 Well, it's just about six in the morning, Thursday, February 24th, 2022. The temperature is minus 31 Celsius outside, or minus 28 Fahrenheit. Oh, it's gonna be a good day. You can just feel it already. You can just feel it. Could I get a large coffee with one cream and one shot of espresso in it? Sure. And a sausage farmer's wrap with creamy barbecue sauce instead of Chipotle? Oh. That's it. Okay, that'll be it. There we go. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm treating myself today. It's a special day. It's Thursday. Why is Thursday special, you say? I don't know. It's Thursday. It's special. Very excited. Very excited. Up some of the garbage here. What's up, guys? How are you guys all doing today? It's another cold one out here. I'm getting, uh, tired of telling you that, but here we are. I don't control the weather. It's another cold one today, guys. Just being honest. Minus 31 minus 28 Fahrenheit. That's what I said before, right? I always do the conversion first thing in the morning on Google just so that I get it right. I hope I got that wrong. Hope it's warmer than that. But, uh, pretty sure that's, uh, the correct temperature. So we're headed into work. We got some stuff to do today. Arberg's got some stuff for us. I gotta go pick it up and bring it back. I've actually got some pretty exciting news today. I was going to wait until the end of the day and, you know, save the best part for the last, but I got to give you a little teaser now, uh, so that you'll stick around to the end of the video. Later on today, after work, I'm going to, uh, be signing a lease for a shop. I'm really excited about that. It's a place where I'm going to be able to work, keep the truck clean, polished. Um, I'm really excited to, uh, move forward with that. So at the end of the day, today after work, I got to go there and meet, uh, meet with the guy who owns the place and sign some papers. And then hopefully I can show you around today a little bit yet. If not, I will as soon as I move in. Sun's starting to come up. My dash lights are flashing. Let's see if I go in real close. See, then they stop. It's the shutter speed. The shutter speed changes when there's more light. Once I pull back here, it'll suck in more light from the sun. And the shutter speed will automatically change and that'll start flashing. You see my dash lights don't actually flash. It's just the camera playing camera tricks on you. I'm a magician. The more you know. Now we're here, uh, waiting for the truck to warm up. My truck is going into the shop for a safety and they haven't had a chance to do it yet, which is totally fine. Cause I understand they're swamped in there. They got a lot of trucks to take care of and in wintertime. Uh, there's a lot of stuff to get done. A lot of things break in the wintertime and, you know, little things add up after a while when there's a lot of them. So I'm in this Western star again, 30 79. I got a running warming up. You can see at the bottom of the cab there, there's some exhaust coming out. That's the bunk heater warming up the cab for me. Should be ready to go in about 20 minutes. Oh, this stinker this morning was, uh, we're going to say it was a good morning, even though, uh, we know full well that it was a frustrating morning. It was minus 31 when I got to work and of course everything was frozen. The truck was frozen. It started up, but, uh, the airlines, of course, were frozen. So I had to get those on unfrozen and unstuck and then it took a while, you know, to get the truck warmed up, get the cab warmed up to the point where it's, you know, you can move it and work with it and put it to work. Then I go hook up to the trailer. The trailer breaks are frozen. So I get those unstuck. All right. The second problem, no problem, whatever it's cold, but we can, we can deal with it and then my fifth wheel on the truck was frozen and it didn't want to lock onto the trailer and then before I left, I wanted to make sure I had all the equipment I would need. So I had to open up the box on the side of the trailer toolbox. The toolbox was frozen. So everything took longer than I needed it to and I'm running behind now. So I'm picking up two orders and I think I have one order on the trailer already. I've already got it tied down. Give me a look there inside. I guess getting the next one ready wasn't quite ready when I got here. So it was okay that I was running a little bit behind because they're running a little behind too. So we got away with it this time. We got some stuff on there and that stuff's going to Knoxville, Tennessee. Got the trailer opened up right to the back here. Hopefully that'll be enough to fit. We've got some stuff right there that they're going to put on. And that up there and then I haul it back. This is a, I mentioned before, right? It's a 48 foot, which should have plenty enough room, which is good. I don't know why we have a 48 foot. I mean, nowadays, usually if you buy a new trailer, you want to get a 53 foot because almost all loads require a 53 foot nowadays because the longer the better, right? There's not really much advantage to having a trailer that's five feet shorter. I mean, the wheels are in the same spot. So you have the same turning radius as a 53 foot, but less storage space for freight. You know, so I don't know. It's not my department. Not my decision to make. Just waiting for my other freight Western star. These trucks are a little bit rough on the road when you're used to like the Peterbilts and the Kenworth T680s. These trucks are a little bit rough. I think they got a bit of a shorter wheelbase. So a donkey kicks a little bit more than the other trucks. It's still nice. It's still super nice. Still rides like a Cadillac. So at least it's warmed up. The sun is up in the sky or technically is the sun up in the sky or are we just turning and facing? I think it's a, I think it makes more sense to say we're facing the sun right now. The sun doesn't move. That's what they tell us anyways. I'm not an astronaut. I've never been up there. So I'm just trusting the words of the thousands and thousands of people that have been up there and I've taken pictures. They say it's round. It's funny. There's a big debate in some circles that the world is not round. Did you know this? Some people say it's a pie shape and that Antarctica is the ice barrier around the outside of the pie and that the earth is actually flat disk. Very compelling arguments. It's very fascinating. I've looked all into that. I'm fascinated by how people, you know, they have their evidence to back them up, but I mean people who know the earth is round also have their evidence because we've actually sent people to the moon or at least orbiting the moon, right? It's a debate also whether or not we landed on the moon or not, but I don't think we can debate that there's people circling the earth in orbit right this second. There's live feeds that you can watch right on TikTok or YouTube. I think I'll trust their opinion when they tell me it's round. Maybe that's a controversial thing to say nowadays. I try not to be too controversial. Sometimes it's tough though. I have my my opinions and you know my opinion is that the earth is round and that could be a controversial opinion. 200 years ago, we knew the earth was flat. Right now we know that we're alone on this planet. Imagine what we'll know tomorrow. Good movie, good movie, Men in Black. This freight is going to Duluth, Georgia and Knoxville, Tennessee. We're all buttoned up, tied down. Getting kind of excited and a little nervous to go meet with the owner of the building where my new shop is going to be. Excited to finally have a space where I can work on the truck and just store stuff. I mean, we live in like tiny little 860 square foot house and we have very little storage and we want to remove that carport, right? We want to give the dogs more space to run around in our yard and that carport takes up a huge portion of our yard. So everything that we got stored in there is going to go into the shop. Now I also have a bunch of stuff stored in the shop at at my dad's shop, which is in the same building where mine's going to be just on the other end. Oh, you're not going to let me over, bud. Okay. Just slow down for this guy here. He's got his one triangle. Well, at least he's got one, right? Oh, it's a training vehicle. You'd think a training vehicle would have all three the way you're supposed to, right? But I only have one. My pickup is right there. Start her up. Get the juices flowing in there so that when we do start moving that she won't be too cold. I'm parked up here along this fence because this is where this truck's home is. So when I'm in this truck, I park my pickup there and then when I leave now, I take my pick up and park the truck back there and it's spot and plug it in. I'm just getting all my stuff together here. Really excited to sign the lease today and get everything worked out and hopefully we can start moving in some of our stuff this weekend. Oh, I'm excited to show you guys. I got to get all my stuff together here though. Make sure I don't forget anything. I have a lot of stuff that I carry with me. Electronics, gloves, winter equipment, plugs, cords. I think I have a little more than the average person. Extra GoPro's and my GoPro case, cameras, equipment, headphones that keep unraveling. Just in case. You never know, right? You never know. Okay. That in there, I can go into my bag there. I try to keep as much of the stuff in my bag as possible. That way it's always with me than everywhere I go. I have my bag, my backpack and I've got everything I need in there. Everything from like, you know, Tylenol Advil to my my binder, my work binder to my work gloves, electronic cords and stuff, some winter stuff. I think that's it. Okay. The doors on the pickup are carrying stuff over. And you don't know, I'm always saying that we're looking for drivers here. You're going to be hearing that a lot for me in the in the coming weeks and coming months and the coming years really, but we are really looking for for drivers here right now, company drivers, owner operators. And I'd like to put you in touch with the people you need to be in touch with if you want to work here with me and with us here and join our team. I have a new email address where you can get a hold of me for that kind of thing. We can't fill it up with a whole bunch of emails just saying, Hey, I know you guys just want to say hi, but if you could just keep those emails business related, I'd appreciate that. The email address is truckerjosh at keystonewestern.com. If you want to work here, email me there and I'll get in touch with the right person and I'll forward you on straight to the right person to fast track your resume into the right hands. So you see what I do here every day. You've seen what I do. When I was on the highway, you know, we're looking for regional drivers, highway drivers, long haul. We cover like all 50 continental U.S. States and Alaska, all of Canada. The only requirements are that you're legal to work in Canada. You've got to have your work fees and all of that's figured out first. A two years experience. You can come and work for us here and I can set you up with a good position and set you up with the right people to get you in the position that you want. Oh, hopefully I don't trip. So you're going to be hearing, hearing about that a lot from me in the future. I'm going to be working very closely together with Keystone. You know, they're helping me out a lot and I'm going to help them out a lot as well. And you know, maybe lure some of you to come work here with us. Maybe you're not quite happy where you're working. Maybe you've been driving for a long time and you're like, Hey, maybe it's time to make a change, try something new. Maybe you're an owner operator and you're looking for a good company to run your truck on. Send me an email. Trucker Josh at keystonewestern.com. Love to hear from you. Remember, uh, got to be Canadian citizen or have your work visa, your legal right to work in Canada all set up already. We don't have any programs to help with that right now and we can't guarantee work for everybody. But I can definitely guarantee to be on your side to help you, uh, help you get on here and maybe put you in a truck like this. That's a lot cleaner than this one. Let's not use that as an example. Maybe I can put you in that truck right there. That truck doesn't have a driver right now. That's why I'm in it temporarily. Thirty seventy nine needs a driver. Maybe it could be you. Think about it. Think about it. You know, maybe the grass is greener on the Keystone side. Right. You never know unless you try. I can hook you up. You've got an in and then I can mentor you as well as you're working here. And if you have any questions, you can always, uh, have me on your side to make sure that, uh, you know, you never feel like you're lost or anything after you start here. We have, uh, several units along the fence here that are looking for drivers. So I don't want to spam you too much all at once, but just bear with me, everybody. You're going to be hearing about it a lot in the future. I'm going to help them out. We're doing a big drive and a big push right now for some new drivers. And, uh, they've been there for me. They always have been. I'm going to be there for them now and help them fill these trucks and put drivers in empty seats so we can keep our freight moving and keep growing. All right. Got a lot of stuff done today. Got dog food. I've got new shoes, new boots. Excited about that. Boots are expensive. Those are $179.99 came out to $200, like $201 for work boots. Is it just me or can anyone else remember paying like 35 bucks for a good pair of work boots? Then it went up to 60 and we were like, oh, $60 for one pair of boots. Now it's 200 bucks. Am I just losing my mind or were they were they always this expensive? Maybe I just never bought the good ones. So we got dog food. We got new boots. We got milk. We got cream. We got ourselves a little, a little truffle treat, but you didn't see that. You didn't see that. Just forget you saw that. Okay. That wasn't there. We also signed the papers for our shop and put our deposit down. So we're going to be leasing a shop space. It's a big enough space to park like a full unit. And I'm going to have to show you on the weekend. I was really looking forward to showing you today, but I don't actually have the keys until the first of the month, which is on next Tuesday, but the landlords or the owners are being super nice. And if I pay the rent on this weekend, I can have access. I can get the keys this weekend and get in a couple of days early because there's no one in there right now. That's pretty cool. So I'm excited to show you guys that that'll be a weekend vlog. I guess makes sense. I mean, I don't know why I thought I could give you a tour today. I don't have possession of it yet, but we did. Sign up for it. We got a nice warm spot to do our work. I'm going to be doing a lot of my vlogging work in there. There'll be a little film studio in there probably. I want to start adding a few more shows to this channel as well on top of my daily vlog. I'd love to keep you guys up with current things going on in the trucking world, especially up here in Canada. Since there's tons of news already online about what's going on in the trucking world in the United States. I'll cover that as well. Don't don't worry. I'll cover that as well. Maybe worldwide too. I'm not too sure. All I know is I want to start adding more content to this channel and different shows. Maybe you guys can give me some ideas. Well, you like me to what you like me to do? What are some kind of different some different content you'd like to see? I can do comment reviews live videos weekend vlogs and they're obviously because I'll be able to spend time in their building stuff because I'll have a shop space now to build stuff. That'll be fun. Well, we'll think about it. We'll come up with some ideas and we're going to come up with some extra content to throw up on this channel here. I'd like to have two videos per day on this channel, my regular daily vlog every day and the weekends too. So I really want to start pushing myself to get videos to you on the weekends as well and and also something else in the evenings like a comment review and maybe some news. Maybe my opinion on the news, maybe an opinion show, maybe just maybe just a chat. I don't know. I don't think it's something but that shop is going to play a big part of this as well. It's going to be our our shop slash studio and we're expanding. We're growing. So that that's good. That's good. Always always excited to always excited to take a step forward and we'll see where this leads us. I'll show you more on the weekend, but I'm going to end this vlog here. I'm going to run home, I guess and pretty much just go straight to bed. I got to do it all over again tomorrow. I hope you join me again tomorrow. Remember, if you are looking for work here in in Canada, we have a terminal south of Winnipeg in Manitoba. We also have a terminal in Waterloo in Southern Ontario and your truck driver, you're looking for work. Maybe you're looking to try something new. Shoot me an email trucker Josh at keystonewestern.com. I can chat with you for a bit and see make sure you have all the requirements met and stuff and then I can shoot you straight over to the person who's going to deal with your resume and application and I can make sure that you're all set up. And if you do get hired and you join the team and then I'll also coach you through at the beginning. I can mentor you on issues you have as you're learning maybe how our elug system works or you're wondering who to call and when. We'll talk more about this in the future. You'll be hearing a lot more about that in the future. So that's all I have to say really. We'll talk more tomorrow. Okay. I got to go put gas in this thing now. It's almost empty again.