 Hi, I'm Russ. And I'm Meg. And this is Coco. And we're from County Wexford, Ireland. And you're watching Trucker Josh on YouTube. First Dakota just headed out where we spent the night. We picked up this load of these mobile yard lights, mobile security lights, mobile generator security lights, whatever you want to call them. We picked them up in Berlin, Wisconsin. We've already driven a little over a day. Picked them up Monday evening. Not always Monday evening. And then Tuesday was yesterday. Filmed or drove all day yesterday and filmed. So if you haven't seen yesterday's vlog, go back and check it out. We have two more days to get all the way up to Fort McMurray, Alberta, in Canada. So today we'll be in Canada. Not too sure where we're going to end up. But we've got to go far north in Alberta, up to the oil fields. We're an oil field country. We're not actually bringing these to the oil field. But I'm guessing they're going to be used on the oil field. We're just bringing them into town. So for now, let's just focus on what we have in front of us today. A full day of driving. We're going to go through most of North Dakota here across from Portal North Dakota into North Portal Saskatchewan, Canada. And I'm guessing we'll probably end up either... Well, I don't know what my route is exactly. I did check my route, but I'm not too sure exactly where I'm going to end off today. And I haven't planned that far today. It's not that important to me. As long as I get further than 700 kilometers or like further than like 450-500 miles today, I'll be fine to do the rest tomorrow. Doesn't really matter where I stop today. Tomorrow we have to make it to our destination, though. Like snow clouds. I don't know what snow clouds are, but those look like snow clouds. They look like they're holding a bunch of snow headed towards where they got like four feet of snow. We're in central North Dakota right now. Maybe a little east of central. We're in about the middle of our own highway, 52. That guy's going to make a pass. Okay. Big trucks hauling a piece for a huge wind turbine in front of us here. Cool and slow. And I've just, you know, just been sort of coasting behind them. They've got a grain truck between me and that guy. But a whole sum of these truckers out here making some dangerous passes like that guy. I know you can't see them, but cool and that's why I mean he's doing 55 mile an hour. Speed limit's 65, but I mean, I'm okay with it. I'm not that big of a hurry today. Maybe that's why. If I was in a big hurry, I'd be very frustrated right now. But all depends on the day, right? Today I'm just sort of relaxed and wearing my sweatpants again. I know. Judge me all you want. I'm comfy. I'm comfy. I'm having a good time. Relaxed, stress-free. Got lots of time to get to where I need to be. Truck is running well. Knock on wood. Got some coffee in my belly. Got some fruits in my belly. Got my dash camera working again. Like my other one, not the one you're looking through right now, but I have an actual a DOD or a dog dash cam. And it wasn't working for the longest time. I needed a new SD card. I stopped by Walmart yesterday. Got a new SD card. And now it's working again. So now when people do crazy stuff in front of me, I got it all on film. Because that one's filming 24-7. This one down here is not. When you're looking through, I can't have this one filming 24-7 because I don't have that much storage space because I use such high quality. Like I'm filming at 2.7K right now. I could film at 4K, but I don't see the point in that because you guys wouldn't even notice if you're watching me on like a hundred inch television screen. And even then, you probably wouldn't even notice unless you zoomed right in and... You get what I mean. Oh, what's going on here? Ah, it's just lawn mowers. Now that's a lawn mower. I'm gonna get me one of those. Look at that thing. Just to give it to you, buddy. Have fun. I love mowing the lawn too. Why not stop in my not? Well, I did. It's a nice hot shower. Got a new coffee. Didn't really need it yet, but we stopped, so... Went in my not, right? It's still a long way to go today. Probably about another 10 hours is what I could drive. I mean, I probably won't drive that long, but... Probably at least another 8. I feel good that I'm playing the shower now, though. Didn't get a chance to last night. Felt dirty. Let's get ourselves back on the highway here. I think this is Highway 2, right? Highway 2 and 52, and then 52 sort of juts off. So we've got a four-lane highway here for a little bit. And then it turns back into a two-lane highway once the 52 leaves this road. This is a popular road for western Canadian trucks. Because everything from Saskatchewan West that's going... Going to or coming from the United States, eastern United States, comes through here. I'm surprised they haven't twinned it all the way to the border. There's a lot of heavy truck traffic here. I guess it's not heavy enough yet to warrant a whole four-lane highway. That'd be a lot of money, and I get it. It would be nice, though, because there's a lot of Americans. I mean, it's not just Canadian trucks. It's 50-50s both going back and forth, right? I don't know, maybe in the future, maybe before the end of my career. We'll see that, we'll see. Who knows, I might be driving an electric truck by then. I'm not opposed to that at all. I'm not opposed to driving electric trucks. The whole electric truck thing is kind of interesting. It's kind of exciting. Just a little bit, you know? But they've got a long way to go. I mean, they've got to make the electric truck affordable, first of all, and they've got to make the range a little better. I mean, we've got to be able to do at least 600 and maybe, like, it'd be nice if we could do 800 miles on a charge. And then they've got to put charging stations and every truck stop, they've got to make that electricity affordable. It's a lot of infrastructure they've got to build. It's a lot of work. And then the biggest thing about driving an electric vehicle, though, is the battery, the lithium-ion batteries, right? They have, what, a life of, what, who knows on a big truck probably only like five years? Who knows? Maybe less. And then they go and sit in the landfill for 10,000 years once they're depleted. So it's very bad for the environment that way. That doesn't help much. All right, well, my second random search at the Canadian border in just a few months. I haven't been searched at the border going either way in probably seven, eight years. Now I've been searched twice within a few months just to keep me on my toes. They didn't find anything, spoiler alert. Nothing to find. I got nothing to hide. So let's get out of here now. This whole thing is under construction right now so I gotta figure out how to safely get out of here without hitting anybody. So we've left the facility now and you can see all the construction. You know, they're doing a lot of construction for the port of entry as well. I think Canada is updating a lot of their ports of entry, at least in the west, which is nice because traffic is getting heavy. More and more and more trucks going through here, which is good. It's a good thing. Lots for us to do. We've got ourselves around here, followed the signs towards Estevan, Duty Free Store on this side. Very nice. All right, not towards the US border. We'll go back and visit them again soon. Don't worry, for now we gotta go to Fort McMurray. I've searched. Are you guys watching my videos? Are you upset that I'm being a little critical? They're doing a good job. Wonderful, wonderful border agents. You're doing a good job keeping us safe on both sides of the border. You guys are great, even though you waste my time every now and then. I know it's nothing personal, right? Really nice guy who was dealing with me today. Really nice guy. I'd be friends with him if I lived around here. Asked me how my trip was going. Really friendly about everything. You know, sometimes they're all just business. You know, this guy was, he did his job. He did his job well, but he was also nice about it. Friendly about it. You know, I just had to go, he escorts me back to the trucks that I don't take off running, I guess, and gotta get diesel out of the trucks so that he can search it without diesel licking him to death, you know? And we go wait in a separate area where I can't see the truck that's just let him do his thing. He's not going to find anything. I got nothing to hide, so he looked through the whole truck. He was actually very nice about it. Some of these guys, they throw your truck upside down and just leave it like that, right? They'll unpack all your bags and just leave it. Won't repack anything. But this guy was nice about it. He didn't make a mess. Got a little bit of mud in my truck, but that's okay, I forgive him. He's a nice guy. And he came back and stamped my paperwork, gave me the go-ahead. Bada-bing, bada-boom, we're on the road. We're allowed to come home. So I always say that, like, I used to say that those searches were rather rare, but, you know, you never know. Those random searches, they pop up randomly. I'm going through a series of months where I'm getting searched way more often than I have in the past, so it's a good thing. It's a good thing. They'll catch people who are doing some shady stuff that way. Man, we're once again in the Megatropolis that is Saskatoon. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I'm going to be staying here the night. I've decided. I'm going to go to the Husky and, uh, I don't stay there. Should be parking there for me, I'm thinking. Still got, what, like, three, three and an hour from 22 minutes available, but we've only got 850 kilometers left so it's, like, 500 miles. So I'll do that tomorrow. I don't want to stop and get a good rest. This is just the main drag going through Saskatoon on the north side of the city. We've got to turn right or turn north on the Idlewild Drive. Look that street name up once and how they spell it. I don't know where they came up with that name, but it's, it's unique. I wonder if this guy in front of me is going to the exact same place as me. I have no idea who he is. But I bet you there's one spot left at the truck stop and he's going to take it. I'm just kidding, I'm not that negative. If there's no parking available for me here, I have lots of time on my clock. I can still continue going. I'll just go further down the road then. Most people do like to stop in bigger cities like this. Like I do too, especially as the weather starts to get a little colder. Like right now we're looking at, uh, four degrees celsius. Where's that siren coming from? Here's siren. It's not behind me. It's not in front of me. That building over there is always lit up in different colors. That's the SaskTel Center. I believe that's where their Saskatoon Blades hockey team plays. Husky is right up here. Just look for the big Canada flag and you'll find the Husky. There she's. Oh, they don't have the flag lit up. What do they do? Yeah, it's sort of just no, they don't have it lit up. You should have the flag lit up, my friends. Aren't you lighting up the flag? There you see Husky Travel Center. All that over there. Every Husky has a big Canada flag. That's how you can see it far away. Are we coming over there? No? Nobody coming? Nobody coming? Nobody coming? Nobody coming? Nobody coming? No, I'm going. All right. And here it is. So we're just gonna keep turning right here. We've got a Tim Hortons right across the street. It looks like the Tim part of their sign isn't working anymore. It's just Hortons now. Look at this. They've got their Christmas lights on here already. Why don't you look at that? You know, I was in Walmart in Fargo yesterday and they had Christmas trees out for sale already. Christmas trees. In October. Christmas trees. Before Canadian Thanksgiving. Before Remembrance Day. Before American Thanksgiving. What in the world? Walmart is all gung-ho down there. They're ready for Christmas. All right, let's get in here. Why are these cars parked back here? Oh, it's because there's an event at the SaskTel Center. Oh, so they take up spots for us. And look at all these cars here taking up spots. Oh, that's not very nice. Those spots to park. I don't care if you're going to a concert. All these cars here. That's just rude. That's just rude. Those spots are for the big trucks. You can go park anywhere else. That's a nice truck right there, speaking of. Okay, well. Looks like there's still plenty of parking for me, so it's not going to be a big problem, but luckily it's not full. Crazy. There's a lot of traffic right now, so I don't have to focus on finding a spot here. Hi, I'm Russ. And I'm Meg. And this is Coco. And we're from County Wexford, Ireland. And you're watching Trucker Josh on YouTube.