 Hey everyone, this is Chris from Grimsby in the UK. You're watching Truckadrush Vlogs. Enjoy. Good morning folks from the bumpy highways here in North Dakota. It's a surprising. North Dakota usually has very, very fine interstates. It's interstate 94. We just went through Fargo. Getting a little later start than I wanted to today. It's because I was waiting at the shop for four hours this morning. I was busy there. I wanted to get my truck greased. And also get my fuel filters changed and the truck looked up just because we went through some cold weather. Didn't have any fuel filters on me, so I figured well. Let's just bring it in the shop, thaw it out a little bit so they can get my fuel filters changed, check everything on my truck, grease it, and now we're good to go again. But I had to wait a little while because so many people froze up overnight. So many drivers still not using anti-gel in their fuel when it gets cold. I made one friend in there. He was a Mexican guy who grew up in Texas. So I guess not make him an American guy, but he was born in Mexico. And he served time in the US military and he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was telling me stories of he was there for Operation Shock and Awe. And he was telling me stories about, you know, the borders flying around and things blowing up all around him. He was a very interesting guy. Now he's a truck driver and he had just bought a truck similar to mine. It was a Volvo. And he's from further south, so I guess the truck was probably from further south. There's a lot of water built up inside his air tanks and his air system. Because it's probably, you know, years of condensation building up when it gets colder. Thank you. I will bypass the scale. Thank you very much. And then anyways, his air, his air froze up on his truck and then his bypass valves, they all froze up. So he needed to be thought out in the shop there and so we got to talking. What an interesting guy. Loves his country. And loves trucking. About six hours. We're not taking an easy-to-day word just giving her because we spent a lot of time there waiting. But we're still on schedule. Just not as much spare time now. I wanted to share this scenery with you once again. I always love sharing the scenery of Eastern North Dakota and Southern Manitoba with you whenever we're here, which is all the time. Notice the power lines across the road. Oversize grain bins off to the left. Holding grain. Authentic North Dakota grass. Who's in our four lane here going down to a two lane? What a never-guessed. Someone didn't get their corn harvested. So we have some frozen corn. That's pretty exciting. Welcome to North Dakota. Do you think this is the top of the world? My whole country is on on top of this yet. And there's more land area up there than there is in all the united states. So I'm not trying to brag or anything. I'm just saying this isn't the end of the world, believe me. It feels like it in wintertime. Enjoying this or what? This is North Dakota. Plan your next vacation in North Dakota. Drivening scenery. Life changing. Coda farm right over there to the left to the right. That's the right. I don't know which way is which to the right. There's also one over there to the left. Two real North Dakota farms. Don't you wish you were here? I know you wish you were here. I know I'm making you jealous right now. That's why I'm showing you this, but you know, if you look off to the right, there's a slight rise. Some might classify it as a hill where everyone cares so much about you. Harrington, North Dakota. Looks a lot different now than it did when we were here in summertime, right? We went for a walk down the street when the weather was still nice. The grass was green. Coming up to our buddy here on the right. Our buddy who's waving in ways that I'm not allowed to pay attention to the right side of the road. Right by the chieftain motel up there. Diesel, you watching? You gonna wave back? You can do it, Diesel. I can't. I do it. I get in big trouble. They'll kick me off the YouTubes. Here he comes. You looking, Diesel? There he is. I think that's how they used to say hello. Is that gesture mean something very different? About take the third exit of one kilometer. Look at all these beautiful Chevy's. Diesel, look at the Chevy's. Look at the Chevy's. Wow. So I've decided I'm probably just gonna buy out my truck. I mean, I keep going back and forth between getting a new truck and buying one out next year. So like a year from now when my lease is up, probably just buy it out. I don't want more debt. But we'll see. That changes every month. But if I did get a new truck, I've decided which one to get. Karen, this is important. I don't care about your roundabouts, Karen. This is important. New trucks. If I were to get a new truck, it would be a Chevrolet Silverado trail boss. With a standard bed. Blacked out. Black bow tie on the front. Complete midnight package. Black rims and everything. A trail boss that comes with what, a two inch factory lift and leveling kit? Uh-huh. Z-24. The whole package. Heated seats, sunroof and everything. At the roundabout take the third exit. You know, when they first released these new Silverados, I hated them. I even told you guys how much I hated them. They sort of grew on me. I'd buy one. I don't really want to. I like my truck because the truck I have now, the pickup I have now, is sort of like, it's a lot more square. It's a lot more square and I really think that these trucks are gonna be like the new box trucks. You know, like the old 80s and 90s Chevy Silverados. You know, I'm gonna go this way. I'm gonna go this way. Not bad. Don't mind me. I wish you could eat and then know where he's going. I'll probably, by my note, put exhaust on it. You know, give it a four inch lift and level, leveling kit. Get some Wrangler tires on there. It'll be good. The pickup does everything I need it to do, right? I would like to have the 6.2 liter engine. Man, whatever. I need a new semi-truck before I need a new pickup, you know, honestly, because this truck is, this truck maybe last another five years. I could rebuild it and then make it last 10 maybe, but eventually I'm gonna need a new semi-truck. And that's a lot more expensive and a little bit more important because those trucks make money for you. Pickup trucks only cost money for you. What's going on? You handsome man. You stud. You looking at yourself in the mirror there? Oh, you're looking at that guy over there. That guy looks like he's going for a sleep over at your motel, man. I think you're right. I think he's gonna go and hang out in that motel. What is that? A cobblestone in it, please? Never stayed there before. It looks very nice. It does, doesn't it? I like it when they have motels right next to, right next to truck stops. That way you can park your truck somewhere overnight and just walk over to the motel if you want to. I like staying in motels every now and then. I used to do it more often, but every now and then it's sort of like a little treat on the road, right? You got a TV, you got a stretcher, you got a big bed. It's a clean room and when you leave, you don't have to clean it. It's fantastic. Right, Diesel? I bet you that dude would make a very good friend. Diesel, you just want to be friends with everybody. Everybody's my friend, mate. Everybody. One of the good things about North Dakota, you'll get awesome sunsets as the sun goes behind the horizon. It's something that, you know, I've heard people in the mountains say they've never seen anything like it. They call it the prairie sky because for them, the sun disappears behind the mountains early on in the evening already, right? We've got a pretty strong wind coming out of the south here. We're headed west. You can see the sun setting just over there. It's straight west and the wind is coming from the south and it's a strong one and you know what that means, right? Have you been paying attention to my videos? You know what that means? Fort McMurray, it should only be about minus three. That's just three degrees below the freezing point in Celsius. Thanks for blowing up this warm air for us. Really appreciate it. I haven't made miles and then this wind will be pushing me all the way back up to Canada. A vintage road event, turn left at 30 meters. Well, the sun has once again left us and gone to visit the other side of the world. We're here in Minot, North Dakota and why not get some fuel while we're here? They sell diesel number one here, which not every truck stop in the U.S. sells diesel number one. This is one of the very few that I know of. I know a lot more probably do, but Pilot Flying J, this is the only Pilot Flying J I know of that sells diesel number one, which is conditioned for winter weather. It's got additives added into it already. Doesn't mean it's never going to gel up. You should still use additives if it gets down to minus 30, but it's a lot better than the regular diesel, which is called diesel number two. Here find an empty, empty slot for myself. There we go. There we go right here. I choose this one. Oh, we don't get any roof over us here. I guess we will fuel beneath the stars. That is okay. Diesel number one, that's this first one here. All right. I don't mess around in winter time. When it gets cold, I don't mess around. Some people like, oh, you don't need to put in conditioner all the time. You don't need to do this. You don't need to do that. Those are the same people that tell me I don't need to do a tug test every morning to make sure my trailer won't fall off, but I'm going to do it anyways because I don't mess around. It's cold and I don't want my trailer to fall off either. I just don't mess around with those kind of things. There's certain things that I don't mess with. Winter is one of them. And my trailer is the other one. Rolling into the megatropolis of Regina's Saskatchewan. Look at these big buildings that got built here. These are all brand new. I don't remember these. Wow. Very nice, Regina. Very nice. Those are like four stories tall. Oh, careful now. Don't hurt yourself. Looking for parking. I've got how much time left on here? So we got a ways that we could go yet, but it's past midnight. It's 20 minutes past midnight and I want to stop and read my book before I get too tired. I want to get through at least like a chapter without falling asleep. That'd be great. Maybe I can get through two. Usually I read one chapter and I'm done. Just out. That's my way of falling asleep. I'm going to go to the husky up here. I just passed the bypass. Like we're coming in here from the south. What is this? 33? Yeah, we're on Highway 33. Is the Regina bypass open now? I saw trucks driving on it and the closed signs were gone, so I'm assuming it's open now? I thought I saw, you know, I saw some comments from some of you in my comment section once asking about the bypass. I actually haven't driven on it yet. I didn't know it was open. Like this next time I head out to Calgary or Swift Current from Winnipeg, I can try out the new Regina bypass. Actually it was pretty impressive. They, how fast they got that done. It only took, what, two years? Two? Maybe three years? Man, if that bypass was being built in Winnipeg, it would have taken them like 20 or 30 years. I'm not even joking. Ask anyone from Winnipeg. They'd agree with me and they would have done it wrong. There would have been train tracks that you got to stop for. There wouldn't have been any overpasses. There would have been traffic lights, definitely traffic lights. And if there was any overpass, it'd be all messed up. Like the corner of, you know, the 52, not 52, the 59 and the south perimeter. Like when you're, when you're coming down the south perimeter from Deakin's Corner, right, for my locals and you want to turn south onto the 59 off the westbound south perimeter of Winnipeg. You know that intersection is all messed up. You want to turn south. So you got to like go up to the top of the hill and you have this blind corner where you got to try to get across with a 75-foot unit that takes forever to get moving and cars are coming flying through there at 100 kilometers an hour and you're expected to not like cut anyone off and clothesline anyone with your trailer. Yeah, that's a Winnipeg intersection. One of these days I have to show all you international people and like people who don't know what I'm talking about that intersection. It's ridiculous. It's a typical Winnipeg intersection. Makes no sense and it's dangerous. Oh yeah, Regina, you got your bypass done in just a couple of years. That is hashtag impressive. Good job. I can't wait to try it out. Give my review on it. That won't take it easy on you. I hope you did a good job. This Husky truck stop we're going to to see if there's any parking is an old truck stop that was built within the city limits of Regina and I'm thinking now that they have a bypass that bypasses the city that there won't be as much truck traffic within the city limits. So I'm kind of hoping that there's going to be a parking spot for us there because all the trucks would have gone around the city, right? I can already tell now there's less truck traffic on this road and that could also be because it's 12.30 in the morning. I don't even know if that bypass is open but I'm assuming it is. I don't know. I won't know until I see your comments because I'm not going to go check it out tonight and tomorrow morning we're heading straight north up to Fort McMurray. It's a full day's drive from here yet. We still have 1,100 kilometers or like 700, 750 miles to do tomorrow yet. And since we're in Canada we'll have 13 hours to do it in so it'll be tight. Here she be. Oh it looks full. Of course it's full. Of course. Why would there be even my special parking spot is taken. How dare you. This freight liner right here you'll see just on our left as I pull in that's my secret spot. I know it's right out in the open right? It's like hidden in plain sight but you can park there and you're out of the way. He's taking it. The big flag is at half staff too. What tragedy are we mourning? Why is the flag at half staff? Well I'm going to see if I can find a parking spot here and if not I'll have to continue down the road. Either way I'll talk to you at the end of my day. I'm going to see if I can find somewhere to park. There's always a little bit of a task even up here. We made a spot at the old flying jay card lock. I'll take it. Good enough for me. So thanks for joining us today everybody. I hope to see you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't. What was that? Cut me off mid-sentence. You know what I was going to say right? Don't forget to subscribe. Hit the like button. Helps me out a lot. Leave me a comment down below even if you don't usually leave comments. Let me know you're there. See you tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll get to Fort McMurray. At least we should.