 This truck stop here as well, you've met him a couple of times, he's just a few doors down that way. Just had a chat with him this morning, it's always fun to run into friends on the road. He said the highway was actually closed to Regina last night, he came from that direction and once he got here he looked at the app and it was closed so it's a good thing we stayed here, wouldn't have gotten very far and I would have been stuck on the road there somewhere or had to turn around. So I've been here for nine and a half hours right now and I'm trying to get confirmation from work that I'm bringing this load to our yard in Manitoba because if I'm staying in Canada, I'm going home tonight, I can leave now, I only need to stop for eight hours but if I'm going into the US with it because it's going to Iowa and if they want me to take it straight there or if they want me to deliver it there today yet like across the border today yet I have to make sure that I'm stopped for 10 consecutive hours here first before going into the US because the US hours of service and the laws there require that 10 hours off before starting your day so I got to make sure I'm legal for that. I was waiting for confirmation on that if we're staying in Canada we're going to get out of here right away and we're going to the US and we just got to sit around for about another 45 minutes. I already did my free trip and everything I'm ready to go but am I right? Keeping us all accountable to the law and stuff, crazy, making sure we obey. No cheating, obey the law. Honestly for me the E-Log hasn't bugged me much. I've been on it for several years now already and when I first started driving in 2006 and doing long haul in 2011 I was on paper logs for seven, almost ten years? No, 15. Over ten years I was on paper log and yeah it's a little bit of an adjustment getting onto E-Logs and I'm not an advocate for E-Logs. Don't get me wrong I am not pushing for more of this regulation but it hasn't honestly really bothered me that much. I mean really all it does is it keeps the cowboy truckers accountable. The guys who like to drive you know pop pills and drive for three days straight. That's what I mean by I should call a super cowboy trucker because cowboy truckers are pretty cool. I like the super cowboy truckers. You guys know the ones that drive across the continent without stopping. That's what is designed to stop so that they're not running two or three log books at the same time. It hasn't really bothered me much but I'm not pushing for it either. Paper was nice but this is a lot easier. I mean a lot less paperwork. We've gotten our answer. We're going home tonight. We're not entering the US so we can get going right away. The highways are open. Let's get going. See how bad they are. Off we go. The sun is already starting to come up so it's gonna be a good day. There's Adam. Truck with his lights on there. He's got a brand new brand new Peterbilt. What are those models called? Is it the condo sleeper? We'll go say hi to him. Nice truck. Say hi to everybody. Okay we'll have a safe trip. Yeah that's a spot right there when if you're on the corner corner spot. Yeah people coming around you all morning. Some of these guys you know they're still asleep. Let's get out there. You could already be out there. This guy's getting paid by the hour. Tell you what I want to get moving. I want to go home. So I called into the load gods and to dispatch this morning. We've got a great teamwork in there and I've been helping out van division obviously because I have a van trailer behind me. If you haven't watched my last couple of days of vlogs I rescued a trailer here in Saskatoon actually. A truck had broke down. I bob-tailed here, grabbed this trailer, delivered the load to Edmonton yesterday morning and then was on my way back home with a load and I got stuck here. Roads got shut down and the snowstorm was too bad so I stayed here for the night. Now we're continuing back and before I got past Regina I wanted to make sure I wasn't taking this load straight through to Iowa because then I'd go straight south from Regina right. I thought the plan was to go home and I just wanted to confirm that yes that was the plan. It's out there and I know a lot of you probably aren't familiar with where I'm at. That's why I put the little map at the beginning of my videos so you know where I'm driving. So when you see the scenery coming into my camera and onto your screen you know approximately where I am. So that way if you're out Europe or Australia we're down in the US. You're like oh that's where that is. That's Prairies. Building a new bridge or something here. This is Portage La Prairie. Look at all the smoke. What's going on? This is all smoke. Keep that air outside the best we can. What's going on? Is there big fire here somewhere? It looks like fog right? No I think that's smoke. Anyways we're doing this construction here and in the meantime Manitoba has gone the route of insanity and installed a roundabout here for whatever reason. I just figured they'd have some fun with it I guess. Where all this smoke came from or is it fog? Like wood burning either. Oh that smells kind of chemically. Okay I'm gonna leave the windows closed. Gonna have to google what's burning in Portage La Prairie on November 8th. Definitely thickest over if I remember at the end of my I'll probably forget by then. What is burning in Portage La Prairie on November 8th 2022? Not much filming I know but I dropped the van trailer in the back left the paperwork inside so that the next driver can take it and I grabbed the new step deck. We're headed to Canora tomorrow morning. I pick up another little lumber. Not too sure where it's going yet but I know where it is. So just rushing rushing rushing. I gotta be up early tomorrow. I've got to leave home probably about 5 30 in the morning 6 o'clock somewhere in there. So I'll get the truck all ready to go. No time to wash it or anything today. I'm just going home just to sleep pretty much. Well spend time with the family and sleep. Get home shower eat watch a movie probably and go to bed but it's something it's something. I'm glad I get to go home at least for the night. Back at the shop it kind of feels like we're parking all blue here for the weekend. It feels like that because we've already been driving for what four days? More than that? No more than that because I drove all last week. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday oh boy over five days been like a really long week that's why it feels like it's been so long since I've been home. Don't worry I'll be back in the morning. What's tomorrow? Wednesday I have three more days this week yet I got to make use of so we're going to canora tomorrow I don't know where that low is going yet I already told you that all blue needs a bath but you'll have to wait till the weekend. I have new decals coming now I ordered new ones. I ordered them through a company here in town and they ghosted me and I've been waiting over seven weeks no calls nor I went in there in person they said they'd call me back never called me back I've called them two or three times throughout the two months kept saying oh yeah we'll check up on that and we'll call you right back every time same thing exact same thing we'll check up on that for you yeah and we'll see where it's at and we'll call you right back once we have an answer for you. It's been like over seven or eight weeks two months so I said you lost my business I wanted to support local but you lost my business I don't know what kept happening I don't know why I kept falling through the cracks maybe they just didn't want to work with me I don't know what I ever did to them but they're not getting my business now so I ordered new decals myself and I'll put them on myself because this name is spelt wrong and it's driving me and all of you nuts that is supposed to be ILE the D is supposed to be lower case and they're supposed to be like a little house like that over the E and it's supposed to be a lot smaller I ordered them about an inch and a half to two inches two inches I ordered them small enough that I can put them a blanket in my hand here down the bottom of the door here because I did check up on it we do have to have the town name on the side of the truck so I'll order the rest I'm gonna see how these decals come or decals how they come how they stick how they work and if I they're good I'm gonna go through that company from now on other than that I'm going home now this is my editing station my little office here now no time for editing tonight it's already 8 30 I want to go home got my tarps inside on my catwalk there warming up overnight they got all wet so hopefully they'll dry out a little bit in here I mean they're rolled up so they're probably not going to you but at least they'll thaw out a little bit and I'll probably freeze on the way to Kanora tomorrow anyways I have to use them tomorrow to tart my load and then tires are still doing pretty good I'm hoping I can get another year out of them yet I want to replace these drives next fall just before winter we'll see if they make it that far they're doing pretty good so far and maybe this weekend or a weekend soon I'm gonna have to take this flag these are my new ones right this is the original flag of Canada that's that's Canada's flag if you didn't know that history lesson that's not really our flag that's our current flag yeah they don't it's not what I meant that is the flag we have over our heads now but it was changed from that that was our original flag New Zealand Australia all these other flags except for New Zealand UK and the old minion flag I put through the dryer first to get rid of those little creases right like you look like they still got those squares on it driving me nuts I thought that they would just fade out on their own if I just leave them and hang them up for a while yeah you're still there so I've got to I gotta take them home and put them through the dryer so that they look more like that without all the creases if you're new I like flags and some people collect stamps some people collect rocks some people collect classic cars and some people collect boats I collect flags sort of I just I like the history I guess right anyway that's enough it's time to go home she's struggling with the other boys in there she'll open the doors and oh my goodness almost died oh my god I saved that oh my oh I know oh my goodness watch the little guy shimmy look at her brought diesel home he smells like a truck doesn't he hey buddy did you miss him did you miss him it smells like snowstorms I'm showered I'm fed look at that baby bump there she is 19 and a half weeks halfway we're getting there I can feel it stretching out in there you've been able to feel it kicking around to yeah a little bit this afternoon when I laid down for a nap felt a little bit of fluttering and then yesterday in the bathtub it felt a bit of fluttering I must be such a cool feeling it is it'll be even cooler when I actually know it's actual chicks it's not just gas but it's kicks yeah baby