 Good morning everybody we're in Saskatoon down the street and get them off my trailer pull in and find out what's going on next Stayed here at the flying J It's a good night Now it's time to get going again. That fresh air feels great. I'm so glad that there's no snow out here I better not have just jinxed it I better not have just jinxed it. Shoot! You ever wake up in your truck and you're like, what is going on? Where am I? What city am I in? Okay. Oh, there we go. Oh, there you are. So let's get these trailer out of these Truck dumps. What are they called again? Dump bodies. Let's get these dump bodies That sounds bad when they say that dump bodies. Let's get these things off my trailer. They've been weighing me down for a few days I don't want them anymore Had my fun with them. I'm gonna bring them to someone else. They can have them. I Want to put something else on there and just like that snap of the fingers and we're back at flying J Nothing left. Just my tarps I need to replace these. These are getting pretty thin. I bought a patch kit for them So I have been patching them and they're holding up, but I'm thinking probably by next winter. I'm gonna have to Buy a new set of these They're about 1500 to $2,000 for a set So after I make a delivery I take my bill of lading which is my proof of delivery and I scan it into an app called transflow It's sort of like a faxing Absolutely, it sort of it replaces faxes. We used to fax these in back in the olden days, right? Now we just use an app on our phone. I just literally just take a picture of it sent scan it into the app and just Sends it over to the office. That way they have my proof of delivery That means that I delivered it and I have a signature and a printed name and a date on here Proving That I did not dump my load in my backyard or in my garage or somewhere else that I brought it to where it was supposed to be In that they received it in good condition that lets me off the hook As soon as I have this signed paper The load is no longer mine now when I go pick up my new load in Meadow Lake now As soon as I receive paperwork as soon as it's on my trailer and I receive paperwork for it And I sign my copy of it. I'm taking Responsibility of that load then that is that then my load until I get to the destination We're again, we repeat the process That way it's clear whose responsibility is Whose right if something happens to the load now, it's not my problem. It's not on my trailer anymore It's in their yard. They unloaded it. They signed for it. It's their problem now, right? That's why when you unload freight you always have to make sure that everything is as it should be before you sign it Because once you sign it, it's yours And I don't want it back So I just open up this app. I take a scan little picture of it I send it in that goes to the office and then that process is done. I do the same thing for paperwork going to customs for going to the US and For going to Canada. I believe we'll be going to the US from here dipping down there So before I go there, I have to let customs know that I'm coming, right? They need to know that I'm coming That I'm coming in this truck. They need to know what's on my trailer. They need to know where it's going I'm not allowed to pick up freight in the US and deliver in the US. That's a common question. I've been getting lately That's a good question That's called interstating a Canadian driver cannot pick up freight in the US and deliver it in the US Also, I an American driver coming up to Canada cannot pick up freight in Canada to deliver in Canada Like if you're coming up and you live in Tennessee, you take a load up to Winnipeg Let's say you deliver your load and then you pick up another load in Winnipeg. That's going to Calgary in Alberta Very illegal. You can't do that Both ways that way it protects jobs on both sides of the border if I take a load from let's say Fargo, North Dakota to I don't know Jackson, Tennessee Well, that's that's taking a job that was meant for an American truck driver When I take freight from Canada to the US, I must pick up a load that's coming directly back to Canada Because this is where I'm based. I'm a Canadian citizen unless if you're an American citizen Then it doesn't really matter They I have to go back and forth each time So I'll go down to the US come straight back sometimes we go pretty far down all the way down to Florida or all the way down San Diego or something But the load coming back must go directly back to Canada Maybe we'll deliver to Atlanta, Georgia, and then our reload will be in Tennessee or something or in Texas Or maybe it'll be a little bit of a dead head a bit of a long dead head to where we have to pick up a load But that load has to go back to Canada That's how it works So when I let the US customs know that I'm coming I use the same app I send them to the office all this does it sends my paperwork into the office They take care of all those headaches for me. That's why they take a cut off all the rates Right because it's uh, that's their job to do that Otherwise, I would be running under my own rights my own running rights and all those headings headaches would be mine I'm not quite ready for that in my career. Maybe one day I can like I was I'm very happy where I am I have no desire to go anywhere else or start my own thing right now But you don't know what the future holds if things were to change for the worst and suddenly I'm not happy I don't see that ever happening. But if it did, you know, I'd consider running under my own running rights Getting my own company just even if it's just my truck, maybe I'll hire a couple of drivers I don't know, but that's a lot of headaches There's a lot of headaches involved in that with dealing with the brokers dealing with customs dealing with customers Finding loads all the people were chasing after people for money because they don't want to pay you Right and all this stuff and it's a lot of extra headaches added on to it. So uh I'm glad that the office we have people in the office that take care of that for me If I was just a one-man show, I don't know how I would do it There are people who do it, but it would it would take a lot of extra effort. So I send this paperwork into the good people in the office and they take care of that for me And then they let me know when I'm clear. So that that part's pretty easy for me. This is this is the hardest part right here It's got a Scan this in right there Yes, make sure it's clearly visible in there that they can read it And I go next I go next I say send And wait for it There it is confirmation They give me a little confirmation number and everything to make sure that that I know that it went through They have that paperwork. This load is now complete Done It's off my back nothing to do with me anymore. Not my problem It was received in good condition now we go get the next one. It's gonna be a load of lumber Like I said, I believe it's going down to the us and then I'll have a load down in the us coming straight back up here I'm gonna grab a coffee. Let's get the truck in So we made it we got this guy waiting in front of me yet And there's another truck being loaded Over there. It's two guys in front of me. That's not bad. They load pretty quick here I'm not sure if you remember from last time the last time I was here This was the place that got me loaded in like five minutes By the time I pulled in there I had barely gotten my straps ready and he had already finished everything up and was coming to me with my paperwork She said boom boom boom boom It's what I like to see employee the month over here. Employee of the year looks like it's the same guy again. He's just giving her So usually while they load here I stay in my truck to stay out of their way because They do it fast and you don't want to get in their way get run over So this guy throws it all on my trailer Before you can even really collect yourself and get ready I'm already already because I got a couple of guys in front of me this time But you know you get your vest on you pull out your hard hat Uh if you need safety glasses, I'm one of the lucky ones. I guess you'd call it. I have glasses eye glasses now, so You take a look in my mirror right there. You'll see we are loaded Nice and quick Nice and easy Now let's hit the road. We got to get to Nebraska. I'm here at the scale just before Saskatoon And I had to do a little bit of adjusting They're closed right now But I was reading on my gauges that my drives were a little too heavy for the us. We're okay for canada But uh, I guess I should have put that One bundle on the back But I was able to fix it. I slid my fifth wheel forward And that put weight onto my steers. I had lots of room on my steers and now we're legal for the us Just started raining too. This is how I was talking guys out there I'll take it. I'll take the rain over snow Absolutely Just means my glasses are going to get Water drop someone. Yay So yeah, my uh, I can tell on my drives here or my PSI gauge that I was probably just a little over 34 000 pounds for the us Uh, the scale here is closed, but you can still drive over it So I came in here to park and as I was going to the parking spot I just slowly did a slow roll over the scale and I realized Yep, I'm at about 34,600 pounds on my drives here and only like 32 000 on my trailer. I could have put that that lift on the top there At the back. He asked me which one I wanted and I I told him to put it up front because I want more weight on my drives, right? But the thing was I was only at 11 000 pounds on my steers I'm allowed to have at least 12 000 pounds there And depending on what the truck's rated at about 13,6 I think max But anyway, I had room to put it on my steers. So what I did was I I slid my fifth wheel forward towards the cab as close as I could So that the trailer is still not hitting when I turn hitting my truck hitting my truck And then my mudflop hangers don't catch on the trailer. It's pretty close. It's about Not far away my mudflop hangers from the trailer. I'll show you but now it's raining. I don't want to get my camera all wet out there As far forward as I could I went around again and I rolled over and slow roll and I'm at exactly 34 000 pounds Pretty much exactly. I think it was like 34,050 pounds So I still got a long way to go to the us border what I'm going to do is I'm going to burn off a bunch of fuel So by the time I get there, I'm I've burnt off 50 pounds of fuel and then I've just got to watch how much Fuel I use while I'm in the us to keep underneath the max weights for the us of 34 000 pounds on my on my trailer Now with my truck here, sorry my truck is getting my words mixed up So I looked at my gauges and I'm like, hey, we look good. It's close, but we look good when I roll over here I'm like, oh, okay. I'm almost like a thousand pounds overall not a thousand but about 700 pounds over or whatever I said I have to do something So luckily I always ride with my fifth wheel all the way to the back all the way to the back Right to the back That's for if I pull vans and I need that extra space because the fifth wheel pin is further back on a van trailer But the step decks We can tighten that gap up and what that does is the transfers weight up the frame of my truck So it transfers it off my drives behind my truck the two axles behind my truck transfers it onto my steer axle in front of my truck Now that extra weight that was back there that was going to make me overweight to the us I'm not overweight for canada. I'm okay to be here But that extra weight that was going to make me overweight once across the border is now sitting on my steer axle And my steer axle is now sitting at about 12,900 pounds. No, not 12,000 11,900 pounds So trucker josh save the bay array Okay, I'm gonna go down the road. I wanted to shower in saskatoon Let's see how busy it is when we get there. It was a pretty long day very long day I used up my entire 16 hour window here in canada Now I had to stop for a full 10 hours Before I'm legal to cross into the u.s. The next day So this is the next day already I got here. I went straight to sleep Uh, we made it to wayburn saskatch one. We drove 1,013 kilometers so about like 625 miles or so I ended up having to park on the street In one of the industrial zones here in wayburn where that we are allowed to park I did research to make sure I'm allowed to park here, but the truck stop here in town was just packed As far as I know, there's only one truck stop in wayburn. It's a very small town It's maybe like a couple of thousand people that live here. So it's not like the big city or anything But they have the one Uh co-op truck stop and it used to have this huge parking lot where we could seriously park like 75 trucks Big parking lot, but then they went and built a grocery store On the parking lot So all of that parking oh, and then they put signs of no trucks So you can't go and park in there which makes sense. They got fresh asphalt in there For their parking lot for the grocery store. They don't want the big trucks in there Wrecking their loft that they just paid a lot of money for I understand that okay But they cut the parking down in wayburn from well, I'm going to say probably close to 100 We probably could have fit 100 trucks in there. Let's say 75 trucks. Let's be conservative here 75 trucks they cut it down to maybe 15 And it is packed There's about 15 parking spots and probably about 25 trucks Squeezed in there anyway, so they're in every corner all over the place a couple of guys are blocked in that I saw So we lost a lot of parking So I was out of hours when I stopped here where I am right now I literally I had one minute left on my entire 16 hour day I could not go any further So I'm glad I found this spot. I walked up and down the street and I It is the street you can park on Didn't have a choice parked underneath the street light and There we are. I made it through the night. So continue this tomorrow