 Good morning everybody, we're on our way back to pick up our trailer and when I scaled the trailer I realized that my the back end of the trailer itself the trailer acts as a pretty heavy they're sitting at 37,000 pounds but the front of the trailer that's resting on the truck on my drives that's only sitting at 30,000 pounds now I was kind of worried that I was going to be overweight but I am underneath my maximum weight of 80,000 pounds for the US and having the three axles that are 97 inches apart or more I'm allowed to haul 42,000 pounds on those axles so it turns out I'm all legal I don't need to shift any weight around on this trailer which is awesome I just hook up and go it's the same load that Britain and I picked up in Meadowlake Saskatchewan last week we're continuing on with it to Wisconsin and then from there I got to go down to northern Indiana to Middlebury Indiana pick up some utility trailers and bring them back here for the weekend I'll probably be back here on Sunday I'm guessing Saturday night or Sunday depending so I gotta go all the way through Chicago we're just gonna go grab our trailer and continue on I'm really glad that I don't have to adjust the weights because I wasn't too familiar with the tri axle or tritum weights in the US because I've never pulled tritum weight or tritum trailers really in the US but I did some research into it this last the last couple of days and yeah as long as you stay underneath your 80,000 pound gross weight you can have 42,000 pounds on the tri axle I just have to remember to pick up special wheel straps of some sort these utility trailers that I'm picking up they take special tie-down straps that go around the tires and we have them at the office or at the yard so I'll pick those up so I can use them to bring them back here otherwise it is a little bit time consuming to tie those trailers down because you don't want to damage them at all right like you have to have done it so that they have wheel chocks it's just much easier to grab all that equipment now at the yard rather than having to buy it on the way down right it's a very windy day though wow it's coming from the north so it's going to be pushing us south that's good just be sipping the fuel all the way down well we ended up moving some of the weight forward anyways just because it's different state to state what they allow and what they don't allow so in order to not take risks we just acted as if that third axle isn't even there on the tri axle trailer so we moved some of the weight forward so there's 34,000 under 34,000 on the trailer and on the drives of the truck behind the cab here and under 12 on my steers here and I believe I'm sitting at a boat 79,500 pounds so I'm pretty heavy but it's just wood right so it's easy to move around so we got all of this loaded up and ready to go here right now it's been a windy day very windy day so we got like the two up at the front and we took those two from the back here and added those up at the front and that balanced it out just perfectly see we'll be using that on our next load so I'll show you then how we use that diesel you ready to go ready to go man let's put these fine people up here turn this around so you guys can hear me a little bit better all right there we go officially ready to rock and roll this truck is a little bit dirty but we'll clean it as we go we have our pre-trip done our load is secure diesel has his water here his water dish is clean but I gotta clean out his food dish before I put food in there for him later he gets fed in the morning and the evening and just tell the people here that we are ready to go we should get really good fuel economy like I said it's crazy windy outside and all the wind is blowing south that's the way we're going we're never closed a slam it's so hard for it to close it's so weird I've been having problems with this door I get looked at I'll put myself in so I don't fall out check my phone before I get on the road we'll be on our way now instant fuel economy it's still up there a little bit you just wait till the wind catches our sails and it's pushing us right now but I am still I know better Mandy I know a shortcut oh wait but it is spring time restrictions oh good thing I thought of that that's okay I still know a shortcut it's just a different shortcut we got to go down past St. Pierre to route 23 that takes us across to Morris every other road going across to the right which would be westbound every other road going across to highway 75 which takes us down to North Dakota is limited weight restricted right now to 65 percent of normal axle weight limits or spring time because our roads suck and we don't want them to suck more nope we're gonna keep going Mandy told you why aren't you listening to me just got into the truck we're already fighting is it all gone already is it all gone diesel oh what I gave you a treat I turned around grab the camera and it was already gone well this bag's actually not been open yet you know what you need to brush your teeth we're gonna give you one of these little dent bones there you go buddy brush your teeth oh yeah man yes the good stuff oh enjoyed buddy enjoy it mom's not here dental life chews sort of helps reduce tartar and build up he's gonna have to get a teeth cleaning soon at the vet this breath is beginning to stink pretty bad we stopped in at the husky in Morris which is uncommon for us because usually we saw the flying jay just north of here in santa gath but because of the spring road restrictions I had to come across to the 75 on the 23 and if you're familiar with the area that's all makes sense if not the 23 takes me through here to Morris but if the spring restrictions aren't in effect at any other time of the year I can cross on either like the 207 I believe that goes through santa dolph or the 305 which comes into santa gath and if I take those then I can stop by the flying jay if not then I gotta stop here I could have gone to timmy's across the road but like I said I'm sort of like on the outs with them right now very disappointed in their coffee that it doesn't actually taste like coffee it sort of tastes like coffee flavored water it's not strong enough the dark roast is better but you definitely have to add a shot of espresso in there just for it to taste like coffee and then you're starting to get into prices of like starbucks prices all these bumps are huge here good lord wow you wouldn't want to hit these too fast okay we gotta wait for cars now anyways because I gotta creep over these we're gonna get back on the 75 highway here in front of us and in half an hour or so we'll be in the united states of america bringing them down some good old canadian wood someone in wisconsin wants some canadian lumber it's on the way there was a new border patrol officer in there today I didn't recognize them I haven't seen him before and this guy dude you're not supposed to stop here you 2.7 kilometers then take exit to fijine oh free time you know I wish the border patrol would kind of enforce that and kick them out of there and sort of move them along it bothers me when they park there it's dangerous because look at that guy he just walks right out into traffic secondly it is illegal to stop on the side of a freeway especially when there is a nice truck stop a mile ahead but whatever you guys watching this video I know you guys don't do that because we've talked about it before just go up to the next exit and stop there no need to make yourself an obstacle in the USA now we have 1097 kilometers 15 Mandy insists on interrupting me all the time you know there's coming a day when I'm going to throw you out that's right throw you out like a piece of garbage maybe I'll give you away so much you mean to me maddie I already have a woman in my life so we have 1097 kilometers to go oh we're definitely not going to make it there tonight but we're going to see how far we get we'll drive till we get tired I'll really drive to around midnight another five and a half hours or so four and a half hours now I just got some mail from a maria looks like Hamilton Ontario thank you so much for what you sent here really means a lot to me and I'm sure it will mean a lot to Brit as well it looks like you had sent this around Christmas and for some reason it just got to us now so I don't know what if it got held up somewhere or if it was just a late Christmas greeting but we did get it and I do appreciate that I also got this here I'm going to open it up right now and see what it was you did say that your your mother had passed away recently and I'm so sorry to hear that so I can't imagine how hard that would be really I don't even really know how to react because I instantly think of my mom and how difficult it would be to lose her so you had mentioned that your mother had passed away this year just before Christmas I believe and my deepest sympathies to you I hope you're doing better it's March already so it looks like these letters were supposed to get to us by around Christmas but I hope things are starting to look up and getting a little easier for you let's see what you got in here it's a bag it was a bag that was in a box oh this was something different okay this was actually a new adapter this wasn't part of that for some reason they had taped your letter to this other parcel this is a new power adapter for my laptop computer because we broke ours on our last trip my computer took a tumble off the shelf there and the power cord broke this is just a new power cord not part of your your letter here that's a Maria according to the the address up here in Hamilton Ontario I did receive it and if you've been waiting for confirmation this whole time I'm so sorry I took this long but I just got it today so I'm gonna put that there and I'll show it to Britt as soon as I get home if others of you I always get comments asking what's our mailing address we don't have a mailing address right now if you can get a hold of us I know I'm a hard guy to reach that's not on purpose I apologize but I am a hard guy to get a hold of I've got a lot going on in my life right now especially and it's hard to reach me sometimes but we do have a mailing address that you could use but you'd have to reach out to us we still haven't decided whether or not to like release it publicly or not but for now we don't have any public mailing address so uh just so you know this here is the replacement for our power cord let's see what it looks like oh it's different than my last one it said it was for the the same thing just a different brand I guess same thing let's give it a shot let's plug her in so we got a little ways to go tonight yet we'll be driving into the night we'll get at least down to Fargo I'd like to get down to somewhere near like Alexandria I think that would be great but it doesn't look like I'm going to get this lumber delivered tomorrow I have until the next day to deliver it if I want to and that's probably what's going to happen it took me a little while longer than I wanted to to get going today because I had to get all that extra equipment for those trailers right like those wheel straps I have those wheel straps inside the truck here too which I don't like take a look at this I got them like all down here I don't like having equipment in my truck I really don't like that but I don't got any room anywhere else I have so much equipment hanging off my truck all over the place already that it's just not safe to hang anymore off of that let's plug this in here all right let's give this a test this is a huge like huge adapter here I didn't see that behind the computer without breaking anything please please okay okay and then because this other one still worked right we sort of had to jimmy it to work properly and we'll here turn the screen on for a second here I know you guys can't really see what I'm doing here I'm just trying to plug this into the side see if it'll it'll work yep there you go plugged in boom done okay so we can turn that back off that that doesn't distract us while we're driving and we can continue down the road you know I used to have a public mailing address and it was always sort of like one of my favorite things to read the letters from you guys a lot of you guys would hand write letters for us and a lot of you young viewers too would send in like little like artistic work that you did drew a picture of our truck or something and I always really enjoyed that but sometimes it became a little overwhelming too because sometimes I'd be gone for a while I'd come home and there would be a lot of a lot of mail and I would never call it fan mail because I don't I don't like calling you guys fans I refer to you guys as viewers a viewer mail you're just a viewer of my channel I don't think I'm above you I don't think like I'm like some celebrity or anything like you're watching me I'm just like you I just have a camera in my hand and I like to have a one-way conversation I wish the conversation could go both ways more often but that's what the comment section is for so uh we used to get a lot of viewer mail and sometimes it'd become a little bit overwhelming but I do miss hearing from you guys like having something tangible in my hand from you just like this so Britt and I were actually talking about it just this weekend actually that we would like to open up another public address but we'll we'll let you know more about that in the future we need to get going down the road again we got a long way to go and a decent amount of time to get there self-bound just wow no come on diesel it's a good good song doesn't want to be in the video he's sad he misses his mom diesel whatever happened to me and you on the road all excited to be together now whenever Britt's not here he's all sad well diesel you want to know what we forgot we forgot the mattress the memory fold mattress so we got to sleep on these hard things this whole trip good thing mom's not with SA man she wouldn't like that very much yeah that's not a big deal but uh the memory fold mattress I put on here I left at home I don't know why I stored well I stored in our spare bedroom I know why because I don't want dog hair to get into it and that's the one room where the dogs aren't allowed but then I forget it because nobody goes in there the dogs don't go in there and neither do I so I forgot it that's okay we've slept on these things before right diesel one last thing to pull out before we go to bed and one last thing to put away in the morning so we're in Fargo North Dakota actually know where Moorhead Minnesota right now same city different side of the river Moorhead Minnesota we're gonna continue on down the road just a little bit yet we had a great great trip for fuel economy coming south like I thought that that wind just pushed us just I used less fuel to get to Fargo than I do in my pickup truck pulling our camper and I have like 80,000 pounds gross here I was getting like 28 liters per 100 kilometers which is really good for this truck what is that miles per gallon I don't know I don't know it's good it's really good I was really happy with that so I want to continue a little bit further yet we have to fuel up in Alexandria that other net no big plans just moseying along we'll probably stop in a sock center I think tomorrow or maybe somewhere in Wisconsin and go to the gym I don't think I'll make it that far tonight either way it's been a good day so far good day back on the road a little bit lonely just myself and diesel after being on the trip with Britt and all the dogs the whole family on the last trip but at the same time it's kind of it feels really roomy in here got a lot of space ah we're just at the rest area so let's keep going and a long way to go still still have 840 kilometers to our destination this isn't one of my favorite rest areas I don't really like the way they have the parking set up for the trucks there's not quite enough room especially if it gets full I mean once it gets full and you're parked in here and you come into park or to go through you can't really get through you're stuck and you got to back up either way it's always nice to have a nice civilized rest area like this unlike what you'll see across most of western Canada you know nice safe restrooms to use that are clean and cleaned daily more than once so nice warm and heated not just an outhouse I'm looking at you Alberta come on and BC I'm gonna get you guys some real rest areas one of these years maybe Rothase Minnesota is that how you pronounce it Roth say Roth say I'm gonna pull in here for the night I'm tired except for midnight already not nearly as far as I would have liked to have gotten but my body is telling me Chuck a child time to go to sleep Chuck a child you know you gotta listen to it where should I park I'm gonna go around at the back I don't want to nose into parking spots anymore that's the thing ever since my batteries went dead on me and I was nosed in and they almost had to pull me out just to get boosted no more nosing in for me too risky there's a bunch of spots off here to the right but this guy off to the left parked so close that no one can get in there I guess I could I could I guess no I'm gonna go to the back here oh no that guy's got a reefer over there hmm I could nose into this spot right here but but no thank you go all these sleeping trucks hey that guy's got a reefer well thank you that guy's got a reefer no thank you okay well then I'm gonna go park from that other spot back there right beside that other guy who knows then in the back there see that driver right there there's that white freight liner right in front of us now and then that guy who knows then I'm gonna park right between them hazards on so people know I'm doing something oh and just like that the day is over and someone's messaging me here before they take control of the world's top scientist Liam what's going on here whoa hey I didn't press play on you what's going on here oh my wife she says good night and then she loves me good timing I'm going to bed too I'm going to bed also love you sleep well you go send a little emoji there you go just to seal the deal and that's that diesel are you finally eating your food I gave you your supper hours ago man go on eat your food buddy eat your food you're a good boy go on no don't take a break because I noticed you're eating it's okay I don't judge you go on go eat your food oh I distracted him okay so 10 hours from this very moment we will be doing our pre-trip and getting ready to go tomorrow morning yes oh I'm tired and it's it's good because I'm gonna go in there grab some milk I'm gonna chug some milk and then I'm gonna go to sleep and it's gonna be glorious the best believe me it's gonna be huge it's gonna be a great night and I hope you all have a great night too thanks for watching me today I make a new video almost every day be great if you subscribe we're trying to get to a hundred thousand subscribers and we're so close we're so close we're less than 10,000 away so I hope you join our crew here hit that little bell beside the subscribe button as well that means that you'll get a notification when I release a new video so you can keep up with what's going on because if you miss one you're out of the loop and then you got to catch up and then that takes twice as long so you just watch every day you always know what's going on diesel hi won't say anything you didn't finish your food uh he's such a picky eater if brit's not here he doesn't like to eat anyways we'll talk to you guys tomorrow have a good night