 Part-time here, Grove City, Ohio. You're watching Dr. Josh. In Sock Center, Minnesota. Would you believe me? If I told you that's where we're gonna start our day, too. What are the chances, right? Ooh, nice Peterbilt. Nice. So we had a good night's sleep here. I have about an hour yet until I'm allowed to start moving. I'm gonna get a few things done. I'm gonna get breakfast. I've already walked the weasel. We're gonna say good morning to everybody we can. Good morning, and we're gonna enjoy the nice beautiful sunshine. We've been waiting for this weather all winter. I'm excited. It's finally here. Even though it's pretty hot. That's okay. The heat is much better than the cold. Up you go, weasel. Up you go, big guy. Big boy, big man. I'm a yoy. Yoy, weasel. That's how you help a foot, you mean? That's my yoy pose. What do you think? Always get questions about these steps. The brand is called Pet Loader. You can find them on Amazon. They're about 250 bucks, and they got different sizes, too. It's not just this one size. They got like the four steps, the five steps. They got a whole bunch of different options. I went with this option, worked best with the truck. And I've had them for a couple of years now, and they worked really well. It's really, it's a lot easier on diesel when he's jumping out of the truck. He doesn't have to land on his front paws like that so hard, and it also helps him get up a little easier as well. But getting into the truck is easier. So getting out, worried about his back and his shoulders wearing out. So this is my load of lumber. Came from Alberta, Canada. It's going to Iowa, USA. And this rocker arm on the front here, if you haven't seen my past videos, that is for my reload. I'm going to drop the trailer there, and they're going to load it with a big tea, what's it called again? Double tea. Smeat brace. They build buildings and parquets with it and stuff. It's like precast concrete, and they load it on the trailer, and it rests on this thing so that the trailer can flex, but the load can remain concrete. This concrete doesn't flex. We've been over this. So you'll probably see it with my next load. This is bolted to the trailer. It rests on here on the front and on the back. There's no rocker arm on the back because the back doesn't need to flex. If both sides were on a rocker arm, the whole load would be like the whole time going down the highway. It'd be crazy. Every time you go over a round a corner, it'd be like thunk, and it would be like... So one side has to remain solid to the trailer. The other side, the trailer goes like this. There you go back there. Call that a riser or a bunk. It rests on there. That's chained to the deck as well. And this whole aluminum trailer flexes going down the road, and it's supposed to. And this allows for us to transport this big long precast form, concrete form, without breaking it or cracking it because the last thing you want to install in a building or a parquette is a cracked piece of concrete. That's the solution. It's like a teeter-totter. Good morning, old blue. How you doing? I had washed her yesterday. She was so nice and clean, remember? And then we drove through like a mega thunderstorm and rainstorm. But she's still pretty clean. I mean, not bad. Not bad, but man, that was a heavy rainstorm. So I went inside to their chrome shop here, and I got a cover for this. They've child-proofed it so I can't get into it. Oh, aha! Okay. What was that? It's supposed to just pop in there. Pretty sure. It's like a different size or something. One second here, I got a different angle. Pretty sure there's just one standard size. It doesn't fit. I win! Just had to do a little bit of convincing. You know what I mean? I had to bend the sides in just a little bit because it's a little bit wide. Bend it just a little bit, and now that looks a lot better, eh? And if you're wondering when we're gonna start with all the big stuff, it'll be in a few months, at least. I want this truck to start generating money. I want to see money start rolling in from it being on the highway. I want to get it rolling. We're gonna start with the little things this year. I'll probably do the stacks next year. Those are pretty expensive. They can be up to $3,500, if not more, at US. So we are gonna get to them. We're gonna start with little things this year. Maybe a hood ornament, the visors on the side of the window here. We've got a drop visor coming for the front windshield here. We'll talk more about that in the future and who's sponsoring that. I bet you can guess, but we'll leave that as a surprise. Someone's helping me out with that. So the visors around here, a little trim around the windows, a little bit of chrome, like this little piece here. We're gonna start with little things like that. We're gonna let the truck start making money. Get the flow going. Get into a good rhythm. And then we're gonna go hard and start with the upgrades once I get familiar with this truck. It's an old truck. Remember I bought an old truck, even though it's been very well maintained. I need to drive it for a while to figure out what's going on. Like maybe there's something that needs to be replaced. Maybe there's something that's worn out that was like on its last legs and now I've got it and it sort of needs to be replaced now. So I just want to make sure the truck is in good mechanical working order, which I believe it is, but I just want to be sure. And we'll start with the big things like a lift bumper in the front, air ride front suspension, new 13-foot stacks, flat top stacks. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It's gonna be a lot of fun, but we'll start with some small things. This was one. As long as we do something, right? As long as we do something, every month I want to do something to the truck to make it better. Even if it's a little. Diesel, you ready? We gotta get going. There was a little walking path here at the rest area. This is on I-94 just west of Minneapolis. I don't know if you've ever explored this one before or not, but I figure why not. Beautiful day. Can't get unloaded until tomorrow, so we're not in the biggest of rushes today. Finally. For the first two trips that I was in Old Blue, we've just been rushed, rushed, rushed. Look at those big houses back there. Whoa, new development coming up there, I guess. Wow, that'd be an amazing property to have. So, one of the great things about being a truck driver and sort of like a paid tourist, you get to go and see all these amazing properties like that. Diesel, come. Take a look at this, Diesel. It's gonna be too snoopy, but it does look pretty cool. There's a river down there, and you're building a nice yard there right down at the river. Beautiful. Lucky people who are building there. Brought Diesel's harness along on this trip. It's a little easier on his neck when we're walking, and it's also reflective. Just like, well, the leash isn't reflective, but it's like a neon color at least. Very visible to people. Man, man, there's a river all the way down there. I never knew this place was here, and you'd never know. The interstate is just up there. I've blown past here hundreds of times probably, had no idea. There's a little suburb back in there. Diesel wants to go that way. The rest area is back up that way. We did the whole loop around here. What's down here? The path closed dusk to dawn. I guess it's open. You wanna go check it out, Diesel? I'll go check it out. Cool. And there's the interstate right there. How many times have I driven past right there and had no idea this was even here? Oh, this is it. I wonder why they closed this dusk to dawn. Probably because the kids would come here and party then. We were all kids once. Probably what we would have done. Look at this. Beautiful Minnesota. Diesel, what do you think? You think there's any alligators down here, man? I don't think they're this far north, but you never know. I'm not gonna go find out. And you're not allowed to go find out either. I just fight one, man. I just fight a crocodile and alligators. I fight them all. I'm a yodger. I'm a yodger. I just tell them, hey, yodges, I don't think they would care. I don't think they would care, Diesel. Well, I just wish them nice. Let's go back. I'll give you guys one good look. One panoramic shot here. Right from the corner here. And the sounds of the 18-wheelers passing by. This is heaven. I think I might have died and gone to heaven. If you can ignore all the algae on the water, I mean. But even then, still. Pretty cool. Never knew this was here. Now we know. Now we all know. Let's go back, Diesel. You need to get some water. Yeah, if this was Florida, there would definitely be alligators down there. Definitely. There she is. Still pretty clean after driving through that rainstorm yesterday. Let's get it. For a screenshot. Beautiful, beautiful Iowa. Cornfields as far as the eye can see. And I feel really good right now. I was kind of a basket case of anxiety for today. And I didn't want to say anything to jinx it. But I really thought that Iowa had some transmission problems. Every time the truck would pull going up a hill, it would make a sound. Like freaking freaking out. And then I went through a phase of trying to convince myself that it's okay. I was like, Josh, this is what you signed up for. You bought an old truck. Knew you'd have to rebuild it from the ground up. And then I argued with myself, but I didn't know it would be so soon. And then I'd argue back and say, but that's what you signed up for. You're gonna have to rebuild the transmission. There's something wrong with your transmission. Crawled underneath there. Checked what linkages I could. Everything seemed good. Couldn't figure out why. When it was in gear and pulling, it would make this sound. And then I had an idea at the last stop that we had. We stopped at the rest area. The sleeve you'll notice is not on here right now. It's on the ground down there. I noticed that when I grabbed it like this and held it tight, the noise would stop. And when I let it go, it would begin again. I was like, so there's two screws screwing it on. I unscrewed the screws and I slid it down. So it's not on there. Problem solved. This whole time, here I am trying to convince myself that I'm going to do a full transmission rebuild. And all it was was a $10 plastic park that wasn't screwed on tight enough. Making me go crazy. What are we slowing down here for? Construction. Haven't we had enough of this today already? Coming up to Des Moines here in Iowa. So I'm going to pull into the thrust area here for a quick bathroom break. And they've got vending machines. Maybe I'll get a chocolate bar. Now I'm excited. Last break. We have 106 kilometers or 65 miles to our stop where we're going to sleep for tonight in Oceola. I think that's how you pronounce it, right? O-C-O-La. Someone tried to describe it to me in my comment section. I don't know if I got it right yet. A big jet coming in for a landing. Don't want to be too noisy. People might be sleeping up here already. This guy has pulled a lot further forward than he realizes. I think he's way too far forward. He should be back here. Way up there. There's an oversized load too. Good thing there's no cars parked in that area there. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to get my trailer around them when I left. This rest area isn't as wooded as the one in Minnesota was. Everyone in Iowa must be very short. Why are the walls so short? Look at this. I can just look right out. I'm only 5'10". But the roof is really high. And they got ghost toilets too. Hershey's, we're 51. I'm wondering where I am right now. This is Des Moines in Iowa. And I am right there. All those roads, eh? Thanks. Right, Diesel? Exactly. This is actually kind of disappointing. $1.75 US for this. It's like two bucks Canadian. Look how thin it is. The truck bars we have in Canada are like twice as thick and cheaper. Must be because it's out of rest area. It's got that convenience tax on it. Diesel, how's your food doing? You still haven't eaten it. My boy. My boy, you need to eat your food. I have made it just for you. It is for you. You should eat it. How about this? Is there some water in here? Oh, you put one on the floor, I see. Got water here. Here, let's quickly fill up his water bowl here. This is where his food and water are. At home, he has to eat right away. Otherwise, his brothers will eat all of his food. On the road, he likes to just leave it there and eat it whenever he wants it. Okay, let's get out of here, guys. One more hour. One more hour. I don't have a shower. One more hour and I can have a shower. Yo, yo, tune in for more rhymes. Deadly. Trucker Josh. Paid for a parking spot. I don't know if this is a sign of end times and apocalypses and stuff. But it was either that or risk getting my nose ripped off in the morning. I got into a parking spot. All the parking spots are over there. You see, everybody's fighting over them right now. I got into a nice one. It was a real tight one. Real tight one and it took me a minute. I was pretty proud of myself when I got in there. Then I realized my nose sticks way out. And the people beside me, I don't know who they are. Maybe they're good drivers. Maybe they're not. Maybe they'd get out okay. Maybe they'd rip my hood off. I'm not going to let that happen all blue. Okay. I bit the bullet. It was $16 American. It's just probably 20 bucks Canadian. I'm not going to do that very often. But only in situations like this where I have to find a parking spot because I deliver in this town in the morning. I have to be here. And I want to take a shower here as well too. And there was parking spots, paid parking spots available. Which are safe. You see this? No one's in front of us. The guy beside me there. And the guy beside me there can just drive straight out. There's no danger to all blue. So we were safer here. So it was a small price to pay for a little bit of peace of mind. So I don't got to worry about what could happen in the morning. I've never had my hood ripped off. But I've seen it happen. And I've seen it on YouTube way too often. And I don't want to be one of those guys. My truck is still, well, sure I'm in my honeymoon phase with it still. Which means that I'm very excited. Very new to me still. But even if it wasn't, I mean, that's a lot of down time. If I get my hood ripped off here and someone tears my, that means I got to get a rental truck to keep myself moving. I've got to fly home. I've got to take care of this load somehow. What about diesel? I've got to get diesel home. Which means I've probably got to rent a car. Most rental car companies don't want pets in their vehicles. I would be in a huge mess. And I'd have to fight with insurance. And we'd have to wait for parts. It would be a month or two or three or four before I get old blue back. And I'm not going to risk that. I'll pay the 20 bucks for peace of mind and safety for the old girl. Or the old guy. Whatever it is. I haven't decided yet. But hey, look at this. At least we got this now, right? And this is what was, this is what was vibrating before on here. Freaking me out. Just slide that all the way up. That's there like that usually, right? You can't hear it now. But it was going like, sounded like grinding gears before freaking the daylights out of me. So relieved that that's all it was. Anyways guys, I'm going to go take a shower and enjoy the rest of my evening here. I hope you guys had a great night. We'll see you tomorrow. As soon as I'm unloaded here tomorrow morning I head up empty towards Rosemont, Minnesota which is just south of Minneapolis. I pick up a preloaded trailer there and head back home. I don't know if I'm going to make it home tomorrow yet. I hope so. But it'll be late if I do. So tune in and see where I end up. See you then.