 Good morning, everyone. We are well on our way into our day. I started at home and I brought an empty trailer down to Thief River Falls, Minnesota and now we're on our way back. We're still in Minnesota on Highway 59 and across through from Pembina, North Dakota and Emerson, Manitoba just a quick little loop It's about two hours down and about two and a half hours back home because I got to go through a different crossing to go Back home so I'll be loaded What a five-hour round trip plus about a half hour to tie down and another half hour to Drop this trailer in the yard get my straps off of it six-hour Round trip, so it'd be about a 12-hour day for me today because I'm doing two Which doesn't take much nowadays Sun's already looking like it's wanting to get out of here. It doesn't like us very much Friends and brothers and sisters in Australia are hogging the sunlight again You guys have your fun, but we want our son back soon. All right? New Zealand I haven't forgot about you. Everyone always forgets about New Zealand, right? It's always Australia this and Australia that I can identify with that I can relate Hop in this hemisphere It's always America this and America that and everyone forgets about Canada. Hey, we're part of America too, you know Just not that America very similar though just like New Zealand Australia very similar We're all brothers from the same mother Want to leave Friday so that you can get down there for Sunday night and deliver Monday morning, right? And all this traffic coming north on a Friday These are all guys probably trying to get home to their families the majority of cross-border traffic commercial traffic from my own experience like I don't know the official numbers or anything but The overwhelming majority of trucks are Canadian trucks that cross the border back and forth back and forth Very rarely do you see an American truck like with an American license plate? I cross here all the time almost every day in this region here going across back and forth And when you see an American plate crossing into Canada, you're like whoa enough freight to keep them busy south of the border In Canada, we rely heavily on selling goods and buying goods with the United States Karen It's rude rude. I was talking we rely heavily all of Canada on selling stuff to the u.s And buying stuff from the u.s I mean if we didn't have the United States right next door to trade with I mean, I'm sure we would find other countries around the world to buy our stuff and to make stuff for us But man, that would make it so much harder more expensive trade routes would take so much longer to get stuff to Canada Yeah, we do most of our Again, I don't know all the numbers. I'm not an economist or anything. Isn't it something like 80% of Canadian trade is with the u.s It's mostly by truck like this. I mean there's a lot by train too, but That's that's my job. That's what I do. I bring stuff People in the states buy something from Canada I bring it down to them and then someone in Canada buy something from the u.s I pick it up and I bring it back home to them. That's all I do back and forth Two trucks in front of me. So I'll talk to you guys. Let me get to the other side. I got to get all my paperwork in order and Talk to the good people at the window. But beside that is a Proper welcome home. Thank you like this until the week before Christmas These signs say radar detectors are illegal in manitoba. Funny thing is they're not illegal to sell in manitoba But they are illegal to use in manitoba There you got a clean drain dry your water size here on the right says 511 That's traveler info. If you want to know what road conditions and stuff or like call 511 Make sure you don't dial nine instead. You'll get a whole different response Compulsory you must wear your seat belt in manitoba. I think that's pretty much everywhere Here's the number for truck permits if you need permits Which is funny that they put it here because if you're already here You're already on the road then in violation if you need a permit And let them know you're in violation that you need a permit signs are some newer ones That says you must slow down to 60 kilometers an hour when passing Emergency vehicles and tow trucks on the side of the highway. But if you don't oh, yeah, and then you get these blue ones coming up here Every sign you'll notice has an english sign first here like the blue one here Same thing but in french Especially in the southeast in our in our side We're surrounded by french municipalities in steinback to our east. You've got st. Anne to our north You've got taché Shot round us so it's all French municipalities and the municipality of steinback is Hanover So I made it back dropped the other trailer grabbed another step from the lineup of empties And someone was so kind to leave the riser on the trailer For me to put on the riser pile for them That was very nice very nice of them The funny thing is chances are they might be watching this video This is trailer 105 db Who did that? Don't worry. I'm in a hurry, but I've got the time I'll take it off the trailer and I'll bring it all the way over there To the pile there for you Who did this? It is a delay in my day But that's okay. We're not salty, but it's okay. This is just an opportunity to show off my muscles I'm just playing around. I don't really care. I never a couple minutes out of my day I'd just like to bug the guys here because a lot of them do watch my videos The one who didn't they might be watching right now and they're probably chocolate and laughing away so You got me Next time It's my turn I'll just leave my trailer as is in the You can clean it up Look how nice that looks though on the pile Oh, it looks like it's supposed to be there. It just looks so nice right there So now empty trailer. We're gonna bring this down a thief for the falls We're gonna leave it there I'm gonna switch it out for another loaded one and we're gonna get back pretty late The goal is to get back before midnight, but uh, I might be getting home after midnight tonight We'll see See I also have to get my trailer ready for monday because today's a friday when I'm filming this So I need a step deck for monday I need the first thing so I want to get it ready today yet so that I don't have to worry about that monday morning I can sleep just a little bit longer It's getting really late. I just hooked on to my next load and tied it down to 20 minutes Now I'm turning around and Let's trip back. It looks like I'm only gonna get back to our yard at Midnight Or after midnight and then I got to take those straps off and then go home yet Put the truck in the shop Man, I'm not gonna get home I'm gonna get home till after one one o'clock maybe two in the morning Well, we're not getting any closer sitting here. Let's get going. I'll talk to you a little down the road It's kind of dark. I can't show you much, but We're back at thief river falls minnesota. I'm gonna go back up to grand point manitoba drop this trailer off and then go back home See you there Not much to tell you We're just sailing along Sailing down the road. This is halma minnesota Way up in the northwest corner of the state Way up here. You guys even know this place existed? Probably not Probably like 50 people that live here I go through here all the time They're probably about all 15 minutes from the canadian border We're gonna hop over the red river, which is just over to my left over there And then we'll be in the state of north dakota Where they ask you to be legendary That is their state slogan be legendary That's one of the that's one of the few states that actually have demands of you when you come to visit them I've spoken of this before When you visit north dakota, you are asked you are told I should say you're told be legendary And it is a good state. It is a legendary state I mean that the east side is kind of boring flat just like manitoba Southern manitoba because we're neighbors right north dakota manitoba. We're Same region same neighbors But you go to western north dakota. Oh boy, you get the hills there. There are some real sights to see So we're gonna hop over in eastern north dakota Uh Skip on over to the i-29 north and take that right up into canada Brush home Get this trailer unloaded Oh, I'm not unloading. I'm just gonna drop it. I think it unloaded on monday or tomorrow whenever I don't care I don't care. I'm dropping it in our yard. It's like a locked up secured gated yard, right? That's where I'm supposed to bring it bringing it there. They can worry about it whenever they have time to unload it So I'm gonna do it. I don't know once I drop it. It's not my problem Not my problem Drop it will take my straps off because those are mine to pay for those And we'll rush home. I'm gonna tuck away. I'm gonna tuck old blue away into the shop But I'm not gonna take all of my stuff home. I'm just gonna Tuck it in the shop and just run on from there. It's already gonna be like two in the morning We'll do a more thorough clean out of the truck Either on the weekend or next Following weekend. I like to do it every weekend, but you know 2 a.m. Man, what I'm going home. This is gas tracks Or gas track truck stop right at the border Uh with canada. We're in pembeta, north dakota I'm gonna fuel up here fuel price for me here is $3.99 a gallon u.s Which with all conversions everything said and done. I'll be paying about a dollar 40 I think it was about a dollar 40 per liter canadian Uh, so that's good just above uh up the road in canada. My price there is a dollar 55 a liter So 15 cents a liter more. We're probably gonna buy about 500 liters now. We'll see We'll fuel this up We'll be all ready to go next week because monday first thing I've got to be way up in arbor Mount a lot way up, but it'll be up in arbor north of winnipeg Monday morning to get loaded and that's taking me into ontario And then we're going down to minnesota. So we got big plans next week. I don't want to have to worry about getting fuel Let's get fuel now. I don't have to worry about it then, but let's hurry It's already I'm already we're gonna be getting home late. I think I've told you this already Let's hurry So the way it works here Is I uh, I have to take my fuel card inside to the fuel desk Give them my fuel card. Tell them what pump I'm on. They'll activate the fuel the fuel here I fuel up my truck when I'm done. I go inside Get my fuel card pay for the fuel that way. I guess they've had problems with guys running off without paying There's always some people that ruin it for everyone, right, but Big deal. I'll go in there give them my fuel card and then uh, they'll activate the pump. So Let's get her down. Let's get some juice. It's not the cheapest juice, but it's it's cheaper than down the road in canada All right, so fuel report about 130 gallons Which equals 400 I'm gonna get my paper out here 492 liters, so it's pretty close. I thought we'd buy about 500 liters. It's very close. I know my truck $3 99.9 cents per gallon equal 519 87 usd Or all conversions and everything included A dollar 427 per liter canadian equals 605 dollars and 20 cents canadian so The price Just up the road with a dollar 55 for I believe it's going to be subtract $1 427 from that save myself 12.7 cents per liter bought 492.104 liters Save myself 62 dollars canadian By fueling here as opposed to petrol canada or petro pass in morris The flying jay was even more expensive in santa gaff There you go 62 dollars stays in my bank account Let's be honest 62 dollars goes to the grocery store Let's get out of here Thanks america for the cheaper juice Well, I have an empty step deck behind me It's the step deck i'm gonna be using next week So i'm just getting it all ready now getting it all prepped so that it'll be Set to go monday morning And it's too late to go home I call home and I said hey, I'll be home between like 2 and 2 30 Like should I just stay in the truck and come home first thing in the morning And we both agree is probably best because when I go home the dogs get all pumped and excited and Start tippy tapping all over the place and we don't want to wake theo up in the middle of the night And she'll be sleeping and she'll be woken up and then her sleep will be broken feel sleep will be broken The dogs will be going crazy All just so that what I can go to bed and be in bed by 3 a.m. And then back up at 7 30 a.m. When theo gets up like nah I'll just stay in my truck tonight Let them get a good sleep at home. I'll get a decent sleep here first thing bright and early. I'm gonna wake up and head to the head to my shop then and uh Park the truck grab the pickup get all my stuff out of here And we'll go home in tomorrow morning that way. We're not everybody gets a better sleep that way And uh those of you who have kids I've learned this now. We have one uh sleep is golden. It is paramount Sleep is It's amazing And when you get a chance to sleep you don't mess with it You don't mess with it and go home and wake up the whole house in the middle of the night So that everybody's sleep is broken up. That's just a recipe for disaster. That's not a good weekend waiting to happen So I'll be home tomorrow in the next day for the weekend Let's go home in the morning. Everybody's happier that way, right? I'm fine with that That's the plan. Thanks for hanging out with me today. Um Whip back and forth between thief river falls and here at the yard twice Uh took it was a 12 hour day Of driving so Uh but in all about 11 hours of driving because I got to the border. I had about an hour left 10 out 10 hours of driving, right 10 or 11 hours of driving. It was a long day. Let's just say that It was a long day all together. I started my day at 9 30 And I finished it now. I'm going to bed now. It's so 130 Excuse me. I've been off duty for a little while here already. I found a parking spot here and got myself all settled in and got the truck Pulse trip done and then Walked around a little bit got some fresh air stretched my legs And I was about to uh, I'm about to brush my teeth and I figured I'd say good night to you guys Don't forget to brush your teeth Since I'm thinking about it May as well make you think about it too I'll see you from right here in the morning as we head back home So don't forget to hit that subscribe button if you want to follow my journey I've been making vlogs here for a very long time go on to my channel. If you're new click my username Go check out all my playlists. You'll see videos way back like 10 12 years Been doing this a while. So join our crew here and follow along and Let's see where life takes us. Let's do it together I'll see you tomorrow. Stay safe out there. Please drive safe Keep your head up on the road. Keep your eyes on the road. Keep your stick on the ice and We'll see you tomorrow