 it's a beautiful truck he says it's dirty but i still think it's pretty good well diesel it's a great day to be alive what do you figure well it's kind of gloomy out there man it's uh kind of doesn't seem like a very nice day actually i think it's a great day i think it's a very nice day out there look at that hardly any snow out there wonderful i guess if you put it that way you know how cold it is at home right now i'm just thankful to be a little further south we're here in uh albert lee minnesota right diesel yeah man feel cold today's gonna be a better day than yesterday though yesterday i was just so tired and i couldn't understand why i think my body might have been fighting off a minor cold or maybe a tiny little flu or something because i wasn't actually sick i was i was doing fine but i could feel that i was more tired than i should be so i got a good sleep here tonight i slept here i stayed here longer than i had to but uh we're gonna go deliver this lumber into where are we going in still early i haven't had my coffee yet do clover leaf no coralville clover coralville iowa i'm gonna go bring this lumber to him over there somebody down there needed some good old canadian lumber and we're the ones to bring it to him and then from there we got to go down to litchville illinois and tomorrow morning we load in litchville and that's taking us back up home to manitoba i got to deliver that on sunday apparently they they're open on sundays for delivery that is like one in a million so if they they want to unload me on sunday i'll take it let's do it and we'll go home and uh figure out what we're doing from there well that that's the next couple days anyway so today we'll be going through minnesota uh we're pretty much at iowa already so we'll be going through iowa and illinois come on weasel you're spoiled rotten you know that the old man gotta make sure you take care of his joints here's our lumber came all the way from alberta canada she's over there diesel come on come over here don't be on the pole go in the ditch man come on come on bud give her it was so it takes a while in the morning it was lazy stretching his legs that fresh air is really nice oh that's really nice the best part of the day when you get out of the truck you can just suck in that fresh air another day we're alive another day diesel's just enjoying his treats he gets his treat after he gets his uh supplements every morning so every morning and evening before he eats he gets this he gets pure salmon salmon soft gels helps his skin coat and heart these pills are actually good for humans as well it says right here uh pet parents human grade so they can be you can be healthy together you can also if you want to and then after that once he finishes that he gets these mucosamine it supports connective tissue cartilage health and joint movement with those every day as well and then once he finishes that then he gets his treat and his breakfast he's such a good boy such a good weasel you have seven hours and 13 minutes of remaining drive time it means i've been hanging around here a little too long after i did my pre-trip did my pre-trip and then i moved towards the front here i went inside got a strawberry parfait for breakfast and uh a coffee and of course i started moving so people want to get a hold of me now another day another penny actually another nickel canada doesn't have pennies anymore you know that apparently australia is the same way we don't use pennies anymore us is i think the only country left that still uses pennies it costs more money to produce a penny than a penny is worth so everything is just rounded to the nearest five cents everywhere else but here they still use a lot of pennies i have a whole jar at home filled with american pennies they are kind of useless i mean what are you gonna do with them i'm gonna bring them to the bank one day cash them in cash them in for a whole ten dollar bill maybe i have more than that i probably have more than that already well the snow coming out to one of this we're about halfway down iowa i think towards uh not towards demoyne brawn interstate 280 sort of went past floyd iowa there that's the 280 right yeah 218 sorry not the 280 us 218 is what we're on right now my buddy moses is around the area here too i think he's just west of us in demoyne it's the closest him and i have gotten since our wedding he was one of my groomsmen at our wedding they're from virginia so it's a little difficult to get together on a regular basis but we're hoping for this year the girls since we saw them they got another one on the way a lot of stuff is having a lot to catch up on hopefully hopefully this year we'll have a baby of our own two fingers crossed i still won't know for a few weeks and if we have good news i'm not gonna tell you guys probably for a couple months yet just want to get through that period but i can't help but talk about it we're excited the i ui that the procedure that was done was two days ago now guaranteed definitely not guaranteed but chances get higher we may have to do it a few months in a row but they say within six months there's about an 80 chance of conception hopefully we get it the first time waterloo that's the town i was the word i was looking for before we can come up to waterloo here these highways are just beautiful there's no wind we're just sailing along in good fuel economy today all the customer they're expecting us there four or five hours down to southern illinois like i said yesterday we're we got to pick up our next load just northeast of st louis but still in illinois i'm actually quite surprised at the lack of snow here this is cedar rapids iowa nothing it's actually pretty warm out here must be having a good good and mild january then again i don't know how often cedar rapids get snow maybe this is normal for them here sure isn't like this up north it's still cold up there still waiting for this warmer weather everyone keeps preaching about wow how far we got we got about 38 kilometers so a little bit further south from here yet still got this lumber behind us still dragging this wood around i don't want it anymore dragging around for days can't wait for them to take it off my back they can have it i don't want it curious as to what my load will be tomorrow i have no idea all i know is i don't have to tarp it so that makes me happy and it's going pretty much straight back home so over the christmas holidays i had that ct scan and i had some blood work done remember because i'm having some issues in my back uh around my kidney area on my right side of my body we're trying to figure out what's going on in there i had a ct scan and we got those results in talked to my doctor about it monday afternoon so i should be back sunday hopefully we're gonna unload sunday if not we'll unload monday morning come back home see the doctor hopefully he'll have good news for us say that hey everything's fine i don't know what's going on maybe it's just muscles that are in a knot or maybe it's my back because i sort of threw my back out last summer you guys remember that i could hardly get up out of bed in the mornings for like a month it's really bad i don't know if it's a continuation of that but uh we're trying to figure it out i'm hoping it's not a kidney stone my dad had kidney stones a while ago a long time ago already so that's what they're checking for right now i don't know the feeling it's not that but i just want the the green light from the doctor's already saying that hey all the important stuff is good next week and then i'll be back on the road because the rest of january february and march i'm gonna be focusing on running hard here we are the lumberyard someone down here in the middle they're gonna unload me here all righty how about that how about that diesel diesel diesel are you gonna help me unstrap this time you never helped man i'm calling you out calling you out on the youtube's man you never helped man i don't like gums how am i supposed to help i guess you got a good point there you got something in your eye here let me clean that off before i get a text message from your mother saying why don't you clean his eyes out there you go see all clean that's a good boy a good boy look at that snout we're talking about that yesterday weren't we what a good snout i missed your last trip buddy it's good to have you back it was fun with chevy but there can only be one day's away so that feeling you get when you unload 45 000 pounds feel light as a feather see if we can get out of here got lumber from all over the place huh california mostly from canada apparently that's sort of our thing we like to bring you guys lumber and in return you guys supply us with many other good things i have no idea what i'm picking up still but whatever it is it's american made and we're bringing it to canada i think it's some kind of wood products so i don't know maybe we bring this lumber down here we bring some finished little products back i don't know i think this is the exit i'm making it the exit an open gate so i'm going through it oh there's a train over there off to our left oh that's got everything backed up okay okay so we gotta wait for that she told you before i could both very excited we're stopping for a coffee i don't know why she's excited i don't know she's just excited to be part of the vlog i think that's very precise 340 am i supposed to like count that out or what i'd be terrible at making these gps voices uh turn right ahead uh it's about uh it's a little ways turn right after the tree there mini truck has been tailed on at aliza road crx 46 and then approaching destination on the left side in 130 meters exactly 130 meters should i measure this out and figure out if you're lying to me karen if you're lying to me you're fired there she be pilot travel centers i hope they have that coffee that i'm looking for some of these smaller pilots don't have the the fancy fresh ground coffee machines i guess we'll find out we're gonna do our half hour break here anyway because i only got two hours and 16 minutes left before i need to take a break anyway do you as a government think i need to break your destination on the left side pilot travel center number 496 so we shall take a break let the weasel out are you gonna stay parked right in the middle of the lot there bud because i'd really like to uh yeah thanks i mean that space carrying them back up a little four-wheelers gonna drive right behind me i know he is yep there he goes never drive behind a truck who's parking never never never you need to go inside or what a lunch here too i'm hungry look at this spot beautiful beautiful spot right here so we're about to get rolling here again in my phone rings remember i told you moses is in the region right now he's around here somewhere he's 30 minutes down the road and he's headed this way so i figure let's extend this break past a half hour's wait another half hour and he'll be here and uh i don't know if he needs to take his half hour or not but uh yeah he's gonna come and hang out for a little bit so that's awesome even if it's just like 15 minutes whatever i get to get to see the guy i haven't seen him since this yeah since britain since our wedding so we've really been trying to make plans to go to virginia to uh to hang out with them we want to take our travel trailer and pull it out there it's just a three-day drive from our house and a three-day drive back so that's six days just driving and then we want to stay there for you know a few days and four day four five days it's we won't be able to stay too long because he's a truck driver as well right and uh if he's not sort of booking off holidays and he's got to get back to work so he'd probably be there you know maybe drive three days down stay there three days or so then maybe we'll make a trip out of it maybe we'll go down to florida it depends how much time i can take off right i run my own unit here so i mean it's uh it all depends how the finances look this summer right that's what vacation is all about you gotta make sure you don't get yourself in a in a peckle but we are trying to get down to virginia and we want to take our dogs with us right so we've got to take the travel trailer we've got to take the pickup we'll see what happens it's just a dream right now but we'd like to make it happen uh my friend troi who's also groomsman at my wedding he lives he does the the beyond 1031 vlog channel right link is down below in the description he lives over in washington state and him and his fiance who's also from canada are getting married soon and i don't think they're gonna have like a big wedding but they want to have a wedding party and of course we want to be there for that to support them and go and say hi to them visit with them so we also got to figure out when that party is going to be i don't know if it's going to be in 2020 or in 2021 because i don't think we could do both virginia and washington state in one year but uh we also got to think you know brit might be pregnant or we're trying to get pregnant trying to get her pregnant so we also got to work our travel plans around that because you don't want to be traveling when you're high pregnant and i don't think insurance will even cover you if you travel into the us when you're more than in your third trimester when you're in the third trimester because then if you have a birth in the us well why would canadian insurance cover that right because having babies in canada it's free it's all covered by medicare down here i i hear you guys have to pay for your childbirth you have to pay to have children which blows my mind that they would charge you for that but i guess that's the way it is uh i don't i'm not i'm no expert on it but i know in canada our insurance will cover us but not if she's so what i'm trying to say is we want to do these trips but we have to work it around if and when she gets pregnant i'm just excited right now i get to see moses wait till you see his truck he's got a beautiful w nine part of the inspiration of why i want a w nine and i wanted one before he had it already but then he got his and i'm like i want one too he drives for uh i believe he drives for a company out in the eastern us somewhere but man do they got nice equipment tell you what i'll see if he lets me show it to you or not he's a more of a private guy he's not on youtube or anything so we'll see you might just have to trust me it's a nice nice beautiful canerus w nine hundred look at this beautiful beautiful ride i could hear him coming like half a mile away he had his engine brakes just a rolling i knew that was him my first time i've actually seen his truck sounds even better than i thought it would see he's got a curtain side trailer which would be very handy because then you never need to tarp the only thing is you can't haul oversized loads with this thing but you never have to tarp so he's loaded already he's headed back east he's headed home that looks nice so he's got the i think that's a 72 inch sleeper i want the 86 inch sleeper so the truck would be just like this but the sleeper would be longer beautiful and i'd have to have a headache rack behind my truck too beautiful truck he says it's dirty but i still think it's pretty good so holes that i haven't seen each other since i said the wedding before it was actually we saw each other at our honeymoon down on the gulf good to meet up though we just hung out here talking for a little bit i'm just sort of drooling over his truck he might have to get out of here soon before i drive it off i like this curtain side trailer i was trying to explain this to them a little bit before too we got the liquid life oh yeah so we're gonna be headed down the same road for a little bit here yet and we're headed east and i got a break off at 74 right yeah well we're both going down to 74 and then you go down south and i go east okay cool it was really cool meeting up with them love to meet up i know it's funny our our running areas don't really cross perfect timing to cross paths and then ended up working yeah and we just figured this out a couple hours ago too yeah i'm an eyeball what you're not i'm an eyeball yeah now if we go be running together for a little while like we said there if you could hear us through the wind that wind was a little bad moses is just pulling under the law he'll catch up to me he's not governed he can do the speed limit i can't do the speed limit he'll catch up all right let's go 400 kilometers to go down to lichfield yet four hours so that would be what 240 miles something like that on this road for 39 kilometers made me really want to go and visit them again he's one of my best friends and his wife Colleen and mine Britt and Colleen are really good friends as well man we got to get down there Britt i know you're watching this right now we got to go down and visit them there he comes he caught me already that truck is nice whoo making me jealous look at that thing it's even nicer in real life now i've seen a thousand pictures of that truck as him and i we talk pretty much every day and always sends me pictures of his unit and looks even better in real life it's fun moses if you're watching this i hope we meet up again soon together for about an hour and a half about 75 80 miles or so we were close to each other when we woke up this morning it was just a fluke chance that we got to meet up and that we both had the time to do it too you know usually in trucking everything is rush rush right on this road for 106 kilometers hey just work out well we're getting a natural truck wash tonight it is raining pretty good out there i know Karen right didn't even have to pay for it free gift from the heavens better than snow so we're here in lichfield Illinois i gotta pick up like across the street here tomorrow morning there's supposed to be a truck stop right here and i'm hoping there's gonna be parking it's like a little mom and pop truck stop so right here mr fuel oh i hope there's parking here i looked online at google maps and it didn't look like there's a lot of space there's not a lot of parking here destination on the right side fast stop travel center what was the fast stop travel center is that what it's called uh yeah looks like there's some parking spots hopefully there's one right here along the side there i do believe sweet good parking right in here sweet love no neighbors like this too bonus