 is that exciting? Wednesday so we're waking up the same place we went to bed last night how about that saskatoon flying jay we gotta hurry though because if we if everything goes okay and according to plan here we're gonna get unloaded today yet and we're not gonna have to wait until tomorrow then we can get turned around reloaded and excuse me Karen no swearing on this channel Karen you behave we're just gonna get ourselves turned around in the lot here real quick it's kind of rush hour here in the morning everybody wants to get going at the same time gotta replace this electrical tape on here i gotta replace this thing actually this thing the piece of plastic and it's cracked and it rattles on the highway i'm gonna do a quick little loop around the flying jay i can turn around here it will be off to the races these parking lots fill up so fast rightfully see this guy is not even in a parking spot he's right in the driveway but sometimes you're out of hours and you just don't have a choice cut him some slack this is a kerfuffle here now isn't it no one's gonna go i'm gonna go right one of us gotta go use my cb for the first time no response it doesn't help that this is the only drive way into the parking lot it's an entry and an exit even though it just has entry on the sign there the exit used to be on the other side but for some reason they closed it off and now everything's sort of tied up here atches in alberta about five and a half hours of driving good solid highway driving 556 kilometers and we got the freight off the trailer all 60 000 pounds of it some of it's over there some of it's over there some of it's over there i have a reload now i'm picking up a load in calgary tomorrow morning it's going to bring me back to winnipeg so tomorrow morning is thursday i get loaded first thing in the morning i'll be home friday afternoon sometime or i'll be back in winnipeg i'll probably have to deliver the load on friday it only takes a little over a day to get home from calgary or get to winnipeg from calgary can't quite make it and it's about a 14 hour drive and you can only do 13 in a single day on our hours of service here in canada so it feels good we got this job done i'm gonna go do some paperwork uh i keep everything in record so that i remember what i did uh so that i when i get my paste up that uh i remember that i get paid for what i did i keep track of everything truck is running really good and uh i really like it it's been it's been nice so this is acheson alberta just west of edmonton drove up five and a half hours from saskatoon to get here and now i'm gonna drive what what is it three hours down to calgary something like that i'll probably stop you guessed it the flying j calgary i have a shower catch up on my videos watch some youtube some netflix or something and uh settle in for the night maybe i'll go look for supper i'll take myself out on a date we'll see we'll see if i deserve it or not at the end of the day i made it all the way here from headingley manitoba so from winnipeg to here on three-quarter tank of fuel so that's doing pretty good considering i had 60 000 pounds behind me that i was pulling at 95 000 pounds gross approximately just under uh my maximum weight is 46 500 kilograms i'm gonna find out an exact weight here for uh you guys who speak in pounds 46 500 kg to pounds so my my max gross gvwr is uh 102 thousand 514.9 pounds so two 102 thousand 515 pounds is what i'm licensed to haul so 95 thousand pounds i'm still well under for up here in canada that's a regular tri axle load i know that the weight limits in the us limit you to 80 000 pounds on a tandem and you don't see many tri axle loads in the us but on most freeways throughout the us if you have a tri axle trailer that you can have up to 40 000 pounds on that tri axle uh you just don't see it as often though and every state is different there's there's so many different states and they don't have different laws and bridge laws and bridge weight laws and uh but for the states i operate in if i take this trailer into the us they would allow me 40 000 on the tri axle as opposed to 34 000 on just the tandem two axle okay so it gives you an extra 6 000 pounds for an axle so up here with the tandem axle on my trailer i'm allowed 37 500 pounds on the tandem and uh let's see once again 24 000 kilograms you gotta learn how to speak both languages 52 910 pounds on a tri axle here so uh we can haul pretty good weight and my next load that i'm picking up in calgary according to my message here my computer is 54 000 pounds so 6 000 pounds less than this load i pulled here but it'll be another heavy one i would definitely be overweight in the united states and overweight on a tandem trailer but with the tritum i should be uh i should be well under i think it's going to be some pipes or some kind of freight like that judging by the address that i'm going to looks like they make pipes i don't know we'll find out tomorrow i never quite know what's going on the trailer i just show up and find out i got everything i need to tie anything down you just tell me what to pick up i'll go get it and i realize that a lot of you don't drive trucks so you might not know what i'm talking about when i use the truck or lingo uh tritum and tri axle are the same thing tandem and dual axle are the same thing so if there's two axles on a trailer that's a tandem there's two axles on the back of my truck that's a tandem if it's three axles you can call it a tri axle because there's there's there's three or you can call it a tritum same thing your destination on the right side find j fuel stop okay so all the way from winnipeg to here was about about 1460 kilometers or so about let's say just under 1500 kilometers that is uh 900 and some miles let's do the math here real quick i know that it's just easier if i do it like this 1500 kilometers in miles 932 miles pulling 60 000 pounds let's see how much fuel i burnt now remember we filled up yesterday morning so this is one day's worth of driving the price of diesel here is a $1.739 per liter which is probably about the cheapest you're going to find in canada okay so this load that we picked up yesterday morning in winnipeg and dropped off today the next day in edmonton area uh we burned 663 liters of fuel and it cost us $1,153 i'm working on it i'm working on it so that would be 175 us gallons and it costs 898 us dollars to pull 60 000 pounds uh 1500 kilometers of 930 miles we average 46.17 liters per 100 kilometers or 5.1 miles per us gallon so not the greatest fuel economy but it was a very heavy load so it makes sense so now you know how much it costs to operate these things how does that make you feel now you understand why everything's so expensive at the store that was just one day and we're going to do it all over again because we had a lot of fun doing it so uh with the cost of fuel everything goes up our rates do go up to match uh fluctuating fuel prices when they come down they go down when they go up they go up covers the cost of fuel uh but yeah if you ever go to the grocery store go wandering around any other store or if you're uh you know building a house and you're wondering wow it never used to cost this much to buy a house well now you know part of the reason why $1,153 one day what is it this month it's august there's 31 days in this month i'm not going to burn that much fuel every day and admittedly this was about a day and a half because i fueled up yesterday morning and i delivered this midday today what you do whatever i filled up yesterday and then today usually uh last month i believe i burnt approximately between 12 and 13 thousand dollars of fuel 12 thousand dollars cad to usd so 12 000 uh dollars canadian 9 300 so i burnt between 9 000 and 10 000 us dollars of fuel last month between 12 000 and 13 000 dollars canadian and i didn't i didn't have a full full month either i had a bunch of appointments i had to be home for it let's go do some more trucking i also got to remember though that fuel isn't my only cost i also have to maintain this truck every six weeks i have to give it a full service it cost me six hundred dollars tires on this truck are almost ten thousand dollars all the way around at this point might be a little less than that but at this point i wouldn't be surprised about ten thousand dollars all the way around somewhere in there uh each steer tire alone is almost a thousand dollars nine hundred dollars just for one tire and the back depends on what kind of tires you get and stuff but uh and then fixing the truck if you got to bring this to a shop it's a minimum of 130 an hour could be higher than that a weekend broken down turns into a ten thousand dollar weekend like that so not only is there the cost of fuel that we got to cover we also got to cover the maintenance on these trucks because if we can't maintain them they're not going to last and nobody's going to get there free we got to keep them running and of course on top of that all of this expense that i talk about i have to feed myself and i have to feed my family i'm gonna pay my mortgage and we're hoping to build a house we'll see we'll see but uh i at least have to put food on the table right and pay the bills pay the electricity pay the phone bills so uh you know sometimes it might look like oh big money coming in big money and remember there's big money going out too it's uh it's a fine profit margin but uh you don't uh you don't get into trucking to get rich let's say you get into it because you love it i love trucking time i come to Calvary it's changed i guess growing so fast there's new skyscrapers downtown again i showered at that flying jay where we fueled in nisku alberta just south of uh edmonton so i don't have to shower here now but i haven't been to this truck stop in so long i used to come here all the time and then they built the the big flying jay right in the southeast corner and i'd always go there there's the flag see if i remember i think this is where we go in this is the truck entrance it's been so long wow i'm glad it's still here it's weird to see it as eso now because they bought out husky all right let's go find a good parking spot like a really good one we shouldn't have a problem at this time it's what 742 right now is this a parking spot right there by the scale or is that a driveway i feel like that's a parking spot oh is there an opening here here's our parking spot right in here facing the opposite direction from these guys so that i don't have their uh refrigeration units right beside my sleeper that'll be good right there right it's it for today everybody thanks for hanging out with me and tuning in clicking the video i appreciate that don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already we're gonna start from right here tomorrow go pick up our load and head back east should be fun feels like it's really early still it's gonna take a little bit of time i might have some time to watch some some Netflix we'll see we'll see i'll talk to you tomorrow hey everybody one more thing i wanted to add on to this vlog before i finished it look at my window i have a privacy curtain i didn't know that it was in this bag up here the previous owner told me i can remember i'm telling me about it but i didn't know what he was talking i was so excited to get the truck i was like oh yeah yeah cool cool cool i'll figure it out later cool cool yeah came in this little bag here it's uh i'll put this up here and it's three pieces you see i don't know if i put this on backwards or not i'm just assuming that the writing that says do not use privacy curtain while vehicle is in motion is supposed to face inside so that you know the people sitting inside the truck no oh oh i should i shouldn't drive the truck with these on wouldn't help much if the writing was facing out so i figured that was the inside though it works both ways though look at this has a little bar in here it hooks into here and then it hooks onto there and this hooks on here i guess yeah it's like that and then it velcros these two velcro together here and this is one piece here and it hooks up into these things up here and the same thing on this side look at this privacy well how about that that's another nice surprise the surprises just keep coming this truck just keeps giving wow i like it i just wanted to add that into the end of my into my vlog here look at this that's pretty cool i like it