 How do you get your muscles twisted off to give your trucker dross flogs? Good morning there friend! Diesel says good morning! At least I think that's what that face means. It's going to be a good day diesel right? Why it's going to be a good day? Because today we're getting out of this truck and we're moving back in the whole blue. Ready to take it out on our next trip. But before we do that I'm excited to go home and spend some time at home. That's the fresh air when you get out of the truck. And we better make sure our entire load is still good to go. All of it, the whole thing. It's still there. Good morning nice Peterbills. You were here the other day when I woke up too. You're still here. I never used the bottom two. I didn't think I was going to cut them off. Come on my boy. Let's go do our business. We slept here at Balgoni. Flying Jay in Balgoni. It's a sketch one. Late at night we're able to find parking. Late at night when we got here. So we're getting a later start this morning. But drove pretty late yesterday. Had a shower. Gave myself a haircut. Trim my beard. It's been a good time. On the prairies of Canada you see that quite often. Trucks hauling 253 foot trailers. We call them pikes. I'm not sure why. Maybe because they're going down the pike. I don't know. Why do we call them pikes? I just know that's what we call them. We don't do any of that yet. You have to have special licensing to do that. And training obviously. And it's not something we do. Maybe we will in the future. But for now it takes a little bit of extra logistics. To do that you need to have yards and drop yards. Where you can get in with two trailers like that. And easily drop and hook and hook up. If you pull 253 foot trailers you have to have special training obviously. You also have to have special licensing I believe through the company. And that's not something that we do specifically. It takes a little bit more logistics and a little bit to set that up. You have to have drop yards where you can get these trucks in. Where you can switch trailers around and hook up and uncouple and recouple and stuff. You see it quite commonly on the prairies. Between Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton to Saskatchewan. You see them pulling three trailers. Not 353 foot trailers but like 253s plus another like 40 some footer or 32 footer or whatever. I've seen it before. They're pulling three trailers around here. They're like our version of highway trains. They're not quite as long as the Australian ones. But we're trying. Doing our best. You'll also see them between Toronto and Montreal on the 401 out in eastern Canada. I've also seen them there as well. But they're not as common there. Here you see them all the time. And before I forget to tell you again I want to remind you that on June 17th I believe it's a Saturday. I'm going to be at the yard at Keystone Western in Grand Point. We're doing an open house. You can come and meet the team. See what we're all about at Keystone and maybe you want to make a career change and come start working for us. Maybe you're an owner operator like me. Maybe you've been running an owner operator for a while and you want to make a change. Right that day. You can come check it out. Me does. Meet me. I'll have old blue there. And it'd be great to meet you. I hear there's going to be food there and stuff too. That's June 17th this year, 2022. You can go to my Facebook page or any of my social media pages to find that. I'll try to put it up on the screen here as well. It'd be great to see you there if you're in the area. Everybody's always looking for drivers, right? And of course we would like to attract some owner operators. And I figure what better way to show people that you can run your truck here and be successful. What better way to show you than to do it myself. So I went out and bought my own truck. We're running old blue on my next trip. I'm really excited about it. So it's working out well for me here. It doesn't hurt to check it out at least, right? But of course they're not just looking for owner operators. They're also looking for company drivers. We have van division, open deck division. That's what I do. All kinds of different routes whatever your schedule is we're willing to work with you. Construction zones, that can slow me down. Says Tony Justice calls them. Flying through the construction zones. Maximum speed limit and I will utilize it to my best ability when I... Especially when I got old blue waiting for me. She's just sitting there. I can hear her already. I'm almost at the mountaintop of the border. I can already hear her, it, him. I still don't know. It. They go refer to it as it. It's a tool. It's a working tool. But I don't want to unperson him or her. I don't know yet. I don't know my truck well enough yet. All I know I can recognize is voice. It's calling me already. That's not the voice though. I haven't yet seen the sign that says end of construction zone. In construction zones all fines are tripled. Usually they have a sign. Just so you know for sure. End of construction zone. You can give her again. End of construction zones. Thanks for slowing down. Can I go the speed limit again? I've got places to be. I've got to be clear. I don't have the last thing I need right now. I haven't even gotten into old blue yet. I've got to go explain to driver services. By the way, thanks for borrowing me the truck. I got a speeding ticket and a construction zone on the record. Better safe than sorry. People in front of me haven't sped up either because no one knows this is a construction zone over. Because sometimes they just take the cones away. But they're still working. So it doesn't look like a construction zone but it's a construction zone. That usually happens in Saskatchewan. I don't know what it is about you guys here or our friendly neighbors. And they're still putting rocks on the highway to fix their highways. Stones. Remember I got my window blown out by one of those ones? They still do it. Oh yeah. Still a fixed in road. Like it's 1915. Okay, it's settled. The construction zone is over. Everyone agrees. Time to give her. To rush to get going this morning. I was in the pumps too. On the west side. Stuff from here into old blue. And then head back to the shop. I'm a little anxious to see how the decos turned out. Diesel knows where we are. Yes, corner man. Almost there. Whoa, whoa, whoa, bite. You're a young man. Oh, I got it. I'm good. I'm good. And in our paperwork, go find old blue. Alright, this is the last of my stuff. Pretty sure I'll do another sweep yet. Just to make sure. Got everything in old blue already. Including the weasel. Want to see it? I think it turned out pretty good. How's everything fitting in here you ask? Diesel, diesel. It's kind of full man. We're going to have to go inside a bit here. I can't get any smaller. This is actually diesel's first time in the truck. Got a lot better fuel economy than this one ever will. Extra fuel, but you got to have a nice hood out in front of you. We're going to have to readjust what we take along and what we don't. Diesel is officially on his throne. Diesel, low diesel. Can you sit it? Can you sit it? Can you? You're speaking to me. There you go. On his throne. That is not going to stay in here. It's too small in here for that. That is going to be strapped onto the deck. Oh not on the deck, on the catwalk somewhere. I'm going to figure out something for his steps. We'll see. He might not even need them in this truck because the steps are very big. He might just be able to jump in. We'll see. I don't want him to get his legs when he's jumping out though. Jumping in is different. Jumping out is harder on him. Got her back in the shop, got the numbers up on the front. Got all the stickers on the side. Love it. So both sides are a little different and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. Look at this side here. The way this is. This number here. Nice and level with the Kenworth. Nice and level. Beautiful. Beautiful right diesel. Now start with the number on this side. It's not level with the Kenworth. That's okay. It's hard to notice though, right? I noticed. That's okay. It's okay. The number's there. Doing his job. And then on the door here, this door is a little different because of this window. Town name is down there instead. What do you guys think? Is that alright if it's different on both sides? I don't mind it actually. I thought it would look a little more funny but it's down there. Go back around to this side. And it's up there. See the reason they didn't put it down here was because the block heater is there. He couldn't center it in there then. So I had to go up in the door. I think it's okay. I'm happy with it. At least I can start working with it now, right? That's awesome. My wife is off work already and I figured I'd be home a little earlier than I am. So I kind of I think she thought I'd already be there. We better get going. We'll be back with Old Blue soon. We won't be going on a trip tomorrow but the next day we're available. I don't know if they'll have anything for us then because it's a Thursday. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens when we get a little bit better. She's all ready to go.