's a lot of people who live in what we call the flood basin around the Red River Up around you know, Santa Gath south of Winnipeg because the floodgates go up and Winnipeg gets protected We built a massive floodway that takes water around the city but They saved the city at the expense of the small towns and agricultural communities south of Winnipeg So whenever they put those floodgates up Essentially what it is it's a dam it dams the river so it goes over and spills into the floodway But that means all those towns flood there. So I don't know what it would be like but Having to worry about flooding every I just remember sandbagging in 97 and that was a crazy flood that year But yeah, we're here in South Dakota still this is the scenery today. What do you guys think of it? It's nice, isn't it? So Dakota great places great faces or is it great faces great places? One of those one of those South Dakota So I've been running as hard as the law will allow me today. I thought that I had to get to St. Joseph by End of day by end of business day to pick up my load turns out the load's actually on a preloaded trailer and That trailer is gonna be waiting there for me and I can pick it up anytime of day 24 hours a day They'll leave the paperwork where I can find it I can just go hook on tie it down and get going whenever I get there So that is awesome. I like shippers like that, you know But not every shipper has preloaded trailers like in order for us to have preloaded trailers There's somebody's got to bring them a bunch of our empty trailers And then We'd get a cycle going right because then they load our trailer Park it in their yard. I show up with an empty trailer leave my empty trailer take the loaded trailer And then they put you know, it's a cycle then So not every shippers like that, but this one's really nice I talked to them in the office there and they were they were super nice and good mood So they go home at 2 o'clock must be nice However, I can pick my load up 24 hours a day. Don't matter. So they know I'm gonna be there late tonight I'm gonna get to my my receiver for this OSB board around like four o'clock they go home at five So I'm gonna get there just in the nick of time And then I got about three hours to get to st. Joseph Eight I'll probably be in st. Joseph like around between eight and nine tonight I'll probably be there for a couple of hours tying it down And then I will just go a little ways down the road and go to bed somewhere But we got to be in Calgary for next Monday. I'm filming this on Wednesday Look at lots of times only two and a half day drive. So Wednesday, I'll get loaded tied down and then tomorrow will start So we got Thursday Friday Saturday, so we have four days to go two and a half days of driving That makes sense So I can take my time. That's good No rush Omaha Omaha, how many of you are from Omaha? How many of you have been to Omaha? Never actually been in the city. It's actually a pretty big city. It's a TD bank over there. That's a Canadian bank Oh, look at that. It's pretty big building to TD. I didn't know we did we had banks down here I knew TD was in the US, but It's kind of weird though, right? What would a Canadian bank be doing in the US? Or maybe it's a US bank just but it's just called the Toronto Dominion Bank Well, I know. What do I know? I know that I'd love to explore the city so much to see, you know all I get to see is like Sights from the freeway. I never get to actually explore that often So I'm gonna be turning off onto interstate 80 here In three kilometers I'm gonna have to get into the right lanes there. He wants to get into the left lane. I want to get into the right lane Okay, he didn't see my signal. My signal was on first At least he let me in now When you put your signal on and then someone you know backs off to give you room to Move over and then someone else from the other lane on the other side moves in and takes the spot That was made for you Doesn't that annoy you? Quite a bit warmer here already. Look at the trees. The trees have barely even started changing color here That's a little bit Truck must check in before entering gate. So you want me to check in here? I Don't want to block the gate though. So I'm gonna go Yeah, it says do not block gate Okay, well, I'm gonna go and park over here off to the side then Then go in and check in Good thing looks like there's nobody else here, so it's just me they claim I can get around here It's about five o'clock Just just about an hour to get all un-tarped and cleaned up and unloaded just like I thought Always getting better at estimating how long things will take you make it around no problem So now we're on our way to St. Joseph got to pick up that steel load and we're not gonna be able to take the scenic route through Montana, unfortunately Apparently I have to cross at Emerson, Manitoba so goody for me a I Guess we'll head up that way not very scenic, but I'm just gonna wait for this forklift guy to do whatever it is He's doing there Said I don't have to crowd him too much getting around this corner. I think he just took the The wrapper off of that Lumberbees that would came from British Columbia in Canada. He's gonna leave room for me Much easier that way Some of these yards that we deliver to are so tight and so so narrow But it works as long as everything is kept neat and in order It works So we've got about two and a half hours to St. Joseph now and Then to tie that down that'll probably take me about three hours there Unless if I like hurry might be two hours But I usually take my time with those loads because I go overboard. I like to make double sure it's not gonna shift any which way As anyone should but you know, I go a little overboard I'd rather have way too much securement than a little not enough You know what I mean, right? I don't know what I'm saying Off we go on the next adventure Oh, well at the border of Nebraska and Iowa here They got something going on in two three four five cranes. I Wonder how they don't all hit each other They're all so close together It's our whacking each other they can start having crane fights sort of like sword fights with cranes this Wonder which one would win a whole bunch of them So obviously building a new bridge here probably gonna be pretty cool and pretty nice once it's done We're just going over the border here, and we're stopping at the pilot how to grab some fuel again Keep beating that fuel You grab the fuel and some D F fluid diesel exhaust But I think you guys in Europe call it ad blue. What do you guys call it in Australia ad blue D F You guys got some something else for it? Oh boy, they had to tear down a couple of really big trees to build this bridge. That's too bad I really wish that when we would develop we would sort of try to leave up as many trees as possible But it seems a lot of the time when we develop they go into the land And they they just clear the entire land from corner to corner to corner, you know, they just everything cleared right down They take down every single Tree and everything again. I'm not a tree hugger, but I'm also I Also don't hate trees. I like them. They take a long time to grow but I Guess I was just I was seeing a development. I went for a walk the other day, and I saw this new development It was new development. He was this new commercial building coming up And it it was a forested lot and what they could have done is just cleared enough trees for their business And they could have had a nice tree didn't business. It would have looked really nice, right? But no, no, no, no, they took this whole like Quarter of a square mile and just cleared everything and then they just chewed up all the trees into sawdust and wood chips I guess they sold those and at least they'll go to use somewhere It was sad for me to see you didn't need to knock them all down Just, you know down a few of them Whatever whatever. I'm like right in the middle We need to keep developing so that I have work to do. I need to bring people steel so that they build some I want them to keep building things But don't be wasteful like leave trees I'm very protective over the trees on our property Hydro our electric company Thanks, thanks Karen always wants to be involved Our electric company a manageable hydro they tried to Re-route our hydro on our property and I told you about this right and they wanted to cut down a whole pile of our trees And it caused a big stink and I forced them to go underground Protecting my trees in that case. I was a tree hugger Those are my trees specifically Look at this. Wow. This is Barely big enough to fit through here. All right, so pilots off on the left here. Let's grab fuel and go get our steel Rolling in a St. Joseph here. This is a pretty cool Quick pretty cool bridge at night Karen you bring me into this place different every time I don't remember going over this bridge So you got one direction going one way above us and then our direction going this way beneath them Huh slow down woman I can't hear what you're saying Just a simple man you gotta give me like simple directions go straight Keep right ahead. That's all you need to tell me. You don't need to tell me all that All right, then I don't remember coming in this way We're going the great past downtown St. Joseph Oh What are we doing here Karen Okay, so all you have to do is say K next exit for a turn right Well, you're thinking at me yet, too You don't trust me to listen to you do you? Probably because I don't listen all the time. I just tune her out like a good man 69 6th Street This is definitely different route. I don't remember this I don't I haven't been to this shipper in a month or two So I don't know and it's nighttime rolling into town here. So Might just be me might just be me Okay, this is looking more familiar now. Sorry guys Slight right on Karen you have to interrupt me on that. I just realized you guys have got some bugs in your Your line of sight there. I didn't realize that Okay, what turn right here, right, right, right? right Here green arrow pointing right this way Very often I've gone the wrong way Right on Alabama Street Alabama Street, huh? Alabama's okay. Let's 30 miles. Okay. Good. I was going 30 Yeah, this looks familiar now Now I know where we are because this shippers in an old part of St. Joseph Razzle all these buildings are very old and Probably from the a lot of them from the 19th century early 20th century You know one of these neighborhoods that I always like to show you and talk about you know the good old days Back in the good old days in the 1800s and early 1900s Before everything got weird and crazy like wow, especially as of late the world's just gotten really weird, hasn't it? What have we done? Let's talk about that big bug right in front of my camera. Well, why are you why is that bug right there? Right there. How dare you? How dare you? You've stolen my childhood and my dreams with your bug guts Trying to show the good people where we are Wait, don't I want to turn there? Okay How's that that better? this bug deflector That I installed doesn't catch all the bugs catches a lot of them not all So this is my next load and check this out Steel is painted white this time instead of that regular gray and there's there's a strap here already for me Why is there a strap? It's not our strap This is the right trailer, right? Yeah, it's definitely my trailer Check this out. It's gonna be so easy to tie this down Look at this. Is there anything back here? Oh, it's a little bit. Okay. Yeah, you got a little bit of Little bit of something something back here yet I'm gonna put my tarps on top of those and that'll hold that down. Look at that other than that. It's just One cluster usually it's way higher usually it's all the way to the back here I'll be out of here in less than 45 minutes. Okay. I'll get myself an hour because I'm gonna take my time because I'm in no rush I'm just gonna tie this down and go down the road find a good place to park and I'll be that I'm calling tonight after this so I take my time do a good job make sure it's all tied down because you got to make sure like all these little pieces in the Center you have to make sure that each piece Is tight and it's got friction that's gonna hold it in place It's not gonna rattle loose and come out the back right and like these things back here like this The reason I said I'm gonna put my tarps on this here is because of these center pieces in the middle Right, I could put a strap or straps right over it I have to put corner protectors on there and tie it down real tight But you never know these middle ones they might Rattle forward or back you have to slam on the brakes or something you don't want that So I'm gonna put my tarps on top of this then tie my tarps down tight on top of them that way Everything has got a lot of friction and nothing's going to move Yeah, that's my load that piece up there looks kind of crooked though Sometimes they load this stuff a little wonky like that. You see that load there. That's what I'm used to Usually when I pick up stuff here, this is what I'm looking at look at this Chaos and this place my another place I pick up steel in Evansville, Wisconsin That place puts those ropes through remember they put the ropes through so that you can pull your straps through This place doesn't even do that and you're not allowed to climb on the trailer deck here You can get kicked out of the yard and you can't pick up here anymore So you can't put any straps through the center of this or through the middle of this But you're supposed to you know, tie this all of this all the way down Legally that's not possible. You have to have straps going through the center So what they make you do is they you tie it down the best you can just going over the top without getting on The trailer and then you leave here. You go to a Truck stop or something down the road somewhere where you can park Then you climb up there and you put the straps through the middle It's dumb, right? But yeah that That's a big load. I'm glad that's not mine. I'm really really glad that that's not mine This is mine Much better much much better. Let's get to work. I Usually walk around it once or twice or a couple a couple times just to get a good look at it Get a good feel for it. You know, I feel my freight gonna feel it in my bones Gotta know what I'm gonna do with it, right? How do I make this freight mine? My freight you're not going anywhere. I'm gonna tie you down tight We're going for a ride I'm taking you all for a ride. You too little guys here. I'm not gonna forget you. Don't worry Taking you with me We're all going for a ride up to western canada