 Coffee in hand so we're set nice and pretty ready for the week Okay, let's get going Stretches up. What year is it? We're on the south perimeter headed westbound now, and there was a car behind me that just about Ran into another car. I saw him in my mirror He was merging in behind me But there was a car there and he almost side-swiped that car And then he went back in and then for some reason he went onto the shoulder It's sort of flying down the shoulder. It's hard to explain it I don't know, but he almost caused a big accident and now up here. I think there was another accident Traffic is all confused and messed up though. Oh, yeah, there was an accident here. What's going on? So I just about witnessed an accident literally a mile behind me and now up here. There's another accident People are too aggressive. They're too much in a hurry need to slow down. I hope everybody's okay here Yikes, they're looking real close at that because they almost caused another one just like it a Mile before that. That's a terrible way to start the week It's not really the start of the week is Tuesday But terrible way to start the day I should say Man if you're watching my video right now, and you're about to head to work Look at the clock. Maybe leave five minutes earlier and just Take her a little easier today do it for me place Do it for all the other the other drivers on the highway just leave a little earlier and You know if you get stuck behind someone going a little slower than you'd like to go Just take a deep breath and back off of their bumper. Don't tailgate and just Remember we're getting there. You'll get there You'll get there trailer behind us. I got ahead to a city called Portage La Prairie It's central South Manitoba. There's a trailer there that needs to be moved to Winnipeg And for the job get back over here to Winnipeg. We're going around the south side of Winnipeg right now Just about witnessed a third accident on the same structure highway within three miles Destruction tractor who decided to be right on the highway They do that in Winnipeg and I'm pretty sure some was telling them to do that because they all do that and it's so frustrating You know, there's a giant paved shoulder here, right giant paved shoulder And they do about 30 mile now, not even 30 mile now, they've got 20 miles an hour And instead of traveling on the shoulder to allow rush hour traffic to at least still be able to move at somewhat of a pace They travel right dead set in the middle of the lane and the traffic obviously didn't see it coming And there's just about a big another big pile up And that's exactly the reason I say these things when these tractors moving at 20 mile an hour on the middle Of a freeway. This is Winnipeg's like one big highway One big highway. It's the trans-Canada highway and you get tractors In the lane doing 20 miles an hour So that was quite the interesting drive into portage this morning So far Okay, bud. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Give give give I'm not gonna stop and impede traffic for you. I'm sorry. I was just gonna say that people are acting better Oh boy So aside from all of these shenanigans on the road, I mean, it's nothing really you can't expect when you're on the highway you just got to look out for Crazy people and you know what it's not fair to call them crazy either. They're just scared a lot of the time or Inexperienced When you're driving on the roads experience goes a long way so whether you're a new driver or just Fearful on the road. It's Sometimes tough to get around I'm sure Not everybody drives for a living like I do. You know, I've I'm getting very close to my million miles Here at this place, but if you include all my personal kilometers and miles as well Oh, I've been driving. Well, I've been driving since I was 16. I'm 33 now What is that? This I can't math 17 years. I've been driving a long time. I'm a trucker. Not a mathematician. What? so I've probably Looked in quite a few more kilometers because in my free time. I Also go driving because that's what I enjoy doing. So even when I'm not working and driving I'm usually you know, I've gone on a few trips to California on my own. I went to Florida on my own went down to Alabama With Brit for our honeymoon there. That was a lot of fun We want to take another trip out soon to Virginia and to Washington State or to that general area see our friends So I get a lot of experience in and I'm not saying I'm perfect But experience goes a long way when driving safely down the road You just sort of know what to expect because you've seen it a thousand times before already You know when someone pulls a crazy move in front in front of you, you're not really surprised by you're like Oh, yeah, I saw that coming. I've seen that a thousand times But I'm Bob tailing again here now. I had to pull a tanker Back to Winnipeg here dropped it off here in the southwest corner now I got a Bob tail across Winnipeg and pick up an empty van trailer like a box trailer and Bring it back to the yard Ricky I have my trailer It's an empty one, I guess they're not gonna load this one I don't know why I just do what I'm told but I'm all hooked up the air is to the trailer I'm just gonna come back here. Make sure there's no air leak. So we're gonna crawl underneath here me and all 105,000 of you Crawling underneath the trailer together. Good thing. We're all able to fit Actually all these airlines look pretty new I could tell there's a new connection over there I don't know if you can see it or not Camera doesn't show everything but Yeah, we got no air leaks airbags are inflated Looks like we're all good Tires are filled with compressed air, which is the best kind of air for inside a tire We're just gonna go through for a walk through the weeds here I guess once again very thankful that I live in Canada in Manitoba where I can walk through grass like this and not Have to worry about poisonous creatures waiting to kill me There's nothing like that up here because it gets so cold they all die Every winter nothing poisonous can live up here. I mean Not much So yeah, there's our trailer She's got tires. She's got rims. She's got walls and a roof She's got lights. She's looking pretty I'm gonna take her back home with me Well, not to my home, but to that trucks home I'm gonna take you home with me. I Don't know why they don't want it here. I'm sorry that they don't want you here. I want you. I Want you I'll take care of you. Hey, it's a little bit full in here. I don't have diesel here with me today So I got all my junk right up here. That's okay Gatorade Absolutely, y'all want some Gatorade? All right, everybody drink up. That's good. That's really good. Did I finish my lunch already? That's disappointing no more snacks Guess I don't need any more snacks. I'm big enough already as it is All right, oh, let's pull this out of here That's a first. Let's make sure it's not gonna fall off That would be embarrassing So far I have never lost a trailer And I want to keep this streak going all breaks released to perfect Wunderbar Let's go this way. Oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it's bumpy This place where we have our trailers here sometimes You've got a very bumpy lot, but that's okay because it stops people from flying through here And I'm pretty sure that's why they leave it like this It's easier than installing speed bumps on the gravel You just leave the potholes in there if you go too fast. You're literally gonna bust your truck right open They always unload right here in the driveway. You gotta go past real slow These are curtain side trailers We have kind of stoga trailers we call them roll tights, but at the beginning I was calling them I was calling them curtain side, but these are actual curtain side trailers They have a hard top hard front and back And a hard bottom obviously just curtain sides just like that and they slide open and this one's still closed See we don't have any trailers like that And they have hard doors on the back Just like a regular van trailer like that one over there. Oh Oh, don't go too fast. Don't go too fast. There's still potholes Still potholes Getting a Harborview. I think Harborview Park. It's a big park out here on the east side of Winnipeg What does that sign say? Barbie parochies. Oh, they're selling parochies there. You don't say Everybody wants some parochies. They're on Springfield Road roads that needs to be Smoothed out a little bit, but it's okay. We're Winnipeggers. We're used to it. It's okay That's why we wear our seatbelts in Winnipeg. So that the potholes Don't throw us right out the window You also it's also a good idea to drive with your windows up. You don't want to fall out What's the message of today's video big Frank? I Don't know I'm tired. Yeah, I know You're retired You don't got to think of these things anymore, right? See this is his little work that he's got on the back of his head It's pretty ugly. It doesn't cause him any pain unless if you Touch it. I'm not too sure what to do, but yeah, but the vet is Not been too concerned about it. It's just a growth and he's such an old guy already that Well, just part of who he is Since I've been on this Monday to Friday gig and commuting into work in the mornings and back home in the Afternoons, I've really noticed especially in the mornings that the people a lot of people on the road are Like children behind the wheel in the morning I don't know if it's because they haven't had their coffee yet Or if they always leave late and they're always in a rush Or if they just don't care Or if they're just grumpy for no reason But I find that at least on my commute from Steinback into You'll the Shane area like down 52 up to 59 every morning Every morning I have someone just riding my tail and I'm not going slow either I'm keeping up with traffic, but there's always those few in there that feel the need to go Faster than everybody they want to be at the front of the pack because they'll make these dangerous passes Just barely enough sometimes you even got to like hit the shoulders that they don't hit the oncoming traffic as they're coming Past you on the Tulane Highway. It gets that bad regularly And then they get in front of you and with with the open highway and they just Sit there. They just sit right in front of you. They just wanted to be in front of you They're not in any hurry and then there's the people who like just speed down They're like passing 10 cars at a time and weaving in and out of traffic I've witnessed so many almost almost head-on collisions from people like this on my commute on the way into the city It's just and Every day I can say every day I'm not even exaggerating because it would be easier to tell you about a day when I wasn't being tailgated Every day within like three feet of my bumper If it doesn't happen one day, it's amazing because it's so rare when it doesn't happen Everybody in the morning is tailgating speeding trying to there's always those people I shouldn't say everybody, but you know what I mean, and it's so frustrating for me Because they get in front of the traffic. What did you save? 20 seconds, maybe 20 seconds, so you put all of our lives in danger and Your own and sometimes a lot of the times these people got kids in the back seats So they're bringing them to daycare or wherever they're on their way to on the way to school or taking you got kids in The backseat of your car and you're driving like a maniac in your minivan For what 20 seconds to save 20 seconds on your commute. I don't understand people it makes me More than frustrated it makes me mad Because you know now you're involving me in my life in your irresponsibility and your irresponsible behavior And are the cops ever out there? Never I've never once seen them patrolling highway 59 and I'm hoping that some of them are watching this video right now now. They're actually gonna go out and patrol I'm hoping I can have that positive influence on everyone else's commute as well because the majority of us out there We just want to get to work in a safe manner. We don't want to speed We don't want to be tailgated. We don't want to tailgate you We just want to get to work But there's there's this group of people that are just always ruining it for everybody else And isn't that the story of everything these days? There's always those few people out there that just ruin it for everybody else They've always got an attitude They're always more important than you if you if you dare try to tell them that they're in the wrong They freak out their children. They're grown toddlers. I should say Toddlers with driver's licenses So that's my rant about that today And my message to you guys is I know you guys are probably not those people But you might know someone who is like that So my message to you is don't be those people. All right when you leave for work tomorrow Give yourself an extra 10 minutes five minutes 15 minutes. Who cares if you're a little bit early You have some more time to get ready and sit there and have a coffee and relax before start time Right, you don't want to be on time because if you're on time you're late Try to be 15 minutes early. What's it gonna hurt 15 minutes? Just leave a little bit earlier Don't be in a rush if you find yourself tailgating somebody sometimes You don't realize it. Maybe you're just sort of distracted listening to your music Just try to pay attention to how close you are to the vehicle in front of you give them a little bit extra space like And if someone's going slower than you want to go. Hey, who cares? Patience Patience, right? Remember me remember my voice when you feel like you have to get past somebody on the two lanes Just trucker Josh said patience, you know, I left an extra 10 minutes early today. It's okay if I get there 30 seconds later It's not a big deal Maybe together we can sort of change people's behavior and patterns because I don't know if these people don't realize The way they're acting is irresponsible or if they just don't care But let's just make sure that me and you were not those people That's my message. That's my rant. I have nothing else to really say to you today right now I'm sorry the video was a little bit short But uh, this is one of those days a lot of running around a lot of getting stuff done. We'll see you again tomorrow though Diesel you want to go to work tomorrow with me? He might stay at home and just relax. We'll see how he feels in the morning. Have a good one