 Just after four o'clock yesterday afternoon, now we're headed back to the shop. We gotta be in Brandon for eight AM, which is about three hours from Steinback here in a truck. Early start, I'm feeling good though, feeling good. I'm usually not a morning person, but every now and then you wake up super early, you're like, yes, this is great. It's rare, but I got a good sleep the night before. I think that's what matters. The thing is I am a morning person. Once I'm awake, I love the morning. I love watching the sun come up. It's just, I'm also a night owl. So if I wake up early, I very often work late into the night, and then I work late into the night. If I get up early, you know, it's a short night. My problem is going to bed early. It's not because I'm lazy, staying up, just watching TV. No, usually it's because I'm working. I'm usually working late into the night. I like getting stuff done in the night. And sometimes it's because I just stay up watching TV, but that's on the weekends, right? I only have a couple more weeks left of sleeping in, and then I will never sleep in again. What is it now? Four or five weeks? Yikes. Well, let's say five weeks. We don't know yet. In about a week, we have an appointment with the surgeon like I was telling you yesterday, it does the C-section. So we'll figure it exactly the day when it's gonna be. When it'll be five weeks, the baby will be here. We will never sleep again. So enjoying it while I can. Good morning, old blue. Spanking over there off on the right, waiting to chase down anybody who doesn't slow down going past the car. Really slow with no four ways on. Slow you should have your hazards on. You're a hazard button. Load the truck and for me to tie it down together. So three hours there, drove an hour down the road and took them another hour on my straps. And then they reloaded me with just as complicated of a load, just going to Winnipeg right here. So it took me another two hours. So it was three hours there, three hours here. Six hours today, I was outside tying down loads and untowning that, taking this off, securing that. And now finally on my way back to Winnipeg, just waiting for confirmation what they want me to do. If they want me to deliver this first thing in the morning or if they have other plans for me. I'm sure as soon as I start rolling, the phone's gonna ring. I've been waiting here for about 15 minutes. My Bluetooth on my head and get plans made. They don't want me to deliver this into Winnipeg first thing in the morning. Well, I want to drop this trailer, but it would make sense just for me to stay in Winnipeg and deliver it in the morning and then go home tomorrow. I don't mind doing that. I think that would make the most sense. We'll see what happens. I'm guessing as soon as I get out on the highway, that's when they're gonna call. Bringing as soon as I start rolling, like the second I start rolling. 670 kilometers today, 360, 370 miles. I've only got an hour and 15 minutes left on my 16 hour day. That's how much time I spent outside, tarp strapping and waiting. So I'm stopping just up the road at the Flying J. Gonna fuel up and then go find a parking spot and go have a shower. Often stop at the Winnipeg truck stops. Usually I would just go home. But I have to deliver this freight first thing in the morning into Winnipeg. Then I can go home. I'll go and use the shower at the Flying J. I was gonna get some editing done, but I might just save that for this weekend. We'll see. Maybe I can at least get one video done. It's only 730 in the evening. By the time I'm done fueling up, it'll be quarter to eight or maybe eight o'clock. There should still be lots of parking, right? You would think. There it is right over there. All right, so it looks pretty full already. Wow. Oh no, there's lots of parking, nevermind. I'm hoping to get a good parking spot. Look at the difference between gasoline and diesel. Gasoline's going for $1.53 per liter. Diesel's going for $1.96. Why is diesel fuel so much more expensive than gasoline? Riddle me that. It's because it's more in demand, like they sell more of it because trucks obviously burn more than cars. So why is it like that? Of course, there's a long lineup for fuel. Oh, wonderful. Wonderful. Everybody's grabbing their fuel and going inside having supper in a shower before moving from the fuel islands. That was a mess. Is there any open ones? Oh, maybe you're right on the end. Oh, that guy's going to take it, isn't he? He's going for it. He's going for it. I was going to take that one. Ah, he's just hanging up the fuel pump too. Nice. Hopefully that means they're actually going to move and not go inside and have supper. Oh, they're not hanging it up. Yeah, it goes right there, right on the right. Yep, just awesome. All right, they're going to do their reefer now. Shoot. This guy's parked here, he's not even fueling. He's just parked there. I'd like to say how surprised I am, but I'm not. You know, this is everywhere we go. It's very common, way too common for people to, you know, grab their fuel and then just leave their truck in the fuel island for like 45 minutes. You know they're not taking their half hour break because that's an American law and we're in Canada. You don't have to take your half hour break here. So there's no one here is taking their half hour. They're just parked. I think this guy's fueling over here. This guy's fueling his reefer now. This guy, I don't know what he's doing. He's just sitting in the pumps, not fueling, not doing nothing. Maybe there's a reason for it. Maybe he's fueling his DEF on the other side there, but it didn't look like it when we pulled up. Here's what it is, eh? There's nothing I can really do about it. These guys should be done soon. Myself a decent parking spot. Straight shot out, down this opening, down the driveway. This guy beside me has all the room to pull out there, make a wide turn around me in the morning so he doesn't take off my hood. This guy beside me has a straight shot out the driveway as well. They have no reason to drag their trailer over my hood in the morning. I think old blue will be safe here. Still makes me a little nervous. Not gonna lie, I don't like parking at these busy truck stops, but we're gonna do it tonight. I try to just park in the safest spot I can, you know? There was actually a spot open, like right at the front. Right over there, the building's on the other side of those trucks there. Like right up front, third spot from the door pretty much. It's not a reserve spot. It was wide open, just singing to me, hey Josh, come park over here Josh. Right over there, someone else took it already. I could have had like almost front row seats, but I couldn't do it. I couldn't make myself do it. Those front spots are so busy. People leaving and going, leaving and going. And in the morning, on the other side, there's the fuel pumps. And sometimes the fuel pumps, like I was saying, get blocked up by people not being very nice people. They're being bad words. So that would block some people from getting out. They might try then, in my head, they might try to make the corner too sharp to avoid the trucks that are parked in front of the pumps for too long. And in doing so, drag their trailer over my hood. I didn't wanna risk that. I just, nope, too busy, too busy, too much of a risk. I saw this spot here and I was like, that's the one. And I don't like parking in these spots over here that are right in front of that row of trucks there. Cause you'll see, if you've been to these truck stops, you know, you know exactly what's gonna happen. That's the end of the parking spots, right? That last truck is already outside of a parking spot, I think, he made a spot on this side already, which is fine, cause these guys can still get out. Now what's guaranteed to happen, is trucks are gonna come and park beside that truck there. Probably at least two of them. Now, if that happens, this guy beside me is still fine, he can still get out, which is good. But all the trucks beside him are stuck now. They can't get out of their spots, cause they're blocked in. And some guys who don't know the limits of their trucks or where their trailer is going to go, will try to get out anyway. Thinking that, oh, I can make it. I can make it. When reality says no, no, no, you cannot make it. And what they'll end up doing is dragging their trailer into their neighbor, ripping off their hood, ruining their life for the next couple of months. Not a good time. Unless they're a company driver, I guess, then it's, hey, get into a different truck. But for the owner operators like me, you tear off my hood because you thought you could make it. Oh, so sorry, my dash camera caught you. You're paying for all of my damages. But the thing is, who's going to pay for my lost time? This truck's going to be off the road, probably for a couple of months, waiting for parts, getting new paint, getting fixed up, getting the wheels aligned, getting whatever else fixed. What am I going to do in the meantime? I guess I could sue them for a lost time or something, but I don't know where that would go. I'm suing people's expenses. It's not a big thing in Canada. It's not like in the U.S. where you can walk across someone's lawn and fall and scratch your face or something or scratch your hand and sue them. It's not like that here. So even though, yeah, I got you on camera, you're going to pay for all the damages. I'm still without a truck until the truck is fixed. And if I'm without a truck, I'm without an income. I could rent a truck to use, which is what I would do in the meantime, I guess, but that means I'm making zero profit pretty much. I've never had to rent one. I mean, I could rent one off the company for a pretty good rate, but if they don't have any available, I'll have to rent one and that just eats up my whole profits. So now I got to wait for my truck to get fixed. Hopefully it didn't wreck it so bad. It can't get fixed because that would make me very angry. Man, then you're going to need more than the insurance adjuster. You're going to need some place over here. I'm going to be mad. So I tried to park in a spot where I'm just not worried about that happening or where the least chance of that happening, where there's the least chance of that happening. Sorry, I can't English. Like I said, I am tired, really tired. My 16 hour day is just about up. I worked 15 and a quarter hours today. It's time to go to bed. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening to me rant, seeing the scenery with me. We were just out here on the prairies in Manitoba, my home province. If you haven't already, hit that subscribe button and the like button if you did like the video. If you didn't like the video, like I always say, you can hit the dislike button twice. That's the magic number and I'll see you tomorrow.