 Good morning everybody from Pembina, North Dakota. Manageable Canada is a mile that way. We're headed that way. Checking my tires real quick here. Making sure they're all blue and my trailer's ready to go. We're gonna go bring these into a Winnipeg and we'll see what we've got next after that. I'm gonna go inside and grab a coffee and get on the road. I'm just checking all the tires first thing every morning. I've had so many flats for the past year that I'm just hopin' and hopin' that I'm not gonna have another one for a long time. Today's a good day. Days it works, some days it doesn't. Of two people, I'm lost since one minute. Load successfully delivered, another happy customer. So we're gonna go do it again. I'm in Prada, Manitoba, which is on the way to Canora, if you remember. Last time we were here, we slept right over there by that sign. You remember that? I parked the truck at the first time I had to go fix myself so I could sleep, make sure I was straight. I still wasn't completely straight. Bothers me to this day. But old blue's been doin' a good job. Trailer's been doin' a good job. Trailer's still a little bit dirty, or a lot dirty. Didn't have time to wash it on the way home. It's rush, rush, rush, and tomorrow's gonna be a big rush as well. So I'm headed to Canora tonight because I'm loading first thing tomorrow morning. I'm gonna be at the gate at 6.30. The gate is supposed to open at 7, but I hear rumors that they've been opening it up at 6.30 lately, because every time I show up at 7, there's like three trucks in front of me already. So this time, I'm gonna show up early too. I wanna be first. We'll see if we can do it. So I'm gonna get loaded first thing, hopefully be out of there by like 8.30. Then we're gonna rush down to Brainerd again, get it unloaded, same day. Then we're gonna head on back to Shakopee for another load of shingles. Same thing as we did just before this, just another loop. I'm filming this, what is today? Wednesday? Middle of the week. That's right, Wednesday. So tomorrow's Thursday. That means I'd be delivering Thursday. Get down to Shakopee Thursday night. Load Friday morning, and I'd be back home Friday night. Friday night or Saturday morning. No, no, no, no, no, no. If I get loaded first thing Friday morning, I'll be back Friday night. But I'll probably only deliver the shingles then on Monday. And we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. We'll make plans as plans present themselves. I keep biting my lip. Is this swollen? It's been two days already. Keep biting it. Don't just hate that. Stopped here and went inside. Esso right here and got myself a wonderful three piece Chester's chicken meal. I know I've spent some money. I don't like spending too much money while I'm on the road. But at least once a week, I like to treat myself to a good full solid meal. So I had three pieces of chicken, some coleslaw, some potato wedges. Got myself a cookie for dessert. I'm really bad. Oh, I can't wait to eat that. I'm so bad. I know, I know, trying to eat last, but I'm doing better. I'm doing better, trying to make sure I don't get too far out of control. Like I'm doing fine now. I'm comfortable in my body. I'm not, I'd like to lose a little bit of weight, especially for when Theo starts running around. Like I gotta be able to run after that kid. I gotta be able to throw a ball around with him when he gets older and plays in baseball or hockey or whatever he wants to play. I'm hoping he's gonna be into hockey. I mean, I was as a kid. So I'd love to, like in our new yard, I'd love to one day make like an ice rink back there in the winter time. I can skate around the backyard. I've always wanted that when I was a kid. So maybe we can make it happen. I don't know. You gotta be careful though, because sometimes when you make an ice rink in your backyard, the next summer your grass won't grow and your grass is dead. There are ways to prevent that and make sure that doesn't happen. I have to figure it out. Do some research. We'll see. And plus you also have to have some protections in place, right? Cause if we're shooting pucks around the backyard, we gotta make sure the pucks aren't gonna end up going through one of our windows. You know me, it'd probably be me that did it. And I can't blame Theo. We'll see what happens. We'll see. If not, I'm pretty sure. You know, if there's an outdoor skating rink in Steinback, we can just go skate there too. It's not too far away from us. We can just go skate there. But then you gotta share the rink with people. You know, it's no fun. You get there. You're all excited to play some hockey and someone's already there. You're like, eh. Or if you get a bunch of friends together, you go start a game of hockey, like some shinny, right? Just a wreck, just a game. And then suddenly like a whole bunch of people just show up. And you know, if I would show up, see someone's already using the rink. I'd be like, oh shoot. And I'd go back home. I'd let them have the rink and go skate there another day or when they're done. A lot of people don't care. They'll just jump, put their skates on and jump on the ice anyways and start skating around through your game and getting away. And you can't play hockey. Like a fast-paced game of like intense hockey with kids skating around through you and families skating through you and whatever, doing their own thing. And it just doesn't work. People start getting hit in the head with pucks and people start getting angry and nobody goes home happy. We'll figure that out as time goes. So it would be nice to have a little skater in the back. Let's get moved in first and then we'll think about these things later. It's not like this winter we're gonna have a skating rink. First we gotta get settled into the house and you don't get settled in, right? It sort of takes like a full year or two to get settled in. Like at the house we're at now, we've been there three years. I would say we're finally just settled in. We got the house organized. We got the bedrooms painted inside. We just got settled in. We got all the appliances changed. We got the house just the way we want it. Built a new deck out in front of the house. And we're gonna sell it. Because I wasn't building it up and making it nicer for us. I was building it up and making it nicer so that I could sell it for money. And that's exactly what we did. So now somebody else can enjoy all the hard work I put into that house. That's fine, I got paid for it. So we'll take that and then we're gonna put that same hard work and effort into improving this new house. There's not many improvements that need to be made to be honest. You'll see, it's actually in pretty good shape already. But as time goes on, as years go on, we'll eventually get settled in and then the old girl a little older and I'll see if I can create some kind of skating rink or something in the back without destroying my yard. Anyway, break's over. Got ahead to Kanora. We're gonna sleep there. I'm gonna go to that co-op that nobody knows about yet. Sleep there. Don't wanna waste too much time. I wanna relax at the end of my day yet. Catch up on what's going on around the world. Lost to catch up on, lots going on again. None of it's good. I like to stay on top of what's going on. Excuse me. Turn left. Absolutely, great idea. Kanora's that way. I was thinking of turning that way anyway. Good suggestion, Karen. Good call. 116 hub obviders. Guess where these people decide to park? Wait for it. Wait for it. Long 75 foot parking spaces didn't give it away. Wasn't quite obvious enough that those spots are for bigger vehicles. Okay. Good thing there's lots of spots. Some construction going on over there. The whole other side of the lot there is blocked off here. So for a spot or anything, which is interesting. Right in the light. Very strange and suspicious that a vehicle would be parked there with no license plates. But seeing as it's in the back corner, I'm thinking it must have been, maybe it's the owners here. They just wanted like an old car parked in the back. Plenty of other spots around here where it could be parked, you know? But I'm always, I like to know my surroundings completely when I go to bed. I like to know what's going on and why. Sometimes you just don't have answers, I guess. And that's okay. So we didn't really go that far today. I started just south of the border in Pemboda, North Dakota, rushed up to Winnipeg to get unloaded this afternoon. And then I meandered my way over here to Canora because we're gonna get loaded first thing tomorrow morning. We are gonna be on the ball. I wanna be there first. I always say that, but I never actually get there first. I don't know how people are so quick. They always set the bar so high, you know? So we're gonna wind up and we're gonna see how high we can jump and see if we can beat that bar and get there first before all these other keeners. If we can get unloaded tomorrow afternoon, that will be perfect. Should have no problem. It's eight o'clock now. They don't open until seven, 11 hours, plenty of time. So thanks for hanging out with me today. Short day. How far did we go? 400 kilometers? 400 something? 400, 424 kilometers. Not very far at all. Tomorrow will be a long day. I'm gonna get all the way down to Shakopee, Southeast Minneapolis while unloading along the way. Loading and unloading along the way. It's gonna be busy. So I hope you tune in to hang out. Don't forget to hit that bell so you don't miss it. If you haven't already and you're new here, don't forget to subscribe. We make new videos every day. My life on the road. I've been doing this for about 12 years. 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I've been with you through your whole entire education life so far. Believe me, once you're out of school there's a whole life ahead of you yet. So pay attention in school. I'm gonna be one of those annoying adults talking to you right now. Pay attention in school. Okay, because it's just a short part of your life. I know it's not fun school sucks. I never liked school either. I didn't, I hated the homework, all the studying, the tests, the exams. It's not fun. But believe me, you need it. And there's way more life after school that you get to enjoy than now in school. That's just the first little part of your life. Get that over with, get the schooling, get the education you want, and you have the rest of your life to forget about school. Unless you want to keep learning, well, if you're one of those people, hats off to you. I'm not. I like driving trucks, which is a learning curve every day as well. I'm always learning new things every day. So it's not like truckers are dumb, though some definitely are. I try not to be one of them. There are some people who got their license in a cereal box, you really got a question. How did they get it? But, you know, that's in every profession, I guess, but I try to be the best at what I do. I'm not claiming to be the best, but I try to be the best. That's all we can do, right? Figure out what you love to do and go after it. I love to drive trucks. It's not a big glamorous career. Lots of people look down on it. I don't care. Maybe I look down on their career. It doesn't matter what people think of you, do what makes you happy. Because if you're gonna spend your whole life doing a career that you don't like, you're gonna be miserable your entire life and you only get one shot at this life. You only have one. So find out what really makes you happy now and pursue a career in that. Maybe you'll be an astronaut and you'll be walking on Mars or something. Maybe you'll be a truck driver like me and you'll own your own truck. Maybe you'll own a fleet of 100 trucks. Maybe you'll be super successful and start a new mega-carrier and you'll be one of those good, honest mega-carriers that everybody wants to work for that treats everybody fairly. Maybe you'll be a lawyer and you'll be a prosecutor and you'll prosecute criminals and take bad people off the streets. Maybe you'll be a defense lawyer and defend those bad people. I don't know how those people live with themselves. I couldn't do it. I could not defend someone I know is guilty or that I know 99% sure is guilty. I just could not defend them. But that is some people's jobs. Anyway, maybe you'll be a police person. Police person. Maybe you'll be a policeman, let's say it right. Maybe you'll be a fireman. Maybe, I don't know. Don't worry about all that while you're in school. Just focus on school. It's just a short part of your life. Just get it over with and do well. Do well. Try to be the best in your class because you only get to do it once and after that, all that's gone. All your friends go off to do their own thing and that whole experience is over and the real world hits you. School isn't the real world and the real world starts after. You wanna be ready. So just have fun, get through school. Enough of that babbling. Trying to be a good example here. Did it work? We'll see you tomorrow. Take care, be safe out there. Keep your head up, keep your stick on the ice and drive safe.