 Good morning everybody. It's actually about noon already. Spent the morning tarping a load with one of my co-workers here. I've got this wonderful empty step deck, 53 foot tandem behind me here now. All the lights are working, that's wonderful. Gonna pull this trailer down to Minnesota and start in the snow a little bit. So it might be a bit of an interesting drive. There's a loaded trailer down there waiting for me so I'm gonna bring them this empty and pick up my loaded. It's just a trip there and back. Probably take about five and a half hours, six hours round trip, depending on how this weather treats me. There's compressed air in all the tires. Fantastic. It's my favorite trailers. Trailers with properly working tires. Always slows you down when they're flat. And it doesn't matter if just the bottom is flat. Still can't drive them like that. All right, we're gonna stay warm inside our cab today though. Take a bit of a trip down south. And off we go down the 59 Highway. We can cross through from Tolstoy, Manitoba into Lancaster, Minnesota. That border crossing you can only cross when you're empty. So we got an empty flatbed. Doesn't get more empty than that. Well, it's not a flat, it's a step. You know what I mean though, empty step. It saves us about a half an hour. Whereas when we're loaded on the way back, we gotta come back through Emerson, Manitoba from Pembina, North Dakota. So half hour longer to go that way. But when you're loaded, that's the way they want it done. That's the way they get it done. We left at 1230. Karen over here is telling me that it's about 200 kilometers, 120 miles. We could expect to be there in probably just over two hours. 1230, 132, 30. We'll be there between 230 and three. Hopefully I can be out of there by 330. Then it'll be two and a half hours or three hours back. I have to fuel on the way back so that we have full tanks for the weekend. So my take with three hours by the 330, 435, 3630, we'll be getting back to the yard and in my pickup driving away before seven. That's my guesstimate. Longer day today, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Stuff needs to get done. Come on, turn green. Come on, you're not gonna actually make me stop. Are you? Almost, almost, that's a tease. Make me almost stop. I'm glad they put lights there though. Rolling into the big metropolitan area of St. Pierre Jolli. Don't forget the Jolli, I always do. That's suspicious, maybe just don't do anything. I don't know, I don't know what to do. Just drive on pass. Look at a subway in town now, I forgot. No, I got a lunch, I have a lunch. I don't need to buy a lunch. I am gonna stop at their little convenience store here and I'm feeling snacky. I've been so good the last couple of months, not snacking too much. I've obviously still snacked a little bit too much but that's Christmas, but feeling snacky, I don't even know if I'm gonna snack. Here it is right here, I have to take this a little bit more. The Date Penneur, it's a French town. So they call their convenience stores, Date Penneur, that's French for convenience store. What a weird looking pickup over there, you see that? Because I don't think that this would be considered on-duty work. Friday, I deserve a treat. Ending for a nice ride, self. Oop, hit, ho! Not much room, ketchup chips. Because I'm going to America, Canadians get it. You can't get ketchup chips in the US, do you know that? They don't sell ketchup chips in the United States. That is a crime. So I'm taking mine with me. I can't believe you guys, you guys don't sell those. It's so disappointed. And no, they don't taste like ketchup, which is weird, right? Off we go. Comfortable and ready for the ride. Nobody's coming, okay. It's French town. I always say, you don't hear much French spoken in Manitoba French communities, but they speak French at home to each other and amongst each other here. So I actually heard someone speaking French in the gas station there or in the store. So they do still speak it, but in general, you walk in there, maybe I have a big E tattooed on my forehead or something for English. Because they don't even try speaking French to me. They just look at me and say, oh, hey, how's it going? They just assume I don't speak French. That's how it is in Manitoba. That's why I don't really notice the French speakers that much, because usually they're pretty polite. And if they know you don't speak French, they won't try to speak French to you. They'll just speak English. Or if they're unsure if you do or don't, they'll just go with English as a default. They're pretty polite. If you go to Quebec though, they'll just, everybody there, I'll just start speaking French to you. That's just the way it is. They'll run down to the States. Nice little hello, hind by. Got the load behind me here. It's gotta bring it to our yard and drop it in the middle of the yard. Karen be quiet. Yelling at me all day again. That's gotta drop in the middle of the yard. They'll unload it Monday. Or maybe tomorrow. Actually, yeah, we got people there tomorrow. Maybe they'll unload, I don't know. That's their problem once it's there. I just gotta put it where they can get it. And that's my job. I'll take the straps off so it's ready to be unloaded. Load my stuff up into the pickup and head on home. Britt got home today. So it'll be nice. Learn pretty quickly how much your spouse does around the house when they're gone just even for a single day. Or how lonely it is to be alone at home. You know, it's not a home when you're not all there together. Franks will still be, the Franks will be there again. So we'll all be back together. One big pack again. The pack is whole again. Ding dong to you, Karen. Stop swearing at me. Doing my best. We got some purple lights here. Doesn't that supposed to be some kind of government conspiracy? The lights are turning purple. They all came from that place in Ohio, right? They made these faulty LED street lights. Now they're turning purple all over the place. Got all my stuff packed up here. I'm ready to go. Oh, gotta leave this mount. I have different mounts for different vehicles so that I don't ever forget my mounts and I'm not left without a mount. That makes it a whole lot harder. Love this GoPro Hero 10 though. So you can see yourself. There you are. Right there. That's funny. So yeah, that's what you look like on my head when you're up there. I don't know, I'm tired. It's time to go home. Time to go home. Says I. Turn that light off. Turn that light. Oh, wait, wait. Yeah, we're good. Okay. Oh, I gotta take the garbage. All right. So there was an incident on the way back. It stinks. Uh. A mayor may not have encountered a family of skunks sitting right on the highway in the dark. Just a whole bunch of them. Just hanging out. I don't know what they were doing. My truck may or may not have gotten in a fight with them as we were passing by. And now my truck may or may not stink. Especially around that area there. Oh yeah. People are gonna notice that. They're gonna notice that. Oh, how can you do? The skunks lost if you're wondering. They lost the fight. My keys. Where's my keys? I thought I just had them. Ah, here they are. Here they are. Opin says me. Ha ha. I'm back. This one smells a lot better. Don't you go getting any fights with any skunks on the way home either, okay? I've had enough skunks for one day. There was at least four of them. Challenged me. Had to show them who was boss, obviously. There we go. And they were just all hanging out in the middle of the road. I don't know, having a party. Had a little tea party in a circle or something. Little of the land. I don't know. Oh, it stinks. Reeks. Okay. Oh yeah. I wanna show you this. This is where I have my block heater cord. This keeps my engine oil warm. And I don't like idling my truck with it plugged in. But yeah, instead of having it run out by the headlight over here, my father-in-law actually gave me this tip. He works at GM. They've run it up here. That way it doesn't ever interfere or the cord doesn't get pinned between here, between your hood. And it also doesn't like swing back and forth and scratch your paint and damage your headlight and stuff. This just sits right up here. I take this cord. And now we plug in this one. And this one's down here. Oh, there we go. Usually these semis have it on the side under by the driver door there. What's going on? Oh, my pocket's having a party now. It's bedtime. Eight o'clock. I got an alarm for bedtime during the week. If this was a weekday and not Friday, it'd be my bedtime right now. But it's Friday. Friday. He's got his block heater cord coming up the side here. Not that it matters. She's plugged in, all tucked in for the weekend. Oh, slippery. Watch out. Okay. Oh, it stinks. You stink. Man. Man, that's bad. Oh, the whole bunch of them. I think there's at least four of them that had a confrontation with my drive tires. At least four of them. So the whole trailer that I was pulling to, the guys unloading it tomorrow. I'm sorry guys. That trailer stinks. So glad it's not my pickup. And I don't have to take that smell home with me today. Hopefully by Monday morning, it'll be like, what do you call it? Gone. And smelling like normal. That was a very smelly incident. Unfortunately, the truck just stank. Sort of the trailer. I'm filming this end in the future already. It's Monday when I'm filming this. And the guys who unloaded the truck, I guess they parked the trailer in the back. And our guy who checks the trailers in the morning on Monday, he thought there was a skunk in the yard. Because he was checking the trailer and he smelled the skunk and he didn't want the skunk to spray him. So he was like looking around where the skunk was. Couldn't find the skunk. Well, that happens every now and then. That's actually the first time that's ever happened to me in my entire life. Yeah, this has to happen to everybody eventually. But yeah, they stink. I don't know, do skunks live where you guys live? I'm not too sure where you're from. Here in North America, all the skunks are everywhere. And for some reason, they're really attracted to highways. And the tire tracks on the highways, even when they're cold. I don't know why. Maybe they just think it's a pathway. They're like, oh, look, let's see where this goes. And they just waddle down the road. And if you actually confront them, they're actually quite aggressive. There was a gang of skunks, if you remember my vlog. Who was it two years ago already? A year or two ago? I was in Ontario, in London, Ontario. And I was walking through the truck stop at the Flying J. And a gang of skunks chased me back into my truck. There's a whole bunch of them. They're aggressive. I didn't do nothing to them. I was just doing my own thing. I was walking in to have a shower. On my way back to the truck from having a shower. The skunks just, like, they surrounded me. And they were walking towards me, like, ominously. Just, you know, making eye contact. Strange, just looking at me. Just walking straight at me. They weren't running, but they wouldn't stop either. I stopped and I tried to, like, scare them off and get them to go the other way. No, steady. They're just making eye contact, staring straight at me like this. Just walking towards me. Nice steady pace. And they followed me right to my truck and then they went under my truck. So I didn't want to leave the truck. I thought they were going to spray me if I... I don't like them. I don't like them. Anyways, thanks for watching today. It's a nice little trip down there, besides that. But it is what it is. We'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to hit the like button if you liked the video and subscribe if you haven't already. 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