 Good morning, everybody. It's another new day. We're continuing our journey from Sudbury, Ontario over to Edmonton, Alberta Dropped by home for a quick reset. My logbooks are ready to go now It's time to hit the road if you deliver an Edmonton get this load off my trailer those big reels, right and then After go over to Meadow Lake load up a load of lumber. That's taking me down into Minnesota So the Winnipeg headed west Makes sense because the Sun is in the south The daylight hours are getting longer though And that is very encouraging. It means a new year is coming all new years here already, but For me the year sort of begins when the snow melts So we're gonna be driving as far as we can today I'm allowed to drive 13 hours in one day in Canada. I have to do that within 16 hours From when I start my day to when I end my day has to be no more than 16 hours for those of you not familiar with Canadian hours of service That should get us to around Lloyd Minster, Alberta That's what I'm thinking. That's where I'd like to get to tonight. That's a long way from here That's about 1,100 kilometers 1,200. I might even get past Lloyd. Who knows? But Lloyd is the goal North Battleford is The consolation Saskatoon is a fail. I want to get as far as I can because I want to Really really Have as much time as possible for tomorrow Tomorrow, I'm unloading this freight in Edmonton on Niscue just south of Edmonton And then I have to run over to Meadow Lakes to sketch on which is a five-hour drive. They're open till 10 p.m And that's in central time. So I'm losing an hour coming from Alberta back into Saskatchewan So six hours from when I leave Edmonton there. I can't forget that time change But I want to get as far towards Minnesota as I can yet I'm just trying to get as far as I can. I want to make as much as like as much of this week as I can All blue is scheduled for a service this Friday So once I'm done this rounder All blue will go into the shop get a nice detailed bath Deserves it The engine will get all those fluids changed out get greased get new filters Get screened over by a fine tooth comb See if there's anything else that I missed that needs to be looked at The truck has been doing really good for me. I mean obviously like knock on wood, but I've been very impressed. I was nervous buying a used truck. I want an older truck. That's what I wanted I wanted a W9. This one came for sale and everything about it looked perfect, right? Nothing looked fishy But I'm always a little bit nervous, you know when you buy a used vehicle when you buy used anything even like a house or Anything There's always the chance that you're just buying someone else's headache and they've sort of just put lipstick on the pig and Made it look nice, but really underneath. It's a big old lemon not this one. I Still talk to the previous owner They're really good guy Doesn't live too far away from me lives like two minutes away from it From the same town same background And he had all the records to show me that he took care of the truck He didn't just tell me he took care of it He had the records to prove it so he came with the receipts and said look I've been taking care of this truck I've rebuilt the engine. I've done this. I've done that and I've taken care of it I was still nervous, but you know went through with it and boy am I glad that I did He was an honest man of integrity and you know guys like that You don't find too often anymore Here's just a good guy Didn't lie about anything there were a few things that needed to be adjusted on the truck or needed to be looked at Or fixed he told me about them straight up said this this doesn't work This needs to be fixed. This is going this will need to be replaced But I did this this and this and that's the kind of driver I strive to be to I Don't ever plan on selling all blue But I do take detailed records on absolutely everything that I do to this truck everything that I add to it so that you know if the If the time ever did come it'd be a very sad day as it was for the previous owner too When I picked the truck up off his driveway I could tell it was hard for him to say goodbye to it But he had his reasons And I believe they revolved around family reasons to be home He'd been in old blue himself. It wasn't called old blue then. I don't know what he called the truck probably just the truck And he'd been in this truck for eight years So that's a big part of his life that you know you gotta say goodbye to and I felt for him a lot of man That must be hard as excited as I was to take it home, right to my shop When you care for a truck that much for that long it becomes a part of you, right? And he might even be watching this video now, so hey How's it going? Told him about my videos and that he's commented on a few before He's a good guy And it's nice to know that if anything if I have any questions about the truck I can always you know shoot him a message and and ask him and let me know I'm still getting to know old blue. We've been together since May of last year. I guess June I put her on the road June 2022 I think for the most part all the little things that needed to be looked at we we got fixed She's been doing really good for me Slowly putting my own My own touch on the truck making it my own adding more lights That is definitely me the more lights the better ask my wife I love lights everywhere in the house on the truck everywhere more lights the better More lights got my new steering wheel in here. This was a gift from Jim thankful for that But I love my job to me. This isn't a job. This is a lifestyle. This is who I am A big part of who I am Not only am I a son a brother a husband soon to be a dad I'm also a trucker. That's part of my That'll always be part of my identity. You can never take that away from me You can take the truck away from the man You can't take the truck out of the man though. Is that how the saying goes? You can take the man out of the truck. You can't take the truck out of the man. You guys know what I meant I may not be a millionaire I may not own a big yacht in the Caribbean one day Let I'll be happy beautiful beautiful Saskatchewan Canadian prairies Stopping at the Petro Pass up here in Grenfell. I Was gonna go all the way to Balgoni and fuel up the flying J there, but My fuel gauge is going down faster than I thought it would we're uh Well blue is a little thirsty pulling these reels through the prairie wind here. So I didn't quite I'm not gonna risk it. I'm already at like an eighth of a tank and fellas right here. This is a newer Petro Pass It came up well probably like four or five years ago already, but it wasn't here when I started driving so it's still new to me Get to it. Is this the exit? Yes Yes, this is the exit. It's right there. There's the sign They're owned by BVD petroleum. I think I don't know if they're owned by them or they're partnered with them You'll see it on the sign just around the corner here Open 24-7 gas diesel convenience store bistro restaurant showers laundry Wi-Fi ATM Lotto They got everything they got diesel fuel cuz I'm gonna need a lot of it. Hey, don't usually let my tanks go this low But my fuel numbers are not gonna look so good. They haven't been looking good this whole trip I've been averaging under five miles per us gallon. I got this giant steel parachute behind me Not only is it it's not too heavy, but it's and it's heavy enough. It's also just really big It is what it is I accepted the load so it's worthwhile for me Here it is up here and they got it around the corner is sort of sneaky you got to know where to go How do we case so the pumps we got to go around the back and face forward? I don't want to go in backwards Block and everything do not enter do not enter. Well, where are we supposed to enter? Okay? I'm gonna have to go turn around somewhere now Is the entrance? There's all this parking here lots. Oh, it's over. There's another entrance over here. Okay. This is new They made this parking lot bigger and this entrance is different. That was not like that last time I don't know when they did that but I Haven't stopped here in a while. It's not my usual stopping point So if you're wondering how to get in here now, you know Wait the far end and we'll get some go-go juice first And then we got a bucket to Edmonton. That should be enough fuel to get us all the way to Edmonton Should be we'll see how the wind treats us on the highway That wind is just relentless Lots of parking here though This was all grass before and the parking lot ended like somewhere around here and there was maybe like Spots for 15 trucks. Maybe now you could fit probably like Oh 50 to 75 trucks in here. Maybe more. Oh And people are lining up over there. Well, I want to go get in line in the correct way I guess so there is another entrance on that side over there How confusing is this? I'm gonna get in get in line and not cut the line over here They've made this really confusing Wasn't expecting it to be so busy now, you know Don't go in that entrance over there unless you just want to get to the parking lot if you want to get to the fuel islands There's another entrance on this side and get in line. Don't cut the line Don't listen to her. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'm turnin here. Okay a little bit too confusing They changed everything up. This is a totally different stop now good for them like this is way better You just got to figure out the parking lot and the pumps a little bit here. All right, here's the lineup Expecting to have to wait for fuel here. I thought this was a smaller little truck stop Not anymore a guy in front of the guy in front of me played a prank And he turned this nozzle off or he shut the valve off there I Guess he's playing a prank the guy in front of me couldn't figure it out He's getting all mad that the pump wouldn't work so he left And I pull up I noticed that right away turned it on pump works fine just had to open the valve So this valve here shuts off fuel flow through this pump here and the guy in front couldn't figure it out Before I come and tell him He just took off all mad and the pump wasn't working went around a different pump Always make sure that the valve is open some guys like to pull pranks and close them I don't do that So we bought 675 liters and spent $1,362 and 91 cents Canadian That was from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Grenfell, Saskatchewan Neaky guys, you know funny guys funny I didn't see the guy who turned it off But it had to have been the guy before the guy in front of me Because for the longest time I couldn't figure out why the guy in front of me was getting mad at the pump and It's taking forever. I was what's taking so long and finally, yeah, it leaves in a hurry I was about to come out and help him I would have been able to tell him that right away because this is one of the first things that I looked for Is the valve open? So tip to you for the future When you're fueling if your pump is not pumping juice Just check to make sure that valve is open Simple as that Simple fix Don't got to ruin anyone's day Okay, the sun has set. We got a long way to go yet Price of diesel fuel here is $2 and 2 cents per liter Canadian and 675 liters 0.04 liters if we're being accurate, which equals 53.7 liters per 100 kilometers or 53.7 liters per 100 kilometers and us miles per gallon 53.7 liters per 100 kilometers is 4.38 miles per gallon. Can you feel the pain? 4.38 miles per gallon We're just gonna pretend we're playing golf and the lowest score wins We did great Wish I'll never speak of this That's a lie. I'm a vlogger. I talk about everything even the bad days I like to keep my fuel mileage at about six or higher miles per us gallon 4.38 Sometimes the wind and the weather and the load just uh, they don't help you they drag you down It is what it is so making money so Let's get out there. I'm not making any money sitting here. Let's get out there full of juice I think this is the best way out of town. Maybe I could have gone that way For once you're right Karen. I'll give you that Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I don't know if it would have been faster going the other way Like I said before this is not my usual stop. I don't stop here very often at all I didn't even know they doubled the size of the truck stop there And it looks like it's been like that for a little while already and it shows you how often I stop here I usually go through the Balgoni flying j couldn't get quite as far So 675 liters or 178 or 173 gallons us gallons And I burnt that in just over 1200 kilometers Or what would that be? Less than a thousand miles trans canada number one this away He is her Well, this stop sign is not quite sure you want me to stop or you know, we always are you okay? It's been partying too hard. Look at this guy Maybe it's supposed to flash like that got my attention, right? That's the whole point of it Dude, your axles are all the way at the back of your trailer Makes him have to take an even wider turn All right, let's go. Look at that sky. Wow Look at that dirty windshield. Wow Stoneship in my window last week And I tried to fix it at home And it didn't work as well as I wanted it to I have a windshield repair kit, right? And it fills in the chip so that it doesn't spread or turn into cracks, but You can still see where it was And I thought it would do a little bit better job concealing it It's right there right in the middle of the window to replace the whole window anyways if it cracks out from there Trying to avoid that it is all filled up. So maybe Maybe it'll be okay white minster I still have an hour on my clock. So we're going to keep going even further I surpass our goal for today It's been a good day steady driving Stopped for fuel and a bathroom break and that was pretty much it check the load a couple of times Good steady day of hard driving Gate to the left on trans-candidate highway highway 16 changing time zone Beautiful alberta Full 13 hours driving 300 meters turn left on 53 street highway 870 That is that that was a long day How far did we go today? Let's see From my location To steiner 1220 kilometers We made the most of this day Drove pretty much the full 13 hours just barely made it had like Three minutes left on the clock Whoo, well, I'll show you where we're at in the morning once the sun comes up. I'll give you a look around here and uh I'll take it from there. We'll see you in just a second. Have you ever seen anyone put a jacket on that fast? This is where we spent the night The petrol pass up on a hill this was packed last night already so everyone's been Everyone who got here before me is pretty much on the road already makes sense So thanks for hanging out with me on this long drive. I'll see you tomorrow