 Well, hello there, you fine person sitting right there Today is an interesting day Because I'm sitting here all day. I'm stuck here Why you ask because the government said that I I need a break I Always forget That in Canada you can only work 14 consecutive days And then you have to take a mandatory 24 hours off minimum most people would just take a 36 hour reset Then your log books are reset If you don't know what that means, that's a topic for a whole nother video, but just stay with me here But if I don't want to reset I can just stop for my 24 hours and then I can keep Recapping my hours, but if I want to keep recapping hours again and again and again I can only do that for 14 days then I need 24 hours off today is day number 15 Apparently one day away from home. I am seven and a half hours from home Well, probably going through Ontario eight eight and a half hours from home And I'm stuck here today because the government says I need a weekend Josh you need to take a break right now a right now not tomorrow See I was gonna get home and take a full reset at home take my break at home But no the government said you cannot work one more day without a break you need your break now So I'm here in Thunder Bay. Well close to Thunder Bay at the Flying J Can you see it out there parked right here? I Got here almost exactly at midnight central time yesterday. So At midnight tonight the next midnight 24 hours from when I stopped here. I can get going again So what I'm doing is I woke up this morning looked at my log books. I was like, why won't it give me hours? Thank goodness for e-logs right because they remember things that I don't if I was on paper logs I probably would have forgotten that there's a 14 hour limit and would have just driven And then if I would have gotten pulled into a scale would have gotten a huge ticket for driving illegally for not taking my mandatory weekend And I would have gotten fined For working overtime Once again trucking the only industry where you can get in trouble for working overtime big trouble I could lose my license if I get into enough trouble I could go to jail if I get into even more trouble. I Don't like these laws. I'll be clear with you. I don't like it when the government way over there in Ottawa Thinks it knows me in my body better than I do Like look at me. I'm pretty sure I could have driven Another eight and a half hours to get home and had my break at home with my wife But no the government says no I Have to take my break now Even though I had a great sleep last night. I'm wide awake. I could be driving right now. I'm feeling good. I'm not sick I'm not overworked. I've just been working 14 consecutive days Straight no weekend But that should be my choice if I don't want to take a weekend or if I don't want to take a full day off Why make me right as long as I'm feeling good and get my proper rest and following my My daily requirements in my logbook. Why do I need 24 hours? Well, good morning, everybody. What depends what you think a morning is and what a good morning would be it's midnight It's time to get rolling again I explained it to you before I went to sleep yesterday afternoon Why we're leaving at midnight. I probably cut a whole bunch of it out. I was talking for like 12 minutes I was so frustrated. So I'm gonna cut most of that out. So you don't have to listen to me ramble, but in short Yeah, I worked 14 consecutive days, which means I needed 24 hours excuse me First thing in the morning and you're interrupting me already. It's interesting How whenever I start talking suddenly the GPS wants to talk to you think she's listening The weirdest thing speaking to people listening. Okay, the weirdest thing happens to me you know how I go to the gym more regularly now right as often as I can and I don't post about it on my social media like hey, I'm at this gym Hey, I'm at this gym. I talk about it on my YouTube, but I don't really make any like posts right especially on Instagram I haven't made one post Every ad I get on Instagram since I started going to the gym is about working out and You know Supplements everything related to the gym. That's the only ads I get on social media now How do they even know I've been at the gym? They are creepy Like Instagram's owned by Facebook and I haven't checked in at the gym. I haven't posted. Hey, here. I am at the gym. I Guess I've shared in private messages to Brit like I'll send her my location Every day and when I'm at the gym, I'll send her. Hey, I'm at this gym right now. Hey, I'm at this gym over here But those are private messages and now on my Instagram. I'm getting ads for like working out in gym stuff It's so weird so weird how they know what you're up to It's creepy All right, so this is mostly going to be a night drive so I'll see how much vlogging we can get in here. I checked my fifth wheel. I'm just gonna give it a little tug just in case Forward pull breaks trailer is still attached. That's good. Now. I'm double sure that my trailer is not gonna fall off That would be terribly embarrassing Would make for a great vlog though, right? Lots of views Not exactly the views I want though Time is now well 122 in the morning here But central time the direction we're headed where home is it is 1222 a.m. Everybody else is just going to sleep And I'm going to work. It's been an interesting day so far Night whatever you want to call it feels so strange starting my work day at midnight The time is now just before 5 a.m. So we've been going five hours already it actually seems like Ouch, you got your brights on buddy that hurts Feels like the day is going by a lot faster than it actually is I used to work nights before when I worked locally For a while. I always enjoyed the nights because there's so much more peaceful not that there's just less traffic But there's just less noise in general Peaceful I've always been a bit of a night owl tried in Ontario. It's ten after five in the morning Coffee time second coffee of the day already it's 5 a.m Fun times just gonna park right here in front of these pumps And just grab a coffee. I'm not going to go in and have a shower and have breakfast Don't worry It's nice to see that the big ball of fire in the sky has decided to join us today Seems like the night lasted forever, but I'm just not used to this schedule at all I have 200 kilometers or 120 miles left to go According to the sign, it's 194 kilometers and I've been driving for about six six and a half hours already And now the Sun just rises. I still have a full day at home yet That's why I pushed it to get home. I'd like to go to the gym today yet We've got to do a dump run so we've got to take our garbage away Oh What else we got it we got to get Brit completely ready to jump in the truck with us tomorrow So we got to get all her stuff packed in here. I've also got to clean this truck out the best I can with the time I have I've got to do all my laundry from the last two weeks. I Wanted to go visit my mom and also bring her my tax papers But I don't think we'll have time for that and I don't want to just drop off my tax papers there with her and leave I don't like showing up there and just you're dropping off tax stuff and leaving it I don't feel good about that. I want to go there when I can actually spend some time visiting with her But she works every day of the week except Sundays. So Sunday is the best day to go visit her But today is not Sunday so she's gonna be busy working today anyway It's tax season and as an accountant who owns her own business She's got clients coming in Probably now already till late at night So hopefully I can be back for next weekend and I can go visit her on next Sunday and then Get everything done there, but other now we still got a lot of stuff to get done today And we've got to be in bed pretty early, which shouldn't be a problem for me because I've been up all night already we've got to be Up for To go to work. I've got to get everything loaded into the truck tonight so that we can wake up tomorrow load everybody up in here and Drag our butts over to Alberta. I'll probably make it to Saskatoon tomorrow Or we will because Brickton the dogs will all be with me. I'm really looking forward to this Gonna be exciting. It's gonna be a little cramped in here But I think cozy would be a better word to describe. It's gonna be nice and cozy. I Guess Brits training will begin tomorrow then not the official training but I Can't let her drive the truck yet But you know I can start I can start the process Did we make it home? Diesel oh we all missed you diesel We all missed you. I didn't film when I first got home. He was so excited. You were dancing weren't you? Yes, you were Are we all gonna go in the truck in the next trip? Are we all gonna go all of I said one time? Yeah, you want to go in the truck? It's two whole weeks the longest I've ever been away from you ever You had a good time though. I heard so yeah, we're just Pretty much just getting everything done really quick so that we could possibly leave tonight or tomorrow morning This machine is gonna be busy all day Got some laundry in here Brits has already been packing So she's pretty much ready to go We've got to do a dump run like I was telling you before bring her garbage to wait a steinback Had a few more things and there she is My granny work out clothes for the garbage run. I don't want to wear good stuff truck or brick I'm not a trucker yet soon He's going for a license He's so proud. He's so proud all I've done so far is study the manual and highlight everything and he's just like over the moon This is all your idea. I didn't influence you at all. No, I've been thinking about it since we started dating I just never said anything because I wasn't sure about it and Now that we're taking a while to have a family. I'm sure so cool She's coming with on this trip to Alberta and back Doesn't have our learners yet But we're working on that part and then from then on I think I'll be able to train her from what I've heard We still got to go in and talk to work and stuff But I test pretty well So a couple more days of just studying while I'm on the truck and I'll call and see if I can make The appointment via phone. I don't think I'll be able to though because I think they need my My medical sheet saying that I'm good to go probably. Yeah, which I have done I went to the doctor, but we'll see so yeah, we got the medical done The learner test is just a written test and then after that you got to study and go through the whole curriculum And then you go for the road test and if you pass the road test You get your official commercial license. I mean, I Don't want to be cocky, but I've seen some of Steve's live stock drivers. Oh, she's calling out names and I can do it. I'm sorry Steve's live stock, but Some of your drivers are great people, but all your new recruits. Oh No, I was stuck behind a guy on this on the highway doing 70 the whole way down the 59 the other morning I was infuriated 70 with an empty trailer and it wasn't windy. It wasn't I see the roads were dry She's calling out names. I know some of you watched the videos There's got to be some Steve's guys in there There's probably a few you that are amazing, but it's the bad ones that are really giving you a bad rap guys. Yeah I'm sorry But every time I go down the 59 I'm stuck behind a bad Steve's live stock driver every time. Yeah, they are really slow Really even when they're empty They take seriously five to six months longer than a loaded grain truck to get up to the speed limit And then usually they only do about 85 90 in a hundred so this guy did not go over 85 the whole way 70 to 85 and he kept dropping down. He couldn't maintain. It was just it was embarrassing I was embarrassed for the trucking world with this guy So do you guys get paid by the hour over there or what gives it's going on you? Are you had limited at 70? I'm not saying all of you though again. I'm not saying all of you There's probably some amazing ones. It's just that the bad ones stick out like a sore thumb Yeah, because they have a mile of traffic behind them Yes People were getting mad at me and I'm like, hello, I'm stuck behind this guy. Can you not see him? I'm in this little terrain and then there's this big semi in front of me like Hello, it's not me Can't safely pass. Oh, we'll train you to be a better driver. I Ready hell. I mean, I am I've been driving a little slow lately to say fuel But only on four lanes when it's not busy and people can easily get around me not on the two lanes I do the speed limit on the two lines when there's people behind me That's exactly it. That's exactly how I would drive Like you want to conserve fuel, but You don't want to hold up everybody behind you What if there's a medical emergency behind you or something where someone's loved one is dying in the hospital and they died and didn't get to See him because of you Like common sense. Because of you It's your fault. I'm so sorry guys. I regret everything I just said. I'm so sorry We're gonna need to Comfort these poor guys Anyways, we got to get some stuff done here today yet, and then we'll talk to you later There we go. We're making good use of this netting that I bought elastic netting and haul more now Look at that This long day is starting to catch up with me. I've been up since midnight It's a time now It's probably like three o'clock. I think So it's already been 12 or 15 hours Whoo. Hey, well, we got to get our errands done first And then we're gonna pack up the truck Get ready to go and we might even leave tonight yet We won't go far and we'll probably just go back to the yard or something and sleep in the truck There's that we're ready to go first thing in the morning and don't have to load up then yet We'll see we'll see how I feel Diesel diesel You guys stay here stay here you guys got to wipe your paws before going inside it's got a muddy out there it's springtime Come here Children you know, oh you're filming. Yeah children getting all muddy outside. Okay Okay, did you show them yet Shake a paw Boy diesel learning new tricks. Okay, but that's not the first that we need Okay one two three Four okay House was so clean. It was All right, everybody Here we go five days four or five four or five days So we got everybody and you've got all our stuff excessive amount of things We got diesel we got Chevy the Frankie there in the shadows He's very excited. He's shaking. He's so excited Hey little man He's a little bit nervous Mom's got your back Poor guy. It's okay You're gonna have a lot of fun. He's never been in the truck without me That's true. Yeah, it's gonna be fun frankly me Okay, whatever you say Okay, we need to get going we're gonna go get our trailer and At least hook on to it and we'll see how we feel from there So thanks for watching today guys tune in tomorrow to see how the first full day of a full truck goes It's gonna be fun