 That ball fires in the sky behind me again, isn't it? Yeah, there it is. There it is And there's the beast She's been running pretty good lately. You know, she just had a service last weekend and Think she's feeling pretty good feeling pretty good. That's good. She's feeling good. I'm feeling good That's the way this working relationship goes So I'm gonna go check her. Well do my pre-trip and Wait to see what today holds I woke up this morning and I thought to myself boy, I hope it rains today What a good day. Yeah, that's not true But it did just start raining It's quarter to noon already. So I've already been buzzing around a little bit this morning We're taking a step-deck roll tight trailer up to Chulon. That's halfway to Arbor And I sneak up there and sneak back without getting in the way of MOT because the Safety blitz is on right now and they're inspecting trucks all over the place So I made sure that this trailer I have here is tip-top as much tip-top as it can be for an older trailer One of the rollers for the the curtains Had jumped out of the rail. We had to spend half an hour like five of us guys there trying to get it Trying to get it back on the track So we were successful there so now I don't think any MOT officer has Anything they can they can say on me coming up to that scale now. What do you think is it gonna be a good day? Where's the scale gonna be open? Like my day guys come on hold me to pull in if they turn them on now. It's all my problem Scales for officers crawling around looks like they were setting up Probably setting up for inspections and on the way back I bet they're gonna be open come on Maybe they were just closing up. Maybe they're cleaning up look like they were setting up though One more day tomorrow and then this blitz week is over For those of you who aren't in trucking this week is the week we're all across north america canada u.s. of mexico there's uh increased inspections For truckers everywhere. Everyone's getting inspected A lot of truckers take this week off. I always wonder why they've warned us Why do you warn the drivers when this blitz is gonna happen? Don't warn them because then the guys who are driving run-down equipment who You know that they don't take care of they just park it for the you don't get them No, no, no, you should blindside us with it I mean you're gonna make a lot of truckers angry, but Wouldn't that wouldn't that be a better thing to do? I mean not for us Not for us truckers. We wouldn't like that very much, but I'm giving them terrible ideas. Don't listen to me. Do not listen to me. Shut your ears It's a bit of a windy day out here. Apparently it started when I came so I brought the wind with me And this is a step deck which is a bit more of a pain in the butt for uh Rolling these things up These are a little bit older. I think they need a little bit of love and care and refurbishing but it's It's working So I rolled it all the way forward And he's got to load four pieces on me Let's see where all this freight is going. There was four pieces like that that they loaded on the the lower part of the step deck A little side note the roll tight step decks are not as fun as just the flat bed roll tights What a mess you need two people to open and close this I'd have to show you some time maybe for it'd be a whole vlog on itself That how these the rollers got to line up with the tracks and if you miss the track falls out then you got a big problem Whatever it was okay. We got it done. They helped me out here. Uh, so one of these is going to winchester, kentucky One is going to Lebanon pennsylvania Another one is going to louisville, kentucky the one is going to maryon, indiana It sounds like a fun trip Someone who wants to leave for ontario with it tonight yet for this white car. Look at this I keep telling you how terrible this intersection is and this is twice in a row where I actually uh pretty impressed I'll take you through there and I'll show you Because I'm just if you know what to look for but for people who are unfamiliar with the area It probably could be pretty dangerous I don't know what you're doing, you know There's only one way to show you and that's to actually physically show you one of these days. I don't know I'll think about it. Usually I avoid it during that time So I had one last assignment uh to go pick up a gravel trailer and they're just bringing it around now It's on a hudderite colony east of winnipeg And I love coming to these hudderite colonies because they take such pride in every single thing they own and all of their property Everything looks so nice here. There's not a blade of grass out of place Oh, and I think he's getting ready to load me Nothing but the best. Look at that. Going all the way to New Brunswick Forgive the wind noise again. I'm trying to stay on the side of the trailer that has less wind So you always want to have opposite forces holding the trailer down So up front here, I have it pulling forward. We should actually start at the back and that'll explain why So at the back here, they have these two hooks that I can hook onto See how I have Old strap there that's to protect the paint from my chains. I have that on that side there as well Now I'm pulling force pulling the trailer this way. I'm holding it this way. I'm not actually pulling it You get what I mean? So these stop the trailer from moving forward, right? So at the front of the trailer here, I have these Going the opposite direction To pull it forward. So those are pulling it backwards. These are pulling forward that keeps it in place That stops it from going back and forth And then I have one more chain in the center here just to help along Just stop it from bouncing Always using protection And you see I got the chain wrapped around the binders here, right? So these binders they clamp shut and you don't want them to accidentally pop open on the road Over a big bump or something because uh, that'll loosen the chain. That'll loosen the load and Bad things could happen. So what I do is that when I have excess chain I wrap and then secure it with a bungee so that it doesn't unravel It's impossible for this thing to open right now You can also get clamps steel clamps that'll clamp and shut prevent it from opening You just want to make sure that you put something on there so that they don't accidentally pop open And I did that for every single one of them I wrap the chain tightly around there So that that can't pop open And this chain is just to stop just to hold down the center of the trailer give it more stability and stop this middle part from bouncing That's pretty much all it's doing is just holding it down But the chains at the back and the front are what keep it in place. We're all set They would be fantastic landscapers to hire if they would uh Hire themselves out to others Except for the sign over here that fell over but I guarantee you every everything here Is so immaculate guarantee that sign is supposed to be knocked over. They wouldn't ever they wouldn't let it just sit there Really good people Hard working take this through it for a while a nice shiny trailer. I just loaded is going to be all dusty too Another day complete. Let's go home all my stuff and the mysterious water bottles are back if you haven't noticed They come and go. I don't know they do as they please 12 hour day today That's good. This guy's been a good couple of weeks. We've been very busy again