 Morning everybody, especially you right there. We're in vint in Virginia just delivered my first of four drops My last drop is gonna be all the way up in Maine. So we're going right up the east eastern seaboard here in the US There's only two skids two skids coming all the way to Virginia for two skids Now I've got another how many is going up this next one one skid Yeah, one skid that's going to Woburn, Massachusetts. I got to go there today Deliver tomorrow. It's gonna be a full day drive getting there. It's about 1100 kilometers 620 650 miles something like that It'll be a full day Deliver that and then after that I've got another two or three skids that are going to that. They're big skids They're big. They're not just like right these next ones are big Or pardon me No, no, sorry, I got four big skids that are going to be ending off in Bideford, Maine the next day But first we have to go to Beverly. So it's a little confusing. Okay, so it's just gonna be one at a time We got vint in Virginia then now we're going to Woburn, Massachusetts Let's just worry about one thing at a time. Let's worry about today tomorrow can worry about itself Let's get out there Little beacon get a truck wash. There's a petrol stop in center up ahead about an hour down the road It's got a streak and beacon. I think that's where I'm gonna stop I'm gonna roll through the eastern seaboard here or up the east coast I want to do it. I want to do it in a clean truck and it was at night It's kind of disappointed, but I could just imagine the scenery must have been beautiful. I love driving through West Virginia It's amazing how they build these cities that are right on like right into the hills or else They have the electric wires Turn right on Have all the electrical wires underground right at least that's how they do it around where we live But these older developments they have wires hanging over always makes me nervous when they make a pang over the road like this And sometimes it looks like they're a little bit too low By law they have to be above 13 foot 6 so that the trucks can get underneath them these wires here It just it looks so low, but I know I'm on a truck road, right? I'm not hitting any of them These trees look low neighbor here could use their services. I gave my GPS here says that this is a pilot That's why I pulled in here. I wanted to get a coffee. I Saw this on the map and I thought of maybe parking here last night because it's right close by where I delivered But as you can see in front of me here, you don't want to park here. That's the whole lot I mean, I guess if you don't mind you could either come in the exit and risk blocking everybody in if someone's trying to get out And then back in like this guy did that's probably what I would want to do Or you can come in the entrance come around the back where I came in and then nose into a spot and then have to back out I mean that might that might work too. I mean obviously it's working for all these guys We're on the East Coast. That means parking is limited and The truck stops that are available are usually very small in my opinion But yeah one nine like oh any like the the letters Spelled out one and then the number nine Is that flying J now did they buy it out or what happened? So yeah, this is my pilot card worked here for the coffee It says one nine on it, but everything in there is still pilot look at the coffee even says pilot on it So what happened people somebody learned me What happened it pilot flying J by one nine or did one nine by five pilot line J who bought who what happened? What's going on here if they're changing from pilot to one nine you think that they bought pilot the pilot flying J is huge That would be a massive purchase. I thought I would have heard about that in the news or something. That's huge Space in here. Let's try it over there but in front of us a lot of people a lot of people everywhere It's a petrol stopping center. There's a blue beacon here. I want a truck wash Turn right a man approaching destination on the left side in 60 meters Oh, I see it. I see it. How do I get over to blue beacon? I see it's over there. Okay, so I want to go this way This is a huge truck stop, but what do we see the other side to 205 on interstate 81 Virginia, okay Truck wash enter here. Maybe this is a way to get out if the lineups too long and you sort on a give up You can Virginia R8 R8 PH. I any working. I bet you it fills right up The highway is right up here beside me and I passed by here. There was no one in line The time I figured out how to get in here two people in line in front of me, but there's just one on each side I don't know which one's gonna be faster yet. I'll get ourselves all cleaned up looking good smelling good Okay, we're out. Let's go check their work. I Wash the trailer to it's not my trailer But I paid to wash it because I want to drive to drive the rest of this week with a clean one behind me So we'll see how well they done. I don't always wash their equipment But sometimes sometimes when I'm feeling generous Why not? Okay, here we go. He's ready. Not bad. Not bad. It looks a lot better The wheels and tanks and steps definitely needs to still be repolished Right now that's on the agenda for next spring But maybe throughout the winter I might try my hand on it if I can get the right tools I need to get a power buffer and see if I can figure out how to do it myself But that's only if I have the time and when I'm at home be honest with you I don't really want to spend the time polishing my truck though. I do want it to be polished I want to be at home more than I want my truck polished so Truck can be polished later the moments at home once they're they're gone. You can't have them again It's looking nice looking nice It's box underneath here's nice and shiny now. That's good It's good Feel a lot better rolling down the road in a clean rig. I just I'm not happy and I don't feel comfortable when the truck's not clean I mean, I didn't go all out on the trailer since it's not mine Warned it washed off because nobody ever washes our trailers Nobody ever takes the initiative going wash the trailer. So we'll end up looking like these could be polished wheels That'd be great, right? But then someone's got to polish them But you know if we pay to polish the wheels these trailers change hands so often that They would just look like this right away again And they blew off one of my light basils here. I'm gonna have to go back there and ask them. Oh boy, this is still dirty Let's be wiped down Okay, well it's better than it was but uh, I'm gonna have to ask them where this went Because these just come off, right? I think I have some spares with me, but Kind of defeats the purpose of having a nice clean rig if you're missing one of these basils All the rings and look at this. It still needs to be wiped down. I'm crying out loud You never get it all. Okay. Well, I've got to walk back over there and uh See if I can find that ring Look at this. It's all stained on me This here that's not stained on Oh, come on blue beacon. Look at this. Okay. Want something done, right? You got to do it yourself Found it It's a little beat up already. You need to replace them. They're not too expensive But see this it just hooks in there, right? It's in around that rubber Getting a place there Center it and there you go. Yeah, they definitely need to be replaced already It's not real chrome, right? Not real aluminum. It's just It's plastic. It's like a A fake chrome layer over it. It needs to be It needs to have a close Close look at all this stuff here yet, man I'm gonna get some bullsnot out right now and work on that. I can't I can't leave it like that I can't leave it like that. Don't worry, old blue. We'll shine up your rear end there. Good Gotta have a nice looking rear end Going down the highway. Everyone's looking at it, right? All right, we're feeling a lot better now See we can figure out how to get out of here What you guys, but when the truck is dirty, I just I don't enjoy the day as much It almost gets my anxiety Just having the dirt washed off makes me feel so much better I'm in a parking lot Karen calm down trying to follow the Arrows to the exit Those arrows point this way those arrows point that way I think it's this way I'm 200 meters turn left on grad hind road and then turn right in 100 meters Look at this Kenworth here turn left on commerce park drive and then turn right in 210 meters Look at that. Oh, it's for sale There's a for sale sign in the window. Should I buy it? Okay Well, this this did not lead me down towards the exit. This is not the exit Why are the arrows pointing me this way? Okay, we're gonna turn around we had it right the first time apparently we're gonna take a second look at this truck Turn right on commerce park drive and then turn left into 160 meters quiet Karen. I'm dreaming Interrupting my dreams the wrong turn you told me to go that way Leaders turn left on grad hind road and then turn right in 100 meters. It says no truck exit here How do we get out of here? No truck exit that way Okay I don't think I've ever been to this truck stop before so you can tell Turn right. I know I know Yes, this way. Okay For first timers. This is a very confusing truck stop. I'm just gonna let you know Very confusing like they could have just made a straightforward like here. Here's how you get in straight shot into the parking lot There's how you get out straight shot out I know it's like weaseling in and out of here go around here turn left here turn right there If you get lost well Good luck. Check google maps I bet it's real nice inside. I just don't have time to go in there right now. I got to get moving This was my break for the day I'll still have to stop for my half hour sometime Probably have a shower then if I can find a good shower along the way Yeah, what a break 300 meters turn left on rad hind road and then take the entrance to the right in 120 meters And one way you can tell the truck is from the u.s. When you're in canada is that they have a a nice clean painted frame Believe me you drive in canadian winter and canadian weather conditions your frame isn't going to look that good for that long I need to redo mine But it's like these old trucks here every time you're in canadian weather conditions You're not going to be able to get out of here. You're not going to be able to get out of here But it's like these old trucks here everybody's got like a perfectly clean frame because they they never leave the pavement Right, none of these trucks leave the pavement ever Come deliver a load up in manitoba once Show you some real backwards trucking It's hard to keep a truck looking nice I'm gonna turn the left here using their signals around here All right, two more vehicles coming from our right. All right three more Four more I'm going for it on the shoulder of a freeway in the united states unless it's an emergency, right? I don't correct me if I'm wrong in my comment section there. I'm okay with that But even if it was legal, I would highly recommend everybody watching this video if you need to stop for a quick bathroom break Find an off ramp and park on the shoulder on the off ramp or the on ramp coming back onto the freeway It's parking on the shoulder is just asking to just get whacked. Oh, there's another car It's like every couple of miles all the way since like virginia already. It's been a weird day Weird day lots of cars on the shoulder lots of trucks, too I never feel safe parking on the shoulder. I would never do that myself You see there's an exit coming up here exit 57. We're still on i81 here So here I would go onto the on ramp on the other side because I'm kind of back onto i81, right? And I'd park on the shoulder of the on ramp on the other side Of the cross road, right of the interchange That's where I park if I have to make an emergency like bathroom stop because my bladder's about to explode I feel safer there because traffic is moving slower And I'm off of the freeway. You never know if someone blows a steer or isn't paying attention Half the people out here are on their phones You know they'll wander onto the shoulder just a bit and WHAM! And someone's got to do up your obituary and everything and that's no fun Parked on the shoulder of the on ramp to our right over here off the highway Then I have this whole on ramp to gain speed so that by the time I hit the highway I'm doing as close to highway speed as possible. That's the way I do it We're just parking on the shoulder just to hang out with my destination But it's getting pretty late. It's gonna work then Into the night in this region because everything fills up I'd like to get closer tonight, but if I can find parking here I'm just gonna stay here do my 10 hours and we'll be on the road tomorrow I should still be about an hour early. So I have about an hour to play with. We have four hours of driving If there's no big traffic jams We're here in uh New York state, I believe trying to see where we're at here. Not quite. We're in pennsylvania still Where I might lay down my head tonight. We'll see We'll see. I'll take a look up ahead on my trucker path app. See what parking is like I'd like to go further, but low light capabilities. I know I'm gonna grab that one I'm just gonna quickly walk up here to see if there's any better spots I don't want to come all the way up here with the truck. I'm not gonna have any parking up here So I'll walk up here Give it a look Sometime there's a bunch of spots open Or once you're up here if there's no parking up here And you just have to keep on going So Right now At least we have a parking spot, right? All these lights here are blue. Doesn't that mean they're defective? I'm pretty sure see you looking Pretty full pretty full or is that an open spot right there? Well, that might be a handicap spot. There's one spot open Well, if no one else comes in by the time I get down to my truck I'll pull up here. I'm just gonna go make sure it's not a handicap spot It's really humid out really hot and humid So I was able to roll up and park In the parking lot up here actually so I think we'll be okay here I wouldn't mind parking on the ramp on the way up there too. It's a nice big wide shoulder Guaranteed no neighbors, but you do have trucks passing you all the time and I was just thinking like where would I feel safest? Well, if anything happened on the highway say someone fell asleep lost control I was driving drunk or whatever veered off the highway fell asleep I'm right there Right up the ramp they could slam right into the back of me and while I'm sleeping and I'm off to meet Jesus Not ready to go there today yet. So I figure The best safest safest place for me would be to park up here in the parking lot if there's space There was that one space available Parked up here. Now. I just have to worry about my neighbor Dragging his trailer into me in the morning, but I think we'll be okay here Let me show you I'll grab my other camera so we can see the low light a little better All right, sony work your magic All these lights are blue here. He needs to be able to get out This way in the morning. I think I left him plenty of space I left my nose a little bit further back So he can get out because the curb is right here, right? Not much space He did the same thing so that the guy beside him could easily get out There's still plenty of space around the back for people to get by And get around me if they need to Plenty of space. So that's that Decision's been made. We're parking right here So thank you for joining to hang out with me today. I really do appreciate it If you don't mind go down below the video Make sure you're subscribed or make sure you're still subscribed Leave me a comment down below. Let me know what you're thinking Tomorrow we head through new york state Into connecticut and then into massachusetts. We're gonna get to wolburn Afternoon sometime the appointments for 2 p.m. I'm planning to be there for 1 p.m It's one of those places that if I'm early, it's good. It's not bad and be careful Some places out there you show up early. They get mad at you show up late. They get mad Show up early. They get mad sometimes you show up on time. They get mad They want you in that five minute window before your appointment Five ten minutes before so that they can start unloading at your appointment time So if your appointment times at three o'clock, they want the forks under the first pallet At three p.m. Did I say three? Right at your appointment time How uh, it'll be it'll be pretty straightforward. We'll go deliver that It's just one skid all the way to massachusetts here for one skid And then I got another four skids. I believe that are going to beaverly Is it four or is it almost a whole front piece contraption in front of my trailer going to beaverly? That's at eight a.m. The following morning So I'm going to have a little bit of time tomorrow and just uh go find a good place to park go have a shower And probably work on some videos And then after we deliver that eight a.m. Then we'll rush up to bideford in main get that unloaded thursday afternoon And then we'll be empty and we'll See what life has in store for us after that I'll have to call them to the load gods and tell them to start working I'm gonna need a load Remember everybody to be safe out there. Stay safe Drive safe and see you tomorrow