 Are you ready for date care, Chevy? Yeah? Play with all his friends today? What are you gonna do today? What kind of games are you gonna play? I'll tell you later, Zuleen. He's always so excited to go to date care. The whole way, he's just like shaking, he's so excited. And as we pull up, you saw him. He's whining, making all his squealing noises. And then you get him inside the door, and he acts all shy. Oh, she's remind. So, well, he's at my blind spot, even with my backup camera. Wasn't even close to backing into them, just. I like to know what all of my surroundings are before I start moving back. He's way off to the side. I didn't see her there till I was already moving. All right, freak me out a bit. So, now, Chevy's at daycare for the day. Old blue's going in for a full service. And then, if the full service can get done quickly, oh, buddy, you gotta wait till I get out. OK, sure. You drive through the ditch to get in. OK, that's all right. The driveway's only wide enough for one vehicle. We proved today that it could be stretched. Two vehicles. Yeah, I'm hoping after the service is done, if they can get it done in the morning. That's where our fingers crossed, that we can go over to KK Penner in town. And get my new drives installed today yet. And then, if we get all that done, hoping that we can get a load to get moving soon. Maybe even tonight or tomorrow morning. Need to get rolling. Thank you. Now we know what's going to be a good day. I get a little excited when I get my stuff at the Timmy's drive-through in the morning. I'm just like, yes! You want to be mature and cool but you don't want to scare people. So you're just quietly in your head. You're like, yes! Very excited. Very excited, but you've got to play it cool. Very excited. It's too hot right now. I've got to wait for it to cool down. All right, old blue. I know. I know. It won't be long. I'll see you later today. Hopefully this afternoon. I'm going to put some new shoes on you. Brand new. It's going to be great. I'm going to get my shoes on here myself. OK, outside shoes. Oh, let's turn all your lights off. OK, you look pretty with your lights on. But OK, I think I've got everything I need. I'm going to leave you in the good, capable hands here of the guys at PBX. They're going to take good care of you. Going to change out your fluids, your filters. Make sure everything else is good. And you'll be back with me before you know it. We'll get you your new shoes and we'll hit the road. Right? I'm sitting in the driver lounge, the waiting lounge at PBX. I was waiting for my truck to get out of the shop. They found another coolant leak that they're taking care of. So service done. Need this coolant leak fixed. I'm glad they found it. Because I had noticed that I had a leak somewhere but I didn't know exactly where. I knew it was coming from underneath the truck somewhere. But they found it. They're fixing that up right now. My tires are waiting over a KKPener just down the street. I've got to get there in 40 minutes. So I'm hoping that my truck is going to come out of the shop soon. I brought my camera to film with the GoPro. But I forgot the SD card. So we're filming on my phone right now. Excuse the bad audio. Samsung doesn't have very good microphones. So that's what I'm doing right now. I've got a load waiting for me in Kenora that I can pick up anytime tomorrow before 3 o'clock, before 2 o'clock. I want to get there as early as possible, though. So if I can at least get my truck out of here today. They're here till 6 o'clock, so I should get my truck back today. If I can't get my tires replaced today yet, we're going to go and get them replaced. First thing tomorrow morning. Get the new tires on there. And then we'll be off to Kenora, which that might work too. Because then I don't have to get a ride back from the tire shop. Because right now, I have to get my tires done and then go home and then Britt and I have got to come and pick up the pickup. Because I had to get here in the pickup later on. But if I come here tomorrow morning to get the tires done while I just stop by, get them done, then straight from there, I'll go get my trailer and then run straight to Kenora. That's the plan right now, anyways. It's actually a very nice rest area, or a driver lounge. Driver resting area. I like these lazy boy couches and chairs in here. Very comfortable. Once my truck is done, I believe it's going to be rolling right past these windows here. Just keep my look forward. At least we've got a plan, right? I'm going to get on the road, be picking up in Kenora, and then that load will be going to Brainerd, Minnesota. I'll probably deliver that the next day. Full blues in day four over there. They're just finishing up. Just tightening up the lug nuts, and we'll be out of here. We'll come back tomorrow for a retort. There it is. I asked them to be extra careful, because the rims have just been polished or something. There we go. Brand new shoes. So these are the tires that I got. It's nice that they're all matching again. Back in the shop with the new shoes. I think they're going to do pretty good. I like the tread. I went with closed shoulder, because I do mostly highway driving. It's a pretty good tread pattern, so I should have good traction in the winter as well. You can see it's picking up some rocks already. I'll pick those out when I get back to the shop. I think we'll be happy with them. We'll see how they do anyways, right? Had to go and pick up Chevy from Daycare real quick. You ready to go home? Mom's outside. The door, isn't she? Isn't she? Let's go home. Okay, okay. Future Josh, coming at you. Come a little closer. Come a little closer. We're friends, right? We're friends. I won't bite. There you go. So I'm a little ways into the future now when I'm finishing up this vlog, just to wrap it up for you. I wanted to wait a couple of days and give you sort of like a little bit of a review of the tires I bought after driving on them for a little bit. So I've got close to 2000 kilometers on the tires now. You'll hear me talking about them in the upcoming videos, my experience in the first 2000 kilometers. I don't know if it's just specific to these Black Hawk tires that I bought or if it's all drive tires, because it's not very often in your career that you'll buy a set of eight brand new tires. It happens. I shouldn't say it's not that often. It happens about every like two to three years, right? I should say it hasn't happened that often for me in my career yet because I've been in so many different trucks. I've driven company trucks. I've driven my own trucks. I've leased a truck. I've given it back. I've owned a truck. I've sold it. And now I've got old blue. This is my dream truck. I'm gonna keep this truck for as long as they make parts for it. So anyways, anyways, it's not that often that I personally have put on eight new drives. So I put eight brand new drives on virgin tires. What that means is that they haven't been used before. The alternative would be recap tires where they take an old tire and they like put a new cap on it. For those of you who aren't familiar with what that is, you can Google it if you want. What is a recap tire? The technology has come quite a long ways. I put recap tires on my Volvo that I had, unit 3062. And they did really well for me. The truck is still running. And another guy is driving it right now. Caten, my buddy Caten had it the other day. You saw it in my video. It's gone through those tires and they put on a new set of tires already. I've been doing this for quite a while so those tires have been replaced. But it's not too often that I put on brand new drives. So anyways, I put these drives on and I noticed very quickly that the truck handles very differently with brand new drives on. I felt a little wishy-washy on the highway. A little bit of as a truck driver, you get to know your truck, especially when you own your own truck. The truck becomes a part of you. Old blue is an extension of me. Old blue is a reflection of me. So these new tires I put on my truck could be a reflection of me. I bought the Jeep tires, Blackhawks. Almost. Now we're talking Canadian dollars, remember that. Almost $4,000 cheaper than putting on good use or Michelin's, like the big name brands. Am I nervous about doing that? Yeah, of course I am. I don't know anything much about Blackhawks. I've done my research, but I also need to buy a home for my family and with the housing market and conditions of Canada right now, it's over the last eight years, as I've been saying, is it's been getting harder and harder and harder and with Theo growing up quickly at home now, I don't want him to remember the house that we're in now. I want to buy the house that he's gonna grow up in before he even remembers his little house that we're in right now. We're planning on having more children in the future. We want to have three or four, that's our goal. And we're already, we're starting kind of late. Well, I shouldn't say we've started. We started on time, but our bodies are like, he's an IVF baby, so it took a little while to bring him into this world. And we're hoping to bring three, two or three more into this world yet. So I'm gonna need a bigger house. We've got this two bedroom little house. It's great for what we have now. We've done a lot of work to it, it's great, but we're gonna need a bigger house, right? So I need to make sure that I prioritize my family. You've heard me say it over and over again that there's nothing more important than family. That is what I live by, that's my creed. My family is the most important thing in my life. And I'm fortunate to work in a place that understands that. So when I say that my family needs something, they give me the nod and they say, all right, Trucker Josh, you go take care of your family. They don't call me Trucker Josh, that would feel weird. That would feel weird, I'm just Josh. On the internet here, sure, I'm Trucker Josh, but that's just to distinguish me from all the other Joshes, because there's a lot of us out there. Leave me a comment down below if you're in Josh as well. But you know, if I say, hey, my family needs me, they're like, no problem, Josh. Let us know when you're ready. So that's the most important thing to me, so I want to give them a better house. So that's why I decided to go with the cheaper tires, just to put that extra money away, as if I would have spent it, but put it away, put it towards the house. And we'll see what these tires do for me, because I'm hoping that per mile, the cost is the same, because sure, I saved almost $4,000 now. They'll probably last, they probably won't last quite as long as the name brand tires. Okay. So I'm gonna, I'm trying an experiment. My dad did the same thing. That's why I bought these Blackhawks, because my dad just put Blackhawks in his truck as well. And he told me the price. I was like, excuse me? How much? Sign me up. Gave me eight, eight tires. The price per tire was like $425, as opposed to almost $1,000 per tire. We'll see what happens. So anyways, for the first little while, I've noticed that these tires are a little bit, and I was thinking to myself, oh no, what have I done? I bought tires that are terrible. But then I had my good buddy Moses chime in, and a couple of you in the comment section as well, have sort of preempted it and said, hey, just so you know, for the first like 20,000 kilometers, expect a little bit of floating around as the tires get broken. Tires need to get worn in and broken for about a week or two or even a month until they start stabilizing. And it's only been 2,000 kilometers for me now, which is 1,500 miles or so somewhere in there. And they've already stabilized completely. All of that weird floating around I was feeling is pretty much gone already. So that made me feel a lot better. I was like, oh my, I just like spent all this money on these tires and I made a mistake. No, so far, I don't think it's a mistake. So far, so I bought these tires right when my truck rolled over to 3 million kilometers. I know my American followers, there's a lot of you, you speak in miles, 3 million kilometers is like 1.8 something million miles. But I'm gonna speak in kilometers because I'm Canadian. I hope you understand. So right when my truck rolled over 3 million kilometers is when I replaced my drives. So I can use my odometer to tell exactly how many miles or how much mileage is on the tires. So I'll let you know how they do. I'll let you know when I replace them again because me and old blue, we're gonna be together for a long, long time yet. I'm gonna keep rebuilding her and restoring her. I have plans to completely restore the entire truck's body, paint and engine. I don't think I'll have to do the engine for a while because the engine's doing really good. And it was just redone a couple of years ago. We'll keep this truck on the road for a long, long time yet. So I'll let you know how the tires do. Leave me a comment down below, give me a thumbs up if you liked the video. If you didn't like the video, hit the thumbs down button twice. I'll see you tomorrow. 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