 Hey what's up y'all my name is Thomas. I go by Rekker. I'm from Arizona. I'm also an owner-operator. I own a Kenworth W900L as well. And Josh, it's been a long time coming brother. Welcome to the Kenworth gang. And everybody else, welcome to Trucker Josh Vlogs on YouTube. Good morning everybody. We're here. Good morning traffic. Good morning bus. Good morning go-kart. I saw a Porsche on the way in today. It was very nice. We're at the fertility clinic in Winnipeg where it had an appointment. This is the appointment that I had to rush home for. It's called ERA. I'll let her talk about it when she gets back. I'm not too sure what it is exactly. Apparently it can be a little painful. So I wanted to be here today with her and for tomorrow to make sure she's all right. She's upstairs right now. What I do know is that this procedure will tell us exactly when the transfer needs to happen. For those of you that are new to the channel, my wife and I were in the middle of the IVF. So not just a trucker. We've got other things going on in the background too. We've got some other family stuff going on. And this procedure is supposed to help us know when the transfer takes place. We have two eggs that are frozen right now. Or two eggs. They're not eggs. They're two basal cysts that are ready to be implanted. We're hoping that the first one, first trial will be next month. So old blue is all ready to go. She's all deckled up. You saw it yesterday right? We're available to leave tomorrow afternoon evening. It'll be Thursday. I'm not too sure if they'll have something for me. Because if they do have something for me on Thursday, it'll be something that I'd have to deliver Friday. And then they had to find a reload from me Friday yet to get me back. I have a feeling that it might turn out that I'll have a load that I'll have to deliver somewhere on Monday, which means I'd have to leave Saturday, Sunday. When you have an appointment in the middle of the week like this sort of throws off the whole rhythm. And we haven't even really gotten into our rhythm yet because we just started on regional. So I'm still trying to figure out my rhythm. Trying to get it to a point where I can, you know, hopefully leave Monday morning work throughout the weekend and sort of be back on the weekend. But with this appointment, it throws it off a little. It might have to work through the weekend, but that's okay. On regional, I'm not too sure where I'll be going, but I can tell you what I'm comfortable with doing. What I'd like to do, I mean, it doesn't mean that what I want, I get all the time. That's not how it works. So when I say the word regional, what I mean is probably about 1000 mile radius of home base. It's about a day and a half in any direction or so. That's that's what I think of. Now, I don't always get to choose where my boundaries are, how far I'll go. That's not always up to me. I go where the loads go. I follow the money. Wherever the big money is, you'll find me. I like that money thing. It's, it's very helpful in life. I own my own truck now on percentage in regional division at Keystone. So a lot of people have asked me like, what is regional regional to me might be different than regional to a European, because we have a very big country. So here it would include all of the prairies Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, maybe some of Ontario, like up to Thunder Bay down into the US including what's within 1000 miles like North Dakota, South Dakota, maybe Nebraska, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, maybe into Illinois a little bit. What else is around her? Iowa? Did I say Iowa? What's what's beside South Dakota? Is that Wyoming? The general center of the continent area. I mean, I, I'm still, I just bought my truck. I'm just getting going here. We don't have a rhythm set yet. I'm not sure where they're going to send me. That's what I'm assuming in my head when they say regional. It's what I'm assuming. But you know, the odd trip may take me further and they may ask me like, Hey, Josh, we have this like, we have this real sweet gravy load. It's got a lot of cha-ching attached to it. And it's going down to Tennessee or it's going down to Georgia or Florida or whatever. It's like, do you want it? And then I'd have to, you know, talk to, to Brit and say, well, do we have anything planned for the next week? And if we don't have any plans, I can get back to them and say, yeah, you know what, it'll work for me to take that and go down there and take it back. But I don't think I'll be going down to Florida very often. But again, I don't know. I don't know. We'll find out. We'll find out. You never know. I go where the loads go. I don't know what the future holds yet. But I am going to be trying to stay, I'm going to try to stay, you know, within a reasonable distance from home, so that I can, I can be here when my wife needs me and when my family need me at home, because we're going through a very in depth process right now with this whole IVF journey. And I need to be, I need to be around for that. So while my wife is upstairs in the clinic getting this procedure done, I have to wait down here in the husband's section, also known as the parking lot. They still don't allow us to go up with them. And really, honestly, what would I do up there? I would like to be in the room with her while this is going on. But I would just be in the way I would be. And I'm right here. I'm down downstairs in the parking lot. Would I prefer to be there in the room with her? Of course. But you know, the world's a different place right now. For the most part, like the provincial restrictions in Manitoba, they're all gone. All gone. Like it's back to life as normal, except for these few cases at doctor's offices, you know, dentist offices, and a few select places where they still have reasonably tight restrictions. And that sort of makes sense. You know, it's just a lot of pregnant women that go up there and women who are trying to get pregnant and the amount of germs we can limit up there is always you want you want it to be as clean as possible. So the fewer people that go up there, the better, even without this past pandemic that we just had, the fewer amount of people that go up there, the better you just you don't want anything or any germs up there that you don't need. Right. And let's be honest, we're all packed full of germs. All of us. I can understand. Maybe this is what they should have done all along. But what do I know? I'm not a scientist. There's been a change of plans. We're skipping ahead to a little later. The appointment was not the appointment we thought it was. It was just an ultrasound. So I'm glad I got to be there for that. But I don't need to stick around to make sure she's okay after an ultrasound. So we hopped in old blue. And I got a bucket to can order to pick up a load today and then get down to Minnesota for tomorrow. It's a rush load. I was really hoping to kind of make the first debut of old blue a little bit more special than this. But I just don't have time to film a bunch. It is what it is. We're hooked up to our first trailer right now. We will have a lot of trips in the future with old blue to make special. I got a rush. We're hooked up to a trailer. We're going to go load some lumber on it. And we're going to go back down to or down to Minnesota grab some cement and bring it back up here. We're picking up a load. Something like that over there. You'll see in a second what I mean. Just hooked up my first trailer. See what I mean? We got the rockers on the front. There she is. All hooked up. You're gonna have to speed up. I need to get in there. Instruction. I really wasn't expecting on leaving today. So everything feels very rushed. Like I was saying in the last clip that I was really hoping to make the first trip out really spectacular on the vlog. But you know what? We'll save that for another trip. I had to get going. I'm like running down to the line here. I gotta be there. They stopped loading at four o'clock. That's two hours away. And it's one thirty right now. So I'm literally I'm gonna show up there between three and three thirty. And hopefully I'll be able to get loaded. Otherwise it's gonna put back the whole trip. So it's a bit of a hot loader. Rush day. Empty right now but it's lumber that I'm picking up. I bring that down to Brainerd, Minnesota. And then I go and pick up a big piece of concrete and bring it on back up here. Wanna listen to this turbo though. It's beautiful. That sound will never get old. This thing runs so incredibly smooth. Wow. This is the best ride I've had in a truck in a long time. So we've been here once before already. This is the place where the machine lifts the tarps up over the load. It's the first load on the load. Grab that here. I can talk to you guys a little more loudly. So this machine takes the tarps as you saw and they lifted over. I sort of missed the mark here. I can pull it forward from the ground though. Pull over here. That way you don't have to get on top of the load. You're not allowed to get on top of your load here. Getting big troubles. Even Trucker Josh can't get away with that. Get these things out of our way. Push a button here and they go. Make sure it doesn't hook you on the way up. I'll drag you all the way up there. Pretty neat system though, eh? Works pretty nice. Bring those all the way back up out of the way like that. And then you just leave this off on the side here somewhere. People will find it. I'm just gonna put it right here. I'm done with it. Oh, that thing sounds amazing too. Just like from where I got loaded. Putts in over here and into here. Just the sound of the rumble. That truck was a good decision. That was a good life choice. Pull this this way. Come on. There you go. You see you want the corner of the flap to be right at the edge there. I'm gonna go around to the other side. I thought I heard someone knocking over there. Diesel's inside here. He's got the fan on. One of the reasons I wanted the sleeper windows was because that way diesel can lay on the bed and look out the window as we're driving. He loves doing that. There we go. Okay. Get to the corner there like that. Oh, it's gonna come over this way a bit. There we go. A boat like that and pull it back a little bit. Then we just even it out. Must be caught on something on the other side and then you just roll this up underneath here like this and you tarp it in. I've got to finish the back here yet. I'm just getting them all on right now and then I can just go to town with the bungees. What's going on over here? Why aren't you pulling over? It's looking good, hey? Perfect. I think that'll be a good looking unit going down the road. What do you think? Old blue. All the way back. Mint. Mint. Okay, we've got to stop staring at it. It looks beautiful but I've got to get some work done here. I'm gonna leave you guys in the truck for a bit, okay? It's time for you to judge me on how well I tart my load. Give me your best shot. What do you think? The first time I've I'm walking around looking at it so hopefully I didn't miss anything because that'd be embarrassing. All the way back here. We used three tarps started at the back, worked our way forward. That way the wind blows over and not under. Otherwise you got big balloons behind you and nobody wants to haul balloons. All right. There we go. Nice and neat, nice and straight for the most part. Wrapped up like a little Christmas present. There you go. Old blues first load. Let's take it to Brainerd, Minnesota. Ready to easily ready to go to Minnesota? Start her up. Get her all charged up with air here. Get myself comfortable. Get out of this vest because I don't have to wear this all day anymore. It's kind of nice. Here she goes. I like those a little too much. There's a tiny little hill there. So we're on our way towards International Falls, Minnesota or Fort Francis, Ontario to cross the border into the USA. The high shifter is annoying. It's actually much more comfortable than having it down here. I like it here. Feels good. I gotta get a little new piece for in here. Come through your town. Try not to be obnoxious about it. So what do you think Diesel? Is that better? Why is he feel better? That's nice. You still hear it then, eh? That is very nice. Yep. Happy trucker right here. Right here. Get some nice scenery to go through right away. Look at this. Is that a mosquito I saw over there? Thought I thought I saw a mosquito on the window. Maybe I was just seeing things. Check it out. I fixed the lights. I ordered them on Amazon and it worked. It's perfect. Not the brightest but as soon as I turn these on, the blue lights come on as well. So those will always be on. I've got red lights up here too but I can turn the uh sleeper lights off and just leave the blue lights on. It's kind of cool, right? The red lights up there as well. How do I show you this? That gives it a nice blue glow in here. We're about to cross into the US right now. Uh, crossing from international falls. No, from Fort Francis, Ontario, Canada into international falls, Minnesota, uh USA. I haven't crossed here in a long time and this is my first time in this truck. So they're probably gonna have extra questions for me. So I gotta gotta make sure all my ducks are in a row and make sure all my paperwork is lined up and I have everything ready for them so that I don't have any like deer and headlight moments. And I'm back home. I just put this together for you guys here and I know I've been running a little bit behind. I told you this might happen but that's okay. I'm gonna catch up and either today or tomorrow or the next day you're gonna get a dump of a few vlogs in one day again. So I hope you guys have got nothing better to do than to watch structure Josh vlogs. I hope you're really bored because I've got a bunch of vlogs coming for you. I'm trying to catch up here. I'm filming this last clip here on Sunday. Uh, so it is uh I'm a little behind. Thanks for watching today though. I really appreciate it. I was kind of I was really hoping that the first maiden voyage no blue I could make like super special and I could take my time but reality is trucking is a rush rush sport right rush rush rush and especially this trip I had to get to Canora to get loaded by a certain time. I just barely made it and I had to rush down to Minnesota and to rush back because I wanted to get home. I was hoping to have more time but uh there'll be so many more memories to be made and in old blue as time goes on and you know I'll do like feature films and feature stuff on just the truck and certain trips I'll make I'll make it more special in the future but today was uh it was a special day for me anyways in this vlog the first day out had a lot of fun. So thanks for hanging out with me all the way till now to the end of the video. Give that thumbs up if you like me. Give a thumbs up if you like the truck. Give a thumbs up if you like the video. Don't forget to subscribe and uh we'll see you in our next video either uh later today or tomorrow. We've got a couple coming down the pipe here for you.