 Good morning internet world We stayed right here where we got the truck wash that blue building behind that Mac over there. That's the truck wash We just dragged our butt right here Parked it went to sleep. So now it's time for a new day. Let's get out there Let's get this lumber that I picked up in Saskatchewan off my trailer in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota And then let's see what they have for me to do next. I haven't gotten orders yet But it usually doesn't take too long. I should have them in a little while So the petrol stopping center in Fargo, here's a massive truck stop Got a restaurant inside a TA truck service here blue beacon truck wash. You got the fuel islands here, which is a separate building The petrol likes to do that. They like to put their Their fuel pumps off to the side and their actual travel centers off to the right in the back over there the big place showers laundry Everything but they don't have a cat scale which I find interesting They do have certified scales the same deal, but usually you'd expect to see a cat scale at a big stop like this Doesn't really matter as long as the scale works Detroit Lakes Lakes of Detroit in Minnesota not Michigan Minnesota has their very own Detroit Lake Multiple obviously Detroit Lakes I've got to turn left up ahead here. That's why I'm in the slain And already hear the comments, but you do it in the left lane Gotta turn right here, okay She always has to get her voice in there notice that she's always got to be part of the vlog. It's not about you Karen It's about me. It's not trucker Karen vlogs. It's not GPS Karen vlogs. Oh Boy, it's gonna be a tight corner. I didn't get down here. Oh, I have to make this tight toy Gonna get around this tight little corner here Though we can do it Nice, and I just kissed the curb. I didn't even go up on the nice the right turn now Really did I come in here the right way? It's another tight corner This guy's parked illegally at the corner here I don't think you're supposed to be parked that close to the intersection my friend That's okay. I can still do it. I can still do it. Look at this. I didn't even hit anything Nice So our plan now is to run up to canora. I'm not grabbing another load for Brainerd It's actually gonna be going to Oak Grove, Minnesota But I don't deliver that until next week. So I want home first in between So I'm gonna go grab a load in canora head back home cuz tomorrow when I'm filming this This is the day before American Thanksgiving Americans take their Thanksgiving very seriously It's a lot bigger of a deal than our Thanksgiving in october up in canada Everything america does is bigger obviously. We're just used to that right so American Thanksgiving It's on a thursday for some reason so Everybody here in the u.s. Is taking tomorrow and friday off obviously because I would want to do the same So the rest of the week we can't deliver anything in the u.s. So I'm gonna go pick up this load Get ready to deliver it after their Thanksgiving when they come back to work all nicely fed I hope I hope you guys all had a great Thanksgiving happy belated Thanksgiving to you my american friends and brothers and sisters I hope that you had a good one and that you ate lots of food And that you completely gorge yourself and feasted I ain't looking at my fuel here. I'm gonna be staying in canada for a few days. Remember that So I want to fuel here in the u.s. Before going back home Uh cheapest fuel on my route today is in park rapids minnesota but a half hour to our east I'm gonna cross into canada rainy river ontario from budette minnesota They go up that way. There's no toll there. Remember that. That's our new favorite crossing When you're going to canora from minnesota So about a half hour east of here. There's a simonson travel plaza Where I can pick up fuel there. It's uh four dollars 19 cents point nine cents So four dollars 20 cents per gallon there. It's not the cheapest but uh, it's not too bad. It's a lot cheaper than up in canada So we're gonna fuel up there So that that will hopefully last me until I get back down to the u.s. To deliver that lumber next week Get it got it good Clear as mud now, you know my plans By the time you watch this I will have already executed my plans I'm sure your Thanksgiving will already be over like I said I hope it was good My mouth is watering just thinking about all that food you're gonna be eating Or that you ate I guess it's past tense because you already that already happened for you didn't happen for me I hope the future is bright. You're in the future for me Feel light as a feather again All right, karen you want me to go right better know what you're talking about Oh Wait, I want to double check this. Why would you want me to go? Yeah, why are you telling me to go right? Oh because we want to take Oh, I see I see I see I see we want to take 34 and 34 is that way Okay, okay Just check in just checking your work sometimes Sometimes your work is questionable karen always got a double checker work. Can't always trust her She's not always reliable She was made in the u.s. So uh, we're designed here anyway probably made somewhere in like Asia but She is from the u.s. So obviously she's in Thanksgiving mode right now and probably not paying attention that much That's why she doesn't know the canadian roads as well All these companies who make these gps, uh, they always make it for the u.s. Obviously right and canada's sort of like add it in there Like hey, you guys can have fun too Thanks big brother. Thanks for letting your little brother tag along. I love it But uh, the roads in canada are not always as uh, or the roads in canada are not always as Detailed as in the u.s. On most gps So it's gotten a lot better. It's gotten a lot better I can turn right on red right in minnesota. Yeah, you guys told me I can turn right. Oh, it's green now anyway Most places you can turn right on red. There's some places though Don't like it. I appreciate that. That's a good driver right there She recognized that I would need a little bit extra space Hey evening is our work christmas party So I want to be home for that and celebrate the season with all the work friends the co-workers Those are always really fun It's nice to be able to see everybody right because why is the truck driver? You're on the road all the time. You don't really, uh See people that often it's very it could be a lonely job. I kind of like the solitude I like working on my own No one breathing down my neck It's not for everybody though, but it works for me. But it's nice to be able to get together all at once and see everybody In a non-work environment So there's that and then uh, saturday Sunday, I'll probably hit the road with this load. I'm picking up today so I can deliver it monday No, it shall be good It's coming like now that the christmas like that us thanksgiving starting this means the holiday season is starting So from now all the way until christmas. There's pretty much everything I mean every weekend has something going on some kind of christmas party christmas family gathering christmas get together christmas meal Oh, it's full on christmas all the way to new year So I'm in some so I've never fueled here before never even been here before I didn't even know this place was here But according to my fuel card app I can fuel here and it's the cheapest price on my route for today. It's actually the cheapest price I'm gonna find until next week. So we're gonna top off the tanks here a little over a half tank or so But we're gonna top it off here. Is this the best price for me? I'm just gonna go inside there and just confirm before I start pumping or anything that my fuel cards are accepted here Then again, it looks like they're I could just fuel right at the pumps here Okay, so if my fuel card works right at the pumps here, I can I could pay right at the pump here Don't even have to go inside, but I will to grab a coffee But sometimes at these smaller truck stops you have to go in there first Give them your fuel card and then they'll turn the pump on for you That's a common practice that a lot of places do Obviously because people obviously just fuel up their tanks and leave I guess and people are crazy They think that they don't have cameras everywhere that they they're not gonna come after you And they're gonna get you so don't steal fuel. They're gonna get you But sometimes you got to go in there first get them to turn the pumps on other times You can pay with your card right at the pumps here. So We'll see. I'll try here first. That doesn't work. I gotta go inside there Either way Let's get the juice in the tanks So it worked to pay right at the pump here. I didn't have to go inside and get everything Works just like a flying jay or loves pump same same deal So the price actually went down by 10 cents a gallon in the half hour it took to get here from Detroit lakes, which Okay, I'm glad it's not going the other way So it was 499 what I said before right 420 because I checked it on the app here Now I double checked it once I saw the pump. I got here now. It says it's 4099 I mean unless if I saw it wrong that's possible if I saw it wrong before but in that case I'm glad I saw it wrong because now I feel like I got a deal So 4099 per gallon per us gallon I'm just doing all the math on this right now because I have to convert this for my records. So you go I want to google here. You just type in 4.099 usd to cad That's five dollars 62 cents canadian per gallon You five 62 divided by 3.785 divided by not subtract divided by and we're looking at a dollar 48.4 cents per liter dollar 48 per liter canadian so dollar 48 per liter canadian cad usd I filled up for our mercy here filled up for 59.001 us gallons So again google. This is the easiest quickest way uh you go 59.001 gallons two liters We're looking at 223.343 liters So 223.343 liters for fuel I always do three decimal points Just to get as accurate as possible Same thing for the price like I put down here a dollar 48 for per liter and 4099 for us gallon in us so 59.001 gallons Our location we are at where are we here? Simonson station in park rapids minnesota. So I write down here park rapids minnesota dash simonson And then when my paste up comes with all of my expenses and my fuel ups I match up that sheet to my sheet here to make sure it all lines up And I also put it into an app here, which helps me with a little bit of math and stuff It's called fuelio. It's not an ad for but the app I use Uh, so I add my odometer in here price is a dollar 48 for per liter and I bought 223 liters 0.343 Just punch that in and automatically it tells me that I did 38.77 liters per hundred kilometers 38.77 liters per 100 kilometers Again, google's your friend here Let's go 38.77 liters per hundred kilometers and miles per gallon 38.77 liters per 100 kilometers is 6.067 miles per gallon 0.06 for miles per gallon. I just do two decimal points. So I'll round that up to 6.07 6.07 Miles per gallon that is just above our target of six miles per gallon We like to get better than that but as long as I'm above six, I'm happy So now I go back to my app now between this fuel up and the last fuel up I drove 576 kilometers and it cost me 47.4 cents per kilometer So I write that down in here as well 47.4 cents per kilometer. That's pretty good. I'm usually hovering around 50 cents a kilometer on fuel It cost me $331.44 Canadian $331.44 Canadian And on the us side here $241.85 us $241.85 us So this is what it's like being an international driver where I'm driving on both sides of the border Or both sides use different systems of measurement. This is all the conversions. I have to do Every day every day. So everything's metric kilometers leaders In canada in the states. It's all imperial. I guess they call it I just called american because they're the only ones that really use this system I think there's like one other country in the world that uses the system But they use miles Inches feet that doesn't have to do with this though But you know like gallons which is 3.785 liters is one us gallon It's a different gallon than like british gallon too. It's really weird But I go between the two systems all the time and I record both systems I record it in my app here so that I have a digital record of it And I record it on my paper here so that I have a paper copy of it in case that Goes out So this app is really handy actually I can go in my statistics here I can find out my costs So my costs this year my average cost per kilometer is actually 66 cents per kilometer I'm gonna have to look into that because my worst cost per kilometer is a dollar 24 per kilometer I have to double-check that my average cost of operation per day is $275 and 65 cents canadian Average cost of fuel for me per month In canadian dollars is eight thousand three hundred and ninety dollars and nineteen cents That's my average what i'm spending. Uh, let's see what that is in this is rounded up to eighty four hundred dollars eighty four hundred dollars One second I did that wrong 80 400 c ad to usd 8400 canadian dollars equals 6 130 united states dollars and 61 cents. That's my average cost every month Could be higher could be lower So the app is really handy that way it'll tell me like I can find out how much I I spent this month I can find out how much I spent last year and then I can take those numbers and match them up to my Expense sheets one of my pay stubs actually show up in my bank account And I get all of these paper records from my expenses I can line them up to my own make sure that everything Gives properly Not everybody is as uh meticulous as me. I guess that's fine I get joy out of this it makes me happy Who's ready to rock and roll I'm ready to rock and roll Okay Up towards rainy river Next stop How far are we away to the highlighted route 470 clicks No, I don't want to cross the international wait bodete minnesota. Yes, that's right rainy river bodete Make sure that it's taking me to the right border crossing I don't want to pay no toll You raise your toll it almost doubled it. He used to be 13 bucks or 1350 They raised the toll at international bridge to like $21 Well, guess what now you're making nothing for me That's how it works You could have made 13 bucks Now you're making nothing off we go Turn right up ahead here go over the bridge that does not have a toll on it meters turn right on international drive and at 72 We're going to cross over the bridge into rainy river ontario It's a much nicer drive too than going to international falls. I don't know. I like it better quieter It's right up here where we have to turn. I'm still getting used to this right after the bridge There's just Canadian border this way Right at the big fish on the right You guys remember that rest area? How's that? But there's sort of like this little mini cliff right beside me here Highway right here I'm back Except this time I'm not on the side over there with the cliff. That's where I prefer to park But it was already all taken up by other trucks. I'm on this side of the rest area, which is closer to the highway Which is okay I'd prefer not to be this close, but I mean just for safety reasons like this guy here if it was a big truck coming past here My fear would be what if He blew a steer tire right just as he's coming up beside me here What if they blow a steer tire at just the right time and then be pulled Right into me, right? But that is highly highly unlikely to happen The stars out here are just incredible in northern Ontario. The camera doesn't even pick them up but there's So much to see out here. So we're just gonna go and see how close I am to this guy here I mean, I could close that gap a little bit more yet I'm just gonna go to the back make sure if there's room for one more truck park behind me and Got these oversized loads here They're parked in the spots that I wanted to be parked in But oh well You can't win them all right So back here just want to make sure one more truck could fit in here yet I think so Oh, yeah, plenty of space Plenty of space for one more truck to pull in behind me Okay, then I'm good where I am Right on time to turn off the lights and go to bed Oh You can feel it in the air Minus six outside right now according to this That's still but plenty of warm enough plenty of warm enough for me to shut the truck off overnight I'll have an engine heater. I have my engine heater that'll start it up automatically on a timer About two hours before I want to get going Yeah, so the engine will be nice and warm by then it'll be easy to turn over I got a bunk heater or a basket heater for my sleeper for my cabs and my cab will stay nice and warm that way I don't have to idle my truck through the night That saves Engine life tell you what you want to wear out your engine twice as fast idle through the night every night So thanks for joining me today everybody when you're out there on the highways when you're behind the wheel Please think of me in these vlogs just Allow me to pass through your memory as as you're behind the wheel Remember this Keep your eyes on the road Pay attention Merge at highway speed. Let's add that to it by the time you hit the highway Let's let's make an effort as a group To to as you merge into traffic try to match the speed of traffic before you enter traffic There's a new one for you. That was a special one just for today's vlog Stay safe out there everybody. Keep your stick on the ice and I'll see you tomorrow