 Good morning My weasel friend Good morning to you my other friends. Oh, it's right out here. Whoa What year is it guys looking at me? I'm gonna stare back at him He looked away Don't stare at me, especially in the morning. What? Good for you guys. You keep watching So we're here in Atchison, Alberta, which is just west of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada And I'm about to go into West Edmonton and pick up a load of lumber that is going down to Schiller Park, Illinois Which I believe is the part of Chicago If I'm not mistaken, and I don't know if I'm going straight through going straight there Excuse me or if I'm taking it there next week because it says in my computer that they only want it there on Monday like next week And it's Tuesday today. I could be there Thursday. Oh I was too early to think I got to wake up and go wash my face and clean myself up I literally I just sat down here put my jacket on Haven't even walked the weasel yet. That's how important you guys are to me Let's go walk him go inside grab a coffee put a hat on Do a pretrip and let's go pick up our wood. I'll talk to you more a little later Welcome don't forget to subscribe to my channel I make videos every day while I'm on the road traveling across all of Canada and the United States It'd be great to have you as part of the group And off we go Someone in Chicago is counting on us to bring them their Canadian wood I just got to figure out when they want it there. I'd like to go straight there Britt and I have another or Britt technically Britt has another fertility appointment on Monday It's like I said, it's Tuesday today. So I want to be there for Monday But if they want this freight in Illinois on Monday Well, that's gonna cause some problems cuz I can't be in in Chicago and at home at the same time. I Definitely don't live in Chicago. I don't know if I would even if I had the choice Chicago you scary I like where I live though for the most part I wouldn't run I wouldn't really live anywhere else Where I live I'm happy and content. I'm not a city guy I'm gonna tell you that every you know every couple of days. I like to remind you no cities for me unless I absolutely had to All right, so we don't have to go very far. So I only got myself a small coffee this morning Because before we know what we're gonna be right at our shipper Hopefully there's not a big lineup of guys wanting to get loaded We're here They had quite a wait actually we've been here probably at least an hour hour and a half There was a lineup in front of us. Oh, well, it's our turn now. Gotta follow this little forklift guide at the back Where he's gonna load me up with 48 feet of lumber what that's gonna look like I Don't need to tarp it. So that's the best part. I'm gonna be delivering it into Chicago on Monday And they're getting a load back home, so I'm gonna have to miss Brits fertility appointment But I do have my own fertility appointment on Saturday. I'm gonna be able to make it to that. So I'll be back home on Tuesday But for now we're going home. We'll be home tomorrow Whenever we get there a little over a day's drive from here probably tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening And then we'll be home till Saturday evening Because I'll have to be in around the Chicago area Sunday night I don't want to sleep in Chicago, but it'll be close by Sunday night Now where do you want me bud? Right there right there It's good to me bud So I've got my old tire up here. This is the one. I'm bringing back getting my money back for this. This is Garbage tire looks round. I believe me. It's not round once you put it on the truck and start rolling down the road So that's the old one I'm gonna tie it down once I know where I have room for it after he loads me up here He said he doesn't need this space here. So so I'm a big fan of BF Goodrich steer tires So I get the BF Goodrich 11 hour 22 and a half highway control I can't even get you in there There you go Can you see it? I got you like shrubbed in there and It runs so smooth So while we're talking tires These drives that put on the back a little while ago, we're doing very well The recaps I'm really happy with them the rear axle wears down faster than the front axle But that's why we rotate them when the time comes but These are gonna do great in winter and so far, you know, they're doing all right. I was never a fan of recaps I'm still not a fan of them, but I'm testing them out for you guys. All right, and because I Couldn't afford the brand-new tires When they came out and these were a lot cheaper But I'm willing to give them a shot. All right. I have an open mind of mine give me one shot And so far they've been doing really good for me. So We'll see what happens. I'd like them to last two years yet Well, I guess technically I could have afforded to buy fresh rubber. We call it virgin tires but I had just dropped, you know, $20,000 into our roof in our in our house and Another couple of thousand just got put into it for all these repairs. I just done it's been an expensive year But we've gotten a lot done. We've made progress. We haven't stood still. We've taken steps forward, which is important We didn't get knocked back. We've been moving forward So I decided to save some money That's what I should have said I wanted to save some money and try out the recaps They've come a long way in their technology They don't just fly apart. I think a lot of people think that they just fly apart all the time I know a lot of guys that run retreads You can't have retreads on your steers. Your steers always have to be virgin rubber But on the on the drives and the trailer you can have recaps if you want Which means they take an old tire and they put new tread on it So you could also call it a retread retread recap And they're a lot cheaper Now they may not last as long they may wear down faster But I'm trying this experiment right save myself some money and hey, maybe if these tires are good Well, then I just found a way how to save a lot of money down the road because you got to change your tires every couple of years, right? Maybe I'll do it again. If it turns out that it worked really well. I don't know I don't know what to expect. There's a lot of people who think that they're they're really bad that they're a terrible idea There's a lot of people who swear by them that use only retreads on their drives As long as you don't buy the Chinese tires, okay? You buy the Chinese tires. You're just asking for trouble Don't even bother. Don't even go down that road. Don't buy anything from China No, if that's China, you know, you don't watch my videos. Anyways, you're not allowed to watch my videos Are you leave me a comment if you're in China right now and let me know what VPN you're using I know you're not allowed to use the internet out there off topic off topic rabbit drop But yeah, watch my videos and see how these tires go I'll keep updating you on them over the couple over the next couple of years Move through to do I bought my retreads from West End tire in Winnipeg and apparently they have a really good reputation for making really good tires But I don't know. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. It doesn't work out well Well, then I'll just never do it again, you know, but I've got to find out for myself. I think it'll be fine though I think it'll be fine from what I've heard from all the stories. I've heard I won't have a problem How long have you guys had this fingerprint on your face? Guys need to clean yourselves off You're still there. There you go Now you can see Load it up and off we go We're all tied down. I hope my weights are good I'm definitely not overweight to be in Canada, but I might have to adjust it at our yard to be legal for the US Sometimes it's tough to get it just right when they don't have a scale at the shipper I sort of just got to go off the Off the gauges off the air pressure gauges, right? Oh, there's no warning that there is a bump there. Okay What was there? I'll run it over the scale and if something needs to be adjusted Well, then we can do that at our yard. There's another bump Construction zone. Okay, so we got to the east side of Edmonton here officially officially begin the day a little late, but That's okay at least we're feeling good trucks running feeling good I'm gonna put it in gear Not just roll forward and neutral go a lot faster when I put it in gear It's over here on this side of the parking lot now didn't come here regularly. I wouldn't even notice it here I just go out the end. This is the one way you're not supposed to enter here As you can see it would cause a bit of a kerfluffle. There's only one line. Can you guess where we are? This is where we usually stop I was lately. This is a scratch Little flying J Because I could fuel up tonight I don't have to do it in the morning. I like stopping at this little place here I don't know Small not a lot of people stop here. Why can't these guys park straight though? Look seriously Who's teaching people how to drive in Canada? I Don't know why drivers up here just cannot park straight for the life of them I'm not saying all drivers, but y'all know who I'm talking about You go to a truck stop in Canada. You'll see Trucks taking up three spots part crooked part completely sideways Pumps that are so narrow Careful when you come through here. Tank just starting on the second one Get it. She's gonna take quite a bit. She's pretty thirsty today so Got my tire Tarps up here. So the way we distributed this weight was we put four of these stacks of two by four by 16s It's a 16 foot 2 by force for on the front And we got three after that Now on the very back we got two and the weights are pretty well evenly distributed. I have about 32,000 pounds on those axles right there Look at the front over there. I got about 33,000 pounds on the Full of fuel 604 liters We bought today cost us Seven hundred and sixty seven dollars how much fuel did you put in your vehicle today? We almost hit eight hundred bucks That should last us till the day after tomorrow What a great day this was man. We're off your phone man. You're off your phone These we can barely see you. We're here in the light a little bit. Come over here Now over here. Can you see me? Can you see me here? You're lighting good. Can you get some new lights in here, man? Great day great Don't tell the good people anything. Yeah, really? Yeah, he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's watching guys and gals and dogs So, yeah, this vlog comes to an end. I'm sorry did I smack your nose? That was an accident All right. Well, I guess we got to take you out one more time yet. Hey, I'll go outside One more time then I'm gonna go back there. I'm gonna sleep Well, I showed you guys this yet What's like check this out before we go outside on second check it out I guess got myself. I've been meaning to show you guys this This just goes in there It goes further back with the shirts are in the way right now And then while I'm sleeping or sitting here. I Can watch TV before bed and also when I have the table set up here You'll see it a bit. I can have my most and stuff on the table here and use this screen hook it up to my computer and Edit my vlogs on the big screen Surprise yay I'm excited. So thanks for watching. Oh, you guys are all dirty again dirty dirty Thanks for watching everybody tomorrow is gonna be another day tomorrow We get home in the evening and then I'm home for Well, tomorrow's Wednesday. I'm home for Thursday Friday and most of Saturday and then Saturday evening We head towards Chicago. We arrived there Sunday night deliver first thing Monday morning get a reload and come back home And that's as far into the future as I know Don't forget to subscribe means a lot to me if you do I know a lot of you who watch this video Just watch it, but you don't subscribe. So if you want to do me a big favor Please go ahead that subscribe button And if you really feel like it hit the bell beside the subscribe button as well That'll give you a notification when I upload a new video. So Thanks for hanging out. We'll see you tomorrow