 Good morning world from Texas From Flutonia. That's what the town name is called Flutonia. I'm at the Amigos truck stop It's like a little mini version of Mexico when you go in there. You just want to start dancing The music just cranked inside there That was good. I got myself a coffee Got the truck all ready to go. I'm gonna pick up my load just north of Houston I have four pieces to pick up and I'm gonna weigh 27,000 pounds And those pieces are going to Winnipeg, Manitoba close to my home So let's go get them time to go Stuff to do freight to pick up Not making any money just sitting around here Around the north side closer to the city like right through the city There's no tolls that way but I risk getting stuck in traffic Shipper that I'm gonna take the risk and avoid the tolls Here's where the toll road breaks off from the regular interstate and Karen wants me to take the toll road I'm going to continue straight forward Change of like a spider web overpass to come out here 99 South and then to the left and 660 meters. No not today I'm gonna try to save some money see what happens. I Can try right, I don't know I don't get delayed by more than an hour. I'll be okay She's gonna be so mad when she realizes I disobeyed watch this So she directs me to the next toll road Nope just knows how to do things right that highways in the sky That's all we got so far we have all of the space to fill up yet I'm gonna go in there and clean up that cardboard Okay We've all of this space in here yet And up front here But this is just a partial. We're gonna try to find me something else for the back here on the way home, but We'll see I really do hope they find me something else. I'd like to fill this trailer up to go home But for now, this is all we got so We're gonna head out South of Dallas 40 out of loves good thing. I'm not planning on spending the night here Turn right on street and then turn left in 10 meters All right, you saw me go on to the scale there I had a feeling that I loaded up my drives a little too heavy. I put that stuff too far to the front I should put it further back or spread it out my mistake I wasn't overweight, but I was at 33,460 pounds on my drives and only 20,000 on the tracks on the back So I'm legal But I also only have about a third of a tanks of fuel and I wanted to fuel and I need to put about Thousand pounds of fuel into my truck. So I would have been overweight with my fuel So what I did I only had 9,900 pounds on my steers. You already know what I did, right? Remember that fifth wheel that we slid all the way back home before we left on this trip I moved it forward about six inches That moved with 550 pounds off my drives onto my steer tires Now I'm at 10,500 on my steer tires and I'm at about 33,000 on my drive So now I have room for a thousand pounds of fuel Which is exactly what I need Problem-solving on the go I don't know how people do it without being able to slide the fifth wheel at least I wish these trailers had sliding axles on the trailers too. That would be awesome But all the trailers I pull have fixed axles so that creates a challenge right there But at least I can slide that fifth wheel, right? It's too shadowy in there to even see it, but yeah Moved it forward about six inches and that did the trick Move the weight from these tires onto the steers up there So that I can fill these things up. I Do just have to keep in mind now that My trailers coming closer to my headache rack than before I gave it plenty of space remember we stretched it all the way out Now it's just a little bit closer So I just got to be careful if I come down a sharp Driveway onto a level road like I was telling you in that video a few days ago before we left Should I be careful with my corners like that, but I think we'll be just fine I still have plenty of space between there just not as much right now still lots of space Another five hours left of driving we're south of Dallas right now. I want to get through Dallas and Through Oklahoma City tonight yet if I can But I'm stopping to fuel in Oklahoma City. I scale here at the loves but fuels cheaper in Oklahoma City a Lot cheaper at least on my fuel card One of the cheap juice all my city. This is Guthrie, Oklahoma And this is Guthrie's travel Plaza. I like these smaller ones rather than the big ones I was watching a trucking with Schmidt his video today that he released and He was talking about he does the same thing and when he said it I just Kind of chuckles like I do the exact same thing. I avoid those big brand name truck stops as much as I can now I used to park there all the time But you know, there's a loves across the street. I fueled up at the pilot If I have a choice to park at a small truck stop like this I'll take this one every time. I like the parking lot better Easier in easier out to the parking spots. It's easy to back in. There's not these like sharp right angles to get into your parking spot It seems all of the Almost everybody seems to crowd into those big ones right away like loves pilot Flying JTA petrol stopping centers. They're always packed full first thing because everybody goes to those ones, right? I like going on the smaller ones that Seem to get passed over. There's always parking. Yeah, the parking lot might be gravel. Sometimes this one's paved Yeah, sometimes it might be a little darker. Usually they're pretty well lit nowadays though. I like them better. They're quieter and not as much traffic in and out and Not as many NASCAR drivers just going flying through here. I Agree with him on that. I agree with Kurt. I like these stops better So here we are I'm really tired. It's it's late or should I say it's early One of the two the Sun is going to be coming up in a couple of hours And we're still stuck on night shift, but that's okay because from here We're gonna get up tomorrow. We're gonna drive through half the day tomorrow and into the night tomorrow And then the next day will have a bit of a shorter day to get home I might get home at a decent time. Hopefully I'm trying to surprise my wife and get home on Friday Today's a Wednesday when I'm filming this. I know that they're relevant to you when you're watching it You could be watching this at any point in the future But just to give you a reference I told my wife that I was gonna be home on Saturday I'm sticking to that because that's when I think I'm gonna be home But there's a chance I could get home Friday evening and I'm not gonna tell her Until I'm like until I'm like a hundred percent sure like I'm not just gonna I Guess I could I Wasn't thinking of just like gonna show up at the house open the door and say surprise. I don't want to scare her I think someone's barging into the house when she's not expecting it, right? That's a good way to get hurt But If she thinks I'm gonna be there on Saturday I think it'd be really cool to show up there and be like give her a call. Be like hey I'll see you in an hour. I'm gonna be home tonight instead on Friday I'll be cool and See a little Theo. I miss that little guy so much ah He's starting to try to stand up now. So he's got crawling down pat down pat. He's a motor and around and He's stood up a few times not like balancing, but you know stood up on his legs leaning on a box or something And he's starting to learn his sounds Hasn't formed any words. He doesn't know what the words mean yet. I don't think but He's trying. He's making all kinds of different sounds and stuff and Can't wait to get home. Okay. Anyways in order to get home I gotta go back there and go to bed so I can wake up tomorrow and keep driving. We are 1,700 kilometers from home yet. That is about 1,600 is 1,000 miles So about 1,660 miles No, what am I saying? Kilometers Josh kilometers You know, I'm gonna have to do math for you now one second where's my calculator One second It's 2024 a calculator of where I don't do math in my head Told my teacher I wouldn't have to No, okay, so 1,711 kilometers divide that by 1.61 1,062 kilometers that's what I was thinking in my head, but it kept coming out is like 1,600 not 1,600 1,060 that's In my defense I had it right in here it just wasn't right when it came out here Yep, definitely time to go lay down. We'll see you guys tomorrow if you haven't already I know a lot of you haven't Hit that subscribe button down below really helps me out a lot and what helps me out more than anything is when you Guys share my videos. 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