 Hi, my name's Zoe, and this is Grampy Bob, and we live in Ontario, Canada. We watch TV, JV, every day, Trucker Josh, thumbs up. Good morning, Frankie. Good morning, Weiner. Good morning, Wurl. It's gonna be a good day. A real good day. Such a good day. So good. Tell them, Frank. Tell them, Frank, it's gonna be a good day. It's gonna be a good day. What are you doing? All right. Get that out of my face. It's gonna be an all right day. No. It's gonna be a good day. Great day. Why you ask? Why is it gonna be such a great day? I'm glad you're curious enough to ask. I don't know. This is gonna be a good day. It's the only answer I got for you. Who knows what the day holds, but the sun is shining. I'm breathing air, and I'm feeling great, and we're going Alberta. That has something to do with it, maybe. I don't know. And next week, we'll get into old blue. We'll get into that later. I know, I know. We're all getting anxious. I'm, believe me, no one's getting more anxious than me to get into that truck and get her running. But it takes a while to get these things done. Getting a commercial vehicle ready for commercial work is no joke. There is a lot of tees to cross, and eyes to dot, and a whole bunch of other things that I don't understand at all. Or I didn't understand. Now I understand. It goes into those trucks you see rolling down the highway. And not just the getting it registered and insured and everything. Maintaining it too. We have annual safety inspections on them. Those trucks you see rolling down the highway. There's a lot of effort that goes into keeping them safe so that a tire doesn't fly off and kill you. I want to be one of those good drivers that knows every bolt of his truck and knows that a tire is not going to fly off and kill you. That is very important to me. So it's going to be another trip in Mr. Volvo. Unit 130. Got a load coming from the States. Actually, it's already sitting in the yard. It's tarped. It's ready to go. Got to go hook on to it and drag it on out to Red Deer, Alberta, which is between Calgary and Edmonton. Sort of in central, central Ischel, Alberta there. I think Edmonton is actually central Alberta. I'll show the map. I'll show the map. Going to Red Deer, Alberta. I'm not going to get there today. I'm just getting a head start today. Today is Saturday. I have to be there first thing Monday morning and nothing can go wrong on Monday. Because on Monday we have to do the delivery and the pickup as quickly as possible because I need to be back home here by the end of day Tuesday because on Wednesday we have an important appointment for our fertility IVF journey. So I'm going to be here Wednesday. I'll be here Thursday, at least Thursday most of the day. I might leave Thursday evening. We'll see how Britt's feeling and how she reacts to everything. But yeah, I want to deliver first thing Monday morning in Red Deer. Get all of that load off the trailer. I'm going to have to roll up the tarps, put everything away, and then I have to get over to a town nearby. I forget what it's called right now, but I have it in my computer system. I've got to reload anyways. It's taking me back to Winnipeg. So if I unload Monday morning, I get there by Monday afternoon at the latest, get loaded there, tie it down, do whatever I need to do, and then fire myself back to Winnipeg. It's a little over a day. So as long as we get about three to 500 kilometers behind us on Monday, sorry, I can do the rest on Tuesday and get back here Tuesday night. So as long as nothing goes wrong, it should work just perfect. And this way I've got some income coming in while I'm waiting for all blue. So I have a few things I need to get done here at home yet before I leave. I'm going to quickly take care of all of them and head on over to the truck and get ready to go. Don't worry, I'm going to bring diesel with me. This is a neat gadget that I went and picked up and bought yesterday. It's called a MiFi. It's a portable Wi-Fi. I'm going to have this in the truck and anywhere I go in Canada and the US that has cell signal, this converts it into a Wi-Fi signal that I can use to upload videos on my laptop. I know I could tether my phone. I could use the mobile hotspot on my phone. I chose to go this route instead. It's faster. The uploads are faster. I already tested it. It works out pretty good. So it doesn't matter if I can find Wi-Fi or not anymore. I'm going to have the video up to you every day. The best of my abilities, Wi-Fi cannot be an excuse for me anymore or not being able to find Wi-Fi. And I found that out on my trip to Saskatoon last week. It's not going to work trying to upload my videos off of Wi-Fi. I used to do that in the beginning. Now I'm going to be on the go. I'm in regional. So it's more of a go, go, go type of atmosphere. Now I can upload anywhere I can or I can't even have the video uploading in the back while I'm going down the highway. I just set it to upload and it can do its thing there while I'm getting miles on. This will be very handy. It costs a little bit extra money. This device itself here costs $300 if you're looking into getting one yourself. This is the MiFi 8000. And I put it on to a plan that it wasn't too expensive, but I boosted our data plan at our cell phone provider. And this is where I get it through. I get it through our cell phone provider. I boosted that. So we have tons of data right now. We actually got a really good deal on it because I've been a very loyal customer apparently. I've been with them for like 20, 25 years maybe longer. No, probably like 20 years. I'm not that old. I don't know, 14, not even 20 or 15 years. No, I'm not that old. But yes. So the Wi-Fi problem has been solved. Don't worry. The videos will be on time for the best of my ability. I can't use that as an excuse. That's how dedicated I am to getting these blogs out to you guys. It's a big part of my life and I want to keep going for as long as I'm able to. On our way to the truck. Got the weasel with me. Got all my stuff with me. I got enough stuff for about five days, but I'm only going for three. You always want to pack a little bit extra. You never know if you're going to slip and fall in some mud or, you know, while you're unloading, I got to roll up those tarps. I might get really sweaty and need to shower twice that day. It's always nice to have extra clothes than you think you'll need because you'll probably need them. And if not, at least you have them. It's better than not having them. We're here. We got our load just hooked up to it. It's already been tarped and strapped for us. I'm just going to check the straps, make sure they're tight. I'm going to tighten that one. Make sure they're all tight and pull it out of here. Do a little walk around and then we'll be off to Alberta. Nice and peaceful here on the weekends. Wow. I haven't been in the yard here on a weekend like this in a long time. Nobody around except me and a weasel. Come on, bud. Stretch your legs up before we hit the road. Got a long drive ahead of us. Not too sure how far I'll go today. I want to make it at least to Balgoni, Saskatchewan, and if I make it further, I make it further. If not, it's a good flying J there with a nice clean shower. Just quickly let diesel walk himself. Once again, when forklifts are operating around here, like during the week, during the weekdays, you've got to have your dog on a leash in the yard. But on the weekends here, there's nobody around. There's a beautiful fence in yards, so why not let him stretch his legs a little bit? Yeah, make sure you pick up after them. That's the only thing they really ask. Obviously, I shouldn't have to say those things, you know, but you do. But I do. You still have to keep telling people, pick up after your dogs. It's amazing the amount of piles of dog crap that I find around here when I was working city. I don't know who it is, but there's my unit. So I'll be easy to spot bright blue tarps. Does it feel good to be back? Diesel, where are you going? Let me go check this out over here. Nope, it changed my mind. Change my mind. Boy, you ready to go trucking? You ready? Come on, let's go. Big giant Volvo, right? And a weasel in the window. Lord diesel. Are you ready? Just give me a sec. Thinking about it. You ready, diesel? Yes, let's go. Go trucking, man. All right, here we go. Let's go to Alberta. Thumbs up? I get it, you don't have thumbs. It's a mean joke. Okay, here we go. I'm just going to scale myself on the way out, just to ensure that I'm not overweight. I can already tell, but my gauge is that I'm not even close to being overweight, but I like to know exactly what my truck is doing at all times, even if it's not my truck. I want to know how heavy I am. We have a scale in the yard here that we use. Here's the scale right here, and the display faces the other direction, and you'll be able to see it in your mirror. One second. There's your steers on here. You can just look at it from here. See it's backward, but if you look at it in the mirror, it's right, but it'll flip. There it is. See 11,580 pounds on my steers. I'm allowed 12,000. There we get, so I'm going to go ahead here, watching the mirror there. I've got both my drives on there, on the mirror. It's backwards. You're going to have to wait for it to flip again. There it is, 20,260 pounds. I'm allowed 37,500 up in Canada here. Let's put our trailer on there. The trailer is... I'm not going to wait for it to flip. It's backwards again. There it is, 15,880 pounds. I'm allowed 37,500 once again back there, so we're not even close to being overweight. We've checked all the boxes. We are ready to go. All right diesel, first things first. Fuel up. Is there an empty fuel line here? This is heading Lee Manitoba. Oh look at this, we do have an empty one. No, I'm going to proceed to the pump. How about that, Karen? How about that? How about you let me drive? Wonderful, wonderful. Let's get some overpriced juice. Two dollars and six cents. What people don't realize is that those fuel prices, they don't affect us truckers as much. They affect you. Everything you have has to come to you on a truck. I've given you this speech before. I don't need to give it to you again, but the phone in your hand right now or the couch you're sitting on right now costs a certain amount of money to get it from where it was made to you or to the store, wherever you picked it up. It costs money, costs energy in the form of diesel fuel. So, let's say the truck that brought it from the factory to the place where you bought it spent six hundred dollars in fuel to get it there. Right, that gets worked into the price of the couch that gets worked into everything all the way down the line to you when you buy the couch. Now that same truck is burning twelve hundred dollars of fuel to get it to where you bought it and that cost is now being added into everything down the line until it meets you, the consumer, at the end buying your couch. The price of the couch goes up to match the price of diesel fuel. The price of diesel fuel kind of sets the economy, the market for everything. Everything takes diesel fuel for the most part. Once it gets to our continent here it's going to be on a diesel train or a diesel truck to get to where it needs to go. So, it doesn't really affect me that much seeing these high prices because it is reflected in the rates. I'm on percentage. Big money out, big money in, big money in, big money out. But the thing is everything around you is going up in price, isn't it? Food, Couches, you know, dog food, parts, that all has to do with the price of diesel here right now. It's tied to everything. I'm going to go put some in my truck now so I can bring some on this stuff. Look at all those bugs collecting them fast. I'm going to have to get a bug deflector I think for the Kenworth roll bloom. I'm going to get a nice chrome one, but first I want to make sure that I'm going to like it, okay? It's got to look good because I didn't buy it for, I didn't buy it for comfort. I didn't buy it for fuel economy, all right? It's a W900. It's a brick wall going through the wind. I bought it for her looks, okay? I know that makes me sound very shallow, but it's the truth. I'm not going to lie to you. I bought it for her looks. I don't know if it's a she or a he. It's an it right now. Old blue. Probably a him. I don't know. We got to get to know each other a little bit, I guess. I don't know. Whatever it is, it looks real good, and I don't want to mess that up with an ugly bug deflector if I don't have to. It's not all about functionality. It's also about how it looks rolling down the road, but I'll probably end up getting one. I think I like, I've seen them before. I think, I like the way they look. I'm going to go for a walk, Diesel. I figured we'd stop at our, what may be our usual spot, but first I just had to appreciate the sound of the tires as they roll by. So I parked here on this side because Diesel has to get on on this side. If I park on that side, then he's got to get out into the long grass, and I want to try to keep him out of the long grass because of ticks. He has his tick medication, but I'd like him to stay off of him if possible. I don't want wood ticks in the truck. One second here, Diesel. Let me set up your stairs. Got my alarm going off here. This would usually be my bedtime. It's not any more. Hold on, Diesel. Hold on. Hold on. There's no cars coming. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Buddy, buddy, there's moving trucks and moving cars. You need this on them. Sorry. Not that I don't trust you. I just don't trust everyone else. Okay. One sec. One sec. I know you're excited. I know you're excited. Okay. Always skips the last couple. I don't know why I paid for five. He only uses three. Out of the long grass, please. Okay. Okay. Diesel, we're going to go the other way this time. Okay. There's the unit. It's actually doing pretty good on fuel economy today. I'm getting pushed by the wind. Just a little bit. The wind is coming out of the east and we're going west. Diesel, I thought I was walking you. Sure feels like you're walking me. We're in a hurry? Also goes that way. I don't know where that goes to. It's through the provincial forest here somewhere. This is all protected forest. Come on. Diesel, let's go this way. I know where this way goes. The sun is getting a little bit low for us to go exploring unknown paths. Before you know it, curiosity will bring us a mile or two out in the middle of nowhere. Then the sun goes down. Olves and coyotes and bears, oh my. Good thing I've got my own wolf here to protect me. Right, Diesel? You bet ya, man. Lord Diesel. Anyone try to attack us? I just tell them, hey, I'm a Lord. I own land. Even if you own them. And then they'll go away. That's how it works. Just like that. For those of you new to the channel, my dog owns land. He owns a square foot in Glencoe in Scotland. Somebody bought him that. It's a nature preserve, right? So there's a plot there with Lord Diesel. Actually his name is Diesel Weasel. But because he owns land in Scotland, he is legally a Lord. Or as the Scottish say, a Laird. He is officially Lord Diesel. That's why on the passenger side of my truck, on all blue, underneath the passenger window, it's going to say Lord Diesel. Or maybe Lord Diesel's Throne. We'll see. At least Lord Diesel. And we're back. Good walk. Good walk. I'm sure there's a longer track on the road in there. We're going to figure it out this summer sometime, another time. But for now, it's about a 1.7 kilometer walk or a one mile walk. That's something, right? Something. Just bright blue tarps. I wish these were actually my tarps. It would go well with my truck, right? Well blue. But alas, I will be renting tarps from Keystone. So they'll probably be black or red. I don't know if these tarps belong to an owner op. No one told me who to give them to when I'm done with them. And my reload, I have to tarp. And that's going back to Thunder Bay. So I guess we'll worry about that when we get back. Someone's going to need their tarps back. I like them though, because if they don't belong to anybody, I want them. Up there in his temporary Throne. All set and ready to go. He had two ticks on him. I did the tick check before I let him in the truck. Just on his legs, really down low, because that's where they always get you. I see. I got him though. I got him. No ticks in my truck. Like I said, he's got the medication for it, right? I'm not worried about him. The wood ticks latch onto him and they just shrivel up and die. It's me. They don't make tick stuff for humans the same way. Not as far as I know anyways. And ticks carry Lyme disease and stuff that I really don't want, because it doesn't sound like a good time. I know people with it and I know it's not a good time. So I'm going to try to make sure we always check ourselves. But we can't let that stop us from going out in nature, right? We still got to enjoy life. Just got to be careful. Make sure you don't bring any danger with you. Well diesel, shall we? Off we go with Lord Diesel. Off we go. You're a very nice chauffeur, man. Thank you. Thank you, diesel. I'm glad for the acknowledgement. Let's get back on the road here and we are headed. Turn right again. Turn right in 40 meters. I already told him, Karen. Beat you to it. Ha! You're too slow. Excuse me. Lord Diesel requests entry to the highway. The Lord Diesel motorcade. Balgoni baloni. We're going to spend the night. I don't want to go any further. Looks like there's lots of parking tonight too. It's almost midnight. Oh, it's a quarter after 11. I was expecting it to be pretty full. You have arrived at your destination on the right side. Flying J Travel Plus at number 863. Slow again, Karen. I already told them. Three strikes. You're out. Time to go to bed. We did it. We did it, man. Fucking spot. Didn't hit anything. Great success. Oh, boy. I'm only in Balgoni. I'm tired, but I've had a full day. I mowed the lawn at home. I got a whole bunch of stuff done at home before I left today. Yeah. So that a full day. Turn this on. There it is. Here's the weasel. Any final words to add here, Diesel? Lord Diesel? Not really, man. I'm tired. It's been a hard day navigating. You know, doing the E-Log, that's the tough one, man. That's my responsibility. I chase you. Takes a lot out of me. I know. You look pretty bushed. Pretty tired there, man. Thanks for watching today, everybody, though. I appreciate it. If you haven't already, subscribe. We're going to make another video tomorrow. We're in Balgoni, Saskatchewan. We're going to get all the way to Red Deer, Alberta tomorrow. As long as nothing goes wrong. So tune in and wish me luck. It's going to be fun. I'll see you here in the morning.