 Hi, I'm Bruce from Gloucester, Virginia. You're watching Trucker Josh on YouTube Hey weasel There's a weasel with us this trip. I'm so excited. You ready to go outside, bud? I'm ready to go outside We are here in Kenora. We're gonna be loading up a load of lumber and Taking it on down to Breinard, Minnesota same run we did beginning of last week Except I'm by myself this week. It's just me father-in-law is doing other stuff My dad just took off to Iowa. I believe so we're all running different running on our own this week Come on, bud Let's go over this way real quick It's gonna be a good day the sun is shining not a cloud in the sky Got a weasel with me Got a empty step deck here. We're gonna put some some wood on it some good wood And we've got to tarp it We can make that good I'm gonna tarp it. We're gonna try to tarp it real good like a Christmas present. It's gonna look good And we head on down to Minnesota It'll be fun You guys want to see something cool? I've got to tarp this load I'm gonna show you how I do it It's pretty neat right that way. I don't have to climb up there and I don't have to lift those heavy tarps That just lays it over there. I'll straighten it out square it off. I'll put one more on the front I'll be out of here Probably the quickest I've ever been loaded and tarped at this location, which is awesome. It took them 15 minutes to load me And this will take me half an hour Maybe a bit more. We'll see maybe I'm giving myself too much credit There's no one else in here right now. So I'm not in a big rush but uh I don't want to drag my feet. So Let's get going. I want to get down to Minnesota tonight yet. I want to get down to Brainer to my truck stop there Well, the truck stop is actually in Pillager, Minnesota. I think that's where I stay I might go right to the customer though. I think we could sleep there though. I learned that last time We'll decide that later. Let's get ourselves tarped first This makes tarping so much easier. That's why I love coming here Especially in the wintertime and when it's raining have a nice covered shelter There are several locations that we go to that have the exact same setup same building same setup same everything I like them all equally. Not the prettiest tarp drop. I'm I'm gonna be the first to admit that but It does the trick, right? It looks like dad wrapped the Christmas presents this year They're wrapped and that's all that matters See what I did here. You see what I missed that crease right there Should be at the top of the load there technically This will work just fine too. Everything's covered. But if you want it to look Pretty That's what you would do to fix that Peek-a-boo no peek-a-boo is here You cover up you cover yourself up You cover yourself up does the job. I'm only going 300 miles down the road with it. So uh Not many people are going to see it down the road Now that I put it on youtube a couple thousand people have seen it But I have to show this to you so that you know that trucker josh isn't perfect When we get the job done And this is the other side this side's a little cleaner Going up there. It's hard to see because of the sun They're doing what they're supposed to do Protecting the load. I like my tarp drop. I see bees going crazy Diesel what you don't have anything to say I mean I could have tarped that better man. I could have done a better job. This is embarrassing You take me along and that's how that's how you present us to the world We are way better truckers than that Very disappointed. I say disappointed we do If I had thumbs I'd show you how it's done This is this is terrible You're a hard weasel to impress diesel Hard weasel to impress. Okay. I'm just going to get all my stuff in order here Make sure my paperwork went through properly They're waiting to order There's two of our trucks here that are uh also going to Brainerd I'm not sure if we'll be running together or not. We're down to the same place all three of us All right, everybody it's time to get going Undo the belt undo the button Oh, I've got to lose weight. I've really got to lose weight By my birthday, okay By my birthday april 1st 2023 I want to lose weight I'm probably about 225 230 pounds right now I'd like to be 180 50 pounds See what I can do. Let's see if we can get under 200 by my birthday That would be good. We're gonna go for walks. We've said this a few times This year already but this time we really mean it right diesel That's why I brought you along because I do more walking when I'm with you Because I take you for walks more often, but when you're not here. I don't take myself for walks And then look at me. Look what happens That's what happens when you don't come with me man. I get fat Okay, that's why you got to come with me. Keep me skinny, man Let's get going because you can't see oncoming traffic until it's right there and they're moving at like 90 kilometers an hour Some of them are moving at like 120 Senex That means we're in america That's an american company. We're just outside of uh international falls minnesota Like I was saying before having diesel with me Uh gets me out of the truck more. Usually I wouldn't have stopped. I would have just kept on going right past Or maybe I would have just stopped for a quick coffee back in the truck And head off That's since we got the the weasel with us Gives me an excuse to Yeah, take a little bit of an extended break just a little bit just a few minutes Let them get out and run around here The last time I was here. I made a mistake and called this town deer falls It's actually a deer river. It's right there on that bright colored church sign That is a bright church. Can't miss that one River, I don't know why I was thinking deer falls. Is there a deer falls out there? Feel like I've been to a deer falls before. There's probably a deer falls in minnesota Maybe there's not I don't know This is the senex that we stopped that last time With and we stopped in there really nice stop in there Got a pizza hut and everything I'm gonna go to that same truck stop Apparently we're allowed to sleep right at the customer though. So That is an option as well I'll decide When I get a little closer Sleeping at a truck stop is always nice because you can watch your face in the morning Clean yourself up and have a coffee You know what? I'll take it as a compliment deer river likes us so much diesel They don't want us to leave they want us to stay longer. So they gave us a red light the one red light And we got it. It's a good sign Feels good to be liked and wanted if you can see it or not, but there's a hungry weasel right here chowing down A little bit of a late supper My bad He's getting his food and he's loving it Good boy diesel. Sometimes he doesn't want to eat when he's on the road But the last couple of trips he's come on come with me. He's eating really well on the road I don't know. Guess it depends how he's feeling. He's a moody weasel. We're uh here in pillager Minnesota at our truck stop It'll be delivering down the road and brainered first thing tomorrow morning And by the time i'm unloaded i'm sure already i'll already have a reload lined up So we'll have to wait and see what that's going to be tomorrow It was a holiday today. It was a labor day in canada. I believe the u.s. Is also labor day so it's uh continent-wide or it's uh Canada and u.s. Holiday on the same day That's under my eye Oh, isn't that annoying You better get out of there. You better get out of there. But thanks for hanging out with me today. Uh Same run as last week just by ourselves this week or i got the weasel with me. So there's that There's always something different You know, you can do the same run over and over each run is different in its own way But i do like to switch it up But these loads get us down to minnesota. Who knows what my reload will be that's the different burns Uh, that keeps me on my toes I'll see everybody tomorrow. Take care Don't forget to eat your cheerios and your fruit loops All of them