 Morning everyone. We're on the road. We're here in Pillager, Minnesota. In a minute here, we're going to be headed down the road east. That way, to Brainerd, Minnesota. A load of engineered lumber we've got to deliver. For us, I appreciate that. My buddy Caden from Morf tarped this for me. Always good when you don't have to do that extra little bit of work first thing in the morning. It doesn't happen very often, so let's enjoy it. I got to bring these tarps and straps underneath it back to the yard and all these bungees. Got to bring these back. I have no problem doing that. I don't find a space, I don't know where I'm going to put them because I don't have space. But we'll find space. We'll find space. Not too cold. Let's hope it stays that way because I've heard that out west is Saskatchewan and Alberta. They're closing highways. The snowstorms are rolling in. And usually whatever's going on in Alberta and Saskatchewan are headed towards me. Here, oh, I'm just south of Manitoba. I'm in Minnesota. Which is like mini-Manitoba on a map. They're like the same sheet on the map. Minnesota has way more people. Manitoba is a little bit more empty. It's still a bit. Okay, we're very empty. We like it that way. It's quiet. Flyover country, right? That's what we want to be. Here, old blues all warmed up. I'm all warmed up. Got my face washed, got my teeth brushed. Got a little coffee here to quickly drink on the way over there. What else could a man ask for? Let's get truckin'. I don't know what the plan is. Once we're done yet, let's just do a little tug test here. Make sure the trailer's going to come with me and roll forward about 10 feet. Spike the trailer brakes. Trailer stays attached. Trailer brakes work. Roll forward again. Trailer brakes release. Wonderful. Okay, so I don't know what the plan is for me after I'm done delivering here in about an hour. They haven't let me know yet. That's okay. I will have to bring this equipment back to the yard, so I'm kind of hoping that it'll be something going back to the Winnipeg area, but I don't want to haul it around longer than I have to, you know? I'm going to have six tarps with me. It's a lot of extra, a lot of extra baggage to carry around, you know? All those extra tarp straps and extra load straps. I'm going to have to put them on the floor of my truck here on the passenger side. Then I'll go out and need room for them in my storage compartment. I'm filled right up already. We'll figure it out. It's all good. 100 meters. Make a U-turn if possible and then turn left into 100. Karen, you always want me to do that. She wants me to go straight here. It's a dead end. Go to the end of the dead end, turn around, come back, and turn left and go this way down this same road. Turn left on and turn county B and on 210. I'm trying to wake up, Karen. There's a beautiful Peterbill. Oh, wait. I think he's turning. He's turning. Let's go find some Nichols. I appreciate these guys giving me space on the left there. Those workers work. I'll show you the empty trailer so you believe me. You're just going to have to trust me today. I'm in a bit of a rush. As we were unloading, I got the message of my next load. I got to be in Canora by 4 p.m. before 4 p.m. It's 9.30 a.m. right now and it's about a six-hour drive. It's between 3.30 and 4. I know they don't like to load trucks after 3.30. So I'm going to try to get there before 3.30 if possible because if I don't hit any delays, usually delays or something, I just won't stop for lunch, try to cut some time off my day and I should get there before 3.30. No time to sightsee today. We're just rolling through town. This is Tronton, Tronton, Tronton, T-R-O-N. No, Ironton, Tronton. That looks like a T on their water tower. I go through here so often I still don't get it right. Ironton, Tronton. What's wrong with me? Ironton, Minnesota. I knew that too. What was I thinking? I sneak right through town here. I have got a mission. Sometimes I stop and go for a walk around town. We stopped in Emily that one time. I'll always remember that because that was such a beautiful little town that I would have never known even existed if it wasn't for trucking. And what I knew is that brought me through that town. I decided to stop there once. Last year I had diesel with me and we went for a walk around town and they had this beautiful lake right next to it. It was a big beautiful park right on the lake. It was a beautiful day in Emily, Minnesota. A tiny little town. Sometimes I'll stop here in Ironton too and I'll go for a walk around town. Not today, but exploring just a little bit, you know? Because there's so much to see everywhere that nobody knows about it. One of my things I like to explore. I like to see new places. I like to meet people. See how they live here, you know? What do they do for work? How do they make it by? How do they like it here? What life is like? How similar is it to my life? Usually it's pretty similar because Canada and the US were not quite a mirror image, but were very similar to each other. Canada just has a tenth of the population and a little bit of a different government structure. The United States is a constitutional republic and Canada is a constitutional monarchy with democratic institutions. Very, very similar setup. We all go back to the British Empire so we have the same history. We're like two brothers who moved out of mom and dad's house. Now we're neighbors. Oh, did you hear that? It sounded like he was in my truck. That was a really loud park. That was impressive. Man, I'm just going to slow you down. There you go. This... Okay, so this isn't Ironton anymore. Now this is Crosby, Minnesota. Established 1910 according to that sign I saw off to my left. I guess they're two towns side by side that sort of grew into each other. Is that what happened? It's a huge, huge area in the country that separates the eastern population of Canada from the western population. It takes about two full days of driving to drive through it from east to west. We're just on the southwestern tip right now in Canora. But you notice on the US side, it's mostly all flat, right? Flat forests. As soon as you get into Canada, this is what it turns into. It's a country, though. Look at all these cottages along the lake here. The woods would be nice. It is the biggest one. We'll see what happens, right? I'm going to take care of that one first and see where we're at when we're... So, you know, as soon as the sun goes down, these roads are going to get very icy. Very, very slippery, very quickly. I think this one turned out pretty good. I'm pretty proud of that. Nice even line at the top. The last one in here. This is a little bit sloppy back here. Maybe I need another... Maybe I need another bungee up there down to here, but... Yeah, I probably should get one, right? Let's go see what the other side looks like. Just to keep that tight there. Got a pretty straight line across the back here. Looks like that left side sunk down just an inch or so. Oh, yeah, I see this. It's a little bit floppy here, too. Okay, we can fix that with two bungees. Let me show you. It's very easy. First of all, you go and get the bungees. Wow! I got my singles in here. I call them my singles because I just hang them up like that. As singles. Not in a group or a bunch or a bundle. Okay, let's go back here. I might have to jump for this. There's a ladder right there if I need it. Okay, so I think we're going to use this hook right there. First trap. Nice, there goes my brain bucket. Okay, now let me just pull this tight. I'm going to pull the hook down in here. There you see how that tightened that all up there? That's not as floppy. You don't want it flapping around in the wind. If you get a flapping tarp any corners you haven't seen that corner up on the second level up there. You got your tarp flapping on that. That corner is going to rip right through your tarp and then you got a hole. You don't want a hole. Okay, so this one we'll put into that ring right there. See if I can get this on my first try. Oh, yeah, first try. Okay. Pull that tight down to here just like the other side. There we go. I'll prevent most of the flapping. I think that's good. I think that's good. We're going six hours down the road. Got to deliver this back in brainer tomorrow morning. Nice little Christmas present for the good people in Minnesota. See, I'm carrying around these tarps this whole trip. That is my center one. They're heavier than mine though. I went with mine this time. Much easier to roll up. All of that equipment is in there making a mess of my interior. That's okay. Because I didn't have to tarp the last load. Oh yeah, I got to open this door. Can't drive through the door. They really don't like that. This one. That's the one. Let's get out there. It's dark outside already so I won't be able to film much. So see when I see you. I'm going to head down towards International Falls, Minnesota and Fort Francis, Ontario. Hopefully by the time I get there we're clear to cross so that I can just zip down. I've been a lot of deer on the road tonight. We're coming up to Deer River. Ironically I can see why they call the town Deer River. I'm sure there's a river nearby and oh, they're deer. Oh, deer. They're used to always be parking here. And then suddenly they're always filled up. So I'm hoping today they're going to have at least one spot for me. I really need it. I'm glad I found a spot here in Deer River because I had eight minutes left on my clock. I was finding a spot here. I didn't really have a choice. It's time to go to bed. I'm so tired I don't even want to go from here to there. It's too long of a commute. I'm just going to sleep right here. Okay, I'm not that tired. I would have stopped already if I was that tired, but I definitely am. I drove my full pretty much my full 11 hours. Oh boy. Excuse me. I still have an hour and a half to go to my destination tomorrow to deliver. I don't want to brainer it again. I don't have any plans for after that. I guess they're going to see what time I get there at and what time I get unloaded at. Hopefully there's not a lineup. We'll see when we get there. But anyways, everything's always a mess. You know? One day everything will be neat and tidy. One day I'm just I feel like I'm always in such a rush. Always just go, go, go, go, pushing myself, pushing myself, pushing myself. Because if I stop, things don't get done. That's okay. One day I'll be retired and then I'll slow down. Maybe probably not. Until then, if I have the ability and the health to work, I should be working. You work, work, work, work, work. I was taught that by example from my parents growing up. If you can work, you should work. You work for what you have. Nothing comes for free. There are no free things in life. If you want something, you go out there and you work for it. And that's that. I'm almost too tired to think. I'll see you tomorrow. When you know what they're on the roads, keep your stick on the ice and we'll see you tomorrow. Please drive safe.