 It's so windy outside the flag blew away Supposed to be a big Canada flag there unless they took it down Maybe they're replacing it. I don't know the flag's gone Ha It's super windy, but it's a good thing for us. The wind is coming from the east blowing west Which direction are we going? West and today is a day that we have to actually book it as fast as we can go As fast as they'll legally let us go Because we need to be in Edmonton tomorrow morning and there's a crane that's going to be waiting there for us They rented a crane to get these cement drums off my trailer And if I'm not there on that appointment, they got to pay for that crane until I get there It's the appointments are 10 a.m. Tomorrow like mountain time and it's like 10 a.m Central time now and I have about 12 hours of driving to go So there's there's no way I won't make it unless my something goes wrong with my truck like knock on wood Diesel do you think we can make it? Okay, I think we can man. I think we can we are super truckers. Look at us. Look at us. I'm a weasel pancake right now. Look What does that have to do with getting there on time? It was very impressive very impressive Chevy has that same trick He turns himself into a fluffy pancake all the time They both lay as flat as they can and Chevy always has like his lips flattened out on the bed, too Let's call him a fluffy pancake Oh, but I guess we should get out there. I got to grab my coffee from inside here We're at Brandon Manitoba Husky truck stop and we can get to Edmonton from here tonight But we will have to book it like I was saying So good thing the wind is really strong today and it's gonna be blowing us that way cuz I'll still be getting good fuel economy and making good time Come on. Let's go get our coffee. Let's get out of here They didn't have any sleeves feel like my coffee is so naked without it A sleeve is just like a little extra piece of cardboard paper that just slips around here just that you can hold it without burning your hands It's not actually necessary. I don't think it's probably just killing the earth faster than it needs to sound. It's probably a good thing I don't have it Okay, so it's time to go everybody. Are you ready? You ready for this? It's gonna be riveting scenery Okay, we're crossing the Canadian prairies. There's a lot to see here. I'm lying. There's absolutely nothing We got a whole day of nothing You might see some some tractors out some air seeders. I think the farmers might be seeding some of their fields already That's exciting. See a couple of barns diesel. You'll be excited. We're gonna see a lot of cows Are you excited to see cows? Why aren't you excited? How are you containing yourself? Wow that is self-control. He is obsessed with cows You want to see some cows? How about some horses? How about some other dogs? Those are all trigger words for him usually they make him a little crazy, but he can tell when the camera is on I wonder if the camera makes some kind of like some kind of noise that only dogs can hear That he knows when it's on because when he's when it's recording Doesn't do anything as soon as the camera goes off ask anyone who knows him. He's just crazy Diesel come here You shy so weird All right. All right. All right, right. So we have I think one thousand one hundred Seventy kilometers. Oh Mandy's got to think about it. Come on Mandy wake up We've all been awake for a while already got my coffee. Why are you not awake yet? She's got to figure things out I'm just I think it's almost 1200 kilometers that we have to go. She's 50% done right now Bear with me people bear with me. How's your day going? How's your morning going? Where are you right now? What are you doing? Let me know comments down below. Are you subscribed to my channel already? I'm still seeing that about 50% of viewers that watch my videos are not subscribed One thousand one hundred and forty kilometers so for my American friends you and your funny measurements One thousand one hundred and forty divided by one point six one. We're looking at seven hundred and eight miles It's a full day full day. We're gonna get that done today So it's 11 13 central time here right now. I got here pretty late. So I got a good sleep I knew that today was gonna be a long day. So I wanted to get a really good sleep I have 13 hours available to me to drive today And I'll be traveling at about a hundred and five kilometers an hour So this should take me no more than just over 11 hours of just driving and you know You got a factor in stops and everything. So let's say a full 13 14 hours to get there That's in mountain time. So it's 10 o'clock there right now 12 hours be 10 o'clock tonight. We'll probably be there around midnight And I got to unload at 10 a.m. Tomorrow and I've only got to stop for eight hours for night Legally so we should be good. We should be good cutting it a little close But I mean that's trucking right? Yeah, you always got to push yourself Otherwise you don't get anywhere you push yourself to get as many loads in in the month as possible. So it's good Cross our fingers knock on wood nothing goes wrong today Let's get out there This is a fantastic tailwind I got man. I wish every day would be like this I'm pretty much sailing The wind is pushing me along and I'm doing a hundred and five like 65 miles an hour And I'm using less fuel than I usually do going 90 kilometers an hour or 55 This is great 20 liters per hundred kilometers right now just flying think about it I'm flying along here burning 20 25 liters per hundred kilometers, which is really good I don't get that on a calm day usually If I was going that's how strong my tailwind is right now if I was going into the wind into the headwind. Oh Man, oh, I'd probably be pushing like 50 liters per hundred kilometers And I'd be doing 90 95 Kilometers an hour So I'd be making less covering less ground spending twice as much money. That's how much The wind on the prairies makes a difference And I'm happy about it now because this never happens usually I get bad luck and every time I'm on the prairies I'm going against wind Today knock on wood today's a good day gusting up to like I Don't know 50 miles 50 kilometers an hour 30 miles an hour something like that. It's it's a pretty strong wind not the strongest but I Wish I had a big sail like on the top of my truck or something just like Big sail and just turn the truck off and just sail all the way to Edmonton literally wondering how much difference it would make like 25 liters per hundred kilometers well right now we're spending What a dollar 30 per liter Let's let's just use American prices because that's much easier to do off the top my head right now American prices right now are about a dollar per liter With all the conversions and everything that's approximately what they're paying in the US right now We're paying a dollar 30 of here So a dollar per liter we got 700 miles So we're gonna make the math as easy as possible because I'm driving right now. I can't use my calculator I got to use the old-fashioned calculator which isn't as isn't as good gonna dust the cobwebs off it So let's say we're Say it's a dollar per liter US prices, okay We're driving. Let's round it down to a hundred kilometers an hour so We're burning 25 liters per hundred kilometers right now So that is $25 per hundred kilometers Which I'm covering in one hour. So we're burning $25 an hour Double that and I'd be burning $50 an hour Obviously right and that's a low estimate because we're actually burning more than that because we're paying Canadian prices and paying the Canadian carbon tax Wonderful So today we're driving Let's say 1,100 kilometers Burning $25 per hundred kilometers How much is that? My five that's 250 to a hundred and seventy-five dollars Am I doing my math right? Let's just round it down to a thousand kilometers make it easier on myself my brain arts $25 per hundred kilometers, so it'd be $250 per thousand Okay, so today. Let's say I would burn 250 dollars now if I was going the opposite direction burning twice as much fuel I'd be burning five hundred dollars $250 more in one day That's how big of a difference fuel economy makes in a truck. That's what I'm trying to get to here I've been blabbering on but there's the there's the punch line That's why we try to save as much as possible and now with this Carbon tax which does absolutely nothing To lower my emissions because I still got to deliver my freight, right? I'm still delivering my freight Still needs to be delivered. I don't have a choice. I don't have a choice of driving an electric vehicle right now I have to drive this truck. So I have no alternative. I'm just having money stolen out of my pocket And it adds up to several hundred dollars a month That would usually go into my personal bank account, you know to pay for food To pay for I don't know new tires on my pickup when they wear down or you know my new roof Food Did I mention that food? Let's not get onto that topic. That's what I'm talking about fuel prices and fuel economy. It makes a big difference big difference Just saving five liters per hundred kilometers is $50 in a day a day one day And I drive let's say 25 days a month 20 to 25 days a month. So 50 times say 20 thousand bucks $1000 I can save Fuel economy kicked this last month or so but I got my first check after starting this experiment and You definitely notice the difference right away just by slowing down. I keep going back to that carbon tax Oh, and it's it makes me so mad So mad because I don't have an alternative, you know a carbon tax for city dwellers and people who live in the city Sure. Yeah, they have options. They could take the bus. They could take the train I don't know. They can walk. I Live out in the country The grocery store is 25 minute drive from our house And we have to we have to drive Even if I live in the city, I drive this truck for a living burning Anywhere between, you know, let's say 300 to 600 dollars a day 600 is a very high-end. That's a very bad day, but you guys know what I mean I have no other choice. This is how I put food on my table So why are they trying to take that that a little bit I have left over at the end of the month? To put food on the table for my family. Why are they trying to take that now yet? I'll pay taxes for health care. I Enjoy our Canadian health care. I think it's a good system. I think it works Well people abuse it that makes me mad But all in all we all chip in a little so that when people need a doctor they can get a doctor they can They can get health care But taxing the air When I don't have an alternative to do anything different. No, no drawing the line right there. That is my That's my limit You can't keep taxing us and now they're trying to put a tax on plastics yet tax here tax there tax here tax there Tax we already pay enough taxes. Okay? I'm going on a rent That's my rent for today Winter just will not so the wind is coming at us strong from our right pushing us to the left economy showing that I'm doubling what I was burning before snow done So the day started off great. It's not so great anymore, but it'll get better again. I aren't snow covered right now They're still just wet. They're not slippery. See if that gets worse or not All right, sir. Look at this So glad that snow storm didn't last long I was just talking to my mom and she said that apparently Alberta just got dumped on with snow recently And that must have been the tail end of that snow storm that we just went through. It was pretty weak already But from what I've seen from weather forecast now is clear sky Oh look there's guys, but clear no snowstorms all the way to Alberta and all the way to Edmonton now So I guess we missed it, which is good because dry roads now. I Thought it was gonna be another bad day like when we were in Ontario there But look at the snow that it left behind a this was all melted already. This is all fresh fresh snow It's the south. I haven't been in the southern US Since when since our honeymoon For a year ago, man, I miss it down there can't wait to go and visit again Off to the left here. We got some action in sask toon. Everybody's rubber neck and let's join them Fender bender Bander bender. They're just cleaning up the glass off the road there right now. Okay, so it's all over already So yeah, this is sask a tune Saskatchew. Do I haven't had a chance to go back to that dog park yet? Remember when we were here for Frankie's surgery our little dashing or let's be honest Britt's little dashing That dog is a one-owner dog, but I love them anyways We were here for a surgery right his back surgery and we found that dog park And it was the most amazing dog park I've ever been to in my entire life Britt loved it too If we lived in sask a tune we'd be there like every day I'd love to actually turn our property into something like that. 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