 I'm not how you say good morning in sign language good morning. Oh, this is sunset. Good morning Or is this just hello in sign language? I I don't speak sign. I'm sorry Find it pretty interesting watching people though that know how to do it properly. So I'm just doing All right, well, I'd better get out there doing my pre-trip and Headed over to Auburn, Alabama from here in Waynesboro, Georgia. It's just a few hours down the road We've got to load their first thing tomorrow morning So we're taking the back roads Well, what passes for back roads in Georgia? These are like main highways where I come from but Avoiding all the big cities wherever we can This way is actually 100 kilometers or 60 miles shorter But it takes the same amount of time So if I have the ability and opportunity to avoid the big cities It had me going around Atlanta my main route or the if I would have taken the interstates Like I said, the interstates was further distance wise But the exact same as going through the countryside the exact same time So if I have the option, I avoid those cities right now if possible. Hey look diesel a dog You want to say hi? Who's that? Okay, come on establish yourself in the any intersection. There you go. I don't know what town. This is exactly But we're on Georgia 24 westbound going the small town countryside scenery See if I ever moved Or lived down here Karen you can never let me just talk You're always talking over me What do you you just said that What I was gonna say is if I live down here or if I had the opportunity or whatever if I just happened to live here This is the kind of area I would live in We're all small town. I just You know, you guys know me you've been watching my videos long enough to know that I am not a fan of the big cities Doesn't matter where you go. Doesn't matter what country you're in I'm not a fan of big cities so With what's going on in election year here 2020 it's pretty much the same thing that went on in 2016 election year Truck route this way. Okay. They want me to go this way Truck route Like all this chaos going on right now like, you know, it's because of election year, right? You remember the last time we had riots and we had big protests. We had chaos Violence breakout everything, you know, everybody's at each other's throats. Everybody's race baiting. Everybody's you know trying to divide everybody The last time this happened was 2016 remember Last election year. See I'm old enough now to start remembering the pattern every four years. This happens so every four years I Avoid the cities It's too bad. It's too bad because America is such a beautiful country filled with so many amazing people What do you think diesel making bacon sir? I just can't I can't roll through making without saying that Now my mouth is watering now. I want bacon over this hill. Maybe that's where the city will be I'm doing pretty good. You know when you think of taking the back country you sort of think Oh, it's gonna be super slow speed limits town after town after town actually, no This has been a too late highway for the most part, but the speed limit has been like 55 to 65 mile an hour All the way through So it actually saved me quite a bit of time Coming through here rather than going all the way up on the freeways to Atlanta and then back down towards Auburn Alabama you get to see the back country sanering Sales small towns that you usually would never know even existed. It's beautiful out here. It's so green So I've never actually been through making like directly through usually I just Slipped through on the freeways, but the scenic route is uh, oh That was red that that was definitely red. Wow Whoa, but yeah, we're going right through through the city now apparently red lights are Suggestions here Okay, so I'm turning on to I 16 I think this is gonna take me up to I 75. I'm not sure. I thought I was going through downtown I'm pretty sure I got to go down the freeway just a little bit And then we'll end up downtown We're going through the city anyway Oh my satellite radio suction cup keeps falling off the window Every time I stop I've had to put it back on there It lasted for like a month and then suddenly now I can't get it to stay stuck It's the maybe it's too hot down here. I don't know we got to get into the left We're gonna turn left here I 75 south Maldosta Maldosta Way ahead of you Karen. Now what's going on here here? Nobody cut out in front of me You've chosen your exit and I'll stick to it. I ain't got this car right here. That's a terrible place to park but terrible place to park Dude, that's why they make parking on interstates illegal It's dangerous How is it that I know these laws but so many other people don't I guess I do it for a living. I mean I'm I'm supposed to know these laws, right? Parking on the shoulder of an interstate for anything other than an emergency Is illegal for a reason There's a law there to prevent people from getting hurt Okay, so now we're going through the city And apparently making is no exception They're not just making bacon They're also making lots of construction Making construction every day So what about two miles or so? Always got to shift myself because the transmission on this truck doesn't know what it's doing That's a solid white line my friend solid white line, but that's okay. I forgive you I'm not the law on these parts. I just try to follow it construction construction Nothing but construction right diesel Always building stuff, which is nice because it gives truck driver something another guy parked on their shoulder Vans just ripping up beside me. I couldn't get out of the lane Minivan late for soccer practice again those minivan drivers I tell you I've said it before the most aggressive drivers on the road drive minivans I'm sticking to that What do you think diesel not getting involved fine? I'll speak up So I thought we were actually going to see some scenery. This is going straight through the city. Apparently they uh They don't want us to actually see the city. They just want us to get out of here Pass on through and get out of here. No sightseeing for us. Okay Kind of nice though in the south how they sort of have like all the trees are sort of built right into the forest That's different than up north where they just plow down anything that's green and replace it with concrete Seems like they try to keep it as green as possible We're right in the middle of the city right now like dead center in the city almost you wouldn't guess it Okay, buddy. Come on. Come on Find your gas pedal get in front of me. There you go. There you go Someone who knows how to merge and use the on ramp So many people they they they don't know that the on ramp is meant to get you up to highway speed before you hit the highway And then they see a big truck coming and they panic and they hit the brakes and that just messes up everything for everybody This is my exit Slight right. This is more than a slight right Karen. This is like a hard 90 degree corner slight right slight right You can't get more of a right turn than this without it being a u-turn Oh, I can just barely fit through here And there's cars coming All right, are we on the curb there? Nope. We're not missing the Okay, good. We're missing the curb. What are we on now on this road for 59 kilometers? 59 kilometers We've got to be getting close to the alabama state line Still in georgia here Well diesel we got the second last spot There's only two spots left. I fuel as quickly as I could and uh Drove as quickly as I dared without speeding through the parking lot to make sure that no one else would take my spot Well, it looks like the last spot is being taken now too, so 5 30 p.m Smith station georgia. Nope Smith station alabama Let's get that right full 5 30 I should tell the trucker path app That way it creates a record of that the truck stop is full at 5 30 So the next time when drivers look up this, uh Truck stop on the app they can tell oh wow this thing this place fills up at 5 30. There we go Okay, so I'm gonna go in have a shower do some laundry. I hear they have laundry here, so Do at least one little laundry and then uh head to bed 7 a.m. Tomorrow we got to be down the road in aurora, alabama Loading so we'll see you then