 Good morning everybody, it's not really morning anymore. Good afternoon, almost evening. But I got unloaded, and now I have to head to Drummondville, Quebec. A bit of a wait, we had to do some hunting from what I hear to get some good freight out of here. I'm gonna have another LTL load going back to Manitoba or going back west anyway. LTL stands for less than truckload. So I have three pickups, I believe. That'll fill up my old trailer, that'll make one truckload. If it was just one pickup, that would fill up the whole trailer, that would be called a full truckload, FTL. LTL is a little bit more work because you gotta go to different locations, like I got three pickups. But you can make more with them if you do it right. Usually, yeah, usually the more work you put in, the more money you should make, that makes sense, right? But this is our option for now. We're gonna take it. Let's get going. I stayed here at this Petro Pass in Mississauga. Just around the corner from where I had to deliver. It took a couple of hours to deliver. It was much later than eight o'clock. They got a hold of me and said, well, you know, the appointment said for eight o'clock, but they also said the appointment for like five other trucks was eight o'clock as well. So since I was just around the corner here, I was able to sort of just hang around and wait until they were ready for me and then go and quickly get unloaded there. After I got unloaded, I was able to come back here. I got a snuck in a little bit of a nap. That doesn't happen too often. So I'm all fired up, ready to go now. We've got to head to Drummondville, Quebec, and that is seven hours from here, at least. The problem with that is, it's rush hour now in Toronto. And I'm in Mississauga, which is sort of the same city as Toronto, but I'm gonna have to go out of Mississauga through Toronto to get out of the city and go towards Montreal. Drummondville, Quebec is on the other side of Montreal from where I am right now. So we've got to pass Montreal. And we've got to leave the city here and it's rush hour. And everybody else is getting into their cars right now at this very moment. I can feel it. And they're all getting ready to leave work and go home. And they're all gonna get out onto the roads and crowded up for me. What, toot dirty? I wash this thing twice already. I keep, I guess when I have my gloves on, I keep touching my straps and stuff, get my hands dirty and then I adjust my toot. My hands are getting dirty. So excuse my dirty appearance. That is what it is. Okay, I'm gonna grab a coffee and we're gonna tackle this Toronto traffic. I was right down by Lake Ontario, right down by the lake in Mississauga. So I have the whole city to get through yet. And I just thought of something. I went and got a coffee, a nice big coffee, right? So I was like, yeah, this will get me through the city. Then I started thinking, this is Toronto. You might drink all this coffee. I have to go to the bathroom long before I get out of the city. It's gonna happen. I made sure the tank was empty when I left, but I don't know if we're gonna get to Toronto before we have to make an emergency stop. We'll see. 500 meters, take the entrance to the right on Q Toronto. I already paid for the coffee, so I'm gonna drink it. I'm not gonna waste it. Don't worry about having a full tank later. 400 meters, take the entrance to the right on Q Toronto. That's one piece of advice I can give to the drivers getting out here on the road. When you know you're coming into a big city with a lot of traffic and no bathroom stops, be careful how much water you intake or how much liquid you drink. Just remember, what you put in is gotta come out sooner or later. And if you're in the middle of traffic, you can't just stop and go to the bathroom. The highways and interstates in New York in the city there are built better and they make more sense. Here in Toronto, Mississauga, this whole area here, you have the 401, the 407. The 407 no one uses, cause that's a toll road. So everyone's on the 401, including myself. You got one highway stretching through the entire city and every resident of Eastern Canada, by what it seems like, is on that highway with you at the same time. And everybody gets frustrated. The longer you're in traffic, the more people get frustrated. And you can tell by the way they drive around you. Be very careful. The signals are optional, not legally, but in most people's minds, here signals are optional. You gotta keep that in mind. And if there's enough space to fit a golf cart between you and the vehicle in front of you, you can count on someone sticking their nose in there and forcing their way in. So this is pretty good right now. We're moving pretty good. We're getting right up to Mississauga city center now. Once we get through there, we'll jump up onto 427. That'll take us up to the 401, I believe. Do I got those numbers right, the 401? Yeah, right? I don't know why I had a brain fart right there, whatever. It's all Toronto. It is a beautiful city. You know, I gotta give them that. I don't wanna hate on them too much. A lot of you guys live here too and you guys are awesome people. Majority of the people here are great people. Like I said earlier in this clip though, I'm a prairie boy, so I like the open spaces. You know, I'll take the smell of manure every morning over the sound of traffic. Sirens and horns, you know? Oh, here we go, here we go. Here comes the brake lights. Oh, I knew it was too good to be true. I knew it was too good to be true. I didn't wanna say it out loud but I thought we were moving pretty good. I said it out loud and now look what I did. Looks like they're expanding this highway here too so probably making it better. But you know, Toronto's growing so fast cause people when they move to Canada most of them move to Toronto, right? A lot of them do. And the city is growing in people faster than it's growing in infrastructure. So you know, they'll expand the highway to seven lanes each direction, right? But by the time they get that done, there's so many more people here that they need eight lanes or 10 lanes in every direction. It's a constant battle. Not enough homes for everybody. 100 meters, turn left on. Tixson Road and back. Turn right in 116 meters. That's sort of that way across the entire country though, right? That's a big problem we have right now is that there's not enough homes for all the people coming to Canada. Turn left on. Linge near Avenue. Karen, what are you talking about? Wake up. I'm not turning left. Where am I gonna turn left? She wants me to turn left. Really, Karen? She thinks I'm on the side street over there on the other side of that fence to our left. Who on this road for six kilometers? Yeah, we're still on the QEW here, Karen. Put the bottle down, come on. I'm a navigator in here. I don't have diesel with me anymore, so Karen gets me lost all the time. Fords Montreal, side of the whole Greater Toronto area. It's truck stop coffee before I left the city. It was a little baby, well, cars that way, trucks this way. Oh, okay. Usually the trucks would go right. Why are we? Oh, that's confusing. Look at these guys. Look at the wheel. Why are you parked in the driveway, my guy? Buddy, that is a- Can you walk this road for 190-trick-a-long-dress? Literally no parking signs all over here, man. Come on, both of you. Whatcha doing? Whatcha doing? Parking is back here. Hopefully there's a parking spot. Oh, there's lots. Why are you parked over- You know what? They didn't want to walk. They didn't want to walk from back here. That's why. Lazy. I don't like walking either. I'll park as close as I can, but I'm gonna park in a parking spot. Look up on anybody's YouTube channel. What's this guy doing parking here? Nope. Not me. And look, the building is right here. It's actually closer than where that guy parked over there. I'm gonna have to walk less distance than they did. So maybe that's not the reason they- They're clearly, obviously, way more important than any of us. As any of us parking in a no parking zone in a driveway, we'd get a ticket, but they're special. Welcome to the vlog, everybody. Would it be a vlog if I didn't complain about something? If I didn't call out someone for doing something weird, it's kind of what I'd do. So I've been really good lately. I've eaten pretty good, you know. Gone on a few walks. Think I've been behaving myself. The reason I say all of this is there's a Burger King in there. What do you think? I earned a Burger King burger, a Burger King meal? Too bad it's not an A&W. My favorite fast food, if we're gonna talk fast food, A&W. I love the Papa Burger combo. No pickles. Get those disgusting things off my burger. Papa Burger, no pickles. Onion Rings, A&W Onion Rings. There's no match for them. An A&W Root Beer, but there's no A&W here. There is a Burger King, though. And I haven't had fast food in a little while. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. Don't follow my example. Eat healthy. 253-foot trailers, you see a lot of them on the prairies where I'm from, right? For a one-two on the corridor between, I believe, Toronto, Montreal. A lot more stressful doing that here than on the prairies. And the prairies, you've seen it. That's where I live. There's nobody there. Probably more cows than people. I mean, more chickens than people. Hungry for chicken. Anyway, very popular on the prairies, but there's nobody there. Here, there's a lot of traffic, right? I've never seen where they hook and unhook and how they do it over here. Yeah, Mary goes again. Pass for here, so I gotta pay with credit card. They accept debit and credit, which is awesome. Remember the old days, which wasn't too long ago, so like, yesteryear, where you had to come up with cash for tolls, because no one accepted credit cards or debit cards at tolls? I guess it wasn't that bad, but. Let's thread the needle here. And careful, careful. Couple of inches on both sides of the truck. You could have made it a little bit wider, you know? Just saying. Just saying. Squeaking on through less than six inches on each side. Ha, ha. 10 bucks, wasn't it, like, 9.50 or something? Now it's 14.50. Top lights in Quebec are sideways. And the red lights have two red lights. I've noticed that in some places they even have different shapes for the different lights, like the green lights a circle. The yellow light, I think, is a triangle. And then the stop lights are diamonds. Crack me if I'm wrong. But I've seen that, and that's for people who are colorblind that they can see what the lights are trying to tell them. Your destination is on the right. I see it, thank you, Google. We're at the Esso in Drummondville, or Drummondville, what's it called again? I think it's Drummondville. Drum-O-V, Quebec. My first of three pickups in town here tomorrow. We'll never arrive. Let's see if we can find a parking spot out back. I've never been to this truck stop before, but I found it on Trucker Path. So here we are. See if we can find a parking spot. According to the app, there's usually always parking available. I already see a couple of spots right over there. I think I see the one I'm gonna take. Yeah, lots of spots. Look at this, it's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I never knew this place was here. How many times have I driven past this place? No idea it was here. So thanks Trucker Path. Shout out to you guys on right here.