 Morning everybody. We're in Deer River, Minnesota, small little town. We have an empty 53 foot step behind us. And you know, we don't like to see it empty. So we're going to go up to Canora, Ontario on the Canadian side of the border. Pick up some freight again to put on it. Same stuff as we had yesterday. It'll be different, but same idea. You get it. I'm excited. Let's get going. Let's get this day on the road. So we stopped here at the Senex. Grab us a little cup of joe, cup of go-go, and we're going to go straight through here because I got to go that way. North towards Canada. It's gonna be a good day. It's a little bit wet and dreary out today, but it's fall. What do you expect? Really nice stop too. They got everything in here. It's like your typical American travel stop. It's just got everything. America's awesome. They cover all the bases in one spot. It's like a mini Walmart. I think this is Highway 6, right? 6. We take this all the way up to the 71. The 71 takes this right up to International Falls, Minnesota. We cross over into Ontario and to Fort Francis, Ontario. And we follow that road all the way up to Kenora. This direction quite as often as when we go the other way. 200 meters. Turn left on 2nd Avenue, US 53 and then turn left to 900 meters. We got a pay to go back into Canada though. It's free to come into the US from Canada, but to go back into Canada from the US, you got to pay. They like you so much and they want you to stay down here so badly that they'll actually charge you to leave the US. Good people. Really friendly. They really don't want you to leave. They're charging me to come back home. It's free for me to leave. Get out of here Trucker Dollars. Get out of here. I guess you can come back, but you're gonna have to pay. One of those two. It doesn't make sense, right? Why wouldn't they, if it's gonna be a total, why isn't it both ways? Nice truck. This guy. A little stretch here. About 20 miles to TransCanada. 30 kilometers. Twisty, windy little road. Highway 71. It's the same highway that's on the US side. It just continues on the Canadian side. Same number and everything. Highway 71. Just on this side of the border, it's called the King's Highway 71. Just King's Highway 71. And the other side of the border is called US 71. Hopefully reloading will go pretty quickly. I'm pretty sure it will, as long as there's not a big lineup. We're getting there kind of later in the afternoon. Sometimes when you get there later in the afternoon, everybody else also gets there later in the afternoon. I'm sort of stuck behind the lineup. It's why it's nice to get there early. Get any further. Well, I could have gotten further last night, I guess, right? We would have gotten here four in the morning, though. And I wouldn't have been able to get working any sooner. I'd still have to stop for my 10 hours so I could go back to the US. You know, I think if this van in front of me got a little bit closer to that pickup, that the pickup would probably go faster. When I'm too close to the person in front of me, I get very nervous that they're suddenly going to break or that a deer or something is going to jump out in front of them and that they're going to have to slam on the brakes. And then I'm going to hit them. And it's my fault. I guess other people aren't worried about that or what. I see it all the time. People just right behind the person in front of them. The pickup is going very slow in the van's defense. I guess the pickup in front of them is going well below the speed limit. It is getting annoying. And let your emotions drive your vehicle, though. Oh, he's going for it. No signal or anything, but he's going for it. The line corner coming up ahead. What is coming? Got lucky. Okay. You got to make sure that you're driving your vehicle, that your emotions aren't driving the vehicle. Easier said than done sometimes. For some reason, as soon as people get inside a vehicle, they just turn into a bunch of hot heads. But if they meet each other in the supermarket, no one says a word to anyone, right? Everyone's a lot more patient. Everybody's a soldier in the safety of their vehicle. Seems to always be Sunday here. I'm always having to dress up in my Sunday best. Over here again, there's two trucks in front of me to get loaded. And they're currently loading another guy over there. I think another two. Yeah, so there's four guys in front of me plus one in the tarp, five guys in front of me. It's not to wait a little bit, but it's usually it usually goes pretty quick. That's all right. I'll sit and wait. We'll get this thing loaded, tarp it, tie it down, tarp it. I always find it funny when people put the tarps on and then put the straps over the tarps. I always think like, I wonder if they put their underwear over their pants too. And I followed the forklift guys where you want to try and get out of here as fast as possible because I want to get unloaded as early as possible tomorrow morning. But I still have time to get a reload hopefully. All right, friends. I'm the last one here. And there's my Christmas present for Santa. Didn't need that one. It's two tarps. Looks a little poofy down here. I know that's because there's two portable ratchets under here. I had to use portables there because apparently there wasn't enough winches right here. Those winches from over there don't slide over here. So it is what it is. It's all buttoned up here. I'm just going to fix that corner down there a little bit. 6, 12, 13. Got 13 12 foot pieces in here. 12 foot lifts. So six and six and then the 13th one on the top in the center. Let's drive into the night. I'd like to get down to Brainerd tonight yet. Sun's already going down. We'd be there probably around one, one thirty in the morning. We'll see. We're not getting any closer sitting here though. So let's get truckin. You're ready old blue? Let's go. Oh, oh. These three are out again. Gonna replace that as soon as we move. Get the important stuff out of the way first and get the family moved into our new house and then we'll replace that. Feeling good. It's a good time of year. It's uh it's not too cold. It's not too hot. It's nice and cool. Don't sweat nearly as much. Got to Brainerd last night and this is the following morning. Walked around the trailer. I've done pre-trip on everything. All the tires are filled with air. Suspension is filling up with air right now. We're gonna go get this delivered. And from here I head to Iowa and again just like that it's empty. It's that easy. Try and tell my back that anyways. You know you're starting to get a little bit older when you can feel it after you unload. Just a little bit. Not bad. Just a little bit. So we have an empty trailer here now and we've got a little bit of an empty jaunt or an empty uh we've got a few empty miles in front of us. That's what I'm trying to tell you. We're going all the way over to Burlington, Iowa. There's a very shiny loony over there. You might even say it's a toony. And I know it's a lot of empty miles to get there. It's about 800 kilometers, 500 miles to get there. It's it's a pretty shiny loony. I know by the time I get there it's going to be a little dull. It'll be like a dull loony but it's still a loony. A loony is a loony. If you don't know what a loony is in uh Canada our one dollar coins are called loonies and our two dollar coins are called toonies. I know we're very clever. We're we're that's us. That's Canadians. So yeah we're going to see if uh we can get there tonight yet. Let's see. Sorry I'm just trying to think in my head exactly how I'm going to get there because today when I'm filming this it's a Friday right? And I don't load this load until Monday so I've got a bit of a layover too but I'm going to pick this load up first thing Monday morning and delivered into Saskatchewan following Tuesday hopefully in the afternoon. I'm doing this now because because like I said it's got a nice little uh nice little tag on it for me and uh this might be my last one. This will be my last longer one before we move and it'll kick start my week off next week so I don't get to go home this weekend. My options are pretty much I go home empty from here which would be almost the same. It would be about 600 to 700 kilometers or I go to Iowa and I spend the weekend there drive a little bit further empty and then get a nice paying load first thing Monday morning to deliver so I chose that option so made my decision I'm sticking to it. That's what we're doing. So we're going to Iowa. Got to load first thing Monday. I'm going to be sitting around on the truck for a bit but it's my best option and then I have about a week and a half off to get this move done and get us settled in. So remember I'm a Canadian right? So I'm in the US right now. I got to go from Minnesota to Iowa empty because I'm not allowed to pick up any freight here in Minnesota to get me down to Iowa. That would be nice wouldn't it but that's called interstating. I'm not allowed to pick up freight in the United States and drop it off in the United States. To put it simply that would be stealing a job that an American driver is supposed to be doing right? That's very illegal. Comes with big fines. You can't do that. So I dropped my load off here in Minnesota which is in the United States. I have to pick up a load that's going directly back to Canada. My new load is in Iowa. So I've got to go to Iowa empty pick up that load and go directly back to Canada with it from there and that's how that works. So don't really have a choice. 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