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Link is down below in the description Good morning internet world We are in the US of a just crossed into North Dakota USA from Manitoba, Canada And I had to do some real Clever work with my axles to get the weights all legal My whole unit right now with a gross weight with the fuel I have in my tanks is exactly 80,000 pounds very close to exactly 80,000 pounds That's my max gross weight now to get that weight evenly spread across my axles I can only have 34,000 on the trailer same thing on the drives and only 12,000 up on the steers in the front of the truck But to get that weight spread properly It's not always easy on a flatbed because on our flatbed You can't slide the axles on the trailer to move the weight around you have to load the freight correctly And this freight wasn't exactly loaded carefully They loaded it too far forward on the trailer which put too much weight on my drives I was quite a bit over on my drives But I was quite a bit under on my steers because my fifth wheel was all the way at the back It's been there for a while. That's just how it's always worked best for me So when you move your fifth wheel forward because they can move right when you move it forward That moves weight off the back of your truck on your drives onto your steer tires in the front And when you move it back It's vice-versa takes weight off your steers puts that same weight onto your drives So what I did was I had to move my fifth wheel all the way well not all the way forward if I moved it forward two notches I moved it all the way forward at first to see what that would do I was way overweight on my steers and moves quite a bit of weight when you move your fifth wheel forward I found that by moving it one notch that moved 400 pounds There's one notch and I think there's one about Six to ten notches. I don't know offhand right now that you can move forward So I finally got the weights perfect on the steers 12,000 pounds And then my drives were still a little overweight. They're about 150 pounds overweight But my trailer was 150 pounds underweight And another driver was there a guy I know actually I brought run into him all the time Pulls the same stuff that I do And he said he looked at my load he said well you have all your tarps at the front of your trailer What if you move your tarps to the back of the trailer because those you can just pick up and move right? So I did that turns out my tarps are 150 pounds A little over I think about exactly 150 pounds By moving my tarps from the front of the trailer to the back I balanced out my my load at 34,000 in the back 34,000 on my drives I mean 12,000 on my steers just exactly. I've never been this perfect weight-wise. I'm ready for any scale that's open They're gonna they're gonna take a double take I know because I am pretty much right on the button and I got a certified scale ticket to prove it I've never been this exact on weight But the thing is though by the time I get to a scale down in Moorhead, Minnesota That's about three hours down the road. I will have burnt over 100 liters already So I'll be 100 liters well each gallon us gallon is seven pounds So I can't do the math in my head right now, but it's about 25 gallons is What I'll burn from here to there. I believe Can't do the math right now either way that was my morning Shifting weight around moving fifth wheels moving fifth wheels are not fun Especially when that fifth wheel hasn't been moved in like probably five years It was all almost seized up but I got it working had to bang on it a bit with a hammer but We got her working And now we're sitting pretty Come at me do g. I'm ready for you You got nothing on me close You got nothing We haven't even got the Grand Forks yet. So we're not too far down the road Snowstorm I'm headed into my dad is in it right now. He's in Wisconsin and he's stuck there And the I-94 going through where he is nearby there anyways is closed Apparently it's pretty bad Fargo, North Dakota just south of me here straight ahead A couple of hours apparently supposed to get up to 30 centimeters of snow or a foot of snow today And we got to get all the way down to Chicago. We're going right through the thick of it I've seen web cam footage From the traffic cams near Minneapolis. It looks pretty bad Fargo is still doing all right, but the snow is coming this way Wisconsin is practically shut down in northern Wisconsin. So I don't know how far we're gonna get today, but I don't know if we're gonna be able to deliver this freight tomorrow on Friday Which means I'm probably going to be sitting around in Chicago until Monday morning Which is a bummer I couldn't get going any earlier yesterday. I was really trying hard all day We had our doctor's appointment there and then right after that We rushed home and tried to get the truck ready as quickly as possible And by the time I got to the yard get hooked up Tie the load down and then I had that problem with the weights Right, I was way overweight in the front and I had to move all the weight around and move my fifth wheel Uh and then go and scale it So it took a while to get going and uh this is as far as we could get and now I'm rushing as fast as I can Not really paying attention to fuel economy today I'm paying attention to time because I don't have a lot of time to get there So I'm pedaling the metal as fast as this truck will let me go, which is about 65 miles an hour Not even 63. Is that 65? Something like that Ups is possible. We need to get there Trying to get unloaded tomorrow, but even if I get unloaded Tomorrow, Friday afternoon, I'm still not going to be able to get a reload until Monday morning But if I can get unloaded, maybe I can head towards where my reload will be Maybe it'll be in Indiana. Maybe it'll be back in Minnesota or Wisconsin At least then I can spend Saturday Getting to where I'm going to reload right to get a little bit ahead of myself Uh either way We're gonna hit some snow today Look at all this water here. Yeah, that's all headed up to Manitoba We're rolling through Grand Forks here and so far so good weather is still all right But all of the DOT road signs along the side of the road have been telling me that the I-29 is closed at Fargo Going south to South Dakota Now I'm taking the turn to go towards Minnesota And so far I haven't seen any signs that say that that highway is closed But I'm guessing if the highway to South Dakota is closed, there's a good chance that The highway to Minneapolis is probably going to be pretty bad as well I mean, it depends. Maybe the worst of the storm is further south and further east. It's a little better I don't know. There's only one way to find out And we're doing it We're just gonna give her we're just gonna go in Hammer down miss the worst of it. I don't know if you can see it yet, but up ahead Visibility is getting worse It's probably about a mile or two in front of us There's something blocking The scenery out there you can see that there's a white substance in the air Between me and those trees about two miles from here It can only mean one thing To hit the snow It's about a mile in front of us here right now. Just on the other side of that overpass I've already prepared my windshield for the snow and I have been keeping my defrost off I've been keeping the warm air away from my windshield so that my windshield stays cool What that does is when the snow hits it it bounces off instead of melting and sticking to it And then sticking to my wipers so this way I don't gotta use my wipers all the snow just goes around and here it is Can you see it already? Oops. I bumped my wipers didn't mean to do that Here's the snow Just like they promised Oh and it gets windy right away too. Oh boy And it's still melting to my windshield. Why is my windshield warm? It's not good Maybe you can crack my windows a little bit to get some of that warm air out of here I've seen some pictures of the road up ahead and it doesn't look too good Enter, you know This is ridiculous Kilometers I don't know where the lanes are I don't think this guy knows where the lanes are There's people in the ditch all over the place They closed down the highway between Fargo and Grand Forks going the other direction. So it's I just got through Some kind of flashing lights over there. Someone's in the ditch Truck's in the ditch cars. Everybody's in the ditch In the ditch a car hauler hit the ditch over there to the right My cold windshield theory isn't working this time. So I have to use my wipers anyway I was gonna take the winter tires off my wife's vehicle this weekend Then again, it isn't snowing up in canada. This is only down here in the u.s We don't got any snow up there anymore We're just a little bit left over from the winter, but we didn't get any of this snowfall. This is ridiculous Looks like i'm gonna be sitting all weekend. There's no way I can get to chicago now Whoa Where is this exit mandy? I don't all I see is white It's supposed to get better further east, but if it doesn't get any better than this soon i'm pulling it off the road and Calling it quits East towards minneapolis. I know that the highway is closed going south like straight ahead, but okay I have no idea where the road is here. Oh my Keeps left to line 84 east Can you guys tell where the road is? We might not even get out of minneam. I might just go to the rest area outside of town here This is crazy There we go Oh, oh boy lots of ice underneath there. Where are the snow plows? Why is there a foot of snow here? On the road. This is this is north dakota. Don't they have snow plows? They must have fallen so fast that they can't keep up with it fun times These are the days when I love my job the most, you know I actually don't mind this it doesn't bother me too much. I don't get stressed out by driving very easily This is just another day in the life This is what I this is what I do. This is who I am If I got stressed out over every little situation on the road, well this job wouldn't be for me then It's just a little weather It's on the temporary it'll go away Good news as you can see the weather is clearing up the roads roads are still pretty icy Oh, and is this on ramp closed? Wait what so what I can't get back on the highway from here really Well, why did I exit the highway then? Oh, fantastic. All right. Well, I was just stopping here for a coffee at the test row And apparently I'm not going to be able to get back on the highway Oh, come on. If I would have known that I wouldn't have left the highway It looks pretty packed Here at this truck stop. Ah great Well, we might be stuck here for a little while now I'm trying to stay down the highway It wasn't even that bad. Yeah, the highway's closed here, too Huh. Oh, what do you know? What do you know? Okay. Well I'm gonna hang out here for a bit. Hopefully we can find a decent parking spot Trucks here, I bet Well, I wonder why they would only have closed it here Like there was no signs along the road that it was closed that I had to get off the highway I left the highway because I wanted to because I wanted a coffee How am I gonna know when it's good to go again? Man, can you see all these trucks off to the right? That is insane Yikes Man, I wanted to get a lot further than this Let's see if I can find a spot to park All the spots here off to my right back in there turn around back in there What a ridiculous mess. Hey Chevy What a mess We were snowed in all night. They just reopened the highway Everyone's trying to get out of here right now and every single person myself included was stuck I have 80,000 pounds on me. I thought oh, no way. I'm not going to be stuck I'll just be able to pull it right on out of here like a tank No, apparently because of all the the moisture on the ground The ground had already thawed because it's already springtime It's not supposed to be wintertime right now the ground had already thawed So the snow just made it even softer. So everybody just Sunk right into the soft sand of the soft parking lot and Even if there's no snow around your truck everybody was stuck because they were all sunk in including my So I just got pulled out By a very nice guy who was clearing the snow here with a John Deere tractor. He's around here somewhere But he's been pulling everybody out. He's got a chain with him and he's been going from truck to truck pulling everybody out I guess it's in his own interest to get us out of here so he can clear the yard, but What a mess. So it's the next day. We're gonna continue this on tomorrow's vlog. I hope you tune in I don't have to be in chicago till monday now and it's friday and I have one day to get like it's a one day drive from here So we'll be there like we could be there tonight and we have saturday and sunday just to sit around hang out I'm probably gonna stop somewhere with a gym. I might go to moss to the quick trip there and stay there Because I know that there's a uh truck parking there And I know there's a gym right across the street that I can go and spend my time at tomorrow and on sunday They will make our way in there for sunday night unload monday morning and continue on there We're gonna truck hard for the rest of the month. We have to we have to get some miles behind us now I have to get some loads delivered So thanks for watching It was a miserable kind of day but Trucking right every day is a miserable kind of day if you want it to be You just gotta want it to be a good day. So it's gonna be a good day today You'll have to tune in tomorrow to see it Take care and I'll see you then Chevy say goodbye Look at all the people there was a dog there wasn't there in that truck There's a dog that just got in there. You are so different than diesel. You know diesel would be barking up a storm You just sit there and stare at them They're beautiful man beautiful I know Chevy's Still discovering that there's a whole world outside our property. It's like he's on another planet every day Wow Look at that over there Look at that over there. Whoa. Did you see that? Look, there's another dog No way. I thought I was the only dog Because diesel and frankie aren't dogs It's true diesel and frankie are not dogs. They are Little hairy humans. They don't act like dogs, but Chevy does All right, Jim. You want to say bye to everybody? I'm gonna go and sit near Chicago. Yeah, we're gonna go sit