 Where did I sleep good tonight? I was here for what, 11 hours? From when I parked and went to bed? I slept the whole time. I gotta walk into the office now in about five minutes. They're just getting here now. Gonna walk into the office and let them know that I'm here. Well, they know I'm here because I checked in. But confirm when they wanna load me. And they're gonna put some farm stuff on me. And we're gonna head back up to Canada. Good day, everybody. I've already said good morning to you, right? So we're leaving our farm equipment place of pick up. And this is the same road we drove down yesterday. You might recognize it. This is when we were bob tailing down to the flying jay. Had to go up for supper. So now we're pulling out of here with our trailer and our load behind us. This is still Iowa. Nope, we're on the other side of the river. To our left is a river. On the other side, I keep going north until we hit the board. At first we were gonna deliver this Monday morning. The U.S., but this one's kind of a strange holiday. It's a February holiday, which is, I think in Manitoba it's called Louis Rayel Day. But the rest of Canada, it's called Family Day. I don't know, I just call it Family Day because Louis Rayel was a trader. So I don't like celebrating a holiday named after him. Tuesday morning it is. Gonna deliver this Tuesday morning and it sounds like I'll probably have a reload out of that Estevan Wayburn area. I'll be those spools again. Remember I always pick up those spools out in Wayburn? I bet you that's what they're gonna be fishing for. I just, I just pull what they tell me to within reason. So I'll be home tomorrow. Well, it won't be quite midday. But let's see here. Speak to me. For once I want you to speak to me. How far away are we? We're on this road for five kilometers. That's not what I asked you. But okay, do everything myself. 1,200 kilometers from the border. So we're not quite gonna make it to the border tonight. I can make it about 1,000 kilometers or so, maybe 1,100 if I'm just doing freeways. It's 1,200 kilometers, that's, what, 700 miles? Give or take? The 600 miles is 1,020. It's over 750 miles. Can't do that quite in a day on US hours of service. So, we'll get as far as we can tonight and we'll go the rest of the way tomorrow. A few days. Got a couple of things to get done. Hang out for a little bit. It's one good thing about living in Manitoba. Southern Manitoba is almost, well, all of our freight lanes that we usually do go from Western Canada to like Northern Midwest of the US or so. That's what we mainly do for the border. At least that's what I've been doing for a while. We'll probably do other stuff too, but I seem to be in this region, which is great because every load then goes right past home so I can always get home. I've seen the comments saying, wow, you're home so often. Yeah, that's due to my location and my freight lanes. I just so happen to be right in the middle of all of my trips usually. So like this, I would have, if it was going anywhere else, I would have to go there and wait in my truck all weekend, the long weekend. I'd have to deliver my freight, but since I live where I do, sorry, my window, my wipers are not wiping properly, are they? Since I live where I do, instead of going and waiting in my truck, I can just go and stop at home. It's geography. Lucky. So that's what we're gonna do. Back at the same flying day we were at, figured I'd tell the world, I wasn't gonna shower here last night and then I told myself why because I'm gonna wake up in the morning, get all sweaty again, chaining down this farm equipment. I'm gonna shower in the morning. I almost forgot. I got no one here to tell me I stink. I don't think I stink though. Don't look at me like that, Diesel. You've got a super sensitive dog nose. That doesn't count. Let's see, let's see, let's find a spot here. Let's find a spot. I choose this spot. Park ourselves in here and go inside, clean ourselves off and we'll be on our way. Gonna grab a coffee on our way out as well. Wunderbaugh. It's a good thing too, man. It's a good thing, man. Just know it's very sensitive, you know? Just keep yourself clean, man, every day. I know, Diesel, you would do a very good job of keeping yourself clean. I wish you wouldn't do that in the background of some of my shots. Because then I gotta delete that because no one wants to see that, man. You're just jealous, man. That's not true. Nope. That's not true. Okay, let's put ourselves in there. I'm gonna check my load here right away. This is not the world, no? I'll let you know, I'll let the E-Log know. I am going to check my load. And while I'm out there, I want you to check my tires. You always gotta mark down in your logs, make a note of it when you stop to check your load because they wanna see that you're stopping often enough to make sure that nothing's gonna fly off, that your chains are tight, straps are tight, freight hasn't moved. It's not going to move, everything looks good. You're supposed to stop. Oh, you're gonna test my knowledge now. Better tell me if I'm wrong down below in the comments. You're supposed to stop minimum every three hours. Right? Right? But I stop between two and three hours. I always stop, just quickly walk around, check them out. I do a longer stop every six hours or so. I gotta stop for my half hour every eight hours anyway, so I just, yeah, you gotta check your freight, make sure that it is not moving. Don't wanna lose anything. I've never lost anything and I'm never going to. We're gonna knock on wood. It's never gonna happen because I make sure to stop often enough to make sure that everything is still tight. And that's all, the only thing I can tell you guys too, you guys say, you guys, you got any tips for you? My biggest tip to you is don't lose your load. Don't lose your trailer. Don't lose your load. Wear your seatbelt. That's all I got for you right now. So if you're wondering what a shower looks like in a truck stop, that's it, but it's clean. This is what we wanna build at our master ensuite at home. Wall like that, very walkin' in here. It's exactly how we wanna have it at our house. I'm gonna build it. You'll see, I already started. And I'm a married man and you know what that means? I know a few things. There you go. Next to this, summer's on the way. Yeah, plus St. Paul here. 35. Goes into St. Paul, I-35W, goes into, so it shouldn't take too long to get around the city. The time is 7.30 PM right now, before I can get. We fueled up just north of Oatonna, put some anti-gel power service conditioner or additive into my fuel because it's minus 24 right now, Celsius, plus the windshell of me flying through here at 60 mile an hour. So it's gotta be cold on the tanks. Also warm up tomorrow, totally fine if we never had another winter. You know that? They keep telling me it's gonna happen. And they keep getting me all excited. And then it doesn't happen and nothing changes. And I get sad. Wouldn't it be great if just we never had another winter again? Once again here in Clearwater, Minnesota, I'm gonna pull it in here. It's a quarter to nine. My $14 day is coming to an end soon. And it's starting to get really cold. The cold really sets in at night. Go straight. This time, no, no. I don't wanna go too far in the cold. I like risking that. I like having a warm place to go inside to if the weather gets really cold and my truck decides not to run anymore. So we'll go see if our spot is open for us. Many times, you guys remember this truck stop, right? It's so cold and when the weather gets this cold, it keeps all of the exhaust from the trucks idling in the lot at a lower level. So I just love the smell of that. I'm just walking outside. I'm just, oh, smells so good. That reminds me I gotta try not to suck too much air from outside. It's not, I don't wanna suck that all in here. I love the smell of diesel fuel. Oh, it just like pumps me up, you know? Nostalgic, reminds me of my childhood. Trucking with my dad. Gonna remember that smell distinctly my whole life. I always remembered that when I became a trucker myself and I started parking a truck stop, especially in the winter and I'd just walk through the parking lot. So good. Anyways, hey, look at this. I put the bed up. Look at me. Trying something different. I'd always roll up my memory foam mattress and put it up here so that diesel wouldn't get his hair all over it, right? But I figured blankets can be washed. We have invented washing machines and dryers. So why not just wash it a little bit more often? Have my mattress down here the whole time, gives him a bit more of a comfy, soft bed to lay on. I put all my stuff over here so that he doesn't lay where I put my head so no hair ever gets in my face or whatever. I'm not allergic to dogs. Used to be a little bit, not anymore. Doesn't affect me anymore. But now that I have the bed up, it makes it feel a lot bigger in here. I can't even reach the roof. I love it, I love it. I feel like I can dance. But we're not going to, we're gonna edit some videos. So thanks for watching today in this video. Some are boring, some are not. So boring, some are completely boring. But thanks for watching to the end anyways. If you're still here, leave me a comment down below. Let me know you're there and that you're breathing. Give me a thumbs up if you did like the video if you want to see something different in my videos. Let me know down below as well. 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