 We're headed to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Same city as Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Different sides of the international border. We're gonna cross the border tonight. I'm hoping to find a parking spot at the shower tonight yet, and then my first delivery out of six starts in Sault Ste. Marie tomorrow morning. We're to it. So without further ado, I already got my coffee made here and ready. Oh yeah, that's strong coffee right there. Let's get out there. It's gonna be a good day. It's gonna be a good, good day. Here, get that recording. This thing does record 24-7 if I want to. Record 24-7, or the whole time I'm driving or like working during the day at night, I can set it to motion detection so that it's not like filming my hood in a parking lot all night. If anything moves in front of my truck or around my truck, it automatically starts recording and saves it right away. So if anybody were to clip my hood or come and damage my truck or try to break into my truck, whatever happens, they're on camera right away and this thing automatically records them. But then I don't have a whole bunch of footage of just my hood, unless if there's something moving. Okay, that's running. That is protecting me from bad lawsuits when people hit me and try to sue me and be like, no, I got you on camera, I'm suing you. This is America. We have to have extra insurance when we're in the United States because Americans, bless their hearts, love to sue people. Everybody sues everybody in the US. It's not as bad like that in Canada. It is still a thing you got to have liability like insurance, but in the US, we always have to have extra liability insurance because if someone hits you, they're going to try to sue you. And that's why you need to have abundant evidence that it was their fault that they hit you so that when they try to sue you, you show the judge your dash camera footage or the police, however far it goes down the line, and you'll be like, they're lying. No, they hit me. You know, that's on both sides of the border. It's just suing people as a bigger thing down here in the US. It's a thing you got to watch over. You got to always got to protect yourself in every way you can. Every way you can because, you know, I love our neighbors. I always say that Americans are the most friendly, generous people on the planet. It's the most charitable nation in the world. A lot of charity goes out to the entire world from this country, and people here are very kind. But not all of them. There's a few of them you got to watch out for. They'll try and get you. I reset my odometer and my fuel economy so I can... All right, let's go. Lights on. Just gonna double check that no one messed around on my trailer. It's attached. Perfect. I want to take that with me. Bricks engaged. It's a little slippery here. Now it doesn't want to go forward. Come on. Then I get myself stuck. No. Church, Josh is not stuck. You can't stop me. There we go. There we go. See? They liked me so much they wanted me to stay. Sorry I got stuff to do. Swan River, Minnesota. It was nice. Thank you for your kind hospitality tonight. I enjoyed my sleep. I slept very well. Now I'm gonna get myself back out here on to your nice little highway. I believe this is highway number two. Yep, US2. We're gonna go that way. The temperature is beautiful outside. It's about zero degrees or 32 Fahrenheit. Well that fresh air isn't as nice when you're going faster down the highway. It gets cold quick. We're on US2 East for four kilometers. The difference is just huge. These cities here just exploded in population in like the late 1800s. The other side of the lake in Canada. I didn't know how they used to make houses like three or four stories tall. I wish they still did that. Homes here. Nicely renovated, maintained. Looks like a little Christmas village or something. It'd be a nice city to live in. Minnesota but it's kind of nice to get into a different state again. Wisconsin and into that upper part of Michigan that's sort of detached from the rest of Michigan. Right? It looks like it should be a part of Wisconsin. If you look at the map, I know it's part of Michigan. There's old blue. We're at the rest area just inside of Michigan from Wisconsin. State number three of today. I'll show you right where we are here. So this is Michigan State. This is what I mean by like that upper part that looks like it should be a part of Wisconsin because it's attached to Wisconsin and it's not literally not attached to the rest of Michigan. It's only attached by Bridge but that's Michigan. Then up here is Canada and that's Sioux St. Marie right there. South side of Sioux St. Marie, Michigan. North side is Sioux St. Marie, Ontario. And we are right there. Just got into the state so we got all the way across here through what town is that? Marquette? Past there anyway. The town nearby here is Ironwood, Michigan. I'm in Sioux St. Marie, Michigan across the bridge which you can't quite see. It's behind all this here. It's Sioux St. Marie, Ontario. There's an international border. We've got to go over a big bridge. You got to pay a toll. I had a funny feeling. I had a funny feeling but I'm like nah, nah, that couldn't be. It's 2023. The funny feeling was I wonder if the toll for this bridge is cash only. Remember it used to be cash only where I cross over from International Falls, Minnesota into Fort Francis, Ontario. Used to be cash to go back into Canada all the time and I was always like why? Who carries cash? Why? And now they've got a credit card machine there at that border crossing and you pay with credit card. I'm like good. No one carries cash anymore guys. Let's get with it. We're in the 21st century here. Let's get with the times. It's 2023, right? So I got to the last exit. Big sign says last exit before Canada, right? That's where we are right now. This is a little holiday gas bar. The diesel pumps back here is nobody here. It's just me. I pull in and I'm thinking of myself. There's no way. It's 2023. Made that clear. This is the future. Nobody carries cash. They're not going to just to be sure. I'm going to check. Do you need cash? Sure enough. According to everything I can find online. They still only accept cash here. Now I haven't crossed here in a couple of years and they've updated everything here. So everything looks different to me. That's why I was hopeful. Maybe now they have credit card machines because they updated everything else. It's a whole new building, a whole new system. It still says cash. Maybe that's outdated information. Maybe I'll get to the window and they'll be like, no, no, we accept credit card now. That would be awesome and I would be very impressed. But just in case, I ran over here to this 24-hour gas station where they have an ATM and paid a $3 service fee to take out 40 bucks because they only give you money in 20s. So I need $25 for the toll. Unless if that's not updated to you, but I need at least $25 US dollars for the toll. So I had to take out $40, came out to $43 US dollars, $3 service charge. You remember the days? Okay, I'm going to feel old right now, but you remember the days when the service fee was like 50 cents? 25 cents, 75 cents? That really wasn't that long ago, right? When using ATM machines? And it was like a dollar and everyone was like, oh, dollar. Now it's three US dollars already. Just to use an ATM to pull some cash out for a machine that's just sitting there doesn't cost them any money other than the initial cost of putting it there and paying, you know, armed guards to come in, you know, replenish it in every now and then, right? So there is some cost to maintaining it, but $3. Is that because nobody carries cash anymore? No one's using these machines. So they have to up the service charge to recoup their losses. That's probably why because nobody carries cash anymore, right? We're all in agreement on this. Nobody carries cash anymore. Can we please tell the toll bridges between Canada and the United States? All of them. Let's tell them all. Nobody carries cash anymore, guys. I really hope that this bridge doesn't just accept cash because that's just if he seems like is the word archaic, correct here right now, like archaic, like old fashioned, like we only accept cash. I almost forget what cash looks like sometimes because I never have it. Never pay with cash. Very, very, very rarely. You got another rant for me today. Whole five minute rant. I almost apologized. I'm not sorry. The Canadian in me is suppressed. I'm on the American side of the border here. I'm not apologizing. I regret nothing. Hold on to that. Slide 90, 140 to your seat. I'm about to tell them exactly that, Karen, but you interrupted me, so congratulations. Let's go see if I need cash. At least this way I have wasted time. Oh, well, it's okay, Josh. It's okay. There's nobody coming. This is the toll right here. Let's see what they say. I'm gonna ask them. Right here. Traffic green lane cost me $25. Just that part was right. Just like the Internet said. Pointed, but you know what? I'm a happy trucker now and I'm happy to let all you with the time. It sounds like it was recent, but hey, better late than never. Settled in southeast Manitoba. They actually came right through here on the water. This is Lake Superior. The entrance to it. They would have had to go through the Canadian side where their ships would have gone through, and then they went across Lake Superior and landed in Duluth, Minnesota, and they took a train from there over to Fargo, North Dakota, and then a steam paddle boat and then a steam paddle boat up the Red River into Manitoba where they got off at the fork of the Rat River and the Red River. So way back hundreds of years ago, there was my great, great, great, great grandparents. They came on a boat right underneath me here when they were coming to the New World. Pretty cool to see that now. Now that I know the history, I gotta go talk to the friendly Border Patrol here, show my passport, let them know who I am, where I came from, where I'm going, and I'll talk to you on the other side when we park. Hopefully at Flying J if there's room. Any spots here? Another truck stop, Petro Canada, across the street. There's some spots here on the right and on the left. Okay, there are parking spots here. Quite a few of them actually. Nice, okay then. Well, let's grab some fuel and then we'll figure out where we're gonna park, and I don't got to do it tomorrow morning. Found myself a parking spot at Petro Canada. I've got a nice custom truck here right beside me. It's beautiful, so I know he's gonna be super careful in the morning getting out of here. And then I got Bob on this side. I don't know who he is, but it says Bob on his driver door there, which I take as a good sign. He's willing to let everybody know his name. So he's not going to do anything dumb in the morning because we all know his name now. It was Bob. So I got Bob and custom Pete over here beside me. I feel pretty safe right here. I don't think anyone's gonna hit me in the morning. Plenty of space in the parking lot in front of me for everybody to get around. I'm good. So I'm gonna crawl in the back there, get on my Odyssey mattress, and go to sleep. We'll do it all over again tomorrow. Tomorrow's gonna be a bit of a rush, rush day, as well as the next day. We have quite a few drops on this load. Well, six. We're gonna be in Sault Ste. Marie here first thing tomorrow morning, and then we rush over to Sudbury, Ontario. And then we're gonna rush up to Sturgeon Falls, New Liskard, Timmins, and ending off in Capis Casing. We're not gonna get that all done tomorrow, but whatever we don't get done tomorrow, we'll get done the next day. It's gonna be fun. It's nice being out here again a little bit, well, Sault Ste. Marie. Haven't been to this truck stop in a few years, definitely. I don't even know if this Petro Pass was here before. I think this Petro Pass might be new. That change of scenery is nice, anyways, what I'm trying to say. Thanks for hanging out with me today. The good news is you no longer need cash at the bridge. The world is not completely crazy. It's mostly crazy, but not completely. I'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe.