 Good morning everybody, we're at Senex in Deer River, Minnesota Just grabbed myself a coffee, washed my face, got ready for the day We got to hit the road. We have this load behind us that we picked up yesterday afternoon We got to deliver it into Brainerd as soon as we can And then see what the plan is from there. There is no plan right now to tell you so You'll find out when I find out Let's get going It's Celsius, so probably like 36 Fahrenheit, something like that Through my dirty window Off this freight it was really quick, they helped me roll up my tarp So I was in and out in half an hour, tarps rolled up Oh, down the road, our next load is in Duluth, Minnesota, right at the Wisconsin border Duluth has got some freight from me, I'm gonna have to pick it up first thing in the morning I think I'm gonna try to get there today yet, but I'm pretty sure they go home at 2.30 And I'm gonna get there at 3.30 So I'm gonna make some phone calls And we're gonna get on the road, most likely get loaded tomorrow morning and then head back to Winnipeg Oh, and we feel light as a feather again That's nice So I believe we're picking up some manufactured steel It's gonna be a heavy load, easy to tie down though Most likely going back to Winnipeg I have to check the paperwork yet, I just looked at the address of where I'm picking up But I picked up there many times before, that's why I didn't even look It's going back to Winnipeg, or it's going out west and I bring it back to our yard and someone takes it from there Well, we'll see what happens, if it's not, that's fine too But if I go back to Winnipeg I can get these extra tarps and all of this equipment in here Off my truck and out of my cab here We've got to go up through this road now in town, usually I would take the 28 which goes around town For the 25, whatever, 28th street but it's highway 25, I don't know Usually there's a perimeter that goes around Brainerd right, but they have it closed off right now I guess they're doing repairs on it or improving it or something, so Through town we go Looks like it would be a nice town to live in And that sound when the fuel hits the bottom of the tanks Full of juice, 142 US gallons 537 liters Costs about 604 US dollars Or 840 Canadian dollars Price for us today was $4.29 US per gallon Or $1.56 Canadian per liter 100 meters, turn left on Washington Street, NM 210 Average 6 miles per gallon Or about 38 liters per 100 kilometer Not too bad, it's sitting right in the average zone You expect that to dip in the winter time very often because For one, your truck runs a little longer, you've got to stay warm I don't have to run mine overnight Continue on this road for 22 kilometers Go straight to go up to Canora here, this is Crosby, Minnesota We were here yesterday Today we're going to turn right to go east Straight up the driveway, got a neighbor here, got a neighbor there If any of them leave in the middle of the night It'll be very easy for someone else to come in and back in right beside me So I don't got to worry about getting hit or getting my truck damaged I was actually going to go down the street to another truck stop Just down the road, they only had three spots there and there was one available It was a little bit closer to where I need to be tomorrow morning But it was a blindside back and it was very tight Chances are that, you know, I'd be the last one parked there But if one of those other guys left and someone else came in And maybe he's a new driver, maybe he's a tired guy Maybe he's a guy who has no idea what he's doing Maybe he's an honest mistake, maybe he shouldn't be driving a truck I don't know, but it would have been back into me High chance that I get backed into there Too high of a chance for me anyways If there's any chance, and I have a better place to park Because I was here before and I saw this spot was available It's like, let's see if I can get a little bit closer for tomorrow morning It's like five minutes closer, negligible, it doesn't make a difference So I went there, I was like, no, not risking it Came back here, I got this spot The reason I didn't want to park here is because the guy on the other side of this guy There's a guy over there with a Kenworth T680 Something must be wrong with his turbo I can't hear it now because this truck is blocking the sound right now Because he backed in here, but before he wasn't there And one spot over, there's a Kenworth T680 And he was idling it, it wasn't a regen But it was on high idle and his turbo was just like just piercing I can hear it with all of my windows closed I'm like, how am I going to sleep with that? I'm going to have to put my earplugs in Just piercing, wheeze, non-stop And I know that that's probably the kind of guy who's going to idle his truck Through the entire night, even though the temperature is perfect To sleep with your truck parked and off Like perfect temperature But he's going to idle it through the whole night anyway So I didn't want to have that sound So that's why I went down the road to check out that other truck stop And I was like, yeah, there's one spot left And then I took a closer look at it Ah, no, no, old blue, I'm not going to risk it Don't worry, don't worry You know, everybody's like, well you have insurance, right? Well, yeah, but not on my time and my lost time Sure, yeah, I got cameras all over the place I'll catch the guy, we'll chase after him and sue him for all my repairs I could try to go after him for some lost time too But that takes time That takes money for the lawyers too if I want to sue them for my lost time And insurance, it takes time In the meantime, what am I going to do? I'm going to have to go and beg for a truck to drive And who knows how long we'd be waiting for parts, it could be months And then old blue is down and I'm driving a different truck Making much less money because now I got to rent a truck, right? And it's all because I wanted to be five minutes closer to the shipper Nope, nope, oh, hey, that guy's leaving, nice Oh, you see, we made the right choice Bye-bye, Mr. Whistle Turbo Take your whistling turbo somewhere else Okay, well, just as I was talking, you see, it's going to be a good day And someone else is coming to park in his spot already, it's another T680 You probably won't have that turbo issue because that's not a common thing I've heard it before, sometimes the turbo just catches the exhaust just right And it starts whistling on you and you got to adjust your idle Just a little bit to get the turbo to spool down a little bit more And stop screaming at everybody around you Some guys don't know that, some guys don't care Some guys don't notice it, I notice it But I'm very picky about where I park, like excessively picky Like to the point where I probably got a problem But I'm not going to go talk to anybody about it because I'm okay with it I always say when I get to a truck stop at the end of my day where I'm going to park for the night I'm like a dog, I'll go and circle the parking lot at least twice Maybe three times before I find a place to park and sleep I want the best spot and I want the spot with the least amount of risk Sometimes you have to accept a spot that has some risk or a lot of risk In those tight parking lots, those tight truck stops, sometimes there's no other choice But if there is a choice, I'm going to find it and I'm going to take it So I circle the lot, unless if there's like a ton of trucks like moving around looking for spots The first empty one I find, mine, you get it, you get it But that is what it is, right? I just want to make sure that my truck doesn't get damaged because I need it I need it, I need it to work And I take special care of it to make sure it works and that it'll last a long time yet It's an old girl already, it's an old truck And believe me, I'm going to be driving it for as long as I'm able to I'd say till the wheels fall off, but I'm going to maintain it and make sure that the wheels never do fall off, don't worry That's the thing, you have to maintain it and you have to be careful Careful about where you park, careful about who you let fix it and repair it I've got a great shop Now where I go to, I take my truck to PBX and Blumenort They have been stellar, they've been amazing for me That's where I get my work done on my truck, I trust them They've been working on this truck for much longer than I've owned the truck The owner before me took his truck there and I believe the owner before that did as well So if I'm not wrong, I'm willing to be corrected But from what I understand, this truck has been serviced at the same shop since it rolled off the lot, brand new So all of the records of this truck, the guys there, they know this truck They know me now, they knew the owner before me, when this truck rolls into the shop, they know the truck So that's important to me too, they're the only ones I want to touch my truck I don't let anyone else touch my truck unless it's like an emergency or something But be very careful who you let fix it, who you let touch it, where you park it and how you drive it If you take care of it like that and you're careful, it'll last a long time, this thing is a 2008 It's got over 3 million kilometers on it already, it's got like 1.8 million miles I might double that yet, we'll see, we'll see The engine has 800,000 kilometers on it or 500,000 miles I'll get another couple of years out of it before I gotta rebuild it again Maybe several years, who knows, like I said, it all depends on how you take care of it and how you drive it, how you treat it You know for that though, it's time for me to go to bed here I'm actually gonna go inside the building and grab a shower I heard there's $8, that's according to reviews on the apps that I've researched So I'll grab my shower stuff here and I need to give myself a haircut yet too This is like wild and out of control, people are gonna start thinking I'm in like a heavy metal rock band Well as head bangers, you know, turning into an 80's hair band guy here Look how long this is, it's time to take care of myself a little bit, right? It's been a busy couple of weeks, take care everybody, please drive safe on the roads out there When you're behind the wheel, keep your head up, keep your eyes on the road, keep your stick on the ice Please drive safe, we all want to get home to our family