 So we're starting off here in Weber and Saskatchewan, slow to lumber going down to Valley, Nebraska. Beautiful day for trucking. Weber and Saskatchewan. It's in the southeast side of the province. I'm on my way down to North Dakota. I'm going to cross from North Portals to Saskatchewan into Portal, North Dakota. And we're going to snake our way down towards Nebraska, get this lumber off my trailer, and head back home. Like I was saying in yesterday's video at the end there, I had a hard time finding parking in this town. They took at least the 50 to 70 parking spots away from us. There used to be this big parking lot at Co-op where we would all, it was sort of like the go-to drug stop. It was a perfect place to stop on the way down to the US and going through town. They had a nice restaurant there. Everyone would go and enjoy a nice meal. And then they decided to build a big grocery store right on the parking lot. It took up like the whole parking lot and it went down from like 75 spots down to 15. So I showed up here this morning and I was, or I mean well it was early this morning, late last night. And I was trying to figure out where to park. I ended up having to park on a street in an industrial zone where parking is allowed. I sort of had to do some googling to figure out if I was allowed to park here. Found out I was. There's nowhere else to park. And I had one minute left on my clock when I stopped. One minute. I couldn't go anywhere else. But it worked out. So we got parked. Now we slept. We're ready to go. Let's start the new day. I'm going to stop at Minot for some fuel, shower, and possibly a truck wash. This is a beautiful day. It would be a shame not to wash the truck on a day like this. But we'll see what the lineup is like. I don't have a lot of time. If there's a long lineup at the Blue Beacon, I won't be able to. But let's check it out and see what happens. That's quite the unit. I wonder how fast you can seed your field with that thing. That's a big air seeder. I believe. I mean farmers can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's an air seeder. I am a truck driver, not a farmer. Though I know some farmers. All right, so I'm getting all my stuff ready here. I'm in Estevan at the Petropas, right before the border. I've got to make sure that I have all my paperwork together, that I have passport ready to go, my identification, everything else within arms reach, all the information that they're probably going to ask me about in front of my mind. So I'm not stumbling over my words, not looking suspicious. I have nothing to hide, but you know, they can be intimidating. That's their job. The customs officers, it's not their job to be your friend. It's their job to figure out what your business is in their country. And if you have any bad intentions, right? I've got everything here now. Sitting ready to rock. Yeah, when you show up to customs, don't expect them to be too friendly. Okay, they might even treat you kind of suspiciously, you know, that's their job. That's what they're paid to do. They're not paid to be your friend, but most of them are pretty friendly. I'm going to say that like 99% of them are pretty friendly. Everyone else in the world, you show up to the window and someone's obviously had a bad day, or they probably had a bad experience with someone else at the window right before you and they're kind of put off by that. It's not usually you, but yeah, they're friendly, you know, go up there, smile, answer their questions, speak when spoken to, and don't go into too much depth. Answer what they ask. Don't go into too many details. If they want to know, they'll ask. Let's go to the US, shall we? I'm excited. I love our neighbors. I'm just going to make myself some food here because my stomach is really hungry all of a sudden. I'm going to get down to Minot, we're going to get fueled, and we're going to have a shower, and then we're going to go over to Blue Beacon at Shatz Travel Plaza. That's what it's called. See how long the lineup is. If there's no lineup, we're going to get in line, get a truck wash. If there's too long of a lineup, I don't have time today, we'll get the truck washed tomorrow, I guess. Anyway, enough babbling, enough babbling, I'm hungry. Self under legal weight limits. We're going to swing past Blue Beacon, see if there is a lineup or not. I'm kind of thinking there probably is. We'll see if there's no lineup, maybe we'll go in. If there's anyone in line, I don't, I just don't have the time today. Well, maybe stop in Fargo. There's another Blue Beacon there. This is the biggest of rush. I don't want to drag my feet either, you know what I mean? I already stopped for a shower today. That's a given. I mean the truck needs a shower too, right? It's only fair. If you look at it that way, I'm trying to talk myself into it here. Let's go spend a hundred bucks and wash the truck. My shower is a lot cheaper. My shower is actually free with the fuel I bought. Oh man, this is a hard one to get across here. I should have gone for it. I should have gone. Why am I so nice? Okay, after this pickup, after this pickup coming from our left, I'm giving her. It charges a little extra here for whatever reason. They actually have a sign on the back of their building before you go in. It says that the prices here are higher due to something, something. I don't know what their expenses. Turn left on 20th Street and then turn right in 40 meters. Forgot about that. We'll swing by their, uh, the other truck wash. Hoping to find a spot here to park overnight. I've only got 23 minutes left on my clock. Ride to your destination on the right side. Stone's truck stop. How do I get back there now? Too close together. That one truck has taken up two spots. 13 minutes remaining. Made it. And this is where we'll sleep tonight. I don't know why no one parked on this side. You see that back row there's pretty much completely full. There's one spot open there, but that truck who parked all crooked, he's got an engine fan that keeps kicking on and off very loud. That can be irritating at night. He's also got a reefer, but that whole row is pretty much filled up. There's all this room on this side, but this is where we'll sleep. Okay, I'm gonna be honest. I moved. Found a much better spot. Now I'm right in the corner. I just have a pickup truck there as a neighbor. He's sleeping in this pickup truck there. And one guy here, he is idling on a perfect night. You don't need to idle and burn fuel, but that's his choice. Let him idle or whatever. I was parked right over there. You see, but unfortunately, you know that bob tail? You probably heard him while I was back there. His truck was making an awful lot of noise. Like idling at probably something like 1500 RPM. Engine just screaming. It's too old of a truck to be doing a regen. Maybe I'm wrong, but engine was just screaming very loud. I can tell why he has no neighbors beside him now. And plus his engine fan kept kicking on and off just like that other truck. That's the thing. Like on my truck, I have a button right here that controls my engine fan. So on the cold nights and winter time when I have to keep my truck running just to keep things moving. If my engine fan keeps kicking on and off and on and off and on off, what I do is I turn my engine fan on. That doesn't happen very often on cold nights now. Now that I'm thinking about it, but that's just what I would do is common courtesy because the guy beside me doesn't need this like whoosh whoosh every five minutes, right? This engine fan just screaming, especially on Cummins engines. In, well, that was a freight liner over there. Some of these engines, like the engine fan you can't even hear, but on mine and a lot of other trucks when the engine fan kicks on, you hear it. It just screams. And for some reason, some of these trucks, the engine final kick on and kick off and kick on and kick off. And I can sleep in a truck. Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining about noise. I'm a truck driver. I can sleep with the truck beside me idling. That doesn't bother me. It sort of puts me to sleep. Actually, I like the sound of diesel engines. As long as it's a pretty much a steady sound, even reefers, you know, I always bug guys with reefers. They don't bother me that much really. And it turns on and it stays on for a while and then it shuts off for a while. It's not a unless it's like going on and off and on. It's when there's like a loud noise that wakes you up and it turns off and you just fall back asleep and then turns back on and wakes you up. And it turns off and you fall back asleep and turns back on. I'm just tired right now. I know you can probably tell I'm just I always have to circle the parking lot like three times. I'm like a dog. I have to do a couple of circles before I lay down for the night. I usually move parking spots. I'll park in one spot. I'll walk around my truck. First of all, make sure I'm straight. If I'm not straight, I rearrange myself so that I'm straight. And then I pay attention. I shut the truck off and I listen. I sit in the sleeper on the bed there or on the seat here and I listen. Are the people beside me quiet? If they're too noisy, if their trucks are too noisy or if they're playing their music too loud in their truck and I couldn't hear it before until I turn my engine off, I start her back up and I go find a different spot. I'm not going to fight with their noise to get some sleep through the night. I'm just going to park somewhere where I can actually get a good sleep because tomorrow I've got a full day of work. I can't afford to be kept up all night by someone playing their music too loud or listening to their podcast on max volume in their truck or having their truck idling so high with their engine fan kicking on and off, even some reefers. If I park beside a reefer, if it's a good reefer, one of the quieter ones, man, it doesn't bother me. But if it's like one of the older ones or one of the models that's like really loud, I will definitely, I'll pull right back out of that parking spot. I'll go find a different spot. I value my sleep on the road because, you know, I don't want to hurt anybody out here. I can't, I don't want to drive tired. So a good sleep is very valuable. That's enough ranting about that. That's enough ranting. You guys get it. I talk about these things, not to complain, but to relate to you because I know all of you are thinking the same thing. You feel the same way as me. People who don't agree with me tend to not watch my videos. You can always tell who they are because they'll drop in for a video or two. They'll hit the thumbs down and they'll leave an ask you comment down below and then they're gone. Right? They don't come back. But people who like my stuff usually agree with what I talk about. And when I rant about things, sure, yeah, I'm complaining a little bit. Yeah, sure. Why not? We can be honest about that. We all complain every now and then. But I complain because it's a vlog. It's a video blog. And it's something to talk about that you and I can relate on because I know you feel the same way for the most part. If I'm wrong, let me know down below in the comment section. If I'm right, hit that subscribe button. Make sure you hit the bell button. And I'll see you around here for tomorrow, for tomorrow's video. I don't know what I was trying to say. I'm getting pretty tired. Hit all the buttons. All right. And I'll see you right here tomorrow. I need to go to bed. This is what I mean. I need to go to bed. I need a good night's sleep. Lots of work to do tomorrow. Tomorrow from here, we'll be going to Valley Nebraska, dropping off the slumber. I don't know where my reload is yet, but I've heard that it might be back up in North Dakota. So I might need to turn around and book it back up here. I'm 437 kilometers away from my destination, which means it'll be almost 900 kilometers or almost 550 miles to go deliver and get back to right here. So I might come back right here again tomorrow. That's pretty much a full day of work. I might go a little further too. You'll have to tune in tomorrow. I don't even know what's going to happen.