 Hi, my name is Ethan and I'm from sunny central, Florida You're watching trucker Josh and diesel on the best channel on YouTube tj v Enjoy welcome to the trucker Josh blog page where you can follow me and my best friend diesel day by day As we travel across all of Canada and the United States This is real reality TV coming at you on YouTube Hit that subscribe button Good morning everybody. Oh another new day has arrived and we're here exactly where we went to sleep Right though, what is this a Simonson Simonson Samson Simonson trucks travel centers thing in Grand Forks North side of Grand Forks North Dakota diesel you ready for a new day or what? Yeah, I'm ready man. Look at me. Look at me I am stunning You do look pretty good deal. Good job. Good job. So, uh, I want to get all the way to my destination today Or as close as I possibly can we got to deliver to Appleton, Wisconsin tomorrow morning. That's 950 kilometers from here probably both 600 little under 600 miles So I should be able to get there if we don't have any problems If not, we can get as close as we can and we'll get there in the morning tomorrow go a little ways tomorrow. That's fine It's gonna be a good day. Look at this beautiful weather out here. I woke up itchy today itchy itchy check this out I know you probably don't want to see this but Right there That's my poison ivy. Oh So I'm not gonna be going to the gym today. I was excited to sort of stop at the gym on my way to Wisconsin, but That won't be happening. I don't think everyone else in there would appreciate me going and using the equipment with poison ivy all over my arms It's bad enough that you go in there and you get sweat all over everything You got to wipe it off and sanitize it but poison ivy. I think that's crossing a line So maybe diesel and I will stop and go for a walk or something just to get the heart pumping later and It's a nice day. So maybe we'll go and enjoy the weather We'll have to see for now. I'm gonna run inside here. I'm gonna grab a coffee. I'm gonna walk a weasel We get to show on the road You can see it more here now It's that calamine lotion Makes it look worse than it is Some of my side here, too, but we'll be okay. We'll be okay This lotion works really good takes all the itch away Just got to let it breathe now and take her easy today Okay, we're done our pre-trip. We are ready to rock and roll Got our breakfast Got our milk. I don't know if that has to do anything, but we got milk Let's go. You ready diesel Let's sweater gonna stay there I'm gonna take it down I don't want that to fall in your water. There you go. That's the clean sweater. So that once my poison ivy heals I have a clean sweater to wear so that Yeah, I don't get it again In case I can't wash my other sweater right away and off on to the interstate National Guard storage facility or something there just off to our right guess we just missed it Lots of military vehicles parked out there right by the freeway for everyone to see Just to remind you, you know America Casey forgot where you were so this should take the majority of the day to get there I'm expecting to get there around 10 o'clock tonight I'll unload in the morning Probably around 8 a.m. I have no idea what they got planned for me yet after that. No idea So once again sort of like the other week I don't want to get there too too early because Monday morning. They're gonna have to have time to get into the office Get settled in get the gears turning. It's a Monday morning and then they got to find me a load yet So if I show up at my delivery too early, my e-log will be clicking away While they're still getting settled in and not even looking for a load for me yet, right? That's fine It's Monday. I understand that so if I they get in at 8 so if I get there at about 8 30 I'll be unloaded by 9 that'll give them an hour to settle in and figure out what's going on And I send them the message that I'm empty and I shouldn't have to wait long for a reload then I always sort of got a time in around when they get to the office Otherwise because I could probably deliver at 7 in the morning Oh, I almost hit that bird I could deliver at 7 in the morning, but they don't get until 8 and won't find me a load till about 9 anyways So that I'm just sitting there for two hours wasting my e-log hours I'm gonna stop in here at the blue beacon There's that space aliens restaurant just over to the right over there you see it I always wanted to go in there and eat It says earthlings welcome I don't want to go see what kind of food they got in there by the looks of the Paintings on the side of the building looks like they serve pizza Space aliens grill and bar Also, it's a bar. Oh, okay Petro pass or not petro path petro stopping centers in the u.s. Here is Right off to my left. So I could always stop there for night once and walk over here and have dinner Or even just for lunch. Why do you need to take your corner wide there, buddy? I don't get that All right. Hopefully there's not too long of a lineup at the truck wash Gotta get this truck washed it's been too long again I always wait a little bit too long should be washing. I'd love to wash it every week, but these Washes usually cost me about 75 bucks Some might say 75 bucks a week is a small price to pay to have a clean truck and get all that salt and grime off Are there any element Has a little bit of a lineup not too bad. They got two bays here. So it goes pretty quickly About one two three four people in front of me plus the people in the wash. So with five trucks in front of me So there are the doors over there Two of them. I think the guy on the left is going to go in first and I'll probably Go in behind him. I'm just waiting to see which one moves first Got a few people waiting behind me got a big rv The truck over there other than that we're just dealing with the poison ivy I was just talking to my cousin will and uh, he does he got the same thing he gets poison ivy he says like seven times a year and Doing the same thing I did going into his bush Pulling out trees and transplanting them into his front yard and along his driveway because uh, why pay for these expensive trees at a greenhouse when you have property With bush on it and you have perfectly good trees growing right there All you got to do is just dig them up and move them to where you want them and it's free Almost this is the price Poison ivy He gets it really bad in his bush. There's a lot of poison ivy It's actually in the roots that the plants hadn't actually grown yet But the roots are like a hundred times more potent than the leaves on poison ivy so if you go in there and you You pick up these little trees and you put your hands and arms under the dirt and lift it up There's obviously some roots of poison ivy in there and uh got all over me. It looks pretty ugly right now, right? But It's getting better. This calamine lotion really helps. It really works really well Oh, this guy's moving now. I better better move the truck here on cycle. Let me put you down. Let me put you down Okay, nice to have a clean truck. I think it's a good day to Wash the truck. I don't think it's gonna rain. It's always a pain when you pay 75 dollars to get your truck washed And then it rains right away Washes aren't cheap But they do do a good job for the most part So you go in here They have like six seven or eight guys. I think it's six three on each side That all attack your truck with with uh What do you call those things the water wands they all attack your truck anyways and all clean it off for you You're usually in and out of here once you get in there. It's like 10 minutes Usually and they have your truck cleaned 15 the longest weight you have here is waiting out here in line We're all cleaned up. It always feels good to get a bath Or to have a bath. I guess you don't really get baths. You have baths. It's nice to have a bath Yep, that's me. So let's get out of here. Let's get back on the interstate and Continue our journey to Wisconsin diesel. You want to see some cows, don't you? Yeah, man, Wisconsin's the place for that What are these guys doing here? How do I get out of here again? I forget. I always forget how to get out of here I don't know why this guy's parked so weird Why are you parked like that like jackknife in the driveway? It's this guy walking in there that parked his truck like that. That's weird Oh Well, I'm out of here I think it's past the scale here. This is the way out It's not really clearly marked and if you don't come here regularly It might be a little difficult to find your way out of the parking lot Here we go. Thank you for your business. You're welcome So just a basic truck wash and engine wash cost me 63 dollars and 50 cents american which translates to Just over 85 dollars canadian. Oh, that exchange rate is not so good right now So what i'm doing mandy look i'm in the turn lane got my signal on and everything so i'm telling me how to live my life Let me get back on to interstate 94 eastbound And we'll be in minnesota right away. We're pretty much right on the border of minnesota Still in north dakota right now though Just pulling into st. Cloud minnesota here the pilot flying jay i'm gonna Turn left until your water road Fueler up we're gonna get some fuel here first man. Come on This Pilot is usually not quite as busy as the one on the other side of minneapol st. Paul in roberts I don't like going to that roberts wisconsin Flying jay anymore. It's way too busy So instead I come here That's a bit of an older one needs a little bit of updating but has everything you need not a lot of parking here though It's good just to quickly come in get fuel and go grab coffee and hit the road Only half their pumps have def at the pump though We've already gone through wassalt wisconsin and I just turned on to us 10 This is supposed to take me to appleton apparently I Not sure exactly where I am. I don't come through this part of wisconsin that often Quick trip over there. I don't know where I'm gonna spend the night either Kind of like wisconsin because most of wisconsin's off the beaten path For for me and a lot of the traffic going through right because most through traffic Like I said last time sort of goes on interstate 94 on the west side of the state and all the way in here The only real reason people are here is because they live here Or if you're just delivering freight getting in getting out real quick not a lot of people just passing through Not compared to other areas where the interstate goes through right, you know what I mean I sort of feel at home in wisconsin. It's got a lot of bush I guess it's got the northern climate that I'm used to people around here Apparently have somewhat the same accent as me. I don't know if that's true or not but people When I go down south a lot of times I get mistaken for being from wisconsin Either that or minnesota number two dope Just your friendy knuck here actually from canada I know we're pretty much exactly the same Where am I gonna spend the night? I have no idea where I am There's an apple bees great restaurant, but I need to go to apple tin wisconsin We were at apple bees this past week me and brit when we went to winter peg to run those errands and stuff We went to apple bees Really good food I still don't know what town we're in No idea No signs no nothing Wisconsin that's all I know us highway 10 And we're just outside apple tin wisconsin This is the very next morning found a little Truck stop here. I believe this is fremont wisconsin Let's go deliver our freight real quick and then we'll say goodbye. We'll start tomorrow's vlog I had a good sleep here from poison ivy got a little worse Yesterday, but I took some bed drill before going to bed yesterday Which is like an allergy medication because that's what poison ivy is. It's a it's an allergy allergic reaction It actually helped quite a bit. So I'm feeling better today Today will be another bit of an itchy day and hopefully by tonight We'll be almost over it. We'll see So I use a an app called trucker path. Do any of you use that? That's how I found this truck stop It's really great You know, I don't know the the makers of it and I'm not getting paid by them or anything But I would definitely recommend it It tells you where all the truck stops are where the scales are Every time you go past there you can update it so that other drivers know if there's parking spots available there Or if the scale is open or closed And people do update it quite often. It's actually quite impressive Usually you can tell ahead of time if there's parking or if the scales open So I checked out this place and it said there was lots of parking and someone had updated it like three minutes before I checked I pulled in and sure enough lots of spots And now we're just like 15 miles down the road from our delivery still haven't got word of a reload yet When they sent it to me, I guess it didn't go through because I didn't have it yet And I was there unloaded just arriving to my delivery Or well, I've just gotten there a little while ago waiting for them to unload me and then they said Oh, what are you going to be in fort francis? Fort francis What's in fort francis So they sent me the load off or through again to my computer here I guess my computer didn't receive it during the night Because it turns off for the night that doesn't get anything, right? So i'm picking up a load in uh, delavan wisconsin that's going to fort francis ontario. It's about a full day's drive Uh, but I have to be there for tomorrow morning They asked me when I Would be there. I told them tomorrow morning. So it's not like they're forcing me to rush I'm just choosing to rush So I delivered that lumber. I wasn't able to uh, take you guys along with me there because I'm in Like I said a little more of a rush than I was expecting So I do have an empty flatbed behind me right now and we're leaving appleton wisconsin head itself to work delavan I really like wisconsin. Have I told you that already? I like this state I feel comfortable here. I feel at home here If I ever had to move to wisconsin, I wouldn't complain So we're on interstate 41 south now and uh I guess we'll continue this tomorrow to be continued. I was hoping to uh, Include a little bit more excitement of the unloading process for you today, but Sometimes you just got to do what you got to do. I have to get there. It's two hours away I have to get loaded tied down and get nine hours back north towards ontario No taking our time today So this vlog will be continued tomorrow to to make sure you don't miss it. Make sure you subscribe to my channel I make a new video every day. It's sort of like a journal of my life. You can follow my life day by day I drive truck across all of north america mostly across western canada and ontario And the midwest of the us right now, but you know, I've been doing this for a while I used to be down in the south more often on the east coast and I miss it there in new england Even new england. Did you hear that? That just came out of my mouth. I even miss new england That's not a fun place to drive through and if I miss it that means I haven't been there in a long time This van in front of me has not yet discovered God's gift to humanity called cruise control. I'm just gonna go around you then, but of course then you speed up All right, let's continue this tomorrow. 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