 Morning everybody It's not a dad bod It's a father figure I'm getting ready to go to the truck. I'm gonna go get it ready Get it hooked on to my trailer and head to canora to get ready to be loaded tomorrow Like I was telling you at the end of yesterday's video I want to get there as early as I can so I can get unloaded as early as I can the same day So I can get going towards wherever they need me to go for my reload so I can get a Good start on the week. I mean laser focused here for a while So let's get to it. Let's get to the truck. Let's get started up Let's get those wheels turning Just packing up my stuff here Getting ready to go Christmas stuff set up Got a new tree topper for the tree that's going up down here. We have a pencil tree upstairs. We're putting a big tree Right in here. You better believe it. It's Christmas time Now before the new new viewers jump down my throat from the United States I'm just gonna remind you Canada. We've already had our Thanksgiving in October So I know you have Thanksgiving yet before you go full-on Christmas. That's okay You guys can hold off do your turkey dinner stuff. We've already done that up here in Canada. It's it's full-on Christmas time We got nothing left until Christmas Sub old blue Ready to go out some fun We'll do some trucking or what? Let's get out there. Let's get our stuff in the truck We got all blue warmed up almost too much is hot in here Turn the heat off for a bit. Oh man. I'd like to stay home for another few days, but Duty calls People need their stuff And I need their money. Oh, we're not going that far tonight. It's not gonna be that far Okay, so I've got to get everything set up in here for the most part I don't need to set up too much because I left my bedding in here I only slept here for three nights last night last week. So It'll be good for another week. We'll wash it next weekend, right? It's gonna get it all organized back there at the computer setup. So it's ready for when we stop We're already hooked on to the trailer. It's an empty flatbed We'll pull that to canora and find a parking spot there a quick stop here in Prada, Manitoba Just on the way into canora got myself a coffee So this is a pretty popular stop for me. We're East of Winnipeg, but we're west of the Ontario border It's a pretty popular travel spot along here or travel stop along here as well for everyone going from cottage country in Canora, Ontario area back home, you know, it's a pretty nice convenience store They have Chester fried chicken across the street here at the ESO, which I've gotten before it's delicious So it's Big parking lot lots trucks can park here Ah, you probably you probably recognize the name Prada before and I show it on the maps every now and then so you know about where I am I hope that those help give you an idea sort of Where I'm moving around to so you can get more of an idea when you see the footage off my dashboard Sort of see oh, so that's what it looks like in that region or in that area or on that highway I try to bring you into it as much as I can Speaking of that we do need to keep moving I'm gonna go park in canora tonight. So I'm ready to go in the morning So they've repaved this section going through the blast zone here in northern, Ontario that I've been showing you over the past year or so I guess they must be done blasting. I took a while. It's not a quick process It must be crazy expensive beat limits way down here But it looks like they're just cleaning things up and once everything's all cleaned up Have just a little bit of fuel here at the petrol pass and canora I'll fuel up in the US tomorrow Just a little splash in the tank just to make sure that I make it down there and don't get too close to empty I don't like the risk. It's starting to get colder outside, right? So don't want to take any more risk than I have to but at the same time I want to fuel where the fuel is cheaper Which is down south so I'm gonna grab 80 liters. I should do it I'll just put it on my driver's side here. It'll even out So I think you saw there about a half tank. I got 500 kilometers or 300 and some miles to go tomorrow. I Could easily make that on half a tank It'd get pretty low down probably right down to about an eighth of a tank Maybe just blow a quarter tank. I don't want to run it that low at this in this season or any time really I don't want to be on the side of the road because I Messed up and ran out of fuel. That's never happened to me before yet and I plan to never let that happen to me. That'd be embarrassing How do I explain that to YouTube so we're stuck here on the side of the road Run out of juice Hey, get lots of views. I mean that'd be a great title ran out of fuel Not worth it though not worth it So to give you an idea of the price difference between here and like 200 miles that way in the US just over the border Price we're paying this week here. I believe is $1.74 per liter Just over there in the US. It's $1.54 per liter That's 20 cents cheaper per liter and I would buy about 600 liters on a tank of fuel. So that's That's the huge difference There's many reasons why that it's there that I've discussed in previous logs before taxes are a big portion of that carbon tax is a massive portion of that up here in Canada and You know, that's why it drives all business and revenues Away from here and down there unfortunately for us But fortunately for our American neighbors they get more business this way And if you raise the taxes on people and on fuel and on products all you do is you push away potential buyers of that product We'll just go somewhere where you're not gonna where we're not gonna be charged those ridiculous taxes Simple as that we have to buy fuel one way or another. We have no choice. We have to keep moving It's not like we can just stop So it is what it is we go where the cheap it we go where the juice is the cheapest Here we go 21 us gallons Now let's go find a parking spot We'll wait for the morning if you're wondering about my conversions. Yes, that's uh with all other conversions Included when I convert from US dollars when I fuel in the US all the taxes there included Still 20 cents a liter cheaper right now sometimes it's more Sometimes it's less but it's always cheaper down there They don't have a carbon tax, so that's that's a big one right there Well, he's still under construction or can I get around the back now? Ha I can get around the back again. They had this closed off last time I was here. Oh, there's somebody else here this time Oh, I've always been the lone guy here. Now. There's somebody else Okay There's a car in that parking spot again. It's a different one this time Oh, he just started up. That's not good Shouldn't be parked in the truck parking spots like I did it right parked in a car parking spot That's kind of nice not being the only guy parked here now another driver beside me but At least tells me that uh, you know, there's people here Right as for this car parked right beside me and it started up just as I was talking to you there I wasn't expecting there to be anyone in there last time we were here There's just an abandoned car there or maybe someone was sleeping in there. I Went and walked past the car now because I had to go check my tires in the back and do my post trip And as I was walking past there is somebody in the driver's seat in there They were just parked there in truck spot Sleeping I guess Maybe the sound of my brakes woke them up The car doesn't really have a very good muffler, so that could be annoying if they're gonna be idling back there All night especially when they have cars spots where they can park I don't understand Why do you need a full 75 foot spot that you you could park? Anywhere or Walmart like anywhere. Why do you pick there's only four spots? It is what I mean four spots to park. That's it four trucks can park here now only three can park here But there are literally thousands of parking spots for cars Everywhere around town Anywhere everywhere. They took one of the truck spots from a humble truck driver To the internet and to the world. Please don't be that person It's annoying enough when Bob tails take up a full 75 foot spot whoo that grinds my gears Especially when they don't need to when there's a Bob tails section and they go parking up I'm not gonna get into this. We're gonna get into a rant. We're not gonna get into this tonight, but It is what it is end of my day, maybe I'm a little grumpy. I don't know Spugsman why now I'm a little nervous and why are you parked there? You're not causing trouble there. Are you? side dope Just at the end Just as I was about to move over to the other side of the truck the car Slowly drove away So don't worry tonight will be a good night. We are safe. I just don't like People I don't know Or I don't like people parked beside me when I don't know why they're there. Does that make sense? I mean, I don't know why this guy's here either I'm pretty sure he's here to pick up a load or drop off a load in the morning I'm pretty sure I don't know why he's there either. Who are you? So I have a pretty good idea what he's doing here some random car in the back Dark corner of the parking lot. Not as sure Gotta be careful out here