 people of the world of the interwebs. We're here in Oak Grove, Kentucky, just over the line into Kentucky from Tennessee. We're on our way north and we're slowly making our way up there because we're recapping hours. I can only work 70 hours and eight days in the US and so I've got to make sure that I don't go over that. So we're driving about six hours a day to get home. I could stop and reset my logbooks then I could drive full days but I wouldn't arrive home any sooner and I'm getting a reset at home anyway. So this way I got something to do every day. I'm not bored sitting in my truck doing nothing and we just take it a little easier than usual. So let's get out there on the road. I've already had my breakfast. I'm setting ready to go. We'll drive at least six hours today. Maybe more but at least six. We got this awesome parking spot last night just by luck right up at the front. Someone must have just left doing a little tug test. Make double triple sure my trailer's not gonna fall off. It would be embarrassing right here at the building. It's fantastic. I had a great sleep 14 hours to get all my work done today. I have to shut down. I won't be working that long like I said before. We're leaving here at noon. We took our time getting ready today so we'll drive till like 7 or 8 depending on how many stops we make throughout the day. Sleep in tomorrow. I really wish we could drive more you know. I get the need to have some regulation because some drivers just keep popping pills and we'll just keep going forever and ever. Drive 48 hours straight if you don't legally force them to stop. Don't know their own limits. Some people I should say a lot of people do know their limits. Some people don't and they cause accidents and then we get all these regulations that we all got to deal with right. Honestly I can see like daily limits like the 11 hours per day here in the US that you can drive in Canada 13 hours a day makes sense. It's to me to limit the amount we can drive at one time right so that people don't drive 24 hours straight or longer but I don't understand why we're forced to take a day off after 70 hours right. Like I can drive 10 hours a day day after day after day after day I don't need a day off to rest I don't need that as long as I'm getting a proper sleep between every every day like every night. Canada's got the same thing like I've told you before we can only drive 70 hours in seven days it's a little bit better you can get a little bit further but here in the US it's 70 hours and eight days in. That doesn't make sense if you don't want to take a weekend why do we have to take a weekend right like I mean if I want to day off I'll take a day off but if I want to work like trucking is one of the only careers you can have where you could actually get arrested for working overtime or for going to work on you know a day you're not supposed to go to work you can actually get arrested for that so I understand why they kind of put them in I kind of understand why they put that into place but I don't think that's necessary like 70 hours a certain amount of days no no just limit the amount we can drive each day but it'd be nice if we could just keep going don't have to worry about our 70 and my own okay I don't know what do you guys think you think it's necessary or I think would be just fine if we which got rid of the 70-hour rule just kept our daily rules but that's just me I guess it's turned into a wonderful rainy day very close to it I've been looking at the map and I think I'm gonna stop between Bloomington and Rockford Illinois on the I-39 we'll see for now I'm just pulling in here Karen you've no idea what you're talking about gotta get fuel first strange how your mindset affects your energy levels oh shoot I wanted to turn left there I think can I get into flying J from here how do I get into flying J shoot I don't think I can get in there I guess I'll go into the TA for now quickly figure out how we get into the following J oh wait no no there's the entrance oh it's confusing okay well now I'm in here this will just sneak through here I don't want to fuel at the TA I have to fuel at the flying J no signs or anything flying J this way you just sort of got a know the area I guess I was saying like cuz I know I'm not driving a full day today so it really feels like I've been driving a long time already but we've only been on the road four hours but in my mind I know I've only got two more hours to go so I'm starting to feel tired I started just want to stay here already but I know I've got to go further whereas when I know I'm gonna drive a full day oh there's the entrance should have seen that Karen quiet you always got to throw your opinion in everywhere where it's not wanted the fuel is open for me this truck is so good on fuel I almost forgot to fuel it's been like three days about a quarter tank left still I'm assuming the exit is the same place as the entrance so oh it was nice to have a break anyway it's what I needed to get out and stretch my mind was getting lazy my brain is telling my body oh we only got two hours left to kick myself out of that like these sort of half days recapping hours out much much rather just race on home I could have been home tomorrow now I'm not gonna be home the day after tomorrow maybe that maybe the next day that pesky old law the law man gets in my way 200 meters turn right on the North Caller Drive I offer me to I missed my turn because I'm a genius how many times have I missed my turn this trip already I just tuned Karen out because I don't like hearing from her so when she actually does have something helpful to say I'm not listening you sure Karen I'm listening this time all right I gotta go we went to the next the next overpass there's a couple miles down the road just doing a little loop around their clover lease here I thought I heard her blabbering about something I thought that it was just the normal like just keep going straight don't exit so I wasn't paying attention right listening to music whoops like the 10-speed automatic it's just not helpful past me on the shoulder you couldn't wait Rockford this way so the truck stop we're staying at is just a little ways down the road we've already gone 600 kilometers today so we've driven six hours which is what 360 miles or so we're gonna shut her down just down the road here it's been kind of a boring block kind of day but that's okay those happen let's have not every day can be exciting we can't go to Newfoundland every day some days is just rolling across the flatlands yeah this transmission I'm not a big fan of it 10 speed is not enough like this truck is a 2018 you would think that by this time manufacturers would know that putting 10 speed in a truck like this is ridiculous it's terrible for climbing hills it's way too big of a gap between the gears you need at least 12 speed okay at least I'd say 13 if not more the more the better but at least 12 to 13 not 10 it's just not functional when I'm climbing the hills of this thing I just put it in manual and I shift the gears myself otherwise the truck just doesn't know what to do just keep bogging itself down I lose all my momentum very frustrating supposed to be an automatic supposed to do that stuff for it but the automatic doesn't even know what to do so I got a shift for it when we get to the hills right diesel these lights are sure better on this truck than on the Volvo it's much more likely to be parking here now we're further north and more to the Midwest a road ranger pilot or I think road ranger when they left the pilot flying today right now it's just road ranger which is weird I don't know why they would go independent but because they would lose business I would think maybe not what do I know stop sign spin tire on pavement that's what my dad always told me at that man one here see we find some parking it looks kind of full from here oh dear already people parking in the right of your destination on the right side road ranger number 186 so we're in Menonk Illinois no no no donk adonk usually if you see people parking out here like this off to the right they usually means that the parking lot is full already but sometimes you get lucky and they're just too lazy to actually park so they just park here so we got to go and check looks like mr. orange trailer there in front of us is also looking for a parking spot taking a sweet time this parking over here beside Walmart why is nobody else parked here on all the scales there that's why oh there's plenty of parking here look at this look at this seriously mr. orange box what what I don't get paid by the hour bud you want to go slow I'm going this way I'm gonna stop my clock so I can stop wasting my driving hours here look at all this back here glorious see this is the mid upper Midwest the northern Midwest this is what I'm talking about this is home always parking except for look at this I gotta show you this look at this guy parked over here we're gonna make a special detour I know I'm wasting my hours of service now look at this guy right here in front of us now look how crooked he parked compared to everybody else but what really he's a he's lined up with these guys so is it those guys that park trucking somebody doesn't know how to park