 Hey there everybody, how's it going? We're a little ways into our day already We just stopped in South Beloit, Illinois just into the Illinois State from Wisconsin Grab some fuel here Got myself a coffee and lunch of champions with the dessert of champions Reese's obviously I don't usually eat This So it's just kind of like a treat to me. I'm hope this is watering. I'm so hungry So we've been driving for a few hours today already I have been here for my half hour now So I don't have to stop again legally till the end of my day Chevy. These are for me But you do you want to treat would you like a treat to I'm getting a treat you should get a treat too Here, let's get you a treat bud. All right. There's one left One are you a good boy go on the bed on the bed? Okay One left here, but all right Here it is. Do you want it? Can you sit? Okay, now you got to do a trick first. Okay, I'm gonna put that right over there Okay, you shake a paw very nice to meet you other one very nice to meet you Can you lay down? Can you sit back up come up? Sit oh good boy. Oh nice to meet you very nice other one too nice to meet you Okay, you worked really hard for that one. Good boy Good boy Nothing's free buddy. He always got a word for it. There we go now. Everyone's got their treats So this is my usual last stop before I hit the city of Chicago So hopefully this doesn't go through my system before I get to the other side of Chicago I drained the whole system. So I Should be good, but sometimes if there's a lot of traffic and I get held up for a long time in the city Sometimes I regret having a coffee before heading into the city I always tell people try not to drink a lot of fluids before going through a big city like like Chicago For obvious reasons, there's nowhere to stop. There's no bathrooms the rest areas They do have in Chicago like those little oasis is is what they call them right oasis there's like parking for a six to ten trucks in there and There's always like 20 packed in there I've never found a parking spot at one of those oasis What I have found more often than not is you go up there into the parking lot And it's so jammed full full of trucks That you can't even get through and you're stuck there until people come back to their trucks and move them So I don't even bother going into those things Poorly designed like they're they're designed for cars. I don't know why they bothered putting parking in there for trucks I guess just to say that they tried they tried Well, you failed In Chicago if you want to create an oasis That that allows for truckers to go in and enjoy the facilities as well You got to have a little bit more than 10 parking spots for trucks I would say like minimum 50 if you can if you can swing it do a hundred I know that takes up a lot of space, especially in a city. It's almost impossible, but Whatever just my opinion time to go Illinois toll road so the fun has officially begun I guess because this road takes us right into Chicago I'm gonna go around Chicago on the 294, but I would argue that's still Chicago It's just not downtown Chicago Used to go right through downtown before I went when I was first learning the routes and was younger and about 10 years ago I guess that this point almost Now I'd go right through downtown Chicago, but I didn't realize the 294 took you around right and it is congested Every single time you go through downtown Chicago day or night Rush hour never seems to stop there at least when I went through this. I avoided all together It's bad enough that I have to go through the edge of the city I wish they made like a mega super highway bypass that would you know cut out somewhere around here like on the West side of Chicago and then go all the way around like the city all the way around Gary, Indiana and then meet up with the Ohio turnpike and then maybe continue on to meet up With the 94 and 64 or 69 whatever it is up in Michigan, you know what I mean? It's sort of like a big loop around the congestion And straight like strictly like super highway bypass no towns or nothing Just freeway no stopping Just like this That'd be awesome. Can you imagine how much that would cost and how? How much they would have to go through to get that done? They'd have to then get there right of way They'd have to buy all this land off these private farmers That would be a huge pain because they won't want to sell and they're so close to the city of Chicago This land here has got to be worth so much money So it would cost a fortune just to buy the land to build the highway on then you got to build the highway yet It'd be ridiculously expensive, but it would be awesome up ahead here This is one of those oasis that I was talking about See you got the trucks parking on the the on-ramp here already because they know there's no parking up in there for them All the way on the left side. They're parked all the way down the off-ramp or the on-ramp and then The rest area is actually right above the highway here. You know, they probably got like McDonald's all these little things on the right Here are those signs subway Starbucks for some reason do people still drink that tar? Starbucks All kinds of stuff in there. It's just this one's not too bad You can usually find parking at Belvedere, but they have those throughout the like throughout the city on the freeways Chicago, and there's never enough parking in those places for trucks There's never enough parking anywhere for trucks really just a heads up if you pull in there. Good luck good luck This girl driving this SUV in front of me here is seriously doing her hair and makeup as She's driving through traffic here She has no hands on the steering wheel She just put her hair up into a bun while driving in this mess of the traffic What's she doing now? Before she had her mascara out or whatever she was doing her makeup on her eyes when I passed her And then she got it back in front of me. I don't know if she's mad at me or something for Giving her a dirty look for doing her makeup But she got in front of me hit her brakes Tried to get me to hit her or something I didn't because I was sort of ready for her to do that. I'm ready for anything in Chicago And then she proceeds to continue like doing her hair And still see she has no hands on her steering wheel What is she doing? Just drive at least she's not all over the road right now Oh hitting the shoulder hitting the shoulder Oh, oh driving on the shoulder. There you go. There you go. You have hands back on the steering wheel. There you go What is wrong with people? What is wrong with people is your life that busy that you don't have time to do your makeup in your hair when you're not driving Like before you get in the car or after You need to slow down a little bit if your life is that busy I'm gonna get out of this land I want to get around her eventually trying to avoid or stay far back from her right now The whole of that truck in front of her has got some white smoke Flow that stinks too Whenever he hits the gas he's got white smoke pouring out of his stack You know, I bet you that's the sign that I was thinking of like when your engine needs a rebuild I bet you that engine shot There's too much Or the piston rings aren't sealing properly And oil is getting into the crankcase and it's coming out as white smoke Don't quote me on that. I'm not a mechanic, but see if he hits the gas again if I can get past this chick No, no, no, don't come in front of me. Come on. I'm trying to get around you No signals. It's hard to signal when you don't have your hands on the wheel to begin with I hope she gets pulled over I doubt it though Unless she causes an accident Which is kind of likely at this but what why did you need to be in front of me again? Why? This truck on the right here. This is the one that's blowing out the white smoke. I don't know if you saw that there It's a pretty bad sign That's how I know that my engine doesn't need a rebuild because my truck isn't doing that I'm pretty sure it's just the oil separator on the bull by Linking like almost a week now. So I've been doing good. Oh Just please let me get through Chicago without somebody hitting me I Don't trust any of these people. I don't trust any of them. It's been a very rainy evening We're just exiting highway. What is interstate 69 at exit 128 here in Michigan, Schwartz Creek Sure, whatever you say, man On my way to the gym, this is the gym. I've been to twice before now this is the gym where I first started lifting and The gym where I hurt so badly for three days afterwards It doesn't happen anymore. Now. I'm just sort of I won't you say my muscles are sort of a little tight and tense the next day I just got to stretch them out a bit, but I can tell that they're tired the next day They don't hurt like that for three days anymore. Thank God Terrible Right at these lights on to Miller road It's Miller time That's right, man In this case Miller time means gym time workout time feel good about myself time It's been really nice to be dealing with the rain tonight rather than the snow I've had to deal with for the past several months I Can officially say it spring is finally here even at home. Everything is melting The snow will be gone in a few weeks just like every year predictable So we had quite a bit of snow this winter, which is really good I hear that California is now drought-free and that the world actually isn't coming to an end over there Good news good news for California Also around our our place Lot of moisture. We're kind of worried about flooding in our province not around where we live We live up on pretty high ground Even though it feels like it's pretty flat, but we're pretty high It's down by the river in southern Manitoba that is expecting quite a bit of water this spring so hopefully Hopefully the worst doesn't happen, you know At least not everything so dry this year. It's good Though now they're probably gonna say this is some other reason about how the world is ending, you know They always twist it There's always a way that they can twist whatever is happening in the weather to make it sound like the world's ending So I'm very excited and curious to find out How they spin it this year Here we are Snap fitness is right on the end of this little strip mall here all the way at the end I'm just gonna go turn around and park in my usual spot here, and we'll probably go in for about an hour It's usually about how long it takes me Doesn't look too busy in there. There's a lot of cars in this parking lot, but nobody's in the gym But looks at it I'm pretty pooped Another good workout. I was happy with that. So now I'm just gonna Check on the load here Make sure we're all good make sure all the chains are still tight Make sure nothing's falling off or going to fall off This is the machine I want. Oh So nice. I'd settle for that one too. I don't care Love to take that home But I think I'd get into a little trouble if I did take it home Well, I'm gonna recover a little bit here catch my breath and we got to get on the road We have an hour and a half One hour and 35 minutes to go 124 kilometers, so we don't have much time to waste We got to get to Canada before our American hours of service runs out One more fuel up before we leave the US we're in port Huron exit 196 Quickly throw some cheap American juice in the truck because it's cheap Seriously the gas down here the fuel sort of diesel fuel is a dollar A liter just over a dollar a liter in Canada. It's a dollar 30 a liter last I checked So, yes, we're gonna fuel up here Well, we paid our toll and we're on the blue water bridge to cross the river into Canada Quite the lineup though, there's a lineup of trucks all the way across the bridge to out here What in the world? Why is it so busy? It's like midnight What is today? What day of the week is it? It's like a Wednesday, too, isn't it? Weird why is there such a backup here? This isn't good Look at this you see it all the way around to the end over there over the blue part of the bridge and all the Way down onto the land over there trucks are lined up all the way out here It's gonna be fun. I Bet you they only have like one lane open These are my favorite kind of snacks for some reason after a workout I always crave sun chips harvest cheddar Perfect way to keep me occupied while we creep over this bridge at half a mile an hour Never mind complete standstill again. I Guess I'm gonna end this vlog here though. So thanks for watching I may say hi to you guys in the morning yet before I end this if not We'll see you in tomorrow's vlog. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that like button I'm probably gonna go up to about London, Ontario and spend the night there We have our first delivery in Brantford, Ontario first thing tomorrow morning