 It's me again! It's been on my video. I appreciate that. Before you leave, before you leave, make sure you're subscribed down below. We make new videos all the time and I'd love for you to join us every day. So I'm here, booking up to a trailer right now. It's been a little bit of a slow Friday morning for us, but I finally got something to do. I've got a big old box behind me, a van trailer. We have a warehouse in Winnipeg and some of our stuff is there and they load trailers there. I need to bring this there. Apparently we have a trailer that's that's supposed to be here and we have a trailer here that's supposed to be there. So what do you know the solution is? I'm going to go do a little switch room. Bring that one. Bring this one. You get it. I'm trying to make a very mundane, boring task sound interesting. Is it working? Oh yeah, got out of my truck the wrong way again. Believe me, I know. It's supposed to come out of your truck facing back. I get it. There's a big giant ocean here that I have to... How deep is it? How deep do you figure it is? Is the water okay? Is the water okay? Oh, that's pretty deep. I don't want to get a boater. You know what? You know what? Solutions. I've got to use your head. Oh, but I forgot my gloves. Now I've got to go back. All right, this trailer is pretty tightly tucked in here between the other trailers. So it's gonna be a little bit tricky to get in here. Got a pink skinny tire here filled with air. Filled with air. You see what I mean? It was barely. Oh, just barely. I couldn't even get through on the other side. Look at that. Anyway, lights are all working. Lights are working. Lights are working. Lights are working. License plate light working, working. That's a mess. Okay, well, we're going to quickly sweep this out before we go. And, uh, yeah, that's what the broom is for. That's why I got it. And remember, you know what I'm going to say, don't you? Do you know what I'm going to say? I remember to always sweep out the trailer after you're done with it. I'm just going to keep saying it. Eventually everyone's going to hear it. And maybe one day people will start doing it. Come on. Let's drag our butt up here. Come on. Come on, Carl. All right. So look at this. This next styrofoam. What a mess. What a mess. Trucker Josh on the job, on duty. Jen and Josh. Okay, I've got a good article and a topic of conversation for the comment section today. It's from cdlllife.com today. And I think this one's a little funny. I got a little bit of a chuckle out of it. The headline reads, winter is almost here and these truckers are the first to know about it. You're like, oh yeah, cool. The article starts off by, it was written by Wimberley Patton on October 13, 2021. It starts, winter is almost here and truckers across the internet say that they are not emotionally ready. What? That's your job to be, okay. We've hit the middle of October in several states. This is obviously American trucking news, I guess. We've hit the middle of October and several states have already seen their first few inches of snow. So of course, truckers are the first ones out there experiencing it and documenting the experience. Snow. Okay, I'm Canadian. You got to remember that. So this is a little bit funny to me. I mean, no offense. I'm not ready for this. Go away, shouts one lady trucker making her way through the Montana prairies. Am I the only one who gets this sick, sick feeling in their stomach when you have to go through the first snowfall of the season? Another one goes, I'm on my last day of home time, but I'm not sure how they're going to get me out of here with this wind advisory and winter weather laments yet another lady driver as she shows off the lovely winter wonderland from her porch in central Colorado. Yet another driver simply shows a striking winter scene as they make their way through lookout pass just before butte Montana. If you want to see this article, you can go to CDL life.com. It was posted, like I said, on October 13th. I'm not going to read the whole thing. It says, get ready out there because winter is coming. Oh, that was the whole article. I'm sorry. If you want to go and see the pictures, go ahead and go check them out on the website there. But how are you feeling about this about winter in general up here in Canada? It's just another season. The first snowfall of the season, you're like, huh? Oh man, winter's here and you keep driving. You don't stop. You don't think about it. You're just you just go through this just part of life up here. But I guess when you're in a place like in the U.S. where you have climates in different regions that don't see snow and then they come up to areas that do see snow, it's a bigger thing for them because they're not used to it. That's not how they were raised. They didn't grow up with snow around them all the time. So to them, it may be a bit of a bigger issue. Like, oh, no, what are we going to do up here in Canada? It's just another day of trucking. Must give her. Let me know what you think of this winter weather. Have you seen snow yet? Was it bad? Don't get me wrong. There's some bad winter weather in the U.S. that would make me shut down as well. It would make me park. I don't think I would say that I'm emotionally traumatized by it or I'm not emotionally ready for it. It's a fact of life. Winter is coming. So I guess emotionally, I'm just naturally ready because I know it's coming. How about you? Did you grow up in a climate that does not have snow? And how would it affect you? I don't want to diminish the the effect it has on people. Some people it obviously has an emotional toll on because they're not ready for it. Are you ready for it? Have you seen it? Let me know. Talk to me down in the comment section. Let me know if you've seen snow yet or if you have ever. And if you haven't ever seen snow in your life, definitely leave me a comment. Tell me where you are and how can I get there? All right. All right. It's time to get going here. Trailer is attached. It's coming with us. The brakes are now releasing. Fantastic. I don't want to go too fast across this muddy lot here because the less mud that I spray up onto my truck, the less I have to wipe off later. This trailer I'm pulling is actually pretty clean too. It looks like it's been washed recently. We don't have a wash bay on our yard here unfortunately. I wish we did and I'm sure in the future one day we will. But there are other priorities first. But for now we wash our trucks at third party locations sort of like Blue Beacon stuff like that. We have an account at a place in Winnipeg as well. And that's how we get our trucks washed. We also have a mobile wash business that comes here and washes our equipment here as well. It's just they can't be here every day unfortunately. So it's a constant struggle keeping your units clean especially in the coming winter season that we were just talking about very hard. So it's not raining right now anymore. It's supposed to get better as the weekend gets closer. So throughout the day but the roads are still very wet. I'm not going to make a left turn here and try to get across traffic without causing any problems. There's a car coming from our left. I'm going to wait for him unless they're turning. No they're going straight. No they're turning. No, going straight. Going straight. And there's one pickup turning here without a signal. That's why I was confused. It's very hard to get on the same brain wavelength as people so that I can read their minds when they're not using their signal. Don't crash into me. I'm going slow signals on across the city or across the province or anything. It's just a short little uh little mundane task. Like any trucking is exciting to me. I just love trucking. I don't care where I'm going. I just want to drive a truck. Wonderful Winnipeg construction. It never ends. You know our construction on Brant Street and Steinback is over. All they've got to do is the finishing touches. Steinback is always very well with getting a project done before winter or getting a project done within the time frame that they said it would be done. It seems that Winnipeg struggles with that a lot. Very often you'll see Winnipeg construction zones stay up through the entire winter or go way way over budget. I don't know why but uh if that's part of the city management or the the crew's working here. I don't think it's the crew's working here because it's the same crew that like the the crew that did Steinback. That was from Winnipeg. They're a Winnipeg crew but for some reason we're able to get our construction done in the in the summer season. They wanted that trailer instead. Maybe it's the old school logos. Maybe they like that better than the new logos. I don't know. I like the new ones better myself. I don't know but they didn't want this one so I'm gonna bring it back. We're gonna use it for something else I guess. Those logos on that trailer there uh those were the old old logos before we got these new ones. We got these new ones in 2013 I think. So I worked here for uh since 2011 and uh those were the logos when I started here so those are still familiar to me but I think in 2013 is when they completely redid everything the whole image new logos. We got a whole new fleet of trucks in that year as well. Uh there were a whole bunch of if I remember correctly Peterbilt 386s and then from there we got some new western stars and then some Volvos and then some more Peterbiltz and then we bought Darko and then Darko has a bunch of Kenworth T680s that are really nice and brand new Volvos uh what are they VNL 680s are the the big ones I showed it to you those big blue ones uh so we have a variety of trucks to drive here. I've driven them all and my favorite is still if I had to pick one for highway use I'd want one of the Kenworth T680s but uh if I had to pick one for my own personal desires my own personal bias we have one Kenworth W900 but I would want to own my own and totally customize it but I don't know if that dream is ever going to come true and if it if it is going to come true there's still a lot of time in my career for that to come true don't get me wrong but it won't be anytime soon. We're going to be in this truck for a while we're going to focus on getting this thing fixed up a little bit and uh keep this thing going because this thing is pre-DEF it's pre-emission it's good for a city truck it's way cheaper just to like restore this truck than it is to buy a whole new day cab city truck it's half the price if you want to completely restore this truck excuse me even if you wanted to restore it into a complete show truck that would be much much much cheaper than uh buying a brand new just standard day cab would just rebuild the engine get this thing repainted and stuff and it'll go for like another 10 15 years easy for a friday usually we're very busy on a friday but usually how it goes if we're slow today we're going to be really busy next the next day which will be next week because the slow day is not very common that's why everybody's always looking for drivers right the goose is the geese look at all the goose you guys want to see me go out there and fight one well that's not going to happen today it's raining i don't fight geese in the rain why aren't they gone already i'd be in mexico by now with that beautiful sunshine see i told you it's going to be a good weekend so friday is over well the work day is over the weekend has officially begun it's very exciting very exciting for me i have no plans and it's going to be great actually i do have plans i want to uh i want to finish the uh the deck that i started working on well we got the main part of the deck done i need to get the step finished and that's what i'm talking about i'd like to get the step finished this weekend and i also have about eight or nine vlogs i have to edit so that's going to take most of the day tomorrow so i have a day full of work tomorrow yet but i'm trying to cover a little bit more trucking news in my in my vlogs and if if you guys like that let me know uh sort of something that we can all sort of uh sort of conversation around and uh let me know if you know any other good sources of it my favorite is transportation nation i know the guys there and the girls they the i was on their show there the driver's lounge and they're great people and that's why i like to support them uh they support me as well you could find my vlogs on transportation nation dot com i believe they're still up there i i hope so but uh like i said i know the owners there and uh they're great people they don't ask me to promote them or anything i very very rarely do ads uh and promote people uh for cash or something like i get approached by it all the time literally i have emails every day of companies nikey approached me last week that's one of the bigger ones you'd all recognize they want me to advertise their shoes or something i said no no thank you i don't like selling you guys stuff i don't want my channel to turn into a big uh you know a big constant ad you already get enough ads with the google ads that keep popping up right i do get a cut of the revenue of those ads so that does go to support me in my channel we also have early release over on patreon that goes to support my channel and uh supports you know when i need new equipment like a new gopro these things are very expensive i want to get a couple of other things for the truck yet but uh you know i only promote brands companies that i believe in that i know and that i use myself and that are relevant to my channel and what i do but you know there's uh it was keystone that's relevant uh bullsnot that's relevant transportation nation that's relevant so those are three places none of them have asked me to to advertise or promote from i decided to do that on my own and i think i've cleared this up with you before but uh just so you know if i do receive money for advertising or something i legally do have to disclose that to you every time so you would see something like hashtag ad in the title or in the description somewhere and uh you probably see a little thing in the top corner saying this video includes paid promotion or something like that right so you would know i have to tell you so if i'm promoting something to you and you don't see that it's because i want i think it would be valuable to you and i've decided to share it with you so i'm gonna try to get a few videos done today yet when i get home uh britt is working she's gonna be home in about an hour and a half so i won't get much done because i got a shower yet and feed the dogs but tomorrow she has to work all day on saturday and so i'm gonna take the whole day i have to catch up i'm behind far behind on videos again i got this whole week so that's five videos and i think i've got two or three videos from last week so seven or eight videos and that'll probably take seven or eight hours so it's uh it's a full full day of work i had to meet tomorrow but as soon as they're all done they'll be released on patreon first and then they'll be released one by one so i get like a whole dump of like eight blogs on patreon you can send them all out there and then i release them one by one monday to friday during the week that's sort of my schedule it's been working for me recently and uh things are different on this channel than they used to be i know and i appreciate all of you that have stuck with me through it and i welcome all the new viewers that are in here now i know we've uh we're making a transition it's been a year now and it'll probably be a long transition but hey i'm in this for the long haul i don't plan on stopping making my videos and i appreciate every single one of you that tag along with me every day i really do you know these vlogs make life interesting for me it uh not that it wasn't interesting before but it gives me something to do and uh you know it sort of creates a video diary of my life that i can go back on in the future and something i really enjoy to do is like a i enjoy it and this is the infamous branch street that i was talking to you guys about look at it all done except for back there and over there at the beginning and end of the the old construction zone they have to fix the median where the traffic went through the medium before we're almost there on time and on schedule you know i'm actually very proud of them they did a really good job too you know whoever organized this whoever executed it whoever got it all done i believe it was maple leaf construction that was here uh and i don't know who organized this all through our town in our council and our mayor whoever whoever did it you guys did a good job thank you mentally preparing for the rock star welcome okay i'm feeling like a rock star but i don't look like a rock star do i well hey boys karate i let me out i got a poop i'm gonna be see you always on my own did you just give me a big high up it's high yeah come raw tight here comes another one oh tricky yeah tricky yeah you were scared weren't you diesel's getting his drink of water all right my little karate commander take your skills out here all right is everybody else here you guys ready you guys ready come on this way frank don't go back there he always goes back there okay good good these little guys my my wife's pride and joy over there he likes to pee and do his business up front there by the furniture and that's it's not allowed i have declared and decreed that there shall be no peeing or pooping in the front by our furniture it's the law and these little guys refuse to obey the law and there's nothing i can do but it's my wife's pride and joy i'm just joking but not about the law part that is the law just joking that i would he's fine he's a good boy now where'd the commander go he's probably leaving a pile of goodness around here somewhere hey hey what are you eating you eating dirt again don't do that man don't tell me how to live my life he's a good boy he's actually very well behaved he's he is our he listens really well and he is probably the best behaved one but don't tell weasel right diesel no i'm not the best thing you're a little bit of a wild weasel aren't you super wild super wild you want to feel fast i am i'm super fast you wouldn't believe it you want to feel fast should i run that way go be sure show me show me how fast are you i don't think you know how fast i am wow look at you go super fast chevy can easily easily beat diesel but he lets diesel win because he's a good uh big little brother diesel's the older one chevy's very respectful oh frank almost video bombed me in the back there with a literal little bomb that i better go clean up so thanks for watching today everybody i hope you uh liked it hit the like button if you did i've got to go get the shovel see you tomorrow or monday but maybe tomorrow