 the cleanup's begun. That was quite the blizzard last night. That was crazy. That was a pretty bad one. It didn't last that long though thank god. It lasted a few hours but it sure dumped a lot of snow here in Sudbury, Ontario. But they got everything cleared up now. I got my load info sent through to me. Looks like I'm picking up a load of reels. And it's going to Edmonton, Alberta. I'm sure I'll be taking it straight through. We're going to be going right past home. So I'll be home tomorrow. I'll be able to take a reset at home. And then we'll follow on through, deliver it into Edmonton after that. It should work out just perfect for when they want it there. So I've done my pre-trip here. My truck's all ready to go. I'm all ready to go. Just waiting for old blue just to warm up a little bit more yet. I don't like to make it pull anything at all or move it at all until everything is properly warmed up and moving. Parts are too expensive nowadays. I can take the extra 15-20 minutes. It's not that cold outside. It's probably about zero Celsius, 32 Fahrenheit. So it's going to be a good day. Just wants it doesn't snow again. It's going to be a good day. Yesterday was a good day. It wasn't a good evening. All right, everybody. Let's rock and roll. Let's go see how bad it is out there. Nothing's frozen. Fantastic. Trailer brakes engage. Trailer is attached. And trailer brakes release. It's my little checklist every morning. I have to swing wide this way and then go back around because the exit's on the other side. Unless I can get through here. Looks like I can. Okay, we'll go through here then. This was, remember, this was all packed with trucks last night. Oh, one second. I want to get that. Oh, never mind. There it goes. Just wanted to get that ice off my wiper blade. About 17 or 1800 kilometers to home and another 14-1500 to Edmonton from Homes. Turn right on, cross on Culver and then. Albano, Ontario, small town. Sort of just a cluster of people living in the countryside here. Little ways down the road and around the corner is my shipper. I've looked up the location already. Looked up their business on Google and saw a couple of pictures of the kind of freight that they load up there and that they make. It seems like it should be pretty easy. Just big giant circles, big reels. Way out in the bush down this tiny little, tiny little road. Are we loading those things? That's not what I was expecting. That's not what I saw on Google either. That can't be it. Oh, see, I think it's those things over there. We're going to talk to them and we'll figure this out. Let's get her done. Edmonton needs some of these reels. We're going to bring it to them. Okay guys, let's take a look at what we're dealing with here. Big steel reels. They're very light and they're all banded together. So they're one piece. Oh, not all of them, but it rolls one piece. We've got, we've got no worries about everything rolling forward because the step is right there plus that big piece of freight which is tied down, right? It's not going to go forward. Keep them in place, keep them in place, keep them in place, keep this guy in place. Now we've got to worry about this guy rolling off the back, right? Okay, first thing I did was I positioned my tarps back here to act as sort of like a little door stop type deal. Right? Now that's not enough, obviously. You have this guy here just holding everything down and then here you have this strap holding it down. You have this strap as a secondary, just in case this one breaks, this one will hold it on and in case both of those break, I have it chained. So three points of securement here to hold this reel onto the trailer and hold all the freight up there against the step. So this stuff ain't going anywhere. Very light load. I'm happy with it. It's going all the way to Nisquo Alberta, which is just south of Edmonton. It's over 3,000 kilometers or over 2,000 miles. I'll be delivering it there. It took me a little while longer than I wanted to here, but that's the story of my life. Everything takes just a little bit longer than I wanted to or a lot longer. Let's go. I stopped by home on the way. Let's go. See how far we can get today. We're going to be taking Highway 17. It's lightly snowing. Temperatures about minus two Celsius, 30 Fahrenheit, an hour from Sudbury here. We're going to go through Sudbury, so pretty much right back past where we slept. Not even close to being overweight. Don't got to worry about that. It's going to be a good day. Let's see how far we can get. I'm not too sure where we'll make it to yet. We'll plan our trip as we go. It'd be nice to make it to around Thunder Bay or something. Okay, he's turning there. Okay, good. Go for it, bud. Go for it. Ah, I would have gone for it. Okay, you can wait for me if you want. It's a pretty big, big metal working place back in the bush there. Surprised the municipality hasn't given them a bigger road because a lot of heavy trucks come down here, I'm sure. It's like 10 times just in case. Oh wait, come on. Turn. Turn. My steer tires just want to push. This whole trip start to finish is 3,133 kilometers. It's what, 200 or 2,100 miles or so. We got enough weight on our trailer that we don't have to worry too much about traction or being blown off the road on the prairies. But we're light enough that I don't got to worry about spending an arm and a leg on fuel getting it there. It's like the perfect load. According to my gauges here, like I'm guessing we're probably about 65,000 pounds gross. Between 65 and 70,000 pounds gross. So I mean, we're not that light. 65, I'm going to say. 55 to 60. I don't know. It's hard to tell by the gauges because it's hard to tell pinpoint exactly. All I know is I'm not even close to being overweight and that's all that matters. 200 meters. Turn left on Highway 64. So this town here, this is the town of Albin. This will take us out onto the highway, Highway 11. It is a four lane divided up to the Sudbury area and then it goes two lane divide or not two lane divided, two lane all the way to the Manitoba border with little bits of four lane at Thunder Bay. Long two lane road, especially in this season. You go through gallons of washer fluid. Come on, old blue. You're doing good. Take this stuff to Edmonton. After we deliver an Edmonton, we'll get a load home or, well, who knows where we'll go after Edmonton. But next the following time I'm home, old blue is going to get a full service. Such a messy day out there. Such a messy day. Everything's just slush. It's cold. It's wet. Summertime, beaches, palm trees right there. Warm water right there with no sharks, no critters. Nothing that wants to kill me. Beautiful ocean. That's where I'm imagining myself. Yup. There's a tiki bar over there. Joke's aside, I want to make some food for myself here now. We need to put something in my belly. It's the last of the, what is this, the maple and brown sugar. Really good. Throw that out in a bit. Grab a bowl and then, I don't know what you guys do it, but for me, when I put hot water into one of these like disposable bowls, I always put like a disposable plate underneath it just because my table here is plastic and I don't want to melt it. I probably wouldn't melt it, but hey, now it's definitely not going to melt it. Mr. Quaker, feed me. Starving. All I had was like a, what do you call those things, a fruit cup, like a big fruit cup this morning. What's going on here? Hey, they're not open at all. What's going on? There we go. Two bags. Two bags. I am hardcore. Two bags oatmeal for me. And this is my kettle that I got for Christmas from the wife. Works so good. Heats up a whole liter of water in seriously like 10, 15 minutes. It's breaded boiling. Yeah, like 10 minutes. It also has like a safety feature in it. When it's done heating up the water, it doesn't stay on. It automatically turns itself off, which I like. The other one definitely didn't do that. I use all disposable utensils and cutlery and bowls and stuff. Oops. That's still good. Five second roll. Five second roll. Oh, almost had the changes to the 10 second roll. It's good. All disposable stuff because I don't have a sink in here and I can't wash dishes. I mean, I could probably find a way of doing it, but it would be a lot of extra effort and work. And I don't have anywhere to put that stuff in here. Very small truck, but I like it that way. So we do what we can. Okay. So while that soaks in here, I know that's not going to be enough. So I'm going to have a granola bar too. Crunchy Valley. I'll put you right there. And I'm going to make some coffee. Killing like three birds with one stone here with one kettle, three birds, one kettle. Even my coffee cups are disposable. I have the mugs. I have those heated mugs that I do use sometimes, but it's hard to wash them on the road. And I don't want bacteria growing in there by the end of my trip because I'm not washing it properly. And then you know, end up getting sick or something. I don't know. Make my instant coffee. The Nest Cafe. House blend. I usually like a medium blend, but I know some people don't like instant coffee. I actually don't mind it. And it's very handy to have in the truck. It's been working really well for me. This way I don't have to buy coffee. I don't have to buy food. I do all my grocery shopping when I'm at home. Saving a whole ton of money. Like a lot of money. You know what? I'm feeling wild. I'll put another half scoop in there. I'm going to be flying off the walls. We're going home. Partay. See that? And I could make my oatmeal and coffee with one kettle. And I'll still have hot water left over for other activities. Not much, but there's almost a whole kettle. A little bit left in there. We got it. Found it on Amazon. And it just plugs into like a cigarette lighter. This is my stir stick. Behold. What? No, it's not a knife. Why would you think that? It's a stir stick. Look at it. Stirs the coffee. See? And then my cooler down here I have my cream. I don't want to take too much time here because I already took more time than I wanted to to pick up this load. I want to get as far as we legally can today. Yeah, see? Put the little creams in here. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Use your specialized stir stick. I actually have stir sticks on order. They're coming. But for now, that works just fine. And we got coffee. We got oatmeal. We got a granola bar. We got a load. And we're headed home. Oh, it's a good day. It's a good day. What more could you ask for, right? Yes. Oh, that's so good. Smells so good. And Sioux St. Marie. And yes, I'm fueling in Canada. I don't really have a choice. I'm in Canada. I got a lot of comments on my video the other day saying that I thought I was only going to fuel in the US. No, I never said I would only fuel in the US, or maybe I did. Maybe I misspoke. What I meant anyways was that in the winter season, I would never fuel in the US if at all possible before. But now it's reversed. If at all possible, I'll fuel in the US because I save so much money there. But I can only fuel up at certain travel plazas and certain points around the continent, right? And in Northern Michigan, there was no point for me to fuel up between Thief River and here. We get discounts at certain travel plazas and stuff because of my fuel card. So it's still cheaper to go to the designated or like they don't tell me where to fuel. I just have certain like certain travel plazas where I my cards work. That makes sense. So the fuel here in Sioux St. Marie is astronomical. Remember I was talking to you about how the fuel in Manitoba was $2.06 per liter. It's $2.30 per liter here in Sioux St. Marie. Way off the charts. Way off the really expensive fuel. And if I had any choice right now, I'd be jumping over to Sioux St. Marie, Michigan, just over the border there, quickly go fuel there and come back. However, in a commercial vehicle, that's that's not legal. I can't do that. I can't just jump over the border and come back for no reason with freight. Because then you got to clear that freight to go into the states and you got to clear it to come back into Canada. A big headache, big headache just for no one's going to do that. No one's going to do that for me. That would be nice, wouldn't it? Bridge. The one bridge that connects eastern Canada and western Canada. The most critical piece of infrastructure highway wise our country has. In the event of a war, all they'd have to do is take out this bridge and cut the country in half. We'll move our military back and forth. Quite a vulnerable position to be in. But hey, no one seems to care. I'm going to sleep here in Nipagon tonight. I'm going to pull into the petro pass, go straight to sleep, and we'll finish this vlog up in the morning. Found a pretty good parking spot here. I'm at the petro pass in Nipagon, Ontario. This guy knows didn't beside me. That's okay. That's why I chose the spot. Oh, I know no one's trying to like back around me. They can just drive straight in or back straight in. I've had a couple of different neighbors this morning already. Everyone just keeps parking here and running into Timmy's which is behind the pumps over there and grabbing coffee. But we do have to bring this vlog to an end. We drove just over a thousand kilometers or 600 miles. It was a good day. We're going to make it home after this. Have a good reset at home and carry on with this load to Edmonton. Well, Niscue, which is just south of Edmonton. I call it Edmonton because more people know where Edmonton is than where Niscue. It's just south of Edmonton. Make sure to hang it out everybody. It was fun. We'll see you again tomorrow.