 Good morning. Good morning friends and family and everybody in between. That means hello. We're here in Kingston, Kingston, Ontario and slept at this petro pass. I just got up today. I'm glad I didn't shower yet because man is a hot humid outside. It's crazy and I had to clean up my trailer and get it ready for the next driver because I'm dropping this empty off and picking up a loaded trailer down in Waterloo on the other side of Toronto. I had to have this trailer already for the other person so I'm going to do the switcheroo and I was just gushing sweat. It was so humid outside so we're going to go switch trailers and we're going to find a place to have a shower and then we're going to begin our journey down to North Carolina. It's going to be fun. We're going to cross through Buffalo, New York from Fort Erie, Ontario and make our way down the east coast. It's going to be hard to avoid all the big cities because the east coast is pretty much one big city. Let's hope that we're going to sneak through on the weekend. I don't know if it gets worse on the weekend or not. I got to check the news. I don't know if I trust the news either. I got to find out. I'll check around and see if there's any trouble going on in the big cities down there still and if there's any maybe places I should avoid. It wasn't that long ago when I didn't have to worry about this kind of thing but now I always have to look ahead at my route, look what cities I'm going through, go and try to find a bunch of different news sources to see what's going on in those cities just to make sure that there hasn't been something new that's sparked and freeways being blocked, people being hauled out of their trucks and trailers being looted. I know it's not that bad. I know it's not as bad as I'm making it out to be in my mind right now but in a way it sort of is but in very select areas it's like you can live in one city and not even notice that another part of the city is like burning down if you're not paying attention. These are huge cities it's just I want to make sure I don't go through these areas. I don't know the bad areas of the cities. I go through Chicago quite a bit and I know the south side is kind of meh but when I go through these cities I don't know what areas I should avoid or what areas I might not be welcome in. I know there's areas in a lot of cities where I probably shouldn't walk into especially at night or roll into. No idea where they are because I'm just passing through right so just gotta be a little bit more vigilant a little bit more careful just look ahead see if there's anything new and before you know it election year will be over and hopefully everything will settle down a little bit. I don't know I don't know I don't like what's going on in the world at all and I know the UK is having problems in Canada it's the same thing as in the US just smaller scale if it's happening in the US you can be guaranteed that it's happening in Canada as well just smaller scale and I don't like it it's just so much division and but you know as bad as everything looks right now let's try to stay positive and let's enjoy what we love to do most let's go and do some trucking and off we go the wheels are turning the day has officially begun no take backs forward some back nobody coming to make sure they plant these trees right on the side of the road so you can't actually see if there's traffic coming or not that's okay I like trees to me this early in the morning care I guess we'll see what happens get somewhere in the US we got through that rainstorm and enjoyed some nice warm sunshine and it looks like I'm driving into the next rainstorm lovely this is Toronto or as locals call it I think this is Scarborough you Toronto owners are gonna have to correct me if I'm wrong down the comment section there is technically a whole bunch of cities that are gathered together in the greater Toronto area but I just call it all Toronto it's all equally to be hard on Toronto especially being from the west but even people from Ontario are hard on Toronto poor Toronto is always getting kicked around all right city it's a definitely not even close to the worst city you can find yourself in on this planet it's a it's a nice place to be that's why so many people move here right people from every corner of the planet Toronto's the most diverse city on the planet people from absolutely every corner I bet you there are citizens here a good group of citizens from every country of the world in Toronto so it's obviously there's something here that attracts people to come live here it's not for me some other people like it so we don't all have to like the same stuff come on down check it out well I guess you can't now everything's closed down borders are closed down I prefer seclusion I'm gonna miss this rainstorm as well it's like it's out over the water Toronto downtown is to our left I believe and then the lake is that way is the lake Ontario and then on the other side of the lake is New York state if I'm correct here right now so I can't confirm any of this from the famous 401 highway where the speed limits are a suggestion for most people the speed limit is technically 100 kilometers an hour to the left on you know street baby with long street man came to the left and 610 meters they give you a little bit of wiggle room it seems you know you want a new 140 150 doesn't seem like the cops are going to pull you over but don't 600 meters don't go and do it left on leslie street baby with long street man came to the left and 610 meters don't go flying through your speeding when you get pulled over say the trucker josh said it was okay because I'm telling you is not the tickets are huge in Ontario when you do get a ticket when you do get pulled over when they decide to actually pull you over it's bad your insurance goes up on your vehicle quite a bit fight Karen losing my patience with you rude she's gonna talk again right she's very happy we're in Toronto what I'm saying is your insurance goes up your license goes up you get big demerit points against you on this road for seven kilometers it's not a good idea to break the law okay we have them there for a reason let's respect them well we've got our new friend here all hooked up ready to go it looks like those are brand new doors too very nice very nice so we're going to pull this trailer with us all the way down to north carolina we're going to con over to north carolina con over con over con over north carolina it's uh a little north of charlotte north carolina everyone knows where charlotte is right famous little town you guys got down there made the news let's say a few times whoops let's uh let's go get a shower i'm going to london flying jay park grab some fuel for this bad girl maybe take this little guy for a walk this good boy this is a bad girl and this is a good boy see what i did there that means they're both good in my eyes the english language is a little weird okay 1,220 kilometers we got to go down there so we'll get a few hours down the road today and we'll do the rest tomorrow deliver first thing monday morning just having a conversation with karen here which is very hard to do because she's you think i complain a lot man karen but uh i'm actually not going past london ontario so we're not going to go to the london i always thought she said we weren't oh yeah we're not going past london ontario we're going towards buffalo new york i see i see yeah london's further south from here that's we'd be passing there if we'd be crossing into detroit or port here on michigan all right so we're gonna go to the flying jay in fort eerie it's uh how far away is it here 171 kilometers it's uh 115 miles we'll do our business there then one thing i like about these travel plazas there well dispersed you know trucking has gotten a lot better i keep saying that i hate hearing how people say oh trucking has gotten so terrible i agree that the rates could could be higher the freight rates but i get paid by the mile now and i'm happy right now uh things are going really good for me but i can understand for owner operators and people who own companies freight rates haven't gone up like they should have like the cost of living has gone up but uh for me as a company driver now it's it's fine but trucking in itself with the technology i even like the e-logs i'm a fan of the e-logs all right i'm a rare breed i know and that's why you watch me because i have all these interesting weird opinions that you can't understand i know e-logs i like them we got google maps every time i go to a customer that i'm not familiar with i just look it up on google maps google earth zoom in i can find out exactly where their loading docks are i can figure out how to get there we have all these apps that like trucker path that tells us if the scales are open and if there's parking at truck stops and where they all are and you know it's really how far away they are got all these social media apps and stuff that can keep us in contact i had video chats with my wife multiple times every day it used to be not too long ago i can still remember my dad every day he would stop at a truck stop go into like a little private phone booth and call home that's how you call them there were no cell phones there was no internet like mobile internet smartphones apps and stuff like that like trucking has gotten a lot better in my opinion the good far outweighs the bad and all the things that have changed over the years and i love it i love trucking i love it what else would i want to do but this you know i could have been anything i chose to be a truck driver i got accepted into university i could have gone there like i said i was going to go and be a cop i was going to go study criminology and and it was i think a four-year course i was going to maybe study a few other things along the way just to broaden my uh what i could be useful for if there was no vacancies in the police force when i graduated because they're not always hiring and uh yeah i wanted to be a cop or a trucker but i wanted to be a trucker more so here we are maybe one day i'll still be a cop i mean i'm in my 30s now apparently i'm the average age of hiring i'd have to get myself in shape don't get me wrong and go through some training courses i don't know maybe be a cop i'd love to be a cop in a local area though like i wouldn't mind being a member of the rcmp but then you got to travel and be posted all over canada because your first two postings i believe the first eight years this may have changed this by now but they can be anywhere but your home province so i'm from manitoba so they'll post me anywhere in canada but manitoba and you have to do northern duty as well so you're all over the country you're constantly uprooting your family and moving them all over the country and the winnipeg police they they're not hiring at all at least not people who look like me so i went in there and applied while i was going to apply and they told me straight to my face that they were looking for a visible minority and women applicants only people like me need not apply so that kind of turned me off i was kind of upset about that i felt that was kind of racist but uh the world we live in now it's so backwards right but other than that you know if steinback had a local police force maybe i'd try to get on there i'd love to police my own local area and help my own community but meh we're happy trucking let's keep trucking how about that i like being out here on the road i like seeing the country seeing america what a beautiful continent we live on what what a couple of great countries we have here like i i love it all of canada all of the us really happy where gods placed me fort eerie it's pretty cool fort if you asked me swing our way in here this is where i bought my steer tires for the Volvo just before i brought it back on the lease and i know 200 meters turn left on the north service road and then approaching destination on the right side and it's on the left here and had i known that i was uh gonna return the lease and everything else was gonna go wrong i wouldn't have put those new steer tires on there but oh well at least it is what it is i'm gonna grab some fuel here because we are on the red line i don't like to be that low usually i'd wait to fuel in the states but i don't think i have enough time or enough fuel to get down there grab some fuel we're gonna find a parking spot we're gonna have a shower and then we're gonna continue i choose this pump pump this one right here which one are you pump 18 i choose you here we are on peace bridge it's a very peaceful bridge connecting two peaceful countries well we're peaceful to each other anyway i mean not always so peaceful within but hey we do what we can right we love each other there's both flags on the right come on Karen get with it there you go it's official it's Karen official back here visiting our friends this is Buffalo no buffalo is here though as far as i know no bison either commonly mistaken this is where the buffalo sabers are based at i always keep thinking that the sabers are further away but they're right close to toronto actually beautiful city here we've got another three and a half hours we can drive tonight yet let's see how far we go welcome to pennsylvania pursue your happiness we're right up in that top little uh section of it that goes up to the lake we'll see there's any parking for us here getting a little tired i figured we'd check here first and if there's none here we'll go to the next one which is about a half hour down the road looks like we'll be okay here though perfect beautiful at this spot here so that i'm between these two and i know who my neighbors are right in here and neither of them have a reefer hopefully none of them have a really loud apu i'm picky what like to know what do you think they're diesel what do you think tell me what you think buddy is it time for bed i can't show me i'm a tired we go look at me look at the beds all the way back there the sleeper is so huge it's a bit of a hike you want to go for a walk i shouldn't have said that you were just outside for a walk you were just outside man don't look at me like that we just spent 15 minutes out there time to go to bed now you want to go to bed it all sounds good right now doesn't what are you going the back but what are you going the back there come on go in the back come on go in a bit there you go get comfy good boy so that is that that was the day we are here uh just into pennsylvania at the welcome center just in from new york state along the top of the state there right where pennsylvania sort of goes up to the lake i guess that's their access to the waterways there we're gonna go to bed we have 919 kilometers or what like 550 miles to do tomorrow it's gonna be a full fun day tomorrow hope you guys subscribe hope you hit the bell so you don't miss it we're gonna make a video we're gonna be going through the rest of pennsylvania now let's see see all the states we're gonna be going through tomorrow oh it'll be a state filled day let's see all right so through pennsylvania through what is that probably west virginia virginia north carolina i don't think we're gonna dip into maryland on this trip but pennsylvania west virginia the other virginia all the way down north carolina to uh a town called uh conover or something like that can over con over can over something north of charlotte north carolina so yeah it'll it'll be good hope you tune in we'll see you then i'm going to bed i'm tired