April 17, 2024 • 11 mins
Tim German and his 2017 Hyundai Elantra have made a lot of trips around the Maritimes delivering blood products over the last seven years. And he shares his thoughts about his car, his work and how he has kept his car going long enough to "circle the world 19 times" and counting.
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(00:03):
So Tim Jerman, tell me aboutyour car. What is this? This
happens to be a twenty seventeen HyendaAtlantra. I bought some steel Hundai down
on Kemp Road. I had atwenty sixteen which unfortunately hydroplaned into a guardrail
(00:23):
and wrote her off. And Iliked to Hyundai. He had a lot
of safety incorporated into us. SoI did some background checking on the upcoming
models and this one here sold me. It had a new reinforced structure and
(00:44):
frame and whatnot, with a goodquality steel and whatnot, a lot of
airbags and so yeah, I thought, you know, ultimately it was going
to be a safe car for meto travel around in. So, just
so we're clear, do you workfor Hyundai Canada? No? I don't.
So what do you do? I'ma courier, okay, so you're
(01:07):
driving specifically blood products. I'm amedical courier, medical career, so whatever
it is, they want you tomove around pretty much predominantly though, my
mainstay is blood products. And where'syour circuit? Where do you deliver?
To deliver throughout the mayor times Principeof Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
(01:30):
and I'm what they call a directdrive operator, So that means that when
the situation arises and there's a needfor like a STAT product. STAT means
short turn around time and there's apatient need in one of the three provinces,
I'm the chosen one that gets todeliver it. So it could be
(01:53):
at any time of the day ornight. Typically my hours are from five
to late in the morning. That'smy shift five days a week, and
then I make myself available on theweekend as well. So I put a
lot of time into it and Ienjoy it eventually, and yeah, it's
kept me going for a while.The cars is getting me back and forth
(02:15):
to help people out. And I'mvery proud of my car. And that's
the reason we were put in touchwith each other is because this seven year
old car, ish has how manykilometers on it? It has seven hundred
and seven hundred and seventy one thousandkilometers on it as of today. You're
driving one hundred and ten thousand kilometersa year ish pretty much, so between
(02:38):
one hundred and ten hundred and twentylike two thousand ish a week, so
you've basically circumnavigated the world like nineteentimes going on twenty, I would say,
what how do you get a Nowpeople buy a car and they drive
it and they think maybe one hundredthousand, three hundred thousands a lot.
(03:00):
How do you get seven hundred andalmost eight hundred thousand kilometers on what is
essentially a stock car that you couldbuy off the off the lot. Yeah.
Well, when I first got thecar, it was running conventional oil,
which I changed out and put syntheticoil in. I maintained the car
(03:20):
very well. I was putting thatmany kilometers on per month. I changed
the oil monthly once a month.Faithfully. It's had quite a few oil
changes now, and I also usesome stabilizers and different products, you know,
to help, you know, helpwith the oil and keep from the
engine into kind of thing change infilters. You know. It's basically high
(03:46):
level of maintenance that I incorporate intothe car. I mean, it's it's
my work vehicle, so you know, you have to ensure that it's dependable.
A lot of lives are at riskin my field, so I want
to ensure that I can deliver theproduct that I delivered to them, you
know, in a safe fashion,and get it there you know, to
(04:09):
help people out. Your dad wasa car guy. My dad taught auto
mechanics at Nova Scotians to technology backin the sixties when they had flathead engines
and stuff like that. And he'sa real guru in the mechanic field,
right. I still go to himfor advice. And he once told me
that if you look after your car, your car will look after you.
(04:31):
So it was a very wise statementand I followed his lead on that,
and you know, and here Iam, so I don't feel that I've
done anything un normal. We'll say. I think most people could get the
same amount of knowledge if they wereto check the oils frequently. And a
lot of people don't check the oilenough, I don't think. And you
(04:54):
shouldn't let it go down. Makesure it's always topped up, make sure
it's clean, and you know,just proper maintenance can go a long way
for you. You know, likeit's a big investment, and you know,
we have to we have to ensurethat, you know, we maintained
it properly. I'm sure over yourmany many hundreds of thousands of kilometers around
(05:15):
these regions, you've seen a lotof the roads. It's unbelievable what I've
seen on the roads. All right, tell me the unbelievable ones first,
okay, let me see. Well, you know, I've struck a number
of animals in the middle of thenight, per se, kind of unavoidable.
One time up in Cape Bretton,was four in the morning and a
(05:40):
big deer ran out in front ofme, and I swerved and I missed
him, and I said, ohgreat, I missed him. And the
next thing bang, there was onebeside him and he come in. He
he smashed my headlight and my myfriend balance there. I've had four front
bumper skins put on through different objectsthat I've struck, not intentionally, of
(06:00):
course, but and one time myrear tailskin there blew off on the Confederation
Bridge going to Prince Edward Island.It was really windy, and you know,
I'd never bumped the back into thecar, you know, at any
time, but the wind was gussedin that day and I couldn't believe it.
You know, I'm looking in themirror and it's bouncing up and down
(06:21):
on the deck on the bridge,and I'm not as well I did,
you know, I did. Anyway, I had to retrieve it. I
didn't want to leave, you know, leave an obstacle for someone else to
run into, right, So Igathered it up, put it in the
trunk, and yeah, I hadto take it and I got another one
that put it on myself. Butso, you know, it becomes quite
(06:42):
costly after a while when you're replacingall these types of parts through insurance and
whatnot. So I started putting themon myself and ordering them, you know,
through sources over the internet. Youknow, I'll order one in and
try and put it on save afew bucks myself. Right. But yeah,
there's a lot of animals in thenight time and in the daytime as
(07:03):
well, a lot of deer populationaround here. I've struck a coyote in
mirror mache, some rabbits, youknow, raccoons, you know, full
gamut of animals. But you know, I really don't enjoy any of that.
You know, I love animals,and I really I really get upset
(07:25):
when I hid an animal or birdor anything like that. Right, So,
yeah, do you do your ownservice work? Gets away? Well,
I have a mechanic, a youngfella who's a red seal mechanic course,
and he, you know, heI haven't been to him in over
six months. You haven't had todo any real serious repairs in that No,
(07:46):
it's original engine, and you know, I've changed some breaks, and
I've changed star tires. Oh.I go through at least two sets of
tires a year, a winter setin a summerset, and I buy them
brand new. You've got to havea good times, you know, if
you yeah travel in the distance Itravel, you want to have good rubber
underneath you, right, good breaksof course, stop and power. So
(08:09):
I maintained those very well. Ireplaced one flex pipe on the car,
uh, a set of struts andshocks, and a new battery. Other
than that, one wheel bearing andso not so much really. Yeah,
(08:30):
So it's been great. Spent alot of time in this car. This
is my office. What's what's yourYou have a name for it. I
call her the Dark Angel. Shecomes out at night most times and she's
off helping people out that her needfor the products that I deliver. Right,
So I'm happy to do it.It's the best job I've ever had.
The folks I work for are someof the nicest people you ever wanted
(08:52):
to meet, Very caring people.All the technicians and whatnot that I deal
with in the hospital. All greatpeople the put there, you know,
put themselves out there to help otherpeople. It's a great it's a great
thing. And in this time wheneverything costs so much and everything's expensive,
and new vehicles are expensive, whatdo you say to people who want to
get as much life and value outof their money for a vehicle one that
(09:16):
you have to depend on, likeyou, Well, ensure that your maintenance
is kept up, you know,obviously, you know, like I said,
good tires, good rubber, cleanfluids, you know, frequently changing
your fluids and your filters. Youknow you've got an air filter, you've
got you all change your transmission fluidsI change quite often. You can also
(09:39):
change out your anti freeze and coolat once in a while, right,
and just keeping clean fluids overall,like even your brake fluid, hydraulic fluid,
right, it becomes I don't know, dissipated or dirty after a while.
So you want to have clean fluidsall the time and it helps prolong
the life of the car. Soyou're looking at another one, a replacement,
(10:01):
do you have that in mind?Well? Or is this one there's
my baby? Right? Here.I love her to death. I hope
she's around for quite a bit longer. If I was to buy another one,
I would definitely consider a Hundai.Again, I've had great success with
them. This is my fourth andI really love them. The quality of
(10:24):
this car, the handing, theride ability, how it's good on fuel,
economical, a couple of little odds, and you know, there's a
blind spot here and there that youknow you have to be aware of.
But other than that, it's avery dependable car. It's best car I've
ever owned, and I'm smitten withit really And just to be clear,
(10:48):
no one's paying you to say this. Did they offer you anything special if
you get to a million? Noteven a cup of coffee? No,
Well, it is quite the storyand many many many more safe miles.
Well, thank you very much,Allen. It's been the pleasure to speak
with you today, and I hopethat the audience out there can help help
(11:09):
themselves keep their car going longer bygood maintenance practices and enjoy this lovely weather
in their car. Some abso safetravel. Okay, thank you so much.
So Tim Jerman, tell me aboutyour car. What is this? This
happens to be a twenty seventeen HyendaAtlantra. I bought some steel Hundai down
on Kemp Road. I had atwenty sixteen which unfortunately hydroplaned into a guardrail
(00:23):
and wrote her off. And Iliked to Hyundai. He had a lot
of safety incorporated into us. SoI did some background checking on the upcoming
models and this one here sold me. It had a new reinforced structure and
(00:44):
frame and whatnot, with a goodquality steel and whatnot, a lot of
airbags and so yeah, I thought, you know, ultimately it was going
to be a safe car for meto travel around in. So, just
so we're clear, do you workfor Hyundai Canada? No? I don't.
So what do you do? I'ma courier, okay, so you're
(01:07):
driving specifically blood products. I'm amedical courier, medical career, so whatever
it is, they want you tomove around pretty much predominantly though, my
mainstay is blood products. And where'syour circuit? Where do you deliver?
To deliver throughout the mayor times Principeof Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
(01:30):
and I'm what they call a directdrive operator, So that means that when
the situation arises and there's a needfor like a STAT product. STAT means
short turn around time and there's apatient need in one of the three provinces,
I'm the chosen one that gets todeliver it. So it could be
(01:53):
at any time of the day ornight. Typically my hours are from five
to late in the morning. That'smy shift five days a week, and
then I make myself available on theweekend as well. So I put a
lot of time into it and Ienjoy it eventually, and yeah, it's
kept me going for a while.The cars is getting me back and forth
(02:15):
to help people out. And I'mvery proud of my car. And that's
the reason we were put in touchwith each other is because this seven year
old car, ish has how manykilometers on it? It has seven hundred
and seven hundred and seventy one thousandkilometers on it as of today. You're
driving one hundred and ten thousand kilometersa year ish pretty much, so between
(02:38):
one hundred and ten hundred and twentylike two thousand ish a week, so
you've basically circumnavigated the world like nineteentimes going on twenty, I would say,
what how do you get a Nowpeople buy a car and they drive
it and they think maybe one hundredthousand, three hundred thousands a lot.
(03:00):
How do you get seven hundred andalmost eight hundred thousand kilometers on what is
essentially a stock car that you couldbuy off the off the lot. Yeah.
Well, when I first got thecar, it was running conventional oil,
which I changed out and put syntheticoil in. I maintained the car
(03:20):
very well. I was putting thatmany kilometers on per month. I changed
the oil monthly once a month.Faithfully. It's had quite a few oil
changes now, and I also usesome stabilizers and different products, you know,
to help, you know, helpwith the oil and keep from the
engine into kind of thing change infilters. You know. It's basically high
(03:46):
level of maintenance that I incorporate intothe car. I mean, it's it's
my work vehicle, so you know, you have to ensure that it's dependable.
A lot of lives are at riskin my field, so I want
to ensure that I can deliver theproduct that I delivered to them, you
know, in a safe fashion,and get it there you know, to
(04:09):
help people out. Your dad wasa car guy. My dad taught auto
mechanics at Nova Scotians to technology backin the sixties when they had flathead engines
and stuff like that. And he'sa real guru in the mechanic field,
right. I still go to himfor advice. And he once told me
that if you look after your car, your car will look after you.
(04:31):
So it was a very wise statementand I followed his lead on that,
and you know, and here Iam, so I don't feel that I've
done anything un normal. We'll say. I think most people could get the
same amount of knowledge if they wereto check the oils frequently. And a
lot of people don't check the oilenough, I don't think. And you
(04:54):
shouldn't let it go down. Makesure it's always topped up, make sure
it's clean, and you know,just proper maintenance can go a long way
for you. You know, likeit's a big investment, and you know,
we have to we have to ensurethat, you know, we maintained
it properly. I'm sure over yourmany many hundreds of thousands of kilometers around
(05:15):
these regions, you've seen a lotof the roads. It's unbelievable what I've
seen on the roads. All right, tell me the unbelievable ones first,
okay, let me see. Well, you know, I've struck a number
of animals in the middle of thenight, per se, kind of unavoidable.
One time up in Cape Bretton,was four in the morning and a
(05:40):
big deer ran out in front ofme, and I swerved and I missed
him, and I said, ohgreat, I missed him. And the
next thing bang, there was onebeside him and he come in. He
he smashed my headlight and my myfriend balance there. I've had four front
bumper skins put on through different objectsthat I've struck, not intentionally, of
(06:00):
course, but and one time myrear tailskin there blew off on the Confederation
Bridge going to Prince Edward Island.It was really windy, and you know,
I'd never bumped the back into thecar, you know, at any
time, but the wind was gussedin that day and I couldn't believe it.
You know, I'm looking in themirror and it's bouncing up and down
(06:21):
on the deck on the bridge,and I'm not as well I did,
you know, I did. Anyway, I had to retrieve it. I
didn't want to leave, you know, leave an obstacle for someone else to
run into, right, So Igathered it up, put it in the
trunk, and yeah, I hadto take it and I got another one
that put it on myself. Butso, you know, it becomes quite
(06:42):
costly after a while when you're replacingall these types of parts through insurance and
whatnot. So I started putting themon myself and ordering them, you know,
through sources over the internet. Youknow, I'll order one in and
try and put it on save afew bucks myself. Right. But yeah,
there's a lot of animals in thenight time and in the daytime as
(07:03):
well, a lot of deer populationaround here. I've struck a coyote in
mirror mache, some rabbits, youknow, raccoons, you know, full
gamut of animals. But you know, I really don't enjoy any of that.
You know, I love animals,and I really I really get upset
(07:25):
when I hid an animal or birdor anything like that. Right, So,
yeah, do you do your ownservice work? Gets away? Well,
I have a mechanic, a youngfella who's a red seal mechanic course,
and he, you know, heI haven't been to him in over
six months. You haven't had todo any real serious repairs in that No,
(07:46):
it's original engine, and you know, I've changed some breaks, and
I've changed star tires. Oh.I go through at least two sets of
tires a year, a winter setin a summerset, and I buy them
brand new. You've got to havea good times, you know, if
you yeah travel in the distance Itravel, you want to have good rubber
underneath you, right, good breaksof course, stop and power. So
(08:09):
I maintained those very well. Ireplaced one flex pipe on the car,
uh, a set of struts andshocks, and a new battery. Other
than that, one wheel bearing andso not so much really. Yeah,
(08:30):
So it's been great. Spent alot of time in this car. This
is my office. What's what's yourYou have a name for it. I
call her the Dark Angel. Shecomes out at night most times and she's
off helping people out that her needfor the products that I deliver. Right,
So I'm happy to do it.It's the best job I've ever had.
The folks I work for are someof the nicest people you ever wanted
(08:52):
to meet, Very caring people.All the technicians and whatnot that I deal
with in the hospital. All greatpeople the put there, you know,
put themselves out there to help otherpeople. It's a great it's a great
thing. And in this time wheneverything costs so much and everything's expensive,
and new vehicles are expensive, whatdo you say to people who want to
get as much life and value outof their money for a vehicle one that
(09:16):
you have to depend on, likeyou, Well, ensure that your maintenance
is kept up, you know,obviously, you know, like I said,
good tires, good rubber, cleanfluids, you know, frequently changing
your fluids and your filters. Youknow you've got an air filter, you've
got you all change your transmission fluidsI change quite often. You can also
(09:39):
change out your anti freeze and coolat once in a while, right,
and just keeping clean fluids overall,like even your brake fluid, hydraulic fluid,
right, it becomes I don't know, dissipated or dirty after a while.
So you want to have clean fluidsall the time and it helps prolong
the life of the car. Soyou're looking at another one, a replacement,
(10:01):
do you have that in mind?Well? Or is this one there's
my baby? Right? Here.I love her to death. I hope
she's around for quite a bit longer. If I was to buy another one,
I would definitely consider a Hundai.Again, I've had great success with
them. This is my fourth andI really love them. The quality of
(10:24):
this car, the handing, theride ability, how it's good on fuel,
economical, a couple of little odds, and you know, there's a
blind spot here and there that youknow you have to be aware of.
But other than that, it's avery dependable car. It's best car I've
ever owned, and I'm smitten withit really And just to be clear,
(10:48):
no one's paying you to say this. Did they offer you anything special if
you get to a million? Noteven a cup of coffee? No,
Well, it is quite the storyand many many many more safe miles.
Well, thank you very much,Allen. It's been the pleasure to speak
with you today, and I hopethat the audience out there can help help
(11:09):
themselves keep their car going longer bygood maintenance practices and enjoy this lovely weather
in their car. Some abso safetravel. Okay, thank you so much.
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