 Dressed in my Tuesday best. It's a Tuesday when I'm filming this Ready for some work Well, wonderful community of Kenora, Ontario, Canada, which is close to the Manitoba border Close to the center of Canada south down by the US border Picking up a load here. I got a tarpon and take it down to Brainerd, Minnesota Which is about six hours south of here into the United States They only unload there until 4 30 I have to get there by 4 30 to get unloaded Which means I have to leave here by about 10 o'clock to get there by 4 If I get here like I got here at 7 a.m. This morning And if I get loaded right away and get into the tarp shed right away get my load tarped I Can get get out of here by 10, but it looks like we might be Unloading tomorrow morning. I've gotten everything I need all ready to go I've gotten all my paperwork set ready to go ready to send in as soon as I get my load paperwork my BOL My bill of ladings Send those in get that clear at the border. So they have a tarp shed here and I have to tarp in there I'm not allowed to climb up on top of my load here for safety reasons Which is they supply a nice tarp shed here. That's nice, but there's only two bays So only two guys can tarp at a time No, the way it's supposed to work is you go into the tarp shed You use their crane to get the tarps over your load and you tack it down on all four corners and then you move out of the tarp shed and Finish bungeeing it down outside so that the next person can get in and use that crane because that's the whole point Of that tarp shed is just to get your tarps over your load because you're not supposed to climb on top of your load So you're supposed to just you know throw your tarps over move out of the tarp shed go bungee it outside So many guys they don't do that and they put every single bungee on they complete their whole tarp job Inside the tarp shed and then the lineup builds up behind them And uh, you know it could take out. I've waited six hours here before Because guys in front of me were taking three hours in the tarp shed Usually if you do it correctly for me, it takes me about 20 minutes They're 20 to 30 minutes tops but 20 minutes just to throw the tarps over and you're out, but The world doesn't work that way. It doesn't always work so smoothly. Not everybody's on board with Moving along quickly so Once I have the The load tarp usually from what I'm sitting where I am now they move me into the staging area now So usually from this point if there's no one in my way in the tarp shed I can get out of here in about two hours less than two hours. That's that's everything done rolling away The time is now 843 So even if everything went perfect right now I'd be leaving here to about 10 30 10 45 Which I don't think I'm going to make it before 4 30 down in Brainerd then Which is fine. I can just unload it in the morning then but I like to get unloaded the same day because then I can start moving towards my reload and be at my reload First thing in the morning instead of being at my unload first thing in the morning, you know what I mean? Either way, we'll make it work We'll make it work You always try and shoot for the best plan, right? You make a plan, but this is trucking. You have to remember This is trucking Plan for the plan not to work out Some of you have been asking about my bunk heater s bar situation my diesel bunk heater underneath my sleeper It's an airtronic d2. I believe It might be a d4. I'm pretty sure it's a d2 I got to double check that because I'm looking for a rebuild kit. I'm going to buy It looks like they're about like 30 35 bucks on amazon But it includes a new fuel filter a new burner screen and new gaskets for on there I think my fuel filter on there's a tiny little fuel filter on the fuel pump underneath my truck That takes diesel fuel from my tank and puts it through to the burner I think it's just a little bit plugged up. I think I just need to even maybe I can just take it out and clean it You know, maybe I should try that first before spending money Yeah, I looked at buying a new heater. They're about $1200 for a new heater I'm talking in canadian dollars here. Sorry for my american friends Just take a few hundred dollars off and you got your price $1200 canadian is probably what like $900 american Something off something like that. I don't know not exactly but Instead of spending all that money on a new heater I'm going to try to keep this one running because it still heats well. It's just I don't think it's getting fuel properly I ran it through several cycles of just straight kerosene some diesel injector cleaner some diesel cleaner Which helped a lot. I can get it running now, but it's still not running at 100% So that's just my little update for those of you who've been asking Still working on it. It's it's working, but it's just it's it's not working as great as it should So I still got to my next step will be to clean out that filter see if that'll work And if that doesn't work, then I'm gonna take the whole thing apart and buy one of those rebuild kits and spend a day or an afternoon whatever Oh, let's let's not let's not kid ourselves. It'll take me a full day Take a date fixing that thing up because then I can get it fixed for like Under 50 bucks instead of buying a new $1200 heater And if that still doesn't work, then I got to buy a new heater I Said a new record for myself It's 10 15 and I'm out of here So that's from 8 37 from when I got to the staging area 9 37 What is that? It's less than two hours. That's for sure 8 37 to 10 15. I'm rolling. I think I might make it Just getting out of their yard here right now. I am gonna have to Laser focus myself and hopefully hit no delays I don't have to stop for fuel I think I might make it and get loaded today yet What is that an hour and 23 plus 15 33 38 An hour and 38 minutes. Am I right with that math? I'm just Getting that off the top of my head hour and 38 minutes A new record Next time we try to beat hour and a half even The thing is you still got to do a proper job tarping too, right? I mean, I don't know if I could save any more time than I did Start right now. I'm still gonna be waiting here and I got zero minutes available to wait So right now it's looking like I'm not gonna make it now I got about 15 minutes to play with that's all I got If I can't get cleared in the next 15 minutes right till the morning And that means all of this rushing this morning was for nothing I'm in port frances now and by some miracle from above My customs just got cleared now That is The fastest I've ever seen it done that must have been a fluke They hadn't even started it when I was an emo and that was just 10 minutes behind me in 10 minutes They they opened the file and got it cleared and customs certified Still looks like I should be able to get unloaded today as long as there's no other delays And as long as they're okay with unloading me at about 415 and see what they say they say no That's too late. Well We'll sleep at the gate again and make sure our batteries don't die this time Slide right on trans Canada highway highway 11 The office let them know. Hey, I'm gonna have an empty trailer tonight. What do you want me to do? Let's go I want to go somewhere. I want to do something They got me headed over to minneapolis Pick up there tomorrow morning one at 7 a.m. One at 9 a.m Go to the same place. I believe in red lake ontario north of canora where we came from today Maybe a full day drive from minneapolis tomorrow all day tomorrow We'll deliver that first thing in the morning the next day run back down to canora grab another one of these loads Or delivery the following morning Maybe I'll get a reload on the way home yet after that That'll be a nice full week and every week like this. This is it looks great on paper We'll see what it looks like when uh, I don't pay day rolls around looks like it should be good Mine is 409. Oh, yeah 409 p.m. That is some pretty good time Just under six hours to get here That was probably the quickest pick up and drop I've ever done on this route So how long did I say I took before to get loaded? Not counting when I got to the gate. I got to the gate at 7 but when they started on me It was just about let's say 840 right just before 840 So eight and around to 840 I was out of there 10 15 940 so an hour and 35 minutes I was rolling down there. I got here just under six hours So that's seven hours 35 minutes and then 45 minutes no less than that 40 minutes. I was unloaded here So seven and a half eight ten Like just over eight eight and a quarter hours from the time I started getting loaded The time I was delivered and empty That's not bad. All right. Now we got to go to minneapolis Pick up a load there tomorrow morning. Like I was telling you before there's two pickups on this load So first one's at 7 a.m. Second one's at 9 a.m. I think I'm gonna go and park as close to the customer there as I can looks like they have parking on the street Uh, double check that we're gonna stop at st. Cloud minnesota for fuel fuel. There is the cheapest on my route today And I'll double check everything once I get there. I still don't know why st. Cloud minnesota has so much cheaper fuel then everywhere else around It's always the cheapest by a long shot 40 50 cents cheaper sometimes Must be the local taxes or something. I don't know But here we are Grabbing some cheap juice destination on the left side into 100 meters Actually, it's right here. Karen. What are you talking about? Look at that. No lineups. Wow