 Hi, I'm Pastor Chuck from East Earl, Pennsylvania, and you're watching Trucker Josh on TJV. Good morning everybody. Excuse that bug that's pretty much right in front of the camera there. I've got to go deliver these tanks. There's my crane just over there on the left. How do I get into this work site? Right where that gravel truck's coming out. So we've probably just stayed across the street. I have an 8 o'clock unload appointment. The crane is there. Now I'm going to be there. It looks like they just finished unloading the guy before me. That's perfect. So whenever you come and fuel up at this loves here on I-94 and Russell Road, just at the Wisconsin border with Illinois, South of Milwaukee, think of me, I delivered one of these tanks. I guess we'll wait here for them to tell me where to go. As soon as I get here, it's busy, busy, busy. Or maybe it was busy all along and I just happened to slip in just at the right time. I'm going to go over there and ask those guys where they'd like me. So this guy's pulling out. This guy on the right here is going somewhere with his little scoop. I'm going to give this guy a little more room with his trailer. There we go. He's telling me I drive in and then I go the U-turn back of the site somewhere. I guess we'll find out when we get there. So this was the tank that was delivered by the other guy before me. Never met him before. Super dusty and my engine fan just kicked on for these guys to lift the whole cloud of dust. How am I going to turn around here? Unloaded them here. So this will be the loves travel stop like I've been telling you. I think it's called Russell. It's on Russell Road right at the border with Wisconsin. If you guys ever come here once it's finished, that's going to be the scale right there behind these tanks. The tanks that I delivered here are the water and oil separator. So when you're at the diesel fuel islands, there's always that drain on the ground, right? Where all the excess, the runoff goes into. All that runoff goes into these tanks which separate the oil from the water. And then let the oil back into the ground and then keeps the, I mean pardon me, let's the water back into the ground and keeps the oil in that small tank right there. I don't know what I'm talking about. Still too early. I think my job's done here so now we head over to Evansville, Wisconsin and begin the next job. Pretty cool. I can't wait to see what this looks like once it's finished. Let's see if I can figure out how to get out of here now. I think that truck is leaving right now. So I'll be able to just go out after him. Yeah, there he goes. Take it. That makes it easier. Go back across the street, grab a coffee and check the trailer over, make sure that this load didn't do anything to the trailer, which I doubt it did, but just to double check, you know. It's such a dusty, dusty yard. They're almost using sand. All right. So we're here tying down our next load. Now I've got all the straps thrown over and put through already. It's really nice that this place where we're picking up here, they put ropes through there so that it's easy for you to, you tied the strap to one end and you pull it through because I'm not allowed to get up on the trailer here at any time. They have ladders and stuff I can use if I need to. You see I got all these straps on the load. Go through there, up and over there. And now I make sure that all of these straps have a ratchet. These slide, right? I've got to make sure that everyone has a ratchet that needs one all the way along the trailer. Otherwise I've got to undo them later because once you like on this side of the strap here, like here, this side here, you can see that this hooks into the bottom of the trailer. Right there, you see? Like that. So once that's hooked in, it blocks the slide rail here and you can't slide the ratchets past anymore. So you got to make sure all the ratchets are in the proper place right away. So now I'm going to wind them all up. I got to put corner guards on all of the corners because you don't want this steel to eat through your straps. That'll happen very quickly if you're not careful. So what I do to reach all the way up there, to put my corner guards up there, this ladder right here that they provide, not allowed to get up on the trailer at all. So yeah, that's what I'm dealing with right now. I'm just going to tighten it all up. And this load's going up to Alberta. I'm the guy to bring it. Somebody's building something up there. I'm kind of vital to their building plans. It makes me feel important. Not going to build your building without Trucker Josh bringing you your stuff. And that's the finished product. That took a little while and a lot of energy, but we got it done. This load is not going anywhere. I've got my tarps back here all tied down as well. Let's hit the road. Oh my. First things first, we've got to go find somewhere to take a shower. Uh-huh. I'm a dirty Trucker. I'm a dirty stinky Trucker. We've got to go find a shower. First pilot flying, Jay, that we go past. We're going to stop in and grab some fuel and a nice cool shower. Not cold. That's too much. Too extreme. Just cool. A nice cool shower. Oh, man. Okay. See, I'm going to paperwork here. I've got to go back to the guard track and let them know that I'm done here. And we can give her on down the road. With the AC blasting, it's a hot one today. Let me see how hot it is outside. It says it's 25 Celsius, so that's actually not that hot. Probably like 80 Fahrenheit. Feels hot. Sure feels hot. So, uh, 1,210 kilometers from this exact spot to our yard back in Manitoba. I'm going to get there tomorrow afternoon. Friday, midday or so. Around noon. I'm going to head on out to, uh, that... Okay, I didn't even see you coming there, buddy. I am doing the speed limit. Oh, they say Saturday we're going to head out to Fort McMurray. We'll get there Sunday night. Unload Monday morning. It says that I could deliver Monday or Tuesday. I'm going to have to make sure that my appointment time is Monday morning because, uh, I want to pack in as much work as I can this month yet. Our roof is getting redone, uh, next week, I believe. Yeah, it's almost next week already, yep. Woo! Finally. So that'll be done. That'll be our biggest summer project that's done. And all I've got to do is rip down the rest of that lean tube beside our garage. And then all of my summer goals, summer projects for this year are done. I had three projects, three goals for the summer. One was to get the roof done on the house. The other was to sell the freight liner. The third is that lean tube. That's good. And then this winter time, our goal is going to be to probably start renovating our master bedroom. We're doing as much as we can inside. And then, uh, doing all the piping and stuff underneath there while it's still kind of cool under there. And then next spring, we'll finish it up. And we'll have a new master bedroom for next summer. Unless the plan's changed, but that's the plan right, that's the plan right now. All's Wisconsin. I'm actually not going to fuel up here. I'm going to wait till I'm a little closer to home. I still got over half a tank. I'll fuel tomorrow. I'm going to run in here and have a shower. You know what? Maybe I should fuel. Maybe I should fuel. No. No. Not going to fuel tomorrow. Going to fuel tomorrow. Already made up my mind. Can't change my mind now. Made up my mind. Going to fuel tomorrow. So we're just going to go find a parking spot somewhere around here as close as we can. And quickly run in there. I still want to get a couple of hours down the road. I have four and a half hours available to me to drive today yet. So I'm Karen. Karen. Karen. Karen. I still like you. Let's not damage that relationship. What do you want now? Ding dong to you too. Is that sort of like your way of whistling at me? I'm married. Back off, Karen. What's this guy doing? Why did he like nose dive into those trailers? What are you... Okay, so that big open space. You think you can squeeze her in there, bud? You got about six open spaces. Do you think you can make it? Don't go too fast now. Don't go too fast. That's six empty spaces. That's quite a tight spot. I'm not trying to be rude or anything. But you know, I'm looking into hiring drivers in the future to drive some trucks for me, right? Not under my own running rights yet, but just to drive some trucks that I own. And I'm going to be a little picky. You know, I'm not just going to hire any guy off the street with a CDL because you know, some of these guys seem to get their CDLs in a cereal box and I'm going to have to make sure that whoever I hire didn't get their CDL out of a box of Cheerios. Maybe it'll be one of you. I trust you guys. You guys are good drivers, aren't you? That doesn't mean that they have to have, you know, years and years and years of experience. There's a lot of companies out there who won't give drivers a shot. Won't give them a chance. And I don't think that's fair. I mean, for me too, I had to do five years of local before I got on to a bigger truck over the road to gain experience because no one wants to hire someone with no experience. But I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to hire people with common sense and good hand-eye coordination, good motor skills, good backing skills, someone that I'm going to trust not to wreck my truck because a truck like this has, I have a $5,000 deductible on these trucks. It's a pretty high deductible. We could probably get that down to $2,000. But let's say even on the good end, a $2,000 deductible. If my driver has an accident, hits the ditch and, you know, messes up the truck a little bit. Maybe it needs a new hood and new mirror. And let's say it easily adds up to $10,000, $15,000 of damage. Well, that driver gets to go home and wait for the truck to be fixed. I'm stuck with the deductible. I got to pay that $2,000 to $5,000 deductible because my driver wrecked my truck. So it's a risk. That's the risk I take in hiring someone. I have to trust that they're not going to wreck my truck. Not only do I want them to take care of the truck so it lasts a long time, that they keep it maintained, that they treat it well, that they don't abuse it, that they run it nice, that they don't gun it everywhere they go. That I want my trucks to last a long time. I also got to make sure that they're not going to back into somebody because in a parking lot, if they back into a truck and completely tear off their hood, well, it's about a $10,000 somewhere around there. It could be $10,000 of damage. Again, $2,000 to $5,000 out of my personal pocket. So that's why I say like I've got... I can totally understand why companies are picky. They want drivers they can trust. And it's hard to build that trust when you have no experience. I understand that, but that's my biggest fear, you know? As I get more trucks and I build up my own little mini fleet and who knows where life's going to take me. I'm going to start off with just a few trucks running it. Like, not under my own running rights, like I said, but I have a few trucks running and it's a risk I'm going to have to deal with and there's a level that I sort of got to be comfortable with stomaching, level of risk. Because it can go downhill in a hurry if you put the wrong guy behind the wheel or the wrong woman. Anybody can have accidents. Equal opportunity. So I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do, but, you know, I can guarantee you something. If I do nothing, I will not be successful. But if I take a risk, I have a chance of being successful and building my business up to the point where, you know, maybe one day I can sit at home and there's other people running my trucks for me and I can spend my time with my kids, maybe my grandkids at that time. Maybe I can be doing a different business at home at the time when my trucks are running. That's the overall goal. But in order to get to that goal, you got to take a lot of risk. Got to take a lot of risk. That's why I don't like all these, like, people who get jealous of people who are successful. I'm like, you know, I don't know how many times that person failed before they got that successful. Don't try to tear them down. Let them enjoy their success. Let them enjoy their yacht and their big summer home down in Florida and, you know, all this stuff. All this stuff they have that people get jealous of. It's easy to be jealous of them. You know what? Who knows how many times they failed before they got to that success and who knows how much risk they had to take to build that up. You know, it could all come crumbling down in a month. You know, you know what I'm talking about. Most of you know what I'm talking about. I'm just preaching to the choir here, aren't I? I'm going to be quiet and go in and have a shower. I'm going to leave you guys in here, though, if you don't mind. I like my privacy when I shower. It's not that kind of YouTube channel. This is a family-friendly YouTube channel. That truck is really tailgating that SUV up there. Wow. I don't know why people do that, you know? It's right on his bumper. I get you want to go two miles an hour faster, but really you're going to put everybody's life at risk. That guy should be getting out of his way, you know, honestly. The four-wheeler should be moving over to the right because he's... Obviously the truck wants to go faster than him, but wow, I hope. I hope nothing happens with that. So we're here in Minneapolis in St. Paul. I don't know if the truck's going to go around on the right. Okay. Why don't people move over? You know what? So often I see that too. Like I run slower than most traffic. I'm governing stuff. I do it for fuel economy as well. And when I see a vehicle pass me with like a long line up behind them, it frustrates me when they don't turn back over into the right lane, you know? They just sit in the left lane with that... Obviously, if you look in your mirror, there's a convoy of people behind you that want to go faster than you. If they won't move over, they'll force everybody to pass them on the right, go around on the right. People are beyond me, you know? It's like they don't think. Or they just don't care. One of the two. So I want to get through the city. I was thinking of stopping on... Oh, there's a cop over there. Uh-oh, somebody's getting a spanking. Somebody's getting a spanking. Bad boy. Bad, bad. Maybe it's a girl. I was going to stop on the... on the east side of Minneapolis, St. Paul, in Wisconsin. But I figure, you know what? Traffic will be lighter now, going through the city than in the morning. So, let's get through the city. This is a pretty big city to get through. A lot of traffic, especially in the morning during rush hour. Sail through the city tonight. And then I don't have to worry about that tomorrow. Two kilometers. Came to the right on I-694 U.S. 10 West. Thanks, Karen. I don't think I'll get lost going through here. This is my home stretch. I can do this with my eyes closed. I'm not going to demonstrate. Don't worry. But I can probably get home from here with my eyes closed. Just saying. That's Petro off to the right there. Clearwater, Minnesota. So we're going to call home for tonight. Hopefully they got parking here for me. But I have a feeling it's going to be packed. If it is, I have an extra hour on my clock that I can get to the next nearest place. But I really hope I can park here. I really like this truck stop. Clearwater Travel Plaza. It's a Petro. Not a Petro Canada. It's a Petro Stopping Center. It's a U.S. company. They got awesome truck stop here. Everything you need. It's almost like a little mini trucker mall. Almost. Not quite like the Iowa 80. The Iowa 80 is sort of a beast of its own. Apparently it's the world's largest truck stop. The world's largest. There's no bigger ones anywhere. Karen. No, I just told you I'm stopping here for tonight. You know what would be cool if Karen could tell me where the parking spot was. Why can't you do that, Karen? In this place. I don't even know where to begin looking. Where to begin. Well, we found a parking spot but it was on the street behind the truck stop. But it worked. No one told us to move. There's no parking signs or fire items or anything. That was our night. Right, Chevy? What a day. So tomorrow we go home. You ready to go home? You want to go home? Oh boy. Oh boy. 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