 We're just truck stop Iowa 80 and trucks are here yesterday every single spot was full I had to circle the lot for a while So I could find a spot to park Building is right behind here. Now. I'm just quickly running in for a coffee I've got to go get my freight so we can't do a full tour of the building right now one of these days. I Really do want to take you on like I got to dedicate a whole video to that phone I was telling you that yesterday. It's so big Got to dedicate a whole video. A huge convenience store obviously a gift store Across the street. There's a trucking museum It just goes on and on and on and you're just surrounded by people who love the same things that you do It's amazing. What a feeling Iowa 80 If you haven't been here yet I'm sure you have but if you haven't make sure you put it on your list of places to stop when you're traveling through Iowa on the I80 Don't miss it They didn't tell me to say that either. I'm telling you just this is for me You want to come the race is loaded and gone So I am gonna stay with this load. I got it on my trailer behind me. I'll show you in a second. It's front-end loaders green ones Because we came from Iowa obviously We're still in Iowa six drops like I was my three in Saskatchewan three in Alberta. I'm going home for a reset So that my hours, I don't got to worry about running out of hours next week And as soon as my reset is complete first thing Monday morning We're gonna be taking off at this load towards Saskatchewan in Alberta near Edmonton and they're working on getting me a reload Next week after this trailer is empty. Oh, what are we on here US 20? Look, use me We're about to turn well in about a half hour. We're gonna turn northbound on to interstate 35 up north towards Minneapolis, St. Paul I've got About 1,300 kilometers from Davenport back home. And now I've got about 1,075 kilometers until it's 600 and 650 miles I'm not gonna make it home tonight. So we'll sleep somewhere Probably around Alexandria to Fargo somewhere in there what I'm thinking and Then tomorrow morning, we'll wake up and go the rest of the way just go straight home Have a nice reset Get some stuff done Iowa 80, you know, I don't know what it is It just gives you like just a rush of dopamine or something you walk in there. It's just Wow all over the all over the country and that every you know You passed one every day. They wouldn't be a special right though It would be nice to have an Iowa 80 on every highway like in how about like a Minnesota 94 How about that or off a North Dakota 29? That'd be nice Or how about a trans Canada one? Somewhere near Winnipeg like a Winnipeg trans Canada Can you imagine having a big truck stop like that? It wouldn't be the same in Canada You know, I love I love it up there, but trucking down in the US is just It's something different you have to yield you Must yield and he's got his high beams on too So many people don't understand how these on ramps work If you're on the on ramp, you must yield to traffic already on the highway just like here when I get up here If there's traffic there, I have to yield traffic already on the highway So many people think they can just whip around here. They're nose right into traffic. I'm getting mad at you In Fargo, I think maybe Fergus Falls getting there quite late up in St. Cloud though Seven minutes available to me right now, but if I stop for another half hour on my fork are on my 11 hours of driving I actually have about five hours and ten minutes So if I stop for half hour, I'll get that hour back in drive time I don't think that'll really benefit me at all. I'll probably just run this clock down as far as I dare and then See where we're at and just spend the night there a little slow Speed limit here is 60 right good 55. That's okay. I'm 55 nothing wrong with doing 55 There's lots of lanes is three other lanes people can use. Well, I don't know why they can't figure it out distraction You got these orange flowers. They're I call them highway flowers They grow on the highway in the summertime easy bud. You stay in your lane there. I mean you stay in yours Oh my lane's ending. Oh Oh never mind never mind. No, it's not see that's confusing That is very confusing What's going on? Okay, stay in my lane. That's a confusing construction zone right there. Why is there so much traffic on the road? It's like 11 o'clock at night. We drive and home from the bar. The reason is there to be out at this time of night Nothing good happens after the sun goes down I can't say that was straight face Good grandpa when I say that we got this we got this see that's that's why we're keeping it Taking it easy. There we go Okay End of work zone crazy. Wow. That was intense Still why there's so many people on the road Minneapolis you got a lot of night owls out here Gotta come get your people tell them to go to bed. They're on the highway. They're in my way a bunch of party animals And seeing cloud Minnesota these pumps are still packed Though I'm pretty sure these are all guys that are just Sitting here doing nothing There's no wine up behind us really but There's one guy who's in the pump backwards over there Chaos that's how you know you're in st. Cloud St. Cloud pilot st. Cloud is a nice town. It's a nice city. I Don't think the chaos of this truck stop represents or is a reflection of the city itself It's a very nice city. This is where we went for that walk through the forest over there. It's a beautiful city It's the pilot here. It's just That's a bad layout. It's not their fault. I guess Just how it was built Here's my load. I haven't showed you yet. Hey There it is It's all still there all going out to the sketch on an Alberta 133 us gallons race was three dollars sixty cents Cameras not picking that up is it? Oh, there it is with today's conversion rates That would be a dollar twenty six per liter Canadian Quieted down real quick now now. I'm the only person awake around here and the only one of the pumps now Odd for this location. It's kind of nice. It's quiet So I bought a hundred and thirty three us gallons as you saw that equals five hundred and three liters Last time I filled up was at St. Cloud here two days ago, so we drove 1382 kilometers or 858 miles Like I said burnt a hundred and thirty three gallons five hundred and three liters that equals thirty six point four three liters per Hundred kilometers or six point four six miles per US gallon Total price was four hundred seventy eight sixty seven us or with the conversions 635 87 Canadian Now the price back home is in St. Agath. It's a dollar sixty three nine per liter Here with conversions. It's a dollar twenty six three per liter Saved myself a hundred and ninety Canadian dollars by fueling here as opposed to fueling in Canada. I Keep pointing that out So that hopefully somebody who has some control over this Realizes that fuel in Canada is Ridiculously expensive compared to right next door all of these extra taxes We've been adding on to it is just forcing our business down into the US and now the American fuel companies are making money off of us instead of the Canadian ones Saved a hundred and ninety dollars in one fill up filled up two days ago. So in two days Every two days I'd save almost two hundred dollars. That's a hundred dollars per day that I'm saving Fueling up in the US. That's how crazy the taxes have gotten on a fuel And remember those taxes have gone up recently again to on July 1st the carbon tax went up And it hasn't reduced any of my emissions or anything But it has taken food food off my table and Has taken money out of my bank account that I could use towards a house for my family Even though housing in Canada has gotten ridiculously Unaffordable as well everything in Canada has become more and more unaffordable over the last eight years Anyways, it's all stemmed for from fuel prices here in the US less taxes lower money more money in my bank account I can use that to feed my family and hopefully put a roof over a bigger roof over our head one day At least pay for the roof we got right now. I Really wish it was the other way around. I wish our money was going to Canadian companies and spending money up there I'm getting tired Dabbling in topics that you know what I? Should save for another day. I'll talk to you when we're done. She's got another couple hours to go here So I made it to sock center Minnesota But 800 kilometers done today, but 500 miles could have kept going, but it's getting pretty late It's after midnight already and I'm not gonna be able to sleep very well in the morning because it's gonna get hot when the Sun comes up so Figure I stop early. We'll just get up a little earlier tomorrow and as soon as the logs say I can get moving We'll do the rest then and I'm heading home for that reset that I was talking about So thanks for hanging out with me today everybody. We're at the truckers in I believe is what it's called A lot of trucks here another one rolling in right there beautiful. I love those I don't know if you can see it in the video almost steel side to the trailer. You see that? I think that looks awesome Sharp, so I'll see you tomorrow right here. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss it We'll see you later