 Jesus me and you back together in the truck It's good to be back man. Good to be back. How is my fans doing? I don't know man. I think they're doing pretty good There's you pretty why you look at them? How do you give them a good morning kiss? No, I don't do kisses man. That is for sissies I'm going back here Sissies Yes, good morning, we're here at our delivery point in Winnipeg just delivered our load of lumber and it turns out just as I got Unloaded I got a reload out of this exact same yard So they took my lumber off. They're gonna put new lumber back on and then I'm headed to Michigan Looking forward to that because I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go through the US if I'm going to Michigan I'm crossing here in Manitoba and I'm going around Chicago and through the US the highways are way better that way So I'll go to Michigan then from there. I'll probably go into Ontario No idea yet, but at least I'm moving so that's good I need to keep moving this month has been kind of slow for me Last month was really good like above average and this month has been below average But anyways, we got here on time. We got slowed down by a train a little bit because you know Winnipeg Overpasses, what are those? What are those? No, we'll just make all of traffic stop For every train all the time. So this train has stopped right in right on the road Made me like five minutes late. I was so upset But now I'm just waiting for Word for my reload There we go. There's the empty plot bed. I got all of my equipment. Can you see that? Back of my truck. I've got so much So I'm just waiting now for the guy who unloaded me to come back and reload me He didn't know that he was reloading me when he left so that he took off to do something else And now the office is trying to get a hold of him saying hey, oh there he comes. He's coming behind me over there I see him in the mirror. I'll probably have to back up Cool, and then we'll be on our way to Michigan I'm gonna put my toke on because I feel like I have bad hair. Do I have bad hair? Got bad hair right now. Don't I one second one second? One second don't go anywhere There we go. That's better. So the guy who's loading me had no idea So this is obviously just something that got thrown into the schedule last minute. He didn't look too happy diesel Diesel you want to go to Michigan? You know what that means? That means we're going through Wisconsin That means we're gonna see some Wisconsin cows You're too You're too obsessed with everything that's going on around here. This place is really busy, man There's a lot of stuff going on here Now you said I'm a country dog, man. What are the people doing here? Where'd they come from? Where'd they go? What they're doing? It's the city diesel. Welcome All right, so I got to go back around to the other side of the yard So the guy loading me is actually really funny nice guy Apparently their appointment for right now canceled so I was able to slip into the canceled appointment That's the only reason he was all confused because I didn't have a reload appointment, but Worked out since I was here that they just reloaded me now I'm not gonna lie. There's got to be like a a farm with fresh manure spread all over it Very close by it stinks Like Stinks Really stinks And it's not me I checked. It's not me I'm just excited that This load is going to Brian Center, Michigan got to be there in a couple days Somewhere around here where I want to be gonna go right in the center Looks like it's gonna be he's just staying there. Okay, I Can always back up feet if I'm going too far Right up to you there So you tell me to stop man. He's not even looking okay. I'm gonna go a little slower Right here That's good now. He's waving me on Oh, sorry diesel brakes are a little sharp when I'm empty. I was just looking at my load assignment here Brian Center, Michigan. Where is that? b-r-y-o-n right Center Michigan Go on Google learn me teach me something Doesn't want to work right now. Oh not connected to the internet internet helps guys connect to the internet here Brian Center, Michigan Okay, there it is. So it is It's right by Grand Rapids. Oh it is Grand Rapids It's like so just south of Grand Rapids suburb of Grand Rapids you might say maybe not If you guys know where Grand Rapids, Michigan is it's Well Detroit is on one side of the main main part of Michigan, right Grand Rapids is just like straight west of there Right close to Lake Michigan All right Just gonna have to get out there and strap her all down again when he's done Off we go. When do they want it there? They want it in Michigan on The 24th, that's my dad's birthday at 145. That's a good appointment time. That's much better than like 6 a.m 145 on a Wednesday They want it there Wednesday already really it's Monday Okay, well How long is it gonna take me to get to Brian Center? Say Google Google teach me Google Teach me No, not walking. It'll take me 11 days to walk there apparently 11 day. No, we're gonna drive. I'm gonna drive Okay It's 1,683 kilometers. That's just over a thousand miles Okay, so that's that's doable. That's doable. We'll do a good chunk today We'll do the rest tomorrow and then we'll have plenty of time to get there for 145 p.m Wednesday So wait at least we're moving I Mean it is lumber so it doesn't really lumber never pays really well But it's something right it's it's something on my trailer something to pull and hopefully there will be something that pays Really well out there that I can take back. That's usually how it works The only thing coming out of Western Canada for us usually is you know lumber But that gets us to better locations and it usually balances out pretty good pretty good Since I've gone on to percentage I used to get paid by the mile and since I've been on percentage I Get more I've noticed that it's been better for me in the end I'm not allowed to discuss details of my contract or anything So I don't know what I'm allowed to say what I'm not allowed to say so I'll just say that it's better If you're debating on going between mileage or if they offer you percentage Chances our percentage is probably better But then it depends a lot on what kind of freight they pull like we don't pull very good paying freight out of here like this lumber is paying for my fuel pretty much but They have really good paying freight elsewhere, so All depends on what what you're pulling Load it up stop by the yard and scale this out yet because Scaling is free there But according to my air pressure gauges on my truck and my trailer. I shouldn't be even close to being overweight Well, we're gonna go check it out anyway I've got two four six eight ten twelve fourteen sixteen bundles of two by fours Probably about eight feet long. I'm guessing six feet. No six feet long Two by four by six Where's it six by two by four? Length times width times height. I don't know we got lumber on us We're on our way to Byron Center or Byron something right. I told you already. We're going to Michigan Grand Rapids We'll get a good distance behind us today It will probably arrive nearby there tomorrow and I unload at 1 45 in the afternoon, so I got plenty of time But I am gonna get going now just in case there's any delays And it's kind of pointless Just going home for like two or three hours just to come all the way back to work and leave Remember, I was telling you how that Flood water up here in North Dakota was getting pretty bad last time. Look at this. It's up onto the freeway now It's getting worse Yikes All this water is headed up to Winnipeg It should be going down now because all the snow was melted everywhere So there's not any more water that should be added to it unless we have another late snowstorm or a rainfall Significant rainfall, so this should be the max Sort of looks like it may have receded already a little bit just because you can tell that it's been now It's been higher You can see where the watermarks are on the shoulder. Here's another Flooded area here just up ahead That is crazy. Oh, they got dikes here little sandbags to keep the water off the road Wow Look at this. Look at this Wow that I've never seen before that's new okay Yikes There's all this junk in the lane there. I guess the water is pushed up on it It's pretty intense all these farmers these poor farmers all their fields are underwater It's very hard to seed your field when there's like two feet of water on top of it You know poor guys And ladies pardon me Lady farmers. I'm not sure how long this water will take to recede and go down completely But I'm guessing after that the farmers will have to wait another week or a couple of weeks Just for the ground to dry up enough. That is not all soggy and muddy Before they can seed this and I wonder if they'll even have time to grow a crop before the winter comes next this next winter I don't know That's a question. I would have though Hopefully that they're not gonna lose a whole A whole year's worth of harvest and crop. That's a lot of money. These are massive farms to the huge fields It's a lot of money to lose Stopped here at Roth is a Minnesota Regular stop and this wave of tiredness just washed over me I'll go get some caffeine So I made this my half hour break. I don't know how much further down the road. I'm gonna get It's not that lake yet, but I'm pretty tired. I'm thinking as soon as the Sun goes down So am I The Sun does stay up quite a bit longer now than it did even a month ago So that'll get us pretty far. I just know as soon as it gets dark my body's just gonna shut down. Nope That's it. That's all the words of Elmer is Elmer Fudd, right? That's all folks. I can't do his exact voice You can back out here I-94 Eastbound we probably won't get to Minneapolis tonight. I'll do that tomorrow I'm hoping to get to Clearwater, Minnesota to the Petro there. That's where I'd like to stop tonight That's the goal It's up to my body I don't know why I'm so tired. I didn't sleep the best last night, I guess Well, I'm at Walmart in Fergus Falls. Mandy's about to start yelling at me. What are you doing? Get back on the road. Well, they redid this Walmart reasonable. Very nice. Very nice. Yes I'm going to park here with all these other trucks and go in and get my Grocery shopping done While I still have energy to do it I'm getting tired fast. I'm not gonna get much further down the road than this So maybe we'll get this done now, and then I've got it all done for later And I don't got to worry about it We're right in here. I think a lot of these drivers stay here the night I don't feel comfortable really staying the night in a Walmart just cuz I don't know I know some walmers don't like that and other drivers. It's pretty full here right now, right? So other drivers want to come and shop too. We got to leave room for them One hour later As Troy would say have you guys checked out his vlogs yet by the way? 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I Think all he needs is for people to realize how good his videos are and you'll have a much bigger following So if you guys want to go check him out Go ahead jump over there. The link is down below in the description I'm gonna put you guys back up here as for right now We're gonna head on down the road. I got some groceries stocked up now Now I want to make it at least a sock center. I think I Wanted to make it further than that, but I'm just tired That's sort of stopped at Walmart here now because I knew that if I stopped later I'd be too tired to walk around and now I was pretty tired for the first little while in there But I'm glad I did stop because now I feel a lot more energized. I got my heart beating I Had an energy drink, which I usually don't I don't recommend those things. They're terrible for you But I wasn't in the mood for a coffee. I was just I was too tired for a coffee. That would just make me more tired so Had an energy drink and we'll see how long that that lasts. I can at least get to sock center I know that that's just a little ways down the road from here. I got a nice big truck stop there we'll pull in there and Start editing some videos until we fall asleep The truckers in sock center, Minnesota. This is a nice truck stop actually It's a privately owned Sort of like a mom-and-pop type shop Not like a big chain like flying day or TA or anything All right, so we got to find a parking spot Some are quiet preferably this guy left his signal on Whoops I'll probably go park in the back That guy left his beacon on Whoops guys got a check to make sure all your lights are off when you go to bed That beacon is very bright And go right to the back that'll make it a lot easier to walk diesel Before we get started, I want to give a quick shout out to transportation nation network I have partnered with them to bring you the best in trucking entertainment and trucking news on the web Go to their website transportation nation comm and you will find that it is your one-stop shop for everything trucking There's a lot of great trucking shows and entertainment there as well I encourage you to go sign up on their website and subscribe to their shows So you don't miss any I hope to see you there link is down below in the description