 Hi, my name is Ken Durant, and I'm from Calvary, Alberta, Canada, and I'm also a trucker. And you are watching Trucker Josh Vlogs. Chevy's very excited because diesel's very excited. What else? Can you sit? You sit? Diesel can sit. So diesel's coming with me on my first regional trip. I'm not in the Kenworth yet. I'm in the Volvo, but diesel's coming with on this trip because that truck hadn't been detailed in a long time. So I'll clean it when I'm done. And Chevy seems to think he's coming too. You wouldn't like it, buddy. He's like 15 minutes out and then you'd be scared because his mom isn't there. Or are you just upset that I'm taking diesel for a nice one night, Chevy? You're taking his diesel? My diesel is my friend. My brother. It's interesting how they know when something's happening. Okay, chef. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm ready. It's another rainy day out, too. But our apple tree's blossoming. Nice, eh? It's always nice in spring when it does that. Diesel, you're not going in the mud, are you? Diesel? You be a good boy, Chevy. You take good care of mom, okay? Don't cry, buddy. You can stay with mama in the littles, okay? Keep her safe. Oh, Chevy, no, no. You're going to stay. Chevy, you stay. Chevy, you stay. Sorry, buddy. Okay, let's not make this harder than it has to be. Bye, Chevy. I'll be back tomorrow, okay? Tomorrow. Love you. Love you. Hopefully our next trip will be in old blue. Hopefully the decals don't take too long to get here. The decals. The decals. Got to get them on the doors on the side before we can take a trip with it. Might put temporary ones on if we have to. But we'll be together soon, okay? Look at me like that. I don't want to drive her. I don't want to drive the Volvo. He doesn't know me too well yet. He's not too sure of me because I got this Volvo out here right in front of him. He's getting kind of nervous, but don't worry. Look at this. I'm 5'10". Look how high this grill is. I'm standing as straight as I can right now. 5'10". That's a big grill. Cool thing about this truck, which was another bonus. I forgot to tell you in yesterday's video. I wasn't expecting this, but check that out. That's pretty cool. That was a big bonus. And I haven't shown you guys the horns yet. It's the best part, obviously. Got the two air horns up there. And don't worry. I have this funny feeling that there's going to be a bit of an upgrade in that department. Not too far in the future. But we don't need to worry too much about it because these are pretty nice already. It's up all blue. It's me again. I know we're getting to know each other. You've got to get to know my scent. Okay, ready for this? It's going to be kind of loud in here because I'm inside the shop. So headphone warning, all right? Okay. Made my day. I'm a kid. I know I'm a grown kid. So whenever you see me on the highway and you got your kids with you, or if you want to do it yourself, I don't care. Make sure they give me the arm pump, okay? I'm just looking for an excuse to honk those things. Okay. Let's go to Saskatoon. Saskatoon. See you soon. Your interior lights are going to go off, right? Of course before we go. All tucked in, safe and sound. Geez, how's it feel to be back in the saddle, man? Can you sit? Can you sit? Of course you can. Good boy. You got a little carpet there to sit on. Yeah. So we got our paperwork. It's trailer 509. I'm not sure if they left it tied down or not. I'm pretty sure they didn't. So probably I've tied it down here yet. That's usually how it goes because when I was a city driver, I know how it goes. This was brought in from the state somewhere, either Iowa or something like that. I'll have to check the paperwork here a little. It's going to Saskatoon though. Let's go find it and hook up. We got all the straps thrown over, all the protection in place. Always use protection. Let's tighten it up and get going. Right diesel before we go though. Want to go for a little walk? Brought his stairs with, of course. Good boy. Good boy. Those are called pet loader and you can find them on Amazon. If you're wondering. It's the weekend so I can let them run around. It's a fenced in yard here as long as you clean up after your dog. But during weekdays and when the forklifts are operating in the yard here, you got to have your dogs on a leash. Nobody's around right now though. So just me and him. Want to stretch his legs a bit. Hey diesel, this way come. Come on. Going without you bud. Got to go to the driver's room. Come on diesel. Another driver's room. Check it out man. I'll be right back. You ready to rock and roll diesel? Ready to go trucking. Let's go see what Saskatoon's got going on. Go see some cows. Cows are his favorite. Awesome. Come on. Up up up. 13 hours and 0 minutes of remaining drive time. Aye aye. So we got Karen with us here. And Miss E-Log here. Both telling me what to do. Can I control the the bunk fan from here? I should be able to. Yeah there we go. There we go. Okay we're ready to rock and roll. Karen says it's 861 kilometers to our destination. We have to deliver this load. 7.30 am sharp tomorrow morning. Let's roll out. First trip on regional for me. And I'm looking forward to hopefully the next trip when I get to say it's the first trip in the Kenworth. It would take us about 9 hours to get there. We've got some trucking to do. Volvo trucking. Are you diesel? At least he's comfy back there. You ready diesel? I was born ready man. She's born for this. There's Karen. Yelling at me already. This is a pretty nice truck though. Okay I bugged Volvo a lot but it's a good truck. Don't take me too seriously. Friendly banter. Looks like we are clear. In this lane. There we go. Stay so high up. They need to be adjusted so that they stay down tomorrow. Oh well. Not a problem. Not a big problem. Little problem. How's it feel Diesel? Sounds like this motor is struggling man. I think you need a bigger motor. I agree. Good thing the Kenworth's got a bigger motor. I don't have any problems pulling with that thing. Just stop to check the load here. This is that little pull out. On the east side of Brandon. Brandon is just down that way. That's the way we're going. Same way as this guy. Missed the sounds of the highway. All that sound. This is a little rest area here. Figured I had to stop to check the straps and everything. And while we're here. I know there's a little trail in here. Stay out of the long grass Diesel if you can. I'm hoping not to pick up any ticks in here. We're going to go for a walk because we're trying to make this a habit again. When we're on the road I want to get in shape and I want to start walking every day again. And this is one trail that I went down a couple of years ago. It goes around over here through the bush and comes back out behind the truck over there. He has his tick medication for this summer already. Not too worried about him getting any wood ticks. Any of them that latch on to him will just die and fall off. We still want to be careful. That's why I have him on the leash here right now. I thought of letting him just run down the trail. He'd be fine. But I don't want him getting a whole bunch of ticks. We're going to try to stay on the path. But look at all this wood. You see that? Why is it like that? Diesel just stay here for a sec. Look at this. Down here is darker and then suddenly it gets lighter up there. Almost like the bark has been peeled off all the way up all of these trees. Not on this side but over here. Weird. Right? So I got my app called Map My Fitness running right now. It has GPS tracker. It will follow me on here and tell me exactly how far we walked how many calories I burned. That's the app that I use to lose so much weight for our wedding. The wedding was in 2017. And I lost all of my weight. It was in 2017. I think I lost 40 pounds, right? 30 or 40 pounds that year. I gained it all back. Plus some. So this summer we're changing things up. Me and Diesel are hitting the road again. Not going too far but we are hitting the road again. And we've got a nice truck that we're going to be rolling down the highway with. I want to make sure that when I get out of the truck it stops. I matched the truck that I look good too. So we're going to do this. I'm just going to walk. He needs to get in shape a little bit too. He's been a little spoiled at home. It's a smaller yard. It's a nice little nature trail in here. I miss this. I feel like I'm exploring again. Getting out into nature. Seeing the world a little bit again. Diesel, can you get out of there? Is that a squirrel? Caught me off guard buddy. You leave this squirrel alone, okay? I'm alone. What you got walking to do? See it goes around there, the path. And that way. And then back out that way. I want to do this every day. I want to stop every day. And what did I do last time? I walked at least, I made it my goal to walk three miles a day. For five kilometers. Nothing similar now. The trail goes that way too. We'll see where that goes next time. I know where this one goes. A little bit muddy. Everything's muddy out here. Manitoba is very wet this spring in 2022. But everything's turning green. It's beautiful, right? No Diesel, no. Stay on the path. No, stay on the path. There's the truck down there. Diesel, stay out of the puddles. There's the truck, right there. We're almost back. Here it is, man. Trailer 509, that's us. Oh, that thing's just giving her. Here we are. Okay, we did the wood tick check. Checked Diesel. Best I could. I had one on my neck. I don't know how it got on me. I stayed on the trail the whole time. He wandered off a couple of times. I had to keep calling him. Stay on the trail. I didn't have any ticks. How did I get one, man? I didn't latch on or anything. It was just crawling on my neck. Hopefully that's the only one. All right, lights on. Let's go. Come on, Volvo, let's go. Let's go to Saskatoon. We have another 650 kilometers or six and a half hours or so of driving. Or maybe somewhere around there. There's like a little rest area in here and stuff. That guy drove past me like five times. I was wondering if he's going to come say hi to me or not. If you were going to, then hi. There they are. See little rest areas in there. Nothing fancy. One kilometer turn left on highway 464. That pickup behind me just vanished. Where did it go? What? Did it drive down the trail? Just vanished. Let me get back on that highway there. And head into past Brandon, into Saskatchewan. No need to stop for Timmy's today because I brought coffee from home for today. I think I meet up with the road over there somewhere. I thought there was a driver. A driveway closer by here, I guess not. Haven't been here in a little while. We made it Saskatoon and you may recognize this guy. I did it. There you go. From an intro not too long ago. A wandering bearded idiot. This is our friend Adam. I wandered. He's been one of Britt's friends actually for over 15 years I think. Yeah. And he was one of her best friends growing up if not her best friend. And now I'm stealing him. Now he's mine. I'll take it. I talked this over with Britt. She wasn't happy. Yeah, man. Saskatoon here. We're going to chat for a bit and then head off to bed. Not bad lighting in this truck. Whoa, it's not fall over now. It's been a long day driving. I'm going to edit my video right here. This is my editing station for tonight. There you go. I'm going to put this all together for you so you can watch it tomorrow. Have a great one everybody. The first day back has been awesome. I'm looking forward to getting back to old blue. But for now, Diesel and I are going to enjoy our night here in the Volvo. It's actually ran really nice all day. It's a really smooth running quiet truck. If this is what you're looking for, if you're looking for highway comfort the Volvo is a great truck. I poke fun at it all the time. I'm supposed to do that. I'm a Kenworth, yeah. Kenworth Peterbilt to the bone. But these are great trucks if that's what you're looking for. So Diesel, let's say good night. Good night everybody. Lights out. Lights out. Turn the lights off, man. Turn the lights off. Time for bed. Thank you.