 Good day everybody. It's March 11th, 2022 when I'm filming this today, and it's another cold one I've already got my load on the trailer We had to deliver out in great fall as I up in sort of a little further north of Lactobani in Manitoba I delivered their first thing this morning and we delivered here to Selkirk where I am now this afternoon Just north of Winnipeg. Got a reload on me. Got to bring that into the city. I'll give you a look at it right now It's not really that cold outside. It's the wind. The wind is really cold But It's not really that big of a load, but still in the Western Star. I like it. I'm wondering about my Peterbilt It's waiting for a bunch of parts for safety So once I get that done, we'll be back in that truck. I'm pretty sure But in the meantime, I'm not complaining about being in the in the star Pretty nice So I haven't bugged you guys in a couple of days about coming to work here with us a key stump Now we're looking for drivers this truck. This is unit 3088. I'm using it right now, but as soon as I'm done with it They need the driver for on the highway and we're looking for people with CDL license commercial drivers license two years experience driving in Canada Uh Canadian citizen or a permanent resident here, you know, you're already living here and already have your right to work all worked out You got your experience You can email me at trucker josh at keystonewestern.com Email is down below in the description of all my videos You just got scrolled down to the bottom You'll find a whole bunch of other fun goodies down there too where you can find me in other parts of the internet But that email trucker josh keystonewestern.com you can email me there And uh, we can chat just make sure you're eligible And if you are eligible, I can shoot you straight through with a personal recommendation and a personal reference straight to our recruiter And make sure that your resume lands on her desk and make sure that she gets back to you Okay, and then I'll check in with you a couple days later to make sure that You know, the ball's rolling and that we got everything in motion So you got an in I can get you in Can't promise everybody a job but If you meet the criteria You want to drive with us We could use your help and you can be driving this truck or one just like it or you can be driving a t680 With either keystone or dark hole same company same owner. Uh, well Two legally separate company. They're merged that run out of the same office but That'd be great to have you on here. That'd be pretty cool. We are looking for uh, original long haul Uh, we are asking that you be able to commit to being gone for 10 to 14 days at a time That doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be going 10 to 14 days at a time That's just like that's a good average to give out there Just so you get a kind of a feel like okay, this could be what what happens. Maybe you'll be home more often Maybe the odd trip might be a little longer but I've heard of some other companies that leave their drivers on the road for months and months No, no, no family is a big part of us here. They want to get you home to your family But they ask you uh, be ready for you know an average of you know, 10 to 14 days on the highway If you're cool with all that send me an email And use your help like I said I'm in my 11th year here too. So I've been here over 10 years So I I hope that that uh Says a lot about the place. I really like it here, you know, they've always treated me very well and uh You can see all the different kinds of trips I've taken right here on youtube over the last 10 years I've been making videos here on the internet since 2011 So you got a pretty good, uh look inside of what we're all about. So if you think It's for you You can work something out Road you're gonna be here for an hour or two at least you see that's why I don't use a cb up here No one you no one has a cb No one uses it In my truck, I don't even have one And that's why that's exactly why there's no point cb radios are much more popular in the united states Up here in canada depending on where you go but uh For the most part, that's the response you'll get when you try to use one I'm gonna try to keep warning these drivers here, but I don't think they're gonna hear me Found you got a big blockade coming up at roblin or just past roblin boulevard You're not going to be able to get through for a couple of hours. There's been a bad accident up ahead You're gonna want to re-route. You can't get to the trans canada from here You're gonna want to re-route and then once more when I go past the esso Truck stop there for anybody who's coming this way, but I mean What do you say right? What do you say roads blocked don't go that way? That's all you can tell them From here at the esso, uh, they can go down highway two or highway three. I think it's highway two And get around but uh, I think I think traffic's gonna be backed up all the way to here very soon Looks like there's been another accident up ahead here At least here we can go around on the service road and go this way I don't know what's going on here, but this road is closed too road is I've got to get on to McGilvery the next Road up there and go into the city I'm hoping that they haven't blocked it there as well Yeah, just look at all that. What is going on today? So traffic is blocked going that way traffic's blocked going this way blockage on southbound But if you're headed northbound you're gonna be blocked at roblin boulevard as well. There's a bad accident up there So if you're headed west, you're not gonna make it to highway one westbound guys take highway two And then head back north up there because you're not gonna get through at roblin There's a guy who lost his load of Railway ties. You see an ambulance coming through here now. He's probably headed there Well, no bluff here. I had to come into the Timmy's and the ESO to do a u-turn So that I can head east into Winnipeg But for some reason it looks like they have the southbound perimeter here blocked off And like we saw up north there a few miles down the road the northbound lanes are blocked off as well So if drivers want to head westbound they've got to head down this road that I'm on behind me I've been able to get a hold of like one or two drivers on here, but majority people don't Like I was saying earlier, that's why I don't even bother with a cb It's more of an american thing up here the cbs have sort of been phased out You know, they sort of went the way of the vhs and the eight track tapes Okay, so we can't go that way you got the police here Blocking the highway Wonder what happened that way I'm going to warn these guys one more time They all you guys coming up here north on the perimeter. You're not going to make it to the westbound Trans canada turn here at the two You're going to want to take highway two. There's an accident up ahead. You're not going to get through for a long time You don't want to take highway two and then meet up with the trans canada further uh further west of here nothing All these trucks here not one person responds So i'm glad I finally got to show you guys why I don't run with a cb Now Hopefully that answers your questions because I get that question a lot like why don't you have a cb trucker drash? They're not very popular here And maybe they should be maybe they should I don't know But I can tell you something if I was in the us right now every single one of these trucks would be yapping It'll be yapping to each other all talking so whenever you're in a traffic jam and you're in a car You don't even know it, but uh All the trucks are talking to each other Well, well the truckers are the trucks don't talk. You know what I mean No, I'm not going live. I'm going straight We've got the green arrow going left What a mess One more time here trying to warn the drivers that if they're going west bound You're not going to get past roblin boulevard. There's a big accident up ahead. You want to take highway two west Not sure if anyone's got the radios on out here But you're going to want to take two west or you're going to be stuck on the highway On the northbound west perimeter here all day So southbound's blocked here at the two Northbound is blocked further north from here a few miles up near roblin Both directions blocked to get off the perimeter highway. Take the two west Can't say I didn't try they say my name If you're headed westbound there's a huge accident up near roblin boulevard there You're going to be stuck on the perimeter if you need to head west go to down the two But southbound's closed here at the two it looks like and northbound's closed up near roblin Kind of warn the drivers, but no one runs with the radio anymore. You have a good one. Stay safe That was my co-worker. He runs with the radio He drives that blue truck the one with the two radios He runs with his cb on Nobody else does apparently So i'm the last one that can really uh give anyone a hard time about not running with a cb I don't usually run with a cb But now you know why Around where i'm from. I don't know. Maybe it's just manitoba. I found in canada in general The cb radios are just not that popular They seem to have sort of gone out of style And become outdated like vhs tapes and eight track tapes It's an old technology like cb radios are from the 70s 60s and 70s and most of us run with newer technologies and you know gps systems and You know instant radar weather programs in our trucks up here in canada because we have bad weather in canada We always have snowstorms blizzards in the mountains. There's mudslides rock slides Floods all kinds of stuff and most drivers nowadays at least from what i can understand They have like screens in their truck that are hooked up to you know internet that give you like up to date live weather forecasts A traffic forecast ahead of you There's even a little alerts that if there's an accident ahead of you It'll give you an alert and say hey traffic's slowing down up ahead watch out Or hey weather's gonna get bad up ahead watch out with a little uh screen of what's going on and uh That's become more popular to use up here because I know in the u.s. and Cbs are still very popular and people who defend the cb radio Defended for the exact reasons that I showed you here to try to warn people of things Coming up ahead that they may not be aware of maybe their little Screens in front of them haven't shown them that there's traffic up ahead or an accident Or whether and you're like hey guys just so you know like Reroute yourself or you're gonna get stuck up ahead here on the highway for a very long time. That's what the cb radio is good for but Honestly for the last like 10 years really almost my whole long haul career I either turned it off Or took it out of my truck completely because I found that there was more garbage on there than actual useful information When you get down into some areas that use the cb a lot, I find that the people who are on there Sometimes tend to be bullies Bullying like using their anonymity sort of like people do online right because you can't tell who's talking You just know somebody's talking they use the anonymity to be able to say whatever's on their mind whether it be like uh just bullying people or whether it be like some racist on the radio or something or uh just random stuff just making fun of people or Just being rude to each other online online on the cb That's what I found the majority of my experience on the cb radio was it was just people being mean to each other You know they pull up to the truck stop face to face They're never gonna say that stuff to each other But as soon as you know you're on the radio and oh you're in the safety of your truck and you have anonymity Who knows who's talking right right away? Everybody's just running their mouth and just being Uh, I was what's a good. We're just being dinks to each other and I I didn't like that. I didn't want to be a part of that atmosphere Very rarely. I would hear something on the radio saying hey watch out up ahead. There's traffic But now Nowadays, like I said, I got technology in my truck that'll warn me that there's traffic coming up ahead an hour before I get there long before anyone with the cb radio would ever have a chance to warn me I already know that there's traffic coming. I already know that it's out of stand still And I don't need someone to warn me because I already have new technologies in my truck Like up-to-date technologies that tell me that and it tells me what's coming up ahead Ah I've mixed emotions and mixed feelings about cb radio Uh, I would encourage you. I would still always encourage people that if you want one in your truck Put it in there. Give it a shot for yourself. Maybe you like it. Maybe it's useful for you for me I just it made me angry listening to people on there. It just made me very angry Uh, so I just I actually didn't have one in my truck in my truck that I'm driving 3006 There's no cb radio in there And I have never it's never even crossed my mind to put one in there But I'm also, you know more regional now and people in this region don't use it in the first place I don't know The cb debate, right? Oh, yes. My comment section is going to be on fire. I can just hear the keyboard. It's just I can hear your keyboards from here That's what they sound like to me People people uh, some people live and die by the cb radio And others uh, don't want anything to do with it me. I'm sort of just like meh If there's one in the truck cool if there's not I don't care whatever Uh Depends on what region you're from. I don't know That's it for today. Anyways guys, uh If you want a radio in your truck put one in your truck, uh turn it on be nice to each other Be helpful to each other and uh Let me know down below in the comment section. Do you run with a cb? Is it always on and do you find it useful? Or do you find that more often than not there's just a bunch of jerks on there being jerks? Let me know what your experience is and I'm gonna keep editing here. All right. I'll be reading your comments Thanks for joining me today. There'll be another vlog. I guess it's friday. There'll be a vlog on monday I'm a little bit behind on my editing right now. So there's another one coming soon. Don't worry