 an empty trailer. Look at that. So this is one of those deliveries again that I had to be on the ball and sort of stay out of their way and get all my equipment off. And by the time I had gotten all my paperwork ready here in the truck, I look over there to got them both off the trailer. So they used a boom truck to get it off. When they loaded it, they used a big crane, right? Well here they just used a simple boom truck with some slings. And it was more than twice as quick to get it hooked up. Didn't have to set up all the big crane and everything. It was actually very impressive. So sorry I didn't get to show you the whole process of doing that, but it was a busier rush kind of morning and now we're done already. So I got a new load in Evansville, Wisconsin, South of here. I'm gonna go to the quick trip truck stop first, stop there, grab a coffee, do some paperwork, send everything in, and then we'll be on our way. So let's get out of here. We're empty. Gotta keep moving. I guess I don't need my traffic cone costume. How do we get out of here? I think what I've got to do is I've got a backup. There's like a quicker toll around me right now, until things clear up a little bit. Shout out to Cody, who just came and stopped by and shook my hand, been watching me for years apparently. We just happened to be at the same place at the same time. I told him I don't come through here very often. Wisconsin Rapids is sort of off the beaten path too, so I usually have me going through on 94. What are the chances we both bump into each other at the exact same time at the exact same place, right, where I'm not usually at? Made my day, Cody. Thanks for coming to say hi. Like I told him, it's always nice to put a face to the name on the screen, because you guys all know me very well. You know what I look like. I don't know you very well. It's always nice to meet you guys. If you do see me rolling around, don't be shy. Come and say hi. I'm trying to get turned around here. You're watching me every day. I don't get to see you very much. That's okay. That's okay. Not everybody wants to be on YouTube, but it's always a treat when I get to meet you and shake your hand at person. It's a street from what I read on the reviews. Your destination is on the right. No, it's not. It's on the left. Okay, so like I said, I don't need to fuel here. I'm just, I just need a place to park for a bit. Why gather myself, gather my thoughts, all my emotions. I'm just so happy to be trucking. Okay, so we are at quicktrip number 202 in Plover, Wisconsin. Plover. And it looks like any other quicktrip. Quicktrip is, are they based out of Wisconsin? They're primarily from where I've seen them. I don't know anything about this really, but from what I've seen over the last like 13, 12, 13 years of me driving out here, is they're mostly in Wisconsin, but they're amazing. They're my favorite truck stops. When I come out here, always stopping on the quicktrip. I don't know why they're not national yet, but they would really give the big guys like Pilot Flying J and TA Petrol a run for their money. If they could just expand out across the country and into Canada, if they brought quicktrip across the border into Canada, like this is what these guys don't realize, these big CEOs, these big, the big bosses of these big American truck stop chains, right? Pilot Flying J found a way to expand into Canada. So I've explained this before many times. This is why I go there often is because when I, when I, it's about shower credits and about point systems. So when I fuel a Flying J in the US, I can go into Canada, stop at a Flying J in Canada and use my shower credit from that fuel in Canada, or I can fuel in Canada, use that shower credit or my points either way. I can use it on both sides of the border, which is super convenient for us Canadian drivers. So that's the only big American truck stop company that has expanded into Canada. So for Canadian drivers, Flying J is very popular. It changed the landscape of trucking in Canada when they came up. They came up with those big American dollars, right? There's a lot of money backing these American companies. They, they have a lot of a huge customer base. They have 10 times the population down here. They got money and they rolled into Canada just, you know, with spinner rims and Cadillacs and tinted windows and not really, but my point is that they came up there with money and it showed. They opened up beautiful Pilot Flying J locations across the country in Canada and they made them exactly like they are in the US. You got clean showers, nice, big, wide open, paved parking lots with lines for parking, believe it or not, in some parts of Canada. That was a revolutionary thing. For us drivers, we go to the US. We knew that was a thing. We just wanted it to come to our side of the border too. Pilot Flying J brought that up there. And what happened was there was a lot of the, there was Husky at the time in Canada, big truck stop chain across the country, Petro Pass. Yeah, they are great, great places. I still stop there all the time, but they were deteriorating. Like they were going downhill, downhill. They weren't really taking care of their locations. A lot of their locations were gravel parking lots. Pilot Flying J jumps across the border with throwing dollar bills all over the place. Suddenly it forced these Canadian chains to rethink their business strategies and become better. That free market competition really improved trucking in Canada because now we got amazing, brand new Petro Pass Canadian truck stops across the country with clean showers. We have ESO and Husky that merged, sort of like Pilot Flying J. They merged and they've been redoing all of their locations, paving their lots. Like I'm talking from a western Canadian perspective, Eastern Canada has always gotten all the good stuff. That's just how our country works. Eastern Canada gets everything nice. So they had paid parking. They had some nice truck stops. Out west, we were the wild west. Gravel, truck stops and dust. That's what we had. But anyway, my point is that if more of these American chains like Quicktrip, like Petro TA or any other one loves, if they found a way to break into the Canadian market and start building truck stops across Canada, believe me, they're needed. They will have business. Doesn't matter how much you say, oh, it's over saturated. No, it's not. There's like, for every 100 truck parking spots that are created in Canada, there's 200 more trucks that come onto the road. The country's growing exponentially. Trucking is growing exponentially. You build a good quality truck stop chain, like loves, like Quicktrip, like TA, Petropad, anything like that. You buy line, you build those things in Canada. You will make money. You will be busy. I guarantee it. Just make sure that you build them in convenient locations that close to the TransCanada. Obviously, they know this. They're marketing managers and these guys, they know this stuff. But seriously, if any of them happen to be watching my videos, just think about it. Think about it. Maybe bring it up at your next board meeting or something. How did Pilot Flying Jay do it? They found a way to do it. You can do it too. We could use more truck stops, quality truck stops and clean showers and clean facilities, nice big pay parking lots in Canada, specifically Western Canada, the prairies. Let's just throw that out there. Prairies, which is Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta. There's money in it. Think about it. But then again, I am just a driver and I am not actually in charge of these big multi-billion dollar corporations. I don't know how hard it is to open up a franchise in Canada. I really don't know how profitable it is. But from what I see, it has to be. It's got to be profitable. It's worth looking into at least. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Maybe that's why not more have moved up there. Maybe I'm wrong. But I mean Pilot Flying Jay found a way to do it. So it is possible. What they did was they, I think they merged with Shell. Because every Pilot Flying Jay in Canada is a Shell gas station. I don't know. There's people that are much more in tune with that side of business than me. I specialize in transport, tying down loads, securing loads, getting them from point A to point B on time and undamaged. That's what I do. That's my professional job. These guys who are working in these big, big high-end corner offices, they know this a lot better than me. All I'm asking is that you consider it. I'm gonna go inside there yet. Grab a coffee and send in some paperwork will be on our way. Evansville, Wisconsin. I don't have a pickup time. It's a preloaded trailer. I can get there whenever and tie it down and drag it on back. I just got to see, because I think the load is going to Saskatchewan. So I've got to call into the office and talk to the load gods. I'm pretty sure I'm taking it home, but I'm wondering if I'm staying on it. I might take it home, reset, and then continue on for a Monday delivery or something like that. I'm hoping that's what it'll be. Because if I pick up a load, I want to deliver it. Because that's my load. It's mine. I don't like bringing it and making someone else deliver it. It feels weird. And it's a pain for both drivers too, because us drivers, at least for me, I'm an owner. So I own the truck. I don't own the trailer, but I own all the equipment for securement. So when I secure a load, that's my equipment. So when I drop it in the yard for another driver, I take all my equipment off and I keep it with me. And he or she's got to put all their equipment on the trailer, retie it down. Just a big pain for me, big pain for them. I'd rather just deliver it, not have to worry about it, right? Sometimes we do leave our equipment on there for the next driver if it's just a short delivery. I've done that before, right? You take their equipment back to the yard, then give it back to them. That happens, but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes your equipment disappears. And it's expensive. It's very expensive. I also don't like other drivers securing my load for me. You know, I get it. Sometimes drivers will walk over to me when I'm tying down a load somewhere, just to give me a hand. Very often it's just a chit chat and that slows me down. Like if they want to help me when help me tie down my load. Personally, you know, I would rather tie the whole load down myself. I'll ask for help if I need it. I'm not going to turn it down if someone starts, if someone wants to come out. I don't want to be rude, but personally in my head, I would rather them not come over and help secure the load because I need to be able to know exactly how everything is secured, how tight everything is. That's my load, my responsibility going down the road and I want to be the one that secures it. So it's another reason I take my equipment off so that the next driver can secure it their way. If anything happens then that's their securement. But I guess it's a case by case basis too. If I know the guy who wants to come help me, it's one of my friends who wants to come help me tie down the load, I trust him. But if it's just a stranger walking across the parking lot, I know they're just trying to be nice. I don't want to be rude and say, got here. But at the same time, I'm like, I don't know you. Why are you touching my stuff? This break was a little longer than I had intended, but it's okay. Got a coffee, had lunch, cleaned myself up a little bit, did paperwork, sent everything in, figured out where I was going, took a look at it on Street View so I know how to get in there. Now we got about a two-hour drive south, just south of Madison, Wisconsin, Evansville. It's getting closer to the Illinois border, I believe. Illinois, yeah. Which way is out? Well, definitely not that way. Let's go this way. Still got extra parking across the street over here. Though it does look like it's blindside parking on one side. That's unfortunate. Is what it is. At least there's parking. And then we're going to turn on to I-39. I'm still really liking these new headlights. Driving at night last night with these things. Can't even compare them to my old lights. It's just incredible the difference. When I turn my high beams on, first of all, my old lights, only the inside lights were high beams, right? So on these new lights, just the outside ones are my low beams. But for high beams, all four of them turn into high beams. So it's just super, super bright. I'd really like to get on the road here. My turn, my turn, right? My turn, you're turning, you're turning, I'm turning. Let's all turn together. Bridge and down the on-ramp. Of course, go straight on. Oh yeah, that turbo. Yep. Quiet, Karen. I'm listening to my turbo. Well, let's wind her up. Guys, ready? It's open both sides. We can get it from both angles. I-39 south. Especially with a full stomach, full of chicken. Mm-hmm. All dressed up, looking fancy. I got a super easy trailer. Look at this. That's my whole load. I think it's about 20,000 pounds. That's the whole thing. You got one more thing up there. Super simple. So it'll be like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, corner period, eight, nine, eight to nine straps tops. Quick, quick, quick. We'll see what it looks like once I kind of pull that out of here. Dirty, dirty truck. Okay, let's do the walk around here. This little tiny guy in the front here. I got this steel all around here. Got some straps going over that way. Some straps going over this way. Three over the top piece. Cutter all tight. Everything here is this in here holding this all down. Everything is touching something. You know what I mean for load securement? Now this over here, you can see this is flexing a bit, but I put this strap over there to pull this down to put pressure on that, which puts pressure on that, which puts pressure on that, which puts pressure on that. That's all stuck together there. There we go. All the way around. I did the same thing on this side. That is tight. From that, that, that, that. Oh, this is a surprisingly small and light load. I am not complaining. It's getting rain, rain. The perfect spot. It took me a little while. I actually parked, yeah, spot over there at first, and then I moved over here and parked over here. Monticello, Minnesota. These lights are so bright.