 Hi everybody, I'm Percy from England. You're watching my mate Diesel and his pet human trucker Josh Trucking around the US and Canada Don't forget to subscribe Bye Jesus, did you eat all your treats? You eat all your treats before you eat your breakfast? Good boy. That's my boy My truck is extra staticky today. Everything I touch is what? snapping me Snapping me shocking me shocking me. It's snapping my truck is very shocking this morning. Good morning. How you doing? We're in Johnson's Creek Wisconsin keep wanting to say Johnson's Creek, Michigan. It's Battle Creek, Michigan. Well Johnson's Creek, Wisconsin I'm just gonna run inside the marvelous little building there grab myself some liquid life And we're gonna go pick up our load. They're expecting us there at 11 a.m. I wanted to get loaded much earlier than that because it's Christmas and I want to go home But that's okay. This is better than going all the way home empty So instead of losing about $500 in fuel I get paid to go home for Christmas And then I get paid after Christmas as well as deliberate. So Let's get this show on the road. I Want to get home. We have a Christmas gathering tomorrow And I'm gonna be a little late by the looks of it. I was late for it last year, too It's my in-laws gathering. It's my wife's mom's side. I think I was late for it last year as well But I made it I was there So I don't want to be as late this year I Wanted to be there on time. You know, let's just stop talking about it. Let's get out there Let's let's get it done. Let's get there Here we go ladies and jelly beans 94 East Milwaukee this way Better stay green better stay green Morning you all right easy bud. You had a red light just about ran into me Let's get our freight So our Christmas gathering tomorrow apparently starts at about one o'clock. I Pick up my freight here Milwaukee my appointment at 11 I'm hoping he's not gonna take more than two hours to get loaded and tied down And then we're 24 hours to get home It's gonna be tight. I'm gonna be late for the gathering. I'm just hoping I'm not gonna be that late So I want to bring Want to make diesel home this road for 44 kilometers and then Show up there in my pickup And I have a chance to shower or change at home But that's that's a little ways out of the way yet Like I told Britt, I can't really make any promises or say what's gonna happen until tomorrow or until tonight, maybe After at least find out how long it's gonna take to get loaded. I hope it's not gonna be complicated I called them yesterday and they said it's gonna be pallets It's not like pallets of snow clearing equipment Like okay, well if it's on pallets, that sounds like it'll be pretty quick to load and tie down But if it's snow clearing equipment, I mean is that gonna be like a snowplow? I got a chain down I mean that wouldn't take too long either, but No idea what to expect. I've never been here Once again trucking flying by the seat of our pants. Let's just see what happens Just finished loading here took uh longer than we wanted it to but I think you'll understand why This first part has to be tarped That's going to bc This is all going to bc that's going to bc bc bc this is going to alberta these yellow things And everything on the back here is going to the sketch one so uh Yeah, it took a little while I don't know what it all is but snow clearing equipment these are plows obviously Time to go Let's go home for Christmas Took me a little while to tie it down so they got me to go park here in front of this dock Now I gotta figure out how to get out of here So I'm gonna back up a little bit You're definitely not overweight. I'm not even close. I'm not worried about that That took a lot of equipment. That was a Miss-mashed load a little bit of this little bit of that Uh, that wasn't very fun, but hey it's better than Going all the way home empty for Christmas, right? Do not enter. Okay, we should probably not go down this way then. Okay, do not enter Okay, keep backing up here Go the other way. I know you can't see where I'm backing up Neither can I I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding My car away in here This would have been a good time for the head cam, but too late for that now You can't decide this other truck that's here One thing that's good about the Volvo it turns on a dime And I've got a very short wheelbase so I can pretty much get in and out everywhere There we go This way Diesel we found the right way. What can you do? We're gonna get out of the city here We're in Milwaukee north Milwaukee right on the north side of the city Or our first rest area or truck stop or something. I need to grab a coffee anyway I'm gonna check all our straps and our securement job Open says a me Trucker Josh wants to go home for Christmas out of the way Barbed wire. They really don't want people coming in here It's funny. We got a bi-l or snow plow coming from all the way down here. They don't even have snow here Which way do I want to go? Right? I want to go to the right Paper work Here we go diesel In 100 meters turn left on north 76th street Man Good thing this little pay is pretty decent. I'm gonna have to babysit this load quite quite a bit on the way home Make sure that nothing's shifting moving around It's not my favorite Not my favorite load to pull that's for sure Making our way out of the city Keeping our eyes open for a place to pull over and check our load everything looks good in my mirror From what I can see My tarps I need to tighten up a little bit though. They're they're a little bit poofy on the highway and that poofy tarps The wind gets In underneath there and at highway speeds it it poofs it up and when it gets all poofy I can't see around it to see the rest of my load in my mirrors So I gotta tighten that down a little tighter It's not like it's a big problem. It's just enough so that I can't see behind there I mean, I'm sure people would be honking at me by now if something was falling off, right? I'm confident in how I tied it down. It's not going anywhere, but I still need to stop here somewhere and uh It's been about 20 minutes. I like to stop after the first 20 to 30 minutes just to Check the straps tighten them up a little bit, you know, just make sure nothing's gonna fall off. I wouldn't want to You know ruin someone's Christmas Have my freight fall off onto their nice little white tesla with no plates Look at that thing. Look at that thing. Well, look at it. I wonder where the remote control is I was so excited when tesla said they were making a pickup truck. I was so pumped And then the cyber truck was revealed. I don't want a door stop. What is that? I don't want a futuristic looking truck. I don't want a geek mobile I want a tough rugged man's truck. You know what I mean? I want it to look like a look at this thing right here on the left That's a dodge I'll I take that over the cyber truck. All right That at least looks like a truck I know he's like he's trying to challenge our perception of what pickup trucks look like You know, don't do that. No, I'm happy with the way pickup trucks look Just give me a pickup truck. I don't want this. What is that big triangle? I understand why they did it like they had to build it because it's an exoskeleton truck It doesn't have an actual frame like a regular pickup And they have to make it that triangle The same reason why the Honda ridgeline when it was originally released It had to have that triangle that sort of little arc That supports that when you put Weight in the back or when you tow a trailer that supports the frame Because it's an exoskeleton. So it's for strength reasons. There's a reason why it's a triangle It's not just to look dumb. It actually has functionality. I just think it looks dumb I think the the the dumb lookingness of it outweighs the functionality of it I just want a truck so I don't know maybe they'll make some Some adjustments the Rivian truck looks really nice, but the Rivian trucks too small. That's like a mid-size I don't want a mid-size. I want a man. I want I want a full size four by four I want something that will turn heads But at the same time will look good. They'll turn heads for the right reasons, right? I don't want a I don't have a vehicle that turns heads because people are like laughing at me or wondering what that is I want them. I want to be turning heads because it looks that good Wow, I've never seen that before that is a nice looking truck That thing looks tough Like that Toyota over there that white one that looks like a truck Like ah, we've talked enough about it. I got I went on a rant. That's my rant for today. You're welcome Still looking for a place to park here. There's got to be a rest area soon Now we could always pull into Johnson's Creek. That's where we started the day Got a truck here beside me. So I mean if something was going on with my freight He'd be flashing his lights at me waving around trying to get my attention and so I know I know trucker Josh. This is why you need a cb radio I know there are there are good reasons of why the cb radio is useful. I just don't use mine I haven't plugged it in in like seven years Oh, there was a truck stop in there. Oh, I did not go in there You need a bigger sign, but I didn't even know you were there until it was too late Oh go to the next one It's good to have a cb radio. I know I was a little hard on the cb radio People the other day I personally I do think it's outdated technology. That's just my own opinion though, but it it still has good uses And it's still a good idea to have one if you want one. I don't want one Can't understand anybody on there. Anyways What and it is English You know it's English because you understand like every like sixth word, but for some reason whenever someone picks up a cb radio They turn into like deep south lazy and a mississippi Southern drawl to the max like no one can understand what you're saying, buddy. You have wisconsin plates. Come on Pronounce your words proper. I can't understand you man Let's shut the radio off. I can't understand you anyway, man Don't shake your head at me Everybody on the cb radio everybody on the radio turns into a deep south lazy and a mississippi guy You know, it's true It's christmas. I don't care. I don't care. I'm having a cookie. I'm having two ginormous cookies Oh, I walked in there and they're baking fresh cookies and stuff in there right now, right? And oh, I walked in there and it smells like christmas in here That's one thing I sort of noticed about in the u.s Everyone's much more individual individualistic like if you go into a store and say something like it smells like christmas in here Everyone sort of just looks at you kind of weird and like, all right. All right, cool. Yeah They don't say anything really Whereas in canada people would more so be like, yeah, it's awesome. Hey jb. It's just my own personal experience It's almost christmas. I'm eating cookies all diets are on hold for the rest of december just saying No diet counts during christmas. It's christmas Eat the cookies I want to get far enough today that I don't have to stop for my half hour break tomorrow So I want to get closer than eight hours to the border That's just a waste of a half hour if I don't have to stop Turn right and 50 meters There's a truck there now Because yeah, every eight hours you got to stop for a half hour break in the u.s Right, but that's not a law in canada. So if I go to like let's say only have six hours to the border tomorrow Well, I'm gonna stop for my half hour. Let's go to the border and then as soon as I cross the border I don't have to stop for my half hour anymore Save myself a half hour. So I want to get at least under eight hours To do to go tomorrow, which shouldn't be a problem. I have like eight almost nine hours available to me today yet I will have to stop for my half hour today though Turn right and then turn right and 80 meters. This wasn't it yet. I'll stop later because uh Really, we're just getting our day started even though the sun's going down already We're just pretty much getting rolling here. I noticed that as soon as I got onto the highway There were cars that were flashing their high beams from the other side of the road at this side of the road It was clear That they were warning us of uh Policeman up ahead went over the crest of the hill and there he was pointing his radar gun at us I got to thinking I've talked with us before is why are they warning us that there's a cop there If one of these people around me here on this side of the highway are child traffickers who just kidnapped a child Right before christmas. How tragic would that be? And they're going a little bit too fast and had you not warned them They would have been pulled over by the police and that child would have been saved and got to go home and spend their Their christmas with their family Or just gone home Instead of being trafficked who knows you know the kidnapped kids here. They bring them down to mexico They smuggle them across and you never see them again take away their passport and they're stuck there Seem to think that warning people that there's a photo radar or a radar guy up ahead is helping It's necessary if people are speeding let them get pulled over you shouldn't be speeding You know you warn everybody that there's a cop up ahead You know the bad people see you're warning too and they go. Thank you very much. I could have gone to jail right there you know I've always thought of that. Why are people warning people that there's a cop up ahead? No Let them pull them over might be saving a life You never know Meet them as well 70 mile an hour area if that kidnapper is going you know 80 85 They get pulled over We're gonna have to explain who the child is in the back seat and why the child has no id and why the child is saying help me No, no, no, you want to warn everybody that there's a cop up ahead. So they're not going to get pulled over Now that's the way I see it. How do you guys see it? I'll leave the vlog on that No, I think that's a good point of discussion because everybody Uh got upset. Well, there's people that got upset last time I said stop warning people of cops When I explained it in that way does that change your mind at all? Let me know down below in the comments I never warned people that there's a a cop up ahead So if you're speeding well, you're speeding Good morning, you fine person you sitting there on your phone Clicked on truck or josh great choice Great choice. Don't forget to click that subscribe button while you're here making new video every day So to right now we're screaming down the highway towards home. We're getting home for Christmas We're gonna be home for about a week. So get ready for some home time footage Probably missing a few days here and there because it's Christmas You're watching this after Christmas already probably closer to new years So I hope you had a good Christmas and I hope you have a happy prosperous new year I got as far as I could last night yet and we're doing the rest now I've got a family gathering with my wife's mom's side This afternoon they start at one, but they're eating at four I'm gonna get back to work around one as long as I don't get hung up at the border or anything And then I got to go home And then go to the city so I'll probably be there around four o'clock just in time for the food I hope they don't think that I'm just showing up to eat Hang out a little while after that was that would be Christmas number two We got Christmas number three on the 24th with my family With my my mom and dad's house. We got Christmas day morning with me and Britt That Christmas day afternoon and evening with Britt's dad side I think that's it for Christmases. What is it? That's one two Three or five Christmases, that's it and I've got his boxing day and Home till After Christmas and then we started heading towards Saskatchewan, Alberta and ending off in British Columbia We are now across the line from north of the border Welcome to canada across the line There's now officially nothing standing between us and Christmas other than a bit of pavement And this guy good thing I can go around him So uh past the border we're through the border no no hold-ups there The scale was closed no hold-ups there. There is nothing unless if I get a get pulled over for some nonsense reason because I'm not speeding I'm not doing anything bad. So I shouldn't get pulled over. There shouldn't be any more delays To get home for Christmas Getting home a little earlier than I thought I would so that's a little surprise Thought it was going to take a little longer and it'll be a few more delays, but no Father Christmas is watching out for me Getting me home So I have this freight beneath me I've got the first drop in Saskatoon Saskatchewan Second drop in Atchison, Alberta. That's just west of Edmonton right close to the west Edmonton mall there where we were at the other day And then from there ahead on down to the lower mainland down to the south western corner of the country vancouver British Columbia Me down on no escort It's a different world out there man. I'll tell you what it's like a different country Totally different as soon as you get past hope bc you get into that lower bowl mainland You get past I'd say Abbotsford is the last recognizable city and you get into Vancouver. Suddenly you're like, what is this? When did I teleport? It's just different it's it's it's different really different, but hey I don't think Christmas is as big as a as big of a celebration down there by We'll convert them yet Christmas is the best time of year So you're watching this probably closer to the new year. I hope you had a very merry Christmas And I hope that you have a happy prosperous new year The lot under me they want in the new year So I'm not too sure when we're gonna leave with it yet Got to get a hold of them and figure things out create delivery appointments For now, uh, we're just concerned about getting home. Like I said, there's nothing standing between us At home now other than this pavement in front of us And the law saying I can't go faster than this