 Good morning people of the world We're in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on a very special mission. I have a load in my trailer. That's only 6,000 pounds It's going to Laredo, Texas So I'm going right down the I-99 29 corridor from the Canadian border right down to the Mexican border We're not crossing into Mexico, but we're going right up there in Laredo delivering to a location That's literally within eyesight of the Mexican border and the Rio Grande Haven't been down that far in a long time. So it's special and I got to make sure I can see where I'm going every morning All day glasses is the struggle of having glasses, you know Keeping them clean without scratching them. I use these moist papers. What are they called? they're like like these I found that using stuff like this. It's just worth the cost because everything else scratches them But this keeps them nice and clean I'm a little bit worried about Chevy back at home. Our big golden fluffer or a big golden dog He's gotten in eye infections in both eyes and we don't know why Uh He's being rushed into well, he's being brought into the emergency vet in Winnipeg by Britt Because all the other vets are closed when I'm filming this it's a little bit in the past takes me a little while to get these out To you when I'm filming this is New Year's Eve So I'm hoping to catch some fireworks sometime tonight here in the United States somewhere, but that's A different story right now. I'm kind of concerned about Chevy He had to go in there because all the other vets were closed and uh I think Britt's dad is coming to help with Theo at the time because it would be very overwhelming Taking a big dog like that into a vet in Winnipeg Uh with a baby In tow yet too. So he's uh, he's gonna go there. Thanks. Thanks dad Very thankful that he was able to go there and help her today because I'm out here working So I'm waiting for an update. I got a reminder. Please keep me updated Smiley face. I know she's really stressed right now. So I don't want to overwhelm her with more stuff Uh keep me updated I'll send that I think that's good. I don't want to overwhelm her with anything more like just if she has time She understands if you have time send me a message to let me know how it's going His eyes became like kind of uh irritated yesterday as I was leaving of course just as I leave to work, right? and uh today apparently they got worse and they were starting to pass a little bit and uh She called the vet in town. Obviously they're closed today The only one that's open is the emergency vet, which is over an hour away in Winnipeg So it's a bit of a hike to get there. It's not a life or death situation for him right now, but Yeah, it's going to be a very stressful day for Britt back at home. So I'm going to be uh A little bit off and worried thinking about her and everything going on there So I'm thinking I'm probably going to make it down close to oklahoma city tonight I'm hoping to go there. Uh, oklahoma's got some cheap juice diesel prices there for me or like below three dollars a gallon 288 on my fuel card from what my uh Info here is telling me like Oklahoma, I like you I'm gonna fill up my tanks in your state and give you some of my money. How's that sound? I won't quite make it there on the fuel I have now I have half tanks and it's a thousand kilometers or 600 miles Approximately a little less than that probably 500 Well, we'll see but it's a full day of driving to get there and I don't think I'll have quite enough So what I'm going to do is the next cheapest is in Iowa here and council bluffs just down the road a little Little ways I'm going to go there. Maybe top up one tank Just just enough so that I'm sure I can get there And then I'll fuel tonight or tomorrow morning In oklahoma city I'm going to try to do it tonight if I can because I've done it before and you guys have seen this Where I go to bed and I'm like, oh the fuel prices are cheap here I'll fuel in the morning and I wake up in the morning and the fuel prices went up So and when you see a low fuel price you go for it now And you can't can't wait till tomorrow because they'll they'll get you that way I've already done my whole pre-trip Gotten that out of the way The blue warming up I'm probably gonna have to take this off today Temperature is going to be like but I know that this front is going to be coming off either today or tomorrow It's going to be too warm for it down there We've got the 53 foot flatbed roll tight behind us And only about two-thirds of the trailer is loaded But it is a full load Got probably about to this axle here That is empty so It's a really good load to take down nice and light Light is a feather I might as well practically be empty The thing that cost me the most fuel Is that there that wall You see how much higher it is in my truck What they would call aerodynamic But neither is this Look at that yesterday I don't have W900 I don't know what fuel economy is Okay, I'm ready It's coming with me and brakes work and The brakes release fantastic. Let's continue our trip. Casey's truck stop that I stopped at They always have really nice food and stuff inside as well Not like restaurants or anything, but you know, they got some pizzas and chicken They got a decent selection Healthy stuff and non-healthy stuff Turn left on sundown or avenue and then turn left and do 110 meters I am way too nice again. Oh two I-29 gotta go straight. Okay That sign right in front of us there up to the right. They want to go straight Okay I was gonna go left Through south Dakota. I believe or what about halfway down the state. We're right on the eastern part Turn left on sundown or avenue and then turn left and do 110 meters And then we dip into Iowa a little bit Maybe in Nebraska I don't know. We're not actually going to go through Kansas City though. We're going to take a shortcut I believe it's highway 75 A little bit of a shortcut that takes us straight to interstate 35 And we don't got to go through the city. This is good and avoid that mess Weird the way they painted these lines here a turn line it looks like there's two but That's the way they painted them. That's the way I'm going to use them Su City, Iowa On the bridge I don't even know what it is, but I remember it There's a story behind it. I learned it once I vlog going through here probably like, I don't know Eight years ago or something eight nine years ago and this artwork on the bridge doesn't mean something It's sort of like that modern art, you know modern art that doesn't really have to make sense But the meaning behind it is the true art Take a look at him. Tell me what you think be behind it and what it means to the artist Karen I'm trying to tell a story here Without knowing like what the artist intended Sorry guys, she will not stop talking over me Rude Karen that's rude You get what I was trying to say though, right? How can you possibly know what they're trying to tell you? Maybe that sort of is supposed to inspire us to research it and google it I could always do that So here's the pilot off on our left here. It's a juice It's not the cheapest juice on my road, but it is the cheapest juice until I get to the cheapest I know Karen you don't have to always talk over me, you know You could just let me talk every now and then It's trucker josh vlogs not trucker gps karen blogs Always Oh and these guys are parked back here, which makes it harder to get into the pumps Very nice. That won't be a problem for me. No, I'm gonna go to this one right here first pump That's a terrible spot for those guys to park Tell the government what we're doing because we're changing our duty status are no longer driving now We're working not driving We're fueling They have to know They're nosy people Okay, so I'm sitting at I should look before I start I'm thinking I think I'm at just about below half tank here Let's wait for this thing to boot up one sec. Let me grab you Okay, come here. That's what we're sitting at for fuel. Let's go grab some fuel You have five hours and five minutes of remaining drive time Well, okay, then what I'm probably gonna do is once I'm done fueling here I'm gonna move to a parking spot and make this my half hour break So that I get my eight hours. Let's see No, wait shoot I'd lose five minutes then because I still have eight hours and five minutes of drive time available So what we're gonna do here is we're just gonna fuel and go and then we'll take our half hour break A little ways down the road. Otherwise, I lose five minutes of drive time because I have eight hours and five minutes left Huh, okay. Let's just fuel and go Uh, the guy in Oklahoma City. I want to give you a shout out. Your name's Rob Uh, thanks for reaching out to me through email and uh explaining your whole situation that you're in right now and uh I wish you all the best. I really wish I I really really do wish I could stop by and say hello Uh, maybe on the way back up We'll see We'll see all depends on which direction they're they're sending me from laredo. I might become a straight back north right through here Maybe it'll work out But I do wish you all the best and A happy new year as happy as we can make it All right, so we bought 50 gallons of fuel or 100 and Or where is it here 189 liters cost me 153 dollars american 203 dollars canadian price was $3.07 per gallon u.s. Or in canadian all conversions included A dollar and seven and a half cents So 107.5 One dollar seven per liter Way cheaper than back home. Tell you that much All right, god bless america Speaking of which let's continue on down to mexico Mexico border Not going into mexico lights are on Looks like this place is packed right full already Yikes These are the kind of parking spots. Oh, there's some available here though. That guy is taking up two or three really? These are the parking lots parking lots that are very risky to park in and there's these guys who like what's going on here I guess this is the exit truck exit And that's sat brothers right across the street. Oh, there's a blue beacon here Oh, I wonder if there's a lineup. I wonder if there's a lineup Oh boy I'm gonna go look I'm gonna go look I was thinking of washing the truck tomorrow, but I want to go straight across and that guy wants to turn in front of me I'll let him go first go go go go go buddy. Go go go go go go go go go I didn't even notice you were here What's this guy doing now? I'll turn my radio on just in case someone's chirping I had turned the volume down before they have three bays here. Oh wow Oh, but it's closed truck wash You can see it over there. They have a bar across the entrance. I know the fisheye lens Oh, because it's new year's eve, of course, of course, of course. Okay. Well I don't know what this guy's doing, but I was gonna do exactly what he's Doing I just need to turn around Okay, well, I'll just go left then Let's raise new year's eve This guy and his fancy rims Fancy fancy Shoot. Yeah closed probably closed early. You can tell they were open today at some point This is all wet from trucks that have come out of there. We're too late And tomorrow's new year's day so no blue beacon will be open tomorrow either shoot All right, I guess we gotta just How do I get out of here now? There's an exit. There we go. We're rolling this way Guess I should have maybe gone there first with the time now time is four o'clock. I bet you they closed at four o'clock shoot Should have gone there then fueled I did not realize Onward then with a dirty truck. Sorry old blue. I tried Got away the day or two I am too nice. I should have gone in front of this guy. I don't know in front of those guys though Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep Here's these art pieces up here again Come on guys pick it up Oh shoot. Yeah, I gotta get in this lane though There we go There we go. All right, we're all set. We got everything figured out here. I think I'm gonna get back on interstate 29 southbound And I believe it's 75 that we take to take a little shortcut North of Kansas City because Kansas City sort of veers off to the east And I 29 is coming south like this right and the shortcut sort of just cuts straight through here And the I 29 comes around like this and you just sort of take a shortcut and meets up with I 35 Which takes us right down to laredo right to Mexico so slow That we ended up staying there a half hour anyways Took 20 minutes Just over 20. I think it was 22 minutes 29 south that is not right. That would be left Karen. Don't mislead me They must have changed this No one told Karen don't want to take the I80 eastbound. Why are you telling me to take the I80 east? No, I'm gonna keep to the left on I 29 south. What's wrong with you? Come on Karen Get with the times here update Didn't I just update you last week? I'm gonna go they changed all of this because It hasn't updated in my GPS yet and that was done recently Must have been who knows But yeah, anyways, it took 22 minutes to fill up 50 gallons honestly I didn't even fill up the whole I didn't fill up halfway like 50 gallons. That's how slow that pump was Which is interesting because a lot of the pumps I've been going to like st Cloud minnesota has been really slow lately too grand forks was really slow Is this like a new thing that they're doing applying j? Slow pumps at 22 minutes for 50 gallons and then I pulled forward I went inside I Grabbed a coffee went to the bathroom and a little bit of a lineup inside by the time I came out There was still no one behind me because I'd pulled forward and I had reached my 30 minutes So I was like the only time you'll ever see trucker Josh taking his 30 minutes in the pumps Not on purpose We have departed from I 29 and we're now on number two west Iowa Looks like we are going to cross to the Nebraska right up here over the hill dot dot dot the good life Where the good life is it's in Nebraska Now, you know one of those funny intersections Turning on to 75 south towards alburn Slide left Well, I see that we're already in it kind of ticket or something and this turnpike Toll road, so I got a little ticket here cash only Or if they have credit card like because if it's cash only they should really be telling us this before we get here, right? Most places I would assume would have I mean, I don't have much cash on me a little bit, but I guess we're gonna find out So we got on this toll road Uh, as soon as we got on to 35 right? Turnpike there and we went all the way past Wichita. Now we're down south getting close to the Oklahoma border And this is where we got to pay our It says cash. I bet you they're just gonna ask me for cash I got to give them this uh ticket. I guess I'm staying to the right here because it's a little bit more space to get through I don't want to go through that narrow thing Okay, I'm gonna give them my little my ticket here We'll see how much this costs and how I got to pay for this 40 25 is it you can take a card awesome That was my question because all the signs just say cash cash cash I don't come through here that often so Thanks, you too that answers that question Fourth of Oklahoma City on I-35 in Oklahoma According to my trucker path app all the truck stops in the city are full That's okay. I didn't really want to stay in the city. Anyways, I can't quite get there So there's either this truck stop here. I'm just pulling in here just to check I'm pretty sure it's gonna be full at least I think Maybe not but if it is full my next option is to go to cowboy's travel plaza Which is just like another 15 20 miles down the road south Oh, it looks like there's a parking available here. Let's see if I can find a good spot It's like a little mon pot truck stop down the road that I was thinking of going to If I couldn't find any parking here, but I might get lucky Oh, I will get lucky. Oh my there's like nobody here. Oh, that's because it's New Year's everybody's at home It's right. It's right Okay, good. Well, then we're staying here for the night Why are all the spots numbered though? Do we have to pay numbered usually that means you got to pay for your spot? But it is if that's the case find out Now I found a great spot here Well, we're gonna have to do some research Come with me. Come here. Come here Come here. All right Usually when they number the spots like this that means you've got to pay for your specific spot And the fact that it's so empty here Also kind of tells me that It might be paid parking because most truckers then would not park here That's one way to kill your business as a truck stop You want to kill your business and scare away all of your customers that you need to make business? Charge them for parking You will That's one way just to your business. Okay. Just heads up here for my trucker been driving for a while I'm gonna tell you right now that if they're gonna charge me to park here tonight. I am not staying here I'm leaving As most other drivers would do you want to make money? That's not the way to do it The reason for that is simple I am mandated by law to stop The government tells me that I have to stop right now. I have tons of energy I feel like I could drive for like another four or five hours. I I'm not ready to park I couldn't fall asleep even if I tried right now But the government says I have to stop So I have to stop. I have no choice I have a little bit more time if I need to get down the road if they're gonna charge me But if I'm gonna be told by the government that I have to stop By penalty of law, they could even throw you in prison I mean, it's the only one of the only jobs in the world where you could actually go to prison for working overtime I don't like it if you want to work So, uh, both sides of the border canada and the us they both mandate us a little bit different rules But same idea. So if you're gonna charge me to park When I don't want to park, but I'm being told by the government that I have to park That does not make me a happy trucker. If that's the case if you want to charge us for parking I think the government should pay for it because they're the ones that are telling us to park Because I wouldn't be parking here if they wouldn't have told me to park So that responsibility of all you want to charge somebody charge them I'm sorry. My truck has got to stop and it's not my choice So I shouldn't have to pay. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. Do you agree with me? Do you disagree with me? Let me know down below in the comment section I just want to quickly update you on the Chevy situation Because I forgot to at the end of this vlog. So Chevy's okay. This is uh, he'll be just fine He has pink eye in both eyes Both eyes. So we have some antibiotics. Britt's got all the medication She needs for him and he'll be okay. Uh, this has happened to our little wiener dog before too Um, the cause of this is a little bit disturbing a little bit gross. So Fair warning We have to be very careful to pick up all the droppings all the poop from our dogs all the time because Two of our dogs like to pick it up for us if we don't by Eating it Okay, I told you it's gross So we have to be actively stop them from doing that. We have tried everything and we're still trying To make this stop but It's a it's a thing that we have. So what's most likely happening is that one of them Finds a little uh present and a little snack a little brownie outside Eats it and we don't realize it or we don't catch them in time And then when we go inside they clean each other sometimes they lick each other's faces and stuff to clean each other and some of that gets into Another one's eye causing an infection. It's gross and That's the most likely scenario of what happened. We don't know for sure if that's what happened. We just Just what makes the most sense We've tried giving them those treats or whatever that that it's supposed to make their droppings taste bad so that they don't want to eat it doesn't work Oh, we've tried many other things and we'll continue to keep trying to get them to curb that behavior, but Sometimes the dog's just gonna be a dog, you know So that's the situation. That's what happened, but Chevy will be just fine. He got the care he needed Uh, total cost. I think was a couple hundred dollars I think three hundred and some dollars canadian for this so Yeah It is what it is right our dogs are part of the family When things go wrong You gotta take care of them and just take more steps again and renew our Uh efforts to try to curb that behavior or catch it before it even happens But he's gonna be all right so Good news. Take care everybody Sorry to leave you on that gross note, but it is what it is. I'll see you tomorrow Please if you haven't already don't forget to subscribe drive safe on the roads out there Pay attention. Keep your stick on the ice See you