 Hey, this is James from Toronto, Ontario Canada. You're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs with Diesel. Well, good morning everybody. We're back here at work. We've got to tarp our load before we take off. They were kind enough to put it here in the tent for us, but take a look at this stuff. Take a look at this. This is not gonna be fun. So that there is the glass that was already on my trailer, right? That I already picked up. I tarped that. That's my load. Now they added that and this. And I have to tarp this. Like what is this? All kinds of different angles. Pallets stacked on top of boxes. Boxes on top. I got a like these copper pipes sticking out that are gonna want to chew right through my tarps. This is not gonna be fun. And then this back here, I really don't like a pallet on top of a box like that and the box is sort of collapsing down here. And what in the world is this? I'm not very happy about that. I mean, I'll be able to secure it so that it doesn't go anywhere, but I'm gonna have to see how how that's gonna work, but yeah. So this is what I'm dealing with. I was coming here expecting to, you know, spend a hour, maybe two tarping this, but now I've got to tie this down first and then tarp it yet in a way where these things won't eat through my tarps. Well, my way to Calgary. This is all going to Calgary as well. No idea what it is. Don't really care. I don't like it. Fun time. So let's let's get to work. Let's get this done. Well, I've got my golden helper here. He's doing most of the work for me because I got a sore back. But I'm not impressed. I do not like this extra freight. If I would have known what it was, I would have just said don't bother. Don't bother. I'm already getting full load for this here. This all is just extra for me. I could have done without it. But I'll get it done and I'll have extra money in my bank account. That shouldn't have been there or that wouldn't have been there otherwise. I'm not impressed. This load is very brittle, so it's very hard to tie it down because everything bends and it's got like super sharp edges, like really thin steel edges like here. Super sharp edges in there that are going to want to eat right through my tarps. Like with this too, these are going to want to eat right through the tarps inside and they're like sticking out pretty far there. You see that? These here, I'm going to rip a hole right in my tarps. I'm going to have to put something in there so that that doesn't happen. This is going to take me a few hours for sure to get this done. Financially, it definitely is worth it. I still would have said no if I would have known what it was. This is one of those loads where you shake your head and you mutter things to yourself under your breath that shouldn't be said out loud. Not impressed. But it needs to move too, right? Somebody's got to bring it there. Who better to ask than Trucker Josh? He'll get it done. He won't complain about it. He'll just do it. So I do have Chevy with me on this trip. Diesel stayed at home with Mom. He's helping me tarp. Come on, Chevy. Get up there. Get up there, man. I need someone on top. You're more limber than I am. I guess I may as well stop talking about it. Start getting it done. We'll be lucky to get out of here before the sun goes down at 1030. I've got to get far enough today that I can get to Calgary tomorrow. I wasn't expecting to have a load like this that's going to be so time consuming. I'm kind of curious already because they weren't telling me what it was. I was trying to get them to tell me what was on the trailer. What did they add to the trailer? How much? All that they told me was that you're going to have to tarp it. What is it? Is it lumber or what is it? Oh, it's light stuff. Yeah. And it's also extremely brittle, extremely fragile, extremely sharp edges. You're probably going to ruin your tarp. I'll stop. Oh, let's just get hopefully that size is going to be a little easier to do since I've already figured out some tricks on this part. This whole piece is going somewhere else. All right, now I've got to get down. I can already hear the comments. Well, we had turned the lights on, but I think we're officially done, Chevy. You did a good job. Thanks for all your help, man. Thanks for all your help. You did a good job. Lots of jumping up there. Good boy. Oh, yeah. Yep. This is not fun. This is not fun. I still say that if they would have told me what this was on the trailer, I would have said, nope, don't bother. Don't bother. This is still some poking edges out there. I put some rugs underneath there and it's still poking out. It looks like it's going to rip. I'm going to be so sore. My back is just going to be oh well. Oh well. Oh well. I did the best I could. I did the best I could to tie it down without damaging the freight. You could pretty much blow on it and it would bend. And then I tarped it the best way I could. I can't do anything else. I mean, I'd love to put a strap over here to reduce this from flapping. Not fun. I'm not complaining. I had some good company. I had some good, there he is. There he is. Good boy. Thanks for keeping me good. He's such a good boy. He is, me and Britt, call him a unicorn because he is just the absolute perfect dog. So easy to train. It's that golden retriever in him, man. He's half golden retriever, half German shepherd. I wanted a German shepherd. Britt wanted a golden retriever. So we got a golden shepherd, half and half. A beautiful, handsome boy. We actually got him the day after our wedding or a few days after our wedding. So he's sort of like our marriage puppy. Anyways, I'm going to open this door here, back the truck in, hook up, clean up in here. And we need to get down the road a few hours tonight yet and hope that this load and tarps hold up. I did the best I could. What more can I do? All right. So we just did our pre-trip. I'm just in the yard here. I'm going to quickly scale this up. Just no way I'm overweight, but I just want to know what my weight is. So I'm not surprised when I see it on the government scales. Let's see. On the stairs we have, I know you can't see it. You'll have to take my word for it. I don't got that camera angle right now. Sorry. We have 11,540 pounds on our drive axles. We have drum roll, please. 18,840 pounds. And on the trailer tandems. One axle, two axles. We're sitting at 17,640. We're not even close to being overweight, like I said. This is good news. Good news. And off we go finally. It's almost 11 o'clock at night. Finally going to get to see the the sky. Is it about a day? No, what is it today? Yeah, yesterday was summer solstice. So today the day is just as long for three days. The days are sort of set at the same daylight hours. And then we start getting shorter daylight hours three days later. That's probably about as dark as the sky is going to get tonight in the north. I really don't like this freight. Have I told you that yet? I'll stop talking about it. It's done. It's tied down. It's all extra cash in the pocket. So you know, at the end of the day, as long as we get it there in one piece and they're happy with it, just wasn't fun. And you know what? Not everything in this life is fun. I know you think I'm about to go into one of those rants about how not everything is fun, but nope, you're wrong. I'm just going to leave it there. I'm tired. I don't even got energy to rent. I got to just get a couple hours down the road and I'm going to bet perimeter around Winnipeg here and there's so many city people that drive down this highway with their high beams on in traffic. And what's crazy is I've talked to someone who's done that before and the crazy thing is that they were taught to do that by their driving instructor when they got their license. Their driving instructor inside the city told them that if there are no street lamps and you are outside the city, you should use your high beams at all times. What? Who's teaching that? They actually, yeah, they were arguing with me. They said, no, no, no. That's what they said. As soon as there's no street lights, you have to use your high beams for safety. But well, good thing you can see because nobody else can see. It makes sense why when you go around Winnipeg and you flash your high beams at someone who has their high beams on, I've never had them actually dim their lights and realize why I'm flashing my high beams at them. Here comes another guy, big HID headlights. Got his high beams on. Those new HID headlights in the new vehicles are so bright too. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. Look at this dude. Well, the Red River X is in town. I totally forgot about that. It's like the big fare that comes through town every year. You know, you can see it over there. Bright lights and stuff. I'm not really too interested in the Red River X. It's really crowded and I don't know, I'm more of a fan of like the American amusement parks. Like I could always go down to Six Flags in the U.S. and it'd be way better and I don't trust these rides. Like look at all this traffic. It's nuts. I don't trust all these rides because they're constantly like moving from place to place and they've been known to fall apart. So I like the rides that are, that guy went right through a red light. Dude man, and this guy's going through the, oh, you see what I mean? This is why I don't want to go to these Red River X's. People are just nuts. Look at all these people coming out there yet. It's crazy. It's like 11.30 at night and there's just people everywhere. I guess the X is probably, I think it closes at midnight. Crazy. But I like going to the amusement parks where the rides are fixed in place and they don't move from town to town. That way, I don't know, I just feel better about, I don't know. Did you guys hear about that ride that broke in Ohio? Was it last year, the year before? It was that, what was it called, the spinning one, the spinning one that swings? I don't know what it's called, but it broke and a couple people died. It broke while it was operating with people on it. So like I said, nah, not for me really. These people can all go enjoy it and use their money for that. I'm going to go to like Disney World or something. Universal Studios, Six Flags. Before we go any further though, we need to get some fuel. No. No. I'm not going to go down your dark alley, Mandy. Creepy. I'm going to turn right into Flying J and we're going to get some go-go juice. And then we're going to try to get to Brandon tonight yet. I want to get a little bit of miles behind me so I can make it as close to Calgary as possible tomorrow. What is the price of fuel? I didn't even look because it doesn't really matter. I got to buy it either way at about a quarter tank right now. Is he sitting there? I can't tell. Fuel price isn't that bad right now compared to what it has been recently. Hello, beautiful people. My name is Angela and I'm from British Columbia, Canada. You're watching Trucker Josh and the Diesel Weasel.