 morning everybody we're here and we're unloading just rolling up these straps and waiting for them to come take their pieces off of here and then I just got to bring the rest of those up to Maine this afternoon we arrived last night we should be out of here soon so I got here yesterday and I waited here overnight they sent me just down the street they have a second location that they're just opening up and that's where this stuff is going to so my appointments are eight I got here at seven well I got here last night but I was here and ready to go at seven and I've got the trailer opened up all the straps rolled up put away and I'm just waiting for them to have the time to come and take their stuff off we'll sign some papers give each other a little nod say thank you I'll be off my way to Bitterford Maine which is about an hour and a half from here I'll definitely be able to get those delivered today yet and then I don't know we'll see what reload pops up later today this afternoon maybe I'll be headed back up to Canada maybe I'll have a reload in Maine or this New England area back up to Canada I have no idea yet I'm feeling I'm probably gonna be going empty into Canada pick up a load there that's just the feeling I have I don't know how reliable that is oh well they should be out here soon we'll be out of here and we'll be trucking tiny little neighborhood come down these narrow streets to get to this commercial industrial area we are right by the Atlantic coast turn left on Conan Street like a heater out there really congested part of the East Coast Washington DC to sure starting to call signs warning us awesome I'm broke down that's why okay oh and this guy would have walked out right in front of me the right way to live for the way to live for something like that right or am I way off I might be way off here comes a blue sign okay way up there by that exit we'll see what it is I think it's the way to live for something like that I haven't been here in a while this exit here should be I knew it that's their state slogan I haven't been here in years when you look at Maine on the map you kind of wonder you know it should have been part of Canada right it goes way up into Canadian territory because remember a couple of weeks ago we went to Prince Edward Island and I went through Canada but I had to go way up top of Maine to get there way back down south like right in the middle between our Atlantic provinces and Quebec looks like it could have been part of Canada but the exit 32 towards Bideford this shouldn't take too long to unload there's just four skids they're oversized skids but same thing bang bang bang bang they're they're off the trailer and then I have to give our office a call slide right on Alfred Street 111 and then turn left in 210 meters also I just drive right through here oh there's no toll booths anyway this during Coven they took it off Alfred Street 111 that's what I'm doing yeah I think a lot of these I've noticed that a lot of these toll booths out here in New England are gone I think they all used COVID as an excuse to fire all the toll booth employees and make it all contactless which is way better for me not good for the people who are working in those toll booths I'm sure but it's nice now that you can just drive straight through they have automatic tolling I have a little transponder on my window and you drive right under there and it charges your account I do have to pay for my own tolls I own my truck and I'm on percentage if you're a company driver the company pays for the tolls since I own my truck I prefer owning my truck and I can have the truck I want I could have gone straight there really feel like I could have gone straight because I'm looking at the map two kilometers make a sharp right turn on Elm Street and I got a sharp right turn ahead and there was a road that went straight through there oh well we're here now we're just around the corner anyway so I'm gonna get these skids off my trailer and then I'll fill you in on what comes next getting part of the what's next who knows who knows we're all unloaded we're empty and I have my reload unfortunately it's all the way over in Ontario so that's what I kind of figured no loads going back to Canada in this within 500 miles of me right now so to keep me moving I'm gonna go pick up a good load in Burlington Ontario which is pretty much Toronto Toronto it'll be a full day's drive to get there but we'll go get it on the trailer and that's going to take us back to Winnipeg through Northern Ontario so I'm gonna stop in Sturbridge, Massachusetts again I'm gonna be taking 90 I guess across crossing at Niagara Falls but I'm gonna dip down on 84 because they got the cheapest juice for my fleet card at the Flying J there that's the one that's just chaos all the time I really want to take a shower today and I don't really want to spend more time there than I have to so I'm debating whether or not I want to stop there for a shower or just stop there for fuel get out of there and then go to a more convenient less chaotic Pilot Flying J and shower there later I'll see what the parking situations like when I get to that truck stop if there's lots of parking I've got my shower bag ready right there I'll quickly zip in if there's a parking spot and it's a safe one I'll quickly throw the truck in the parking spot get a shower if one's available run in and shower and then fuel on my way out and then get out as fast as I can I I really don't like that truck stop parking lot makes me anxious it's not set up well it's so busy it's so busy there oh we'll see what happens I gotta grab fuel there anyways because the fuel there is way cheaper than anyone else I think our price was like 407 a gallon and the nearest closest price would be here in Maine 412 a gallon or once I get into New York heading towards Canada all the fuel prices there are 420 a gallon or 435 a gallon or up so it gets more expensive into New York the cheapest for me is in Massachusetts there for some reason I don't know I don't control the fuel prices I just I just opened my app and it tells me where our fleet cars are getting the best best deals that's where we know a fuel cheap juice even if it's chaos getting in there and even if it gets my anxiety up we're saving saving dollars I need to because the last time my truck was in the shop I just got the bill for today and it was a little a lot bigger than I thought it would be so I need to make some dollars again we got the truck serviced right my fan my engine found the front the hub had to be rebuilt not it wasn't just the belt that needed to be replaced the hub had to be rebuilt so they did that for me I had to get a brake drum replaced or a brake replaced on my front axle my steers and I had my slack adjuster slack adjuster replaced as well and there's a couple other things what else did they do oh the truck's good to go now though they always take really good care of my truck and I'm glad that they that they did that so big thanks to PBX they did really good work like usual now I gotta pay the bill so you gotta get good work comes at a price that's okay we're just gonna keep rolling and making money and sniffing out all the all the all the cheap juice sniff sniffing out wherever I can get the cheapest fuel Massachusetts is the winner today coming up to our exit it used to be exit one now I think it's what exit four or five so Massachusetts went and changed all their exit numbers can someone explain why because they had to change all their signs and add more signs because look at this there's like those yellow signs this is old exit one coming up so it must have been super expensive to do this because they had to redo all of the exit signs across the entire state and not only redo them they also had to add more like yellow signs that say this is old exit so-and-so it's now exit this so what reason did they have to go ahead and change every single exit in the state see even Karen says it's exit one it's exit three they changed them all that is so confusing because I've updated my GPS and it still doesn't have the right exit numbers here good thing that they've gone and put all those extra little signs but it's not that bad I've been able to figure it out I haven't gotten lost or anything I'm just it seems like that'd be a huge like expensive task to redo all the signs and add extra signs I don't know if you'll be able to see it on the bottom of the sign here so now that the redo it and so that it said exit three but they also had to add another sign underneath it that says old exit one just seems like a very expensive confusing way to throw everybody else or throw everybody off on the highway so anyone from Massachusetts or anyone who understands what's going on I'd love to know the reasoning I'm sure there's a good reason right they wouldn't just do that for no reason and has anyone else noticed this and have they been confused by it all right on the other side of that bridge right or is it that way no it's right there okay you are turning this way I am turning that way you are going that way nobody's there it is clear let's go as I pull in I'm gonna check to see if they have showers available I don't think they will is a pretty busy one they have 12 showers available and so far the app has told me that there's none I was able to get a shower there was one available came available just as I got here as I rolled into the lot so I quickly reserved it quickly got myself into a parking spot I know I'm not gonna be staying here overnight so ran inside grabbed a quick shower now I'm just gonna grab some fuel and we'll get out of this chaotic truck stop hopefully there's no lineup when I came out of the shower there was wasn't much of a lineup for fuel well we got another guy coming back here now it looks like the lineup has gotten a little longer now though so slowly meander my way over there this guy lets me go in front of me either everybody for themselves for a reason done fueling already probably waiting for the guy in front of them to move that didn't take long kicked right sometimes you just get lucky that actually wasn't that bad of a visit a little chaotic a little busy definitely been much worse before and I got my shower and my fuel so I'm happy see how far we can get yet we got about six hours and 20 minutes available to drive I don't think we're gonna quite make it to Canada but maybe the bridge here is only 13 foot 11 high my trailer is 13 foot 6 high in 600 meters take the entrance to the left on I-84 east I-90 that means there's only five inches of clearance if anybody has just a little bit of a higher load oversize they're gonna hit this 300 meters take the entrance to the left on I-84 east I-90 you got it it's around here somewhere there it is yeah I went here yesterday that's right that's right there we go Indians start heading west because I have six and a half or six hours 20 minutes available for the US once I hit the Canadian border I have more hours available to me on this road for six kilometers cruise again and just go Boston and Washington DC is just least favorite especially on the 95 but even the 84 like that was still quite a bit of traffic this morning now or yesterday too go and see it every now and then but pretty much you only go and see the big city just to remind yourself why you don't want to live in a big city no offense to you guys who do live in the big cities I'm sure that it works for you and your lifestyle doesn't work for me in my life is not for me why they're all clustered in one spot very tired we're nearby tire and I'm very tired see what I did there TYRE New York there's a petrol stopping center that I found now down I-90 this is where I decided to stop it's been raining pretty hard and as soon as the sun went down the asphalt that they they must have just repaved the freeway with like black black asphalt and they haven't painted the lines properly so I was having a hard time seeing where the lines on the road were so I'm like I think it's time to pull off and we'll continue this adventure in the morning when I can see where I'm going but even like my lights weren't reflecting off the asphalt because the asphalt was so black that I couldn't see where I was going and I could tell that a lot of other drivers were having the same issues because they were all over the road sort of all we're kind of trying to guess where the lanes are and there's tons of traffic and then there's construction zones with no lines painted it was uh a little bit anxiety inducing so I figured you know what I was going to go to Flying J down in Pembroke I think that's what it's called Pembroke further down the road I'm like you know what I looked on trucker path it said that the truck parking was already full like okay I'm not going to go all the way there and risk my life and everyone else's life just to get to a full parking lot not be able to park right at the end of my day when I don't have any hours left to go look anywhere else so I saw a petrol stopping center here and I pulled in and there's tons of open spots here it's a huge truck stop petrols are always really nice in Canada's petrol pass it's very different than petrol stopping center in the US total different companies different countries but the petrol stopping centers in the US are are really nice and this one is no exception so I'm going to go to bed right here and I can get a good sleep tonight we're not in that big of a rush they need me there tomorrow one or two o'clock sometime in the afternoon before four o'clock to get loaded and I got five pieces that I'm getting loaded with so it won't even take that long I'll throw the five pieces on I'll strap them down roll the roll tight closed and we'll start making our way towards Winnipeg I'm thinking tomorrow my goal is probably going to be to make it to like North Bay or something because I'm going to take highway 11 around it's just easier on my truck it's flatter land I don't have so many hills to climb I'm only going to have a load of 30,000 pounds so it's not like I'm at max weights or anything but I still I like to take 11 it's just flatter highways I'm going to make it to North Bay tomorrow and then we'll see where we get to the next day maybe Nipagon or Thunder Bay somewhere in there and then day after that I have to deliver this in Winnipeg not this but the little one picking up I'll deliver it in Winnipeg and then I'll be going home for a little bit I think we'll figure that out as we go let's worry about today today I need to put this together and go to bed tomorrow we'll worry about picking up our freight and we'll see what happens after that so remember guys be safe stay safe make sure to drive safe out there