 Good morning everybody back on the road. It's a beautiful day here in Northern Ontario. We're on highway 11 Nearby Hearst, Ontario. We left Kappa's casing this morning. That's where we slept last night They have great internet there I can upload videos faster at flying jays in the back of the parking lot than I can at home They have incredible Wi-Fi So we're gonna get as far as we can today still pulling this 10 foot wide load So I can't drive down these highways at night. So The latest I can drive is a half hour after sunset So I'm thinking we should probably make it to around Dryden, maybe Dryden, Ontario And we'll see See how we're feeling see where we get to And before you say anything yes, I will acknowledge that my windshield does need to be replaced I have an appointment and by the time you watch this video. It will already be replaced They throw some rocks at me. Well, I didn't actually throw it at me his truck threw it at me very rude It was actually in Alberta last week A big oil field truck pulled out in front of me and must have just come off like a very loose gravel lock Or something it was just throwing stones like mad I actually had to slow right down to let him get ahead of me because he was throwing so many stones and two of them hit my windshield and two chips that I was gonna get filled and get replaced as soon as I got back, but Going from the warm weather to the cold weather and then my windshield a Heats up cools down Suddenly I looked over and I had this crack on my windshield So that has to get replaced ASAP and we're gonna get that done right away Like I said by the time you're watching this it's already been replaced. So I Saw your comments. Thanks for letting me know. I'm aware I can feel it feel it in my bones. It's gonna be a good day I'm just happy that it's not snowing Very tired of that stuff already. I want spring. I want to go camping. I'm gonna go to the beach. I want to go swimming We're here in Beardmore, Ontario. Now we're getting close to Nipagon But well 45 minutes or so from highway 17 That's where the two highways meet And then there is a couple of fuel stations Right there as well I'm gonna stop at the Petro Pass and hopefully they'll have DEF because the last couple of trucks outside stopped at the fuel Their DEF pumps were frozen. So whenever I find a place that Has DEF pumps that are not frozen I Always top up my tank because you never know we're headed out west in it was apparently pretty cold there last week I don't know how it is right now But that probably means I won't be able to buy any bulk DEF out there The DEF in this tank lasts about 4,000 kilometers or like in Almost 3,000 to 2,500 miles. It's a 28 a little over 2,500 miles 3,000 miles I haven't really ever checked before but I know I can drive for days and days and days Without fueling up that DEF tank And if you're new to the vlog don't know what I'm talking about DEF is a diesel exhaust fluid that all diesel vehicles now have even the pickup trucks It just cleans out the exhaust so that the exhaust that actually leaves the truck out the stack Is cleaner it's not that black smoke you won't see black smoke coming out of new trucks If you do there's something very wrong Because that prevents all of that It used to be when you started up your truck in the winter time And it was a cold start at the truck would just pour out white smoke for like half an hour till it warmed up Right, but now with this new DEF system on every truck. They don't do that anymore. Not as much anyway Very very little and it's like a fluid. It's sort of like water I think in Europe. They call it at blue. It's sort of like a bluish watery thing, but don't drink it Point of advice don't drink it Looks like water, but it's not water. It's not vodka either You Russians You come over here and visit that that's not vodka All right, I showed you this stretch last time and I do almost every time I come through here I throw out the seasons of the year This is still the most beautiful stretch of highway in northern Ontario in my opinion. I mean highway 17 Around by the lakes is pretty scenic as well, but maybe I should say this is the most scenic on highway 11 We're just coming up like I was telling you in the last clip to the Junction with the 17, but there's this beautiful You're driving across like the flat lands right up north on the 11th and suddenly you come up to these rolling hills You got to sort of wind your way through them and then you come out beside this this big lake with this picturesque old church Up on the little hill beside the lake I think it's just beautiful. There's so many beautiful places to see in this world and You know, I only travel north america canada in the united states I mean, I haven't even been outside those countries in my lifetime There's so many other places in this world that I would love to go and see So many places Like australia, I would love to go see australia, but to see all of australia would take so long There's still so many places here in canada and the united states that I haven't seen yet I still go to new places all the time I'd like to see everything But for that, I would need a lifespan of like 500 years I'd love to go to europe and see the old world and see how it's sort of The modern world has sort of been built over the the old world in europe if you know what I mean I guess I don't really even know what I mean because I haven't been there But there's so many thousands of years of history there You know bricht is related to uh, someone who owns a castle in germany They have a castle in their family and oh, I'm married into royalty I'd love to go see that see the united kingdom I want to go there just to rent a car and drive on the wrong side of the road that is Australia same thing first thing I would do when I land there is that rent a car Just so I could drive around on the wrong side of the road That's one thing I've always wanted to do And also in australia I'd love to pull one of those road trains that they have going across their outback where the the trucks drive with However many trailers behind them like across the prairies in canada. We do 253 foot trailers sometimes And you can have up to three trailers now It's on some routes on the prairies of canada, but in the outback of australia I think you ozzy's can tell me down below in the comment section But I'm pretty sure they have what like 10 bus trailers behind one truck Oh, that'd be so much fun so much fun The only thing that sort of turns me off from australia is that everything there wants to kill me and the spiders Are like mutant demons from the pits of hell And I have arachnophobia and I just don't know if I could sleep or anything Because I know all you ozzy's will back me up the spiders there. They're bigger than your face They're bigger than they're like they could take you out And they just fall out of trees and land on you No, no, that's the one thing that keeps me away from australia Not to mention all the other snakes and other animals there that want to kill me everything there is poisonous But that won't stop me. I will visit you one day. I might have to come in like a Like a protective bomb suit or something, but I'm gonna come Look out You can see the bridge over there already that's the one bridge that connects eastern canada and western canada It's the only way It's the only road connecting And remember was it last no a couple years ago? They built a new bridge and then it failed and it buckled so they had to shut it down and that shut down all traffic and freight Going east to west and it just messed with our whole economy All because everything relies on one bridge. They built two bridges now one for each direction So I guess if one buckles now they can use the other one, but Ridiculous, hey diesel Yeah, man, we need neither road. Yeah No kidding One day and come together here and shut down the country and they're forgot that it gets cold up here So in the winter time it contracted but they fixed it and I guess he learned his lesson a very expensive lesson But projects again and went, you know over time over budget Well, this is the town of nipagon that we're coming up to here. I'm gonna stop for fuel Or def sorry, I'm gonna stop for fuel in uh Thunder Bay A little ways ahead but 45 minutes ahead there's a flying jay. I can get my points then But their def pumps, I'm sure will be frozen. Whereas petro pass There should work Guess we'll see we have to be in Alberta tomorrow or the next day Hopefully I can get there for tomorrow, but we have 1,600 kilometers to go yet. We've already been driving for two days So that's another two days of drive. That's about a thousand miles if you're wondering almost exactly So I gotta stop by home today. I got to drop off the weasel again. So the next few days will be without the weasel I'm gonna be lonely and sad But good thing I have you find people here with me keep me company Uh delivering us to that site again that doesn't like dogs Even though the guy at the other end like I told you the other day He said it should be fine and you know, tell them to give him a call if they have a problem I just don't want any problems to begin with, you know, I just want to get there deliver my stuff and get out of there Now I'm coming right back home usually anyway, so Whatever diesel misses his mom and his brothers anyway, so he can go home and run around with him for a bit All right, you want to go home diesel? Yeah I'm gonna bring you home today. Okay Yeah, so next stop is home miss park is nearby home as I can I'm not gonna be home for very long I'm just dropping in for a couple of hours. I'll have lunch with her and Drop diesel off relax a little bit Probably upload some videos We'll be on our way Well, we have a bit of change of plans If you look over to the left, there's my trailer try to Get in here without blocking the road here So I bob tailed into town. Let me tell you the story about this One second here. Let me get in front of my trailer again My truck is going into the shop I put a band-aid on it for now Let me hook on to my trailer here again, and I'll explain it all to you Having a bad day We got an oil leak It's somewhat of a slow leak, but it's a little too fast of a leak To continue with this load all the way to alberta So, uh, I noticed that I had to put in two gallons of oil Yesterday, which is weird. I've never had to add oil to this engine before between service drops And I'm like, oh no two gallons. So I put a note in my head like hey next time I get home We got to get this looked at I shouldn't be burning any oil at all And then today I checked the oil in the morning and it had gone down again It was still above the ad line quite a bit. So I'm like, oh my oil's still going down. This isn't good I'll keep an eye on it, right? Driving down the road mind of my own business and suddenly my truck starts beeping at me saying hey Something is wrong. You should probably pull over in not so many words so, uh I started freaking out a little bit. I found this little pull out here and I pulled in I I checked all my gauges. I checked everything. I went to go check my oil Oil wasn't even touching the dipstick or it was just barely tipping the bottom of it. I think And I forgot to pick up oil this morning Because I didn't think anything of it. I added two gallons of oil. I checked the oil this morning. It was fine So I'm like, hey, well when I get home, I'll get a better deal on the oil if I go buy it at Walmart or something Right, that's what I usually do. Hey, well, I'll go pick up oil and you know replenish my supplies as soon as I can get a Better deal on it right in the middle night and me I don't want to pay as much as I have to at the truck stops So I had no oil in the truck of course right when my truck decides to Go weird on me And I'm four hours from Winnipeg right now three maybe less than that And uh So I I called into town. I'm literally less than 10 miles from canora It's the the last town before you hit the province of manitoba my home province The best province you might just say at least the southern part. I like the southern part southeast specifically It's like the best the best of the best. Believe me. Everybody says it believe me I'm getting sidetracked I'm just Joking around I'm kind of Laughing about it now because everything worked out. But what happened was I pulled into this pull-out And uh, the dipstick was just barely touching the oil, right? It wasn't completely out of oil But I don't want to go All the way into town to get oil pulling like 65,000 pounds of steel. So I detached my trailer And I brought it into town Where I could pick up oil I had to add in a few gallons of oil again I came back to get my trailer now and now we're going to get to our yard and drop the trailer there So somebody else can take over for this load because you don't want to leave this load just sitting around While my truck gets fixed because who knows what's going to be wrong with it. Hopefully it's something small And uh, yeah, now we're gonna keep an eye very close eye on the oil and we're gonna get this thing back to the yard I wish that I had a better option But that is my best option right now It's either that or I have to Get this load recovered and I think they charged me for that To have someone come out here and pull this load out of here for me And then the customer is not happy because they're not getting their freight on time I'm not happy because I'm sitting in a motel while my truck's in the shop the shop here was uh Booked up for days. I'd be sitting here for more than a week probably and I'm only like two and a half three hours from home What's the point of that right So I went and got enough oil so that I can get myself to the yard that way this trailer doesn't need to be recovered Someone else can take the load. It can still be on time And I can bring this truck to the shop And go home and spend whatever time it takes to fix it at home So there's plenty of oil in the engine right now. Uh, it is leaking somewhat a little bit I can't tell where it's coming from And I can tell you it won't be a problem just for a couple of hours going home. It's not leaking that bad It's just a steady drip from somewhere So This is the decision I made. I don't know if it's the decision you would make or not But I think I made the best decision in my opinion because otherwise Everybody's not happy and this way just I'm not happy So let's see what happens. Let's let's get this thing home and let's get it into a shop Every shop I've been talking to in steinback as well is booked up until next week. So I might be home for a while Which means I'll be making lots of youtube videos for you guys if that's the case Goody one of those days it's been a It was it was a good day. It was a good morning. Man did that turn bad fast So I'm just gonna follow up on yesterday's video today. This is the next day I did get home We're about to make a delicious breakfast. I am the bacon eater I'm gonna charge a bacon So I make the best bacon, right? It's not true, but we'll say it for now So yesterday we brought the truck into the shop. Uh, it was very difficult to find a shop to Do the work because everybody's booked up for the next week except for trucks unlimited in steinback the freight liner dealership So we brought it to their shop and they're gonna take a look at it They already called me this morning and said that they can't find the leak So I told them to look harder Because I lost two oils and two two oils. I lost two gallons in a day I lost two oils in a day and The majority of it was lost during the night while I was idling I think so now they have it outside their shop right now Idling for a few hours and then they're going to take it back in They've obviously cleaned off the engine so that they can see if it comes oozing out anywhere Hopefully they can find that and hopefully it's just like a little seal that they can fix It could also be that I was pulling 65 000 pounds and the pressure of the engine pulling that much weight up the hills Could be just pushing it out of a seal that isn't quite sealed I don't know. Hopefully they find it and they're going to also replace my windshield because I had a big crack across that And they're going to take a look at my bunk heater as well to fix that so that I don't have to idle it through the night Because I've been spending around a thousand dollars a month just idling that truck So hopefully they can get that bunk heater fixed and if they can't I have a pretty much brand new one in my freight liner here on the road Uh, that freight liner is being sold off or got being brought off our property this summer I want to sell it to whoever will buy it or Just bring it away if I have to but there is a bunk heater in there That's practically brand new that I just paid $1,500 for before I sold it I mean before I parked it and I don't want to sell that part I want to keep that and put that in the Volvo if this bunk heater doesn't work that makes sense Forgive him for all his stuttering. He knows not what he does. He hasn't eaten yet I'll feed him and then he can vlog properly. Yes I haven't had my bacon yet The bacon eater meets his bacon. You're in charge of bacon. Yep. I'm not doing this whole thing alone I'll do this one. Good and wants to do it alone. Someone's got to take care of the bacon make sure it's done right Right. Am I right? If mine isn't crispy you're fired If I don't film another clip she killed me so you know who did it It was her Anyways, I want to end this vlog here because uh, that's that's all that really happened Brought the truck in the shop. It's getting looked at. I'll let you guys know in tomorrow's vlog if there's any new news I'll see you then Take care and don't forget to subscribe Hit the like button if you liked the video if you didn't like the video hit the thumbs down button I don't care. Be honest. I'll see you tomorrow