 Welcome to the Trucker Josh vlog page, where you can follow me and my best friend Diesel day by day as we travel across all of Canada and the United States. This is Real Reality TV coming at you on YouTube. Hit that subscribe button and follow our journey. We're leaving Appleton, Wisconsin, headed down to Delevan, Wisconsin, picking up from where we left off in yesterday's vlog. Welcome back. This van, just to our right, oh she's exiting the freeway, yes. Your van has cruise control. Someone needs to tell her. She doesn't know. Ten minutes, speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down. And she was in the center lane, so I'd go to the right lane, try to pass her, she turned into the right lane. I'd go to the center lane, try to pass her, she turned into the center lane. It's like she was messing with me. Anyway, she's gone now. It's a new day. How's it going guys? We're going to go pick up some kind of generator, I think, down in Delevan, I think. Something, and that's going up to Fort Francis, Ontario, which is about a full day's drive north from here, just across the border into Canada, straight north of Wisconsin. And from there, apparently, I have a reload in Canora, Ontario that's taking me back to Indiana. So that is the plan. Now we are rushing to get down to our shipper to make sure that we have plenty of time to get there, get loaded, get tied down, and get moving again. Thanks for joining. Hey, don't forget to subscribe. The channel's Trucker Josh Vlogs on YouTube. Don't forget to subscribe, all right? Helps me out a lot if you do that. This is Fort Atkinson, Fort Atkinson, just about to our reload. Get to the next town over. Old historic district here. Pretty cool. I wish I had my motorcycle with me. I just love to cruise around these old towns, take a look at everything. There is a way of doing that, but this truck doesn't have the space for it. Maybe one day, if I ever get the truck I want, I can add a motorcycle rack behind the bunk, where you drive up one side and it locks in place, and then you drive down the other side. I'll check out the little shops and stuff on Main Street here. Look at these old churches. I sure don't build them like they used to. That's beautiful. It's amazing that all the trees here are already budding. Well, not just budding, they're already like fully green. We're not that far south from Canada. Look at how green the grass is here. Wow. It's amazing how quickly the climate changes as you head south. We're like right on that line in Southern Canada, we're like right on that line right before it gets better. We get all the cold bad weather. All right, so it's one of these guys. It's a 10-foot generator this. Oh, and there's a bit of a lineup back there. I wonder if I just go get in the lineup, or I'm going to go and talk to them in the office first. I'm sure I got a lot of these generators here. I just took one, one little one. That's it. It's all easy to tie down, we'll chain down, and we're on our way to Ontario. One generator. I guess whatever it takes to keep me moving, I guess, all of these guys are still working here. I wonder if I can sneak behind them, or if you'll get mad. I don't really want to go through all this mud, because I'll just sneak behind them here. I just washed my truck. Just washed my truck. It is what it is, I guess. So that's it. It's the whole load. I guess we'll take what we can get, I guess. Hopefully this load I'm picking up in Canora is going to be a little bit bigger than this. I can't imagine they're paying full truckload just for one generator. But if they are, hey, that's awesome, I need to find out how much this pays. They didn't tell me yet. Maybe they have a reason for that. Well, whatever their reasons are for not telling me right away how much the load pays, better than going empty, because I get percentage. I like it when they tell me what to expect, so I know what kind of loads to expect or what kind of pay to expect. But very rarely they just send me a load offer and it doesn't have any numbers attached to it, and I've got to ask them for it. What is this going to pay me? Are they afraid I'm going to say no? Maybe. A lot of drivers out there would just say no. Me, as long as I keep moving, if there's honestly no other better load for me to take, yeah, I'll take it. I'm not going to sit here and argue with them. I want to keep moving. Arguing takes time. I want to keep moving. And whatever load's waiting for me in Canora is taking me all the way to Indiana, so this will just get me into Ontario. Well, here we are. Night has fallen. It came pretty quick. It's cold. We're up here in Northern Wisconsin right now. And I just stopped for one last coffee of the night. I got about another two or three hours to go yet, depending on how far I feel I can make it. And this poison ivy is making a comeback. It's so itchy right now. Just had to put some treatment on it so that it's not as itchy so I can withstand it and not to keep on going down the road. It got pretty cold pretty quick up here in Northern Wisconsin. I'm not too sure what town this is that we're in, but we're about 180 or 150 miles south of Fort Francis in Wisconsin. A lot of these trucks are Canadian trucks here. Can I get out this way? I've never been here before. I think I can go this way. It's so dark back here. They got no lights, besides these bright neon blue lights. There we go. All right, let's continue. Got a bit of a long way to go yet. I'd like to get into Canada so that I don't have to stop for as long of a night. The US here, we have to stop for a 10 hour rest break for night. In Canada, you only have to stop for eight hours. See what we can do. Minnesota, we just crossed out of Wisconsin into Minnesota here. I'm guessing we're going to cross back into Wisconsin very soon, I think. Oh, wait, no, we're not crossing from Wisconsin into Ontario. We're crossing from Minnesota into Ontario. Oh, it's Minnesota. Wisconsin, we're going to do some hunting, some deer hunting. 10, 15 minutes down the road, and I'm pulling off into a rest area. Had to hit the brakes a couple of times already. Two deer jumped on the road right in front of me. I've seen dozens in the ditches already on Bolsa. There's another one on the right. Looks like I've found a truck stop here. A little earlier, a little sooner than that rest area. No idea where we are or what town this is, but hey, this is our home for tonight. I see a couple of trucks parked back here. Yep, I'm going to park back here too. Too many deer on the road, just too many deer. I know, Diesel. I know, we're going to sleep here tonight. So I've come to the conclusion that what I have is not poison ivy, it is poison oak. I have it covered with calamine lotion right now, so it looks disgusting. You see how it's pulsing nonstop? I have to keep dabbing it clean. Now that I know that it's poison oak, it's pretty much the same as poison ivy. It's just a little bit more severe. It's a little bit, it pusses like this. Poison ivy doesn't necessarily pus, it could blister up, but poison oak, it's like it sweats. It's almost like this little part of my arm is just sweating all day, constantly beating out and then it like drips off if I don't dab it clean. I know it's a little disgusting, but it might get a little worse tomorrow yet before it gets better. It usually goes downhill or goes uphill, however, that's the downhill uphill debate again that we had when we were in Saskatoon there. Where's my idol not going up? There it is. So it could get worse yet. Usually it takes about a week for it to reach its peak and then it usually disappears after that. At the most it could last two weeks. So we're on day what now? When did we transplant those trees on Thursday, right? So it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. We're on day four right now, so six, seven. Probably wouldn't have the three days of this yet. My body is usually pretty good at fighting things off. I have pretty good health. I've been blessed with really good health in my life and I'm thankful for that. So my body should be able to fight it off within the next few days, but it's like it just develops big blisters and then they just ooze. It's not even that itchy. This part here isn't itchy. It's the little bumps all around it that I have Calamine lotion on. It looks like paint. That part's itchy if I don't have the lotion on it. But with the lotion on it's not so bad. And it's not contagious at this point either. All of this, the pus oozing out of here and the rash itself is not contagious at this point. It's only contagious when you have the oil directly off the plant, leaves, stem, or roots and I got it off the roots because we dug up underneath those trees and obviously there was some poison oak roots in there and I went underneath it with short sleeve shirts like a moron and picked up those trees and carried them and put them on the back of the truck and then put them, as we transplanted them and obviously I like picked it up right by the poison oak root. So I'm lucky that it's only here. It's only on my arm. It's not on my face, not on my neck. It's not on my legs. It's not on genitals or anything like that, not on my feet. It's just the worst of it is right here. And then the rest of this is just little itchy bumps. I got little itchy bumps down the side here and everything too, not too bad but that is the worst part right there and that's not too bad of a spot to have it. If you think about it, I can hold my steering wheel. I can go about my day without really noticing it because this part here isn't itchy. It's just annoying that it oozes. It's gross but other than that I feel great, I feel fine. I'll get past it, whatever. It's not that bad. It looks worse than it is. I've had it once before in my life. I've had poison oak once before. Then I had it everywhere. I had it all over my feet and everything. I was a kid back then. Yep, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna wrap it in gauze for night again. I wish it would just dry out already but. And my body will do its thing. My immune system will do its thing and we'll see how it is tomorrow. I've gotta go to bed here though. Tomorrow we've gotta deliver this early in the morning just over the border or about an hour away. We're still here in Minnesota. There's way too many deer on and around the highway for me to continue through the night now. There's no way I'm risking hitting it. I don't got a moose bumper or anything on the front of this truck. If I hit a deer, that's a $5,000 deductible that I gotta pay. The first $5,000 of the damage is mine. I don't really have $5,000 just to throw away at a deer that I can't even eat anyways. Wouldn't even feel right eating it because I didn't even really catch it. I just hit it. Have a good night everybody. Don't forget to subscribe. Tomorrow will be another new day. We're headed into Canada and over across to Canora and around by home again. And I'll update you on my poison oak tomorrow. Have any of you had poison oak before? Poison ivy? Let me know down below in the comment section and let me know what you use to treat it. I'm using Calamine lotion and everyone I know pretty much is telling me to use apple cider vinegar. I don't have any with me right now otherwise I would be using it because everybody's telling me to use that. So other than those two things is there any other treatments that you guys know of that especially with the oozing? By the time you watch this it'll already all be gone. But the next time I get it because we're gonna transplant more trees. No, I'm not gonna stop working in the bush just because I got poison ivy once. What do you think I am? We're going back in there. We're gonna transplant some more. Just alert my lesson. Next time long sleeves, gloves, cover all your skin and don't touch yourself on your face or anything. Just get the job done, throw everything you used in the wash with hot water and soap. Get in the shower. Cool water and soap. Hot water spreads the oil. I'm gonna use cool water and soap. I'm rambling. See you in the morning. Thanks for hanging out with me today. Tomorrow will be fun.