 Good morning everybody. We're starting a little bit later than usual today because we have an overnight into Ontario and they only want me to be there at 3 p.m. to pick up the load in Winnipeg. So it's going to be a night driving kind of day. I only got six hours to drive into Ontario. We're going to Barwick, Ontario, but she's around, you know, the Fort Francis area. So just on the other side of the lakes or, uh, I guess just on the other side of the border from northern Minnesota, I believe we can look more into it a little later. We're going to be in Big Blue 42. I'm on my way to get her all started up right now and get ready to go. Chaos. Got everything I need. It may look like a lot, but once I get it all packed away in there, I actually didn't bring along that much. It's just one night. I brought along a change of clothes and, uh, some food, which reminds me I want to make sure the fridge is on because I'm going to put the, uh, my food in the fridge because I brought a lunch along for tomorrow as well. But for now my load is ready in Winnipeg. Let's go pick it up. I guess I may as well put away a few things, just to get them out of the way. They're not falling all over the place while I'm on my way there. Everything out of the way. I can't stand living in mess, though I end up living in my own mess quite a bit. But it's different when it's my mess. It's my mess. I know where everything is. It may look messy to you. It's organized to me. My bedding sheets. Don't worry about that. Later. The hat. I'll take this along just in case we need it. I don't think I will, but you never know. I always gotta be prepared. My lunch kit with two days worth of lunches. And I'll put this in the little fridge here. This fridge here is, uh, pretty neat. Just a drawer. I'm not sure if there used to be shelves in here or not, but let me put two sandwiches in there. But actually, yeah, I wanted to put these pairs in there, but I don't want them rolling around and getting all bruised. Oh boy, this is the dilemma. Maybe I should just put my whole lunch kit in there. Yeah, maybe that's what I'll do. Oh, I'll figure this out. We got, we got to get going. I can't waste too much time on this. Got my trailer behind me now and I'm at the Petro Pass, a deacons corner on the east side of Winnipeg. Oh, but are you going to keep going or what's going on here? Okay, you're going to keep going. This is the second truck stop that I've been to that has issues at the pumps. That pump over there wasn't working. They need to put a cone or a garbage can in front of it or something. I've got nothing to put in there right now. I guess the next guy's going to figure out the same way I did. The guy in front of me tried and I was in line behind him. I went in behind him. I found out. So now I had to come around and get in line again. And I think this guy is going to be done first, but he's having a hard time at the card lock there. Are you going to start fueling now? Okay, it looks like they got it. I gotta wait for them to fuel up. Then I can fuel up. The place I'm going to near Barwick, Ontario is very remote. Not the most remote, but it's very remote and there's not going to be any services or anything there when I get there. So I have to make sure that I have food for breakfast in the morning. Maybe a little snack before bed today if I want to. Maybe a little bit of extra water. We're going to stop at a truck stop down the road. Or maybe I can even run in here and get it. And I'll probably do that. I was thinking of stopping down the road of the shell, but why do that when I'm already here? But the reason I came here is because I need fuel just to make sure that everything's topped up. I don't want to take any chances when we're out there in the remote wilderness of Northern Ontario. Should be pretty good weather. It was plus six here all day today. It was very warm. We're not dealing with minus 30, minus 40 degree temperature. So once I'm done fueling, I'll run in to the store there. I'm just going to grab something just to put in the fridge. I brought a lunch for tomorrow. I guess I could use that as breakfast too. I just want to make sure I have enough food just in case if I get stuck out there for a day or so or something. I want to be prepared. You don't want to run out of food or water. And then that'll be that. So we're going in Warwick. I'm just going to see if I can get directions. 402 kilometers or four hours and 17 minutes according to Google. Now 400 kilometers, if I go into the Calculatory device, 402 divided by 1.61. We're looking at about 250 miles, not far at all. But the time is already quarter after four. So I'll get there late tonight. They told me where I could park for a night. Park there, go to sleep, wake up, 8 a.m. tomorrow. I got to help them unload this yet. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to tailgate the product, which means I got to carry the product. It's all on the floor. It's not on pallets. You're going to have to carry it to the back where they can grab it. And hey, at least we're not pulling one of these pikes. That would be tight going into Northern Ontario with those. I don't think they're allowed to go into Ontario, though, not through Northern Ontario. You see them once you get down to the southern part of Ontario between Toronto and Montreal. You see them down there on the 401, but they're restricted on what roads they can go on and when because they're so... Look at them. You don't want to end up on city streets with a unit like this, right? You got to make sure you know where you're going in. That's why they got regulations and laws for them. Getting ourselves back on the road. Got ourselves some snacks. Got just a couple of muffins just to tide me over in the morning just to put something in my stomach. There it goes. We didn't even get A&W today. I've gotten enough A&W this month. I think I need to take a break from that. But here we go. Finally hitting the highway. Who needs the sun? We'll drive in the night. We'll own the night. But five hours ahead. What's the time now? Four thirty-ish? Five, six, seven, eight, nine thirty-ish. We should be there. That's what I'm thinking. I'll have almost 10 and a half hours. And here in Canada, I only need eight hours consecutive off before I can start my next day. And for today, I still have 12 hours and 12 minutes available to me to drive. So I think we'll make it. I looked at the weather forecast. Not supposed to get any snow. It's supposed to be a clear day, clear night, and clear day tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, they're expecting some snow though. I don't know how much you can see. We're going through soon narrows in Ontario. A small little town here. Highway 71, I believe, is what we're on. I forgot to bring Karen along. Maybe that's why I've been so happy. I don't know. I could always just look at my GPS and it would tell me exactly what road I was on at any time. I think it's 71. This is TransCanada. It goes down, like I said, Fort Francis, I believe, right? That's where the border is to cross into the US. Man, that compression brake's got a lot of pull. Got a lot of compression. Nice little town in here. I miss this. I miss seeing these little towns. All these little towns that you would never even hear of. You'd never even know existed. But because you're a truck driver, you're a paid tourist, you get to come and see it. So yeah, I've got about another hour or so to go. I told them I'd be there around 10 o'clock. I think I'm actually going to be there closer to 8.30 or 9. So that's good. I'd rather be early than late. This truck literally does all the work for you. Got a 13-speed automatic transmission. Just set the cruise and just keep her between the lines. Watch for deer. Watch for moose. I can tell this truck has a little bit of the same problem that that Peterbilt had that I drove, 3101. My friend is actually driving that right now, Mike. He started here recently. I used to work with him years ago, Pepsi. And now he's working here with me. He's a great guy. And he's driving 3101. That was my old truck that I used to drive. Loved that thing. But the problem with that one was the transmission. The transmission would bog down a lot. Very often I would just put it in manual and just shift through the gears myself. It's just a push button shift then. See here we're bogging ourselves down just a little bit. It doesn't quite know that it should be in 12th, but it won't sustain 13th. But man, that's such a small criticism. This truck is still a condo on wheels just gliding along like I'm just floating on a cloud. All right, we're going down this little back road. This is Ontario Highway 600. It's more like a little bush road or back road, but Highway 600. In the corner and there should be someone waiting for me where they're going to tell me where I can park for night. And they said I'm going to have a hot breakfast with them in the morning, so bonus. Nice people. Hours now till I need to be awake. So I've got my bed all made up here. Got my office set up. Thanks for watching today. We'll see you tomorrow. There'll be much more scenery tomorrow as we'll be going through all of northern, well through parts of northern Ontario. Got the curtains pulled. It's going to be a comfortable sleep. This truck reminds me so much of that last Peterbilt I was in 3101. I was talking about it before. It's so similar. They use the same lights. You can't really see it from here. Everything. The gauges are like the Kenworth classic gauges and stuff, but the shifter for the transmission is exactly the same as Peterbilt. The trucks are practically the same. They're the same company as far as I know. Same owners. So Peterbilt and Kenworth are, you know, you think you're going to one or the other, you're really just going to the same one. The money goes to the same place, I think. They're very, very close. It's just this truck has more space than that Peterbilt, if that's possible. Though I don't think it's quite as deep of a sleeper now that I'm in here and thinking about it. It's just has a bit of a different design. Still really like it. And I did see all your comments from last weekend when we took this truck out. And a lot of you were saying that the freight liners are wider in the cab area there. Yeah, that's probably true. A little more space between the seats and stuff. I kind of like it when it's a little narrower in the cab. That gives it more of a truck feel. I don't want to feel like I'm driving a minivan. So this feels like for a big condo unit, this feels like a truck still in my mind. I mean, that's all subjective. It depends what a truck feels like to you. It's different for everybody, I guess, but it's really neat. You know, it doesn't matter what truck I'm driving. It's Volvo's, Peterbilt's, Western Star, Kenworth, Freightliner, MAC. Those are the main brands that are out here in North America. I hear a lot of a lot from you guys in Europe there. I understand Scania is a pretty good brand. DAF man, the man truck. They have a truck in in Europe. It's called the it's called man. I wonder how long it's going to be until they have to change that. Or maybe they'll just make another truck. The woman, the woo man. I don't know, I'm trying to be funny. It's not working because I'm too tired to follow through with it. I'm going to go to bed right away here. Just finished up my little bit of computer work and stuff. I still got like nine hours until I have to be awake. That'll be plenty of time. I'll be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow here. And the mattress is pretty comfortable. All in all, it's a good truck. But you know, like I've said before, whatever truck they want to put me