 morning special guest yeah you excited you excited so it is our first trip back on the road since Theo was born now we're just going on one trip this week just a little bit of a rounder we're taking Chevy with us we're headed up to Kenora we got to pick up a little lumber tarp it bring it down to Minnesota and then head on back home and when was he Theo again I got a pretty good sleep this night Brit took the night shift with with baby and I got up early got all my stuff here now I got to load it up into old blue I didn't get a chance to wash old blue before we left but I also wasn't expecting to take this trip this early I was actually I had actually booked a little bit more time off but instead of just like going like bam back into like full-time runs I'm gonna ease us into it so that brick can get used to the new schedule taking care of the baby at home and the dogs I got Chevy with me this week sort of eases the workload she has at home we're gonna see how this goes let's get her started up and let's get out there well we've got everything in but definitely not organized yet the GoPro I think I'm still gonna be using these for a couple of shots here and there maybe on the road well Chevy how's it been so far so far we've just been bob tailing I just backed under a 53-foot step it's empty it's a tandem it felt good you ready Chevy you gonna help me hook up no I haven't hooked up in a while man I hope I remember how he's been on five weeks time to get back to work just hooked up from my tarps up on the trailer here yet like I said the tandem empty that's perfect because I need an empty trailer I saw a bunch of loaded trailers I didn't want those ones no I need an empty one kick all the tires just to make sure they have air in them you know high quality pressurized air not just any air and a lot of air you know we need it to be pressurized high quality it's spring times you need to fill them with spring air I guess I've got to turn the lights on to check the lights right hook them up first let's just check the tires so I don't even want to hook on to it if it's a don't you want to hook on to it if it doesn't have properly inflated tires okay it's gonna be fun getting back into the swing of things a little bit of a short trip it's gonna be a bit of a long day today though because we're picking this trailer up here we're going to canor we're gonna load it up we're gonna tarp it but a drive down to Brainerd and hopefully get unloaded before 10 o'clock tonight that's when they close if I can get unloaded tonight that's great if not I'll do it in the morning but I'd rather get unloaded tonight well Chevy so far so good we've made it this far look at this hurry up and wait man it's what it's all about teaching them about trucking we're at the petrol pass in Deakin's corner these guys are taking a long time I know right this guy right here first time using a pump maybe I don't know trying to figure it out it's been a while yeah it's been a while since you've been trucking with me it's kind of interesting to have a nice young pup in the truck again I didn't have to set up the stairs I just opened the door and before I could think of anything it popped right in there I remember when diesel did that all the time now diesel needs his old man steps right yeah okay we're at Deakin's corner we filled up fuel 710 liters 183 US gallons I believe cost about $1,100 didn't miss that at all but hey used to be a lot worse it's $1,100 Canadian so we're talking like 800 bucks American let's go grab our load and head down south to take you out get you out of the truck get me out of the truck hey that thing that's pretty cool we're at the scale right before the Ontario border scale is right behind me over there and once we start loading I won't have any time to let Chevyo stretch his legs until I'm done and tarped so I figured we'd stop here this looks like a big pile of garbage come on chef there you go yeah we'll go around it you pile of mud and dirt this is actually snow underneath here I bet yeah you can sort of still see it there snow underneath there it just it can't melt because all this dirt is up here on top of it sure is a beautiful day though but seven degrees cell see us outside beautiful day to be trucking Chevy don't eat anything Chevy Chevy what are you doing man that is rule number one of the truck stops you don't eat anything off the ground that's disgusting all right bud let's show them what you can do that's wrong you don't need no steps okay it's my proper English did sorry grammar ready show me what you do oh that's impressive boy ready to go dad let's go trucking well Chevy you're getting to know the realities of trucking very quickly hurry up and wait I got here on time I checked in on time everything was good right the only problem is that about 10 other people also got here on time at the same time and checked in on time right before me trucking did we miss this yes yes we did even the bad parts you know you just got to love the job so we're gonna wait around here for a little while not gonna get as loaded not gonna get as loaded as quickly not gonna get loaded as quickly as I had hoped for because all of us have to tarp our loads so like I said there's 10 trucks in front of me literally I think there's maybe nine nine or ten and all of them got to get loaded which only takes like 20 minutes each and there's like four or five guys here loading it won't take long to get loaded it's the tarping there's only two tarp stations and we're only allowed to tarp our load in those two tarp stations and we have to tarp it before we leave their yard we can't go tarp it somewhere else we have to so we all have to bottleneck through these two garages where we can tarp our load right and that's fine it's just that some people are slower than others and I'm not too sure how slow or how fast the ten drivers in front of me are at tarping their loads so once I get loaded I'm gonna get in line to go get tarped and you know it could take like an hour each so it's two four six eight ten let's say filling up both of them five sets in front of me and if they each take an hour to two hours yeah we're not gonna get out of here for like another five to eight hours I mean that sounds like a big number right but doing the math in my head now it's gonna be dark by the time we leave here I don't know I'm definitely not gonna make my delivery I mean well I'm gonna make my delivery they're expecting me there tomorrow morning but they unload until 10 tonight I think I was telling you this before right and I was hoping hoping that I'd be able to get there tonight unload tonight because I have a reload three hours south of Brainerd in a town called Lake Lake something Lake Crystal no Lake yeah Lake Crystal Minnesota small little town three hours straight south from Brainerd I was hoping to get there tonight or close to there tonight so I could reload their first thing in the morning and be on the way back you know there's always the plan and then there's what actually happens and they're usually pretty far apart so right now our plan is starting to drift away from our planned time of destination destination still the same I mean this makes sense I couldn't believe it I pulled in here I was like yeah we made it on time usually I'm in and out of here and like well I shouldn't say usually lately before like Theo was born I come here quite often I'd come in here like maybe two three hours loaded better thing about a boom you're out of here tarped up wrapped up buttoned up down the road but that's when there's no line up in front of me everybody showed up like right at the end of the day and there's trucks behind me yet one two there's like four trucks behind me yet that I can see then it goes around the corner back there Wowzers man as long as I get loaded and tarped tonight at some point we'll be okay well figure it out as far as we can maybe we'll go to deer river can sleep there Chevy load it up your first load in a while hey let's go take a look all right I'm gonna show them how how well you tarped this okay look what Chevy did I did it we're gonna give him the credit so he feels cool beautiful day beautiful day would not want to be on that ice right now it's getting real thin nice and warm my tarps are pretty pretty dirty still from the winter have not had a chance to clean them yet here we go okay chef let's come come let's get away from the garbage there again you cannot eat anything on the ground okay you're gonna ride in the truck with me the one rule is you do not eat anything that's not in your food bowl okay beautiful area here hey hey chef Chevy you want to go on a little adventure with me come on chef come on careful careful I'm gonna go down first okay you got four wheel drive come on let's go check out the little river or those birds please tell me those aren't birds okay good all right that's your piece of grass there gotcha I don't claim one over here I think I'm gonna claim one of these trees here actually showing a lot of promise good young trees last summer I was here and I saw a beaver swimming around down here so there's got to be a beaver dam very close by so there's like a culvert that goes underneath the road here water's flowing that way guessing there's probably a dam around the corner or something get any closer not really in Chevy where are you you hiding behind me usually there was beavers sound scary you're not that scary we used to have some on our property where we lived remember look at that that's beautiful all right man you lead the way up okay let's go back up to the truck do you know the way chef you know where you're going so good Chevy your first little adventure on the road yeah don't worry we don't do that every day such an indoor dog doesn't want to get his fur dirty his paws dirty so our paperwork has been sent into the border we should be clear by the time we get there Chevy it's been a while since you've been to the United States you excited I'm always excited to go visit the US so we've got 499 kilometers 500 kilometers or 300 miles to go definitely not gonna make it today by 10 it's 6 30 right now 7 38 39 3 11 30 we're gonna be there you have to midnight probably one in the morning that means we can get going tomorrow it's gonna be tight because I have to be three hours south of there before end of day tomorrow okay so we don't have a lot of time to mess around here that's the only adventure for today okay Chevy we'll go for a walk once I stop for night okay is that cool all right we gotta get going the places to be stuff to deliver if people are counting on us oh they're counting on you all right you keep me awake all right and if I get tired you start driving okay you just take the wheel if I fall asleep we're all counting on you chef okay you're the co-driver you got a lot of responsibility breather lights at night I think they look awesome we're gonna call it a night tonight for Francis Ontario I'm just too tired to keep going a bunch of us here popular stopping spots guys on the way down there's nowhere to stop there's no truck stops around here this is the truck stop from here the closest truck stop would be Deer River about two two hours down the road into the US I still got two hours in me it's pretty late already I'm gonna go to bed we're gonna finish you ready for one last walk Chevy take you out one more time let's try and make this a little quick okay you don't have to rush but I I do need to get to bed so you can see the new visor up here I'm really happy with it and those lights they're not too bright from inside here I can actually change them to the lower setting where they're a little bit dimmer doing just fine makes me more visible on the road and that's always safer right so thanks for hanging out with us it's been nice to get the wheels rolling again but and you miss home at the same time big combination of both sort of tears you in two different directions right but we have to keep the wheels moving whether we like it or not we got to keep these wheels moving so it's a good thing I like my job it could be worse I could be doing a job that I absolutely hate I don't know how people can do that you hear people talking about it all the time oh I hate their job they hate going to the job in the morning they hate spending all their time there they hate what they do how can you spend so much of your life doing something you hate doing it's got to be torch why are you torturing yourself unless you're making like millions of dollars and I understand money does speak volumes now well take care everybody trucker dr. signing out and Chevy trucker dr. and Chevy won't say bye Chevy diesel used to pop up on my lap you want to no no what's that Chevy you want to say bye bye it's been a very fun day dad's truck is very noisy very it makes me clean and nervous but I'm getting used to it I think I miss home but the truck's go very fancy lights it's very cool diesel's jealous so that makes it a little worth it gonna go to bed now yes good night everybody take care don't forget to subscribe I'll see you tomorrow