 Hey there YouTube, my name is Craig. From along I-70 in Georgetown, Colorado Fall is in the air. You're watching TJV with Trucker Josh and Diesel. Enjoy! At least that's what their slogan says there. We're just getting ready to go here. For those of you new, hey welcome, hit that subscribe button before you do anything else. Love to have you as part of our TJV crew here. First thing I have to tell you though is that I'm not your usual stereotypical trucker. I'm a little weird. I'm a little different. I am my own brand of trucker. I don't fit into the stereotype and that's on purpose. It's a welcome. You want to see trucking from a different point of view? You came to the right place! Diesel, hey! Even my dog thinks I'm weird. That's Diesel back there by the way. He's been with me on the road since he was about ten weeks old. He just turned eight last week. They all just said happy belated birthday diesel, right? They all said happy birthday diesel. Don't you feel special? Okay, so we're all ready to go. I've done my pre-trip, checked all the lights. Everything checks out. Sunglasses are on. Hat is on. Wearing clothes, wearing pants. I think we're ready to go. So we picked up this load in Jackson, Tennessee, right? And we're taking it up to Red Deer, Alberta in Canada. For those of you new, I am from Canada. I am based in Canada. I live just above Northwestern, Minnesota. What is that noise? That's how we fix things around here. It's funny. This morning I woke up and it was really hot in here. I had the truck running for a couple of hours, right? But it wasn't cooling down. It was so hot. My fan up here in the front wasn't working. So I came up to the dash. I was like, why aren't you working? I just went to the passenger side over there and just randomly just like pounded on it, right? Fixed it, just like that. Fix it, man, right here. Tell you what, these things will fix anything. Almost. I should be careful when I say that. If it doesn't fix everything, it doesn't fix everything. Okay, let's roll out of here a little bit. Oh, oh, there we go. Let's just make sure our trailer's not gonna fall off. I do a tug test every morning, even though I go underneath there and I check. The tug test serves more than one purpose. When you drive away, first of all, before you drive away, you do a pre-trip. You make sure that your trailer is locked on your fifth wheel, right? You walk underneath there and take a look. The tug test is just a second verification to make sure that it was locked, that nobody tampered with it because I've heard stories of drivers that weren't spanked as children, I guess going around pulling people's fifth wheel pins as a joke at night in the truck stop. Like, sometimes you'll get people who steal your fuel, right? I sort of understand that. It's not right. You shouldn't do that, but sometimes people are trying to save money, right? And they're criminals, so they steal things to get themselves ahead. You can sort of understand that, though I don't do that. But why people would go around pulling random people's fifth wheel pins? That I don't understand at all. What does that benefit him or her, whoever does it? It's never happened to me. I've never seen it happen in person, but I've heard many stories of it. Like, I've been online here making videos for quite a while and I've heard stories from viewers who've told me about these things. People go around and they pull your pin at night or they'll pull it like halfway or something so that it looks like it's locked, but you start driving down the road. That's dangerous. Like, that trailer, if it's heavy enough, it'll stay on your fifth wheel and it could stay on them till you get on the freeway and then all of a sudden slide off and kill somebody. I don't know who does these things, but I've heard of that it happens. All right, if you can imagine it, there's some idiot out there who actually has done it. So the tug test just double-check, peace of mind, makes you feel better. It's not going anywhere. And also what it does is it tests your trailer brakes that they apply and when you release them, that they release properly. So for you new people, what I do pretty much is I will just go about my day and I sort of make a video blog, which we call a vlog. Not a V-log. No, it's a vlog. Like a video blog of my day. Things I see, thoughts in my head. Every once in a while, I dish out a good rant. Sort of try to make this industry a little bit more of a happy place. I mean, not every video is going to do that, obviously, but one of my main goals is just to show the positives of trucking. I mean, yeah, there's some negatives that I focus on. Sometimes I rant about them. But I, I know that a lot of drivers on the road are so negative. They cannot stop being negative. There's everything that comes out of their mouth is either like an insult, slander, or just like mean things to say about other people, nothing good to say, and there's too many of them out there like that, you know, and I don't want to be one of those. I want to be a positive person who, you know, people who aren't truckers can enjoy my videos then as well. All right, Mr. Van, you got your signal on. I am assuming that was for a reason. You're turning? Okay, good. Sometimes people leave their signals on and they're not actually turning. So yeah, if you want to... Karen wants to be a part of the vlog too. Sorry, I forgot to introduce her. She's a little mad at me. This is Karen. She's my new GPS. Keeps me company on the road. Very bossy, though. Not as bossy as Mandy, my last one. Are you gonna wait there, buddy? Hold on. Thank you. So I'm based out of Manitoba, Canada, which is, like I said, Manitoba is just above western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. And I live right over the border pretty much just barely into Canada from Minnesota. Both countries. I'm an international driver, so I take freight from Canada. Somebody buys something in the U.S. from Canada. I take it down for them. And then somebody in Canada buys something from the U.S. and I take it back up for them. So I go back and forth. This road for 84 kilometers. Absolutely. So by now, you'll have realized that I do all of my measurements in metric, which throws a lot of the Americans off. I apologize. I was just raised with metric. It makes more sense to me in my mind. So we're just gonna stick with that here. But if you're wondering, every mile is about 1.6 kilometers. So, you know, like 30 miles, for instance, is 50 kilometers. 60 miles an hour is about 100 kilometers an hour. You can actually see that if you're in the U.S. and you look down at your speedometer, the big numbers are probably miles an hour, right? On my speedometer, the big numbers are kilometers an hour. But if you look on the inside of your speedometer, if you have a analog one, I think that's called analog, right? There's different numbers, kilometers an hour. Mine on the inside are miles an hour. That's on the inside of mine. Or if you have a digital speedometer, well, you are able to switch it if you wanted to see the difference. It's going to be a good day, though, a little overcast, but I have a feeling this is going to be a really good day. Glad you're here. Once again, don't forget to subscribe. And if you go down below the video to my description, there's a whole ton of links down there to my social media and other ways we can hang out online. I-55 northbound here in Missouri, heading towards St. Louis. So we're south of St. Louis here. Something's going on. You got the police blocking the freeway here and pushing us all onto a little detour. I have no idea where to go from here. I guess we'll just follow the crowd. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Is there another route around here? State trooper. Oh, boy. Traffic's about to get pretty crazy in this little town. So there is a detour we can take. We've got to turn right here and then there's US Highway 63, which is a little east of here, which will take us north. According to Google, there was an accident up ahead at the next interchange. So if we can get down Highway 63 to the next interchange, we can get back on the freeway. But in the meantime, this town is about to get a slight influx of visitors. What town is this that we're in here? Festus, Missouri. Hope you're ready for some traffic. Almost our turn to get off the off-ramp now. This is just a yield, too. They don't even have stop lights here, which makes it a little more difficult because people want to pile in here. Now we've got no traffic. They got lights over there. Okay, so I don't know why it was moving so slowly before. Wonder what are you doing, buddy? Oh, that's what's going on. There's cars coming from... Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah, this is going to be busy. Good times, good times. Good thing I'm not in a hurry. Okay, I'm going in here. I'm going in here. Stick my nose in. Be aggressive, check a jash. All right, the light's green up there, but people keep going through the red light. Why are they going through the red light? Wait, are all the lights... Oh, now the lights are malfunctioning. They got cops directing traffic here yet. Oh, just to make things worse. Oh, they got all of this traffic coming off the interstate. And then their lights fail. Oh, no. That's what's taking so long here. Shoot, double whammy. I think I said US 63 before, right? It's actually US 61. Karen's trying to get me to turn right and then go back around onto the freeway, right where we came from. She doesn't know the road is blocked. I don't have her hooked up to my data right now. So, in this case, we're going to ignore Karen. Hopefully she doesn't get too offended. And we're going to turn left and take US Highway 61 up to the next main road, which takes us back to the interchange. Just pass where the accident happened according to Google. Hit the exit number when I exited, but we're at the loves anyway. Another coffee. In 200 meters. Make a U-turn if possible. Up the weasel. In meters. Turn left on. US 169 and then. Take the entrance to the right in 90 meters. I'm in a parking lot, Karen. I've noticed that loves travel plazas have added like service bays like this. A lot of their locations, they used to pretty much just be all about tires, right? That was their thing. They really like tires. Now they do oil changes and stuff too. I'm going to be getting new drives on this truck when I get home from this trip. I'm just going to be going with recaps. I don't like using recaps, but you know, we just put a $20,000 roof on our house and we've got to do our garage roof yet to match. Probably next year. So it is what it is. Recaps will do. Usually I would recommend to put on virgin tires is what they call them. I'm just going to do a little loop here backing against these guys.