 Good morning everybody. You happy to see me? It's another new day. It's another new vlog. Let's go out and take a look at our load We're about to deliver it Not here, but Soon close to here. We got to go down the road to Dundee, Ohio We're just at a rest area right now a little ways before that So I have a feeling today is gonna be a good day Usually you have that feeling you feel it you wake up today and just feel that tingly feeling like It's gonna be a good day today I don't know why Feeling good Actually, I do know why you know why it's gonna be a good day today because I'm gonna make it a good day today That's why You're the only one who has control over if you have a good day or not Well, actually that you might argue that Continue on this road for 47 kilometers. I gotta start the truck first Karen calm down. I know you're excited, too There you are oh my girl, I love my truck I know it's a Volvo. It's not a Peterbilt or a Kenworth, but it's special because it's mine Okay, I'm gonna reset all my gauges here my tripometer Just because I keep daily track of my fuel use here and how many or what my mileage is during the days I know how far I've gone. I Like to get I like to drive no less than 800 kilometers a day But no more than a thousand I'd like to make 800 kilometers a day, which is 500 miles. I like to make that like an average day. I don't want to push myself too hard all the time, but If it comes down to it, I can do 650 miles on a day You ready to rock diesel? I already gave you your treat. Don't look at me like that. I already gave it to you You can't trick me Apparently, we're gonna be turning on to Amish country by way back in small town America. Look at this. Isn't this awesome? Almost every almost every house has a an American flag on it. See that's What I'm used to seeing In small towns, you seem to see a lot more Canadian flags as well up in Canada It seems the small towns are always a little more patriotic. I don't know. You don't see it as much in the big cities Maybe I'm just Maybe I just haven't seen it yet, you know small town America You know, we're going up to Smithville, Ontario, so we'll get to see small town Canada tomorrow Which is practically almost they look very identical very this very much the same Different history obviously but same like type architecture and setup I would love to build an old Victoria style home on our property Like bashed on our house and build a Victorian style home, but obviously with all the modern Amenities, you know air conditioning and stuff, but I'd love to have those 10-foot ceilings huge archways Stonework, oh, it's just they don't build houses like they used to Just my turn. That's a bad thing to do in this part of the country In Ohio. This is definitely Amish country though and Midnight country actually I've seen quite a few Mennonite churches out here Mennonites and Amish people are of the same stock same bloodlines I was just say the Amish people are just the Mennonite extremists, you know Those are our extremists, you know Watch out really nice people though. I'm just gonna back in right around here And apparently they're supposed to unload me right here Exactly the reason why I love coming out to this part of the world It's part of the country because it's so different than the Midwest where I'm from where everything's flat wide open lots of open space Everything here is so cramped together There's so many people that every little square inch of land has been developed into Into some kind of purpose right either a residence or a business or a road or or something agriculture It's amazing and then to see the Amish how they live in the middle of all of this without any of the regular amenities that We all take for granted in that I was just saying in a couple of clips ago You know, I want an old-style house, but I want all the fancy things like air conditioning and electricity These people they found a way to live without all that it's very fascinating to see it firsthand. I don't if I could do it You never know I might have to the way the world is going I might have to give all that stuff up It might be taken away from me by force by the sounds of it, but okay, we're just gonna let them know we're unloading here Okay, let's go get our straps off so they can get to work I don't think this place is exactly Amish because there's all kinds of vehicles around here But the Amish people do sometimes use like forklifts and stuff It's not like they're totally all just horse and carriage all the time I guess it just depends on the the person on the people Empty trailer again. It's time to get out of here. Ontario we're gonna cross from Buffalo, New York into Fort Erie, Ontario Shipper, I'm in no real rush. I just got to pick it up tomorrow sometime And then I've got to bring that over to Manitoba for Monday And we're gonna keep going from there unless they need me to take a reset if they need me to take a longer trip But we're gonna be going going going now till Christmas pretty much Had that expensive shop bill last week plus ten days off all together while I was waiting for that and over Thanksgiving and everything that I haven't so Not complaining. I'm just saying I gotta Gotta put my foot down now, and I've got to work work work Like Ohio, I guess is like sort of like Pennsylvania, so you know they border each other I'm pretty sure right if I remember correctly. Yeah Pennsylvania is one of my favorite states because of all of the easing architecture and the way they build their Exactly like this pretty much It's exactly like this, but a little bit more dense with bigger hills more rolling hills. It's just beautiful I miss coming out this way so much and I wish I could go into Pennsylvania yet and like into New England Then I haven't been there and like over a year probably was two years now. It's not crazy I used to go through there all the time when I was on my way up to Newfoundland and the Maritimes of Canada Times change but Maybe one day we'll be going back out there I'd still like to take a few loads down to the southwest of the United States, but we don't have any freight freight lanes going down there so Like I said, maybe one day, you know one day I'd like to have my own running authority, so I Think I just called authority. I think we call it running rights or authority, you know be my own boss start to finish I'd love to do that one day I don't know if I'll ever be able to but that's sort of the plan. I'm moving towards if I can get to it That's another story Cuz it's kind of nice that someone else takes care of all the biggest headaches right collecting and everything and finding the loads But I do lose a lot of money to them for that convenience If I were to take on that headache myself and just do everything myself, which would be a lot of work and a lot of headaches. I Have a lot more money. I gotta try to get past this tractor guy. Oh, he's turning. Okay It's a solid line, so I can't cross that line now even to go around them. I was wait. He's turning There we go. One big traffic jam here. We've been sitting here for 15 minutes already That'd be so much fun. You know, I'd love to try the Amish lifestyle for a little bit You know when everything hits the fan and everything collapses the Amish won't even notice I guess I'll have less people buying their furniture Finally moving ahead here road work ahead. Yeah, don't say And these roads are so narrow here. I Was talking about them before like I love this. It's just when they do Any road road work or if you miss a turn? It's it's a pretty big delay In 200 meters turn left on North Street US 62 and then turn right in 60 meters Our side was blocked for a long time too Wonder if they're gonna let us all through now after turn left here. I don't have much of a choice here Karen even the church building is probably like one of the original buildings So much history and heritage in this town in all these little towns What is this Wilmot United Methodist Church? Okay. Well now we're stuck at the lights. Okay Get past one stop sign just to get to the next stop sign. Oh, there's police here At least directing traffic at the lights by the looks of it Poor construction crew like they got to redo the roads, right? But it's so difficult to get it done without causing complete chaos This guy doesn't know how to stay in his lane I need this lane turn left wanted to see what was going on so badly that he had to block The track cross. There you go. It's the thing with automatic transmissions that I hate the most You know what you want to go like I had the accelerator down there It took like three seconds for it to figure out what gear to put it in And then when it did decide on a gear it decided it was the wrong gear So it took another second or two to find the right gear Meanwhile, I have my accelerator down on the ground trying to go and my truck's not going My biggest complaint about automatic transmissions that they just can't replace a driver, you know a Truck another truck in the future Are they waving at me? Doing buying a little homage game Those are cute kids all in there. I forget automatic. I prefer manual myself, but let's throw to that kerfluffle now So I've decided to take the toll road today. I Believe it's the New York toll road with me at the 20 to 30 bucks and 35 to 40 liters per 100 kilometers I'm empty now. So maybe a little less And in the US here. I'm paying about a dollar per later Continue on this road for 17 kilometers So a dollar per liter I'm gonna be spending about 35 bucks to go around or I can spend, you know 25 bucks just to take the toll road So I'm saving 10 bucks and I'm getting there quicker. That's the plan for today for a long time Buffalo, New York It's been years last time I was here. I was pulling drive-outs Never been here with a flatbed yet But here we are living the dream like this So we're three miles five kilometers or so from the Canadian border We're gonna cross like I told you before from Buffalo, New York here at the Port of Entry into Fort Erie, Ontario in Canada And from there, I think it's about another hour up to where my shipper is I'm probably gonna go to the Husky or there may I think of the Flying Jay around there somewhere on the Canadian side Now we get to enjoy the sights of Buffalo They're doing some construction and here they actually are kind of smart about it They do construction at night when traffic isn't as bad Thumbs up Buffalo. I like that idea Look at this guy's got like a ring on his head like a raver That's smart. I'm not laughing at him because it's so I'm laughing at him because Reminded me of a raver But that construction dude all the construction dudes here they have like a ring of LED lights on their helmets or on their heads So you can see them or where they are All those lights are bright Wow Here's downtown Huge city like every city in America is just huge and then the Canadian side for Erie. It's like a town There's a little town For one reason or another when our countries were being built It was much much much much much more attractive for most people to go and settle pioneer and build a life in America so now we got this drastic population differences Population size differences I should say I don't know. I've got a pretty good life up in Canada. I mean That's all right. It's not exactly. I think it could be better But you know anybody I'm sure Americans could say America could be better There's always room for improvement in every country, but I Still believe that Canada and the United States are My top two countries in the world a little bit bias But I get to travel across both of them and I love them both Both beautiful countries. I make decent money up in Canada. I know you can make decent money here in America There's opportunity Some people say there isn't but I say just look Bridge You know if you if you can't find work don't go complaining to people that there's no work Everybody's looking for truck drivers and you can make good money. Go get your CDL Go get your class one your class a license and start driving a truck Stop complaining and move out of your mom and dad's basement A little bit of tough love there from trucker Josh get into my day. I need to calm down This is called peace bridge Connects the United States to Canada I think that's fitting falling at the peace bridge Diesel we are almost in Canada almost approaching destination in 200 meters 200 meters and we're in Canada buddy They've changed this since I was here last made it a lot nicer Here it is international boundary I Felt Karen was gonna tell me Karen Karen 100 meters keep to the right on Q&N slight right in 1.1 kilometers Karen Why didn't you tell me my god back in a Canada? Don't you care you're American aren't you? And as we come down off the bridge we are on Canadian soil. I do got across your customs yet. Where's my customs? Well, it's over here to the right. Okay, I got a truck this down here guys, so I will talk to you on the other side There's the big Canada flag in the sky I'm gonna stop here at husky Was it so so husky? I don't know. It's the same thing now sort of like pilot flying Jay So husky because the science here says so now See if we can find a parking spot for us here Already people parking down here on the driveway You know what I mean, it's probably pretty full in here. Oh Maybe we'll get lucky maybe we'll get lucky. Thank you