 Good morning everyone. We're starting our day here just over the border into the US. So yes, we did make it. Them replaced. It just took up too much of the day. I was so tired by the time I got here. Just pulled in here, went to bed. We can get the rest done today. Makes work. Trailer's attack. Nice and quiet. I'm a little nervous with their stockpile of nukes that they have all around us here. I'm driving through like the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons on the planet right now. I don't know exactly where they are. No one does, but they're in silos around North Dakota right along the Canadian border. Of course. Of course, yeah, you got to put them right next door to me, right? So in the event of like a big conflict, this whole area would be lit up to try to neutralize those weapons, right? And all of that fallout and stuff would go right over my house. And so in the event of a nuclear war, you know, yours truly will be one of the first victims. Let's hope that never happens. Let's talk about something else. As for these new drive tires on my truck, they're tires. I'm a little torn on them though a little bit because they're not the tires I chose. I went through an account which only, it's a Goodyear account, right? So I had to get Goodyears and the only tires they had available were these G182s, which is like a regional pretty heavy duty tire, a little bit pricey because I wasn't going to replace my drive tires until next fall. I still have pretty good tread on my firestones, but these Goodyears do have a really good tread pattern. They have really good traction for the kind of work that I do in winter time going through the deep snow and stuff. It would be beautiful, perfect. And in summertime, you've seen me. Sometimes I deliver onto farmer's fields, out into the mud a little bit. These tires would also be good for that. But one way or another, I have to make a decision because there's no way I'm running with mismatching tires for very long. It's embarrassing. People are going to start noticing when I stop. They're like, Hey, that guy's got two different tires than the rest of them. I don't want that. Maybe they won't be saying that, but I'll be saying that every time I see old blue, I'll be like, Oh, you got mismatching shoes. I'm sorry. That's terrible. You got to have matching shoes. Flying Jay. I need to get some juice. I have a quick shower while I'm here as well. It's not this entrance. It's the next entrance. End up for fuel. Goodie. Then once we're done here, we're going to sneak on over to Blue Beacon, get this truck a proper wash. I don't know why this guy's waiting in the line back here. There's pumps that are open. These pumps not work or what? I'm going to this one. Right away. Anyway, this one out of service. Yeah, this one's out of service. That's why nobody was in here. Okay. Well, it looks like I've got to go around. It's a bit of a tight parking lot. That's why no one wanted to use this one. I see. I want to put diesel number one in that's a lot more expensive. It looked like about $1.40 more per gallon. If I read that right, it was $5.50 a gallon for diesel number one and $4.10 a gallon for diesel number two. Yeah, that's what $1.30 more per gallon. Yeah, no, I just need diesel number two. It's pretty mild outside. It's not cold enough for diesel number one. It's a lot of extra money. I just bought two drive tires yesterday. I'm still hurting. I got to buy six more eventually. Eventually. I might just buy another two of these for now, like I was saying before. I don't know. We'll figure it out. I got to get all my tires matching. It's the price I pay for going to the pump that no one else was using. Turn left in that. Turn left in 30 meters. Stop sign here for some reason. Okay. Tell me to stop. I'll stop. I'll try this again. The numbers are in. You all are eager to know how my truck did on fuel, I'm sure. You're going to find out even if you don't care. It's the last time I fueled was in Niskey, Alberta after we unloaded those big steel reels. From there I drove to Meadowlake, Saskatchewan, from Meadowlake all the way down here to Minot, North Dakota. That was a total of 1,457 kilometers, or let me find this out in American Speak for you. I have everything else calculated except for this. 1,457 kilometers in miles. 1,457 kilometers is equivalent to 905.338 miles. So 905 miles we drove, we burnt, because we fueled up here in the U.S., we burnt 143 U.S. gallons, or 541.318 liters. That equalled 37.15 liters per 100 kilometers, or 6.33 miles per U.S. gallon, which is over our goal of 6 U.S. miles per gallon. It cost us $629 U.S. or $844 Canadian. Now just over the border in Saskatchewan, the fuel prices were $2.02 per liter. Here, I was looking at the DEF price before. Here, the price of diesel fuel, diesel number two is $4.40 per liter U.S. That equals $1.52 per liter Canadian. So just over the border was $2.229, right? So it's $2.03 per liter. Just over the border, here it's $1.52 per liter. So what's that difference, right? So you go $2.03, subtract $1.52, that's 51 cents per liter savings fueling up here in the U.S. How many liters did we buy? We bought 541 liters, .318. Let's do this correctly. Savings of 51 cents per liter, 541.318. Just fueling here in Minot instead of in Regina, or just across the border in Saskatchewan, I saved $276 Canadian. That's how much cheaper the fuel is here in the U.S. right now. 51 cents per liter cheaper for diesel fuel. I wonder what that would be in USD. I know a lot of you, I try to do the American measurements too, because over 50% of my audience is American, and I know they don't teach you the metric system in schools down here. So doing my best here to accommodate $276 CAD to USD. Come on. CAD to USD. Okay, it's not going to say it. That's $205.67 USD. I saved over $200 USD down here. So I try to fuel in the U.S. now as much as I can. Obviously, sometimes I still have to fuel in Canada. I can only fuel at certain travel plazas, certain places where my fuel card works. We do get discounts through the fuel cards. That's all worked out in the office back home. That's sort of why they take a cut out of my rates that covers all of their headaches and all of the paperwork they have to deal with to work that out, all the benefits and discounts we get. They handle all of that. That's why they take their cut off my rate. And they do a good job. That's one less headache for me. I'm perfectly fine with that. Works out great for me. But anyway, so that's the numbers for today. $275. That'll pay for a third of one of my tires I bought yesterday. Third, so after six fuel-ups here in the U.S., those two drive tires will have paid for themselves in savings from fueling in the U.S. That's not too bad. It makes me feel a little better about it when I say it that way. And you know those new tires are kind of growing on me. You want to see them? I haven't shown you in the light yet. Let's go show you the tires. These are my old tires. They're Firestone. They're 295, 75R, 22.5. FD692s. And these are the new tires, the Goodyear G182s, RSD. The treads are pretty aggressive. A little more than I would have gone with had I had more of a choice. Probably would have gone with the FuelMax versions of this. But they're not bad. They will do good for what I do every day, right? In the wintertime. Really good traction in the snow and off-road if I have to deliver on to the fields next year. It wouldn't have been my first choice, but they did get me rolling yesterday. And they're not that bad. They're not bad at all. I just want them all to match. Okay, shower is done. I'm all fueled up. Paperwork. I don't need to do is all done. Let's go to Blue Beacon. Wash off the truck. And let's get over to Minnesota. This is truck wash this way. Open 6am to 10pm. Should be good. Usually it's a little bit more obvious where the entrance is. The back here, I think there's two trucks in front of me. Where are you in the big truck? Truck wash, man. You're a little truck. Dozens of car washes you could go to. Ah well, but because he's got a trailer, it feels like he needs to be in here. And now we wait. So three people in front of me. Shouldn't take too long. Maybe a half hour. Old Blue has needed a bath for a long time already. So deserves it. And not just a little rinse off like I do at my shop. I mean like a nice in depth scrubby bubbly bath. It's gonna be good. Whenever my truck gets washed by like other people like this, I always feel like I'm getting like therapy myself just watching it. It's satisfying, right? It's steamy. Let's go get a good look at it because it's not gonna stay this clean for long. Much better. Okay? Much better. Now we can get a look at these tires when they're clean. See these are the new ones. And I've got my one good old one on the back here. And I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna buy one used tire with about the same tire wear as this one. This one's still good. And then I'm gonna put those on there. I'm gonna take these two new ones off and save them. Then when all the rest of my tires are actually worn down all the way, I'll still have these and I'll only have to buy six instead of eight. So I'll save these in my shop. I mean, they're a good tire, right? Like, look at that. It's a mean looking tire. Okay, don't have much time to waste. We have to get to our customer and get to sleep so that we can unload at 6 a.m. tomorrow and run on over to Minneapolis where I have a reload, I believe, of shingles that are headed back up to Winnipeg. Thanks for hanging out today, everybody. It was a fun day. No flat tires. It's a good day. I'll see you tomorrow. We're gonna get this lumber off my trailer. We're gonna go pick up some shingles and head home. I'll see you then. 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