 Hey everybody, this is Nathan Zowder from Drake in Ontario and you are watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on the internet. Good morning diesel from Old Blow. Good morning Minnesota. Good morning sunshine. It's hot. Got some bugs on her already, but that's okay. We got ourselves a load to deliver. And we have a preloaded trailer waiting for us in the Rosemont, Minnesota. It's gonna be fun. We're gonna load it up. We might even get home today yet. Tell you what, I didn't do like a proper maiden voyage video yesterday because yesterday was just crazy. We went into the doctors or the clinic in the morning and it turned out we didn't. It wasn't what we thought it was. The big appointment is actually next Tuesday. So I went back to work. We're down here in Minnesota now. We brought a load of lumber from Canora down here in Brainerd, Minnesota. And from here I'm going down to Rosemont, Minnesota, grabbing a load of cement or concrete, pulling it on back home. And it's the first trip in Old Blue. Like I was saying in yesterday's video, I was really hoping to make the first trip in Old Blue a very special video, a maiden voyage video. So I didn't quite get that yesterday because it was a rush, rush, rush, rush. And today isn't too different, but it's a little bit more slower pace. Today will be the official maiden voyage video. It's the first full day in Old Blue. How you doing, Weasel? You ready, Weasel? This show on the road just to make sure they're still working. Let's go get this lumber off my trailer and go trade it for some concrete. How about that? They'll be expecting us there, so... I should be able to get unloaded as soon as we get there. As soon as I get the tarps off, anyway. Got in town pretty late yesterday. I'd like to reset my schedule today, but I might also make it home late today. I'm used to the sound of those air intakes right there. When the truck is really pulling, you can hear it. Sucking the soul out of you almost. I'll sell my buddy Moses and man, this truck sucks so much air. I hope it leaves some oxygen for me. You guys have got to hear these air intakes a little better though. It's intense. You might have to leave the window closed or it'll suck you right in. I was talking to my buddy Moses who drives a W9 as well. I said, this is normal. He's like, oh yeah. That's just the sound of horsepower, baby. I'm not used to that. Listen to this. You can hear it sucking in the air vents here when I take off. When it's really pulling hard. I did drive a W9 in the past. I guess I just, it's been so long since I've been in a real truck. Diesel, what do you think of it? What do you think of it, man? It's very noisy. I like it. Very nice, noisy. It's a nice noise. Nice, noisy, noisy, nice. Great input, Diesel. Great input. I'm speechless. It's odd, yes. Me too. I love this truck a lot. Definitely a good buy. And a lot of you are asking if this high stick shift is annoying, having it way up here. No, I actually like it better. It's actually more comfortable than when it's down here. I feel almost like it's more natural. Maybe not in the forward position here, but when it's back here when you're on the highway, it's at the perfect height. Okay, green light. Come on. I want to show them this. Listen to this thing right here. Okay, once we get going. Like, that hard there. I was just sort of feathering the pedal. I'm giving her a little bit and I'm leaning into it a little bit, but it had more. Very impressed. To me, what trucking is. Trucking is supposed to be fun. You're supposed to enjoy what you're doing, enjoy your truck. I've wanted to be in a W900 like this for a very, very long time. And to be in it now is sort of surreal. Especially such a nice one. And I'm not just saying that because it's my truck. The driver before me made it into such a nice truck. And now it's my job to maintain it and make it better than I found it, which was already amazing. So I got to make it like double amazing. Yeah. I got your wood, eh? Your Canadian wood. Got it right here for you. Got it under the Terps there. I had to take the Terps right off, eh? Five miles per hour. Oh, I could do that for you. All I ask is that you take this weight off me. It's weighing me down. I don't know why I sound like a Minnesotan. I'm trying to sound like a Canadian. A lot of people would argue that Minnesotans are Canadians. We're all the same people. There's just an imaginary line drawn between us. We had a fight once back in the day. We've never really solved it. We just said, okay, that side's yours. This side's ours. Works best that way. Where am I supposed to go? You don't want me on the... Where's the shipping and receiving door? Loading dock? Outbound shipments? Oh, is it inside? No, that's outbound shipments. Inbound. I am inbound. Josh, get it together. Hello? I want to give you some stuff. I brought it all the way here just for you. Where do I go? I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out. I'll talk to you guys in a bit here. There's a guy walking over there. I'm going to go talk to him. I think I went too far. I think it's on the other side of the building. I was a pretty quick unload. Quickly ripped off the Terps. Went inside the building there. There's only eight lifts of 21-foot lumber. You knocked those off and boom, I was out of there. So here I am. I'm just taking out some of my garbage to keep my truck clean. I'm going to go into the truck stop here. We're just down the road in Pillager. Pillager, Minnesota. Gonna quickly run in there, grab a coffee for the road. We're going to head on down to Rosemont. Running a little bit later than I wanted to, but the load's waiting there for us. So we'll go hook up, get as far as we can tonight, and then tomorrow we'll be home. And I'll be home for the weekend. What town is this? I think that's the interstate right there. No, wait, no, that's Minnesota 23. So hard to tell what town you're in because in the U.S. there's so many towns. Just town after town after town after town after town. And they also blend in. We're very close to Minneapolis. I think this might be St. Cloud. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just trucking. I don't really care where I am. I know I'm in Minnesota. I can see on the GPS there approximately where I am. Minnesota is that way. I'm in Minnesota, part of Minneapolis, St. Paul, which is in Minnesota. I'm hoping we get to hit the freeway soon. It looks like I'll be running parallel to the freeway for some reason. Rosemont is on the southwest corner of Minneapolis, St. Paul. I think St. Paul's on the east side, right? So it's like south of St. Paul. My turn. My turn. Come on. Come on. I'm slowly getting better at shifting this truck. The throttle on this engine and on this truck is very touchy. Very touchy. You sort of just got to feather it with your toes. Minnesota is such a beautiful state. It's just like Manitoba. They have a lot of lakes. A lot of cottage properties and stuff. But here, there's just so many more people that make more use of their lakes in Manitoba. Most of our lakes are completely isolated. There's no people living anywhere around that you got to fly in. That's why flying and fishing is so popular up there, right? Americans from here who love to fish drive up to Southern Manitoba or Ontario next door, and they'll take a float plane up to the northern lakes. That's the only way you can get up there. That is pristine, pristine fishing. That's where the good stuff is. But it's nice down here because, you know, every lake sort of has its own community of cottages around it. I guess that's sort of the Minnesotan thing to do. You go to the cottage on the weekends. Or maybe you live there year-round. I mean, you probably live there and work nearby, maybe. I don't know. That'd be awesome just living on a lake. Go fishing every day. I do a lot of fishing. I wish I did, but I don't have a boat and I don't have time. I could rent a boat. That'd be no problem. But I don't have a lot of time. I have a truck though. Can't have everything. I'm getting better with my shifting. I still need to practice a bit. This truck is much different than that Peterbilt. This is an 18-speed manual. Obviously, you can see me shifting. It's manual. It's an 18-speed, which means you can split the lower gears and the higher gears. I don't use them all, but they're there if I need them when I'm pulling a heavy load up the hills. And like I was saying earlier, it's kind of comfortable. The height of this shifter, it's just perfect. I don't know why I like it. It's a nice place. Nice placement. Not too high. You don't want it like up here. The driver before me had very similar tastes. Or maybe I guess I got similar taste to him because he made this truck what it is. And I really like it the way he made it up. I just want to add a few things to make it my own yet. Like I'd like to change the steering wheel, but for now this steering wheel is actually pretty good. I like it. It's a little bit worn because it's a little bit old. Just like the truck, but this piece up here on the shifter needs to be replaced. But I like what he did with it. I don't want to change that. I just want to add a few things to it. Very smooth. Very smooth ride. Just glides. I really like it. The suspension on this truck is well thought out. I just one day I want to put an air ride front suspension on this. Just so that the only reason is that when I park it I can lower the bumper right down to the ground. That's the only reason. It also offers a smoother ride yet. But I mean this is pretty smooth already. We'll see. I'm waiting for this truck to bring in money first. And you also got to remember that we're starting a family soon. That's going to take a lot of money. So that comes first obviously. But I do make a little bit of money off these YouTube videos. And I'll probably allocate some of that towards building up this truck into a show truck. So really if you want to help me build my truck for free you can just watch my videos. And I appreciate your patience with the ads that show up. I really do. That is what has gotten us through our IVF. That helped us pay for our IVF. So I do appreciate your patience with those. And in the future some of that will probably go to get this truck show ready. I feel like 65 is way too fast for here but that's the speed limit. I'm going to slow it down a little bit to 60. This corner is pretty tight for a 65 mile an hour speed limit. I just saw the sign. It is 65 and my GPS tells me it's 65. I'm going to take her a little easy on old blue. I don't need to hammer down around the corners like that. Saved my steer tires. Mistakes were made. Surprise Karen is not laughing at me. Well she is the one that guided me downtown St. Paul. But I saw that we were going through and it's a freeway. I'm like it'll be quick. It's a freeway. We'll just buzz right through. I forgot it was rush hour. So here we are living the dream at W9 downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. In construction season. I'm going to take 52 south here. It's not that bad. It's just a lot more people than I wanted to deal with right now. St. Paul, Minneapolis. You guys got a lot of people. It's got a lot of people. It's a problem. Spread out. What? No, I'm not going to take that exit over there. I'm over here. You told me to be in this lane. No, I'm going this way. I do want to go in the 52 though. Why is the 52 exit over there? It's also over here, right? It's there or here. Better be. Karen, you don't even know what lane I'm in. What kind of navigator are you? It's hard to tell me where to go when you don't even know what lane I'm in. Lead me into a pickle. Oh this big thing. There we go. So we did end up on the 52. See? 52 south. I've been here many times before. I just, I always try to avoid downtown during rush hour. Except for today. Didn't think. Exactly rush hour and here we go. Floating through downtown. Not always the brightest guy, but I did get through there. I didn't hit anything. Sounds good. It's always good. I think we're on the other side now because traffic is actually moving. Traffic on the other side of downtown was, oh, I forgot how good we had it in Winnipeg. Hey. It's me again. Future Josh. This trip was chaotic to say the least. And that was my footage from the day. I'm going to give you a little bit of footage after this. From yesterday. A little sneak peek of yesterday. So you can see the load that I was going to pick up. It took me a while. I had to chain it down. It took seven chains. It's a big piece of concrete, you'll see. And it was an oversized load. So I had to wait for my permits to make sure that I was able to start rolling down the road with it legally. Everything went well. Other than that, by the time I got there, it had started to get dark already. So I waited until the next day to film the load. Not much use filming when you can't see anything. Right? But thanks for watching today anyways. I've been having fun. The truck has been running marvelously. Incredible. Better than I could have ever imagined. And some of you were asking what that little yellow light is in my tachometer. I was only going in the RPM gate, whatever. The little red yellow light there. My trailer ABS light. There's nothing wrong with the trailer ABS light. There must have been a loose connection in my cord coming from my truck. I kept fixing it. I'd go out there, I'd fix it. It would turn off. And then I'd take another corner a little bit down the road. It would pop back on again. I'd have to pull over at the first safe spot. And then you'd fix it again. But eventually, down the road, I think in this next clip, at the end of the day, I finally figured out what was going on and got that issue solved. It wasn't that there was a problem or anything. It was just a connection. A connection issue in the wires. And it was annoying me too. But I was trying to ignore it because I was having so much fun. Not ignoring the issue. Just ignoring the light because I knew there wasn't an issue. It was all good. So no need to worry about that. I've had a few questions about that already. I know my first trip. It wasn't an engine light though. Okay. So yeah. I was nothing to worry about and you shouldn't see that. Sometimes that happens. There's that cord. It's like a green cord that connects the lights and everything to the trailer. Sometimes if there's a loose connection in there and it's just not connecting right, it'll pop the ABS light on when you take a corner and also it'll disappear. It'll pop back on. It's very annoying sometimes. Sometimes it's the trailer and then it's very annoying because you can't figure out where it is and you've got to report it to the shop and they've got to figure out where it is. But in this case, I found the issue and got it solved there. So now there's like a little 30 seconds sneak peek of tomorrow's video where you get to see the load that I loaded up there in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We're going to pull that back home here to get to where I am right now, editing this video in my messy office. Really need to clean this place up. That's one of my projects for today. Today has to get done. It's not that bad. It's not that bad, is it? It's pretty bad. All of this stuff is being moved to the shop eventually anyway, right? Cheers. No more coffee left in there. That's disappointing. Oh, coffee grinds are in there though. Coffee grounds, grinds, grounds, grinded grounds. Okay, I'm wired. I need to get back to editing. So thanks for watching. I'll show you a clip of tomorrow a little bit there. Don't forget to subscribe. My computer's very excited. That means he wants you to subscribe. Hit the like button if you did like the video and I will see you in my next video. There should be, I said video there twice. That's okay. You guys will forgive me. There should be a couple of videos coming out today. I'm really trying to catch up. I want to be caught up before I leave on my next trip. Load of concrete today. Bringing us back up to Manitoba. I picked it up in Minnesota here. Yesterday was a crazy day again. I think it's pretty good looking load. I had to move the fifth wheel back just a little bit. Go, go, go, go is the name of the game. So it's nine foot four wide. We've got our permits with us, of course. But we're ready to get truckin'. Let's go.