 had an appointment pardon me I have an appointment with that dock there 15 minutes ago remember yesterday or was it the day before we were talking about how nice it is that someone that the customer honored my appointment and kicked another driver out of the dock because he was in my dock and they honored the appointment time and that doesn't always happen well this is one of those times when it doesn't happen we made an appointment for 9 a.m. here the second time at this place and we get here and their dog is completely packed they have at least six of these straight trucks all over here that need to be loaded yet and unloaded and someone in the office had made our appointment and I guess not told the guys in the back or there's a miscommunication or somebody's lying I don't know I don't want to say they're lying I don't want to keep on that but something went wrong and they're not ready for me and it sounds like they're not going to be ready for me for another two hours in two hours I was supposed to be closer to Montreal already I got a pretty big delivery to deliver here that's how my day started today had an appointment but the appointment wasn't honored but we're gonna make it a good day anyway this might be considered might be considered one of the more frustrating parts of the job it's nice to have appointments because then especially when I have multi-drop loads because I have another appointment this afternoon at noon in Montreal I'm not going to make that appointment now so because one customer didn't stick to the appointment that we had made now all of the customers after them also have to suffer or be rearranged and I may not even be able to deliver my second load until tomorrow now or we may have to make a new appointment altogether but you know that's that's trucking most of all that is going in here it's gonna take them a little while to unload it once I get in there so finally get in there in about two hours I'm probably going to be here for at least four hours that's okay it is what it is not not too upset about it it's nothing I can do about it just morning time here in them wish I would have gotten a coffee for myself maybe I'll have a nap that might be nice well there is a silver lining to this gloomy cloud this morning someone just came out here to talk to me talk to me let me know oh they're emailing me right now what are they saying keep us posted I just let the people back home know the load gods let them know what was going on I wanted them to know that I was probably going to be late for my next appointment you always got to let them know as soon as possible if they need to rearrange things on their end make phone calls or whatever they need to do over there at least they know as soon as possible that you're probably going to be late and it's not your fault you need to tell them even if it is your fault to see you know always just keep them updated what's going on they like that so they they called in or emailed in here and someone came out and talked to me right away and said that they're they're scrambling and moving stuff around here so that I can get in a dock as soon as possible so may not have to be here for two hours one can only hope I have a feeling it's gonna be two hours oh but hey that's just that's just my feelings that's just my feeling maybe they'll surprise me it's not like it's their fault I don't know who's fault we you'd place this on it sounds like it was just miscommunication from our office to their office to their docks and receivers but I do know like they do load a lot of trucks here in the morning this is what happened last time already to they do they do a lot of loading in the morning and they want to do their unloading later in the day but I guess they must have made an appointment for us to unload in the morning and now it's sort of confused their whole their docks I don't know what's going on I don't know I'm just doing what I'm told and I'm being told to wait so hurry up and wait here we go so it's been three hours what's all I have to say it's now noon I'm supposed to be in Montreal right now I'm still in Ottawa still haven't even started unloading and they're gonna take a few hours to unload me I'm not gonna get out of here until like three o'clock I bet so it stays like this when I don't know what the point of making an appointment is if they're not going to honor the appointments like I understand they're busy here but how is that big of a scheduling error possible twice in a row it is what it is I guess we'll figure it out nothing I can do about it so we'll just keep waiting and then once I once I do get a door this guy right there he's in my door I've got to well gonna get that guy to move and I've got a drive in there and I got a blind side it in there it's a gong show and they're getting frustrated in there I don't know if they're well they're obviously overwhelmed and I just went there to look around and see how many trucks were in front of me yet and you could tell they're getting pretty frustrated so whoever planned out their day here whoever does the planning the load planning really dropped the ball again me could be worse I guess there's somebody out here who will not stop honking you hear that I don't know what they want well I did it it's a nice blind side back I actually did it almost in one swoop I was actually pretty surprised with myself so I had to back in around this corner here into the dock here so we did get into the dock at 12 20 just in time for their lunch break so they're gonna go take their lunch break I mean I don't blame them we get hungry we're human so after they get back probably around one o'clock I'm guessing they're gonna start unloading me it's gonna take at least an hour or two I'm guessing I'll be out of here by 3 and then run over to Montreal I'm not gonna get unloaded today yet I'm gonna have to do my last delivery tomorrow morning and then my reload got pushed back from this afternoon till tomorrow after I unload my reloads in Montreal as well it's in Laval just a different suburb so probably pick that up tomorrow around like 10 I guess in the morning and then we start headed home and then it's 2300 kilometers to home so that's two really long days of driving or two and a half days of normal driving I'll probably do the normal driving option we'll see what happens how fast they want it there it has to be delivered next Monday the fifth so I got lots of time to get back it's just the longer I take to get back the less time I get to spend at home I want to go home so we'll see if I get out of there by 10 let's see 23 hours of just driving plus traffic stops plus a break plus night that's what 24 hours 44 48 hours it'll be over 48 hours so if I leave here at 10 I could probably get home that's because what's today today's Tuesday tomorrow's Wednesday no today's Wednesday tomorrow's Thursday Thursday so it'd be the Friday Saturday I would be home Saturday sometime I'll probably be home Saturday evening it's now quarter to two in the afternoon and it's all that's left so Quebec has to do everything different everything all of their signs even their construction cones everything is different first of all it's all in French but you can see their stoplights up ahead here their sideways and they're also made for colorblind people you see there's two stoplights on either end of it that are square so two red square stoplights and then I believe the the orange light is triangle and then the green light is circle I believe this out is that colorblind people know what light is on right so that's pretty neat and cool for Quebec but they have to do everything different I'm surprised their school buses aren't like bright pink or a different color than yellow or whatever this color is here I'm surprised they use the same color as the English world but that's what makes Quebec unique right I'm not saying it's a bad thing that they do everything different it's actually pretty interesting that they maintain such a unique presence in the country in the country different language different systems of roadways different cultures there was a war at one point and you know they decided to do everything together I'm kind of glad they did because we're stronger together but don't forget to stop by Quebec and bring some kind of translator because they only speak French in a lot of areas some areas still speak English but the first language is French and you'll need to be able to read they said if I can get there before 5 p.m. they'll unload me today the time is now 411 and I'm one kilometer away three minutes according to Google there I was taking more time than it should I did get my second delivery done and it's my fun I'm going to be able to reload until I find a place there's one petrol pass that has like six parking lots back you and your weird ways of doing things they've got to be different they call these freeways auto routes and their on-ramps are even worse than Ontario's make no sense there's no way to actually get up to speed by the time you hit the traffic because of that and bridges that are crumbling we're going through a tunnel though that's fun to be a city of culture a nightlife city you know 30 city I've never spent a lot of time here it's just everything's different right now sort of the same thing as in Atlanta Georgia except Atlanta Georgia is literally a thousand times bigger we can find parking I have the only parking nearby where I'm picking up and like I said only like six parking spots there so cross our fingers and hope can be quarter after six by the time we get there's we'll see we'll see get all the week what do you know diesel we found a spot sometimes these small little truck stops are less full than the big ones everyone usually goes to the big ones right but in Montreal I don't even know where the big ones are and there's I don't think there's any around Laval anywhere there's just this little guy with me spots one two three four five six seven seven rate spots checker Josh got one there we go right on then our pickup is tomorrow morning pretty much just around the corner I know diesel I don't think there's any food anywhere nearby here let's see oh wait what's that the station these sports takeout and delivery what's this looks like there's some restaurant around the corner here so one thing about these little truck stops in Canada anyways they're usually in like industrial zones with nothing around and the store closes at night so there's nothing here I wouldn't want to park here in the really cold parts of winter because if my truck were to stop running and I couldn't get it going again I'd have nowhere to go and keep myself and diesel warm in the summertime and fall like this that's not that much of a risk it's just the only risk is there's no food nearby it's got to be a Timmy's around here somewhere nothing well we got food in the truck or we could always order a pizza got a pizza delivered to the truck have you guys ever done that it's kind of cool sick for special days you had a pizza delivered to the truck well I guess it's time for bed then it's been kind of a it's been a day that went completely un unwell completely not the way it was planned to go there was another driver from a different company that was also delivering to that place in Ottawa this morning and he was also behind now by four hours the funny thing is his next delivery was at the exact same place as my next delivery was and we both called ahead and they they unloaded us there they stayed back for both of us which was really nice I guess they were waiting for the product but now his reload got cancelled mine got pushed back till tomorrow I'm lucky I can still pick mine up in the morning but that reload is taking me home that could have been cancelled that would have ruined my whole trip home and I would have been stuck here for who knows how long all because we made an appointment and someone didn't honor it and when I say they didn't honor it I mean like I got there at 9 a.m. and the docks were full right but then the docks emptied and then they filled up again they emptied and they filled up again at least six trucks were allowed to cut in front of me before they finally let me in for my 9 a.m. appointment at 12 40 p.m. so I don't know what how it was a bit of a frustrating day but we did get all of our work done and not much cruising today guys but I hope you enjoyed it anyways tomorrow should be a little bit of a better day we're gonna pick up our load and then go through scenic northern Ontario and this guy's got a backup beeper at least it's not one of those really loud annoying ones you can hardly even hear it I have very strange pet peeves I know but I have to find something to complain about otherwise no one has anything to complain about in my comment section so if there's no complaining in my comment section I know I didn't complain enough so there you go something to talk about tomorrow will be more interesting guys it'll be more fun we'll see you later don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss tomorrow