 Good morning everybody Today we're gonna be delivering our load of reels back here I'm gonna drop them off in Edmonton, Alberta And then we have a reload in Meadowlake, Saskatchewan about five hours back That's gonna take us down to Minnesota Everything looks good on the truck. It's about I'd say minus 15 Celsius outside. Let's just double check that minus 12 Celsius What is minus 12 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 12 degrees Celsius is 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit. There you go So I've had my truck shut off now for about Seven and a half hours and let it warm up now for the next half hour. Let's see how she starts I've had my engine heater running for two hours. So the engine water temperature sitting at 150 degrees Fahrenheit Should have no problem again That's okay. The plan is To cross back into the US probably at portal North Dakota from North Portals, Saskatchewan I have to confirm that yet But if that's the case I should get close to wayburn tonight if everything works out perfectly But I do have to unload and reload which takes time out of my day I have a 16 hour clock here in Canada where I have to get all my work done because after 16 hours regardless I have to stop But I can drive 13 hours within that 16. We'll be able to cross into the US tonight I'll have to stop for my 10 consecutive hours before crossing into the US tomorrow And in the US you have to get all your work done within 14 hours You can only drive 11 hours in 14. You can't get quite as far But that's okay. We can get close to the border tonight Tomorrow we should be able to get down into Minnesota to deliver What's wrong? Maybe deliver the next day in the morning And we'll have a reload head it back home after that That's the plan for this week but plans change. We'll see. I might be headed home from here Uh, just take care of one thing at a time. Let's go get these reels off my trailer. They've been weighing me down I don't want them anymore. I want to give them away Everything's ready Everything's set. Are you ready to go? You bet. I'll double check my trailer there Trailer brakes engage Trailer won't fall off Trailer brakes disengage Very nice This petro pass on a hill what I call it Is just down the road from Innesville, Alberta. Where is Innesville? Innesville? Innesville It's just up further up the hill there is the town It's about 1200 kilometers from Winnipeg. How much is that in miles? Well 600 miles It's about a thousand kilometers We're probably looking at 1,100 miles No, not 1,100. 700 miles Somewhere in there. My best estimate. Excuse me You ought to Karen. We're gonna have a good day, right? Fine suit yourself. I'm gonna have a good day Best part of the day is always getting out onto the highway after the truck's all warmed up Ready to go starting the day That is It's always the best part for me You'll see my e-log there is only giving me 11 hours 57 minutes to drive beginning of my day. Usually I'd have 13 That's because I drove past midnight in central time I can only drive 13 hours From midnight to midnight at my home terminal time zone So within 24 hours, I'm only allowed to drive 13. So even if I stop for my break 13 hours, that's the maximum Whereas in the u.s. As long as you stop for your 10, right you can have your 11 Even if you drive more than 11 in a 24-hour period as long as you have your break They like to keep us confused How are they gonna give us tickets if we understand everything? Nice and easy getting old blue back on the highway warm up a little bit Just cleaning up my equipment here and throw it in its box And we're gonna get these reels off here and I can get out of here So I've got my longer chains on my driver's side my shorter chains on my passenger side Be a little organized. I actually have a second row up there. I can hang more chains, but I use that for my bungees And this is an old mudflap Must be on this side of the mudflaps that they don't keep hooking into my chains in there. That's annoying That needs a good polish. I'm hoping to find a good polisher and winter peg for the surrounding area That'll polish my whole truck in spring. Do you guys know anybody? I want the wheels tanks Uh headache rack stacks everything polished All at once if possible, who would you tell me who you recommend in the winter peg area or steinback area? Or winkler southern manitoba Do you know anyone? I got work for them this spring So if you know any good place to take my where I can take my truck in the spring Maybe email me if you feel like it email me a trucker. Josh vlogs at gmail.com. Maybe you own a polishing business Like I know pvx in town Where I'm from they polish wheels But I'd like to get everything polished everything that's chrome on my truck. I want polished Especially the the tanks and the headache rack those are the two Unique ones. I guess wheels are a little bit easier Uh, and they're a little different than doing the tanks and headache rack But if I could take my truck somewhere just to get it all done That would be great. So uh We'll see what we can find. Maybe you guys can help me find a good company that'll do that for me For a good price I'm looking to probably get it done Well, I'm going to be on paternal leave mid-march to like mid-april end of april So if we can get it done like beginning of april Or beginning of may april or may maybe may because april you still get some snow and some bad weather Beginning or mid-may 2023. I'd like to get this truck fully polished Anybody want my business anybody want my money out there on the alberta side of loid minster About to head north from here towards the meadow lakes to sketch one the border was to sketch was just uh The next set of lights after these I often stop at loid minster at the walmart or any of these stores along the The side here I usually go and park behind walmart or home depot or something, right? I've noticed a distinctly loid minster activity Or a behavior. I should say a distinctly loid minster behavior people in loid minster Seem to think that the back lanes behind the box stores like behind home depot behind walmart are through streets Busy non-stop traffic going behind walmart behind home depot behind best buy And it's like they have to go out of their way to go around the back of the store when there's A road right in front of the store There's another road in front of that and another road that runs parallel in front of that There's three options out in front But they decide to go all the way around to the back and it's not just a few It's a ton of people at the back lanes here in loid minster Are busy places and they're dark right because they're not lit properly So you got to be careful that these cars see you when you're walking from your truck Because they'll fly down there and just car after car for anyone from loid minster watching right now Why is this a thing? Why why is loid minster? So back alley happy Those those aren't through streets, you know, you know those those are back lanes But hey, they like to use them So figured I just point that out and maybe on the off chance someone from loid is watching I'd like to know why this is a distinctly loid behavior. Like I only see that in this town ever Or at least as bad Apparently i'm driving right along The time zone boundary And I keep bouncing back and forth between mountain time and central time Out of the street is alberta. The right side is the sketch one We're driving right down the time boundary Time zone figure it out. This guy's getting loaded in front of me And I'm next time is 826 central time or local time here They uh They load until 10 p.m. So we got here with plenty of time I mean, you don't want to show up right at 10 o'clock either like 15 minutes to that's just rude But they they go home at 10 o'clock So if you show up at like five minutes, too Well now they've got to stay late and they're already staying till 10 p.m. Which is already awesome, right? So if you're not going to be here before 9 30 It's up to you. I don't know that's just my standards. That's what I follow 8 30 is plenty of time that guy can get loaded and then I'll get loaded It's just lumber super simple. He'll have me all loaded up in like Probably 10 minutes This guy's just tying down. So as soon as soon as he's done tying his load down He's gonna come around there and his loader and tell me to pull in where he is Get this loaded up Then we head to wadena Minnesota, which is in like the Detroit lakes brainered area the midgy area like central minnesota I believe it's 1500 kilometers from here or about a thousand miles Let's see wadena wadena What do you know wadena or whatever Wadena minnesota Directions from here. Let's see google speak to me you wise one Oh wise one Speak to me. Okay. So we'll cross like I said from portal. Saskatchewan or north portal Saskatchewan into portal north dakota Snake our way down to the i94 take that eastbound all the way into minnesota And uh, yeah that is Right in the brainered area of minnesota north of alexandria. It's 1539 kilometers. So almost exactly A thousand miles a little bit under I have another about five hours or so available to me to drive today yet four hours 55 minutes And uh, we'll do the rest tomorrow I don't know if I'll fully make it tomorrow. I probably it's gonna be very close full day tomorrow I might make it But there's a lot of two-lane road through north dakota. So We might just make it close like maybe to fargo or is that grand forks or fargo I just make it a fargo and then do the rest On the following day. I don't have to be there to the following day. Anyways first come first serve whenever I get there It's just the sooner I get there the sooner I get unloaded the sooner I get unloaded the sooner I get my reload The sooner I get my reload the sooner I go load by reload the sooner I load by reload the sooner I go home You follow It's all about getting home As fast as possible Old blue needs a service. He needs a little bit of attention There's my load Have I showed you my new load lamps yet? Thanks to RC man on youtube. He sent them through to me Got them installed now Nice and bright So while he's loading me the sign right in front of me says no foot traffic while loading I'm assuming that means no walking around I mean Like on your feet Usually while he's loading me uh well in in a lot of places While you get loaded you can sort of tie it down while they're loading you in some places They're very strict about it You stay in your truck until they're done loading you and then you tie it down which is Smarter you don't want to get run over by their tractor and he loads me up pretty quick like look at him He's got another one there So he can just give her Not worry about running me over Once he's done I'll quickly jump out and uh Jump out throw a few straps over it and we'll be out of here in probably like 20 minutes Super fast Look at that. He's got another one No messing around with this guy employee of the month right there He's almost got me loaded already Those are the new load lamps Nice and bright Someone was asking me about the side pairing here They thought that it was uh I showed a picture on facebook and they're asking if it came out. It does a little bit. It's for aerodynamics Just the side pairing it's bolted on up there and it's comes around back there That's how that works What do you think bright enough? Oh Yeah, it says bright enough got a nice little purple spot there now We shall lie thine head Mine head Thine would be your head That was a fail at some old english I'm tired about midnight. Uh, we stopped in radison's the sketch one got a spot way in the back here They haven't plowed the snow very well I had to walk out like get out and walk around to see if this was actually a spot I'll show you maybe tomorrow's vlog in the morning when there's daylight outside But see right beside me there's this huge area that they didn't clear but it's Parking lot they just didn't clear that area there, but they cleared this little area like where me and this guy beside me are It's Strange it'll make sense if you watch tomorrow's video Whatever i'm comfortable parked here I got to save spots to park i'm running out of hours I didn't want a risk going all the way to saskatoon Oh First excuse me first of all i'm tired second of all it's foggy outside. You can't really see it Uh, because we're stopped but once you get out on the highway It's pretty thick and it's uh It was actually so thick that it was building up a layer of ice On my air breathers and on my grill in the front there was like half an inch of ice on my grill When I got here, I had to like break it off so that my engine could breathe or so that my rad could breathe It would it would have melted off on its own while i'm parked here, but Yeah, i was like Wow Just like the thick layer of ice building up my windshield was constantly getting like coated in ice I figure you know what? Radisson Sounds good to me I'm gonna park here for the night. So tomorrow I have uh a ways to go. How far do we got? Karen Karen show me Arrival time total trip 1298 kilometers so 1300 kilometers yet One second i'm working on it What is 1300 kilometers and miles? 1300 kilometers is equal to 807.783 miles So I got 800 miles or so to do we're not going to get that all done tomorrow We'll maybe get 600 done tomorrow and we'll do the rest Maybe 650 done tomorrow With the rest on the next day So thanks for hanging out with me today. Another day is done Another safe day of driving. We made about 900 kilometers today A little under 600 miles 580 miles or so give or take Tomorrow's going to be a good day Don't forget to hit that subscribe button the bell button so you don't miss a video of mine And if you hit the like button It really helps me with the algorithm if you really hated my video Feel free to hit the dislike button twice I'll see you tomorrow