 Hi, my name's Zoe and this is Grampy Bob and we live in Ontario, Canada. We watch TeeJay, Trucker Josh, Thumbs Up. Perfect in every way, man. Perfect. We got into America last night. We're here in Grand Forks, North Dakota, just south of the border with Manitoba. So we made it down here last night yet. I wanted to get a little bit of a head start because it's a little over a day to Coralville, Iowa, where we're going to. So I made it just far enough yesterday so that I can do the rest today. So today we're going from Grand Forks, North Dakota to Coralville, Iowa, which is 984 kilometers. Let me do some math here for you guys so I can speak American for you since we are in America. It's only polite. 984 divided by 1.61, 611 miles. So it's a full day. And we're going to be going I think about 60 miles an hour, save some fuel. There's not any really big rush. But we've got to unload first thing tomorrow morning and then we don't have a reload yet. So I don't know what we've got to do yet. So I want to make sure I have an empty trailer available and I'll probably figure it out later on today. Let's get back at it, shall we? I'm going to quickly tug on my trailer a little bit just a double triple quadruple check that nothing's gonna go flying off into traffic. Like I've always said, that is highly embarrassing and it's never happened to me. And I don't ever intend to let it. It's very dangerous. I've had people say before give me a hard time. Why do you do tug test? All you got to do is crawl under and look at it. I know I do that, but why would I want to stop at that? And I want to make sure my trailer's not going to fall off. It really doesn't matter how confident I feel. I always double check, always. Just have that paranoia in me, you know. That's why I strap my loads down more than a lot of people do. So I double check things more than a lot of people do. I don't want to be that guy on YouTube that everyone's laughing at. I'm already that guy, but I don't want to be that guy for different, for those reasons. Left the Simonson Travel Center here on the north side of Grand Forks. We're going to go to the south side of Grand Forks and just grab a quick coffee at the Flying Jay because they still got the best stuff that I know of. This place is hopping, as the kids say, right? I was just going to park in front of the pumps, put them in, grab a coffee. The pumps were all full. So I don't want to block a pump. I'll go find a parking spot. Ow, I bit my tongue when I said that. Well, the parking lot's not that busy. It's just all the pumps were busy at this moment. Just arrived at the right time. All right, but I thought you were coming this way. If you would have used your signal, I would have known which direction you were going, and I wouldn't have taken it so wide, but alas, we are all okay. The world did not end. We are okay. I'm going to go park up front here. Right after they run in, I had some yogurt for breakfast today, so I don't need to grab any food. I try to have smaller breakfasts, a decent-sized lunch, and a bigger supper. I know that's not exactly the recommended, healthiest way of eating, but I'm not really that hungry in the mornings. It's a nice peak right there, right? That yellow one. It's going to straighten out here, so I'm going to park for all crooked and trife. Okay, let's straighten her out here. Straighten her out. Straighten her out. You don't want to end up on someone's YouTube channel. Look how these people park. I think I'm straight. The lines are all covered by snow. Whatever. I'm going to be five minutes. This day, for whatever reason, just feels like it's just dragging on. It feels like the first day back on the road, but I already started yesterday. I guess this is the first full day on the road. I feel like I'm just more tired than usual, and the day seems to be just taking longer than usual. Every first day is going faster than me. I still have six hours left on my clock. I don't have six hours left. I get that far. I could stop here now already, but the time's only, what, 5.30 in the afternoon? So if I stop now, I mean, I've got to get up at like 4 in the morning. I may as well push through a little bit further. At least get past Minneapolis. We're just coming up to Minneapolis here. I've had two coffees today already, and it just doesn't seem to be working. When I woke up this morning, I felt like I hadn't gotten a full night's sleep. I felt like I had slept for, you know, like a good six, seven hours, maybe eight hours, but I did actually sleep for like nine hours. Maybe just lazy. Maybe that's a better way to say it rather than tired. I'm not tired. I'm just sort of lazy. You know, I could have stopped gone for a walk. I just didn't feel like it today. Because I haven't been eating the best since the Christmas holidays, I still haven't corrected my diet badly. It usually makes you feel this way. I'll have to get back on track with that. Also very anxious to see what happens now with Britt in the pregnancy, or see if she does get pregnant. We won't know for another, for another while yet, but I hope everything goes well. We're a little north of Owatana. Minnesota. This is the flying day we always stop at after picking up glass in Owatana. Oh, and it's busy right now. Oh, fantastic. Shoot. That's a bit of a chaotic parking lot here. It was not built properly. Probably when it was built, I'm guessing they weren't expecting it to become so busy one day. Well, we got to get some fuel. It's very hard for us to get anywhere without fuel. And we're running a little low. I'm not going to have to put any winter anti-gel additive in this time because we're going south. I have a reload now. And that reload is very confusing. Why are you stopping there, man? There you go. See, you got the right away. This is where we go? All right. We're going right in here. I don't want to drive my trailer over the pumps. Cut it nice and wide without hitting this guy. It's always chaos here. Well, my reload is in Illinois. So it's going to get warmer before it gets colder. So I don't need to put any anti-gel additives in my fuel today. So we made it down here to Albert Lee, Minnesota, right at the border with Iowa. Uh-uh. We're going to the right. Petro. Let's spend the night here. It's a little cold tonight. So I want to make sure that I stop at a place like this where I can get help if my truck decides it doesn't want to run anymore in the middle of the night. We got this big truck service center here. It's a big parking lot. There will be plenty of parking. And it's about three and a half hours to our customer from here. I have all day tomorrow to deliver this lumber. I don't need to be there at any specific time. I'll be there as early as I can, obviously. But then I got another four hours from there down to my next customer, where I only got to be there the following morning at 10 a.m. I got plenty of time. We're going to take her easy. Lots of parking here. That's fantastic. I'm hoping I can find a spot where I can be out of the way with no neighbors. Because I like neighbors. I'm a neighborly neighbor. But when I'm trying to sleep, is this dad? Dad? Is that you? No, that's not dad. Dad's up in Alberta. What am I talking about? The truck is just like dad's. So it says no parking there. So I won't park there then, okay. And this place is ginormous. It's like one of those big trucker malls almost. The building's off to the right here. The front of it's facing away from us, so it doesn't look as fancy from back here. But trust me, it is fancy. Where am I going to park? Park too far away from the building. Pain to park either. All I'm saying, one of these spots off to the left would be perfect. I think my body is fighting something off, like a small cold or something. That's probably why I felt a little tired today. I feel my body's fighting something. Well, that's another one of the reasons we're stopping early tonight. I'm going to get a good night's rest here and hopefully sleep it off. That is full. It's only, what, eight o'clock? Quarter after eight? What are you guys all doing off the road already? I can park. I'd like to park in one of these spots along to the left, because then it's not as likely that you're going to get backed into. Because these spots on the right, you know, there's plenty of spots open, but that's because you got to blindside it in there. It is a little angled, so it makes it a little easier. But knowing that you got to blindside it in there, like I trust myself to get in there. I don't trust the people who are going to come in after me. You got to park defensively. That's how I, that's what I call it. Defensive parking. You got to park in a spot that gives you a high probability of not getting backed into. I would have taken that spot, but you guys ahead of me. Oh, this spot right here is open. Nope, that guy's got straight pipes. I don't want to park beside him. He has his truck idled right up too, because the weather's cold so I'd have to fall asleep with a baaalllllll all the time. I park right in here beside this red Volvo, and hope that whoever decides to park beside me will be quiet. All right, oh it feels good, stopped for the night. We didn't go very far today at all. Have a little bit further to go tomorrow, but uh, that's okay. tired so how's your guys's how's your your guys's how's your day going there guys and gals diesel you ready to stop for night to I'm gonna set up the bed back there we're going to bed straight I'm gonna read a little bit and we're going straight to bed no we're not doing a preacher we're doing a post trip here let the world know that we are parked for the night send in my paperwork and just like that you have three hours and 29 minutes of remaining drive time I know I know but we're not gonna use it we'll save it too bad we can't add that onto tomorrow's day that'd be nice so yeah thanks for joining me today today was a little bit of a short day not much filming done but it's like I said but I think I'm fighting something off because I'm more tired than I should be hopefully we'll feel better tomorrow and it's not just like you know getting ready to peak tomorrow so I'll see you then don't forget to subscribe hit that like button we do make a new video pretty much every day every day while we're on the road anyways and we've got to deliver in Coralville Iowa tomorrow and then we go down to where are we going again we're in Illinois it is in Litchfield Illinois I believe that's in southern Illinois let me check for you real quick here Litchfield Illinois come on Google learn me hmm okay it's a little northeast of St. Louis on US interstate 55 small town Litchfield they have a Walmart right on a little airport there that's nice that's nice it's like a nice little town and I don't even know what we what we're picking up there I think it's some kind of lumber but we don't need to tarp it so there's that and it's going to Carberry Manitoba which is in southwest Manitoba apparently I can deliver it on the weekend so if they're available to unload me Sunday means I'll pick it up Friday morning drive most of Friday drive Saturday unload Sunday then go home for Sunday night that's the plan but these videos are a little bit behind there at least a week behind so by that time who knows where I'll be I'll see you tomorrow I'm tired let's let's set this about if I got a walk diesel yet good night