 Morning everybody. It's another day. I thought I lost you Huh, it's my birthday when I'm filming this Happy birthday to me. I get to go trucking. It's a good birthday so, uh, I Left the camera in the truck overnight and I'm searching everywhere all over the house this morning for the camera I thought that I had probably dropped it out the truck or something Got to the truck this morning Searched the whole truck couldn't find it. It's freaking out Suddenly, I look over here on the seat and I had put my lunch kit down on the back there Apparently I had put my lunch kit on top of you guys and didn't realize it and you were under my lunch kit All morning this whole time How could you guys do that to me on my birthday? Panicking me. So you were hiding under my lunch kit April Fool's but I found you I found you So, uh Second time that's happened Anyways, I'm in the 3080 right now, but The check engine light came on again and the shot needs to take a look at it It's just the bugs are being worked out of it right now. This has got a brand new engine in it they just put the engine in I'm breaking it in and Trying not to break it At the same time, but it wasn't me. It wasn't me. Okay Wasn't me Anyway, the engine light came on and they just got to do a little bit of adjustment on the air intake system I think that's what the trucks tell me there's that issue with the air intake So just working the bugs out of it before we put a driver in it for over the highway This is a van truck. So if you're looking for a job pulling dry vans We got a truck for you We're just working a few of the bugs out of the brand new engine once they're all out of there This truck will be ready to go If you want to work here your Canadian citizen and you have about two years experience and you love trucking Shoot me an email trucker Josh at keystonewestern.com. Maybe we can Put you in this truck or one just like it Snap of the finger just like that. We're back in the old Pete Grown very fond of this truck actually. I I missed it quite a bit I Just want my old Pete. That's all I want His new fancy trucks. They're too much for me DEF and sensors and this and that and electronics and I just like the old trucks. I guess I'm an old soul These are the trucks I grew up with right my dad drove truck my whole life And I went on the road with him in summers my summer breaks with him and these are the kind of trucks I know this is a truck Sounds like a truck looks like a truck acts like a truck It's a little dirty, but she's a work truck. We'll clean her up and eventually she'll be a little prettier Just needs to do a few things and little touch-ups here and there, you know do her hair and put her makeup on and I've got to admit after I called out Minnesota earlier this week for always snowing on me every time I came here They stopped doing that to me So thank you Minnesota I know they were probably just trying to tell me that they liked me by sharing their snow with me, right? but Like I said, I'm from manitoba if you give me snow More than I already have that's not a a way to tell me you like me Okay, I have enough snow already. I got too much I appreciate the gesture, but If you want to show a manitoba in there you really like them you hand them a palm tree Okay That's how you show us that you care That's what you do None of this snow stuff every time I came to minnesota for the past couple of months They would just turn into a big blizzard, right? But look at this the weather's great today It's fantastic We just crossed into the u.s. So uh, we're just in northwestern minnesota on highway 59 We're gonna rocket ourselves down this highway All the way to thief river grab a loaded trailer and drag it back home Then we're gonna do it again later. We're gonna do two of these again today It's been a long week. We've been busy But uh, we're out here living the dream Trucking I mean I could either do one load today and one load tomorrow on saturday Uh, yeah, no no no I did two today I have saturday off Though I did leave the option open if they need me to do one more tomorrow. I'll do one more tomorrow Are you kidding me? You think I'm gonna turn down a good day of trucking especially down in the u.s. It's my birthday when I'm filming this today is the best birthday gift I could ask for just give me some trucking to do Highway trucking All right, what better way to spend a birthday? I'm not being Sarcastic either I actually do love driving us Oh, but it's been a long week. I can't wait for it to be over. I'm gonna sleep like a rock And everyone knows rocks sleep the best These trips seem to be getting shorter and shorter throughout the week and I know I'm not going faster This peter build is limited at 99 kilometers an hour. I know It's painful But that's what I'm limited at and the western star was limited at 105 on the cruise So I was actually going faster yesterday than I was today But it feels like I got here faster I'm here for my first load. I'm gonna hook up. Well. I just hooked onto it now just uh Drop my trailer off right over there And they're gonna load it up right away. My next load is right over there. That's my second load Waiting for me So I'm gonna bring this load that I have behind me back to the yard drop it Or have it unloaded bring this trailer back empty put it back here so they can load it up with more stuff And then hook onto that trailer does that make sense? That's our day today. It's friday And it's my birthday. Have I mentioned that yet? I'm gonna tell you in every clip. It's my birthday Here you can see all the flags of the nordic nations norway, sweden, island, denmark Those are the nations that populated this area of minnesota And this is where matrack says they make all those Tank looking things for your vehicle. Look they even got a smart car there behind the sign Can't see it from here. I'm gonna stop there and take a close look at it eventually There it is. See it's a smart car on tracks. It's a smart tank I bet that thing is more useful than a lot of the tanks rolling around uh Nowadays in other parts of the world right smart tank I don't know what i'm trying to say. I don't know Yes, the nordic nations populated this area up until the canadian border at the canadian border It actually turns into ukrainian settlements Manitoba has a huge population of ukranians My own family line goes back through ukraine and southern ukraine We were not ukrainian ourselves. We were germans, but uh Because of our I think I've explained this before right because of our religion of the time or I don't follow it much anymore But uh the men and I faith uh sort of got persecuted out of Germany and ukraine gave them safe haven in 1874 they were uh kicked out of ukraine by invading russian forces and uh Came to canada they were pretty much given the choice, you know Give up your language. Give up your faith. Give up your culture and become russian speak russian Or run house your only choices that we had so my family lines We ran We came to canada in western canada here Uh the mininites in ukraine then that decided to submit to the invading russian forces They were forcefully relocated into western syberia into a remote part of the russian wilderness Now they speak russian and they're russian nowadays But anyways, so that's our sort of connection to ukraine And as soon as you cross the border into canada you go through a town called Tolstoy And uh it's a ukrainian church there ukrainian flags ukrainian cultural center You go through tolstoy then you go through the river you go up to uh, even all the way up to sardo All the way up this highway exactly is a whole bunch of ukrainian settlements That's why with everything going on in europe right now in eastern europe in ukraine It hits really close to home to a lot of people in my region A lot of people canada actually has the largest population of ukrainians outside of ukraine and russia Because i think there's a lot of ukrainians living in russia But outside of europe there canada has the largest population and like i said majority of them Right in manitoba right where i live Another crazy long lineup to get into canada again today even on the four-wheeler side over there It's like a hundred or 200 vehicles at least cross-border traffic has officially resumed Well the trucks were always busy, but i haven't seen it that busy on the car side in a long time These guys on my left are coming out of the duty-free. So i'm gonna let one guy in not this guy is one I know this guy's gonna try to sneak in there too. That's the way people are but I let one guy in and then the guy behind me lets one guy in And you zipper merge There's three lanes here. I'm in the left lane and the guy's in the left. There's a duty-free shop. That's Sort of in a It's in a normal spot when it's not heavy traffic like this, but when there is heavy traffic it It creates this Where some people go through the duty-free lane to try to skip ahead of the traffic And you got to watch them very carefully because when people do that you don't want to let those people in right When they're just trying to skip ahead a few trucks So far everyone's been acting very good Behaving very nicely. Look at all those cars over there. It's crazy. I'll go into canada A lot of manitoba plates that I can see from here some american plates What's going on in canada today that all these people want to come and see us. Look at that I guess the weather is finally nice, right? Just fueled up the truck 761 liters it doesn't even tell you how many dollars that is because it doesn't want you to die of a heart attack How thoughtful of them? I'm guessing fuel is about $2 a liter right now. So that was probably A little under $2 a liter probably we're probably looking close to $1300 of fuel or $1400 of fuel One fill up and I still had quarter tanks left So it's 530 we finally got our first load done and we're hooking up to our next empty There's no one here to empty off that trailer. I had so I got to grab an empty one We'll take 109 db to thief river There we go locked in so I have to take an empty down so that they can load it right Ah, I wasn't expecting it to take this long but I did have to stop for fuel grab quite a bit of fuel that took quite a while because in canada You can only fuel one side at a time So it takes twice as long and I stopped for a coffee at timmy's too, but other than that I mean I didn't think I was dragging my feet. I thought I was moving pretty quickly and it took seven hours and now to go back south The the port of entry where we crossed through empty at Lancaster, Minnesota is closed at six So we can't cross there. So I've got to go around the long way, which is 30 miles or 50 kilometers further So it's going to take a little while longer again Oh, what's going on here? Well, I have to I'm gonna have to fix that I'm gonna roll up these gear. So it's going to take a little longer to get down there I'm kind of laden extra half hour on but we're gonna see how fast we can do it anyway Obviously because I want to go home But it looks like I'll probably be home after midnight is what I'm thinking now Wasn't home much this week at all Hardly saw the wife Pretty much just to say good night give her a kiss good night when I got home with straight to bed wake up before her Ran out the door every day Hey, that's life, right 34 years old now This is what all you youngsters have to look forward to when you're 34 work work work work What else is there to life? There is nothing else to life This is the purpose of life. That's why it's very important. Listen up Very important youngsters that you find a job a career That you enjoy doing okay, because this is the amount of time you're going to spend doing your job You better enjoy it. You better find one you enjoy because to me this isn't work This is fun. Look at me. I gotta drive trucks around all day. I'm like a big giant kid See when I was a kid I'd play with toy trucks all the time Now I'm an adult I still play with toy trucks. They're just a lot bigger and more expensive So those airbags are filling up back there Good. Okay, I'm gonna climb back in here. We're gonna leave here at about 5 45 Let's see how fast we can get this done. Let's see if we can get back by midnight I'm expecting to be back here at midnight We'll see what happens I started late today remember so My own fault the canadian border. I got the green light up there, but we're supposed to Supposed to leave this little those two trucks waiting there once the guy in front of them gets through That guy will pull up and I'll pull in behind them Oh looks like it's our turn I'll see you on the other side. I'm tired. It's 11 30 We're in 20 minutes remaining on our 16 hour clock Or is it black? Is it a black light now? Because black lights always turn purple when you light them up, right? Which is weird You know you go to a bowling alley and they're like black light bowling you go there's no not as purple light bowling Don't lie to me. What would a black light look like? Anyway, it's not black. It's purple Give me a gear. Come on. I need gear. There we go the u.s. Border a lot of the lights in purple I wonder if anyone's going to get sued over that because they're all defective, right? That's a lot of money. These are expensive lights. There's a little they're the new led street lights, right? They use much less hydroelectricity But they're also very expensive Monkey's not my circus. Is that's a saying not my circus not my monkeys. You know what I mean Man, I'm tired. Let's park this thing and go home Okay, now I hear you we can't park it on the road. We got to bring it into the yard Not a park you where they need it out in the open where they can unload it First thing's first though. We got to bring our paid fork in here And we'll go in there Take our straps off the load get it all ready to be unloaded. We can go home How's that for artsy Getting artsy artsy with my content create Did I impress you probably not So we made it back. I'm just wrapping this up another long long day No issues though. It was just a really long day a late day But it was Friday so this weekend britain I have our her appointment to get her ultrasound to get the The go time the really go go time of the IVF procedures started Which means she goes in for an ultrasound and she starts getting those needles In her gut every day For like a week Then after that we got to go in every second day to so the doctors can do an ultrasound like every second day I'll talk more about this in the future. I will make a separate video of it this weekend and Fill you guys in and all that just want to say thanks for hanging out with me today Thanks for watching and it's been a lot of thief river and back all week did another two today. So Busy times busy times. I realized it was quarter end. So it's probably has something to do with it Everything gets really busy at quarter end all the time seems to be the way the world turns and cookie crumbles So thanks everybody. I appreciate you hanging out with me Don't forget to subscribe if you want to follow me on social media other than here Facebook all the way to tech talk you can find me all over the internet Links and my usernames are all down below in the description of all my videos The secret word for today to put in the comment section just so I know you made it all the way to the end Is beetle juice All right, don't explain it to anybody who asks about it. 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