 Hey everyone, Matt Bailey here from Rochester, New York with my dog diesel. You are watching TJV on YouTube Enjoy. And our time at Quality Inn Has come to an end. It was a quality stay Quality room. Actually it was very nice if you want to stay anywhere in Hinton, Alberta I would recommend this place. It's the only motel I've been to in Hinton, but it was pretty nice pet friendly They didn't even charge me the pet fee Chevy you stayed for free. Shh. I saw that on the invoice after they after I got back to the truck I was looking through all the the charges like I always go over all my invoices and stuff Make sure I don't get charged for anything. I shouldn't and then I realized wait a second. Didn't they say there was a pet fee? I guess not. I guess they don't have a pet fee here. They don't have a pet fee. So it was 66 dollars per night Came out to a total of 143 dollars after taxes and stuff And it was good really good really comfortable. I enjoyed it So now it's time to get back to work. It's time to get on the road We got to be in Langley, British Columbia tonight. We have 835 kilometers just over 500 miles to go And we're gonna be going over the coca-cola, which is the highway through hell if hell was frozen over There's actually a TV show that they that they have based on this highway that we're gonna go over today It's called highway through hell So that should be fun I've already looked at the they have live view because there's so much bad weather up on the high mountain pass that they actually have like live Cameras up there that show you what the weather is like and it looks bad It looks like a high mountain pass in January It's not snowing but the roads are kind of snow covered and there's probably about 10 feet of snow Pushed up on each side of the road. It's it's gonna be a little interesting. We've got lots of washer fluid We're setting ready. Are you ready? Let's go tackle some mountains Chevy When's the last time you saw the mountains? Well, it's been a while I think it's been a while. Yeah, I forget what they look like. They're really big bumps, right? They're really big hills. They're more than bumps and They're rocky That's why they're called the rocky mountains Very excited very exciting these adventures ahead of us 200 meters turn right on trans Canada highway. Oh, you're back. Are you turn wide in 20 meters? You know, it's nice having a whole day just quiet Karen yelling at me So I didn't live stream. Sorry guys didn't mean to get your hopes up Guess you knew that already I Locked myself out of my room right as the countdown Happened I went out to check my truck at about like 20 and a quarter to 20 to 12 and I want to make sure my truck doors were locked, right? I just wanted to double check because I'm paranoid because I wanted to go to bed right after the countdown was done, right? So I Went up to check my truck and I got back to my room and realized I had locked myself out I left my key card in the room so I went to the front desk and I waited there for what felt like a half hour It was about a half hour X came out about 10 minutes after midnight. So I missed the countdown And I missed New Year's so I had to rewatch it after on YouTube So I got to see some fireworks. I was so sad. I was frustrated for half an hour I'm wandering around the motel couldn't find one employee anywhere I mean it was midnight. I get it but half an hour and Then when she came back, I said hey, I've been I've been waiting here for a little while It's been about a half hour And she gave me attitude She gave me attitude. She's like, yeah, I'm waiting here for a half hour. I'm like Yeah, it's been about a half hour. You know, you've only been here but 20 minutes or so Well, I wasn't counting exactly down to the minute 20 minutes 30 whatever I missed the countdown It's sort of like the whole reason I got a room here was to watch the countdown. That's why I'm still awake I would have gone to bed earlier if I didn't want to watch the countdown She's right mad. Oh moody talk to the management this morning I said, she's a little moody last night and like lock myself lock myself out of the room and she's all ticked off She had to go make us another key card for my room and it's like takes her two seconds But I guess she was mad that I told her I was waiting there for about a half hour Because she knows she's not supposed to leave her her front desk open for that long Anybody could have just walked in and taken whatever they wanted. I guess I don't know what she was doing But that was my experience. The rest of the experience was fantastic. I'd still recommend staying there The manager said apparently he's had other complaints about the same person And it's becoming a trend so he was gonna Take care of it Whatever he does take care of it. That's that's his choice, but I guess it was a great place at a heated pool I went for a swim yesterday at a hot tub when sat in the hot tub for a bit. I read a bunch of my new book And I had a Harry Potter marathon Harry Potter was on TV. So I figure why not we watched the first three philosophers stone chamber of secrets and escape from Azkaban and The next ones were on today the goblet of fire and whatnot, but as you can tell we have other plans for today So do you see the mountains in front of us already? Open your eyes. They're right there beautiful, isn't it? We got to get to the other side of those Well, I think I went through most of my washer fluid already I was stuck behind a truck that was doing 30 under the speed limit for An excessive amount of time until I could finally finally make my way past them Welcome back to the two-lane highways of Canada and winter When you're following someone in this weather, it's just like you have to keep the washer fluid pretty much constantly flowing or you covered in You know road dirt So frustrated but Hey, we got around him. He was one of those guys that you know when you try to pass him He speeds up. So, you know, it's like 90 kilometers an hour here. So he's doing like 60 to 70 Until there's a passing lane, right? So I pull out to pass. No problem. The roads aren't that bad His speeds up Seems like those people just exist everywhere, don't they aren't those just like the worst kind of people the worst kind of drivers Makes you wonder like are you doing it on purpose or you just not realize it? I think they're doing it on purpose Just upset me. So I talk about them on my vlog We're not quite in British Columbia yet. We're very close. We're in Jasper National Park That was called Still a beautiful area of the city of the country Jasper is a big tourist destination. I think you can do some skiing, snowmobiling, hiking stuff there If I had an endless supply of money, I would have probably just stayed in Jasper at one of their fancy expensive motels And then rented a snowmobile that would have been fun But alas, we are not quite made of money just yet Still trying to figure out how to get that done. Is it 90 here again? Okay, now it's 90. Now I'm the slow one The thing there's no one behind me. We just came up to this What seems like an accident scene? I don't know what's going on here. They're letting us through here now Let's go see what happened. We're in British Columbia now and it's off on the left there down by the tracks It looks like a train must have derailed going around the corner here or something They're cleaning it up. I don't know if we'll be able to see from up here, but it's Looks like a mess down there. Traffic control. Yeah, there's a lot of CN vehicles around here. This is a train to Realmen Wow Went around the corner here a little too fast tipped over Whoops a doodle Someone got fired. Hope nobody got hurt trained the Romans or keep pretty scary things. I mean, that's a lot of weight a Lot of momentum why they're moving one off the track right there Just derail that thing teams every time we come through BC. There's something that's very dangerous for Everyone to be coming through here. It doesn't matter what kind of vehicle you're in It's a you got to be careful in the mountains You know once again like I was saying when we were in Northern Ontario these two lane highways are so dangerous But look at this cliff off to the left here. No guardrails. No nothing You know America would at least put up a guardrail. You know they would this is the trans can this is our version of an interstate This is the yellow head trans Canada highway coming down from Edmonton towards Cam Loops in verse, Columbia It's the same thing on the number one down south. That's our interstate Trans Canada same thing And it seems like they just don't take our safety into consideration at all Sort of like up on the Alaskan highway. That's up in northern BC Huge cliffs off the side of the road. No guardrails. No nothing Here's some guardrail around the corner What is this cement at least it's cement usually it's just like flimsy little steel And I like talking about this to sort of put pressure on people You never know who's watching right? You never know who's watching because Like I said before Canada, we're a very wealthy country We're in the top seven wealthiest countries in the world in the trillions We're doing very well, why can't we build proper highways for ourselves, right? Meanwhile, we're building roads in Indonesia. We're building roads in Afghanistan We built a highway in Jordan for some reason recently And we're building highways in all these other countries like what about our highways, right? Four and eight thing but come on bring that up and tell somebody does something about it You know, they don't even have to make a twin highway because building a highway through this terrain is very expensive Very ridiculously mind-blasting expensive. I understand. I've seen the numbers. I've seen the numbers But they could do you know like just widen the highway a little bit and put a two lanes Going each direction and put a big cement barrier down the middle Problem solved. I don't know if I was in charge That's where I'd be trying to direct as much money as I could but That's just me. What do you guys think? You guys who have to drive through Canada all the time and also get to drive in the US So you see the US they have a much larger budget than us like they they spend a lot of money on their roads And then you come up here What's your opinion of the of these two you think we could I think we could So I don't know who's watching right now, but I'm gonna hold your feet to the fire a little bit here and say hey We could do it We just need the willpower and maybe a Couple of people in charge of our money that would rather spend it here Then over there But we're not even up to the peak yet. We're not even close to the peak of the mound We're not even on the summit. We're still in the valley here and this is what it's like in the valley So the coca-cola is going to be fun. We're not we're not there yet. I'll let you know when we're there Hopefully we see no other accidents or anything along the way Dangerous into a winter wonderland. It's just beautiful or might be my favorite time of year But winter is still by far the most beautiful time of year You know something that we get up in the north that Other places don't get you know summertime You can go to Mexico and have summertime all year round. It's not that special. It's just summertime It's warm weather comfortable to be outside green grass trees growing you can get that anywhere But a winter wonderland is something only us in the north and the northern atmosphere get to enjoy maybe in some places in the south maybe in some places that on some high mountain ranges and other places but This is the main reason why I love our country so much what it would be like to grow up in a tropical climate Never see a snowflake in your life So you're in your 30s and you come as a tourist to visit Canada And you see this Must just blow their minds It blows my mind and I get to see it every year. I get to live in it Now a lot of these people probably don't want to live in a cold climate. I say it's worth it, you know Worth it. I like it up here Maybe it's just in our blood, you know, or northern people always have been sort of moved around the north but we've sort of Had to live with winters But this is not like a postcard picture perfect the two lane takes another victim Got another guy in the ditch over here. It's like he I say before got a little too close to the ditch This road is terrible being to Blue River BC I'm gonna pull in here somewhere. I need to watch my windows off All right, we made it to the wonderful city of Kamloops BC Wonderful city. It is actually very beautiful city. This is where we were gonna spend our New Year's Kind of wish we did it's very nice town, but that's not how it worked out There we are now I'm gonna grab some Fuel is a little cheaper up here than down In Vancouver, I think We have some fuel here and wash the headlights wash the mirrors another coffee You know pit stop. We still have another four hours three hours three hours down to Langley and I'd like to get there Decent amount of time so that we don't have to You know Search too hard for a parking spot. I'm hoping there's gonna be parking where I want to park It's kind of risky It is New Year's Day. So I'm thinking that There will probably be spots available people are still at home today with their families Well, we made it we're here down in Langley or down here in Langley however you want to say it Oh, I hope there's parking for us at the Chevron on a normal day. I would say not a chance But since it's New Year's Day, I'm hoping maybe maybe Guys, I got to deliver this stuff from my trailer like to the right on 000 street north. I've got to literally deliver it like across the street So I can't find any place at the Chevron to park at the truck stop I'm just going to go right to the customer and park right on the street right in front. I know we're allowed to park there I just prefer to park at the truck stop if at all possible Because there's very limited parking in the lower mainland here And I know a lot of the employees that work at those industries and businesses park along the street as well So they might have to walk a little further if I park there, which hey, you got two feet and heartbeat That's all right, but I don't want to Make them do it if I don't if I don't have to you know what I mean? I'm a nice guy Should be just around the corner here Off to the left slide right on 201 street Now Karen, we're gonna stop here at the truck stop first Hopefully hopefully somebody saved trucker drasha spot. I don't know who it would be but Okay, right here off on our left looks like there's a spot looks like there's no there's a bob tail in there No, there's a spot. I think there's a spot Oh boy, it's a dark lot. I thought it used to be more lit Let's see if we can find a spot to park here Well, there was one good spot left and we snagged it About a bing about a boom Here we are. Okay. Well, I've got a good spot. We're at the truck stop So we're just going across the street tomorrow to unload the rest of this I don't have a reload yet, which kind of concerns me a little bit because it's like I've been saying I need to get home as soon as possible because of uh the IUI procedure For brett and we need to sort of be in there right on the exact right day And that day is anytime in this coming week. We don't know which day it is yet She's got to take some tests every day and then once she tests And she gets an okay. We got to go in the very next day. So I got to be home for that So we'll see they're not in the office today. Anyway, because it's new year's day So tomorrow they'll be back in the office. Hopefully they find something for me pretty quick I'll get me back home. I mean, we're right on the west coast. The pacific ocean is oh just over there So whatever freight they do find for me, it'll be going east Which is the direction I need to go So too far that way you end up in china You end up in some kind of concentration camp getting your organs harvested Anyways, thanks for joining me today. Everybody. It was a fun day I'm gonna go to bed have a nice long sleep and uh, see what happens tomorrow Don't forget to subscribe and join me then tomorrow if we do get a load right a ways Uh, hopefully we'll get it early enough that we can get some scenery It's a little more scenery for you guys tomorrow through the mountains We'll see it was a quite a stressful drive white knuckle driving sometimes today Or or at some points today, but for the most part it was a good day of driving good day to be a truck driver I'll see you tomorrow Should I have you want to say bye? Hey, come here. Come here. I want to say bye All right, well wait, what's this? He's a Chevy Chevy, what do you want to say to the good people? Hi mom No, let's say something to the good people These people right here. Hey These people right here right here Oh, hey guys I'm Chevy And I'm a fluffy handsome good boy Yes, you are Let's go to bed bud