 Good morning, YouTube. Thank you for watching this episode of the Trucker Josh Vlogs. I am Zachary Hill from Hills on the Road of Life and today on this Road of Life, I'm riding through a rut. Good morning, everybody. We're sitting here at the shipper. We're patiently waiting. We're next in line. We're getting loaded up with a whole bunch of whatever this is here. No tarp required. I'm looking at it. It looks like it's like cardboard boxes type stuff, but they've told me no tarp required. So I guess they've got it wrapped up pretty good in that shrink wrap. This will ask again once we get in there. There's one guy there in front of me. And from here we head up home. I got to deliver this to a Hutterite colony in Western Manitoba, Southwestern Manitoba. But I don't deliver it until first thing Monday morning. Today when I'm filming this, it's Friday. Looks like I'm gonna have to tarp it. I was told I don't have to tarp it, but everything I see in here is all cardboard boxes and that should all go under a tarp. And the guy in front of me is tarping. I'm guessing I'll probably need to tarp it. We'll see what happens. All right, let's get out here and check. See what what it looks like. And here you go. It's all under the tarp. We're all set and ready to rock and roll. Use three out of the four tarps. I'll finish till our paperwork is done. Diesel's eating his food like a good boy. But don't stop. Don't stop. Keep going, buddy. Keep eating your food. It's okay. I'm just gonna start rolling. Let's get out of here. Leave Litchfield, Illinois here. We'll be heading home. Like I said before, I can't unload this till Monday, but I will be in Manitoba tomorrow night, which is Saturday night. So I'll go home and then Sunday evening I'll run over to Carberry and we'll deliver it first thing Monday morning. Come back, grab another trailer, tie it down, and we'll leave with that Tuesday morning. What was this guy doing? Was he waiting for me? Like I have my left signal on. You know I'm going that way and there's tons of traffic coming from my right, so This is the exit, anyways. Oh boy, rush hour. Rush hour, of course. Trucker Josh is trying to get on the road. Everybody. Everybody jumping your cars. Get in his way. Seriously, where are these people coming from? There was literally nobody on the road this entire time. Does this happen to you guys too, or is it just me? The universe just hates me, doesn't it? Nope, nope. Now we got more cars coming that way. Okay. Oh, I'll cut a bunch of that out because that was boring. Just waiting. There we go. Let's go home, shall we? So we got a whole bunch of supplies to make trusses. Like those, uh, I don't know what you would call them. Those pieces, those metal pieces with the spikes on it that you put on the trusses to hold the trusses together. 100 meters. Turn right on. CR 1200 North. IL 16 and then. Take the entrance to the right in 60 meters. You know what I'm talking about though, right? Caught up some traffic here. I believe this is Peoria, Illinois. I think the Nile were running together the opposite way on this highway yesterday. It's interstate 74 here. This is going to take us up towards Iowa. I'm not too sure what's going on here, but there must be some kind of construction or I don't think it was an accident because they're still moving along pretty good, but I don't know, 5.30 in the evening. This could just be rush hour. No idea. No idea how far I'm going to go today either. I'm just going to go till I get tired. I need to go at least another 455 kilometers. Another five hours of driving or another, uh, six times five. What's that? 35? No, 350 miles. So I got a little ways to go yet. I mean, I'll be driving late, but as long as I can get home in one day from wherever we stop, then I'm happy. I'm actually feeling pretty rested today as well. The other day I must have been fighting something off and my, uh, my body must have gotten over it or I must have done its course or run its course, whatever you say. I'm feeling a lot better today. Lots of energy feeling wide awake. I had a good sleep last night though. Why this guy has his four ways on on the left here? What are you trying to prove there? All right, does anybody know how to merge? All right, I will let one of you in. I will let one in. This guy in front of me is very generous. He's letting at least two in, but I'm not going to let you in until there's a dotted line. I don't want people to go across these solid lines. I hate it when people do that and they jump in front of people in front of them. We're also trying to merge. There's a car behind me who stopped on the merge ramp. I don't know why. Just blocked all the traffic. Oh, okay. Laying dove into the line behind behind me. People have interesting ways of merging, you know? I'm always, I get a little nervous around these merges because I don't think people are taught in their driver's ed courses how to properly merge. I think it's a foreign thing to a lot of people. This guy's going to cut in front of that guy. That's cool. All the rest of the people are going in behind me. Okay, I didn't even have to let anyone in. I was going to let someone in here, but no need. Nobody wants my generosity. Fine, keep it to myself then. A lot is going on. I can see down the road here, down the hill. We've got a traffic backup of at least a couple of miles and around the corner. Probably some construction mixed with rush hour traffic. Fantastic. This is the kind of stuff that just eats away at your e-log, your e-log hours. We're creeping along here at what? It's not even registering. So probably like five or ten kilometers an hour. And my clock is still ticking away at the same speed. So for every minute I'm stuck in this is one minute less. I could be doing the speed limit to get as far as I can in my legal amount of hours. I guess that makes sense, eh? Those new GMC's are pretty nice. That's a new GMC 2500. Yeah, I kind of like those trucks. Hey, here we are, pilot. I have no idea which one it is. It's too dark. I don't care. They got coffee. Excuse me. They got coffees, what I was saying. How do I get in there? Excuse me. It's just been pouring rain. I don't think this is where I go. Yeah, here it is. Here, that's where I go. I believe so. I don't know if there's a good parking over here on the right. I have no idea. I don't want to figure out as well. Park anywhere. I don't care. I'm holding my coffee. It's got to be this way to the left. I've never been to this pilot, I don't think. Here we go. There we go. 100 meters. Make a U-turn if possible and then turn right. Oh, it's possible. 40 meters. All things are possible. I'm going to go park in front of the pumps to just quickly run. I already did my half hour break at a rest area not too long ago. Tighten down on my straps to make sure they were still doing what they're supposed to be doing, securing what they're supposed to be securing. You know what? I should actually grab some fuel too while we're here. Why not? I'll have to worry about it later. It's going to get cold up north. It is going to get cold. It is minus 30 without the wind chill at home right now. Minus 40 with the wind chill. So it's January in other words. Welcome to winter. I've got to make sure I put in anti-gel in my fuel. Have you guys ever tried dried pineapple? So good. Satisfies my sweet tooth and it doesn't make me feel quite as guilty if I eat this instead of a chocolate bar. This is still not healthy for you in big doses but in big amounts, big doses. Yes, it's a dose of pineapple. It's very good. Very good. He's tried out some time. Well, it's barely showing up now. It means YouTube is going to make it even darker, which means you probably can't see it. But all that heavy rain has now turned to snow. Just falling behind a snow plow here. We've got a brave little four-wheeler here. There's a little car trying to go around him. He's been pretty brave this whole time. He's been in front of me. He's been whipping in and out of snow banks. I don't know what he's... I guess he's having fun. Just waiting for him to hit the ditch, made it around. I don't think I'm going to go around this plow. That passenger line doesn't look too good. We're about to turn on to US-218 North Interstate 380. And the lights off this city, I believe this is Waterloo that we're coming up to, is the Sea of Rapids. Oh, look at this. You don't even need street lights. You literally don't even need street lights. It lights up such a huge area. These new LED white lights that all these cities and towns are using now, even us on our property. We have one on our property. They're so much brighter and they use so much less energy. So it's good, right? It's all around good. It's just amazing how much more light, especially in the winter time, when there's a lot of white snow on the ground. You know, the lights are bouncing off the ground, bouncing off the clouds, going back off the ground. The patch is here though. It got a little, little bad for a little while, but we made it through. And it got good again. And now I'm kind of like, and now we got another 100 kilometers, almost 60 miles. I want it to take much more than an hour. It almost seems like the roads are worse in towns. Every town and city I've driven through? Every town or city I've driven through, the roads have been horrible, covered in snow. As soon as I get out of the city onto the like open interstate, perfect dry pavement. It's weird. It's so weird. Here's King to the right on on Grove Street, U.S. to 18 of N. Turn right into 100 meters. Right! Oh, to exit off in 300 meters. I'm a terrible Scotsman. Wow. All I can do is it. Right! Gotta get my friend, Laudy from over in Scotland, to come over here once and do a whole vlog for me in his accent. I don't know what it is. I just love the Scottish accent. 100 meters. Turn right on on Grove Street, U.S. to 18 of N. Approaching destination on the left side in 140 meters. Well, calm down there, Karen. Yeah, I wonder if I'm going to learn how to do a really good Scottish accent. Approaching destination in 100 meters on the left side. And then we're going to get a Scottish dog, like a Scottish terrier or something. You can have a Scottish accent. Right! You have arrived at your destination on the left side to 18 fuel express. You betcha. I want to go on the next driveway. Yeah, we're going to stop here to 218. We're in Floyd, Iowa. There's loves off to our right, but I always stop at this Monpot truck stop on this side. Which is the 218 Express. It used to be just this truck stop here. Loves is actually still very new. We made it. I thought this used to be parking off to the right here. Now it's just grass. I'm going to go see if we can find some good parking all by ourselves out in the back. See if anyone's in my spot. I think my spot is open. I always park on the other side all by myself off on the edge.