 took the terrain into work today. We're trying an experiment this week. The wife and I. We're gonna switch vehicles for the week and see how much gas we save. Cause I drive about 50 kilometers or 30 miles into work one way each day. So 100 kilometers or 60 miles every day. She drives three kilometers or like one and a half almost two miles. So she drives a lot less than I do. The pickup has a lot bigger of an engine, uses more fuel. This one's a lot better on fuel. We're gonna see how much money we actually saved if we switch vehicles. I'm in the process of debating, doing some math, doing some calculations, and doing some sleeping on it. In the process of making a decision of whether or not we should get a commuter vehicle for maintenance. If we were to get a Chevy Spark and get about seven liters per hundred kilometers, that's about half the fuel if not less than what the pickup uses. For my calculations right now, the savings alone would cover the insurance of the new car and the pickup. And also give us an extra $250 to $300 extra in our savings every month. So we'd actually be making money and have another asset in the family. I have a third vehicle. I mean, it's a depreciating asset, yeah, but if you get paid off right away, like these cars, they go for like $10,000 to $12,000. It's just stock, base model, as low as you can get. Just a commuter car. We were to be able to pick up one of those. I'm thinking about it. We would actually be ahead every month and have three vehicles. So that's why we're gonna switch vehicles this week, see how much this engine uses. It's a 2.2 liter, I believe, Eco-Tech Chevy four-cylinder or GM four-cylinder. See how much we save in this. And then we'll maybe go and take a little Chevy Spark for a test drive, do some research into it. My father-in-law works at GM, so he's got a lot of answers to our questions. And we'll see what happens. I mean, it seems like a win-win right now. We were talking about it this weekend. That's why I'm bringing it up now. Seems like a win-win extra asset plus extra money. So you actually make money buying a car, right? It's thinking about it. It's on my mind. So this week we're gonna switch vehicles, see what happens. And we'll probably talk more about this next year, 2022 in the new year and see what happens. No rash decisions, no quick movements, take our time. Because the pickup is paid off, the terrain is paid off. I mean, we can get a Chevy Spark, then it'll be paid off relatively quickly, if not right away. And I'd be saving, what did I estimate again? Just on tires alone, I'd be saving only 1,500 bucks a year. Because the tires on my pickup are $3,600. They're not exactly the cheapest tires, but I like them. Tires on just a commuter car, they don't have to be fancy, it just has to be filled with air. 500 bucks for a set of tires. So I'm saving over $1,000 a year just on tires on a commuter car. I'd be saving about $2 to $300 a month on fuel. Maintenance, oil changes. I'd be saving for the first two years that have full warranty on everything on a new little car. And if you pay it out right, as quickly as possible, if not like right off the bat, just pay it off. You don't pay a lot of interest. That's where they'll get you. They'll get you with the interest, right? So I'm gonna try to avoid paying the interest and just pay it off either right off the bat when we take it home, or as quickly as possible like after that. We'll see. We'll think about that later. Right now we're gonna think about trucking. It's Monday morning, happy Monday. We're in the truck. We've no assignment yet, but one is coming down the pike pretty soon. Obviously getting another vehicle is a big decision. It's not something I just want to jump into right away. Though I am sharing it with you now because the idea of it looks promising, right? It looks like in the long term we could save money. And with it being a new car, like I said, I have two years of commuting to work worry-free. It'd be all under warranty. By that time, that car would be long paid off if we can't pay it off right away, but our first priority right now is our IVF treatment that we're going through that. Well, my wife is gonna have to go through. We're gonna be starting that hopefully in February. We're actually going in for our preliminary meetings and stuff about it in January next month, 2022. And we're hoping to get this procedure underway in February. We're able to get it going a few months earlier than we expected and we're very happy about that. We've gotten ourselves into a very good spot financially and I think we're ready. I think we'll be ready end of January. So I mean, getting a new vehicle isn't really high on the priority list right now. I just mentioned it now for something to talk about because I took the terrain in to work today. We're just gonna see if I can save some money driving this vehicle for a while. But you know, maybe towards spring or summer, we'll see, we'll start talking about it more seriously. Do a lot of our homework before then. And if all my calculations are right, I mean, why not, right? Why not? We get ourselves ahead. The maintenance on a pickup truck is very expensive. The oil changes I have to do every two and a half months. Tires are very expensive. I have to change those every two years with all the commuting I do. The gas is obviously getting more and more expensive. They keep raising the prices higher and higher. And you know, maintenance is expensive on a pickup. The suspension components, the shocks, the ball bearings, the U joints, everything on that wears out over time is way more expensive to fix than if it was on a tiny little commuter car. We'll see what happens. But first, our first priority financially is this IVF that we're gonna be going through early next year in 2022. So we'll focus on that first. This is, I just bring this up now just because it's on my mind. We'll see what happens. Time to get started. So we've got a 53-foot flat roll tide here. Hooked on. Gonna do the walk around on this yet. I forget this landing gear up. Fill it up with air. Make sure there's no leaks. Control the tires are good. Control the lights work. And we're gonna pull this thing up to Arbor. It's two hours north of here. Gonna load it up with a load that's going to Tampa Bay, Florida. All these hoses are pretty stiff. This is cold out. When I was driving on the highway in the southern states, I noticed a lot of drivers have like plastic coil hoses here. They're airlines. And those snap in cold weather. They're no good up here. Get out of these rubber lines. Over lights on. Just gonna make sure everything's working. Let's make sure our brakes are working as well. Let's just hook our trailer brakes there on that. All right, so now our brake lights should be on. All of our signals should be flashing. Our marker lights should be on. Marker lights and signals. Tires, yeah, I should have made sure these tires were not flat before I rolled the landing gear up. So that would have been a waste of time. This is in here correctly. Brake lights are engaged. Signals, license plate light. Did any of you catch what I forgot to do before I did my walk around on here? If you answered, I forgot to fill the trailer with air so that I could listen for air leaks. You would be correct. So I'm gonna go back to the truck now, fill the trailer with air, and then listen for any air leaks. And make sure that the airbags are inflating. Don't need this anymore then. That in there. The air is flowing through that red line right now. There's no air leaks here. That's good. Let's just make our way to the back. Listening for air leaks along here. Seems like we're doing good. The airbags are not inflated yet, but they should be inflating soon as soon as the trailer air compression goes up. You can see under there, there's no air in there yet, but they should be filling up soon. There we go. You hear that? There. Watch that airbag. See how it's lifting up? Now I'm gonna move away from it, just in case if it is faulty and blows up, you don't wanna be right there. You don't want one of those to blow up in your face. Okay, the trailer's lifting up. See that? So it looks like we're all good. And I don't hear any air leaks. Fantastic. Good. We're all good to go. I've already checked the trailer, it's empty. But for your benefit, we'll go in there and check it again. Just to double triple check to make sure I'm not gonna pull a load down there or up there. Don't wanna show up there with a loaded trailer. There we go. See? Empty. It's kind of a waste of my time and waste of fuel if I drive all the way up there with a loaded trailer. Can't put a load on top of a load. So in a few hours, there will be freight in here and this trailer will be on a track to Tampa Bay, Florida. I hope it brings me back up palm tree. Lucky trailer gets to go and sit in the sun for a few days. I gotta stay up here in the cold. First off to turn right, though. Think she knows everything. A little bit chilly out there today. Well, I would say it's freezing. But my body's finally climatizing. It's finally getting used to this cold weather and now this is just a normal day. About minus 20 outside today. Two hours north. See how cold it is up there. They're usually just a couple of degrees colder and they got a little bit more snow than we do. Just a little bit. Cross here and get onto the highway. Don't see any vehicles coming. Fantastic. So while you're watching this vlog, the days have begun to get longer again. Well, technically they're exactly the same, but you know what I mean. Daylight hours have gotten longer. As of December 21st, we're finally on the way back to the summer solstice. This is a much better part of the year. Tied up here. Didn't use the whole trailer. I thought it was gonna be a full load. Better close this up and get in trouble if I'll leave that open on the road. There you go. Yeah, the weather's actually not bad today. As long as you dress for it, it's actually not bad at all. I got lined jeans on right now. And if the lined jeans, if the lined jeans aren't warm enough, I have the overalls that I put up that I've put over this yet that I can wear if it gets even colder, but really it's not that bad. My body's gotten used to the cold weather now. It's just like the first month of cold weather where you're just, everything feels so chilly and so freezing cold. Not for that, it's fine, not for that, it's fine. See if I can close this thing now, I might need to climb up there. This thing has given me problems before. I didn't have to undo the back at all, so don't have to worry about that. Just gotta get this thing closed. I had a little bit of a difficult time opening it, because the wheels, they're not stuck, they're greased. They're just frozen. See if I can do it from this side. Okay, there we go, there we go, that's, we got momentum. Come on, we gotta bring it all the way up there. Come on, come on. Oh, oh, I'm losing traction. Ow, and that's lost traction. Close. I'm gonna put you guys down, I need two hands for this. The other side, the other side is stuck now. Everything's cold, everything's frozen, but we're having fun. Can't stop me from having fun. Come on, come on, there we go. Geez, what's going on here? What's going on here? They're moving a little bit by little bit. Okay, here, one second, guys, stay there. I've been to work, but I snuck these babies in. Don't tell anybody. These things are amazing. Rick got this for me for Christmas like two years ago. It's an interesting fabric, because it'll keep your face really warm, but when you breathe in, usually like with a face mask, you breathe in warm air, right? When you breathe in through this, you breathe in fresh, cool air. So it actually like keeps your body temperature at a good spot instead of like messing with your breath and stuff. Got icicles on my eyebrows. Can you see them? The sun is shining. The earth is spinning. Got my lunch right here. Had a good breakfast. What else do you really want? What else do you need? Got a nice warm home to go home to, thanks to our natural gas furnace. Thanks again to Alberta for the natural gas. I really appreciate it. Please keep sending it. I want some more, please. Felt so weird taking the train to work today. I wanna try this for the week. So far it looks like I'm going to save over 50 bucks a week in gas. It's like 200 bucks a month if we switch vehicles. But then again, her gas will go up, but she only goes like two kilometers a day, so a tank of gas will last her all months. Or all month. So I don't know. I missed my pickup. I kinda just wanna jump back in it because I like driving it a lot better. And she likes this vehicle a lot better too. This is sort of like, they're both our vehicles, but this one's sort of hers. She keeps it nice and clean the way she likes it. And you know, it's the vehicle she picked out. It's her terrain. She really likes this vehicle and I like the pickup. That's the one I usually drive is my pickup. So we might just switch back. I don't know. Probably switch back tomorrow. I want my pick. I missed my pickup. But those savings are tempting. But what's the point of picking out the vehicle you wanna drive if you don't even get to drive it, right? She went and picked out that terrain herself and I picked out the pickup myself so that I could drive the pickup. And she picked that one so she could drive that one. Oh no, we're not even gonna get to drive the vehicles we picked out for ourselves. But is it worth 50 bucks a week just to be in a vehicle that you wanted? I think it is. I don't know, we've been doing it this long. I gotta let the dogs out here. I had to park our vehicle on the end of our driveway because where we are in town, people like to use our driveway to turn around in. And that's very annoying, more annoying than what it usually would be for other people because no one likes people turning around in their driveway because I have to maintain that with my driveway. Wearing down my driveway, first of all. And second of all, our dogs go nuts every time someone turns into our driveway to turn around and it happens so often in the evenings. So I just started when I got home or when I get home, I just park our vehicle down at the end of the driveway to stop people from doing that. Even if people use our neighbor's driveway to turn around and our dogs go nuts. So if I could stop them from doing that too, I would do that. But at least I can control this one. So I park our vehicle right at the end of the driveway so no one can use it to turn around. It's our driveway. Stop using our driveway to turn around people. There's so many streets all around here. Just use the streets or the public streets. This is a private driveway. I know it's a little silly and petty but it's the way I'm doing it. Following through, stop using my driveway. So I'll have to talk about it with Britt when she gets home. She's supposed to get off work in over 45 minutes. Maybe she'll, she might get off a little early sometime she does. I miss my pickup. I was gonna, we were gonna at least try this for a week. I don't know if I'm gonna last the whole week. It's not that I don't like her terrain. Like the train's a great vehicle. It's actually, I call it a spaceship. There's so many buttons on the dash. I don't know what to do with myself. It took me forever to figure out how to hook up my Bluetooth phone to it so I could listen to my Joe Rogan podcast on the way in to work. Once I finally got that hooked up and then I guess I pressed the wrong button for the vents because the windshield and windows started fogging up. And then I realized that the air had somehow gotten on to recirculate. And I didn't want to recirculate. I wanted outside air coming in to unfog the air. I mean, unfog the windows and I wanted on defrost. I was blowing on the windshield on the windows. Oh boy. You gotta know like Morris code to try to like push all the right buttons in the right order to try to get what you want done, done. That car, the thing has a mind of its own. I like it though. It's a fancy vehicle. Britt picked it. It was her favorite one and she loves it. So it's her fancy terrain and I feel unworthy to be in it because I can't even figure out how to work the vents. And the Bluetooth, my pickup's so much easier. It's just, cause I ever had everything hooked up in my pickup already. I just get in the car and it's like, oh hey, it's you again. Here you want to listen to Joe Rogan here. Let me start that for you. The only thing it doesn't do is turn the volume down when I forget to turn it down the day before and then you know, it starts blasting music at me first thing in the morning and I gotta tell, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not the man I was last night. I'm not in a party mood. Oh, it's morning time. And that's the only thing. I wish it would automatically turn the volume down like some of the newer fancy vehicles. I think the terrain does that. And the train also has heated seats. That was nice. That's nice. Heated seats. My next vehicle will probably not have heated seats cause we're talking about getting the spark, right? And that's gonna be base of the base model. It's probably gonna have crank windows. Do they even make those still? I don't know, but I'm base of the base. It's gonna be a base, base model. Take the base model and then make it more base, base model. We'll see. We'll see if it's worth it in the end. I'm gonna do more calculations, more thinking. Thanks for watching today, everybody. And leave your opinions down below in the comment section. I've already decided it would be a Chevy Spark, okay? I'm a Chevy guy, so that's what it's gonna be. My father-in-law said that there's also the Chevy Sonic, but nah, I want the Spark. If I'm gonna get a commuter car, it's gotta be worth it. It's gotta be a little, I'm gonna call it the go-kart or the death trap, whatever. We'll think about it. We'll give it a few months and see what happens. Let me know what you think down below. I'll see you tomorrow, though.