 Hello, my name is Joakim Auckland, from Sweden, and you're watching Trucker Josh Lopes. Fine, beautiful people. It's Monday. Can you believe it? Another week is here. Yes! We've got another load of these, uh, plastic rolls going down a walk in North Dakota. Keeping us busy. I like it. I'm gonna go grab some Timbs and we'll be on our way. Okay. One thing about these W900s, now this isn't a complaint because you can't complain about a W900. That will end you up in hell. That, uh, can't even say that with a straight face. One thing I can, uh, say I don't really appreciate in the design is that these, uh, power outlets are behind the cup holders. In the middle. So, I mean, when you have, like, two coffees in your cup holders here, it kind of, uh, messes with your wiring and stuff, and you've got all these wires hanging down here all the time. This radio in here I need to replace so that I can connect with Bluetooth, but right now I still have to connect with an auxiliary cable. So I have an extra few wires hanging around here, and it messes with my mind sometimes. I don't like all that, uh, that look, the messy look, but what can you do? What can you do, right? Just one thing I could say is, man, they could have put like an outlet on here and on the side here or down here. It would have been nice to have one up here for the GPS somewhere on the dash, but this is a 2008. You got to remember that. So in 2008, there wasn't very many outlets in any trucks. The new trucks, they got a power outlet in every corner and everywhere. Everywhere you can reach, there's a power outlet and they have actual plug-ins, like a household plug-in too. But, you know, to be an old school trucker in an old school truck, you got to make some of those sacrifices. You can't have all of the technologies and all of the fun stuff, but, uh, you get the real fun stuff. You get to drive a nice old truck. I like the old ones better than the new ones. So I wouldn't trade it in for those, just for those plugs. I could probably add them in. Beautiful fall morning. All right, what's the correct word? It's a beautiful autumn morning. It feels so proper when I call it autumn. Autumn. No, it's fall because leaves fall down. This last Saturday, Britt reached the 14-week mark. She's 14 weeks pregnant. That's a weekend is three and a half months pregnant. Over a third of the way there. Here, my wife is having our first baby, an IVF baby. It's due on my birthday, April 1st. Wouldn't that be cool? Share my birthday with them? That'd be the best birthday present ever. We don't know if it's going to be a boy or a girl. We're not going to find out either. I'm an old school trucker and I'm old school that way too. My wife was on the same page with that, surprisingly. I'm glad she was. Very few surprises in life. Why not get a surprise if it's a boy or a girl? We have a sneaky feeling it's going to be a girl, but if it comes out a boy, that's awesome too. I just hope they're healthy. You were watching last week. This week is going to be pretty similar, I think. We did two runs down to Buxton, North Dakota from Carmen, Manitoba, and three to Waffden. Today we're starting a week off from Waffden. If I can get on to the road here. Monday morning rush hour in Carmen. Southern Manitoba is in Southern Manitoba. Obviously just north of eastern North Dakota. It's nice and, you know, it smells like fall. Going up we used to live in the bush, and in fall time obviously all the leaves would fall down. I'd go jump in the big pile of leaves. I remember that smell very well when I was a kid. I loved that. Our very important first stop of the day after we're loaded. Can you see it? So what does a trucker Josh Timmy's breakfast look like? Let me tell you, it's magical. There is a sausage biscuit, home style sausage biscuit, and a hash brown in here. This is so good. This is so good. And here is where the magic is contained. It is an extra large coffee, regular, with two cream, and a magical shot of espresso in it. That's what makes it magical. It's the espresso shot. If I'm feeling super magical I might put two in there. Not too often, but every now and then when I need a bit of a kick in the pants. I'll put two in there. It does not be an extra large coffee either, but if it's an extra large it has to have two cream. No sugar. Sugar ruins coffee. It's disgusting. If I don't need so much coffee I get a large coffee with one cream. That's it though. And the espresso shot. Don't forget the espresso shot. Because unfortunately Tim Horton's coffee is pretty weak. And if you don't add that espresso shot, you're just getting coffee flavored water. In my humble opinion, I like my coffee to kick me in the back end, you know? I like feeling alive. That's what I want to change my shades on. So I have these prescription shades, right? I've told you before. I'm trying so hard not to get my glasses dirty, but they're always dirty. My wife warned me about that, because she's worn glasses for a long time. And I just got my glasses like a month ago. And she told me, don't always be dirty. She'll give you something to complain about. She didn't say that, but she was thinking it. Because I was thinking it. I'm like, oh, I got something new to complain about. Awesome. That's awesome. So here's my prescription shades. Not exactly the cleanest. Oh, oh yeah. I'm so glad we went with the shades. Because we bought one pair, we got a second pair free, right? And I decided to go with a pair of shades, which was thank goodness. Because I use these all day on the road. All day. Time to get going. Off to Wapden. Wapde Wapden. See if I can get myself turned around here now. It's always very busy. Amazon Prime coming through. That's going to be our house one day. Special licenses and permits to pull that kind of stuff. I won't be able to do it myself. I'm going to leave that to the professionals who know what they're doing when they're pulling houses down the road. I've never done that before, so I don't want to go and start pulling my house down the road and risk something. That's my house. It's going to cost me a lot of money. I'm just going to pay for someone to bring it there for me so that I can just follow them in my pickup truck. I'm going to get some good footage of it, don't worry. I'll get better footage of it if I'm not actually pulling it anyways, right? But yeah, we're buying an RTM for our land. Not any time soon. Don't get too excited. First we're building our shop on the land and then we're doing the house. I'm hoping the goal is my red line, my hard line is by summer 2027 I want to be living in the house on our land. That is my goal or the latest I want it. Hopefully within the next couple of years we can get it done and then it's going to be built in Winnipeg put together. And then it's going to be pulled from there all the way out to our land in the bush. I can't wait. I can't wait. I'm not quite as excited for the house as I am for the birth of our first child, but I'm pretty excited for the house too. It's going to be like the second coolest day this decade. I've got to be careful here. Wait a second. Wait a second. There's my wedding day. And my wedding day too. Third coolest day of the decade. Whatever. It's going to be one of those big life moments because this is going to be the house we want to live in the rest of our lives when we retire in there. We might own some other properties and rent them out, but this house is going to be ours. We're building it for us. So it's going to be a big moment in life when that house rolls down the highway to our land and gets set on the foundation. And get all the electricity, the plumbing hooked up. What a day that's going to be. Every time I see an RTM going down the highway like that, I get all excited. One day. One day that's going to be our house. And the reason we're going with an RTM, RTM stands are ready to move. It gets built on site in Winnipeg and then it gets moved to our site where we're going to place it. It's cheaper that way for one because I don't have to pay for the builders and the crews to go back and forth between our land, which is way out in the middle of nowhere in the bush in time. I got to pay for that comedic time. So it's cheaper that way. And they're also built stronger usually. And in this case, the one that we're going with, it's built a lot stronger. It's built to move, right? Time of the crew is going back and forth from wherever they're based to the city or I mean from the city probably to my land. I mean, I've also got to get all the product delivered to my land then as well. Whereas if they build it in Winnipeg on their site, all of the materials they need are right there. Everything they need, all their tools, everything is right there. It gets built a lot faster. So they'll build it, move it, set it up for us, fit it all hooked up, we're moved in. Then for me begins the fun part for me. Landscaping our yard. We're going to have a nice front yard. No dogs allowed in the front yard. They're going to be in the back. Property. Maybe I'll get a couple. I don't know. I'll have at least one. I want a big one. Those flower beds in the front, our vegetables and stuff. Build a nice fence around it so the deer stay out of it. Build a nice living area in the back. We're not a living area, but like a family area in the back with a bonfire pit. I can't wait. I'm getting impatient. I want to start building now. I really want the foundation for our shop in the ground next summer. There's a few things we need to do to the house we're in right now first. One of our windows on our house that we're in now, our little house is cracked. It's broken. We're getting that replaced next month. I just paid for it or paid for the down payment. So we're getting a new window installed in the house. That needs to be done first. We've got a new hot water tank in there now. That's done. New washer and dryer. That's done. We need to redo the bathroom. That's another big one that we need to do before we get going on our property. So we'll get the bathroom redone. I'd like to update the kitchen. It depends, right? Because we might keep the property as a rental property. That's probably what we're going to do. When I have an asset like a house, I really don't want to sell it if I don't have to. I'd rather get some renters, some good renters that are good that won't destroy the house. Get some good renters in there and then you're providing a home for somebody. And also you keep your asset and that keeps growing for you. And then down the road somewhere, whenever we need the cash or whenever we want to retire, then we can sell it and have a chunk of cash, right? And in the meantime, our tenants are paying for our mortgage and they're paying for our investment. It's like forced savings. We take the rent from them, we put it into an account, pay our mortgage, pay off the house. And then in the meantime, we can live in the house that we're building, right? I might buy a few more properties in the next couple of decades throughout my life. I'd like to have several properties lined up and hopefully paid off, good tenants, so that one day when I'm ready to retire, I can sell off my assets, all my houses, cash in on that and go sit on a beach in Florida. Speaking of Florida, how are you guys doing down there? I've been watching the news. I've been keeping up with the devastation down there from the hurricane. Also on the east coast of Canada, Hurricane Fiona hit up there and Hurricane E in Florida and South Carolina. How are you guys doing all along our east coast, Canada, the U.S.? You guys doing all right? Let me know down below in the comments if you were caught in that storm. How are you doing? I hope you're doing good. I hope you're doing as good as you can be given the situation. I'm thinking about you guys. Getting straps off and put away too. We're done. I think that's a record. 16 minutes from the time I stopped to the time I'm rolling away right now. 16. Let's go get another one. I'm not completely positive, but I think we're doing another one tomorrow. That's where I'm headed right now anyway. Unless plans get changed on the way, I'm going to stop in Fargo for fuel. I heard anything by then. I'll call in this week as well. Better shoes for my feet. I'm thinking of getting back to Carmen as fast as I can and then doing my walk there. See how that works. I don't know if I like that as much. I usually like to walk during the day. By the time we get back to Carmen, it'll be the evening. Hopefully it's not too cold already. Whatever. You walk and you warm yourself up, right? At least there's no bugs this time of year. All the mosquitoes have wonderfully died. Hopefully. Never to be seen again. The Canadian border here. All trucks, commercial vehicles next right. It should say keep right. Same thing I guess. Keep right would make a little more sense. If you come to this border crossing in the middle of the night, just a heads up. This sign will say closed. Kind of freaked me out when it did last time. You got to go through the car side then. They just have one window open then for cars and trucks. You got to keep left. Really freaked me out. I think it was a few weeks ago. I crossed here like three in the morning. I'd never seen this sign before. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It was a few weeks ago. I crossed here like three in the morning. I'd never seen it closed before. Because commercial vehicles always keep to the right. And personal vehicles you go to the left. And there's two different buildings almost. It's all part of the same building. But two separate areas that we cross. Apparently when it gets really slow. I guess it makes sense. They only have one window open over there on the left. For everybody. So I thought the border was closed. I was freaking out. This border doesn't close. 24-7. Why would it close? Then I'm thinking what happened? Like were we attacked or something? Was there like a military attack somewhere? And why else would they close the border? Another pandemic? Border was still open. I figured it out after I saw another truck go through there. Who obviously knew what he was doing. Just followed him through the side there of the cars. And asked him yeah apparently in the middle of the night they shut down the commercial side. I guess to save on workers. I don't know. It was a good run though. It was a good run down to Wapton. I'm going to do the same thing again tomorrow. I've got my load off for here already. I'm going to pull it up here. I believe I'm going to Wapton not Buxton. It's one or the other. Come on. Show me my load assignment. Yeah. Wapton, North Dakota. Wapton. Wapton. Cool whip in Wapton. No? So I'm going to go to Kermit again tonight and sleep there. You're ready for a thing in the morning again. I'll show you what I was talking about here. On the right here there's three lanes for commercial vehicles. There's usually just one or two open. Unless it gets really really busy. On the left over there that's where all the cars used to go. That's used to be where we all went. And then they built this side for us. Here you just stop here and wait for this light above here to turn green. They'll turn it green when they're ready for you to come up behind them. I got the green light already. If they're doing a shift change or something at the border, sometimes they'll leave those lights back there red so that all traffic stays well back from here so that they can switch out customs agents or whatever or do a shift change. Then when they're ready for you, they'll turn the lights green again. Then you come up to the window here. If you don't get a green light there, don't come through that red light. They really don't like that. Wait for the light to turn green. Sometimes it feels like lights aren't working. You're wondering why do I got a red light up sitting here? There's no one in front of me. It's not turning green. They're working. They're working just fine, believe me. It doesn't have to make sense to you, but when they're ready for you to come to the window, they'll turn it green. You might get yelled at. You might get pulled in for a search. You might get an extra little hassle that you don't need that you don't want. No, why did it run through a red light? Maybe there's a charge connected to that. You run through a red light and your results is charged, right? Another day is done. I know these days aren't as exciting to show you online here when I'm doing the same thing day after day. I'll find ways of making it interesting. I might be doing this all week yet. I don't know. I know I'm doing it tomorrow again. We'll go day by day to see how it goes, but by the sounds of it, I have a feeling that I'll be doing it all week yet and maybe even parts of next week. It's a really good run for me. It works out really well. I'm happy with it. I've just got to find a way of making it interesting to show you what I'm doing every day when I'm doing the same thing. This won't be forever. What we're doing right now, we're running all this pipe down south. They need to get it into the ground before the ground freezes. Once winter hits, this is going to slow down and play at this route as much as they'll let me. I really like it. I'm happy with it. Who knows how long I'm going to be doing this for. But it'll definitely not be longer than fall time because once winter hits, I'm sure we'll have other things to do because they can't put any of this pipe in the ground after that. I'm not on that side of things. I don't work in the office. I'm a driver. My end of it is I just do... I deliver the loads that I'm sent. As long as I'm happy with them and like I've said over and over, I am happy with this route. I want to do this. On YouTube here, we're going to find different ways of making it interesting and different things to show you every day. This is Matatoba in North Dakota. You've seen my challenge. I'm going to try hard though, guys. Thanks for hanging out with me here though. I appreciate it. Thanks for hanging out with me all the way to the end. And we'll see what happens tomorrow. It's Monday night. It is October 3rd, 2022. When I'm filming this, I'll see you in the morning.