 Hey y'all, this is Chris from Toronto and you're watching Trucker Josh V-Lugs on YouTube Morning weasel. Morning you fine people. We're at 101 travel plaza Near Jackson, Tennessee Stepping out first time in the morning fresh air Look at this. Look at this Green grass So we have this empty flat bed behind us and we're waiting for our load to be ready Load's not going to be ready until three or four o'clock this afternoon Then I got to go there drop this empty off for them hook on to the loaded one tie it down Hopefully it's got no boxes on it because if it has boxes on it the boxes need to be tarped It's probably gonna have boxes on it And then we head up to Fort McMurray, Alberta, which is about a four-day drive from here I could maybe do it in three and a half if I rushed But since we're only getting started Probably after supper today I'm gonna be a good four days to get there. That's good. Keeps me busy. It's gonna be cold up there I'm not gonna be this warm. They're gonna know no green grass up in Fort McMurray, Northern Alberta Last I heard they were at about minus 40 minus 45 degrees. I'd like to stay with the green grass actually myself It's a little cold for Tennessee still I understand Tennessee people are probably just freezing their Freezing their faces off in this but this to me. This is beautiful. This is like springtime. What's up, Scotty? That's Scotty Got it from my friend in Scotland Rides with us every day, right diesel All right, come on, bud You buy him five steps he only uses two Whoa almost dropped you guys. Let's go for a little bit of a walk here, bud RV park I don't see an RV park anywhere You could park your RV here It's kind of an older truck stop gravel parking lot the sign looks like it's probably from the 1940s And hasn't been updated or cleaned since But I'm sure the store is really nice inside. I Don't know what this sign is for but like I said, this is a very old place here. I'm sure it meant something at one point Still has power hooked up to it wonder what's on the other side of this sign I would just take this down by all in this place. That is it's a bit of an eyesore Well, what they use it for those new yard lights. You see those two lights up there instead of putting up a new pole They just stuck these new fancy LED yard lights That's why I had parked back here because these things are so bright and they light up my truck at night So nobody comes and steals my fuel I Can still park at the back So they got the power is probably for those I'm guessing It's on this side. Oh This side makes more sense. This side says Truck stop so that everybody over there knows there's a truck stop here Hey Who'll go to get you come back again. No, he's going for don't go too far in there But there's snakes in these woods and he goes right in there Okay, sure. He knows what he's doing. I know man. I want to explore them, too These woods remind me very much of ours back at home Well, you see I know our property and I know what critters lie within Here I have no idea I've been walking I've gone through the woods like this in Tennessee before not too far from here and came across a I think it was called a black racer snake once Didn't bother me or anything. I didn't bother it We just sat there and stared at each other for a minute or two and then he slithered off did his thing But it made me realize, you know, I really don't know what's out there And I don't want to come across something that I'm not familiar with So I got to be careful. It doesn't mean I'm not gonna go explore the watch. I just I'm just saying you just got to be careful And I'd like to have a diesel on the leash if we do go exploring in there just so that you know if If I see a snake approaching him or if I see him messing with a snake I can pull him out of that situation It's for his own safety but uh, I Don't think I too much to worry about in the Tennessee woods It's more so when you go, you know for the the warmer the climate the more kind of Weird critters you got lurking about one thing I love about living up in Manitoba Where I do like at home right now It's minus 40 minus 30 Somewhere in there That will kill anything That would want to kill me No, I mean, so all those deadly spiders. They're dead deadly snakes. They're dead Anything poisonous is dead. There's nothing poisonous. You got to worry about you got to worry about wood ticks in the springtime They carry lime disease and stuff. You don't want to get too many. You don't want to get wood ticks That's risky. We have a lot of those in the beginning of summer Yeah, this sure there's bears, but bears are more scared of you than you are of them You don't got to worry about bears black bears. They'll just they'll hear you coming as long as you don't sneak up on them with their Cubs, I mean, they'll hear you coming and they'll run off. They're not gonna mess with you We got wolves same thing. They won't mess with you except at night You don't want to be in the bush alone at night because they're hungry looking for food and you're a tasty snack And they'll see you but you won't see them But bear attacks and wolf attacks are unheard of Where I'm from it just doesn't happen. That doesn't mean it couldn't happen But you just it never does because I guess people just know not to mess with them. I don't know But at least not poisonous, you know bear sure you could molly it to death But at least it's not gonna slowly kill you with poison It'll slowly kill you with its teeth You're such a good boy, you know that now sure the years he's gotten so much better He used to be just wild running all over here I would never let him off leash this close to a highway even though there's a fence over there He can't get to the highway. I checked Otherwise, I still wouldn't let him lose if he could get to the freeway but even with the fence there when he was younger like a Year to five years old I would never have let him lose this close to a highway because he would just bolt all over the place It was very hard to train him and as he's gotten older. Look at this. I didn't tell him to lay down there I didn't tell him to do that He just follows me everywhere. It's just an old man now I'm just an old man now man. Just out here at the venture of life, man staring off into the vast wilderness with you It's a great life, man. I know right. That's what I like doing. I guess he knows me by now I just like coming out and just staring off into the wilderness and they got woods here in Canada we call this the bush It's where you'll usually find me if you're looking for me usually in the bush. I just don't know what's in this bush There's some bushes. I do not explore though If you got crocodiles I Guess out here in North America to be alligators if you got anything like that I Will stay on the shortcut grass rattlesnakes don't like them either. You got rattlesnakes around there. I'll stay away from them That SUV had golden like 30 inch rims I think I just saw a drug dealer the very next morning right now and I have Reattached the old fluffy Mike. Okay Well, everybody look at this green grass around here a lot of it's brown But there's a lot of it that's green get a good look at it You're not gonna see it again for a long time not in my videos We're leaving Jackson, Tennessee right now with this load And we're headed up to Fort McMurray Alberta, which is in northern Alberta It's gonna be cold I took as much warmth as I could inside my truck and I tied as much as I could have it down onto my trailer We're taking it all back home You hear that Take it all back home. I saw the blizzard that Newfoundland Labrador got a lot of people buried in their homes They got so much snow Crazy look it up online Google the latest Newfoundland Spelled Newfoundland Newfoundland blizzard 300 meters take us 412 dad drive and then came to the left of 360 meters literally so much snow there That people open the doors to of their homes and it was completely blocked off with snow it buried their home Lots of people had that problem, so it's pretty crazy out there right now I hope you guys are digging yourselves out already Kate to the left on us 412 the land like that slight night in 100 meters so this journey from Jackson, Tennessee to Fort McMurray Alberta is 1,700 kilometers that's 37 hours just of driving Takes us four days to get there We're at about three and a half if we push it But there's no need to push it because I only need to be there in five days Plenty of time to get there Take her easy take her slow try to save as much fuel as we can only make our way up there I am in no rush to get back up to the snow. I'm gonna soak all of this nice weather up Soak it all up as much as I can try to warm my bones up because Winters coming We're just into Missouri here Quickly stop at the pilot here grab another coffee craving another one already had one this morning But I'm gonna have another one because it's a special day. There's no snow It's a special day. I'm in a good mood I'm gonna have another one And this is where we're gonna end today's log, so it's a sort of two days from into one I'm gonna start tomorrow's from here. I'll show you the load yet before we end this day Here Back no, okay one second Orange guy is messing with my plans You know, I can still do my plans Around that pole there. I know I'm making life interesting and difficult here unnecessarily I'll show you guys the load real quick and then I'll say goodbye and I'll see you tomorrow I'm gonna get myself parked here It's t-shirt weather out here and then nice diesel January t-shirt weather It's plus 16 Celsius outside right now Wonderful wonderful if you were wondering it's wonderful out here. Just wonderful That's not I just want to stay. I don't want to go home This is the load very very bendy steel Very very careful with it Got my tarps up here Almost didn't have space for them But not a big fan of how they built these frames But we got it all secured and double secured so that nothing's gonna come of it so anyway Thanks for joining me today. We're taking this all the way up to Fort McMurray, Alberta I'm sitting out here in a t-shirt plus 16 degree weather We're going up to northern Alberta and from what I heard It's about minus 40 up there right now if you're wondering. What's that in Fahrenheit? It's cold. It doesn't matter Minus 40 is the same Celsius and Fahrenheit. That's where the two measurements meet. So it's minus 40 on both scales So as you can tell I don't want to go but Somebody up there needs this steel and they're trusting me to bring it to them. I guess we'll go freeze our butt off Bring them their steel So thanks for joining me today tune in tomorrow Hopefully we won't have snow at the end of tomorrow's vlog, but Likely we will