 with all my doctors appointments yesterday and running around all the way to Winkler and back took up most of the day. I didn't have a chance to pull this thing out during the day and give it a bath. So hopefully today I'm kind of hoping that my truck 3,006 got into the shop yesterday and that it'll be ready to go today but I'm pretty sure it'll be in there a couple of days because there's a few things they need to replace. It's getting a safety done which is something that has to be done every year on our trucks to make sure that it's legally safe to be rolling down the highway. When you buy a new personal vehicle you've only got to do that once right? At least here in Manitoba. You only have to do that once when you buy the vehicle. On commercial trucks you've got to do that every single year and it's quite a big process now too. It takes a full day for the most part unless I mean you're really good at it I guess but it's in the shop back at work right now getting that done. There's a few things they need to replace so on top of the safety that needs to be done they've also got to take the time to replace the parts that need to be replaced. That makes sense right? I really like the engines it's a Detroit engine inside these western stars Detroit powerhouse they're very good reliable engines as are all engines nowadays like I always say every manufacturer is equally great but they all have their strengths right? My dad had a Freightliner FLD a 97 back in the day when I was a kid I think had a Detroit powerhouse in there and that thing went forever and now the truck that he has now has a caterpillar engine in it and that thing goes forever but caterpillar doesn't make highway tractor engines anymore for some reason it's very disappointing I really like the cat engines but now you got Detroit you got Cummins you got Pacar is there any others that I'm missing? I apologize if I'm missing them I'm not doing that on purpose on these trucks you can't see if the washer fluid basin is full or not it's underneath there this is the spot where you fill it up so they just sort of got to fill it up until it reaches the top at least it's got a nice big opening here and it's easy to pour into some trucks they install these or these openings in an impossible place to get to with a full jug oh I can hear it coming near the top already oh there it is there it is okay that's the top a little bit left yet almost made the whole thing and this is uh winter the blue stuff is always for winter you never want to put the pink stuff or any other stuff in your truck in the winter time because it'll freeze up and it won't necessarily damage it or damage anything but it'll be a headache you're gonna have to park it in a warm shop like this to let all of the lines defrost or maybe you can get anaphrase through the system it's just an extra little headache that you want to avoid just put winter washer fluid in in the winter time it's pretty straightforward this truck has the marker lights along the side of the sleeper here too I like that it uh when you're driving on the highway at night it lights up the road beside you it gives you that extra little bit of visibility when you want to make a lane change and it also looks a lot better do you remember that tight spot we got into last week we could barely make it in through the gate and we had to back out and just barely make it out headed back there again I have an empty step deck behind me 53 foot tri axle I don't think I need the tri axle but we got it anyway just in case it was the only empty trailer I could find in the yard and they said go for it pull it on in so here we are let's see what they have for us today I'm not sure if I'm delivering this load or not uh all I know right now is I'm picking it up need to know basis and all I need to know is go pick it up bring it back still in the western star today uh 3006 is not in the shop yet but it's on the board for tomorrow it's on the meantime I've got a nice star to roll around in hopefully we get the peak back soon and we've arrived to the fun part of our journey this is really the most narrow street I ever drive down that's why I show it all the time I don't go that far into the the heart of the city you can't really with a 75 foot unit and it's it just doesn't work and the heart of the city is usually where you send a five ton box truck or something but I'm still able to access this area this is uh Elmwood in Winnipeg on the east side actually when my parents were young and first married I believe they lived in this neighborhood somewhere they got married in uh 1975 they've been married a long time I'll freak that van out a little bit there just perfect see it's just a perfect fit it's like it was meant just for me they still haven't widened the streets like all of the snow cuts out about a foot of each lane on both sides so it's very narrow you got to rub up right against the snow bank to get past these bigger vehicles you see this is a big school bus here oh and they've got to stop the city really should be clearing these streets properly so that we can get through here because the bus didn't really have to stop there we could pass each other but there's only like a couple of inches between our mirrors then right so you gotta slow right down make sure you don't give them a high five with your mirror you know you don't want to do that scares the daylights out of people makes a big bang and then you got to go and fix things you got to watch out for people swinging their doors open into traffic there too apparently without looking uh just another day trucking right you got to watch out for everyone else on the road I trust myself I don't trust anyone else there's a good driver see most people got common sense they'll make room for you you just got to watch out for those few out there that aren't paying attention and are a little bit oblivious to the fact that you're a big truck and you need a lot of space driving a truck in the city you've got to be what I call politely aggressive you know if you don't get a little bit aggressive people are never going to make room for you they're never going to let you in you got to be a little bit assertive maybe that's a better word than aggressive but you got to be polite about it all right we are professional drivers that means that we're not only professional in the way we drive we're professional in our attitude we're supposed to be anyway you have to have a professional attitude when someone gets all mad at you you don't fire back at them and lose your temper back at them you stay calm and professional and try your best to uh to do your best try your best to do your best in all things and just stay calm that's the hardest part I agree I'm not always great at that either but it's something I work on every day we're not going in there but there is our entrance right over there hopefully there's nobody in there right now find out once we get a little closer pull myself as far this way as I can without getting stuck yeah there's nobody there there's nobody there okay I might have to do a three point turn here because I'm going to try to make it extra wide and I know I'm not going to make it in this try that's on purpose let's see I can turn like this and then I back up and I back knife her a little bit there's a car back there I hope they're paying attention Lauren just passed that poster and hug these vehicles over here give them a nice little good morning hello but don't hit them there you go made it in no problem so one of these loads is mine here pull right up to these here tell the government yes I am here now send a message back to work telling them I am here now so that everybody and their dog knows that I am here now there we go no excuse everybody knows where I am thank you random voice I appreciate your help I didn't ask for it though I just hate it when people just start talking to you when you don't want to talk to them that of my GPS I don't even bring her along unless I'm going like on a longer trip I call her Karen she always tries to boss me around thinks she knows everything always talks to me without me talking to her like I don't want to talk to you Karen all right well I'm all ready for the shipper I'm going to go in there ring the bell and uh see what he's got for me it's a beautiful day I'm gonna be really nice that's what it looks like if you're wondering what an empty step deck looks like I mean it's a step deck we call it a step deck because it's a deck and it has a step therefore you know it's a step deck by the way it is here we go again this is freight that you can't tie down too tight you got to be careful with your straps straps could damage the freight see they got wood frames on the top of those on front but for some reason on these bigger ones on the back they don't see you got to be gentle but firm we're ready to go all right buckle ourselves in so we don't fall out it's back out of here we got mr. garbage man here wanting to grab his bin and I am in his way committing the ultimate sin never block the garbage man's garbage bin they really don't like that now back out of here now without hitting anything there you go bud free and clear for your garbage bin do what you wish with her close to that post right there and then cut her hard cut her hard like that I don't want to hit the post on this side okay here we go okay careful there sorry if I'm giving you guys a bit of motion sickness here there's a a lot to want to watch out for on my end at the same time you don't want to jack knife the diffs here for a second a bit more traction unlock them truck this guy's got here do that same thing except for the much nicer truck and I shouldn't say that these trucks are very nice very nice I'm not even joking I really like these western stars I just everybody likes a long nose Pete come on can't blame me for that don't look at me that way one day one day I'll have a truck like that and I'm gonna keep her nice and shiny and polished you'll know it's me when I'm coming because you're gonna put your shades on it's gonna be shining so bright you'll see nobody coming nobody coming fuel dollar sixty five nine a dollar sixty six a liter that's the most expensive I've ever seen it in Manitoba and yes I already see all your comments okay here I'm coming in your keyboards are on fire I realized that gas prices are higher in other parts of the country and the world I understand but that is high for my region dollar sixty five so I'm moving into a different truck moving into that truck which is exactly the same as this truck except that one is 3088 and that one has a headache rack half fenders and beacons I want to see if the keys are in it this will be handy that'll be really handy this unlocked no it's locked that's good it's supposed to be locked how's the front end look looks exactly like the other front end got the key we see that it's plugged in that's good let's see oh we're gonna pull that's tight that is oh it's probably just tight yikes and they're serious about keeping that hood down wow okay so exact same setup as the other one Detroit engine our coolant is good i'm gonna make sure the uh washer fluid is good in a minute put you down here I don't have gloves on again I know I didn't learn from this morning it's funny a while okay so exactly the same situation except this one has a different color of mattress let's uh let her cycle through turn the radio off oh this one doesn't feel now I gotta feel this one too that's okay this truck is almost exactly identical to that last one we were in the only difference I can really point out is that the blinkers on the dashboard it's an outline of an arrow that lights up instead of the whole arrow other than that it's exactly the same as if this is a deck truck which means it's uh got headache rack on the back and it's designed to pull flatbeds we're bob tailing right now we got to go down to the us border at the scale there one of our trailers is there I got to go recover it and that's why I needed the beacons because it's a wide load so this is the truck I'll be using now until three thousand sixes out of the shop nice peat very nice oh there's another nice peat at the end here oh it's our lucky day nice I just like looking at them beautiful isn't it hey you know it's springtime we look at this they got dry pavement it's like they scraped all that packed snow off the ground here all right I gotta fuel this bad boy up I fueled the other one up so it's ready for the next driver but now this one needs fuel somebody parked it without fueling it not very nice but that's okay I'll uh I'll deal with that I'll fix it the us border is right there and this is the scale coming into Manitoba this is where our trailer is apparently I don't know what happened but uh I'm here to recover it if I can get going on this ice there we go let's see what we're dealing with the scale is closed so it's a good thing we shouldn't have uh DOT officers coming sniffing around seeing what I'm doing again got nothing to hide but you know it takes time you know they come out there they say hi before you know what you're getting an inspection and that takes up part of my afternoon and I'd rather uh head back and go home than spend my time getting inspected I don't think I'm alone and not liking that oh there's our trailer right there I see it it's another uh double t except this one isn't on a on that t-frame thing like mine was the other day this one's different okay okay I see here's my load let's see so I was told they left the chains on it but I'm gonna need to use my own binders and that's true okay yeah so there's no t-frame on this one chains are in place okay I'm just gonna put signs on it and stuff because it's a wide load all right we're here to recover that let's do some recovery work shall we so I've got everything binded and chained chained and binded I'm just setting up my flags on the four corners you got to get a little creative with these loads sometimes how you get your flag right at the corner I'm not quite sure how I'm gonna do this one yet but uh huh let's do the front on the other side because I can do that the same way I did the other side there that one was a little easier I'm gonna have to loop around here something can I gotta put my oversize load signs or my d signs d signs are legal to use here uh oversize load signs the ones that say oversize load the words the yellow background they're illegal all across the united states they're the only thing that's legal there in Canada they are illegal every I mean they're legal to use everywhere in Canada except for Quebec that's because Quebec's first language is French actually their only language is French they're the only province of Canada that is not bilingual legally they didn't sign the bilingual act uh that's a story for another vlog okay there's some opinions on that on all sides but anyway they speak French there so if you have a sign that says oversize load obviously it's not in French so it's illegal to use in Quebec so in Quebec you have to use the d sign because d stands for danger and in French it also stands for la danger they both use d or danger danger I don't know how to say danger in French the danger so uh you have to use your d signs those are the only ones you're allowed to use in Quebec everywhere else you can use the oversize load signs but that's just because uh it has to be in the French language if it's going to be displayed right so they just stick with just the d signs and that's okay that's okay I know I'm poking at them a little bit here it's all friendly fun they are our brothers and sisters out there may speak a different language but that does not make them any different or any less Canadian we love Quebec I love Quebec it's a beautiful beautiful province if you ever want to go and visit Quebec I highly recommend it it is a beautiful beautiful place to go see and there you go saying a little creative there's your flag all right it's front there so I'm going to figure out something like that do on the back ends as well and uh and then I just gotta put my signs on front and back and we can roll out of here load recovered I'm the recovery man today recovery man Josh okay let's put our signs up we've got a cattle hauler pulled in on the other side of that trailer stikes though the farmers would say it smells like money I uh I disagree okay load it up on here get this sign up so you can see how I see a little creative two bungees down there holds the flag right at the corner of the wide load okay and now we're gonna put this up and over here like this for now just to hold it in place come on come on I just need one of you just need one of you okay just to lightly hold this in place we're just gonna I'll just tack it on there for now take a couple of these since we're getting all messed up anyway let's see if we can get this thing up here as well I don't want it to go over there that'll just hold it there for now so every time you see one of these loads the oversized loads with all the signs and flags and everything and you're not a truck driver now you know that the effort the truck driver goes through to make everything look nice and if it looks all symmetrical and nice and pretty it's because that driver really cares about his job and takes pride in him takes pride in his work I try to make mine look pretty all the time it's not always easy oops sorry guys this one here okay I want to go over that there and then down to this here just to hold that in there nice and tight there we go okay so now that's the top is being held in bottom is being held in there need this bungee here just to hold this corner in straight down here and around two there okay now that sign needs a little bit of help yeah doesn't it I guess it does I like it to be firm I don't want to go anywhere careful with these bungees it can snap back at you they're not always your friends straight yet is it well oh that top one there is pretty firm in there okay