 Little guys starting to wake up Time to go get them My last day at home before getting back on the road We've gotten a lot done this week and there's still a lot more to do I could have done with another couple of weeks off probably just to get stuff done It seems that for every one thing you get done another one pops up, right? So eventually you got to be like, okay, we've got all the important things done Blue is gonna be ready for the road by tomorrow. It's time to go Eventually you just got to say it's it's time to go back to work I'm just getting my breakfast Started here right now. I'm gonna go get a little boy get him ready for the day feed him change him Then I'll probably go and meet our renters who are Returning our camper today go over that make sure everything went well Park that back in storage get ready for the next renters which are coming I think in two weeks So the next weekend is still available That might fill up soon who knows got a few things to do today yet morning Did you sleep good? Ready for another day? It's raining and I'm doing tack stuff Hooray Getting all my GST together got to file it so that I can get some money back Because they shouldn't have taken it in the first place and I'm also transferring vlogs from my computer To my external hard drive I keep all of my vlogs on an external hard drive Just in case you know I keep it in multiple locations that I always have records I have records of all of them going all the way back to the beginning. So there's Over 3,000 videos. I'm here. I Got the truck ready I'm ready to go but so far there's no freight. So I'm taking this opportunity to get some work done on the computer Get some work done on the vlogs Probably organize a little bit more in here because look at this place. I always say that every time I'm like, oh trucker Josh is going to organize series That's where one of these days Remember all of this stuff is going to go into our new house once we buy a new house. So that's just temporary Okay, temporary and I have the go-ahead from my wife to throw out these balloons We wanted to keep them. They're from the baby shower, right? She wanted to keep them, but they're actually pretty cheap. You can get them at Canadian Tire And they're taking up a lot of space here and I have a lot of balloons in my shop. I am the balloon man So I got the go-ahead from her is after her idea that I can just throw them out There's that we got the camper in right here It's all ready to go for the next renters already. We got old blue out there Ready to go Unfortunately, the polish was destroyed on the truck. I'm kind of I'm very sad to report the polish is destroyed and It's my fault. I accepted the load going up there and I don't regret it. It was a good experience going up there I got to pull the RGN trailer up there. It was my choice It was it paid good. I Got back like I said, there's dollar signs at the end of that road and I went for them I got them. They're mine. They're mine now, but old blue definitely took a beating going up there. I Don't want her to go up there Again, I don't want the truck up there again. That's just it's too brutal even in winter time because in winter time the The roads are better because they're filled in with snow and ice, right? But at the same time if it snow was there like the last time we went up there in winter time We were pushing snow with our bumpers like three feet of snow on the road And that was also very hard on the truck then too. So I've definitely made the decision that old blue doesn't go up there anymore But I mean everybody has their price right so I should never say never Speak to me in my language of dollar signs and we'll talk But there better be a lot of dollar signs Okay, and a couple extra ones after that and throw in a few more for good measure. Okay. I have my price But This last trip up to Gillum there I didn't make too much because I made good money. Don't get me wrong I made good money going up there But I lost the money having to stay home and do repairs on the truck and fix the truck some of the wiring had Ripped up in the frame under the fifth wheel and nothing too important or big It hadn't actually ripped off but all the protective covering had ripped off the zip ties had ripped off So the wires were dangling all over the place. Oh, wait. No, no, there was some wires that ripped off Yes, they have sensors and stuff. I had to fix that So it was nothing big. It's not like a wheel fell off or like the engine blew up or something So it was minor minor. I could fix it But my polish is completely destroyed and my rims they're gonna have to be cut before they get polished next time That means they're gonna have to go in there and sand it Sand it smooth again because those rocks they dug like the puck marks all around Inside my rims all of them even my headache rack from the rocks being thrown back at it Very disappointing because the guy who polishes it Bill did a great job Great job, and it's not cheap to get it polished. Anyway, he has really good prices I got a really good price for him can't complain about that at all But it's still it's money that I feel Maybe I should have protected that a little bit more But you can look back in life and say whoops that was a mistake or maybe it was worth it But I won't be worth it for me to do that again and my tanks like my fuel tanks are supposed to be polished I did they're just stained now, so I'm gonna go down so I requested a load south if they have anything Who might request right I go where the loads go But I that's if you have anything south please I need to go too far ago I need to go to a north star truck wash or a blue beacon. I might have to get the truck acid washed I don't know I'm gonna go in there. I'll be like, okay underneath all of this grime is polished aluminum And it was shining before all of this grime got on here So do what you can to bring that shine back get this grime off of there I'm hoping they can do that without acid washing the actual aluminum because then you got to get a repolished So that's my day a little disappointing. It's raining though. We had a beautiful week while I was at home Beautiful sun shiny warm hot week The renters who had our camper brought it back. They took excellent care of it. It was a really good first experience They really enjoyed it too they had a good time All around amazing 100% first experience we gave them a five-star review as renters So Now I just got to wait for a load to come in they said maybe this afternoon and in the meantime We can get some more things done in here. There's always always something to do always Especially after you have a kid. I mean you thought you you think you're busy now if you haven't had a kid yet People used to tell me this all the time. They're not lying You think you're busy Wait till you have a kid it is so hard to get everything done that you need to get done And that's not complaining a kid is the greatest thing ever in the world little Theo. I miss him And I'm writing that far away from him. He's still sleeping at home right now Hi, it's amazing, but when you have a lot of things to get done a Lot of them just aren't gonna get done And that's okay. You gotta get get to that point in your head. You're like, that's okay That's okay. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out and you know, I'm trying to get to that I'm not quite there yet because my brain still spins sometimes like I have so much things to do I start getting anxiety and stuff But I'm getting there so now is my time to catch up on a few things I thought I'd be on the road already turns out Not quite yet. I got a couple of hours. So let's not waste it as expected or as to be expected They picked up a few bugs on the road That's not bad. They pulled it about 250 kilometers or two and a half hours from here just over in Ontario And I'll just wipe off those bugs. I'll get some bullsnot on there We'll get this thing all cleaned up for the next renters the whole trailers ready aside from this front piece here. I've got to I've got to wipe that down yet. We don't have any renters for this coming weekend yet But the next weekend it's rented out It's going South from here not into the US. I was going south from here And if you're wondering trucker Josh, how was the the new rental business going? Like I like I said before our first rental our first renters were amazing It's going really well, and we have we have it booked out again in two weekends from now And we started halfway through the season. We've had a lot of interest a lot of people Messaging seeing if they can rent it out. Maybe by the time this video airs Maybe it'll be rented and booked straight out to the end of September Or even the end of October we're renting it until the end of October and that's when we're cutting it off By November 1st this trailer has to be in the shop here. It does not be winterized because it's going to be warm Which is awesome, right? We keep in here give it a warm through the winter, but It depends though the right renters, I mean if they want to take it south to Florida for a month or something during the winter Oh, it's always negotiable always negotiable like I said earlier. You speak my language We're talking dollar signs. Well, you want it for a month? You want to go to Florida with it in wintertime? I don't see why not. Let's talk. We negotiate. I can't promise Let's see what kind of people you are first But I've had it in Florida before I've had it in California before Sleep score. Oh Just as I was talking to you about this we had another booking come in So it'll be booked out this weekend as well and the following weekend Good. They're coming in quick Right home Thanks to kind of excited maybe it will work to have a couple more of these next year because I If we had eight of these campers last year, they would have all been booked out over August long all of them It's just I don't know if we can keep eight busy every weekend But so far this thing's been busy every weekend since we've had it on the market as a rental every weekend Bang booking is coming in and it makes sense because like I said before why buy one of these I already bought one. All right, and I don't use it. I don't use it. So oh, there's another one We're not using it that much. So we decided to turn it into a business instead and rent it out to people That way you don't have to Because you buy one of these it sits in storage most of the time, doesn't it doesn't make sense just to So rent one instead. I mean Make sense to me if I wouldn't already own this one I would have probably just rented now that I know this is a thing But now that I know this is a thing I might buy another couple of these and Get a couple of different models, you know, we had this four person a four sleeper four person camper I'd like to get at least a six person or an eight person just for a bigger family And a fifth wheel fifth wheel might just be delivered But we'll see. I don't know. Let's not get too ahead of ourselves For now, I'm just happy that this thing is being kept busy this season and I'm all ready to leave on a trip Trailer here is all ready to go out. I guess we're gonna have to come up with a name for this trailer, right? Other than a Rockwood 2304 DS We're going for it with a name. Maybe you guys can give us some name ideas for our our first rental trailer So I've got this angle towards the door here So that They can easily pull out, right? Want to be a little easier on them. Britt's gonna be here. I'm gonna be on the road So it's all ready. It's clean. It's stopped all bedding and lemons are included in there They had requested that it's got RV toilet paper All the tanks have been dumped. They're empty including the freshwater tank They wanted to fill that when they get to where they're going So that they don't have to haul that extra weight. It's a 60 gallon freshwater tank. So it's hold six 500 pounds of water. It's an extra 500 pounds You got to pull down the highway and burn fuel for no reason, right? They decided they wanted to fuel it or I fill it up with water down there, which makes a lot of sense to me Now we just wanted to make sure that the fridge is on. That's why it's plugged in, right? I just want to hear the fridge turn on here It doesn't run constantly, but it does turn on periodically. So I was just gonna come here and wait for it to turn on We do that so that the fridge is cold when they pick it up And they can put their food that they bought right into the fridge right away And it won't go bad It takes 24 hours to cool this fridge all the way down to where it needs to be and the freezer is a little bit quicker But we like to have it cold for them when they pick it up So I plugged it in I turned it on I'm just waiting for it to kick on now It probably was running for a while already and then turned off. So now I gotta wait for it to kick back on Just to make sure it's running Then we can leave on a trip we can get to some trucking the kind of stuff you guys are used to seeing me do Not this stuff. This is my other stuff that we do on the side well, actually Britt takes care of it so Behind the scenes of trucker Josh now in front of the scenes now on scene Well, come on now kick on Come on You can hear old blue running out there already, right? Is ready to go. I need to go pick up that trailer supposed to be there before 1 a.m. So I have plenty of time. I didn't want to get there so late I wanted to get to a parking spot somewhere and go to sleep and be sleeping by 1 a.m. Hey, what's going on here? It must be cold already I went to go turn old blue off cuz she's got a little the trucks got a little bit of a rumble and sometimes it over It's overbearing can't hear anything else Which I'm okay with But right now I need to hear that this fridge is running before I leave Open it up a bit make sure that it's on Problems Problems Freak me out a little bit. I pulled the slide out so I can get the kitchen all open. I'll show you inside here It's running now you hear that It's running it turns off and then it runs for a bit and it turns off that slide is not Pushed out right now. I just pushed out the kitchen slide here so that I could Access this a little bit more cuz it's freaking me out that this thing wasn't turning on But you heard it running there runs for a bit turns off runs for a bit turns off. So it should be good Freak me out freak me out man Don't need this right now My dad's on his way over here right now cuz he's gonna take a look at it Help me try to figure out why I wasn't turning on I turned it from propane back to electric And then it just started running on its own so I guess That's how it's supposed to be Whoo anxiety We have a renter coming in a couple days. I'll make sure this thing works. So you heard it. It's running It's working Well emergency services arrived Dad to the rescue Almost midnight after our call. It's gonna be expensive They live just around the corner to It should kick on again very soon so dad has explained to me like these fridges are a little bit different It's not a compressor style phrase that you have in your house It's a little bit of a different fridge. It takes 24 hours to cool down and you're saying well, there's fins in the 30s say It's working There's fins inside the fridge that cool off the fridge and that takes so long to cool the fridge off But on the other side of the fins they get really warm and that fan is cooling the back of those fins But they didn't kick on right away is because the fins weren't hot enough in the back yet So I'm just a moron Fridges and RV was that kind of it's a cooler fridge. It's yeah, it's not a compressor fridge at least this one Maybe the fancier RVs have a compressor fridge. I Think ours has that an RV. I go snag chair. Yeah, I think that has a compressor fridge. Oh, okay So this one's a little different So I didn't know how the fridge worked Uh Dad had to come in educate me. He actually didn't do anything He just showed up and it was already working and he explained to me why it wasn't before and why it is now These coolers a cooler fridge and Then after a while the fan will come on just if they the backup part of the cooler doesn't get too hot That makes sense and then it's certainly it's air that makes the air in the fish nice and cool You see it'd be different if it was just us taking it out not a big deal Whatever we'll figure it out if the fridge isn't working But we have renters coming the day after tomorrow to take this thing out and I'm not gonna be back I'm going well. I might be back. I'm going on a short trip. We're gonna Yorkton and back So I might be back when they pick it up But most likely, you know Brit my mom or someone else will be here to go over the pre-inspection with them And I didn't want them to show up and have a warm fridge and no fridge for the entire trip because what do we do then what do we I'd have to let them know now and maybe they'd rebook with someone else We lose the rental or we'd have to give a big discount because the fridge isn't working. That's kind of an important part So this is very new to us I'm going to Saskatoon Behind Edmonton and then you us from there this that's what I was told anyway, okay So there's no help at all after this so Well wait one more time it's gonna cycle on one more time But I was just panicking and as because we're new to this this whole rental thing And I want to make sure that we create good impressions right off the bat with all of our renters There it is again And I want to make sure that we get you know We get good a good customer base that they want to come back and rent from us again They tell their friends like hey you guys don't buy a camper just rent from these guys I'm a little bit full of anxiety, but I have a trailer You can check inside the fridge now read it should start cooling off inside I mean, it's not going to be to attempt to where you want it to be but it should start Okay, let's let's go and check a little nervous opening it because I don't want to stop working now But if it's gonna stop working it should start working stop working now. Well dad's here and he can give me a hand because I Need his brain power Because I haven't worked with these things before and he has okay, so We'll put our hand inside the freezer here. Yes, it's definitely started to cool down already Yeah. Oh, yeah, I can feel that that's getting cold Okay The fridge nice blue lighting my favorite And in here we won't feel this as much because this takes 24 hours to cool down Okay, the freezer is definitely cool definitely cooling down Okay Crisis of vertebra. Thanks for coming out dad. Oh, yeah, quite well in the middle of the night We're just lazy about living Fine on our cell phones and just I just put my my headset on it just barely turn it on put on my head I looked at the screen and Your icon came up your profile came up the fridge isn't working. Oh Okay, well the problem is fixed that fan will come on one more time yet and Then we'll I'll head out. I got to go pick up my trailer. I have to be there before 1 a.m. And it's already past 10 o'clock So I'll still have time. I'll be fine. I Can sleep fine All right, then you bring it here No, I'm gonna sleep in Winnipeg. I didn't pick up any pair. Yeah, there it is All right Hey, and we're good. Let's fold these things back up here. I'm gonna need to answer this Can't believe I did that Yeah, we're panicking thinking that the fridge isn't working. Oh, it's working just fine I just don't know how it works. That's all Sometimes this brain of mine, you know, it just gets the better of me just man So we're back in old blue. Let's forget about that right now. That is in the capable hands of Brit my wife now My job now is to go and pick up this trailer. We got to get our load in the morning No more distractions. No more distractions. No more distractions. It's Uh It's almost 11 o'clock now. I have two hours. It won't take an hour to get there But I'm cutting it way closer than I wanted to way closer than I wanted to just get my computer all set up in the back I just want to get make sure My computer is safe here. Don't want my computer falling or breaking I'd rather that not happen. Thank you very much. I Already lost a GoPro this week No idea where it went. No idea. I think I got stolen honestly Cuz I had the GoPro with us so that was thinking of logging while I was at home this week And we were going to Superstore, which is like a Canadian Walmart, right? We're gonna go Superstore, but I left it in the car. I was like, how do we find I'll get it later I think we forgot to lock the doors of the car. I think I think I forgot I Think someone stole my GoPro. Do you have my GoPro? Who are you? Why'd you take my GoPro? I was a hero 8 So I already bought a new one. It's another hero 8. It'll be here later this week But until then we have this Sony camera. Thank goodness. We got the Sony camera It's my best camera, but it's not really an action camera So I can't do as many road shots and I can't strap this one to my head. Let's go get our trailer. Okay All right, we got our rental and we're at Flying Jane heading it's late late late Pretty much a whole vlog about the camper again guys, eh? Sorry about that. I know a lot of you want to see this stuff Well, let me tell you something tomorrow. This is all you're gonna see trucking I Got this rental tri-axle step deck behind me now. We were all out of our own Tri-axle steps. I believe a lot of them are in for some warranty work right now I think that's what's going on Anyways, this thing's in pretty good shape Happy with it Now I did request to go south that I could take old blue through Blue Beacon or the North Star truck wash and Fargo Get all this grime off it Unfortunately, we're not going south this week doing three runs to York and Saskatchewan and back Which is a pretty much produce a full day there and back I think about 500 miles not quite a full day, but It'll fill up my my week here. So I have three days left in this week You got Wednesday Thursday and Friday today was Tuesday when I'm filming this just to give you an idea of what time of the week I'm filming this on so tomorrow we go pick up our load of concrete. I Think they're concrete Jersey Barriers or something to do something concrete. We're gonna throw them on here They're gonna be heavy. That's why we needed the tri-axle Load them up head over to York and probably unload that first thing the next morning and then Rush back here to try to get loaded the same day rush back there to get loaded the following morning and then rush back here to get loaded That's the idea, but I'm kind of sad that I'm not gonna be able to get this grime off my truck because look at this this is like It's so sad to see old blue in this state like And I I washed it and I could not for the life of me Get this grime off of here. I mean I it will come off you see here It will come off, but it's stuck on there really good It's awful. Look at that. Oh my polish To it'll clean off. I just need to I Hope I won't have to acid wash it early. I don't want to do that Devlin needs some love and attention. I Know you can tell by the tone of my voice But I'm not just tired right now. I'm very I'm very sad about How how dirty old blue got but I'm not gonna let myself get down too much. It's okay. We'll fix it We'll get it cleaned. We'll do our best and I'm only budgeting to polish it once a year so It shouldn't it's not due for another polish until next spring So we're gonna have to we're gonna have to do some special hard work bringing that shine back We'll get it there. We'll do it. This is gonna take I Don't know the trip up north wasn't worth all the effort. I don't think for me. It paid really good, but Not with a polish truck. That's not somewhere you take a polish truck unless you don't care about your polish and I care about mine, so At least I got those dollars right I went to the end of that road. I got those dollars. They're mine now mine So there's I did get something for it I'm not really I'm not complaining. It's my choice. I went down there and Of my own complete free will no one forced me to I Didn't know I didn't know All learning experiences today how I learned about the RV fridge learned that You know some dirt doesn't come off so easy off of polished aluminum That's what I mean. I've been driving 17 years now You believe that oh I'm not that old, but I started really early. I started driving truck when I was 18 here in Canada here in Manitoba So I've been driving ever since I've been doing this long haul stuff here or at the same place for 12 years now So I am what you might call experienced, but I still learn new things every day And that's why this job is so awesome. There's always something new to learn. That's what it's so great about life Every day is a new learning experience. You just got a Learn from your mistakes and try not to repeat them Thanks for watching today everybody. We're gonna shut down or a flying J. Headingly Manitoba west of Winnipeg Take our load tomorrow. I'll talk to you. It'll be a day full of truck