 Good morning, everyone How's it going today waking up in the truck? getting going we're in Town called Tisdale. I believe that's what it's called Tisdale, Saskatchewan At about an hour and a half drive north now to where I have to unload and then I have about eight nine hour drive home There's supposed to be a blizzard rolling in today, so it may take a little longer than that. I hope that we don't get Slowed down too much. So I'd like to make it home tonight yet. I gotta be back at work tomorrow so I'd like to make sure that I can at least have a few hours An evening at home today yet, but we'll see We'll see the time is 7 a.m. I've got two hours to get to where I need to be So I'll see you when we get there Tisdale looks like a nice little town here The northern communities in Saskatchewan and especially Alberta always sort of surprised me because in Manitoba There's not very much up north like north, you know, I go to Arborg a lot north of that There's not too many people not very many big towns or anything But Saskatchewan and Alberta They have a lot more population further north than we do Most of Manitoba's population is right in the south Right next to the US border, you know trying to get as much warmth off our nice neighbors as we can British Columbia also has quite a bit of Settlements up north as well. There's a stop sign here. They should have like a flashing light on that or something People are gonna miss that nice little Saskatchewan town. I've missed coming out here It's nice to see it again every now and then Hopefully the weather's not gonna get too bad for me today. I'm a little worried about it, but We'll take care of it. We'll handle it whatever it is But I just I just don't want to be delayed too much. I'd really like to get home at a decent time But this is trucking right? It's trucking so you can't count on anything really You can count on plans to not go as planned Last in line. They're unloading the first guy over there somewhere Unloading this guy next And then I'm the third and the last I was here early too. I wanted to be first Got here early. It's just the other guys got here earlier I guess they wanted to be unloaded first more They told us to be here nine in the morning. So I got here like quarter to nine I'm like, yeah, that'll be early. I'll be early enough. No, no I don't know when these guys got here because we were told not to sleep up here at the site We were told to sleep in town in Nippawin. I slept down in Tisdale. So I started a bit earlier I thought I'd be here. Oh, well, not a big deal Not a big deal. These guys won't take too long to be unloaded and mine's only gonna take five minutes Once I get my straps off, I got three crates Dink, dink, dink just like that with those sounds and it'll be all off on the ground and I'll have an empty trailer And I'll be headed back home I just don't know how long these guys are gonna take. This guy shouldn't be too long He's got about one, two, three, four pieces. I think and we'll be all right. It won't be too long I'm sure I'm hoping to miss that blizzard that's supposed to hit Manitoba tonight I'll probably be driving into it later this evening Hopefully we make it home. I mean we will make it home. Just hopefully we Make it home tonight But you know if it gets too bad out there it is what it is You got to keep safety in mind slower down. I'm gonna be empty I'm gonna have an empty flatbed behind me not gonna have as much traction as if I was fully loaded So I'm gonna have to keep that in mind And it'll be fine. Nothing we haven't done before and we'll just be careful I've got to remind myself Sometimes when I talk like that that I'm You know I'm confident in my ability to drive this truck in all weather conditions. I've seen It all pretty much have been through pretty much anything you can pump me through on the road I'm sure there's always something new to go through that I haven't But don't mistake my confidence for Ego or arrogance. I don't want to come off like that I've been accused of that in my comment section more than once that I've just got this big massive ego that I can do anything No, no, I'll be the first to admit that I'm always learning I'm just confident in my ability to safely maneuver this truck and get it to point from point A to point B In a safe manner and get there safely. I have a million miles behind me here Million safe miles so I have that to back up my confidence, but I also want to make sure that I humble myself and Remind you and myself that there's always something new I can learn there's always new experiences that can teach me new things So don't just don't confuse my my confidence for anything other than that It's just experience And what's what's the worst that could happen on the way home it gets so bad that I have to shut down Well, then I pull it off the road to a safe parking lot and I shut down for the night and wait out the storm There's always things I'm learning every day and in the trucking industry as you as you go through your career I've been in it in it now 15 years and I've been doing this job here for 10 years Now I'm sort of doing all the drops city and a little bit of overnights and stuff But I've been driving out here in the highways for quite a while and I'm still learning new things all the time So Never believe anyone when they say oh, I've been doing this for X amount of years There's nothing I can learn. I've learned everything. I know everything There's there's always something to learn Especially for me and I always take tips if I'm doing something wrong or if I'm doing something in a way that could be done better Or more efficient I'm always open to advice and tips from guys who've been doing this longer than me Or even the guys who haven't been as an if you catch me doing something that I could be doing more efficiently Always willing to learn the only time you stop learning When you're trucking is when you think you know it all when you think that you know everything there is to know We're empty this time though. You say I never know how to pronounce is the Queen's English I think that's the way Proper way to say it. I mean you would think that she would speak the correct English, right seeing as she's the English monarch From England figured I'd show you this going through a little bit of a scenic area of Saskatchewan here Eastern Saskatchewan between highway three and highway five We're on highway 38 You can follow all of that good for you the area that we're going through that a big lake off to our right it is When the frost builds up on the branches of the trees like that usually from fog the night before it was pretty foggy here last night And makes all the trees look all back to our yard and I've got to empty out this truck Make sure it's as clean if not cleaner than when I got into it and then head home It'll be out here and see it ULM DEF was my favorite but this is my first trip in a t680 truck It's just a behemoth. Oh, there's so much space in here t680. I tell you this is a truck of dreams Truck of dreams smoothest Biggest most spacious roomie truck I've ever been in the definition of highway luxury and the saddest part of the day And of the whole trip saying goodbye to this beautiful girl Behemoth is a huge truck It's just massive and you sit so high off the ground like compared to I guess it's about the same as that one That's a Peterbilt right there When they're both nice trucks, but wow this Kenworth takes it up to the next level This t680 I tell you what if they ever roped me back onto the road full time I'm gonna get on my knees and beg to be in a t680 Man this would be comfortable to live in So hey if you guys want to work here if you guys want to drive here This might be the truck you get assigned to if you're coming on to the dark coal side of things. I mean It's a really nice truck truck or Josh approved. I am blown away nicest truck I've ever driven aside from like the classic long-nose w9 and you know the long-nose Pete's those I'm not counting those because those are obviously our Trucks in themselves in a category of their own but this for comfort luxury Quality man, I had a really really good time They ever need me to do another overnight and They assign this truck to me man. I won't hesitate I have made myself available for these so whenever they're in a pinch or whenever they need someone or Maybe they just want to throw me a bone every now and then and let me go out overnight or maybe for a couple of nights Maybe further sometimes, but they know I need to stay closer to home But I am definitely not going to fight them if they want me to go and stay on the road overnight or you know Take the odd long trip out there too down south. I don't mind at all This is what I live for. This is this is the reason I live trucking All kinds of it, but I like the city stuff too. I love that Pete that I drive old school Pete Love that. I just like it all. I don't know. I'm a happy guy This doesn't take too much to please me just give me a truck that runs Give me a load to pull and I'm gone Happy as can be and then on top of this I get to go home to my awesome wife now And all of our dogs and our nice little home That's awesome. Okay on on that note. I'm gonna get everything packed up here. I've sort of already got it all You know a bit of chaos over here. I'm gonna bring into the passenger door I'm gonna bring my pickup up beside us there Then I've got to remember to move my straps out of this truck put it back in the Peterbilt that I'm gonna be driving Okay, I'll see you later everybody if I don't talk to you again tonight Have a good one. Thanks for tagging along with me and keeping me company on this trip to Saskatchewan I hope you tune in again, and if you haven't already hit that subscribe button. 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