 Another new day is here. Just letting the weasel stretch his legs out here at this open area. A little horseshoe grass sort of I think it's a grassy area in the summertime. We're at this truck stop in Quebec. I don't know what it is or where it is but it's right here. We're gonna start today here. We got to rush over to Saint Raymond, Quebec. Drop off a piece there today and from there we got to rush over to North Sydney, Nova Scotia where we meet the ferry that's gonna take us eight hours over the ocean to the island of Newfoundland where we got one more delivery to make and after that we'll probably come back to the mainland empty. At least that's what I'm assuming. If you've been watching my channel for any length of years you'll remember these roads. These are the roads we did for six years back in the day. It feels good to be back out here. I like it. I really missed this so I think these are excited to be out here too. I'm gonna try to give them lots of time every day to get out of the truck and stretch his legs. I can't always let him off leash like this only when we're like the only people around. I think this place is closed probably because of the virus. There's no one here. Sort of like a little horseshoe right and he's getting old. He listens pretty well but as often as I can I want to let him off leash just to stretch his legs but very often I have to leave him on leash. It's an eight meter leash made in Germany. I got this on Amazon so even if I have to have him on the leash which I'm totally fine with if that's what I have to do. He's got lots of lots of room to run around without having to be like tugged on you know. It's always good for him to be able to you know. Stretch his legs a little bit. Diesel. Hey. Hey. You love to run don't you? Alright go do your thing buddy. I'm gonna talk to the good people for a second. So my plan is I want to... Oh there's a phone on the ground here. Look at that. That's my phone. Glad I saw that. So the plan is I want to get him out of the truck running around for at least an hour every day if not more. So 15 minutes in the morning a half hour middle of the day and 15 minutes in the evening and that's just on my busy days when I have to keep moving. On the days when we have a little bit more time I want to take him out for a couple of hours on a walk. Such a good boy. I want to make sure he has plenty of time to stretch his legs during the day. He's gotten into such good shape being at home with Britt and beating up Chevy our other dog every day. They wrestle a lot and chase each other around the yard all day. And he misses his brother when he's out here. But apparently when I'm on the road he misses me. So he misses somebody all the time. It'd be nice if we could all be together all the time. But alas there are these bills that need to be paid. So here we are. That's life. We're all living through it. We're all going through the same thing. So I switched over to van division because I believe there's more opportunity here for me in the current moment. I went over to flatbeds for three years and I loved it. The people that I was working with were great. I had a lot of fun. I learned a lot of things. I gained a lot of good experience. But to be honest with you my heart was out here on these routes and on van division. It's not like I just thought I'm just a door swinger now. It's not all we do. There's a lot of extra work involved in delivering what we deliver. But a lot of that I can't talk about anyway. So what's in the trailer doesn't always matter. What matters is that you and I are here traveling around Canada and the United States having fun seeing the sights and being a paid tourist for the most part. And of course what's most important is diesel the Lord of all weasels over there. Lord of the realm Lord of all the weasels. But I'm the king just to be clear I'm the king. Well we finally got ourselves onto the bigger highways here again. We're nearing Montreal. Morel. Gonna be going around Montreal on what is that Autoroute 640. Besides all I know is we're near Montreal and I'm following my GPS and I checked to make sure she knew what she was talking about. Let's see if she disappoints me or not. But we got to get too closer to Quebec City. That's where my drop is as for St. Raymond is. They're expecting me there and we are 248 kilometers away at this moment. That's about two and a half hours if we don't hit any traffic in Montreal. Though Quebec really does seem to be taking this lockdown more seriously. Especially the Manitoba. Probably because they have way more cases here of the virus. But last night they had check stops like every hundred kilometers on the highway just to make sure that people were only traveling for essential reasons. By telling everybody else to go home. At least that's how it was on the highway 117 there. This is a fun little scenic route on the way to St. Raymond. We just left the Autoroute which is the French word for a freeway. L'autoroute. Autoroute. Autoroute. I don't know. Autoroute. And now we're on these little twisty windy roads back here in back country Quebec between Traurivier and Quebec City. There you go. We're good. So my impressions of this truck are actually it's a pretty phenomenal truck. It's amazing. The seat that I'm sitting on is amazing. It's got some kind of weird technology in it. It's not like a regular air ride seat. It's got some kind of I don't know what it is but it's the comfiest smoothest ride I have ever felt in my life. The only thing that I could criticize on this truck is the transmission. We got this automatic 10 speed transmission. 10 gears is not enough in its semi. It's not enough. You need at least 12. I would say 13, 18 is better but in an automatic all right you need more than 10. Because going up and down these hills the gap between the gears is too much. You're either bogging down or you're revving it above where it should be. It's just it's hard to find a middle ground and I'm still getting used to driving this truck like don't get me wrong. I've still got a lot of learning to do here and got to get comfortable with it but one thing's definitely for sure 10 speed is not enough and I'll stick with that. That's my my only critique really like the truck is huge in here. I got lots of room. The bed is huge. The cab is spacious. I've just about gotten rid of the smoke smell from the last driver. That really has nothing to do with the truck though. That has to do with who was driving it last and chain smoking in here and I'm glad that they weren't in here for too long because then everything in here would be all you know at that smoke mildew on it and they all yellow and gross. Oh well it's still a very nice truck. It's got pretty good power but that power could be put again. Again that power could be put to much better use. Like here we're bogging down. Bogging down so it wants to grab the next gear but it can't quite decide which gear it needs and it makes it a little frustrating so I have to go into manual shifting a lot of the time in these hills. Right now I'm just in automatic just rolling through here because I mean it'll do it. It'll get you through but I would prefer a stick like a manual transmission but very few trucks these days have manual transmissions. I don't know if you've noticed at all but almost all fleet trucks are automatic and whether you like that or don't like it that's just the way it is. I'm guessing this road is not going to straighten out. It's going to take a little while to get through here. Apparently we got some construction coming up here. We're just following the river here. This is very classic French agriculture. You see all the houses are along here. This long road follows the river and all these houses are right on riverfront property right and they have long strip farms so they're narrow farms out that way but they they're very long. They stretch way in the land. They're very narrow. That's a French way of doing it. You can see that on the Google Maps. If you look at Quebec you'll see a bunch of strip farms and if you look at Manitoba you can actually see where the French had settled in the beginning because you can see along the rivers they have those same strip farms. That way everybody got riverfront property and that's how you transported your agricultural products back in the day before there was roads and railways right. You'd always have to bring it down to the river. Plus that would be I guess your source of drinking water and everything else you need water for. So everybody got access to water. The communities were just stretched out along these long roads that follow the river. The river is over there. This truck. I hate this transmission. I'm gonna use that word. It's a harsh word. I don't use it very often but this transmission. Peterbilt I love your trucks but right off the bat. Put some more gears in these things man. I'm sure you have transmissions with more gears. This is probably just the one that was chosen for this truck. We're all delivered. That was a crazy little small town to drive through. Straight out of like the 17th century. So now we're a past Quebec City along the St. Lawrence River at the first rest area on the way to New Bronzewick. And we stopped to let the weasel stretch his legs. Let me stretch my legs. Get out of the truck for a little bit. Come on Diesel. Let's keep going. Come on bud. It's very interesting. Very interesting. I think there was a French poodle here man. Well that would make sense. We're in Quebec. That's right. Yeah. You leave your mark there. You let him know the lord was the lord weasel was here. Absolutely man. Yeah. This is a pretty cool little rest area here. Like Quebec has some really neat really nice little rest areas. And so far they're still open here. So take advantage of it and go for a little walk. I wonder what all these buildings are back here. See that interesting. We're gonna go see where this trail leads to anyways. If Diesel will come with me he's getting distracted by every single tree. Diesel you can't mark all of them. You can't have them all. So I can try man. The guy can try. Really stinks out here. There's farmers fields all around here and somebody just cleaned out their barns. They're gonna get a good crop by the smells of it. Some high quality fertilizer. So I thought today was Friday. When I was filming this turns out it's Thursday. So I'm gonna call my customer. I was expecting to be there Saturday night or something like that and have to deliver Monday morning. Well they're typically closed on Saturdays and if I can get to the ferry tomorrow I would probably be there for Saturday morning. But since they're typically closed maybe it's a small town community. Very often if you ask nicely they'll come in on the Saturday just to unload you. It only takes 15 minutes. So if they live just down the street or something you know they can just show up unlock the door. 15 minutes you're unloaded and on your way I can go back to the ferry and probably get to my reload. So I can reload Monday morning on the mainland. So that's what we're gonna try to do. If not I'll end up sitting in Newfoundland over the weekend. I will get there probably still Saturday morning and I have to get a reset out of it. I have to sit there till Monday and make the most of it. I will give them a call tomorrow now that I know what day the week it is and see if they would see if they feel like unloading me on Saturday. If not that's cool. But if so that'll get me a step ahead for next week. Diesel not too far. That's far enough buddy. I don't want to go on the road here. That's the St. Lawrence River out there on the other side of the highway way in the back there. That river is where Canada began. All the settlers and voyagers and there used to be big 16th and 17th century ships that would sail down this river here from the Atlantic Ocean of that way down that way towards the Great Lakes and they settled Quebec City just nearby here further down the river is Montreal. Further down yet you get to Toronto. A lot of history on that river right there. I'm still 1200 kilometers just from the ferry though. So I could probably make about I'll probably get half of that done today and half tomorrow. So I'll get there at a decent time maybe I can get on the evening ferry. Apparently there's two ferries per day one in the morning one in the evening. I'll get in the evening ferry if I'm lucky if not then the Saturday morning ferry. That's quite a ways yet. It's quite a ways and once we're on the island it's only another 200 kilometers or two hours to my delivery point and then two hours back to the ferry. 1200 kilometers what is that in miles? 1200 kilometers 12 hours of driving so what just go six times 12 to 672 720 miles. Is that right? Let's say 750 miles but I have to go to the ferry. That's just my best guess right now I don't have a calculator on me. Come on needle you're not drinking from the ditch are you? Come on man we're civilized man. We don't drink from the ditch so we're walking down this pathway here right? It's just down the road from this rust area and it says attention chavo don le sentier relentesse. You see that? I had to google what it meant. At first Google translated chavo as hair so I'm like attention hair and then sentier is the path and don le means on the path or in the path and relentesse I googled it that says I mean slow down so I'm like attention there's hair in the path slow down. What is there a barber shop down here? I don't know how it got hair out of that but I googled it again and the second time it translated it as horses makes a lot more sense. Attention horses in the path or on the path slow down. We got to slow down diesel there's horses okay horses but I just put English up there and when I guess that would have taken all the fun out of googling it and me looking like I'm all confused to the people here could probably hear me talking to myself as googling it I was like attention hair in the path hair I don't get it is that a French thing there's a hair in the path like a like a hair like a rabbit hair no horses on the path that makes more sense. There's a nice little pathway here though French people are very big into ATVs and off-roading snowmobiling outdoors activities like this so it's it's not surprising to me at all that there's ATV trails here in Quebec. There's a lot of French municipalities in Manitoba where I live as well and all of them there same thing they all love the outdoors they all love you know ATVs they all have side-by-side snowmobiles they're all big hunters I'm generalizing but you know the majority of them they're really big into that so it's a French thing I think it's pretty cool I like it too I just need to get my quad all fixed up so that I can use it but one thing at a time right one thing at a time well trucker Josh found his element again in the bush with the we though I don't know where this trail goes but there's a trail here we're following it I guess the Quebec wilderness I'll take it I wish our property had big beautiful trees like this the trees don't grow as big in Manitoba because we have we're further north and it's a lot colder climate there and shorter growing season and just different we live in a different forest we have a lot of jackpines poplars or poplars are they poplars birch what do I know different trees these are nice though can you imagine like building a tree house way up there one of the great things about the interior of this truck are the lights it is so bright in here and I love it that's my wife when I go home I turn on all the lights because I like everything to be super bright look as I gotta like you guys off because it shows off all the dust I haven't cleaned off the lens yet and I've got curtains that go around my windshield that aren't broken I can go on and on about how much I love this truck I really really do like it lots of room I still have to organize it's off to clean it it's gonna take a week maybe a few weeks but weasel here is gonna help me right absolute we may just truckie the Cadillac it is it's the Cadillac of trucks Peter built who's Peter I don't know but he built it he builds good trucks so we're gonna end the day here thanks for watching everybody I'm already ready for bed so you can't see me right now but you can see the Lord weasel it was a fantastic day guys we're in your bunjwick very nice lots of police checkpoints do kind of scary I know it police checkpoints but we got waved through the express lane every single time you know why you want to know why diesel why tell me because we're essential that's why but anyways I will leave you with this magnificent handsome face because it's way more handsome than my face he's tired he's a tired boy I'll see you tomorrow everybody don't forget to tune in tomorrow we will be arriving at the ferry to Newfoundland and be exciting don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss it subscribe guys come on he's begging