 Hey everybody, how's it going? I hope you're doing well, and I honestly mean that I Want to let you know that this video was filmed on Monday the 16th and Usually I wouldn't make a little message like this at the beginning, but our world is changing pretty much by the hour so the topics that I'm talking about and And Everything that's going on in my life in this video right now May be old news to you and things may have completely changed already So just keep that in mind as you watch today's vlog once again, I hope this video finds you in good health and We're all in this Pandemic together Keep getting these videos out to you as quickly as I can And I'm gonna keep trucking through this so hope you guys have a Have a great day and enjoy this video These uncertain times good morning everybody Karen says good morning as well It's my GPS for you newcomers She's a very talkative woman. She likes to talk a lot. She's gonna yell at me in a bit here So it's a Monday morning when I'm filming this we're headed out on a trip. We're headed towards British Columbia We have a load of ATVs behind us, and I think I have about 10 or 12 stops on the way So we got a couple in Manitoba. We all want to Manitoba or we're gonna do that one third. I Know we're gonna go to Saskatchewan first but our first drop in Carlisle Saskatchewan And I believe we got one in Moosman Come back into Swan River Manitoba Oh the tow truck broke down. Oh the tow truck is gonna call a tow truck But we got a couple in like I said Manitoba Saskatchewan We got a couple in Alberta, and then we end off in British Columbia around Kelowna I believe so we're going all across Western Canada on this trip or with this load You know a whole bunch of trips So far when I'm filming this it's business as usual across Canada. I Know all across other parts of the world people are losing their minds Just want to assure you we have a good supply of toilet paper And you watch this I don't know if that's still gonna be a thing or not But you never know people panic about this and they panic about that and they go and buy toilet paper Because that makes sense So we actually didn't go and buy any more than we usually would it was we stopped up on food in the house So that we have about two or three weeks of food in case if Things start to go crazy like they are in Italy or anything something like that Hopefully by the time you watch this again things have started cooling off and not got worse But I really think it's overblown It's a serious thing that you got to take seriously But I think the media is also making it a lot and they're causing people to panic over something That's it's not the common flu, but it's it's like a little worse than the common flu You really got to worry about passing it on to seniors and pregnant women and children right? You don't know what we're talking about. We're talking about the beer virus. I Can't say it on YouTube or they'll demonetize me Not allowed to talk about it Only authoritative news sources are allowed to make you panic. I'm not allowed to make you panic So I'm gonna try to calm you down and say we'll get through it. Okay? It's a good time to remind everybody of things that they should already know wash your hands Don't touch your face Maybe avoid contact with your well physical contact with your grandparents for for a couple of weeks Just fill everything blows over, you know Maybe if you got a friend who's pregnant, maybe just hold off on getting together for coffee for a couple of weeks have like a Video chat or something right and do make sure that you got enough food in your house for your family for a couple of weeks Just in case if things go south like if they go really bad and they shut down like Me they shut me down then, you know, it's bad because Truckers we keep everything moving right we keep food on the shelves Right now. I'm keeping a TV stock. So that doesn't really have anything to do with anything But they do shut me down food for your family for about three weeks Maybe a month my mom's got always got food in her in her house for like two months for like a family of 50 And we've got enough food for a while Hopefully you guys are all healthy watching this if you're not Our prayers are with you. Hopefully you recover quickly over passes by quickly This is it's getting a little bit crazy and I said you don't want people to blow it off. It's nothing It's a serious thing, but you also don't want people to do what they're doing now. It's just insane I can't really speak for the people in Italy. It looks pretty bad there. So They know better than I do maybe listen to what they're saying For as long as they let me I'm gonna keep trucking try to keep things on the shelves stocked low risk because I'm pretty isolated I'm in the truck by myself here. I only see one or two people every day So I'll be okay. You don't got to worry about me. I got to worry about you I got to make sure your shelves are still stock so Let's keep the truckers moving So I'm sorry you've been staring at this window for so long already this morning We're on the south side of Winnipeg Manitoba. We're headed west like I said earlier our first drop is in Carlisle, Saskatchewan I'm gonna get as many done today as we can and hopefully be done this load by the end of this week I'm gonna need to get some more washer fluid though guys. It's messy out here Yeah, I need to get some new wipers. These wipers do more smearing than anything. Look at this guy. This guy's getting towed On a trailer. That's different Fascinating never seen that before Other tow truck buddy back there who needs the help too. There's like a gallon of washer fluid. It's been five minutes 800 meters slide right on highway two No Slight left into Tim Hortons. That's what you meant to say. I'll forgive you So we're in oak bluff the SO They got a Timmy's here. Oh Look at this. They got new gas or gas. They got new fuel pumps here for the trucks Even though all these guys over on the left are blocking them because they're too lazy to walk from the actual parking lot back there To get their food and their timmies. It's tempting. It's tempting just to park here I know Nice that they put that canopy over it though now. That's nice I just wish people would stop parking over there The only reason they park there is because they want to walk inside and they don't want to walk from back here I've done it before too, but not that bad. There's a couple of trucks that could park big park one two Yeah, two or three trucks there But there's always more people that want to pile in there and then they block everything for everybody. Oh Well, oh well, at least they got a canopy now, right fancy Very fancy I did not line myself up right. Oh boy Line myself to back right up into that reefer trailer I'm gonna do a little bit of this a little bit of that do a little bit of just been here just been there Perfect. Now we're pointing in the right spot I'm gonna park back here in a parking spot and walk all the way in like a decent human being who doesn't want to Inconvenience anyone wanting to get fuel I'm just joking. You're all decent in the beans But you do gotta use a little bit of common sense. Okay, I'm gonna be a little hard on you a little bit there Okay, you gotta use a little bit of common sense you're blocking the pumps there guys. Come on Check this out They're running transmission lines from the tower on the left of the tower way over on the right and they're using a helicopter to pull it That's cool It's got the highway closed now while they're In the middle of this but ha clean the window here for you So that's how they do it Imagine being that helicopter pilot. I bet you he's getting paid a shiny penny. Oh, he's probably getting a couple of dimes Wow That's so cool. That's so cool. That would be so much fun. Imagine that was your job. I guess while he's Doing that we just got to wait here You see him over there? Where's the cable coming from? That way somewhere Fascinating That makes sense. I always wondered how they did that. I Think this is what they call the sura scale It's on highway two here anyways in southern Manitoba Never actually gone through here, but they're open today. So here we are Thought they'd be closed, you know with this whole virus going around and stuff You don't want to see that many people go home stay home, you know, we shouldn't gather in groups of people even if it's just me and you I'll see what there's a Axel He's in there looking at my numbers Slide right on highway two and then keep to the right in 100 meters Looking at my straps looking at my load looking at my lights looking at my tires Thank you very much. You are my friend I'm here in turn left We got the go ahead. We got the DOT approval got my Tim Hortons And I sanitize my lid. Is that weird? what there's one thing that this virus going around has Really brought to light and brought to the front of my mind is personal hygiene cleanliness and germs. I Was always sort of the guy that sort of said oh, whatever germs won't kill you that just make you stronger I asked my wife it drove her nuts. She likes everything to be clean and I just Didn't really care. I mean I preferred it if it was clean, but I never really understood It's okay. It was a little bit of dog hair a little bit of dust. I'd never hurt anybody what But now I understand that with this virus going around that it's very contagious that me just going into Tim Hortons if anybody in there had this COVID-19 and Wiped their nose. Let's say if they had a or like I Don't know got some of their bodily fluids from their tongue or their nose on their hand or whatever you know sort of wiped it on the counter or You know touch something or wiped it on their pants and their pants rubbed against the counter and then I rub the can You know how germs spread right? It's very easy to spread and then I have those on my hands, right? And then I come to my truck and I get an itchy nose and I go I itch my nose right now those germs transferred From that person To the surface that I touched to my hand to my nose now. It's in my nasal system and it's going down into my lungs So it's maybe very health-conscious all of a sudden and I've completely finally come to the same page as my wife. I Want everything disinfected and clean. I have cleaned my whole truck and wiped my like my dashboard down here I've wiped this dashboard down three times today I've wiped down all the handles multiple times that I grab on to when I get in and out of the truck back here as well My door handle here that I'm always touching this here and that there my steering wheel of disinfected three times today I know it's a little bit of overkill, but I'm definitely gonna get into the habit of disinfecting my truck regularly every day Even after this virus is gone It's just a good idea. I finally understand why I'm 31 year I'm just about 32 years old. I finally understand germs Thank you for those of you who had faith in me who always believed in me that I would arrive to this point Here we are took a while, but We're here So every time I stop I've been wiping down different services, right now to me wiping down services before would Pretty much just mean that I was wiping the dust and the dirt off it right the visible things Like if it was dirty like this here. I haven't wiped this down yet I'm not gonna touch it right now, but you can see it's a little bit dirty right there Usually I would wipe that down just when I see dirt just to get the dirt off it to make it clean, right? It's actually not why you wipe things down you wipe things down with disinfectant to kill the germs and bacteria that I've built up on here Because once like let's say I reach in here to get my paperwork. I had some germs on my hand I touch that and then I leave them up there and Bacteria multiplies like every 20 minutes. So even if just a few got on there, you know after a few days There's millions all over here all over here and then I touch it again And then I itch my nose or I lick my fingers after I eat a donut without washing my hands and those are now in my body Freaky stuff right little buggers little tiny little guys Scary stuff and you know most germs you don't have to worry about because our bodies have an immune immunity to them Right some germs actually help keep our immune system strong So you don't want to kill all the germs all the time But now that we have something new in the world that our bodies have no immunity to that's completely new that somehow Magically just popped out of nowhere Hmm now now it's like I think about it more right because I don't want I don't want to get sick I'm young enough and healthy enough that I'd probably get over it the COVID-19 is supposed to it's supposed to be like a really really bad flu and Lot of congestion chest congestion It sort of attacks your lungs and it can cause fibrosis at the lungs So it can get serious if it gets bad, but chances are you know within a week it would pass through my body and I'd be fine again But in that week and in the week prior to that while it's incubating whatever you call incubating You know what I mean? I'm touching things. I'm you know hugging my family shaking hands You know as how they say kiss some hands shaking babies all over the place And all those people are now could be infected So it's crazy how contagious this is and I think people are panicking a little too much I'm gonna get on the bandwagon and tell you you don't need a lifetime supply of toilet paper. You need food Okay, and Necessities toilet paper is not a necessity That's weird that people are going for the toilet paper but besides that it's I Think it's really bringing the world and a lot of people like me around the corner to the table of hygiene not just taking a shower not just you know Making sure everything's neat and gotten a dirt on it to actually you know disinfect surfaces that you touch regularly and Just try not to be a carrier of germs. I don't want to be a germaphobe Don't worry. I'm not gonna become a germaphobe, but you sort of got to be a little bit in this day and age with COVID-19 going around You got to be a little bit of a germaphobe because I just don't want to be down for a week even if I heal and like Get through it and I can self-quarantine and I don't spread it to anybody. I still don't want to be down for a week I'm I need to keep moving my biggest fear is that they're gonna shut everything down. They're gonna shut down our work They're gonna shut down all the manufacturing and I won't have a job and a lot of other people won't be able to go to work That's my biggest fear right now because it me like most Canadians We sort of lift check-to-check. We're sort of We're doing all right. We're doing better than a lot of people, but I'm definitely not rich I'm definitely not wealthy We have everything under control, but you know if we shut down for eight weeks or something like that Even two weeks like that would really hurt Eight weeks would devastate us. We would be in the tank. We'd be bankrupt like after eight weeks. No work That's two months. I can't I can't afford that. I Can maybe do two weeks if it was absolutely positively necessary, but then That's it like we got to get back to work and work hard hard hard after that and It's that's the thing. I'm worried about most people panicking and government's panicking and Going a little too far But we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens for now I'm enjoying a cleaner than average trucker Josh truck, and it's been very nice It smells like cleaners in here So this here is the western part of my province Manitoba Or headed north so so sketch one the border of the sketch was just off toward left a few dozen miles We're headed north up towards Swan River right now That's where we're gonna make our delivery tomorrow morning I'm trying to get a bunch done. I got a few in Saskatchewan to get done And then a few in Alberta and a few in BC. I'm gonna try to get them all done by Thursday on Thursday It's Monday today when I'm filming so See how it goes we'll see how it goes Odes are a little slippery right now. I'm taking her a little easy Got a lot of wind coming out of the West again. It's just been brutal all day today fighting the wind again Truck is concerning me a little bit again. I Think after this month, I'm gonna bring it into the shop and get it an overhead Overhead adjustment on my truck get them to check my injectors because they're getting pretty old I also got to change the fluid in my transmission as I got one of these sissy automatics I know Which means I got to change my transmission fluid every so and so often I think mine might be a little overdue. I'm gonna go check on it anyways because I bought this truck And I don't have maintenance records on me right now. They're They have them, but they're in a file Oh So I got to check on that I think I got to get my transmission fluid changed and Yeah, like I said an overhead adjustment and check my injectors I Had my engine light pop on a couple of times is very very briefly It goes on and then it goes off right just like it was before it was worrying me it's been concerning me but I learned how to Figure out the code now of what the fault is because I go into my engine faults in my computer here And it says there's no faults, right? So it's it's something that's just barely triggering it And then it goes away barely triggers it then goes away so I was able to catch the code and The code was for injector cylinder one That's what's giving me my fault every you know, but once a week or so it's popped on and then it goes off right away My truck has been I Think that it it's not running at full capacity full power So I think the the overhead adjustment and maybe we might need to replace the one injector I think that'll help quite a bit with my engine And it's time to get it checked anyways. This has got 1.1 million kilometers on there That's probably about 700,000 miles. It's time to start doing this. You know high mileage maintenance. I Also got to get them to check my carrier bearing on my drive shaft Feel a little bit of a vibration when I'm pulling hard sometimes at certain speeds Feels like it's coming from under my cab and I went under there and checked my drive shaft carrier bearing and bearing itself looks good It's tight But the rubber mount that's around it Is it has a little bit of play inside its little frame? And I don't think it's supposed to have any play at all I can move it about like an eight to a quarter inch or something Like that's how much the drive shaft can move Maybe just a hair, right? I don't think it's supposed to be able to do that. I'm gonna get my driveline checked out as well I'm not too happy but having to bring it back to the shop so soon after the last repair That's why I'm trying to like, you know Wait till the end of the month at least till some money comes in But the trucks running well right now. I mean no engine light no fault lights. No nothing but You know, we've got to keep this thing running. We've got to keep it tip-top shape We've got to go get it checked out. I'm gonna bring it to Volvo in Steinbach And see what they see what they have to say to me because they got all the specific parts and technicians and computers to tell me How everything's doing I want to test out my engine Because like I said, I'm really excited to start looking into new trucks in the future It within the next year possibly maybe maybe get into your Kenworth But it might also be next summer 2021 That's the original plan or Maybe I'll hold on to this truck for another five years. I am back and forth Ask my family. I am so back and forth. You know what? There's advantages to both sides and I gotta just I gotta think on it some more Because I'm gonna go back and we're gonna think on it some more think on it pray on it I've got to see what what I should do. I could buy a brand-new truck Have warranty no problems for a while. You know, I've every mile on that truck mine authentic trucker Josh Miles Or I could hold on to this thing You know, it'll be paid off this time next year Hold on to this thing for a few years and rake in the money and put money away pay off some debt and then traded it, you know So many options in life so many life paths I could take and each path sort of leads me somewhere completely different But you can only take one you can only take one direction and when you meet a fork in the road You know, I take one direction and you can't go back Once you take what you decide on something, that's what you decided that you got to commit to it Think it out real good. I will end up in a new truck eventually. I'm just not sure when We're here in Swan River Manitoba Towns a little bigger than I remember it lives. They got three traffic lights Very nice impressive This is a little bit of a historic town in Manitoba as well every town's historic if you think about it They'll have a history Come on. Give me a green light. Give me green light, please. I see that. Yeah, there we go So when I go and park beside the co-op food store for night because that's the only place I can find Or I could park. It's just on the side of the street. It's right close to my customer My customer is right down Here I think Karen's gonna yell at me to turn right here You know what? Yeah, let's let's do it I wonder if I can park right here then Okay, so I gotta go to the street over Well, shoot that sign right there says no parking over three-quarter ton. I Guess they've had other people try this before All right then Fine, you don't like me. I'm too big. I'm too fat Very nice Find somewhere else to park now. You know I'm gonna park here for now until I find somewhere else to park. How about that? Sue me All right, bear with me people. We found a spot. There's a co-op card lock with truck parking What That's Google talking. That's not Karen. I just googled where I could park and I already got my signal on I know So we'll go find parking over there then they're moving to park here. I'm too fat I've never been so self-conscious in my life My fault I'm so heavy