 fellow human beings dogs and cats it's Monday morning we're making the dangerous journey into work and I'm not joking it's a dangerous journey the way people drive out here especially on Mondays nobody wants to be out there on Mondays they're all going way over the speed limit all making dangerous passes you've heard the whole spiel before you know how it is let's keep our eyes open let's get to the truck we have two trips into the US today to do we're going to Thief River Falls twice we'll be crossing into Minnesota from Tolstoy Manitoba into Lancaster Minnesota we're back and forth there twice reset the tripometer I reset my tripometer every Monday see how many kilometers I I drive every week clean fresh laundry a brand-new week two trips to the US today yet lost my truck doors behind me we got to go find a step-deck trailer and pull it with us let's go find one I think I found one on the way in already I think it's gonna work just perfect a long day today so try to get done as fast as we can I wasn't expecting it to be raining I walked the dogs this morning I come outside it was just pouring got soaked first thing in the morning that was fun good thing we're gonna be in the truck most of the day today just on the other side of this pole trailer there's a tandem step-deck I'm gonna take it with me right there that one of ours oh wait no that's an owner-operator trailer nope can't take that one then that one doesn't belong to us guess I didn't look closely enough and I was oh there's another one over there no that one's got something on it okay okay the only other step-decks I saw back here were tri-axle so I guess we're taking a tri-axle doesn't really matter either way see if I had a choice I was gonna take a tandem 402 DT I choose you make sure everything's working I'll line in gear when we come back around the other side see the lights working under here already yeah three axles we don't need three we only need two but since we don't have two we'll take three that makes sense they all have premium compressed air my favorite brake lights are working tail lights are working signals are working license light is working once again compressed filled with the best air of manitoba lights are working fantastic oh that's not leaking that's just adjusting first we'll need some go-go juice running a little low once again I didn't fuel up at the end of last week because I'm like oh I'll just do it Monday morning no worries turns out there's no fuel stops along the 59 highway all the way to Thief River Falls and I got to do that twice that's about 10 hours of driving today at least approximately and I won't have enough fuel to do it all so I had to swing past the flying hook out here in Santa Gath real quick and fill her up so I don't get stranded that'd be embarrassing you know this truck may be old may have some rust on it it may have a lot of rust on it it may have a lot of dirt on it may not be clean and shiny but you know what the best part of what this truck is no DEF I saw a truck just similar to this was a day cab extended wheelbase at the truck show I was at on Saturday I showed it in the in the vlog there at the end in that in those that picture slideshow at the end I'm sure you saw it was the blue day cab I took a ton of pictures of it and it's for sale I dream I'm a dreamer I'd love to have a nice shiny chocolate I take it the truck shows like that it's a nice truck but in all honesty if they're going to get new trucks for us city guys and I had any say in it all if they asked me my opinion I'd probably ask for like a little little sleeper doesn't have to be a full-size sleeper but a small sleeper put on the back of the truck just in case I need to do an overnight and then I got a sleeper behind the truck right away and that one didn't have it was just a day cab so 880 dollars and 67 cents 683 liters she was thirsty you want to know what that is an American speak because these are these are the Canadian dollars the Americans they have their own dollars I don't know why our currency is called the same thing American dollars Canadian dollars Australian dollars and then you have the British pounds at least you know when you're talking about pounds you're talking about the UK whenever I'm talking about dollars I always have to like clarify that's Canadian dollars Canadian dollars let's see here 880 67 right you do a CAD that that stands for Canadian dollars to USD stands for US dollars it equals 685 dollars and 48 cents United States money the exchange rate right now looks to be 78 cents US equals one dollar Canadian if you didn't know now you know buckle myself in so I don't fall out okay thanks I took 15 minutes to fuel we needed a lot of fuel so the fuel price here for diesel is a dollar 28.9 so a dollar 29 per per liter for diesel here in Manitoba today let's get out of here now we got to get back over to 59 this is why you should always fuel on Friday and in wintertime I fuel every day because I don't want my fuel tanks to get too low because then I'll have problems with my condensation building in my fuel tanks and then that could lead to fuel gelling when it gets really cold and then your truck stalls and you're cold really cold but for the summertime I can usually get away with just fueling once a week for the work I do and I usually do that like on Friday so I come to work on Monday morning with a full tank of fuel right for whatever reason I forget what we did on Friday I guess I didn't have the time or I couldn't get it fueled up I'm like I'll do a Monday morning so here we are Monday morning officially off to the races this is mine right here load numero uno load number one for today getting ready for winter it's coming I can feel it oh it tipped me off but something tells me that winter is coming they load them this needs to come home with me somebody's getting some new toys let me tell you I wish it was me one day everything is on hold all new toys everything's on hold until we build our house that's most important build the house that is an asset that will appreciate and make money for us and gain value as long as things go the way they should but really who might have tell you what to do with your money you want one of those right now and you're renting you don't have a house yet but you want one of these go for it man gives me something to do go for it you do what you want to do you don't have to listen to me I'm just some guy on the internet so we actually have a better highway on this side than on the American side they just spent a whole bunch of time and money under this one so they did a good job will and I wrote up this highway on our bikes this weekend the motorcycle you can get a little bit of a closer look you're a little bit closer to the highway you know if they did a better job then then I've seen done in the here so that way takes us north of St. Pierre right now in Manitoba I didn't take diesel with me today it was Brits day off she doesn't work today so I figured it's gonna be a long day for me I figured instead of you know diesel hanging out with me here in the truck we could I could just leave him at home and he can run around outside he'll probably be playing outside most of the day and be there with all his brothers and with Brett we're empty time for round two let's go drop this empty out in the open in the yard here where they can load it so we drop this trailer here so it can be loaded that's ours that's ours and that's ours and that's the one we're taking now so let's quickly drop this hook up to that one gotta be back here ready to go in the morning better get home and go straight to bed thanks for hanging out with me today everybody hope to see you here tomorrow don't forget to subscribe