 I spent some time in here this weekend with Britt, cleaning up, organizing, and also bringing over more storage from the house, getting ready for baby, making room in the house. One day we'll have a bigger house, but for now all of our extra storage will stay in here. An old blue, how you doing? Yeah, you ready to go to work? I'm excited too. Very excited. Remember, I already went and chained down my load last week until it was all ready to go. All I got to do is just go there and make sure that everything is as I left it, which should be how it is. We'll hook up onto it and we're going to pull that into Ontario. We're actually going a little ways further into Ontario than we've been in a long while. We're going down to a town called Colburn, Ontario, which is between Toronto and Kingston. So it's in southern Ontario. It's going to be nice to go and see the sights down there again, though I do see on the forecast that I should be expecting to be driving through snow all day today. Yay me. But there's no weather warnings from Environment Canada, which means it's just going to be snowing, not storming. That's okay. That's just annoying. That's not like, I don't have to stop driving for that. I just have to be careful. So it'll be a long day today. Depending on the weather, I'm really hoping I can make it all the way to Hearst, Ontario. I'm going to take Highway 11 around, which is the northern highway. The load I'm pulling is a load of reels and you saw it. It's pretty heavy and Highway 17 usually has heavier snow sometimes. And it also has a lot more hills, which is a lot harder on old blue, your little dirty old blue. That's okay. It's winter time. It's a free pass in winter time. It's nice to have the truck clean every day in winter time, but honestly, if you're paying for a blue beacon every day to keep this truck clean, that would be like a thousand bucks a week. I would love that, but it's just not possible. And I do have the ability to wash it here in the shop. But like I said earlier, I was kind of preoccupied this weekend getting ready for the baby. I think that is a little bit more important in my opinion, but no excuses. I feel bad that it's not clean. It's going to be dirty in 10 minutes anyway, even if I had to think sparkly clean, it would be dirty. I didn't wash it recently to get the salt off of it. So most of the salt is off. It's just got a little bit of roaddry more now. Winter time. Anyways, stop talking about that. I'm sorry. Okay? Do you still love me? Oh, good. Good. Glad. We got the pickup in here and we got old blue outside, all warmed up, ready to go. I'm going to go hook on to our load of reels and we're going to drag it to Ontario. I've already passed by three today and we're only three hours into Ontario. We're going to be here a while. I know. I know. My thoughts exactly. There's only one road in this location. There's no way for us to go around this right now. One two lane road. It's embarrassing that we haven't at least made a four lane, at least through this section, right? Until we get to the 11 and then there's two different options, but I know how expensive that would be. It seems that we have money coming out of all corners of government for all kinds of useless projects that do nothing to help people. But when it actually comes to a project on infrastructure to build up our country, oh, we haven't built a new highway in what, like 50 years? All right, I'm going to hold you here and I'm going to try zooming into the accident up ahead so you can see what's going on. To the left of that yellow arrow sign there, I'm going to zoom in a little bit. You can see that the truck laying on its side and up on the road, you can see there is the tow truck and recovery team blocking the road, trying to get them out of there. And this shuts down the entire East West economy of an entire nation. That's why when this kind of stuff happens on this stretch of highway, specifically here where there's only one road going through East to West, it's a big deal. And you have to shut this highway down to recover an accident because someone wasn't paying attention or someone maybe shouldn't have been on the road. Or, you know, let's let's let's leave the possibility there of a genuine accident. Those happen. Those happen. You shouldn't judge. It's just how common it is. It's hard not to wonder like it shouldn't be this common. I've been able to get over a million miles. I've come through here thousands of times in all weather conditions. The worst weather conditions. And I managed to keep the rig on the road. So do like thousands, hundreds of thousands of other truck drivers. You watching this here, too, you're probably one of them, too. But when this happens, not only are you, you know, inconveniencing yourself because now you're, you know, one minute you're looking at the scenery, the next minute you're a part of the scenery. Now you're off the road, your trucks sideways, you're cold. You need to call emergency services to come get you because you can't run your truck when you're sideways. You're going to freeze. So that's a big problem. That's your first problem. That's probably your smallest problem. Because now you're going to have to call the police. You're going to have to let them know what happened. So they're going to come out here. You're probably going to get charged or fine. And then the recovery team's got to get here. And they can take anywhere, you know, 24, 48 hours to get here, depending on how busy they are. But now the recovery team has to block the entire, the entire road too, right? And remember the entire economy for a massive G7 nation, a big nation, which makes a lot of money. Canada's doing pretty well. We could be doing better in my opinion, but we're doing pretty well. Shutting down the entire country for one truck, for one driver. Man, that's a big deal. I genuinely and honestly hope he's okay. I hope they're okay. I hope they weren't injured when your truck flips over. I mean, hopefully they were wearing their seatbelt, but a lot of drivers out here don't think that's necessary. But if you're not wearing your seatbelt, your truck flips over, you're flying right out that window into the snow. And hopefully the truck doesn't land on top of you as it's rolling. Who knows? Hopefully they're okay. But that's a big screw up. That's a big deal. That's not just, you know, oops, didn't know where the driveway was and accidentally, you know, dipped into the ditch a bit. No, it's a $20,000 recovery and shutting down the entire country for however long. Not, not any small deal. There's going to be miles of backup behind me already. Miles, nothing I can do about it. Don't get me wrong, part of the job. Yes, I am complaining a little bit about it because it's very much inconveniencing me and everybody else on the road here. And yes, accidents happen. But you also have to remember every accident is preventable. That's why it's called an accident because it wasn't supposed to happen. Every accident is preventable. So all of this, wasting my time, wasting everyone else's time. And plus all that money spent in recovery, it was preventable. And I don't care what you say, every accident is preventable. Every single one. In one way or another. All right, they've got it right side up now. It's a good sign. Guess they've now got to disconnect all their chains and cables, get all the rigs off the road that we're recovering it and open up a lane so we can get going. That actually didn't take too long. I missed it when they pulled it up. I wasn't looking at them exactly then. They must have done it pretty quickly. I was hoping to get that on camera for you, but we're pretty far away. I don't know how much you can see. I'm trying to zoom in as much as I can in my program because I'm using a GoPro Hero 7 and it doesn't have a zoom on the camera. But doing the best we can here to show you what's going on. Looks like we should be moving pretty quick pretty soon. They were, that was actually pretty impressive. They know what they're doing. We're moving. I'll give you the wide angle shot here to see if we can see what happened. Pretty quick guys. It's actually pretty impressive. So he slipped off the edge to the right there. There's the truck. Down there for a while he's all covered in snow already. That's an expensive mess up. Hey, they let our direction go first. Look at this lineup over here on this side. This is from shutting the road down for about 30 minutes. It wasn't even that long. What happened here? Why is this guy taking up two lanes like that? He's stuck? Is this the end of it? Not even too bad. I thought it'd be worse. It is a weekday though. It's not a Friday and it's not summertime. In summertime it would have been a lot worse. A lot of cottages around here. Oh, what's this now? Why are you flashing your hazards at me now? Oh, trying to warn oncoming traffic. Warm on the CV. Hey there Westbound, you've got traffic at a standstill. Right ahead of you. Traffic at a standstill, but you'll be moving soon. So heads up. Traffic is stopped ahead of drivers. I'm slowly rolling into Thunder Bay, Ontario. We're on Highway 102. Sort of like the bypass. Just about to meet back up at the 17, I believe. Any traffic errors? Turn left on. Clay Superior, Circle 2. Highway 11. Highway 11 apparently. Okay. I'm gonna stop for fuel. Just a little ways west of... Actually it's quite a ways west. Sorry, east of Thunder Bay. It's just before Nippagon. Grab some fuel there and I'm still hoping I can make it up to Hearst tonight. I don't know, that'll be quite the stretch, if I do. I'm still hoping I can make it up to Hearst tonight. Heaters, turn left on. Clay Superior, Circle 2. Highway 11. We'll see how far we get. It's gonna be a late night though. Late night. I started kinda late. I had a nice reload plan for the way back. It's a nice oversize. I think it was like 11 and a half feet wide. Some nice shiny nickels attached to it and the load fell through. I guess they aren't quite ready to load it yet cause I was supposed to pick it up day after tomorrow. But now they want it picked up next week and I can't wait until next week to pick it up so I've gotta keep busy doing something else. So the load gods are busy trying to find me something else. We'll see what they come up with. Kinda disappointing, I was looking forward to that but it would have been a nice payday. It seems like again and again the harder I try to make things work back to back then things just fall through, you know? Sometimes you just gotta let things be. Stop trying so hard, right? There's no reason to try so hard. That's what I meant to say. It's like the harder I try, the harder things get. But if I just lean back and just let things be I always seem to come out ahead and make more money. So I have been trying really hard because I'm taking some time off when the baby's born. Maybe I just need to relax a little bit and just see what comes my way. Stop trying to grasp at the big apples and just let what happens happen. You guys know what I'm talking about? All right, now which driveway is it again? It's right up here. I think there's only one driveway from this direction. Here it is. Fuel price on the sign says $1.999. So $2 a liter. Ouch. Grab us some go-go juice. Check the load, check the tires. Almost all their pumps are closed again or half of them are. This place has gone downhill a little bit on the pump side of things. Always got problems with their pumps here. That's a lot of places though. It's filled her up. I just checked on it though. Don't worry. There's no leaks, there's nothing wrong. Opened up the hood. It does this in the winter time, I've noticed. The snow and the ice sort of builds up in the radiator. I guess we're on the grill. And then when I park as the hot water moves through it, it boils it off and steam comes out my grill. So that happened on your truck too. I mean, I checked everything, it looks like everything is fine. It's getting a little intense right now. You see that engine fan and it sucks it all in. Makes me a little nervous. I'll turn the fan off again, see if it comes back out. Should I be concerned? I checked, I opened the hood. I was like, what is steaming in here? I wanted to make sure I didn't have a coolant leak or something, right? Or something wrong in the engine. No, it's just the water that was evaporating off the radiator, not the grill in the front. I guess because it's so cold going down the road, it just builds up like a little bit of a layer of ice. And then when you park and you don't have that cold air, constantly hitting it. Now it's melting, boiling or evaporating off real fast. All my gauges look just fine too. That's just weird, right? Like it's late. We got here like three in the morning, local time. Two in the morning back home. Got here with 10 minutes left on my clock. Just barely made it. I have to stop you for eight hours before I can start moving again. And we have just under a thousand kilometers or 600 miles to do tomorrow. Along with me, everybody. I hope you have a good night. Don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you tomorrow. Take care.