 Hi everyone, my name is Matt. I'm a driver-in-training in Manitoba, and you're watching Trucker Drash Vlogs on YouTube in that right zone Good morning everybody I just delivered a lumber Don't need this vest on anymore on our way down to Adele, Iowa We're here in Bemidji, Minnesota We've got some freight to pick up down there and that freight is taking us into Eastern Saskatchewan I have an empty 53-foot step deck behind me. I just got my tarps on the front there You can see it in the mirror and fan likes to kick up a lot of dust I like to leave as much of that outside as possible. So we crossed into the US at international falls Minnesota from Fort Francis, Ontario It's been a smooth sailing trip down knock on wood Hopefully it stays that way My mission for this whole week was to get this load offloaded today Which I did So now the rest of the week should fall into place just nicely Pick up this load tomorrow in Iowa And we'll deliver it Thursday or Friday Thursday afternoon or Friday morning in Saskatchewan And we'll see They'll probably uh point us towards home from there Gotta find a good truck stop to stop at. I've been sort of go go go all day already I'd like to take a little bit of a break Grab a coffee and stuff something to eat. All right. How nice am I how nice am I today? Way too nice like usual. I could have gone could have gone most people would have gone I think most people would have gone Gotta wait for these guys because I'll need the whole road to get on there with my trailer and Wait for this one. There's another one coming now. I'm not gonna be that nice. I'm not that nice There is a limit to my niceness The right turn only all traffic must turn right. Okay Well, we're going that way Looks like there's a u-turn right there that's set up for us. Weird way of doing this thing I guess this is safer than It is actually better for the trucks this way this way you have a turning lane You're out of the way of traffic. Yeah, I get it. I get why they did this a little bit of a roundabout way of doing things but That's a big dude Akely is that how you pronounce it Akely Akely Akely, Minnesota Love to see small towns and how they embrace their history You know, you see it more and more in the big cities where They do the opposite or they try to revise or erase history or try to make you feel ashamed of it Maybe that's why I like small towns because I'm from a small town up in canada myself up in manitoba just north of here and uh That's sort of the way it is in small towns and this is paul bunyan I think I guess you're supposed to sit on his hand there and take a picture I'm not sitting on your hand, bud Oh, even that that that mustache. I don't trust that mustache, man glorious beard though Yeah, is there a little park that they got here? I'm parked uh Just over there just taking a little break here in town exploring a little bit I love I love small towns This is where you can get the true feel of the american culture the american way of life in my opinion That's how I feel about canada if you really want to get the essence of a region or the The real like What would you call it? The real feel Of what it is, you know to be You know american or canadian you know a small town you talk to the people there They usually got it right Not to say anything It's wrong with living in a city. It's just interesting how I've grown older And I've really realized that the thinking patterns and just the thinking in general is very different between someone who Grew up in a small town and someone who grew up in a big city I'm generalizing here Not all obviously I can relate to people from small towns Look at this Well, that's nice. Look at that beautiful I think what i'm getting at is that small town rural communities move at a slower pace There's also more accountability to your actions because when you grow up in a small town Word gets around fast if you do something dumb the whole town's gonna know you did something dumb And in order to keep a good reputation You have to be on your toes all the time making sure that you don't do anything dumb because if you do Everybody's gonna know you can't just You know melt away into the crowd or just blend into the crowd It's uh very different In that way. I don't want a big city, you know, you do something dumb and you know, you can disappear Not in a small town Everyone and your grandma's gonna know by dinnertime what you did And they're gonna remember it too And then you might not be trusted as much after that depending on what it was If you wreck your reputation in a small town You got to earn it back Whereas in a city you can just literally just Find a new group of friends and they won't even know And like I was saying before from what I've noticed I go to a small town Like and from where I am too we're proud of our history proud of our accomplishments Not claiming to be perfect we're proud of What we've done to get we where we are today We live in a wonderful country America down here is a beautiful country too and they should be proud of it Look how far they've come you should be really proud of that Now find in small towns you get that energy people are excited for the future And they're excited to share their history with you as well. They know where they came from. They know where they're going Out here what happened a hundred years ago still matters very much And hopefully the next hundred years Will be even better Those are just my observations. Um So this is their museum here visitor information This little outdoor area here for some parties Some hold downs maybe all right mr. Bunyan It's been nice meeting you You take care. All right See you next time I learned of the I learned the stories of paul bunyan in school I don't remember them all right now, but he's a must be a big figure around this area because Every town I go through has something to do with paul bunyan and paul bunyan stuff here paul bunyan He was like a lumberjack, right? Obviously it looks like one Must have been a key figure in minnesota history before southbound. We've got to get through minneapolis And i'm hoping to make it down to albert lee minnesota pretty much at the border with iowa Very close to it in the interstate i-94 will take us east towards the cities The twin cities then we'll take i-494 around the south side to i-35 south which is going to take us down Towards albert lee and then into iowa tomorrow I'm not sure if i'm going to make it to albert lee yet, but I might make it to owatana Time to step on it. You're on the highway now. The big truck pulls out to the left Then he finds the speed up forever to speed up and as soon as the big semi decides okay now I'm going to pass oh, oh, then they found the accelerator god forbid the semi pass them god forbid All right. No one likes being passed by a semi sometimes I do that just to snap people out of it Because if they see a big truck behind them They're not paying attention to their speed limit or to their speedometer They don't know that they don't realize they're going so slow. So I'll pull out into the left lane act like i'm about to pass 90 chance that they're going to look down at the speedometer because the big truck is about to pass Realize they're going slow and then quickly accelerate before you can get past them But sometimes I'll just move over and just wait for them to speed up it it works almost every time Because i'm slowing down doesn't mean you slow down I really wanted to get out of this lane as soon as I hit the brakes they hit the brakes right beside me traffic, you know Monkey see monkey do most traffic out here doesn't really pay attention or Do their own thing they'll do whatever everyone else is doing around them If everyone else is doing 100 mile an hour, they'll probably do 100 mile an hour If everyone else is doing 45 miles an hour, they're probably going to do 45 mile an hour If you slow down, they'll slow down. If you speed up, they'll speed up. It's very annoying But that's the life. Hey, that's that's what we truckers deal with every day. You just sort of get used to it They got the same before then you just start playing games with them If they're going slow, you just start acting like you're gonna pass them Then they speed up and you say thank you very much And you go back behind them. Thanks for paying attention. Hey Some of us don't get paid by the hour. I'd like to get moving. No, just me. Am I complaining again? Probably that's what I do. That's what I do is what I'm known for apparently You like it you like it Oh boy, he's complaining again. My favorite now we're coming up on what I hope will be the end of our day Up to what I hope is the end of my day. I might have to park over here Yeah, I'm gonna park here and then I'll walk up there. See if there's room If there's not room, then I guess this is It's my work Just walk up and down here make sure that there's not any no parking signs or anything I would have stopped for the cop way back there already. I don't know what he's doing going way in there some people man You know what I was saying is I'm just letting old blue uh Her turbo cool down and everything here that are idle for about five ten minutes Just at the end of the day look up ahead here to the restrooms in a bit And also check to see if there's any parking closer to the building If not, I believe we can park over here There's no signs here that say no parking and uh That's often what happens is guys end up parking At least it's tilted the right way You don't want to be tilted the other way because then all the blood rushes to your head If your head is always on the driver's side, right? straight river ruster women Doesn't look like I'm gonna get a closer parking spot. Everything is pretty full here There's one spot available, but it's a wheelchair spot or handicap spot And one truck down at the end over there took up two spots on purpose So There's that This will just stay where we're at then I know that there are drivers out there that use these spots. They are legitimately They legitimately have the permit for these spots For uh various reasons I don't know how common they are though I've only seen a couple over the past, you know, 16 years of me driving I don't think it's very common, but maybe I just don't notice them Very often I see trucks parked in these spots Without any permit hanging in the front window and that kind of upsets me a little bit too I mean You know, I could probably park there and no one would say anything But you know with my luck as soon as I pull in there That's when the truck that actually needs a spot would roll in And then I'd look like that guy Parked in a spot where I don't belong It's not me This guy with the John Deere stuff over here took up two spots I didn't like that Check this out See this guy's got an oversized load, right? It's even wider than his and he fit it in one spot He only took up one spot But for whatever reason this guy Thinks he needed two Literally, I guess this actually isn't a parking spot. This is actually a drive-through So that trucks can get through the front here It says not a spot. I mean it could be used as one, I guess. So I don't know you guys decide Is this uh, okay, is that warranted? I don't know much space in the I could probably fit my truck between those two loads I could probably fit in there just barely But I bet you he would not be happy in the morning And what do I tell him? Well, you shouldn't have parked like that, man I don't know. I mean, what you think in the comment section is Technically that's not a spot. There's a technically he only took up one spot But he's also blocking the drive-through for people to get around that way But they can still go around this way. So I mean I'm just gonna walk away Let you guys give me your opinions in the comment section. I don't like it You should only take up one space if you have to and if you got an oversized load I understand sometimes you need to take up two but I guess it's a judgment call and that was his judgment call Wouldn't have been mine, but that was his So the main parking area is up there You got a bunch of us parked down here as well I might actually come up and park in front of this guy Right up here Instead just saw him a little further up Trucks go that way cars go that way You're paved a little bit better That guy's got the same blue interior lights that I have Anyways guys, thanks for joining me today. Thanks for hanging out And we'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss it