 Good morning, sir weasel. How you doing? Are you doing there, man? That's a very nice sniffer you have How you doing? Ready to go outside. I'm ready to go inside. It's a beautiful day outside Yeah We're here in out of rest area same rest area. We went to bed at yesterday night It always happens that way We are near Boston, Wisconsin Oh, let's see how far are we from home here? Oh, it's got a calculator here. Oh, come on Come on, Mandy get with the program get with the program, Mandy Anyways, yeah, we're about I'd say 10 11 hours from home Now we can get to the border within our 11 hours and then once we get into Canada We're out there at 13 hours in a day. So I get an extra two hours It's like a little present welcome to Canada. Here's an extra two hours. You can drive. Thank you very much So, oh, then we're gonna go switch trailers Mandy says 1062 kilometers. Yeah, that's about 630 miles or so 640 from somewhere in that And switch trailers I'd like to head home tonight Just to quickly do the little bit of laundry that I do have from this week and to pick up some clothes Because I remember I forgot all my shirts at home. Yeah, so I got to go pick those up So we're probably gonna swing by the house at least I don't know if I'll make it there for the night tonight because I want to get going early in the morning And if I go home, I know I'm gonna sleep too long Maybe I'll go home parking my driveway and sleep in the truck I don't I always sleep better in the truck and I wake up in a better mood when I'm in the truck So hard for me to get up when I'm at home You guys see that rattling again. Well, what's rattling now? What no one Rattling in here stop rattling Tell you what I'll put the truck at a higher idle. Oh, then something else starts rattling. Ha ha Anyways, hey guys, we're gonna hit the road. Well first we're gonna walk the weasel. Let's walk Walking away Yeah, I didn't lie to you. It's a beautiful day outside just Gorgeous It's be gorgeous outside be gorgeous. It's a mixture of beautiful and gorgeous The gorgeous, what do you think diesel? What do you think that is that is a weird spot man? I was gonna take you to the pole right there, but I don't know whatever Beach is on that's where you want to go So yeah, this is the rest area that they have here in Wisconsin. Oh, there's another dog over there I came here because there's another dog over there. Now. There's another dog there I found always going to his truck anyway. I Found there's a lot of drivers out here who have dogs with them So it's not a very uncommon thing actually I used to think I was like one of the very rare ones that had a dog with me But I've there's lots of dogs. How many of you have a dog with you in the truck? How many of you drive a truck like me and have a dog with you? Or maybe you're RVers and you Drive around your RV or your car. How many of you take your dogs everywhere you go? That's a good question. So I'm just making a quick stop flying J here I wanted to wash my windshield here in Black River Falls, Wisconsin and Grab a coffee, but I remember last year how the DEF was always freezing Wonder if this is their solution to it? They wrapped insulation specifically made for it around the DEF side of the palm Remember last winter the DEF would freeze because diesel fuel Down in the states here the diesel fuel freezes or gels up at negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit And it gets way colder than that here. So you have to put anti-gela, but the DEF What would that be at? I don't freeze is at about minus 10 Celsius. Oh My so what about? Oh Before zero over 15 Fahrenheit Diesel exhaust fluid or add blue for you Europeans Freezes here. So the pumps would always freeze and then you'd have to go inside and buy the Jugs and those costs like three times as much. So it was just ridiculous last winter because every pump was always frozen So I guess that's their solution to it this year wonder if they're gonna do that in Canada, too. I hope so Honestly, I have my doubts that that's actually gonna stop the DEF pump from freezing. I Don't know. What do you think do you think that's gonna keep out? Minus 50 degree weather in the wintertime in the coldest part of winter. You know, I think that little Little bubble wrap around it. We'll call it poem wrap, but it's a little insulation wrap Personally, I don't think that it's gonna make that big a difference It may make a little bit of a difference, but in the coldest part of winter, especially in Canadian winter I don't I think it's still gonna freeze anyways, but I guess we'll find out at least you're doing something about it this year Jays So yeah, you have no idea how frustrating it was because last year I was still driving the company truck right through the coldest part of winter and that truck used DEF or ad-blood and always it's so frustrating because every time you want to go fuel it up the pump itself was frozen because In the tank on the truck it has a little heater on it So it won't freeze on the truck But if you don't have a heater on the pump like none of the pumps down here in the States or in Canada did it gets down to minus 10 Celsius 15 Fahrenheit and Pumps are frozen. You can't use the DEF pumps. So frustrating last winter and very very expensive Pardon me. I am spitting all over the place Very very expensive For those owner operators who had to pay that I don't have DEF on this truck And I want to keep this truck as long as I possibly can because DEF DPF all those things in the new trucks are just a pain and I don't believe that they help anybody Personal opinion That's why I would prefer to drive an older truck for as long as possible as long as possible Because this truck just runs off diesel fuel, you know like they used to you know, you just put fuel in the tanks and go You know Those of you don't drive trucks probably don't even realize that the new trucks. Oh, there's such a pain They got so many computer systems diesel exhaust systems ad-blue or DEF All these different things that are honestly no-fence, California your fault You know it, I don't mean any events But the state of California imposes laws that the whole entire continent has to abide by which is frustrating Anyways, you'll notice that most trucks these days have a little sticker on the sides that has a picture of the state of California and Something about idle it meets the idle regulations of California even though we don't run in California California some of you ask why don't you ever run in California trucker Josh because it's California It is the least trucker friendly place on earth that I know of but I would love to go visit California Don't get me wrong. I love California, and I plan on going to visit but not in my truck It'll be a vacation All right guys, so we got our coffee here talked about the DEF pumps and how they're wrapping them up this year That is good news. I really hope that works Like I said, I got my doubts, but hope that works at least they're doing something. It will help someone So this is a familiar flying J to you guys because I'm always here There's always the perfect place to stop after leaving home Pretty much exactly 10 hours or 10 and a half hours from home, right? Fancy truck right there that one right in front of us. You guys see that POW MIA you are not forgotten That stands for prisoners of war and missing in action. You see their flags flying around a lot It's a black flag with white writing on it from Minnesota Stopped here because I'm gonna be in Canada for at least the next two weeks, right? Because we're going through Canada through Ontario through Quebec through New Brunswick Through Nova Scotia up into Newfoundland So I won't get a chance to have these cheap prices at Walmart in the States for a while. Everything's so much cheaper down here, right? But enough food for me and diesel to last a little while I can't hold two weeks worth of food in my truck yet. I need to get a fridge in my truck like Jade and John have I really like that or at least a freezer I'm gonna have to ask them how they do that or how it works for them if they just plug it into their Inverter or have to do a direct line to the battery. I have no idea I'll look into it, but for now anyways This is where we're at. So we're gonna load our haul up into the truck here We're about six hours from home now yet Five and a half six hours, and I'd like to go sleep in my own bed at my house tonight if possible All depends if they left the paperwork for my next load in my mail slot at work or not If they did then I'll just hook on to that trailer Well, then I might still have to sleep at the yard If I have the trailer, we'll see. We'll see what happens. Let's just get back on the road for now It's like entering a prison facility We've got some new security things here at work, and I like this it's like my James Bond moment. One second I gotta put this down See it won't open now, right? I won't let me in watch this My name is Jock