 On the road, on our Wal-Mart to Wal-Mart tours, we don't get much entertainment. And what we do, we're watching Trucker Josh, you should too. Flatbed Trucking, Sam rides. Tell them all about it, Sam. Tell them they're on your road. Tell them. Tell them, Sam. Tell them how it is. There you go. You ready to go on a trip, Diesel? Got to be calm, I'm still sleeping. Got the rock and roll shades on. Got the seatbelt on. Weasel, hey, you want to be a part of this? We're going to rock and roll. Hey, fine, sleep. Somebody's got to do some work around here. Come on, come to life, baby. I'll put you in neutral. There you go. There you are. I've got a new steer tire on here. And I've also got my new E-LOG system on here, which is very interesting. It's a whole new setup here. Take a look at this. I guess you can't really see it because of the glare of the sun, but my whole new E-LOG system. Hopefully it doesn't confuse me too bad. I'm just going to make sure I have my fast card with me so that we can get across the border. There you go. There's the fast card. I want paper work up here. I want to get this truck detailed soon. I'm not as good at detailing it. I can detail it all I want. It's never as good as when someone who actually does it for a living does it. I guess that kind of makes sense. All right. You have 13 hours and zero minutes of remaining drive time. Do you hear that? She's got kind of a nice voice, doesn't she? Oh, I think we're going to be good friends. Check this out. Let's try it again. You have 13 hours and zero minutes of remaining drive time. Too loud, too loud, too loud. Okay, we've got to find the right volume, right where her and I can communicate the best with each other. Okay, how about that? You have 13 hours and zero minutes of remaining drive time. What's that buzzing? Maybe one less? One less, okay. How about that? Well, thank you. My new friend who doesn't have a name yet. I usually turn the volume right off on the e-log. I don't need it telling me what it can show me right on the screen. It shows it in big numbers, right on the screen that I have 13 hours left here on Canadian Hours of Service. You don't really have to tell me, but... You know, your voice is a nice change from Mandy's. No offense, Mandy. I get kind of tired of you after a while. I'm going to throw you out the window eventually. I'm saving up for a new GPS, shall I tell you? Mandy and I are going to part ways. We've been together for like 10 years. Yeah, sometimes, you know, sometimes you just got to move on to the newer models. All right, let's get out of here. I don't know what I'm trying to do here. Is that everything ready? Is that everything ready? Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready. Coffee. Okay, we had a little short delay with this new e-log system already. It already wasn't working right. I started driving and it wouldn't kick me into drive. It would just say I was in off duty. So I turned around and went back to the yard, the headquarters of the company that works with this e-log, and we figured out that it's not registering that my ignition is even on. So for all it knows, I'm getting towed across the country. It didn't even register that the ignition was on. So we checked all the wiring. All the wiring was good. Couldn't figure that out. Turned the ignition on and off, on and off, on and off. That wouldn't work. So eventually we went to the solution that fixes practically 99% of all the world's problems. We rebooted it. We just unplugged it and plugged it back in. It's now working just fine. That is how you fix everything. That's how I fix most things. You turn it off and you turn it back on. That's exactly on my first trip with this new e-log system. I mean the rules are still the same unfortunately. But this whole computer, I used to have the computer part up here, the screen up here and the brain was in the back underneath my bunk. Now the computer screen and everything in the brain are all right here on my dash. All in one. So it's a lot more compact and smaller. I think it's going to be a better system. I like it. So far it's easier to work with so far other than the initial having to reboot it. E-logs and E-logs, either way I don't like it. But I've got to be careful on these roads now. My usual route across to Highway 75, which takes me to the US border, it's spring restrictions right now and I can't go there with a full load. I think it's set at 90% axle weights and I'm pretty much at 100%. I don't want to risk a ticket going across there. So we've got to go all the way down to St. Pierre, past St. Pierre to Highway 23. And then take that across, that'll shoot us out at Morris, Manitoba and then we turn south on the 75, which then turns into the I-29 in the US. I want to make it to Black River Falls tonight. That's the goal. That'll be a full day's drive. It's about 900 kilometers or 550 miles or so. I've got to be there by midnight so that I can get going by 10 o'clock because I have an appointment right next door to there at 10.30 tomorrow morning. So the latest I can arrive is midnight otherwise I'm going to be late for my appointment. I have to stop for my 10 hours or my E-log won't let me. It'll get mad at me if I move. I can still move the truck. It'll just get mad at me and it'll send a message back to the office saying that I'm being a very bad boy. I don't want that. Then I get a phone call. Then they tell me I've been a very bad boy and then I don't want to be a bad boy. I don't really know what would happen. I've never actually driven out of service before. I've never actually broken that law. I don't know what would happen. All I know is they get an email and then they call me and I don't know. Maybe I'm sure there'd be some kind of punishment. Maybe incremental punishments. Maybe because it's my first offense. Maybe I'd get a smack on the wrist. Maybe they give me a smack in the face. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it'd be like World War III, apocalypse. I'd rather not find out. I'm working with the head cam here every now and then. I like this view a lot better than just you guys sitting on my dash. Sort of get to see what I'm looking at. A little bit better. So we're between Grand Forks Fargo and Dakota right now at its south. Interstate 29 that we're rolling over. We've still got a long ways to go. According to the GPS there we got 691 kilometers. That's 7 hours of driving. So I'm guessing that's about 400 and some miles. I'm liking this new a new ELD system, electronic log device. So far it seems to be working very well. I mean it's exactly like the other one. It just looks a little bit more fancy. A little nicer. Not much to show you guys so I mean like look at this. Though a lot of you probably live in areas that are nothing like this so maybe this is interesting to you. But this is what I grew up around. I lived just north of here, just across the border and it's exactly the same. Flatlands, farmers everywhere. Everything smells like manure, especially this time of year. It looks like all these fields have been seeded already. That one over there to the right has been seeded. The one to the left has not even been cultivated yet. That was corn last year. Okay so we'll probably plow that up or cultivate it soon and plant a late crop in there unless if they're just planning on leaving it. That'd be a lot of land just to let sit for a whole year. It's a lot of lost money. I don't know. I'm not a farmer myself so I don't really know what they have planned. I helped out on a farm growing up. We sort of lived on a farm. It wasn't ours but you know I helped out on that farm for a few seasons while we lived there and I learned a little bit about the whole seeding process and harvesting and it was a lot of fun. I was a little too young to fully understand the grasp of everything that was going on so I didn't quite get it. Those were also my teenage years which like any other teenager were a little bit troubled but I mean not nearly as bad as some but I went through some stuff who has it right? I'm 31 years old now so I'm pretty well pulled out of all that and well on my life path but yet I used to think 31 was old that everyone who is over 30 must have everything together in their lives already. Nah, that's not the case. I'm 31. I still don't know what I want. Don't get me wrong. I am happy with where I am in my job, my career, my marriage but you still feel like the same way you did when you were 21 in a way. I feel like I still got so much to learn and so much so much that I don't know, right? There's a lot to learn and I don't think you ever stop learning. What do you figure, Diesel? Time to go outside? It's definitely time for me to go in there and get a coffee. We're in Rostey, Minnesota our regular stop What exit is this at again? You guys, I've said it many times before I can't think of it right now. I'm a little bit tired. I didn't sleep too well last night and I wasted this whole morning with this new E-LOG trying to get it to work properly and now we're just stopped here for our half hour break I'm going to walk the weasel, run in there grab a few things for myself and we still got to get all the way into Wisconsin tonight yet another almost six hours. Excuse me. Oh boy. So this is what we got behind us just 14 14 bundles of 2x6 economy lumber 2x6 by 10 feet and then my tarps at the back there Diesel, let's go this way a little bit closer over there not quite too far of a walk not that I'm being lazy today but we really honestly don't have time for another about 21 minutes until my half hour break is done and I don't want to waste another minute I only get back on the road I have to make sure I get to my destination tonight. Pardon me tonight so that I can take my 10 hours and deliver on time tomorrow you see this corn field here as small as it is this has been cultivated and plowed up already I don't know what that other farmer was waiting for before but what do I know I'm not a farmer I'm a trucker not a farmer diesel you almost done there bud come on find a good spot man find a good spot I trust your judgment there that's a good that's your tree now we won't watch that's weird good boy I just love springtime so much all this new life everything's turning green I just love it on some of these economy lumber loads that aren't wrapped or tarped or anything you see on the top there those are still doing fine there but you've got to be careful because the center piece is sometimes like to wiggle out like that and with the smaller boards especially like the 2x2's or the 2x4's even likes to happen a little bit more often you've got to be very careful I'm pretty sure that this used to be a Tessero not too long ago the Tessero fuel stop now it's an Oracle guess they changed that in the last few months even down here in Minneapolis Minnesota the sun stays up quite long after 9 o'clock in the evening here now in the sky it's still pretty light further up north in Canada the northern sky at this time of year doesn't even go dark and if you go all the way up to northern Canada the sun doesn't even set same as Alaska I love this time this is my favorite time we're coming up on my favorite month I keep forgetting but every time it rolls around I remember June my favorite month weather wise I mean everything is so green it's so warm the days are super long daylight hours not too bad of bugs out yet everybody's all excited because we've been cooped inside all winter and we're finally able to go outside and enjoy camping and swimming the lakes start warming up to the point where you can swim in them towards the end of June and you know you got all summer ahead of you yet and it's not too hot you know once you get into summer like July and August it gets really hot up in our part of Canada like really like 100 degrees Fahrenheit hot and humid but then end of August it gets really dry I mean we get everything and then we go back down to winter where we have Christmas the best time of the year and then after that we have hell if hell was cold down to minus 50 minus 60 it's just such a roller coaster of life living in Manitoba regarding the weather it's just nuts we get everything but there's no place like home well it is that season we were just talking about it we were using the other name for it before the summertime it's also known as construction season as you know in Wisconsin there's no exception see what I don't understand is like they block off a lane here for like 20 miles yet they only work on about maybe one or two miles at a time my question is why don't you just block off the section of road that you're working on maybe even that week instead of blocking off a whole lane for 20 to 30 40 miles and then not work on there's nobody working here the flashing works light over there what are you doing you're just probably sitting there doing nothing he's just setting up cones and stuff for no reason there's no actual construction going on here they're setting up cones I'll never get that and they couldn't put them like in the other lane either they gotta put it partly into our lane so we gotta drive on the shoulder oh dude you almost hit the cone the guy in front of me he was like half an inch from that cone just pulling into the rest area here in Menominee Wisconsin looks like people are parked way out here on the shoulder already which usually means that the rest area is probably full hopefully there's a spot for us I figured I'd start looking here it's pretty late already it's 10 to 11 I could park right there yeah I could park right here right by the light why not yep this is our spot for tonight truck off the road and right in by this guy no I'm gonna keep going I don't like this spot tilted too much I'll find another one hopefully I don't like it that it's right around a corner like that people might drag their trailer into my truck that way okay okay nice that this guy over here to park so far away from that guy could have fit another truck in there you guys are just tighten up a little bit alright is there room at the Infra-Trucker Josh and the weasel come on tell me you saved a spot for us come on oh there's a spot up there off to the right I like that right in front of this ASL guy asshole ASL right in here beautiful there's no no parking signs is there okay well we're gonna hang up the imaginary park here trucker Josh signs and make ourselves at home right here beautiful okay yep we're gonna leave these windows rolled up oh it stinks like pee out there oh but somebody just dumped their sewer into the ditch right there or what diesel your poor nose 100 times more sensitive than mine shut her down oh that feels so good oh my hair's falling out though I probably shouldn't do that okay let's do the new e-log nope nope nope nope that's not what I want hey no no no no no I'm in the sleeper berth sleeper berth there you go okay see 10 hours from right now we can get going or we can start our pre-trip which will be pretty much at 9 o'clock and I gotta be there for 10 30 it's gonna be pretty close but we can do it we can do it right diesel we can do it hey well I gotta walk you so plug your nose buddy it stinks out here guys like there's a bathroom this is a rest area they provide this is not just a rest area this is an American rest area running water and flushing toilets that way it really isn't that hard it's amazing how good they have it down here how wonderful it is for them and they still don't use the toilets they still just pee out in the parking lot on their tires or just off beside their truck it's why I see it so often at like American truck stops and American rest areas not all the time not too often but every you know once in a while I see it I'm just like you have no idea how good you have it man I would love it if we had flushing toilets in our rest areas in western Canada Manitoba actually does but Alberta like Alberta of all places they just have like a hole in the ground with a little hut built around it that's their rest area and people still use it I shouldn't sound like I'm complaining I'm just going off on a little rant to get you to chuckle a little bit as I think it's kind of funny in a way shake your head like come on people but that's the end of today's vlog anyways let's end it on that note isn't that a great note to end it on I'm so sorry I hope you still feel like tuning in tomorrow I promise we won't talk about it all day I'll have to remember that I promise not to talk about it in the morning if it makes me accountable I have a forgetful brain I'll try my best to remember not to talk about the smell in the morning this is why people think we're disgusting dirty greasy trackers because of this smell oh yep yep oh have a good night everybody we'll see you in the morning