 I don't want to start the day on a down note, but I woke up this morning. I was just brushing the dust off my tanks and all the polished aluminum on the truck now. And I noticed I had those scratches on the passenger side tank. It looks like somebody took some kind of tool or maybe they're, they're snipe bar for securing their loads and leaned it up against my tank during the night and was clumsy about it. Looks like something was leaned up against it and it scratched it. I don't know if that's what happened. I didn't do anything to scratch it and I've never seen those scratches there before. It had to have happened last night. I don't know what happened. So it didn't make me very happy this morning when I saw that. I mean, who does that, right? If that's what happened, I'd like to think that people are better than that, but you know, common sense isn't so common. Somehow the tank got a little bit scratched. It's very, very minor. I mean, it could be sanded out, but I mean, I just paid to have it polished, just pays my first trip since I got it polished. And somehow it's already gotten a little scratched up. So that's how my morning started. We'll make the rest of the day a good day. You know, if you're not standing close to the truck, you can't really see it anyways. It's not the biggest of deal. It's just kind of a bummer in the morning. Well, it is what it is. Do any of you have some pointers of how I can buff that out without sanding it? And they're not very deep, thankfully. I'm sure I can fix it with my Bullsnaught products that I got at home. I'll give it a shot. I have faith. Bullsnaught will fix it. I just might need to get a new tool, a new buffer or a new, I don't want to sand it. I just want to, I'll take a look at it when I get back to the shop. Now let's focus on having a good day. So I just filled up one tank here and dried at the Petro Pass. This is where we slept. This is where my tank got scratched as far as I know. I didn't see it happen. So I don't know, I did clean them off yesterday and I didn't notice it there yesterday. I notice every detail in my truck, right? But yeah, like I said, let's not dwell on that. We'll fix it. It's fine. Not the end of the world. Yeah, we're starting from here. We're going to go to Canora, pick up some wood, tarp it, bring it down to Minnesota. Got to deliver it that first thing tomorrow morning, and then I've got to be down in Minneapolis by the afternoon, by like the end of morning around noon, I think, maybe earlier. So it'll be a bit of a rush day tomorrow. But today will be a little bit of a comfortable, comfortable driving day. I thought this was colonization street. Did they change the name? So we've got our load behind us now tarped up to Fort Francis, Ontario. And then we'll cross over into International Falls, Minnesota. As soon as my paperwork clears and customs is ready, I'm thinking it should be ready by the time I get there. But sometimes they drag their feet a little bit. Should be all good, though. If not, I can always sit and wait a little bit there and have a bite to eat or something. I got quite a bit of time to get all the way down to Brainerd tonight. I had plenty of time on my e-log. I just want to get there as soon as we can so that I can unload first thing in the morning. But where are you going? Where are you going? Signals, buddy. Signals. I had no idea which way you were going. I can get unloaded first thing in the morning because I've got to be back down in Minneapolis, about a three hour drive from Brainerd. So I mean, I've got to get back into International Falls. I have to wait for that van to move so I can go. But he doesn't understand that I need to take a wide turn. All you want is room for a queue. As part of driving a big truck, you don't understand how much space we need. Sometimes there's sort of like a stalemate at a stoplight or an intersection like that. Because people are waiting for you to go because in your mind, you arrived there first, you have the right of way, right? However, we can't go because you're in the way. We need we need that space that you're occupying to make our wide turn. It's all part of the job. You sort of just got to assume that. Well, it makes sense. You don't have to assume that most people aren't truck drivers. They don't drive 75 to 80 foot units around every day. Right? They don't. They don't know how much room you need. Like, why would they? It's not something they have to study to get their driver's license. Why would they know? Those International Falls. It looks so much nicer when all the trees are green. And you can have the windows rolled down. We made it down to Brainerd in good time. I'm going to grab some fuel tonight so I don't have to worry about it tomorrow because tomorrow is going to be a busy day. I have to get unloaded as early as possible tomorrow. I'm going to go wait right at their gate. Hopefully I can be the first one there, get the stuff off my trailer, get my tarps rolled up and head on down to Minneapolis so I can get there for my appointment. And if everything works out and all the stars align, I can get all the way back to Winnipeg tomorrow night yet so that I can deliver the next day. Get on with the next load. Make the money. I have a few cards. OK, let's get some juice. Prices, four dollars a gallon US here. It's not the cheapest, but it's still cheaper than back home. I picked up a few bugs along the way, I see. The side of the truck is still shiny, though. Those scratches there, they're always going to bug me. I wonder if I did that or like, can you see them? I mean, the camera's not even really picking them up, right? So they're not that bad. Learned this little trick from my buddy, Moses. Well, you don't get all the splash up on your tanks and your tanks all dirty. This is my load. This side ends a little sooner. So I had this big gap here, right? And I didn't want that to flop around. So I just put a strap loosely over this here just to keep the tarps from flapping. I don't want them to rip holes or anything. And it worked. It worked great. 125 US gallons will be first in line. Today's a holiday, like I've been saying, but when I'm filming this Memorial Day here in the US, happy Memorial Day belated, do you? There's probably going to be some trucks lined up already because they weren't working today. I'm filled up. I don't got to worry about taking care of that in the morning. I'm kind of a rush, but tomorrow's going to be one of those days that's specifically a rush. The nurse turned right on Washington Street and on 210 and then turned right at 130 winners. One guy in front of me. One guy. And I could have beat him too. He came from the same place. Different outfit that's got the load, but I don't know him, but we loaded at the same time. He left before me, but then he stopped to eat or something. And I saw him on the side of the road and he was getting food. And I blew past him. I'm like, yeah, I'm in front. And then I stopped to get fuel. I guess he passed me again while I was getting fuel and fair is fair. He did get loaded first and got out of the chipper first. So now he's here to be unloaded first. I was hoping I could sneak in front of him. Fair is, like I said, fair is fair. If I beat you here, I get unloaded first. When we both take the same route down and yeah, so it was one guy in front of me. This is a place where we can take our tarps off and unload indoors. So we'll both be able to pull in there and pull our tarps off and we'll get unloaded pretty much at the same time. So being second in line is pretty much the same as being first. I'm okay with that. So let's just tell the E-Log gods that I have stopped. I'm gonna walk around the truck and do my post trip just to make sure everything is as it should be. I already did my post trip at the pumps actually there at one round. Well, I'll do one more round just in case. When you get something happening from the pumps to here, I know it was just around the corner. It was like half a mile, but you never know. Do my post trip here and put myself off duty or in sleep or birth. And I believe they get here to open the gate at seven a.m. I'm gonna be up at six. So I hope he's awake at six o'clock. But I mean, when those gates open, I don't care. I'm going in. Thanks for hanging out with me today, everybody. We started off in Dryden, Ontario, fueled up one tank there at the Petro Pass where we slept, drove to Canora, loaded this freight, drove down here to Minnesota, Brainerd, Minnesota, crossed from Fort Francis, Ontario, Canada into International Falls, USA, came down highway six and now we're here. Well, unload here first thing in the morning and like I said, the lickety-split we're getting out of here fast as we can. I wanna be in Winnipeg tomorrow night in Canada, back in Canada in Winnipeg. That way I can unload first thing the next morning. But then again, I think they only start unloading at like 10 a.m. So I might get to sleep in a little bit the next day, but whatever, I'll get that stuff off my trailer as fast as I can and then I'll be ready for the next load. We're gonna make some money this week. We are gonna go, go, go. We are gonna buckle down. I've had a lot of time off. I took the time off for the birth of Theo. And I'm very glad I was able to do that, very glad. I had five weeks off. And I'm an owner operator, so that's not compensated by the government or by anything, that's all mine. That's all my load. We saved up beforehand to be able to afford that and we sold our land outside of town to be able to afford that. So that was, I'm very thankful that that worked out like that. And then this last week, I had a week off as well last week because the whole blue got safety, it got a bunch of work done to it. I had to move my shop to my new shop. Oh no, mosquitoes are coming in. No, no, rolling up the windows, rolling up the windows in a second. There's mosquitoes here. Minnesota, you keep your mosquitoes to yourself. We got enough in Manitoba, I don't need any of yours. What was I saying though? I totally lost my train of thought now. I guess it wasn't important. Ah yes, yes, yes, I remember. Last week, we had some time off, had to move shops, all blue got polished also and got safety and so all of that took majority of the week. Took about five days. So this week we're just gonna give her hard and got a barbecue coming up this next weekend. Looking forward to that. But until then, let's see what we can do with Keep All Blue running. She's running really good, not gone wood. And let's hope that she keeps doing that. We are about to hit three million kilometers on this track. You wanna see how far we are? Look at my odometer here. This odometer has gone over twice already. It's about to go over the third time. That's 2,991,919 kilometers. Now one second, that's embarrassing how dusty that is. What happened there? Clean this up a little bit here. There we go, should have done that first, right? Still something there. Whatever, getting close to three million kilometers. Once we get three million kilometers, that's two million miles on the frame of the truck, not the engine. And the other driver from the other outfit that's here, oh mosquitoes, just walked past my truck here so we chatted for a bit. And they opened the gate at 6.30. And they opened the door for us to get inside earliest to seven. Sometimes they got some other things they need to get done first. And then we get pulled in. Hopefully we have pulled in right a ways because I'm in a bit of a rush. He's got her head back up to Canora tomorrow. I got a head down to Minneapolis. So we both wanna get out of here as soon as we can. So I'm gonna be up at like 6 a.m. sharp. So thanks for joining me today everybody. I appreciate it. I really like that you come here to hang out with me every day. There'll be a new vlog up tomorrow. Don't forget to tune in. Do me a favor and hit that like button if you did like the video. If you didn't like the video, tell me how I can do better in the comment section. Leave me a comment. And hit the notification, turn on all notifications so you know when my next one goes live. I'll see you later. Have a good one.