 Been a long day as you can see I'm in the truck still and Today was the truck show in Steinbeck. I was really looking forward to it, but This trip we're on it's taken a little longer than that we had expected and I understand there is a few of you guys that went to the truck show hoping to see me there and some of you actually drove quite a distance in from Minnesota and I just wanted to say I'm so sorry that I couldn't be there to meet you I Really hope that we get another chance to meet one day and I'm sorry that I didn't Post somewhere that I wasn't going to be there. I don't know why I didn't even think of doing that But I feel pretty bad now. I Was planning on being at this truck show. It's right in Steinbeck in my hometown. I said I was gonna be there and We were on this trip right now we had to go pick up a load in Indiana and bring it on back and The trip this week dragged out a little bit Trucking that happens and I'm not going to get home now Or I didn't get home in time for that truck show and so for those of you who did go there I'm really sorry that I couldn't make it. I hope you guys had a blast though I'm sure you did. I heard the truck show was amazing. I heard there was lots of trucks there Lots of people there was a good turnout Disappointed that I couldn't be there, but that's That's trucking, but I should have said something on my social media. I should have posted something to say. Hey Go check it out. Anyways, but if you're wondering where I am, I'm not gonna make it I should have said something like that along those lines of mine, and I didn't I just wanted to say I'm sorry If you if you went there just to meet me I'm still here in all blue so Yeah, I didn't even really think about it like I'm having a good time on this trip here We've had a good week Went a little further than I usually do because we had to pick up the load in Indiana, right? We picked up the load in Middlebury, Indiana. It's not too far into Indiana but just around the corner from Chicago and a little further than we were expecting and Took a little longer than we thought getting back and then I Parked here for the night and I went to go read some messages and there's a message saying hey trucker Josh Hey, we drove up from Minnesota to the truck show We didn't see you there, but they had such a good attitude about it again We had a good time. We tried Tim Hortons. We explored Steinbeck a little bit. It's too bad. We couldn't meet you I'm so sorry. I feel bad Should have said something, but Glad you went to check it out. Anyways glad you want to check it out It was a good fundraiser for a good cause. I hope they I hope they did really good there I'll have to try to be there next year Sorry, all your comments are just coming in now all at once if you're watching this video later. I'm filming this live I'm just gonna go through your comments here just off to the side of my screen here Ben asks, how's Britt? She's doing really good. Thank you for asking Hey from Newfoundland. Hello. Never fear Alvin is here. Hey Alvin You've been you've been following here for a long time. I always know it's you because you leave that comment You came Bruce says you came all the way from Georgia to see me Or you would Jeff says thanks for going live and explaining what happened. Yeah, I wanted to go live right now I'm tired. I need to be going to bed But I wanted to address this right away. It's because I should have I should have posted something But we've been in such a rush just trying to get back And this week has been so crazy It didn't even dawn on me that I should probably that that people might actually be coming out there to maybe hang out With me a little bit. It's not my truck show. It's it's I didn't set it up. I had nothing to do with setting it up. It's Someone from in town there who sets these up regularly This is the first one since all the COVID madness So it was a bit of a special event and as a fundraiser for some local charities I have nothing to do with the show itself. So I am glad you guys want to go check it out Anyways, I wanted to support them in what they were doing there But some people were just expecting maybe hang out and see me there for a little bit And I should have done my part and said hey, I hope you go check it out. Anyways, but I'm unfortunately not gonna make it Sask heavy haul says that's trucking that it is trucking is filled with Unfortunate disappointments sometimes I Love what I do. I love what I do, but sometimes it Sometimes things just take a lot longer than you want them to Timmy says don't feel bad Josh. Your schedule isn't written in stone stuff happens. That's the thing my schedule Exactly what you said. It's not written in stone. I wish it was but this truck show was on a Saturday and I'm home most weekends I I felt pretty confident Telling you guys hey, I'll be there. It's a Saturday August 27th I'm always home on the weekend. I'll be there and of course the one weekend where I couldn't make it back On time is the weekend where The truck show was happening and you know, it's it seems like whenever I have something planned And I tell you guys I'm gonna be somewhere something happens in trucking You know at first it was the the career expo in Ildesheen Some of you guys came out to meet me there and I was three hours late And then it was the the Keystone open house said I'd be there at 10 a.m. And a bunch of you showed up there and Was late And now the truck show so I'm just feeling kind of bummed out. I'm feeling bad I feel like I'm just letting letting you guys down a little bit and I'm just gonna have to adjust in the future How I announce these things because I want to go to these events and I want to be able to tell you where I'm Gonna be at these events that we can meet because you all know me. I'm just looking at a camera right now. You're looking at my face. I Don't know who you all are, but I would love to meet you So I would love to be able to plan these things, but trucking is difficult to make plans with Bruce you came all the way from Georgia To see you at the truck show Are you serious? Where are you staying? Did you fly in and you drive in? Are you serious the way from Georgia? I'm sorry Kenneth James life happens. It's the way things go Yeah Brandon says I love your jakes my Jake bricks. I love them too a little too much. I hope I don't get myself into trouble with them Really like them. Thanks that comment cheered me up a bit Hope I'm good. I'm I'm doing good. Yeah, just bummed out Matthew says we forgive you. Thank you Matthew Thank you for all your comments. I wish I could read through them all here Hi, Jessica. Say hi to Ethan from me. Are there those trading me message a Crack a cold one and let it blow over. Well Soon soon when I'm not in old blue I'm gonna find Bruce in the comments here. Did you really come all the way from Georgia? Are you pulling on my leg? All in Georgia. Are you still there? You staying somewhere in town? But yeah, little fire says I'm confused Maybe you tuned in a little bit after I started that's okay I started talking right away before everybody got in here. There was a truck show in my hometown today and I had said I was gonna be there and Trucking sort of happened this trip got Stretched out a little bit and I wasn't able to make it and I didn't and I forgot to mention anything on my social media Not thinking that people might want to see me there And I got a message I just stopped now for the night and I got a message and I read it and said they'd come up from Minnesota to meet me and I felt terrible I Felt terrible, but they're very positive. I went and explored. I said they explored Canadian Tire They went and got some Tim Hortons explored town a little bit. It's their first visit into Canada. So I hope you guys enjoyed your visit But Yeah, I was I was felt bad Britt says she still loves me. She can always cheer me up. I called her first as soon as I got that message I called her and I was all bummed out I vented her for a little bit. She listened She puts up with all my venting. She's the one I vent to she's a really really good wife Because I was supposed to be home. She was expecting me home today, too So remember it's not just you guys that are disappointed. She's I'm sure she's disappointed, too I was supposed to be what's the time right now Ten o'clock. I was supposed to be laying in bed with her right now watching a movie or something Or something Oops, sorry, that's the camera. He said he reached for her Ethan reached 490 subscribers That's awesome. That's awesome He'll keep growing. He'll keep growing. Just keep at it. Thank you for all the comments here. I'm reading through them. I Know that when you watch this later, you guys can't see the comments as they come in So sometimes it seems a little weird that I'm staring off to the side of the screen here As the comments are coming in I'm just just reading Where's Bruce? I saw your comments in here Bruce. I want to know are you really are you still in town? You said you came all the way up from Georgia. Oh, there it is It's not a big deal in road into a road trip. You like doing road trips. A road trip from Georgia is not just a road trip That's a three-day drive It's a three-day drive from Georgia Send me an email If you're still in town Trucker Josh blogs at gmail.com if you came all the way from Georgia pretty hot up here today. It's really hot trucking life, bro What are we apologizing for? I just I Said I was gonna be at a truck show event today And I couldn't make it and some people showed up and were looking for me I felt bad that I didn't make an announcement that I wasn't gonna be there after all and I just feel real bad. Sorry. I'm trying to hold my phone steady here. Let's put this down here. There we go I'm sorry guys. You guys are probably getting dizzy I'm tired Harman's taking your AZ test. Is that your class one? I think that's your class one, right? That must be in Ontario any tips Don't hit anything Make sure when you go forward you put it in D and when you want to go backwards you put it in R Uh my attempt at being funny. Do you take your tests in an automatic? I hope that they send people for tests in manual trucks still, but I'm pretty sure that that's probably not a thing anymore. Is it What's with Canada and restrictions, I don't want to talk about it. It makes me angry. Yeah, there's still restrictions at The federal level from the whole Copa fiasco, that's for a different time I'm already feeling bummed out. I don't want to think about that Good question though. I'm not I'm not dismissing your question. It's a valid question. Good question I'd like to know to what's up with that, but maybe another time. I Don't like it. Yeah Where's the weasel? He's at home with his family enjoying a little bit of home time It's been home for a couple of weeks the best trucker on YouTube. Well, thanks, Doug Thanks, Doug. I don't know if I'm the best I've been watching trucking with Schmidt a lot lately. I got hooked on his videos He's like a calm guy. He uh, he uh, just he calms me down. I really like the way he does his videos just simple to the point Always in a positive mood So he's a great youtuber too. Where am I doing this live stream from? Well, I'd love to let you know but in the spirit of internet safety I'll just say that I am in North America Sorry, I Usually I don't share my my live location online. Oh, hey, Harman. You're saying it's gonna be in a manual. Oh good. Good respect if you're doing a If you're getting your class one your CDL your AZ whatever you call it where you are You should definitely pass in a manual transmission Don't let them don't let them catch you with those automatics You want to be able to drive any truck you're put into because you pass in an automatic You have restrictions or you get put into a manual truck and you don't know what you're doing It's best to learn in manual even if they are sort of phasing them out Mine will never be phased out. I Got an 18 speed. It's right here You need to know how to drive that New to my channel Clement well welcome here checked a few hundred videos of mine. I've had yeah, there's I've quite a few videos welcome here. I keep missing your message summer gamer. I'm gonna scroll up and look for it right now What is going on with my phone here? Can't I hold this can't I hold this thing straight? Okay? Summer gamer. I'm scrolling up right now looking for your Did it come through all there is I'm trying to catch up on some videos now I haven't watched in a while, but I'm catching up and I've watched since 2011 Awesome, man. That's a lot of videos to catch up on depending on how many you missed I Got a lot of content on the internet There's a lot of me out there Want to look as good as me when shifting them gears, you know what? I bet you could look better than me because I still miss a gear now and then and I Haven't quite 100% mastered it. It's been 16 years. I Feel like I haven't I don't know it's always the I'll be fifth. I don't know. I don't count. I don't know the numbers I just go one two one two three four and it's always the third one that wants to skip out on me or I'll forget that my jake brakes are on and I Take a little longer. I guess between shifts and the jake brake drops my RPM right down And then I got to try to find it again and everybody's looking at me like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm Sorry, sorry, and then I got to cut out that footage of me trying to find a gear because I don't want to look completely crazy and dumb I'm not Trucking life pro. I'm 13 and want to be a trucker, but my parents don't want me to be do I go for it? I'm not getting involved in that but but you know, I'm sure your parents would be happy as long as you're happy But you do what makes you happy you I can tell you that I have a lot of fun driving truck But if you want to make a lot a lot of money and you want to be rich, you're not gonna get rich driving a truck But life's not always about getting rich. I mean, I wouldn't mind being rich I'd love to be rich actually. I'd love to have tons of money Like lots of money But in order to live comfortably nowadays, like a lot of money doesn't go very far anymore Back to the question though. Should you go for it? I'm not I'm not gonna tell you what to do Have a good backup, you know In case you don't like trucking once you get into it. It's a different lifestyle like today I'm pretty bummed out that I missed an event. I was looking forward to all year But at the same time I had a lot of fun all week It the I had a lot of fun driving truck, but you miss You miss events sometimes and that's just part of it It's not gonna be the last special event that I miss you do it makes you happy But it would be a good idea to have a good backup. I Would say focus again. I don't want to tell you what to do depending on where you are because I don't I don't know you yet, but I Would always recommend trades people always need a plumber people always need electricians. You're always gonna need a truck driver There's a lot of courses in universities Right now that serve absolutely no purpose and people are paying out tens of thousands of dollars for these courses That serve no purpose So just make sure that whatever schooling you do go for will help you Get a job after you're done Does that make sense I'm referring to like gender studies and stuff Those courses are not gonna do anything for you. They cost a lot of money and they're gonna do nothing but mess up your mind Just trades think trades Hi Josh love the videos. I have a pretty good idea. I know where you are Okay, it is beautiful where I am, but I think everywhere is beautiful I can't pronounce that username sweet We can do what to do What? That is the most unique username. I have ever seen Josh, do you know any owner operators with a day cap? No, I don't know any Actually, that's a lie. I do know one. I do know one. Yeah, he pulls some of our trailer when I was city driving There was a guy who came in with a day cap who would help us pull our trailers around some But it's it's not very common. You can't make a lot of money with that Jerry Thorn says do you ever get stalkers or crazy people show up? Not in the way that you're thinking. I don't think I Have a pretty tame audience. You guys are all really great and Majority of you know boundaries There's been some instances in the past where it's gotten uncomfortable for me But nothing Nothing to write a book about or anything. Oh boy so many comments to go through here guys Josh nice name Josh Baruth Love the videos. I have a pretty good idea. Oh, I read that one already. It's a beautiful area. I'm tired Read your comment twice. Hey Winter Steve you had asked what's going on Steve given. Yeah, I there was an event that I said I was gonna be at and I ended up not being able to make it. I'm still here on the road Couldn't make it and I didn't tell anybody That I wasn't able to make it I was just bummed out all by myself and didn't say anything and I should have said something Because some people showed up and were looking for me and wanted to say hi to me and they drove a little a little bit of a distance Quite a distance to come there and I felt really bad. I just wanted to jump online here and say I'm sorry I feel pretty bummed out about that Harmon says working in the trades is so underrated these days. I don't know why so many people hate on them I think they get a lot of hate because they don't have very much student debt And they make twice as much as people who spent five times as much on their education They make a lot more money than a lot of people who went to university for you know all kinds of weird degrees I don't know why people hate on them. I don't know. I'm a blue collar guy I think that they're the best draws working with your hands. There's nothing to be ashamed of from that You should be proud of that Everybody needs a plumber and I'm wrong with being a plumber. You're always gonna have work. That's one thing. That's always people need We're all gonna eat and that food comes back out and it's got to go somewhere and someone needs to fix the things Take care of that Chad says it's understandable. You couldn't make the truck show what brand of truck engine is your favorite minus cat Even though they don't make semi engines anymore. I do like Caterpillar to Detroit is a good engine I have a Cummins, so I Guess I'm a Cummins fan now. It's this engine's really good. It's turning me into a big Cummins fan Those three I think James says is what Claudia says. Hi. Hello. Hello Johnny says don't waste your money on college unless you're going for accounting medical or law. That's great advice That's what I should have said before if you're still listening there. There you are trucking life Unless you're going for accounting or you're gonna be a doctor or a lawyer University is often not worth the cost And that's a whole other story now I saw on a newspaper in the US the other day that they're gonna forgive a bunch of student debt With what money like what? Say I'm the bank and I give someone $50,000 to go to school and Suddenly they don't owe me that money anymore. Wait, someone's gonna have to pay me that money because I borrowed it out So what the government's gonna pay me the money now? Who's gonna pay the government the money? Where's that money gonna come from? The inflation's already through the roof. They're just passing. I don't like hot I don't know off-topic. I just saw that on a newspaper and I stopped and I was just dumbfounded You're gonna do what? I'm not a politician. I don't know what's going on. I'm a truck driver But What my point is is university is very expensive very expensive and is not always worth the investment Unless you want to be a doctor a lawyer Or something along those lines But you said you're 13 so you have some time to think about it Take your time. Don't rush into it after high school. It's not like you've got a rush straight into a career Wait till you're ready and so you know what you want to do just don't take too much time off because you don't want to Don't wait forever You don't want to be in mom and dad's basement till you're 45 Am I running 24 fives or 22 fives? I'm running 22 fives with low-profile tires 24s are a little bit too big for me. I think they look kind of look Not my they don't look funny, but just not my style Or a little big Little big and heavy Hi Josh buckets life said Checking in from Oregon. My father was killed in a trucking accident on my birthday three years ago I was raised in the passenger seat. You remind me of the look my dad always had when he drove I'm so sorry to hear that he passed away and on your birthday, too That sounds like you've got some really good memories To look back on with him Marty SRAM says I am an electrician and just retired after 35 years in the trade There you go. Everyone's always gonna need electricians, right? Every building that goes up Someone's got to put the electricity in there and it's not gonna be me because I don't know what I'm doing I'm gonna kill myself. So you need the electricians to come in You could also be a framer. You could frame the house itself You see how everybody sort of works together every trade works together to To build something if there's a house being built There's somebody out there that's cutting the trees down and then there's somebody out There's a truck driver out there who brings those trees that got cut down to the mill And then there's somebody out there who mills the wood is that how you say it mills the wood turns it into usable lumber and then Me the truck driver shows up and hauls that lumber to the lumber yard and then the lumber gets hauled to Wherever is being built and then the framers build the house and then the electricians come in I don't know if it's in this order the electricians come in Set up all the wiring and then the plumbers come in set up all the plumbing And then the roofers come in do the roof and then the drywallers come in do all the drywall The painters come in do all the painting the flooring guys and the finishing carpenters come in and do all of the cabinets and finish finishing The the garage door installers come and install the garage door the Landscapers come in landscape the yard and lay down the sod There's lots of different trades out there You could be a part of the team or a part of the chain anywhere you want to be You could be the person landscaping the yard. You could be the person installing the garage door You could be the person doing the electricity. You know when you're young the whole world is open to you The hardest part is figuring out Where you want to sit and where what part of the chain you want to be for me I always knew I wanted to be a truck driver because well I grew up on the road with my dad on during summers and I knew a lot about it and I knew I loved it I knew this was the part of the the chain. I wanted to be Henry says how is the land working for you? It's sitting there. It's doing good. It's earning me money It is growing in value It is doing what investments do It is worth more now than when I bought it. So that makes me happy lots of comments so many comments Oh, and I can't hold my phone steady here trying to read this all This guy's backing in in front of me and he's got his high beams on right in my face Like who pulls into the truck stop at night with their high beams on Hello, you have bright lights Figure it out. I'm gonna turn my lights on in his face Ha Take that Didn't get the hint still has them on Some people man Gabriel Claus and you gave me a shout out at the trucker show. Thanks, man Thanks. That's awesome. I really wish I could have been there. Hello from Brazil. Hello Am I ever coming to BC? Well, if I ever get sent there Buckets life says thank you for your words. You are a great person. He loved to just talk and be funny. I Fell he got my face. I Think that might have been a typo and he got your face. Oh it's carbon paper once didn't know my face was blue till the truck stop Some good memories he was talking about his father who passed away on the road Oh asleep there. I see the correction We haven't made any announcements or anything Henry. We're still waiting to To find out on that once we have some news on how on all this IVF because I Explained it in a vlog a little while ago that we just went a little silent on the IVF when we started the whole transfer process We have two embryos that are viable and ready So at this point, we're just keeping this between us between us and our families and You know if it works out or if it doesn't We'll let you know as soon as we're ready, but don't worry If it works out, there will be a big big announcement video and if it doesn't work out I'll make sure to make an announcement video to that one would be more sad, but We'll let you guys know When we're ready. How old am I now Carl says I am 34 years young Halfway to 68. Oh Henry says I know I've been watching you in Britain since you all got together. Yeah, that's awesome So you've been watching our whole journey through IVF. It's been a long one. It's a long process You know, I'd love to make a video once of the entire fertility IVF process once with Britt Because it's it's something we knew nothing about and there's so much more to it than we realized And I think a lot of people don't know what all what all happens And I think it'd be kind of neat to share our whole story start to finish but right now the story is ongoing and You know when we got some answers for you and we got something to share we're not gonna keep it from you Don't worry. We're I'm a vlogger. So I'm a sharer but we also don't want to jump the gun on anything and We want to see what these two viable embryos will we'll do But yeah, we just went silent on on that for a little while, but don't worry. I'm not abandoning that topic It's still very very much I'm still gonna share it Don't worry Judy says your hubs talking heard me talking asking if that was Josh. Hello John That's me. You know my voice Johnny says you may feel hold them 40 in six months halfway to 80 That's not that much older than me or what five and a half years older than me that's nothing I'm almost 40 think about it Depends on what scale we're using. No, I haven't been riding my motorcycle at all Patrick I I wish I was but I haven't I haven't been Thanks, Adam says keep up the good work Kenworth is the best as Jacob. Yes Thank you, Henry. I appreciate the prayers Anyways, I gotta go to bed. There's so many comments here. I want to read them all and I'd love to just keep hanging out here Keep hanging out with and with you guys, but I can barely keep my eyes open as you can tell I can't even hold my phone steady. So thanks for putting up with my shaky live footage. I appreciate that So once again, if you tuned in late I just wanted to come on here and address that there was a truck show I'll say one more time. There was a truck show in Steinbach that I said I was gonna be at and there was some of some of my followers who had driven a little bit of a distance to come there and say hi and hang out and Trucking happened and this week got stretched out for me And I wasn't able to make it and I didn't announce it. I was just sort of bummed out quietly By myself and I should have said something Though by the time I found out that I wasn't gonna be there it may have been too late because we thought we were gonna be home today Didn't work out I just I just felt really bad, but I hope you guys did have a good time there I hope that the fundraisers went well and I'll see you guys in my next video