 Good morning. I'm in Canora, Ontario. I'm here to pick up a load that's going to Brainerd, Minnesota They told me to be there at 7 a.m. Sharp the time is now 637 Gates open at 7 not a minute earlier. We tried Last time we're here to get a little earlier. They remind us no no seven o'clock's the time seven o'clock Places you can't get too early seven is already pretty early because the guys they're only like they have like their Their their meetings in the morning and then they start loading trucks, so Let's go get ourselves loaded. I got to get the load tarped and I got to get down to Brainerd and unloaded today Yet I have to be there by By 430 it's about a six seven-hour drive They're taking two hours to get loaded and tarped if everything goes Smoothly and there's not a big line up in front of me guaranteed. I'm not gonna be the first one the gate, but We'll see Well, maybe we'll get lucky today Seems to always be who will beat me there. I don't know how I'm the first one here. Is this real life. I'm the first one here You know long I've been trying to be the first one here. There's no one else here. It's just me. I did it. Oh Boy, it's so happy I'm number one today You guys have seen in my videos. I've been trying every time to be the first to the gate. I've never done it It's a good day. I was wrong. I got all excited too soon I got into the staging area where we unloaded and there was already one of our guys there one of my co-workers He beat me so I'm Number two not number one One day trucker Josh will be number one Until then I'm just number two first loser and anyways this first loser is Carpenters load Show you how we do this. So I've got this Button here Or get to a place with a Mechanism something like this. Now I'm gonna go and grab that tarp Because I want that flap to go around the back I'm the only one in here. The only loser here Okay hold it like this Drag it around That's how we put the tarps on that way We don't have to get on top of the trailer or on the trailer Nice bungee it down And this loser can get going One day we're gonna be winners you and me. We're gonna keep trying and we won't give up There's the finished product Wrapped up like an ice Christmas present special delivery from Santa That's me. I'm Santa today for all the kids watching. I'm just kidding. I'm just Santa's helper Santa's got a bigger beard than me, doesn't he? Don't tell Santa that I said I was Santa though. Okay, he doesn't like it when I do that I'm no ways today. I have no plan actually for after I get unloaded the plan might be just going home We're leading up to Christmas right now and I'm filming this and Things are slowing down because not a lot of businesses at all pretty much everyone's gonna be closed over the Christmas holidays So even if we do pick up some freight like I picked up that steel last week, right not much left for us to do this year 23 On my channel here. We're getting ready for season 11 to find out what I'm talking about. We're in season 10 right now 11th year of Vlogging almost every day videos from before that but like I always tell you I mean I just didn't start numbering them until later This is what's the town called again? Ironton, Minnesota. It's marching orders, and we've got ourselves a lot It's a big old load of motorcycle doors again So sailboat fuel right that right at the back if I can fit it on the deck We'll see I'm gonna tie that just this season right now is everything sort of up in the air Or I should say we'll take what we can get to make a few more bucks before Christmas and Then after New Year's it in January we go hard I'm okay with that. I kind of thought that I might be headed back empty Well my Christmas vacation starts a little early. I guess in that case if that happens I'm just gonna book myself to be available probably on like Shortly after Christmas and boxing day Then I'll just be out over the road on for New Year's. I won't be home for New Year's then If that's why if they have something for me now my availability is set to After New Year's but that was also with the hope that I would have Work up until this next weekend, right? But if the work's not there. Well, that's okay We'll just adjust our vacation, right? Started a little sooner and go back to work a little sooner The thing is at Christmas time all of this stuff that I'm talking about is not as important We need to pay the bills. So yeah, it's important, but the most important thing at Christmas time Is that you surround yourself with your loved ones with your family with your friends Celebrate around a table with a good meal And I really truly hope that all of you are fortunate enough to be able to enjoy something like that this Christmas season Tonight yet though. I don't know if I'll have the hours for that, but We'll find out once we're out of here Shouldn't take too long Hear me coming real tight and we did manage to fit a little bit a little bit of that sailboat fuel right at the back of the trailer Crossing in the North Dakota The legend and forks as soon as we cross this bridge right on North Washington Street USA one deal No We're going to Flying Jane Grand Forks. They are the winner of today's cheapest juice The construction here they only got three pumps open This is where we spent the night with that oversized load Waiting for the Technicians to come and fix it the bolt started coming loose on it It all worked out though. Nothing got damaged. It all got fixed. It's last week's shenanigans What was that all about? He's driving out of the law now. He's probably pretty embarrassed I bet Or even worse. He doesn't even realize what happened. I bet you that's the case. He doesn't even realize Was he putting it in reverse by accident or He would have backed right up into me if I wouldn't have rolled backwards He would have backed right into me. I bet Whatever I avoided it. I'm glad nobody was pulling in right behind me right away And I was able to back up. That's what I mean when I say keep your stick on the ice You gotta be ready for anything People pull something like that on you out of the blue and gotta be ready to get out of their way See what they're up to over here How many pumps were here before? Now there's one, two, three So they're gonna have three, four, five, six, seven I think that's more than there was before right? Added more pumps Look at all that stuff that goes into putting these things in right? This is what I mean about electric trucks Like I find the technology fascinating But all of this infrastructure has already been built for diesel fuel You'd have to build all of these charging stations or fuel stops for electric trucks It takes a lot of work And I don't think we're anywhere near that Think of all the truck stops you can right now They're everywhere. There's diesel pumps like this Everywhere How often do you see a truck charging station right? That's why I'm so against the carbon tax that we have in Canada right now Because the idea of the carbon tax was to push us towards greener energies Right? I get what they're trying to do It looks nice on paper and sounds nice when you say it in front of cameras and stuff But you're charging it me, thousands of dollars every month If I fuel in Canada, like thousands every month For carbon tax to push me towards what? What is my alternative right now? My only option is to pay the thousands and thousands of dollars Of carbon tax Which I have no control over I still burn the exact same amount of fuel as I did before I have no other option This is the only option for transport right now That's why we're so against it As a New Year's gift, our federal government is quadrupling The carbon tax As if they haven't lost their minds completely already They found a little bit more, a few more brain cells in there And they lost those now too I don't know guys, make it make sense Nothing makes sense anymore There's also carbon tax on our home heating So what am I supposed to do? Just not turn the heat on? Is that my alternative? Not turn the heat on? I guess I could go to electric furnace Costs a lot more money though Like I was explaining in my previous vlog at home right Electric furnaces are much more expensive to run And then the power grid, where does that electricity come from? In Manitoba? Sure, it comes from hydroelectric dams That's pretty green But I get charged carbon tax on my home heating every month And then get this They charge 5% sales tax On the carbon tax So they tax the tax Have you ever heard of that anywhere else on the planet? Where they tax the tax Please somebody Make it make sense I feel like I'm living in upside down world It's messy out there But we finished our day in Saini Gath, Manitoba Just onto the Canadian side Just in case This way if they want me to buzz around Canada here I could just stop for my 8 hours Whereas in the US I'd have stopped for my full 10 I hadn't split my sleeper berth there So I jumped over to this side of the board Just in case they needed me to get going It's the next morning right now So far it looks like we got nothing But we'll talk more about that in the next video tomorrow Just need to look at where I'm parked And how messy it is here You'll be able to tell why our trucks are always so dirty I want you to build locations in Manitoba I want to know Asking for a friend It's just a small little truck stop But it's everything you need in there They got I think 4 showers Decent amount of parking here And it's not a good intersection of highways Right there that highway over there That's highway 75 If you take it south The American border is about an hour that way And it turns into Interstate 29 That'll take you all the way down to Kansas City And you pretty much follow the same road It changes numbers But it'll go all the way down to the Mexico border You follow that road that way That way, that way is Steinback Where I'm from That'll take you to Steinback That'll take you to Winnipeg Where everyone else in Manitoba is from Christmas right? We can't be sent out too far Because we're not missing Christmas So they can't send us out If they can't get us back for Christmas I gotta be back the day after tomorrow And there's nothing for me Like I said, we'll talk about this in tomorrow's vlog Subscribe so you don't miss it It looks like I'm just gonna be going home early For Christmas holidays That's what it looks like to me Which is fine Then we'll just leave earlier After Christmas and get going But anyways I know you're probably watching this after The Christmas season already But happy And very merry belated Christmas to you However you say it I know in the UK you guys say Happy Christmas right? So strange to me Merry Christmas Merry Christmas to you all I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful season Happy Hanukkah I know that's over too Happy New Year All the other holidays that are celebrated In this end of the year Hope you guys have a great new year ahead I've got some goals for myself for 2024 as well Maybe I'll share with them with you In future videos as we get closer But We're gonna make 2024 a great year We'll talk more tomorrow alright So remember out on the road Stay safe, drive safe