 Hello everyone, I'm trucker Al from Rochester, New York, and when I'm not driving I'm watching trucker Josh on TJV And you should too be safe out there What'd you see with your diesel? What you see? What's going on out there? You hear that? What is it? Morning everybody. How you doing? It is another new day Today I am filming this on a a Wenda's day I'm not sure when you're watching this, but happy Wednesday to you anyway So today the plan is to get as close to our delivery as possible We're not gonna make it by three o'clock, which is a shame Because I would love to get unloaded today so that we can get moving towards a reload But it looks like we'll be unloading first thing tomorrow morning and then heading towards a reload It is what it is. Let's get her done today. We're in Menominee, Wisconsin at the rest area in the back here Feels like a beautiful day to be a truck driver Got the sun shining Nice and warm. It was hot all night I had to idle the truck a little bit a little bit Because it was so hot like it felt like and a humid felt like I was drinking the air and diesel was having a pretty hard time in the heat so I threw on the air conditioning and That was that it is July after all so it is the hot season During the hot season and the cold season in winter is when you would idle your truck more Try to I try to reduce it and make it as little as possible, but You know at the same time you got to make sure that you're well rested so that you're not a danger on the roll If you're not getting your sleep It can get very dangerous very fast And if it's so hot that I'm sweating buckets. I won't get a good sleep. So sort of got to weigh your options and Just just bite that bullet some nights. I Want to stop at a Walmart today too. I want to get some good food some healthier food than what I've been eating Because I've been getting a little bigger again. I know that when Brit was with me we ate out a Lot more than I usually do but that's because you know It was special that she was along that the whole family was along so it was a special Special occasion, so we ate out a little bit more, but now it's time to really Focus on my diet that I wanted to be focused on at the beginning of summer already in beginning of spring It's sort of summer the year's half over It's time to start getting out there getting my walks in every day that year I was focused and I lost what like 30 30 pounds something like that Just from eating properly and walking every day and I can do it again. I can do it again Just got a like I said just got a focus. I'm Jane Burns Harbor, Indiana Which is a little bit further east of there's like 10 miles further But it's a bit better of a neighborhood but Lake Station is practically right there where my customers It's look right around the corner. I'm gonna go pick up. I was actually really excited about it and then Fell through I don't get to go there that often anymore So I was excited to go but unfortunately the load fell through already, so I still have no reload And if I don't have a reload by the end of today, which is in 15 minutes. I Won't bother showing up to deliver this Until everyone gets to the office tomorrow morning. They're gonna get there probably around 8 a.m. So I'll get to my receiver around 7 30 so that Already been around 8 a.m. The same time so that by the time I'm done unloading They'll have had some time to settle into the office get their computers fired up Start sniffing around for free and hopefully by like I don't know 9 9 30. Maybe they'll found something for me But if I go there right at 6 a.m. I'm guaranteed to just be sitting around wasting my e-log hours Because no one's even in the office yet to sniff around for freight for me right One day it's sort of like my dream one day. I'm sort of hoping to have my own running rights where you know I Could have my own truck my own trailer my own unit and I'd find my own freight I don't really know much about that so I'd have a lot to learn And I don't know if it would benefit me because I don't have the the the sway of like a bigger company to secure good paying loads So I don't know if it would if I'd make more money doing that or not But I mean I'd get the whole thing then right I'd get the whole pie instead of someone else taking a cut out of my pie I don't know. I like the whole idea of uber freight and that whole whole thing But uber freight doesn't operate in Canada yet If they did I would be interested in looking into it possibly one day signing up with them if I ever had like my own trailer I'd look into it and one day I want to have like I was telling you in the other The other vlog the other day. I'd like to have drivers on my trucks I'd like to have multiple trucks and I'd like to maybe hire a couple of you guys Maybe you guys want to drive for me. I don't know I'll definitely be advertising through my YouTube channel at that point because a lot of you or drivers or your newer drivers You're looking for people to hire you Come work for me. Why not? But there would be restrictions. I mean you'd have to live in my general Area or the routes probably in Western Canada would be best, but even if you lived out in Ontario Even an American citizen, I'd have to look into if I could hire American citizens It all depends if I have my own running rights. I could hire anyone from anywhere all I got to do is bring you a truck to drive and Hope that you're a good person and aren't going to abandon my truck in the middle of like Florida or somewhere I got to go get it. I Wouldn't like you very much if you did that to me, especially if I run such a small company that cost me a lot of money But it's something I'm looking looking into in the next decade or so of doing quite a ways in the future, but What do you guys think of that would you drive for me? By that time I'll have what 15 years experience under my belt. I should know Pretty much what I'm doing by then, right? Maybe we're all learning every day See what happens. That's my plan though Eventually I want to get to a point where I have I'd like to have like five trucks Maybe ten we'll see maybe it'll grow fast since I have an audience like you and a bit of a bigger driver pool a bigger Advertising platform than most recruiters have maybe I'll find lots of drivers I don't know the problem is always finding good drivers, right good drivers not just any drivers Good drivers People who aren't gonna abuse my trucks and my equipment people who are gonna take care of my stuff People who are gonna work hard for me People who are going to not leave me hanging Also people that I respect, you know We'll see what happens Life is exciting. You never know what's gonna happen next There's a very next morning All right, so we made it to Burns Harbor, Indiana I went to Lake station flying J first But there was an accident out front of their building and Everything was blocked off So I had to come down here. So we're about 21 kilometers early 16 miles or so 15 miles From our delivery. We're gonna make our way over there now. We still don't have a reload but The time is now about 8 a.m. So by the time I get unloaded the office people should have Arrived settled into their chairs turned on their computers had their coffee and possibly have found maybe some freight for me to pull Really disappointed that that Ohio load fell through though. I was looking forward to going to Ohio I haven't been there in ages Ever since I've been on flatbed. I've been I've had a much smaller region but that's also because You know life changes happen, you know, I got married and I Wanted to be home a little more often than every three weeks My average trip before I got on flatbeds when I was on vans was about, you know, two to three weeks sometimes longer Now that I'm on flatbed my average trip is probably I don't know like four to ten days Maybe longer sometimes So that's the main reason I switched over to flatbeds. There's also more money pulling flatbeds And then I bought this truck which is equipped for flatbeds. So May as well use it for flatbeds, right? So my GPS is trying to take me way around Twice the distance to get to my customer I'm following Google. Let's hope I don't regret that Google says it's 22 minutes away the GPS says it's like 45 Nope Turn left onto North State Road 149 South In this case, I think I probably arrived in the exact same amount of time as if I would have just gone way around on the freeway But whatever at least I didn't lose any time. I think I did save some time still but As long as I saved a little bit of time where it stayed the same I think it's success Whoa, excuse me, excuse me There you go. Get out of my way. Good idea Good idea Hey, sort of get to see the scenery here around I Don't know what area this would be like the so sure of What lake is it? Oh, I always get the great lakes next up the lake that Chicago is on Lake Michigan Lake Michigan Lake Superior. No, not Lake Superior. Superior is a smaller one, right? My geography is kind of rusty this morning, I guess But we're on the south shore of the Great Lake just south of Chicago and around the corner into Indiana Nice area here like nice homes. You wouldn't suspect this just driving through in the interstate But you come to the back roads here. It's a nice little communities It's a little old-school farms old-school homes a Lot of people in this area though a lot of you there is no wilderness here There is no like in Canada when we say the bush. There is no bush here There is no forest people everywhere Wonder where all the wildlife goes then right there's obviously no real wildlife around here like I'm sure at one point there was when we're going to be it all went up to Canada. That's why we got so much wildlife up there I'm fine with that the deer come on our property and mow my lawn for me all the time What's this wheeler wheeler Indiana? That's some town here Old areas in North American standards old areas Look at that building a little bit of a paint job, but Still works. Oh, that one's got vines growing all the way up it. That's cool incognito And guessing all these homes were built before the invention of cars It's a pretty close to the road close together And no break from it right into agriculture The only way to get to my customers by going right through downtown Hobart, Indiana Are any of you from here? Any of you been here? Well, but they've got to come up with a better way of getting trucks Into their industrial area I Think my customer is a little outside in an industrial area. This is an old town. So The zones don't always make sense Or get your realty. I mean It's a midnight name Mennonites around here. Hey my people So playground over here Playground there this lumber yard is in a residential zone literally Houses there the street here. There's no way trucks can get in here without running the curbs And it's right here in the middle of a residential zone I've never seen it this bad before like sometimes they're sort of like on the edge of a residential zone You're like, oh, wow, that's a little close to people's homes This is right in the heart of an old residential zone. He's not weird Like I missed it the first time because I thought it was a house And I had to go 20 minutes around On truck on roads that did not look like truck routes apparently their truck routes I don't know it didn't say either way So I came back around here again got in here and now there's this guy in front of me who's unloading first Both we shouldn't be in here. This is not a truck area man, like I Can imagine the homes around here must complain about having a business in the middle of their neighborhood I mean, I guess what can they do right if the town says it's okay. It's okay Strangest thing strangest thing now they're unloading that guy there But anyways guys, I got to end this here because we're gonna start tomorrow's video I have a reload now apparently just got sent through to me Oh, no, just they need my month monthly maintenance report Okay Apparently I'm going to Joliet, Illinois from here to pick up a load that needs to be tarped. I Have a feeling it's gonna be that styrofoam insulation. I'm not sure. Let's see Joliet, Illinois is Joliet, Illinois is Oh, it's only 78 kilometers or 45 miles away. They got to be there in two and a half hours That's why because they called me like hey, can you make it? Can you make it? I don't know. Where is that? Yeah, I don't know. Can you make it by 1130? That's a lot of time, right? It might be a where is it? Okay, you can make it. I will set. We'll send it through wait Wait, wait, wait, where is it? They didn't tell me where it is. I've heard the name Joliet, Illinois before sounds familiar But from where I am right now. I didn't know how far away it was, right? I had the headset on I was driving I'm glad I approved. I'm glad I accepted. I was like, yeah, yeah, just send it through then if you think I can make it to send it through and Just found out now. It's an hour away. So as long as I get unloaded here in a decent time I can make it there. I just got to get my information for this load Hmm, hmm, I guess we'll be continuing that in tomorrow's video though So tune in tomorrow to see what we're picking up and where it's going. I have no idea where it's going I don't know where I'm picking up. I don't know what I'm picking up. I just know I'm supposed to go to Joliet Tune in tomorrow. We'll figure it out together. 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