 You ready for this? Maybe a good day. From Prince Edward Island, he's this truck right here. He's blocked in by Western Express over here. It's from, like I said, Prince Edward Island. He was in here, I was grabbing a coffee from McDonald's at one of the rest areas here. And he came up and said, hey, watch your videos. And I thought he was from around here. He said, no, it's from Prince Edward Island. Geez. You Maritimers, you're so nice, you're following me. Everywhere I go, there's a friendly Maritimer. So he's on his way. He said he's delivering about 20 miles from here. Where are we right now? I think we're near the border with Connecticut. Let me check. We're in Massachusetts still. Oh, we got a little bit of aways yet. We're just north of Sturbridge. And it looks like we're gonna hit I-84 and then go down into Connecticut. And then I'm going to take the 287 around New York City and make our way through Washington, D.C. That should be interesting today. Woo. All right, okay, well, just wanted to say shout out to Josh. And I'm sorry you're blocked in there, bud. He can't get out now because this guy came here. I can't really get out. I think I still get out, but. Another piece of good news right now is that our fence is being put up today at our house. So hopefully he'll get that done today and tomorrow or whatever in the next couple of days. We'll have a fence around our yard so that our dogs can run off leash. That's gonna be awesome. It's gonna make walking them so much easier in the wintertime. It's gonna take a lot of stress off of myself and Britt, especially because she's there every day. Can't wait to show you guys. And let's get down the road. I forget what else I was gonna tell you. I was gonna tell you something else. I'll think of it. I'm excited. Let's get truckin'. All right, let's see if we can get around this guy. It's not a very nice place to park there, bud. Walking us all in. My lights are on. Some people will see me. Make our way out. So we still have 1,994 kilometers to go. That's two full days of driving. So all day today, all day tomorrow, then I'll deliver this on Friday. And I still don't got a reload that I know of yet. They probably got something in the works for me though because they always do. I did request to go home. We will see how far that request makes it. They'll get me home. I know. I have faith. I've been out for a long time now and I have the New Brunswick there. I mean, I need to get home. I got a life, you know? Life isn't trucking though. Pull ourselves out. I'm heavy. I'm sitting at 79,500 pounds. Barely legal to be traveling down these beautiful interstates. Good thing I'm not any fatter or they'd probably pull me in and give me a ticket. So it takes me a little while to get up to speed here. And I've got to be very careful. It takes me a long time to slow down. I make all my lane changes and maneuvers slowly and smoothly. But here we go. Let's get around New York. Let's get through D.C. Let's get on down to Georgia. Georgia. Diesel. Georgia. Where the sun shines and the palm trees grow if you go far enough south. I've got my own palm tree one day, you know? I really hope that by the time I retire all of these COVID restrictions are gonna be gone so that we can go on vacation to the U.S. again. Because I'm gonna wanna be a snow bird once I'm old. I am not, once I'm old, I have earned not having to deal with snow anymore, I think. Getting to the sunlight. Your windshield is when you drive straight towards the sun. I'm sitting on to Interstate 287. That's gonna take me all the way around the city center. So I don't gotta go through that mess. Is this Midland 287 this way? Everything's under construction here, so. And it doesn't help that the sun is right in my eyes. And two people yelling at me. I'm taking 287. Karen thinks I'm taking the long way. Cliving through the Northeast if there wasn't at least one massive traffic incident. On here, there's a lot of flashy lights coming up ahead of here and people are getting impatient. I drive like, is this? Oh, wow, oh, buncha. Looks like there's a big rig tow truck there. It's hard to see, cause it's at night. I can't see nothing from here, but I do see a big rig tow truck, which would make me think that there's probably a big rig that he is towing. You know, I have these thoughts in my head. Sometimes they make sense. Any rubber neck? Let's all slow down, let's all take a look. Emergency vehicles. Cause you're not supposed to block the shoulder. He's getting impatient at the back of the line, I guess. He's trying to get by everybody. I don't know why people think that that's a good idea. You know, bridge or something and they can't get in and now all the emergency vehicles that are supposed to be coming down the shoulder for the accident are blocked. That was that guy, genius. Oh, he doesn't know how to use his signals up there either, that makes sense. You've really gotta wonder where some people get their licenses from, you know? Like, we've got problems like this up in Canada too where, you know, what would you call them? Serial box drivers that got their license in a serial box? That's what it seems. So we've put a whole bunch of new regulation and law up into effect up there now, where it's a lot harder to get your class one or your CDL now. Which is, it is a good thing, but it's also a bad thing because it's also very expensive now and with the shortage of drivers like we always have. Now we have even less drivers because it's like 10 grand to get your license, I heard. My license, it was like 200 bucks. No, no, it wasn't even. It was like 140 bucks and as long as you got a truck, you go take the road test, you pass, there you go, bada bing, bada boom. You're a trucker. Wasn't even that long. I mean, I got my license in 2006 and they've stepped up regulations since then. Good thing I had a good trainer. My dad was a veteran driver by that point already. He knew, he made sure I knew what I was doing, but it's scary to think that a lot of drivers out there don't have that, don't have that help and they just get given a license and woo-hoo. There you go, here's 80,000 pounds of hurtling steel. Have fun. Try not to hurt anybody, okay? The thing by your finger there, that's a signal. It's optional, but if you wanna use it, it's pretty cool. Don't have to. And you guys know I'm not the biggest fan of regulation, but some regulation, okay? I just like there to be like, you know, a reasonable amount. And I think that the regulations they've brought in for getting your license now is good. I think that they've made, I think they've made it safer, made it better because it was getting crazy, you know? Because up in Canada, we haul more than 80,000. We haul, like I can haul 87,500 in this unit up there. End up, out east, I can haul even more. Some units, you know, they're hauling upwards of 120, 150,000 pounds. And, you know, they're just giving the keys to these drivers who have, who they used to be giving the keys to these drivers that had like no training. And then they throw them out into the mountains in BC or Northern Ontario on those two lane highways and they're like, all right, bud. Have a good trip, eh? You know the number for 911, right? All right, have fun. I think it's good that we make sure that people who are guiding these trucks down the highway among us are trained properly. And I'm not a trainer, okay? I'm an entertainer, but I do like what I do, okay? This is one thing I'm good at. I got this little parking signs right there. Like parking on the side of the highway like this, I just find it risky. So let's see if there's anything for us in the rest area. I have my doubts. What do you guys think? Can you see? I know this camera sometimes doesn't pick up so well at night, you just have to trust me, it's packed. This guy didn't even try to straighten out. Nice, this is one of those rest areas where it's the parallel parking only. So only like 10 trucks can fit in here, but we've tried to fit in 20 next one. I think the next rest area was in 30 miles. That's one thing I like about the Midwest. Oh, can I fit in here? I don't think I can. A little bit too small. Ah, come on. Oh, what up here? Parking signs there. I still got time left. We'll just go on to the next rest area. Parking on the side of the highway like this, especially like this guy here on the left. And these guys over here, and if somebody blows a steering tire just as they're coming past here, all of these trucks are gonna get clobbered. Guess we really gotta find a place to park soon then. I think the next rest area is coming up here soon, though I have my doubts that I'll be able to find parking. But we'll see, we got lucky last night. So far we've always found somewhere to park. According to the Trucker Path app, there's some parking here at the Liberty Truck Stop. I think this is what, Harrisonburg? Turn right. I'll have to double check. Where do you want me to turn right? I've never actually stopped here before. Liberty Truck Stop. Let's see if they actually have parking. Or if the app was lying. It's on South Main Street for one kilometer. There's already people parked up here, so chances are back here. But we'll see. This is actually quite a big truck stop. I had no idea that this was even here. Oh, there's gotta be like 100 parking spots here. Thank God for the Trucker Path app. I like that thing. Okay, and if you find a truck stop with space, the more people that use the app and update parking lots and stuff, the better it works for everybody. Let people know when there's parking. The app said there was some parking here. I don't know. Weasel, how does it feel, man? How'd you feel being back on the road? Tell the good people. Tell them. Well, it feels nice. It's very nice. Everything's very nice to you, Weasel. As long as you get your food and your treats. So our fence got finished today at our house back home and my mom went by there to take some pictures for me and send them to me and Britt video called me once she was at home there and showed me at all. It looks great. It looks awesome. It turned out very well. So I can't wait to get home and actually see it in person. We can now let our dogs out in our yard, off leash, they can burn their energy, chase each other around. I can't wait to take diesel back there. He can chase Chevy around diesel. Where's he gonna chase you? No, he's, no, you're gonna chase Chevy, right? One of the two. You're still pretty fast, man. You can get him. You miss Chevy? Of course he does. So I can't wait to get home. They can run around now in our yard again. Glad that got done before winter. I was really honestly expecting to only get it done in spring because it's the end of the year. We've already had a few snowfalls already. Frost is gonna set in in the next month. And no, they squeezed us in. Got it done in one day. And apparently it looks great. It's perfectly in line. It's perfectly level. It's sturdy. It's not flimsy. And it's exactly what we wanted. So I'm really excited about that. So it's time to go to bed now, though. We found a spot at the Liberty Truck Stop. Oh, I was gonna tell you what town this was in. What town are we in, Diesel? You know where we are, I have no idea where we are. I think it's Harrisburg. Oh, Harrisonburg Travel Center. Yeah, that's where we're in. Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania. Not Pennsylvania. Virginia's for lovers. That's their state slogan. So yeah, I'm going to bed here anyways. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, give it a thumbs up. Subscribe, tell your friends to subscribe. Spread the video around. 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