 Hello, everyone. This is close from Quebec, Canada, and you are watching Good morning everybody look at that beautiful sunrise right in front of us We wanted to be up a little earlier nest like I said in yesterday's vlog But here we are living the dream Sun's already up. Let's get this beast started. Let's get to show on the road Come to life my girl. Are you ready? Are you ready? Do you still love me? Oh, she still loves me. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. So today is a good day for a good day Let's get out there You have 13 hours and zero minutes of remaining drive time Let's get going I'm just gonna quickly reset my engages again. I always forget to do that before I start rolling Just like to keep track of my mileage throughout the day So I know how far I've gone through the day And my fuel economy I can reset that in my computer here. Let's go. It's gonna be such a good day Every day truckins a good day Not every day truckins a good day. That was that was not true, but we're gonna just go with it Some days truck in our is a or some days in trucking our headaches Really really bad headaches, but you take the bad with the good I was this fancy load here is going towards Edmonton and we are going towards Saskatoon We're still on the Alberta side of the border So I'm a terrible gift giver Paying attention to what people need You know when you're buying gifts for your family members your loved ones your friends My wife is Phenomenal at it. It's a big word for it. She's really good. She listens to every little detail throughout the year. She pays attention She really really loves to give us good gifts gift. She really loves to give gifts at Christmas and at any time for birthdays anything I mean, she's usually got her Christmas lists for everyone written out by like summertime And it's something she really enjoys and something I really admire about her She's really reminded me What it's all about and I lived on my own for a decade or so moved out of mom and dad's house when I was 18 To go work in the city Ended up coming back to the country Being a bachelor and living on your own for that long. I mean there's something that a woman brings to your life You know really sort of they complete each other, you know, I I Can bring things to her life and she can bring things to mine and together we sort of create one Full life together, right? but anyway, she's a Really good at giving gifts and I'm I never know what to get anyone I never know so by the time you guys are watching this it is always probably Christmas Eve or very close to it So Merry Christmas everybody It's not Christmas for me yet My videos are a little behind takes me a little bit of time to put them all together for you But I hope you guys are having a great Christmas, and you're enjoying the season of giving Hope wherever you are in the world That it is a festive season for you You're gonna try to get 1,000 kilometers behind us today at 620 miles And we're taking her easy But once again, it seems we're going against wind. I Don't get it. I always going against wind Remember we picked up that steel Out there, St. Joseph, Missouri brought it up here to Alberta the entire three days drive up here We were against wind every day. So now I'm going the other way. I'm like, all right We're gonna be with the wind. No, no, no, no, no mother nature just Switches that thing around and now we're going against wind going this way. I don't get it she will not Ruin my Christmas It's going to be good The wind was so bad going against us on the way up here That I was averaging About 50 liters every 100 kilometers being burnt. I Know that's not speaking American for you guys. I don't know how to convert that really quickly, but let's let's talk dollars. Okay What do you want? Oh, there's a scale coming up Hopefully it's closed So 50 liters work. We're talking up here in Canada. It's about a dollar 20 a liter for diesel and in the US it's about a dollar a liter per For diesel when you do the conversion and some Canadian So let's use the American prices as I fueled up at my knot and it got me all the way to red deer Okay, so a dollar a liter We burnt 50 liters Every hundred kilometers we were doing about a hundred kilometers an hour. So every hour I Burnt $50 a fuel Hey, we drove for 13 hours Yeah, it was bad It was really bad Usually I average about 35 liters per hundred kilometers Something like that, and I was trying to save fuel too, but the wind was just Brutal so today we're doing a little better than that. We're right now. I'm averaging about 45 So let's try to get that down below 40. I'm already going 60 miles an hour. I don't really want to go much slower than that. I don't want to do 55 But even if I have to I guess Hoping that the winds will shift again for me. It's not very nice. Not very nice, you know Switching around just for me to go back now. I guess wind again. That's not very nice A little frosty right now. I'm trying to defrost it On the side here. Hot because I'm fogging up the window beside me Got the defrost blown at it. It's slowly clearing it up Boys of winter driving Like I said, it's a good day to be trucking. Look at this The sun is shining behind the clouds there somewhere The roads are clear. They're not icy It would just be a fantastic day to be trucking if we could have the wind help us out a little bit here and Push us instead of work against us But yeah, that's what it is We're on our way home technically. We're going down to Iowa Then we're going straight home if there's no load for me down in Iowa. I'm going to be going home empty from there So that I don't miss Christmas That was my decision Louisville trail highway 11. Oh Buddy you were gonna cut me off and slamming your brakes at that red light I Think that worked out Saskatoon is a sketchy tune as it's known by some circles You guessed it. We're stopping us flying day No one cares Karen Always trying to tell me what to do. I should call you Greta always trying to tell me how to live my life Tell me what to do You guessed we're going to pilot flying J. We're gonna get some A wonderful fresh coffee because No Because the coffee there that fresh ground coffee, I don't know how to explain it is so much better And I gotta find a machine that I can have at home Fresh ground coffee like if you guys got links for that on Amazon or something. Send me send me some of that stuff No, not the product. I mean just the link I want to buy it Stuff where you have the coffee beans on top of the coffee maker And for every cup of coffee it grinds up the beans fresh for you For every cup right there in front of you. I want one of those I don't know why it's so different. I don't know the science behind it, but whoo Oh, I'm gonna be at that lane shoot shoot shoot shoot Here's mate. Pardon me. Thank you. I want to go straight Apparently only the right lane here goes straight All these people want to go left There's the flying jay just across the street there I don't know how to explain it I just gotta tell you just try it if you guys are in North America and you see a pilot flying jay Just pull in there see if they have it the last two ones. I was at it red deer and Where was the other smaller pilot traveling pilot travel centers? Sometimes they don't have the machine there, but you'll know the machine when you see it It's got the coffee beans on top of it and like this clear jar Little touch screen on try it Try it. It'll change your life Well diesel where are we main? We're at the forbidden place scale. Oh, no, why are we here man? Why would you stop here? scary, I Know right because no one's here. No one's home. It's just us. So we're just using their lot here I want to show you what's the most frustrating thing about? Pulling lumber loads that this lumber load doesn't need to be tarped because it's wrapped right they wrap it themselves You saw it But that wrap is garbage So it's not like the end of the world. It's not a big big deal or anything, but Let's go outside. Let's let's show you what happens to this wrap when you go down the highway Those of you truck drivers out there who hauled this stuff know exactly what I'm talking about Here we go. It's a little windy. So don't mind the wind noise You ready you ready did you guess it did you guess it did you guess that? That's what happened. See I already use like my my rubber pieces that I that I have and I state look like crazy on there You can't really see it. Can you just to sort of stop it from doing that? But it rips off anyways like look at that. I have those two pieces there And it rips off and it does this and there's nothing you can do about it. I Fix it like four or five times a day and it just rips back up. I Hate delivering stuff to the customer that looks like this but That's what happens Stopped to check on it because I saw it flapping around back here I'm gonna try to fix it again. See how long it lasts So the way I fix this is I got my toolbox down here. Oh good boy. These are you ate all your food? Good boy. I didn't even hear you crunching back there. I must have been off in my own world So I've got my toolbox down here, right? You guys okay? Didn't mean to drop you. Hope you didn't break anything. Oh boy. I Don't think I got insurance for for you guys if I hurt you Diesel do you think I think you're fine man. Just showing me toolbox So unlock this here You open this up and Ta-da You use this Staple it all back in place This I'll grab another Rubber piece. I didn't really want to use all my rubber pieces because these are very hard to come by and I haven't been able to find them anywhere else yet There we go. See they're these pieces. I don't know where to find these but they're very useful This is what I used to try to prevent it First you got to make sure that you're fully stocked with ammo We're set Sometimes got a fight with it. It doesn't Want to work with you. You got to do this several times a day First of all, I just tack it in place so it stops dancing around and stops fighting me Can I okay? So the wind comes around the truck here We go to town with the staples. Okay, you got a time to be conservative. That's gonna be held down Now this side Okay, so I'm gonna add one more rubber piece onto that corner there yet, too And hopefully that'll be enough to hold it. I don't know. We're going against a strong wind again Doesn't matter which direction we're going straight south now, and we're still going against wind We were going east all the way from Missouri. I told you this earlier. It can blow my mind how we can always be going against wind, but Whatever mother nature has it out for us, but we will prevail We will endure through hard times Hopefully that holds it. I'm out of ammo Got plenty more in the truck, but I don't want to use it all here We're getting very close to the US border here. We're in Estevan It's a scotch one and we're gonna stop at Petro Pass. Here's the building. Oh, there it is I hope it's open up any second now because I turned off her. I just need a coffee. Are you open for coffee? Are they open? Oh, then he uses a CD radio in Canada really. It's more of an American thing And I don't even have my I haven't had mine hooked up in probably seven years Once once I did hook it up like I ever known that I take a listen. I never find anything good on there It's just a bunch of people going What they're saying anyway technology in my truck that will warn me about traffic coming up and Accidents and stuff like that like in real time So all of the arguments to have a radio in my truck that is from the 1960s and 1970s I just I find it to be very outdated and It's a lot of truckers on there just yelling at each other swearing at each other telling dirty jokes So seven years ago, I decided to turn it off and I never turned it back on I Guess actually have in between there just to see if anything changed and everything was exactly the same but that's just my own personal opinion on it, you know, some people really like them still and Use them a lot. I don't Maybe because I'm a driver from up in Canada here and it was never really as big up here Not really a big thing, but if you try to get a hold of me on the CB If you see me out there, I won't respond because I don't even have mine plugged in I don't think this place is oh this place is closed. Why are you closed? You have a customer here with money That he wants to give to you. It's very hard to give you money when you lock the doors What you doing there petrol pass? What in the world? What in Tarnation? Yeah, it's closed Well, what in the Alice and chains is going on here. This is crazy It's only nine o'clock on a weekday. What is it today Tuesday Tuesday Christmas? What are you closed up for? Christmas is in a couple of weeks. It's not now Nice place. Look at this place I wanted to give you my money to drive right in there, right? Don't mind me just picking up a coffee you locked it over so I had to use my truck to get in All right, well off we go I Guess we'll have to get coffee somewhere in the US where they they want my money Actually, you know what no shoot I got a park here somewhere yet. Okay. Good thing. There's nobody behind me I got a park here and get all my paperwork ready to cross the border. Oh and my the wrap on my lumber is Ripped up again It's not too bad. It's not as bad as it was before I'm just gonna park along the snowbank over here and just get all my paperwork ready Across the border into the US of A. We just crossed through Customs and border protection US site We are now officially welcomed as Guests into the United States of America Now we promised to be real good So this is portal North Dakota. Just on the other side was North portal Saskatchewan No one cares What getting tired You need to go to bed Well, I have 14 minutes left on my clock and we're pulling into Flying J here in my knocked Gonna quickly fuel ourselves up with some Winter diesel. I think they always have diesel number one for sale here Which is winter diesel in the US and Canada just all diesel is winter diesel 300 meters turn left on frontage road and then turn left in 60 meters All right, sounds good Karen sounds like a good idea. I almost turned in the wrong entrance again Do that every time I think I told you that last time are there's someone in the pumps backwards. Oh No, he's just always just parked there. I hope we get parking here. I mean, there's no parking here We're gonna have to make some parking There'll be parking. I have faith There will be Get in here We can fill up the tanks. I don't like going to bed in the winter time Without having full tanks It's not very cold. It's only minus 10 Celsius out tonight and it's supposed to go above zero or above freezing Tomorrow, so it's only gonna warm up overnight So that's good. That's really good