 Good morning everybody. I hope you all had a good day yesterday. There was no video for me. It was my day off. I Enjoyed it. It was good to just relax for a little bit get some stuff done at home so now I'm back on the road. It's just a short rounder this time I've got to go pick up a load in Canora, Ontario, which is about two hours east of me Grab that bring that down to Brainerd, which is about six hours south from there in Minnesota And I have a load waiting for me in Minneapolis a few hours even further south from there that'll take me back home here So a little short short rounder for me Let's get the wheels turning We're stepped back behind us, and it's gonna be our friend for the next couple of days Actually off to the left here you have that whole lot. You're just packed full of vehicles a lot of Americans this is The spot where you can come up and get on a plane and go up north flying fishing Come up here from here. They'll fly in like a float plane good fishing up there on lakes that are like untouched There's no roads. No human settlement anywhere nearby just Wilderness kill us the things to do one day yet before I do that. Maybe I should just start fishing in general I love fishing. I just I never go Maybe once Theo is old enough I can take them make sure I know how to fish myself first. I know One day maybe maybe we can have a boat That'd be a lot of fun, but I don't know how much it used to be get out of it So that's why we don't have one now How often would we get on the lake right 14 trucks in front of me when I got there? I got up early this morning and left the house at 4 a.m. So that I could be there at the gate apparently so did everyone else Except they left at like 345 They all got there just before me I had to wait in line to get loaded get tarped Which means now I'm gonna have to unload tomorrow morning instead of this afternoon. I'll make it work We'll just have to push back my appointment in Minneapolis for my reload from the morning to afternoon if we can Wacky crazy flailing. No wacky crazy flailing inflatable flailing arms, man He's so happy crazy inflatable flailing arms, man So this is International Falls, Minnesota, don't you know? Bring you down some lumber here Is that how Minnesotans talk? I don't think so. I think Minnesotans sound a lot like me. I don't know Maybe I sound a lot like them Maybe not I say a little bit more right, but we don't live that far apart The cultural lines in North America run north and south you got the coastal cultures On the east coast and the west coast and then you got the central culture Which is part of where I am with the Midwest of the United States All the way down to beautiful, Texas So the cultural lines in both countries run north-south, but they drew the international border east-west So keeps us divided a little bit Turbo never gets old. Now some people who don't drive trucks and don't love trucks like we do Might think to themselves man, I'll get annoying day after day after day after day after day I love it. I roll down the windows just so I can hear it better I was a kid the whistling turbo the jake breaks as you're going down a hill or slowing down Even the smell of diesel fuel just love it. I know you can't indulge in that too much, right? It's not like I said they're sniffing diesel fuel, but you know as I'm fueling if I get a whiff of it Unintentionally, I'm not too upset about it. I mean, I like it. I like the smell of it diesel exhaust after its burnt Again, you don't go look into shove your face into it and take a deep breath. No, but if it if it wafts past you, it's just Wonderful Roma, I wish they made cologne like that diesel exhaust cologne or diesel fuel Cologne you think it would sell like it, but I don't think men would wear it because I don't think women would like it Now why else do we wear cologne? We don't wear cologne for ourselves But it seems to me she married me, right? That's why we wear cologne fuel cologne now that might be That might be something to look into still February, right? Why does it feel like late March? early April The temperatures have been so good. I don't want to jinx it, but Look at this beautiful and the Sun's already up for longer than it was last month Obviously that was expected But that along with the lack of snow with the warm temperatures. It really makes me feel like it's April And this guy in front of me his load is making me very nervous He already lost a small log out of there earlier on It was a very small one is like a stick compared to all of them, but I could have done some damage It was about eight foot long maybe about like four inches In diameter it was a pretty big one that fell out actually like a lot of her turn left on Us too, and I don't know how they're tied in there. I can't see any straps I mean, obviously there must be something hold them in there Excuse my dirty windshield. I'm sorry 100 meters turn left on To this guy's gonna go the other way that I got turned left I'm kind of hoping he's gonna turn right But there is a four lane not like soon we turn left and get out of town. I'm gonna get by him I'm pretty sure he's gonna lose some more logs out of there The thing is he lost that like eight foot four inch thick Log oath the back of his truck and went bouncing down the road I was about like a half of like a quarter mile behind him. So I didn't hit it but It went bouncing down the road and then bouncing into the passing oncoming lane So if there would have been a car going past him right then it would have hit it It would have gone right to their drill Turn left on Clean Avenue US 2 It could have caused some damage. Luckily that didn't happen, but there's no one on the road except for me Look at this guy. Oh He's going right. Okay. Good. There's no straps on that. We're losing some of those sticks Back a few miles back out of town there. I don't see any straps on that load either There's no straps on there. I'd throw a couple of straps over that if I were you before you lose any more He doesn't have a radio or he's just ignoring me. Oh I didn't realize he had no straps on there until we got up close. I thought he didn't look like he didn't No way that's wild That's wild. I Thought for sure there had to be some like maybe some steel cables or something on there holding it nothing You guys seen that before is that normal? That's not normal. Is it I've never seen that before I always see them Strapped sometimes I see them with your chains or steel cables Okay, I'd like to get across this busy road, please I'm glad he's going that way Of course, he doesn't answer me on the radio right because then he would have to publicly acknowledge That he didn't strap his load that freaks me out. I hope no one gets hurt by that The things you see out here on the highway, right things you see What more can I do except try to warn him right? I'm not gonna go chase him down Maybe hope that a DOT officer sees it or that a cop sees it or someone stops him Pulls him gets him off the road before something falls off the back of his truck and hurt somebody All those logs and they're all like tilted back to right nothing holds them on there Oh, you see it all right here on trucker dogs vlogs, right? I tried to let him know I'm not gonna go chasing after him. Should I call somebody when stuff like that happens? Like should I report it or is that being a snitch? We're at the gate Waiting for morning Just a simple day All the way down here to Brainerd. I started from home today So I started really early left the house at about 4 a.m Got to the truck got it ready got hooked on to a trailer headed over to canora Took forever to get loaded because there's so many other guys. They're trying to get loaded as well There's two guys in front of me here in line to get unloaded in the morning Wouldn't be surprised if I woke up and there's another couple behind me yet So I'm gonna get up at about six o'clock the gate opens at 6 30 Hopefully these guys in front of me are on the ball and awake It would be a shame if someone cut in front of them because they were still sleeping because I'll be awake get unloaded and I'll talk to you a little bit more in the morning yet because we didn't have much to talk about today other than that Log truck. Okay. Now. Is that normal? I'm not a logger. I've never hauled logs before Is it normal to go down the highway with a load of logs like that? with no securement None whatsoever just on the trailer between the rails just in there. Is that I can't be normal, right? It shocked me, but I what do I know, right? So I'll see you guys right here in the morning. I'm gonna make my bed here Early morning