 Today is definitely one of those four WD days we got Close to what seems like a foot of snow overnight and we're supposed to get close to it seems like a foot But will seem like a foot during the day today yet in the morning, especially There's gonna be a lot of snow Looks like town has cleared the main streets here already But there was tons on our street if you don't have four-wheel drive you're not getting out of your driveway today It's that kind of day We're on our way to the semi See what kind of a mister if we can get up to today. Oh, oh, you want me to stop? I'll stop I'll stop. There you go 4WD doesn't help you stop any faster, but it sure helps you get going. I'm supposed to be going down to Minnesota today I'm taking a sleeper truck one of our Western stars, so I'll be able to show that to you It's the same pretty much a sister truck to the Western star that I used to be in years ago Years ago Britain I went on a trip together up to Yukon territory For New Year's I was a five years ago already same type of truck It's unit 30 79 and we hook it up to that. I'm just going down into Minnesota not too far It would usually be just a day trip. I wouldn't need a sleeper, but given the circumstances with the weather I'm gonna take a sleeper truck just in case we get hung up then I Got a bed to sleep them Western star That was a little under underwhelming of a horn. Let's try that again. Hmm Western star It's a little bit of a sketchy day out here today, but we're trucking along. We're doing just fine We're stopping at the Flying J here in Saint Adolf, Manitoba. I'm gonna fill up our tanks of fuel We have a unique trailer behind us. It looks like a horse trailer Everyone seems to think it's a horse trailer that I talked to it's not a horse trailer It looks like one This Western star also brings back a lot of memories older memories. This was the truck Well a truck just like this. I was driving 30 80 back then. This is 30 79 30 79 sorry I Was driving this truck when I met Britt and she came on the road with me in A truck just like this in 30 80. We took it up to Yukon And we we squished in here with the dogs Chevy wasn't born then yet So we didn't have him but there's not much room inside these Western stars that we got you can get bigger models of bigger sleepers, but These ones aren't the biggest The Peter Peter builds and Volvo's and Kenworths we have have a lot more space inside, but it's still a nice truck I mean, I really like it Karen be quiet Karen fell off my window already. She's already she wants to go home No, no Karen. We're Canadian. We don't go home. Just cuz there's a little snow We put fuel in and go I got to go down into Minnesota All the way down to Grand Forks down I 29 and then East road for 11 kilometers east down highway to To a town called Fauston, Minnesota, and it's gonna take a while because we're taking our sweet time I am in no rush got this weird-looking trailer behind me It's half motorhome half workshop, maybe I'll show you in a minute One second. Let me get around to the pumps first get some fuel in here And we need to get down the road because I want to get out of this storm the storm is supposed to be It's supposed to be lightening up in Minnesota Well, we'll see we'll see if it gets too bad. We have a sleeper behind us here We'll just pull over somewhere safe and call it a day go to bed Oh boy three of their pumps are out of order here three of them. Wow This one's still working. Oh wait. No. Oh, no, they're all still open. That's oh man I thought those cones were in front of the in front of the pumps They're not Never mind. Don't listen to me. Let's get some good old Canadian winter diesel here I want to fuel up here instead of down in the States. Our fuel is a little bit better conditioned for the winter I think that's That's good All right, I'll get these things fueled up and I'll show you what we're dealing with today a little bit It's getting worse out here But I hear from the drivers coming north from the US that it gets better and better as you get closer to Grand Forks So as the further you go south just like the weather channel told me so apparently they're right So I don't have a lot of time here. I got to get moving I want to get out of this storm and avoid this storm and quickly show you what we're pulling It's pretty windy outside so my audio might be a little hmm. So just ask you for giving us an advance for that and then I'll quickly run in and Grab some food and make sure I have enough food for a little while just in case I believe we got a fridge in here, right? Yeah, okay. Let's show you this trailer carefully So it looks like a horse trailer, right? I'm pulling it with this Western Star 5700 XE so it's a little bit of overkill a little bit of a little bit of a full sand, you know a little trailer But this is our our smallest highway truck so Good thing we got the wind breaker up there right good thing And this is the trailer It's pretty neat Bring it down to like I said foster Minnesota. These are little steps that pop out here See if I can get this Come down Frozen there for a second. Okay See no horses Just like a big work area all these toolboxes are tied in everything in here is tied down. I did check I don't know what they would See it's got like this nice Nice hooks and shelving. It's almost like this would be like a sales trailer at a truck show or something, right? It'd be very handy at the shows. That's for sure Fans all around in here must get pretty hot in some of the areas radio up there and then through this door here This is the living quarters This is a slide slides out. There's a couch in there There's a bed up there You got like a kitchen in here I don't know if there's a fridge or not Little RV up here got on a Wabasto heater down there Even comes to the bathroom shower and everything So thermostat here Pretty neat, eh? Pretty neat. And then yeah, you have this entrance that comes into this back area here that entrance that goes into the living quarters of there I don't know what it's used for but you know, you could use this for whatever you want to use it for Someone in Minnesota wants to use it for something and it's coming all the way from Quebec. So I'm taking it this part of the journey From Manitoba just down south usually in good weather. It would only take a couple hours to get down there. Maybe like five six hours Maybe seven seven hours, but with the weather today. I'm gonna take it easy. We might even just deliver it tomorrow morning We'll see but I'm gonna grab some food. We'll be on our way. Hope I'm not locked in here. Oh, there we go. Good. Good See it's like it's got doors at the end. So it's like an entryway Steps up here walk them in like on the back here. You'll see Keep you out of the wind It's like a big the whole thing comes down, right? And there's a light bar and stuff. I don't know. I Guess it could be a party trailer It's whatever you want it to be Yeah, it's something different today. I never pulled one of these Well, I went and picked this up in Winnipeg the other day now. I'm bringing it down the rest of the way Looks a little funny though. Hey You'll know it's me Not every day you see a unit like that rolling down the highway Trucker Josh coming through your town So we're pretty much ready to go here I'm not sure how many of you remember back in the day when I was in 3080 in Western Star just like this, but this is the sleeper I know the camera does it little justice, but it's it's a lot smaller So remember in the Peterbilt I could lay with my head touching the back and Stretch out my feet and I couldn't touch the seats Just about let's see if I do that now Where my feet will be at so let's just oh just touch my head on there. Okay? Now I'm gonna stretch out my feet I Could I could rest my feet on the seats they go well past. Can you see that? So it's quite a bit shorter in here than in the Peterbilt They got a fridge right up here. I've just turned on I've got some water in here for me in a pfc got some water in there and It is pretty pretty small when this bed comes down There's no way you can sit underneath here and Britt and I and diesel and wiener and Mitzi a dog. We used to have she passed away a few years ago We were all in the cab here together and we all went up to Yukon territory for New Year's Eve It's all the fireworks there in in white her white horse, right? That's the capital up there close to Alaska if you're wondering where that is Not a lot of fun, but it says I can't believe we traveled that far in this tiny little truck There's time to go I want to beat the weather It's not getting any better out there. So let's see how far we can get almost forgot I picked up some food from the flying jay because I forgot my lunch at home and Chicken Caesar salad or chicken Caesar wrap and potato salad just in case if I get stranded somewhere that I have food for a little bit I don't want that to slide down. Can I put that down there? Would it stay there? There we go, and you can put this there so that that doesn't open on the road. Okay Karen you fell off the window again. Come on Karen. It's not very nice I don't want to stay up there early Hmm, is that gonna you gonna be all right there? Okay, I mean how far do we got to go 342 kilometers? Are you sure? Are you sure? Why are you not taking me down the 75? What? Why are you taking me all the way back up to Winnipeg? Look at this thing We're down here. We got to go that way. It wants me to go all the way back up to Winnipeg and back down the 59 Karen you're crazy. I'm not going there She figured out. I know where I'm going You're lucky I brought you okay? Let's throw her out the window. Why are you digging at me? There you go. All right, let's get out of here I'm gonna go around through the pumps. Oh, I don't really want to make this sharp corner here I don't want to turn Too sharp with this trailer, but I think I could make it, you know. I Think I can make it Off we go. Oh Yeah, no problem. No problem Room to spare off we go. This trailer also has a satellite dish that's built in on top of the trailer You can get satellite TV, I guess They thought of everything Got air conditioner up on top there. Obviously that pretty much comes standard in all RVs of all sorts nowadays, right? I think air conditioning is almost a human right at this point, right? I know it's not it should be but Everything comes with air conditioning nowadays. Can you even get a car? Like can you even get a brand new car a base model without air conditioning? Let me know if you can do that because I don't think it seemed possible Air conditioning is everywhere And we need it here despite what you may think by looking at this we do need air conditioning in the summertime It gets very hot We have the extreme in both directions Okay, two Minnesota Our good friend south of the border. I'm gonna see what they're up to Well, there's trucks coming. I think there's trucks coming isn't there? I'm gonna wait Because it's a pretty gusty blustery icy day. I really don't want to surprise them by pulling out in front of them We're on that way towards Merca I'm turning in here. You're going straight. You're going straight. Okay, that feeling This is pretty icy here and it's gonna take me a little while to get up to speed. I hope there's another one back there One more one more. What's one more? That guy was really following that driver close You notice that the second truck was right behind that other guy Get out on the highway here put my hazards on my please don't hit me I'm moving slower than you lights. I had a comment in my comment section last week asking if that was a Regulation Or if that was automatic that the the hazard lights come on when I get onto a highway. No, I do that myself I don't think it's a law here anyways might be a law in other places But it is the right thing to do when you're moving that much slower than traffic coming up behind you It's a good idea to let them know. Hey Pay attention Don't hit me please Don't hit me. And yeah, this is really icy We are not gonna be going very fast today. I mean, it's just another day in Manitoba. This isn't especially Crazy or anything, but just slow her down Take her easy Sort of hidden away other places that I that I'm in when I do come down here I didn't really expect the river to be this big When you look at it on the map, but it's actually a hustling bustling town. Oh We got a train up ahead here. Okay, I guess we're waiting right here then fun stuff a Lot of my European followers and followers from around the world. They like to say Josh, you know, you're American too. You're North American Yeah, I know I know that but here in North America. We name things a little differently Here if you're talking about an American, you're talking about a citizen of the United States of America If you're talking about a Canadian, you're talking about a citizen of Canada If you just say American, we're gonna assume you mean United States It's just the way it works. I've explained this before but I keep getting these comments every now and then on all my different platforms People reminding me. Yes, I am North American, but that's that's not the way we would refer to ourselves here We it just confuses everybody this way this way, you know when you say American it means a citizen of the US We are we are different Separate same continent though. We do share a continent. It's a very nice continent the best I might say I Might be a little biased, but I like North America For those of you who do watch every day. I probably sound a little repetitive sometimes But that's just because I'm reiterating for new new people. Look at that car. What kind of car is that? I've never seen that before. What is that? I'd really like to move but Traffic disagrees with me. They don't want to move. You know, let me go is a my turn my turn I wonder where all these people are going. They're all turning left down in there. It's Messing up traffic a little bit. That's why I couldn't get across the intersection before because everyone was trying to turn left There must be something very important around the corner there I'm not turning left What does that say there Northland Community Tech College? We're all going are you all going to the college good for you? Good for you All going down there somewhere Very busy popular road There's so many new places to see and you know every time I come here even though I've been here so many times It's still exciting every time and it's just the river falls. No offense I don't mean just the river, but I mean it's it's not like it's a major tourist destination But I still love it. I Have fun every time I come out here. I always wonder when I'm passing through these towns Like I wonder what life would be like here, you know Like there's people here that live their life day-to-day go to work come home raise their families go to school build their career All here in this little town And I'm just passing through just you know seeing everything at a glance Every town you go through there. There's so much more to it than just meets the eye But there's no possible way I could get to know every small town like that That's why it's it's always interesting meeting people from little towns like this You know hearing what their life is like. How is it different from where I'm from? How is it the same? That's why we say you're like a paid tourist as a truck driver out I think it's the greatest job in the world same betting Different truck much smaller. I did not realize how small this sleeper was Until I got into that like I said before into those that Peter built and the other trucks But it's cozy, you know, it's big enough. It's got everything I need. It's got a nice big fridge here Works well and it's at head height. I like that's what I'm standing here I can see straight in I'm not gonna bend down most trucks have their fridges down here for some reason I like this design. It's really nice. I love this big window here like floor-to-ceiling window pretty much The whole wall there is a window You can see out there. It's uh It's chaos I had to shut down because the storm was just getting so bad All the trucks are all parked here so many of them. I got myself a spot and Bunker down for the night Got turned into quite the blizzard