 I'm warmed up, getting ready to hit the road. I'm at the rest area just inside the province of Manitoba, right at the Saskatchewan border. For my American friends, that's just north of North Dakota. Gonna quickly go in here, wash my face, wash my hands, get ready for the day. Then we're gonna take that load into Winnipeg, three and a half hours east of here. And I've let the load gods know that I'm available after that. Is this garbage or is this recycling? Is this garbage? Garbage, right? Yeah, it's garbage. Oh, no, I threw my keys in there. Oh boy, everyone's looking at me. I'm gonna be a garbage picker. Don't throw those out. Whoops. It's not a good way to start off the day. Good thing I'm on my way to wash my hands. But yeah, I've let the load gods know that I'm ready to go as soon as I'm unloaded. They wanna see me there at Winnipeg at 2 p.m. And I'm gonna roll in there at about 1.30. So if I'm lucky, I'll be empty at 2 p.m. And then we'll see. I'm gonna probably be too late to go load something today yet, probably. Maybe they'll have something ready for me in the yard. I can just hook on to and go or we'll see what happens. This is our little rest area on the west side of the province. It's not that fancy, but it's fancier than some. I'll show you the front of it here. Very similar to what you'd see in the U.S. at a rest area. Nicely mowed lawn, nice park for people to stop and have picnics and stuff. If you're new here, just make sure you're subscribed after you watch the video. I make new videos pretty much every day. We're here, like I said, Western Manitoba. We're ahead of East. So let's get back on the highway. I gotta get somewhere where I can play in these bugs off my window too. And I'm gonna do a little trailer tug here just to make sure my trailer's gonna come with me. I don't wanna leave it here. Needs to come with me. Turn on my dash camera there so I'm recording everything you crazy people are doing in front of me. You wanna know more about me and my channel if you're new here, go down below to the description of any one of my videos. It'll explain everything there for you as well as where you can find all my social media, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Those are my three main ones. Let's go. Look at this window, eh? Usually I would quickly give it a wipe down with some bullsnot, window spray, the visible. I was already rolling and talking to you guys by the time I realized I had forgotten. We're just going up the road here to Verdon. We're gonna stop at Timmy's. Or maybe I'll go all the way up to Brandon, I don't know. Figure it out. These bugs are a fact of life here in the prairies. That's just a sign that you had a good time last night. Different than a tornado warning. It's not a tornado warning. There's no tornadoes yet, but apparently it means that the weather conditions are perfect for tornadoes. You gotta keep your eyes open. One might just pop out of nowhere at any time. I can see that there's thunderstorms rolling in though. I dropped my load already in Winnipeg. I know it's nice when I'm able to film when I'm unloading or loading. Sometimes I can film and I just don't have time. Sometimes I'm not allowed to film. So it depends on where I am, right? And how quickly we're unloading. I had to get it off the trailer very fast. And as fast as I could get the straps off, they were unloading me. So I was just trying to stay out of their way for the most part. And then I had to roll up all my equipment. By the time I was finished everything, they were already inside and signed all my paperwork and it was time for me to go. And then I came here. I'm at Deegan's Corner Petro Pass. Stopped here for some A and W. So I left that riser that was on here at our yard. I won't need it. It'll just be in my way. Put my tarps up there right behind my truck to discourage theft. And we have an empty trailer. I filled up a little bit of fuel here. I just filled up one side. So I put in 199 liters, which is about 52 US gallons. That's just enough to get me to where I'm going to be unloading. Pardon me, where I'm going to be loading in Canora. And then down to where I'm going to be unloading in Brainerd, Minnesota. And then I can fuel down there. Price to fuel down there is about $1.18 per liter. Canadian, after all, conversions and discounts. And here the price is $1.63.9. It's a lot cheaper down there. So we put in just enough to get it down there. Actually, I'll have more than enough. Tires are doing really well so far. We have about 5,000 kilometers on them now. 3,000 miles or so. So far they've been broken in really well. There's no more squirminess coming out of them. They're back into my truck. When you first put on new tires, they get, they're a little squirmy for a while until they break in, right? These are nicely broken now and I really like them. And I think the tread pattern is very nice. I think I might just keep buying these. We'll see how they do. There's a long, long time ahead of us yet before I need to make any decisions on more tires. I need to buy steer tires in a few months. But these tires, they should last me two years. If not more, at least two years. So it's 2023 right now. I put them on right at the beginning of summer, which I was hoping to put them on in wintertime, but the other ones just weren't lasting. I had to get these on. So 2023, 2024, 2025. So I'm thinking summer of 2025 will still be fine. We might put them on right before winter of 2025 or we might make it through another one. We'll see when we get there. I'll let you know how they do though. These are Blackhawks BDL71s, 295, 75R, 22 and a half. Fly got in here, got here. So interesting, every fly in the world knows exactly how to fly into your truck through the open window. None of them can figure out how to fly back out the same window. It's like impossible in their little fly brains. Oh, I just saw lightning over there already. It's gonna start raining really soon. Look how dark the sky is up here. We gotta get out of here. Weather's coming from the west. We are going east to Canora, Ontario, with two hours highway. Gotta be there to load first thing in the morning. Like I mean first thing. They open up at seven, so I wanna be at the gate at 6.30. I wanna be the first one loaded. I know there's probably like half a dozen other guys that are going for the same goal, but I'm hoping I can beat all of them. Here, stop me, stop. That guy there didn't get the memo, but hey, did my part. This intersection has been under construction for a little while now. I'm not too sure what they're planning on doing with it, but it's a very busy one. By the looks of it, they've made it a lot wider, a lot bigger. I wonder if they're gonna put, no, they won't be putting an overpass in. If they were doing an overpass, they wouldn't be putting all this concrete over here. They'd already have like the pillars up or the piles drilled or something. So there won't be an overpass. It looks like they're gonna make it a lot wider. So that's good. Very busy. You get all the traffic coming from eastern Canada. It all comes through this little bottleneck here. All down this one road. Every single truck and trailer that has freight coming from eastern Canada to anywhere's west has to come through here. Another jade truck. You guys are all over the place. This one's not quite as shiny, but I'm sure it will be in no time. It's probably on its way to the truck wash right now. Very, very rare to see a jade truck with any dirt on it. Like, they usually don't even have a speck of dust on them. It's a fleet of show trucks. This guy going straight. He's in the straight lane. Or is he turning right? I hope he's not turning left because there won't be any room for him to turn left. Where is he going? No, he's turning right. Okay, who's freaking me out? There's only one turn lane going this way. Right here, I always like showing Europeans this. Like, that's a train. Once again, this is all freight that's coming from eastern Canada. It all has to be squeezed through Winnipeg. Every single piece. That's why Winnipeg is known as the gateway to the west. Those are all cars inside those trailers. I don't know if they're loaded now, but that's what they put in there. What else do you got here? You got a one box car and you got a bunch of oil. I'm sure those are probably empty and headed back to Alberta to get reloaded. Oil has to travel on rail. Wouldn't it be nice if there was like a pipeline or something in the ground? So much better, so much safer. That's too much to ask for some people. So we got to send it on the train. That wasn't even that long of a train. There's much longer ones out here. You should get out of the boat right now, the short, what, 35 years? It's cottage country. Got to pick up our lumber first thing in the morning. So we went pretty much straight across Manitoba today. It was a cross-provincial trip, west to east. So much to see. I showed you everything. All of it. In the south, anyway. Northern Manitoba is obviously very different, very different. Southern little chunk of the province where I'm from is mostly agriculture, flatlands, Winnipeg, the capital city is there. I'm not from the capital city. I'm from south of the city. And you go up north and it's more remote. Very few roads that go up there. A lot of mining and stuff up there. We have a lot of zinc in Manitoba. We have oil underneath the southwest of Manitoba too. A lot of different minerals up north there. And then our provincial border was all the way up to the territory of Nunavut and there's no roads leading to Nunavut. So that's the one territory in Canada and the United States that I have not been to. Nunavut and Alaska. Other than that, I've been to every continental U.S. state and every province and territory of Canada. I still have to go to Hawaii. But I think that's the one U.S. state I haven't been to. Hawaii. No, Alaska. Alaska is a state. Of course, I just said Alaska. So two U.S. states. I've been to 48 U.S. states, all 10 Canadian provinces and two of our three territories. One day I'll go up and visit Nunavut. Maybe I'll go up there for a fishing trip or something or just to go see it. I wanna see it one day at least. I wanna see what's up there above the tree line up in the Arctic. Total different life up there. It's the same country, but total different life. Anyway, off-topic. We're here in Kenora. We're gonna start from here in the morning. 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