 It is Matt from Chicago. You're watching Trucker Josh and Diesel and Chevy and TJV keep up the good work Good morning everybody It's time to deliver this stuff. Get this stuff off my trailer. There she is in all her glory Sitting there naked on my trailer. No tarps. No nothing. I'm done all my work I even got my tarps tied down here. All I got to do is Back into that door down there. They're gonna quickly offload this and I can drive right out Good to go and just like that I've got an empty trailer behind me and I'm eating a granola bar Funny how life works That made no sense Good bar though Okay, so I got to get up to my reload now. I should be there around two o'clock It's in Duluth, Minnesota And from there we should be able to make it home tonight As long as nothing goes wrong as long as nothing goes wrong knock on wood So I apologize if I'm not making sense and talking with my mouth full of food. I don't know what I'm doing Can't get rid of the bugs. Sorry guys. It's that season. What can you say? What can you do? This is the season when bugs get so depressed they you know off themselves on my windshield I Don't know why they got to bring me into it. I really don't want to be a part of that Feel bad for them. They need to get you to get some help maybe create some groups Some bug depression groups Because I'm gonna stop for a coffee. So it'll probably end up being three hours But I feel light as a feather. I love that feeling right after you get a heavy load Taking off your trailer beautiful beautiful thing All right Karen, why aren't you telling me where to go Karen? Which way do I go? Karen Karen you there Karen proceed to the highlighted route. Thank you There's another car coming. Oh, he's speeding along. Okay, we're gonna wait for him We're gonna wait for him because I'm a nice guy. I could have I could have cut in front of you, buddy But I chose to let you go Didn't even say thank you Let's get out here So So we're in Rogers, Minnesota If you guys know the area and you know that TA truck stop in Rogers I'm pretty much just around the corner from there. I'm like two blocks east of it in Rogers What a fancy building I wonder if that's like a condo or Apartments Wow What does this sign say here? The well-stead and diamond crest senior living. Oh, it's a senior home nice That's a really nice senior home I think you had to have one really nice retirement to get into there I'm actually gonna pull into this TA truck stuff. I was just talking to you about I'm gonna grab a coffee right here Just running to grab a coffee. So Probably just park in front of the palm Slide left on see our 49. No Karen. We're going to TA. I need coffee. Can't you tell I shouldn't get on the highway without having a coffee I could be dangerous Okay, so when I say park in front of the pump, I just mean like Not in the pump. Don't do that. That's rude and Be very careful. I want to be very careful when Teaching you I'm not really teaching but when I do this I gotta be very clear with you is don't park in front of the Pumps and go in and have a shower. Okay? I'm just going in to grab a coffee That's it I'm not gonna get distracted looking at all the gizmos and gadgets and lights and shiny things I'm gonna park right here. I'm just running in gonna grab a coffee come out Don't leave your truck in this spot here for more than five minutes Very frustrating and very rude There we go. You see Four minutes, that's all it took and I had to wait in line four minutes You know, it doesn't matter how many times me or other guys on YouTube or whoever doesn't matter how many times we say Don't take your half-hour break in the pumps It doesn't matter how many times you say it seems people do it anyways Or they though sometimes I've actually seen it more often than I should have Quite you'd probably actually be surprised how often I've seen it. I've seen it probably Once every couple of months, which is way too much when someone will park their truck in the pumps during the day when there's stuff going on Lock the doors and go inside and either sit down and eat in the restaurant when you go in there they're sitting down to eat or they're going in to have a shower and then They come out and they wander around Looking at everything humming and honking over the station by these lights and this chrome or not And meanwhile people are lined up behind them at the pumps At least every couple of months and I don't really pay attention either. I don't like look Look for these things, but I just noticed them one night when I happen to see them That should never happen So it's not that common, but it's too common. You know what I mean Don't take your half-hour break it and what I'm talking about now is when I see this These are times of the day during the day when the pumps are pretty busy and there are plenty of parking spots to park in right It's not like there's no where to park That just grinds my gears so much. I'm like that is like the epitome of lazy And ignorant and I don't know all the other words I could call it. It makes me mad I don't know if you could tell or not. Don't do that around me. I will get mad I'll probably say something too. I usually say something to those drivers. I Got a big mouth on me. I've only been hit once though My big mouth someone's doing something dumb I find it very hard not to let them know because if I don't let them know so many other people they'll just Shake their head and walk away. Nobody'll ever tell them I like to tell people what are you doing? Why are you parked there? You've been here for 45 minutes. There's a lineup behind you Yeah, they usually like Swear me up and down, but hey, whatever at least somebody stood up to them, right? I Mean don't start a fight. Don't start a fight. That's not what I'm saying. I shouldn't even Talk like this. You gotta be careful in the US to most drivers are packing. They got something in their tray You don't want to get them really mad like don't get me wrong. I don't feel unsafe I feel safe in the US I mean I feel much safer in the truck parking lot with where everyone's got a gun in their truck then up in Canada where You know somebody just coming to rob us and they know no one's gonna fight back But at least here everybody knows if you mess with the truckers Well, you're probably gonna get a gun in your face. You don't want to do that. So it keeps the peace But at the same time Maybe just let them go. Maybe just let them maybe you just don't say anything, you know what? You might catch them on the wrong day And I don't want to be responsible. You're gonna send me a message trucker Josh Sure Josh you told me you told me to stand up to him and he beat me up Don't get yourselves hurt Be nice to everybody Even when they don't deserve it, you know, even when they don't deserve it be nice Sometimes I got to learn to keep my mouth shut too Diesel's freaking out. You forgot something back here, man. You guys waiting day. It's waiting you back there, man. I See that diesel. Sorry. You're gonna have to wait now It's not gonna hurt you. It's okay. It's not raining or anything. It'll be fine. I Have one of the vents in the back You can either open it towards the back or you can open it towards the front, right? I have the one on the passenger side open towards the front. So it's like grabbing the air and sucking it into the cab sort of Where diesel likes to sleep Sorry, bud, you're gonna have to wait. I'm not pulling over now Look at these boats. I Would love to have a boat one day There's no big lakes. You know, well, I guess there's some big lakes within like an hour or hour and a half two hours of my house So I guess it would make sense, but It's a lot of money to spend on something that I wouldn't use that much Maybe like when I'm closer to retiring I'll get more use out of it then Maybe one day, you know Keep on dreaming, right? Never stop dreaming Let's fix this for diesel Pointed back where the air won't be rushing in here. He's like freaking out Excuse me guys Excuse me. It's your fellow Canadian a get out of the way crazy geese don't mess with these guys though Hey, they'll they'll attack you All right, we're supposed to be going here shipping and receiving this way. I don't even know what I'm picking up All I know is I'm supposed to pick something up No No No, you stay over there stay off the road What's with all the Canada geese over here? I mean, we are pretty close to the Canadian border, but These guys over here too. Just chillin. Oh shipping and receiving that way. Oh, I gotta I gotta pull it wider then Oh, I'm gonna back up a little bit a little wider. Oh, and they're gonna be right in my way again crazy geese Shipping and receiving this way No, don't come back. They're coming back Shipping and receiving this way Honk honk get out of the way. No, you don't honk at me. They're honking at me. No, I'll honk at you. Oh, you're angry now Hey, you fly away You fly away better fly away Receiving and shipping that way Okay, I have no idea. I've never been here before you know what I'm just gonna pull into this little open area here and Walk into the shipping office And hopefully I'll be in the right spot because this looks like a good spot to load me What is this stuff? Just random steel pieces Well, we're in their little scale house that we drove past on the way in Scared the daylights out of me because I got here just before 2 o'clock or so right right around that time Right when we expected you right when they were expecting me couldn't find anybody Nobody around And then I call them and their message machine says that they close it to and look at the clock and now by this time By the time I actually call them. It's like 205 or 210. I was freaking out. I thought if they're not gonna load me now It's Friday. I'm gonna have to wait till Monday to get loaded now So I was freaking out but eventually someone came to the back and they were expecting me and Just told me to go scale empty and I got to go load and then scale loaded But they are gonna load me so That would have ruined the whole weekend Not that being in Duluth, Minnesota would ruin my weekend is a beautiful place nice people a lot of geese But I just don't want to spend my weekend here. I want to go home and spend my weekend at home Supposed to go golfing But I want to be here. I want to be golfing And then we're getting our roof done on Monday, so I'm glad everything worked out Really glad This is what they put on me No idea what it is Which odd ball shapes and sizes a bunch of steel So I'm gonna quickly roll this over the scale make sure that all my axle weights are good And we'll tie her down and head home Our way through their fancy little scale house here sort of looks like half a house Weights good right down our axle wait No, no Karen first we got to make sure we're legal We're weight tickets. Okay, so my steer tires are allowed 12,000 pounds. So we're gonna put them on the scale first What the scale says over there? Okay, so just the steer axle 11,000 seven four. Nope 720 11,000 720 now we're gonna add our drive tires on here Exit two axles on here We'll give us our girls weight up ahead there We're to calm down a little bit dancing around dancing around 45 to 80 55 to 80 And now the whole truck wait all together. We're not even close being overweight 73,000 640 620 stop dancing 620 640 73 620 Nobody behind me, so I'm just gonna do some math here now all right, so To find out our drive axle weight Do 73,000 620? Subtract Sorry find out our drive axel weight. We'll do 45 to 80 Subtract our steer axle weight, which was 11,000 20 720 So our drive axles are at 33,560 pounds 33,560 pounds. I'm pretty much full of fuel. So We have room to fuel up yet and now to find out my trailer axle weight. We take the 73 620 of the gross and we subtract the steer tires and drive tires together. So we subtract 45,000 280 and The back is only at 28,000 340 So we're pretty close up front But that's good. We're carrying more of the weight than we're pulling we want more of the weight on our truck Then on the back of the trailer. Otherwise, it's Donkey kicking like that over every bridge. I don't know if I've ever been in Duluth here I know I've been here like past here before, but I don't think I've ever actually gone through it It's actually a pretty big city. There's so many cities in America so many places to see I bet you there's hundreds of cities and towns. I haven't even been to in this country Well, I'm pretty sure Karen's about to talk to me and tell me we're across in the state border into North Dakota Don't let me down Karen. Here's the border There you are, thank you end of the day We're not gonna make it quite home tonight A little too late. It's midnight right now. So I'm just gonna stay here near the border This is a Pembina, North Dakota Wake up in the morning and head home from here Otherwise, I'll be home at like three or four in the morning and it's just not worth, you know Getting the dogs all riled up and interrupting Britt's sleep and everything so She's already sleeping anyway 100 meters slight left on by 29. Nope. We're staying here, Mandy No, we're gonna stay here Not very often that I stay at this gas tracks Figure it out yet Mandy Karen Shoot, that's the second time this trip. Oh, no now. She's angry. She's a really loud there Sorry Karen old habits All right, so Hoping there should be room. Oh, yeah, there's room right there right in front of us. I Made a mistake. I stopped in Grand Forks. I had McDonald's terrible idea So now my stomach is very upset and I just want to go to bed But I think I'm gonna have to run inside first So it's been a long day again the weather outside is perfect Perfect to use these and you get that nice Perfect temperature breeze through your truck the fresh air and you don't freeze and you don't sweat yourself Sweat yourself to sleep I was gonna say It's a perfect temperature to fall asleep. I think it's like 14 degrees Celsius outside Just perfect so I'm gonna Get all ready to go to bed here and I'll talk to you guys again tomorrow morning. Thanks for joining me See you tomorrow Say goodbye diesel Whoa, I really can't see me there. Okay. Okay. I'm ready. Are you filming? Yes, it's recorded. Do you want the light on? Good night you bunch of videos My name's Zoe and this is Grampy Bob and we live in Ontario, Canada We watch TV trucker Josh thumbs up