 good morning to you good morning you awake time to get up actually release these in the evening so I should ask you are you still awake wake up not time to go to bed yet we're in oh where are we I didn't even tell you where we were last night I don't even know we're in North Dakota I know that I think we're on exit 331 or something like that we're in a town called one second let me ask the almighty Google we're in a town called oh is there even a town here truck trash Castleton we're in Castleton North Dakota we just got off we're about to get headed out there on the road beautiful truck stop here oh it says it right on the water tower right there could have just looked right there city of Castleton that's typical of me so I'm gonna go up to Carrington North Dakota where I'm gonna fill up these tanks that's where the best fuel price is for me today along my route and then we're gonna head up across the border from portal North Dakota into North portal Saskatchewan in Canada go up to Langbank Saskatchewan where we're gonna sleep there at our customer or close by the customer anyways I know whitewood is just a little ways away from there might go up to there we'll see and we unload this load first thing tomorrow morning and then I probably head home I'm not sure if they're gonna have anything for me before I have to leave we have to sign papers with our lawyers in a couple of days which means I've got to be home so once that's done then off we go I guess it's time it's moving time rock turn that on okay just in case anybody needs to haul her at me lights on just in case people need to see me windows down in case I need some fresh air put the truck in gear cuz I want to go forward well let's just make sure our trailer is gonna come with us we're gonna roll forward about 10 feet or so and wow spike the trailer break that confirms that the trailer is attached breaks engage and they release okay you know the drill let's get out of here let's go to Saskatchewan ordinary oh boy lots to see today all the way across North Dakota mean to Saskatchewan so much scenery looking so forward to it actually I kid but North Dakota's actually got quite a bit of scenery and so does Saskatchewan and the prairies and planes here are home to me so I do love this region the best this is my favorite region of North America from Manitoba all the way down to Kansas Saskatchewan Alberta Montana my favorite part of this continent everything's so wide open there's lots of space everybody's very friendly yeah it gets cold but like I was explaining the other day that's okay the cold keeps out the riff-raff I used to call the riff-raff until my wife started making fun of me friends riff-raff trouble makers and poisonous animals it's too cold to cause problems here directly into the wind for most of the day it's coming straight from Canada and we're going right towards Canada we had such great fuel economy all the way from Iowa up to here and then you hit the planes and the prairies and the wind gets you every time that's how you know you're at home because you got to hold your hat on your head because the wind will blow it right off in the temp that guy made dangerously passing me I had to hit the brakes so he could get in front of me the first time he came up beside me on a solid line and that didn't teach him anything so he did it again so I finally let off to let him pass me because I was scared he was gonna kill somebody around me I just want him out of my hair I don't understand why drivers do that I'm doing the speed limit right now but he wants to do two miles an hour faster right he's got to do that two miles an hour faster save that 30 seconds everybody out here on the roads is trying to get home to their families but that guy his time is more valuable than your life pulling into the case he's at Carrington just a little ways down the road from where that guy pulled that genius maneuver proceed to the highlighted route I know I'm gonna park here for a little bit let him get away from me a little further I want nothing to do with him the first time he pulled out to pass me pulled up right in front of an oncoming truck almost had a head on collision a second time that happened it's just I want as much space between me and him as possible just don't understand people like I was saying earlier today there's gonna be people out there that make you very angry on the road we got to try our best to be professional and control our emotions on the road that guy made me so upset was like I was saying that was the second time he tried to get past me the first time he pulled out to pass me there's an oncoming semi truck it was around a corner I could see the semi truck coming he had a solid line pulls out to pass gets almost halfway past me and this big truck comes around the corner that he finally sees has to slam on the brakes and going back behind me the second time he pulled out to pass it was over a hill just a little bit I could see there was a car coming but he just kept going that time he kept going and he I guess he just gonna push me off the road so I slept I hit the brakes so he get in front of me now this is all too common of an occurrence this isn't uncommon unfortunately especially up in this area not in North Dakota but around unfortunately when you get back up closer to Canada you see this more often where guys are taking just ridiculous dangerous chances and you see them in the ditch all the time especially the first snowfall like it's supposed to snow tomorrow actually tonight and tomorrow up in Canada guaranteed guys like that you're gonna see him in the ditch jack night right away I don't know how these guys are getting their driver's licenses I don't know who's hiring them I don't know how they get behind the wheel but they're the ones you got to look out for he was impatient about this close to my bumper behind my truck when he caught up to me he was back there for maybe with 10 miles I saw him back there I tried to radio him I said I see you back there as soon as it's clear I'll let you know when you come on past right I'm not gonna make it hard on you my even slow down obviously doesn't use his radio I mean I didn't use mine for years either but anyways he pulls out to pass I flash on my cargo lights to let him know it's not safe he comes out anyway I try letting him know there's a car coming driver there's a car coming back off getting back off and that was the second guy who did that to me today already to both with Canadian plates one was British Columbia plate one was an Ontario plate the US drivers seem to have a lot more sense about them unfortunately I'm a Canadian driver today it's been trucks from back home and that upsets me because I really love our our friends here in the US these are our brothers and sisters this is our closest ally they're our family and being here is a privilege we are their guests and we're supposed to act accordingly and act with respect respect their country respect our laws and respect their highways especially their people don't put their people in danger by driving dangerously in their country that's ridiculous so when I see people with Canadian plates in the US driving like that and putting other people at risk it really makes my blood boil even more because they're putting a bad name on me now when other people when they see that and then they come up behind my truck and they see Canadian plates that's what they're gonna think of oh great another one of these Canadian drivers better keep our distance the sky's crazy gives me a bad name so like I say every day usually at the end of my vlog just remember when you're out there to drive safe saving that extra 10 seconds isn't always worth it a lot of well all of Canadian trucks that operate within Ontario and Quebec are governed at 65 miles an hour 105 kilometers an hour if you're following someone that's going 103 kilometers an hour or 62 63 miles an hour and you know you're limited at 65 or 105 kilometers are just a little bit faster than they're going you don't need to be doing that extra little tiny tiny bit just match their speed at a safe distance you're not gonna save any time by getting around them it's gonna take you 15 20 miles to pass them because you can only do 65 and they're already doing 62 63 just ease off the throttle deep breath no rush okay I know every freight every load freight is a rush I know we're always in a rush everybody's in a rush I was afraid yesterday but it's not worth people's lives for two miles an hour it's not worth going two miles an hour faster just match their speed go to safe distance I mean me saying that's not gonna change anything I know but maybe maybe next time someone comes up behind someone they start getting in patient they'll think oh you know what trucker Josh said maybe you know let cooler heads prevail yeah I don't have to get past him I don't have to be doing two miles an hour faster that extra 30 seconds I'm gonna say or the extra five ten minutes I'm gonna save isn't a big deal you know let's just match their speed let's not do anything crazy and put other people at risk we had a long way to go today yet not too long but with five hours or so five six hours so let's hope that that is the end of today's today's events like that I have a feeling there will be more this is a two-lane highway speed limit here used to be 60 mile an hour they bumped it up to 65 now now if I'm doing about 65 and someone comes up behind me limited at 65 and a half they get very impatient and they like to tailgate me and then try to you know pull it to pass me on a two-lane highway and take 10 20 miles to pass me and it's just it gets annoying after a while like usually I'll slow down I'll let you pass if there's lots of room I'll let you pass get out of my hair or whatever but if it just keeps happening again and again and again I'm just come on guys okay I feel better now see I vented to you into my windshield and I didn't take it out on that guy specifically and I didn't escalate that situation he's gonna have to learn his lesson eventually but you know I've got a job to do right now I don't think I'm the person to teach him that lesson I'm sure he will make one of those dumb maneuvers in front of a police officer eventually and and they can take care of it I just hope that he doesn't hurt anybody along the way gotta keep trying to make it by maybe even get ahead a little bit we have it a lot better here than people around in other parts of the world but I don't like to use that as an excuse for complacency or just content sure yeah we have it better than a lot of other people but we could also have it a lot better yet you know this is my not North Dakota just to our left here is shots crossroad so when a stop gets fuel in a shower looks like they redid it again did they paint it looks nice sitting below quarter tanks of fuel we're probably gonna be buying about 165 gallons or so this guy doing parked right in the middle of the fuel lane here turn left on 20th Street and then turn right in 40 years no no we're gonna fuel first I've never fueled here before so this is something new when you're done feeling you obviously can't pull forward because you'd be blocking everything looks like the pumps are exactly the same as that any flying J or loves double check my app right now make sure that the price hasn't jumped up since this morning go here search nearby this app is connected to my fuel card which gives me the true prices of what I'll pay one second it's gotta update where I'm at I'm in my not there we go it did jump up since this morning man two cents so we could have fueled in Carrington but whatever we made it here same price $4.70 or 471 per gallon jumped up two cents since this morning man up and down up and down up and down mostly just up mostly just let's be honest all right so I've gone and parked in a parking spot I'm gonna go and grab a shower I do get a free shower here with 50 gallons or more of Phil and the numbers are in we filled up for 162 gallons my prediction was 165 so that's pretty quick I know my truck that equals 613 liters the last time we filled up was in Urbana at the Casey's in Iowa from there we went all the way down to West Burlington and then all the way back here to my not that was 1616 kilometers or 1000 miles on one Philip like I said price here was $4.71 a gallon USD equals $762.87 American or with all conversions and everything else added into it in Canadian a dollar 71 per liter or a thousand forty eight dollars and four cents Canadian average 6.2 miles per gallon or 37.95 liters per hundred kilometers and that's not bad because I parked over the weekend right I didn't idle much I just idled a little bit probably for about in total maybe a couple of hours just to keep my battery is charged because I was working with my computer and I could drain the battery and so I keep that up plus I have my cooler running in here so maybe like two hours through at the whole weekend I had the truck islands that's not too bad and that's all added in there so now I went in and got my receipt I'm gonna take that up to the front desk there's gonna be a shower ready for me I'm gonna go clean myself up and then we're gonna head into Saskatchewan long gone to Saskatchewan long gone to Saskatchewan have you guys looked up that song yet it's a good song I don't know if you guys been paying attention but today is your lucky day you guys want some bull snot we're doing a bull snot give away today remember we talked about it this last weekend bull snot is gonna send you four cans of their product all you have to do is go to their website down below bullsnot.com or bullsnotcanada.com unfortunately this giveaways only for residents of Canada and the United States at this time just so you know but this is the first bull snot one so if you guys want to try out their products I'd recommend them I use it 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be another bullsnot one next week I'm just not gonna tell you what day they're on all right today is getting darker out there it's time to get going I've been here for an hour and a half now had my shower had a cinnamon bun it was delicious if you were wondering fantastic now that I'm all cleaned up I can get back out there on the road I've got another two hour and a half to the border and then put another hour up from there yet so two and a half three hours of driving today yet and then we'll shut down they're expecting me there in the morning tomorrow we'll go unload and from the sounds of it it looks like I'm just going to be headed home after that empty but we'll see we'll see if anything comes up you never know you never know right I can't go too far because we got important stuff coming up and I have some time booked off for the move have I mentioned that today I know I mentioned that every day you're probably sick of hearing it from me but it's the biggest thing going on in my life right now I'm trying not to talk about it too much I'm just really excited so sorry not sorry hands are a little sticky I've got like sticky fingers sticky cinnamon bun fingers what's this come on come on what's wrong with this what's going on here there it is some hand sanitizer I don't get that on there we go that's my solution okay oh I got the sugar rushes now yes I also got a coffee I'm very excited very excited it's a Colombian coffee Colombian makes the best coffee okay give that to you guys they are ready to roll out just since I've been here a little while let's just do the little tug test to make sure nothing's happened make sure no one's been messing around with my stuff make sure the brakes still work and release there we go we gotta go this way I don't point it the wrong way whoops the doodles oh great of course and this guy's gonna be right there okay there you go bud just my luck that's what I mean I'm the Truman effect right as soon as you start rolling that's when everyone else wants rolls through the same space at the same time he didn't even wave thank you so I didn't wave at him either take that I could have just kept going forward and forced him to back up that would have made more sense right we don't know this way down that road what made more sense if he would have backed up right cuz he's going right down a driveway I was backing around the corner whatever whatever there's a yield sign right here feels like there should be a stop sign though you know I'm gonna stop anyway no wait for that pickup truck cuz I'm way too nice sometimes I hate how nice I am I should have gone there was yield I didn't have to stop but I knew that I was gonna be slower than him so if he comes in behind me I'm just gonna be slowing him down right as well as let him in front of me full out here all the hills amazing my not there's a massive or Air Force base here United States Air Force pretty safe place to be I think that's the main reason for this town right is the Air Force base huge it's a whole town all like the town or the Air Force is a town itself my not is sort of like the supporting town beside it and I want to turn left here nice truck nice truck don't worry I won't hit you okay we got a green light ahead come on guys let's go let's go I figured he was gonna do that that's okay didn't slow me down at all oh and now we got to wait for traffic wonderful cast that helps you we're probably gonna see some snow tonight we're gonna see snow tomorrow still a chance that I'm wrong bad the snow is might want to be at the truck stop so that I have just a case of my truck doesn't keep me warm at my bunk heater stops or my batteries die or warm place to go into I like to be at a 24-hour truck stop so that I can go inside keep warm about zero right now or 32 Fahrenheit southern Saskatchewan oil country first-door destination I think I'm gonna sleep right in customer I think that's the best spot they said that that's okay for me to do done it before as well and that way we're there first thing in the morning and we're unloaded first thing in the morning they get there at 7 a.m. so hopefully I'll be out of there by so far no snow yet but there has been questionable raindrops we didn't make it to the customer I could have but I found a much better spot to park on the way in Carlisle Saskatchewan I'll show you here on the screen where I'm at so it's a little co-op little co-op gas station little truck parking area right off to the side here no other trucks here it's getting pretty cold out it's not cold cold but like I said it's below zero today so what let's see what the forecast is for right here I want to have somewhere where I can get close close to a building that I can get inside I don't know if these guys are open 24 hours I should probably check that but at least I'm in town so there's like hotels right across the street and right down there so if something were to happen and my truck doesn't heat like I have a bunk heater I will bath so bunk heater underneath my sleeper which keeps my cab warm at night if that were to break down and then I try to start the truck my batteries are dead I'm like oh no I'm freezing and I can't keep myself warm well worst case scenario I can walk if this place is closed I can walk just to a hotel over there and go in their lobby warm up or book a room if they make me like I'm just trying to stay warm guys but if you want me whatever at least I have an option right other than just freezing we're coming up to that season again where you heard me talk about it through all of the past previous winters if you've been following me for a while you you know that I've been doing this for a while I have 12 years of vlogs here on YouTube go to my my channel click my name below the video after this and go to my playlist you can go all the way back to way back in the day when I had hair and a gigantic crazy bushman beard before I met Britt when diesel was with me he was just a little pup we've gone through several different trucks in that time already but so you guys know what I'm getting at it you guys know that in the winter time I like to be prepared because I've been caught off guard before and I've learned my lessons that it's all in the vlogs if you go back so one winter it wasn't too too far away from here but 100 200 miles away from here in Saskatchewan anyways it was minus 60 that day if you're wondering what's minus 60 in Fahrenheit it doesn't matter it's colder than you want to feel minus 60 in Fahrenheit let's see these guys oh these guys close at 10 p.m okay so they're not open 24 hours it's fine like I said we have other options what is minus 60 Celsius in Fahrenheit Celsius is equivalent to minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit okay so it's minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit it sounds even better when I say it in American minus 76 Fahrenheit and I ran my tanks or I left my tanks empty overnight when I slept almost empty because I was going to fuel up in the morning right I didn't want to fuel up at night I'll fuel up in the morning I didn't know at the time because I was younger and inexperienced I didn't have anybody on YouTube teaching me these things I know I had my dad and he probably would have taught me these things if I would have asked him but uh you know I was a young kid and I figured I know best I know better why ask dad for advice I've also grown out of that and I've learned that it's much better to ask advice of your dad he has saved me many times already so so uh it was minus 76 I slept all night with about a quarter tank of fuel which means that the fuel was warm because the engine was running and keeping that fuel warm circulating through the engine back to the tanks it keeps the fuel warm what that does is the rest of the tank is very cold and what happens when you put like warmer liquids in a cold environment right or differences in temperature you get condensation so I got condensation that built up inside my tank what did that do it all ran down into the fuel and now I had water in my fuel and what that does is gels up your fuel it went through my fuel lines in the morning when I was way out in the middle of nowhere Saskatchewan out by uh Chamberlain Saskatchewan driving down the road all of a sudden engine shuts off will not run what had happened is all of that condensation gets into the tanks turns into a gel like a putty like gel substance you call like gelled fuel goes into your fuel lines it plugs up your fuel filter because before your fuel goes into the motor it goes through a filter right the fuel goes through the gel doesn't eventually enough gel piles up on the filter that it actually blocks off the whole filter from letting any fuel into the engine whatsoever now the engine is starved of fuel and you're not going anywhere so I was very lucky that I I got the engine sputtering up enough that I could limp it back to town which was about five to ten miles where was I exactly between five and ten miles back to Chamberlain because I was I just gone through this town Chamberlain's this tiny little town maybe a population of like a hundred people but there's a hotel there they had a no pet policy but since it was minus seventy six Fahrenheit and I was stranded my engine wouldn't run I turned my bunk heater on that was gelled up too right because the gel it takes the the the heater under there takes fuel from your tanks so that gelled up and so I had to get a hotel room to stay warm and I had diesel to take care of too I didn't want him to freeze to death so I went to the hotel and I told them my situation and they made an exception on their no pet policy for me and me and diesel diesel was allowed in and the exception was that they were that they allowed him to bring his pet me into the hotel room which was very nice of them so I didn't have to sleep outside but that's that's the night I learned because the next day I had to get a tow from there into Regina which is an hour further south of there and had to have the truck just sit inside that's the only thing you do to fix that is you take the truck into a warm shop and let it sit in there for 24 hours 12 to 24 hours you change the filters and you add some anti-gel uh like howl's diesel treatment products you can add that to it to uh get rid of that gel in the tanks the way you prevent all of this the lesson that I learned from that the way you prevent all of that is go to bed with full tanks of fuel so that there's no room for condensation to build up number one number two always have a plan when it's minus 76 Fahrenheit outside don't go running out into the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night because if something happens it's going to be way harder to get help than if that happened during the day so try to operate during daylight hours as much as possible when the sun goes down you stop within reason because the sun goes down so early up here but try to get an early early start and stop early in the wintertime especially doesn't always work that way I get it I like running nights I run into the night all the time all the time and it's a risk I take I know better but I take the risk anyway so I learned that lesson and also the biggest lesson that I learned be very careful where you park this all ties into have a plan in the wintertime have extra blankets with you because if the worst happens and you can't find a warm place to go to your truck won't start and you can't get your your cab to get heated and you're stuck you have no other options you have to have blankets and you have to have food and you have to have a way of keeping warm in your truck you have to be prepared so we're not to that point of winter right now yet where you have to be that prepared but we are getting to the point where it's it's gonna get a little bit cold tonight uncomfortably cold I'm not gonna I'm not at risk of dying or anything but I'm already getting into that habit of parking somewhere in a town or somewhere where I can have somewhere warm to go if I need to tonight the forecast it is supposed to go oh severe weather alerts well that was for my not oh good thing we love my not oh it's not here okay so it's minus two Celsius here right now it's only going down to minus six overnight but there is a snowfall warning in effect oh starting at 3 a.m wonderful another reason why you don't want to be parked out in the middle of nowhere you might wake up covered in snow you kind of want civilization around you just in case of that right so uh what is minus six Celsius and Fahrenheit minus six degrees Celsius is 21.2 degrees Fahrenheit that's how cold is going to get down to tonight which isn't life or death that's fine I do want to make sure that I am close to civilization though especially because of that snowfall warning now I don't want to be parked out in the middle of nowhere because there's no services at the customer there if something were to happen there's nobody there nobody and it's way out in the middle of nowhere they're not getting there till 7 a.m and if there's a snowfall warning in effect there's not even a guarantee that they're going to be there at 7 a.m they might be late to work they might not come into work at all depending on how much snow we get so if that happens at least I'm here right and I'm safe so now I'm going to call them first thing in the morning make sure that they're there at work if it's really bad that way when I show up there I'm not the only guy there right and if I slept there overnight and it we end up having this huge snowstorm and nobody even comes into work tomorrow well now I'm stuck there all by myself no shelter no convenience stores no bathrooms nothing just parked out in a parking lot in the middle of a field pretty much no field it's not a good idea so that was a long way of telling you the reason why I'm staying in Carlisle Saskatchewan tonight I hope that made sense as winter approaches this is my time to sort of maybe teach you little lessons of what I've learned don't look at me like I'm some kind of trucker guru I'm still learning things every day I have an open mind to learn new things I'm okay with being wrong on some things and then learning how to do them better I'm just I can teach you how like these lessons that I've learned so tune in tomorrow's a new vlog we'll see how much snow we get overnight let's wake up here together in the morning see how bad it is we're safe we're in a good location there's an a and w right here so we can get some onion rings in the morning I like that oh my mouth is watering now shoot oh shouldn't have said anything oh remember everybody winter is coming here on the canadian prairies winter is here when you get out on the highways please think of me think of all us other truckers out here please drive safe please don't cut us off please give us space and we'll try to do the same for you right my trucking brothers and sisters let's also look out for the four wheelers out there drive like you have someone to go home to because I do and I know you do too even if it's your dog or your cat or your tv we all want to get home when we leave the driveway we leave with the expectation that we're going to come back at the end of the day let's just make sure that that happens for all of us I'll see you tomorrow don't forget to subscribe everyone thanks for watching