 Well, good morning everybody from small-town Canada, we're lost Actually, I'm not quite lost, but I'm lost on a way of how to get to Smithville from the QEW I had to go all the way around here to find a truck road Karen was trying to take me down a non-truck road residential road. Thanks, Karen I had to come all the way back over in Lincoln, Ontario. I'm headed south down the 18 She wants me to turn right here. We're in Beamsville now. Okay, another small town and she wants me to turn right here I don't know if I want to Not right here, but up ahead we're trying to figure out how to get down to Smithville Because that's where we need to pick up our load, but there's no good truck roads connecting the QEW Down to Smithville QEW stands for Queen Elizabeth Way It's a freeway that runs from Niagara around through Hamilton to Toronto And I need to get a few miles south of that And I'm not from here, so I don't know So we're just gonna keep going All right there Ford. All right. Yep You're trying to get me going to go down a residential street again Karen Losing faith in you remember what happened to Mandy throughout the window Okay, we'll just stop here. How about that? Okay, Fred means stop I can definitely tell that Mandy's Pardon me. Let's try again. I Can definitely tell that Karen's programmers were American They were it works great in America as soon as you get into Canada Not all there, you know, I left a few screws at home Green means go Of course, we had about through this little downtown So we're talking about small-town America the other day was that yesterday and here is small-town, Canada Very similar right very soon. We're gonna turn right here. Oh dear that little scooters in my way He's backing up, okay Thank you. All right, so down this road To highway 72. Okay. It's an old church there first Baptist church so this part of the country was The first part of the country to be settled, right? So a lot of old old architecture here this this part of the country is much older than Manitoba Emily was part of the settlers that went out and began settling Western Canada and they arrived there While mom's family arrived on the shores of the Red River on 8 in 1874 Dad's family I believe was here a little earlier than that possibly the 1700s There's not as quite of an accurate record on that side just because on my mom's side. We have the diary Of what was my great-great-great-great great-great-great ancestor whatever who came on our road 73 and Yeah, at the time, you know America was trying to Push north further they were settling into North Dakota, Montana, and they wanted to claim and move further north and There was the CN railroad that was being built across east to west. Oh, there's a lot of stuff going on at West back then But this area here Is a lot older than Manitoba, so it's it's pretty cool going through these neighborhoods because the architecture here the streets are a lot Narrow work because you know, they only had horse and buggy pretty much when they didn't have cars when they built these towns I mean, I guess they didn't have cars when they built our towns either at West But since there was a lot more room a lot more spacious They built the towns a little like, you know buildings a little more further apart and stuff Well, I'm gonna give you an exclusive Look at my load before I tarp it You guys will be the only ones to see it aside from me and the guys who loaded it here And I know you're gonna go what a barrel Yeah, a barrel and this just these rail lines are like little tiny railway lines. That's easy. That's fun I have to tarp that that's the hardest part because it's so small whatever. I'll figure it out Just a whole bunch of random steel parts In a barrel So I'm gonna say this to you guys who are shipping freight Round things roll Square things don't If you got a bunch of little parts you should put it in a crate Not in a barrel Look at this. Look at all this contraption that I had to work up here got two over the top That's just to hold it down, right? And then I've belly-wrapped it twice So that's coming around on this side and that side and also That side over there to that side. So I've got It getting sucked in there, right? And I've also got it getting sucked in there and that sort of gives it a big bear hug, you know So it's not gonna move anywhere and then those two on top criss-crossed They hold it down. So it's not gonna move. It's gonna stay down, but I had to use one two three four five six Ratchets on this And four straps had it been in a crate properly two straps and would have been done two straps and two ratchets so It is what it is, right? I mean Well, there's not going anywhere, right? but crates much better square edges squares don't roll Round things roll. You don't want anything to roll on the trailer So I'm gonna tie all these down here and this is the whole loads going all the way to Manitoba Pain a pretty fancy penny, too So it's gonna be good about 6,000 pounds and deliver this Monday and The hardest part is gonna be tarping it because my tarps have really long ends So I've got to roll them up fold them up underneath. It won't be too bad But yeah, we got to tarp this whole thing down now. I Should say that's gonna take the most time So We've got two days drive ahead of us and we got three days to get there two and a half by the time we get out of here Let's rock and roll Well Got done with two tarps It just barely fit But we made it work. So the other tarp goes to about like here So I've got just a couple inches overlap and a lot of bungees making sure that they don't come undone Because you don't want the air to Come up you don't want this to be pulled forward and this back one to come on top because then the air will Suck this up and turn this into a big balloon back here, right? West Street highway 20 All right, so you can get out of Smithville. I'm taking a different way out of town a more truck-friendly way Now that I know that I took the wrong way before We went on highway 20 towards south of Hamilton This is it right here. Do you have a stop sign? I don't have a stud. Do you see a stop sign? I don't see a stop sign. I'm going Gonna send it there we go Okay, now we're gonna all the way down here a long ways 21 kilometers and then we turn right or north on or is that north no I'm going north now I Don't know we turn right on highway 56, but it looks a bit My Hamilton this thing taking me across the ferry What? No, no, no Karen. Why are you telling me to take a ferry? I Can see it on the map here. She's guiding me towards a ferry across from Hamilton Why what? We're gonna have to stop somewhere and check her work I Thought I'd checked it already. Why would you tell me to go go over? Those are first time I've been in this area with oh, no, that's not a ferry No, it's it's a Skyway bridge James. Why would I want to take that? That's a toll road, isn't it? No, it's a sky. Never mind. Okay, so it's not a ferry. It looked like a ferry Okay, Karen Maybe I jumped the gun a little bit to maybe you know what you're talking about Maybe I don't know So it was a Skyway not a toll road I go over this every time and I It just looks different on This GPS than it did on the other one. I thought it was making me go across the water at first like by boat So I believe this is Hamilton here someone can correct me if I'm wrong is my lane ending Oh, my lane is ending. Oh, that's what's going on here. That's why no one's in this lane Okie-dokie. All right. Oh, that's fun That's why no one was in this line. I thought these lanes all went through Stop Thank you someone. Let me in here very nice of them very very nice Whoa, okay, you're gonna slam when your brakes. Okay One thing I don't like about city driving, you know, it's too many people You know the thing that I've told you before is just the thing I don't like about cities in general Too many people Too many people all in one place That's our biggest problem that we face on the planet Not in this part of the planet. I mean On this part of the planet. We got lots of open space like we're not overpopulated here. It's the The other side of the world. I can't imagine how they live like that Some of those countries that they're having like up 1.4 billion people That's too much that's too much and this is enough here I think It's nice that we have these big urban centers We can go to everyone can live together here and blah blah blah they can live their lives And I can still go out to the middle of nowhere and live off in the middle of nowhere But you know not everybody can do that and I understand that that was a solid line my friend You crossed a little too late there How many more people want to lane dive in front of me? That guy's gonna lane dive up there How many more people you think are gonna go anybody else anybody else on a lane dive? Yeah, the hard thing about living out in the middle of nowhere is there's no jobs out there Like we're around where I live there's not very many jobs. That's that's why no one wants to live there It's really cold in the winter time. There's no jobs, but I'm a truck driver My job is wherever my truck is right so it works for truck drivers But there's a lot of people who you know, they have to live in urban centers Because that's where their job is I sort of feel sorry for them, but it is what it is, right? There's good things about living in a city bad things All depends on your personal preference, I guess you guys know where I stand on that because I remind you every time Every time I'm in a big city Grumble about being in a big city all these people everywhere. They're all in my way So St. Marie Ontario you have arrived at your destination Oscar what husky East now, it's apparently so I'm tired. Oh, it's been a long day again. I'm a long day tomorrow and then a short day on Sunday This spot to park here