 Good morning everybody Wednesday pretty sure. Yeah, it's Wednesday March 9th to 2022 when I'm filming this Outside, it's a little little chilly this morning minus 20 Celsius. I'm just gonna Convert that to America speak for you for all my American followers. I know there's a lot of you out there Minus 20 degrees Celsius is minus four degrees Fahrenheit. That's what we're starting the day off with today It's supposed to get a lot warmer throughout the day That's nice. Oh, yeah, I had the my toke on the heater on the dashboard there For a little while now. I got a nice warm to go my head. I do did the same thing with my gloves. I Always do that. Oh, that's nice Okay, we're hooked up to an empty step deck right now I got to go pick up some freight and Winnipeg and bring it to Glenboro, Manitoba, which is that way Something like south-central Manitoba and when I drop that there I have another loaded portage of La Prairie to bring back to Winnipeg and That's gonna be the day so let's get to it the earlier we get done The less likely that will run out of time That makes sense Don't want to run out of time got to get everything done It's the same trailer we had yesterday I'm gonna use it again today I'm gonna have to sweep off a bit of snow on here today But Should be good to go. There it is. That's all Not that big of a load. That's all got to go to Glenboro, Manitoba. I'm gonna take it there Huh, I think I will Then I have a reload like I was saying before and portage I'm just at the SO card lock here in Oak Bluff, Manitoba Quick pit stop and then we'll be on the road This guy's got a nice super B here. That's the exit over there But nobody can get out because all those drivers Didn't want to park back here in the parking spots and walk in and get their coffee. They wanted to park there So I could go that way, but I'm see now there's a car truck coming in that way. That's why I can't come this way Now we're stuck. Oh, no that guy's trying to back up here. I better wait. I'll just wait That's a little bit frustrating Just a heads up for you Manitoba drivers or drivers coming through Manitoba You know where this Tim Hortons and SO is in Oak Bluff Please don't do that. That's so annoying There's parking spots back here you can park back here where I am and Leave the park and a lot a little easier to get around. All right, so what's this guy doing on this guy's He's gonna go that way Okay, I am going to roll out the entrance and hope for the best And worse comes to worse. I just got to back up again This guy's over there blocking the entire exit Only because they didn't want to walk from the back of the parking lot. That's the only reason there's lots of parking. Oh My friends my friends this guy too. He's parking over here There's room up here to park a few trucks, but there's a limit We got out of here. No problem. Anyway We'll be okay. I'll live I'll survive Maybe though just maybe someone will watch my video though and be like oh, I did that once I'm not ever gonna do that again. I didn't know how rude that was Yeah, that's why I give these little tips because sometimes people are a little oblivious and that's like innocently oblivious and that's okay I don't want to harp on them for that or like Put them down or anything some people just don't know and people are just never taught proper etiquette And what's rude and what is the right thing to do? you know Sometimes they just need a gentle little reminder being like no that is just not the way we do it. That's very rude We want to be courteous, right? Maybe I'm just naggy. I don't know. I'm not trying to nag you guys Just trying to make the world a better place for everybody So I got to take highway two I Think there's a roundabout up here too. Oh great Think number two just goes straight over, but I got to go like around and All right, here we go yippie-de-dee Wait, two west is that way. Okay, so we want to go this way To west cuz Glenboro is on highway two that way this intersection here always Confuses me which way are you going bud? You're going that way. Okay. I'm going this way. Have a good day This intersection sort of at an angle So it's hard to see which way is my directions get all messed up like north-south east west Here we go. I heard that the highway is doing all right. You can see it's still got some icy sections, but To Manitoba standards, this is great great highways. Look at this. You can see the pavement. That's good It's a good day to be truckin Unloaded now in Glenboro Glenboro that sounds familiar Where else is there a Glenboro? Feel like I've been to Glenboro before but it wasn't this Glenboro I didn't even know Manitoba had a Glenboro until today. I thought it was in Saskatchewan Even yesterday they told me I'm going to Glenboro. I thought that was the Saskatchewan No but halfway across Manitoba Now you know we all learned something together empty step deck there it is And we'll put some more stuff on it Because it's always better when you have stuff on the trailer And then you tie it down and you bring it somewhere else That's the fun part Let's see. How far away are we? We are an hour and 18 minutes away according to Google hundred and nineteen kilometers What is that seventy seventy five seventy five miles gonna go that way we're facing south right now So we're gonna go east. You know what? There's a car coming right now, and I am way too nice again Mostly because it's gonna take me a while to get going on this road here It's pretty slippery. I'll just wait. I wonder if they know that I waited for them On purpose welcome for not inconveniencing you See we're spinning like crazy here now come on Okay, let's lock up the interaxle lock. There we go put power to both drive axles Still nothing Okay, and we don't need that. I'm just gonna back up a little bit here. There's no one behind me They're a little bit of a running start at it. My bad for stopping there All right, oh traction control my nemesis Doesn't do nothing transmissions the worst part about automatic transmissions Circumstances exactly like that and traction control Because when you start spinning on a hill like that all traction control does is it just locks up your wheels and you just sink down And now you're stuck and the automatic transmission freaks out because it doesn't know what's going on So it tries to shift into all kinds of different gears and then again you sink right down and you're stuck It's always best to have a manual transmission. I Have a traction control off switch here, which is important. You can make sure you have that on your truck I can always turn it off, but The best thing to do is make sure you have a manual truck If you have a choice in what truck you're driving. I understand a lot of us don't have a choice You work with what you're giving Very rough road, but don't worry. They put up a sign that says surface brakes. So that makes it okay They warned you Feels a quite a remote area of the province is definitely not my home region of Manitoba Not because of the roads of that's not why I say that it's just that they got like Hills here There's the trans-Canada I'm gonna follow the 240 north up here gonna go through Portage La Prairie I've never taken this road before Well, I feel better knowing that I'm not the only truck on this road That's a training vehicle. So straight is what you're telling me. Oh looks like we get to go over a big bridge. That's fun Excuse me, you got a stop sign right right my turn and my feet were cold now my feet are hot There's no winning Look at these little houses. They're like the size of our house That's even smaller than our house Wow Oh, we don't even have to wait for the train. That's nice Orange La Prairie gets it overpasses. I don't know what's up with Winnipeg Look at all those green cars Whoo Wonder where they're going. We're way high up here now. Wow It's like the highest anyone's been in Manitoba. I'm going straight out There's a truck with a green circle around it with arrows pointing in every direction except backwards We can go any direction except backwards So for those of you who are from overseas or from the United States or from elsewhere in Canada It's a big country. This is what Portage La Prairie Manitoba looks like in early March 2022 We don't always have this much snow, but sometimes we do It's kind of nice today Nice and sunshine This is Tupper Street North You could have taken it one step further and called it Tupperware Street Very nice, right? Look at all those drifts. Wow. I just want to take a snowmobile through that When I was younger I had a snowmobile and that is prime snowmobile in real estate right there all those drifts Oh, I would waste a whole afternoon there. Oh, yeah, it goes all the way along here, man That'd be fun up and down and up and down Makes me miss the smell of two-stroke exhaust Oh, that was always the best part after he parked your snowmobile because you're all sad that Snowmobiling's over for the day, right? But then you smell your suit that you're wearing your snowmobile suit It smells like that two-stroke exhaust. Oh, it's so good But you know as a kid I lived at home with my parents then mom would always get mad I took it in the house because then the whole house smelled like two-stroke exhaust I thought that was a good thing. No, she didn't think so This took a lot longer than I thought I would I was told it would be just a simple, you know simple pickup No problem. Oh, yeah, just like five to six five seven skids five or seven skids. Oh, yeah, it'd be fun They said. Oh, it'd be easy. They said. Oh, yeah But we got it done. We got her all tied down here satisfied with it and Time to head out It's one of the more difficult ones I've done in a while Just because it's a whole bunch of mismatched a little bit of this little bit of that Here and there reels All kinds of stuff and you get some little things up there yet. You got to tie that down Wrap it around get it nice and neat as neat as we could My face is really warm right now or feels really warm It got so cold there for a while. I wasn't wearing my face mask And I got a little cold pretty good gets cold quickly when the sun starts going down All right, bud green light give her give her you're gonna be late for hockey practice, man. Get that mini van and gear There he goes This is portage laprari Main street, I guess what you'd call it The really long main street Goes through the whole city a lot of older architecture here, too. It's a pretty old city I believe it's one of the older settlements in manitoba Oh, I see a gas station over there a dollar 74 per liter Oh That's over five bucks a gallon. I'm pretty sure For talking America speak Man, you know alberta is helping their citizens the alberta government's dropping the fuel tax So the price for gas will go down and give give their citizens some relief I'm hoping manitoba does something of something of the same We need some relief. This is uh Wow Diesel is a what does that say a dollar 90 Was two bucks a gallon Sorry A liter two bucks a liter. That's got to be about six dollars or more a gallon I'm not I'm just doing rough math in my head right now. I'm not that smart. I can't do math that quickly Wow What a world we're living in. Hey, what a world Made it back to the yard day to clock Uh, I got to deliver this load first thing in the morning and then pick up a new load do it all over again tomorrow Hopefully it won't be quite as long of a day tomorrow, but if it is Then it is We stay until the job gets done Okay, let's grab the warm gloves that I remembered to put on the dash Yeah, I got started at 7 30 this morning too. It was a long day And you saw me like I didn't even stop for lunch. No lunch. No nothing. All I did was I uh, I stopped to go to the bathroom At uh, oh bluff there, which was literally 10 minutes The rest of the time was just We don't know this mess I'm gonna hook back onto this trailer first thing in the morning. So I'm just gonna leave it right here and uh Everything looks like it's Where I left it, which is always good. I always like to see that nothing Nothing fell off Yeah, everything looks as it should good. Okay, we're gonna leave it right here I've got to unhook it for the night though Yeah time just Flies by when you're having fun. Hey, it doesn't really feel like I've been here over 12 hours It's one benefit to really liking your job I really do like my job and I'm not just saying that either Really really do enjoy what I do That makes it a lot easier That's just my suspension adjusting That's okay This truck is kind of nice. It's got these fancy little holders here For my glad hands Where they stay neat and don't get full of snow and they just stay right there Okay over the suspension Sets the trailer down a little easier the suspension back up before going any further time to go park and go home