 Those two skids of tracks I got to deliver today and get this off my trailer. It's just over the border I'm gonna go get them and take them off the trailer as soon as my load gets cleared They're just waiting for some extra paperwork again Some of the paperwork I think was missing a little bit of information the second time this week But I mean it's not uncommon it happens You know you expect that sometimes Kind of a bummer, but that's okay. It hasn't really slowed me down Because I drove a full day yesterday anyway. I got five hundred fifty miles in so I was happy stopping here And I'm not behind for today yet because once I drop that off I go switch trailers at our yard and head over to Canora pick up another load there. That takes me back down into Minnesota. I should be good It's gonna be a good day. I've got old blue. It is warming up here. I have an engine heater Which is sort of got the water up to temperature already before I even started it So it makes it easier to start now. I'm just waiting for my oil temperature to start rising It just came off the bottom line there now, so we should be ready to go in about 10 15 minutes Or less I guess I shut my truck off for night Because of that engine heater I can warm up my my coolant before I which warms up my engine Which makes it easy to start in the morning and I have a bunk heater which keeps me warm So I don't need to idle my truck Forcing it for that But I don't move my truck in the morning until everything is properly been warmed up Right, I got my oil temperature up to at least 150 Fahrenheit my water temperature took about 150 My in my engine heater gets my water temp up to 150 usually anyway But then once you start it and everything gets moving it goes back down to about 125 and then it'll slowly come back up What's all blue is all nicely warmed up and ready to go Then I'll put it to work like working it Especially when I have a load behind me too, right, but anytime I don't like working the truck Before all the fluids properly warmed up and the engine is ready to go very bad for the engine very bad Bad enough that you have to park outside overnight when you're on the road at least when I'm at home I can put it in a nice warm shop, right when you're on the road Not every truck stop has a shop for me to park in overnight actually none of them do so you have to park outside Everybody does so You make it as easy on the truck as possible. This is a nice time to Take your microfiber towel and do a little bit of cleaning and polishing before you start your day These steering wheels are nice, but they get covered in fingerprints You don't want to start the day off with yesterday's dirt and grime All blue has definitely had a chance to warm up. So we've got our clearance We're now ready to go Let's go bring those skids to Altona. This is the gas tracks truck stop That's just before the border all of you who come through here regularly know it. Well Got really good pizza in here. I Didn't get any today. I have food in the truck, but If you ever want to try some good pizza It's delicious. They come in like little like single single slice or single sizes There's duty free across the street That's just a mile up mile up. There's the border It's funny. This is a Pembina, North Dakota. I believe this is the oldest settlement in North Dakota And if you follow the I-29 from Pembina, North Dakota into Canada, it actually turns into Pembina Highway When you get to Winnipeg drop these skids off get some weight off my trailer it was actually my fault this time that I Didn't send the paperwork in soon enough as I picked the one Start or the one pickup was in Illinois, right? The second pickup was in Minnesota. I Figured I was gonna send in all the paperwork together at once after I pick up in Minnesota Well, it was the Illinois freight that slowed me down now So if I would have sent that in right away, you know, it might have been clear by now by this morning Because the Minnesota freight cleared very quickly. It was the Illinois freight that took a while This is what it is can't change it now Just make the most of the day to old-school tarping Bringing along a riser just in case for my reload Throw a bunch of lumber right on this lower deck here and take it on down to Brainerd We got to get going though They're coming along on this four lane divided here From what I've heard they're twinning this highway from the Manitoba border all the way to Canora Which is awesome because this is a regular route for me and I have been begging them through my videos for the last 10 years To twin this highway now all I can do is hope that it gets done Before I retire Oh, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy. This is not the place to stop Freaks me out when people do that Yeah, you're not gonna get back into traffic now, but it's busy. That's why you don't stop on the shoulder Especially in a construction zone yet eggs They're drilling into the side of the hill here. They're gonna put dynamite down there Blow it up. I'd love to see that once I've never actually seen them ignite the dynamite But they probably don't let people anywhere nearby This is the mess that it leaves and they clean this up and then they do it again until they get it to the proper Proper width that they need for the road, right? That is awesome Watch your bucket there, but he's got it. He's a professional. He knows what he's doing. I Don't know that so that was your job. He's blow stuff up all day every day You don't even need a Canada day or 4th of July. He just go to work every day blow stuff up I'm here. I'm getting loaded got in just in the nick of time. They already told me that I might not get loaded today But it looks like they they found some time You know that or they're working overtime in which case I appreciate that but they're getting me loaded So as soon as they get the lumber on my trailer, I'll tie it down go grab my paperwork And we're gonna go tarp it Then we'll be on our way. I don't know how far we're gonna make it I Don't think we're gonna make it all the way down We'll have to find a place to call it a night sometimes some somewhere on the way between here and Brainerd I don't know many truck stops. They'll work at park overnight, but we'll find something we always do This isn't like we're on the east coast or something like You can always find parking somewhere out here in the Midwest Go go go go go go go go go go go go the name of the game Like I said yesterday or was it today careful what you asked for I asked them to keep me busy They are coming through Go go go go go the name of the game I'm also like laser focused though, too very often I Take my time a little bit more. I'd like to enjoy my Work, right? I don't want to always be like rushing like the world's about to end But for these next couple of months or two and a half months It's go time. I'm gonna be their number one driver You'll see Now that I said that every other driver is gonna start competing with me Got a tarp load of fancy lumber on my trailer We're sitting at a gross weight of about 78,000 pounds I'll show you the load yet. Don't worry. It's just dark right now and you like I said, I'm laser focused You got to go go go. I want to get this unloaded tomorrow morning that I'm ready for a reload by the afternoon Or maybe late morning. You never know Sounds like I have my whole next week planned out, too We'll see I I Won't get too excited about it yet because it's a little ways in the future. Let's worry about today Tomorrow will worry about itself. There's enough problems tomorrow. Just stay focused on today And today we're gonna get as far as we can with this I'd like to get all the way down to Brainerd. I don't know if I'll have the hours, but We'll see at the Walmart in Fort Francis Another one of our guys right over here Right there I don't know if he's sleeping here or not. I'm gonna keep going across the border yet Just gonna go and take a look at the load make sure everything looks good still Looks good to me Yeah, looks good to me. Awesome. It's another one of our guys here nice truck Have you guys seen this already the shift cover came Nicely cleans it up and hides all those airlines Gives it a nice finished look Let us continue. My load has been cleared for the border Let's go to America. I go to America load this tomorrow morning as early as I can It's in the daylight here. You can see it now About 44,000 pounds of lumber under that tarp Fancy lumber. So you got a tarp it can't get all full of salt and road grime It's probably for finishing carpentry and you know interior work I wouldn't want salt all over the interior of my kitchen either Yeah That's the day today. It was a busy day. We started off in Pemona, North Dakota We delivered to Altona, Manitoba. We went up to our yard switch trailers Handed in paperwork grabbed some more paperwork grabbed an empty step deck Took the step deck to Kenora got loaded across the border into Minnesota had international falls Little way down to Deer River ran at ours. This is where the logbook said trigger Josh You have to call it a day. You can't work anymore. If you work any further. We're gonna throw you a jail Oh, okay Calm down geez You know the trucking is like One of the only careers that if you work overtime they can actually arrest you and charge you I'm Making it like bigger than it actually is it's just you're not allowed to go past your hours of service They could arrest you. So if you're truck driver and you want to you know work a little bit over time bank some hours No, no No, no, no, no, you don't you got to go to sleep right now You better sleep good do it all over again tomorrow And this is the next morning and I did have a good sleep You can probably tell I'm just waking up here getting all blue warmed up. We're gonna start right here tomorrow So thanks for joining me today You know the drill hit the thumbs up button if you liked the video double-click the dislike button if you didn't Make sure you double-click it very important. So that's it for today. This is a quick day very busy running around. So Thank you everybody. We'll see you tomorrow