 My name is Allison, and this is Minnie. My name is Minnie. We're from Paducah, Kentucky, and you're watching TJV. Good morning, neighbors. I had a good sleep. Good morning, Diesel. Good morning, Alberta. Yep, we're still in the Volvo. Today's a working day. We've got to unload this first thing right away. Roll up these tarps and all the equipment. And then I've got to quickly run over to a small town called Panoca, Pan-Coca, Pan-Something-Coca. Somewhere close by, just north of Red Deer, before Edmonton. And I got a load there. I don't think it's a full load because I need to get home from my appointment, right? And we had a load in Edmonton bringing me back straight to Winnipeg, but that load canceled on us. So we grabbed something else that could get me home right away. It looks like it's only eight feet. Maybe I read the message wrong. Maybe the info when there's wrong, but whatever it is, we'll take it. We'll deal with it. I got to get home for an appointment on Wednesday. Get this freight off the trailer first. Let's get the new freight onto the trailer and let's go trucking back to Manitoba. I love Alberta. I'm not sure if you can see it on the sign behind that truck there. Gasoline is sitting at $1.79 here. It was over $2 back in Manitoba. Alberta's always got cheaper juice, though. This is oil, oil country, so you'd expect them to have cheaper juice, but still $1.80 here. Wow. Crazy times, crazy times. So this is like a new truck stop. I have not seen this place before, but now I have. Here it is. Look at this. They got a piece of pizza place. They got a kit store, whatever that is. They got a Burger King. They got a Tim Hortons. And they got a liquor marked because of Alberta. But I guess if I wanna buy anything, I guess I'm gonna have to go get my wallet. They have this thing where they like you to give them money for services and goods. I like most other people. Almost every single time on this trip that I've gotten out of the truck to go get something, I've forgotten my wallet. Still getting back into the swing of things here, folks. Still get back into the swing of it. See what Diesel has to say. He's gonna be laughing at me. Not at me. You forgot your wallet again, didn't you? Yes. Yes, I did. Time for that right now. Just sitting there laughing at me. I need to quickly run in there and grab a small coffee. I'm only 15 minutes away from the customer where I gotta deliver. So I don't have a lot of time to drink a coffee on the way there, but I need something, right? And I need food in my stomach. Actually, I have food in the truck. Okay, I don't need to buy any food. Just a small coffee. Okay. Got a plan. Great success. Now we're ready. Actually, well, we're almost ready. I gotta get this in my belly. Then I'll be ready. My precious breakfast of the champion. That's me, Diesel. Whatever, I don't care what you think. Of course, I picked the messiest possible snack to have for our breakfast. I'm gonna have to clean this up later. We got her in gear. Let's get out of here. Here she comes. Killer is attached again today. Nice. We're on a streak. Haven't lost our trailer in 16 years. I've also only been trucking 16 years. So I've never lost my trailer yet. That still counts as a streak. Hi-ho, hi-ho. Off to work I go to unload things and pick up other things. Hi-ho. And bring it back to Manitoba. Hi-ho. That's not the way it goes. I don't know the song. We have arrived. Quick, let us tell the world. By the world I mean the load gods. Send a message. Compose. Arrived at final destination. Arrived, arrived at... No, that's not the one I picked. Don't mess with me. I'm not leaving the border. Arrived at destination. Send that away. Now they know that I'm here on time. Okay, just in case they were wondering. Where's Josh? They can check their computer system. Say, oh, he's at the customer. All right, let's go in here. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Before I go in, let's make sure my belt is done up. Yep. Okay, good. Fly's done up. Good. Wearing clothes. Good. Shoes are on. Good. Little checklist you got to do before you go in and talk to the customer. Otherwise it gets very awkward. They were expecting me. Yes. I hate it when I'm a surprise. I don't like being surprises. Why am I putting my seatbelt on? I'm just moving across the lot. Just in case you never know. All right, put my GPS away here. Okay. Got a nose in. And I'll take my tarps off. This'll be quick. See, when they expect you, you know it'll be a quick offload. But when you show up and they're like, oh, I forgot you were coming. You know it's going to take a little while. Come with me. Let's go offload some freight. It's a little bit of work, but there you go. All the tarps are nicely rolled up, nice and neat. I'll have to show you in a video sometime how to do that. It has a video all on its own. And this is what was underneath it, if you were wondering. Boxes, pipes and other stuff. I'm going to take the straps off now and let them unload. Just about a half hour down the road. We've got our reload on here. Watch out. Buckle yourselves in for this one. This one's a big one. Haven't hauled this big of a load in a while. I had to tarp it too. It took quite a while. You guys ready? There it is. Ha, ha, ha. It's LTL. It's just to get me home for my appointment because I have to be there for my appointment, right? And they offered to fill up the rest of the trailer with more LTL and Saskatchewan if I wanted. But I don't want to because I need to get home for that appointment. So this is something. It's on the trailer. It's getting me home. It'll pay the fuel to get home. Actually, yeah, it'll pay both the fuel to get home. Maybe a little more. So at least I'm not empty. It is what it is. When you got to be home for an appointment in the middle of the week, you take what you can get. My tarps were way too big. Way too big. I should have showed you more closely. I didn't want to get sprayed by that truck coming. The whole time I was tarping here, people kept just like racing right past the truck here and there's puddles, right? And it splashed me. As you see, I'm working here. I'm wearing my vest and everything. But anyway, so I got the tarp and a strap on the front. You're holding this down on the front. Tell some tarp straps holding that in there so the wind doesn't kick it up too much. It'll stay there. And I got, this is like a 20 foot tarp with six foot sides. I rolled it all up so that it would fit on here. Got the third tarp on the back there holding it down as well. I mean, I think I did pretty good. What do you guys think? Come on, give me your best judgments. What else was I supposed to do? The four feet by like one foot. That's it. And it had to be tarped. Had to be. So here we are, living the dream. I tarped it. I tarped it. It's time to go. Rain, rain, rain, rain. All we see is rain, rain, rain. Every day, everywhere. That's my song. Wow. Look at all those bins over there. We're taking a little bit of the back row home. I took the four lane divided trans-cannon all the way to Red Deer. It was a little bit further to go around, but it was a four lane divided highway. And with very few stops. I'm going back this way, cutting through to Saskatoon from Red Deer. We're on Highway 53 right now in Alberta. It's going to turn into Highway 14 in Saskatchewan. That's two lane highways. But it's quite a bit shorter. 100 kilometers, 60 miles shorter. Whoa. This reminds me of western North Dakota. I guess western North Dakota straight south of here is probably the same thing. This is Alberta. Sorry Saskatchewan, you're cool too. Probably try to keep my head more still so you guys can actually see them. Oh, it's a big fancy valley. A little baby load. At least the tarps are staying in place. Not that figured out. Those things are heavy. All right Diesel, we're going this way. He's walking me again. So we're at the truck stop in Davidson Saskatchewan. It's the ESO. Flying J's on the other side of the road there. It's not like a regular Flying J. It's sort of like an old truck stop that was bought out and converted a little bit. But it's actually still pretty nice. They sell Flying J fuel there. You can get your points and stuff. I don't think they have DEF there. The sun is going down here. And I want to make it a little further. I have a feeling we're probably going to make it to Balgoni tonight. And then I'll do the rest tomorrow. The reason I like to stop there is because they have a modern Flying J facility there with nice clean showers. That way you can get a nice hot shower. Though the last time we stopped there on the way to Red Deer the shower was a little underwhelming. It was a little disappointing. The hot water wasn't so much hot as you know, slightly lukewarm. I've noticed that at some truck stops some truck stops just don't have hot water for some reason. I don't know if they run out or what happens. And then other truck stops it's like it'll burn your face off. You notice this? So I just read in my comment section from yesterday's video someone had mentioned that yes, Southern Alberta and Southern Saskatchewan need have rattlesnakes. Terrifying to know. I've never seen one or heard of one being up here but Diesel, you let me know if you see one, okay? I'll wait here. Such a small load. To be honest I don't think it's even going to pay the fuel going back. It'll be close. It should cover it. This Volvo is actually really good on fuel. I'm getting close to over 8 miles per gallon. U.S. 8 and a half. Probably 9 now with this little load. So it's at least getting me home, right? I usually wouldn't accept such a small load. They did offer to fill it up. Fill me up more like I mentioned before. I just don't have time to pick anything more up. Remind me to not stop here if I don't have to with the Kenworth. It's a gravel lot and it's very fine loose dirt gravel. It's extremely dusty. There's no way you can enter this parking lot and leave with your truck being as clean as it was when you entered. This is why I really like the paved parking. You know the States, they got it down pat. Every truck stop is paved for the most part. Up here, most are paved. Let's say most are paved, but this one in specific here isn't. And because of that I mean I'm just one guy. It doesn't really matter but probably going to lose my business because I don't want to bring my truck that I just polished onto a dusty lot like this to get completely filthy in five minutes. So I gotta wash it all over again. So I mean I'm just one guy. I mean if they lose my business, will they care? It is sort of incentive to maybe, I know it costs a lot of money to pave lots. It's a big ask. But hey you have not, because you ask not. So I'm asking, can we pave a lot please because they have a Tim Hortons here and I'd really like to come and give you my money. But the Tim Hortons is not worth me polishing my truck all over again. Is it just me? Am I just being it's no big deal because it's just no one cares. No one cares Josh, no one cares. You want to know why no one cares because it doesn't matter if Chuck or Josh comes here or not they're still going to be making millions and millions of dollars because they've got a Tim Hortons here. I'm like one of the only guys that's like I want to give my truck dirty. Everyone else, they don't care. I don't want to take the sweater off. Seriously, you spend hours polishing it. I understand if you've got to drive through the rain can't help that, whatever. But I don't have to come into a gravel parking lot if the weather is nice, I could drive right past and my truck is still shiny. I just don't have a Timmy's then. I will find another. Some gravel parking lots aren't as dusty. Like the gravel parking lot we were at at Swift Current yesterday where Mean Diesel parked. That wasn't a dusty lot. Look at this truck here, driving past. Look at all the dusty kicks up. And then that floats around the lot here. And imagine when like dozens of trucks are moving around at the same time. Don't take this the wrong way. I'm not complaining and whining with a lot. I get it. Paving is very expensive. Totally. I've seen those numbers before. It's disgusting. I get it. A lot in Swift Current there. Like I said I guess the gravel was a little thicker there. A little heavier. A little better packed. It didn't kick up dust like this. So I'd still go on that one. I'd still go and gravel lots. Maybe not this one. We'll see. We'll see how badly I want my Timmy's if my truck's already dirty. I'll probably still come get my Timmy's. Who am I kidding? I'm just fooling anybody. Let's get out of here. Our lights on. That is always a good idea. Usually. It's usually a good idea. What do I got? I got 2 hours and 16 minutes left on the clock. That'll get me to Balcony. Balcony Baloney. Look at that prairie sunset though. I'll leave you with that. The next time we'll talk, I'll be wherever I'm parking for night. You can't see through the bugs. I didn't stop at the pumps to wash my windshield. Maybe I should've. You would've done it if it was your can worth. Yeah, I probably would've. It's true. We're on the... Whoa. What just ran across the road there? Is that a deer in town? I'm on the east side of Regina here. I think a deer just ran across the road there. The camera probably didn't pick it up. This is the... the refinery. Or the refined diesel fuel, I believe. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Check this out, huh? Look at the flames coming out. The stacks and everything. It's pretty cool. I've never seen that. Or this... Look at that big of a flame coming out of there. Oh, another tube. There's a smaller one up to the right. Cool. Now, why is fuel so expensive? Can you answer that? You good refinery people? I would like to know. Because oil is the same price as it was in 2008. Here we are. I'm going to tell you before Karen does. We're flying Jay Balgoni. The fuel go down here? I can't tell anymore. It's also sky-high. Doesn't even matter if it does go down, it's still sky-high. Come on, Karen. We're here. I hope there's parking. You have arrived at your destination on the right side. Flying Jay Travel Plaza. Oh, boy. People are parking all the way up here already. Okay, well... I'm going to go circle the parking lot and see what I can find. There's one right here. I can't get in there because that guy's parked over there. What's this guy doing here? I'll figure this out. I'll talk to you guys in a bit. I've got to figure out what I'm going to do here. Found a spot. There was another one on the other side of this guy here. But I decided on this one. It's going to be a good night. I'm sort of tucked in further than these guys, so no one should drip my nose off in the morning. And I'm not too far from the building. I mean, that's a bonus. To be honest with you, I usually pick parking spots that are far away from the building on purpose. I want to force myself to walk in. There's some drivers out there. You know, I almost said there's a lot of drivers that, you know, they'll park as close as possible to reduce like 20 paces to get to the bathroom. That's not true, actually. I see a lot of truck drivers out there taking the initiative on their health and parking far away and, you know, just walking in. There are the few out there that just block everything and go and park like right in the pumps to walk in to go and grab their, you know, three cheeseburgers and an ice cream and whatever else they want to eat because they don't want to walk. And one of us is free country, I guess, right? You can do what you want. But it's good to see that most drivers, they'll, you know, just park your rig, get to the truck stop, park your rig in a parking spot and it's a respectable thing to do in my mind. So, yeah, we're here anyways in Balgona, Bologna. I guess I should let the e-log know. Man, I still haven't changed that. Whoops. Changes up. I had 23 minutes left on my clock. Look at this. Ah, can you see it? My screen is sort of in the way there. So we cut her a little close. Good thing we stopped here because I couldn't go much further. I don't think I could make it down the road to the next decent truck stop. But, yeah, this is going to be our home tonight. It is, uh, 11, 10. Quarter after 11 here right now. We're in mountain time. Home just down the road to Manitoba. They're on central time. So there it's quarter after midnight. So it's already tomorrow. So I better end this video now because I have to start tomorrow's video today. But where I am, we're starting it tomorrow. 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