 Hello everyone, it's Kieran from Chilak, BC, Canada. You are watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on TJB. Enjoy the video. Well, I'm all dressed up again. My glasses are fogging up. Oh boy, that means it's gonna be a good day. Right? So we're here picking up our steel in Tennessee. Jackson, Tennessee. Gotta go find my trailer. I just gave them my empty. So I'm gonna go find my trailer that's already been loaded. I'm gonna lay it down. Hopefully they got no cardboard on it, because they say if there's any cardboard boxes on it, I gotta tarp those. We talked about this yesterday. But anyways, let's see if we can find it. There's two drops on it. One's going to Weber and Saskatchewan, and one's going to Regina Saskatchewan. I've never had a two-dropper steel load, but apparently they put a green sticker on everything going to Regina. So it's gonna be kind of a pain unloading half of it in Weber and going down to Regina and unloading the rest of it. Hopefully they, like, divided it up properly. One of these trailers down here is mine. Which one? Which one? Please be easy to tie down. I see a lot of cardboard boxes on all of these trailers. There's my trailer. None of these. No, none of these. Look at that one. That one's all cardboard boxes. You'd have to tarp the whole thing on that one. It's not my trailer, though. Okay, so we're not here. What is this? Oh, this is nailed down. Okay. Holding that there. So there is some cardboard. I'm gonna have to tarp this front piece. Hardboard there. But they leave it out in the rain, right? Oh, you gotta tarp it. We're gonna leave it out in the rain. But we don't want it to get wet. So you gotta tarp it. Okey-dokey. So you got these pink stickers. These are the ones going to Weber, I believe. This one's somewhere. Here's another pink one. It's not very big, though, right? There's no cardboard back here. So I don't have to tarp this back part. Well, I see a little bit of... No, they just said if it was cardboard boxes, that doesn't need to be tarped. That's all soaked already anyways. You know, if they want us to tarp it, maybe they should store it inside. I don't know. Because if I get to the customer and they're like, hey, why is this wet? They bent it with their band. See that? You gotta be careful with these places. Oh, they did it here, too. We've had a lot of problems with damaged freight being loaded before. Well, not a lot of problems. We've had a few problems. They always fix it. But you just gotta make sure you document it. So there's more pink stickers. Pink stickers, pink stickers, pink stickers. Where's the green stickers? Another pink sticker. There's supposed to be a green one somewhere. It's all for wayburn. Oh, what? What in tarnation? I guess I'll have to figure this out. See, I don't like it when they load boxes like this because it's very hard to tie these down. Like, sure, it's easy to tarp it, but it's hard to tie it down because those boxes on top crumple, right? But whatever, we'll get it done. We'll get it done. Just came back to the pilot here to grab a coffee. We're about to hit the road. So these boxes up here, these pallets were the only ones I needed to tarp. So I just put the one tarp on. And all this stuff back here does not need to be tarped. So unless if you specifically request that I tarp the steel, then I don't. I did get a specific request though to tarp the cardboard boxes at the front. So, let's go home. The ladies working the till here had such a thick southern accent, I could hardly understand them. They were yapping back and forth to each other the whole time, not really paying attention to the fact that I was there buying something. They were yapping, yapping, yapping, yapping. There was one white lady and one black lady. Couldn't understand a word the black lady was saying. Look, and I can usually follow pretty well. I travel down to the US quite a bit, follow the southern drawl. I couldn't understand a word she was saying, and the white lady, I could only pick out like two or three words here, and I had to ask her to repeat herself three times. But they weren't really paying attention to me anyways. They were both yapping to each other the whole time while I was in there buying a coffee, not paying any attention to the customers. I'm not complaining. I'm just like, wow, that was a thick accent. It didn't sound like they were even really moving things at all. What'd you say? Was that English? Nothing's falling off. That would be terrible. That would be just terrible. It's all looking good so far. The tires are even still there. Right on. What else we got here? The little stuff is falling off or loosened up or what not. Okay. I can't really see it on the camera now. Everything is still there. Let's go around and check all the straps. Make sure that they're all still tight. Check each one individually. Make sure that they're all still tight because they loosen up. I stopped about 20-30 minutes after I left. That's what you're supposed to do. Check all the straps and they had all loosened a little bit. The load sort of settles when it first gets onto the highway and then straps are a little looser than they should be. So after about 20 minutes I came back to check on things and I had to tighten it up a little bit. Especially on these things under here under the tarp. Like I said, they're cardboard boxes and I don't know why they load it in just cardboard boxes but cardboard boxes, even with the big corner protectors, they crumple underneath the straps. You have to tie it down tight enough that it doesn't just fly off in the wind. But as you go down the highway those boxes crumple more and more and more and then suddenly the straps are completely loose. They're under the tarp too so I have to be careful. Yeah, this is loose again. A little too loose. Looser than I want it to be anyway. So I'll give those a quick tighten and then I'm going to make myself a sandwich or some food or something around here. This is going to be our half hour break. I have just over 7 hours available to me. I think 7 hours and 14 minutes available to me to drive today yet. The sun goes down a lot earlier in other parts of the year, other times of the year. So it feels like it's later already but we'll be driving past midnight I'm guessing. I got to get close enough to home that I can do the rest tomorrow. I want to get home in two days today and tomorrow. It really sounded like that dodge was having trouble pulling that ATV. I should have bought a Chevy. I'm saying. 10 minutes to 7pm here right now we're just rolling into St. Louis Missouri or St. Louis however you want to pronounce it. This is a big city. This is another big city. I don't know if we're going to get to see the Arch. The Gateway Arch, that's what they call it right? So isn't St. Louis one's name sort of like the Gateway to the West or something like that? That's what Winnipeg's nickname is too. Winnipeg's the Gateway to the West in Canada. We don't have a big arch. The museum that went way over budget and took way longer than they said it would to build onto what is this? Exit 196 Interstate 270 westbound we're on Interstate 55 north right now. 3, 4, 5 lanes across both directions. Well this isn't bad. Can you imagine during rush hour it would be a lot worse. Right now traffic is moving really well. For people around people in New York probably laugh at this. This is probably like midnight traffic. This is crazy. This is crazy. Alright? We get excited when there's like railway tracks or something. Like whoa! Turn right? Where am I going to go right? Why would I go right? Oh Walmart. Hey I like your thinking Karen. I didn't even notice that it was Walmart there. No we're going to go left though. Coffee break time. About halfway through our day. Another five hours to go. We've driven about five hours already. Grab me a coffee at this airy 400 meters airco airco locally owned Park on the edge of the pumps here because I'm just going in for a coffee. Or in St. Clement, Missouri. 16oz Whoa! I'm going to knock this thing right over. Put the cream in first and then put the coffee and then you don't have to stir it. See? Then you don't have to stir it. Life hack. Have you guys seen these new coffee machines that Pilot Flying J's got? It's not an ad or anything. I'm just wondering. They have this fresh ground coffee machine. I don't know how long they've had them but they grind the coffee beans up right there. It's the freshest coffee you can possibly have. It tastes so good. Every time I go there now I'm getting that. It's like this big machine. It's got like three big bins on top of it with like different coffee beans. And then you got a touch screen in the middle you put your cup under there and you tap it and it grinds up the beans right there and mixes the water in like right like freshest can be. Oh the coffee's so good. They didn't have that here but that's okay. Oh let's get out of here. I just told him that Karen. Were you not listening? You never listen to me. You just yell at me all the time. Ding dong to you too Karen. We're in Floyd Iowa. We've driven 1,052 kilometers today. No. No Karen. We're going to bed. I only got 11 minutes left on my e-log. I gotta find a place to park. There's two truck stops here. There's this truck stop just sort of right in front of us here. It's going to be on our left right away. There's always parking there. There's also a Love's Travel Plaza off on the right over there. The Love's is usually full but it's a newer truck stop. Didn't always used to be there. I can still remember when it was just an empty field. No. I don't feel like it. I'm going to go into this one. I am more confident that I can find a parking spot here quickly. I only have 11 minutes left. It'll be 10 minutes right away. I don't want to waste my time looking for parking. There's a parking right here already. There's a park right there. I'm going to park off on the back on the side somewhere. It'll be quiet and peaceful. I'm going straight to bed. I'm tired. It's been a long day. 1,052 and a half kilometers. That's 650 miles or so. There's nobody back here at all. Hopefully nobody comes in parks right beside us. That's usually what happens. I find a nice quiet spot off on my own in the back. Did some light turn off? What happened to the lights? A yard light turned itself off. I actually have to go park on the side over there. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to park on the side over here. It changes my mind. I'm going to park over the park sometimes. Even when I don't have time I have nine minutes left. Right along the edge here. This is where we're going to park. It'll be quiet here. It's pretty cold outside compared to what we've been in the last couple of days. It's minus six outside right now. It was plus 18 down in Georgia. That was a nice summertime temperature. It's cold. It's back to winter. Back quickly. Let's tell the good people wherever I send this that we are doing we are doing the sleeps now. We are doing the sleeping. What do I have to say? What do you have to say for yourself? You have zero hours and seven minutes of remaining drive time. Good thing we're not driving. Send in our paperwork here. Push a few buttons. I remember sitting up after every day always doing the paperwork but I don't miss those paper logs at all. I love this E-Log system. It has made my life so much easier. So much less paperwork. You know the only people that are upset about it well there's a couple of people that are upset about it. Some people don't like the technology aspect of it and other people they just want to keep cheating in their log books and driving illegally. They're the only kind of people that are upset at it. Usually. Some people don't like technology though so that's a legitimate. You already told me that. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not driving am I? What are you friends with Karen now or something? I'm going to complain to the manager. That's what you guys like to do. That's what Karen's like to do. So thanks for watching today guys. I'm going to walk the weasel and set up my bed. I'm going straight to sleep. I'm tired. We're going to get up and be out of here for hours and 15 minutes. It's going to be great. I hope you tune in. Tomorrow is going to be a long day just like today but we're going to be home at the end of it. But only for a little bit because tomorrow's Saturday when I'm filming excuse me I need to go to bed. Tomorrow is Saturday. In Sunday afternoon my aunt is getting married and I told you this already, right? And I want to be there for the wedding. And so I'm going to be there for the ceremony maybe some of the reception but I might have to skip the reception. I don't know because I have to drive out to Webern's Saskatchewan tomorrow Sunday night because I've got to deliver there Monday morning. And then I've got to go to Regina drop off the second part of the load. It's only one piece. I'm driving all the way to Regina to Webern to get my reload which is going to Toronto. But I go home first for a few days because I'm picking that up on Monday and I don't have to deliver it to the till the following Monday. We'll talk about that later. We'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe. Please a lot of you haven't subscribed already really does make a difference if you do hit that subscribe button and we'll try to get this channel up to 100,000. 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