 Good morning everybody. An empty trailer behind me, and that's no good. I got this lumber off it, I got my tarps rolled up, they helped me in here, I was in and out super quick again. It's always a good time coming here, good guys. Now let's go to Thief River Falls, let's put some other stuff on this. I don't wanna keep this thing empty for too long, so let's go put some stuff on it. It's gonna be a good day. It's gonna be a very good day. So let me check where I'm stopping. I think I'm gonna stop in Pillager on the way west to get a coffee. I wanna make sure that my route is gonna take me past there. I'm pretty sure it is, pretty sure, pretty sure. Yep, right past the good people in Pillager, Minnesota. We're gonna stop at the Casey's there. There's a nice big truck stop that I stopped at quite often. You guys have seen it before. Run in there and grab some coffee. I should actually check, I'm gonna quickly check my route to see where the cheapest fuel is today. I'm gonna wanna fuel wherever it's cheapest. So I open up my Wex app, and I punch in my route for today, and it'll show me all the fuel stops that I can fuel that along my route today and all the fuel prices for me on my fuel cart. We have different prices than what's posted because it's a big, it's a big account. So there are discounts that go along with that. Let's see, let's see. Search along a route. Let's say from here where I am in Brainerd, Minnesota to Pembina, North Dakota, because that's where I'm going to be crossing. Just gotta load up the stations. In the meantime, today the loading went really quickly and smooth, and nothing to report really. I got up, I slept right here. I got up, we unloaded, and here we are. That's all I had to tell you. Okay, let's see. Let's see, who's got the cheapest juice? Who's the winner? Forks, I'm not going through Grand Forks though. One second, I punched this in wrong. Truck off here, I forgot to mention to my app that I'm going through Thief River Falls. So the cheapest juice would be in Thief River. Oh, no way. In Thief River Falls, eh? 399.9 a gallon, US. Okay. It's interesting to see where the prices are, because I never used to pay this close attention, right? But now that I have this app, it'll tell me detailed spots where I can fuel and how much the price is for me today. So, ah, it's really saved me a lot of money. I tell you what, like at the end of the month, I've been saving thousands of dollars, like almost every month. Just think of it, if I fuel in the States as opposed to Canada, I fuel what? Maybe every second day, every day is about 600 liters. Fueling in Canada, I'll save anywhere from one to $200 a fuel up, and I fuel up, oh, three, four times a week? So it adds up, and at the end of the month, like it really helps out a lot, especially with the price of groceries and everything when you go home and, okay, well, that is the plan then. Okay, okay, yippity-doo-da-day. We got a plan. I love having a plan. I hate not having a plan. Not having a plan's no fun. You need to know what's happening. Beautiful day out, and it's supposed to be a really nice weekend too. It's supposed to be pretty warm. I'll take it. Washington Street. That tree still has leaves on it. Wow. What have I done? I feel like my eyes were a lot more hungry than my stomach will be. Well, that's a lie. I'm gonna eat it all. I'm just acting like I don't eat that much. Come on. This is gonna be delicious. Whoa, it almost fell off. Oh, you stay right there. This is dangerous. Almost had to eat floor pizza. No, not today. All right. Okay, guys are gonna wait to live load me, apparently in Thief River. Today I'm gonna get there around two o'clock. Usually I just switch trailers, but they're gonna live load me, which is different. I'm okay with that. It's totally fine. So I gave them my ETA, which means I've gotta stick to that ETA now. Usually if there's a loaded trailer there already waiting for me, I can get in at any time. I can sort of go at my own pace and get there when I get there, switch trailers and get going when I get going. But now there's people relying on me to be there at a certain time. I've given myself plenty of time to get there. I'll probably get there about a half hour early, but that's just in case if I run into any problems or anything along the way, then I'll still be on time. It's better to be a half hour early than five minutes late. All right, so let's get out there. All right. Let's get out there, make sure that we are early. I don't wanna be just on time. So if you're just on time, you're late. I wanna be at least five minutes early everywhere you go. I'd say 15 minutes early would be good. That'll give you time to park, go inside, let them know you're there. So that you can start working at your appointment time, right? So if they expect you there at two o'clock, they expect to be loading me at two o'clock, which means before two o'clock, I've gotta let them know I'm there. They gotta get their machinery out there and get already, find my load, get it all organized so that at two o'clock, they can be putting the first piece on my trailer, right? That's how I see it. Life's not always perfect though. We don't live in a perfect world. So that doesn't always work out like that, but that's what we strive for. That's what we try to do. Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes you're late. Just try not to make that a pattern. Way too nice. I don't wanna be behind this dump truck, but I don't wanna cut them off either. Oh, he's turning. He's turning. Yay, we're going for it. Sending it. Thank God for turn signals. They are so useful. I love when people use their turn signals properly. It just makes my day. It makes life so much better. It's 29 cents per liter cheaper to fuel here. I fueled up for 473.176 liters. We're at 6.8, 34.54 liters per 100. Since the last time we fueled up and then we did this whole run from Canora back down to Brainerd up here to Thief. I like it, but we're gonna change the scenery up a little bit. Here, dropped it in the yard. I know Dave, for me, brought it to the yard, put it down, or tomorrow, probably tomorrow, I guess, Saturday. I'm getting ready to go home for the weekend. This truck's gotta get new front shoes on it tomorrow. I'm very excited. We're getting new steer tires. It's a big day. In the meantime, my load, oh, it's right there. My load is here in the yard and I gotta come here on Sunday the day after tomorrow. Grab it, hook onto it and start heading down or heading out to Saskatchewan. I guess west to Saskatchewan with it. It's right over here. I got no trailer on me now. Bob down. My load going to Saskatchewan. So I gotta come tie this down. It looks like it has, I wonder if I can use these. It's got wheels, so I'm gonna have to loop the wheels. I wonder how I'm gonna do that. I guess around, sorry, pointing it to where it's supposed to be. Maybe I should get my other camera where you can see better in the dark. Let's go to the other side. The lights are on the other side. See if you got better lighting there. Ah, yeah, much better. Here you go. Here you go, and you can see what I'm talking about. See, I've gotta probably loop these tires through here, I'm thinking. Don't wanna go through that there. Through that there. There, there, there, there. So that's stuck there. I'm gonna wanna belly wrap this tongue here. Give it a nice hug so that it holds it down and holds it from going back and forth. And then, is this connected? I'd like to think that I can just tie it down using these, but I don't know. I think that'd be better than going over the top. It looks like it's made for that though, right? You'd think that's where you put the straps through. Huh, huh, we're gonna have to do some figuring out. I think if I loop the tires, eat on each tire, you know what I mean? Like, winch it on both sides. So what I do is I go from one winch here, around the back of the tire, back around this side, to a winch here, and then winch them both down. So that it sucks that tire down, can't move anywhere. So I'll do that to this tire, I guess through here. I'll have to, yeah. Through there and through there on that tire. And then tongue wrap, belly wrap, this tongue here. So one, two, three. I don't know if I need to go over the top then. Can I get at the axle under here? Now the axle's all, no, it's enclosed. I see, I see. Oh no, no, no, no, it's still there. Hey, I think that's what I'm gonna do. I mean, it looks, why else would these be here, right? It's just, I don't know if I trust that because that shakes all around, but it is connected on the hinge there. It's welded on, I mean, right? You don't wanna put our strap all the way over the top, that'll damage the top. You wanna keep it on the wheels and the rubber, and on the tongue and the front. You know what I'm gonna do? You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna declare this a Sunday problem. What's today? Today's Friday. It's not Sunday at all. Let Sunday worry about Sunday's problems. It's Friday, let's go home. Home all blue.