 Hey everyone, this is Chris from Grimsby in the UK. You're watching Truck Address Vlogs. Enjoy! Good day everybody. We're in Red Deer, Alberta. We have an empty flatbed behind us. And we're on our way to pick up some lumber in Edmonton, Alberta that's going down to Iowa. Somebody down there wants some Canadian lumber and you guessed it. We're gonna bring it to the You want some lumber? You get some lumber! At first, why was that guy parked there? Was he delivering? Probably delivering. Red Deer has gone all round about crazy. Congratulations Red Deer. You've officially lost it. The one here, we got one coming up over there. Today's gonna be a good day. It's getting a lot warmer a lot quicker. At the roundabout take the third exit. Getting a lot warmer quicker, I should say. Quickly. And I've got a coffee here, so that's good. I mean, what else do you want from the day, right? Other than no roundabouts. These roundabouts sort of killed the day. Killed the mood. Especially when it's so busy like this. Why is it so busy? Middle of the day? Everyone's going out for lunch or what? Give her a bite, give her. Give her, give her, give her, give her, give her! Good boy. I gotta wait for me in the lake. This is nuts. Traffic lights, I think, would be so much safer. No one knows what to do with these things. They're all just giving her. They're just going for it. They're just sending it. We gotta wait. Wait, wait, and we can't get in here because it's just a constant flow of traffic. I don't know. I'm not a fan of them. But I understand, like, apparently they save fuel and stuff. And some people are big fans of them. You see them more and more, so I don't know. Here we go, here we go. Watch out, Trucker Josh has entered the roundabout. Everybody put your seatbelts on. You should have them on already. Put your helmets on. Stay out of my way. That wasn't too hard. I really dislike those things. Have I told you that yet? I don't know if I have. Alberta 2 North. Well, you said it so much more fancy than me, Karen. That's not fair. Yes, this is Queen Elizabeth II Highway. I think every province has a highway named after Her Majesty. In Manitoba there's a main avenue in Winnipeg that's called Queen Elizabeth Way. Queen Elizabeth II Way. Sorry, gotta add the second in there. There's a lot of them. But that's right in the city. Here, this is the town or the road that connects Calgary and Edmonton. We're entering Her Majesty's Highway. It's very nice. Very, very nice. Fit for a Royal. Look at this. Continue on this road for 134 kilometers. Surprised they let me drive on it. Wow. This is a Royal Highway. I think when she comes to visit Canada, whatever road she drives on or the main road she takes with her little motorcade, I think that's the highway that just gets named after her because I'm pretty sure that's why they named Queen Elizabeth Way in Winnipeg because when she visited Winnipeg a while ago, who knows when. Her motorcade went down this one road and what do you know? Suddenly, right before she got there, the signs changed. They changed the name of the road. It was called Queen Elizabeth II Way. So she could drive down her own road while visiting us and then we just left it that way. Why would we change it? That'd be rude. So I'm guessing she probably came to visit Albert at one point in history. She's been Queen forever. And she probably took her motorcade down this road between Calgary and Edmonton and they named it after her for her visit in her honor. And I'm guessing that's what happened. I don't know. I actually have no idea. I'm just, that's a guess. I think his driver here on the right has a beef with that little Honda Civic in front of him. He's backed off of him now but he was riding his rear end. Wow. Now we're going to go straight, Karen. I told you already. This guy here was literally six inches from that Civic's bumper. I just start talking and every time I start talking, Karen starts talking or my phone starts ding-a-linging non-stop. Every time I'm knocking you guys, as soon as I open my mouth, that happens. 27 meters. Take. Exit. 27. I think I've got someone to talk to, I guess. The conversation and control. What is this thing? Real soon there's a Honda, not a Honda. Really? Wow. There's a Chrysler 300. That will not let me in. Providing more. Probably sell them off to some other place. I wouldn't doubt it. They'd probably sell them to someone. Well, we got ourselves reloaded. It actually turned out to be a really nice day and we made it down to Lloyd Minster, Alberta, which is right at the provincial border with Saskatchewan. I was pretty tired. This is the next morning now. I was pretty tired last night. I just crashed. I got here and crashed. I slept for like 10 hours straight. It was a good sleep but I'm feeling really good now. I've got my coffee. I'm ready for a new day. But I want to show you the load that we picked up first. A load of lumber. It's nothing fancy or anything. It's not like you'll be like, ooh, never seen that before. But it is special because it's on my trailer. A bunch of Canadian lumber. Going down to Iowa. So we are going straight there, which means that we're crossing through at Portal North Dakota. We're not going home again. It's two times. I've had to skip past home on the way through because I'm taking time off for Christmas. So I've got to make sure I'm boogity boogitying right now so that we can afford life next month while still celebrating the greatest season of all Christmas. So it's one time a year where I don't negotiate. I don't compromise Christmas. Easter is important to me too. Thanksgiving is important to me too. But there's something about the Christmas season. Sort of like, you know, something in the air. The Christmas spirit. Maybe as a child it was more of a more of like a magical season to me. Or maybe things are just changing. I refuse to let them change because when I was a child this was the happiest time. Everyone was happy no matter what. It was just a time to spread cheer, to make other people happy, to help others, to give to others. The Christmas season is all about giving. It's not about receiving. As a child, of course it's hard to hard to give. I was taught as a child over and over again. You know, it's nice to get gifts. But Christmas is about giving gifts to others. So, you know, it's about a season we do shoe drives and stuff. Shoebox drives, which means we fill shoeboxes with toys and Christmas stuff for kids that were, you know, orphans or unfortunate that we just didn't have a family, maybe poor families. We'd make it possible that as many people as possible could enjoy Christmas even if they couldn't afford it. I think that's what the season is all about. It's just spreading happiness. Reminding people who think that nobody cares. Reminding them that there are people who care about them. Reminding people and putting a smile on their face and making everyone around you, making sure that everyone you meet, everyone you come in contact with has a positive experience in that moment where they're in contact. Even if you don't know them. Even if you're just passing them on the street, flashing a smile, reach out a hand, shake a hand, say hello, say Merry Christmas to as many people as you can. That's what I remember it as a kid being about and now as an adult, I refuse to let that change for the next generation. We're trying to have kids ourselves right now and my kids are going to feel the same way about Christmas I did when I was a kid. And that's really up to me. It's up to me to teach that to pass that down, right? If you don't pass down these traditions they don't just you know, they don't just pass themselves down. You know what I mean, right? You got to keep them alive. You got to keep them alive and you got to be you got to be happy. It's a happy season. So that's why we hang up the Christmas lights. That's why we decorate our houses to remember what the reason for the season is. To remember that there is a light in the world and it's up to us to spread that light and that cheer and that joy around, especially in the Christmas season. We should be doing that all year round, but Christmas season is sort of a celebration of that light within us. That light in the world. It's an annual celebration. It's been 2019 years since the first Christmas. So I'm going to leave that leave that there. I'm going to start tomorrow's vlog because I have some stuff tomorrow. We got to leave here and head out on that road. It looks like it's going to be a good day. I wanted to get a bit of an earlier start than this. I'm kind of disappointed in myself. I told myself I was going to get up at like 7 a.m. before the sun. Yeah, we're going to get it early start. Ah, woke up at 8. And now it's 9 o'clock. The sun's up. That's okay. It's going to be a good day for tomorrow's vlog. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss it. We make a new video every day. Take care. Thanks for hanging out.