 He's a weasel. You always sit like that. It's a good morning folks. We're here in medicine hat, Alberta We're just waking up early. It's uh, I've got about 5 a.m. And we're about to hit the road We got to be in Okatoks just south of Calgary in three hours to unload Well, it's first come first serve but the sooner I get unloaded the sooner I go and get reloaded and Edmonton the sooner I'm on my way home So I'm glad you're here hit that subscribe button We make videos pretty much every day you can follow us as we travel Canada and the United States see all the scenery with me and Also get a lot of my useless opinions along the way Love to have you as part of the club. You could find me on Facebook Twitter and parlay Links are all down below in the description if you want to follow me there and I will uh, I Was gonna say something else yet. I'm too tired I'm gonna wake myself up here go grab a coffee and get on our way We just got empty and typed in our next destination, which is our shipper in Edmonton I'll show you where I am here. Okay, so there's North America, right? Canada, Merca, and we are right there. You see it. So that's my route Okay, sorry about the reflection So we're going from Calgary Calgary there up to Edmonton and then we're going Follow this little thing in the middle here. We're going from there Whoa way back down here To Winnipeg right there and we'll be at home another trip across the exciting prairies This delivery didn't go as fast as I wanted it to This is one of those deliveries Excuse me. I am not driving. I am sitting here talking to the good people and off duty Sneaky. She's being sneaky. What was I saying? Yeah, this is one of those deliveries. They don't have a dock They ordered 20 pieces on skids and they don't have a dock But we made it work We made it work We tied a bunch of ropes together and they had a bobcat front end loader with the forks so we pulled it all to the back Lifted it off and unloaded it that way just took a lot longer than it would have otherwise But it is what it is. Sometimes there's no dock and you just got to make it work So we're in Okatoc's Alberta south of Calgary. We got to go through Calgary north towards Edmonton We're not getting there any faster sitting here. So Let's get going You guys want to drive I'd like to have a nap Let's do it diesel. Let's do it Gonna have to stop for a coffee. I think on the way. What do you think? I'm gonna turn left here. Oh, this is gonna be a tight corner that grass there. Oh, the Truman show is in town again Literally the whole time I was talking to you there was practically no traffic now that I want to get on the road here We are See, this is why I vlog this stuff to prove to you that I'm on the Truman show That's what I should have called this vlog the Truman show This is the Josh show. It's even worse Do you want this road for five kilometers first the scales open Calgary the scales always open just so you know It's worth more of a mention when it's not open Because that's more surprising And I am empty but once again How do they know that I? Always go over the scale anyway. There isn't any Signs here that say empty trucks There isn't any signs that say empty trucks keep left a lot of scales do that But how do they know I'm empty? What are they gonna come chase after me to make sure I'll just go over the scale whatever they need to read my my decals and my My numbers and plates and everything anyway make sure all my lights are working Sometimes they'll put the red light on so that you stop just so they can check your brake lights I always wondered why they did that in Ontario. They do that sometimes, you know You'll be rolling through a green light green light all of a sudden red light and you'll look hit the brakes You what's that and the green light will pop back on the let you go. I Asked someone about that once one of the officers and he says oh, well, they just do that to check your brake lights Clever they're getting smart guys Better watch out. At least they got a brand new Alberta and Canada flag there Tattered faded ones. So they're sitting in this building here. Just off to the right. They're looking at us They're reading our plates. They're entering our information. I go past them They read and enter all the information on the side of my truck They're also looking at my weight making sure I'm not overweight They can show I'm wearing my seat belt makes for all my lights are working this guy on the left was supposed to Wait until I was out of the way so that they could read his but they don't always do that There you go, you should know that I'm empty now It's a u-haul truck now. I don't think you needed to come in here, but okay Maybe he does what do I know? So this is Queen Elizabeth the second highway I've said it before Manitoba we also have a Queen Elizabeth the second way in Winnipeg It seems whatever the Queen comes to visit our country We rename whatever road her motorcade drives down after her So when she comes here, she's always driving on Queen Elizabeth Road. They never do that for me Though I have requested after me yet We do have a street name in Steinback named after our family name though There is a Geeseburg Street. It wasn't specifically named after me though. I'd like to say it was Apparently you got to have a crown to get roads named after you up here in Canada Or you got to be a very good hockey player There's Wayne Gretzky Drive here in Edmonton way up to Edmonton Suddenly traffic came to a dead stop So far it looks like nobody plowed into the people in front of them. So that's good. It came pretty close Now with me with the people behind me something happened up here some kind of kerfluffle I don't know why traffic like were people not paying attention Why did we came to a dead stop very quickly? You know one lane was still open. Oh people behind me got This guy's just pulling out here now the last one he let through to block off the highway so that tow truck could turn around fascinating that was interesting Edmonton is the capital of Alberta. It's sort of close to central Alberta not quite in the center, but somewhat up there It's one of the northern most or is it the northern big or the biggest northern city We have or the city furthest north It's a big city and it's further north than most big cities We got to pick up our load here. They're waiting for us already and this person decides to go slow in the center lane Nobody beside me paid by the hour. I would like to do the speed limit if I can in some countries You know, it's illegal to pass on the right like that There's no nothing like that here. You can pass on the right if you want to it's just People should move to the right if they're driving slower than the rest of traffic Common sense to common people, but not everybody can be common Some people like to be unique And get in everybody's way Like I was telling you a couple of weeks ago so many of these drivers, especially when you go into the big cities The people in the big cities here a Lot of them the only reason they got their license and got their vehicle is to get from point A to point B They know nothing about how to drive on quite the drive But they know how to turn the steering wheel left to go left They know which pedal means go and which one means stop some of them know where the little blinky Switch is to not all of them do Half of them don't know What the high beams are all they got their license and our vehicle for is just to get from point A to point B And that's scary. There's so much more to I I always call driving in art I mean, it's so many things have got to flow together and work just right so that you get To where you're going smoothly without inconveniencing everybody else on the road without putting anyone else Else the safety at Jeopardy. You're getting there safely Smartly and efficiently. I was kind of up in the air. I probably could have gone through that one, but I Made my decision Here we are If I would have gone through you know, you would have judged me So there's downtown Edmonton all the way at the end of this road ahead of us. There's some big skyscrapers in Edmonton Is that really really tall one is that one new because I don't remember that one Look at this guys load here. I guess how heavy you think this load is 100,000 pounds Somewhere in there. That's that's heavy That's heavy So we just got reloaded took a total of 10 minutes and I got some notes on my paperwork here it says This load must be tarped Okay done So I guess this load could have either gone on flatbed or in a dry van You know a lot of the loads I I hauled on flatbed when I was on flatbed I thought to myself, huh, you know, they could just easily put this stuff in a dry van And I wouldn't have to spend three hours tying it down chaining it down Tarping it stopping every three hours or every Whatever down the road to check on it and tighten the straps. They just throw it in dry van I mean this thing's not in very good shape. Look at that. I didn't do that I did not do that just so you know some rusty old tire rims but Nonetheless this took Literally ten minutes. I pulled out of the dock closed the doors. This load must be tarped done So there's a lot of freight that they put onto these flatbeds But they could easily put into a box like this, and I'm glad they did that this time They should do that more often paperwork into the envelope where it belongs Look at ten minutes Ten minutes Locked and loaded Will stop dinging at me. I know I want to go home, too Diesel you want to go home? You want to go home? I'm gonna be home for a week man Unscheduled vacation coming up So I booked this next weekend off for fertility appointments and whatnot And then this truck has to be safe deed now Tomorrow is the last day of the month when I'm filming this so I know you get this a little bit later It takes me a little while to put it all together But this truck has to be safe deed and it'll be out of service on the first So I have to get back to the yard tomorrow, which I shouldn't have a problem of no problem doing that, but So this truck's out of service. They can't get it into the shop till probably Thursday So I'm without a truck till Thursday When I get to the yard, I'm gonna be out of hours on my Logbook and I need a reset. I'm getting back Tuesday. So that means I'm out of service on Wednesday So I'm out of service on Wednesday this trucks out of service on Thursday, and I need to be home on Friday till the following Tuesday Probably leave on Tuesday. Yeah so It is what it is. It's not gonna happen like this all the time But we're gonna take advantage of this time because I have so much I need to get done at home I'm gonna take you along for all of it. I just want to warn you that after tomorrow There's gonna be a lot of home time vlogs, and I hope you come and hang out with me as well There's this I like showing you stuff that I do behind the scenes and you know Not my life isn't all about trucking I have a lot of other things that I'm trying to do and I've learned a lot from you guys in the comment sections when I'm trying to Do a project and then you guys give me your advice and I read through it I'm like, oh, yeah, that would have been a much better way of doing that and then next time I know a better way and you guys have helped me out a lot that way, but A lot of home time stuff coming up. I'll try to do a video every day. There's sometimes when I'm at home Like probably won't happen this time at home, but sometimes I'm gonna be honest with you. I Am just a lazy coach potato Sometimes when I go home I just want to sit and do nothing for the whole day and I can't make a vlog out of that Those days don't happen very often because usually I have tons to do especially when it's summer and it's warm out Tons to do outside those days usually happen in winter time when I can't go outside anyways because it's minus bazillion And I will freeze my face off and other parts very quickly. I don't know where I was going with this talk. I Know where we're going diesel We're going home man Should be home tomorrow Round 6 p.m. I'm pretty sure that it is seating season. I don't know why there'd be a combine going down the road Not quite harvest season yet, but I guess he's getting ready always best to be prepared unless they're harvesting winter wheat. Is that ready to harvest already? I don't think so because I don't see any golden wheat anywhere. It's all green still nothing's ready Guess the farmers are getting bored. They're waiting for harvest Well, we got 14 minutes left on our day and we're pulling in here to Rattison's Saskatchewan, so we're gonna end our day. We have another nine hours of driving to go tomorrow So it'll be another full day tomorrow yet But we have driven over 12 hours today It's been a long day Look at all our bugs that we've gathered Look at all of our friends that gave their life just to tag along with us That's how much they wanted to come with I told them no there's no room You couldn't you can't come with but they said no I'm coming with you me Splat right on the windshield. So now I'm taking them with me That's a weird way of looking at it, isn't it? I don't want us to go in this entrance. They want us to go in this entrance back here So we've driven 1,123 kilometers today for medicine hat to Okatalks to Edmonton to Rattison Saskatchewan Continue on this road for 30 kilometers I'm excited. I'm sneezing all over the place here Turn right a man turn right in 90 meters All right, where should we park? I Want to park off on the side somewhere by myself. I'm not gonna block this access here. I think I think I want to park along the edge Oh that camper guy is already taking my idea. Okay. I don't want to block him in either Oh and the tanker over there took my idea over there Well, everybody's taking my parking ideas from me. I should start patenting these ideas Oh boy, I better not lose my truck in one of these potholes watch out. Hang on everybody It's a bumpy ride. See I was gonna park right where that tanker is over there. How dare he