 Good morning people of the internet. We just did our pre-trip got our coffee It's already spilt. Oh, that's strong cause that's real coffee. That's a man's coffee. Wow. Whoo I've got a simple breakfast today Protein bar That's my breakfast of choice when I'm in a hurry and they don't got anything good to eat for breakfast And the tiny truck stop that I'm at we're in Tower City, North Dakota Which is between Fargo and Valley City or between Fargo and Jamestown if you're familiar with I-94 in North Dakota. We're headed westbound We're going to go up to Jamestown and then take us 52 and wind our way all the way up to Portal, North Dakota, which is right on the Canadian border. We're going to cross into North portal Saskatchewan, which is on the other side of the border Border was right through the town portal and North portal And from there we're going to go through Saskatchewan up past Moose jaw and then west towards Calgary, Alberta and uh I don't want to talk politics a lot in my in my vlog. So I'll keep this short But Alberta Good for you. Good for you. If you're from Alberta, you know what I'm talking about. Good for you All right, let's uh Let's get going Okie dokie. All right there then. Okay. All right Let's get going I already did everything I did a little It's did a full inspection. I did a little tug test Just to make sure my trailer's not going to fall off I'm always paranoid of that in the mornings because you know, I've heard of these Horror stories of morons in the truck stop parking lots Like pulling other drivers fifth wheel pins. Maybe because they don't like them or just for fun I don't know why they would do that Uh, that's evil And what that does if you're not familiar with trucks when you pull a fifth wheel pin Uh, that unlocks the trailer from the truck So if you have a lot of weight on your trailer, the the trailer will still Sit on your truck and might stay on your truck for a little while because of all the weight And just the friction of the trailer On the truck, right? But as soon as you get on the highway or you go over a big bump That trailer isn't actually attached and it could go flying off the back of your truck And sometimes it has, you know, up to like 50,000 pounds on it He made even more And that could go flying off into traffic or oncoming traffic It's it's scary that people do this but I've never seen it done personally But I've seen you know stuff on facebook where it happened to people so it's it's not common. It's rare But it's still pretty scary to think about so always double check triple check Just to make sure that no one messed with your rig while you were sleeping More often than not people steal your fuel at night and that's annoying too. It feels expensive And you'll find one of your fuel caps not screwed on or something because People are just some people are just plain evil, but Remember they are the minority the the severe minority the absolute overwhelming majority of people are good people You're continuing two kilometers on 994 west So like she said 82 kilometers about 50 miles And we'll be at Jamestown and we're gonna Then join the two lane highway crew and be on two lane highways all the way up until we get to the trans canada Later tonight. I guess that would be at moustach So I've got this load of styrofoam insulation or styrofoam behind me I don't know if it's insulation styrofoam and super light the whole load weighs just over 5,000 pounds But to the truck which is used to pulling a lot more than that Like I'd say up to 50 like I said 50,000 pounds It feels like I have nothing on the trailer behind me. But what I do have is a nice Aerodynamic load compared to other loads the air doesn't catch this as much So my fuel economy has been great yesterday I averaged over the thousand kilometers or so or 600 miles that I drove yesterday. I averaged 27 liters per 100 kilometers, which is almost nine miles per gallon Nine miles per us gallon just so you know Wow That is the best I've ever done with this truck Once again, my theory is being proved true. So the speed that I was going was 60 miles an hour 95 kilometers an hour somewhere in there That's the speed that I feel is comfortable that I'm not holding up traffic a lot I'm on a four lane highway people can easily go around me. I'm not Being a huge obstacle. There's a lot of trucks out there that are already only governed at 60 miles an hour So, you know, I'm part of their little crew, but if I catch up to anyone going slower than me, I've got a lot more Uh that I can do to get around them yet. I'm not stuck behind them So that's something I do in the four lane highways when people can easily get around me and if traffic isn't too heavy remember if you want to do this as well and try this to be considerate and courteous of drivers behind you And uh, if they can't get around you I mean if you're on two lane highway like for the rest of today after these 50 miles We're going to be on a two lane highway on us 52 then it turns into uh highway 39 and Saskatchewan, right 39 yeah, and then it takes you all the way up to try to get on two lane highway If there's people behind me, I'm going to do the speed limit. Okay. I'm not going to be one of those drivers That holds everybody up That that's I know I'm on a two lane highway And you know and when there's a passing lane, I'm actually going to slow down Let them get around me instead of speeding up at the passing lane You guys notice that that's like a trend on two lane highways And I know you americans you guys are blessed and lucky You guys don't have to travel two lanes as much as us because you got these big four lane intersates everywhere Which is awesome In Canada, we have a lot lot more two lane highways like thousands and thousands of miles of just two lane that we have to go and Canadian drivers know this when you are following someone who's going slower than you want to go And you get finally get to where they have a designated passing lane You're like, yes, it's time to pass. Whoo. You pull out to pass them and they speed up Every time And then if you try and honk at them when you finally do get beside them They give you the bird like it's like it's like you're the problem and then They won't let you pass so you got to go back in behind them And then as soon as the passing lane is over they slow right back down I know again not a lot of people do this, but there is a good Number of people to do if you're one of those people Maybe you do it unconsciously try to try to pay attention to your speed when you're when there's people behind you If you're on the two lane highway and and these trucks are right behind you all the time That means they want to go faster than you so try and make it easy for them to get around you because they're not Going to hold you up. They want to go faster than you I understand you want to keep people behind you so that they don't pass you and slow down Don't do that either I feel like I I shouldn't have to talk about this kind of stuff This is sort of a common sense to me Yeah, people want to go faster than me. I make it easy for them to get around me and then they're out of my hair But And then I then I stay going faster than them, right? Don't forget that that's very important part too They let me around them Or if they let me around them because I want to go faster I actually go faster than them so i'm not holding them up now Oh These are the things I have to deal with every day Year after year I can talk about it all I want people won't learn it'll still happen But at least maybe you can have a good attitude about it when you see somebody behind you you can be that good person Try not to speed up when there's a passing lane it's easy to do because it's a wider highway then right I'm just trying to do that All right, you remember that statue I was telling you about it's right here on the right past this sign This is chief's and motel it's right there on the right He's giving the nazi salute Look at him right on main street Carrington, north dakota Picked off youtube for doing that Apparently it's okay. They do it. I couldn't believe that the first time I saw that I had to take a double take on the wait, what? what On main street now, I think that that obviously means something different in the in the native indian culture It means like hello or something like that right, but This is 2019. I think that's pretty much the universal sign for nazis, right? Everybody everybody's all scared of these nazis everywhere nazis over here nazis over there You got a nazi statue right there on main street Oh, well, I always thought it was a little funny. I figured I'd share that with you. I don't know What do you guys think? I'm gonna stop in at kasey's general store right here Hopefully find a nice little us 52 grass area for a Chevy to go out because I Couldn't take them for too much of a walk where we got up because everything was mud I didn't want his feet to get all muddy. So I'm gonna stop here and hopefully find some nice grass It won't be dry because everything's still wet, but hopefully at least won't be mud What is this guy's load? That looks fun. Look at that big barrel Ah, that must have something to do with oil. We are in oil country right now. Look at that thing. That's beautiful. I love to haul something like that Right, uh, it does look kind of muddy here. Yeah, everything is so muddy. You know what? I don't recommend doing this But I'm just gonna nose in just this time so that Oh, this is bumpy So that uh, I can walk Chevy on the grass here and not have to walk through all this mud Just this time I'm gonna leave enough room for the steps there Okay Look at all that grass right there Chevy. Look at all this grass right here No mud good flying jay in my not north dakota here The last flying jay where I can grab fuel before we get to canada. So naturally I'm going to fill up the tanks here I Believe it's about three dollars a gallon here for the diesel fuel. Whereas if you go up to canada, I'm probably gonna pay A lot more than that Let's do the math here one second No reason to waste fuel sitting here waiting Let's see. Uh, let's say it's three dollars a gallon here. That's Let's do in us prices three dollars a gallon Divided by 3.78. So that would be about 79 cents american per liter Three dollars a gallon Whereas in canada right now. It's hard to do it with the conversions. So Maybe I should just do this in canadian canadian, uh one second here Three usd to cad You're not gonna say it. Okay four dollars exactly. So three dollars american equals four dollars canadian So four dollars per gallon divide that by 3.78 So we're paying about a dollar six here per liter And in canada, we're paying at least a dollar 25 a dollar 30. So we're saving quite a bit per liter Uh In us, let's see See how much would that be in us? There 1.3 Cad to usd. It's equals 97 united states cents Okay, so 97 us cents per liter times 3.78 so gas prices in canada When converted to us prices is three dollars and 67 cents per gallon And that's in the cheap part of canada and that's before the carbon tax Now that the carbon taxes here prices are going up in bc It's even higher a lot higher. So we'll see Now that alberta has joined the ranks of people who are against the carbon tax I think that maybe we have stand a good chance at getting it eliminated Because it's a big cash grab that takes money out of our pockets that could go to food to put on my table And it does nothing like i'm not Slowing down driving at all. I still have to deliver my freight I still have to burn the fuel. I have to burn to get the freight from point a to point b There's no alternative for me. I have to do this It's how I put food on the table So it's not really fair to take money out of my pocket when you don't provide me with a viable alternative right Anyways, enough of that This guy should be done fueling soon and then we can get fuel. I'm going to go inside and have a shower after that And then we're in canada hour and a half or so and we'll be in canada I wanted to stop at the gym today in moose jaw But i'm running kind of tight on time. I have to deliver this freight tomorrow as early as possible in Calgary So it looks like maybe we'll go to the gym in Calgary tomorrow. I don't know if you can tell or not, but We just entered the nation of canada On highway 39 like a full day's drive to Calgary. We have seven and a half hours available to us to drive today yet And when the rest will do tomorrow morning And uh, i'm not doing my usual 60 mile an hour anymore I'm doing the full speed limit that I can legally do Because we need to get this load unloaded tomorrow We need to get unloaded tomorrow and get reloaded because I just realized that when I'm filming this this coming friday The day after tomorrow is good friday So Nothing's open. We can't work on good friday Well, I'll be driving but this weekend is easter. So in order for me to get home for easter I have to Get unloaded and reloaded tomorrow and book it home. I have a load that's delivering in winnipeg. I think uh I guess that would be monday easter monday But I hope you guys uh, you guys are watching this after the easter season. I hope you guys had a great easter celebration It's always a a great season it also signifies The beginning of spring For those of you who may not be religious Take it as a nice holiday right before spring to celebrate all the nice weather ahead For me easter has some special significance and if possible, I like to be home for it We've got a slow moving train crossing the road here, do we? Wouldn't it be nice if there was some kind of invention something that we could create or construct? Wouldn't it be nice if she would stop interrupting me What I was trying to say is wouldn't there be wouldn't it just be amazing if we could just construct something so that The train could pass by and we could pass by at the exact same time, you know like Passing over the train or maybe passing under the train. I don't know These are things that uh don't exist out here apparently Dad, why did they stop? I don't know man Train stopped right on the road Just my luck I also had a long wait at the border a really long wait Oh, just started to move again. I had to wait an hour at the border Just to cross when I got to the to the window Less than 30 seconds and I was cleared to go through but I had to wait an hour to get up to the window So it's been a delay after delay today At least I'm on Canadian hours of service now So I have two extra hours to drive But I only have four hours 49 minutes left on my 16 hour day now So we'll get as far as we can and it'll be a short night just stopping for our minimum eight hour requirement requirement requirement And then we'll be off I'm hoping to be able to unload like before noon tomorrow, but it looks like it might be afternoon Which means we're gonna have to rush to get reloaded like rush rush At least my reload isn't too far away from where I'm unloading. So Hopefully it'll all work out Otherwise, I'll be sitting in Calgary until Monday morning. So Friday Saturday Sunday Monday three days I'll be sitting around in Calgary. I mean Calgary is a great place to hang out. It's not like that's A bad thing is that rather spend that time at home, you know, I had to spend last week and hanging out in Wisconsin already. So I'd like to go home, but Trucking, you know, we'll just let trucking decide Beautiful out here though. All the weather is finally finally agreeing Absolutely gorgeous out there that train's moving pretty good now already. Wow That was fast Before we get started, I want to give a quick shout out to transportation nation network I have partnered with them to bring you the best in trucking entertainment and trucking news on the web Go to their website transportation nation.com and you will find that it is your one-stop shop for everything trucking There's a lot of great trucking shows and entertainment there as well I encourage you to go sign up on their website and subscribe to their shows. 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