 Good morning everyone. It's the last day before we get home. We're swinging by home on our way to Esteban, Saskatchewan. I live in Southeast Manitoba. And I picked up this load of farm equipment from East Maline, Maline, that is Malini, East Maline, Illinois, which is Davenport, Iowa on the Illinois side. So we have about six or seven hours left to drive today yet. Like I was telling you yesterday, I'm very fortunate that for most of our lanes and our roads, I live pretty much right in the middle and I pass by home on every trip. Sometimes I stop in, sometimes I don't have time to stop in, other times like this when it's a long weekend coming up. And I can't deliver this rate until after the long weekend. Well, instead of waiting in my truck all weekend, I can just swing by home and wait there. But it's a good setup. That's where we're gonna be. This freight has to be delivered in Esteban, like I said, that's about six hours away from Winnipeg into the next province to the west in Saskatchewan. So I can leave like Monday afternoon even. I'll probably leave around Monday noon and get there Monday evening and I'll deliver Tuesday morning. And from there, we're gonna stay busy the rest of the month. February is a short month already and I need to get the wheels turning a little bit faster in February to make the same living in less time. There's cars beside me, cars beside me. Nope, they let me in. Thank you. Three kilometers, take CR7 CR75 in Augusta. Gotta get back in that lane, I'm exiting right away. So I stayed in Clearwater, Minnesota last night. And I'm just going down the road here to St. Cloud, Minnesota, it was about 10 miles. So grab us a coffee and make a beeline for home. I got almost the full tank of fuel still. So it's really cold. I don't wanna run my tanks pretty low, but I wanna get into Canada to fuel with Canadian fuel tonight. Supposed to get down to minus 28 tonight while I have this truck parked and I don't want my fuel gel again. Alexandria, Minnesota. Sounds so royal, you know? Alexandria, Princess Alexandria. I've arrived at your destination. On the left side, pilot travel center number 134. 134, in Princess Alexandria. Her royal highness, Princess Alexandria. I don't know, it just sounds like a royal name to me. I don't know, probably just me. Hey, where to park, where to park, where to park? I just wanna park in front of the pumps. Oh, like all the pumps are closed. Wow. Okay, well I don't wanna block the pumps, so I'll go find a parking spot. I'm gonna just park here for now, just for five minutes. You know what? Yeah, there's parking lots of big gong show again. Yeah, we're just gonna line ourselves up here along the curb and just run in, grab a coffee, run out. This is a special circumstance, cause this is a special truck stop and her royal highness, Princess Onyx, suck. Let's go get our coffee and then hit the road. Are you sure about this, man? Someone might hit you. That would be devastating. It would be, yes. My greatest fear is being backed into or hit in a truck stop, but I don't see any swift drivers around here anywhere, so I think we're okay. Sorry, Swift. You just have that name for yourself. Everybody knows, everybody knows. To Winnipeg and another driver's gonna deliver it on Tuesday, a peg for me. That's taking me back down to Minnesota and then I have a load in Minnesota that's taking me to Vancouver, British Columbia. Surrey, sort of the same thing. It's all the same to me, put in a big city. And that's a three day drive from Minnesota. That's my next week. I gotta leave on Sunday instead of Monday now. I'm gonna book it home tonight. I'll be home till the Sunday. Sunday morning we'll leave. Take that lumber down to Minnesota to deliver. First thing Monday morning, we're to our reload. Get reloaded so that I can start booking it towards Vancouver, because they want me in Vancouver. 7 a.m. Thursday morning, and it's a three day drive, so it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 7 a.m. Thursday morning, I've gotta be there. It's gonna be a rushed week. Money-making kinda weak. Got through customs from back in Canada. Entering Manitoba. 400 meters, can't go left on. Board Selkirk Highway, Highway 75. Oh, and the scale's open. 300 meters, can't go left on. Board Selkirk Highway, Highway 75. I'd love to listen to you, Karen, but I can't. You'll see it up ahead here on the right-hand side. There's a white sign, amber flashing lights above it. That signals all truck drivers and commercial vehicles to go in for a little closer look. Do you want this road for 15 kilometers? Why do you? I know. I know I wanna keep going. There's a sign right here on the right. Stop flashing, stop flashing. Doesn't look like they're doing inspections. I guess they're just looking our trucks over, making sure the freight's secured properly, making sure the lights work, making sure all our stickers are valid, plates are valid. Let's go say hello to the good people. M-O-T, Ministry of Transportation. Same thing as DOT and stays there. It's a department down there. Department of Transportation. Up here, it's a ministry. Makes it sound like a church ministry, you know? They're doing the work of the Lord here. Apparently. In 600 meters, turn right on Fifth Street West. Karen definitely doesn't wanna go anywhere near these people. I think she's an atheist. Sorry, we gotta go talk to the good ministry people, the good ministers. Maybe we don't gotta talk to them, but they wanna see us at least. They have a bunch of different names up here. Like in the U.S., it's just DOT. Department of Transportation, that's it. Coast to coast. Here it's like we got the Ministry of Transportation, but they're also known as Motor Carrier Enforcement. In some provinces, they're known as Commercial Vehicle Safety Enforcement, I think, C-V-S-E. This guy doesn't know how to work the scale. It says next axle, my friend, next axle. That means you put your next axle on the scale. There you go. See, that's a green light. That doesn't mean you stop. In 300 meters, keep to the right on, King Street and then turn left in 50 meters. All right, telling us next axle. I'm not nearly overweight, but they're gonna check all my stickers. Run them through their computers, I'm sure. Make sure everything is hunky-dory. And green light, green light, green light. Thank you very much. Didn't really wanna talk to you either. So let's get out of here. We have about an hour back to the yard. 200 meters, keep to the right on, King Street and then, turn left in 50 meters. What are you talking about? Not even close, Karen. Good try, though. We gotta drop this trailer, take all my equipment off of it. Leave just enough on there so that the wind doesn't blow anything off. Head on home. I'm gonna go find my next trailer. It should be in the yard already. I'm gonna throw my tarps on that. Tie him down so I don't have to worry about taking my tarps all the way home. Still can't believe how wrong I was about this Flying J location. It is always dead here, whenever I get here. Thought for sure. This was the best, this is where I would have put one. I stop here every time. I don't know why no one else seems to. It's a perfect location, but everyone still wants to go to Heading Leap and Winnipeg, you know? And it's always packed there. You can barely ever find parking. Everything is jam-packed. You gotta walk way further to get to the building. We're at the Flying J in St. Agath, Manitoba. It's my favorite, actually, because it's in the perfect location. I guess just no one has really figured that out yet. Gonna grab ourselves some fuel yet. We're gonna put some more conditioner in there just because it's supposed to get down to minus 30, minus 45 with the wind chill the night. And I don't want my fuel doing anything funny while I'm parked for the weekend. I need it to start up for me Sunday morning.