 that's the stuff right there that's the stuff so i know i'm a little late uh to respond to all your comments from last week but i noticed some of you were still wondering about my oil leak and if it had been fixed almost almost i think we put uh we got a new service done one second here what's going on here we got a new service on the truck right new filters new uh seals and everything and it seemed to do a lot we also added lucas oil stabilizer into it uh this last trip and that seemed to have almost completely eradicated the leak so uh i'm pretty confident that the oil leak is nothing serious nothing too big and grand on scale i was talking to my friend troi whose channel used to be called halloween helmoth it's now called beyond 10 31 he makes amazing quality videos actually uh you guys should go check it out his link is down below in the description of all my videos it's also on the recommended section of my main page he has a amazing like adventure videos with his fiance on the weekends they go hiking up in the mountains of washington state in virgin columbia and throughout the week he makes videos every day he's been doing it for over 3000 days it's it's pretty crazy in a good way he's an awesome guy but he's a mechanic right and so i was talking about my truck and he right away without even asking him he's such a nice guy he went and uh researched it for me for free didn't even ask me for it i guess just my friendship in return is enough he's a really good guy and i we may have figured that it might be the uh the oil separator on the driver's side of the engine that could be getting gunked up like i said this is getting up like this is over six or getting close to 600 000 miles one million kilometers and uh those oil separators can get a little bit gunked up at that time this truck was running semi synthetic oil its whole life so you know it only needed an oil change whatever 55 000 miles or so it may have been done sooner than that or 55 000 kilometers however even if you wait that long in between services and have that long of an interval even though the oil is good for that long it's not always good for the oil separator and sometimes gunk uh can build up in the separator and he said once i uh hit a certain point it could have just you know dislodged something maybe and clogged up that filter so i'm thinking that might be the problem but seeing as the it seems to have corrected now and i'm not losing very much oil at all just like a couple of drips a day which is fantastic compared to what the the two gallons i got in a lost in a day that one week uh but i'm i'd have no white smoke coming out of my truck so i know that uh my piston rings are still doing all right right now because if they were going i would have a lot of white smoke coming out of the truck so i'm it's a learning experience right now right i'm more of a driver than a mechanic but i am learning as i go through my career and as things break and as i have to get them fixed i'm learning what things are so the next time it happens you know i can pass this knowledge on to maybe my kids one day or someone else or you guys yeah my youtube children no no let's not go with that let's not call you that that's weird and uh a lot of you know more about things than i do i'm i'm just gonna be humble and say that there that i i don't know everything about trucking i don't know everything about life i think i got a good grasp on some things i know i got a good grasp on other things but i still learn something new every day so uh when i teach you something or when i tell you something through my vlog here don't take it as fact especially you new drivers don't trust everything i say double check it okay double just to make sure i'm right it doesn't hurt even though i'm pretty confident that i'm right double check it anyways and i'm open to correction and learning if i'm wrong that's the only way you can learn you have to admit you are wrong we have to admit that things are different than you thought they were always keep an open mind and always keep the discussion open you you never want to shut down people who want to talk about things you may disagree with or tell you that you're wrong you never want to shut them down you want to hear them out hear why they think that way because if you don't listen to anybody nobody gets anywhere and you know there's some situations where if you don't let people speak and you don't let them use their words there's only one other thing that things escalate to i don't know that's why i i like hearing from you guys in the comment sections and i don't often remove comments not often because i want to hear what you guys say you know good or bad bad if you're just being an absolute douchebag in the comments yeah i'll probably remove it maybe you know block you from commenting in the future but for the most part i i like the interaction with you guys because i've learned a lot through my comment section just listening and reading and it sucks sometimes realizing you're wrong but it happens so double check what i say stress enough is if you want to do this experiment along with me and if you want to try saving money like this don't be an obstacle on the highway for other people make it easy for people to pass and if they can't get around you i would i would suggest you just go the speed limit until they have an opportunity to pass now slow down let them get around you and then continue on with your fuel saving speed there's nothing more annoying than when you're in a hurry and you're on a two lane highway and the speed limits a hundred kilometers an hour 60 miles an hour and there's somebody doing 90 or 55 in front of you and there's no chance to pass so frustrating i totally hear you on that i totally understand that i know you're already in the comment section it's probably yesterday already yelling at me not going to be in your way i promise if i see you behind me i'll i'll speed up i'll do a speed limit and i'll let you pass that's the only thing i ask and also like when you're on like high traffic highways like what is it interstate 62 60 interstate 60 which which interstate is that between like uh gary indiana and indianapolis 60 69 i don't have to look at it i haven't been on that highway in a while i used to go on it all the time all i remember from that highway is that it's a four lane interstate but it is packed with traffic so packed that bumper to bumper all the way from chicago to indianapolis pretty much especially during the busy times in those situations i wouldn't do 55 either i would do the speed limit otherwise you're you're messing up traffic behind you everyone's trying to get around you and there's so much volume of traffic you're just screwing things up then at that point that's not the time to uh do these kinds of experiments use your discretion let people pass some people will uh no doubt get upset that they had to you know move one of their fingers half an inch activate their turn signal and drag their rig all the way across into the passing lane and then all the way back in in front of you it's a lot of work for some steering wheel holders and they might get a little grumpy about having to go around you even if there's no other traffic on the road just ignore those guys just ignore them they're just angry at life all right it's not illegal to go a little slower than the speed limit it's just kind of annoying when you can't get past them totally agree with that but past medicine had already and we are eastbound which means the next thing we're going to cross is the border into the sketch one i'm going to stop in moose jaw later on today uh go to the gym there that's that same gym that we stopped at on the way west that little one remember but it has easy truck access i can park right in there a lot which i really like and go in there lift stuff up put it down and then we're going to continue we'll be in north dakota tonight to sleep we are all we're about seven hours from the border right now we're going to cross from north portals to sketch one into portal north dakota and make our way across i believe on highway two across north dakota through grand forks into minnesota through minnesota and into northern wisconsin where we have to deliver to eagle river wisconsin on monday to sketch one there probably know where i am maybe you need to see these signs first moose jaw just going to go around the corner here to uh our gym the same one we stopped at before i told you that already right stop here for a quick probably about an hour and then continue south towards portal north dakota to our border crossing they're already waiting for a while not waiting for me but the my paperwork is all cleared and i'm good to cross here too long i've gotten a pretty good routine already so that when i do stop at the gym i know what i'm doing i know what machines i'm looking for in 700 meters turn left on that your drive nope we're going this way mandy i usually have a pretty good idea of what i'm doing before i get in there so i'm not wasting time trying to figure out what's going on like when i first started i i was honest with you guys and i told you i didn't really have any idea what i'm doing but i'm getting to the point now where yeah i can be confident so yeah i know what i'm doing when i go in there i know what machines i'm looking for i know how to use them and i know what i want to achieve oh boy these guys all had to park right around this corner here right there making it just tight for me to get in here all right so we're gonna go and uh park in the same spot over there off to the right as we did last time just gotta turn around everything's so muddy right now because it's springtime the gym's just off to the left here it's hard to see with that sun glaring at us there oh yeah everything's so bumpy that felt good that felt good throw that up there that was a good workout chef yeah that felt good how was your time you have a good nap oh you're a good boy you know that you're a good boy do i smell a little sweaty yeah it's okay i'm gonna have a shower later okay we gotta get going whoo you always feel so good after a workout there's a dolphin's pumping i worked myself pretty hard this time i was i was proud of that workout i was happy with it so now oh i gotta get ready to cross the u.s to the u.s gotta get all my paperwork and ace manifest ready all right time to work we were here for just over an hour i find that's usually how long i spend in there unless if i want to do some cardio too spend so much time i have right we're not in any big rush but at the same time i don't want to drag my feet too much i still want to get there relatively early to go tour at the u.s border not sure what we're going to make it to tonight the internet here doesn't reach to the back corner of this parking lot so it was a very good day successful day i think i got just as far as i wanted to and we ended up using very little fuel and i'm fully loaded right up to my max weights and i used about as much fuel as i usually do driving empty this theory of mine and this experiment is working i just don't know if i'll have the time to do this all the time or i gotta weigh the benefits of taking more time out of my e-log as well right because if it takes me longer to get there that means there's less time on my e-log clock to make more money so it's a give and take you sort of decide for yourself either get there as fast as you can or try and save some fuel on the way and possibly not get as far i'm going to continue doing this tomorrow and see where we're at i'd like to do this for a full month wants to see what my what the difference is at the end of the month i'm just taking a walk into the store here gonna get myself ready for bed i'm tired i'm ready to ready to drop like a rock every time i go to the gym and work myself really hard like i did today i always sleep like a rock that night it's gonna be such a good sleep