 Happy Tuesday, everybody. It's Tuesday, March 29th, 2022, when I'm filming this. It's my sister's birthday today. Happy birthday to you. By the time you watch this, it'll be a happy belated birthday. But happy birthday, anyways. Speaking of birthdays, I know it's kind of weird. It's my sister's birthday, but I'm showing you what I got for my birthday. Now I feel guilty. Her birthday's on March 29th. Mine is on April 1st, just a few days later. And Britt got me this small fridge for the shop. Okay. Oh, it's a big one. Oh, I get the box. It's as big as the box. Very often, you just sort of assume things are like potato chips. You know, it's a big bag, but there's a little, just a little bit in there. I thought it was a big box, a little fridge. No, it's not bad. Oh, oh, oh, oh, that can fit so many drinks. And other things too, that you put in fridges. We have a fridge in our shop now. I got it one piece in 10. And that didn't cost me a damn. Actually, we share a bank account, so it probably did, but that's okay. I like it. So for now, that's where it'll be. I'm gonna be a little further, because there's the plug. I'm not gonna plug it in yet, because of, it says right on the cord there. Just in case you didn't know. The refrigerant in there needs to sit properly for about 24 hours before you plug it in. So it was on its side, or on its back, or something in Britt's vehicle, just because that's the only way it would fit in there. And that's totally fine. And I put it in the house upright yesterday, right after work. So it has to sit upright for 24 hours before I plug it in, otherwise it could damage it or make it malfunction. So it's gonna sit here all day, and then after work today, we're gonna plug it in. A little freezer up here. Oh, it's like a tray. What's that for? Oh, that's for a condensation, I bet, or something. And a little freezer thingy in there for some ice cream bars or something, you know? The usual. Cool. Oh, and it actually slides up in there, so it stays open, and it slides back out. That is super cool. I'm gonna have to adjust the feet later too, because it's a little rocky. So I'll have to adjust that. But for now, this is good. We'll leave it here and plug her in when we get back. I might move it. I might not leave it in that spot. This area of the shop right here is going to be the man cave section. There's eventually going to be a couch and a love seat or recliners or something here. This is going to be the relaxing resting area. And behind me is the working area of the shop. So the fridge should be in this general area. So it'll probably end up staying there. I like that spot, but we'll see. I still need to get shelves in here. This is not permanent. I need to get all that off the ground, but it's going to take some time. And I'm not really in a big rush to spend a lot of money here. I'm totally fine with it just the way it is for a long time yet. We'll get there eventually. This isn't number one priority right now. This is just a nice space to work in. It's a very nice space. I love it. All right, boys and girls, we're here. We're hooked up. We're having one of these days today. I've got to take this freight to Morden. They're going to add some stuff onto it. I don't know how, but they're going to, it's the same place that loaded this. They just want to add a little bit more to the order, right? So I'm going to bring it back there for them. I guess we picked it up too early or maybe they decided later. Hey, wait a minute. We want to add something more onto this load. I don't know what happened. That's above my pay grade. My job is to tie this down. I see it's a little tied down already, which is good. It shouldn't be too hard, but my job is to tie this down, bring it to Morden and hook on to another load. That's similar to this from the same place and bring it back here. So I'm thinking why you got some tires up there. So you got one, two, right there, two straps. Strap over all these tires here. Two, three, couple over here. Three, four, five, six. And then there's some tires at the front there. Seven, seven or eight straps. A lot simpler than I thought it might be. Sometimes these loads can be very complicated to tie down and time consuming, but still fun. As long as we're having fun, that's all that matters, right? As long as we're trucking, we're having fun. I don't care what the weather is or what the load is, as long as I get to drive a truck. I'm a very simple man to please. Just give me a diesel truck and a trailer and give me a load and tell me where to go. There it is. Okay, let's go. I gotta pull it out of here because I can't tie it down in here. I'll have to slowly, gently roll it out. Good thing it's got these straps on here to make sure it doesn't go anywhere. And that up there, am I gonna need more than just this? No, that'll be good for that. Loads that are kind of intricate or detailed, whatever you wanna call them, or they got a lot of little pieces. They ought to watch them. They don't want anything to sneak off the trailer, you know, and plow through some oncoming car. God make double sure before you leave that everything is tight. We're gonna stop about 10 minutes down the road or 15 minutes down the road and same here. Just to make sure, double check all the straps, make sure nothing's settled. Give them an extra click on the ratchet or something. I have to take a little bit of a different route to Morden because of weight restrictions. My regular routes, almost every day now, my regular routes during this time of year, I can't go because I'm too heavy. There's two main restrictions. A lot of municipal highways are down to 65%. So each axle, you can only have 65% of your gross allowed weight. So even bobtailing, your steers would be too heavy. So you can't even bobtail down those roads. On other roads, on like provincial roads and other highways, it's 90% of your weight. So you could drive down there empty as long as there's, you're under 90%. All right, so on a truck like this with such a far, like a stretched wheel base with a trailer on, it takes weight off my steer tires. I could easily drive down to 90% empty. But if I'm loaded, I have to be careful and I cannot drive down there fully loaded. This is a main provincial highway, this is Highway 59. There's no restrictions on this road, just regular gross weight. You can have up to like 12,000 pounds on your steers or 12,500, is it? Well, I say about 12,000 pounds on your steers, 37,500 pounds on your drive axles and 37,500 pounds on your trailer tandems. This is St. Pierre, gonna pull into their gas station just down the street here. Check all the straps, make sure everything is as it should be and everything is remaining as it should remain. Look like this lane gets as much use. Everyone seems to hog the left lane here. Oh, this is the school zone. 30 through the school zone as we should. People would pass by me, I was doing like 10 kilometers and I got a, hope my nose into that lane for a second here. There we go. I'm gonna go around this mud that they got here. I'm gonna get my truck all dirty, makes extra work for me later. Lose ourselves in these puddles. This aren't the strongest up there, so I don't wanna crank on too hard. It's a little loose now. Oh yeah, see that's why we always need to stop and tighten them up a little bit. Bratchets on the other side, tight. Especially these tires here. I don't like tires. Looks like these are still relatively tight. It should be good now until we get to Morden. Everything is holding as it should be. Just gave a few of the straps a couple of more clicks. Off we go. Nice and slow. I don't like all these puddles. It's not that far. It's about an hour and a half from here probably. I believe that's a World War II Memorial right there. With the way things are going, I hope that one day we don't have to erect World War III memorials. Crazy world, eh? Crazy world. Well, what do you do, right? You can't just let bad people get away with bad things. If good people do nothing, bad people win every time. I'm good about the load now. That load's not going anywhere. I always feel the best right after my strap check. Oh, oh, bud, bud, bud, bud, bud. There you go, yeah, you figured it out. You shouldn't stop there, man. I didn't even have his hands on the wheel. One of my pet peeves is when people park on the shoulder. I know sometimes you have to and sometimes it just doesn't matter. It still bugs me a bit. Oh, this guy's got a smoke coming out of his trailer or something here. What's going on here? Coming out of his truck. Oh, I think your motor's going, bud. Oh boy, time for a rebuild. Looks like he was getting tired. All that blue and white smoke coming out of it. There's our trailer. It's now in front of us, not behind us. Because we have an empty one behind us now. Where are they off to now, you ask? Well, I could leave it as a surprise for you, but you know me, I'm a vlogger. I share everything. We're going to America. Gotta grab this empty out of here. It's just a tandem step, 53 foot. It's an aluminum trailer, so it's very light. And we're pulling it down to Thief River Falls, Minnesota. And we're going to exchange it for another one just like that with stuff that's on it already. We're going to tie that stuff down. We're going to bring it back to Canada. It's going to be fun. So it's going to be a bit of a late day. Not really even sure why they wanted me to take this load back here. Usually we pick the loads up here and go deliver them. We don't usually bring them back here. There's obviously a reason why the load had to come back. I was talking to a co-worker. Maybe they were going to add something onto it or maybe they had to replace something. Something happened anyways. I don't know. All I know is that we're now going to America. All right. Hopefully they'll let me in. I've been really good. I'm a really good boy and I promise I'll be a really good boy while I'm visiting. Okay, I'll look them right in the eye so that they know I'm serious. I'm going to be real good. That'll make them nervous, won't it? We don't want to make the customs agents nervous, okay? I'll answer whatever questions they ask me, speak when spoken to, answer questions they asked. Don't answer questions they didn't ask because then they'll be like, why are you talking right now? I didn't talk to you. You just answer what they want, okay? They're very serious. If you think of it, it makes sense. It's a serious job because I'm not trying to make fun of it. It's actually, it's not so bad. I crossed through into the U.S. quite often. I used to cross like every week, twice a week. Now I cross a few times a month. I never had an issue. Oh, that's for sure. Sometimes I get a random search. Sometimes I search my stuff and sometimes they verify I am who I say I am and sometimes there's paperwork issues. But I've never had an issue. They're pretty nice people just doing their jobs. And I'm just a nice guy doing my job, so. Let's get going. I got a bit of a headache. I hope it goes away. It'll go away. From Morden, Manitoba, it's about 220 kilometers to Thief River Falls from here. Or about, well, it'll probably turn out to be about two and a half hours plus the border crossing. Hopefully there's no delays there. What was that? Oh, it was just a big pothole there. It felt like I drove over something. What was that? Nah, it was just a pothole. All good. Gonna try to get out of this lot here without hitting anything. Oh, yeah. That was wonderful. Nice and wide, not too fast, because I don't want all this dirty water to spray up on my frame. Oh, I should clean this back window already. I keep forgetting. Off we go. So two and a half hours, that'll be what? 245, 345, 415. Hopefully we'll be out of there. And a little after 430, five o'clock. Oh, two and a half hours back. Oh yeah, it's gonna be a real late night tonight. Probably be finished work around eight o'clock. You gotta do what you gotta do, right? You gotta get the job done. Lots of work to do. I actually welcomed these long days. So I'm gonna be missing a lot of days coming up. And the next few weeks is when it's really go time for the IVF procedure, and Britt will need to be driven into the city every second day. All of, I don't know if it's next week or the week after. We have a lot of doctor's appointments. I'm gonna be missing a lot of work. I've already let them know so they know. So a nice long day here and there will make up for that a little bit. What? Okay, so around the corner here is weight restricted. Good thing I'm not going around the corner there. I'm going this way. That's weird. I thought this was like one of the main truck routes. They put it at 65? Really? 65% that way. Oh, we're not going that way. We're going that way. I'm just trying to avoid driving downtown with all the traffic and stuff. Downtown Morden. That is a nice property in there. Wow, it's beautiful. Always makes me excited to do our build. Oh, I can't wait. It's gonna be a while. Engine retardant brakes prohibited beyond this point. So the sign says, too bad the sign is wrong. I'm just kidding. I haven't turned off. Don't worry. If I hadn't turned on, it would sound like that. See? So I haven't turned off. I thought that was a dude standing there. That was funny. I do try to be respectful of neighborhoods where they don't want Jake Breaks or engine brakes or loud noise. As professionals, I really think it's important for us to respect that because where I live too, I don't want loud Jake Breaks going past my house all hours of the night either. Even though I think they sound like the angels of heaven. Just out of respect, we got to be quiet around, you know, where people want us to be quiet. Plenty of open space out here where we can be noisy and loud. Plenty of space. I told you guys, I told you every time I come to Minnesota, it snows. Why don't you like me, Minnesota? What do I ever do to you? Every time. Can you believe this though? Can you believe this? It's snowing. This just started recently. I'm on the way back now. I have my load behind me and I'm almost back at the Canadian border, but I'm still in Minnesota. And I had to show you this because I'm making a point of it. Every time I come to Minnesota, it snows. I think they're trying to tell me something. I don't know. Maybe, you know, it's Minnesota. Maybe it's Minnesota's way of showing me that they like me. You know, cause that's sort of what Minnesota is all about. Sort of like Manitoba. They're all about cold weather and snow. So maybe they actually really like me, in which case I would appreciate if you guys tone it down a little bit. Okay, I'm a married man. No need to try and impress me with your snow. Okay, I'm from Manitoba. I've seen enough snow. I don't want to be rude, but I'm not impressed. This is not how you get my attention. This is not how you impress me. I don't know what to say. But anyway, we're leaving Minnesota now. Funny that we just said that. Says, please visit again. I don't know. I'll think about it. I'll think about it. Are you guys gonna snow on me again next time I come? Probably. We're crossing the bridge now. We're gonna be in North Dakota. Legendary. Nope, B, legendary. So, everybody pull up your pants. It's time to be legendary, okay? North Dakota. State slogan, be legendary. Here's the sign. We have to slower down here. We're coming into town. This is Pembina. Canada is literally a mile that way. We're just hugging the Canadian border, can you tell? This is what I get to go home to. Weather was nice and deeper for falls. It wasn't even raining. Oh well, it is what it is. I'm gonna take this trailer back to the yard and then I've got to tie down stacked trailers. Like there's three step decks stacked up. I gotta tie them down, chain them down tonight and we're taking them first thing tomorrow morning down to Thief River Falls again. And let's see if Minnesota treats us a little better tomorrow, okay? Cause we're going back tomorrow. I'll give them another chance cause I really like Minnesota. I'll give them another chance. Somebody's gotta tell them that this isn't the way to show me that they like me back. We have returned. At least it stopped snowing but it definitely did snow here. And if you're wondering at the corner, the light is still purple, still have not fixed it. Anyone take any guesses at how long it's gonna take them to replace that or are they ever going to replace it? Are they just gonna leave it? I think they're just gonna leave it. Well, eventually they gotta replace it, right? Eventually. So you got one that's still shining as it should and one defected or one defect one. I'll give you a little sneak peek at what's coming tomorrow. It's been a long day and tomorrow's gonna be another long day. But I got this all tied down and ready to go. Three trailers going down to Thief River Falls. Gonna bring on one load back in the morning, go back in the afternoon, bring another load back. We have it chained at the front and at the back. And then I got some straps, mostly just for looks. The chains are enough but the straps are there to stop it from bouncing or vibrating on the road as much. So thanks for watching today, everybody. I'll see you at the shop. We still gotta plug in the fridge. I almost forgot. All right, everybody, I'm tired. So I'm gonna go home. But we can plug this in now. All right, it's been way more than 24 hours now. So you guys ready? Plug her in. Da, da, da, da, da, da. Nice and cool by morning. What's it said out there? What media? We'll see how that is. We'll see how that does in the morning. I have to adjust the feet a little bit, right? We'll do that another time. Right now I am tired, tired, tired. This is a really long day. But it was fun. We're gonna do another one tomorrow. We'll see you then. Don't forget to subscribe, hit that like button and check out the description of my videos for all the info you need about me. See you tomorrow.