 detour we had to take yesterday. Georgia it'll be pretty much a full day to get there. It is 29 degrees Celsius. This Canadian is melting. So we're in North Carolina right now. We're around Raleigh, North Carolina headed down through South Carolina right away right to the border with Georgia. Just in the Georgia there's Augusta, Georgia. I just got my information sent to me on that load. That load is going to Headingley Manitoba which is West Winnipeg Manitoba. It's a three-day drive once we get there. The preloaded trailer it's already there waiting for me. It's just a drop and hook. So much easier than you know taking all my straps off, my tarps off, all my equipment off, rolling it all back up, going to get the next trailer, tarping it, strapping it, and then getting going. No it's just a drop and a hook and we're gone. I'm enjoying this stress-free existence. I tried the other side. It was great actually. I love flatbeds. It was a lot of fun but it just didn't work out for me. It didn't work out for me. I mean the people there were great to work with. No problems there. The routes, they didn't go very far and they were all very similar. Very repetitive over and over and over which kind of... I get bored. I get bored doing the same thing every day. That's why I don't work in an office. If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I'd go work in an office or go work in a warehouse somewhere or in a manufacturing plant, you know, where you go and do the same thing every day, every day. I like to do something different every day. I like to explore, go further, you know, and it's very hard to rack up the miles when you, you know, you drive a day, you sit there, you spend half a day tying it down, tarping it, and you drive half a day, and you spend another half a day untarping it, rolling up the straps, tarping the max loads, chaining it down. So the pay is higher on flatbeds, but from what I've sort of seen here, it's kind of balanced out. I don't know. I think in the end we'll see. Like, let me do this for a few months and I'll be able to tell you more so where it lines up. I'm not gonna tell you exact numbers. I mean, I have a contract on the pay systems and whatnot. Every company's different. So yeah, the mileage rate is lower on dry vans. You get more per mile on flatbeds and you get more pickup and delivery. You get paid to tarp. But in the end, is it really that much more pay to be on flatbeds? I guess it really depends on what company you're at. But I think all in all, it all depends on what makes you happy. The thing that makes me happiest the most is seeing the world around me, seeing these places, seeing Raleigh, North Carolina, rolling down the highway, seeing what this world has to offer, seeing what mankind has built and created and just enjoying it, soaking it all in. That's my favorite part. So doing this makes more sense for me, I think. It's more sense. I don't regret it yet. I don't regret it. Now I'm gonna stay here for the foreseeable future. I'll probably be doing dry vans for years now again. I don't have any plans on changing again. I don't like change. I've tried a whole bunch of different things in my career already. I've been driving since 2006. So I've done the local stuff. I've done the dry van stuff. I've done the regional dry van stuff. I've done the flatbed stuff. I've done the regional flatbed stuff. I've done the local stuff where you're home every night. I just haven't tried. I haven't given refrigerated freight a good go yet. That's something I haven't given a good go of yet. But maybe one day in the future, we'll have a division right where I am right now. We don't have a refrigerated division. Otherwise I'd give it a shot. But from what I hear, it's very crazy appointment times. You do a lot of nighttime deliveries because it's produced. They're really on your back to be on time because you got perishable freight in your trailer. You can't let it go bad or the whole load goes bad. I don't know who pays for that. It's a big mess. I'm sure if it all goes bad. You got to be on time. You got to be on time with all freight. But they're a little bit more aggressive that you get there quicker with food. It makes sense. I don't know if I'd enjoy that as much. I like the relaxed nature of what I do. This is what I did for six years. If you guys remember that on the vlogs. A while back I did flatbeds now for three years with some regional work put in there. I came back to this because this is where my heart was. What I mean by that is this is what I love to do. This is what makes me the happiest. You got to make sure you're happy. You got to make sure that you have to manage your stress levels. Every job has its stress. Even this has the stress got to deal with crazy drivers. But Britt and I are still trying to start a family. We've been having a lot of problems with infertility and stuff. And any added stress on top of that isn't going to help the situation. So all in all, I think I'm better off where I'm at. Let's keep rolling down the road. I'm enjoying all the greenery around me. Diesel, what do you think of the hot weather? Diesel, did you melt? He's still there? He's still there. He's good. He's good. Palm trees. Palm trees right there. On the right. Palm trees. Palm trees right there that I've seen in the last three years combined. Just coming up to the state border of North Carolina and South Carolina. Get across this state and switch trailers to start headed back. I'll run out of hours on my 70 hour clock on the way home though. I was able to get a reset over in Newfoundland this week. I'm running out of hours again. I think I'm only going to make it about two thirds of the way home. The US you only need 34 hours to reset of consecutive off duty. Just to start a new week. Beautiful green corridor. Everything here is just fully fully in summer mode already. Especially that big ball of fire in the sky over there. Things hot. Still well still 26 degrees here Celsius and seven o'clock at the time. Thirty one today in Southern Virginia and I got a little bit of a tan today. I wouldn't be surprised if I burnt a little soul green. I wish I could take this all back home with me. All of it or maybe just come down here as everything gets back to me. Well actually Britt and I we have some other travel plans in the works. They got canceled this year because of the sickness. The boogeyman canceled our plans. So rescheduling I guess we hadn't made any concrete plans or anything but I don't want to spoil it because we still want to go there yet and I want to be a surprise to everybody. It's gonna be really cool. We end up going in 2021 now. Hopefully by that time this world has come to its senses. Figured this all out. Gotta look forward to something right. This can't last forever. So I'm sad to report that I haven't seen one more palm tree since we saw those other ones back there at that business. That was in North Carolina. We're in South Carolina. We're further south and there's no more palm trees. I don't know where they're hiding them all. Probably heard Trucker Josh is coming hide your palm trees. He might come snatch them take them home with them. Don't underestimate me. I'll take your palm tree. I'll take that thing I'm planted in my front yard of the only palm tree in Southeast Manitoba on my yard. Two and a half hours of just straight driving. I don't think I'm gonna stop for another coffee break before we get there. I've already had two coffee breaks today. So maybe one more after we switch trailers. Probably not. I don't know. I usually only have two coffees a day. Extra large coffees but two coffees per day. One in the morning just as I'm getting going and one just afternoon probably around like one o'clock or so depending on like when I start my day temperature is still a beautiful balmy twenty seven Celsius. It's gotta be what in the eighties and Fahrenheit. Beautiful thing. Beautiful thing. Do I really have to go home? Do I have to? I guess so. Oh easy there Mr. aggressive. Careful with daddy's beamer. What was with that aggressive lane change? Did I annoy you? Was I going too slow for you? Did I inconvenience you? Did I make you have to go around me in the other two lanes? You know, there's two other lanes over here. God forbid you have to move over into one of those. That involves a lot of energy you know, turning your turn signal on, moving your arms a couple of a couple of millimeters. I can understand why they'd be upset. Wait, what's this guy doing? Why are you turning in front of me and hitting your brakes? What's going on with people? Did I do something? You guys mad at me for something? What did I do? Alright, everything seems to be fine. Just trying to roll around, roll along mind my own business here folks. Just rolling on through. Just gonna grab some freight and go back home. Don't worry cause any trouble. Actually, I'm here to bring you some stuff so you know, someone bought some of your stuff back home. So I'm going to bring that to them. PD state, farmer's market, PD state. What's that mean? PD. You see that sign? How fortunate you guys are to live down here though. Like what an awesome place to call home. How lucky. One day, one day when I make it and I become rich, whatever that is defined as nowadays, whenever I get there, I want to have like a winter home or like a winter seasonal campsite or something down in the south. So when I retire, I can come down here and get away from the cold. Well, I'll be the snowbird. That's right. Still be making vlogs probably 90 years old. Hey, every day is exciting when you're 90. We're already leaving Augusta, Georgia here and we have our new trailer behind us. Looks exactly like the other trailer except there's different stuff in it. We're digging this stuff up to Canada. Somebody have been Canada wants this stuff. Here we go. That took literally eight minutes to switch trailers, sign a paper and leave. Wow. Eight minutes as compared to, I don't know, four hours. Well, we got two hours left on our clock today yet. As far as we can, see where we end up. I don't even have time to show you anything of the trailer switch. It was just boom, boom, boom, done. We're gone. That's going to want to come in here, Desi. I've got to turn right right away, bud. So turn your signal on. Are you turning in here? Your lane ends. I'm guessing you are. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. There you go. See, you could have just sped up to begin with then you didn't have to force me into the other lane. You could have just, you know, used the on ramp for what it was designed for and merged into traffic at the speed of traffic. Therefore not hindering any of the movement on the traffic or on the road on the traffic. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? I'm trying to be clever here and I'm getting a little tired. Two more hours left of my day. What? Any break? Continue on this road for eight kilometers. Nope. We are going to bed. So I can find a parking spot here. Flying Jay in, what town was this? This is right between Augusta, Georgia and Atlanta, Georgia. I think it was Interstate 85. Right there. I think I'm gonna turn around and take that. Like a pretty good one. There's some over here. I'm gonna take that one. Oh, there is one here too. A whole bunch here. Oh, look at this. Oh, these are reserve spots. That's why nobody wants to pay for parking. I'm not paying for parking either.