 Hello, this is Todd Taylor the Vanjo Man coming to you live from my studio from Nashville, Tennessee to Spartanburg, South Carolina When I'm touring or no matter where I'm at I love watching Trucker Josh TV and thank you Trucker Josh for pulling that freight from Canada to USA and everywhere you go Without truckers, you know, we wouldn't have a lot of food or anything. May God bless you safe travels happy to say that this time running through the US delivering this lumber and Running back up to Canada. I'm just tipping in here. I'm seeing that all of the stores here are now adopting All of the measures that we've that we have in place in Canada as well, which is great to see for social distancing They have like lines on the floor. They were enforcing it at the I stopped at Walmart for some quick groceries Just real quick in and out They were they had the same social distancing measures enforced only allowing a certain amount of people into the building at a time So they implemented it probably about a week or two after we did and I had come down just during that period before they Implemented these new measures. So I thought that they weren't taking it very serious and they thought that they weren't As as a general where I was traveling anyways didn't feel like they had any measures in place But that's changed now and even this Little gas station where I'm at now. I just went in there to wash my hands real quick use the bathroom Grab a coffee while I was in there and I'm not able to pour my own coffee anymore at least here in Wisconsin. I mean every state's different, right? They pour for me and before she even grabbed the cup for me She sanitized her hands put on gloves and then she grabbed a cup poured me my coffee and I didn't have to touch anything So it was great. So they've really upped their measures here Sort of to be in line with what we were doing up in Canada. It's good to see it's good to see that everyone's being careful It's good. So let's all continue being careful and hopefully hopefully we can get through this soon I'd really like a date. I wish we could have a date to be like this is the date When we go back to normal if it's September 30th, it's September 30th, but a nice date would be nice, but Alas The world we live in is very unpredictable and it changes day by day hour by hour. So Let's get to trucking though Today should be a little bit more of an exciting day than yesterday Everything goes smoothly and goes right right. We're here at our shipper Ensuring that when we go in there, we won't be speaking moistly on anyone Have I beaten that joke into the ground yet? You can thank our prime minister It's the gift that keeps on giving All right So this is gonna be an interesting Interesting pickup because They're gonna load me at a dock Guess I should get this stuff moved. I want it right up against the step here Yeah, you're gonna drive right on here and plop it on here And then I've got a tarp it and then I go pick up my other stuff Not very often I back into a dock anymore Hey, whatever works, whatever works. I don't mind I gotta go move those tarps. I'm gonna start so I'll be right back So we're quite a ways down the road in Menominee, Wisconsin on our way back already both our pickups done First pick up half of it is tarped Half of it's under there This is the other half of it And our second pickups back here. It's three bundles of hardwood lumber It's going to Steinbeck actually I'm gonna deliver this thing to moral and the other stuff I'll deliver Thursday morning probably That's us going to Winnipeg bit of a mismatched load, but it's getting us back. It's getting us moving My hands smell like soap as should yours people are not social distancing That's okay. They're living in the same truck. So it doesn't matter because you never know could be his wife That's half his age You never know wash our hands take a quick bathroom break my hands again We made it up to the Speedway truck stop I think that's what it's called Speedway speed lines something like that Just before clear water on the way west in Minnesota on I-94 forget what exit it was We stopped there for the night found a good spot off on our own had a great sleep Today, which is gonna be tomorrow's vlog We go the rest of the way which is about another six hours and I have all day to do it because I don't deliver My first stop in Steinback till tomorrow the next day in the morning. So I got all day to do six hours of driving Across the border today. Everything should be ready. They said that my My bills and customs papers are already and in order. So they should be ready for me at the border I'll go for as soon as I deliver my second stop, which will be in Winnipeg Right after I deliver Steinback So I go to Steinback put a Winnipeg deliver it and then I I made myself available to keep going right away And they made some kind of comment about Jackson, Tennessee. I cannot confirm that at this point I told them right away is off of I didn't even hesitate. I said, yep. Yeah, I'm your man. Let's go Jackson, Tennessee Let's go But if that comes to pass or not We'll see hopefully they got something for me that I can just Get going right away. It's Because I just want to keep moving. I'm just in the mood to work The truck has been running very well. I keep going going going on I'm gonna have to go all summer pretty much because of the the bad first quarter that I had the bad first quarter that We all had plus on top of that the extra Bad first quarter that I had because of all the maintenance. That's why my quarter was bad but you know with everything sort of On a decline right now as well there's less stuff moving around and you know, I just want to grab up and gobble up everything I can and Hall as much freight as I can during this and hopefully hopefully we can make it through it and come out the other side Relatively unscathed, but there will be you know scratches and marks and scars a little bit from it, but As long as our heart's still beating just food in the fridge at home And fueling my tanks And freight to haul we're still good to go right so I'll see you guys tomorrow. Thanks for joining me Thanks for tuning in to my channel here and following me on my life if you're new here You're welcome to subscribe we make a new video pretty much every day It's I've been doing this for what seven or eight years or something. That's just sort of documenting my life It's a video blog of sort of like a collection of my thoughts not necessarily just about trucking But there is a lot of trucking content because that's what I happen to do for a living and that's what I happen to be passionate about so it's what I talk about a lot and what I do a lot of So you're gonna get a lot of that here, but a blog is a Well, this is a vlog. So it's a video blog. It's a it's a video collection of my thoughts I'm not here to be an educational channel. I'm not a trainer I'm not a barrel of knowledge. I'm here learning just like you guys, but this is me just Jumping my thoughts into the internet and seeing what comes back So far it's been a positive experience because all of you are here with me. So I appreciate it guys and gals forget Apparently I can't say just guys anymore, but you girls know what I mean when I say you guys that means everybody, right? You know that you guys are smart. I've got a great audience, you know, I had a friend of mine recently talking to me And he was complimenting you guys He was saying, you know, he's watched a lot of other YouTube channels a lot of youtubers And there's a lot of miserable people on the internet. We all know we all know them Maybe you know one of them personally, but most of us don't because they're keyboard warriors You know, they're all angry behind their keyboard, but once you meet them in person. They're actually decent people who keep their mouth shut but You know, I don't have a lot of trolls on my on my account my comment section is always pretty pretty wholesome for the most part and You guys are great. You're supportive. You're here with me every day Even when I have bad quality, you still watch it You still give the thumbs up and I appreciate that and I want you to know that that I really value and cherish the internet friendship that we have Created here, even though you know me a lot better than I know you A lot better. It's it's crazy because I don't know who's watching my videos. I really don't know You could be some rich millionaire billionaire somewhere in the world watching little old me But in the comments section, you know, it's all a level playing field. I don't know who you are You could be someone famous. I had a musician email me recently that they watched my videos And it's actually a famous musician that I oh, I'm a big fan of Email me said hey, I love your videos. I'm glad Glad for what you do. Thanks for keeping the freight moving and I was just like speechless just sitting there just like Why died like I watch you all the time. I love your music. You watch my videos Who knows a lot of guys are truckers just like me Maybe your politicians I know that there's some of you people on the border who watch the border that watch my videos I know you do sometimes you let it slip because you ask me how diesel's doing instead of asking me how my dog is doing So giving away that you know his name Your secret safe with me you watch trucker Josh vlogs, I know you do and There's also police officers that watch my video RCMP US police officers. There's federal Police that watch my video. There's people who work in the government in Washington, DC Who have reached out to me who have stumbled across my videos at one point or another and just wanted to say hey cool videos Thanks for making them and stuff people in the government in Ottawa in Canada and from around the world as well It's What I'm trying to say is that you guys know me a lot more than I know you I don't know your story I don't know who you are But I appreciate you and thanks for hanging out here with me day by day means a lot to me and Gives me something to do in my spare time making videos for you And it's nice to just be able to get my thoughts just out onto the internet And you know, I learn a lot from you guys sometimes I realize I'm wrong Other times I'm like, yeah, I guess I was right about that because a lot of people agree with me I'm just an average guy Doing my job Hanging out with you and I hope to hang out with you tomorrow, too So if you haven't already subscribed to my channel leave me a comment down below if you feel like it And I'll see you tomorrow