 behind us yesterday. If you haven't watched yesterday's video, don't forget to go back and check that one out first. Gotta watch them in order, otherwise nothing makes sense. There's only, what, 2000? What are we on? 2084 today? I've been doing this a little while. If you're new, good luck. You can just start from here if you want to. Got lots of stuff for you to watch. So from here, we're going into Ontario. And I'm going to find a spot to sleep. Somewhere up there tonight, not too sure where. I'm going to cross through Detroit into Windsor. We'll see what life brings us. It's another exciting day. I have eight drops on this load, all in Ontario. Starting in, I have one in London, Oshawa. I think there's one at Brantford and then Oshawa. There's a couple more. Carmichael, I think. North Bay, Ottawa, and then we end off in Dorval, Quebec. So it'll be most of the week. It'll be most of the week. A lot of them are very small deliveries, just like two or three boxes. And there's a couple of them that are like a hundred and some boxes. So it's all on the floor. I've got a hand bomb at all off, or at least tailgate it, bring it to the back for them. So I'll get my workout out of it as well. It should be fun. Let's get on the road, shall we? Not going anywhere without first dust in this place. Man. Diesel, I'm going to have to start charging you. He goes outside and somehow collects every morsel of dust that he can in his fur. And then he comes in here and he shakes, and somehow it is evenly dispersed and spread over the entire truck. It's a talent of his. I'm actually pretty proud of him. It's very nice. Everyone's got to be good at something, right? All right. Now we're ready to go. Travel center number 468 in Gilman, Illinois. Grab a shower here. The parking is to the left, but the only parking they have? I guess the parking is to the left. What a weird parking lot. Weird parking situation here. Where's their parking over there? Oh no, they got more parking over here. Okay. Some of these truck stops are uniquely set up. That's okay as long as we can figure it out. It's hard to eat healthy on the road. It really is. I got a fridge in the truck here where I can keep some groceries. Not too much though. You got to stop pretty often to get groceries if you want to make food for yourself in the truck all the time. I try to do that as much as possible, but I do find myself eating out every now and then in a restaurant maybe twice a month. A good majority of the time, I'll be grabbing stuff like this right here. These are my favorite. They're not really the best for you, but it's a barbecue rib sandwich. It's not an ad, but they're delicious. They're just not the best for you. It's sometimes tough to find good food that's healthy that you can make for yourself in the truck because if you eat out every meal every day, you're going to be spending a fortune on food. However, you stop at a Walmart. You stock up on some groceries. You make the food for yourself in the truck. You'll save yourself hundreds and hundreds of dollars every month, if not every week. To get on the border here, the last state to go through before Ontario, beautiful state for colors in the fall. This part of the state hasn't quite changed. You can see a little bit of red poking through here and there already, but like I said, the other day in Wisconsin, give it a couple of weeks. Brightly colored. Entering Michigan, changing time zone. Michigan changing time zone. Okay. Eastern time now. Good to know. Good to know. Clocks just jumped an hour. You on this road for 121 kilometers. I don't think so. Okay, Diesel. No steps this time, Kay. Got a nice soft landing right on the grass. Sometimes I don't make them use the stairs. If I can park up right against a curb like this, then the drop isn't very far down to the grass and it's softer than landing on cement, right? And I want them to still be able to jump up and down every now and then. I don't want to totally baby him and make him use the steps all the time and then have his body get even weaker. It's good to use your muscles every now and then. He's nine years old now, so we'll see. I'm careful with him. I don't want him to have any back or shoulder issues and part of staying healthy is staying active. I realize that we live in a truck and that's not very active. So every day, if we can, especially when the weather is nice, we try to get out and get moving at least. We don't do like a big workout or anything every day. We at least walk, you know, try to get a couple of miles in or like today I'm not going to be walking a couple of miles around this rest area, but just to get out of the truck, you know, smell the fresh air, let him sniff around. It's good for you, especially as truck drivers. We have to keep ourselves active. You know the average lifespan of truckers in the United States at least? I'm pretty sure it's the same in Canada. The average lifespan is 65 years old. That's the life expectancy. And that has a lot to do with the fact that we sit for a living. It's very easy to get complacent and just, you know, deliver your freight, do your stuff, go on the sleeper, go to bed, wake up the next morning, do it again. Sometimes it's difficult to remember to get active, get your heart pumping. The way I like to say it or the analogy I like to use is, you know, before we had DEF, if you let your diesel engine idle overnight, maybe to stay warm or cool overnight so you don't, so you get a good sleep in the morning, when you would start that engine working or when you would start working that engine, you'd get out onto the highway, you get all that blue smoke pouring out behind you, right? It's all that crud that gets built up inside your engine when you idle. Now we have exhaust systems and emission systems and stuff that prevents it from doing that, but that doesn't mean it's not still doing that. It's really not good for a diesel engine to idle. It's not good for your heart to idle either. You know, the more you let your diesel engine idle, the more crud and garbage that gets built up in there, plugs things up, starts running at lower capacity, starts burning more fuel, and eventually, you know, it can cause some bigger problems. You guys know what I'm getting at. You guys know what I'm talking about, right? If you just let your heart idle all the time and you never get your heart beating day after day after day for years, some of us drivers you have to admit we don't get our heart pumping for years, maybe even for decades. Some guys never get out of their truck really and it's really bad for you. That means your life expectancy is cut by many, many years and you don't want to become a statistic. The statistics show that a truck driver's life expectancy is 65. If you want to beat that and live longer than that, you have to get your heart pumping. That doesn't mean you have to do a big exercise every day. You don't have to have this big routine. You don't got to get out of your truck and do push-ups and jumping jacks. It just means get your body moving. We can't sit. We're not designed to sit. The human body is designed to work. But enough on that. I think you guys get the point. That's why we try to get out and walk as much as we can and I'm not the expert on this. I'm not the best at this. We don't get out nearly as much as we could. I'm working on my belly as well but I try to anyways and it's important for diesel too, right? It's not good for anybody. All organisms and all bodies are meant to be moving, not sitting. That's my lecture for today. I hope you liked it. Diesel, diesel, hold on. I'm wearing these like crocs. I use them because they're really convenient. You can just slip them on and off and I like to try to save my work shoes because they're sketchers and they're very expensive. So when I'm just going out of the truck for a short walk or going into the truck stop, I just slip on my crocs and they're waterproof, right? They don't got those holes in there. Sure they look ridiculous and my wife makes fun of me relentlessly for wearing them. But they're pretty comfy and they're quick to put on and off and they're cheap. You can get them at Walmart. I know. I talk about the trees a lot but I like nature. I do. Look how huge these trees are here. Look at that thing. Wow. I kind of want to climb it. Diesel, should I climb a tree? I don't think I will. But look at that. Wow. How old do you guys think this tree is? Diesel, what do you think? No, no, no, not that one Diesel. Not that one. That one's mine. That one's mine. It says the dog run is along the back fence. Well here's the back fence. I don't know if dog run means something different here but where I'm from, a dog run would imply that there is a fenced in area for a dog to run around in. Even if they do want them on a leash, like the sign said, they want them on a leash. I don't see a dog run here anywhere. They tell me there's a dog run. I'm expecting a fenced in area. A lot of truck stops are actually installing those kind of dog runs now. It's really cool. You can go in there and just let your dog run around at the truck stop within a fenced, like safe fenced in area. Got little water bowls there for them and everything. It's pretty cool. All right. So this is where we are. We're still I guess in western, southwestern Michigan here. You can see the great lakes there. That's what we're headed to. So got little ways to go yet. This is 383 kilometers. I hear you. I hear you. What's that in my little trucker, Josh? I know. You guys in your system of measurement, I'm telling you. You guys are pretty awesome but your systems of measurement are interesting to say the least. So what did I say? 383 kilometers divided by 1.61. About 238 miles. That's much we've got to do today yet. Let's get out of here. Well, we're here in Detroit. Detroit, Michigan. We're about to, there it is, bridge to Canada. They're going to charge me again. They're going to pay, I have to pay to leave. 500 meters. Key to the right on I-96 and N. Key to the right in 200. Or maybe you said I have to pay to go home. I've mentioned this before, right? Where do I got to turn right here? Yeah, this is a, here we go. We don't want to go to Lansing. We want to go to Canada. 200 meters. Key to the right on I-96 east. Where's the dotted line start? There we go. There you go. See, I don't know if, like I mentioned it before, I don't know if Canada is charging me to go home because they don't want me back, or if America is charging me to go home because they don't want me to leave. I don't know. But the bridge costs, I don't know what it costs. It gets billed straight to the company through the license plate, I think, or I don't know. Most toll booths now don't have actual people in it anymore. Just get straight billed to the company. I think it's something like what, 25 bucks or something? Somewhere in there. 20, 25 bucks. Bridge to Canada. This away. And one more. Find South I-96 and then change to the left at 650 meters. Why does that say South Toledo? Tuladu. I don't want to go to Tuladu. You can see the bridge already off to the left, just ahead of us out there. The Ambassador Bridge. The most busiest border crossing between Canada and the United States. The busiest commercial. I think, what did they say? Like a billion dollars worth of trade crosses this bridge every day? Or is that along the whole border? I forget what the stats are. I think it's a billion dollars a day. I don't know, lots. Not too many cars going over the bridge anymore, though. I can't wait until this whole thing is over and everything goes back to normal. I just stopped in here at the parking. I guess this is the duty-free parking. Make sure I get all my paperwork and everything in order. Everything all ready for them. So when I get to the window, I'm not scrambling, looking unorganized. That's always fishy. You always want to know where you went, where you're going, who you are. If you have any suspicious things with you. I'm just joking, but I'm getting tired. You want to know how many days you've been outside the country, where you went, where you're going, what you're hauling. You don't want to be sitting there with your tongue tied at the window at customs. It just doesn't look good for you. So we came down. When did we leave? We left. Let's look at the calendar here. The calendar, it is Saturday today and I left on, what? Didn't I leave on, often Wednesday, right? So one, two, three. We've been in the US for three days. We went down to Rosane, Wisconsin and then picked this up in Arthur, Illinois. It's going up in Ontario here, eight drops. Let's go. What's really interesting at this board, I've noticed that I know about, they want us to wear our masks. When you get to the window and until you leave, they want you to have your mask on. But I'm wondering, how do you know it's me then? They don't ask to confirm your identity or anything. They just, you just wear them. Anybody can steal my ID and use it to get across the border. All they got to do is put on a mask and have like similar eyes to me and that's kind of sketchy. If you ask me, I don't know. I think it'd be better to have no masks because the borders I cross that usually in like Pemberton, Emerson, no masks are allowed there because they want to see your face, obviously. This one's different and this was the busiest one too. That's weird. Hasn't turned his lights on. There's no idea. Try to signal them, turn my lights off, turn them back on. Okay, so I went a little overboard. I regret nothing. Sometimes you just get the sugar cravings. I'm buying a bunch of junk food in the same vlog. I get it. The irony did not pass by me there. Well, another day is done. I'm gonna vacuum up Diesel's bed here and then take this sheet off of here. I had an interesting experience just now. Let me tell you about it. Let's sit down for this. This is kind of freaky. So we parked here for the night, found a good spot and I put the steps out for Diesel and he crawls down. I'm taking him for a walk and I'm about to have the big open grass area, right? Nobody's around. Walking on my... Maybe I'll take him off the leash. Middle of the night, you know. What could possibly go wrong? So as I'm thinking about this, I'm turning around to look at Diesel to go and take his... Take the leash off, right? And unclick it so he can run. I turn around and Diesel is staring at something in the distance. I'm looking at him like, what are you looking at? A bunch of grown skunks just hanging. It was like a gang of skunks. So as Diesel was running towards him and I was holding him back, you know, they all like raise up their tails and get all aggressive, right? And I'm like, oh no. I thought they were going to go running away. So I was trying to yell at them without waking up everyone around here. I was yelling at them, trying to like, you know, intimidate them to get them out of here. These skunks are the most courageous or dumb skunks. I don't know. I have ever met. They didn't run away. They started moving towards us, staring me straight in the eye, slowly walking closer and I had to lunge at them and come back and lunge at them and come back. I was trying to get them to get away from me and get away from my truck, right? They were sitting right outside the truck here and they just kept marching towards me, staring me down. All of them. I didn't think, I don't think they wanted to play. So we didn't literally run. We walked briskly away, even though Diesel didn't want to. And they just kept following us. The skunks here are different. A different breed, I think. Usually wild animals would run away. No. This guy, he wanted to fight, prowling around and marauding around the parking lot here. I went around the corner and there's a driver sitting out there just relaxing outside his truck. I guess he's a night owl just like me. And I went up to him and just let you know there's a bunch of skunks out here. He's like, oh, I know I've seen them. They've been prowling the parking lot. Like really? So he's seen them too and he's been had his eye out for them because they're a little aggressive. They'll come at you. We're being terrorized by a gang of skunks. Do skunks usually act like this? I don't know much about skunks. Don't they avoid humans? Do they like hunt us down in packs now? 2020 can't get any crazier. So they're around my truck here right now. They went around and underneath and I quickly got diesel in the truck and I threw the steps in underneath there. I took a look around. I couldn't see them where they went. So I quickly jumped in his door. I didn't even go around to my side because they were probably waiting there for me to ambush me. So I got in diesel side over here and I closed the doors and I locked the door so they couldn't get in. But they're out there. A bunch of terrorists, man. What is this place coming to? Ontario. You've got a gang problem. Yikes. So that's my story. I figured that'd be kind of entertaining for you. I've been talking for like five minutes now. I've never had that happen before. Every time I've seen a skunk in the past I just, you know, sort of yell at them, wave my arms and they go running off. Oh, these guys came. They came towards us and another driver said he came at them too. Or that the gang of skunks came for him too. They'll chase you down. What do they want? What are they going to do when they catch you? Surround you and like just like take turns spraying you? That's just mean. I'm going to take you guys out with me in the morning. Okay. And we're going to find these buggers. Diesel. I think I'm going to leave you inside for this one because I don't actually want to fight with them but I do want to get them on the vlog. I don't know where they went now. They did go all around my truck. I've been waiting for them to pop out again so I can show you. But I guess tomorrow or skunks, are they nocturnal? Do they come out just at night? I hope so because I don't want to deal with them all day tomorrow too. A bunch of gangsters. Seriously, a gang of skunks. How many diesel? How many do you think there were? There had to have been at least six? Seven? Half a dozen? Full grown skunks just prowling. Never seen that. I've been trucking for nine years over the road now. I've seen all kinds of stuff. Never seen a gang of skunks that are aggressively chasing down drivers. It's kind of funny but caught me off guard. Got my heart pumping a bit. Why are you coming after me man? What do you want? I've got nothing for you. So tomorrow I'll try to find them without getting sprayed. See if I can get them on the vlog. I don't know if they're nocturnal. I'm pretty sure they only come out at night. During the day they're probably going to be sleeping but we'll see what we can do. If I see them around here again I'll pull out the camera. I don't smell them so that's good. Maybe they moved on to the next driver already. It's like they wait in like the bushes here until the driver gets out of their truck. For me it was when I was walking diesel. The other guy it was when he went to go take a shower. The other guy was out of his truck. Who knows? Probably went inside got a probably a shower as well. They wait till you get out of your truck and then they like stalk you. A bunch of skunk thieves they're gonna they're gonna mug you. Threaten to spray you if you don't give them a give them your wallet. I don't know. We're gonna figure this out tomorrow though. I'm gonna stay inside my truck for now. I'm not really scared of skunks. I just really don't want to get sprayed and it was kind of weird how they were aggressive. Oh well. All is good now. It's 2020. I'm not really surprised anymore. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit the like button.