 Good morning, you beautiful people all of you Except for you You know who you are All right, let's get going so We slept at the petrol pass and we wandered down the street to Flying J where we just grabbed some fuel And a shower and now we are going to make our way home We won't be home tonight. Yeah, we'll be home tomorrow. We're gonna take it easy But the good news is that we have a powerful wind coming out of the west pushing us east So that good old fuel economy I keep talking about It's gonna be my friend today At least it better be. I don't like it when it gets mad at me This is the medicine hat Flying J in Alberta, Canada to get out there It has been such a great day to be a truck driver. I Got a strong wind pushing me east still Been using hardly any fuel of almost been floating eastward just pulling in the moose jaw here right now We're gonna go to the gym Look at that sky though. Look how blue that is So refreshing, you know when you live up north Orin, well, I guess this is southern Canada, but northern hemisphere when you live up where it's so cold in the winter time You really appreciate warm weather a lot more My gym is just up here to the right. It is good Friday today Turn left on that your drive. It's good Friday when I'm filming this But I'm assuming the gym would still be open on good Friday, right? It's Should be looks like there's people there Get in here now last time I was here. There's still a lot of snow Oh That was a big pothole This lot is very different for the summertime Look at these Posts right there in front of the truck Just cement posts just sticking up in the middle of the lot glad I never hit that in the winter time I would have never known that was there Yikes Wow, this is bad. They really need to update their locked. Yikes. Wow Oh, well, I think I got a pretty good workout in you have a good nap Chevy We need to continue down the road Good boy Well, I got close the vents in the back My arms are tired. Oh, let's continue see how far we can get today We have another eight and a half hours available to us to drive Whoo and we can do that within the next 10 hours We still got a long time We have 671 kilometers left So who knows we might even get all the way home to the yard anyways I mean, I would be home after midnight. I probably get home at like four in the morning So I won't go home tonight and interrupt Britt's sleep I'll go probably sleep at our yard and then just go home in the morning. Maybe I'll go to Brandon I don't know. We'll see I Got options. Okay, let's get out of here Oh I feel a lot better again like usual Haven't been to the gym since we were there in Boston, Wisconsin. That was last Saturday, right when we last went Yeah, cuz Sunday we went from Boston down to Rochelle, Illinois and we came out this way haven't been to a gym since So that felt really good. I'll probably stop in Steinbeck again on the way home Right past Snap Fitness My workout I can get into 45 minutes now If I take my time it takes I can take an hour to an hour and a half or I could double the workout and do it twice But if I just go in there for one, just a simple routine 45 minutes to an hour I'm not too hardcore Balcony baloney Baloney is what I think of these round of boats. Tell you what Baloney, here we go. We made it. We made it. We survived the round about barely Still breathing Balcony Saskatchewan east of Regina Got another 600 kilometers to go. I guess that would make that what 260 miles or so Now we got seven hours of 19 minutes to do it in We'll see how far we go I don't have to go all the way tonight because I'm not going home tonight. Anyways, that'll be way too late Like I was explaining before Britt's gonna be long sleeping by that time I don't want to come in and get the dogs all excited and bouncing off the walls when I get home at four in the morning Totally interrupt her sleep and ruin her sleep So I'll just sleep in the truck and go home tomorrow probably about midday I'm grabbing fuel here. I'm actually just grabbing food. I got no food in the truck And I don't want to stock up groceries if I'm going home for a couple of days I'll do that after I leave again So I'm going in here for some chicken wings Mm-hmm. Oh, it's gonna be great. I know your mouth just started watering right some delicious delicious chicken wings Just think about it Why are people parked everywhere but a parking spot here? Look at this as you got this guy taken up one two three four five six Spots off to the right here. Why are you parked like that? There's lines painted I think that all these guys off on the left too lazy to back into a parking spot. So there's park along the curb. I Can't really judge them because I do that sometimes but not when there's this many open parking spots. Come on You know in the US when you travel down there, you notice down there people park More respectfully. I noticed that in Canada in general not everybody but in general people in Canada do not park Properly they don't park in the lines. They don't park straight They don't even care about straightening out. They just pull in and everything's all crooked pull the brakes and go to bed that happens in the US too, but not nearly as often as What you would see in Canada that's People here need to take a little bit more effort into parking, but maybe that's just me. I'm I'm like that Though the irony is not lost on me that I'm not even parked in a parking spot I just pull up in front of the pumps when I'm going in just to grab something really quick like just a quick bite to eat and a coffee and There's not really much action going on at the pumps. Yeah, I'll just park at the pumps Not in the pumps in front of the pumps So if someone if it all of a sudden gets busy that someone coming behind me and start fueling But if I'm only gonna be in there for five minutes or less Sure, I'll park in front of you But if I'm gonna go in there and sit down and eat or have a shower or take my time Yes, I'll park in a parking spot then and I would encourage you to also don't abuse this Parking area in front of the pumps here. Otherwise, they won't let us do that anymore No taking your half-hour break here All the way out here in beautiful Brandon. I'm pretty sure that's what the slogan is beautiful Brandon I'm just kidding. It is a nice city though. I Don't know much about it. We don't actually pass through the city So I've never really been in Brandon. We just passed by it Brandon. It's just off to our right here We're gonna point our nose towards it in a second. We're pulling into the husky. Esso truck stop. We're gonna spend the night here I think we've gone far enough. I could go further, but I think we got far. We do the rest tomorrow another two and a half hours tomorrow Gotta leave something to do then. Otherwise, we've got nothing to do tomorrow right Brandon is straight ahead of us now probably a couple of miles or so but there's the city reaches all the way out to here We're just sort of on the outskirts Find ourselves a parking spot and Hit the sack. I'm actually pretty tired. I'm looking forward to this Good morning, and I know it's a little bit late, but happy Easter weekend. I Got a muffin. It's gonna be great Actually, this is one of those muffins that's packaged in plastic. So it's actually Going to destroy me from the inside out, but it's going to taste good And it's all they had that I could quickly grab for breakfast. I'm in Brandon Manitoba here right now I'll give you a quick look around I'm at the back of the truck stop here special shout out to Gary Who met me inside shook my hand said hello great guy. He's been watching my videos for a while and Recognized me in the store there So thanks Gary for Nice conversation. It's always nice meeting other great drivers out there. He's a really good guy by the looks by sounds of it someone I'd hang out with so Easter weekend it's Saturday today. We got to get home. We got I Don't have tonight's an Easter gathering or not But Brits dad is coming down tonight. We'll just call it an Easter gathering But we'll probably just hang out and then tomorrow we got an Easter gathering in the city and Then Monday I got to deliver this load into the city, and then we got to try to get moving again I don't have a reload yet because freight is slow right now apparently That's a new one, but out of Winnipeg sometimes like Sometimes it's hard to get going out of Winnipeg. It's it's not there's a lot of truck drivers in Winnipeg It's sort of like the truck driver central of Western Canada that along the Calgary and lots of truck drivers here and all the big big companies They like to gobble up all the freight really quickly so sometimes we're left with the scraps just to get going and Then we get better loads elsewhere to keep going once we're once we're moving problem is getting the The wheels turning all right Chevy sit down buddy You want to go home? You want to go home? I'm gonna go see mom I'm gonna go see diesel You want to go see Frankie Yeah, well come come come come here. Wait. Wait. Okay. We got to clean your eyes out I can't let your mom see you like this. She will Okay, she'll give me that what? Look, okay, come on. Come on. I gotta clean you up. We got to make you look good Otherwise your mom's gonna be mad when they bring you home while dirty There you go. Okay. Are you ready to go home run around at home? It should we go home? Oh, oh, I think oh, is that a yes. Is that are you excited? Should we stay in the truck another week? No No, we should go home shouldn't we You want to go run around with diesel? Okay, what I need you to do is sit Yeah And I need to shake a paw shake a paw nice to meet you. All right. I need to shake your other paw other paw No, I already shook that paw other paw I don't even know if this is on the camera All right, let's get going. Let's get going Give a quick little Tug test on my trailer to triple check that my trailer is still attached and is not going to embarrass me and fall off It's never happened to me yet, but that's because I always make triple double quadruple sure You never know you never know let's get on the highway When you test or when you give yourself a tug test like that in the morning, it also tests your trailer brakes that they're working and uh That they're releasing as well, right? because yesterday Was it yesterday or day before and oh, I think it was yesterday, right? I did my I did my tug test No, man. You're gonna go this way. I'm talking here I did my tug test halfway through my day and sometimes throughout my day There must have been a crack that formed in my my airline my blue airline Which is my brake line which controls the brakes of the trailer And when I did my tug test, I could hear air rushing out somewhere that I had a I had a bad air leak So I went and found it and turned out it had ripped just behind my glad hand and I just Got in the parts that I needed to fix that recently So I was able to fix that and because I did my tug test when it wasn't necessary That's how I Realized halfway through my day that hey, I had an air leak that wasn't there when I did my pre-trip It's always nice just to check your truck throughout the day not just at the beginning of your day because anything can happen I guess I took a corner and it must have gotten hooked on something on my headache rack And uh ripped a little hole in it. So my trailer brakes were only like half as effective as they should be And it's a good thing I caught that before a do t officer caught that Because they'll give you a ticket. They don't care if you check the truck in the one. They'll just give you a ticket Headingly gonna fuel up the tanks. Is that they're full for whenever I leave on my next trip. I'm gonna worry about it then This will fuel up now hold this guy's just ripping out of the parking lot here. Look at this guy Canadian NASCAR There you go. See you didn't have to slam on your brakes so hard if you wouldn't have been just ripping it so hard Oh Guys like that is so hard on their equipment and then the complaint when it breaks down Well, no kidding I'd break down too if I was your truck It's like those people you hear at the fuel pumps or whenever they start their trucks and then try to put it in gear And their clutch brake is obviously needing replacing And you just hear them just Trying to get their truck in the first gear is oh man No def sorry for inconvenience. Well, that is inconvenience and I accept your apology. I don't need it anyway This is it right there on the pump They're there no def At least they let us know before we try The yard was just packed All the drivers are home for Easter weekend It's always Easter weekend and Christmas Almost everybody gets home. 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