 That's taking me down to Minnesota, which I think is a suburb of Lakeville, Minnesota. Let's figure this out together right now. Lakeville. Where are you in Minnesota? One second. Google's thinking. There you are. Yes. It is, oh, I don't know if it's a suburb, but it's just south of Minneapolis on I-35. I guess you could call that a suburb. Minneapolis is so big, it just keeps going and going and going, and then suddenly there's St. Paul. I go, hey St. Paul, and then St. Paul keeps going and going and going. There's two cities in one. If you've ever been through there, if you haven't been through there, if you're from a total different country or part of the world, it's like two massive cities collided, and there's two separate downtowns. There's the downtown of Minneapolis, which is the main one, the big one, and then there's a pretty big downtown, a little bit smaller, though, of St. Paul. Just down the river from each other, and it's just like one big city. It's crazy. They call it the Twin Cities, even though they're nothing, they're not twins at all. They look totally different. Downtown St. Paul is definitely different than downtown Minneapolis. Wouldn't that be wild, though, if they were exactly the same, like real twins, like same city streets, same blocks, same buildings, same everything? That would be crazy. Well, let's see how far is Lakeville from Meadow Lake. Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, one second, Google's thinking. Okay, we're going to be crossing into North Dakota from Saskatchewan, at North Portal, Saskatchewan, into Portal, North Dakota. It's 1800 kilometers, so about 18 hours of driving. 1800 kilometers, I'm going to say 1200 miles, let's see, 1800 divided by 1.61, 1118 miles. That was overshooting a little bit. That's the trip from there, but first we have to get up to Meadow Lake, right? So from where I am right now, my location to Meadow Lake is 555 kilometers, about 320 miles. That one I know, right? Right? 555 kilometers divided by 1.61, 345 miles, that was close, that was close. So first we got to go 345 miles north, grab the load, and then we go 1100 or almost 1200 miles back south of Minneapolis, unload there, we'll pick up something else, and we'll take it back home. Mother's Day's coming, and it is my wife's very first Mother's Day as a mother. Well, let's be honest, she's been a dog mom for a long time. We've had dogs or fur babies, but now we have a skin puppy, a skin puppy, and it's different. So it's her first Mother's Day, and I want to make it special, I have these plans in my head, and I'm hoping that I can pull it off. I was watching Trucking with Schmidt yesterday, and it was his wife's birthday. And man, he goes above and beyond, he goes all over, but makes the day so special for her, even though she hates birthdays. She's not a big fan of birthdays, and he still goes above and beyond and makes the whole day super special for her, gets a custom cake made, you know, drives hours and hours just to meet her, to bring her flowers. Like his channel is called Trucking with Schmidt, and his name is Kurt. He drives a W9 as well, and what a great guy, you know, and I think he said he's been married well over 20 years, 25 years, 24? And you can tell why, because he makes life so special for his family around him, right? I love watching his channel, he makes me feel good. So he made his wife's birthday so special, and I was just thinking to myself, you know what, I've got to make my wife's Mother's Day special too. I was thinking that before already, but after seeing that video, he really inspired me to sort of, you know, take it a notch further yet. See what I can come up with. I already have the plans, OK? The plans are already there. I just have to see if I've got to put them together. It's going to be pretty low key. She doesn't want to do anything big, but, you know, that could be code also for that she wants to do something big. Women are hard to understand like that sometimes. Sometimes they'll be like, no, I don't want to do anything. I just want a nice low key day. But really they're thinking in their head that I hope he plans something big. As a husband, you have to learn to read the signs. And I don't think we ever truly learn completely. We do our best, right? And shout out to Kurt for doing an awesome job. That video made me smile when he when he did all that for his wife. That was great. Kurt, if you're watching, you're the man. So I'm at this massive job site, right? Huge place, building all kinds of stuff, all kinds of stuff. And I'm part of it. I'm delivering all this stuff. So he's just grabbing some on the other side there. I'm going to stay back and jump back in my cab. I just wanted to show you what we were up to here. I'm going to get all this stuff off my trailer. I'm going to go put some wood on it. All that because, well, if you could see it, there's a big Canada flag right behind that fuel island. That's how you can identify these ones. ESO bought Husky. It's sort of the same idea as the pilot acquisition of Flying J. There are two massive truck stop giants in Canada. And ESO just came out on top and bought Husky out. You can still see on the above the door over there. I'm not sure if you can. Right there, there's still the Husky symbol. I'll end up there too. I probably can't see it from here. Same idea, same thing as the pilot Flying J merger in the US. It's just two big shots becoming one even bigger shot. More power in the hands of fewer. That's the way it goes. People just keep buying this person and that person buys this person. Now this person has all of this and then they go and buy all of that. And now they have all of this and all of that. And then they go buy everything else. And then they go swimming in their swimming pool filled with money like Scrooge McDuck. Am I thinking of the right cartoon character? Scrooge McDuck? You know what I'm talking about, right? Was that his name? But yeah, I'm in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan right now, sort of halfway up to where we were going. Not quite. We've got another three hours to go. From this spot where I'm sitting right here, it's actually exactly 300 kilometers to go to where I'm going to load up. I was just talking to my father-in-law and he actually just left Meadow Lake. He loaded up a load of lumber there too. That load's going down to Indiana, but I don't think he's following or taking the trailer all the way down. I think they may be switching drivers or something. But yeah, he's on his way down from there right now. So sometime or other, we're going to pass each other here. Talk to my dad too. He passed me when I was in Balgoni this morning. He's headed west to Calgary. Not too sure. I think he told me, yeah, from Calgary, he goes up to Edmonton and Edmonton down to DeWitt, Iowa. So we're all sort of wandering around in the same region here right now. Me and my dad, my father-in-law. Getting things done. What was I going to do? That's right, 300 kilometers. 300 divided by 1.61. I have 186 miles to go to Meadow Lake where I'm loading. I'm going to throw some lumber on there. I just talked to Dispatch, our the load gods. I am going to take it straight through. Just wanted to confirm. We're not going to get back into the U.S. today yet. I just won't have the hours to get there. So we'll get as close as we can. Maybe we'll go to Wayburn again. If we can get a parking spot at that truck stop where there used to be like 100 spots and now there's like 15. Wayburn. We need another truck stop from you, all right? I know it's a big ask, but we need you to build us another truck stop. We need at least another 75 parking spots. That's a very popular town for all freight coming from Western Canada, going down to the Midwest or Eastern United States. All that freight either crosses Emerson, Manitoba or crosses North Portals of Saskatchewan. Very often it goes through North Portal. Lots of trucks going down that highway and Wayburn is right on that highway. It's about an hour or two from the border. Lots of truck traffic. So if you're a businessman or a businesswoman and you want to make some money, you want to know where the truckers are, where they need a new truck stop, Wayburn, Saskatchewan. Esteban already has a nice petrol pass there. It's very nice. Wayburn needs one. Those of you out there with a little bit more deeper pockets, deeper pockets than me. You want to make some money? Wayburn, new truck stop. But I want a portrait of me hung in the truck stop because it was my idea. Somewhere very prominent where everyone can see. I don't get some Timmy's here anyway and we're going to keep going. Serious about that portrait though. How far back are you going to get tonight? Powered up. And then try to get back where we're going to get. Like I said earlier, I'm trying to get back to Wayburn, but we'll see what my logbook allows me to do. Be quite a log. Probably going to be heading back empty and that's my own choice, I told them. I would have liked to have put this last one on the top there, up there. But I think I would have been overweight on my drives then. So this is the best I can get it to balance out the weights. 23 minutes left on my clock for my 16 hour date. And that's it, we're calling it a day here. I was hoping to get much further than this, but Gareth is just spinning a little too fast. Flying Jay, because there's more parking over this way. Over a quarter of tanks of fuel. Jay across the street in the morning. I don't want to fuel up all the way because I want to fuel up in might not North Dakota. It'll be a lot cheaper there, fuel up there tomorrow. So we got to get just enough to get there. Probably put in about a hundred liters or so, or 50 gallons, well, less than that. We'll see. My brain is tired. We'll do that math in the morning. There's space here for us to park. There should be, it's a giant lot. Unfortunately, it's all gravel, but we're going to make do, we're going to find something. Went around the lot twice. And at first I found a parking spot right up there beside that guy, right? With his park lights on right on the end. But I didn't like that spot because I felt someone could come around the corner, make a sharp left around that corner and drag their trailer over my truck. I didn't like that. Everybody else is up there. And this guy is right here. This is the corner of the lot here. So I didn't want to go in behind him, right? Cause I don't want to get blocked in. And he was here first. So didn't want to park there. So I made my own spot right here. Safe. Truck is off, marked safe from all the crazy drivers out there who got their driver's license in a cereal box. And don't know how much room they need for their trailer. Mark's safe from getting woken up in the middle of the night and having to make an insurance plan. I put my truck out of commission for who knows how long waiting for parts. I wonder if this will fill up. It gets a little soft over there. And someone dropped their trailer. Can you see it? The camera's picking it up. But someone, sorry, it's not focusing. Someone dropped their trailer this way. So now you can't use that for parking. I was all blue looking, guys. I'm pretty happy with this load. I had to slide my fifth wheel forward again. I wasn't overweight, but, well, not overall. But I was 500 pounds over on my drives for the US. So I had to move this fifth wheel. The fifth wheel is what the trailer connects to on my truck frame. That's called a fifth wheel. You can slide it on some trucks, on mine you can. It locks in with air piston. But I can unlock it. What you gotta do is, I can show you some time. You gotta roll down your landing gear and then drop your airbags to release the pressure of the load off your frame. Unlock your fifth wheel, and then you can slide it back and forth. I had to slide mine forward a bit and then move that 500 pounds onto the little steering axle. You see now, that's where the fifth wheel is. It was back there. Just sliding it up like that, I moved about 800 pounds off of these drives. That's here. Up the frame to my steering surface. So now I'm perfectly legal for driving to the US tomorrow. So, gotta do a little bit of cleanup back there. Organize everything a little bit more. And head to bed. We'll continue this tomorrow. We're in Davidson's, Saskatchewan. It's been a great day, a long day. We've got a full day of driving in 1,061 kilometers. It was 620 some miles. Tomorrow will be another full day. We're not quite gonna get to our destination yet in Lakeville, Minnesota, which is south of Minneapolis. We'll get to about four hours away. So, maybe we'll get to around Alexandria, Minnesota. Somewhere around there, maybe Clearwater, Manning, Fargo, maybe Fargo. Somewhere between Fargo, North Dakota or Moorhead, Minnesota, same city and Alexandria, Minnesota. That's where I'm expecting to make it to tomorrow. We'll sleep there. We'll do the rest of the day or the rest of the trip the next day, deliver. And I'm most likely just gonna fire myself back home after that for Mother's Day. Thanks everybody for joining me today. Please don't forget to leave me a comment down below. Let me know what you're thinking. Leave me a thumbs up if you liked the video. And I'll see you tomorrow.