 Good morning everybody. We have this gift-wrapped present on the trailer. We're about to go take it off the trailer and we'll pick up another one. We're in Brainerd, Minnesota. Hopefully we'll get this off the trailer quick, because I got to run back up to Canora, Ontario and Canada. Grab another one of these and come right back down here. If everything works out good, we should be able to have lots of time. If everything works out good, and if the plan goes according to plan. All blue. Are you on board with the plan? You gonna help me out? Of course you are. Got the engine heater running here. We're gonna get this thing started up. We already checked everything out. It's good to go. I love that this truck holds air through the night. Still over 100 psi. Right where I left it. Highway 6 here in Minnesota is Sir Bumpy. You can tell it's that time of year. You know the water gets into all these cracks and then at night time it freezes and then it expands. 300 meters. Turn right on, MN 200. And then during the day it melts, right? And then more water flows in there because now there's a bigger space. And then it freezes at night again and expands it even further. It's just a cycle of destruction. I'm on my way back up to Canora. I'm in a big rush though. Again, I'm always in a rush, right? But I'm in a legit rush. I've got like driving maybe left to go and about five hours to get there. So I have zero time for any stops, for any delays, anything. This is Reamer, or is it Remmer? Minnesota, certain Minnesota town. Classic 10th century feel when you go down Main Street, right? I love that. 500 meters, keep to the left on, MN 600. Karen, you don't have to interrupt me every single time, you know? And you don't even have to tell me to go left. I can just go straight. I don't actually have to turn left. Watch, I'll show you. So you're going to tell me to turn left. Why don't you just be quiet and I'll just continue on straight. 500 meters, keep to the left on, MN 600. Or I could just follow the six. I guess I could have gone that way on the 200. We want this road for 34 kilometers. Okay. Okay. I think that was an unnecessary interruption, but I get it. I get it. Some people might need to know that, hey, you need to keep left. I get it. Okay. Maybe I was wrong. I can admit what I'm wrong. Sometimes Karen wins these arguments. Not very often though. This is International Falls again, coming the other way. I'm going across the toll bridge. I'm not too happy about it, but every minute counts. It's about maybe 10 to 15 minutes longer going through Rainy River, but there's no toll there, right? On the way back north, here you have to pay a toll to get back into Canada. It's 514 kilometers from Brainerd to Kenora going through International Falls. If you go through Rainy River, it's 534, so 20 kilometers further. It definitely saves, because the cost you have in fuel is less than the cost of the toll here. But it's a little bit longer, and I'm on a tight timeframe of a schedule here. I can't afford to lose one minute that I don't. So I decided to come through here, pay the toll just so that I don't end up being late. I'm that much on a time crunch, that 10 minutes counts. Town make a left, go over the bridge and we back in Canada. And I have about another two hours, a little more, up to Kenora. We should be arriving there, Karen. We should be arriving there at about 3.30, and I got to be there before 4. They like us there by 3.30, so like I said, I'm cutting it real close. Hopefully they won't be too unhappy to see me, but I'm a familiar face, I'm there all the time. They know I'll be quick getting out. Leaders, turn left on. Just over this river in front of us, that's Canada. I've got a lineup to pay the toll, though. The price went up here not too long ago. I don't like crossing here, because I don't like paying the toll, man. All this just for like 10, 15 minutes. If I wasn't in such a hurry, this morning it took a little bit of time to get my trailer unloaded. There was two trucks in front of me. Had I been first, I would have gone around the other way. I would have saved this money, but you got to do what you got to do, right? Can't be late. I might be if these people don't hurry up. Oversize loads, I'm just looking at that pay scale off on the left. So, trucks and semis, 13 dollars US, first two axles, I think? Yeah, first two axles, 13 dollars. If you're oversized, first two axles is 350 US dollars. Oh, it's just for the first two axles. Yikes! Turn left on. Will it definitely land? Turn left in 350 meters. New Border, entering Ontario. 100 meters, turn left on. Will it definitely land? Turn left in 350 meters. And I forgot because I have a tri-axle trailer. I got charged for an extra axle coming across the bridge. I better make it there on time because if I'm too late and they don't accept me, well, that was a waste of money. I could have come through Rainier River. This is such something confusing against the North. I think I go this way. The sign here says two highway 11 and 71 West. That's where we want to go. Turn left on. Second Street East. I already figured out where I'm going, Karen. You're a little late to the party here. There, Truck Route West. If it's your first time crossing through here, coming into Canada can be a little confusing, especially if you're going East. You've got to follow the signs very carefully because they don't let trucks just in anywhere here. Last truck here. So I'll get loaded shortly. And then there's a bit of a lineup for the tarp shed. But that's OK because once I get loaded, I'm not in a rush anymore. I'm just in a regular rush. I'm just a regular trucker rush. Not like this morning trying to get here, which was just a whoo. You know what I mean? Just a whoo. I don't know what that means. That's supposed to be like a jet engine, I guess. Just flying down the highway at the speed limit, at the speed limit. Disclaimer, but right at that maximum speed limit. I tell you what, not wasted any time. I'm happy that I got here. So now I'll get as far back as I can tonight. I'm not going to get all the way back to Brainerd, I don't think maybe I'll get down to Deer River. That's sort of my goal. Deer River and then that's about an hour and a half from Brainerd. We'll sleep there, wake up in the morning, make our way down, unload that and then we'll see what they have for us after that. I'm not sure if they have anything or all these glasses are dirty again. Any of you where glasses always, they're always dirty, right? Right? Always, always dirty. I use these like lens wipes. They're the best way to clean your glasses without scratching them because I learned the hard way. These are my first pair of glasses in my life. First ones ever. I didn't know what I was doing. I scratched them all up trying to clean them all the time with like microfiber towels. I thought that, you know, microfiber towels are soft. They won't scratch them. Well, the thing is the dust particles inside the microfiber. You guys know. So now these things, it's like they're all individually wrapped. So, you know, they're not all full of garbage. I just get the dust off of them like this real lightly and then I flip it around and then I finish off the detail work like this. How to clean your glasses with Trucker Josh. Disclaimer, I'm no expert. There's probably better ways of doing this. I had a big scratch on this lens. It was actually here. It's a good thing I was wearing my glasses. Oh, no, no, no, it wasn't here. Where was it? Anyways, I was putting bungees on a tarp and one of the bungees broke and it came around and flipped up and boom. Hit the lens of my glasses. Good thing I was wearing them, right? Saved my eye, but it scratched my lens. So I've got an appointment in April. I made the appointment beginning of February. The soonest appointment they had for me at the optometrist in town was April. And that was the best one. All the other optometrists were like booking into June, July. One was August, I think. I think just a little bit of April. So I got to deal with this little scuff in my glasses until then. How's that? How's that? Not bad, but I can see the little scuff right there. You want to see it? See if you can see it. There's a little. See it right there? That's where the bungee hit me. You can see there's all kinds of other scratches on there already too, right? That's for me being foolish at the beginning. Man, they look dirty on here. They're still dirty. Oh, it's just they're so scratched up. But yeah, that big one right there, that is so annoying. So annoying. So I'm getting new glasses in a couple of months. I really don't want to buy new glasses. I really don't. Because they still work good. I can't see any of those scratches on here. I can't see any of them when it is close to my face, but I can see this one. The big one. It's always there. And we're back. Back in Fort Francis about to cross back into International Falls. I'll be able to make it down to Deer River. I just hope there's going to be a parking spot there available for me. I know they only have like five, four or five spots. And very often they're taken up by, I guess, locals who just go home for night and just leave their truck there in a spot and then there's none left for us. So we'll see. Usually when I stop, they usually have to find somewhere to park. So I was in and out of there in Canora just over two hours. Two hours and six minutes. So it went really well. International Bridge Highway 71 and then turn right in 610 meters. See this traffic light here. Turn right on International Bridge Highway 71 and then turn right in 610 meters. This traffic light here confuses me because there's a sign off here just to the right that says right turn permitted on red signal, but there's no right turn. There's a river there. Do they consider going straight because the straight here is slightly to the right. Do they consider that a right turn? Can I go through this red then? But I've never gone through the red because I don't. I'm assuming that's what the sign must mean, but I'm not risking it. Right turn permitted on red signal. There is no right turn just over on the other side of this bridge is a mark. I double checked my border clearance is all good to go. One of these days, I really need to stop doing my walks. You're trying to go on a walk every day, right? I try to stop in small towns, wherever I can, wherever I can find parking and sort of just go for a little walk around the neighborhood, sort of explore the area, right? It seems like a really nice town and I come through here all the time. I don't know much about it, though. There's a paper mill right over there to a right on this road for 18 kilometers and it stinks up town some days. But the extent of what I know, these little shops down this street. I'd love to just go and sort of window shop or just browse, walk through, walk down the street here, window shop, you know, see what they all got to offer. You guys ever do that? I don't know, maybe I'm just curious. I have this roaming adventurous spirit inside of me. I just want to see places. I want to see what's there. I want to know how it got there. Where'd it come from? Who are the people? Where'd they come from? How long have they been here? We're here to Deer River last night. I'm just getting ready to go the next day. Oh, these tarps get so dirty on these roads in winter time. I wash them off, but they look like that after one trip again. It's a never ending battle. Yeah, we got this nice little Christmas present here being delivered in late February 2024 in the Brainerd, Minnesota. We'll do that in tomorrow's video. Like I said, I've got the tri axle with me this week. All of our, there was a few of our tandem trailers that were being serviced. So we have these rentals. They just happen to be a tri axle. I don't need it on this trip, but it's handy to have it. If I ever bought my own trailer, it would definitely have a tri axle, but I'd also have two of the axles that can lift up or at least one of them so I can make it into a tandem. But it runs smooth. It's a good tough trailer. And the weather out here is great. Look at this. It's springtime already. We didn't even have winter this year. Fantastic. Cannot complain about that. Very happy. So it's time for me to leave you guys here. It may have been a bit of a shorter video. I've been really rushed these last couple of days. It's just go, go, go. I film what I can as I go. 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