 Good morning, everybody. We're in Brainerd, Minnesota. We're gonna deliver a freight that we picked up in Canara right away. If you watched yesterday's vlog, you already know what I'm gonna say, and you can go down below to the comment section and say, I already knew. But we're gonna be doing more giveaways, okay? Last week, we did a giveaway with House Products, and I asked you to email me. I got hundreds of emails. Hundreds of emails. This was good. It was a really good response. Thanks, guys, for all that. I really do appreciate all of the engagement. That was a lot more than I thought, and my email is still exploding, and my phone is exploding, and I had to turn off the notifications for it, because it wouldn't stop. That's okay. Not complaining. So next time, what we're gonna do, because we're gonna do this again, all right? If you didn't get an email back from me, I'm sorry, I can't respond to absolutely every email. I only responded to the winners. So if you got an email back from me, you are the winner, and we will arrange how to get that package to you. We're gonna do another couple of giveaways yet. We're gonna do about five giveaways this month. So in the next week, in the next five or seven days, we're gonna do another giveaway. I forgot my House hat at home. Otherwise, I was gonna be like, you can see my hat. Obviously, you can't. Bad Josh, don't forget your hat when you go out, all right? If you get one, make sure you wear it everywhere. We're gonna do some House product giveaways, some merch giveaways. In this next giveaway, though, I'm gonna get you to leave a comment down below in the description, and then I will pin the winning comment. And then I'll get ahold of you, and we'll figure out how to get your prize to you. But it's not today, or may, or is it? Maybe it'll be later today, later in this video. You're gonna have to watch the whole thing to find out. So in the next week or so, one of these days, I'm gonna do a giveaway, and I want you to respond to that one in the comment section instead of emailing me. Because that was chaos. My phone, I think it was about to explode. Literally, I think it was getting hot. We're gonna do it a little bit differently this next time. But pay attention. Set your notifications for every single one of my videos. Watch them all the way through. Because at some point during the video, at some point during this week, we're gonna pick another winner. All right, so stay tuned. Let's go deliver this freight I got behind me. I'll give you a quick look at it before it gets off my trailer. I still have no plans after that. I might just be going home from here, and that's okay with me. Old Blue has a date at the shop. We got to get some work done to it. I've got a heap of things to do at home. A lot of things. Sacking up on top of other things. So, we're gonna be busy. I just pulled in here to get some coffee. Caraboo coffee over there. This is our load. I really need to buy new tarps. I'm gonna have to buy new tarps before wintertime. These are, I think they're about to see their last days. It's more patch than tarp already. It's more patch than tarp already. Let's go get this off the trailer. I don't want it anymore. It's really weighing me down. I wanna ask your opinion on something though. I went in there to Caraboo coffee to buy my coffee. It was like a two dollar coffee or something like that. And I only, I didn't have cash on me. I only had a card to pay with or whatever. So, I'm okay. So, I'll just pay with card this time. Usually I like to pay with cash, but it's card okay. So, I put my card in and immediately it pops up that it wants a tip. They want a tip from me. What do you pick? 10, 15 or 20% Whoa! I just ordered a coffee. I know in America, tipping culture is a little bit more hardcore than in Canada. Canada is a big tipping culture as well. But I find it a little bit this is just my personal opinion. I find it a little bit rude when people ask for a tip. Especially on like a dollar 50 or two dollar coffee. I understand the people who work in this industry are going to get very defensive and say well, we need that to live off of maybe they should pay them a living wage. Well, there's that too, but that's the topic for a different channel, different video, but I was kind of taking it back from that when I tip. It's because I was offered exceptional service. They did something above and beyond for me and I want to reward them for that and say thank you. So here's a tip. Thank you for the exceptional service. But when I walk into a sit down restaurant or sit down store and I go up to the counter and I order and all they do is turn around and fill up a coffee cup and turn around and put it down for me. I don't feel like that's a tipping place. Am I wrong? Am I wrong? Am I am I the bad guy here? I just I you didn't do anything. You just turned around and you filled up a cup and you put it turned back around. Now if you brought it out to my truck, if I ordered out here and you brought it out to my truck and handed it to me in my window, absolutely I'll give you a tip. Thank you very much above and beyond, but if you're just doing the bare minimum just filling up a cup and turning around. I feel like for a tip is just a little bit rude and presumptuous. And then I feel guilted because I'm in the moment and this thing pops up tip and I feel obligated. I gave a tip because I felt I feel bad if I wouldn't now now everybody's looking at me and if I'd say no tip everyone's like what a cheap guy. I wouldn't give tip. I didn't do anything for a tip. But I gave a tip anyways and now my coffee went from 250 to like I gave a dollar tip so 250 to 350. That's like a 30% tip, isn't it? I felt bad. It's just a dollar. But it's a US dollar so it's like a dollar 30 for me. Let me know am I the bad guy here? Am I the only one that feels this way? Don't get me wrong. I absolutely tip. I absolutely tip. I just think that sometimes it gets a little out of control like some places you go to some places you go to some restaurants I've been to them before they will automatically add the tip onto your bill without asking it'll just gratuity is included. Excuse me? What if you gave me terrible service and I don't want to what if you were rude to me and like the food was burnt and everything went wrong and the tip is just automatically added onto my bill. Excuse me? Why don't you just raise the price of your food then? I'm going to hold myself back here from going on a rant because I want to know what your opinion is down below in the comments section because I want to know if I'm in the wrong here because I did tip because I felt obligated to and I felt socially pressured to. Is it wrong that they ask for it? Like if there's just a tip jar in front of me and I put like a dollar in the tip jar that's my choice right and like thank you for the great service here's an extra tip but if you ask for it let me know down below in the comment section what your opinion is and maybe I'm in the wrong. I don't know let's see what most people think now if I'm in the wrong I'm going to feel even worse but don't hold back because I might feel bad I need to know asking for it Alright let's go deliver this free. I want to get it off off my trailer I don't want it it's been there all night already this will be my cheapest fuel to get in Brainerd fuel back in Pemina again on the way back I'm not sure exactly yet what we're picking up tomorrow I wish I would have remembered my house hat I like this hat too this is actually a gift from one of you you know who you are I still got it these hats are actually so comfortable I love them I want more of them but we're going to superior Wisconsin and not too sure what we're loading yet but all I know is that we're loading first thing tomorrow morning and that'll take me home and I'll be able to get home tomorrow so I'll load first thing tomorrow and we'll be home tomorrow evening old blues gotta go into the shop the next day so I'll let them know that it'll be there in the morning yeah because I'm gonna get there I gotta clean the truck up I want it to look nice when it goes to the shop I don't want to be the guy who brings in a dirty truck my truck's not that dirty it might look a little disorganized they have all my stuff just laid out especially in the back there but the truck itself is I try to keep clean on the inside but especially when I take it to a shop I don't always have the time to do that and sometimes it's a little embarrassing you bring it there and you know the floor mats are dirty or something but I'd like to have it somewhat clean so when they crawl in here if they crawl into a clean truck chances are they'll respect it a little more I would hope that they'd respect the truck regardless but I know that if I get into a truck that's kept clean that I have a little bit of extra respect for it and the driver as well grabbed myself a coffee while I was here good to go so the price for me here today with all conversions into Canadian dollars was $1.45 per liter that's compared to just where I came from over the border in Ontario where my price was $1.70 per liter all conversions included everything included so quickly do some math here $1.70 subtracted $1.45 $0.25 a liter cheaper I bought 435 liters times 435 liters we're looking at I saved $108.75 Canadian by avoiding that wonderful tax system that is crushing us up north but don't worry the weather's going to be better we will get back on to what is this here Minnesota 210 and we'll start heading eastbound towards Superior Wisconsin just over the bridge from Duluth, Minnesota it's about a 2 hour drive or so something like that not too far a little bit of a better dead head than the one from PEI to Quebec or from Brainerd to Nebraska before that not bad Wisconsin we're in Duluth, Minnesota you can see over there is the water on the other side of those bridges that's Wisconsin Superior Wisconsin different sides of the river here right on Lake Superior and I'm guessing that the lake itself was named after this city of Superior in Wisconsin that makes sense right last week we were on the other side of this lake which is Canada in Northern Ontario and Thunder Bay now we're checking out this side this side has a little bit more people quite a bit more people the terrain here accommodates development a lot better than the other side the other side is very rocky the more west side of the lake so we're not really right underneath it on the south being from Manitoba we never get a view like this coming into town my ears are popping from the pressure change you don't get that coming into town either and back home across the bridge and our shipper right there just over on the other side of the bridge I'm going to go there and check it out see where I need to be in the morning get a little feel for the street and the neighbourhood see what direction I need to come at it tomorrow and then I'm going to go down the street to the truck stop I think there's a quick trip and another one about 5 miles further further in there's another paper plant here off to the right lots of paper plants in this region there's one in Dryden, Ontario there's one in international falls Minnesota one here in Duluth I wonder if this is where the bulk of most paper comes from I know those paper plants I mentioned them because you know when you're in a town with a paper plant that one stinks I don't know if this one stinks but the one in international falls the one in Dryden definitely stinks the whole town you can tell that's paper plant at the roundabout take the second exit in 4 kilometers putting a toll on it right away you know first seems to get paid off the toll just stays there forever you know I don't know what I'd do with them I don't have a flight pole big enough but maybe one day I will and we didn't even get one mile in Wisconsin without telling me you're in Wisconsin the states and provinces in Canada that are also getting very very friendly with the roundabouts Prince Edward Island loves those things we got to go right into the city okay we need to make a left turn not here this intersection that's where we want to turn oh it's starting to smell good in here my wife made chili when I was at home I took some with me now that I have a fridge that works in here I'm just heating it up in my little portable oven smells good in here oh this is tight road that takes me to my customer American standards love all these old buildings you can tell that there was a big boom 17th, 18th centuries or is it 18, 19th centuries 1800s early 1900s that's what I'm talking about here we sit just a very short day today I only drove 120 miles or 200 kilometers and just hanging out in the sleeper now gonna get some videos done I got to be up in 12 hours that'll give me an hour to get ready for the day and get 5 minutes down the road I went and checked out their location there already and stopped in there figured out where I need to go and everything where I need to park and then I came out here with a truck stop it's the quick trip just down the street on the east side of town just to sleep here be ready to go in the morning I don't even know what I'm loading I rarely do know I don't really care what it is it's illegal you can put it on my trailer I'll tie it down I got all the equipment I could possibly need for anything they could throw at me so bring it on that's what I say thanks for hanging out with me today on this short day tomorrow we'll get loaded up and head towards the house and bring all blue to the shop need some love and attention from someone other than me I could do the service myself but like I said before when I'm at home I want to be at home I don't want to spend the entire time I have at home working on the truck now sometimes it's necessary I have to do that and I understand you save a lot of money doing that it's very expensive to get other people to work on your truck labor is very expensive but I think that time with family at home is worth it and my time is worth that people to work on it when I'm at home and I fix the things I can while I'm on the road but I just need to know that someone else is going to look it over they catch things that I don't catch that I don't see it's nice to have a professional go over my whole truck front to back and make sure everything is as it should be nothing's wearing out too fast plus I want to get a couple of quotes and some other things like I've been saying I don't want them to check my frame out as well it's getting a little bit rusty in the back I'll show you tomorrow it's going to be painted so when the frame gets stretched I'm also going to get it painted like sand didn't paint it at the same time so lots of work ahead in the future lots to do always so everybody you stay safe out there you be safe and you drive safe