 Good morning, my friends Welcome to the vlog. Hey, we're here getting unloaded in Calgary, Alberta beautiful beautiful Alberta They're building a Costco here you guys like Costco I like Costco if you shop at Costco and you ever shop at the new one that's being built in Southwest Calgary Thank a trucker Me and a bunch of other guys delivered the steel To build this building. That's pretty cool Costco is one of my favorite places to shop at man. You can get like a whole a whole pallet of dog food If you wanted to we did that once remember Remember that was fun Well, so I'm just sitting around here waiting my straps are all off the load already and I'm just Waiting for them to unload me here They took in one guy before me. He got in just before me. It's frustrating because I was first But he cut in front of me. That's okay. He's a really nice guy and talked to him. He's a new driver so Judging by his accent. He is of the midnight background just like me But hey, I don't want to judge maybe some other people talk like that, too. I don't think I really have a midnight accent I don't know You guys keep telling me I have an accent, but that's wrong. You're wrong wrong You have an accent. I talked perfectly normal. This is the perfect Queen's English right Apparently that's what the the the most proper way of speaking English is the Queen's English whatever that is I guess the English that the Queen speaks which would make sense because she's the Queen of England guess so I'm talking about nothing here already. I'm bored. Can you tell? Board board board just sitting here. Oh Well boom trucks coming. Are you coming for me? You coming for me? There he comes there he comes you see him see him. He's coming. He's coming Coming for me Come on Well big money big money. Come here. Come here. Come tell me to follow you We're just gonna drive past me like all the other boom trucks so far. Oh, he's coming for me. Yeah Right Okay, I can't see him from here. I guess I'll see him when I get around there, right? Okay, sounds good that guy is from Quebec All right, here we go We got to go down this big bump here. Oh Okay, I didn't take all of my straps off the trailer just so you know Took some of them off Should have clarified that before I Left enough fun to move it around the yard here the whole bunch of boom trucks So this is where it's gonna be Fascinating. It's amazing how they can build these massive buildings, you know hundreds and thousands of people Right here or do you want me? Okay. Oh, let's be back over there. Oh, okay. I see I see I Don't want to hit any of these spikes coming out of the ground That was incredible that took them literally less than five minutes to unload my entire trailer and I was definitely right They're all from Quebec. Well, that door is not all the way closed They had four boom trucks and They Lifted up the entire load one two boom trucks on each side of the load Lifted up the entire load. I just drove out from underneath them That was it less than five minutes. My whole load was done was done Incredible There was part of it. They're breaking it apart now Man, that was hashtag impressive. So yeah, they they bring all these workers in from Quebec I don't know why they wouldn't hire Albertan workers to work in Alberta. But yeah, these guys came all the way from Quebec Apparently they go all around the country building Costco's I Looked them like holy you're gonna take the whole load off at once again. That's the French way They're funny guys And now how can I get out of here without running over anybody running over anything? I'm gonna slow to creep this way. I can't hit any of those spikes Popping up there miss that Breathe very careful There we go. Yeah, they were straight like hours and three minutes of remaining drive time. Thank you They were like French of the French like they you could tell they were from deep Quebec deep where they didn't speak English A lot of them didn't speak any of this one or two guys there that could understand me half of what I was saying I Kept telling me gonna unload the whole load at once Why is this peg in the middle of this driveway now? Was that there before? Was that there before I don't remember that peg being there Why is that right in the middle of the driveway? I think you just put that there now. There we go. I got past it Well, that was the adventure for today These guys down here now are all waiting to unload after me. So I got to get out of here Very efficient though. I got to give them that Very efficient. Where's this guy going? I wonder if all of these guys from Quebec then like the entire The entire work crew here. Oh, you're gonna stop right in front of me. Okay. That's a good place to stop Sure, I'll wait no problem. No problem. Take your job. She's getting impatient That wasn't too bad, okay Work on your patience Josh Patience is a virtue There we go. Look I was saying they're very efficient. They get their work done quick here Here's another load of steel same stuff Wow, this building is gonna be up before you know it Hey, well if they had the same crew that goes around the country building the same building over and over and over again They make sense why they would bring them out here, you know, it's really quick. They know what they're doing They've probably done it dozens of times Truck a job. Why are you at fountain tire truck a job? You know that used steer tire What I bought Turned out it was a dud. It was garbage. I'm trying to back out of here right now. I don't want to just drive behind me It was garbage. It was completely out of round out of balance out of everything And I got charged $650 for a used tire with less than half tread. So I wasn't happy about that. So I Made my stink and I'm getting my money back for that tire and in the meantime. I bought a brand new tire for $725 $75 more and I got a brand spanking new tire Balanced and installed So now we just got to get out of here without hitting anything I gotta drop this trailer over there. What am I gonna do? I'm gonna back right on to the road. I guess I Guess that's what we're gonna do Come with me for an adventure backwards Maybe we can turn around here still I can't see that road I don't really want to back blindly. I can turn around here here. I'll take it a little wider here There we go, there we go So I got a B of Goodrich steer tire put on here on my passenger side All right spanking new I can't believe it was only $75 more than that used tire I bought So I'm taking that other used tire have it on my trailer behind me. I'm taking that back Getting my money back All right 46 minutes of remaining drive time. I want to go right Karen, why aren't you telling you which way to go? Gotta go to Edmonton Edmonton's this way. I'm just gonna turn this way So I'm gonna watch my bills very carefully because they asked me if I wanted to steer a used steer tire, right? I'm like, hey, all right. I trust you. You know I use steer tire Why not save some money my truck? Come on Karen. I'm telling a story my truck was in the shop anyway, right? I'm like, well, it's in there. Anyway, whatever saves some money get a used here I can replace it next summer, right? Did not work out No, it was Like I said, it only had had it had less than half tread left I thought used was like yeah, it has a few thousand miles on it Maybe a few ten thousand miles. I don't know. Oh, yeah, it was almost bald And I Guess whoever had it last The car coming now whoever had it last must have Hit a pothole with it or something or something anyway. I'm thinking there was probably a reason why they had that Used tire lying around right somebody else probably hit a pothole started complaining that the truck was shaking, right? Karen, let me tell a story. So they got the tire replaced left the tire there. They figured hey, it looks round Let's resell it right. I don't know if that's what happened or not. I mean, I don't want to accuse them of that Probably not what happened. I know the people and they're good people. So I don't think they would have done that a purpose But I'm still like Looking at them all, you know Spiciously 600 meters turn left on venture So do I think they knowingly gave me a bad tire? No No, but someone must have known at one point that it was a bad tire and somebody else forgot to label it A little bit of a frustrating Couple of days for me dealing with my truck because my truck was shaking so bad my coffee in my cup holder was spilling all over my Dash right and my seatbelt didn't want to unlock while going down the highway You're a noisy woman today Karen man. You like to talk ding and every you like to be noticed you like attention You like the attention don't you? That's a truck coming on my left. He's got a stop sign, too But anyways, we got a brand new steering out and it is glorious and it's beautiful just in time for winter Don't come too close buddy my trailer's got to make it around here I tell you what Karen all I'm trying to do is tell a story here and all you want to do is butt in This is my show This isn't the Karen vlog truck Josh vlog Throw you out the window Don't think that I won't fight you because you're a woman. I'll fight a woman. I just want to tell a story I don't care what you have to say stop complaining. I know where I am. Oh We're back in the left lane gang. We are smooth as silk This is some smooth sailing. Wow That fixed all my problems. All my anxiety is gone This tire is balanced and properly round as a tire should be I Don't like tires that aren't round. I've had way too many of those already in my career Why do they make so many tires not round? They don't work as good But like I said that tire probably hit a pothole On someone else's truck and then they gave it to me But man this is solved all the problems. We are just we're not getting you feel the road beneath me I'm just sort of like just floating over it just floating We have about three three and a half hours to Edmonton I wanted to stop at flying Jay, but now that I'd go get this new tire I'm probably not gonna get there before it fills up because the flying Jane Edmonton fills up very quickly They're usually full by like supper my six or seven That's beautiful So we're just at this At this whatchamacallit this petrol pass Already got my seatbelow. I'm not trying to put it on again It's Petropas rest area just north of Erdrey, Alberta just sort of north of Calgary You know, it's sort of a bummer Did I tell you already my bunk heater stopped working? I don't know if I told you it or not I've probably told you already. I always forget It means we're gonna idle our truck a lot more cost me money When I buy a new truck one day like a new new truck or my next truck I am putting a priority on Making sure it has an APU now a proper APU that means auxiliary power unit It's that separate little motor that runs on the side of the truck in front of the back axles. I Want the one that's going to also power my batteries warm my engine fluids And warm and cool my truck I want those four things and an APU like that costs about $12,000 Canadian so On my next truck, maybe So what it does then is you can have the truck off and it'll keep the truck warm for you And if your batteries get low, it'll turn on and charge up your batteries for you If it's hot in the summertime, you can turn it on it'll keep the cab cool And also if it's a really really cold night like up here in Canada like minus 30 minus 40 minus 50 minus 60 Okay, minus 60 kid anything under minus 30. You should leave your truck running anyways That's just you don't want things to sit in that temperature and especially if you want them to start in the morning But if it's a cold night and you want to keep your engine kind of warm So it's easier to turn over in the morning The APU actually runs warm fluids or it Circulates the fluids in your engine to keep it warm enough so that it doesn't freeze solid It's actually pretty cool It's just really expensive and it runs off diesel fuel and it burns a lot less fuel than having this truck idling all night And it's also cheaper to fix. I mean it's expensive. Yeah, but I Mean this engine to rebuild this engine's like $35,000 to rebuild It cuts so it's slid right into me calm down, buddy. It's icy out here Keep flying into the parking lot here and so it's slid right into me right in front of me right here crazy people First time driving in Canada Probably they just gave you a license as soon as you got here, right? Anyways So yeah, these APU units are very very handy So my next truck I'm gonna get that my next one Kenworth W 900 studio sleeper Get back out there. I got my coffee here. So I am happy. I'm a happy trucker got my coffee. Oh And I was guys pulling in here right when I'm this is the exit people everybody comes in this way Okay, well, he's gonna give me a room. All right The entrance is actually over to our right but Admittedly, I don't always use that either And it doesn't it's actually not even labeled. So I'm probably wrong Probably wrong. Don't listen to me Get out here Hit the road Jack. I Don't know who Jack is. I don't know if I even know any Jacks. Do I know any Jacks? I Know a Jake. I have an Uncle Jake My grandpa's name Well, my grandpa likes I mean my grandpa likes to go to a restaurant called Uncle Jakes But it's not my uncle Jake's restaurant, but I have an uncle Entrance to the left on All right, off we go. Oh It's so nice such a smooth ride. Oh There's no feeling like getting rid of a bad tire nice This is highway two takes you from Calgary to Edmonton apparently it's only minus five outside 95 kilometers feels more like minus 50 It's cold Down Karen you're still yelling at me 70 years quiet all day or any We're here at the Petro Pass and Atchison just west of the city of Edmonton I want to say the night here We've got to pick up in the northwest corner of Edmonton tomorrow 300 meters turn right on to six two three zero town 531 and then turn right into 170 meters. Oh, you're chatty today All right judging by how everyone's parked all over the place again doesn't look like there'll be a parking spot for me We're just gonna do a quick loop around the lot and if there is none then I don't know. Maybe I'll come park in front of this guy off on the right I don't know We can always go across the street to husky yet They need more truck stops in the Edmonton area You guys agree with me guys that come out here often I agree with me More trucks often and there's so many drop trailers. Holy Just from looking off to my left here to stop camera. Oh, why is there something drop trailers? That's so rude People like me need these spots and there's Bob tails taking up two spots here, too. I should back in behind them. I really should Two of the best spots in the parking lot Bob tails. They could have parked one behind the other No, take up two spots all these gravel trucks. They're like sleeping in their trucks. They just parked these trucks here overnight All the frustrations of finding parking so many people are just so Selfish and rude drop trailers Bob tails Hmm another drop trailer over there. Oh, there's no space here for us Wow Wow, this is packed again like really packed Well, no room for us at the end of the petrol pass. So we're gonna try our luck here at husky See what we can find here. Actually, you know, it's so now I don't know what it is. It's so husky because the pumps now say so the sign says so but Above the door right there in front of us now says husky I don't know Let's see what we can find This guy's in the pumps backwards. There's no good reason. It's not for de f either. It's just because he's in here backwards Good for him. Let's see you think I'll find any park in here You think there'll be anything for trucker josh What's this guy doing just parked here Blocking everybody anything waiting for the pumps. Maybe You're going in the pumps the wrong way bud Okay, some parking spots there parking spots. There's usually some kind of park in here This guy off to the left Blocked everybody in in the back here. So even if there's a spot there, I can't get in there. I'll have to back in from the other side Wow, what a mess. Look at these parking laws. Nobody seems to know how to park At least I can see some open spots here. So I'm just gonna see if I can find a good one And I'll talk to you guys when we're done Well, everybody, thanks for keeping up with me today. Thanks for watching We got a brand new steer tire for almost the same price that I paid for A half used one It was a good day Trying to get my bunk heater up and running here again. It's testing it out, but It doesn't seem to be working The fan starts the fuel pump starts, but it doesn't seem to be burning It's too bad I'll have to get that looked at as soon as I can I'll talk to you guys soon. Don't forget to subscribe. A new video is coming tomorrow A little bonus footage I got it working It's blowing hot air Right now. It's really hot Just the way it's supposed to But why wasn't it working before then? I don't know That's really weird. Yeah, it's working really well right now Let's try it down a little bit. It's getting hot in here See that's the heater down there the bastel heater apparently it still works. I don't know I don't know I have to fill around with it a little bit more to be continued