 You're watching Trucker Josh. Morning everybody. What does it say Wednesday? Are any of you participating in the ride for dad this weekend, May 28th, 2022? It's in Winnipeg. It's the first one since before COVID and I think I'm gonna go. It's $40 to register beforehand. If you register on the day of at the event where they meet, I think it's $50 from what I've read. It goes to raise money for prostate cancer research. I heard about it from my friend, Will and I think I'm gonna go for it. We meet at Polo Park. You can go online and get these details as well. I believe they meet around Polo Park in Winnipeg at 9 a.m. on Saturday. We'll talk more about this in the future when I actually get my facts straight. But if you guys have a bike and you're in the Manitoba, Southern Manitoba area, come on out. There's gonna be a lot of people going for a ride together. We are here. One second, honestly, I ain't gotta do up my belt. Sometimes I forget and I get out of the cab at a customer and I walk over to the receiving or shipping door, belts hanging down. It's just because I sit on the floor, right? Pretty much I sit down here. So when I have my belt done up, it digs into my gut and it's very uncomfortable. So I undo my belt while I'm sitting in the truck. Sometimes my button too, if I'm feeling wild. I just gotta remember that I gotta do the makeup before I get out. It happens at least once a day. Just walking around with my button open, my belt hanging off. People just know that I'm a weird guy the second they see me. They're like, oh no. How did this happen? I swear I wasn't dropped as a baby. I wasn't. Hello, 412. Yesterday we had 411 DTLR. Today we have 412 DTLR, or sister, or brother, or whatever it wants to be. Who am I to say? Let's check the tires on this, baby. Two are good. Four are good. Six are good. One whole side of the trailer is good. The tires, anyways. Let's check these ones. There are much left there? Yeah, there's a lot left there. Okay, eight, 10, all 12 tires. Filled with premium summer air. I heard they got it changed yesterday. Exactly one hour later. This is a way so. I'm editing a video. We made it, and so did the water. This trailer has a lift axle in the back. That's for when we go to California, mostly. I don't go to California. I won't be going to California. My truck's too old for that. Center of the rear axle to the front is the wheel base. Now, California is special. At least they think they are. They have a special requirement, unlike other places anywhere else in the world. They have many of those, many of them. It's a real headache driving a truck there, I'm sure. A lot of different regulations there than anywhere else. One of those regulations is that your wheel base can't be longer than a certain amount. And if you put this rear axle down, your wheel base on your truck is too far apart. They don't like that. You can take it. So what you do, you lift the axle up, and now that's your rear axle, and voila, California's happy. I'm being a little hard on you guys in California. You guys got great weather, great weather. But next week when I'm in my own Kenworth, I will not be going to California with it. I'm actually not gonna be going very far with it at all. I'm going to be on our regional open deck fleet, which will keep me around the middle of the continent, or on Winnipeg sort of, mostly. You know, some North Dakota, South Dakota, maybe Minnesota, Saskatchewan, maybe Alberta, the Calgary, maybe up to BC. Maybe the odd longer one. I honestly, I can't tell you right now. I have no idea. I asked them where the regular routes are, and that's what they told me, you know, regional. Sort of explains itself. It's a self-describing term. But they say, you know, every now and then they're gonna ask for a favor, so I don't mind going a little further every now and then. But for the most part, I'm gonna be staying close to home. I still have, or Britt and I, we still have our fertility journey. We're still going through that. I'm not gonna miss any of those appointments. I still need to go over it with her here. I don't wanna speak for her, or I don't like speaking too much about this without her here, because it really, it involves her a lot more than me with all of these appointments. But the next one she has to go in for is called an ERA, and I'll let her explain that if she wants to. If not, you can go on Google and look that up. But there's another appointment after that, and then I think the first transfer or our first attempt will be in July, end of July. So it's being pushed back and pushed back and it's kind of sad, getting kind of antsy, and we just gotta keep waiting, patience, right? Because if you can imagine this, I want this to work more than I want this Kenworth that I'm getting into and I really want this Kenworth. I really wanna be driving this Kenworth right now. I'm super excited to get that and I'm even more excited to be a dad. Britt is gonna be an amazing mom. It's one of the reasons I married her. When I met her, we got married pretty quickly. I would recommend my kids and people younger than me, you know, wait longer before you get married. But Britt and I, we hit it off and I knew, just by the way she was with her nephews, by the way she was with kids, the way she was as a person that she would be the perfect mother for my future children. And once I realized that, I started to realize, you know, I'm gonna marry this girl, I'm gonna lock her in. And so I'm excited to get the family going. It's been hard waiting for this long and going through all of this, but really she's had to go through a whole lot more than me with her body and all of these injections and stuff through the process that she's had to go through. She's a trooper, handled it like a champ. I don't think I would have handled it as well, but she's really awesome. And so don't worry, I may be in a different truck, going a little bit further, but we're still gonna be very close to home regularly and we're gonna get this thing. We're gonna put family as priority number one, always. It will always be that way. You know, one day when my kids are born and they're watching these videos, they'll know that even before they were conceived, they will have been placed first. They will be number one. They can always count on mom and dad. So that's still on the way. I'm just waiting here to get loaded. I'm early. They weren't ready for me this time, that's okay. My bad, I'm early. Sometimes they're ready, sometimes they're not. So we'll just wait a little bit here. Britt's birthday is also coming up soon. It's in July. It's July 25th. I wanna make it really special. I try to make every year very special, but I'm not the best gift giver. She's really good at it. She'll just nail it every time with everybody. She's really good at giving gifts and paying attention to what people need and what they want. And me, it comes down to it. I always put it off, put it off and then I'm down at the last minute and I'm like, okay, I gotta find something good. We gotta make this birthday special for her. You guys got any ideas? She's watching this video right now and in the comment section looking at all your ideas. No, I gotta come up with it on my own. I was just, I wanted to be from me. I'll figure it out. This is the same setup as the trailer yesterday with these pins, so I won't show you again how they work, but same idea. You have to remember always loosen the back first, otherwise that's gonna flip out and smack you in the face and give you a black eye. That's a good Velcro up there, thanks. They definitely redid all those, that Velcro. You got these here, just gotta loosen those that just sort of hold the frame from flexing too much. We're in position, got the trailer open. They had one more piece to get ready yet. All buttoned up again, tighten these guys up. Same load as yesterday. It's going to New York, New York State, not the city. 51-59, that's my trailer right there. We're gonna pull a box now. I brought that roll tight back here and now Van Division has snagged me. They have stolen me. I'm okay with that. I keep thinking that someone's like talking to me somewhere. The radio is on, just barely though. I wonder who was talking, wrote before. I think this is Brookside Boulevard. There's the airport right there. This intersection though. The sign says we must turn this way. We're gonna let Mr. YRC on the road here first because he's already quite a ways out and I won't be able to get around him. It's a long trailer just for one axle. More trucks that way. Okay, I'll go this way. Here before, look at all these big, we're going places. Look at you go. Wow, good thing I got Google here because that got no idea where I'm going. I looked at it on the map and it looks legit so it looks like there should be a building there when I get there. Hopefully they'll have dogs. Look at this. Empty space though. Anybody want to lease a business building? They got space. There's another Ukrainian flag there. You see him flying all over Manitoba, all over the city and all over the countryside. Put myself right beside this trailer here in door two. Line ourselves up. If I can't hit this door, someone take away my license. Nobody's got stop signs here. It's really weird. They don't have a stop sign. He doesn't have a stop sign. I don't have a stop sign, but everyone stops anyway, which is probably good. All right, door two, your mind. Look at that lined up straight back. They're going to take away my license if I don't hit this. Come on, just to let everybody know. Hey, look at me. Look at me. Another one, just to remind them. I'm almost there. Gentle, gentle, gentle, gentle little love tab. Gentle. Oh, there it is. Wonderful, I got to keep my license. Pretty straight. Let's see what they put in there. They're going to close these doors anyway. My big physical job for today, pallets and boxes. I think it's time to put away the lined jeans until next winter. I don't know what I was thinking. Walk myself in so I don't fall out. Warning to everyone around me that I'm about to move. Just give the engine a little bit of a run, run, run. So that everybody pays attention. This is rolling. Big please, rolling, moving. I'm going to miss these stacks. That's for sure. I'm going to miss the exhaust on this truck, but the Kenworth is going to sound even better. Even better. The Kenworth has the Cummins engine in it. And that is the, I think I told you that already, right? That's the one compromise I made on the truck. The one compromise. I was hoping to get a CAT C15, but this engine is going to do really well. I'm all right with it. I'm happy with it. Cummins guy. All right. This is the Cummins in here as well, too, except the Kenworth has a lot more horsepower. So it'll probably sound even beefier. I got all the final paperwork in for the registration on the truck now. Everything's finished. The truck's safety. We're just waiting, waiting and waiting for the banks to give the seller his money. Everything is signed and approved. Just give them the money so that I can have the truck. Oh, I see what's going on. I see what's going on. You could have waited for me and one more guy and you wouldn't have had any traffic to block you, buddy, but that's all right. That's all right. I understand. Oh, don't put her in the ditch. Don't cut her too hard. He cut her too hard. Oh, maybe he's okay. Oh, he's going pretty fast. Look at him go. Don't panic, buddy. I'm in no rush. Get her in there, bud. Look at him go like a boss. That is a professional right there. That was a blind side. You'd have, I'm gonna give him the thumbs up. Hey, you guys want to see a plane landing? There's one coming right here. He's gonna land right here. Get here. I thought planes moved fast. I need you, baby. Get her. That's a good, got it. We need you. I need you. I need you. We found a spot for it. I remember where I got this now. I want it at a fair somewhere, I think. I think. What do you think? What's this? What's it? Oh my goodness. You guys have both got your leashes on. What are you trying to tell me? I'd like to go for a walk, see please. Diesel, you want to go for a walk? Yes, sir. Very much so. He got in a poop one. Yeah, she carried it all the way to the garbage, Chevy. Maybe you should learn to carry your own to the garbage, eh? That would be handy. So we're back at the park here. We're on another walk tonight. Try to take advantage of as many nice days as we can. How was it? Great, thumbs up? Good, good. It's a good one, Chevy, good boy. Proud of you. Okay, now we go on. Yep, there we go. All right, Diesel. Off we go. We're going backwards today around the track because we're rebels. New activities every day. Yep, gotta keep it fresh. There you go, Chevy. It's okay, they can watch you eat, right? They can watch you eat, that's okay. That's okay. Please, don't watch me eat. Chevy, it's okay, don't worry about it. Eat your food. Okay, okay. Dip, dip. Don't know what she's doing to hers over here, but that is an abomination. It's a well-known fact that Mennonites do not like flavor on anything, except for salt. Sometimes garlic and onion. I like flavor when you're hungry, but mayonnaise and ketchup. Exactly. On a bun. Mennonite condiments. Surprise, half of them know what mustard is. That's disgusting. Who uses mustard? Thank you. One onion? It's one of the Mennonite acceptable foods. Oh, no, Mennonite. No, but you were raised in a Mennonite culture. Yeah, maybe that's why I'm so weird. That would explain it. Oh, and salad. I made salad. I'm a salad maker. You didn't make it, you poured it out of a bag. I made that myself. There we go. So that's it for today, everybody. Put the rest of this together here for you, and we'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to like and subscribe.