 Another snowy day and another heavy load right it back to the yard with this Took me a little bit of time to get the weight adjusted on here. I had to slide my fifth wheel forward I had to move 2,000 pounds off my drives onto my steers. I'm sitting at 78,880 pounds gross Not much room to play around with the maximum here is 80,000 pounds in the US It's got to be just right Let's get going. We're in Duluth, Minnesota headed back to Manitoba Like usual it took longer than I wanted it to and it's pretty much just exactly bang-on on all of them 36,000 on my drives and only 10,000 on my steers So I had to move my fifth wheel quite a bit forward, but not too far forward because I don't want the trailer to hit my headache rack so first time I moved it it was too far forward that'd be When I checked it out it would have hit the headache rack so I had to move it back a few inches And now it's as far forward as I could Have it without it hitting something And that just moved just enough weight 2,000 pounds. I didn't know I could move that much weight with my fifth wheel I've always had my fifth wheel a little further back I like the extra space to work there between my truck and trailer when I'm grabbing straps and equipment out of my headache Wrap one kilometer take the entrance to the right on I 35 North Always had you know Trouble getting weight on to my steers and the only way to do that is to slide that fifth wheel forward It does stabilize the steering a little bit on the ice Having more weight on your steers All right, we made it work I'm glad we can make it work because I kind of saw that 36,000 pounds on my drives and my eyes almost popped out of my head Whoa I Look at my steers. Oh my I've got to figure out a way of Shuffling that over right Trucking isn't all this good driving. It's all a lot of math and adjusting your weight making sure each axle has the right amount of weight on it You don't want any old weight Take the entrance to the right on I 35 North Donation in 200 meters hard see if they got an empty step deck for me. If not I'm not at your destination candidate border truck empty step deck waiting there for me Then I got to use this one I'm going to canora tomorrow and I need this step deck I'm hoping there's gonna be an empty one in the yard that I can just grab so I can get a head start and get there tonight yet I got a swing pass home. I Forgot my reflective vest that goes over my sweater. I just got my jacket, right? Hopefully just grab an empty one to go if they can unload this trailer tomorrow whenever they want me It works that I can take that otherwise I'll have to wait till tomorrow morning to get this trailer unloaded So some of you've been asking why it depends on the season in this season in the winter months when it's colder outside I only fuel up in Canada because The fuel is made a little bit better for this climate. It's clear diesel fuel whereas in the US. There's a mixture of biodiesel Even diesel number one in the US isn't quite the same as the fuel we have here in Canada That's conditioned for the cold temperatures That we have to live in winter months. I just fuel up on the Canadian side of the border and in the summer months I Save some money in fuel in the US as much as I can fuel here is going 18 cents per liter So yes, everybody who's been saying that the fuel is cheaper in the US. Why not fuel there? Well, you're right. It is cheaper there it is but The way they mix their fuel is it's just a little different it It'll gel up a little easier, and then if you just fuel up up here. I don't even know if I need this jacket I don't know So if you look here before leaving on this last trip We delivered that load of lumber into Brainerd, Minnesota Ran over to Duluth picked up there this morning and now we're back here Probably a total of close to 1300 kilometers or 750 miles or so. Let's see what the pump has to tell us. I Never like what the pump has to tell us So it's not bad numbers bad numbers all right and the numbers are in So we drove on this last tank a tank of fuel since we fueled up last we drove 1395 kilometers or 866 miles. I Just filled up for 560 liters or 148 gallons US That equaled out to 40 point one four liters per hundred kilometers or five point eight six miles per US gallon Like I said earlier the fuel price here is two dollars 18 cents per liter Canadian cost me $1,220 and 25 cents Canadian What is one thousand two hundred and twenty Canadian dollars in US dollars? One thousand two hundred twenty Canadian dollars equals nine hundred nineteen United States dollars and eight cents And there you have it so when Canadian money here I spent 87 cents per kilometer on fuel and a dollar 41 per mile That doesn't include all the maintenance my own wage and everything else on top of that That's just fuel. So there you go 5.86 miles per gallon. So we are under our target, which is bad. You want to be over My target is six miles per gallon or higher 5.86 isn't the best Not too far underneath but add in our little record keeper there okay So now like I was saying I want to go see if they have an empty Stepdeck trailer for me tomorrow in canora. I have a reload lumber going down to Minnesota again And I need a stepdeck for it And I don't really want to take this stepdeck because this stuff's got freight on it If I use this stepdeck which I might have to if there's no other empty one I have to wait till morning to get it unloaded in our yard and then I can take it Which means I'd be I'd just be getting going later in the day and I'd rather you know start my day over there already Definitely not gonna get any closer if we sit around here much longer Well, we got lucky. There was a couple of stepdecks to choose from We had one over there you sort of see it in the dark One way over there. That's 107 DB this one over here. I think was was it 130 one or 130 some 129 this was the trailer we had and this is the trailer. I'm taking 128d Look at the difference in these trailers first of all, let's go take a look at this trailer I took all my equipment off it because they're gonna unload it here tomorrow Look at this this trailer came with me through four or five five snowstorms, I think And there's nothing I can do about that They'll have to take it inside the shop if they want to thaw it out get all this ice off of here because this is all ice Hey, I mean I could spend six hours here chipping it all off But it'd be much quicker just to park it inside and I can't take it to my shop. It won't fit in there That's just from the road Crazy right now look at the difference on the one I'm taking with me to Kanora. Hopefully it stays this clean This guy here, that's how it's supposed to look Much better, right? Just covered in ice is probably about 1500 pounds ice on this trailer Here supposed to this year much better, right? Double-check all these tires. I've already checked them, but just a piece of mind since I'm back here I don't like to be back by the axles and not at least kick the tires make sure that they haven't gone flat for some odd reason Before I roll out I have steel toes so With regular shoes that doesn't really work to kick the tires I always have steel toes on give them a good kick just to make sure they're inflated if They're flat or one of those flat you can definitely tell definitely All right, old blue. I'm gonna swing by home real quick. I got to pick up my my vest that I left at home Maybe have some supper with the wife and Oh, this is something that I'm gonna have to fix on the weekend The signal still works. So it still flashes. It's still signal Fantastic, okay. It's just the snow and ice probably got to it and it's probably just a bad connection And it's all iced up right now. So I'm gonna have to get it into the shop warm it up melt it all out And deal with it then At least I got these marker lights here, right these here Those there So That's that