 Good morning and my coffee my name is Nelson from South Louisiana and you're watching Trucker Josh and Diesel on TJV and don't forget to subscribe and hit that like button and as always thanks for watching. Buddy we're in Minnesota between Albert Lee and Owatana at a rest area. We're on I-35 we're on our way south into Iowa. I have a load to pick up there today. Should get going. Beautiful beautiful morning today. It's a good day for trucking. Almost every day is a good day for trucking I'd say just the big blizzard days aren't my favorite. Every other day is a good day for trucking. It's north of Des Moines, Iowa as I have recently found out is just west of Des Moines. It's a beautiful day for hauling tires. I spoke to put on a few more on that side there yet. Three more after that and that's the whole load. It's going to Saskatchewan. You don't say. A bunch of farm tires going to Saskatchewan. That's the whole thing right there. So I'm gonna cross the straps over each stack. One this way, one that way. That's two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen straps on this load. Plus I've got my tarps down here yet. I've got a squish in between there somewhere yet and I have a little two-inch strap there that'll hold those down. So it's really easy. Won't take too much time at all. I just need to get some water from in the truck because it's hot down here in Iowa. They're far down south for this Canadian. Can you imagine there's like a whole world south of here yet? That's even hotter. Well thanks. I'm thankful for the cool weather we have in Canada in summertime. Wintertime I like to go further south. But summertime I stay north. So the way I'm doing it, like I said, criss-crossing, throw one strap over from that side, one strap over from this side. That way it's pulling in both directions. Right? So I'm gonna throw a few more over from that side to this side and then I'll come to this side. Do it in the other direction. These straps got really dirty and dusty in my last delivery in Bemidji. I ran through this big rainstorm right before delivery. So the straps were soaked and then by the time I got to Bemidji, it didn't rain there. So it was all dry and their yard where we unloaded was all dust. So I had these wet straps in the dust and it just stuck to the straps and now they're all full of dust and dirt. I'm glad that now, at least on this load, they'll probably get cleaned off a little bit but yeah, it is what it is. And there we go. Let them all crossed over. Two straps per bundle. I fit my tarps in here. Two inch strap holding them down. We're ready to rock and roll. I'm gonna go about 15 to 30 minutes down the road, find the first rest area or stalk we can. Tighten the straps. Other than that, we're ready to head on up to the sketch one. I'm gonna be crossing into Saskatchewan from North Dakota into North Portal, Saskatchewan from Portal, North Dakota. Same town, two different sides of the border. I guess technically, legally, it would be two towns then. One portal, one's the North Portal. They were also pretty clever when they named it because not only is the town named Portal and North Portal, it's also a port of entry. Way to go guys, that's clever. You might say it's a portal into another country. Coming off of the I-80 to go to the Love's truck stop over there, they got some construction going on here and they got these traffic lights, these temporary traffic lights, and they... I don't think they're set correctly. We've been here a long time waiting for a green light. It looks like there's only one lane over the bridge, so I guess the way they had this timed out, oh no, they got a green light. At least something's happening, right? I'm gonna have to take this really wide though. You can see some people have already dragged their trailers over those cones. They obviously... I'm actually kind of surprised that they didn't think of the trucks turning because of the major truck stop right there. They put the cones right up here so that guys couldn't get their trailers around and... yeah. Eventually, they got cleared out of the way. Somebody did it. Okay, now they're stopping. Now it should be our green, right? You'd think. Is they got a red light now? I gotta take this really wide. This is gonna take forever to get out of here. Oh, this was a bad idea. Oh, man. Well, it was a good idea, but it turned out really badly. That construction zone is messing things up. Wow. Wow. Shoot, I can't even get to the parking lot. It's all the way backed up into there. Holy smokes. I'm gonna have to go over the scale here, and I just wanted to come in here to get a coffee. Looks like the coffee's gonna be done by the time I get back on the freeway. Just gonna sneak right through here. I don't need to scale myself, but it's the only way I can get into the parking lot. Look at that. Lined up all the way through there. Oh, no. As I guess. Oh, that this was happening. I would definitely not... I would definitely not have come in here. Now he's gonna block my spot. I wanted to get in there. Kate, that's fine. Go back here and I'll park back here. Oh, I can't. Got myself turned around and backed in because I didn't want to be blocked in here, but this is... This is pretty bad. I might end up being here for longer than I had planned. Wish I would have known. You're coming to love. Let's find out what exit I'm at. I have to look at the exit number when I always do that. Exit 34. I-80, Iowa. If you're coming to love's truck stop here, if you're not planning on staying for a while, just keep on going down the aisle. I don't even bother. Unless if you're going eastbound. Eastbound is... You don't gotta get across the bridge then, but it still takes forever to get out of the parking lot here. So you're better off if you're going eastbound, but if you're going westbound, you want to stop at exit 34, it loves. Maybe just hold off till they're done that construction. And like you saw in my video there, they got cones across the overpass. So when you're coming up to exit 34, if you're wondering if the construction's done yet or not, look up on the overpass and if you see any orange pylons or anything up there, just keep on truckin'. Unless you got time to burn. I don't know how many truckers that do. It looks like the lineup has pretty much disappeared. I just stayed here till it died down. Took my half hour and it turned out. Ended up being an hour. So I took my hour here and grabbed a coffee. I had some McDonald's, shamefully, but I enjoyed every single bite of it. And I regret nothing right now. So just enjoy the moment. Get back in the truck and get out of here before that lineup picks up again. Parked all the way back over there. So we all saw how bad that lineup was before. Let's go see how bad it is now. See how long it takes us to get back on I-80. We're going to be taking US 12. So we're going to be turning here anyways, but it just happens to be a truck stop here at the corner. I have 52 minutes left on my clock today, but I don't think there's any truck stops going. I thought the exit was here already. Shoot, I slowed down way too soon. Again, I did that yesterday too. His exit started. Good day truckin'. So tomorrow we're gonna go that way. That's why Karen's trying to get me to go that way now. She doesn't think we need to sleep, but I don't know. We can't all be robots. It's off here. There's a lot of truckers that are sleeping already. Pull into the parking lot and wake them all. I'll dim my lights because I can't turn my headlights completely off because this is a Canadian truck. I, by law, have to have those running lights that always stay on as long as the brakes are released so I can dim my headlights but they still stay on. I know I can wire those up differently, but I gotta... I think they've updated this a little bit since I was here last. Pots for Trucker Josh. Any spots at all? This used to be gravel back here. Okay, so all of those spots look like they're taken. Park and spot. Eat in front. Here we go. Look at this. We found one. We found one right here. We almost had to... We almost had to make a spot. Get a good night's sleep here today. They're receiving where I'm delivering this. Closes at 3 o'clock tomorrow and there's no way... No way I can legally get there even close to that. So I'll be delivering it Friday morning. First thing in the morning and then I don't know if I have a reload. Maybe they've got something out of wayburn for me. Not too short. We'll find out tomorrow or Friday. I'll get a good night's sleep here so I'm good and rested for tomorrow. And then we've got a full day of driving, probably with 10-11 hours of driving to our destination. This is a really good load. The air slips around the truck just perfectly. I've been getting great fuel economy. Probably averaging close to seven miles per US gallon on this trip, which is fantastic. This whole month has actually been really good. I've been averaging between six and a half and seven miles per gallon US this whole month, which is great because last month, well, I guess it's because I was hauling a bit of heavier freight then. But no, I'm happy with the way the truck's performing. It's been a good week. Hopefully we can continue that and turn this good week into a great month. Thanks for watching everybody. You can click one of these links around my face here, the circle with my face in it. You can go subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. Share it with your friends. 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