Video summary
The video documents the final leg of a trucking journey as the driver prepares to return home with two trailers secured behind his truck. Before hitting the road, he meticulously inspects his load, ensuring that the tongue wrap is tight and protected so that straps do not touch the trailer surface directly. He notes that while he tightened the straps the previous night, it is always prudent to double-check them before departure. The driver explains that he recently moved his parking spot from a large puddle to avoid getting wet during his pre-trip inspection, highlighting the practical challenges of overnight stops. With ten hours of driving ahead and favorable weather conditions, he aims to reach Minneapolis and land safely at home by evening.
Once on the highway, specifically merging onto Interstate 94 Westbound toward I-29 North in Fargo, North Dakota, the driver encounters significant road construction and slow-moving traffic. Despite the congestion, he maintains a positive attitude, joking about the potential for his truck to pass other vehicles if they are polite enough. The drive offers a nostalgic moment as he spots an old Pontiac Sunfire, recalling its popularity from the early 2000s and comparing it to his own experience with a Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 in high school. This memory leads him to reflect on how he would never let his children modify cars with loud exhausts or subwoofers, preferring they drive real vehicles with V8 engines instead of four-cylinder "four-bangers."
Back at the home base, the driver shares updates about his workshop and personal life, revealing plans to clear out the garage in the spring when his Rockwood camper moves to a seasonal lakeside site. This upcoming change will free up the entire shop space, allowing him to organize tools along the walls and reduce clutter, which he views as a significant improvement for working on his truck. He also mentions selling a V-Star 650 motorcycle with just over 11,000 miles and a quad buried underneath it, intending to use the proceeds toward purchasing a pontoon boat for future lake trips. Throughout these updates, he emphasizes that while organizing the shop is an ongoing project, his primary focus remains on his children, whom he misses deeply and wants to see as soon as possible after this long haul.
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All right, morning.
Another day is here.
We are headed home today.
Got these trailers behind me.
Going to go around and check all of our
straps. I explained how I tied these
down to you yesterday.
Tongue wrap.
A belly wrapped the tongue.
Winched it on both sides.
It's not going anywhere and also put
protection so that my strap is not
actually touching
any of the trailer.
Here.
It's good.
Good.
I want to make sure that all of our
straps are tight.
I tightened them last night so I
wouldn't expect them to be loose right
now.
But you never know.
I'm sure nobody's
messing around with my load while I'm
sleeping, right?
I was just parked over there overnight
but I just you can see my tracks. I just
rolled myself over here cuz I was in a
giant puddle.
I didn't want to
get my shoes and my socks all wet doing
my pre-trip and checking everything.
But yeah, we have a boat. 10 hours of
driving ahead of us today if all the
traffic is good. Hopefully Minneapolis
treats us well with our traffic.
I get through there and uh
land off at home tonight. So let's go.
So I was able to have a nice shower last
night. You might have noticed. I'm
cleaned up. Look at that.
I feel a thousand percent better.
Just waking up, being cleaned up. It's
just
It's a good feeling. It's a good
feeling.
I just got to make myself my coffee and
then we'll hit the road.
Let's giddy up and go.
We'll get back onto Interstate 94
Westbound
up to I-29 North.
I could have made it. I could have made
it.
Let's go.
Going to be a good day.
Weather is good.
Roads are good.
Truck is good. I'm good.
Hope you're good.
Been making really good time today. I'm
in Fargo, North Dakota.
This is where the I-94 here is going to
meet up with I-29.
We're going to head north.
All right. Some traffic up here. Is my
lane closed?
>> Approaching slow traffic.
>> It is. Shoot.
There's somebody beside me.
Ah, shoot. Okay. Well,
see See Mr. Dodge will let me in front
of him.
What a nice guy.
Woah.
Okay.
Here we go.
Say thank you.
Always say thank you.
Flash your four-ways at them.
Everything's under construction.
Everything, everything, everything.
That yellow Sunfire. Man, those cars
used to be popular. You remember that?
I was around uh like mid-2000s or early
2000s.
Pontiac Sunfire, the
ugly cousin of the Chevy Cavalier.
I remember that.
That's actually a good car.
Cheap,
affordable. I had a Cavalier, a 2003
Cavalier Z24.
Oh, yes, I did.
And uh
I was in high school,
and you better believe I had a big
subwoofer
pounding in my trunk.
>> Road construction ahead.
>> And of course,
the obligatory fart can.
Oh, yeah, I was one of those guys. Yeah.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
I thought that was so cool back then.
I'm never going to let my kids
go down that road.
When they get a car, you're going to get
a real car.
You're going to get a vehicle with a V8.
No four-bangers.
And I
got my sons
>> [laughter]
>> I don't know what they're going to I
think they can get whatever they want.
There we go. All parked
Got to take all this cardboard and
garbage away yet. That's uh that'll
happen eventually in the next
couple of years probably. No, it'll
happen before spring definitely because
in spring time we're taking this
Rockwood
out of here and we're taking it to our
seasonal site. So, it will not be in my
shop anymore. So, think about it. Think
about this. Old Blue, you listening?
This is for you. I'm talking to you
right now.
Blue?
In spring time when Rockwood goes to its
new home, our seasonal campsite, it's
staying there.
That means you
get this entire shop
to yourself.
Huh?
What do you think of that?
Happy birthday.
Happy belated birthday.
I don't know when her birthday is.
We can have a happy got you day or happy
got you on the road day. June 1st uh was
4 years since I've had you on the road,
since I bought you.
Uh so, next year will be uh on June is
kind of
Yeah, it's still spring time.
Yeah, so it'll be a fifth got you
birthday gift. You get this this entire
shop to yourself, which is awesome
because I'm going to be able to line up
tools along the side of the shop and
this side and not just like all around
this. It's going to be so much less
cluttered.
Think I'm going to be selling this bike.
It's a V Star 650.
Any of you want a motorcycle? It's got
exactly 11,001 mi on it.
Beautiful. I just got to dust it off,
clean it, and polish it. Looks brand
new.
I'm going to be selling that in spring
and also, believe it or not, there is a
quad buried underneath there. You can
see the wheels over there, sort of. I'm
going to sell that, too. I'm going to
use that money from that and that
probably towards a pontoon.
So, we're going to have our camper out
at the campsite by the lake. We're going
to
eventually, in the I don't know when,
couple of years,
use that money towards a pontoon.
And you'll have this whole shop to
yourself.
And it's going to be great. It'll be so
much easier to work on the truck rather
than, you know, like just this little
space here and
this little space here, which I can't
complain. I'm
I'm very happy with and very lucky and
blessed to have this shop that I have.
Uh but it will be nice.
Because right now, I mean, I still have
to organize it, obviously, and that's an
ongoing project. But back here is sort
of my tool area. As you can tell, I have
to put a lot of them away.
I'm reorganizing right now. Okay, don't
judge me. Reorganizing.
This is going to be like my little
kitchen area here. I've got my fridge,
a couple of shelves I got to put
together there. This is all got to be
organized onto those shelves once I put
them together.
It's going to look good one day, believe
me. I just don't know when that day's
going to be.
I don't know when that day's going to
be. I have different priorities right
now. I have my kids. My kids are my
number one priority. And speaking of
which,
I want to go home and see them now. I
miss them a lot.
So, I'm going to head out.