good morning good morning and welcome welcome to the show
I am trucker Rudy we are just getting our day started here in Steinbach guys
we really are we've got quite a bit of snow here overnight
so the yard is quite packed with snow today it's not terrible but you know
takes a little bit for them to clean everything up right most that wind that
we had yesterday too didn't help but anyways we have gotten our trailer now
and we are ready to leave the yard and just checking the mirrors to make sure
that all of my my wheels are turning especially the ones on the trailer right
like you always want to make sure that by uh looks like the dump truck is
coming in there or a garbage truck to pick up some garbage I guess today we
got garbage too right you know let's get on down the road we
don't particularly have a nice trip but it could turn into a nice trip you never
know right we're only going to Grand Island Nebraska which is not the
greatest trip not sure which way this guy wants to go I guess he wants to go
in there but all right there we go apparently he doesn't know what a single
light does either but anyways
here we go let's get back on the road here and see how slippery the roads are
going to be today it's probably gonna be a little bit slippery earlier today with
all this snow and then wind that we had yesterday it looks like oh look at that
we already have an accident up here look at that two of them actually
yikes that's not good right here in Steinbach somebody brought a shovel
awesome look at that I think people are going too fast for conditions again
that's what I was talking about that's gonna find out and see how slippery the
road is gonna be that's what I meant by that right because exactly because of
these reasons you know people are not looking they're not paying attention
they're just playing away on their cell phones and don't realize that hey
there's a stopped vehicle I might want to slow down right no they're playing
away on their cell phones and next thing they know oh shit there is a park
vehicle right there and then kaboom that the shoulder hit the car or whatever
right but anyways I'm not saying that couldn't
happen to us anything is possible but you got to keep an eye on the rule
especially in these kind of road conditions you know I mean the road
looks okay but when you come into town it is a good chance that these
intersections are going to be slippery that's just common sense that's just how
it works like through you know you driving on a road down on the highways
the Ibis are fine but coming into an intersection you want to be careful
because you got to realize that one that when it's snowing or you know wind with
snow whenever you come to a stop you're packing in the snow and then when you
take off your old most likely to spin wall what is that going to do that's
going to create a little bit of eat and then that's going to melt the snow a
little bit then you're gonna freeze over again and what does that do that creates
one sheet of ice so you know that's gonna be extremely slippery down
but you know apparently the fuel pump is still frozen up here in town and even
the cool fuel station apparently there their system is down not necessarily
that the pumps were frozen it was just there apparently their cart system was
done so we can't even get fuel there so I'm gonna have to go into North Dakota
and I know they have number one feel there and that some of those pumps so I
made sure I grab me an extra gallon of kerosene and we're gonna throw that one
in there and have it out yeah that's right luckily we did put in some
kerosene the other day when we filled up remember guys I did so now we got
treated filled by only a half a tank of fuel right so we'll go down to probably
Grand Forks or something like that we'll top her off I think they have number one
there at the Simmons or whatever it's called up there so we'll grab grab the
rest of the tank of fuel there because it is fairly cold this like minus 27
with the windchill in the 30s so we're pretty cool today I mean it's not
extreme we don't have an extreme wind today like we did yesterday
but any of its make it happen guys appreciate you guys tuning it looks like
even South bone scale was open like just before the border let me just open up
the window a little bit to the right on King Street and then turn left and 15
meters I'm up to the neck so exile
look at him and see if they're one to look at us today but anyways even the
scale up here just before the border is open today I'm like whoa and they're
pulling in there everybody saw was in lard bound today so yeah we're only like
a mile away from the border that's right but we were like today we only got ten
thousand pounds in the trailer today so we're pretty light but look at all the
fresh snow that they have gotten up here in street I know you're gonna be
screaming at us but other than that look at all the snow that they have piled up
over here it looks like somebody's either gotten dumped over there or
something I'm not sure exactly what's happening over there but looks like
they're trying to talk my way out of there maybe they froze up who knows
got steinbach going in there but anyways let's go back over here to the road and
go down to the border and hopefully get across and get going south that is
hopefully you'll be a little bit warmer although we're not going very deep south
so it may not be exactly super warm Rangers videos focus on Israel or
Selkirk Highway I'm sorry they're usually pretty pretty heavy any
huh let's go to the border and find out if they'll let us across today just got
across the border guys and it is a bit of a rough yard here today because
everything is pure ice up here I mean it's not extreme slippery but it is
slippery but then you have these whole countries there you go you see that how
this is and that is extremely bumpy when it fills up like that and you got a big
hole and yeah it's quite annoying you see how bumpy that is I mean it may not
look quite as much on the on the video because it stabilized a little bit on
the video footage but inside the cab it's shaking back and forth quite a bit
put in yeah we got across the border no problem corner it was pretty good cross
in there today oh yeah it's definitely slippery right here I can feel it but I
think as soon as we get back on here on a little little waist away from the
border here I think we'll be alright but right here for a second it was a little
slick but welcome to North Dakota guys we have made it again
that's hammer down and see how far we can make it today right here we go guys
we are now in Fargo North Dakota on it's time for us to take our mandatory half
an hour break and I don't like what these four wheelers are doing that's
where we truckers usually Park then you got two of these four-wheelers parking
in there I'm not really happy about that but whatever at least we have room to go
Park in there a little bit but anyways I'm gonna go in here have me some
Mexican food
had anything to eat yet today so and it's already like two o'clock in the
afternoon or something like that so gotta take my half an hour break anyway
so may as well do it here have me a good lunch right alright guys it is time for
lunch let's have a look on exactly what we're having look at that nice Mexican
food over here oh man that looks fantastic I am telling you guys I'm
gonna have me a fantastic lunch after a good bite to eat we got just barely back
to the truck and somebody called me again so been on the phone with them for
a little while now and I finally told them I said I gotta get off the phone
here I gotta make some videos yet so here we go we're already in South Dakota
I know just cruising along here up and down the road they still have another
334 miles to go till we get to the customer and it's already five o'clock
in the afternoon I know in another half an hour the Sun will probably start
going down and we will have no more daylight so I
figured well I gotta get at least one more clip in there and make it a little
bit more of an interesting video at least we're going to try but yeah
they're calling for some snow coming through here tomorrow and the day after
tomorrow so I don't know I'm hoping it's not going to be too terribly bad but at
least right now the temperature is good if it snows now I think the road for the
most part is going to stay fairly dry because it's minus 18 generally at that
temperature it doesn't stink too much oh that mean should be alright but if it
warms up it may not be the greatest but then again we got another five hours to
go further south so it might be quite a bit warmer over there than it is up here
right oh yeah we already got us a reload back pad to Winkler Manitoba again
reloading its own like at the same place yikes I'm not too excited about that but
what can I say what can I say and just how trucking goes not every trip is
going to be a super good mileage trip and not every trip is going to be a good
trip that's all I'm trying to say but we got to take the good with the bad
sometimes right sometimes we have a good day and
sometimes we don't right it's the same in the trucking industry sometimes it's
a to get run and sometimes it isn't right and we got to do the band every
once in a while to remind us when we get a good trip we should be happy for it
right yeah yeah let's go ahead and continue on cruising along here I think
I'm gonna be turning off your very soon we're coming up on Waterloo gear very
soon and so Watertown I ain't say Waterloo
Watertown and we will be turning off there to go towards us 81 take that down
all the way down to the e and then go west a little bit towards Grand Island
right video we'll probably try and make it up to Norfolk Nebraska I believe or
maybe something good I always mix those things up there but Norfolk is anyways I
don't know which state it is in I don't remember that anywhere anymore it's been
a while since we've been through this area but I do know that there is a
love-struck stop there and hopefully I can make it up there spend the night
there I made it down to Norfolk Norfolk I can never say this name right but
Norfolk's Nebraska I want to say and we got here kind of late last night so I
just kind of went straight to bed and call it a day that's it now it's the
next morning and I was just inside there and I saw they had the new station on
there so I'm gonna go check the weather here because they're saying there is
some snowfall warnings up in this area so
I'm kind of curious here just see yeah I do see some snow coming up but right now
it's not that bad it doesn't look that bad
hopefully it ain't gonna get any worse than what it's doing right now right it
ain't doing much right now there is very very light flurries but that is very
very light not nothing too serious so anyhow I'm gonna go ahead and get out of
here close off the show for today I hope you enjoyed it if you did don't forget
to leave me that big fat thumbs up and all them get things that make us love
our job and with that being said we're out of here have a great day and we'll
see you tomorrow
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