 It's a dirty pickup. Dirty, dirty. Morning, everybody. Feel like going to America today? We've got a trailer that's sitting at Gas Tracks in Pembina, North Dakota, just over the border. And we gotta go pick it up and bring it back here. Remember our slogan? No man left behind. We believe in that up here. Someone left a trailer behind in America and we're gonna go and extract it and bring it home. Like I said last time, good thing our neighbors are our friends. I'm sure they're taking good care of it. Wait for a second. Called the pins on south of the border. Coming up to U.S. Customs here. Just gotta go about one mile past the line down into America. So not too far again today, but we can say that we went to America today. That is a factual statement. As soon as we cross past the Canadian Customs right here on our left, we are on U.S. soil. Which means I will talk to you on the other side. We'll talk to you in a bit. It's a rain. Oh yeah, they got a new side here. North Dakota. Walk right across them. Interstate on and off ramps. They just make so much sense. It almost hurts the brain. Look at this, you get off the highway. Nice, long exit ramp to slow down so you don't have to slow down on the highway. It's a nice overpass to go over the highway so you don't have to risk, you know, getting T-boned by someone or anything along those lines. They got border patrol right here making sure as Canadians stay in line. 28. I'm here for you, gas tracks. The first truck stop in the United States when you crossed from Manitoba at Emerson Pemedu. I see one flat bit over there. Oh no, it's a step. I see it. I wonder if they left it tied down. And I hope they did so I don't have to tie it down on this miss. I'll probably just have to tighten the straps because it seems like some people, the last load I picked up here, they didn't tighten the straps. They were all loose. Kind of scary. You always gotta remember, stop and tighten your straps as the load settles. Straps get loose. Yeah, there it is right there. Trailer on 28. Someone tied down anyway. The trailer was left here. And I don't know why the last trailer was left here. I didn't think we did that very often but maybe we have drivers that only stay in the US. So they bring the loads up to the border here then I come and grab them. I don't think we have anyone because in order to work with us you have to have Canadian citizenship and the ability to live and work in Canada. Or at least the ability to, yeah well we had the legal ability to work. So there's probably a reason for it but you know it's a need to know basis I guess. And all I need to know is I have to hook up to this and bring it back to the yard. Take a look at what we're feeling with here. What this is, well it's tight. Feels like plastic. Tight, tight, tight. Just one strap over this. And just one over that. Really? I'm gonna add another one on there for sure. Another one on here. It's a little risky just having one. And there's this back here. Yikes, cardboard's getting all wet now. Okay, well let's get this done and hooked up and get out of here before it starts to rain any harder again. A little wet out here but that's okay. I feel much better about my load. Just because someone else ties down a load for you don't always trust it, okay? I don't trust anybody. Always double check it and make sure it meets your standards. For me at the back here, there's only one strap over this, these two bundles and one strap over that bundle. Now weight-wise it's enough, right? But you want, at least I want to have two straps over here to stop this thing from shifting and to secure it better. So I sat out here in the rain, tightened the straps that needed tightening and added straps where I felt straps were needed. So just because someone else left it tied down, don't just assume it's good because if something falls off and it's hooked up to your truck while you're driving, that's on you. You can't say, well, the other driver tied it down that way. No one's gonna buy that, no one's gonna listen to that. It's gonna be your fault. Tie it down so that you feel comfortable with it. I feel a lot better about this. Yes, it was not fun getting all soaking wet but at least I know that I feel better about what my load securement looks like back there. And it's back to Canada we go. You can see the border from where we were. Literally just like a mile. I think it's almost exactly a mile inside the US. This is North Dakota here. Welcome to North Dakota. If I didn't tell you it was the US, would you know? Our two countries are so similar. Very different in some ways but to anyone who is not from Canada or the US they probably assume we're the same thing. We look the same, we sound the same, we act the same, we eat the same but once you get to know us there are differences, there are definitely differences but they're minuscule compared to other things. We are very close friends. We have the longest unprotected border in the world. Don't get me wrong, they're border checkpoints. You have to check in at the border but there's no military, it's a demilitarized border. Absolutely no military on either border. No buildup anyways. We watch each other, we watch each other, keep an eye on each other but we're not worried about problems on this border. I'll see you on the Canadian side. I can't film here. Oh we're just getting going now. We're on the Canadian side and you can see the Canadian border out the window there but I had to wait here for two hours. Paper work was something wrong with the paperwork. No, it was something that hadn't happened to me before. There was a glitch in the system and my trip number got canceled. Trip number is for our purposes, not for the border's purposes. My par's sticker, my par's number, my entry number for the border purposes, those were good, they were legit and everything went through there. Our trip number for our records had been canceled in their system so they couldn't let me cross. I know I called into the office and I'm like, I don't know why they care about our records but our records apparently were canceled but their records are good but they don't want me to go until our records are good too. Goody, look at how bad we are. I had a really good supper yesterday and they're gonna be so disappointed in me. Probably gained a few pounds again. It's a really good thing that I went and secured the load better. I don't think these guys here in the scale house would like the way the load was tied down before. I wonder if the guy took some straps off before leaving the trailer there. That's what I want to believe. I want to believe that that wasn't, it wasn't pulled down the highway like that. Hope could easily shift if it was tied down but I'm sure he took some straps off and didn't want to leave all the straps there or something. Must have been what happened. More straps than you think you'll need. You look at it and you're like, ah, one strap and hold that down. No, no, no, you better put two. All right, if you're looking at it and you're like, you know what? Three straps will do. Put four, five if you're feeling lucky. Stop before the scale, go on the scale, roll the window down in case they want to yell at me. See them in there looking at my load. Here's pretty high. This used to be a lake at one point. Well, first of all, this was under a glacier. There was a glacier. Everything you see here was under ice, it was under a glacier. That's pretty neat to think of right there. So I mean, things have been warming up for a very long time. It used to be literal ice. North, obviously. I'm facing east right now. That way south, edge of the glacier was melting faster than the north, right? So this all turned to water. Onwards here, all the water drains towards the Hudson's Bay. Glacier up there, blocking all of the waters of the melted glaciers here. That bird just got hit by that door. Did you see that? Rest in peace, little birdie. It flowed north, because the Red River here flows north. Everything drains to the Hudson's Bay around here, right? But there was, like I said, a big wall of ice, a big glacier that was blocking the floodwaters from entering the ocean. So this turned into a big freshwater link. Learned the history of the area you live in. And then, you know, as the climate kept warming and warming, eventually the ice dam up north, that glacier melted away far enough that this water here could all drain into the Hudson's Bay. And that must have been like a cataclysmic world-changing event, because it was like a huge inland ocean, a fresh water, got dumped into the ocean all at once, raising the ocean levels 100 feet, as we know today, became an island and became disconnected from Europe. And these are the things that I believe are there to see it. And all I can say, this is exactly what happened. I'm no scientist, I'm not a geologist, but I do read a lot, and from what I've read, that theory makes the most sense. Where you were a year from, have you ever researched like the history, the area you live in, like what it was like thousands of years ago? Because if I travel back in time, but this exact spot, a few thousand years ago, I would be sitting on top of a glacier. Actually, I'd be sitting under a glacier. I'd be getting crushed. I would be dead. The thoughts that go through the mind of Trucker Josh, while he's staring out the windshield, I tell you, I got lots more, saved some of the others for another time, real one sort of panic, and says everything's heating up. I know it is, and we're probably not helping that, especially driving trucks and stuff and you're making so much CO2. We're probably making things heat up faster than they would have naturally. I'll give you that. But things weren't warming up. I think this land would be kind of useless up here. I mean, who wants to buy a plot of land under a glacier? Nobody wants that. Sort of raised the property values around here, if you ask me, when the ice was melted away. It's not all bad when things get warmer. You don't want it to get too warmer if people start frying alive. You don't want that either. Experts are saying we should be worried. Well, maybe we should have our antennas up and pay attention to what they have to say. This all stemmed from the fact that we're getting rain now when we've been in and throughout all summer, so it's very nice to see the water falling from the sky. It's nice to see water pooled up in the ditches. It's good. Of course, fires too. Diesel, how would you like to come with me to work? You want to go in the truck? Yeah, oh, oh, I think Chevy might want to come sometimes too. I miss having you with me in the truck, buddy. Chevy, what are you doing? What are you doing? I want to come with you to work. I can go trucking. You're going to be scared. It's a lot of noises in there, man. You sure? Tough guy. Diesel, I know every once in a while you would love to come along. I would really like to make this work. I'm thinking of making a little bit of a platform in front of the passenger seat. I think I've told you this before. Just a simple thing. You can just throw in there and you can take out at any time. Nothing permanent. Just something like a platform and then put a blanket or a bed over it so that it turns into a nice little place for him to lay down, right? And then he doesn't have to be crammed on this little seat the whole day. He sort of have like a little bed area there. And then on the days when I know that I'm just taking off to Canora and back or doing some other just highway driving. You know what I mean? Come with me every now and then. I like that be all right. I think that would work, mm-hmm. What are you guys thinking? You guys want to see more of Diesel? I miss the conversation. Talking to myself is just not the same. I like it when I have him there to talk with and when he talks back. It's just not the same when it's just me talking all the time. So what do you say, Diesel? It probably can't be every day. Every now and then? Maybe? Yeah, don't get my hopes up, man. Don't get my hopes up. Are you serious? I paralyzed with happiness. Except for my tail. It's just me or is this thing shaking? This thing was shaking like that just a second ago. Heh! Ghosts. Thanks for watching today, everybody. I hope you guys have a great weekend. I had a great week and I'll see you again on Monday, if not sooner. Take care, everybody.