 Hello, hello, it's Scott Jonason from Red Lake, Ontario, Canada, Holland Fool, and the Great White Horse. You're watching Trucker Josh on YouTube. Tuesday morning, we're here in Whitewood at the Petro Pass. I got my father-in-law here with me. Morning. Trucking together, we've got to deliver our loads together this morning. And from here, I think the plan is for us to head to Canora, then down into Minnesota. We have to confirm that yet, though. That's a word on the street. We've got old Blue Park right beside his unit. That's his first trip. He just started here. He's going good. He's got a good teacher. He calls me his teacher to make me feel special. This is his truck. Here we go. I'm going to get this off our trailers right now. Just down the road in Langbank. It's a sketch one. He bought me a coffee. Like I told you in yesterday's video, father-in-law's name's Jerry. He worked at GM in service department for many, many years. For much longer than I've known him. And he used to be a truck driver back in the day when my wife was a little girl. Now he's back. We dragged him over here and he's going to be pulling roll tights and flatbeds to join a little breakfast of champions here before we get rolling. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Now I work with my dad and my father-in-law. So both dads are here working with me now. My dad was the first to start here. And then I started in, I think dad started here in 2009. If I'm thinking right, he's been driving my whole life. He's been with a few different companies when I was younger. But he's been here doing the same thing since 2009. I believe three years before me, 9, 10, 11. No, 2008. Because I started in 2011. And now my father-in-law, Jerry, he started... Well, like I said, this is his first trip. He's been in orientation and stuff for two weeks. And just getting familiar with everything. Because when he was driving a truck, E-Log wasn't a thing. And everything was a lot simpler. And it's gotten a lot more complicated and confusing since then. So he's got to catch up with all the new regulations and stuff. He's doing really good though. He calls me his teacher. He knows what he's doing. He's doing good. The only thing I'm helping him with really is the E-Log and stuff. Because nobody likes the E-Log. Heather now has been fun. We want to do this Kenora trip over the border. Just so that I can coach him through border crossings a little bit. Because that's changed a lot since he was driving as well. Get a little bit of paperwork all in order. Get all your ace or your ACI manifest. And your par sticker or your pap stickers. Those of you who don't drive truck, that's probably all foreign language to you. So it's just lots of paperwork and teased across and eyes to docked. Alright, I'm going to lead us out of the parking lot here. Had a good sleep. I'm leading us out of the parking lot. We got Mr. Penner coming up behind me and then Jerry's right behind him there. And we literally got 10-15 minutes down this road right here. And we'll be at our delivery. And it shouldn't take long once we're there. You saw the loads. It's a lot of intricate little metal pieces. A real pain to tie down but you know we got her done. Nobody's coming. We can whitewood. That's where we spent the night. Here's the TransCanada. We are eastbound. Cut in front of everybody. This guy's turning and that freight liner is at a Volvo or freight line? That's a Volvo, isn't it? Volvo. Stopping in Brandon for coffee. Home for supper. He lives in Headingley, west of Winnipeg. We go through there all the time, right? It's right on the TransCanada here. I think he's going to go home for supper as well. Have a shower at home. And we'll probably meet on the east side of Winnipeg later tonight so we can continue on to Canora. Hoping to be loaded first thing in the morning tomorrow so that we might even get unloaded in Brainerd tomorrow. It'll be a little tight because these loads we're picking up have to be tarped. So sometimes it takes a little while to get loaded there and then with the tarping added onto it sometimes it can be a whole day event. But let's hope not. Going for a break here at Tim Hortons and Brandon, like usual. I adjusted my fifth wheel a little bit because a load I had a little while ago had quite a bit of overhang in the front. I slid the fifth wheel all the way to the back and forgot to move it back. It's not a big issue but I remember it now so I moved the fifth wheel back to the center of the rear axle. And there's the empty trailer behind me. There's Paul-in-Law's trailer over there. There's his truck. We're both going to go home for a few hours like I said before and then meet up on the east side of Winnipeg later this evening and head into Canora for tonight. But this car in front of me has his windows smashed out from what I could see and he's kind of driving all over the road. At least he was. What do you figure? You think it's stolen? Am I the only one that went to that conclusion? Oh, he's slowing down again. We're going to catch up to him. Look at that thing. That thing is beat up. How does a vehicle get that banged up? Well, maybe it's not stolen. Maybe it just doesn't take care of his stuff. How do you break out your back window? That's an odd one. That's an odd one. That to me speaks of weirdness. That's weird. That stinks. Stinks like weirdness. Headingly just up ahead here. He knows behind me there. He's going to be going home, having a shower, having supper. I'm going to continue around the city, go home for supper myself and a shower at home. Meet up at seven o'clock this evening on the other side of the city. I have enough time. It's quarter to three now. I've got to stop at Flying Jay for fuel. Can't forget. So I'll get fueled and I'll go around, get home probably around this 3.30, 4.30, 4.45. I'll only have like an hour at home. Half maybe. Shoot. I was hoping for a little bit more time at home, but man, technically this visit to home wasn't even supposed to happen. We could have gone straight through to Canora, but I wanted to go and spend a little bit of time at home with the wife yet. So a little treat midweek. Chevy. I missed you too, buddy. It's only been one day, though, man. It's only been one day. Where's Diesel? Diesel? Here, he said. Oh, no, no, no. None of that. Diesel. Supper's being made. He's over there looking at the food. Diesel, what you got? Chevy. Enough. You don't need to yell at me. I've got two apples, too. In here. Only two because I have to eat them before I cross the border tomorrow. They don't let you cross the border with fruit. They're very serious about that. No fruit at the border. Don't want to visit. It's almost like a tease. I was only home for like an hour. I stretched it for like an hour and 15 minutes, and I'm running a little bit behind to meet Jerry at the corner of the 12 and the 1. He's going to be waiting there for me already, so better get moving. Britt was just in her PJs and pajamas and didn't want to be on camera, but it was nice to be able to just drop in, even if it was just for an hour. Every minute is worth it, right? So now, off to Canora. Pick up some lumber tomorrow, bring that to Brainerd, Minnesota, and then we have a load of utility trailers booked out of Indiana. So a little bit of a longer dead head, but it's okay. It all works out in the end, so it'll work well for me. They asked if I wanted to do it. I was like, sure. It's a good load. Down to Brainerd, down to Indiana. Pick up those trailers and back home. By the time you watch this, I may already be at home. I try to get these out as fast as possible. Let's carry on to Canora. Paul and Law's waiting. Just about to the border with Ontario. The customer and sleep there so we can be loaded first thing in the morning. I've been driving since 2006, and I've already seen huge improvements in Canada for truckers. Huge improvements. Whether it be wider roads, twinning the highway like when I first started, the highway through Saskatchewan all the way from the Manitoba border, all the way past Whitewood, was a two-lane highway. Now it's a four-lane. There was also no bypass around Regina. I can still remember back. I'm pretty sure I can remember when the highway between Saskatoon and Edmonton was a two-lane. Nope, just in the U.S. as far as I know, but the scale we're coming up to here is open. I can see the lights flashing. Just my Paul and Law Jerry behind me there talking on the CB. He's asking if we have any drive-wise scales in Canada. Let me know in the comments section if we do have drive-wise scales. Those are the scales that allow us to bypass. Scales in Canada don't use the drive-wise system. I don't think, though I might be wrong, they might be used in southern Ontario. We can see the lights flashing up ahead. Their scales open. Open scale, my least favourite kind of scale. I think they'll be impressed. I'm going to need to get a new seat cover. Look at this. Used and abused. Yikes. They're ripped down there too. I bought these because they were heavy-duty. Well, whoever makes these things, not naming any names or anything, not going to say their name, but whoever makes these things has a different definition of heavy-duty than I do. I'll buy different ones next time. So here we are, eating our night lunch. Some cookies I got from my mother a long time ago. What are moms for? They give you cookies. They always want to feed you. My mom knows I like sweet stuff. I have a sweet tooth. It's dangerous bringing those in the truck with me. I've actually had them at home for weeks already because I don't want to bring them in here because if I bring them in here, I eat them all and it's true I've had three already since we stopped here. I have to stop myself, but they're so good. I got to get rid of this. I'll just keep adding to it. I'm just putting my video together here now. I hope you enjoyed it. A little bit of a shorter one. I'll be running convoy here with Jerry, for the rest of the week. Like I said, tomorrow we're loading here. We're here at the customer in Canora. We're going to load first thing in the morning, head down to Brainerd, hopefully get unloaded tomorrow, and then start heading down to Indiana. I think it's northern Indiana. A little bit of a long dead head. Okay, a lot of a long dead head. I'm not the most thrilled about it, but it works out in the end for me and they did ask me nicely if I wanted to. They have two loads out there because me and Jerry, we want to run a convoy. We need two loads at the same place at the same time, and it just worked out that there was two sitting there waiting, and we need to get them back up to Manitoba, and there's no other drivers in the area. And they asked, hey, George, would you like to go pick this up? Like a bit of a long dead head. Yeah, I made the call. Yeah, now let's do it, because then I can help them across the border tomorrow into the U.S., just to get familiar with that. We can go load up these utility trailers that we're picking up again. It's different than the last ones. These ones are in Indiana. And then we'll load them up, bring them back home, and then I can help them get through the border back into Canada again. And with all the new things, and the Canadian border is actually a little more strict now than the American border with certain things. And so I can help them get familiar with that as well. And then that'll be the end of the week, and it'll be time to go home, and next week you'll be flying Zola, pulling on his own. Who knows where they'll send him. But I'm excited to have him here working with us. I'm excited that I have both dads here now doing the same thing as me, or maybe I'm doing the same thing as them. I don't know, my dad started it all. He's been here since, I think, 2008, 13 years. He's been here three years longer than me. And I've been here going on 11 years. So 11, 12, 13. 14? Oh, he's going on 14! How long ago was that then? I can't math right now. I don't want to. I can. I just choose not to. I'm not going to do math right now. I'm off duty. You figure it out. I think he's on in his 14th year, almost 15 years here. Wow. Yeah, and Paul-on-Law Jerry, he's just starting out. It's a family business now. All running under the same name. I love it. Have a good night everybody. I'm going to bed. Take care and we'll see you tomorrow. Purchase. The computer is working really well. I'm happy to report. Very often I buy these electronics and stuff and I'm not happy with my purchase because I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm not an electronics guy. I know how to use them for my purposes. I don't know much about them though. I know what buttons to push and when and I can type pretty good too. I mean, a lot of my businesses run online. I understand how to use the computers and I think I'm pretty good with them except when they break. Then I'm a truck driver. That's when I turn into just a full-fledged truck driver. I have no idea. No idea. Bring someone to get fixed or you just go buy a new one. But yeah, it's working good. We'll see how it goes in the future. Hopefully this one lasts a little longer. I got really good warranty on this one. I got top-notch warranty. So anything that happens to this thing and I'm covered, which is good. I think I got three years worth. Myself on the back. I think I did good.