 Good morning all my friends and all you humans too when I say my friends. I'm referring to dogs Right diesel all dogs are friends Not all humans are friends That's a fact What do you got hanging here? You got I guess something in your eye? A little hair there. I got that Welcome to the vlog. We make daily videos every day traveling across Canada in the United States in our truck And also when we're at home So if you haven't already and if you're new here hit that subscribe button We have new videos almost every day. We've been making videos for quite a while. I've been driving trucks since 2006 It's now 2019 if you were unaware. It's almost 2020. It's not crazy It's also almost Christmas, right? yesterday at the end of yesterday's vlog I Mentioned that this coming weekend or this past weekend if you're watching it was Veterans Day or Remembrance Day So now we can officially start putting up Christmas decorations, right? That's the rule no Christmas decorations before Remembrance Day and in the US. I understand I understand before you start typing here. You're clicking your fingers clicking already on the keyboard Don't break your keyboard. I understand in the US. You guys celebrate Thanksgiving in November for some reason We celebrate our Thanksgiving in Canada the exact same as you guys. We celebrated a month early in October To make more room for Christmas All right, okay, so after Remembrance Day Veterans Day we go full-on into Christmas mode. I always I do maybe not everybody but So in the US you guys still have to wait for Thanksgiving, so ha Enjoy your Thanksgiving though. Have some turkey for me Today we're in Clearwater, Minnesota And we're headed home about five and a half hours to the Canadian border and another hour and a half back to our yard We should be back this evening sometime Hopefully excuse me. Oh I've been fighting that yawn this whole clip. It came out anyway. How many of you yawned? We're we're headed home for a couple of days anyways We have some fertility appointments and stuff and you know my wife and I Britt and I are trying our best to have kids and We've had some difficulty some fertility issues. Um we figured out what the problem is we think and We're working with it Apparently It's me. I'm not infertile but How can I say this in a family-friendly way? Okay, don't worry. I'm gonna I'll use code words So my guys Only 10% of my guys that should reach the finish line are getting there apparently So 90% of them aren't Getting to the finish line where they need to be So it's not that I don't have enough guys. It's just that the guys are lazy apparently and Not very good at swimming so The doctor is working with with us on that and there are options that we can do to sort of you know take my guys and drop them off at the finish line and Or as the doctor put it apparently we can give them an elevator ride so that they don't have to take the stairs But either way like it doesn't prevent us from having children But it's it's good to know where the issue is so that we can work with it and fix it from there So With everything that's going on. It's very likely that she will be pregnant in the next few months Let's hope or we're hoping and praying for a good healthy baby And you know well with these fertility treatments that we take You know there's a very high chance that we could even have twins and I think Britain I would both be very happy with that we'd be very very cool and You know if if my kids one day are looking back on this video When they're old enough to understand what's going on we worked Very hard for you. We wanted you very badly and we are desperately waiting for you and You're going to be so loved and cherished when you do finally come because We want you more than anything. I can't wait So we'll see we'll see we're working we're working towards it and things are looking good. There. There's it doesn't look bad it's It's gonna happen So that's a little update on that Anyways, let's do some trucking today, right? That's probably why you clicked on the video. Let's uh do some trucking So I'm waiting for my border clearance to come through I still haven't heard anything I Called in to confirm that they got my car stickers and all my paperwork and it got there They're just waiting to get cleared There's three shipments on my loads of three separate cars stickers What a par's is for those of you don't know it's like a it's like an identification number and barcode That registers with the customs So when you show up to the border, they just scan it and they know exactly You know who you are where you're going where you came from what your freight is all the details of the freight And then it gets cleared to cross the border into the next country. So Come into the States. It's a pass Go into Canada. It's par's Still waiting on two of them to clear one of them had cleared or any but too much if it's a stowaway We're about three and a half hours away from the border. So hopefully in that time They'll get everything ready to go. So when I get there, there's no delay Looks like I'll be arriving there around 3 30 in the afternoon I gotta stop for fuel yet. So it'll probably end up being close to four o'clock. Hey, they got some time yet Minnesota here still we're getting close to the border with North Dakota Boat 60 miles or so to go The land is starting to clear out, you know, as soon as you get over the Red River Into North Dakota. That's when the prairies or the planes as the Americans call them the planes start Nothing but fields and farmers all all the way the Rockies, I should say It's amazing how much farmland He's in the heart of the continent this Way more than we need for ourselves. I'm sure that the I'd call it the bread basket of North America stretching from the Canadian prairies all the way down to Texas like I'm sure that that these farmers feed a huge chunk of the world farmers farmers farmers Rolling into the mega-opolis Megatropolis mega city of Fargo, North Dakota. I Believe this is actually West Fargo. I think it's a different. I don't know. I'm just gonna pull into the the Petro here and Check out the lineup at the Blue Beacon see how long the lineup it is right now I'm guessing it's kind of long, but if it's short lineup, hey, I'm gonna go and get a truck wash But I don't want to spend an hour or two here waiting in line On my way home So we'll see how long that lineup is make our decision then like to Have the truck clean Because once I get into Canada, there's not very many good Blue beacon type truck washes, you know Blue beacons so nice and convenient and there's only a couple of Locations and they're in Eastern Canada, of course You know, I don't know if the Blue Beacon executives watch my videos chances are probably no But by the off chance of one of you know one of them Maybe you can tell them that hey, it would be great To create a network of blue beacons in Western Canada I think they would do well that tanker had a lot of problems getting around that corner Why were you in the inside lane, bud? You have a trailer you should be in the outside lane when making a corner Now off. All right, let's go in here. Let's see what's going on. Let's see what's going on What's the what's the lineup look like? You can't tell from back here really if you've come with me before you know that the the entrance is right over here But I don't want to go back there and find out there's like 10 trucks in line. I Think that tanker is gonna go in there Shoot. Yeah, I'm gonna let him go in front of me. Ah Now oh Well, I want to go around here and see how long the lineup is Shoot. Well the tanker is gonna be in front of me now Okay, so off to the right. You'll see the lineup. There's one two three four Five six trucks or so in front of me plus that tanker. It's a little bit of a long lineup Little bit of a long lineup They do have both bays open What's this guy doing parked here on the left just blocking everything in looks like he just got a truck wash and he's just Walking everything just sitting there. Yeah, just sitting there doing all I made my decision I'm gonna go wait in line What's this guy doing? Nice tractor. I Am turning left my friend That's not the exit, but I'm sure he'll figure it out. Oh Wait, the entrance isn't here. Oh, no the entrance is over here. Okay, never mind. Okay, so I sat there and waited for nothing Okay Always make these blue beacon entrances so it's all like you can't get out of it Once you line up you're lined up like you're in you can't just back out Once you decide to wait doesn't matter how long it takes you got to wait So here we go. We're in line now One two three Well, that guy just hasn't moved up. Oh, so it looks like there's a lot more people on line But the one truck is just not moving up Okay Okay, there's a pickup in front of them Really a pickup. Oh, when you go through the automatic car wash at the gas station Why are you taking up a spot at the big rig truck wash? Oh Could have been in front of this tanker if I would have just gone up the line One two three four five people in front of me Because we'll see see how long this lineup takes Well, they're just rinsing her off And we got to wait for the guy who parked in front of there to move looks like he's moving now As soon as there's space there he's gonna open the door for me and that'll be that Got my usual truck wash the conventional wash plus the undercarriage the motor And renex comes out to about 80 bucks American Silver a hundred bucks Canadian Thank you and the wash itself only took Well Less than ten minutes. I waited in line half an hour and I was probably yeah under ten minutes to wash the truck That's why I like blue beacons right because they have the guys to do it quickly And you don't got to do it yourself because if I do it myself It takes a very long time takes like an hour to properly wash my truck and these guys can do it in ten minutes They have all the proper equipment and stuff, right? So anyway We're just gonna let the renex and the wind Dry the truck. I don't want to use my wipers now. Otherwise that renex stuff gets all over my wipers And then my wipers don't want to wipe properly I'll let the wind just push these water beads off the off the windshield on the highway We're gonna stop in Grand Forks for fuel yet. So we're not finished buying stuff Yeah, we still got to buy a few hundred dollars worth of fuel today yet You know if this was if we ever started driving electric trucks I wonder how they're going to charge us for that and how expensive will it be to charge up the truck, you know If they can get me a full charge that can last me 500 miles pulling my gross vehicle weight like a full weight They can get me charged in like 15 minutes wonder how much that would cost Come on, give me some of that cheap American juice