 Several drops into Saskatchewan and Alberta I'm planning on taking it through but we'll figure that all out tomorrow I'm loading it up tomorrow so I have today to get there it's about an eight-hour drive from here a little bit of a hike we'll take the hike right now looks like there's a tow truck there hey hey hey little Maverick need to be aggressive what a weird-looking truck hey little Ford Maverick what is that is that like the new new mid-size from Ford the new Ford Ranger or something Maverick what is that looks like a like a Honda pilot or something ridgeline that's what I was thinking of a Honda ridgeline in cloud Minnesota or they got the cheapest juice hoping I can make it there without any problems the flashing lights are that I saw before somebody's getting towed maybe a DUI space here on I was an accident impounding someone's vehicle looked like he was drinking they had a whole bunch of stuff out beside the car and they had him sitting in the grass handcuffed of Minnesota right ahead here is our cheap juice there's 140 cents a US gallon I still don't know why but St. Cloud always has the cheapest fuel in Minnesota at least in this region up and down the 94 that's I-94 over there they must have a different tax system like a local tax system here or something but whatever it is gets me coming back even though this parking lot is an absolute nightmare look at it it's already all backed up out onto the street everybody else has figured out that this is where you get the cheap stuff usually you don't have to wait too long unless if some people decide to take like their half hour or maybe like a double half hour break in the pumps that happens too you've got to try not to get stuck behind those geniuses lovely people lovely people that are in desperate need of a good smack throw it onto the street won't even be able to get around this corner even if I get a green light it's all plugged up there by the pumps both those trucks want to turn in there this guy wants to turn in there I bet you that guy wants to turn in there want to turn in there special nightmare today I really wish the staff here would go up and down like walk up and down the pumps making sure that people aren't just parked there every time I come here at least one truck it's just parked there no not doing nothing who knows where they are maybe they're in the shower maybe they're eating supper somewhere I don't know there's always one and there's only what like six pumps here this is gonna be brutal and that guy's gonna go in there too I can't enter the intersection until that street over there is clear red lights so far okay I think I think I'll have space I won't so I'm gonna stay as far to the left part of my lane as possible so that people can still get by on my right this guy in front of me is not doing the same he doesn't have a signal on either moving in slowly all that guy over there's got his axles slid right to the back of his van trailer making it very hard for him to get around that corner of that truck there I like to stay all the way to the left here so traffic can still get through on my right that way we're not plugging things up too much he's gonna go in there I think I'm going to be able to fit in the driveway now goodness gracious yes I'll be able to fit in there thank you he's waving me in just the curb a little bit on this side okay now we're not getting out until these guys go forward so when you come into a truck stop like this and it's really packed you have to pick a lane I know you want to wait back there and see which one's faster and then going that one you're plugging up the entire driveway and out onto the street then you have to pick one so this guy beside me picked the first one this bobtail here picked the third that guy the reefer there picked the fourth and they left this aisle here and I picked this one this is the second one I don't know if he's gonna be fast or not there's a guy parked in front of him over there but we each picked a lane now which opens up the driveway behind us for more drivers to get off the road and then we're not all plugging things up does that make sense because I know when you come up to a bunch of full fuel islands people have the habit of you know waiting way back there not picking a lane until they see someone move forward then they'll pick that lane I get why they're doing that everybody's in a hurry but that's my advice anyway it's not a rule or anything that's just my humble trucker Josh advice for the YouTube's that guy's gonna move forward was there another lane over there oh if there was and that guy's gonna take it I think there was an empty lane on the other side of that guy yet no never mind there's a it's blocked off right there okay yeah so you got another guy coming in here he's lining up in here now good times good times had by all good times had by all this guy's fueling up his truck looks like he just came from the beach guys beach clothes on his flip flops good for him you know good for him I prefer to have shoes that aren't gonna slip but I get the comfort factor I do get it why is that guy going out the eggs the entrance oh man he's gonna be messing things up you see that guy back there in my mirror as much of a kerfuffle as we got going on right here we got guys like that that are messing everything up going out the entrance messing things up oh boy so another day in paradise boys another day in paradise at least that guy's dressed for it ended up getting my half hour took us half hour in the fuel lineup now the GPS is set for Davenport Iowa 668 kilometers that's gonna be about six and a half to seven hours of driving if we don't hit any traffic on the way through Minneapolis and along the way but we got full tanks of fuel we bought 185 US gallons or 700 liters that's me 685 or yeah 685 dollars American $839 Canadian the price of fuel here was $3 and 40 cents US per US gallon or with all conversions $1.99 per liter Canadian you're 10 hours into a 7-3 or an 8-2 I'll have to go into it in a different video I've always just stopped for my 10 consecutive hours regardless if I'm in the US I just stop for 10 hours that way I know I don't mess anything up and I always stay legal right let's sleep a roll where I can stop for two hours throughout my day at the off-duty only got a stop for eight hours in my sleeper and then I get going again but not with my full 14 hours I'm on duty time right it starts from the last time playing it right now I'm still getting the hang of it it's just that you know what I'm gonna I'm just gonna play it safe we're just gonna stop for 10 hours and then you're good to go and I want to mess around and then you know again in trouble but it's time I learned this I've been driving since 2006 now how long is that 16 17 17 years holy smokes I've been driving trucks for 17 years oh in a hurry yikes here's to the next 17 years I guess but I should know this stuff right I should know that I'm in the US about 50% of my time so 50-50 Canada the US the way it works is I'm a Canadian driver I'm an international driver so I take a load from Canada into the US then I take a load from the US into Canada I'm not allowed to interstate I'm not allowed to pick up a load in the US and drop it in the US sometimes the loads that we pick up we pick up in Canada go to the US and have multiple drops on one load so we'll have like nine drops and then end up in Florida right but the law says from there we have to pick up a load that's going directly back to Canada I can't stop on the way back directly back so a Canadian company hires me some of them are an American company buys something from a Canadian company the Canadian company hires me to bring it down to their friends in the US and then once I drop that off another Canadian company buys something from our friends in the US and then the Canadian company hires me to go get it for them and bring it back it works the same way the other way around if you're an American you can't pick up in Winnipeg and deliver to Calgary there's huge huge fines for doing that if you get caught and it's hard to not get caught when you got a you know account for everything at the end of the year or end of the quarter but hey how did you pick up this load here drop it there you're not allowed to do that how'd you get this payment like where this payment come from right there's a dog in the ditch he's gonna cross the road three hours to go we're gonna stop at the world's largest truck stop tonight the Iowa 80 I have circled this whole lot twice here at the world's largest truck stop and there is not one spot open there's got to be somewhere there's got to be a spot somewhere right there'll be one there's got to be somewhere I'll find it I must have missed it whole thing can't be full oversize loads in here taking up four spots got two spots with your oversize we're taking up four really the Bob Dale in there this guy's parked so far out I don't know if I can get around but not tonight back here yet look in the park well it's not the greatest spot but it's not the worst at all I had to circle the lot here for a little while until I got a spot is very annoying there's a bunch of spots in the back but they were dangerous in my opinion and I did not feel comfortable sleeping there overnight so I left those alone and I kept circling I kept circling till somebody left it looks like somebody crossed me left there to another spot open there now but I think I've got plenty of space so that when this guy leaves in the morning he can get around me to the left there plenty of room plenty of room and this guy has kind of a big rear end on his trailer his axles are a little farther forward oh they're actually not too bad he shouldn't hit me with the back of his trailer when he turns left I think I'll be good here so that was my day today it's quite a long day 900 kilometers or how many miles would that be 560 miles that's my best guess right now 900 divided by 1.61 559 miles I was pretty close there only smokes wow okay so 560 miles and I'm gonna shut her down for night here we're gonna get going in the morning gotta go just into Davenport pick up my load I believe it'll be front-end loaders not the buckets but just like the the arms for the loaders and I've got six drops I think let's see where is this load going to I'm still not sure if I'm gonna be taking it all the way through I'm pretty sold on the fact that I'm gonna be doing it I'll probably be going so pick up tomorrow start heading home which will be a Friday and Saturday I'll swing past home spend the afternoon evening and night at home leave Sunday be in where's my first drop first drop come on come on here which way is it go first drop is in Emerald Park Saskatchewan so yeah if I leave Sunday even afternoon I could be there Sunday evening Sunday night and then start delivering Monday morning so I won't get a reset at home so I'll have to be careful with my hours I may have to start recapping my hours but since I'm in Canada it's 70 hours in seven days instead of like in the US where 70 hours and eight days so I should be able to recap my hours just fine I'll have to double check that tomorrow before I fully commit to going through with this because this needs to start delivering Monday yes okay then my next drop would be in Swift Current Saskatchewan that's on the other side of the province of Saskatchewan near Alberta oh that would be Monday afternoon okay next drop after that kindersley Saskatchewan that might be Wednesday afternoon that might be or not what's it the Monday afternoon might be Tuesday we'll see so we've got Emerald Park Swift Current Kindersley Saskatchewan I think from here we go into Alberta the next one is Hannah Alberta then Panoka Alberta and then ending off in Atchison Alberta just on the west side of Edmonton it'd be a good run okay what is that six drops so three in Saskatchewan and three in Alberta we'll figure it out tomorrow I've got to do the math look at my log books I don't want to run out of hours and have to reset on the road and I'm just assuming that they want me to start deliveries Monday morning but if I could start deliveries even even Monday afternoon or possibly Tuesday morning then I could get a reset at home on the way past then make sure that I don't run out of hours on my way but it all depends when they're expecting this according to my message in here they're they're only expecting it Wednesday my first delivery so I'm thinking Tuesday might be okay because Tuesday would still be a day early it all depends we'll have to see what happens so thanks for hanging out with me today everybody it was fun we're down here at the world's largest truck stop I went in and sniffed around a little bit inside already and boy could I spend money here oh one of these days I want to take you for I got to dedicate a whole video to it just touring around the Iowa 80 it is a truckers heaven it's not even paradise it's better than that it's heaven it's seventh heaven it's it's the top of the heavens what's better than heaven it's the throne of God if God was a trucker it's really good you know if God was a trucker and he lived on earth he would this would be his home it's I can't say enough about it there's a so you got TA fuel here there's a trucker museum here there's a huge laundromat for truckers here service center for trucks truck wash for trucks across the street is another flying J cross the street over there's another flying J apartment I think they're pilots same thing it's just trucks everywhere this this is what I remember as a kid this must be where that memory was from when I was a kid where just trucks as far as you can see thousands of what feels like thousands of them in reality it's probably just like several hundred of them but I love it you can just feel the ground rumbling with all the diesel engines oh goosebumps right so good so good I'm gonna sleep really well here so I'll see you tomorrow let's go pick up that load and figure out what we're doing with it