 Good morning, everybody. It's another new day. We're in Deer River Minnesota. This is where we went to sleep last night So we woke up in the exact same spot. It's great We're gonna go across the street where I can get a coffee I'll get this day started. I want to get down to Brainerd unload and then figure out what's next It's gonna be a good day a storm warning or a winter storm winter snowfall warning Doesn't seem like it's gonna be that bad Looking at what they're expecting. They're expecting two to four inches of snow So it's probably just gonna come down real heavy for like a short while and that's why they're warning us It's two to four inches isn't really like the end of the world, but if it all comes at once. Yeah, that's quite a bit So that's supposed to be a little ways down here toward Brainerd. I how it is in town here It's usually worse outside of town, right? It's probably gonna get worse before it gets better. I drive in take my tarps off roll them up Take my straps off roll them up and then they unload me and then I back out. It's easy as that And I don't know what's next yet. I haven't heard anything. So stay tuned Nobody coming nobody coming. Nah, yo, let's find that funny Anyways eating for us on the ground. It's doing no good on the ground I need to put it on my trailer and tie it down bring it back to Winnipeg Somebody up there needs wood Isn't it it is interesting though someone pointed this out in my comments more than one person is pointing this out Isn't it interesting how I load up lumber in Canada? I take it down to Minnesota And then I load up lumber in Minnesota and take it up to Canada not complaining It gives me something to do. All right, but sometimes you're just scratching your head like there's There seems to be a shorter route to this But don't tell anybody because I like to work Okay, I don't I like it. I like it I'll bring I'll bring Canadian lumber down here to America and then I'll bring American lumber back up to Canada Don't tell anybody that we could just you know Shorten that up. No, no, I like it this way. I Find it funny. I do whatever The lumber is different. Okay, that's there's a bigger story to it It's not just simple as that the lumber I bring down here is like finished lumber very special lumber That's why it gets a special tarp. The lumber I'm picking up in Bemidji. I don't think we'll need a tarp It's probably just you know two by four lumber, which is interesting because we have an abundance of lumber in Canada But this lumber is obviously very special Everybody makes it in just a little bit of a different way and sometimes it is easier To get lumber from Minnesota up into Winnipeg than it is all the way from Edmonton To Winnipeg, right? It's just shorter. Maybe cheaper There is a reason why it happens. It doesn't have to make sense. It makes sense to someone. That's all that matters There's a car coming. I'll wait. I'll have a green light right away. I think man on old blue from the receiver here Those guys are great guys. I was able to sit there and have a little bit of coffee with them. They Give me a coffee. They're very kind guys Sit there and chit chat for about five minutes. They didn't have anything I guess they were on break right then and they had nobody waiting behind me So I said hey, yeah, take five minutes chat with them a bit. Good guys and it's hey, it's free coffee Who turns down free coffee? Crazy people. That's who do I look crazy? I'm not crazy You get offered a free coffee you accept There's a snowstorm rolling in I'm trying to beat it load it and get out of here Anyway, the receiver complimented old blues that I've never seen your truck so clean. How'd you keep it so clean? I don't know. I washed it at PBX Like last weekend and then I drove all the way to canora and all the way down here and it stayed clean in this I Don't know what PBX used on it, but whatever it is Thumbs up from me, but if you want to pass me you can come on pass me. I don't mind only wants to turn Okay, but he was just Sitting beside me there I've said it before When you're passing a truck The best practice and the best etiquette when passing a semi truck is to get past them as fat Well, not as fast as you can but you know, don't loiter beside the truck. You want to pass us get past If you don't really want to go faster than us. Just stay back. That's my advice Driving a big truck like this. You never know like I'm scanning the whole road in front of me here, right? I'm watching for you know skid steers coming out that are clearing snow I'm watching for kids that are you know running ahead of their parents and maybe trip over the snowbank fall into the road I'm watching for other drivers on the road that might you know lose control or start slipping around If at all possible I like to have the lane beside me clear just in case if like a kid jumps out from behind that sign and falls in front of me I Have an extra lane just sort of move to the side, right and on the highway It's more so of deer jump out in front of me or wildlife or whatever I like to have the lane beside me clear if possible like this. I understand it's not always possible, but Especially on the highway If you want to pass the truck pass the truck If you aren't sure just stay behind You drivers out there know exactly what I'm talking about, right? When you have a car who's obviously got the cruise control on you know They can go faster, but they just leave it on cruise control and literally take 12 miles to pass you Just creepin past Whoa every trucker knows exactly what I'm talking about. They're all nodding their heads right now You want to pass pass? Right in town. It's a little different. I know It's not all black and white They got a lot of snow here and there's more on the way like look at this place You know careful people are gonna start thinking it's cold outside And there's Paul Bunyan I think right over here is the town called Baxter, right? And their claim to fame is it's the start of the Paul Bunyan trail. I think I think it's right over here on this side of the river There's a big sign. They're all proud of it Good for you. You should be proud of it Paul Bunyan a Minnesota hero, I guess right Must have been one of the trailblazers you know one of the first First to make it out here. Maybe I got a read up on it. I know Paul Bunyan I know the name everybody knows Paul Bunyan the name But I don't know what his actual story is, but he's definitely connected to northern Minnesota here or central Minnesota or wherever we are All these American flags America me Sam Na na na na na That's not a Nissan deal. That's a Dodge dealership. Why'd they have a Nissan sign? Is it Nissan or is it Nissan? Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan. I don't know Baxter see right here. It says welcome to Baxter start of the Paul Bunyan trail, huh? I Knew I wasn't lying to you. I was pretty sure anyways like 80% sure I wasn't lying to you They're gonna fuel up in pillager up ahead here or maybe in Bemidji. I gotta figure that out yet I'm gonna grab some fuel down here in the States And we're gonna try to outrun the storm This is a truck stop Is this truck stop? Can I get in there with a truck? I don't think so Nope Nope not a truck stop Definitely not a truck stop Looking for a truck stop. I see another one coming up ahead here Maybe that's a truck stop You got to be careful you don't want to get yourself in a pickle do you pull into a lot that's not designed for big trucks and Suddenly it gets really busy there Good luck getting out You might even end up on YouTube Not on my channel. I don't do those kind of videos, but you know the videos I'm talking about Every time a trucker does something dumb they end up on YouTube somewhere The whole goal of the day is not to end up on that part of YouTube We're heading north up. What is this Minnesota 200? I? Think this might be a truck stop up here past all this stuff. There's a speedway or something a Big sign usually if it's a really big sign That means that it's a truck stop because they want all the truckers to see it come spend your money here. Come on down See right there speedway I'm pretty sure that's a truck stop I'm pretty sure of it Definitely not a truck stop They tricked me Not very nice We'll find one yet Found ourself something Hopefully this is the truck stop. I mean they got diesel pumps. So there's got to be space for trucks in there, right? What is the Senex? No, I think I'm gonna pull in here Karen. Oh, yeah, look at the lots of room Nice park back here Nice out of the way Inside real quick What is rattling? Man I'll give old blue a few minutes to rest here. I'm gonna go in there and see what they uh, what they got inside there What is on the menu today trucker Josh you ask? Chester's three-piece chicken meal. Oh Whoa, man All of them still good. Oh, I can hardly contain myself. Oh Yeah, the macaroni and cheese Mmm Got my motor lumber headed north behind me now I was hoping to be cleared so that I could cross but looks like we're gonna be spending the night here in Pembina, North Dakota Right by the border Hopefully we can find ourselves a parking spot here See some parking spots in the back there already right um It's kind of worried you would be full. I don't have any time to go anywhere else I got six minutes told me six minutes left on my clock six minutes to park Now one park straight ahead there, I don't know this guy's gonna take that spot or not back in beside this Empty trailer of lumber. I mean loaded trailer of lumber. I can't even get my word straight apparently a lot of drop trailers here I'm taking up a lot of space for drivers that need it my window here and lean out make sure that I Don't got to move over more. I think I left enough space here. Yeah, I left enough space for another guy There we go don't really want a neighbor, but I Didn't want to take up both spots. I mean I could have Could have just taken up both spots. I wouldn't have had any neighbors on this side. I've got a snowbank But I just can't bring myself to be that driver. I only need to take up one spot It's fun It's fun. It's gonna be cold tonight. Anyway, so it might be an idling kind of night. It's supposed to go down to minus 31 Celsius Minus 31 Celsius. Do you really want to know? I mean, I don't know if you want to know What is minus 31 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 31 degrees Celsius is equal to minus 23.8 degrees Fahrenheit That's how cold it's gonna get tonight. I Think old blue would be fine if I if I turn the engine heater on two hours before I started I Think it would turn over just fine in the morning But I'm more worried about my fuel at that temperature the fuel starts to crystallize if you're not careful You might not do it in the tanks But in the fuel lines between the tank and the fuel filter for sure because that's just an exposed little little hose, right? And it'll gel up in there and then you'll start it up in the morning It'll run just fine for like five minutes and then all that gel to fuel from the fuel line It goes sucked right into the fuel filter plug everything up and then I got problems If I leave the truck running then The fuel goes keeps moving through those fuel lines, right? It's through the fuel filter some of it goes into the inner gets burnt Some of it goes back into the fuel tanks and then my fuel is always moving and my fuel stays warm You got to make those tough decisions because it's not cheap to idle your trucks through the night You burn about a gallon per hour a US gallon per hour And I have to stop for 10 hours now. I'm not running it right now. So I'm not gonna run at the whole time But yeah, yeah gallon here right now what I just paid at the loves in Drayton, North Dakota was $4.38 per gallon I saw it in Fargo was $4.09 cents per gallon But I didn't go through Fargo. It was a little bit too far around to go there didn't make sense I would have saved $30 it's feeling up there, but I would have spent that money going around to get there so Yeah, 439 that's US is about $5.25 per US gallon And I said just over $5 an hour to have old blue sit here and per all night in 10 hours 60 It's a lot of money. It's over 50 bucks the extra quarter in there throwing me off right now I'm too tired to do math. So I'm gonna cheat 525 times 10 52 dollars and 50 cents 50 bucks That'll through the night So that $30. No, I didn't say 30 dollars. I did fuel in the US. So I saved about How should I save with 30 cents a liter I bought 518 liters I saved $155 Canadian fueling in the US today, then if I would have fueled in Canada tomorrow So you subtract, you know 52 50 off of that. I still came out ahead with 102 dollars and 90 cents Did I do that right but 103 dollars anyways ahead just for fueling in the US So the cheaper fuel prices in the US paid For having to idol it if I have to I don't like doing that. It's very hard on the diesel engine It's waste fuel and For every hour that the engine idols it just wears and tears at the engine, right? It doesn't like it, but You don't have any choice either that or you're stranded here, and then you're paying for a tow to tow you to a shop Just so that it can thaw out Change the fuel filters and get back on the road and do it all over again Driving up in the cold climates is a little different than driving like in the milder climates all the way down to minus 25 I'll shut the truck off for night. That's minus 25 Celsius. I keep forgetting that you guys use Fahrenheit It's such a strange system of measurement to me. I don't mean any offense by that It's just I grew up with Celsius and Fahrenheit makes no sense Like in Celsius you guys know this the freezing point of water is zero degrees Celsius the boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius In Fahrenheit freezing water is 32 Fahrenheit. I don't even know what the boiling point of water is in Fahrenheit It doesn't make sense. There's all odd numbers 32 Fahrenheit what? So to me it's just a little strange so Minus 25 Celsius in Fahrenheit Minus 25 degrees Celsius is minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay, so my point was that all the way down to minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit I'll shut the truck off for night. I have a nice engine heater that'll warm up the block from the morning I'm not worried about my fuel gelling at that point though. That's borderline. I Could put anti-gel into my fuel as well if I really want to Sometimes it doesn't work Most times it does But I know each situation is different each tank of fuel is different You know each refinery Seems to make fuel a little bit different for in different regions. You never really know better to just play it safe and then sorry but Yeah You'll see it's gonna be a cold night. I'll be warm and there's a 24-hour building here So if my truck does Shut off for whatever reason I have a warm building where I can go inside and keep warm So I'm not worried in the morning. I'll wake up I'll call into the load gods and just confirm that my load has actually cleared We'll get going probably around 7 7 30 in the morning We'll run into Winnipeg. We'll deliver this freight and We'll see if they have anything for me to do Because we've had appointments the last few days. It's sort of shortened my week for me It's very hard for me to get a full weekend when I have to Know, you know take time for the appointments not that I'm complaining I want to be there at these appointments, but it cuts into the work week, right? So we're already pretty much at the end of the work week And I was just home and I'm probably going back home tomorrow And then I'll probably get another week or two of full work in What we do well next next week mostly full and after that about two more weeks And then I'm off on my paternal leave to assist Britt as she will be very pregnant at that point She'll need help with the dogs taking them out cleaning up after them feeding them You know vacuuming cleaning around because she can't she's a little person and there's a big baby in her Well normal size bad. She's a little person and She'll need a little bit of assistance towards the end and also after the C-section she can't do any lifting or anything I have to lift up the baby for her and then put it in her arms so that she can feed it So for at least six weeks after surgery it's gonna she's gonna be in recovery now I'm gonna be off for I'm hoping about a week or two before the delivery day And about four weeks after to help to help with her and then from there on we have some family members that have offered to come in and Help out if she needs it depending on how Now the healing process goes. Ah, so much to learn so much is coming and I'll take it one day at a time This guy's parking over here with his high beams in my face this guy Parked over here right by the scale goes high beams on So we're gonna end the vlog here like this as a friendly neighborhood trekker Josh reminder Turn your high beams off Okay, don't drive down the highway with those things on don't pull into parking lots with those things on the only time You should be using those things is when you're alone on the highway the rule is When traffic is coming towards you if you can see two separate headlights You're too close to use your high beams and for traffic That's traveling in the same direction as you in front of you if you can see two separate tail lights on the vehicle You're too close to turn on your high beams. That's the rule. I don't make the rules I just follow them and I tell them on YouTube. I don't know. Maybe I did make up that rule But I think it's a good rule. It's a good rule, right? 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