 Good day, everybody. Good day. It's not good morning. It's already dark outside We're sitting here at a quick trip just outside of Duluth, Minnesota I've got a new load behind me yesterday was just a crazy day crazy day I sort of filled you in at the end of the vlog there. I Haven't had a day that was that filled up and that busy for a very long time Oh Excuse me, so this morning I woke up. I got unloaded Right over here to Duluth got reloaded with some cast steel heavy load, but the weights are just perfect And I was so tired. I just had to stop for a nap. So we pulled over here at the quick trip and Just had a quick little nap and now I've got to drive all the way back home yet. We're back to our yard I won't make it home tonight. It'll be way too late, but I need to at least get back to our yard and Get this trailer where it's supposed to be And tomorrow morning. I'm gonna head home For a quick reset and then we're gonna do another loop here. I've got another load in canora waiting for me and I believe another reload down here either way Hopefully it's not quite as rushed as it was yesterday because I took a lot out of me But hey, we got to do what we got to do, right? You got to make penny If you want to make a shiny nickel. Oh, you got to work yourself pretty hard. You see The numbers look good And then it gets in your bank account and then everybody gets their hands on it namely The government And then you got to pay all your taxes, right? I love tax season's coming. You guys ready? You guys ready? Oh boy What a time of year Couple of months now. So while I'm here at the quick trip before we actually get driving into the night I'm gonna put a little bit of fuel in my tanks. I have Just below a third of a tank or third of my fuel left in both tanks And I've got to make it to Grand Forks. That's where the cheapest fuel is on my route on the way back The price for me here is three dollars and forty four cents a gallon in Grand Forks It's three dollars and ten cents a gallon on my fuel cart So I want to feel just enough here just to get there comfortably because I don't want to risk running out of fuel That that's a nightmare that would ruin my whole night ruin my whole trip and I probably wouldn't get home tomorrow then Let's just not think about that. Let's just play it safe. Let's put in 40 50 gallons here and that'll be able to get us over there and we'll fill up all the way there Or we can get some cheaper juice Put on my Pylon Halloween costume So I should go for so I should go and dress up for his Halloween, right? Just be a pylon construction pilot. All right, what do we got here? Diesel number two that's all I own number two We could put these number one in we'll go with diesel number two Diesel number one is for really cold winter days. It's not gonna be that cold yet this week. I Love that the new normal at truck stops is being to cut So I just bought 50 gallons. I put it into my driver's side tank So that fuel gauge here is gonna go down a little bit as the fuel Equalizes out between the tanks if you didn't know this about semi trucks both fuel tanks are connected So you put fuel in one they'll eventually level out so that both tanks like it'll run to the other one and level out So I just put 50 gallons on my driver's side one. It'll even out In no time my fuel gauge that I have here is in my driver's side tank because that's where the fuel gets sucked out of so If I were to be low on fuel in my driver's side tank It's most important to know that because my passenger side is just a holding tank It'll trickle over to the driver's side and from the driver's side It gets sucked into the engine or sucked into my bunk heater or my engine heater That's the important one to know what the level is at the passenger one Not quite as important, but I do have a gauge for that one. I just need to get it Get it fixed right now. It's It's just for show right now. It's just to fill up a spot. I It's better than having a hole in the dash right with no gauge Big stop that we're gonna stop is Grand Forks Flying J Like I'll tell you that's where we're gonna grab the rest of our fuel and then we're gonna mosey on our way back I'll be back in the yard tonight after midnight sometime. It'll be too late to go home I'll just quickly sleep in the truck and first thing in the morning. I'll Run home That's what happens when you have dogs if I walk into the house at like two in the morning the dogs go nuts The baby wakes up my wife wakes up And it's not exactly the welcome home party I I planned because no one likes being woken up in the middle of the night Especially if we wake the baby up to No That idea Josh morning So that everybody can get their sleep Sleep is important Very important the ones you want to turn right, but you got to turn left to turn right Destination on the left side Flying J Travel Plaza. It's a little bit of a blizzard out there conditions Still not the worst, but definitely not the greatest of those 50 gallons that we bought by 50 gallons, but I want to be Safe, I didn't want to run out of fuel or get stranded somewhere and have very little fuel in my tanks I'm fueling because they like to know what are you fueling? Are you fueling your truck truck of Josh? Are you fueling your truck right now? Let me know no near business government that whatever Oh, I really don't want to go stand out there in the wind, but Josh We're Canadian. This is what we were born for this is what we thrive in Blizzard's are who we are it doesn't help if you say it out loud It still doesn't make it just because I'm a Canadian doesn't mean I like snow. I'm just gonna say it Okay, I like palm trees. I don't like snow Especially when there's wind with snow in it But I have no choice. I already live pretty far south like I live is pretty much right at the southern border in Canada They won't let me move any further south It's okay, I don't want to complain it could be worse it could be a lot worse We live in a good part of the world. We don't have alligators. We don't have tarantulas We don't have poisonous snakes. We don't have hurricanes. We don't have earthquakes We have a few tornadoes though And we got blizzards but it could be worse you could have a Hurricane Blizzard tornado with flying alligators that would be much worse much worse. So it's not so bad It's not so bad here. I Can't feel my fingers and I can't feel my face and I can't feel my legs But I'm alive Right Look at the positive. I'm alive 138 gallons. I had to move over the pump. I was that over there didn't work as I moved over to this pump Right beside me here. Oh, it didn't work either went on to our last option all the way at the other end There's only three available here this one worked We got our fuel 138 gallons Now let's go home. Well, we'll get up to the blue the blizzard. Well, I wouldn't call us a blizzard yet a Little bit of blowing snow if it gets worse or too bad. I'm gonna pull in probably at loves further down the road But if it just stays like this all the way home or even gets better Then we'll just go all the way back Yeah, then I can We can get back tonight yet didn't sleep at the shop or something We'll figure it out as we go. Yeah, one thing at a time Okay, got myself another coffee. We're gonna keep going. I checked the weather up ahead and this blowing snow is supposed to stop Like 30 miles up. It's not even that bad right now. So Just on a win night. There we go. Try to keep going Also, I checked the weather for tomorrow here in Grand Forks And it's supposed to get a lot worse a lot worse here by tomorrow morning So I don't want to be here for that too bad. We're not headed south of Texas. I don't know further north into this yet You guys heard about the polar vortex that's coming watch out It's our gift to you from Northern Canada It was unwanted to us too. Don't worry. We didn't want it either whoever ordered it. You can have it. I Don't want it much space here with all this construction equipment It'll be nice once this is all done They lied is not getting better. It is in fact getting worse. So my exit is coming up right up here We're pulling into the loves Calling it a night I guess technically they didn't lie. It's not actually snowing They just forgot to mention that all the snow that's already on the ground is blowing all over the place That would have been nice to know. They didn't mention that Just started to get pretty heavy here Just coming up to the loves. I'm not going past. I hope it's not all packed full of trucks already though It probably is it's time to get off the road coming up here very soon There's the lights are you can see it off to the left lights of the sign 50 kilometers an hour Yes, ma'am don't have to tell me twice get me off this road. I choose life Take exit 187. I prefer to remain among the living I don't need to get home that bad love to be at home right now Sharp left on the North Dakota 66 West The scary thing is that there is trucks at least three big trucks that just went flying past me left me in a complete whiteout Couldn't see where I was going and I know for a fact that they couldn't see where they're at On the North Dakota 66 West, but they're only 60 miles an hour blind through a snowstorm Why do people do that every single time you see that why? Why I Don't get it. There's somewhere here. I can park if not. I'm making a spot can't keep going in this Take the next left onto 160th Avenue northeast then your destination will be on the left. Where is it? Where is the left? Well here it is think Yeah, that's right ability just suddenly this 18 Celsius outside too, so it's Getting pretty cold Not a good night to get stranded Your destination is on the left. I Figured that out, but thank you. Hope we don't get snowed in here overnight. Oh, there's a big snowdrift right here Oh boy. No, I don't want to go through that completely snowed in here I can see I'm gonna take this way as always better See that truck that knows didn't right there and a back in right beside him. It's stuck in the morning Look at these guys. Hey, that's one of the guys that went blowing past me this guy right here He's going back out there. He stopped in here for fuel. He's getting back out there on the highway. Good luck, bud You're nuts. Look a guy coming out here. He's going out too. I had to show this to you on my better camera here Look at that pretty good spot Straight out the driveway here. So if anybody wants to park beside me, they got a straight shot in a Straight shot out in the morning. I can't believe those trucks went out pulling back out on the highway I was pretty intent on pushing it all the way through back to home Very glad that I decided to stop in here like look at that The building is right over you can barely see the building what that needs to know that I have parked for the night We'll see the government once again. They like to know what are you doing? Why are you stopped? What you doing? Why aren't you driving right now? You seen the weather out there. I Wanted to be at home Norse This is how it is Just punching everything into my e-log there and sending it away Certifying it. But yeah, so I was telling you that that guy Couple of guys that just blown past me right that one truck that I saw that just showed you leaving you that reefer truck Now Freydex or whatever they was on the side that truck I was doing about 40 mile an hour four ways on everybody behind me was doing the same thing in front of me very slow I was just trying to get here at that point and The weather forecast lied to me. I looked at the forecast. Let's look at it again Says it's cloudy Doesn't say anything about the wind wind. It says moderate Precipitation zero it says there's no precipitation right now right where I am. I just showed you where I am, right? Well, I've never seen the weather forecast that completely wrong. I trusted that I thought that it might be a little bit, you know winter conditions. I didn't expect this at all Why should I the weather said it was gonna be fine? Luckily we had a backup plan of where to stop and I used my backup plan got a parking spot here That's getting worse When I parked here, I could still see the building. I cannot see the building now. I can barely see the pumps Anyway, what I'll say is that guy that you just saw leaving going back out on the highway in this weather We were doing a 40 mile an hour I he had to be doing a minimum of 60 miles an hour and We were traveling this way, right? So he's coming past me on my driver's side here and the wind was coming from my driver's side over to the passenger side So what that means is when he passed me he kicked up all that snow behind him And it comes right over all the traffic. He just passed left us in a complete whiteout. Couldn't see a thing. I Had to just hold the steering wheel and pray that I hope that I'm staying in the lane Thank goodness. They got those rumble strips You can sort of rely on those not when there's a lot of snow on the road But then I get too close there and it'll go You can sort of correct yourself, but there's none going this way until you get to the other shoulder on that side. So Why did people do that? So what I do anyways, and I'm not perfect. I'm not this great guy or anything, but This has happened to me so often that this is what I've started doing If it's snowing and there's snow on the road Even if it's not snowing if there's snow in the passing lane and I know that if I get in that passing lane I'm gonna be kicking up a lot of snow If the wind is coming from the driver's side over to my passenger side as I'm driving down the road I know that if I go up in that lane, I'm gonna give the driver. I'm passing a whiteout Whoever's in that vehicle has a family at home. Most likely they have someone who loves them Who's waiting for them at home? It could be my wife with my kid in the back. It could be your wife with your kid in the back It could be your husband. It could be your 90-year-old mother Trying to get home It could be your aunt and uncle. It could be your friend Why? Why go past them and completely blind them and put their life at risk? Well, so that you can get by and keep going a little bit faster because you're way more important than their life I'm not speaking to you specifically. Don't take this like I'm talking. I know you guys don't do this But you all know who I'm talking about these guys Cowboy truckers, I don't know super truckers. I don't know what the name for them is but the guys who don't seem to Understand That the rest of us Want to get home alive Right So we'll leave it there It's still getting worse since I've parked here. I Feel good about parking. I'm so glad I came in here and you got parked I just right now my worry is that when I wake up in the morning. I hope that I'm not snowed in So what I'm gonna do In this situation what I do anyways, and I sort of roll back and forth about six feet Back and forth back and forth back and forth and I packed down the snow underneath my tires And then I park right about in the middle of that six-foot packing that I just did So I have three feet in front of my tires packed and three feet behind them So it might it'll fill up with snow, but I know that underneath that is packed, right? So in the morning if I have a lot of snow around me and I need to rock myself back and forth a little bit There's a much better chance that I'll be able to get some momentum Rocking myself back and forth to get out of here Another little sneaky tip there is not getting right at the end just for you that one's free But all the other tips I give I ask for a kindly for just a like on my video as payment and Subscription to my channel on YouTube here if you go down below a lot of you aren't subscribed yet I take subscriptions as payment for all of my my my tips whether they help or not Not everything's free But subscribing is free and liking is free It's just the effort that I guess I'm asking for just that a little bit of an average Tap your screen a few times or if you're on a desktop move your mugs around a little bit. I'm not asking for much I'll see you right here in the morning. Don't forget to do it in. Let's see what it looks like. Am I gonna be snowed in? I don't know Probably I'll see you then