 Like I was saying yesterday's video, I can definitely tell that these new tires handle differently on the road. And I said it yesterday as well, if you watched yesterday's video, I don't know if that's just because they're brand new tires, or because they're a different brand, or if they're made differently, they are a cheaper brand than the, you know, big brand that I had on there before. I had fire stones on there before, and they were pretty much almost bald. So obviously they're going to feel different on the truck, right? Obviously. So I bought new tires, threw them on there, yesterday was the first day with them, had the first load on them, we're fully loaded, we're just under 80,000 pounds, there's lumber underneath this tarp. And I can definitely tell that it was, that was different. Not that it was bothering me or anything, but you know, I know my truck, I can feel it beneath me, I can tell it's almost different. Have you guys ever noticed that too? Is that normal? I mean, obviously it has to be normal, because there's new shoes on the truck, right? So it has to feel different, and probably just overthinking it. Other than that, they're doing fine, like, doing great. We'll see how they do in wintertime, obviously, right? But I'll keep you updated. I told you I'd keep you updated, because I bought Blackhawks. These are Blackhawks. It's kind of an off-brand. These are BDL71s. It's a budget brand. So these were almost $4,000 cheaper than the good years that I was thinking of buying, and the Michelins as well. Quite a bit cheaper. And of course, I was a little nervous, right, buying the cheaper tires. But $4,000 is a lot of money. And when it comes down to it, a tire is a tire. If it lasts not quite as long, well, I didn't pay quite as much. So I kind of expect it to wear down faster. But if it balances out to about the same cost per mile, I guess they're about the same then, right? We'll see. I'll keep you updated as time goes on. But I'm expecting these tires to hopefully last about two years. So it's 2023 right now. Summer of, or summer or spring of 2026, no, 2025, sorry, I can math, I promise. That's what I'm hoping to get them to. We'll see what happens. That's what I mean about friendly people. The guy in the pickup, he just wanted to come and chat. He's an elderly gentleman, probably. I don't want to guess his age, but he's retired, definitely. I just wanted to stop and chat. He said, oh, I just saw your truck. I just love trucks. Just how are you doing? Where are you from? Oh, you're from Manitoba. Oh, there come a few Canadian jokes, right? They're all friendly, laughing together. He told me he used to drive a truck out in St. Louis, and his son was a cop, and I told him, oh, that's cool, because my other career choice if I wasn't going to be a truck driver, I wanted to be a cop. He was talking to me about him, his son had just retired, and then we started talking about how it's getting worse for cops out there, and that's too bad. I got a lot of respect for them. They have a hard job. They deal with the worst people of society every single day. All the people we don't want to deal with, what do we do when we don't want to deal with someone? We call the cops, and they deal with them. And then all the paperwork of writing people up, and I know some people don't like cops, and that's usually people that are doing things that the cops might arrest them for. There's usually a reason they don't like cops, but yeah, I like cops. They're not all good, obviously, just like not all truckers are good. But we need cops, and we need truck drivers. So back to my tires here. One thing I have to, I just can't get over it. People in Minnesota are so friendly. So friendly. I love Minnesota. Love Minnesota. Tires. I got to be careful because these tire treads will pick up rocks like this, and you want to get them out of there. You don't want them to stay in there. Sometimes they'll get thrown out on the road. Okay, I have to get a tool for that one, that one's in there good. That's why we have these mud flaps, and that's why it's a law to have these mud flaps. So they might get thrown out. I'm trying to pick them all up, because if, like this one's really stuck in there. And if it stays in there as the tire wears down, down, down, it'll get pushed further and further in by the weight of the truck, until it actually pushes right through the tire and makes a hole, and then you've got a flat tire. Now, there's no specific stone picker tool that I have, so we'll use my 13 millimeter here. I'm trying to get this thing out of here. Just need to sit. This is probably not the right tool at all. I'm doing this to my left hand first of all, so the first thing I'm doing is all, come on, get out of there. That was in there really good. There we go. Come on. You want something I can get underneath there? There you go. I guess I shouldn't put it right by my tires again. Pull it out of my tires just to put it right back in. There you go. Stay here. I picked up a few friends yesterday again. There's a big guy. Nice. Nothing a little bullsnot. I won't fix. Pull it out of Brainerd right now. Got an empty flatbed behind me. It's a quick offload. It's been an eventful day so far. I've only been driving for an hour and a half. A deer ran into me. I didn't hit it. It hit me and lost. It was a definitive win for all blue. It just nicked the back of my truck. It happened just south of Emily. It was driving down the highway and suddenly this deer came sprinting out of the long grass. Just sprinting out. I guess it saw me. I guess in its panic attempted to jump over my truck. It felt like it was going to jump right into my driver side window here. The window was closed but it seemed like it was just going to hit my driver door. I guess I was moving fast enough that it actually went between my truck and trailer. It nicked my side faring. It didn't do any real damage. But it nailed my trailer right on the front corner of my trailer. Just below its ribs it caught it there. She got opened up all the way down to her rear hip. It was a definitive win for mole blue. I guess it was the trailer. Zero damage. But the deer did sustain some damages. I know it's not really that exciting of a story. That's why I didn't make a big deal of it when it happened. No damage to the truck. No damage to my trailer. Oh, that was close to that car. Dude, man. I'm going to stop here and let that car pass through. It could be a family in that SUV, man. It just hit them. There's a car seat in the back. You know, loud people. Smart enough. Anyway, yeah, the sort of a non-event, non-thing. I mean, for the deer it was a big life-changing event for me. Well, I stopped and made sure everything was okay. And it was. So we're going to keep trucking. Let that be a lesson to all you deer watching my vlogs. Stop running into the road crying out loud. Last night I stopped in Deer River. Because there was deer everywhere. I saw like 20 deer. So I figured, you know, it's dark outside. I don't want to hit any deer at night. Let's park it. We'll continue during the daylight hours. And I end up hitting one during the daylight hours. Or it hit me. Let's get this story straight. The deer hit me. I wasn't going to fuel up the Casey's here in town. Their diesel pumps were all out of order. So now I've got to go down the road to Pelger and grab fuel there. I can't grab fuel just anywhere. They have to be able to accept my fuel cards. This is going to be a big fill-up. The price of diesel fuel here is 340 US per US gallon. With all the conversions of today, that would be $1.18 Canadian per liter. Just as a comparison, the fuel stop in San Diego at Manitoba where I would usually stop the Flying J. The price there is $1.639 or $1.64 per liter today. This is $1.18. We're already at just about 170 gallons. This is where the deer hit. I already wiped out the blood off of here and everything. You can see it's still a little bit left here. This thing right here. Slice it right open. It's all over this back rim too. All over my half fender here. I cleaned that all off already. I didn't want to drive around with that. I'll shut the truck off here just momentarily because I'm going to need the air conditioning back soon. It's pretty hot, but this way you can hear me when I'm talking to you. Let's go over what this fuel cost here and what I saved. Now, what I pay at the pump or the pump price in Canada at the Flying J is always a little different than what I actually pay. There's fleet discounts. Excuse me, I'm spitting all over the place. Fleet discounts that we get because we buy so much fuel from there as a fleet. I don't get discounts on top of those. You guys, most of you guys know this already, but we're just going to go according to pump prices as if I were paying full pump price in Canada as opposed to buying it here in Pilger at Casey's. Casey's here. I don't get any fleet discounts. I pay pump price here because we don't have, we don't buy enough fuel from Casey's. Usually we're buying a Flying J or Pilot, but there are no Flying J Pilots around here. And I was pretty much on E. And I didn't want to fuel up in Canada because I could fuel up here and save money. And we're going to find out how much money I saved right now. So I bought 182 US gallons. That equals 688.9, so 689 liters. The price here was $3.39 or $3.40 a gallon USD, which equals $618.63 USD. With the conversions, straight up conversions, that's $1.18 per liter, Canadian. And it cost me $812.97 Canadian. So that's pretty good. Pretty good. Now let's see how much we actually saved because we said that the price posted in Canada at St. Agath where I usually would fuel on the way home. If I were to fuel on the Canadian side, it was $1.63.9. This was $1.18 zero. So subtract $1.18. That's the savings of 45.9 cents per liter. Now how many liters did we buy here? I said 688.956. I pressed the wrong button. 0.459. Times 688.956. Bam! I saved myself $316 Canadian and $0.23 by fueling here. And the fuel prices in Canada are going back up in July because the wonderful people in Ottawa think that we need more expensive diesel fuel, which is going to make food more expensive and everything we haul more expensive. But that's going to make the weather better. So who am I to question that, right? We all like sunshine, we want better weather. So $316 cheaper and that will be more next month because the carbon tax is being lifted again. Again in July. It's sad because now the Canadian economy is just losing money because I'm not spending my money up there. I'm spending my money down here in the United States where they still got a few brain cells put together that raising the cost of diesel fuel is not going to change the weather. You're not an expert trick or dodge. You're not a scientist. Well, you got me there. I didn't know I needed credentials to be able to figure that one out. But hey, hopefully one day we'll be able to fix that mess. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. Everything keeps going up. Prices keep going up and up and up and up and up. And it seems like everything they do is too... It's almost like they're intentionally trying to make everything more and more expensive. Now I'm trying to buy my family a new home. We're trying to get into a bigger home so that we can raise our kids in a better home. They're making it harder and harder and harder. Aren't they supposed to be working for us to make things easier and easier? It's like they're intentionally saying, you know what, we're going to slap this tax on there and guess what? We're going to tax the tax. Say goodbye to your dream of owning a new home, Trucker Josh. Say goodbye. Don't be silly. Don't be silly. You can't keep your money. The government needs your money. They need to take your money and give it to people over there because reasons makes me so upset. So we have our new marching orders. Let's talk about something better. This is not a political channel. We're going to go back home empty, which is about a five-hour drive back. It's not too bad. A little bit of a dead-head haul. That's okay. I don't mind. We have another load that's going to keep us around the Winnipeg area for tomorrow. Now we're delivering some of that steel again, made in Canada. You guys remember that from last week. We're going to bring some of that out to around Southern Manitoba and that'll fill up tomorrow. What is tomorrow? Tomorrow is... It's Tuesday today, right? Is it? Isn't it? What day is it today? It's the 21st. Happy summer solstice or bladed summer solstice. Oh, so it's Wednesday already. Now that's Thursday then. That's what they're going to get me doing on Thursday. Okay. So this week is going to... I'm not going to have very much money coming in this week. So after the truck show on Saturday, I'm going to make myself available for Sunday. And we are going to have to put our nose to the grindstone. We are going to have to really hammer down. We need to bring in some money, because I've got to work twice as hard now, bringing the same money as before, because I want a bigger house. We'll get there. Just got to work harder and harder and harder and harder. And off we go. So I was told by one of my good friends, Moses. It's from Virginia that when I put new drives on my truck, I should expect it to feel a little bit weird until those tires get worn in a little bit and broken in. So he said what I was feeling on those tires that I was explaining to you this morning was perfectly normal. That weird feeling will go away after like a week or two or a couple of weeks. That's good, because it was feeling a little weird to me. I feel a little bit of whooshie whooshie, you know? Kind of like it's floating around a little more than I liked it to. Let's get back out here. After this white car, we are turning right. Oh, no, there's another car coming after that. Maybe we'll wait. Should I wait? Should I wait? I'm way too nice. Oh, and there's a motorhome after that yet. I should have gone. Oh, and there's another car after that one. I should have. And he's turning anyways. I totally could have gone. Totally could have gone. Now I'm behind a motorhome or a camper anyways. Oh, great. Fantastic. This will be fun. Got to love following people on vacation with no time schedule, you know? Good for them. I'm happy for them, but there are no rush to get anywhere and they want to take pictures of everything. So for tomorrow, I'm going to go to sleep in Headingley tonight. It's the same thing we did yesterday, yesterday, last week on Thursday, right? Same, same deal. Just a bit different customers that we're going to. But the same deal. So I'll go there. I'll show up in Headingley first thing in the morning. I'll sleep right there at the Flying J. Have a shower there tonight. I got to grab a roll tight trailer tonight when I get back to the yard. I'm six hours from the yard. I'll get there. Grab trailer 547. Pull that to Headingley. Go to bed. Have a shower. No, first have a shower, then go to bed. I guess it doesn't really matter. But I'd rather have a shower first and keep my bed sheets and blankets clean as for as long as possible. Take I-29 all the way. It really grabs my gears. I haven't complained in a while. The engine fan on that truck kicks on all the time. And it seems to blow the air straight down onto the dusty gravel lot and just kicks up a big cloud of dust. I'm thinking I need to create something like a barrier just for underneath the engine fan so all of the air goes over the engine but not down onto the ground. So I was trying to get this shot of me unhooking on my trailer 532 there and then hooking up to that 547 roll tight. I don't know how it turned out. Hopefully it worked. Maybe it was a good cinematic effect but all that dust wasn't planned. I think it kind of ruined my shot but it also gets dust all over my truck every time. It's annoying. Do any of you have anything that you've seen or done to prevent the air from your engine fan going down and kicking up all that dust? Is there something I can buy for that or make it? I mean it shouldn't be too hard right? There's a little barrier. I don't know. I don't know. Okay, so I looked back at the footage and it actually wasn't that bad with the dust. It looked a lot worse than the cab but it does get my truck extremely dirty every time I go on to grab a lot like this. It's fine when the engine fan's not on but the engine fan always kicks on even though the engine and the oil temperature is just fine it doesn't need the engine fan on. But it kicks on and then it kicks up all that dust so I'm looking for solutions to that problem. I'll have to look at it another day but the engine fan's obviously right behind the rad here right? All I'd want to do is just create like a little barrier or something just down there just to prevent the air from blowing down and just keeping it over the motor. That might be even better for cooling the engine right? If it is more directed towards the engine and not around it? I don't know. I'd look at this now. Look at this. It's a constant battle and that engine fan is not on my team. Look at all these bugs. Man, we're gonna have to get some bolts not on this soon. If you guys tried bolts not visible you spray it on here. You wait a couple of minutes and then practically just melt off. You just wipe them off with a rag. All right. So 547. That's the wonderful. So take it. It has no door in the front. Yay. Okay. So I'll have to put these into the back. So I'm going to pull the trailer out and then just throw these in the back. Or can I keep them up here? No. Now it'd be much faster and easier just to put them in the back. That'll be fine. Yeah. I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out. To put them up here I have to use more straps. It'll take longer. It'll also take longer if I keep talking about it and not actually doing it. I kind of just want to stand around a bit. Is that bad? Sometimes I feel like I just, the weather's just really nice right now. It's quiet except for my voice. Beautiful out here. It is 10 o'clock at night. When I'm filming this it is the longest daylight hour day of the year. The sun just set. It'll still be light for probably about another half hour maybe close to an hour. I'm in Heddingly, Manitoba. I'm going to stay at the ESO. It used to be Husky. We're going to pick up just around the corner in the morning. Look at that. 10 o'clock. I wish we didn't have to make the daylight hour shorter again. I wish they would just stay like this. That is what it is. Now the days start getting shorter again. And that's sad. It happened so quick but we still have all of summer to look forward to yet. So let's not get too sad. And it's not even very full here. Nice. There's a parking available. Let's let you watch that sunset with me for a little bit. I'm going to be turning to the right very soon. I want to try and find a spot along the side somewhere along the back or something. Just off on my own. Or it'll be quiet. That's my trailer for tomorrow. Fill it up with some more of that steel. I believe I have two deliveries in Winkler, Manitoba. One in Rosenhurt and one in what was that other town again? Ogony? Ogony? Something like that. Either way, we'll make it happen. And we'll be all unloaded tomorrow afternoon. We'll see what they have for us tomorrow. Tomorrow's Thursday. So the next day is Friday and I'd really like to stay busy because Saturday's the truck show. But, I mean, they got nothing for me on Friday and this week has been so slow because I need to be home in a week and they don't want to send me out too far. I don't want to miss this truck show again. I already missed it once last year. So I told them I can't miss it so they're doing their best. But that means that I didn't make as much money as I wanted to. So next week it's going to be different next week. We're going to put some miles on. We're just going to sit out here and enjoy the last little bit of sunset. It's after 10 o'clock at night. Sad because now you know that the days will start getting shorter. And we're not going to say that evil W word yet. You see, that's why spring is my favorite season. The days are getting longer and longer and longer like noticeably. Everything is getting warmer and green. And you have all of spring and summer to look forward to. And fall, fall is a great season too. But once you get past spring you're like, okay now it's summer. You get to enjoy summer. And as you get closer and closer to fall you start thinking, well it's coming. Let's not think about that though. You can't let your mind go there. As a Canadian you cannot let your mind go there. It'll drive you crazy. Let's just enjoy the summer. So thanks for hanging out everybody. I got to get to bed. I got to be up early in the morning. I have to pick up the load just around the corner here at 7 a.m. Hopefully we'll be out of there by 8. We can get all this delivered at a good time. 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