 Hi, my name is Yuri from the Netherlands, and you're watching Trucker Josh. Take care. Good morning diesel. How are you doing? Beautiful day out there, isn't it? Good morning, everybody. Just getting into the cab here. Got our coffee ready to go. We got our load ready to go. By that I mean ready to get off my back and get off my trailer. It's weighing me down. I don't want it anymore. I'm gonna go bring it to some people here in Oceola, Oceola, Iowa. You say that right? Good morning, Iowa. The plan for today deliver my load. Once that's off the trailer, clean up all my straps, take them with me. I need them. Head on up to Rosemont, Minnesota. Switch trailers to a trailer that has other stuff on it. That stuff's going up to Winnipeg, Canada. Why not? Let's bring it all the way up there, too. I don't know if I'll make it all the way home tonight. I think I could make it, but it'll probably be pretty late. I know Britt's got to work first thing in the morning, so I can't just get home at three or four in the morning and you know, wake up the whole house because the dog's going nuts when we get home. So I'll probably sleep in the truck, or maybe we won't even make it. Who knows? It'll be a full full day if we do make it, but we're gonna try. I figured out why this sleeve was rattling so much. Remember from yesterday's video? This thing was freaking me out. It's actually here. I can twist this a little bit here. It's actually cracked right in there. I don't know if you can see that or not. That's why it was loose and that's why it was rattling and freaking me out. So short-term solution. Just taped it up there so that it won't rattle. At least that's there. I think that looks better than having no sleeve there right now. And I'll have to swing by sock center again and pick up another sleeve. That'll be a little harder to put on than this top one because I got to remove the airlines and then slide it over. Maybe I can fan. We'll figure it out. For now, I mean, I don't want to stay like that for long, but short-term solution. All right, we have a plan. I know the plan. You know the plan. Now let's execute the plan. Lights on. Brakes disengaged. Pre-trip has been finished. Truck is in gear. Pause for a moment. Try and think. Make sure we didn't forget anything. We got the weasel. Okay, we're good. We're good. Let's go deliver some freight. Let's go bring people their wood. Canadian wood all the way down here in Iowa. You guys gonna build something with it or what? What are you doing? Happy to bring it here for you. Lumber is one of our main exports. Well, I don't know if the main export, but it's one of our big exports. We haul a lot of it out of Western Canada. They're not the highest paying loads, but they're a good load to get you to the higher paying loads. If I picked this up in Alberta, I had a good paying load going into Alberta. You usually have lumber coming out and this lumber is bringing me down here to Iowa, and then I've got a better load bringing me back up to Canada. So it all works out in the end. Barley's most of them. Let's see how close I am. Let's go take a look. I think I'm right close. I think I'm right up to it. If I did my calculations correctly, everyone is a happy all the time. It's a happy, happy, Minneapolis. Excuse me. Excuse me good, sir. I'm a yoy. Excuse me, my lord. Yes. You've been trying to tell me something? Yes, I have. Thanks for noticing. Well, I stopped. He wants to go out. Pets that way. All right, man, come this way. I gotta bring you this way. They say Pets this way. He's walking me. Just listen to that for a second. Have you noticed how some 18-wheelers rolling by are almost completely silent, like you can't hear them at all, and then the next one rolls by and it's just a beautiful song just Then the next one you can't hear at all. It must be the tires, eh? So, that must be tires. How about these guys? That was pretty quiet. Bull hauler, you can obviously hear. You can always hear the bull haulers coming 10 miles away. And then suddenly they're gone because they just blow past you 200 miles an hour. Well, another bull hauler all you see is a flash of light from all the chicken lights, right? Something about hauling livestock Makes you, like, it must be mandatory to have a nice truck, loud pipes and no speed limiters That's bull hauling. Go, go, go. Hey, Diesel, come here. Come here. Come on, bud. There was definitely someone here, man. Definitely. His name was Al. Al, maybe Al, but I'm pretty sure. Oh, your collar's gonna slip off your head there, man. There you go. Fixed. Can we, uh, can we keep moving here? Come on. Come on, come on, come on. How are you doing? Seems like a really interesting guy. I'm just gonna let him know I was here, too. Dogs, I don't understand. Imagine if humans did that? Just go up and sniff a bush. Chris was here. I'm gonna pee on it so he knows I was here, too. No smoking on rest area grounds, except in enclosed personal vehicles. You're only allowed to hot box it here. That's the only way you're allowed to smoke. Roll the windows up. Has to be enclosed. Enjoy. I don't smoke, so it doesn't apply to me. Never really did. I tried it once. Tried to make myself like it. It wasn't for me. The cigarettes, they would, they'd make me nauseous and I'd have to throw up. Like, I don't, maybe I'm allergic to them. I don't know. I tried to be cool. I tried hard for a while. It just didn't work. Wasn't cool enough for smokes, but nothing against people who do. You want to smoke, whatever. And in Canada, you're allowed to, you're allowed to smoke the fun stuff. That's legal across the board. It's just like alcohol. It's sold in, in stores just like alcohol. But if you want to be a truck driver like me and you want to drive into the US like this, you're not allowed to indulge in the cannabis. Because if I get into an accident here, or if someone hits me, let's say it's their fault, they hit me, first thing they're going to do down here is test, test me for THC. And I can't use the excuse, say, well, I'm a Canadian. What do you expect? It's legal up there. Nope. They find that in my system. It's a big problem. It's still illegal here, federally. So I can't drive a commercial vehicle on federal highways here if I indulge in the cannabis, even if it's legal up in Canada. So no smoking for me. No smoking for me. Hey, Diesel, what you doing in there? I don't know, man. This is like a forest. It's very interesting. Imagine all the fun we could have. You would just take me off this leash, man. What do you think? The sign over there was very specific, said I have to leave you on your leash. It's for your own good, Diesel. If you see a rabbit run out into traffic, I don't want you to go running out after him, get a run over. Wouldn't be able to live with myself. You got a pretty good lead here. It's like 10 meters. There's an 8 meter lead. You're good. He's good. Don't listen to him. He's good. While we're on the topic of cannabis, I don't talk about it all the time, if you're staying just in Canada, it's not illegal. And I don't know where the limit is. With alcohol, there's a very specific limit of how much alcohol you can have in your blood until you're considered DUI. I don't know what it is with pot. I don't know where that line is or how they determine that. So don't drive high. All right. Don't do that. But for me, I don't have a choice. I can't because I want to drive into the US here. It's a beautiful country. I wouldn't want to give up coming to visit for that. It's not worth it to me for that. It's worth it for me to abstain from it because I want to come and visit the US. I love driving a truck down here. It would hinder that. So I can't do that. And if you're wondering how long that THC stays detectable in your system, it can be in there for like up to three months. And it can stay in your hair for longer. I mean, I don't got any hair, but my beard hair, my arm hair, it can be in there for months if they really want to test me hard. But in a urine sample, it can be in there and detectable what up to a month, 30 days. So it's not like I can go home on the weekend and smoke up and then, you know, take a week off and then go drive in the US. It's still in my system. They can still detect it then. So it's best just to completely leave it out of my life. I don't know, maybe the US will one day jump on board with the Canadian style of doing things. But for now, it's still a big no-no down here in most places. I mean, some places it's legal, but driving a commercial vehicle on federal highways, it's still a big no-no. Come on, Diesel, let's go. All right, Diesel, you got food, you got water. I got a chocolate bar. Woo. No more stopping till we get to our shipper. Okay. We need to pick up that load sitting there waiting for us already. It's always that gear. Off we go again. I say that a lot. Off we go. Again, I feel like an airplane, like a big jet taxiing for takeoff. And we've gotten the clearance from the control tower. We are clear to takeoff, clear for launch. Get into this spot on the highway. Yeah, beautiful. Look at that and we're flying. Well, it was time for the afternoon coffee. We're almost in Rosemount where we're going to pick up our load. One more coffee. Got a couple of beautiful KWs here. Got one right there leaving in front of me. Nice. I want to get a new grille soon too. I like the diamond grilles. The one I'm looking at isn't quite like that one, but it's similar. Right beside it, drop this trailer there. Oh, that's just like this one to the left here. I'm a trailer very similar to that as well. Truck idling so that you stay cool all right. You stay here in the air conditioning. Anybody who tells me that I can't keep the truck cool for my dog knows where they can go. It was just me in there. I shut it off. That's my dog in there. He gets the air conditioning. He's a lord. He gets the lord treatment. Okay, so this is my load here pretty clearly. This piece of cement or concrete is just over 41,000 pounds. So my chains are rated at 6,400 pounds each. I need seven chains. I've already got three chains here. We're just tied up to the rocker panel or the rocker arm here to give it the ability to flex. Don't let me forget to tie down my tarps yet. They're just laying on the front there. So I did the front already. Now we got to put four chains on the back here. Two binders on each side. It's here and here. They have the locks right, right. Good. All right, let me show you how I do this. Got my four chains at the back here. Two binders on that side, two binders on that side. All four chains have to go through this hole right here to here. I can't put any anywhere's down the middle because that would prevent the trailer from flexing and possibly crack the cement, the concrete. Sorry, keep calling it cement. You guys know what I mean. Probably going to keep calling it cement. Okay, so we're going to put them through here and there. I'll show you how I do that. Get this whole chain up here. These chains are a little bit long, but we'll make it work. Better to be too long than too short. I have a few short chains and a few long and a few more long chains. So my short ones are already being used at the front there. So we are left with a couple long ones. That's okay. So sometimes I got to get up on the trailer. Remember the last load we pulled was on a step deck like this. The empty I dropped just over there was exactly like this with a steel brace on back. That's how we do it here. So it doesn't matter if it's a step deck or a flat bed. We can haul the same stuff. And for this now, watch your heads. Okay, don't bang your head on the cement here people. Concrete. Dang it. I'm going to keep calling it cement. See I just hook it on here like this. Just push it through there like that. Grab the other side. Don't pull it back through. Hook this side onto here. Push it through like that. We're going to put this to here. Oh, can I make it through there? All right. So we're going to go one, two, shoot. I can't get it past this here. So I'm going to have to go, I'm going to have to go through here. One, two, three, four. We'll put the first one here anyways. Let's see. Link that up like that. Loop it up, go around to the other side, pull it through. I'll show you how I do this first chain. Then I'm going to do the other three chains on my own. Okay? Because I got to get going. And no offense, but when I talk to you guys, everything takes longer. So pull that all the way through. Oh, you see then this thing gets in the way here. I can't get it through there. Oh, can I? Maybe I can. Oh, maybe I can. Come on, Josh. Figure it out. There we go. Beautiful, huh? It works. Okay. I'm just going to loop that onto there just like that. You always want to have it with the hook facing down, because if you have the hook facing up like this, I mean this works too. But if anything gets loose, you don't want that to be able to fall off. You want gravity is your friend. You want gravity to help you out and keep it on there, right? Okay, let's get this. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Gravity is not always your friend. Sometimes it gets in the way. Take this lock off of here. I like these stat binders better myself. Some people don't like them. I really like them. So what I got trained on originally, so it feels more natural for me to use these things, as opposed to the ratchet binders or whatever you want to call them. Put that in there. See, seems good. You grab your bar. I lose my bar. Where's my bar? Bar? Where are you? Bar? Not that bar. You're a stick. You're not a bar. Little stick. Should I leave it at the front? Trying to go loud. Okay, we're going to go to the front. Okay. You guys still following along? I still got your tension. Okay. I hook that on there like that, and then I pull like this until it's tight. See, tight. Now I hook this through the little loop here, this in there and that in there. And what that does is it prevents this thing from popping open on the highway. That would defeat the whole purpose. And for this extra chain, I just wrap it around here. And that way, then I'll get, I'll grab a bungee later. I was hook a bungee onto here and then onto here and boom, done. I'm going to do this three more times. Okay? Three more times. Ready to go, Diesel. Just need to drink the water. A lot of work. High quality H2O. All right, I still got you on the wide angle lens because I'm going to put you back on my head. I'm going to do a walk around of the load. I'm ready to go now. Let's see what you think. Let's flag it up at the top. I got the bungees going around, which holds the flag in place there. Four corners all have flags, 41,000 pound piece of concrete. I got three chains at the front, three binders, four chains and four binders at the back. Chains at the front are just connected to this rocker arm. Like I've been saying, to give the trailer the ability to flex the concrete to remain rigid. I can't put any securement in the center here because there's no dunnage beneath it. And because again, the trailer needs to flex. So a 6400 pounds of piece, my chains, where they can hold up to, they can hold up to 6400 pounds each. Seven chains will do the trick. I've got two binders on this side, two binders on the other side. You can see with the extra chain here, I've wrapped it around to provide extra locking power. And what I do with this extra chain, wrap it around there, hook a bungee onto it, hook it onto the trailer that'll keep the chain wrapped around there. It's impossible for that binder to open now. We've got another flag at the back here being held on by this bungee going around through here. I've got my oversize load sign strapped tightly here. Now you got to remember that there's going to be a lot of air passing through here and hitting this. So I used the strongest one I had and I also reinforced it in the center here to the trailer so that the wind hitting this isn't going to flap it around too much. I hope that'll work. 99.9% sure it'll be just fine. On the corners here, I've put rubber protection so that my sign doesn't get completely damaged by these corners on this concrete. I do have to wash this sign as I can see. I have to do that when I get to the shop next. Another flag at the back corner here. The other two binders are on this side so the two inside chains or binders are bound to this side of the trailer. The other ones are to that side. That's pretty much it. Tri-axle trailer. That's the load guys. We're ready to go. About to pull this thing onto the interstate. I-35 northbound. It's going to bring us up to the 494 on the south end of Minneapolis and we're going to head around the city to meet up with I-94 westbound. We'll see how far we get before the sun goes down. We're near the town of Monticello, Minnesota. The Speedway, I think it's a call, yeah, Speedway truck stop. This is where we're going to call it tonight. I'm the only one festive enough to have his lights on or everyone else is just sleeping. Thanks for joining me today everybody. I'm just walking the weasel here and I'm going to sleep too, turning the lights off for the night. We'll see you tomorrow. The journey home. We're about six and a half to seven hours from home. We'll do that tomorrow.