 It would have been nice if they would have used black ink instead of white ink a little bit hard to read it, but silver play button Only took 11 years or 10 years and we're 3,000 videos, but that's the award for Achieving 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. The next one is that 1 million subscribers It's a gold one and then a 10 million. It's a diamond one I think diamond not real diamond and then I think at a hundred million. It's platinum We'll get there one step at a time one step at a time. So That was exciting. I came in. It's actually quite a little bit of a hassle to get that thing They don't just send them out you have to apply for them and then they have to review your channel and Then you have to enter in a bunch of information and then they send it out to you, but I figured out how it's done and There we go. It's on the wall Silver play button So today's video is a bit of a mishmash I had vacation time this week and I didn't film much a little bit here A little bit there got a bunch of projects done got some paperwork done You'll see towards the end of this video. We cleared out that shed I Got the lawnmowed So here's the vlog a little bit a little bit of everything from from throw it the week a little bit here a little bit there I'm that guy at Tim Horton's in his pajamas Better believe it. I don't care Saturday pajama day I'm pretty sure it's written into the law somewhere It's in the fine print of one of those bills that get pushed through that nobody reads All must wear pajamas on Saturdays, but every other day of the week Professional when you get out of your truck you better look professional. You better look good. You better smell good I Know I keep talking about that because I keep walking into truck stops and realizing that not everybody watches my videos You want to give a friendly public service announcement and a friendly reminder as friendly as I could possibly make this Put some deodorant on you know who you are You stink Look good smell good Take care of yourself you know if I end up buying a second truck and hiring a driver to Drive it. I would expect that. I'm not gonna tell them what to wear and like demand them and give them a uniform or anything But I am gonna expect a certain amount of professionalism If you're gonna be driving my truck I want you to look good smell good when you get to the customer when you go into truck stops when you present yourself to people That's just me though. I mean maybe other people don't care. I think a lot of people do care I think more people care than we know. I think everybody cares 99.9% of people care a lot. I'm here at home doing business stuff There never really is a day off as an owner operator and that's okay You own your own business you run your own business You got to take care of your expenses all your paperwork your taxes Lucky for me. My mom owns an accounting business and she's been an accountant for over 40 years So that helps out a great deal So my main job is to keep records of absolutely everything and that's what I got all these books for red book is for fuel mileage What I've been filling up spending on fuel the blue book is for old blue obviously a Summary of everything in here I keep track of all of my loads every single load that I do what I'm getting paid for it What my rate is how much I'm making per mile on that load? How many empty miles I drove to get to that load Keep track of all of that then at the end of the month. I Just finished doing this for June and July. I'm not gonna show you the numbers here just right now Because that's kind of personal but what I do here is I keep track of my gross revenue the money that my truck brought in all together and Then I keep track of the net what I get to keep off that gross income because I'm contracted to Keystone They get a cut or maybe I get a cut of whichever way you look at it the majority of it is mine, but they take a small piece off that I guess for You know, they got to keep their roof over their head and their lights on too Obviously, and it is their accounts that I'm hauling for so I'm contracted to them I can only haul loads for them, but it's my truck my business So that's the way it works. I get a certain percentage, which is the pretty much the majority of the Rate goes to me because I have the majority of the expenses So I keep track of the net what I get to keep after that Keep track of my loaded miles my empty miles and then my total miles and then I calculate how much I'm kept per mile and Then I calculate my fuel expenses my licensing fees all my permits all the other fees that I have insurance and everything So in total I can tell you this My fuel cost in June was twelve thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents Canadian My licensing fees were one and other fees like Insurances and everything else added in their tarp rentals one thousand eight hundred ninety seven dollars thirty seven cents So in total my expenses For June was fourteen thousand forty seven dollars and seventy seven cents So what I'm doing then is I'm taking my expenses Putting them up against my net income and how many miles I drove and then I can figure out exactly What my fuel cost me per mile and what my total cost was per mile to operate my truck It's very important to know that you want to know exactly how much money you're spending to move this truck a mile down the road On average like that's over the whole month whether you're loaded or empty all the miles throughout the month on average How much did it cost you to move your truck one mile per mile? And you can sort of get an idea of what to expect in the following months, right? And you can keep track of it month by month this way that way if it suddenly starts to spike and go up You gonna you know you got to start asking questions. Hey, whoa, whoa, what's going on? Why are my expenses shooting up so high right? This isn't taking into effect my services or Putting the tire patches on there that all comes out of the revenue that I keep I didn't add that in here I guess I could that wanted to I Didn't for this for this exercise this purpose my records here But yeah, there's a way I know how much I went down and then I keep track of how much I kept per mile So every mile that my truck moved down the road. How much went into my pocket after expenses after fuel after everything else But before you know maintenance, maybe I could add that in there in the future. I think maybe I should then I Get a better idea, but services only happen every two months or so every six to eight weeks depending on how much you drive So I had a pretty good month in June, but I had a better month in July It's funny because in in June I drove a total. I didn't get that many miles drove a total of 9,000 942 miles my goal for the month is 10,000 so I was just under In July we had a lot of fertility appointments. I had to be home for a lot of appointments So I didn't get quite as many miles. I got I Drove 8,710 That's why I keep track of this because I look over that last month. I'm like, okay. I need to step it up this month I really need to hammer down and I need to get my my goal 10,000 But the thing is I made more money per mile in July than I did in June. So it goes up and down As an owner operator, I like to I keep track of everything all my records And when I get my pay stubs at the end of the month I go through every little detail and I know it probably bugs Bugs are are very nice payroll lady. She's a very nice very nice lady and Always on the phone as soon as I see something like hey, what's going on? What's this? This doesn't match my records Usually it's nothing or it's something that can easily be fixed. She's super nice. I like her but she probably sends out the The pay stub sends it out to me and then just waits for the phone to ring She knows I keep track of every little detail And I encourage all of you to do that too. I mean it's up to you if you want to or not But if you don't know where your money is going, it's all gonna be gone You have to keep track. Where is it going? And if too much is gone, you got to figure out cake Where did it all go? Did I need all of this? Maybe I should cut back here because we need to bump this number up a little bit that I'm taking home Like how what can I do to make it better? Maybe I need to lay off the throttle a little bit or I Mean I can't do that. I joke around saying that I love the sounds of my engine But I am very fuel fuel efficient fuel Economy-minded. I don't idle my truck when I don't have to I drive Between 62 to 65 miles an hour depending on the day usually Just to get the best fuel economy. I can with the best time It's all a money game. It's a numbers game. You got to keep track of your numbers And that's what I like to do. I have my booklet down here for my maintenance. I'm just keeping track of all my maintenance How much I spent on maintenance like I said the blue book is the overall cost and revenue of the business and The red one is for keeping track of my fuel economy every time I fuel some people ask Why do you do that? Why do you write it down? I know there's apps for that I use an app as well, but I also write it down because I like to have it on paper Your phone can crash and then your app and all that data could be gone You know, maybe it stays in the cloud. I don't want to risk that I keep it on paper I like it old-school that way and then I can look back over the months since I bought the truck to see if my fuel economy Is going up or if it's going down and if it's consistently going down down down down down, but I'm not changing my driving behavior Well, then I I know then that maybe there's something up with my engine and I might need to get that looked at Why is my fuel economy going down down down, but I'm not doing anything to make it go down, right? That's why I keep track of records for everything It's you can get long-term Benefits off of that or maybe you can see that your fuel economy is going up up up. Hey, maybe it can be good It's not always bad keeping records. Maybe you can give yourself a pat on the back saying hey I've been doing a lot better than I did in the past few months. Where is that cricket? Good day, everybody here in the shop with old blue. We just Took it to get three actual alignment everything is straight after that bear ran into my Steer axle here. I was a little concerned that my steering was a little out and that my alignment was a little out That's a good idea to do that every now and then anyways to make sure everything's lining up So that's your tire wear wears evenly, but as I've been trying to film this first clip here We have the peanut gallery back there that just won't shut up. I didn't invite them here It's right around here. Oh, there he is I saw he's behind this thing Oh, I'm gonna get you There you are right there You are uninvited my friend And I'm gonna show you what happens when you show up to my shop uninvited. Okay. Now. Don't be alarmed cover your eyes Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Oh, you got away got away. Come here you little you little word. I can't say on YouTube. Come here Okay, you will be evicted and Cast into a spider web spider will have a delicious meal now. Thank you very much. How do they get in here? It's not perfectly sealed here or something Now, you know what happens when you show up to my shop unannounced You will be evicted and thrown into a big spider web You think I'm joking Don't try me I'll pick you up. This is my space Mine Anyways, yeah, got all blue in alignment today On Friday day after tomorrow. She's going in to get full service Also getting a shock or two replaced on the rear end It's time to do that and I've got to get those mirrors replaced yet And I've got to get the horns installed yet There's so much to do all the time. It is so hot in here though. My face must just be beet red I'm gonna have to invest in some kind of massive shop fan or something that I can hang on the walls up here or something to just blow Air around here because it's just it's humid. It's muggy and there's crickets uninvited crickets. I hope that that spider leaves that cricket just to You know just to hang out there to warn off all the other All the other crickets that might think they want to sneak in through the door sort of like those old signs pirates beware Crickets beware. This is what's gonna happen to you if you try to get in this shop And then I love when I get those arguments You're in there No, you're wrong there in my habitat last I checked we belong here on this planet, too You ever heard of survival of the fittest? Well the strongest species always wins I'm stronger than the crickets there in my habitat. They can go find another habitat I'm not taking up the whole earth. They can go find a different habitat. This is my habitat All right, I belong in this planet, too just as much as them, but when it comes to space Whoever can claim a space and defend it. That's who gets to keep it That's just the laws of the jungle. Welcome to the jungle Right, oh, I saw one running you better run for the hills boy See his legs sticking out there. He thinks he's hiding. Oh He escaped. He escaped. Let me show you my karate One close. Oh boy Watch out. We haven't had any vlogs from throughout the week Had some time off and getting some stuff done. It's almost time to get ready to go back to work Today is Friday when I'm filming this. I think it's September Beginning of September second third I'm still in my pajamas. My brain hasn't turned on yet. I have a project for today though I want you to come along and give me a hand We have this shed in our backyard, and I don't know if I've ever shown you inside This is where we keep all the goods You can see it's pretty full in here and My project for today is to clean this out bring a lot of this over to the shop and Organize the stuff here that's gonna stay here Diesel Are you gonna help me today? Absolutely man as soon as I grow my slums All right, you need to get your slums. I'll be here to help. It's time to get some glasses. I think It was a busy week like I said at the beginning of the video Didn't film much this week. I took took time for myself and my wife our little family here and just relaxed didn't film much, but Putting together a little mishmash from the week a little bit of clips from every day We ended off with that shed. We got it all cleared out Got it all arranged in the shop Reorganized the shop still not done organizing in there. There's so much to do in there It'll take a little while. I got organized all my tools. I had a whole bunch of tools I forgot I even had in there, which is awesome. That's always nice to figure out I have a lot more tools than I thought gotta find homes for all of them in the shop and make it all look nice and Everything like that. But sorry that there wasn't too many videos from this week guys But sorry not sorry because it was nice just having some time to just Relax and get stuff done There's one little clip there from us going to the eye doctor yesterday. I am getting glasses I've got a prescription coming in. It should be here in a couple of weeks Yeah, so I guess a new look for trucker Josh is coming Ordered a pair of regular glasses and then also a pair of prescription shades too My eyes aren't actually really that bad My left eye is a little bit worse than my right eye So, uh, as soon as those prescriptions come in I guess we'll be seeing things in hd 4k vision I can see everything just fine now, but now when they put the the glasses over me I was like, oh wow high definition. You don't even really realize it, right? I notice it mostly at night when I get tired But uh first time in my life. Yeah, I had to order some glasses for myself. So There's some news for you Hopefully they don't get worse throughout my life, but you know as you age That's that's what happened as I was reminded in my comment section over and over. Thanks guys reminding me. I'm getting old I don't feel like it. I'm only 34 Got a long way to go yet. So these things are gonna last me a long time yet, but holy our glasses expensive Glasses are expensive. It's like 900 800 dollars plus the 100 dollars for the uh for the eye exam itself So it was a thousand dollars It was buy one pair get one pair free So they obviously jacked up the pair the price of one so I can get the other one for free But I got one pair pair of prescription glasses and one pair of prescription sunglasses It was 900 dollars. That's canadian, but still I never knew it was so expensive Better take good care of them. I guess Anyways, thanks for watching today everybody Uh, I'll be headed out on a trip soon When I'm filming this ending clip it's sunday already. So my dad's gonna be here soon We're gonna go out and do some target shooting shooting some plinkers And uh, I'd love to include more of that on the vlogs, but uh, you know how youtube is I don't want to don't want to rock the boat with them too much. I'm not a controversial channel YouTube doesn't like the boomsticks. I don't have to show too much of the boomsticks Maybe I'll see what I can see what I can do see how I can get around get around it here a little bit and share share a little bit of what we're Doing just shooting at plinkers. That's Harmless enough, but you know, you know how it is this world's a crazy place Everything's the end of the world. Oh, no, he's got boomsticks I can't even say the word on youtube because the the algorithms, right? They derank your videos then and stuff and All right, I like the audience here and I like making my videos. They're not supposed to be controversial And I don't want them to become controversial even though that's not a controversial topic But it is to the overlords there. So I shall obey Because I want to keep making videos for you without disruption Let's see what we can do After that going to my parents for supper and then I got to get old blue ready We're headed out. We got to go pick up a load first thing tomorrow morning. So I'll probably head out tonight yet So thanks for watching everybody and take care I have a great day Be legendary