 Minnesota we're on our way down to Shiller Park Illinois which in my mind is the same thing as Chicago Illinois we've got to deliver this lumber there first thing tomorrow morning it's been a great day so far we just woke up but I just know it's going to be a good day you gotta tell yourself that every day it's going to be a good day more often than not it'll turn into a good day it's what you're making so we got this lumber behind us still four lifts on the front three in the center here and two right at the back and that pretty much equals our weight perfectly it's almost right to the back here so on my rear trailer axles here i'm sitting at about 31 000 pounds on these two axles and on my drive axles behind my truck there i'm sitting at about 33 000 pounds which is good because you want to carry the weight you don't want to pull the weight so you want if you can arrange it in a way that you have a little more weight on your drives than on your trailer it'll give you a much smoother ride because if you have the heavier weight on these axles over every bridge connection and every bump you're going to get a donkey kick your trailer is going to hit it and push your truck forward and it's going to be very uncomfortable but if you carry the weight on your truck it's a much smoother ride do you like my new stickers i told you i was going to put the canada flag on the truck i also got it up here and the flag of my province in canada manitoba over there and i got the us flag on my mudflaps so i think i'm representing my my region that i that i haul in okay so that is my province flag i've told you this many times before it's got the union jack in the top left corner there and it's got the cross of st george with a buffalo beneath it that is the flag of manitoba the flag of ontario is exactly the same except instead of a buffalo in there it has three golden maple leaves i think the buffalo looks better really personally it really does bother me that manitoba's flag is practically identical to ontario's flag we're two very different provinces of manitoba's western canada ontario is eastern canada but for some reason our flags are almost identical and they're very close to the original flag of canada as well which was the the royal end sign which was exactly like the manitoba flag red background union jack on the top left except the canadian crest was where that buffalo crest is that was the flag of canada up until what 40 years ago or so is a little more than that 40 50 years ago and then they changed it to the maple leaf which some people like it some people don't but i wish manitoba had its own flag bothers me that they that they don't it looks very much like ontario's but i don't trust the government right now to create a new flag because you know with the way culture is right now they would totally totally mess it up with all their wokeness they would totally mess up the flag and then that the new flag wouldn't represent me whatsoever and then i wouldn't like it and i'd be sad so well we're just gonna stick with it we're just gonna stick with the flag the way it is and uh move forward it's not that big a deal i just i like flags they usually represent the people the the flag represents the people it doesn't represent the land like i like the u.s flag for for instance to me it doesn't represent the land here that it that they occupy the united states flag to me represents the united states people their constitution their way of life their their belief system you know flags are important to me you know you see a hammer and sickle flag you you know where they stand on a lot of issues you see an american flag you know where they stand on a lot of issues you see a canada flag i don't know that could be anything all right let's get out of here get to rachel illinois before all the parking lot is full i think that they look so ugly on vehicles i always wonder why would you put a bumper sticker on your car and like to face your car and bring down the value even faster then it's already going down a bunch of bumper stickers on you know what i mean bumper stickers that's cool it's your thing bumper stickers on your car at least put them on straight bumper stickers say no these guys got none see that's classy mind if i see a bunch of bumper stickers on the back of a vehicle that doesn't look classy to me it looks trashy no offense makes the car look kind of red naked trashy you know what i mean is it just me not a bumper sticker fan but what bothers me the most because it doesn't really have anything to do with me but i have one that's sitting behind you staring at your crooked bumper stickers at least put them on symmetrically sticker in your car permanently put it on straight does anyone else get bothered by that when people put like bumper stickers in there just all over the place doesn't really matter they're not even really straight they're totally crooked you can tell they were literally just like smacked on as they were walking path too excessive and i try to make sure there's symmetrical an actual bumper sticker a permanent one on my tailgate you know i got magnet stickers i always get the there's exactly like a bumper sticker but they're just a big magnet right now just stick them onto my tailgate i want to let the world know my message then at least i can take it off when i'm tired of it or if i ever want to sell the truck or any of you those people you know which people i'm talking about or any of you one of those people has like 50 bumper stickers on the back of your car just let me know let me know and what do they say what's your message let the world know you obviously got a lot to say if you got 50 bumper stickers i want to hear it a small town in wisconsin out for a walk i forgot my gopro in the truck so making do with the phone camera with the terrible microphone i do got a huawei phone or whatever you say huawei but i can guarantee you our next phone is not gonna be a huawei i think i'm gonna go uh might get a google phone next not too sure i'm kind of disappointed in the capabilities of this phone but i mean it does everything it's supposed to i guess getting a little chilly it's not as cold here as at home as you can see there's no snow out here yet you can tell it's gonna come soon the sun goes down so early now already now daylight saving time i you know i don't like daylight savings time what a dumb idea and why can't we just stick to the same time i always have to confuse everybody twice here changing the clocks i don't like it i think it's dumb i like places like the sketch one that never change their clocks never they're always just on the on the same time must be extra confusing for them if they ever move out of the sketch one like the manitoba or alberta and then having to learn to change the clocks back and spring them forward and spring and back and fall i don't know it'd be much easier if we didn't do that so in fall time the sketch one's the same time as us in manitoba central time and in summertime they spring away from us hang out with their buddy alberta for the summer and they're in mountain time much easier excuse me we're just doing laps around this industrial zone we just came from out that way it's like this big square block i like walking in the evenings around the weekends through these kind of zones because there's zero traffic so i don't have to worry about cars all the time i'm just focused on getting my walks in trying to get back in shape so bellies and getting a little big again i thought i was maintaining my weight and i weighed myself before i left and i'm back up to 217 and a half pounds it's a little lighter than i was when i started my working out campaign or before the wedding i was at 225 then and i went all the way down to 195 i'd like to get all the way down to 180 that's my goal so we'll see i'm starting a little late in the year i didn't do my walking this summer like i wanted to procrastinate procrastinate procrastinate and now it's getting cold already i want to get myself down to 180 so that's 27 pounds 25 pounds let's say that's our goal i want to lose that it's also good for our heart to get out of the truck get the blood pumping a little bit as a truck driver you have to make sure you stay active you have to force yourself to be active because our job we're professional sitters we sit all day really unhealthy and it invites early heart attacks it's also really good for this guy he's getting older eight years old now gotta keep him in tip top shape as well i keep his his heart healthy i always i always say that you know having a healthy heart is sort of like having a healthy engine a diesel engine if you idle your truck non-stop that's all you do you just idle it all that gunk builds up in what i would say is the arteries of the truck or the heart of the truck right it used to be before the age of def all that gunk would burn out as soon as you left in the morning right and that blue smoke would come out the stack as it burns off all that crud from idling it's healthy for a diesel engine to be working hard same thing for a heart it's healthy to get your heart pumping you don't want it idling your whole life so this town that we're walking around in here is called Baldwin Wisconsin or any of you from Baldwin i'm walking around your town well around the industrial zone right now on the south end of town parked at the quick trip by the interstate i'm walked up here and just been doing laps probably doing a good three laps around this neighborhood and then walk back i'm counting my calories again i'm using that my fitness app i'm keeping track of everything i eat and drink trying to keep it under 1500 calories per day until i reach my desired weight then i'll bump it up to 2000 a day max but when i go for a walk like this i'm expecting to burn about 400 calories that adds on to my 1500 so then today i'll be able to have 1900 calories and still lose weight it's a little tedious but worth it in the end i think what do you think diesel yep just going on a weasel walk man keeping the weasel heart healthy yes sir well that felt pretty good just over five kilometers or around three miles got a nice uh grilled chicken southwest salad from mcdonald's here i think i made good choices today let's get back on the highway still got about five hours to go before we stop there's a little town here though 200 meters turn left on 55th avenue and then turn left in 140 meters all right caron choices gotta get more healthy let myself go for way longer than i wanted to couldn't believe it when i stepped on the scale of i'd gained 10 pounds since the last time i weighed myself i didn't even notice it but yes i was wondering why i was so out of breath you know when i would do the simple tasks and simple chores i'd get out of breath a lot faster right i'm starting to worry it won't now make sense getting fat or anyway 100 meters turn left on 10th street us 63 i can't let myself get any fatter than this i never wanted to be heavier than 210 i wanted i would like to stick between you know like 180 to 200 200 max but not absolutely no heavier than 210 now that i'm 217 that's uh that's the final straw that's that's the line right there across the line in one kilometer turn right on to your pathway oh there's room to park here oh no problem oh that's an exit only over there oh no that's that's an entrance or exit i don't know i'm going in this way let's see if i can get into one of these spots here in the hole this is really close together oh boy yeah i'm gonna try to get in there Karen i know you're confused i got into a parking spot and everything is a real tight spot i got in there i walked around the truck i said nope i don't trust the other guys not to hit me when they leave in the morning it was such a tight lot i didn't feel comfortable there i don't want my my hood ripped off in the morning i don't want to get backed in too late at night so karen's all confused now because we went down the road to the next flying jay it's a much bigger parking lot with uh much more space and room i'll easily be able to park here and not have to worry about getting hit in the morning let's see what they got here seems like there's quite a bit of space if this jb hunt would have not taken up the entire space here i could have fit in there i might still be able to fit in there no that bob tail is taking up too much space shoot well i could probably sneak in there i will see i like to park off on the side where i won't be bothered i think i'm gonna park over here right in front of this old scale diesel we got the best spot here those of you who know south below it the flying jay here they have this abandoned scale that we just drove past right i'm not abandoned but they don't use it anymore anyway this is where we parked i almost never get this spot because this spot always goes so early you know off here all by my lonesome nobody to park beside me nobody to bother me that's what i'm talking about uh-huh and i left my tractor on the level ground there so that i'm not like rolling out of my bed so my at least my truck is level you know the trailer goes up angles up here a little bit onto the old scale hub where they used to have it but that's okay i got all my brakes set the truck is level and my steer tires are facing the curb so if the worst were to happen and somehow my truck were to become charged with air while i sleep magically i would roll that way but that would take quite the miracle so you bet we are going to have a fantastically quiet night here double check all the brakes again you guys are my witnesses they're pulled it's gonna be a good night so we got 10 hours from now till when i can start doing my pre-trip i gotta take 15 minutes in the morning make sure the truck's all still together not falling apart making sure no tires are going to fly off and kill someone making sure there's oil in the engine making sure all the lights are you know all the basics you know the basics make sure i'm not going to hurt anybody and then we'll be on our way into chicago this is as close as i parked to chicago i was going to go down to rachel but we're running a little later than i thought we would because we stopped for that walk so it was an expensive walk because now because of that i'm going to take the toll road down uh what is that interstate not 39 interstate is that 90 or 94 90 that goes from the wisconsin border straight into chicago right whatever it's gonna pay a few tolls but it'll save us about an hour or so and we'll get there a little earlier tomorrow i still don't have a reload but i'm guessing i'll have one sent to me tomorrow morning sometime i just want to get unloaded as early as possible so that if there is a reload that i can get there and get it done tomorrow afternoon hopefully or at least make it a possibility make myself available to do that because uh i would like to head back home that way i'd be back home Tuesday night but if i only reload Tuesday morning i'll only be home Wednesday we'll see trucking am i right trucking it's always an adventure thanks for tagging along on the adventure today with me great to have you here there's a lot of fun got our exercise in ate good food today we made good choices i encourage you to do the same the best choice you can make right now though is to hit that subscribe button on my youtube channel trucker josh vlogs hit that little bell beside it because apparently if you're just subscribed to me you may not be notified that i release a new video every day hit the little bell that way you get a notification and hit the like button share it with your friends if you want to show all your friends how awesome the videos are if you didn't like it give it a thumbs down and share it with all your friends to show them all how terrible they are now you all got your homework i'll see you tomorrow