 Good morning everybody. We're in Iowa at a come and go truck stop. We've got a load of tires Did you watch yesterday's vlog? We picked these up in yesterday's video. We ended the vlog right there Actually, well, I guess it was over here. We were looking up at the sign and we started today's vlog in the exact same place Thanks for joining me. Don't forget to make sure you're subscribed and Hit the like button after the video if you do like it and leave me a comment down below Old blues looking nice over there needs a bit of a bath, but we'll take care of that down the road So we don't want to spend too much time here I want to get down the road and find a truck stop with a truck wash and get old blue bath bathed bathed 30-minute parking for come-and-go customers only How much you want to bet people park here all night? Hey, there's a lack of parking spaces if there's an open parking space and I need to stop for night We're just gonna say it's a it's a long 30 minutes Parking spot there for night. Even if I could the parking lot is so congested That the likelihood of getting your truck hit by someone else trying to park beside you is quite a bit higher Then if I were to stop at like Olson's truck stop in Monticello or down the road at Alexandria flying gate It's got insurance, but your time waiting for repairs and waiting for parts is not insured I just don't want to deal with all that So I try to park in the safest spots that I can get Because getting any spot is lucky some nights, but in this region. I Usually don't have trouble getting a parking spot. It's pretty good out here But it's also not as congested as like an East Coast or West Coast I'm gonna just line up behind the ball truck waiting in line You park out in front of the wash here and you go inside to their shop counter And you pay first and once you pay then they'll bring you in It looks like they got a whole crew of guys. I think three or four guys over there in there They do acid washes They got citrus brightener on their inch brushes It doesn't look like it's as sophisticated as the North Star wash in Grand Forks Just by me looking in here right now and as much as Blue beacon either excuse me there. Sorry My phone is just alerting me some of my favorite youtubers just went live My podcasts. I like to listen to podcasts as I go down the road And I have a YouTube premium account so I can just turn the podcast on turn my phone off And just the audio will play through my truck as I drive I like that a lot better than playing music for some reason. I rarely listen to music I'm always listening to talking podcasts or any talking Keeps me awake better than music If it's not podcasts or somebody talking like a radio show or something. It's just silence I like driving in silence. Sometimes I go an entire day just silence Especially in summertime when I can have the windows down. I can hear the hum of the tires wind in my hair I like to just Enjoy enjoy the day. Sometimes I have no music. That's just me though I'm looking forward to get old blue washed here And then we're gonna go find a parking spot Somewhere around here. We should be out of this wash in good time And it's only seven o'clock right now So there should be lots of parking available for me when we're done here and early start tomorrow I don't think we're gonna quite make it to the Canadian border tomorrow. We're gonna make it close I'm 1100 kilometers from here Which is what like 700 miles or something? 1100 divided by 1.61 683 miles I don't think I'm gonna make it because I usually run at 62 miles an hour I could do a little more if I want to but 62 seems to be the sweet spot for my truck my transmission and my diffs That's where I get the best fuel economy and my engines just my trucks happiest My truck overall is as happy as that 62 if I need to pass somebody I can lay into it a little bit and get around them But so that's 62 miles an hour 10 hours if I didn't stop at all. I'd make it 620 miles So I mean like if there was no stops and no small towns We would probably just make it to the Canadian border, but there's so many small towns I'm gonna have to go through especially in North Dakota I'll probably make it close, but maybe we'll make it to my not And we'll stay at the Shats crossroads. That's what's called a Shats truck stop I might be or we'll stay tomorrow night We could go to the Flying J and see if they've cleaned their showers by now, but I'm not holding my breath for that I don't think I'm going back there. I'll go stay in Shats So that's the plan for now tomorrow. Let's see if we can make it to Shats Just looking on Google here See how far away that is from here. That would be 951 kilometers Yeah, very close to 600 miles. That'll be a full day. I think that's what we're gonna do We're gonna make it to Shats in my not tomorrow And then from there sketch one It'll be another 50 kilometers another two and a half three hours from there the next day That's pretty good wake up early tomorrow We'll get to my not and then we'll wake up early the next day three hours We're at our delivery will unload and we'll still have most of the day to go and get a reload or whatever The plan is gonna be then Yeah, that's my trip plan. I Like it. I don't know if I'm gonna stick to it or not, but that's the plan for now But always plan for plans to change We'll see what happens Tune in tomorrow. Don't forget make sure you're subscribed pause the video right now go below the video Make sure you're subscribed. It's free. Hit that subscribe button You follow me along as on all my journeys follow me along tomorrow in the next day as well See where we end up Some people have been following me for almost 12 years already, so they've seen me grow and evolve I used to have hair or some hair. Anyway You know, I used to be just me and diesel out on the road And then I met my wife and then we got engaged and then we got married and all of that is on YouTube And then we became parents to follow along join our story That is actually awesome that whole machine moves over your truck to rinse it. I've never seen that in a truck wash before Well, so far my whole experience here has been really great. They've all been really friendly and I guess I'll be stopping by here more often when I'm in the area You guys want a truck wash? Come check it out for me my truck wash was $85 us And that includes an undercarriage wash and rain ex so it's about the same price as blue beacon around the same price They're all about the same so it's $55 for the tractor wash $12 for the Rain ex and another 12 for the undercarriage wash Like look at this big machine. That's what I was telling you about before Look at this thing the whole thing. It doesn't touch your truck But it looks like it could if it wanted to Scott those Brushes on it spinners. I don't want it to touch my truck. Don't touch my truck Touchless, I think the whole thing moves right over your truck Wow, and they washed it by hand before this this was just rinsing it Hashtag impressed that's awesome Great job All right, let's go see what the parking situation is like See how good of a spot we can get It does not to be close to the building. It just has to be a good safe spot No one's gonna back into me if it's close to the building. That's a bonus See one of these spots off to the left would be nice I Like how they're angled the correct way so you don't have to blindside it in Got a bobtail taking up a whole spot there. All right. All right. See how it is Oh, we might have a spot all the way back here. Those are not spots, are they? There's a rv parked right here. He was here last night already He's been here at least two nights now. Looks like he's been there a long time taking up a spot Last night there's some spots right here to my left and keep those in mind I might come back for those yet I like this area off to the left right here. If you got all of this in front of you one spot there I want to park all the way at the end there. It's a little bit far from the building There's hoping there would be a spot right back here on the left Looks like they're all taken up already though. There's one right here Ouch, ouch, ouch. Josh pay attention to what you're doing. It's a good circle of the lot I'm going to go back around and Actually make a decision. I like to see what all my options are first Very picky about where I park. I don't know if you've noticed this over my past videos. I'm very picky I don't park just anywhere You see me parked somewhere in the truck stop That spot was hand-picked And the best one I could find at the time Oh, what about this off to the right here? Oh, is there someone in there? Well, that's a pretty good spot actually That is a pretty good spot. I'm gonna take it I'm gonna take it. It's an even better one. Okay. I'm gonna take it. Well, that's the kind of spot I like to get It does not get any more perfect than this. Look at the building is right there I got a straight path right out the guy beside me if he leaves and the guy beside me over there If he leaves and someone else backs in beside me They got a straight shot in right beside me When they leave they can go straight out there lots of room for them to get around me here. There is uh Very very very very minimal chance that I am going to get hit parked here. This is a perfect spot We got a w9 brother right here beside me. Nice Pulling a tanker Nice And we got a cascadia brother here Pulling a dry van nice No outdated apu with an exhaust pointed straight at my truck nice It's gonna be a good night. It's gonna be a good night here. I feel good about this and the truck is washed I'm having a good day go back here. Make sure we're all good Try to get as close to this barrier as I dared How's that for professional? That's awesome and I have this barrier to protect me from people backing in against me You know what? I'm just gonna go ahead and claim it This is my spot from now on Albert Lee Petrol You parked here You owe me rent Like monopoly mine