 good morning everybody we're locked and loaded just got to get some of the snow off of here and then we'll hit the road it is uh both 6 30 am right now got in here first thing in the morning showed up to the very nice driver over there he uh i was parked right here right and my light's off because i was waiting for 6 am to go in they told me i should only go in at 6 am apparently i can go in at 5 well he came in he blew past me and cut in front of me in the line got ready get loaded and i got on the radio and i'm like hey hey hey wait a second hey hey excuse me you cut the line bud and i wasn't expecting a response right it's usually out here drivers will just sort of ignore you and you know cut in line and get loaded and be gone they'll never see you again right this guy was super nice he responded he apologized i'm so sorry man i i misunderstood why you were parked there i wasn't trying to cut in front of you he let me back in front of him he he came out of there went around and let me go in front of him get loaded first and now i'm loaded ready to go because i've been waiting here 15 hours and he just got here so very nice to see that there is some courtesy and some respectful drivers out there still was on a mistake and he corrected it and uh took his place in the line so i was encouraging it was really nice put me in a good mood first thing this morning telling if there's still drivers out there who care so start to vlog off on a good note i'm gonna get some of the snow off of here first because they loaded a little bit of snow in here i don't want that flying into traffic and got my tarps back here i've sent in my paperwork already everything is tight tight tight tight tight tight tight tight tight tight tight tight tight and tight and now for the obligatory that ain't going nowhere except with me let's go good morning to you too karen feel a kind of chipper today are you so i don't know if i'm going home tonight or if there's going to be another load for me i'm going to be begging for uh for freight all the way back today i want to keep working but seeing as it's new year's holidays and it's a long weekend there may not be anywhere for me to pick up or to deliver everything's going to be closed so we'll see what happens i'm probably going to be going home tonight i'm going to say through all my years experience i'm pretty certain i'm going to be going home but i'm hoping i can leave this weekend to deliver somewhere right after new year's now we'll see what they got for me i will use my trucker drosh persuasion voice and ask them pretty pretty please a nickel for me please could you spare a nickel i just opened his door right into traffic right in front of me you see that it's a beautiful day to be trucking in minnesota look at this it's almost like a christmas highway still stuck on christmas i'm not letting it go yet i'm not in where you are my voice can be a little quieter i'm further away from the mic all i use for a microphone usually is the microphone built right into the gopro i'm using my gopro hero eight at the moment i have a gopro hero 10 as well which has similar quality microphone so i sort of have to shout and sometimes i forget to shout and then in the editing it's hard to adjust the volume so i got a couple of comments on yesterday's video about that my apologies i i tried to level out the audio but i am aware of it and uh keep an extra close ear on it sometimes if i boost the audio so you can hear my voice it also boosts the audio of the truck sound and my truck's a little loud and then sometimes that can be overbearing we'll get it we'll get it you know i'm not a professional videographer or anything i'm not a hollywood producer i'm just a truck driver just doing what he does out here trying to share my life with you highway two it's going to take us all the way to grand forks north dakota from there we're going to take interstate 29 north into manitoba rolled through grand forks north dakota going to do today what i said that i uh don't usually do i've had a lot of time to fuel prices are in the u.s compared to canada fuel prices spiked around the world canada went along with everybody else now the united states has dropped back down to an all-right level it could still go down a lot further if you ask me but it's gone down quite a bit our gas our fuel prices for diesel in manitoba have stayed the same haven't budged they're still sitting at two dollars and six cents per liter i'm gonna stop at loves just south of the canadian border in the u.s on i-29 fuel prices at loves are four dollars 35 cents us per us gallon translation to canadian money that's five dollars and 89 cents per us gallon translate the us gallons into liters that's a dollar 56 canadian per liter a whole 50 cents cheaper than just 30 miles up the road in canada 50 cents per liter i'm running at about a quarter tank right now i'm going to probably put in about 600 liters today that's a savings of over 330 dollars over 300 dollars right now so forgive me if my math isn't perfect math is accurate because i stopped and checked that out before it's a dollar 56 per liter here 30 miles up the up the road across the border at flying j it's two dollars and six cents why why has canadian diesel prices not dropped along with us diesel prices we're right here same region so i'm going to save myself over 300 dollars yes i'm putting in us fuel into my tanks which means i'm probably going to have to consider adding in some anti-gel additive at least consider it but even that that's a 20 dollar jug i'm still saving 280 dollars plus close to 300 dollars even with the power service anti-gel in my tanks like that's huge difference that's where i'm headed to now so you know i've always said i don't fuel in the us in the winter time well you know the weather's going to be mild the next few days for the next week if i have to i can still add that power service anti-gel and it'll keep my fuel from gelling i just thought that that was an extra added unnecessary expense right why would i buy additives when i can just go up and up to canada and buy the diesel fuel that doesn't gel why would i spend that extra 20 bucks a tank great or a fill up this is actually a brand new truck stop here came up in the last couple of years it's probably taking quite a bit of business away from the flying jay and grand forks five cents us per gallon here five dollars what did i say before five dollars 68 cents canadian per gallon dollar 56 per liter can't argue with that it's still too expensive but i'll take it i've actually never been to this loves i don't think i don't think i've actually been here interesting i thought mcdonald's was usually associated with loves i guess it's different for every location number one over here or the first one let's save 300 dollars right here how about that i'm gonna keep that money okay so we filled for 166 us gallons that equals 628.378 liters i was pretty much bang on i thought about 600 liters i know my truck 628 liters so the price was four dollars and 34 34.349 i'm just gonna round it up four dollars 35 cents us per gallon that equaled out to a dollar 56 per liter canadian cost me 721 93 us dollars or 977 76 canadian dollars it's the first fill up that i've had under a thousand dollars in quite some time now remember just down the road they're paying two dollars five five cents point nine so two dollars and six cents per liter subtract a dollar 56 exactly 50 cents more per liter 30 miles that way so you times that by the amount of liters we bought and just by fueling up here today instead of just over there i saved myself 314 dollars and 19 cents canadian isn't that crazy how big of a gap that is like i know fuel in canada is always more expensive than in the us that's a given but i've never seen the gap this wide this is wild 314 dollars i kept in my pocket just now one fill up i burnt that in two days and i didn't even it wasn't even two full days like i burned that in pretty much a little over a day usually like almost every day so almost 300 dollars every day i could be saving you get it right i still don't get it i still can't get that in my head that gap is huge why aren't our fuel prices going down right i know they're going to be more expensive than the us regardless but 50 cents a liter more in canada okay i'm done i'm done otherwise i'm going to get too many comments you're complaining again trigger josh all you do is complain i know i know i know i complain i'm right here i hear it too i'm gonna move up here and quickly run inside uh then we'll be off to the races so i told you yesterday right i got to replace that uh my taillights and license plate holder on the back of my truck it started to crack and break off from my frame right but i got a strapped on there and put on there right now so it's not going anywhere it's still on there but it will need to be replaced very soon right the piece that i want is a big square chrome piece with a whole bunch of lights on it and i'm gonna go pick it up when i'm at home next it's about 400 dollars i believe so just this one fuel up deciding to fuel up in the us instead of in canada almost paid for that whole thing i will be eyeing this us fuel a whole lot more in the future even in the cold of winter i'll find a way to make it work i'm just gonna have to be very careful about uh fuel additives and anti-gel to make sure it doesn't gel up on me but i don't know we can make it work for 300 savings every day we can make it work we will find a way money is a great motivator we're here at our yard and we've moved my freight off of my trailer onto that super b over there and they're going to continue on with it from here he is i think two of our loads onto the super b they can carry a lot more weight than these trailers uh here's a rush this rush the guy was waiting here for me already when i got here oh we got it i got it unloaded he's got his stuff he's got his paperwork i've got mine signed all set finished now we're on to our next assignment already i'm taking the same trailer back down to thief river falls gonna sleep there tonight and then tomorrow we're trading it off for a loaded trailer and i'm gonna bring that one back here and we might go back for another one yet and do two of those loads tomorrow that should keep me busy all day that's good going i have just barely enough time on my clock to get back to thief river falls still seems like it's so much later than it is right it's only 20 after five in the afternoon the lights are still purple just pointing it out anyone keeping track of how long we've been waiting for those to be replaced oh and it's busy everyone's going home from work and i'm going to work or i'm still working with high beams on sitting on trucker josh's nerves drive down the highway with your high beams on or no lights at all well there you go now we got them we made it to thief river falls with 31 minutes left on my 14 hour clock so i dipped back into canada dropped off that load it got reloaded onto that super b like you saw there that one took off to wherever it was going i didn't even look i knew where i had to bring it and that's all i cared about i brought it there job done job complete but uh i kept the same step deck it's empty and i brought it back down here to thief river falls and tomorrow morning around the corner here i have a trailer that's waiting for me it's already preloaded so i just got to tie it down and uh bring it back up to canadia with me so thanks for hanging out with me today guys thanks for watching we uh got a full day out of it drove about 991 kilometers or about 600 miles or so it was a full day felt good tomorrow i think we're gonna do two of these that's why i came down here to thief river tonight already because i had the hours to do so i'm getting a little bit of a head start on tomorrow i think i'm doing two loads of the thief river back to our yard because that's a really full day if you uh that's a that's a decently full day if you start at our yard but me i'm getting a head start i'm starting in thief river so i'll grab the load bring it back to the yard bring the empty trailer back down here switch for another loaded trailer bring it back i think that's the plan so i should get back at a decent time tomorrow night and i made myself available through the weekend i will see if they have anything for me i did throw a not so subtle hint just threw it in there to the lord god saying hey i need to keep busy for the next two and a half months um whatever you got for me and uh i haven't seen any palm trees in a while i hope they got my message i was trying to be subtle but it came out more like he sent me to the palm trees to the land of palm trees just once i mean at least maybe a little new year's treat in january get me away from the cold a little bit i do have to stay close to home because my wife is in her third trimester well almost in her third trimester and uh once the baby's born i'm gonna have to i keep doing what i'm doing now i'm very happy in the position i'm in now what i'm doing now with all this stuff so things are going good but every now and then i wouldn't mind seeing some palm trees just saying i haven't hugged a palm tree in years and that's a problem it's a palm tree problem so we'll see doesn't mean they're gonna send me down there uh they got drivers that are already dedicated to that right they they're the ones that go down there all the time i would just like to snag one of those loads for myself let me check out the great state of florida or arizona i'd even go to utah i mean if you go to st george utah there's some palm trees there right that's kind of deserty nevada and yeah is anyone out there not california though no not california god bless you guys living in california there i couldn't do it but hey somehow you're managing to do it and uh my truck doesn't go to california uh it's too old so palm trees we go right up to the border maybe los vegas phoenix new mexico haven't been there in very very long time if he sent me to georgia though it's got to be like south george like savannah george or something otherwise there's not going to be palm trees and i want palm trees i will see what happens beggars can't be choosers right and i'm just begging for anything they can throw at me if i don't get to see palm trees i don't get to see palm trees that's okay it's more important for me to be uh be around for the important uh stuff that's coming there's a baby have you noticed have i mentioned it 10 times today yet there's a baby coming all right that's enough chatting for today uh i'll see you in tomorrow's vlog if you haven't already still according to my analytics 41 percent of you that aren't that that are watching my video right now 41 percent of you are not subscribed so i challenge you now all 41 percent of you if you haven't subscribed yet and you're watching my channel go 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