 Made myself some oatmeal for breakfast. It was cinnamon-y, cinnamon oatmeal. Tasted delicious, and I spoiled myself this morning. I usually make coffee in the truck. Spoiled myself with a bean to cup, I'm being honest. Okay? Just one this week, okay? You're only gonna be one. I actually like the coffee I make in the truck better, but this is still good. Okay. Onward! Are you guys ready to rock? Diesel! You ready to rock? You gonna hang out back there? I like looking out this window, man, and your bed is very soft. I get it. It's a new mattress under there. Best mattress I have ever slept on in a truck. I would say it's just as good as the mattress we have at home, and I think we have things called Stearns and Foster. It was an expensive mattress that we had at home, and this one they make, I'll tell you more about it in the future, but they make these mattresses. It comes from Odyssey Truck Mattress, and they make it like a mattress for your home, right? But they make it for your truck. Seriously, I've been getting such good sleeps on there. I can't wait to do a full review for you guys in about a week or so. I think you're gonna be really excited. Those of you who struggle with bad mattresses in your trucks, I think you're gonna want to hear about that, so stay tuned to my videos. It'll be a special video just for that. It'll be a label it like Odyssey Truck Mattress or something. You'll know what it's all about. Thumbnail make it pretty simple. Okay, here we go. Turn our mirror heat on just in case. The weather is much better today. We stayed here in Saskatoon because there was a snowstorm last night. I'm just looking at my tires on the trailer right now. They are all released and turning. Okay, I'm gonna do a little tug test here. Make sure they engage and release again and make sure my fifth wheel has my kingpin locked in there so my trailer's not gonna fall off. Wonderful, wonderful. Winter has arrived here. Saskatoon Saskatchewan in western Canada. From what I hear, the same snowstorm that hit here last night is now bearing down on home in southern Manitoba. It's supposed to start snowing there in a couple of hours and this is probably what I'm gonna go home to. But the weather is moving that way. It's coming from the west going east which is pretty typical for this area. The truck is doing well. I just had my trailer ABS light click on on me here. I'm gonna pull off to the side here and go mess around with that cord. You see that right there? I'm gonna go and see if I can fix that real quick. Pulling behind these guys here so I'm out of the way real quick right here. Usually when that light pops on it's nothing. It's just a loose connection somewhere. The first thing you can do is go and check your cord or unplug your cord from your trailer and plug it back in. I always blow into it just a little bit just for good luck. It doesn't do anything but I got into that habit because of Nintendo back in the day. You used to take the game out and blow in it and then put it back in and it would work. It's like my little good luck charm. It seems to work most often for me. Hold on to these I'll be right back. So it's this one right here right? It's this guy. Pull it out and I just give it a little good luck. I'll wait about 10 seconds. Don't put it right back in right away. I'll do it 10 seconds. Let's see. It's still on. Okay. I'm gonna blow in this one. I'm gonna leave it unplugged for a good 30 seconds now and then we'll be sure to put your sweater on. I know man I'm a tough Canadian. I don't need my jacket. Sometimes the problem just sort of fixes itself. It's a winter problem. Sometimes the sensors get a little cold. Come on bud. Work for me would you? Okay I'm gonna have to go fiddle around with it a little bit more. I was hoping it would be simple like that but it is what it is I guess. There it is. Started rolling forward and it went off. Beautiful. You see? Trucker Josh, Mr. Fix It. No idea what I did. I unplugged the cord and I plugged it back in. It's fixed. That's the first thing you do whenever something electronic breaks right? You make sure it's plugged in and if it's plugged in you unplug it. You wait about 10 to 30 seconds and then you plug it back in. Nine out of ten times. Your problems will be solved. So we have a load of tractor tires inside this van trailer. I did a recovery job. The truck that was pulling this to Edmonton broke down. If you didn't watch yesterday's video that's why I have a van trailer behind me. Broke down and I had to come recover this load and get it to Edmonton for Monday. So we have about five and a half hours of driving if the roads are good for today. I was going to do it yesterday but the snowstorm forced us to stay here in Saskatoon. Let's see what these highways are like. They would have been salted by now. It would probably be clear sailing. It'll just be very messy. Whole blues going to get dirty. Oh yeah, clear sailing. This is good. And we got a lot of weight in the trailer. These tires are not a lot. The bills say these tires are about 22,000 pounds. The tires and rims I think on pallets. Like big, big tractor tires. But I can definitely feel that I got a good amount of weight back there. Oh, we're still spinning a little bit though. Okay, so we're going to take her easy. It is still slippery. Not too bad though. Oh yeah, see there now we're not slipping around anymore. Must have just been one slippery section. We're still going to take it easy. The goal of every day is to arrive alive. We got all day to get to Edmonton so it's not like we're in a big rush. We can take our time today. Even if I was, my life is more valuable than any freight you can put in my trailer. My absolute best to get the freight where it needs to go on time. I don't use that as an excuse. I can't use bad weather as an excuse. Can't go. It's too dangerous. We got half an inch of snow. No, I'm sorry. This is Canada. When it snows, we got to keep rolling. But we do have to set a line for ourselves. We're like, last night at snowstorm 80 kilometer an hour and 50 mile an hour gusts. I'm sorry. No, I'm not driving in zero visibility. That's where my line is. So I figured I'd go during the day today. Then at least I have the daylight to help me, right? That was at night too. That was another reason I shut down. So we got a whole bunch of loose snow on the ground. We have 50 mile an hour gusts of wind and it's dark, middle of the night. And if something happens, it's going to be probably half a day to get help out there. If you get stuck and you need to get pulled out or even worse stuff happens. Nope. Daylight is our friend, right Diesel? I really like the sun, man. He's a really cool guy, man. He lights up the day, you know? Every day. Lloyd Minster, Alberta. You can already tell we're in Alberta because gas is like half the price here, it seems. Not exactly. But gasoline here in Alberta, Lloyd Minster on, what is today? November 6th, 2022. Dollar 50 per liter. Still way too high, but lower than Manitoba. Diesel fuel looks like it's selling for two bucks a liter. In Manitoba it was selling for $2.19 a liter. Saskatchewan was $2.13 a liter. Alberta always has the cheapest fuel. I'd really like to get around this guy. He is unpleasantly slow, like excessively slow. So I'm going to go around him. Maybe it's not him. Maybe it's someone in front of him. Someone needs to get that Canada flag fixed. That's not okay. No, there's nobody in front of him. All the way through Lloyd Minster already. Dude, you've been crawling through here at 25 kilometers an hour. Why? Messing up traffic. Oh, we want to go a little slower than usual maybe now, but that's a little excessive. Weather's gotten a lot better. The roads aren't slippery. Snow covered. A little bit here you can see. You've got to keep your tires in the tracks here, but as long as you stay in the tracks. That guy was a little close, but not a little close. He didn't have to come in there, but that was okay. Yeah, we got good traction here. Roads obviously aren't 100%, but good enough for me. The temperature is minus 10 degrees Celsius. So we're probably looking at like low 20s in Fahrenheit pretty quickly in this season. A lot of diesel out here, but all he wants to do is sniff. Hey diesel, you pulled me over. You told me to stop because you had to go to the bathroom. I just wanted to sniff the grass, man. Your grass looks really, really cold here. All right. Well, do your thing, man. I'm not stopping again until we get there. Got this big parachute behind me, grabbing all the wind it can. We're at the way station. Alberta way scale past Lloyd Minster. You saw us go through Lloyd Minster there. We're about a half hour, 45 minutes into Alberta. Somebody wanted to stop and sniff the grass. I'm going to get out of the wind. Cold diesel? Come on, hurry up, man. Township road 531 AMN, turn right into 170 meters. The only spot in the back along the side here, my favorite spot. No neighbors. Yes. It's going to be minus 15 tonight. Woo. It's going to be cold. It's the coldest night this season so far for me. I'm going to be able to test out my engine heater in the morning. I've got the truck running right now because I'm going to be making some food here and I'm going to be working on the computer for a little bit and then we're shutting everything down and getting ready for the morning. I had a pleasant surprise when I got here. I was talking to Britt and she told me, oh, it's daylight savings time today. Why? All my clocks automatically change, right? I was in Saskatchewan this morning. Saskatchewan doesn't do daylight savings time because they're smart. So I didn't notice it. I woke up right when I had my alarm off. Nothing had changed. Then when I hit the Alberta border, the time changed. So for half the year during this time of year, Saskatchewan falls back towards Manitoba because they see we're few in numbers and we need friends to keep us warm in the wintertime. So Saskatchewan's nice. They come and keep us warm in the wintertime. But in springtime, they spring away from us to go party with Alberta for the summer. That's how the time zones work because Manitoba's central time, Alberta's mountain time, Saskatchewan is Saskatchewan time. It never changes. Half the year is central. Half the time is mountain. So I hit the Alberta border. I didn't even look at my clocks until she mentioned it when I got here already. It's like only six o'clock. I mean it's dark outside. I thought it was later. So I got an extra hour of sleep tonight or an extra hour in my day today anyways if I go to bed earlier. But knowing me, I'm just going to end up on TikTok or YouTube for an extra hour today anyways and not benefit from it at all. But it's better than in spring when we spring forward and lose an hour. So yeah, six o'clock now. I have to unload. I'm in Atchison, Alberta on the west side of Edmonton right now. I got to deliver just down the street like literally just that road there where those lights are right down the road there tomorrow morning between seven and 10 a.m. So I'm going to be there at 7 a.m. Try to get unloaded as fast as possible so I can get reloaded tomorrow and on the road back home. I don't have a reload yet, but that's tomorrow's worry. That's a worry for Monday, Sunday right now. And it was a pretty meh day. I did not get very good fuel economy today. I fueled up in Saskatoon yesterday. Fueled up here again because at this time of year I always fuel up at the end of every day if I can because I want to go to bed with full tanks of fuel especially if I'm shutting the truck down and it's going to be minus 15. So full tanks of fuel at night so I could figure out how much my fuel economy was today right. I hardly idled it at all in Saskatoon. So none of that was idling time, but I was fighting the wind with a big parachute of a trailer behind me all the way here. I got just over four miles a gallon. From Saskatoon to Edmonton here was about 550 kilometers or 320 miles or so and it cost me, and what did it cost me? Over $600. $601.73 Canadian. Just to drive 516 kilometers or 320 miles. Now for my American friends, 601 CAD to USD. 601 Canadian dollars equals 443 United States dollars and 86 cents. So 443 US dollars to get me down down the road. So I did terrible fuel economy today. Terrible. But that's because my truck is not designed as a van truck. It's a deck truck. It's very low. The wind goes right over my cab here and it just wham! Hits the trailer behind me. That's why I say it's like a big parachute behind me holding me back. If I'm going with the wind it helps, right? But I was going against it. Of course I'm going against it. Even a side wind, it comes in on the side of my truck here and it hooks into the trailer behind me and it drags me down, right? So I get much much much much much better fuel economy with a flatbed behind me or a step deck. The trailer that this truck is meant to pull. But I'm doing a favor for them and I'm recovering this load getting it delivered because like I said multiple times there's a truck that broke down that was delivering it. And this way the customer is unaffected. They get their freight on time anyways. I came in and got her done. And then it's got to get me back home. Diesel. How's your day today? You're very cold and chilly, man. It's getting chilly out there. It is, isn't it? Definitely. But anyways, I got to get this put together and my supper should be hot by now. Gonna eat some food and go to bed. So we'll see you right here in Atres and Alberta tomorrow morning. See you later.