 Black River Falls, Wisconsin It's actually a really nice town. Flying J here. It's like a once-to-it's sort of like it must have been Something else at one point and then it got transformed into a flying J I've been driving for over 11 years over the road now. This has always been a flying J since I've been on the roads I don't know when this transition happened, but big lot We got a boss shop here Get your truck repaired get it serviced Looks like they got a washout Bay over there. It's pretty much exactly a day's drive From Winnipeg. So if I'm leaving home going to the US East Coast or Wisconsin or Black River Falls is pretty much a perfect day's drive. We'll stop here for night after on their first night out on the road We need to get going. I want to make it to Bemidji this afternoon yet and get loaded today yet We're 600 kilometers six hours of driving about 360 miles It's gonna be a good day fueled up here for about a hundred and fifteen gallons US gallons yesterday 400 some liters price was $3.88 US per gallon that equaled a dollar thirty-seven Canadian per liter Last I checked fuel prices in Manitoba for diesel are still sitting at about a dollar ninety five per liter So it's considerably cheaper down here Again, I know I sound like a broken record saying that but like I've said over and over I mean fuel in the US has always been cheaper always. That's a fact But it hasn't been this much cheaper They got some cheap juice down here. Don't get me wrong. It could still go cheaper It's still high compared to where it's been in the past, right? According to Canada and comparing to the rest of the world. It's practically free Bring our fuel prices to Europe and other parts of the world though sort of a little pet peeve of mine it There is no comparison Europe is completely different than North America in many ways hours, and they're in a different country Here we drive eight hours. We're not even halfway through a province or state The distance is to drive are much much longer. Everything is much more spread apart Spend the same amount like dollar-wise as the Europeans do in fuel fancy. Don't hit me vest We're here. We made it. I don't see anybody around here yet, but I'm gonna go into the office and figure out what's going on And I've got a load up. I believe 30 feet of lumber. Let's see. What does my message say here? 30 feet Yeah, and I have about 45 feet left on my trailer. I Just have those two eight-foot skids on the front So it should work out just fine. Oh here comes a guy right now, right on. That's what we picked up yesterday I just got a wait for him to come and put it on the trailer. We can tie it down Button it up and go Might even get across the border today yet You guys are gonna love this This is the whole load. That's it We were told 30 feet Well, I guess it probably would have been 30 feet if we didn't stack them up But why use the whole trailer if we don't have to just stack them up Now I have an extra 25 feet available if they find anything for me on the way home It's late in the day probably won't find anything But if something suddenly pops up and it's like hey 20 feet of freight We need it move to Winnipeg right now. I can swing by there and pick it up I'm delivering those two pallets at the front that I picked up in Bartlett, Illinois to Altona Manitoba tomorrow these I'm bringing to our yard And then I'm grabbing a step deck and I'm pulling that over to Kanora to pick up another load It's gonna be another busy day tomorrow So Maybe this weekend or whenever I'm actually home for a little bit of time It might be you know what I'm actually taking time off for the baby Gonna have to run over to run over to KK Penner Or West End Tire cow tire all the tire shops I can think of and see if they have a used tire That matches like my tread depth on my other tires And then I'm gonna run a used tires with my other seven drives until they're all worn down keep these two good drives That I put on last week and then I just have to buy six instead of eight next fall That's the plan Because these tires have actually grown on me I wasn't sure if I'd like the good years, but you know they've grown on me The kind of work I do and the kind of terrain I drive in really good tires Really good tread Really good tire. We'll see how they do. I already got these two. So why not make the most of it? All right, so this lumber's got to be tarped. So I gotta quickly tarp this load Done and that's how you tarp a load ladies and gentlemen the load I'm picking up tomorrow in Kanora I've got to tarp them old school. So let's enjoy this moment while we can Just gotta tighten it all up Chillier up here then in Chicago snow everywhere I took the winter front off of my truck while I was down in Illinois because it was almost plus 10 at times a plus five Celsius So they need the winter front. I got back up here. I had to put the winter front back on there's no real set like Time or science to exactly when you have to put it on I just put it on around freezing point when it gets down to zero Celsius 32 Fahrenheit I slapped the winter front on the truck just to You know Keep her cozy keep her warm a little bit little vents open once it gets down below minus 15 Around minus 20 Celsius I'll close up two of the vents and once it gets down to minus 30 I close them all up. That's the way I do it We'll learn that in driver school. That's just sort of Teach their own, you know not a requirement to have a winter front. It's just if you want to treat your truck real nice and Something you do to be nice to it. All right, we're loaded up a button up if I get cleared At the border today yet I'll be there like seven o'clock tonight in Altona waiting to unload in the morning. Am I in like a rut or something? What happened there? I guess my tires were a little warm and they they melted into the snow a little bit. What was that all about? All right, maybe a soft snow and I just sunk in while I was being loaded off we go Hi-ho hi-ho Still at work and here we go That doesn't work. It doesn't work at all Truck entrance. It's also a truck exit It is now It's the only entrance and exit for trucks on the yard, so I can feel a little more weight in my trailer now for sure My gauge is at 50 psi on my drives So I put the majority of the weight on my drives so that I have good traction and a smoother ride I didn't want it on my trailer Obviously because then I'd be carrying the weight and it'd be a bumpy ride And I'd have less traction if it starts to snow all of a sudden So after we unload After we unload in the morning Like I said, we go straight to our yard drop this trailer grab an empty step deck Rush over to canora grab a load and that's going to take us down to Brainerd, minnesota Which is actually right in this area right here So I'm coming right back down to this area And then I have another reload that's not lined up yet, but The ball's rolling on it They are keeping me busy. I ask them to keep me busy And be very careful what you ask for because you might get it I'm happy though like I was saying earlier I have Eight and a half weeks or so until I'm parking the truck For a few weeks and I still don't know exactly how long that's going to be I'm going to say right now like four weeks for sure I took off two weeks before the baby is due Uh, I've told you all this already but for the new people or for the people who might have missed that During those two weeks, I'm going to make sure that the nursery is ready Make sure we are ready and prepared make sure brit has everything she needs She's going to be late term Or in the end of her third trimester, so she's going to need some help Getting around and uh, you know taking care of stuff And then after the baby's born If it comes on its due date of April 1st, which is my birthday and at least another two weeks after Because of it being our first child uh I want to make sure that We know what we're doing All right, we're mid 30s already like we're not kids having kids And we're pretty confident that we'll be just fine, but you know That's our first one. We got a we got a lot to learn And I want to be there for it and it all depends how the birth goes brit might need me at home to help her with stuff If it's a little bit more of a difficult birth, I might have to be there for an extra little while We're all going to play it by year after that so i'm saying four to six weeks Get ready for some home time content some uh some baby content and then once we're uh You know comfortable that we got a good beat on things that we That we got it Then I'll uh slowly start Getting back on the road that will probably be Mid april to early may no mid to late april when I get back on the road So the vlogs will be a little different Throughout the end of march and april a heads up well in advance So nobody it's all surprise that there's no truck Trucking for for a little while. All right. Anyway, just heads up I'm taking a little break from the truck in april This is grand forks, north dakota coming in on highway two. We're going to merge on to interstate 29 north And unfortunately, I haven't gotten any confirmation that my load is cleared for the border So I'm going to go right up to pembina the border town there. They have a gas tracks Truck stop I'll park there and I'll check in in the morning I don't need to go further than that. Anyways, I've already been driving for a full day Well, mostly a full day But who knows maybe we'll get confirmation by the time we get there. I'm Still about an hour away 45 minutes or so My point is if I have to stay there at gas tracks, I'm fine with that Altona my delivery is just inside the border anyways. So even if I get my clearance first thing in the morning A run over dropped those two skids off And it won't really affect my day tomorrow. I'll be fine That's what life on the road is all about though You're constantly trip planning trip planning making sure that you're going to get to where you need to be on time It's all that consumer math that I took in high school put to good use I never went through pre-calculus or Algebra all that or what's what's the course called again? The the the higher standard of math, I just went through consumer math and it turns out that was good because that's what I really needed for my for my job in my career Why does this guy got his high beams on in my mirror? What's he want? I'll be flashing I've noticed some people I've heard one person say that they think that it's normal that when you're about to pass a semi You flash your brights a little bit Please don't do that. That's the most annoying irritating thing in the on the whole planet at night Any high beams in my mirror just puts me in a bad mood Sometimes I mean like cars when they pass you they'll give you a little flicker of the lights I don't know if that's a european thing or not But europeans love to flash brights at people either to tell them to get out of the way or You know to come back into the lane or that they're going to pass someone They're always flashing their lights at everybody, right? I don't do that It's a cultural thing I guess Sometimes to notify like when a semi truck passes me The way I let them know To come back into the lane when it's safe is I turn my lights off and then on never the high beams Because I know that that irritates me. Usually you're just passing somebody, right? And you're about to turn into the lane. You've already made up your mind You're gonna come over you look in the mirror and pow They nail you with their high beams. You're right in the retinas Thanks for the purple spots, buddy Oh, I I I actually really hate that behavior, but it's it is pretty common people do that I wish it would stop but You know every time I mention it people get all defensive about it, but I have to flash the lights It's the courteous thing to do Yeah, my eyeballs hurt now. That wasn't very courteous if you ask me but You know, I have this little button you push this thing down Who and my lights go off and then on does the exact same thing And I would argue is even more courteous and more polite Huh, what do you think? I haven't made that argument in a while. I used to talk about it all the time You notice it more in eastern canada. It's a big habit. They're flashing people's high beams in their mirrors and stuff My that is my all-time All-time pet peeve North dakota Washington street Be legendary you got it north dakota you got it Karen i'm waiting Good job. Good job Get you a treat And so ends another great day on the road wonderful We got over 900 kilometers behind us Close to 600 miles. It was a good full day I'm sitting here in pembina north dakota a mile away from the canadian border I didn't get confirmation that my load had cleared. I don't need to cross tonight anyway All I was going to do is go 15 minutes on that side of the border And park there in latalia matatoba So I parked here instead either way I have to stop for my 10 hours because tomorrow Once I drop those two skids off in altona I bring that lumber and the trailer to our yard We got one of our city drivers is going to deliver that lumber for me And then I grab a step deck like I like I told you already I go to canora Grab that load and that load's going to brainard minnesota So in order to go back into the u.s. I have to stop for my full 10 consecutive hours If I was just staying in canada And if I could cross the border and stop in latalia Well, I would only have to stop for eight hours and then I can keep moving right but in order to enter back into the us My logs have to be legal for the us On us soil you obey us law on canadian soil you obey canadian law They're kind of similar, but at the same time our hours of service are completely different I've gone into them before I should make a video Specifically explaining them because they they make it so confusing Like I know in the us There's a split hour rule where you can have seven hours in the sleeper berth And then account for the other three hours throughout your day But my e-log doesn't seem to understand how that works because sometimes I'll stop for seven consecutive hours in the us that my e-log suddenly says hey you have hours to drive You can now drive Other times I'll stop for seven hours It'll be like no you need your full 10 consecutive hours before you can drive trevor judge What are you thinking go back to bed? But in canada like after eight hours You have your full 13 hours of driving available and you have 16 hours to get that done in but You need those other two hours So you still need 10 hours off duty within your 24 hour period So you can stop for eight hours for night, but you're going to need to account for two more hours Throughout your day in increments of no less than 30 minutes So you could have like four 30 minute breaks Which would equal two hours which would add on to the eight hours that you stopped Which now makes it 10 hours off duty within your 16 hour window Which now resets your clock so you can have another 16 hour window tomorrow and have 13 hours to drive if you want them But in the us Like sometimes like I know there's a split hour rule. I read about I read about it on the internet and the internet never lies never Seven hours off you should be able to get going as long as you account for the other three hours somewhere else in your day I don't know if it's in half hour intervals. I don't know how that works I always just stick with the 10 consecutive hours before I start moving again And then I don't get in trouble and I don't know about that split hour rule Maybe you can let me know in the comment section of what that's all about I just stopped for my 10 hours in the us but in the us after you stop for 10 consecutive hours Well, you now you have a new 14 hour day before you before you have to stop working And you have 11 hours of that can be driving And another like hour of that can be on-duty non-driving, but You have to have a half hour break a 30 minute break. You must The united states government says you have to stop for a half hour break. You can't work more than eight hours No, you can't drive more than eight hours Without a half hour break and then you get the rest of your day And you have to stop for 10 hours and then you can start over with a new day Thank you for watching today. I appreciate that hit the like button if you like my videos And if you don't like my videos double click the dislike button It's very important that you double click the two clicks makes it count All right, don't forget to subscribe guys. I'll see you tomorrow for another video. It's gonna be fun