guys welcome back to the channel and another episode of the TMJ show in the Doc Talk series today we are talking to Tony all about how to stand out rotations how to get those honors and most importantly how to make yourself stand out for residency let's get into it all right guys welcome to the TMJ show today we have Tony Tony how's it going good good well so what's going on man uh how can we help but what do you have uh so I guess um my main concern is well I'm a second year med student uh I'm actually uh I went to school in the caribbean well I take I go to school in caribbean but because of COVID we're remote so currently on zoom uh my biggest uh question I guess and there's a lot of concerns with you know uh matching and whatnot um and facing these obstacles but how can I best set myself up when it comes to rotations and because I know connections are a big uh component to medicine um and I like I guess how would you recommend I stand out when it comes to you know uh rotating and working side by side with a potential residency system cool so how far are you away from starting rotations uh so I have to first take my step one and that's that's going to be here at the end of this year uh once I pass that then I'll go and begin my rotations I see and because of COVID is the way your rotations the way it's going to work is has that changed or is this still going to be at your local institution or how it's going to work out yeah so it's going to be just how it uh that has been I mean uh from what I heard at the beginning of this pandemic pandemic uh rotations were kind of limited but now I think it's back to normal yeah sounds good so essentially how do you make yourself stand out and like set yourself off for a good residency set so I go to like summarize it cool so usually you know I'm in a different position now because I actually get to like give people grades as an upper level resident um as I'm making this video um so I can give a little bit of insight of what I what I personally um do differently what I tell the students that I work with and it seems to work even when they go to other rotations is on day one of every rotation make sure you sit with the people or find the people uh whether it's through email or personal interactions and ask them their personal expectations because that way you know you kind of have a foundation of how they'll grade you ideally you're being great on a root break but no one really goes off the root break everyone kind of has a personal idea of who is an honor student who gets that a and who is like an average student um so they'll tell you what they to be considered to be the most important so like that first day or two to get those expectations um and just being very honest of asking you're asking them of what they're kind of hierarchy of things that they care about some people just want you to work really hard to get really better that's kind of like my personal platforms I'll tell my students that some people really do have an expectation like I want you to you know be able to manage x y and z problems by the end of the rotation and doing it well doing it independently and doing it without the other residents helping you out that just tells you like what you need to be at on the last week last two weeks of that rotation it gives you a goal to reach for once you get those expectations honestly write those down when you come home those that that first day say my upper-level resident my attending gave me these expectations to go about and then ask yourself what type of things you'll do to really kind of hit all of those because you know they've told you that this is important ideally if you focus on those the time that you're working with them they start to see examples where you're starting to echo their expectations so that's where the beauty of that comes from and then you know every kind of week or I would say like every 25% of working with them so imagine if you're working with them for four weeks and it would be every week but if you're only working with them for two weeks and be like halfway through each week just ask them like how they think you're doing what feedback they would give you ideally they're giving you like micro feedbacks is what we call it on rotations and awards where I'm telling you how you're doing on your presentations I'm telling you how you're doing with your patient interactions how you're doing with your clinical knowledge but have like a quick like two-minute session with them and just saying what you can do differently what they would want you to do better and again come home ask yourself how you're meeting those expectations so that's a nice framework of saying you know here is how I impress without sucking up it's more of like here's what I think I need to do now assess midway assess again assess again ideally each time you're making that progress to that final expectation they have awesome and it's not weird to just flat out come and ask and be like hey what's what is it that you expected me no absolutely not I recommend it if they don't it's actually expected that your person that's evaluating you is going to come to you and tell you what they want to do but it depends on who the attending is you know I've been in experiences where they haven't told me anything and I kind of just did what I thought I was supposed to do sometimes it worked out but sometimes it didn't and so even as a maybe awkward you know it's like hey can we you know especially on the first day it's where it's the least awkward because everything is awkward on the first day I'm saying hey is it okay if we take a second to talk about expectations for the rotation that's a perfect way of saying it you know nobody would take offense to that obviously do it at a time where it's appropriate so if they're everyone's busy on your surgery rotation try to find the best time to do it and setting an email on the first day is also appropriate too you know this is a good way without looking gunner-ish of saying like my main goal is to do as best I can on this rotation so what are your expectations for us um so that's a good framework of starting it um and there's no shame in asking that question it's recommended awesome it sounds great all right before we get back to the interview if you're enjoying this conversation with tony go ahead if you're watching this on youtube to hit that like button down below truly supports the channel if you're enjoying the style of watching somebody on their medical journey get help step by step on their medical journey and wish you could have somebody in your corner do the same then consider joining me in the medallinic academy where I do exactly that for all our members twice a month and join you on lifetime group coaching plus all of the courses that we've created over the past six years so if you just want to check the medallinic academy go ahead and link down below but let's get back to the interview a follow-up question would be um and I know I'm kind of getting ahead of myself but I just I've always been the person to kind of work 10 steps or I'd want to know 10 steps ahead just so I could avoid as many mistakes as possible sure and the question is when it comes to residency and matching how does your preclinical performance play into that I would say less and less as I've experienced more and more helping people go through the match and doing it myself obviously it you know if your institution did you get graded that shows up on a transcript or anything for your first two years so to be honest with you I don't know the final transcript I hear that it is pass fail at the end currently we have a grade like it's a percentage but um yeah as long as you know so it's a little bit up in the air I mean even if you had a grade you know if the grade was there and maybe a data point that residencies could use but more you'll find that there's really kind of a subcategory of things that people look at board exams is going to be one for sure so you're still in the situation where step one will still count um and somebody somebody watching this who's like a first year med student at this moment step one may not and so step two ck is probably going to count more and honestly even in your shoes um step two ck may start to be a focus by the time you're applying to residency um for residency institutions they may start looking at that more as just a practice um year for you know a year later when they're not going to have that score to really rely on so board exams is going to be one fit um your clinical performance so your honors high pass whatever grades that you got on your rotations is going to be a big one um your recommendation letters is going to be kind of a third category and then the fourth category is really whatever is to make you interesting um and by that I mean research experience if you're applying for you know a research heavy specialty dermatology plastic surgery um or at a residency that values that um or extracurriculars I really kind of highlight that this is what I'm interested in and here are experiences that indicated that I've explored it um but none of those four categories mentioning your pre-clinical grades your pre-clinical years are really the foundation to help you do well on your step one to help you do well on your rotations um but honestly I don't remember my grades how to sell bio or biochem or whatnot um and that's that's for a lesson for a different story um but there you should think of them as foundational years where you've really focused on making sure you gather as much as possible to make your rotations more valuable so in essence the pre-clinical the pre-clinical years are there just to serve you to kind of build the foundation for the the stuff that actually will exactly yeah I think over the years we'll find that more and more schools will start to make their first two years pass fail my institution did that when I started and I'm seeing more and more examples of it so I think residencies um are realizing that that's less data point that they can use and honestly it's not the most correlative of how good of a you know a future doctor you are it doesn't matter if you did amazing during your first two years if you take can't take of a hair of a patient then you can't take care of a patient um clinical knowledge that's stuck in your head is useless um so I think they've kind of realized that and so if it's there they may look at it um but I don't think that's that's the highlight of your application so it's not where your focus should be awesome well that's that's honestly um that's all I had cool I mean as far as like burning questions sure I mean I I think one other thing I like to give to you and anyone going into rotations because we're at that part of the year where you know rotations are going to start people for like you know June or July after they take their step one I know you're not the only one stressed about like how do I do well um how do I make sure that my first rotation is in like a a fluke or like a a practice you know a test drive you want that one to be as great as possible to you um it obviously depends on the rotation so the advice of getting the expectations is really important um but one thing I tell my students that work with me is that really the best examples of how you can do well without necessarily clinically standing out is having your patients really vouch for you independently um and the best way to do that is obviously see them in the morning when you pre-round see them with your team and then see them in the afternoon you find that it's less common for students to see their patients again after they're done rounding they think their responsibility with them is kind of over but if your patient can say like oh I know Tony is my student or I know he's one of my care providers and they start to look at you more than they look at their attendings more they look at their residents um and if you can start leading conversations and asking how they're doing and they have a good rapport there's something about that which you can't really like label into a rubric but everyone just realizes that you're freaking good at interacting with your patients your patients love you and if you had average knowledge and average patient rapport then you're going to get an average score but I do think that there is something to say about when you have you know average knowledge that's growing over time so there is that little bit of an asterisk where you show signs of progress um but you have you know amazing patient rapport just because you spend so much time repeating your interactions with your patients um those show up on your evaluations those may lead you going from like a a pass or a high pass to an honor student I've had that happen to me um and I see the the most growth from the students that I work with when they take that advice to heart so if you see your patients multiple times and you focus on building that rapport without any intention of like hoping they speak on your behalf you're going to have those patients who are going to say like Tony was a great or like Dr Tony they're going to think that you're one of the physicians on the team just because you see they see you so much um and people don't realize that like I only see my patients probably once or twice a day being you know taking care of 10 to 12 but if you only have two to three you can see them multiple times a day you know if you did something you're on your neurology rotation you're on your medicine rotation you did something in terms of their management plan in the morning then you can say okay let me go check on them in the afternoon to see if what we did in the morning is like helping you know if they were nauseous we started new medication are they still nauseous they were constipated as small as that is like as they have they had a bowel movement in the afternoon you can report back to your residents so one they know you're taking initiative two of your patients know you care for them and some it just starts to feed in themselves you also become the one invested in your patients care because they'll tell you small things that they didn't get a chance to tell you during rounds and then you start to look like you're taking care of your patients because you'll be like oh the third time i've seen my patient today they're complaining of some pain here i like to start this for them i mean your resume is like sure like sounds great i don't see why not but that doesn't happen if you only see them twice because usually you wake your patient up at six o'clock they don't want to see you and then you see them at like nine or ten o'clock with your your team and they see so many people that they can't focus on you so if you want that attention on yourself for your evaluations the best way to do it is to you know practice providing attention to your patients and sometimes they'll just like start to report back and i can't count how many times that's happened to me without the intention of like i hope this patient speaks on my behalf if you just do it because you want to be a good better doctor it starts to move the needle of like where your grade goes from does that make sense yeah that's great i didn't even think that was um possibility yeah um take advantage of any initiative you could have with your patients and without looking forceful so that doesn't mean like you're trying to force your residents to like focus like hey i'm focusing on my patients pay attention to me doing that no just like you know i would have a student who i worked with recently who i thought honestly from the start it would be a high pass student they were quiet they knew some stuff they did okay with their patients but every single day i gave him that tip and he would go see his patients and sometimes in the afternoon he'd be gone i thought he went to a restroom and he'd come back and say hey i've seen x y and z and this person told me this this person is doing better and this person actually looks worse maybe we should do you know this for them and that was great to know um that experience was great i already started to think of that student highly and their clinical knowledge may not have been different than their peers um but they started to just independently get better because they were invested in taking care of the problem that was ahead of them they looked up how to fix it and they recommended the change but that wouldn't have happened if they just stuck to the generic pre-round round and then like study the rest of the day kind of thing well that makes sense yeah hopefully that helps you out um hopefully that helps everyone else listening out um but any other questions tony no i no thank you so much sounds great man well thanks so much for watching i appreciate the support and i'm glad that 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If you look back at news reports and commentary at the time, you know, spring 2020, just when COVID started taking off, a lot of experts, public health experts, medical experts said, you know, the fastest we've ever invented a vaccine is four years. And many vaccines, you know, are never possible to be invented or take just much longer than four years. And so there were a few voices and some inside the Trump administration saying, let's set the goal of the year. And like, because this is a crisis and an emergency, let's really move quickly. And I think they were, you know, they really defied the odds and delivered that with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines delivered in less than a year. And I think it's a really important initiative to learn from. It ultimately cost $18 billion, which at the height of the pandemic, the COVID lockdowns and cost to our economy and to our health, were costing $36 billion per day. So if operation warp speed just ended the pandemic, you know, 12 hours earlier, it paid for itself. And so it sounds expensive, but it has Alex Tabrock at George Mason University, economics professor, described as it may be the greatest return on investment of any government program in like 50 years. I want to pull up a little bit of data that you referenced earlier, Alec, which is the sort of pace of vaccination innovation over the years. This chart shows, it goes from 1880 to 2020 and shows the time from the introduction of disease to the licensing of a vaccine. And at the top there, we've got malaria, which this only goes to 2020. There actually is a malaria vaccine now. It's not indicated on this chart. But you can see that's a long time without a malaria vaccine. And then down at the bottom, you see that tiny sliver for the COVID-19 vaccine. That is just a remarkable visual there. Do you, is your vision that things are going to look much more like that now as the norm? Maybe not a year, but much closer to that than, say, this hepatitis vaccine that's halfway down the chart. Yeah. I think it's definitely, it's a question of political will, because we've definitely shown it as possible at this point. I don't think it'll be quite a year just because I think that's part of that is definitely due to the emergency environment. And when you're in normal times, it's harder to get consensus and coordination among the necessary stakeholders to move that quickly. But we can definitely do much faster than we have in the past. And I think this is where some people criticize Operation Warp Speed, but I think it's more of a defensive Operation Warp Speed to talk about investments in mRNA technology and the science of mRNA have been happening since the 1980s. And so through public and private investments, in that scientific evidence base, we were ready when the crisis struck.  And this was the first one in humans. But then there were either decades of scientific literature and companies like Moderna that had not brought product to market yet, but had raised lots of money from private venture capital and from the government to prepare for future products in the market. And then when the emergency, the crisis happened, they were ready to try their hand at designing manufacturing a vaccine. And I think also people don't realize that Moderna and Pfizer and their partner BioNTech designed the vaccine in a weekend. Like once they had the genetic sequence for COVID-19, they designed it in less than two days. And then the rest of that process was safety and efficacy testing and preparing manufacturing capacity for the doses. But with modern biotechnology, we have a lot of opportunity to move more quickly into design really innovative biomedical products. I was just about to ask about the mRNA thing. I think that that's a really good point, because on one hand, we attribute an awful lot of success rightfully to Operation Warp Speed. But on the other hand, also for people who follow mRNA technology development, it was something that was in the works for a while. And this very much got it through the finish line and expedited development and certainly expedited administration of these vaccines. But it is also worth splitting hairs and saying, well, mRNA had been in the works for a while, so it wasn't totally starting from scratch. So I pulled this article, this opinion piece that you published with your co-writer, Ariel D'Souza, in The Washington Post saying, Biden's vaccine project needs to be more like Operation Warp Speed. And one of the things that you point to in kind of helping this $5 billion public-private partnership achieve its goals would be to speed up regulatory processes in a similar way as Operation Warp Speed did in both in developing, testing and distributing vaccines. And you mentioned the US Food and Drug Administration, for example, allowed clinical trial phases to be conducted concurrently. And so FDA trials, they have three phases. There's a safety phase. There's a testing phase. And then there's a kind of bigger final testing phase. And some of those were actually overlapping. And so getting into the regulatory component here is something that might be libertarians are perhaps more friendly to or an easier sell than the advanced purchase agreements. But for the non-libertarians out there, kind of overlapping safety trials with efficacy trials, that sounds kind of scary. How is that actually safe? Yeah, so I would just say that they weren't overlapped completely perfectly. So there still was some very early safety data before they moved to efficacy. So there's some overlap to save time, but not 100% overlap. And I think there's also a relative risk factor. I think usually the stronger case for the multi-phase thing is just it fails to get out of phase one or fails to get out of phase two. Then the companies and the government don't want to waste money on clinical trials, large phase three trials that aren't gonna go anywhere. And so given the emergency environment and the desire to move very quickly, having those phases run concurrently made a lot more sense. But I could see how it's not, doesn't make sense for all drugs and therapeutics going through the system to necessarily be structured that way in the future. It just made sense kind of in the crisis. And this is also where I think we have to keep tying it back to the voluntary aspect of all this, because if you are accelerating things and kind of bypassing the normal processes, seems to me that that makes it even more necessary to make this voluntary and not be using the power of the state, whether that's federal or local or state level to kind of push this onto people. It's one thing to have public health messaging and encourage people and try to sell the vaccines to people in an ethical, true way. But I think that's like, what I was gonna ask you is like, how far this can be pushed? Because I think that for that, one of the reforms that's been proposed by a lot of libertarians is to get the FDA out of the efficacy business altogether and just have it focused on safety or even make FDA certification altogether voluntary because there's this unseen cost to FDA regulation. We think of the FDA as like protecting and saving lives, but the unseen cost there is that there are life-saving drugs that are safe, that just get delayed for years and years. And in the meantime, people die. So you could imagine a system where you have FDA approval and then you have the non-FDA approved drugs that people can kind of voluntarily opt into. Does that sort of framework make any sense to you? Yeah, and before I comment on that framework, just one quick thing about another more aggressive thing we could have done that we did only the UK did, which is in terms of human challenge trials. So having volunteers sign up to be intentionally exposed to COVID-19 while they're participating in a clinical trial with some of those candidate vaccines. And I think, especially what we knew at the time, usually the case against human challenge trials is there's not a rescue therapy, then it's dangerous like someone could die. But at that point in time, late spring, early summer, we were getting indications I think that young, healthy people were very unlikely to die from COVID. And so I think, again, I just support human challenge trials in the principle of like people should be able to volunteer to take risks to protect others and protecting others by accelerating the development of safe and effective vaccines. We let people serve in the military, service police officers, firefighters. Can I ask a quick question about the human challenge trials? Is that, would that be like placebo controlled? Would some people be getting the placebo or is this everyone in the trial is actually getting the vaccine? Yeah, I think everyone in the trial is getting the vaccine and you're exposed, you're challenged with the virus. Right. Instead of what we normally do, we'd be waiting around to be exposed in the natural environment. Reasons Ron Bailey has written about this pretty extensively. I'm a huge fan of human challenge trials just because I think like, if we're going to fundamentally be libertarians and in favor of people's bodily autonomy, then I think it makes an awful lot of sense that we should allow, I don't know, I'm always a big fan of like Gonzo journalism, just personally, like I enjoy just like, the reason TV filmed me like getting tattooed for a piece on how pandemic policy hurt tattoo shops a few years ago.  Like it's odd to me that we would prevent people from voluntarily choosing to do that if they're 25 or 30 and super healthy and feeling comfortable with the risks. Definitely. And then just to get back to your framework question, Zach, I think it's an important one. I think at the very least I support moving away from the current binary system we're in where a drug is either declared safe and effective and pretty much it's mandatory for public health insurers and a lot of private insurers to purchase the drug if a doctor prescribes it or it's just completely illegal and no one can take it. Like that binary system is untenable in the long run and yeah, it leads to a lot of the negative outcomes that you mentioned. And so having more of a tiered system where something that we suspect is dangerous, definitely illegal, no one can produce it or take it. And then moving up to things that we know are safe but it's unclear if they're effective. We shouldn't mandate that Medicare or Medicaid buy that for everyone if there's no evidence that it's effective or more cost effective than other alternatives currently available. And then you can move up that tier given the evidence we have in terms of effectiveness and cost to ultimately public health insurers being required to pay for something. And I think just the current binary system is kind of outdated at this point. Like I feel like both Zach and I are in that category of like, and correct me if I'm speaking out of turn Zach but like super interested in scientific innovation and doing as much as possible and allowing everybody to be a human getting pig if they want to, like I love that type of thing. But then so adamantly opposed to any coercion that we saw like with the way these vaccine mandates were handed down. And it's like, it's funny because it seems like so frequently the Venn diagram overlap of those two types of people, it's really small. Like sometimes it feels like it's just me and Zach hanging out over there in that space. I'm like a few other colleagues that reason.  And that really bothers me watching that play out. Yeah, and the only thing I would add is, to go back to this model here, we're about to talk about things like purchase, purchase guarantees and advanced market commitments. That's where I'm a little bit torn. Like is that, is it as separable as we want it to be? Because if you are saying, you know, part of this model was that the government guaranteed we're gonna buy X many doses of this vaccine or, you know, whether it works or not, just to like guarantee you at least give it a shot. And if you do make it successful, we're gonna purchase this many doses. I worry, the thing about that arrangement that concerns me is then it creates sort of sunk cost for the government. And then there's an incentive to push it out to as many people as possible, even if not everybody needs it or wants it. And, you know, it's hard to prove that that's exactly what happened, but that looks kind of like what happened the way it was so aggressively pushed and mandated by OSHA in the workplace, which I think was total overreach. I'm glad the Supreme Court, you know, knocked that one down. But is that a danger? Because, you know, you mentioned a couple different ways to solve, quote unquote, market failures. There's the, these purchase guarantees. And then there's things like prizes, which are separate from purchase guarantees. The prizes, that seems more, that's something that feels less problematic to me. The purchase agreements feel like it comes with a lot of potential baggage. But what do you think? Yeah, so just to first kind of define some of these terms explained for the audience, by market failures, we just mean things, the free market, you know, uninfluenced by the government would fail to deliver on its own. And usually that's due to a negative externality of some kind. And so we've been talking, I can reference back what I said earlier about like there's a market failure when it comes to pandemics because it's so unclear when an outbreak turns into an epidemic, turns into a pandemic. When is this going to end? And private companies don't have unlimited capital and unlimited liquidity in terms of like, oh, we can just, you know, waste a lot of money on a building out manufacturing capacity on the chance that this thing continues for two to three years. And there's demand for billions of doses. And so they're very hesitant to commit early to lots of investment in the development of the R&D process and into the manufacturing process. And so I think there's a clear market failure here where given, I think to your point about, you know, government waste or we're being committed here, I think just keeping the magnitudes in mind is so important of like ultimately operational speed cost $18 billion. But again, like it was costing tens of billions of dollars per day to the US economy in terms of health and economic costs. And so even if, I know there would have been a political problem if it ended up being quote unquote wasted, but the math is just so overwhelmingly in favor of doing programs like these that I think it's worth the investment. And another idea, I think a clear market failure is when it comes to climate and pollution issues, companies don't internalize the cost of CO2 emissions. And that's why I gave the carbon dioxide removal example of seems like a promising technology that's just currently really expensive. But if we think that, you know, this is something worth investing in, this is one way to do it where the government is paying for performance. So the government's only on the hook if the private industry, private sector delivers on the product that the government defined and it's contract agreement. So I think that's why it's can be really promising. Hey, thanks for watching that excerpt from our conversation with Alec Staff of the Institute for Progress about Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration plan to accelerate development of COVID-19 vaccines. If you liked it, you can watch the full interview right here or another clip right here.


Good morning everybody, it's Thursday. Today's a bit of a different kind of day. We're parking this girl for a while. She's gotta go see the shop. Her engine is not running healthy at all and it's been getting worse and worse. Yesterday it was giving me some big problems, today it's giving me big problems and the engine light came on now as well. So I've moved all my stuff out of this truck and we've moved into the truck. We were originally assigned, 2025. So for the foreseeable future, this is gonna be the truck I'm in.  Bumper's in a little bit of rough shape but in general, the rest of the truck is in better shape actually. It's got no rust around the windshield there. It's got the old school round bullet lights, bullet marker lights up on top. Doesn't have as much storage. It has one storage bin like this for me on the other side underneath the passenger side for straps and equipment and stuff. And this one on the back here that's bolted down. I already got my broom up here. Got all my chains, my straps are all in here. We've moved in. And now it matches my pickup, right? The whole black theme. It's my pickups right over there, right? The blacked out, I love blacked out vehicles. Any vehicle I get is usually a Chevy black emblem, blacked out. My wife's or our terrain is also black but that has chrome rims on it. You get it, you get it.  So this here is what I'm gonna be looking at from now on. And you know what? I like it. I gotta put away all my stuff I just moved in. It's amazing, even just for being a day cab driver, there's a lot of stuff I carry with me every day. Yeah, my water bottle, my lunch, my clipboard, other stuff for the vlog. This is my charger, my inverter, converter I just carry one along with me. This plugs into the cigarette lighter. Turns it into DC outlets here or whatever you wanna call it so that I think I got that wrong. But I can charge my cameras and stuff on it. Got my cross for the windshield there. Got my bag, phone obviously. Got my phone mount. I gotta figure out where I'm gonna put my mount in here. But this was the truck they were originally gonna put me in to begin with. So I don't have any GoPro mount set up anywhere isn't here yet, so we'll see what we come up with today. But this thing has a lot of gauges. Old school, old school, I love it. And this truck has had the engine redone from what I've heard. I'd have to double check that with the shop. But from what I've heard around the yard, this truck's got a very healthy engine has just been redone recently. And it's not gonna give me any problems. That truck over there, the old one, is the only day cab that we have like this that hasn't been redone yet from what I've heard. So that engine needs to go and get some attention from the good old doctors in the shop. Maybe get a rebuild, maybe get, I don't know. I'll let the mechanics take care of that. I'm a driver, I'm not a mechanic. So now you know, this is our new home. We'll go over the differences in here in a little bit. But we do have dome lights that work. How do I turn them on again? Oh, here we go. Aha, dome lights, we didn't have that in the old truck when I opened the door. Oh, look at that, the old truck didn't have that. That one's burnt out, I think I gotta fix that. Radio is way up here. It's a little bit of a different setup, but much the same. No door cubby here though. See, it's just a plain door, no door cubby here. I swear I always kept my gloves. So if you want something for that, let me get organized in here and we'll get started on our day soon. We're supposed to be getting a load here in the next few minutes that we have to deliver possibly. Let me get settled in a bit here. So what do we got under the hood, Trucker Josh? You may ask. Well, first of all, you'll see that we got these fun little lights there. They work, that's fun, right? The other truck didn't have those. Same thing, the washer fluid is on the passenger side for some reason. And I'm gonna have to fill that up. This by the looks of it, this is the first time I'm seeing this engine. As I opened the hood, looks like it's a cat motor. Looks like it's a new alternator. See if I can find some specs for you around here. I don't know what year this truck is yet either. So, let's see if it says it here anywhere. Ah, there it says, it's a C15 cat. It doesn't say the year. I'm not seeing it, not seeing it. C15 cat, anyways. Ah, right here it says model numbers 379. What year is it though? I'll have to figure that out for you. I'm not sure what year this truck is. It's definitely older than the other one. The other one was a 2007. And like I said, we got this, or I've got my four inch straps and a couple of two inch straps and ratchets in that there. This is my other storage cubby. It's got a little less storage than the other truck. And I've got my OD equipment in here, some corners. We need this, washer fluid, WD-40, same idea. Remember those green rental trailers I picked up? Oh, we're bringing them back. So my job today is to bring back two of these. I've got to make sure that none of our equipment is left on here. Only the equipment that belongs to the trailer is left in here. I'm going to go over to the tent over there. And sort that all out. I'm going to take this truck on its first maiden voyage with us. All right. Everybody be nice to her. It's not easy being the new guy. I'm really going to miss the back window. I don't have a back window anymore. Other than that, I mean, the tanks are set back instead of under the doors. She runs quieter. She's not as loud.   Hey, and one thing we can say, we now have matching fenders. They're not half fenders, but they're matching. So in a roundabout way, I got my wish. And these rims will also polish out a lot nicer. You can tell they're real dirty right now, but these will be a lot easier to polish up. They're not as dirty and old as the other truck. And let's pull this trailer out, get her cleaned up and bring her on home where she belongs. Oh yeah, another bonus of this truck. We have a full steering wheel. Check that out. And these gauges, they call like little sun visors. Still have to clean it all up and dust it all down, but we'll get to that. In our driver room here, we got a window into the shop. They've already got my truck in the shop. I don't know what they're doing, but I'm gonna fix her up. This truck does run a lot smoother. A lot quieter though, a lot quieter. We still got the jake brakes a little bit for you. That's okay. The truck itself is running great for such an old truck, but I'm surprised that this one's running. Well actually, since they've done so much work to the engine on this truck, I'm not surprised that it's running a lot better than the newer one we were in before.  So I've brought back the first rental trailer already and I'm actually in the process of bringing back the second one. So I had to get all of our equipment out of the boxes. There was a whole bunch of straps and dunnage in there. And the rental place doesn't want that back. So I got that all off the truck and the guys in the yard helped me. Brown this guy though. This guy is driving me nuts. Why are you going so slow, man? I've got places to be. Trucking, can't be angry when you're trucking. Look at the size of that thing. Must be one of those mobile site offices for construction zones and stuff. Why is that truck moving so slowly over there? You see that? Weird. I think he's blocking the highway. Man, that's a low trailer. Don't those low-boy trailers, don't they drag on the ground a lot like over bumps and intersections? Are they designed for that? I've always wondered that because they got to hit the ground all the time. So that means that they've got to design it with that in mind. More trailer behind me, Bob tailing back. They asked me if I'd stay late today. And I agreed. I have to make a delivery in Winnipeg just after five o'clock, which means I should be back around the yard, maybe six o'clock out of there by 637. Britt went to her mom's house tonight for the night. So I'm not, don't got any reason to rush home other than the dogs, but I think she only left like around one o'clock, so they'll be fine. Truck I've noticed goes a little bit faster than the other truck. The other truck was governed at 100 kilometers an hour, 60 miles an hour. This truck is governed at 105 or 65. 100 kilometers an hour or 62 miles an hour. So I get an extra three miles an hour. But this guy is in the left lane and he's not good. I think his vehicle's in front of him. Oh, it bugs me. Perimeter when all these city drivers, they don't get it. The left lane is not for traveling, it's for passing. They'll never understand. They'll never get it. It's sort of like trying to explain to a city person what high beams are. And it's my city friends, a lot of you know what high beams are because you watch my videos. But most people, most people don't watch my videos that live in cities. If everybody watched my videos, man, I'd be like PewDiePie. Millions of viewers, that would be cool. I don't watch, so they drive down the highway here with their high beams on and they have no idea. No idea. You can flash your high beams at them. They have no idea what you're trying to tell them. No, that's a city person thing. They're used to having street lights so nobody ever tells them how to use their different lights. I get it, I get it. For like 20 minutes from our yard, I'm gonna get there, go find the trailer and grab the paperwork and see if I need to tie it down or not.  There's a special note on the load. Do not be early. A little late is even okay. So like just after five o'clock, I'd say like 5.05 to 5.15, somewhere in there, no later than 5.15. That's just what I get out of that. Weird, right?  I do get the don't be early often but I never get the don't be on time, be a little late please. We got a new friend with us today. Oh, it doesn't have a front door. That'll make it more difficult to get in there and check on things. Got a couple of boats in here that need to go into Winnipeg.  Gotta be there for after five. We're gonna hook her up, make sure that there's no air leaks, make sure the lights all work and we'll drag it into rush hour. Fun, fun. Lights, lights, lights, lights and hazards. Why the lights not on here? There we go. Okay, let's roll these up before we forget. Oh, this one comes with its very own ladder. How about that? It's fancy, that is fancy. Low gear, this is as fast as it goes. All right, taking it again. You hear that? They're happy. That's nice, happy trailers. Little windy back here so I apologize for the wind noise. Just in here making sure that they're all nicely tied down still then we'll hit the road. Yay, rush hour. Well, that was fun. But this video is getting pretty long already, so are they finished with her? What did they do? Well, if they're finished, I guess then tomorrow morning I'll move all my stuff back in. Interesting. I thought it was gonna take days. That's why I moved everything into that. But I guess we're moving back in here tomorrow. All right then. Well, I put her in her proper spot over there. I guess tomorrow will a strange day indeed. They obviously didn't go too deep into that engine. They probably just looked up what the engine light was and addressed that problem and called it a day. It was fine. But the thing about this truck, I do like it. I like driving it. I think it's a nice looking truck. It's in a little bit better shape, cosmetically. But the air conditioning doesn't work. The whole climate control doesn't work. The only thing that works is the fan. You can turn the fan on and off, but you can't cycle it between the vents. It's only blowing straight at you. So if the window needs it defrost, it doesn't blow through there. The air conditioning doesn't work. It doesn't heat very well. So I mean, if the climate control could get fixed, I mean, that would be all the, everything would be taken care of on there then, right? But that truck, the climate control is very nice. The 3006, my truck, it's got a strong fan. It heats up the truck like to a hot box if you want it, or it'll turn it into a little ice box if you want it. So probably in the first thing in the morning, I'm gonna grab my stuff off of here, grab my chains, my broom and move back in there. It may not be the prettiest truck, but it is a lot more comfortable to drive, that's for sure. It has a much sharper turning radius too than this black one. I don't know, we'll see. Let's let tomorrow worry about tomorrow. Let's go home. It's 7.30, woo-hoo, 12 and a half hour shift today. Nice.


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