 Good morning people I'm filming us on Wednesday, so maybe a couple of days later Nice to see you're on the internet again wasting your life away just like me How you doing so we're in Roth say Minnesota right now Roth Roth say Roth say and we're on our way towards Iron Ridge, Wisconsin with a load of lumber After that we got to go down empty to Middlebury, Indiana. It's a little bit of a hike, but It's worth it in the end pick up some trailers and Bring them back up to Manitoba, and then I've got to be home for a family gathering It's for my sister's birthday my birthday and my dad's birthday and Easter all put into one. I believe That's on Sunday. I'm gonna be home for that and then on Wednesday Britain. I have an appointment With the doctor and then I'm back on the road pretty much for the rest of the month Because I've already had a few days off at home just the last couple of days for my birthday And I'm gonna have a couple more days off at home, and that's all the days really I have for April So it'll be go go go for the rest of the month lots of footage for you guys I know you guys like the footage on the road a whole lot better than When I'm at home, but there's more to my life than just trucking you know the vlog is supposed to be in An outlook on the whole life and experience as a truck driver from my perspective and in my region where I'm from I do go all over North America. So all of Canada and the United States Lately they've been keeping me a lot in the Midwest and Western Canada and You know Indiana and then I'm gonna have been going through Michigan and into southern Ontario quite a bit recently So now we've been stretching our legs and having a lot of fun Glad you're here. Don't forget to subscribe if you're new. I know a lot of you who are watching actually 51% of you that are watching according to my analytics are not subscribed I found that to be interesting and a little shocking So if you don't mind it does do me a A big favor does more for me than you think it does if you go to the Below the video just hit that subscribe button on youtube And if you want to hit that bell beside it That'll give you notification when my next video comes up because I do make a video every day And if you enjoy this one, maybe you'll enjoy the rest too All right, let's get on with our day. We've got a long way to go 783 kilometers in about 500 miles You're ready to go bud You're ready to go or what? I need to go outside first, man The old man go outside and release himself first man. I'm not young anymore Yeah, I'm a hungry you You have your food back there. You still didn't eat your supper from yesterday Is that because you miss your mom poor guy? Uh, he hates leaving brit anywhere. He's really attached to brit, which I don't know. I love it. I love that my boy Loves her so much It's our boy now, but diesel's been with me for Almost eight years now seven and a half years She has a way with dogs. She's the dog whisperer is what I call her She can get any dog in the world to love her and I'm usually the dog whisperer too I can get any dog in the world to love me too except for dashes Nope for some reason They are one owner dogs I gotta get your old man steps out for you Okay All right you old man Old man we still Here's our load. You didn't see it yesterday Going all the way down. Oh, there's a big puddle. Of course there is k diesel. Let's go around the puddle Good boy. You know what's going on. I don't want to get my paws dirty, man Such a pretty boy I like it that way. He doesn't get my truck all messy. Hey diesel come here. Hey This way This way bud. Hey, no No, don't eat the poop. Come on Just trying to figure out who was here, man Think that was Ralph Yeah, yeah, definitely Ralph Oh look patch was here. Yep. That's good Come on bud. Hurry up. So we're on kind of a late schedule I've sort of gotten myself on the schedule on my time off But uh yesterday I was going to get going really early and get my schedule back on track But there were so many things going on in the morning That I couldn't get going till almost suppertime Had a whole bunch of stuff to get done before we left her before I left Brits not with me this trip. You may have figured that out already. She came with them the last trip We did get a dusting of snow here last night yet But it's pretty much all we're gonna melt today before noon. I bet Spring is officially here and I welcome it with open arms You almost done bud. Hey there. Hey bud Less sniffing more of you know what Hey Hey, go on Go on There you go We won't watch him. We won't watch him You sort of got to encourage him. Whoa. Oh now he's really excited. You're gonna pull me right in there with you, buddy You sort of got to like coach him and encourage him. Otherwise he gets distracted with all the scents everywhere He forgets why we came outside in the first place Chevy does the same thing Oh diesel you got your lease all tangled up in that branch Oh, no, man. Oh, no. Now I'm gonna have to come over there and tangle you Oh, no, all those are thorns too. Are they? Oh, you're making it worse. You're making it worse. Okay. I'm coming I'm coming stay What did you get yourself into here? What did you do? No, no diesel. You're making it worse. You stay Oh, you tied a knot. Did you? Oh dear Oh, man. Okay, so we'll put this around Here just stay there diesel hold on. Oh, this is hard to do with one hand Okay Up here. Does that help? No, that made it worse too. Oh Boy, I'm gonna need two hands for this aren't I? All right, there we go around there Definitely not working. Okay. I'm gonna need two hands for this. Ha ha freedom. Okay. Don't do that again, bud. Come on Go back in the bush. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're not done. You're not done. You goofball come on Diesel hey this way Come on bud back in the bush getting the bush there Finish up bud get to rolling and to rocking. Come on. I'll set and everything I can see how far I've gone today Do a little tug just for a triple check to make sure that my trailer is attached and is not going to fall off into traffic That'll be very embarrassing Very embarrassing There we go off to the races Really good day for fuel economy because the wind was helping us today. I don't that little bit of help Seems mother nature Isn't really doing much today except giving us this beautiful sunshine. It's not a breath of wind out there Not here anyway So we're gonna go from here to Alexandria, Minnesota and fuel up I can't put in too much fuel because if I fill up all the way I'll be overweight on my drives So I can only fill up one tank traveling this heavy I like to be able to fuel up completely and not have to worry about being overweight, but sometimes When duty calls you go to answer. You just gotta haul the freight Make sure you stay legal do whatever you got to do Minneapolis st. Paul I've seen some police vehicles go flying past on the shoulder So I'm wondering if there's some kind of accident up ahead. Looks like there's a kind of a cloud of smoke up there I don't know if the camera picks that up GoPro doesn't really pick up things in the distance very well because it's kind of a fisheye lens I don't know what's going on here. There is some construction like there's some signs saying that there's a detour ahead So I wonder if there's I don't know if the police are rushing past where they could well They could be rushing past for any reason They might be going to a domestic call in a different neighborhood down the road or maybe there was an accident up ahead or Curious to know what that cloud of smoke is pretty sure that's a smoking sort of directly ahead of us just a little off to the left Probably just construction Up here it says county road 49 right street exit closed. That's probably confusing half the people out here I'm pretty sure they're gonna close the lane sooner or later. That's really gonna confuse everybody Fuel economy today has been doing great though. I'm averaging 32 liters per hundred kilometers right now Which uh, I'd have to do the math to find out what how many miles per gallon that is But I'm doing better fuel economy today than I was yesterday with the wind pushing me Like I'm pulling 45 000 pounds of wood and I'm getting the same fuel economy that I get in my pickup truck When I'm hauling the camper that's good just all this stop and go doesn't help that at all Looks like that cloud of smoke is like way in the distance behind the trees. Oh, I thought it was on the highway. Yeah Who knows what that is Turned out to just be construction and there's the police off to the right Just catching speeders going too fast through the construction zone That's all that was all that backup was they didn't even close a lane the lanes just narrowed That people got scared of the big construction machinery, I guess Imagine how bad it would have been if a lane would have actually been closed Good thing I love driving so much Otherwise that would have been very frustrating. We definitely got some kind of kerfluffle going on here I see place lights. I see two trucks in the in the median What happened here? Where's the swift truck that caused all this? Does that hit over there? It's a white truck it might be How much you want to bet actually from here? I don't think it actually is but here's this guy parked uh, oh, he's not parked he Oh no Oh no, look at this guy Well, come on in here pickup Look at that pulling up here This is that white truck I don't think it's swift, but for some reason I wouldn't be surprised if it was Oh man that guy's messed up. Oh boy How does that happen on dry pavement? It wasn't swift. It's not always swift. Come on guys. Give swift a break It's interesting. It doesn't look like anyone was hurt just uh A lot of pride was damaged This is a perfect day for driving. I really don't know what could have caused that Maybe someone's tire blew Who knew who knows? I'm gonna have to stop for my half hour Government says I need to take a rest Why is there a pickup coming in this side? Trucks mean big semi trucks not Ford f-250s. You're supposed to be on the other side, but Ah, where do we want to park? Where do we want to park? All the way at the end All the way at the end way over here by myself Nice right here The Ford f-250 that came in behind me and parked in a big truck spot It's Ford f-250. It's not a big truck Oh well lots of room lots of room No big deal really nice rest area once again. We were here much longer than we wanted to be But diesel got a good walk. I got to relax a little bit How'd you like a diesel? He was he was very did you know your dog over there, man? It's a very nice break, but you didn't let me say hi to get all over there. There he goes Diesel he's in that car over there Where? No, no, he's not over there There he goes over there That SUV there was a dog in there He was my friend, man I don't even know his name. He was my friend though So we were here long enough for the computer to shut down With my e-log on it Whoops now we got to wait for it to boot back up before we can go It wasn't that long ago that It was pitch black at this time of the evening It's about 745 quarter to eight look at this I love this time of year just as the days keep getting longer. It's just Keeps building up and building up towards summertime warm weather beaches Not that I get to enjoy any of that this year because I'll be working We're just going to grab some fuel here again Yeah, we're just about at our customer So I've got to fuel up twice today because I can't fuel up all the way So I'll be overweight if I'm full of fuel Oh, we got to take her easy and just fuel up a little bit more often So we're here in Black River Falls, Wisconsin