 Hey folks You right there. I'm saying hi to you How's it going my poison IV poison? Excuse me My poison IV my poison oak is getting better. It still looks kind of ugly. I'll give you a little warning in advance. I'm gonna show you It's getting better. It's drying up and going down. I Still have some here here and along here, but it's all Receding it's in retreat. I'm winning the war. I've won a few pretty good battles already, but the war is About to be wrapped up. I think and I Tell you I Think I kicked his butt It put up a pretty good fight. I'll say it's a really good fighter. It's still fighting. I got I have to respect its it's a ability to fight but I'm stronger. I Got friends in high places You what? Okay I'm gonna go inside real quick and grab a coffee. I'll be right back in here Obviously you've gathered. This is the next morning already. My days are all kind of mixed up right now I don't know why just I've been in a bit of a rush, but after this It'll be a little bit better. I think I'm gonna try and go home instead of resetting on the road I was thinking why am I gonna go to Moose jaw and reset and Moose jaw sit there for a whole day day and a half? Oh, why not just go home? It's sort of on the way So I checked how much further it would be to go up through North Dakota up through Emerson and go home To reset there. It's only 60 kilometers or like 35 miles further overall And I can be home So we're gonna we're gonna try and do that. Let's go get loaded first though before we make any final decisions on that I've got to load up some insulation. I think I think and then I have to tarp it And we'll see what's gonna happen from there first I need my coffee. I don't know what's going on Diesel you want a coffee? I don't want a coffee But I'm gonna drive up closer to the building because I'm weighing the booties out in the back This is the only spot available when I got here last night Look closer to the building because we're lazy today. Let's just be honest. Let's not lie about it I don't want to walk that far this morning. I know I'm always like hey, you guys should always you know take the opportunity to walk Some of you need it more than others. I need it more than others. Look at me Not today. Not today. I parked like right over here. This would be good enough. Hey, why not? Yeah, right here Good enough Save myself what? 100 meters there park between these fine people with these tires that aren't tied down at all That must be fun Can I get even closer? No, this is good. This is good buildings right there on the right Good enough don't want to be too lazy Just lazy enough all righty. All right Coffee check barbecue rack o-ribs Check now that is the breakfast of champions. I don't know. I don't know I don't know if that's true or not, but we're gonna say it is today All right, let's get ready for our day here We got to go about an hour hour and a half down the road to where we're gonna load That'll probably take most of the afternoon to get that done And then we can drive the rest of the day today and all day tomorrow Which will bring us to Saturday evening. We'll be home be home for Sunday Head out to Fort McMurray Sunday night if I can't shoot if I want to reset. I'm gonna have to leave Monday morning It's gonna be a long day a really long day Well, if I don't get a reset that's fine I'm gonna be back the next week and I do have hours to recap I might have to just leave Sunday evening instead, but at least I get some time at home, right? The weather is still beautiful down here in Greenville, Illinois This is probably what a central Illinois or something I'm not sure exactly where it is, but it is in the Illinois State away from Chicago So I like it Get ourselves on to the interstate. This is always the best part of the day when you first start rolling I got captain see what this load is gonna look like hard to tarp I have a feeling it's just gonna be a square rectangle. So it'll be super easy I haven't tarped in quite a while actually. Yeah, I'm not a load that I need to tarp and Almost a month It's been kind of nice I'm lost in st. Louis No, Manny Forgot to tell me to turn or if she's just playing games with me Because I don't remember her telling me to turn on to the interstate going around st. Louis So I went into st. Louis, then suddenly she's telling me to turn around downtown And come through here to get back on the freeway. I mean, well, I was on the freeway Why didn't you leave me off the freeway? You wanted me to take that freeway. Why didn't you tell me to take that freeway, right? I guess you just wanted to show me st. Louis a little bit a little bit of a tourist That's her left here this one This one. Okay All right Don't leave me down dark paths. Mandy. I'm trusting you You know what? I'm gonna double check your work now that we're in a light Where are you taking me Where are you taking me? Oh I see okay, so turn left and then turn right and it's gonna spit me back out on to The interstate I should have been on what interstate is that? Tell me what interstate are you interstate 55? Well, why didn't you tell me to turn on to the 55? Why am I here? You know, you can't trust your GPS people always say don't trust your GPS Well, I can't double-check every single little turn on my route that she tells me before I go, right? I just take a look at the overall route and it looked good Maybe I missed her saying that I should turn maybe she maybe she did tell me to turn on to the 55 And maybe I'm the one that wasn't paying attention I mean I was listening to a talk radio show so maybe I just didn't hear it. It wasn't that loud though I think she just messing with me Any of you live in st. Louis? I'm in your city Very nice very nice Very nice city you got going on here a little bit of an older district we're in right now This makes me want my motorcycle again, I want to go touring around I was gonna put my motorcycle up for sale this year again Convinced because I want to buy a work quad for us, right? I think I still should do that, but I'm gonna miss it The purpose of that I bought my motorcycle was because it's light and it's it's narrow so it would be very easy to Take with me on the truck If I had a truck with a proper mount system behind the bunk, right? This is where you want me to turn right? Oh a little narrower than I thought it was why is there a big curb here? Let's not hit the curb Here we go. Okay, I 55 that's where we should be. Oh, there's a big like cathedral or big Church here on our right one of the old style Love those buildings. They don't build them like that anymore I wish they did interesting neighborhood. Oh bumpy road though. Oh AT still University Looks like a pretty old place to not this building here on the left But there's some buildings further behind it that look like it probably the original buildings Wow, that's cool. So much history in these old cities Britain I would really like to go visit Europe Because you know I look at the old districts of our North American cities and I'm like wow so much history Can you imagine going to Europe seeing all the history in Europe? I Really wanted to go see Notre Dame before it burnt, but I hope that they're gonna rebuild it exactly like it was I really hope they don't change it those timbers that burnt were 850 or were Put there 850 years ago, and they were a few hundred years old. So that was like a thousand year old Wood that was built that held up that roof a thousand years old So sad to see history burn Even if you're not religious, I mean it's just sad to see history burn And here is our next load all tied down tarped Ready to rock 2,000 mile journey north Way up in northern Alberta Styrofoam insulation I like this stuff here Should be fun. It's going to Fort McMurray, Alberta So after I loaded I just came here to Warrington, Missouri. I had to get through st. Louis again. That was madness during rush hour I stopped here check the load tighten the straps and Have a shower so walk the weasel and we're ready to go Hope there's somebody coming. Okay. We'll wait for you, buddy. There he comes mr. Steel hauler I hold that steel too Very nice very nice Okay, now I'm hitting anybody Build these parking lots in such a way that you can fit into the parking lots like you can fit into any parking spot Just barely by the skin of your teeth But hey, they can say on the app that they got 120 parking spots that makes them look good I said these flying jays have these truck care centers now. It's kind of nice They're just kind of following the example of TA in petrol. I like that. There should be a shop at every truck stop It's a really good thinking It's the perfect place to get your truck serviced We're officially in Iowa I owe you nothing Big building on the left fancy is that like town hall or what? Very fancy very nice Very nice, Iowa I'm in a lane. I can even tell what the lanes are. Don't wait. This is the lane. Okay Look at this. Hey Steinback cough cough. You see how their Main Street has flashing yellow lights at night So you can just sort of float through here That'd be nice wouldn't it? Instead of catching every red light at 2 a.m. When there's no one else around They might do that on purpose though because Steinback has a problem with street racers on Main Street. I Was young once too I understand but now that I'm older it's annoying and I totally understand the adults of my day Wishing we would stop. I Shouldn't say we would I never would street race down Steinback But I don't kids my age that that was always the place to be you know what a Main Street Show off your car to all the girls That's right None of us had cars to show off, but hey Tick took whatever we had and we'd give her I Think this town now is called Jewel, Iowa I'm stopping here at the loves. It's time to go to bed. I'm tired Gotta edit some videos. Yeah, I have to do that tomorrow one of these days Turns out unfortunately, I'm not gonna have any time to stop at home like I wanted to Just gonna go straight there It's 150 kilometers out of my way to go home Instead of crossing through into the sketch one which is totally worth it If I get to spend a full day at home and reset and get some good timing But I would have only gotten like an hour if that So it's a long ways to go around for an hour and Then I'd be very rushed Probably wouldn't have gotten to my destination when I wanted to I just talked to Britt about it and we just decided you know what it's just best if I just Hammer down go on straight through Gotta come back for next weekend anyways the following weekend, so I'll be back in About another week on the road For tonight we are done Pulling into the loves truck stuff this is huge lots of park in here See if I can find myself a decent parking spot. This is really huge I'm just parking spots back here in the back, but it's so far away from the building Yes, it's a little walk never hurt anybody I'll come back around if there's nothing better You'll see what's what's available check out the parking situation Oh, they don't have much parking at all near the building. It's all the way back here The building's up up front there into the right not this shop Not the tire shop here on the right the one further out there behind the pumps yet a bit of a hike Should have packed my hiking boots At least there's parking So often you get to these truck stops at this time of night and no parking is available This guy parked right here, I don't want to be that lazy All right, we'll just do a little u-turn go park in the back Whatever Don't really need anything tonight. Anyways, I just wanted to buy some milk You know I should do maybe I should go park in front of the pumps like this Tyson guy did Go inside grab my milk and then go and park That's a nice. It's a nice night. I could use the walk. I'll go park in the back there Well, I'm gonna have to go this way though because I got a Don't want to blindside today, and I got a back into my right Pardon me to my left. I'm talking. I don't want to back to my right That's my blindside. I don't want to end up hitting somebody. I'm tired. It's late at night, and I don't want to deal with that There's some nice spots here actually. Oh, whatever. Whatever. I made my decision. We're parking in the back Stop trying to change my mind Less chance people will come and park right beside me than to Reef for running. No It is a swift truck though. So I'm a little nervous. He's got to get out of here sometime or other a little close to him Comfort there It's okay You know what? It'll be just fine All right diesel. Let's take you outside real quick. All right. No, you go stay there I'll come around to your side. I got the key. Don't worry. I won't forget. I got the key I got my eye on you swift. Don't try anything. Swiftie Little close for comfort Come here say parked in that spot Specifically because there's a utility trailer that's parked in this spot that means that I Can put my steps out there and They're not gonna be in anybody's way And still get the pick up in here pick this up whatever this is doing here. Come on diesel Come on, bud. Let's keep going Keep going. I got the poop bags man. Give her Give her no, no, no, don't pee on the trailer. What are you doing? No one out on the garbage can either Come on old man. What are you? Losing your memory. There you go I peed on my mudflap How dare you pee on my mudflap only I can pee on my tires and my mudflaps That's a special privilege So that's the load Going all the way up to Fort McMurray, Alberta It's actually very light very very light I can hardly notice there's anything on the trailer behind me and The tarping system that they had here you should have seen it. I wasn't allowed to film there They made that very clear, but they had this tarp system where They they unrolled your tarps for you. You don't even get out of your trucks. They do it all for you They hook it on to this machine which lifts it up and then you drive underneath your tarps And then the machine comes back down and puts your tarps over your load for you all in like two minutes and all you got to do is just Pull out like they bungee it on the four corners. Just that it doesn't fly away You drive out of the little shack and you just bungee it down real good and you're out of there takes Literally like 20 minutes to tarp it My mind is blown my mind is blown. I mean, it's a pretty simple tarp job It's sort of big rectangle like I figured it would be but Still that would have taken me about two hours probably if I'd climb up on top there with a step ladder and stuff Had to risk I would have had to risk falling off breaking my face Or my neck one of the two or worse my GoPro But anyways the camera is about to die, so I guess I got a cut it short here Thanks for watching today everybody tomorrow is another day I'm gonna try to start putting a little bit more effort into these videos because I've been trying to take it easy lately just cuz it's Getting a little bit overwhelmed a lot of things going on right now and But I want to make sure I keep these good and entertaining for you and Up to the part that I like them to be at At the standard I like them to be at which is a little bit higher than it's been and I apologize for that but Meet me here tomorrow, and we'll see what we can do. I'll see you then. Don't forget to subscribe