#3607 | WHICH ONE CAME FIRST? | My Trucking Life

Good morning everybody. Got this empty trailer behind us. We are in Ottawa. Not Ottawa, Ontario. Ottawa, Illinois. They stole the name of our capital city. Wonder I wonder which one was first. I'm going to have to Google that now. This town might have been first. I doubt I don't know. Ottawa. Who named who after who? Ottawa, Illinois. Did you name it after Ottawa, Canada, or did Ottawa Canada name it after I'm confused now first thing in the morning? I haven't had my coffee yet. Stop making me think this much, guys. I don't like it. It's empty. Let's go put something on it. I like that better. I'm going over to Bristol, Indiana. We have some trailers to pick up. We're taking them up to Winnipeg cuz somebody up there bought them and they want them. I'm the man. I'm going to bring him to him. So, let's go grab him. Tie him down good and tight. Let's book it back so I can go home. All right, everybody. Let's get rolling. We got to get through Chicago. Hopefully, we won't run into any traffic. My steering column keeps wanting to rattle on me. Get back on to I 80. Believe this was what, exit 93. I 80 in Illinois, I think. Get back on there. Head on over. Pick up that freight. Oh, Chicago. This isn't even Chicago anymore. This is Gary, isn't it? We're in Indiana already. You and all your traffic and all your people. There people. Where do you all got to go? Where Where are you all going? It's in the middle of the day. Shouldn't you all be at work? I'm at work. This is uh this is one of the busiest roads in America, I think. uh the crossroads of America, right? That's what Indiana is known as, but I 80 through the southern part of Chicago and northern part of Indiana here. This is a huge trade lane as you can see all these trucks and it's always like this like day and night. Nighttime's a little less. Rush hour is just insane. We're sneaking in here between morning rush hour and what I would call lunch rush hour when everybody's trying to get out and get their McDonald's. Oh, now I want a quarter pounder. Oh, why did I say that? Man, I love McDonald's. I have to really limit myself. I think on average I have McDonald's maybe once every two months, once a month. It's not like I keep track of it or anything, but I talk about it a lot, but I'm not there very often. But got to admit, I'm a sucker for their fries. Anyways, enough talk about that. I don't Every every day my conversation gets redirected to McDonald's. I think it's time I get some McDonald's again. I think it's time. I've been talking about it a lot. It's been a while. It's been a while. Maybe we'll get some on the way home. We'll see. We'll see. So, this is the lineup to my right to get on to 65 South towards Indianapolis. That's a crazy highway, too. Oh, is there traffic on that highway? I haven't been down that in a while. But look at all these Look at this lineup of people. All trying to go down towards Indianapolis. And that's a once it gets down to just four lanes, like two lanes in each direction, it's just from what I remember going down when I went down to Georgia all the time, just bumperto-bumper traffic all the way from Chicago all the way down to Indianapolis for the most part. It's just crazy traffic. Maybe it's gotten better. Maybe. I don't know. But I haven't been down that way in a while. I miss going to the south, you know. I used to be down there almost every trip. You guys remember those days? Have you been watching that long? I was in Georgia all the time. I'd go down to Georgia, then I'd run up to like Newfoundland or like the Maritimes of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, then go back down to Georgia. That was when I was pulling van trailers. But now I I like the uh place I'm in right now cuz I have a young family at home. Uh this is just the perfect perfect thing for me to be doing. I get to stretch my legs like this going down to Indiana every now and then. This is my third week in a row doing this actually. I like this. I also like going down to Burlington, Iowa. But we pick up those tires from there, right? What's the speed limit here? Why is everyone going faster than me? No, it's still 55. What? Why is everyone going fast? Look at this guy. I'm doing 55. 55 56 55 right now. He's gone though. The freeways of Chicago. Hey, that guy >> me. Use the left lane and keep left towards Interstate 80 East Toledo. The interstates around Chicago, I find, are very much like uh the freeways in Ontario, southern Ontario. The speed limits are more of a suggestion, like a ballpark. It's 55. You can do like 80. I don't know. I don't recommend doing 80ulated. >> What do you mean roof recalculated? What are you talking about? Don't recalculate my route. I didn't ask for that. Oh, she's trying to get me to go down a toll road now. Are you? No, no, no. I am taking What's going on here? I didn't miss my turn, did I? No, I didn't. No, I'm on the right route. I just double checked it. This is the interchange with the toll road where the 90 splits off and becomes a toll road. I don't want to take the tolls because I want to save the money today. I think on the way back we're going to take the tolls though cuz I want to get home faster. Yesterday I was telling you about our plans for this weekend, right? I get home on Saturday, but I'm home for Sunday. Monday, though, Monday morning I have to deliver my load, but then I get to go home for the afternoon and we're picking up our uh our new camper trailer Monday afternoon. So, I want to get home. I'm excited. All right, guys. We're all loaded up here in Bristol, Indiana. I have all of my friends which are also you watching this now watching me back about a week ago. You guys are live right now. How about that? So you guys watching live can watch this again when the vlog gets released next week. This is going to be a little bit confusing. I got two cameras. All right, let's do this. Okay, [laughter] man. I'm old and get out of the truck and I sound like a 80-year-old man. Okay, so this is the load. I showed the live already. We got the tongue tongue wrapped over here. Protection around there. Always use protection. Always. Best advice anyone can ever give anyone. We got these two axles both tied down, wrapped around here just like we did the other week. You can see it in there. And the same thing with this trailer back here, except this one back here has the tires on the deck actually. So, we got the dunage on here, nailed down to the deck. I had one comment uh that said, "Doesn't that damage your trailer when you nail stuff down onto it?" Well, no. It's actually made for it. You see this track right here? You can see it better from back here. See this wood track right there? That's made for nailing dunage down to. So there and there. Oh, what do you know? We found some garbage. What do you know? I'm going to have to put my my live down for a second. I already showed them all this so they can wait. Okay, I just got to put that garbage in my pocket so that I don't leave that lying around. Same thing on this side. Making sure the trailer can't move forward or back, up or down, side to side. And I got to deliver this into Winnipeg on Monday. Filming this on a Friday. There we go. That's what I've got behind me. Now, we got to go tackle Chicago during rush hour. We're going to get on to the toll road. But we're going to take the toll road back uh because I'm in a hurry. I want to go home. And they also have a nice service area just down the road, probably about 15 20 minutes from here where we can pull in and double check to make sure that uh nothing has shifted, nothing has changed back there. You know, we are rocking and rolling. I ran out of cream for my coffee. So, black coffee it is. We're going to grow some hair on our chest today. Turn right, I believe. Yes. Well, let all the messages start cuz I started rolling. I got to wait now. I'm stopping in about 15 20 minutes. So, check it then. 1 kilometer. Use the right lane and keep right onto Indiana toll road and then keep right. Here we are. This is the toll road right beneath us. We're going to be going to the left, but to go left, we have to go right. A little bit further. A little bit further. Slowed down a little too soon there. I thought it was >> 400 m. Use the right lane and keep right onto Indiana toll road and then keep right. >> So, >> toll booth ahead. >> Bristol, Indiana is the uh location, right? This whole area. This still isn't it. Josh, what are you What is this? Renegade RV. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Usually I take US 20. I haven't taken the toll road in a while. Bristol, Indiana is the town where a lot of >> Keep right and then keep right to join the Interstate 80 West towards Chicago. >> Okay. A lot of RVs, travel trailers, and utility trailers like this. >> Keep right to join the Interstate 80 west towards Chicago. >> All right. Let's hope that my uh easy pass is working. I don't want to embarrass myself and get stuck here. Got it on the dash. Right. Yep. right there. Come on, Indiana. Take my money. Take my money. Take it. Take it. Yes, it's yours. Remember what I always say. Don't spend it all in one place. Now keep right >> Chicago this way. Off we go. Cars speed limit 70 mph. Trucks 65, minimum 45. I'm never going to be a fan of that split speed limit, but you know what? I can't go faster than 65 anyway. To be honest, we can thank the governments of Ontario and British Columbia in Canada for that. They have limited any truck that travels into their provinces to 105 km an hour, which is 65 miles an hour. So, if I want to go there, got to be got to have a limiter. They say it's for environmental reasons. Saves fuel, saves the trees, saves the turtles. I don't know. I think it just messes up traffic to be honest. All the trucks have the exact same maximum speed. And what do you think they do? One is like a hair faster than the other, right? So, one is like governed at 65, but the next one can do like 65 and a half. and they insist on passing each other and they take 50 kilometers or 50 miles to pass each other. Then they just block up the whole highway because they're all going the same speed. But, you know, I'm just finding things to complain about. I have a lengthy list if you want to know. I I got things I can complain about all day. I hold myself back for you guys. There are a lot of good things in this world, too, right? I try to point out the good things. I think I do. Indiana wants more of my money. I already gave you some of my money. A little greedy, isn't it? Just a little bit. You think? Why is everybody stopped? Where are the open lanes? I guess I can go through that outside one there, right? There's one over there that's open. Yep. I'm going to go through this one because I think trucks are supposed to stay further right if possible. But that guy is stuck in the easy pass only lane. See, that's what I don't want to do. I don't want that to happen to me. That's embarrassing. Now everybody's waiting for that guy. Oh, now he's gone. He got the green light. Come on. Come on. Don't Don't do it to me. Take my money. Take my money. Yeah, Indiana. I knew you wanted my money. I knew you wanted my money. There you go. Have fun. We're in the thick of it. We're taking 294, Interstate 294 around the west side of Chicago up to the 94. Zip up to Wisconsin. I'm going to stop at Black River Falls again tonight. Heat. Heat. Come on. Got to love Chicago traffic. Heat. Heat. So, we're at the corner here. What is this? Interstate 290 merging on to Interstate 90 west towards Rockford. This interchange has always been a little bit of a mess, but it's an extra mess now cuz they have construction. This right lane is closed up ahead. And normally I'd have to be in that right lane to exit. Now we all got to pile into this lane. The lane to my left doesn't exit. And a lot of these people, mo like all these people here in this lane know that. But there's still a few of them in this lane that are passing me right now that are going to try to sneak in at the last second to exit and go past the entire group of cars. Right. And there's this guy here yet. I mean, they are doing it correctly. You're supposed to zipper merge at the construction, right? This guy in the blue truck is flipping everybody off. Technically, they are doing it right legally. That's what you're supposed to do. Use both lanes right up to the cones and then one goes, one goes. This car wants to make it two. I am just letting this truck in. I think that that is very generous of me already. You're welcome. See, he said thank you by flashing his four-ways. And that's how it's supposed to work. However, it's the people who don't understand that. They think that as soon as you see the signs down the road, you're supposed to all pile into the same lane and then you're backed up to Timbuktu and then they they've been waiting patiently in line, right? So, they legitimately feel like they've been wronged when someone does it correctly cuz they feel like they're cutting the line when in fact it was the person who merged way back there who decided the line started way too early. I know. I've been on both sides of that argument throughout my career as well. See, there's a truck right here trying to cut in at the last second. No. See, that's not right. This guy here, he wants to exit here, but he wants to cut in right at the last second. So, he went right past everybody. That's different cuz that is a through lane. He knew he knew that that lane doesn't exit. Yet, he's still going to try to push his way in up there. and he's going to block traffic. Oh, this car, too. See, there's always a couple of people who do that. So, I don't know. I'm on both sides of the argument. I know the zipper merge is what you're supposed to do, but in circumstances like this, these guys are all literally cutting past in the through lane to try to get in front of the trucks, you know. Another guy behind me is doing the same thing. Another van up here. Wow, there's lots of them today. Come on, people. And then they they stop in the lane here demanding you let them in. Right. And they impede traffic there and cause accidents. Uh, it's a free-for-all. It's It's a free-for-all out here. No one tried to cut in front of me. >> 100 meters, use the left two lanes and keep left towards I90 toll west. >> That's why like driving truck is easy. Once you like learn how to drive the truck, you learn how to back up, all that stuff becomes easy with practice. The hard part is everybody else because you don't know what they're going to do. You don't know what kind of day they've had. You don't know if they're like on the verge of hurting themselves or hurting somebody, if they've, you know, maybe their spouse just left them, their dog died, they lost their job, you know, everything happened all in the same day and they're just ready to snap, right? And then there's other people that are just like jerks like that for no reason. Just they're not going anywhere, you know? It's not like they have to get home. There's nothing waiting for them at home. Maybe a cold beer in the fridge. And they're willing to risk their life cutting you off to save two seconds to get to that beer. 2 seconds faster. You know, it's like for no reason. No rush. >> Now keep left. >> So you never know. Some people have legitimate reasons to be uh acting wild and other people are just wild. Both shouldn't be on the road. I mean, if you're having that kind of a bad day, don't get behind the wheel of a car. Call an Uber. You're in Chicago. Call an Uber. You know, they might be drunk, too. Who knows? Or high. That's not good. But the trip through Chicago here was pretty good. Pretty uneventful. Not too much traffic. I was expecting a lot worse for this time of day, but not too bad. And on to I90. This is so nice since they redid it. It took them a couple of years to redo it. You guys remember how bad that traffic was while they were redoing this? Oh, come on, Schneider. Come on. That was unnecessary. That was You saw me coming up fast. Come on. And you didn't even need to be in this lane. So why would you cut in front of me for no reason? No. But now you're going to make me pass you on your right. Shouldn't you be in this lane? Whatever. You know, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Just people will be people. Oh, now he's speeding up. Now he's speeding up. Cruise control sent from the gods. From from God. Oh, now he wants to go fast. Okay, now he wants to go fast. All right, buddy. Took you a little while to figure that out. You should have figured that out before you got in the fast lane, but All right, you give her. You have fun. Oh, no. Brakes. He's slowing down again. Slowing down again. What? What are you doing, man? There's no one in front of you. Maybe he knows I'm talking about him. I'm on cruise control, so I'm I'm a steady I'm doing a steady pace right here. This This is a perfect example of a another thing, one of my pet peeves, people who don't use their cruise control. Look, he's speeding up again, slowing down, speeding up. You know how frustrating that is to be behind somebody like that? Of course you do. Of course, you're watching my videos. Of course you know how frustrating because you're on the same page as me. We all think alike. I get it. I am slowly edging up on this Ford Explorer up here, though, so I'm going to have to get in that lane. Uh, I have a feeling as soon as I get behind him, he's going to slow down. Look, he's already slowing down. How do you drive without cruise control? Like, doesn't your foot get tired? Like is don't you get a like tired of constantly like adjusting your speed and maint? No. All right, we're behind him now. Let's see what happens. Is he going to slow down? Slow down a little bit. A little bit. Oh, speeding up a little bit. I think that Ford Explorer there also sped up and he's the whole reason I got in this lane. Ah, you know what? All it takes is one person and they can mess up a whole bunch of traffic behind them. One person that can't maintain their speed. Oh. Oh, brake lights. Brake. Am I allowed in this next lane over to the left? I don't think so. So, I think trucks are supposed to stay in the right two lanes, which is perfect when uh What? What now, buddy? Why are you breaking? I know there's nobody in front of you. What's going on here? This guy wants to get past, too. He's going to try to cut me off. Not today. No. Believe me, I was in that lane, too. That's why I got in this lane. They're going slower. Okay, here we So, we're going to get past this guy and I want to get in front of this red SUV. Oh, brake lights again. Come on, buddy. Are you driving with two feet or what? What's going on? Why are you always on your brakes? There we go. There we go. See, there's nobody in front of him. Huh? Just going to hog the left lane. Okay. Okay. I I can I have to admit I've been that person before, too. But if I'm hogging the left lane, I'm at least going to put my cruise control on so I'm a little more predictable, you know? Speeding up and slowing down. Speeding up, slowing down. Black River Falls. Flying J. Quickly fuel up. Looks like my parking spot is available. >> Turn left and then turn left. >> Quiet. Yep. No one's in my parking spot. So, as long as no one takes it in the next five minutes while I fuel all set and ready to go, go to sleep and get up tomorrow.