 Good morning, good morning, everybody. We're at the Olsen Truck Stop, the Speedway in Clearwater, Minnesota. And I gotta tell you, they got the best priced coffee. They didn't tell me to tell you that, but I'm telling you that. A $1.60, $1.60. You know how many places are charging like three to $5 for a cup of coffee like this already? $1.60, I complimented them in there too. So that is a reasonably priced cup of coffee. Thank you very much. It's a good day. I'm gonna go pick up my load in Shakopee, Minnesota, which is Minneapolis. It's like sort of Minneapolis, St. Paul. It's the southwest corner of the city. I'm gonna go grab a load there. We're gonna tie it down. We're gonna zip back home. I might be able to get back home for the night if I hurry. I don't wanna make any promises yet, but I have to deliver this load into Winnipeg tomorrow. But I might get home early enough that I can go and sleep in my own bed at home and see the family and then leave with it early in the morning. We shall see, okay? Let's get out there. We're not getting anywhere sitting right here. All right, all right. You guys ready to rock and roll? I'm ready to get out there. Pre-trip's done. Truck is doing good. Trailer's doing good. The only thing wrong with it is there's no freight on my trailer. Let's go get it. It's about an hour from here. My appointment is for an hour and a half. So I have some extra time, but I want it to be a little bit early. Well, just in time for the parade. Perfect. Perfect. Yes. Busy here today. What's going on? Well, hey, I wanna get to work. I'm all excited. I've got myself all psyched up. I'm sending it. Now I'm going to work. Best part of the day, the highway here. Not too bad, though. We've got all those traffic mergers from the right, but I need to get into that right lane. Always make sure you say thank you when someone lets you in. The way you do that in a truck, you flash your four ways at them. The one-kilometer, take US-169 south. I always flash them three times, or at least twice. So thank you, one for each work, but three times is all right too. Thank you very much. 169 south. So this is the right lane, yes. Not north, south. So, yes, this one, exit 10-8. The 400 meters, take US-169 south. I already told them, Kevin. Not this, but yes, okay. Don't wanna miss my turn, because it'll take a little while to get back on track if I miss a turn here. I've come here many times, and it's just, like I said, every trip, even if you do the same route over and over and over again, every trip is a little bit different. I guess if you do it enough, because I'm not in this, you just go on autopilot, but I do different stuff too, right? I wouldn't be able to do the same thing over and over and over. I do a lot of the same stuff, like our Kanora Brainer, so I do a lot of those, I do a lot of stuff around Manitoba, but I like to switch it up every now and then, because if I do the same thing over and over and over too long, I get bored. And if I get bored, I get lazy. And if I get lazy, I get unhappy. I like always sort of being on my toes. I'm an adventurer. I think this lane ends as well. I need to get out of this lane too. Yeah. Excuse me, excuse me. Hello? Here, we're gonna get loaded. Hopefully it'll be quick. I'm about a half hour early for my appointment. That's right when they want us there. They don't want us there any more than half an hour early from what I understand, or is it an hour early? Whatever, usually if I get there at this time, they'll start loading me shortly, depending on how many other drivers are there, so chances are we'll be out of there by 9.30, I'd say, on our way home. We have about a seven hour drive back, seven, eight hour. I might be able to get home in time for supper. I don't know if I'm gonna make it though, look at it. I don't want to get myself too excited. I'll definitely make it back to Manitoba. I just don't know if I'll make it home tonight, deliver this tomorrow morning. Got my fancy Pylon uniform on. Can you see me? And my work sweater. I need to get a new work sweater. This one's pretty worn out already. I like it though, because it's blue, but it is seen better days. Actually it's seen a lot of good days. It's seen a lot of good days. Still doing good, still works. Just waiting here for my turn to get loaded. There's two trucks getting loaded right now, and I'm in the staging area along with one, two, three, or four other trucks. I think I'm next, but I'm still early. I mean, my appointment's at nine. The time is now 8.55, so probably in the next five minutes, and it doesn't take long to load at all. Once they get going, it's bang, bang, bang, they throw them on the trailer, I tie them down, run over, get my paperwork, send it in, whoosh, we're gone. Just like that, bing, bang, boom. It's very quick here usually though, I'm not too worried about it. How far away am I from home? Let's see, I gotta start thinking about can I make it home tonight, or am I gonna sleep in the truck? I don't wanna get myself all excited if it's not even a possibility. Yeah, eight hours, mm-hmm. 755 kilometers, 500 miles. I have the time on my clock to do it, definitely. Definitely do. So that would get me home. Let's say I leave here, let's say we get out of here at 10. Give it an hour, 10.30, hour and a half. The latest, 10.30, 11, 12, one, two, three, four, five, six, 30. Either about seven, seven, 30. I could probably go home for the night, yeah. Just go sleep in my own bed, see the family, get up early tomorrow morning and be in Winnipeg first thing in the morning. As home is like right on the way, right? We'll see, we'll see what happens. Well, we'll plan for that right now, but we'll also plan for the plan to change. See what happens. It would be nice. Ready to go? The time is 9.31 in the city. I'll take us up to I-94 and that'll take us all the way up to North Dakota I-29 North. We're taught to win cloud. We win our business, they have the cheapest prices today. In 300 meters, turn left on 45th Street and then 241. Flying J, St. Cloud or Pilot St. Cloud has really been dropping the ball. They were always, always the cheapest price for so long. Now QuickTrip has been beating them out recently. How do I, how do I turn left here? It's like, I can't turn left? What? Why did my GPS make me turn this way? Make a U-turn here now? What? What's this exit? Why couldn't I turn left there? QuickTrip's the other way. But I wouldn't make, but another exit just past that. 2058, which I should have taken. In three kilometers, take the entrance to the right on MN101 South. Great, now I gotta go all the way around. Find a place to turn around. Oh, for crying out loud. So there's two exits. One exit is, should have been reading the signs more carefully. Exits aren't usually designed like that. Usually you take an exit, you can turn left or right. So 205B was obviously this way. 205A was the other way. Oh man. Oh yeah, well now we know for next time. Down here, so I'm gonna have to go all the way up a few miles to the 101. Take that back down to the 94 and go try again. Sort of do a little bit of a loop. It didn't take me about eight miles to go around. According to Karen here, I don't know if I should trust her after that. How do you not know which exit to take Karen? This is what happens when I don't double track every single little turn. Man, you always gotta check her work. You can't trust her. You do that on purpose. Nice houses in here though. There's a plus, nice scenic road. Beautiful. That used to be a nice neighborhood to live in. All ranch style houses, big properties. Wow, wow. Is that a golf course? Oh, that makes sense. Golf course community, right? All of these houses, beautiful. Wow. Money, money, money. The entrance to the ride on NN101 South. Money, money, money, money, money. You got any to share? I took a wrong turn. Looking for donations. My turn up here, this'll be the 101. Like I said, this'll take us back to the 94. We'll go try again. This time we will not listen to Karen. 300 meters, take the entrance to the ride on NN101 South. Better not be turning me the wrong way again. All this just for some cheaper juice. Anyway, quick trip. The price for me today at quick trip is 345 a gallon. The price at Pilot, which is usually cheaper in St. Cloud. The price there is 354 a gallon. 10 cents more a gallon. I'm gonna do it again, Karen. We're not gonna take this exit, we're gonna take 205A. They must have redone it recently, or sometime in my GPS still hasn't updated. Maybe I need to take some time and update that again tonight. Okay, so not 205A. Turn left on 45th Street, NN 241. 205A, definitely have to update my GPS later. 24 kilometers, take CR 37 CR 19 Albertville. No, Karen, you don't know what you don't know. They changed it. Okay, so technically I guess it's not Karen's fault. Maybe it's my fault for not updating her, but she should know this. Right, she's updated on her own. My wifi, my mobile wifi, I don't know why she wouldn't. I guess I have to actually go in there and physically tell her, you need to update now. There we go, all right. Now that we're on the correct path, that didn't take too much time out of our day, thankfully. Quick trip is right here off to the right. Let's see how do we get in here now. 200 meters, turn right on. Oh my. Update highway man, turn right in 60 meters. Looks a little busy for such a small little quick trip. Oh man, of course. Yeah, now everybody wants to come in here and grab fuel, shoot. Everybody's got the same idea that I have. Okay, what happens when you have cheap juice? Turn right a man, approach your destination on the right side in 10 meters. Okay, so right here, we gotta wait in line now. There are three pumps there. Looks like there's a van parked in this pump there. It's got his four ways on, so maybe he's fixing it or something. Maybe he's the fix it man. This won't take too long. This is a really tight place here because he got the car pumps right here too, right? The exit or the entrance behind me there and not really designed to have a lineup of trucks here. Entering North Dakota, be legendary. No pressure. The other side of the river with Moorhead, same city, different states. Just up ahead will be the I-29 Northbound. As we take that North that turns into 75 in Canada. It does look like right now that I'm gonna make it home for tonight. I'll be home around supper time by evening at home and then tomorrow morning I'll head out, get this freight delivered and then I gotta head back to Canora. Probably get there on one, send in my paperwork and make my way south again into Minnesota. Enter the right on I-29 North US 81 North. It's a pretty good rounder if you time it right. If you time it right, back and be home. Canora, Brandon, Jack be home. I don't know if I'm going back to Jack be after tomorrow is over. I've gotta make a right turn right away. And there's somebody up here on my left now. Okay, sorry guys, I can't. Enter the right on I-29 North US 81 North. Ah, they figured it out. I had this pickup truck here. Great, beside me. Don't like to get out of the right lane when my right hand turn is coming up here in like a mile. But so often. Enter the right on I-29 North US 81 North. So often when you move over to be courteous to allow people into the lane who are merging into traffic, you'll get into the left lane, right? And then they'll merge in, match your speed and just stay right beside you, walking you into the left lane. You need to get back over to the right so that you can make your turn, right? But they won't let you back over. So your attempt at being courteous now make you miss your turn. You can either be courteous, risk-missing your turn, or you can have the perception of being a dingbat and not move over, but guaranteed you won't miss your turn then. I don't even know what a dingbat is. What is that? That's made that up. Continue on this road for 247 kilometers. I'm trying to keep it YouTube friendly here. The word I was gonna say would have gotten the video demonetized or something. Pretty big city. I remember when I was in Cape Fargo and it seemed like such a small town. It's really growing leaps and bounds throughout my lifetime. It's a big place now. I was able to quickly run home, spend the evening at home and the night at home in my own bed, which is great. Now we're back on the path to our delivery here the next morning. I'm gonna get these pallets off my trailer and run over to Canora. We're gonna continue, we're gonna continue this vlog until we unload. And we'll start tomorrow's vlog when we're empty and headed to Canora. This is Southeastern Winnipeg. I'm coming up here on Highway 59 Northbound where it'll turn into Lajomodier Boulevard. There's a very nice neighborhood around here. This is Sage Creek off to our right. And I believe it's Island Lakes off to our left. Very nice, kind of prestigious neighborhoods to live in here. Beautiful homes, big houses, big property tax too. We looked into these houses when we were looking around and because this is the side of the city that's closest to our yard, right, for work. These properties in here are very expensive for us, depending on like what your income level is. For us, we found it that the yards were really small like the houses are very close together. You can literally jump off your roof onto your neighbor's roof. So we wanted a little bit more space and a little bit more of a country feel. We didn't wanna be in the city and also with Britt's eczema on her hands. I've talked about this before where she has issues with city water. Something in the water in Winnipeg hurts her skin. And it's not just her, we've heard it from many other people too. Something is in the water in Winnipeg that causes you, it eats away at your skin. It's freaky. There's a lot of people who have issues with their children, like their young babies. And they can't figure out why. Well, cause they're bathing them in the city water here. Now that's nothing proven. That's a little conspiracy theory somewhat in my head, but we do know that it does affect Britt's hands. So she, even if she washes her hands just once with city water, her hands start to dry up and crack and bleed. Whereas where we are, we have a well. So we have our own water source and we have a water softener. And that water is a lot easier on her skin. So that's one reason we couldn't live in the city because of the city water, the city of Winnipeg. So if you live in the city of Winnipeg, maybe the water doesn't, water doesn't do anything to me. It never affected me, but I don't know what they're putting in it. But if you want my personal opinion, I wouldn't drink it. I would get bottled water. It does five gallon jugs or something because it didn't affect me, but it affects her. Freak me out. So we live where we live. Plus it's closer to where I grew up and where Britt spent a lot of her childhood too out in southeastern Manitomo. Just a nice quiet community. We're also not zitty people. I don't know if you've noticed over the years. I'm not a big fan of cities. Winnipeg's a smaller city, but it's big enough for me to be like, ah, too many people in one place. You know? And everybody's so aggressive, like the drivers. They're always angry, they're always upset, and they're in a hurry to get nowhere. Like when you live in Winnipeg, pretty much, depending on what neighborhood you live in, everything is 15 minutes away. Everything's within 15, maybe 20, if you want to go to the other side of the city. You're close to everything. What are you in such a hurry for? Everyone's in such a hurry. Out where we are, out in the rural areas. Countryside, it's a little bit slower paced. People, I don't know, leave earlier and give themselves more time to get places. I don't know. Don't get me wrong, there's still grumpy people out where I live, but it feels better. I mean, for me, it's a better atmosphere. Maybe that's just because that's where I grew up. I don't want to throw shade on the city because I have a lot of friends who live in the city here and I, myself, have lived in Winnipeg. And I found that it's not for me, it wasn't for me. But, you know, a lot of people love it. It's a great city, a lot of great restaurants, a lot of culture in Winnipeg. You go down Corden Avenue or an Osborne Village, go see a Jets game downtown. Like, Winnipeg is pretty awesome. I mean, for me, it's fun to come visit. But it's nice to know that I can go home and leave the city when the fun is over. But that's just my own opinion, right? There's nothing wrong with living in the city. I totally get it. It's convenient, everything is close by and not everybody is miserable. There's a lot of good people here. There's a lot of grumpy people too. Come on, you have to admit I'm right, come on. Tell me I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong. I won't bite you on that, whatever. So fast, they had me unloaded in like less than five minutes. Just like that. Hear my air suspension releasing air to go down because it can't keep up, they unloaded me that quickly. I got here and they waited for me to get all of my equipment off the trailer, all of my corners, put everything away. All I had to do was roll up my straps and they unloaded the whole trailer before I was done rolling up half of my straps. They got two guys that come out here just boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, get me unloaded. So it's 10 40 now and we're gonna head to Canora to load this afternoon and then head down into Minnesota to unload that tomorrow morning. Canora is about two hours from here, about 120 miles or 200 kilometers or so. Just gonna send in this paperwork, let them know that I'm done and then I'm on the way to the next one. So thanks for joining me today guys, it was a fun trip up from Minneapolis. Thanks for hanging out with me and staying right to the end. 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