 turning diesel. Get more in all of you. Our load is supposed to be ready today so we've loaded up the truck. Just had an idling here for a little while. I'm just gonna shut the idle off and waiting for a call from dispatch. So once they call me I'll know that the load is ready and then we'll be able to be on our merry little way. And we'll be out for a while. Making money. Right, Diesel? Right, Diesel. Gotta feed you, man. Feed you. Good boy. Alright, so I'm just gonna make sure I got everything I need and then we'll get going. Well, here we are in TransCanada. Now we're headed west so we're on the east side of Winnipeg. Look at this truck at that point, you know. It just feels good to be back. My windshield. Good to see you guys. So we're bob tailing still. We're running into Winnipeg to pick up our preloaded trailer which is taking us down to the Carolinas. And I've still gotta figure out once I see the destinations. I gotta see if I gotta leave right now. It feels so good to be back in the truck again. And hooked up to a trailer. I'm just gonna make sure that they're done in here. I'm still in the dock so I just wanna make sure they're not in there. You see? The doors closed. The plate is off my trailer. That's good. I just wanna make sure that I'm not gonna be driving off when they're in there, right? Always double check. And what are you little guy? That is a bee. Should I step on him? He's got like spider legs. That is cool. Hello bee. We'll let him live because we're good people. I thought it was a spider. It's a spider bee. Some crazy mating going on around here. Spiders and bees. I guess all things are possible, right? That's what they say. Okay, let's roll up these landing gear here. And they go on. All right. So I've hooked up the trailer. I've hooked up the airlines. And for all of you new subscribers, hi, I'm Trucker Josh. How's it going? That's Diesel. He's the star where he likes to think so. Watch this. Diesel. Sit. Good boy. Lay down. Close enough. Okay, so I drive a truck for a living. So like I say in videos, the vlogs aren't necessarily about trucking only. But I live in a truck pretty much. I mean, I have a house as you saw. But most of my life is in the truck here. So you guys who aren't truckers welcome here. I want these videos to be appealing to everybody. But I'm a little tired from rolling up the dollies there. I need to get in shape, Trucker Josh. But you're probably going to learn a few things about the trucking industry just by watching my videos. Like this. I just hooked up the airlines which control the brakes, right? What I'm going to do now is I'm going to push this red button in. Make sure that yellow one is still out. That's the trailer air brakes. So by pushing that, it pushes air into the trailer. It'll lift up the suspension and release the brakes. But now that the truck is off and the air is flowing, we're going to go back and check to see if there's any air leaks. So this is the one that we pumped air through right now, right? We're going to go to the back here and make sure that there's no air leaks. That air leak you're hearing there? I saw an air leak suspension adjusting itself. So you'll be able to hear it here. Maybe not. You should be able to hear the air flowing into the trailer. Oh yeah, there it goes. And can you hear any air leaks? No audible air leaks. That's good. If you have any audible air leaks, you've got to get them fixed before you take it on the road. So for all of the new people who are watching, who are not truck drivers, I should let you know that there's a lot of responsibility put on us, the truck drivers, to make sure our equipment is safe to work and safe to drive down the highway so that we don't kill anybody out there. Because these machines are ridiculously heavy. Just to give you an idea of how long it'll take me to stop this thing. If I'm doing 65 mile an hour, 100 kilometers an hour down the highway, it'll take me more than a full American football field to stop. So when people cut in front of us and slam on their brakes, that's why we get upset. Because we don't want to kill anybody. Just remember that when you're in traffic, going highway speed, that truck you passed needs a long stretch to stop. Just because we've got 18 tires on the ground doesn't mean we can stop any faster. That just means we're hauling a whole lot more weight. All that inertia, we can go all like science class on you or like physics class and teach you why we need so long to stop. But, I'm sure you guys understand that once an object is in motion, it wants to keep being in motion. It doesn't like to stop, alright? It takes a lot of friction to stop 80,000 pounds. I'm not a science teacher. Who am I kidding? Just take my word for it. So yes, a lot of responsibility goes to the driver to make sure he's leaving enough following space between him and the vehicle in front of him, right? That's why truckers leave such a big space in traffic. We're not leaving space for people to cut in front of us in traffic. No, we're leaving space so that we have time to stop so we don't kill anybody. But most people don't understand that and they crowd in there and cut in there and they think that it's an open spot for them. They don't have time on our brakes. Could damage our trucks and possibly kill somebody. So, a lot of responsibility, a lot of skill, I would say. You know, some people call it an unskilled profession driving a truck but you need a lot of skill and knowledge of how to operate these things, how much space you need to stop, how much room you need to turn, how to back this thing up, how much weight you can carry. We can haul 80,000 pounds in the United States, 87,000 pounds in Canada on a tandem trailer like I'm hauling right now. But that weight has to be evenly distributed between all the axles. So if it's not evenly distributed, we can only have a certain amount per axle, right? And if it's too much on one, we have to slide our axles on the trailer to distribute the weight evenly, right? A lot of math, a lot of thinking. I don't want to talk about this all day and end it right here. I just want to bring everybody up to speed because I haven't been on the road for a while and I've gained a lot of new subscribers and a lot of subscribers who don't drive trucks so I just want to fill you in a little bit about what's going on so you sort of understand what I'm talking about in the videos. I try to keep everybody up to date. That's all this is. So if I'm just preaching to the choir here sorry about that. We'll see you in the next clip. Okay? We're back here in the house. We're back here in the house and the camera's on the tripod. Why is the camera on the tripod? Because we need to film another vlog. Why? Because I lost yesterday's vlog. It was halfway done uploading when my computer crashed. I don't know if it was a crash but my hard drive went I don't want to do anything anymore I don't want to do anything anymore It died. It died. So the computer's dead. So I had to go and get a new tool for the trade. So my vlog from yesterday had not uploaded yet. So I got a bit lost. It's lost. She gone. That was such a good vlog too you should have seen it. There was flooding back that I had it. There was me playing Fetcher Diesel in the back. I was really proud of that vlog. It was so good. Nice 20 minute vlog and I lost it. So to make sure that that never happens again I got myself here a two terabyte whatever you call it external hard drive pretty much. So everything's going to be backed up from now on. Right away instead of waiting until after it's uploaded before I even uploaded back it up just in case my computer decides to fart out on me while it's uploading It's frustrating. It's been all morning at eBytes and Steinback trying to get this thing fixed and they just couldn't fix it. So I kept the computer I might let some other techies fiddle around with it in the future but pretty much it's gone. Hard drive everything on it is gone So we start fresh we start new. So you will probably notice that there might not have been the same intro and same music on this vlog. I've got to go and find that all and put it onto my external hard drive so that this doesn't happen again It's not the end of the world guys. It's just a big bummer for me I wanted to spend that money into a cell phone booster for on my roof so I could get cell phone service in my house Now I had to spend it on a new laptop so the cell phone booster I'll have to wait a month or two or three or ten I don't know I was lucky that I could replace it anyways anyways so we're going to start filming that other vlog. I don't know what I'm going to talk about yet I was not expecting to have to film another one but it's going to be another one pretty much of me standing right here with the background there and you've probably seen it already actually because it'll be going up before this one even it's got to replace yesterday's vlog Dang it! But anyways guys so I'm going to start doing that and I'm going to start making some more hamburgers I made hamburgers yesterday but they were so good we're going to have them again today and it's like I have a barbecue in my house here so ooh it's nice and hot already so we're going to go ahead and make some hamburgers alright we're back with this camera just because the quality is better than the GoPro when I'm walking around it's got a stabler shot so we're about to make some hamburgers hamburgers hamburgers hamburgers okay so we're going to get our hamburgers out of our freezer here hamburgers hamburgers hamburgers hamburgers hamburgers yeah hamburgers so these are the ones we were playing fetch yesterday and we had it all vlogged and on camera ready to go but the vlog didn't upload because my hard drive went hard drive it's the only way to describe what happened to it but anyways while we were playing fetch dun dun dun diesel's toy got stuck up in the tree so we're going to try to get it down with this candle what else are candles for now we got a toy and a candle in the tree alright we need something heavy we can throw diesel can I throw you too heavy you'd love that though I can fly no I find something here's a good toy yeah this might work this isn't really heavy enough I don't think though I don't need anything that heavy I just needed to hit it to knock it out right well try again there's dogs barking everywhere but we got it it was up in the tree but now it's there with diesel as he's doing his diesel business diesel what you doing man so there is still a candle in the tree we did not get the candle down I'm going to see if I can show you where it is here I'm going to find it there it is there it is there's a candle oops let me see if I can get a better view there's a candle in my tree I can't get it out I wonder where I should hang this picture it's like a 3D picture I don't think it shows up in the camera but it's like it's popping out of the picture got it out of flying J like three four five years ago or something like that I like it so I guess I'm going to end the vlog here I've got to edit everything up yet and yesterday's video upload it and render it shoot that's going to take a while yet better get on that guys I don't know if this vlog turned out to be around 20 minutes or not but it's a vlog nonetheless there will be another one up tomorrow tomorrow we're leaving on the trip we'll talk to you then, 4am central time