 Good morning everybody Filming this on a Saturday. We're on our way home, and I'm super excited about that. Oh, it's about time We've been gone probably I think it's been two or more weeks It's been the longest trip. I've been on in quite a while, but Lot of fun mean Chevy. You've had a lot of fun, right Chevy? It was all right. Yeah a lot of fun I I saw a lot of things a lot of people, but we had a lot of fun, right Chevy Who's Chevy? But it's time to go home. I miss my mom. Look at him. Look at him Stare at the window mom mom You see mom It's a beautiful day. We're just getting going in North Bay, Ontario here, and I think it's gonna be a good day I got that that feeling right in here Just triggered. Yeah, it's gonna be a good day You ever get that feeling? No, just me. I need to wake up though and No figure out what's going on Maybe I should fuel here. No, I'm gonna fuel in campus casing at Flying J So I get my points. The only thing is fueling a campus casing up north on Flying J. The only thing about that is that? It feels really expensive up there Pooper scoopers. I guess we don't have a choice because we have to fuel somewhere and even if I feel here I'm gonna have to fuel somewhere up there. So Anyways Let's go get our coffee Let's walk this guy and let's get going Oh Fresh air. Oh, I feel good. Okay Good morning nobody all by myself This is the load here. All nicely tarped. It's about 60 just under 65,000 pounds of steel under these tarps So we're sitting pretty much at our max weights for a tri-axle trailer in Canada We're heavy So it's I had a very hard difficult time yesterday getting decent fuel economy It was practically impossible But we'll do the best we can get as far as we can today and tomorrow Tomorrow's the big day tomorrow. We go home. We're only gonna be home for a reset and then Brit Diesel and Frank are joining us in the truck and all of us the whole family. We're going to Alberta Yeah, all of us in the same truck I'm excited about it. Actually. It was my idea She couldn't be coming with us more often and I know I announced it yesterday already, but I'm excited Brits actually studying to get her commercial license so she can come drive as well We'll be driving like super single. She won't be driving like team. I don't want to Like I said yesterday, I don't want to be awake while she's driving and then she's awake while I'm driving Or I mean she's sleeping while I'm driving. I said that wrong. I'm still tired You know, but we never see each other because one's always sleeping one's always driving We're not going to do that. We'll probably drive super single Well, we'll split the shifts just enough so that we still stop for night but we get a little bit further than I could on my own and We also never run out of hours because we sort of split the hours, right? And we can just keep going going making money making money We got a an expensive roof to put on our house this summer and Well, it'll set us back a little bit, but we'll we'll get it done We're adjusting everything in our lives right now so that we can get it done, but we just got our quote and The new roof is gonna cost $20,000 Yeah That includes everything though that includes ripping the old roof off hauling it away The new roof is metal comes with a five-year warranty five-year guarantee We know the guys who are doing it. So we know they're gonna do a good job and they know we're gonna Call them if they don't They'll do a good job. You know my cousin will he's been in the video a couple times will he used to work for them He drives truck right now. He's driving a tanker, but just last year and just last year he was still working for them and They're the best around so Looking forward to getting that done, but we are gonna have to work our royal butts off this summer, but we're gonna work hard and we're gonna achieve our goal Everything else is on hold right now That's life. You got to work. You got to work and then you got to go home and sleep and then you got to go back to work Off we go on another day. Oh boy with this heavy load on there these little ribs and those little bumps really You really feel them Usually when you have a really heavy load the ride gets smoother Depending on how the weight is distributed I have more weight on my trailer than I do on my truck because I have a tri axle on the trailer and only a tandem on the truck So obviously there's more weight back there, which means that I'm pulling the weight and not carrying the weight And that makes for a very bumpy ride. I Just want to get through northern Ontario already, you know Just Thinking about home my average trip like before I got married before I even met Britt We my average trip was two and a half three and a half weeks And now my average trip for the last like two years has been about a week And plus I was local or a regional there for a while You get used to that extra hometown pretty quickly Hey duty calls you gotta Pull up your pants and get the job done a roof isn't gonna replace itself And that's our goal for this summer. It's all we're thinking about is that roof So we're putting everything else on hold And hopefully crossing our fingers knocking on wood hopefully nothing else goes wrong But this is trucking You got to remember that this is trucking Something always goes wrong Let's hope not this time We took highway 11 because there's less hills I'm so heavy that climbing any type of hill even just little small ones Slow me down a great deal and cost me a lot of fuel. So I figure we'll go the the more flat route Take the 11 that doesn't mean it's completely flat. There's still these little hills here I don't know if the camera even picks them up Even these hills here just slowing me right down So I'm that guy on the road right now and I apologize to anyone who is stuck behind me I'm gonna be a pain in your butt I'm sorry It's gonna be a slow two days getting through northern Ontario over these hills Time for a pit stop got to check the load check the truck check the tires I don't know if it's time for a new coffee yet, but You should probably wait a little while It's gonna be a long day yet Some level of ground here and check our oil make sure the truck is still happy right here. I'll walk Chevy All right, Chevy you ready? It's break time. Where's the parking right in this water here. Oh Well, this ground here seems pretty level. I want to be on level ground to check my oil Mark us down in here that we are doing a load check and tire check The powers that be you want to see on your record that you Stop to check everything make sure it's safe. So that uh, you know, they're trying to prevent, you know random tires from flying off the truck and Killing people on the side of the road and hitting oncoming traffic They really don't like it when your load falls off and hurt someone. So you're supposed to check your check your load I believe it's every two hours. I try to do it a little less than that But at least maximum two hours. I'll go before I'll stop pull over Check all my tires make sure that they're all still inflated Make sure that there's no damage on them or anything sticking into them like a screw or nail or something I'll check my load make sure all my straps are tight Make sure my tarps are still on correctly that there's no rips and if there is rips, you know You got to undo it go underneath there and put some rug or protector underneath there so that it doesn't rip further Try to prevent the rips in the first place but What else do we check check my oil make sure my trucks life blood is still doing well You want to check your oil as often as possible because you never know when you're gonna spring a leak I learned this lesson in the last month or so. You never know when Something's gonna go wrong in there, right? And suddenly you got a little bit of oil coming out the blow by that you because of a clogged up oil Separator that might be my my issue and so far the trucks been doing really good But I don't want to come into that Position again You always want to make sure you have the right oil With you in the truck at least two gallons of it Let's say four if you have the space, but at least two gallons of the oil that's that's for your truck You don't want to just put any oil in there Make sure that it's the right oil And check that check your fuel filter make sure that the fuel filter isn't all plugged up That you want to check mostly on the really cold days and winter time, but Anyway, I have a break to enjoy so I got to let you guys go Ontario here. Oh, yeah, this guy just giving her look at him go Look at him go right in the middle of the lane here shoulder there, buddy. How do you use a shoulder? Very very straight either give her bud horses are amazing up ahead to what's going on up here For all traffic here or if the road's blocked on both sides of the road here It looks like traffic can just go by but I have to slow right down all because this truck broke down right in the lane And they're making sure we don't all hit each other. Okay. I see what's going on here You got a cop off to the left directing traffic through here so that Everyone gets around this guy who broke down safely and wait for him to wave me through this way Okay, he's telling me to come Unfortunate spot to break down. It's nice that the police came out to make sure everyone gets around them safely though Good old campus casing The crown of the 11 I Don't know if it's called that. That's just what I made up It's right at the top of highway 11. It's sort of a Halfway between Toronto and home almost pretty close Hurst is a little closer, but This is where we can stop and grab some fuel take another break Stretch our legs Let the truck rest a little bit because she's pulling a lot of weight She's doing pretty good though oil level staying Staying good still. Well, I mean we'll check it here, but so far all day. It's been holding Really good news Definitely gonna grab a coffee and we have seven hours and 14 minutes available to us to drive today. Yeah I'm gonna park here first and go in Just grab, you know what? Let's just grab fuel right away Don't messin around fuel Island just opened up. Oh, it's all filled with water, too. Don't you just love springtime, eh? No bulk DEF at pumps in store only Except in the store you fail to mention that in the store it costs twice as much Thanks for that It's not even winter anymore turn your DEF pumps back on come on Cap is casing Ontario flying J has incredible Wi-Fi just like Hope, British Columbia. I Pulled in there. I just hooked into the internet when I pulled in started uploading a video. I Had to uploading actually I Fueled up I went around I parked I went inside I grabbed a coffee. I came back to my truck The first vlog completely uploaded the second vlog half uploaded in like 20 minutes Remember we were just talking about this the other day at the Black River Falls flying J How at that flying J I was parked right close to the building right in front of their antenna Each video took over four hours to upload and it was about the same file size And the thing that upsets me is that it's the same price to pay for their premium Wi-Fi in Black River Falls And locations like that as it is at other locations like this where the Wi-Fi is like speedy speedy Like 20 minutes as opposed to four hours for the same file to upload And maybe people who don't know a lot about the internet and stuff don't realize that but you're getting gypped at some flying J Locations they'll charge you for premium Wi-Fi the same price everywhere But it varies greatly from from location to location So if the people over there at the flying J headquarters Are still watching my videos If you guys are there Someone important gets a hold of this message you guys might want to look into your consistency For your premium Wi-Fi at all your locations. I know you're a massive company. There's a lot to keep up with your Wi-Fi at the new Medicine Hat Alberta location in Canada your Wi-Fi there still doesn't work and it's been How long since it's open like almost six months and It doesn't even work at all the Wi-Fi doesn't you can't even hook into it. It's there, but it doesn't work every time I go past I check six months And then I come to these awesome locations of campus casing and hope BC Incredible internet But then I go to other locations and other places and you know Winnipeg is another one Winnipeg Or heading Lee, Manitoba another one where they charge you for the premium Wi-Fi, but they give you the garbage Wi-Fi It's not consistent But the prices are Doesn't matter if you're paying for premium Wi-Fi sometimes they're gonna get garbage Wi-Fi. I Don't like that. I rely on Wi-Fi quite a bit Arriving at my waypoint so I have one thousand three hundred nine kilometers to go till I'm home I'm not gonna get home today right now. I have seven hours and seven minutes left to me to drive So I'll get Halfway there I Want to get home tomorrow during the day sometime because we got to get all my laundry done got to get this truck cleaned out We got to detail the interior myself So that it's a little cleaner when Britt comes in here Then we got to get all of our stuff in here and organized so that she can jump in with me Probably Monday Monday evening or Tuesday morning whenever we decide to leave So with Britt getting her class one License or her CDL She's in the process right now getting her So what that means is she she had to go for her physical she passed her physical Now she's got to go for her written test which will give her her learners And then she's gonna go through our training program and I'm gonna be her trainer At least that's what I understood the reason I'm talking about this now is that hopefully well if we leave on Tuesday We got to stop in by the office And go and have a chat with them. We want to work out how we're gonna get this done Whether or not I train her myself or if we send her through a training school We'll see because if you send her to a training school Then you got to pay for the instructors pay for the trucks and the fuel to learn and practice on you got to pay for the class Right whereas if if I can run the class she does not to pay me. I'll do it for free She's my wife, and I'm a good husband not gonna charge her With my how many I got my license in 2006 We got to follow a set curriculum that's the thing so we got to go in and discuss what the best option is how We're gonna get this done, and we want to get Brit behind the wheel as soon as possible And then once that happens All things will change a lot like we'll be driving Super single together, which means not teen, but We'll both be able to drive Britt and I would really like a career that we can do together to spend time together and I Already love what I do and she likes it to her dad was a truck driver as well I come from a family trucker so does she And so it only seems natural for her to decide to do that So then we can spend our time together and you know, she doesn't want to just be a ride-along That's the thing she doesn't want to come and just ride along in the truck. You know, she wants to contribute She wants to be a part of it. She wants to drive She wants to do it together Not just me doing everything in her just you know taking along that's not the kind of person She is she's not like that one of the things I love about her She has to contribute she she wants to be involved all the time in everything and I love that you know, I learn a lot from her and That's one of the things I admire about her I'll stop gushing and I'm very excited Unless as you can tell We'll see what happens Why because my eyes are kind of tired right now from driving all day and those are really bright And the camera doesn't do it justice, but those are blinding they hurt my eyes Why do you need such bright blue lights? Shining at traffic like that. I just don't like this whole bridge. I mean it looks nice. Yeah, but Ever since it buckled in the first winter, I haven't really trusted now I don't understand why they put blinding blue lights on there like that Like those of you who have driven past here at night like if your eyes aren't tired Maybe it won't bother you, but you know, it's sort of like the same way that Emergency police lights they hurt your eyes and you can't really see where you're going when the police have someone pulled over at night They're supposed to be you know creating a safe zone With their LED lights, but really all they're doing is blinding all the traffic and this turned out to be quite a long vlog But there's a lot of footage in there I really wanted to include that That sunset we were driving into there at the end was just amazing the camera didn't do it justice But I wanted to include that There's the drone footage. I was able to throw the drone up in the air again as warming up I was I wasn't able to do it most of winter just because it's too cold and I don't want to risk Risk that investment It's not supposed to be flown when it's that cold, but that was a lot of fun And we made it pretty far. We made it all the way to the flying J near Thunder Bay And maybe I'll talk to you about it a little bit tomorrow yet But we're gonna be sitting here because the government thinks that I need a 24-hour break because I've been working too long I've been working 14 consecutive days straight and they say that I cannot work a 15th. Nope It doesn't matter that I feel perfectly fine and able had a great sleep and I'm good to go Nope government says doesn't matter that I'm a day away from home. I need to shut her down for a 24-hour period So instead of spending this break at home with my wife, I get to spend it here in the truck We'll talk about it a little bit more tomorrow though. 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