 Mostly centered around our hydroelectric dam and our whole well We have a bunch of hydroelectric dams from Manitoba up there on the Nelson River Gillum is the farthest north I've been I've been there in winter time I remember last year we went there and there was like it seemed like three feet of snow on the road and I was pushing snow with my Bumper and we're meeting trucks and we're plowing through the snow Yeah, this this time should be a little better because it's summertime But it is a gravel road for about 250 kilometers or like 150 miles or so I'm not looking forward to that at all, but we go where the money is right? And if there's enough money at the end of that gravel road, well go down the gravel road that the money speaks That's the whole reason we're out here, right? Well and that we love trucking Obviously I do this job that I love because I love it, but I could not afford to do it for free I was telling you that last night It would be nice to offer my services for free wouldn't it? But then how would my kid eat how would I eat how would my wife eat? How would we buy a new home? It's already hard enough to buy a new home in Canada right now So I've got to chase as many of those dollars as I can if those dollars are up north Well, guess what we're pointing all blues nose up north. That's for tomorrow today I'm gonna grab our load and thief from Falls grab some fuel in Pillager, Minnesota just down the road here from Brainerd And head back home. I might be able to get home for night tonight. I'm Not sure yet. I'm not sure yet. I might just Depending I'll check the weather up north. I might just need to go hook up onto the trailer I'm taking north and start heading up there. It's the RGN trailer. So it's a removable goose neck It's gonna be fun showing you guys that Blue is thirsty me much. I've gotten it down to a science in the summertime how I can get exactly down here With the emptiest tanks possible so that I can fill up down here where it's cheaper before I go up to Canada We're also gonna top off the tanks again tonight Before we cross into the US before we cross into Canada from the US Because I'm going up in a northern Manitoba where the fuel prices are woo-hoo Through the roof past the sky and among the stars We want to fuel up in the States as much as we can so now I just fueled up now I See I fueled up for 195 US gallons 738 liters Cost me seven hundred and sixty dollars US or a thousand and five dollars Canadian That equals out to it was three dollars 90 cents per US gallon Or a dollar thirty six Canadian per liter with all conversions What is the fuel price just up north in Canada? So if it was going to Canada It's gonna fuel it flying J in Canada probably be at the St. Agath Location just over the border Let's see. I think the fuel price there a dollar sixty three nine aren't they? Let's see if this Apple load up today for me today Pilot flying J. Come on. Let's go Here we go, okay Load up the fuel price there fuel price in St. Agath is Drumroll dollar sixty five nine per liter so Just off pump price no discounts. No nothing dollar sixty five nine subtract a dollar thirty six point two No, thirty six three. That's what it was here 29.6 cents cheaper here then in Canada I bought how many liters? 738.159 liters Just today by fueling here and not there I kept in my pocket $218.50 I Would have had to pay an extra two hundred dollars and two hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty cents had I fueled Five hours that way $400 and we fuel up these tanks Every day every second day Let's say let's be Conserved let's say we fill it up every second day. How many days are there in a week? Let's say there's five six days in a week even if twice if we fuel up twice in a week That's four hundred and getting close to four hundred and fifty dollars a week that we save Four hundred and forty a week eight hundred and eighty every two weeks What is that one thousand six hundred and sixty No one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars a month So if I always be vigilant about where I fuel and always go for the cheaper fuel And if it works out that I can always fuel down here, and I fuel twice a week all month at the end of the month In my pocket, I'll have an extra one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars Isn't that crazy? What the difference is in fuel prices and remember our prices up north in Canada just went up again because of the COVID tax saving the planet stealing my money somehow somehow by taking that money out of my pocket and Taking the food I would buy with it off my family table by making it harder for me to feed my family and to house them Just taking that money away Somehow make the weather better makes perfect sense, right? Being so cautious and careful as I've never hooked up to this trailer or a trailer similar to it with my truck yet So come with me. Let's not waste this fuel Shut this off. How do I shut this off? How do I shut it off? How do I shut this thing off? Ah The off switch that always helps. Okay, so I've never hooked up to this trailer before And you see how this gooseneck Detaches from here and then you drive the machinery up on the front, right? So I think I'm gonna have to slide my fifth wheel back because it doesn't look like I've got a lot of room back here Right, it might be okay because the trailer will swing around and it might miss my mudflap hangers But I definitely don't want to mess around with that. I'd be very careful test it out first Don't want to rip those off Got it So we've got to put these tarps on the deck there somewhere tie them down together with these those are the Blocks that we put underneath there to prop it up I think I'm happy with his ride height if I want to lower that a little bit yet. I can but for now we'll try that I don't want it to be too low when we get hung up over railway tracks and stuff, right? I'm gonna hook up the airlines and stuff Tie my tarps down and then I'm gonna get a little bit of a head start for tomorrow get to the other side of I want to peg somewhere But first we got to make sure that we're not going to touch this here when we turn I might have to slide that fifth wheel back yet If that's the case, that's that'll be easy and be fine All right, we got it pulled out and I think we'll be just fine when I come close to touching I won't have to move the fifth wheel back. I'd like to leave the fifth wheel where it is Just because it's mostly centered between my drive axles then Evens the weight out on both axles that they wear evenly. I noticed that if I leave it all the way back My front axle wears out faster my rear because my rear's carrying all the weight vice versa In oak bluff, I've called this oak bank so many times oak bank is on the other side of Winnipeg is a different town This is oak bluff No, Karen, we're stopping here. This is where we're gonna stay tonight No, no, Karen It's time to sleep I just wanted to get a little bit of a head start on tomorrow Get this rgn trailer behind me all set up. So I'm ready to go that's so oak bluff not oak bank oak bluff getting moving Because this guy over here is idling And his engine van keeps kicking on And there's space over there to park and no one's idling over there It's a perfect night outside. I don't know why people idle We're working with Just over a thousand kilometers to go tomorrow to my destination Where i'm gonna pick up Some kind of big piece of machinery And bring it back here Looking forward to it. It's something different So like always, thanks for joining me today Uh, the summary of the day is we started in Brainerd, minnesota We delivered that load of lumber rolled up our tarps Drove up to thief river falls minnesota dropped that empty trailer Through our tarps on the new trailer that had freight on it Took that new trailer, which is a tri-axle step Back up to our yard here in manitoba That was about a two and a half three hour drive Drop that trailer there hooked on to this rgn trailer removable goose neck Figured out how it all works again refreshed my memory. I was trained on it. Was it last year? I'm trained on it anyways, but I refreshed my memory Uh, and buddy anthony there was uh, who uses it more than me He actually was in the yard and he came and said hi And went over it with me again there just to make sure that everything Was gonna be good He's a great guy. I appreciate that a lot just to make sure that uh, I'll get one other driver Just to make sure you're okay. Sure. You're good Because he's pulled this trailer recently And he just let me know of all the things I should expect He's actually pulled it up to gillum before and that's where i'm going with it So he told me to expect uh, uh A few rocks to sort of jam up the goose neck a little bit when you Remove it. You sort of got to clear it off underneath the trailer. I'll try to get it on video when it happens And uh, when you put it back together, you got to make sure it's all clean. He gave me a few pointers there So that was great. And uh, other than that, I just got a little bit of head start on tomorrow We're here in oak bluff. I'm gonna start from here exactly 1069 kilometers from here But 620 25 miles It's gonna be a fun day heading up heading up north. I like going north in the summertime One second here. I forgot to put myself in sleep or didn't I I've just been sitting here On duty doing my post trip this whole time talking to you guys That's a waste of time I'm not talking to you guys. You guys are not a waste of time It's a waste of time for my e-log if I tell them i'm not like Off duty at least because i'm not on duty right now. I'm off duty Doing my own thing here It's eating away at my e-log hours. I can adjust that I guess I'm getting tired time for me to go to sleep. We will see you tomorrow It's pretty late already. It's about 1 30 in the morning So I can't get rolling from here until at least 9 30 9 well 9 45 because I got to do a pretrip 9 45 10 o'clock There's a timmy's right here at the esso. So I'll get tims in the morning And we'll get going sometime before noon. It'll be a long day. We'll probably be driving till midnight or so Which is kind of a downer because now I'm gonna have to drive down that uh Uh gravel road at night Hopefully all the moose are Staying out of my way And I want to get to my destination and sleep at my destination So I'm there first thing in the morning got a fuel in Thompson All stuff we can talk about tomorrow And I'll see you then don't forget hit the like button if you did like the video don't lie All right, if you liked it hit the thumbs up button Makes me feel good. I'll see you with the algorithms. Leave me a comment down below again Helps with the algorithms to let youtube know that hey people are commenting on this We should share it with more people and hey, you can help me also by sharing it on your social media All the stuff that every other youtuber tells you you know the drill same thing for me Really appreciate that helps out my channel a lot I'll see you tomorrow How many of you called it? I moved I got quiet neighbors now And I can put my screen in my windows And have a nice quiet peaceful night It's a perfect night not to idle It's just a beautiful like Perfect temperature outside No point in wasting fuel No point