 Good morning everybody from north of Oklahoma City If this is your first time clicking on one of my videos welcome here stick around I hope I can convince you to hit that subscribe button before you go We're in Oklahoma City, and I'm headed north up to where I'm from in Canada up by 29 straight towards the Winnipeg region. I Got another two days of driving to get up there. I picked up a load near Houston, Texas It's gonna get colder as we go north. I've been enjoying this warmer weather down here But my body at the same time is confused because it's already been Climatized to the cold weather up north went down south and now it doesn't know what's going on We've been running nights Most of this trip because my delivery on my last load that I delivered until the radio Delivered at 9 p.m. At night So it sort of got me out to a nighttime schedule that I'm completely okay with because I like driving at nights I'm a night owl I prefer to be up late into the night as long as I go to bed before the Sun comes up That's sort of my rule, but I like driving into the night traffic is quieter Less on the road less if you go wrong But at the same time there are risks like if you break down you're gonna have to pay that service fee for someone to come out After hours, right? Keep that in mind. Let's get out there on the road I want to get home home is not getting any closer with me sitting here. Time to go Lights on Check the trailers attach brakes work brakes release wonderful. We're ready for the day be a good day We see how far we get Ladies ladies Stop fighting It's a lot bigger. It's a big city. Don't get me wrong probably an expressway They have to have intersections at all these roads that were going over right from is to speed things up As an expensive upgrade you know the size of use Regina parks that I'm driving past in Kansas This must be the trailer park capital of the world my first house my first home was a trailer Maybe that's where Kansas gets the reputation of you know, the tornadoes somebody tornadoes in Kansas because it seems that tornadoes are always like magnets or Trailer parks. I mean are like magnets for tornadoes Right for some reason the tornado always hits the trailer park. I'd love to explore it I wish I could explore all these towns. I drive to it's hard just to drive through them and not I'll go explore Job to do time for a coffee. I Found a pilot here. I just saw the sign on the side of the road So if you're wondering if advertising works it works because I'm here to spend money They put the sign right up there. You see it Right it works It lured me in like a fish to a lure. I'm just gonna find a parking spot somewhere over here Quickly run inside. This doesn't look like your typical flying jay. It looks like a an older truck stopped at flying jay bought out You see it right ahead there. There's a motel here, too. Apparently. Oh, I didn't see that I'm gonna wobble in there and see what they got Just drive a coffee we'll be back on the road. I don't want to waste too much time This is not gonna be my half hour break. I don't think let's take a look at this here. I am off-duty. I am not working It's coffee time. Okay, let's take my summary. Oh So I have eight hours and one minute left on my 14 hour clock. So if I take my half hour here, I Can drive for another eight hours, but I lose that one minute So we could make this our half hour. I mean, I wonder if I got showers here And check my app if I can have a shower here I will take my half hour and Shower up and then go but sometimes these truck stops that have been converted to a flying jay. Sometimes they don't Have the same showers or not the same system. I'll find out Let's see. We are in Newton, Kansas Does not have showers on the app here as far as I can see So I'd have to go in and check. I bet they do have showers, you know what? No, this is I can't decide We could make this our half hour, but I don't really want to I just wanted a quick coffee I was gonna do my half hour further down the road What do you guys think? Because it's daylight I wanted to be driving during daylight hours as much as possible and then do my half hour once the sun went down Decisions decisions Josh make up your mind No, this is not gonna be my half hour and run in there run out. We're gonna go down the road I'm gonna do our half hour down the road. I don't want to lose that one minute You never know I might need it. That was a waste of my time. I'm actually kind of upset. They wasted my time. I Shouldn't have pulled in here. It's not actually a pilot. It's something else though The gasoline pumps say route 66 inside. It says like road works or road ranger road ranger. I think It was filthy Filthy and everything was out. There was no food ready. The coffee cream was just gone There was nobody in the whole store. I walked around in there for 10 minutes not one employee anywhere. I don't know where they were So I I found some powdered cream. I don't like using that stuff, but I used that whatever just gonna make a coffee First all they don't have the pilot coffee here. They got some other no-name brand So I was like, ah shoot. I was disappointed again. First of all everything was filthy couldn't get anyone to help me find cream They had no cream. They're out. I don't want to sound like I'm complaining here, but don't stop here I poured myself a cup of the coffee took a sip and Literally went over to the sink spattered out poured it all down the sink through my cup in the garbage and walked out It was disgusting. I don't the If something was like rotting inside the coffee maker or something, but oh One second Moatwash I See this pilot flange pumps, but that's all it is just pilot fuel. Nothing else here is pilot. Definitely not the coffee tag disappointed Don't put a pilot sign up by the road And then when we get in here expecting to see all the regular pilot stuff like a pilot coffee and pilot cleanliness Have none of the pilot stuff Very disappointed Newton Kansas Disappointed I guess we can't all be great Man Okay, let's get comfortable. I'm getting out of here shaking my head shaking my head Why we're not making this our half-hour break now. I could have been down the road like 20 miles Well, that's the way you learn right funny. I use the analogy of a fish caught by a lure It sure didn't lure me in Just like a fish I chopped down on that hook Grilled me in but I got away in the parking lot man All right, we're gonna put that on the blacklist not going back there We're at the petrol stopping center at the corner of us 81 and I 80 in Nebraska And I found a blue beacon with no lineup Probably because it's not the best day to be washing the truck, but this truck badly needs a wash Whether or not it's the best day for it. It's relevant at this point. You don't maintain your truck It'll start falling apart. All right, which one do we want to go in? First one right outside here to drive out onto. Oh guys, come on. I Guess they put that there so you don't slip if you get out here, but They'd salt down right drive right out onto it. Well, it's in there. So they spent some good time on it Usually you're in and out in like 10 minutes. They spent like 15 20 minutes twice as long Plainting they did a good job, but they did the trailer to usually I just do the truck. Well, that's so much better. That's nice Feel a thousand percent better right now Let's make sure all my business are still on here. I see one over here that might not that's still there Sometimes they blow off in the wash Oh Washed all the salt off my truck and now I'm gonna have salt on my truck again so the Blue beacon manager and the team came out I guess they saw me looking at the ground with all the salt here, right and I asked them I said well, we just washed all the salt off my truck and now I got salt all over my tires again It's gonna right back on my truck And this is yeah, we understand but they have to put the salt down as a policy here Otherwise people sue them when they fall Who does that you get out of the truck in wintertime? It's icy you fall How is it their fault? Watch where you're stepping get some proper boots Without even thinking I was like that is the most American thing I've heard all day I did I'm like, I don't mean any offense by that. I'm just like Why is everybody sue everybody here? Maybe that's just a stereotype. It probably happens in Canada to re-sews everybody people are Nobody wants to take responsibility for anything. That's the problem both sides of the border. It's not really an American thing It's a Canadian thing too. It's a worldwide thing. Now you step out of your truck. It's slippery. It's wintertime I think that's self-explanatory But if they don't put signs up everywhere that hate slippery watch out And if they don't put salt down for you and you slip you fall and you bruise your elbow What now you have grounds to sue them. That's ridiculous That's ridiculous, so they apologize, but they as a part of their policy I bet just someone sued them. I bet you that's why they're putting the salt down because yeah They felt bad that we have to we have to otherwise we get sued Wonder what the story behind that is Who did that? Was it you was it wasn't you? I know it wasn't you Who does that? Truck is clean. Let's go. I don't know how long it's gonna last the roads are a little bit wet But hey, at least you saw it. There's proof Like a long day. We spent most of the day on us 81 Probably why it felt a little bit longer It wasn't that bad. I thought there'd be more little towns and stuff to go through but It worked out. It was a shorter route quicker route and there was no tolls on it I got to avoid that Kansas turnpike and save 40 us dollars I wish I would have remembered that last time because I knew that I knew you could go around that turnpike By taking 81 down and 81's actually shorter too Your GPS will tell you that is longer because it'll take a little bit more time But the distance is shorter but time-wise they're very close to just taking the interstate all the way down because You don't have to go all the way around To the east it sort of just goes north straight south US 81 used to be the main international route That went from Canada down to Mexico before they built the interstates. There was US 81 So it's the original It's too late highway for a lot of it, but they've actually twinned quite a bit of it I remember it being too late the entire way down and now it was practically Four lane freeway for like three-quarters of it So it wasn't that bad and there were some towns you got to go through you have but you don't have to pay tolls That's the way I went. So we made it up here into South Dakota. We're back on interstate 29 What did I say exit 62 exit 63? Nice little truck stop here and from here we can get home in one day So if you haven't already, please hit that subscribe button and join us because tomorrow we're gonna head home