 Good morning, everyone. Today when I am filming this, it is Christmas Eve Eve, the last day of work before Christmas. We're getting that lovely typical Christmas snow. It's been snowing all night. We probably got a couple of inches, not too much. But for our Christmas present, we're going to visit America. I got to go down to Thief River Falls in Minnesota, pick up a load and bring it back here. So that's nice. It's going to be a nice run today. Hopefully the snow doesn't get too bad, but if it does, we'll just go slower and we'll enjoy the trip just a little longer. Mornings like this that I got to show off my 4WD a little bit at the stop lights. As soon as the lights turn green, everybody says they're spinning. I'm gone. Four-wheel drive. Oh yeah, it's going to be a fun day. There's a lot of snow out here. Almost every year. That's about every year we get a lot of snow right before Christmas. I'm not really complaining though. I like to have a white Christmas. You know, we thought that this day was going to be a lot worse. Turns out it was not that bad. There's just some snow on the road. It's not as bad as it looks. It's just a light little dusting on top. There's no ice underneath it. It's good conditions for this time of year. At least according to our standards. Someone from Florida is probably looking at this with wide eyes, but this is fine. The sky looks to be clearing up. We're getting close to the US border. We're going to cross into a Minnesota from Manitoba here. I've got about an hour and a half down south to go. We're just going to drop this empty step deck I got behind me. Switch it out for a loaded one and take that back. And that's my last load before Christmas. So when I'm filming this, this is Christmas Eve Eve. I think I told you that this morning. And Christmas is a big deal at our house, so very excited. 150 miles on this Christmas. Duke's of Hazard? CR-621. Doesn't scream America. Deep River Falls. You know, the truck stops down in the US. They're very truck oriented, which makes sense because they're truck stops. Sometimes the truck stops in Canada are kind of in a location. That's like, do you really design this for trucks to get in here? Or are you just teasing us? But they're getting better. That's the good news. They're getting better. But you know what's not getting better. What's not getting better is how close I am not getting to home by sitting here. Let's go. Do some super truck or super shifting. Come on, let's go. One sec. Traffic. I'll show you shifting. Eve, you don't mess with anyone on Christmas, all right? You just stay out of the way. Okay? Serious stuff. Serious stuff. Meow. Innovation center museum thing. They make all those. Almost in Canada. Yes, there, that dark line up there. That's the Canadian border. Highway 59 here now in the US. I've got to get across to the US 75, which is going to take me into North Dakota and then get on to Interstate 29 and take that north. Because I can't cross the border here with a loaded trailer. I can only cross empty, which is strange, right? I don't know why, but it's the way they made it. Last questions. I just drive the truck. Highway 75. But then they built the unit and Interstate 29 was built. They haven't put up no parking signs here yet. You know, we're back in Canada because there's trucks parked on the shoulder at the Timmy's. If you look very closely on the lamppost here, right? You'll see the glorious Canada flag. Because that's my proof to you. We're back in Canada. A little less than an hour back to the yard from here. Look at those dogs. Nice. They're a big same for nerds. In one kilometer, go straight on. Lord Selkirk Highway, Highway 75. Lord Selkirk. There's another way, you know, we're back in Canada. There's a queen in charge again and we have lords. Not really, we don't have lords in Canada. That's more of a British thing. They have the house of lords. But I guess in a way, I am a lord. We do own land, so I am the lord of the land, right? Doesn't that, doesn't that what it means? It's probably not what it means, but I'm just gonna call myself a lord now. Diesel, he is Lord Weasel. 600 meters, go straight on. Lord Selkirk Highway, Highway 75. I know you wanna be in the long. Highway 75. Where else am I gonna go? Oh, that guy just, you know where you're going, bud? Karen doesn't know where she's going. I don't know, just go straight. The one traffic light. Congratulations, Morris, whatever your name is. Morris, they have a traffic light. Did you know Niverville and Blumenort have a traffic light? I think I told you that already once. Southeast coming, oh and Mitchell. Mitchell has a traffic light now. Find your signal on for two blocks, there you go. There you go. The liquor store, getting his Christmas liquor. That makes sense. That makes sense why he almost, yeah, he changed his mind before. He was about to go home and he almost forgot. Nah, nah, nah. Let's do that to you all the time too. Just won't shut up. Just keep going straight. In 500 meters, go straight. Now that you've gone straight, keep going straight. After you're done going straight, go straight. I used to do that with diesel in the truck all the time, he loved that. I always get him all excited. Bit of high energy today. I'm excited. I love Christmas time. It's my favorite time of year. And it's Britt's favorite time too. We share each other's affinity for elf culture. Very much though. You know, if I had a million bucks, Christmas decorations we would have on our house, you'd see us from space. Look at that car, didn't even move over. That's rude. That is rude. That bugs me when people do that. I don't know. It's one of my pet memes. When there's like someone on the shoulder and you all move over. When there's a perfectly open lane, I won't start a rant. I won't start a rant. Don't start a rant, Josh. It's almost Christmas, okay? Calm down. Just a sleeper on there. Have a much bigger sleeper because we're limited with the wheel base we're allowed here in Canada. But if you have a cab over, you can have the full wheel base, make it all sleepery and have a big RV behind you. We're grabbing fuel here before we head back to the yard so that I can park it over Christmas holidays with full tanks of fuel. Good life. Life juice. Life juice. Life juice. Life juice. Life juice. Life juice. There she is all tucked in for the holidays. You have a merry Christmas, girl. All right? You be good. Party too hard, right? But you go crazy. It's Christmas, okay? You can let loose for the holidays. Just make sure you're ready to work, okay? When I get back, everybody's gone already. We just had one more truck coming in yet. I don't know where he's at. He must be working late, but most people are gone already. And so am I. I've been asked in my comment section more than once about this icy lot that we always have here. You know, it's beautiful ice lot all around there and over there. And I've always, I always get the question, how do you resist not, or how do you resist doing donuts on the ice here in your pickup truck? And I have to tell you, it's not easy. The urge to do donuts is there every day, but a lot of self-control, okay? I'm a professional driver here and I want that image to stay intact. So I do understand your question and I feel the desire to do donuts, but this just isn't the place for it. Not here, something I won't do. You might say, Josh, but there's no one around. There's always someone around. There's cameras everywhere too. This is a very secure lot. And to be honest, I don't get the urge to horse around here and do a bunch of donuts and stuff. Not here. We haul a lot of specialty freight. We haul a lot of expensive stuff. And I never want to give doubts to anyone here about my professional attitude towards driving. I want to make sure that everyone always knows that when I come to work, I'm serious. I'm not here to horse around. I'm here to get some work done. I'm here to do the work right to the best of my ability and to get things done professionally. So no, not the place for donuts. I'm not saying I don't want to do donuts somewhere else, but definitely not here. But really, I don't really do, I don't drive like that anymore. I feel like an old man. I just slowly putts around and I get joy out of that. You know, I get joy out of just slowly putting down Main Street or just putting down the highway, doing the speed limit, you know, but some people have said, well, you've matured. Maybe that's it. I don't know. My whole being is about professional driving. So even when I'm not in the big truck, when I'm in my own personal vehicle, I carry that same attitude. Driving to me is an art form. There is a way to do it and a way not to do it. Always gotta be professional. Whether you're on duty or off duty. Well, I took a break for the holidays. I'm just finishing this up here already and it's New Year's Eve when I'm fishing, when I'm finishing this up right now and took all from work, vlogging, everything. Christmas Eve day, boxing day. So there's a few videos coming out in the next week for you, but not every day. But I hope you guys had an incredible holiday. I'm gonna try to release this video today yet on New Year's Eve. Happy New Year, everybody. I wish you all the best in 2022. Let's hope it's a lot better than 2020 and 2021. That's what we want. We want things to keep getting better and we could really use a good year. This is gonna be a big year for us. We're planning our IVF and if everything goes good, that means we would probably have a December baby or a Christmas baby if everything takes. Let's not get our hopes up too high yet. But we'll see what happens. We'll talk about that in future videos anyways. I just wanted to wrap this up and say thanks for watching and all the new subscribers. I don't know where you guys are all coming from but we're growing faster right now. We had one video that got pretty popular a couple of weeks ago. It was called Overnight. Maybe you found out about me through that video. We've had over a quarter million views on that video already which is astronomical for me. That's, I think we just hit 300,000 and that's almost as much as I get on my whole channel in a whole month usually, just on one video. So the YouTube overlords have smiled on me this month and have brought you all to me. Thank you very much. Don't forget to subscribe. We make daily videos here. Sometimes we're in the truck. Sometimes we're at home. Been doing this for about 10 years so there's a lot of stuff to catch up on if you want to. 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