 Hi everyone, my name is Matt. I'm a driver-in-training in Manitoba, and you're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on YouTube In that rate, Zoe. How you doing? Hey, you doing? Did you sleep well? Did you sleep good? I said fine, thanks Thank you very much. Do you want something? Can I help you? Say hi to everybody Okay, everybody. You ready for a new day or what? I'm ready for a new day So we're here in, uh, Ainsworth Four Corners Fuel. I think it was X of 66 on U.S. 218 that says here Ainsworth Four Corners Fuel. Ainsworth, no Oregon, Iowa, USA. That is so confusing. The address is 7FR7 plus QM Ainsworth, Oregon, Iowa, USA I don't think Google even knows where we're going today. Today we're going to deliver this Wood we have on our trailer behind us. I will give you a quick look at it now Gotta get it off my trailer. It's weighing me down. I don't want it anymore Kind of happy to carry this stuff around everywhere. I ain't got to do what you got to do A whole bunch of wood So let's go get them take this off my back And then we head down to Jackson, Tennessee All right trailer is still attached. It's not gonna fall off. Awesome. I just got a Roll up here to the pumps because these guys don't have, uh, Garbage cans in the back of their lot And I forgot to carry my garbage with me when I went in to grab my coffee I'm just gonna Be a little lazy here and just drive to the garbage can Drop it off there And I can figure out who's trying to get a hold of me there, too A little bumpy lot that wants to talk to me Oh boy. Wow Busy morning Let's go bring our garbage out there Hold of the customer to let them know that I'm you know on the way. They know I'm on the way I was just gonna let them know when I'd be there. They wanted they told me to call them this morning and let them know And I'll probably be there at two o'clock I might not even get unloaded today now Apparently they go home at two o'clock in their their shipping or not. They're receiving well shipping and receiving Two o'clock, so they get there at seven in the morning and they go home at two Eight nine ten eleven twelve one two at seven hours. Plus you got to have a lunch break in there somewhere And maybe a coffee break. So what your your day is only like six or less hours Six hours That must be nice Trying not to be too frustrated, but it really bothers me when companies Especially shipping and receiving departments go home so early Like it's one thing if they start early like if they would be open at like five till two Okay, I understand that you know, it's a full day. It's just odd hours. I don't like that either but whatever it's a full day But this is like you only show up for six hours a day and then you go home like there's a lot of drivers out there who You need to deliver or pick up freight in the afternoon too There's a lot of places like this and I don't like it That's that's way too early to go home for shipping and receiving but you know that's their choice Their choice if I ran the business, I sure wouldn't be sending my people home with that early but I also have this thing, you know, I like to make money so I always find oh that guy was windy. Oh the guy just passed me just Quite the wind gusts going around in there Anyway, I'm gonna see if they're gonna unload me So I'm gonna push them I'm gonna call them again when I'm right close by I'm gonna be like I'm gonna be rolling in your in your gates at 155 It's just an easy load of lumber How about it? Let's just quickly get it unloaded. You don't got to worry about me in the morning. You Don't have to unload me first thing in the morning. How about that? And then I can drive down to Jackson, Tennessee and get reloaded Otherwise, I'm gonna be stuck there from 2 p.m. Until you know tomorrow morning Twiddling my thumbs Let's see if I could use some persuasion skills Very often if you'll get there like right bang on the button closing time if it's just a load of lumber like this Usually they'll unload you but some places are pretty No, I don't want to miss the football game I got to be home All right, all right So this is part of trucking you guys always ask me, you know advice of trucking Uh You're gonna need some patience You're gonna need the ability to hurry up and wait there's a lot of these uh Shippers out here they they don't make sense But you just got a smile and nod Be polite Shake your head when you go back to your truck and you're by yourself We're just a rippler We're just ripping her across Missouri here right now trying to get to st. Peter's Before they close st. Peter's is uh sort of right on the west side of st. Louis, Missouri or st. Louis. I say st. Louis But uh, they they shut down they're receiving at two o'clock and it looks like I'm gonna get there at 205 so I uh Slapped on the headset there. I gave them a call And put on my most convincing trucker-tosh voice And asked them very very nicely Look, I've been running really hard. I've been trying to get there before two o'clock. I'm gonna be about five minutes after two Anyway, I could get This freight off my trailer today yet so I could be on my way instead of having to wait to morning And now we're actually really nice about it. They said yeah, no problem. Come on in. I'm here till 230 anyways Usually we close down at two, but I'll be here a little later today. Anyways, come on in We'll get you unloaded and get you on your way Yes Still got it Still got it. All you got to do is talk nice to people and be polite Just ask nicely. You have not because you asked not somebody said that once So I asked I know you're technically closed, but hey I'm only five minutes after closing What do you think? What do you think? Come on? Come on So that makes me happy, uh, so we'll get this stuff off the trailer today yet So I can get down to Jackson, Tennessee tonight and get my reload First thing in the morning Or maybe even tonight yet I still got to call them now because now that I know that I'm going to be there tonight. I can give them a Proper ETA maybe I can go there. It's already waiting there for me. I just got to tie it down If we can get out of there tonight yet I'll have to Work on my Persuasion skills there once again. That's a really big place that I'm picking it up from though. So I highly doubt that They're gonna stay that late for me to come pick up my trailer if they go home at like let's say four but Seeing as they are a big place. They might have 24 hour cruise there I don't know we're on a roll today I'm about 20 miles from st. Peter's And we've been in the left lane gang most of the day I haven't been hanging out in the left lane, but I've been here a little more often than I usually am Just a givener As fast as this truck will let me go Or I should say as fast as the law will let me go. I guess that's a better way of putting it but The law says I can go faster than my truck says I can I am gonna adjust my speed limiter on this truck eventually But I don't really see any point in doing it right now because usually I only run 60 mile an hour anyways It just would be nice to be able to at least get up to 70 mile an hour For those for those times when the speed limits, you know 70 75 and you're running late and you just want to give her for a day Or if you want to get past somebody on a two-lane you need to hammer down a little bit more because they're going slow That would be nice to be able to open it up a little bit and make that possible So yeah, eventually I'm gonna I'm gonna open the truck up But the thing is I think in quebec in ontario you have to be limited to 105 kilometers an hour But I have heard of court cases where that got thrown out if your company is not based in ontario or quebec Because it's in ontario and quebec provincial legislation provincial law That says that you have to limit your truck to 65 mile an hour or 105 kilometers an hour And since it's a provincial law that law cannot apply to people from other provinces And since I'm based in manitoba They can't tell me that I have to limit my truck So I don't know I've heard of cases of it being thrown out of court. I don't really want to test them So that's another reason why I don't really want to take the limiter off my truck because I don't want to get in trouble and I don't want to make waves in ontario Or cobec especially cobec I don't make waves in cobec I can't even understand them when they get mad at me is they're yelling at me in french I don't even know what they're talking about. They're pretty strict, especially if you don't speak french They go a little harder on you if you're not actually french This way to st. lewis, okay Which way they gotta turn left here we go Thanks garen St. lewis exit only left this way Exit 45 mile an hour. All right, trucker josh. Whoa Oh Hey, greasy Right lane ends good. I'm in the right lane. Well, I'm in the left lane, but the left lane is right lane in this case Merge up ahead here. Let's see how busy this highway is. We're merging on to interstate 70 Off of what was that? What was that interstate 64? No, I was on a u.s highway. I don't know I 70 right here Everybody's moved over. Thank you very much 10 4 karen I still always want to call her mandy such a bad habit Calling your new girlfriend your ex's name That's a bad idea But in this case I keep calling karen mandy one of these days. She's gonna snap. I know if she's She's mad when I do that How far away are we? 10 minutes 15 minutes should be less than that The gps says we're 15 minutes away, but 18 kilometers doesn't take 15 minutes Look at a huge u.s. Flag over there. Who thinks huge off on the left There are some big flags that you see. Oh, it's an rv dealership, of course camping world. They always have the biggest flags So there's the park over here somewhere out in the open on strap and someone will come unload me their exact words We're partnering the middle here, I guess let's start unstrapping Exactly 14 minutes Since the time I pulled the brakes to the time I'm rolling away nice and quick Gotta go find a place to park somewhere and Set up my gps for the address. I'm going to in Jackson, Tennessee Where do I go from here? Street, right? This is a stop sign to have a stop sign here. I stopped anyway. No, I didn't have a stop sign No, I didn't have a stop sign Here we come. I haven't been to Tennessee in a couple of years. I'm excited This is the Missouri River These are huge Looks like the one on the left over there's newer than this one Maybe they just cleaned that one off. Maybe this one's next on the on the agenda. I don't know It's pretty high right now too I don't know where it usually is. It's probably normal Just look at the amount of people here, right? Here comes the Tennessee border Check this out That bridge looks pretty huge I think this is the Mississippi that we're going to be crossing, right? What does this say? Yep, Mississippi River Good old Mississippi Mississippi River As soon as we get over this bridge We'll be in the great state Tennessee There it is Tennessee state line Crossing border entering Tennessee Thanks, Karen In 200 meters make a U-turn if possible and then take the entrance to the left in 360 meters It's not possible Karen We're going to Love's travel plaza here off to the right Uh, I'll have to look at the town's name and get Dyersburg or something like that. We're in Tennessee So Hoping that there's going to be parking here for me. I don't want to go all the way to Jackson because I I highly doubt there'll be any parking for me there by the time I get there Oh my it looks full here already Nice Kenworth up ahead here with the four ways on Really nice Oh, is this full wow So it's like 9 15 in the evening. So I say it's another 45 50 minutes down the road to Jackson and I'm pretty sure that if I get there around 10 p.m. There's going to be no parking Look at this already. There's already no parking here. Well, we'll see what they got in the back Let's see. Maybe it's just busy around the pumps here right now From on google maps it looked like this is kind of a weird parking lot Might have to spin around There's a lot of blindside parking off on the right here, but I'd have to back Turn around and back all the way down there from here. Let's see what they got Let's see this guy in front of me is going to want a spot first No spots available here Reserve parking off on the right. I don't want to pay to park That guy's going to take that spot. He doesn't take that spot where that red truck's pulling out if I'm taking it Guarantee you he's going to back in there though. What's he doing? Are you backing in there? Oh, it looks like he's going to go back in a different spot. Well, I'm going to back in here Well diesel we got pretty lucky that guy pulled out just as we pulled in Got a pretty close spot up here to to the building I'm not taking any risks. I'm not going any further down the road. I already got like one of the very last spots I think there's one two three left on that side But there's a dead end at the end of the roll over there, right? And then you got to turn around but there's not really enough room to turn around in here There might be but you got to be careful that your the rear end of your trailer doesn't swing out and take off someone's bumper Right almost be better off to do a u-turn over here by the pumps and then back all the way in here And then back into a spot like that over there or something But hey, we have our spot. I'm just going to go check to make sure I'm straight. Okay Gotta make sure we're straight It looks straight to me, but I am further over. I'm not centered in my spot I'm further over that way than this. I'm not exactly in the middle. I'm going to fix that Before I shut down completely You see the nice thing about loves and pilot flying j and I think ta and petro as well They have these garbage cans at the back of the lot as well So you never have to really walk very far to get to a garbage can which Encourages drivers to use the garbage can because I've noticed that trucks ops where they don't do this drivers just dump their garbage in just on the ground. It's disgusting and terrible, but That's what you got to do to get them to use the garbage can hey That works and then they just put these little things on here Make sure that they don't fall out or fall over That's that So that's the day today. Here's our trailer. I've got my backup lights on right now just so I could see How even I was so See that there out there You know It isn't quite centered, but I'm just going to leave it already The only reason I sort of want to center is to bring my nose of my truck further this way because when this guy comes out He's going to swing out this way and I don't know what kind of driver he is I don't want him to take off my front end. But as you can see here His tandems are slid way forward on this trailer. So he should be able to make it around my truck No problem up there It's the guy on the other side that's going to have to worry about his rear end here swinging out When he makes that sharp corner around my truck And hitting his truck But Let's see what happens. I'm going to bed everybody Thanks for watching today. Don't forget to subscribe You can also find me now on cdl life on their app. It's sort of like a facebook for truckers I'm posting my videos there as well. 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I'm going to bed We'll see you tomorrow Just a little bonus footage for you hard hardcore people that are still watching Walking into the store And it's a whole truck of shavys and guess what's on the back This is the first 2020 Silverado 2500 hd that I've ever seen in person and it's a high country Look at this It's the first one I've ever seen. I wish it was a little lower. I'd like to look inside My future truck ladies and gentlemen except mine's going to be black And it's not going to be lifted that high That is beautiful