 We're here just into Maine, USA, from New Brunswick, Canada at one of the first rest areas. So we got a full day of driving today and a little bit to do tomorrow yet. And we'll get this load off of us. And then I believe we're headed down to Georgia. I haven't had that confirmed yet. It was sort of just thrown out there that that's probably what's going on. It sounded like they're going to send me down to Augusta, Georgia with a load going back up to Manitoba. But that's that. I can neither confirm nor deny that that that's going to happen. But we do need to get rolling today. We got miles in front of us. We got a truck to take us. And apparently the roads are not going to be as congested as usual because of the whole situation going around the world. Just spat on my steering wheel. Oh, that's how you spread it. Speaking moistly again. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Actually, while I sort of am, America is far superior in there. Because if we want to stay in Canada and get from Quebec to New Brunswick, we got to go way up in over Maine to stay in Canada, right? But I guess that's where they drew the line. That's what they decided. I heard once that Maine actually is one of the states that tried to join Canada once. Is that true? Interesting. Going on in northern Maine at all. Very much like Canada. But we're starting to get closer to the population. Start to see a few more towns here and there. Well, what are you guys doing? What are you doing? Framp there, but that would have been a lot safer. By all means, risk your life right there on the shoulder. Right around the corner, right? Blind corner. A lot of people aren't going to see him in time to move over. Look at this. Butting trees. Leaves. Oh, that's nice. Haven't seen that in a while. So it was confirmed to me today that after I deliver this load in Pittsville, Maryland tomorrow afternoon, I've got to be there before five. I should not have a problem with that at all. But after we unload there, we have to go empty down to Augusta, Georgia. A little bit of a hike, but obviously it's worth it. I'm getting paid by the mile. I get paid whether or not I'm loaded or empty. So to me, it doesn't matter what's in the box. I just want there to be something in there so that the people who pay me have money to pay me with. So I prefer it to be loaded. Where's this rest area? It's got to be just around this corner here. I really hope they didn't close down their coffee shops in there. That would be very disappointing. And my first coffee shop refused me service in New Brunswick, actually. They didn't actually refuse me service. They made me walk around the drive-through outside. Wouldn't serve me inside, which is strange, right? Because if they serve me inside, they have a plexiglass protection plate or protection glass there to, you know, as we make our transaction. But if I walk around the drive-through, there's no barrier between me and the employee. The window's just wide open. I pointed that out and they're like, yeah, I don't know. The boss said to do this. I was thinking to myself, oh, I'm sorry to say the boss makes no sense. It was a Robin's Donuts. It was in Nova Scotia, actually, not in New Brunswick. Nova Scotia refused me service. But I could still get my coffee. I just had to walk around, stand in the lineup with the cars, stand there and walk around. Felt so weird. But they still got my coffee. It's not like they'd refused me service. They just wanted me outside. So I still haven't found a place where the bathrooms are closed or where they refused me service completely. But I hear they exist. Maybe we'll find them on this trip. I don't know. A lot of people out there whining about it. It's got to be true, right? It'll be somebody refusing service to truckers. Well, the rest area I was thinking of is the Kennebunk rest area, I believe. And that's further down the road, further than I want to wait for a coffee. So we stopped here instead. Where are we? We're at Irving here in Moosehead Trail, Maine. Let's ask the Googles. Hey, Google. Hey, Google. I guess I should connect to the Internet first. Hey, Google. Where are we? That's not what I asked. I didn't ask for results. Just give me a song. Oh, Newport, Maine. You could have just told me Newport, Maine. Google, useless. Newport, Maine. We will grab a coffee and continue. Diesel, what do you think? What do you think? How's your day been so far? It's been magnificent, man. Absolutely glorious, man. It's been very nice. Look at me. I'm a pitiful dog. Pitiful dog in the United States, man. They can get much cooler than that. Look at me. Look at me. Look how good I look. I'm looking, Diesel. You're looking pretty good over there. You're looking very good. Thanks, man. I know. Look at him all confident. He's so happy. He loves the truck. I had almost forgotten how congested this part of the country is. I had it in the back of my mind. I knew. I knew. But until you get here. And this isn't even bad because everybody's like at home right now, right? They're all on lock down or whatever you want to call it. This isn't even bad. It's just the trucks that are so congested out here now is what it is. At least I found a place to stop. I'll be able to run in here once I'm done fueling. Grab a coffee and hopefully be out of here in no time. Got to make it quite a ways down the road. We should probably actually look to see where we can park for night. Since we got to wait here anyways, we should probably plan that out now. Now I use an app called Trucker Path. I don't know if you've heard of it or not. I'm not sponsored by them or anything. It's just what I use. It's been very helpful. Try and find if there's any parking around where we're going to deliver. We're delivering in Maryland and it's right below the state of Delaware on that little peninsula or whatever there. Right close to Salisbury, Maryland. There's a way station there but I don't really want to park at the way station. That's not something I like to do. I don't think we're even allowed to do that because you can zoom in on the parking lot. There's a few truck stops around. I guess it depends from what angle I come from. I'm coming through Philadelphia so I'll be coming down here. I might stay in Delaware. What truck stop is this? Oasis Travel Plaza. Probably means that there's going to be no parking spots when I get there. It'll be late tonight. I don't think I'm going to make it that far. There's plenty of truck stops by the looks of it. I just don't really want to stay around the big cities like Philadelphia and New York and what is this here? Trenton. I want to get through all the big cities today. I really don't want to stay in the big cities. I'm not a big city person. Through that. Through that mess. The truck wants to shut down. It's got this automatic shut off feature. Got to move up right away. It should be almost done. Mr. I'm not going to name any names but Mr. Orange Truck. Hurry it up. All right the orange truck in front of this flat bed finally got his butt out of the way. That took a long time to fuel but it's got to fuel up and then it'll be my turn. This dry van in front of this western star Bob Taylor is taking a really long time too. I'm noticing most drivers got face masks on outside their truck. I guess I should probably wear mine too then. We're getting closer and closer to New York City and I've been debating whether or not to go through tonight or stop somewhere on this side and go through tomorrow. I know they're probably not going to be much traffic tomorrow. It's probably going to be a lot more than tonight and I don't want to be held up and waste all my e-log hours and traffic. So we're going to try to get through the city tonight yet and hopefully hopefully find somewhere to park on the other side. That's the risky part. I have no idea if we're going to find somewhere to park. Let's say I turn right. Let's get through the Big Apple. It should be nice and quick tonight. I don't think that load is legal. I don't think so. Just passing through New York City right now. We're in the Bronx. I think this is the Bronx that's thought I saw a sign that said Bronx. He's losing a strap on that load now. Yeah he's got a strap just hanging off the back here. He probably doesn't even realize it. Oh where is he going to stop right? I'm trying to get over this bridge. I took one wrong turn. I had to go way around just to find somewhere to turn around. Everyone's honking at me. This city is not designed for me. It's designed for the city. Maybe that's not close. Oh what's this? What's going on here? Oh yeah this is where we drive under a building. Look at this. Run out of space to build your big buildings. Just build them on the road. Like literally on the road. We're going under a building. I remember this. Imagine living on that. It's kind of a cool view though. It's an apartment building. Yeah I thought that lane was closed. That's why now I can't get back into that lane. Activate my signal device and everybody knows what that means right? Oh there's a hole. Oh took it. Here's the bridge. I've been looking for you. Okay what bridge is this now? Well we made it through the day and we found a parking spot on the ramp of a rest area and I walked up and down here to make sure that there's no signs that say I can't park here. There's other trucks parked here as well. Not the only one and nothing saying I can't park here. It's a rest area. I like to check just in case because I don't like being disturbed in the middle of the night. So I would have much rather had an actual spot but we sort of made a spot with a couple of other people. What are you going to do? They closed down the last service area. It was under construction so all those trucks that would usually park there which probably like 50 trucks at least. Now they all got to park somewhere else so the next place is all filled up. I'm out of hours so I have to stop. So I did my due diligence and I think I found a good parking spot. A decent one anyways and parked legally and now it's time to go to bed. What a day diesel. What a day. New York is crazy man. So I got a lot of filming done today. I don't know if I'm going to split this into two videos or not. It might just be one really long one or it might be two medium length ones. Who knows? All I know is I'm going to bed right here right with the weasel. Hey you want to make the bed for me? Why do you look so sad? Well no we can't go back to New York City. He likes the city. He likes all the lights and you're sad that we left. And you're tired. I can tell when you're tired. Yeah you tell when you're tired. I'm tired too. See you guys tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel Trucker Josh Vlogs here on YouTube. We make new videos pretty much every day as we're traveling around North America. We sort of broadened our playground now. We were mostly just in the American Midwest and Western Canada for the last like three years and now I've gotten back on to van division which takes me in a much bigger circle of routes all the way to Newfoundland down to Florida up through around the south mostly still the eastern US but it's a bigger playground as I like to call it. We'll see what happens. Maybe they'll send me west once that'd be kind of cool. I'd love to go down to Arizona or Nevada once that'd be cool. Not to California though. I don't mind not going there. I don't need to go there. I'll just I'll just look at pictures of California on the internet and that's as close as I need to get but I wouldn't mind going close to it you know right up into Las Vegas. That'd be kind of cool. We'll see what happens in the next few years. I'm excited. This journey's been fun so far. This truck is running fantastic. It is ginormous. Look at this. It is so deep. It's an 80-inch sleeper so it's 80 inches deep from the back of those seats. The sleeper that I wanted in my dream Kenworth W900 the studio sleeper is 86 inches so it's only six inches shorter than the one I wanted. It's just the Kenworth has more windows up here and stuff. I like that. I like the natural light coming in on me. I like bathing in the sunlight in my sleeper but whatever I got this window over here put that window over there. I like it. This truck is actually really a ride so smooth runs so nice so I can't wait to start our day tomorrow. Don't forget to tune in and hang out with me tomorrow as well. We're going down to Georgia tomorrow after we drop this freight off in Maryland Pittsburgh, Maryland. See you then.