 We're in much warmer climates today though, it's still toque weather. I'm in St. Agath, Manitoba, which is very close to our yard. I slept on our yard overnight and I have an empty flatbed behind me right now. I'm headed down to Morden, Manitoba. I'm going to switch it out for a loaded flatbed. It's an oversized load, I think it's 10 feet wide. It's going down to Minot, North Dakota, where I'm going to drop it off tomorrow morning, head down to Fargo, get a reload. That's taking me right back to Steinbeck for the weekend here in Manitoba. I just fueled up and I'm going to give you my stats. Remember, we fueled up at Thompson. I fueled up again down here in Southern Manitoba. And I'm going to be talking mostly in leaders. I'll try to do the conversions here for the U.S., guys. I was pulling an empty drive-in behind me. So it was like a big parachute behind my truck. This truck is meant for pulling decks, which is flat. This was like a big wall behind me that I was pulling through the wind. The weather was all right. It wasn't windy. I wasn't going against wind or anything. And I drove 842 kilometers, or about 523 miles. I burnt 342 liters or 90 US gallons. That averaged out to 40.62 liters per 100 kilometers or 5.79 miles per gallon with an empty trailer. So I'm averaging between around 6 miles per gallon with a flatbed. It takes a little more fuel. 5.79, that's not too far below 6, but it's a lot of great. Price of diesel fuel here is $2.12.9. So $2.13 Canadian per liter cost me $728.12 Canadian to drive from Thompson empty down here to Southern Manitoba. $728 one day. So I burnt 86 cents per kilometer. That's Canadian. This is all Canadian dollars. 86 cents Canadian per kilometer or $1.39 per mile. The numbers are just a little bit lower for my US followers. Since 50% of you are in the US, I'll quickly give you the conversion. So here, $728 CAD to USD. Come on, Google. $537.34 is what we burnt yesterday, pulling the drive in about 523 miles south. And that would equal $1.39 per mile. Canadian, I burnt $1.03 per mile US. That's how much it cost me every mile, a dollar and three cents US as I came down here, Oregon. That's the stats on the truck for pulling an empty dry van. For those of you who are wondering if you just didn't care, thanks for listening to me through all of that. I appreciate it. We're going to go pick up our load now and head down to my not. I'm running a Cummins ISX engine under my hood. And it's a 2008 Kenworth W900L if you're new and you're wondering what the truck is. And that does affect my fuel economy quite a bit. I've got this beautiful hood out in front of me here. And you do have to pay the hood tax to have one of those, which means your fuel economy is usually about a mile per gallon less than the, or more. I mean, some of the Volvos, they're getting ridiculous like nine, 10 miles per gallon. But you know, I really love the Kenworth W900s. And they come with a price. And that's my choice. I mean, it's different when I choose, right? To have the extra cost. I don't like it when other people force extra cost on me. But if I choose it, I mean, I can't really complain about it then, right? I just really, I've always wanted a W900. They're my favorite truck. I regret nothing. A little dirty today. I had it clean, but those northern roads, a little bit of dirt up on her. And this trailer is filthy. Glad I'm switching it out for a different one. I hope that one's cleaner. My load today is over dimension. This top one is chalked in and strapped into the second one and down to the trailer. Then they're both chained down and tied down from the bottom as well. It's like two trailers. And I realized as I was loading that either someone stole my flags or they flew off my truck somehow. So I had to use these little temporary ones just to get to the co-op down the street. So there was something on here, right? Got down to the co-op. I was able to buy some new ones. I don't know what happened to my other ones, but they needed to be replaced anyway. So not too sad. 10 pack over dimensional flags. On the back, it says guaranteed to go the distance. The preferred choice flag built to withstand the rigorous Canadian weather extremes. So I'm gonna hopefully throw these on the trailer and we gotta get going. I'm in a bit of a rush. When am I not in a rush? Much, much better, right? A lot more visible than those other ones. Oh, it reminds me that there goes one right now. Hey, I wanted to keep you. Hey, where'd the rest of them go? Shoot, I thought I had one I do have in my pocket. Oh, there's another one over there. I wanna keep these just in case I need them again, you know, I went right in the water. Pretty slick looking load. Should just sneak right through the wind. Keep these for another day, just in case. You know, and I bought extra fly eggs too. I think I got a 10 pack and I usually only used four. So that should last, oh wow, put those there for now. We gotta get moving. Okay, so this took 15 minutes. It's not too bad. Checked on the load, got the flags. I replaced them with proper ones. I don't know what happened to my flags. I'm very curious now. Did I take them out in my shop and leave them in my shop or did they like, did I lose them somewhere? Strange, we'll never know the answer. Off we go. Oversized load in tow. Gasoline price here in Winkler on October 27th, 2022 is $1.79 or $1.80 per liter. It's probably about $5.50 US per US gallon. Excuse me, excuse me. Do you not have a stop sign? I guess not. Why do I have a stop sign then? On all blue, let's get there quick. Feels good to be back on flatbeds. Vans is sort of nice every now and then, but this truck is not designed to pull, pull vans. It's literally, it's like a giant parachute behind me. Just sucks the fuel. And it's not as fun. Oh boy, how am I gonna get on here? You almost need a traffic light here. See now this side is clearing up, but I got a vehicle turning here. So I gotta wait for this pickup. I should still have time though. He gets out of the way real quick in the right lane. I'm gonna take the left lane, to test out my load securement a little bit there. That was the co-op between Morden and Winkler here in Southern Manitoba. Winkler's just ahead of us here. We're headed east on 14. We're gonna go all the way down here to the 75 South, which will turn into Interstate 29 in North Dakota. I really wanna get over. All right, my turn, my turn. I'm coming in, I'm coming in. You saw the signal. Day at least, no snow down here. That's always a good day. Hi, hi, hi. Hi, careful. That one was okay, that one was okay. One more time yet. I know there wasn't much filming today. There's two big bail trailers, Baylor trailers, what do they call them? They're about 10 feet wide. And what's great about parking here, I'm at the Shats truck stop in Minot. What's great about this is my customers right next door, right next door. They open at 8 a.m. So I wanna be there at 7 30 a.m., taking my chains off and my straps off that I can get unloaded right away, get home as soon as I can tomorrow, enjoy my weekend. It's different day to day on the amount of footage I get. This is my 11th clip of the day that I've been filming. I don't keep them all and I cut them down. Yesterday, I think I had 47 clips. Man, I still gotta go through all that and edit. I gotta catch up. I try to release my videos the very next day or within a couple of days with my schedule on the road in this regional position. Well, you guys have seen it. It's a rush, rush, rush type of job. So I don't always have time every day to put everything together and upload it. But I do the best that I can and I try to get it uploaded as soon as possible. So thanks for tuning into this short little day today. Tomorrow, well, we're gonna be up early, so we'll probably have a lot more footage filmed tomorrow. Hopefully I can get unloaded right away and that everything goes smoothly with my reload. I'm actually bringing that load pretty close to Steinback and just going home from there. So I'm thinking, far goes what? How far is Fargo from here? Google, help me. One second, one second. I'm gonna ask the all-knowing Oracle here. Google, Google, Google. Google, how far is Fargo from here? 430 kilometers or four hours and 15 minutes. Kind of a four and a half hours of driving from here. So let's say they started loading me at 8.30. Hang on, let's give them a bit of a time. 9, 10, 11, 12, one. At one o'clock I'll be in Fargo. I can get reloaded, hopefully by like two, be out of there by 2.30. And then it's four hours. Hold me at 3.30, 4.30, 5.30, 6.30. And where I'm unloading, I can unload late as well. It's freight that I can just unload myself. You can just roll it off as far as I know. So I'm in 6.30, get unloaded. I'll probably be home pretty late tomorrow still. But I'm thinking I'll probably be at my shop before 8 p.m. That's what I'm hoping for. I'll let you know tomorrow. Tune in and let's see how accurate my estimating skills are. Been doing this for a while, so I can sort of throw it together of how long everything should take. And I think I should be at my shop. Truck parked inside and turned off, cleaning it out at least, at least cleaning it out by 8 p.m. tomorrow. You think I can do it? And one more thing before I go, you'll see around my face here on the, I think it's on the left side of your screen. Is that over here? I forget which side is which, because it's flipped once you get it. There's two screens of other vlogs of mine that'll pop up. I believe one is my playlist that has all of my videos from season one. I think all the way from before that even, season one all the way through to today. 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