 Good morning, everybody. We're here at Minot Flying Day in North Dakota Getting ready for our day. Do your thing, chef So we have quite a drive ahead of us today yet. It's about 1060 kilometers to Eagle River, Wisconsin from here There's a chance I could possibly just barely make it but I have a feeling I'll probably be going to the same truck stop I stopped at last time I was on this road, which is Just was it just west of Duluth, Minnesota? I think and Then we go from around Duluth in the morning into Wisconsin Eagle River is just a little ways from there I mean, we'll see how far we make it today, but I am still on time. I'm still early, so I can still continue to try this Fuel savings method as much as I can today I'm trying to drive a little slower than usual as long as I'm not holding up traffic if I'm holding up traffic I'm just gonna do the speed limit. I'm not one of those guys, but you know if I'm just the only one on the road I'm gonna be doing what 55 mile an hour In the slow lane and if there's a two-lane highway while I'll just do the speed limit I don't want to be that guy who's holding everybody up, but I'm trying to save as much fuel as possible yesterday I did really good actually and we saved what we saved over $50 the first day. I saved over $60 yesterday That's already over $100. That's gonna be in my pocket at the end of the month instead of Floating around in the atmosphere as exhaust That's pretty cool. Oh No, it's all muddy and I know you're gonna go straight to the back with those muddy paws We're gonna try to get some of that mud off of you before you go in the truck And another day another page in the life of me Here we go. I Wish I had a little bit more time to visit the Blue Beacon truck wash here But I don't have that much time. I have enough time to get there Maybe I'll be able to find a truck wash tomorrow because tomorrow is going to be mostly a day off. I Have the hours to get to my customer. I explain this to you already, right? But I'm only gonna have maybe one or two left over after I deliver tomorrow Which isn't gonna get me far out of northern, Wisconsin So I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be parked for tomorrow and then I can continue driving on Tuesday If I can get to the customer tonight Maybe that won't work not too sure Either way tomorrow I'm going to be parked relaxing The government of the United States of America says I have driven too much. I've worked too much this week And I need a day off They demand it And they threaten to arrest me If I dare work tomorrow What I mean is that in the United States I'm only allowed to drive 70 hours within eight days That's the law In Canada, I can drive 70 hours within seven days and then on the eighth day I can take the hours from the first day And add that on to my total amounts that said I never go over 70 hours in seven days, right? But in the u.s. Since it's 70 hours in eight days That's less You can't get as far and if I was in Canada, I wouldn't be out of hours But since I'm in the u.s. I'm gonna be out of hours tomorrow. So I have to shut down in park That's another reason why it's tougher to make money as a truck driver when you're driving in the u.s Because their their laws and regulations here for truckers uh prevent you from Making money sometimes I'm not a shot at the u.s. I love you guys. Don't I'm just comparing right now And I shouldn't Talk too much I guess because you know as soon as Canada realizes that u.s. Is doing something Little brother of little brother Canada wants to you know following the footsteps of big brother america right of ways And they're gonna change all their laws Sort of like a running joke With us whatever the u.s. Does you can bet canada's gonna do it too? Even if they go to war hey if u.s. Decides they're going to war guess what so are we If they decide the war's over guess what we're going home If they decide truckers need more laws guess what canada suddenly decides you're right big brother truckers do need more laws We're such a little puppy a little like a little puppy of america Just arriving in grand forks north dakota the bridge to minnesota is just ahead of us there And of course this light doesn't like me. How dare you turn red? How dare you? I don't know if you can see it yet. It's a ways ahead the fisheye lens of the gopro Makes it hard to see far distances away But it looks like it's probably about uh Three-quarter mile or a half mile ahead We're gonna cross over the red river. That's the river that flows into manitoba. So manitoba's left of us straight north of here Well, we've been traveling along highway number two And that's the highway that uh Is the northernmost main major highway u.s. Highway In north dakota before you hit the canadian border with manitoba and suscash one So it is a four-lane highway all the way up to grand forks here from minnesota from minot Anyways, that's where we've been traveling on it And I I have a feeling that once we get into minnesota it might turn into a two-lane But we are going to keep continuing down this road all the way through minnesota It's a less traveled road You wouldn't see much freight moving through here, but we get to go take a look at it anyways Here's the bridge Believe it's the same town. I don't know if grand forks is fully on The west side of the red river here or what's on the other side if they call it a different name Welcome to minnesota Like a little further south of here. There's fargo north dakota on north dakota side of the river and then moorhead minnesota on this side Now we're officially in minnesota Oh, it's an east grand forks right here. Okay. Well, that's simple enough So grand forks is on the north dakota side east grand forks is on the minnesota side But the majority of the city is on the other side on north dakota Wonder if that works, you know, I guess I wonder if there's like differences in taxes Like if property taxes or income taxes are totally different on this side of the river I would just move to the other side of the river if it's the same city I just live wherever the taxes are the cheapest Or maybe they're exactly equal. I don't know I still got a long ways to go yet. We'll be driving late into the night This is deer river wisconsin Well, pardon me. No, we're still in minnesota. Aren't we deer river minnesota? Yeah, I think that's right last time we came through here. It was they had all their christmas decorations up I think they still got their little snowflakes up on their light bowls. That's nice. I like it when little towns decorate Give you a little bit of feeling of community spirit We are getting close To eagle river right now. This is not eagle river yet, but this is one of these awesome northern wisconsin towns Up here in the northern part like right near like northern michigan right near that border Not a lot of people come up here unless if they live here, right? There's not a lot of through traffic here like there is on on the interstates So usually when you come to these communities, this is like america As it Was from the beginning sort of you know what I mean Small town america not saying that the big cities in our aren't america. Don't take it that way But this is this is true small town america, you know unfiltered There's no People here that aren't here for a reason, you know because they live here I don't know what i'm trying to say here. It's probably coming out all wrong But you know what I mean, right? This is sort of like uh Where we live in canada as well am I going am I going my turn right okay. Thank you. Thank you. Excuse me pardon me Sorry, I'm really heavy. I'm kind of slow. Don't look at me like that The area that we live in to in canada these are my favorite areas too because they're they're untouched what I like to say I don't know if I'd want to live on like the trans canada Not that there's not a lot of great communities along the trans canada But I like the quietness of communities like this, you know the the small town hospitality where everybody sort of knows everybody And you know if there's a douchebag in town everybody knows I know a couple of douchebags myself believe me Been dealing with one in specific this week, but nonetheless There are way more good people than bad people in this world. Let's Leave it at that The bad ones just really suck and they're really annoying Looks like we got some nice hills coming up here though Right on if you haven't figured it out yet. I've combined yesterday and today into one day So we didn't actually get all the way here From my knot in one day We made it to uh, right where we thought we would just West of dilouth minnesota look at this guy on the right here sitting there Hahaha That's awesome. I don't know if the camera picked that up or not. That was funny Just about at the customer here and I've called in And asked what my next directions are because I only have two hours remaining on my 70 hour clock And uh, there's no direction that they want me to head yet I can't move till tomorrow. I guess then they want to try to find me a load Uh to southern ontario to st. Catherine's there again To pick up some more steel probably take it to alberta again So I was kind of hoping to go home from here, but I guess I'll take what I can get right Still got to work So that means I'll be gone probably Other five days maybe It's from here. I'm guessing to st. Catherine's would probably be just over a day's drive So let's say we leave tomorrow Tuesday I'd get there wednesday plus I have to pick up a load and deliver it in the meantime so Wednesday Probably get to my reload in st. Catherine's thursday Reloaded there that takes a lot of the day start heading home thursday friday Be home either saturday night or sunday And when I'm filming this right now, it's what is it today monday? It's still another week yet that I'll be on the road That's okay. I guess I miss my wife and miss being at home and There's some stuff going on right now at home behind the scenes that I'd really like to be with her for right now But life of a trucker right drama will always Show up But I'd really like to be there to stand with her Some people just not treating us Very nicely but No, we'll come out of it, right? life is about overcoming becoming better people Hard things will be thrown at us all the time and sometimes we make mistakes Sometimes others make mistakes sometimes it's The blame goes both ways What really defines us is how we come out of it. We all can get angry and say things we regret in anger But uh It's life, you know, I've got my private life at home. I've got my youtube life I try not to uh mix those two and sometimes I mix them a little bit too much Can you howl? Can you howl? Let me turn the mic around so that everybody can hear you. All right. I want you to sing. Okay You sing good singing good singing. Oh, you're ready to party now. You're ready to party now Let's take this off. You don't need this on while you're in here There you go. There you go. They're more comfy a little more comfy. Oh nice and itchy. Oh, is that the spot? Is that the spot? Where is it? Where is it down? Isn't that your spot? Where's the spot? Where's the spot? Where's the spot? It's here somewhere. Where's the spot? Maybe in there. Where's your spot? There's a spot like underneath his front leg here somewhere and if you scratch it just right His back leg starts thumping like thumper on bambi, right? Can you shake a paw? Wait, wait, wait. Go back up there. Can you shake a paw? Can you shake a paw? Oh good boy. Nice to meet you. Other one? Other one? Nice to meet you Great boy You want a treat? You want a treat? Can you sing one more time and I'll give you a treat? Can you sing one more? Good boy. I know where to treat He's allergic to everything except pigs. You're not allergic to pigs man. Have some oink There you go. Oh, that smells disgusting. Enjoy. Go on. Go up on there. Come on Go a little further. Get up on that. You forgot your treat here, bud There you go. Enjoy. You earned it Only one more left after this man One more left. I'm gonna put it in the treat drawer up here The treat section Some of these treats in here are for diesel because diesel's usually with me The rest of these treats I can't even show to Chevy because They have chicken in them and Chevy is allergic to chicken But he's not allergic to pig So while he enjoys that, I'm gonna Sit here and do absolutely nothing and relax like a boss Did I tell you where we are yet? I don't even tell you where we are. Here we are So we're at the Cinex. I had to stop here because I only had seven minutes left on my 70-hour clock We're here at the back of the lot Just enjoying ourselves enjoying the sunset behind us. So does not in our face But I had to stop because my logbook The government said thou shalt stop within seven minutes So here we are. I did plan to be here. So we made it right where I wanted to be I'm picking up a load tomorrow in minnesota. The load is bobcats I believe I'm gonna have three bobcats on my flatbed behind me. I'm gonna have to use the chains I haven't had to chain anything down in quite a while. So I'm excited to actually be hauling a little bit of machinery A little bit of something different than I've been doing recently with all the steel and the lumber I've been pulling around So we got to bring these three bobcats three different dealers in southern ontario I believe we got one in berry ontario one in brampton and one in uh, what's the other one not brampton I think it starts with a b also Let me let me check for you. I I have the answers I have the answers. Where are you going good sir? I'm just looking at this brantford. That's the one So we got berry brampton and brantford triple b It's our load After I'm done unloading those I have to unload them all on thursday. I believe is what today is Tuesday and I can't move anywhere. So tomorrow I can recap nine hours I believe I'll have enough hours to get to the customer get reloaded and get probably what halfway to canada I'm going to cross into sarnia ontario from port here on michigan And then on the 21st Which is in the past for you. I realize that I filmed these a little bit in the past takes me a little while to put them together On the thursday, I have to deliver that all three of them and i'm guessing friday morning. He's going to want me in san catherine's To load up some more of that steel. Maybe we'll have another wide load of that heavy steel That steel that I was pulling when I realized I had that oil leak. So hopefully my engine Is okay with that Better be because i'm the boss and I say we're pulling it because it has very very attractive numbers attached to it once again Actually, this bobcat load is actually pretty good as well Not bad this lumber load Actually paid pretty good too because it was all specialized lumber. It was all special cedar And it was being delivered to a custom wood Place where they make all kinds of custom things for homes So it actually did pay pretty good. So this the last couple of weeks of this month have been actually really good I'm guessing that steel will be going to alberta. So I'll be headed back through Ontario uh friday saturday. I'll get home saturday or sunday. Hopefully I can stay home for a day I'm hoping brit's gonna jump in the truck with me then Uh, then we'll deliver that to alberta probably on the following wednesday And then head back home for the end of the month So That's the rest of my month in a nutshell I've been blabbering on here long enough. I believe I combined two days into one here I'm not too sure if that's how it turned out or if I could make two videos out of this, but Thanks for watching. Anyways, I appreciate all of you. There's a lot of new people watching I want to welcome all of you. 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