 Good morning everybody, we're at the Flying J in Niske, Alberta, just south of Edmonton. We're about to go pick up our next load that's going to take us back to Winnipeg. My appointment is for 6 a.m. this morning and it's 5.30 and it's right over there, right around the corner. So I'm going to show up there with 5.45. That's what I try to tell myself for when I need to be at an appointment. If they make the appointment for 6 a.m., I try and tell myself I've got to be there for 5.45. That way, because for some reason one or another, something always happens, right? And if we get delayed just a little bit, well, it's okay. As long as it's just a little bit. I've got to stay focused. I don't know when they want this in Winnipeg. I won't be able to get there today. If I hurry, maybe I can get there late tonight and get close. Or we get to either Brandon, Port of the Prairie, maybe. Which is almost all the way to Winnipeg. And then they'll probably want to deliver tomorrow morning is what I'm thinking. But yeah, we are headed back towards Manitoba from here. And I'm not too sure what we're loading. It's coming from an equipment place and it's going to an equipment place. I don't know what they mean by equipment. Farm equipment, construction equipment, truck equipment, car equipment. I don't know, work out equipment? What kind of equipment? I don't know. I'm going to throw it on the trailer and worry about that then. Whatever it is, we'll tie it down and go to Winnipeg. So let's talk about the importance of knowing where you go before you go. I had to back in off the street over there. I knew this because I looked this place up on Google Maps last night. I knew I was coming here and I'd never been here before. So I wanted to know where the entrance would be. Look at the best way of getting in there. Is it tight? Is there lots of space? I wanted to know before I went. So I looked on Google Maps of where it was. I saw it's a pretty tight yard. I'm like, well, it's going to be hard to turn around back there. So I went into Street View where you can pretty much take a walk down the street. And I saw a big sign at the end of their driveway there that said trucks must back in. I'm like, okay, so that makes sense. So I'm going to have to back in off the street. So now I don't want to blindside back it in. So I'm going to have to go around the neighborhood and come in in such a way where my driver side is facing the driveway so that I can back in easier. If I hadn't known that, the shorter route would have been to come up from the other way and then the driveway would have been on my passenger side and then I would have had to back in blindside or just go turn around somewhere and come back the correct way and do it the easy way. But that would have wasted time. Because right when I got here, the shipper got here as well. I was about 15 minutes early and so was he. So he told me, hey, well, I get ready and get everything started and opened up. You can back on in and by that time we should all be ready. Worked out great. Had I had to go turn around yet, you know, who knows where to turn around. Did you hear that? Something's going on over there. It wasn't me. But yeah, that whole situation, there was no confusion because I knew before I came. So if you ever go to a new place, you should use the tools that we have available to us today. The technology we have available to us today. It makes things a lot easier. Go on Google Earth or Bing Maps, whatever you use. I use Google. Get a good feel for the neighborhood. Figure out where you need to go. Find out where the best route would be to get there. And then go on Google Street View and get a good look at the front of the building and the driveway where you have to enter. See if there's any signs that are there that are like, hey, trucks, take the next entrance or no trucks at this entrance or maybe there's a sign this is exit only. Trucks use rear entrance. You know, read all these signs. Walk around the neighborhood, walk around the neighborhood on Street View so that when you get there, you're not surprised. You can act like you've been there a hundred times before. You know exactly what to do. Helped me out a lot today. So now, he said this is not going to be in the way here at all. It's good. Got an empty trailer. We're going to be loading up some of this stuff. Looks like it will be parts for equipment. Take it to Winnipeg. This is an industrial zone in Niscue, Alberta. The whole neighborhood smells like chemicals. Smells like... Smells like when... If you guys have ever lived in the countryside before where they do crop dusting. Smells like the chemicals that they spray on the fields. It's probably terrible for me. I prefer the smell of diesel exhaust myself if I have to pick a poison. So I'm back at Flying J. I'm loaded. Our grip aside is a beautiful J truck. What J truck isn't beautiful, right? That fleet has so much of my respect because they all keep their trucks so clean. And the owners really love them too. They take them to all the truck shows across North America pretty much. And they win a lot of shows too. They got a lot of really nice trucks. They look like they just rolled off the showroom floor, right? But they're working trucks. I don't know how they keep them so clean. Must take a lot of work and effort. I'll show you my load here real quick. We got some steel. These are storage for in warehouses, right? Like these will be like the sides. And then those will be the shelves, shelving maybe. I might be wrong. That's what it looks like. But that's what we're working with. Let's take this home. This has to be in Winnipeg tomorrow. About 1,400 kilometers or 900 miles. Right before this whole area in front of me plugs up too much. I think I'd still be able to get out either way. Let's get rolling. I want to go home. Let's get out of here. Turn signal on. Where are you turning? Over there. Okay. The lane you're supposed to turn into, the inside one? Yes, you are, but you might not. You never know. You're supposed to turn into the inside lane. But so many people are going to turn right into the outside lane right away. Because they want to turn right. So it makes sense, right? We're going to go up and around Edmonton and take Highway 16. All the way back home through Saskatchewan. Once we hit Saskatoon though, we're going to hop down on 11, I believe it is. And go through Regina. It's 30 miles further that way, but you get four lane divided highways the entire way then. As opposed to the single lane on the other option. Lane each way. Single lane each way. You know what I meant. Wrong and wrong, Karen. We have already crossed the border. Almost a block before you figured it out. And the time zone does not change. I don't know what she's smoking. Some of them funny cigarettes, man. Lloyd Minster, Saskatchewan. Just entered the great, the beautiful. The vibrant, the bustling province of Saskatchewan. I want to get all the way through here and into Manitoba tonight. I have 11 hours left to go. And I have 10 hours left that I can drive tonight. We'll probably get to Brandon is what I'm thinking. Brandon, Manitoba. Stopped in Chamberlain. Just cause it's an easy place to stop. They'll slow down for town anyway and they have this parking all along the side of the road here. Plus all of that parking in there. So it's easy to just quickly stop in here. Check the straps. Grab a quick bite to eat. Or make a quick bite to eat in the truck. And then carry on. You gotta go all the way off the road. There's always driveways and everything. Still good. Tarps are in here. Good. I like to check these all several times a day. A little bit paranoid, but never lost anything. This little guy on the back here was making me a little nervous at first, but I've become more comfortable with it now. It's not going anywhere. They wanted to put this thing up on top there. But I figured the wind would catch it too much with all of the shrink wrap. I got them to shrink wrap it more. And I didn't want the wind to catch it. So I figured I put it behind all the freight. On the back of the trailer so that the wind goes around it and doesn't hit it straight on, right? So it's been a perfect and beautiful day. Beautiful day for trucking. I keep running into you guys out here though. That's pretty cool. I got to meet a whole bunch of you on this trip already. Every place I stop. You guys can come and introduce themselves to me. They'll watch the videos. So thanks guys. I love meeting you guys in person because you guys get to see me every day. You know me pretty well. I don't know you as well. So it's nice when I actually get to meet you. So if you do see me, don't be shy. Come and say hi. I'm a hundred and some miles tired. I can do the rest tomorrow. I'm going to stop here for 10 hours just in case they send me into the U.S. after I get unloaded. That way I'm good to cross. I only have to stop for eight here in Canada before I can move again. But then I can't cross into the U.S. until I stop for 10 consecutive hours. Park here. I thought they'd have a few more street lights. You know they have these signs everywhere here. No trucks are supposed to go and park in this area in front of me. There's always trucks parked in that area. Always. Can you on this road for 305 kilometers? I think this road is that long. Karen? I don't think it's that long. I'm going to spot here and call it a night. I'll talk to you in a bit. I found myself a nice parking spot in the back corner. I think that's the same J-truck that we were parked beside in Niscue this morning. I'm pretty sure it's the same one. But they all look so nice. So it's hard to tell them apart sometimes. They're all amazing. The sky is still a little bit bright. The time is about 1130 at night right now. The sounds of the highway right here. I know they're sort of being drowned out by somebody's APU over there. But that's okay. It's far enough away that it won't bother me tonight. Got a nice rest area there if we need it. Running water. That's always a bonus. And here we are. Under the light in the back corner. Away from everyone else so we get some peace and quiet. Like I always say, a little bit of noise at night doesn't bother me. But if I have an option, I'm going to pick the quieter spot every time. And that's what we did here. Just the sounds of the crickets. So our entire load has made it to Manitoba. Didn't lose a single thing. I'm going to deliver this tomorrow. It says on my paperwork that they want this delivered the day after tomorrow. So I mean if that's the case then I guess I'd just be bringing this to the yard. I'll have to communicate with the load gods tomorrow and see what the plan is. But my plan is delivered if I can. Doesn't matter to me. If I do bring it to the yard, I mean I guess I'll just grab something else and go. Whatever the plan is, it'll work out. So to summarize today, it was a day of prairies. Flat land driving. So it took about 12 hours of driving to get here. Like I said, we drove about 1,060 kilometers. Which is, I'll actually find out the exact number for my American friends in America Speak. The way to find that out is you go 1,060 divided by 1.61. 658 miles. Full day. Tomorrow's another day. I only have three and a half more hours to win a peg. It all depends what I got to do with this freight. Now I'm a little bit confused because the GoPro's jealous that I'm not paying it attention. It turned itself off. Yeah, I got the Sony here. Three and a half hours to win a peg. So I'm a little confused because I was assuming that I'm going to deliver this tomorrow afternoon. But if they only want it the next day, well, I can't sit around and wait for that. Probably what I would do then is go and leave this in our yard. I want to where city guys would deliver it, I guess. And then I just grab something else and do a turn and burn. That might actually work out best for me. Because then I don't have to waste my time going into the city. Because this is delivering quite a ways into the city. There's going to be traffic. There's going to be city people. City people. They're always in a hurry. You know this? Are you a city person? Why are you always in a hurry? Where are you going? Always in a hurry. Nobody likes being behind the truck. So anyway, if I have to deliver it, I'm perfectly fine doing that. But hey, if they're going to get one of the city guys to do it, it would work out much better for me that way. Because then I can just drop and hook pretty much. 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