 It's not as exciting unloading van trailers as it is unloading flatbeds so uh there you have it. I got here gave my paperwork and they said you put that trailer in door 26 trucker Josh you think you can do it? So I put it in door 26 and they unloaded it one pallet at a time. Extremely exciting stuff. I sat in the truck and waited in the warmth the entire time. Which was amazing. I almost forgot what that felt like. Someone else unloaded my trailer while I got to sit inside my cab. I didn't even have to untie anything well one strap I didn't have to like help them balance anything in and out got to stay dry warm. I did van long haul for six years as a sort of almost nostalgia car ready. Wow I used to have it so good if I was doing my regular stuff with the flatbed I'd have to be outside in the storm right now out there but no Trucker Josh got to sit on his butt inside his cab and watch the top videos. Yeah actually I was on Twitter more while I was waiting. I'm watching all the chaos that's going on there right now. Sometimes life just throws you one of those just you just love to watch it right? It's just chaos people's minds exploding all over the place everybody sort of fighting with one another and Musk came in and just turned everything upside down and I'm just sitting here eating my popcorn just watching the show. I've been enjoying I don't know I don't care really. I've always hated Twitter this is the first time in my life that it's actually been kind of entertaining so I've actually spent more time on Twitter probably in the last couple of days that I have in the last couple of years just watching everything reading yeah thanks for that life I needed a good laugh I'm gonna get my new load I have a new load scheduled right out of Edmonton like down the road a little ways about 15 miles 20 miles it's going to do it Iowa I don't think I'm gonna be taking it down there I'm just gonna take it back to our yard and then I'll be back on my flatbeds but let's go get that and see what it is so I gotta be careful now on my way to my pickup because I have an empty trailer behind me now which is dead weight that I'm just pulling so I can get stuck very easy in the snow and ice you know what you know what I can go yeah thought about it thought about waiting I was like nope not this time not this time every other time I wait really spin and tire on pavement I'll do my best nope couldn't do it sorry mind winter time that much I just I don't like the part where the snow falls down that much on the road it's nice when you're at home and it's Christmas time you're watching the snowfall that's the one time a year I want to I want to see it fall but once it's on the ground and off the road it's not bad I don't get me wrong I don't like the really cold weather like anything below minus 20 it's rather not but I'm gonna be 35 next year which means this is my 35th winter on this planet since I've arrived and I've made it through every single one we're gonna make it through this one too if I told you we're already loaded the door swinger this is great I haven't even broken a sweat today I got unloaded and reloaded flying J here we're on the west side no pardon me east side of Edmonton and we're gonna scale this because I have a note in my computer here that they want a scale take it along with the paperwork for the border to make sure that the weights are illegal for the US that would be important because I'm not going to be taking it across the border there'll be another driver unless they want me to take it I'll gladly take it and this is gravy I don't mind being a door swinger her every now and then I want to make sure that the load is legal for the next driver so I fueled up here yesterday so I don't need to fuel up buddy what are you that what are you doing in the car side you know we always get upset when the cars come to the truck side well what are you doing in the car side whoops whoops a daisy turn in the wrong driveway maybe this is where we belong so where the big boys come I just got to find a parking spot oh no shoot I gotta go scale first I'm like saying I'm gonna go through the pumps here I want to have a shower too I was gonna say I got to quickly go park and then go shower let's scale first then we'll worry about that let's slowly roll through the pumps here because this isn't an ass car we don't want to run anyone over slowly go through here I'm gonna line up behind that guy on the scale looks like he's finished anyway perfect timing I'll show you how this scale works I haven't actually used a cat scale in quite a while because I'm usually pretty close to home and I can just use the scale at the yard that one's free for us so we're gonna wait here till he's done and we go up to this speaker there we push the button which isn't really a button it's kind of confusing sometimes you touch the button there and then they'll say hello and then you give them your unit number your trailer number your company and then once the light turns green you roll on to the scale they'll give you the way your truck per axle all at once and once they're done they'll tell you to go park you'll park somewhere out of the way and then you go in and get your scale ticket they're a little expensive they used to be 10 bucks I remember that yet 10 bucks now they're probably close to 20 bucks wait till this guy gets off the scale completely I'm not too sure what he was doing he didn't even seem to be talking to the people there all right talk to the good people here and it's always good to shut your truck off so they can hear you go up here we shouldn't have to press the call button again here but if we do then we do they know we're here they told us to go forward right somebody hit this thing apparently yes first way one two three seven thank you how do you hit that so first way is more expensive it used to be just a dollar for a re-way if you got to slide your axles and then get re-weight now it's probably more like two to five dollars who knows hopefully our weights are okay and I don't have to re-scale look at this at this flying jay it's kind of interesting they put the reserve parking all the way at the back of the parking lot usually that's like prime parking right you pay for it so you get a park at the front not here Edmonton puts you in the back sure you can reserve a spot you're parking in the back I find that funny better be cheaper than I guess how would you reserve the front right no one would listen to it everyone will just park there anyway you know how people are at least they have spots you can reserve I guess okay see that spot up there I want to go to that spot there I'm gonna go through this spot to that spot let's thread the needle here very very carefully again this isn't an ass car some drivers need a reminder of that that it's not a race in the parking lot take her easy okay everybody here wants to go home to their family could be walking around here through the trucks walking into the truck stop I don't know why people are always in such a rush like did the five seconds you save really like make a difference in your life I hope so I mean kind of on the uphill here good thing I'm loaded alright diesel so I'm gonna go inside get my scale ticket all you do is you go to the counter and you tell them hey I'm this unit number I just was on the scale they'll take your money and they'll give you your scale ticket usually to ask a few more questions at at the speaker there but I guess they're gonna ask me when I go in they'll ask you what company you drive for and what your trailer number is so if they don't ask you that at the scale make sure you have that information ready when you when you go in because they're gonna need it it goes on the scale ticket because when DOT looks at your scale ticket if you if they think you're overweight and they look at your scale ticket the trailer number better match the trailer number on the ticket otherwise they're gonna be like well you change trailers so how do we know that this ticket is even for this load right it's right man right I do right man thanks diesel you always got my back okay I'll be right back okay you guard the truck you don't let anybody touch it they can walk past it okay they can even look at it and if they give a thumbs up that's okay too but they can't touch it I want you to go nuts if they touch it okay deal right oh man you're the man counting on you I took too long again I had to re-way I had to slide the axles back two notches to move some weight off my trailer onto my drives of the truck here so we're at 33,680 now I think on the trailer both 33,000 even on my truck here and then like 11,000 on my steers so it's legal to go to the US well I had to do that twice go through the scale twice and then I had a shower and I had a good shower I enjoyed that shower it's been a little bit too long because I've been running around like crazy but we enjoyed that so now it's time to start heading home see how far we get today glasses they're always dirty always dirty I never knew the struggle before the struggle is real very real you learn the right techniques to use you don't ever touch the lens with your fingers your hands or anything instant smudge instant let's go home 1,000 oh where did my what in the world Karen here forgot where we were going that wasn't very nice I think it's about 1400 kilometers to home from here come on come on Karen wake up you haven't been drinking again have you better not she leaves me down some strange roads sometimes no right where I put my poppy is right where my seat belt goes shoot oh that's gonna get annoying all right there's 1,367 kilometers it's like a thousand miles less than a thousand miles I want to wear my poppy but you got to put it right in the right spot otherwise the seat belt messes with it you know what I'm gonna put it up here for now I don't want to poke it into just anything you know I'm gonna put it up here in my wallet keep it safe I'm gonna find a better spot for it where everybody can see it next time we stop all right safe let's go nice and heavy so I'm not too worried about all the snow I'll have good traction old blue's gotten up power under the hood don't gotta worry about that as long as the snow doesn't get worse I'm gonna get out of the city and stop at the first rest area to let diesel stretch his legs I just want to get out of the city and get moving you know have I told you already the load I picked up here this is going to do it Iowa I don't think I'm going all the way with it though I think I'm just going to the yard I'll probably hear from them either this afternoon real soon or tomorrow but guaranteed because I'm not a van driver right I'm a regional flatbed driver they'll probably want to put one of their guys on this load you know I'm way too nice every single time I should have gone I should have gone but no I'm here waiting for you then I got to wait for your friend behind you then I got to wait for Mr. Post Office man there and then someone's probably gonna come from there and I should have just gone you know yep now I gotta wait for Mr. Post Office that's okay it's okay better than cutting people off making them all mad right people do crazy things when they get mad that guy's going out the entrance I guess it doesn't matter right we're all going to the same place oh what a day not a hard working day like I said have me a broken a sweat there's a Timmy's but I just made my own coffee so maybe next time Timmy your coffee is too expensive and it's not strong enough either I always have to add an espresso to your coffee to make it taste like coffee I've been making coffee in my truck more it's been saving some money's got a house to build fuel bills to pay heating bills to pay taxes to pay lots of those slowly meandering his way through the snow not doing what he's supposed to be doing it was him that wanted to stop and for this whole trip it's been that way he's the one who tells me when he wants to stop he looks at me and gives me the signal hey I need to go outside okay how about let's stop let's bring you outside and then he just goes and sniffs around in circles and does nothing but never maybe just want some fresh air that's okay too look at that house back there wow a great but it's not the worst either it's just kind of blowing blustering the snow that's on the ground is getting blown around by a little bit of wind and it's lightly snowing down some new snow visibility is still okay we've still got about a mile or two visibility as you can see here I can see north battle for the last couple miles visibility there are a little slick obviously they're winter winter road I'm gonna keep going like I was saying this north battle for Saskatchewan we'll go to Saskatoon see how things are there and I would really like to make it down to at least Davidson Saskatchewan today or maybe even Balgoni if the weather gets even better see if it clears up or if it stays the same or gets worse storm has led up it was storming really bad I'm here in Saskatoon and I fueled up here did terrible fuel economy again my four miles per gallon the wind is just not in my favor this trip you know every time I volunteer for weekend work I seem to get stuck in a snowstorm with a van trailer she had bad luck the last couple of weeks but we're not behind I just wanted to be a little closer to home tonight because I wanted to be home tomorrow and have a lot of energy but I made the call to stay here in Saskatoon overnight because there's a snow a snow winter storm warning all the way down past Regina which is another three hours south from here and it was pretty bad between Lloyd Minster and here in Saskatoon is it was pretty bad like not gonna lie it was it was a little white knuckle a little bit of white knuckle driving for maybe about a 20 minutes stretch there and the rest of it just wasn't really that great either and it wasn't improving I got here I fueled up I looked at the weather called it a night I went and found one of the last parking spots I'm kind of like jammed in here very narrow spot I got this dry van like right beside me that someone dropped here I was able to fit in there probably can't see in the mirror there any there's too much of a reflection it's it's pretty close but I left enough room for them so they could crank their dollies up this was the last spot I could find in Saskatoon and on this side here I have a bobtail right beside me and I'm pretty close beside him but I left a plenty enough room that he can get out here in the morning walked around and made sure everyone could get out and I think I'm safe here I didn't have to pay for this spot so that's a bonus actually when I said that this was the last spot that was a lie I didn't mean to lie there's paid parking spots over there but I didn't want to pay again today so I paid last time already didn't want to pay twice in a week that gets expensive so this was the last unpaid parking spot in Saskatoon excuse me the co-op was full the petro pass was full Husky Esso was full by the flying J here was adjustable Husky we could have fit like another five to six trucks in the lot there guys would just park their trucks straight I was like they pull in there and they just pull the brakes they don't try to straight note or anything trailers all crooked taken and they're taking up two spots pull the brakes go in the bunk go to bed you could get a hold of those people I would tell them they're very not nice person because that's all I'm allowed to say on YouTube that's all I would do it's all I would say to them they're very not nice right diesel deal I don't know man you're a trucker I think you throw in a couple of extra words there any couple I think you say a little differently than that to be honest I know you I think it'd be quite different actually yeah well got to keep it YouTube friendly seriously I the ignorance the arrogance the what's the best word like non-curdiness the oblivious the self-centeredness the dumbnesses some of these guys out there and I know it's none of you because those guys don't watch my videos because if they watch my videos they know that they better park straight I drill that into you guys quite heavily and I don't apologize for that Park straight straight as you can and leave room for someone else don't take up two spots nothing frustrates me more actually I have a lot of pet peeves on the road that's what this vlog is all about I tell you guys about them all the time I probably have more pet peeves than the average person but whatever it's because I take pride in my work I take pride in the way I drive driving is an art form this is what I do is all I've ever wanted to do when I was a little kid I would attach wagons and bikes and strollers and anything I could pull behind me to the back of my bike and I'd pull them around like a little trucker with my bicycle is all I've ever wanted to do was drive trucks so I take pride in it I want to do it right I want to do it well I don't want to be in anybody else's way I want to be courteous I want to make room for everybody at the truck stop I want to take up as little space as possible and just do it right it bugs me that other people out there just don't take it as serious they don't take it serious they're just I don't know if they're just in it for a paycheck or if they hate their job maybe they do I don't blame them not everyone would like this job I'm kind of weird I love it but you guys all know the guys I'm talking about that's none of you none of you I know I can talk freely about them here on my channel because they don't watch my channel I don't know they're who knows what they're doing but yeah anyways I found a parking spot so all is good all is good in the world the snow seems oh it's picking up again and it's picking up again that's why I stopped the forecast said it's going to slow down around 5 to 6 a.m. so I want to get rolling out of here to about 6 a.m. if I can and we'll see what to see what happens thanks for hanging out with me thanks for listening to my little bit of a rant here if you want to follow me on other social media all my social medias are down below in the description I'm on pretty much all of the platforms you can find me anywhere just 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