 We're about to head down the road and pick up our load, I'm not even too sure what it is yet, but we'll find out when we get there. This is a, I don't really know what it is. It's a rock divider, rock separator, rocks, something to do with rocks. Taking it from this gravel pit, here in Belle Plain, Minnesota, to a gravel pit in St. Malwell, Manitoba. They said it's about 10,000 pounds, there's the crane that loaded me over there, he's just cleaning up. I'm going to get this thing secured and we'll be on our way. There's a pipe on the other side yet that I had to belly wrap in here. These are the tarps that Caden had put on that last load of lumber, bringing that back to the yard. Got this weird metal piece that's part of it back here, a one strapped there, I'm going to put another one there yet, tie that down. And this is the pipe here, this is a loose pipe, right? So what I'm doing is I'm belly wrapping it in here and sucking it against this, right down here, against that foot, so that it's pinned against that and down, and it won't be able to move that way. This is just an extra piece up here, I'll probably just throw like a short strap just over this thing so it doesn't flap around up there, okay? I got some work to do, I'm going to put you guys in the truck here, I want to get going, it's already 1pm, we're close to it, it's got to be, I don't know exactly what time it is right now, but that sun doesn't like us very much this time of year, and it's just begging to go back down below that horizon and I'd like to be moving before then. Alright, okay, let's go. We're going to have double triple checked everything, and we've got to get up this hill here without getting stuck, we're loaded now so we shouldn't have a problem. When I was maneuvering around in this pit down here, I was empty, I almost got stuck a few times, even in this little bit of snow, when I don't have a load on my trailer I don't have very much traction at all, just hold that momentum all the way up the hill, don't stop on the hill, you don't got to go wicked fast, but you got to go fast enough, right? In 200 meters, turn left onto 295th Avenue. I wonder if this is the exit, or is that the exit? I came in here, I don't know if this is an entrance only or what, it's an exit today, there's no sign saying anything, so. Finally, three kilometers, proceed to the highlighted route. I had to pick up some of my paperwork here in Alexandria, Minnesota at the pilot, faxed over some paperwork from the office that I would need for the border, so that was waiting for me here, picked that up, I think you have to pay with 50 cents a sheet, that's what it seemed like. I had seven pages and it costed me $3.76 US, which is kind of silly, right, but I guess I got to get back the cost of the paper and ink somehow, but, so we got my paperwork, I had a shower here, gave myself a haircut, cleaned myself up, now we've got to go up into the cold, there's a deep freeze settling into Manitoba tonight, I almost just want to stay here in Alexandria because it's not going to get so cold here, but it's too far away, I have to go the rest of the way, I'm going to wait till we get back into Canada to fuel there, and I'm going to go somewhere close to St. Molo and sleep there, I might even sleep at St. Agath at the Flying J, that's probably what I'll do, or even in Morris, I'll find somewhere, but I've got to go fuel up tonight, first I want to go to bed with full tanks of fuel, it's supposed to go down to minus 32 degrees Celsius, minus 43 with the wind chill last I checked, if you're wondering what minus 43 is in Fahrenheit, it's minus 43, Celsius and Fahrenheit meet up at about minus 40, so it's cold, it's gonna be a cold one tonight, gonna have to button up the winter front on the grill when we stop, and stay warm, we all knew it was coming sooner or later, the polar vortex is here, okay, well let's go, I may not need to go all the way to, I know like the Flying J and St. Adolphs a little out of the way, but I have to make sure that tonight that I sleep at a location that has a 24-hour truck stop or facility where I can go into, just in case if the worst happens an old blue gets a little tired and doesn't want to run through the night, I need somewhere warm where I can go inside, I don't want to stop at just a parking lot somewhere, I grab a lot where there's no facilities, so we got to be careful, I'll wait for this guy, no he's taken too long, I'm going, not today buddy, I am nice every other day, today it's gonna be cold, not as nice when it's cold, off we go, it's not so cold here yet, it's only minus four degrees Celsius here, it's around 25 Fahrenheit, but it's gonna drop down quick once we get into North Dakota, onto the I-29 and start heading north, it's gonna change quickly, that's why I thought it'd be nice to stay here, but this is too long of a drive to do tomorrow morning, I have to keep going, otherwise I won't have as far as I, I won't be able to get as far tomorrow, right, because I'm hoping I can get reloaded after I get this thing off my trailer, and I want to keep going, I really don't like the deep freeze, like I don't mind winter, it's tolerable, we can deal with it, right, as long as the snow is not on the road, we'll deal with it, it's the really cold, like below minus 25, it's just, it's a little ridiculous and a little over the top, I really think it was a design flaw when whoever designed the earth designed it, I don't think that that was supposed to happen, but who knows, coming over there, hours to go, always dings like that, like a doorbell whenever there's a turn or something coming, coming up ahead that I should pay attention to, you're wondering why it's always ding like a doorbell, she's very annoying, but I like to leave her volume on, because if I turn it off I forget to turn it back on, and then I get lost in my thoughts and music and stuff, and I miss my turn, alright bud, alright bud, I know you don't want to go too fast around here, you don't want to tip, but come on there, kind of a sharp corner, I don't like on-ramps like this, very hard to get up to speed then, because now this is, this is the only space we have right here to get up to highway speed, and there's no way we can do that, so we don't really have a choice, and right now we're entering traffic at 35 miles an hour, which can be very dangerous and disruptive to the flow of traffic, if they would have had the ramp on this side, you'd have the whole like a whole half mile to gain speed, right, so that when you hit the highway, you're already doing like at least 55-60 mile an hour, on-ramps anyways if I was in charge, but as we've all been over and been through, I am not in charge, things would be very different if I was in charge, I don't know if it'd all be better, but it'd be different, I think it'd be better, hey bud watch where you're going, man he just about drove right off the edge there, you see that, you awake, we made it back, I fueled up at St. Agath Manitoba, I put about $1400 worth of fuel in, 663 liters or 175 US gallons, I didn't go over all the numbers on video there, it's so cold outside, it's minus 45 with the wind chill outside that door right now, so I brought the truck here to the shop for night and we're gonna park it in here overnight and then go deliver that load tomorrow, it's just much better that way, if I if I park the truck at the Flying J or somewhere you know what God's planning on, in this weather you don't shut your truck off at night, you're not gonna get started in the morning, minus 45 you you are gonna leave that truck running, so you're wasting a lot of fuel right, wear and tear on the engine, it's very hard on a diesel engine to idle, so this way I brought it here or I'll let's just outside there right now, I'm gonna bring it in right away, this way I can turn it off for my 10 hours or however long I'm gonna be here instead of idling at the whole time and then we go deliver that load tomorrow, so thanks for joining me and hanging out with me today, we made it safe and sound, we're nice and warm, I got the heater going on the other side of the pickup there, we're gonna be all right, I don't like these cold winter days so I'm very thankful that we have a nice warm spot to bring all blue, all blue is you know our bread and butter, so we got a treat or good and if at all possible always bring her home for night and put it in the shop here so that it doesn't have to sit out in the cold, that's why we have this shop for specifically days like this, thanks for watching everybody, don't forget to hit that like button and subscribe, there'll be a new video tomorrow, come and hang out with me as we deliver that freight, it was a big temperature change from where we picked that freight up to here, it's crazy, it's only 500 miles but total different total different atmosphere, literally, fun times, gotta love it