 Hi, this is Debbie from Socan. You're watching Trucker Josh with his friend Diesel. Enjoy the show! Good morning everybody. It's another new day. We just unloaded our OSB board here in Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. There's my last piece right there. He's gonna put it inside and I'm gonna head on down to St. Joseph. So as soon as they make room for me here, I gotta drive past them there. Maybe if I start inching forward they'll, they'll move. Is that rude? Little hint, little push. I can wait. They're doing something with paperwork there. So our next load is in St. Joseph, Missouri, which is about three hours from here. We got to take the back roads because the main roads are closed. Interstate 29 is closed and I don't know why, but we got to take the back way, the scenic way. Can we go now? Is that a little aggressive? Little bit of a hint. Freddy 130, so when they're tuned in, we'll only be there at 4.30 or 5 o'clock. So I might not even get loaded today. I mean, I know the trailer there is already loaded, but I don't know if they close their gates at a certain time. For some reason I think that they close up at, like, North 84th Street. For some reason I think that they close up at 3 o'clock. I'm pretty sure that last time I was there, they told me that they go home at 3. Which means I won't make it there today. Which means I'll have to sleep there and go get my load in the morning. Which I mean is fine by me, whatever. It's about a day's drive home from there. A little over. But if we only have to get loaded tomorrow, I'm fine with that, not ever. See if I can get onto the road here. Apparently 130 rush hour. I guess it's lunchtime. Everybody's going back to work. I have no idea. Okay, so I got both GPSs going on me here. I'm going to listen to Google because Google knows which roads are closed. Mandy does not. So I'm going to silence Mandy here. We'll just pay attention to Google today. There is construction and road closures everywhere around Omaha and Council Bluffs, everywhere. Everything is under construction. And if it's not under construction, the entire road is just closed. Like check it out on Google. I don't know, by the time you watch this, maybe they will have opened the interstate. But I-29 from north of Omaha, all the way down into Missouri. Like it's even hundreds of miles closed. What happened? I thought I heard someone talk about that there was a flood or something, that there's flooding. But I don't see any flooding. So it was a little frustrating. It took me a little longer than I wanted you to get to my customer today to deliver this freight. So now I'm behind. And I probably won't get my new low till tomorrow morning because of that. Because it's going to take me longer to get to St. Joseph now as well because of this. But I'm not really complaining. I mean, we get to see the scenic route. And at the same time, it's not going to slow me down. I mean, I'll get home at around the same time anyways like Friday, midday. I'll probably stay home till like Sunday evening or so Monday morning. See what they have for me. I haven't talked to them about that yet. And it's the safety blitz week. So of course, every scale is open. Trying to get some of these bugs off my windshield. They just keep coming back. I love it so much. I love it so much. It means that summer is here. I love seeing bugs on my windshield. So much better than seeing snow on my windshield. That truck ahead of me got called into the weigh station. He's going to blow it. He's blowing the scale. Yeah, he just blew the scale. You're going to get chased down, buddy. It's blitz week. We both got called in. Oh, dude. I've never seen someone do that right in front of me before. He's going to get in trouble. All right, let's see what they want with me here. I don't know if that guy's going to get chased down or what. They're just letting them go. I know he may have the pre-pass inside his truck, but during the blitz week, I believe we all get pulled in. I mean, I have the pre-pass too, and they're telling me to come into every scale. They also had a sign that once you cross, there's a big sign that lights up and says, truck must exit. And it lit up for him. I saw it. He just drove right on past. Oh, well. Maybe there's something going on that I don't understand. But they let me go anyways. They didn't really want to talk to me. I'm empty, so nothing to show them. I feel light as a feather. So nice. I called the customer of the shipper, St. Joseph, and I am going to be getting there after they leave, but she's going to get all my paperwork ready for me so that I can grab my paperwork, hook onto my trailer, tie it down and get going today. And so that's really nice of her. I appreciate that. Joseph, Missouri. This time I'm not going to miss this turn. I'm going to turn right here. The last two times I've missed this turn and gone straight. Of course, our load is just down the street. It's an old part of town. Took for effort to get here, but I guess it must be the river that's getting kind of high because I went over the river from Kansas to get here to St. Joseph, Missouri. And yeah, the river was really high. Really high. I'm pretty sure that was the Mississippi River that I crossed. Right? That's the river that goes between Kansas and Missouri, right? Taking you through here a couple of times. Just every other time I've missed my turn, old part of town. So it looks like my trailer is sitting there waiting for me from what I've heard. All the paperwork's waiting there for me and I'll be able to leave with it today. Much better than having to wait until the morning. I think I just keep going straight here, right? Green light. Green light is a bit of a confusing intersection. Hey, everything looks like it's good. Oh, how dare you? How dare you? There's not even anybody waiting. Oh, there's a guy over there. Okay. Okay, I get it. I get it. Guy off to the right waiting for the green light. We're all stopping just for you, Mr. TX Valley, number 37. That's a big 37 on the side of his truck. Good for you. He was looking at me. Strange. Getting me a dirty look. Why'd he get me a dirty look? Maybe he knows I was talking about him. Well, oh man, it was a long day yesterday evening loading that freight up. They had to unload half of it and then reload it and some of the freight was damaged and I had to make a note of that. And then I got about maybe an hour and a half down the road. I don't even know where we are. Where are we? We're in a small town called, where are we? Speak to me. Villisca, Iowa. We had to take the back roads because the interstate is closed. So this is where we ended up. A little gravel parking lot. I was lucky I found this place. I pulled in here with four minutes left on my clock. Oh well, let's go take a look at the load. So it's another hot one out here. Wow. Load. So this stuff was easy to tie down except that I had to move a bunch of the stuff on top because they had placed it on top in such a way that, again, I couldn't tie it down. So I put this stuff down here. That little piece down there. That's the only way I could tie that down. And it's just a whole bunch of steel. And you got to make sure like, these pieces are weaker than these pieces. Different gauge, right? It's a much thinner piece of steel than this. So that stuff bends very easy and they got some of that stuff on top. So you got to make sure that you don't bend that and reed down on it too hard. And it's all that stuff on top of there. They had to reload in this back section. They had to unload and reload. But that's what we're looking at. There's more on top yet. So we have to use straps on this stuff. We can't use chains. The stuff on top is very, like I said, very fragile. Very, you got to be very careful with it. The stuff on the top is very fragile. So you have to be careful with it. And chains would wreck it. So you got to use straps with corner pieces on each and every one. You got to be very careful and gentle. And at the same time, you got to be tough and strong to make sure that these big pieces don't fly off, right? These are heavy. They would do a lot of damage if they fell off your trailer. Don't want that. All right, Diesel. Well, it's time to say goodbye to everybody. Thanks for watching today. We'll see you again tomorrow. Take care.