 G'day G'day from Burlington Iowa. Picking up some tires here today that are going back to Saskatchewan or Saskatchewan as it's better known. Got to deliver those into Langbank on Monday. It is Friday today when I'm filming this. Let's get these tires put on my trailer, get them tied down and get on the road because I'm stopping by at home on the way. So we'll be home tomorrow. In 300 meters turn left onto North Roosevelt Avenue. Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. What? Before we get started here today's shout out goes to our friends at Bullsnaught. All of the cleaning products you need to keep your truck shining. Go down below to my description where you can find a link to their website. BrownOx.com for the US and Bullsnaught Canada. We're up here in Canada. Go check them out if you like a clean rig. Let's get on with the video. So I'm ready to rock and roll. It's all tied down as tight as I possibly can. You can hit a blue beacon on the way home. Let's go. Home is at the end of this trip or on the way technically the end of this trip. Home is tomorrow on the way and then I go home. Then I am about a week off going to Louisville for a day and I'm flying back after my son's birthday and then we have a doctor's appointment and then I'm back at work. All of that's going to take up the next week so I'm excited. Let's get going. Jersey Street and then turn right in 40 meters. Can I still turn left? Yes, everyone else is doing it so I'm going to do it too. Follow the crowd. US 34. That's what I was looking for. Can't believe I missed my turn. It was right there. I was staring straight at it. Like no, no, that's no idea. I'm looking for the on ramp. That's a side street. I drive past it. No, that's not a side street. That's the on ramp. Celsius outside. And what is 17 Celsius in Fahrenheit? 15 degrees Celsius is 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit. What? 1,373 kilometers is equivalent to 853.143 miles which will turn north. That'll take us up to Minneapolis in Minnesota. That would onto I-94 westbound from Minnesota. We'll turn north up there and that'll take us up to Canada to get today. You know, feel like it's still close to the border. I don't know if we'll actually make it but we'll get pretty close to the border. It would it would be awesome if I could make it just across the border into Canada. Check my luck quite a bit. Absolute perfect day. Anywhere. Not even in Minneapolis. I have to sort of say goodbye to fuel economy for a while. I could very very go anyway because I can't get home in the middle of the night. Almost one. He's turning one on March 22nd by the time you watch this you may already be one year old. I'll say our one year old. He gets woken up and if he gets woken up in the middle of the night guess who's staying up to put him back to bed that would be me. And when I get home in the middle of the night I'd like to just go to bed and now I just rather not wake up the whole house in the middle of the night. I'll go sleep somewhere and I'll go home in the morning. He's usually up at 7 30 a.m. every day anyway so it's shining here but unfortunately back at home they're having an ice rain storm right now. The weather isn't as nice as it is here. I hope that weather doesn't slow me down too much. Make this Iowa weather home. I strapped as much of it down as I could along with the tires. I'm taking as much as I can home. I don't know if it's going to be enough to make a difference though. We made it to the I-29. As I was approaching this interchange I was like oh look there's the 29. No no no no this is the I-35. We still got a long way to go. We're getting close to the southern border of Minnesota so we'll be in Minnesota soon. Then we got to go around Minneapolis yet then down to 94. Then we'll be at the 29. A long way to go. Got myself excited there for a second. Oh making pretty good time. Look at this route to 29. No Josh. No. Don't be silly. We are making good time but not that to get ourselves onto the 35. This road for 186 kilometers. In about two hours. That'll be six seven eight o'clock so rush hours should be over by then. Pull out buzz right through. Straight through the city. Nation on the left side in 100 meters. We're in St. Cloud Minnesota. My Wex app that's connected to my fuel card isn't working right now. It isn't telling me it's not telling me the prices of fuel around here. So I'm just going to St. Cloud because I know they're usually around the cheapest but I don't know. Yesterday quick trip was cheaper. I don't know what happened to this app. Maybe it's down for maintenance or something. The app itself opens up but it's not telling me any fuel prices anywhere. You have arrived at your destination on the left side. Plan the travel center. See if it works in the morning and if not I'll have to make some phone calls or send off some emails or something. I need to know where the fuel prices are the cheapest. I need to know how am I supposed to save a penny if I don't know where I can save a penny. Bus weekly after all expenses without owning equipment. There's going to be a big catch on that one. There's going to be a big catch on that one. You can take ten thousand dollars home every month as a company driver. Making a hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year. Take home after all expenses. There's some places out there you got to be careful of. Some places they'll tell you anything to get you in the door and sitting in one of their seats. I'm glad that we're not like that. We are honest. We'll tell you like it is. Won't sugar coat things. You know it's tough being out here. Like bringing home ten thousand dollars a month as a company driver. I mean if that's true. What kind of stuff are you hauling solid gold? Oh yeah I'm going to go out there and fuel my tanks up. I have no idea what the price is for me here. I know what the posted price is. That's not my price. I get a special plate because I get discounts. Because we have a fleet card. We share whatever. You know how it works. Our company. All the trucks. All of our guys. We all run off the same fuel cards. Not the same card. We have our own cards but it's the same company. And the more fuel we buy at certain places the cheaper we get. The more discounts we get right. That's how we get discounts. And I have this app that's called Wex Card Control and it's supposed to tell me what all the fuel prices are. My price. Not the posted price. My price. And it's not working today. This is a crisis. I don't know what I'm paying for fuel here. So I can see my transactions here in the app. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to fuel it up and look at my transaction and find out my price that way. But by that point the fuel is already in my tanks. And the opportunity for me to choose was stolen from me. You know. What if it was cheaper a quick trip again today? Because yesterday it was 11 cents more per gallon here at Pilot in St. Cloud than a quick trip in Clearwater. 11 cents cheaper over there. And usually it's the other way around right. Usually this place is way cheaper. So when in doubt. I mean I'll just go with what's safe. St. Cloud usually has cheap fuel. I don't even know if I'll need this. I broke out the old hat earlier today in Iowa. It was warm. Let's see. Oh it's definitely chillier here now. For real this time. Here and I was going to tell them. For real this time. Merging on to I-29 North. Have to pull in somewhere for the night. Very soon. Running out of hours. I got 43 minutes left and loves our behind us now to the south of this intersection. I'm going to go up to uh with the stay mark on the north end of town here. You can find me a spot calling a night road for 247 kilometers. I wouldn't be able to make it to the border tonight. We got here into North Dakota. We did pretty good. Find a spot here. I don't have too much time to play with. Oh yeah it looks like there's plenty of parking. Looks like it. Looks can be deceiving. Let's get in here and find out. Spots here. Oh yeah. Fantastic. Find ourselves a. Oh these are all reserved. Since when do you have reserved spots? That's why they're all open. How about that one over there? This one reserved over here too? One more of these truck stops. I think it's not reserved. Okay good. Oh wait. Yes it is reserved. These are all paid parking now? Are you kidding me? That's why half the truck stop is empty. Come on stay mark. That's disappointing. Let's go and do another loop. See what else we can find back here. Like I understand you're trying to make extra money. You're taking advantage of it but I'm adamant I'm not paying to park. I've been working a long day. I can't afford to pay every night. I can't believe this whole truck stop. Look it's half empty. That's just infuriating. Infuriating? You can tell I'm tired. Infuriating. And they got all these drop trailers in the free spots. Oh come on end of my day don't do this to me. Look it's all this empty space off on the right. Who's in the store. This place used to always be packed. Now nobody parks here. Half their lot's empty which means they have half the customers coming into their store. See a spot right here. I just got to turn around and come back. A few spots here that are open. Good. A couple spots here yet too. Okay we'll be okay. I just got to go turn around and get a face the other way. We found a spot in the back there. It was all right. Now it was just crumpy. It was the end of the day. I was just really paid for. I don't want to pay but seriously it is a little bit overkill. But I realized why they started doing this. I'm like wow. They sort of like paint the lines just like Pilot Flying J. They sort of look like they had that little reserve sign painted on the ground in front of the spots over there. Wow. Went inside. It is a Pilot Flying J now. Stay Mart was bought out by what is that called? One call. One nine fuels. Is that what it's called? It's all owned by the same people. So those same people that own Pilot Flying J now own Stay Marts here. And they put in paid parking. Josh if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all. I do have nice things to say. I like Pilot Flying J. It's my favorite place to stop. It really is. I like it that it's on both sides of the border. I like their point system their showers. You guys know me though. I mean maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm okay with that. I don't like paid parking. I know in Europe it's a big thing. I don't want that to become a big thing here. I can't afford to pay to park everything. That's a lot of money. Every single night. Every single night. That's groceries and bills are already so high. Everything keeps going up, up, up, up, up. And now it's sort of, to me it sort of seems like insult to injury. We're already hurting. And then they'll be like you know what you were able to park here for free before. Well not for free. They expect you to go inside and support them inside then right. That's what I always did. If I park somewhere I always go inside. I spend money inside to support them. As a thank you for letting me park here. I appreciate that. But now it's like oh when we're changing that we know you're suffering. We're going to slap you with an extra charge. And that's their right to do. I understand. That's their right to do that. I get it. Maybe if I was in their position maybe I would do the same thing. I would hope I wouldn't. Being a trucker now I don't think I would. I really don't think I would because I've been one of the most outspoken people against paid parking. I understand when there's like 10 spots reserved it's nice that when you're coming in late especially guys who deliver like reefer loads and stuff they come in late to a truck stop. They want to make sure they get a spot. And I think that is perfectly fair to allow there to be a certain amount of paid parking like reserved parking so that you can show up at three in the morning and be guaranteed a spot if you pay right. So there's that part of it. That makes sense to me. So it's not that. Maybe it's not that bad. Maybe I maybe it's not that big of a deal. What do you guys think you know that's a conversation that we can have together. What do you guys think of this reserve paid parking. I've sort of shown you the the positives of it when you come in at 3am if you paid for a spot you'll have a spot. But also if you can't afford to pay for a spot or if you know things are tight and the whole parking lot is paid spots like like dozens and dozens of paid spots. How do you feel about that. You see my thing is that I have to stop. I would have gone home last night. I had lots of energy. I could have kept going but federal regulations say that I had to stop. So I have to stop. I only had what half an hour left by the time I got in here and everything. I had to stop not by choice because I had to. So shouldn't the people that are making us stop be responsible for providing us with a place to stop. If they're in charge and they make all the rules and they have the fines that if you if you break those fines you can get in trouble. Big trouble. Big fines. Those people want us to stop. Okay. Shouldn't they make sure that there is a good safe place for us to stop. Deep conversations right at the end of the vlog. I know. I know. Light up my comment section guys. Go down there and let me know what you think of this whole issue. I'm excited to hear all sides of this. See you tomorrow everybody. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to subscribe. Go down below to the description. 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