 Morning everybody. We're here in Pembina, North Dakota, the Canadian border is one mile that way, and we're headed that way My load didn't clear till this morning, so here we sit on the American side of the border I had to sit for ten hours consecutively to reset my log so that I could drive the mile to Canada If I was on the Canadian side, I would have only had to stop for eight Well, some guys might have just gone and done it anyway, so you're just a mile for Canada. I couldn't get myself to. I guess I'm just too honest Got these shingles on my trailer. Let me go get them unloaded in Winnipeg today Then we're gonna go swing by home. Our renter brought back our trailer, our camper. I think I'm gonna call them rock. I like that. That's what most of you guys Suggested we call our travel trailer. That's for rent I got to talk to Britt about it yet, I guess, but I think she'll like it The trailer just came back from a rental. It was another great successful rental. We had a great renter five-star review for Took care of everything Knew what they were doing. It was a lady and her two daughters so it felt good to be able to help a family go out and Have a good camping experience. I Hope they come back and rent from us again Early, I guess right now to expect people don't plan their vacations that far in advance all the time, I guess but Yeah, we got it back yesterday goes out on another rental this next weekend And then the rest of the season is still wide open if any of you want to rent our trailer People work even clear in time. I have six trucks in front of me Now if you're talking to a driver who crosses at Detroit Windsor all the time, they're laughing They say that's no line. They're from the little six trucks in front of us. Man, that's for us. What's going on? Sometimes there's long lineups. They only have one window open right now when it looks a bit And sometimes there's a line up like a mile long so it does get But that's seems to be rare at least for the times when I come through here. Usually there's like maybe two Zero to two trucks in front of me, but that could just be Because of the times I'm crossing. I don't know. I will see you guys on the other side Turn left on Main Street Karen you try to tell me to do that every single time. I can't go that way. That's not a truck road You're supposed to be a truck GPS This is why no one trusts you. We're insane at all from Manitoba Turn left on Main Street Highway 200. It's not even the weekend and Karen's been drinking again She's got a problem Wants to send me down the no-truck road over there. I'm gonna go straight So we are in a bit of a rush a lot of a rush I've got to get to Canora today and load today yet And I've got quite the rounder ahead of me quite the trip ahead of me by the time you watch this I'll probably already be back But we're going to Prince Edward Island a house on the road. I think my window here Let me put my window here. What's going on here? That's a house 300 meters turn left on Highway 59 Holy smokes how they can possibly issue permits for that on a two-lane road, but it happens all the time here on the prairies It was the last one they had available It's not the prettiest trailer, but it'll do the job It's kind of hoping to have a nice pretty trailer to pull east with me But that's okay. We have a nice functional trailer that works to trailer, but it has a recent safety on it It just got safety So at least I know It's good to go right we have to get loaded today or it's gonna throw a wrench in the whole plan There's gonna be something there's always something I Know this construction in Ontario yet and ladies will be there from that. I'm gonna be pushing it pretty close Equal or something for traffic coming around the corner that there's gonna be a we'll get tarped and we'll be on our way Close to the end of their Shipping hours So you know how shippers are they get a little bit nervous when you say you're gonna be there, right? You know right at the last point where you're supposed to be there because a lot of people they'll say y'all y'all y'all be there at 330 then they'll show up before 30 right They'll just say that so that you'll agree to load them and then you'll wait around for them And you gotta load them No, I like to give an accurate time And I'll add 15 minutes to it I can show up 15 minutes early from when I said I'd be there and then they're happy and they trust me next time I tell them okay I know I'm coming pretty late, but I will be there at 330 That way they know I'll probably be there at 315 or at the very least when I say I'd be there As soon as drivers start lying to them when they know they're only gonna be there at 4 o'clock or 430 And they tell the shipper I'll be there at 330 just so that they'll wait around for them That breaks the trust like that And then they don't believe anybody Always give an accurate ETA and then add 15 minutes If you're not gonna make it, you're not gonna make it. You just gotta accept it Don't try to pull a fast one and get them to stick around because then it's harder for the rest of us You know what I mean? That makes sense I'm on track to be there 15 minutes earlier than when I told them I'd be there That way they agreed to load me at a certain time and they'll be pleasantly surprised that oh That's nice. He's here early. The other direction opened for quite a while 20 more kilometers to go and I really didn't need this delay. Come on guys. Come on. Nobody's here. Come on Traffic up ahead is moving way ahead. There's a couple of vehicles there that are just dragging their feet. There we go There's the gas pedal. There you know, they're figuring it out. Where are you just creeping here? There's that blue SUV up ahead Traffic's way ahead of them. They're blasting zone here now Accordion 2, right? If one driver at the front sees a deer or something it gets scared and slows right down It sort of moves like an accordion all the way back through traffic and this is Highway 17 It's the trans-Canada. This is the only highway right now that connects east and west So all traffic going from eastern Canada to western Canada comes through this road Unless they went through the US but all commercial traffic will come through here It's quite a busy road It's a big deal to close it down like this and do this kind of work probably very expensive Here's the blasting area Looks like they're making some progress Hey, get out of here. Fly you were not invited. You see that fly? It's just like walk-riding uninvited I don't walk into their house uninvited. Do I? No, I destroy their house The stuff on my trailer and then they can go home and I just got to tarp it on my way out Being brainered tomorrow get it off my trailer and we got a head down to a town called Lindsay Lindsay Nebraska it's gonna be a little bit of a deadhead Bit of empty miles so most of the day tomorrow the rest of the day tomorrow will be just traveling there I don't think I'll quite get there or maybe we will yeah We'll get close to Lindsay Nebraska anyway And the next day we load up our load. I still don't know what it is. I don't really care What is it's legal? It can fit on my trailer. Let's go put it on load me up We'll pick that up and then I'm expected five days To get up to Prince Edward Island and it's about 4,000 kilometers Which is about four days of driving I believe it's 4,000 kilometers. Let's double check here um One sec. I don't know how to figure out what this is right now for my american friends in states anyway Okay from Lindsay Nebraska to let's just say charlotte town Prince Edward Island. I don't know exactly. I don't remember the town on Prince Edward Island, but it's a very small island so Three no three thousand three hundred and eighty two kilometers. Sorry just over three thousand not four thousand So you go 33 82 divided by 1.61 2100 miles from Nebraska to Prince Edward Island. We're going to be loading up Friday midday And we have part of friday to drive yet, right? We can drive into the night and then one two three I should be able to be there monday night One two three. Yeah, I should be able to get there monday night if I don't run out of hours on my 70 because in the us they have a different rule than us and in canada here I can drive 70 hours and seven days and then on the eighth day I can take the hours from the first day and Recap them and in the states it's eight days for some reason I don't know why they picked like a week plus a day. It doesn't make sense to me But one not that's their rules So eight days I can drive 70 hours and eight days So on the ninth day I can recap the hours from the first day instead of the evening So I can't get as far again I can't haul as much weight and I can't get as far when I'm in the us But whatever they have really nice roads and it's nice visiting there because the people are really nice The roads are nice The countryside is nice It's always nice visiting our neighbors. So As long as I don't run out of hours Either monday night, but I have a feeling I'm gonna have to reset along the way of a feeling So that's why we made our delivery appointment For the wednesday I might run out of hours Or it might take me longer than I thought to get there and I only get there tuesday and I unload wednesday morning I don't know what's happening Tuesday or wednesday. We're gonna unload and then I head back to Quebec Load up something in Quebec later that week and then come home and I should be home A couple of days after that So including this trip this past rounder that we just dig sit and go home in between So be about a two week trip, which is the longest trip I've done in a long time But that's an average trip for a driver uh for on on long haul or Whenever I'm just on regional. So I usually stick around buzzing around closer to home But I'm gonna stretch my legs a little bit on this one and go see what's on Prince Edward island I get across confederation bridge It's the longest bridge in Canada. It used to be the longest bridge in the world I believe the way it works is it's free to get in To pei But you got to pay to get out Once they get you they don't want to let you go They like you that much All right, I'm gonna get loaded here. The guy's coming here now. I'm gonna throw us on the trailer. Let's uh Let's get her done So here we are on the tarping station. We got loaded. So I'll just be two tarps Bring the back one on first and we'll put the front one on Button it all down and head on the road This is how this whole system works So what I do first I get both the tarps over and I tack the corners of each tarp So eight bungees tack corners that they stay in place, especially if it's windy I have the doors over there closed and the front one's open So you get a breeze in here, but it's quite a strong breeze So I don't want to blowing right through here because it'll blow my tarps off So I close the back doors to stop that from happening, but you still get a nice breeze in here We're lucky here. We get to do this inside and we have a machine to help us Most places I have to crawl on top of the load and roll my tarp out on top of the load Spread it out and it's a lot more dangerous and a lot uh more work Very thankful for people who set up tarp sheds like this for us. It's very nice. Two guys can tarp at the same time in here so now That I've got them all tacked down I'm going to try to get the back of that front tarp as tight as possible So that we don't have any too much loose tarp in the middle there, right? Because you don't want that flapping because there's just a three a bundle of three there And then four and four on each side of it So I don't want that flapping around on the wind too much If I can't tighten it up enough what I do is I'll put a strap right over the middle there And strap over the end of that tarp there to hold it in place Probably what we'll end up doing, but we'll see each time is a new artistic experience Tarping is an art form Each guy does it a little bit differently I'm glad we're inside Just started pouring I'd have to do this in the rain And now we're ready to go When you're doing your tarps in the front here this may seem obvious to some people but You want to think of the wind passing over your truck this way You want this flap in the front to be over the outside so that the wind Goes around it You want this front tarp on top of this back tarp So that the wind goes over it and not Under it Can you imagine if that was the front of the truck the wind coming over this Will get sucked right into there and you have a big balloon behind you here I put these two straps here just like I said That's just to control the flapping there and that's to hold the tarp from sliding forward Now on the back here this back flap you want to do the opposite because the air is coming Around like this right do you want to put the flap on the inside? So the air can come around and there you go They're not the prettiest tarps they need to be replaced I'm gonna have to buy I'm gonna have to buy new tarps this fall probably They're about $1,800 or so almost $2,000 for a set Set of three you have two end tarps like that end tarps have a flap on it And one center tarp that one doesn't have a flap on either end that one just covers the middle If I need to tarp the whole trailer then those two aren't long enough We are trucking a 71 in ontario headed south towards for frances That's where we're gonna cross into the us if our load is cleared by the time we get there One of our favorite towns anyway. We're always here And look at that our load came with us Nice We're gonna drop this off here down the road Oh, it's already morning We're gonna drop it off once the sun comes up And then start on our journey Towards Nebraska and then Prince Edward Island I thought we would be traveling through the us and crossing from Maine into New Brunswick By the looks of the map now that I'm looking at it It probably looks like we're gonna cross from Detroit, Michigan into Windsor, Ontario And then go up through Ontario through Toronto and through Montreal through Quebec City around top of Maine And into New Brunswick and across New Brunswick to PEI through Canada. This actually works out better It's 100 kilometers or 60 miles shorter to go through Canada like that. And like I was explaining earlier I can go on the 70 hours in seven day Canadian hours of service then instead of sticking to the us side And having to follow 70 hours and eight days that means I'll be able to get to my destination on Monday and deliver Tuesday Instead of having to wait all the way till Wednesday and reset along the way Because I don't think I'd have enough hours to get through the us On the us hours of service. So this will actually work out in our benefit and we'll be uh visiting uh Flying flying through Toronto at the speed limit as fast as we can go So we'll talk more about that as the time comes closer This is going to be a four day trip from here to Lincoln Through Ontario. Okay. So what we're we're gonna do we're gonna go from Minnesota here I think through Iowa a little bit and down into Nebraska and then across All right through Iowa through Illinois through Indiana Uh, Michigan to Ontario through Quebec through New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island It's going to be a four day trip just to get there And then once we unload there another day trip back to Quebec Where I have a reload and then probably another two and a half to three day trip back home Then a bit of a longer one than we've been doing recently Huh. Oh, yeah, I'm kind of excited to stretch my legs a bit It's a good time. We don't have anything going on for the rest of the month I uh This is as good a time as any to stretch my legs a little bit and go a little bit further And see what the east coasters are up to You potato farmers that's what you grow out in Prince Edward Island mostly right potatoes Correct me if I'm wrong. I've only been there once before this will be my second time to the island Looking forward to it. So tune in tomorrow. We're gonna unload and head to Nebraska. I'll see you then Take care. Stay safe and drive safe