 Hi everyone, my name is Jason Booker, and I'm from Bathurst, New Brunswick, and you're watching Booker Guys videos. Have a good day. Good morning friends and foes. What is today? It's Wednesday, isn't it? It's Wednesday. Middle of the week. I gotta pick up a load of Tulon today. They won't be there at noon. So I'm gonna be there much earlier. If I gotta wait, well, I gotta wait, but they're usually pretty good. They're usually there. They're usually ready for me earlier than that, but it's better to be early than late, right? And it's better to have coffee in your blood before you start work. And that's where we are now, Tim Hortons, because the world is just not making sense to me yet. We need coffee. I don't care if it's Tim Hortons or if it's Starbucks or if it's homemade coffee. It just can't be bad coffee. It's just gotta be good. We bought a new couch. We did it. We just took the plunge. There we go. Now in the hole, we went to go look at Recliner chairs. Britt wanted a recliner chair for her birthday, which is in July. So we went to go and look around to see what was available, and we walked out with a full living room set. It's being delivered on next Tuesday, so in less than a week now. The couch is being delivered first. It's a sectional, actually. It's really nice. I'm really excited about it. One second. She's yelling at me here. Hello. Could I get a sausage farmer's wrap with creamy barbecue sauce instead of chipotle? Yeah, could I get a large coffee with one cream and shot of espresso? Thank you. You can hear her yelling in the speaker already. Well, not yelling, but talking into the speaker already. Sometimes when the person in front of you doesn't move up far enough, you can't get close enough to the speaker to make your order, and then they start talking to you like you can hear them. Ah, first world problems. First world problems. The drive-thru. Anyways, yeah, I'm excited to show you this couch. I spent a little bit of a nice shiny penny on it. It's gonna be coming with us to our new house, obviously. Matching recliner, rocking recliner for Brit, and for me. Who are we kidding? And I've seen your comments already. I know all this talk about trucks buying trucks, and now I'm talking that we bought furniture. Don't worry, our plans to build our house are still on on track. Everything is still on track. For a couch, we needed that really badly. The old coaches are going to the shop. And all those new coaches are gonna be so good. So we really did need that upgrade. That's coming with us to our new house. So that's just part of the new house already. And as for a truck, well, if I end up... end up getting one, well, trucks make you money, right? It's a business investment, a business which generates money. Trucks do cost money too, but they also generate money. It's a risky business to get into owner-op because you could make a lot of money. Or you could lose a lot of money, or you could lose a lot of money, and then make a whole lot of money again. Or you could make a whole bunch of money and then lose it all. It's like going to Vegas buying a truck. I am obviously exaggerating. Buying a truck isn't that big of a gamble. It's a gamble. So don't worry, I've got all the bases covered. The house plans to build are still on track, probably for about 2027. That's when we're thinking we're gonna do it. If we can do it sooner, great. If not, that is a deadline that I personally set for myself and that I've talked... that Britt and I have talked about and that we've set for ourselves, not just for me. So everything is hunt-a-dory, whether or not we decide to go this way or that way. The coach, that's an expense. The coach does not make you money. It costs you money. Costs you time and money. But a truck, done right, can make you money. It's an investment. You still got to do business. Everybody needs their stuff moved. And the reason I mention all that is simply because I've seen more than one comment asking me, oh, what about saving for your house? Not to worry, folks. Not to worry. That's still on track. So we got to open her up. I don't know if it's easier to pull it or to push it. Needs a little bit of bullsnot grease on these things. I'm also pushing with my left hand. I usually push from the other side. One second, I'll put you there. I need both hands. Come on, open it. I really need to start exercising. I need to get in shape. I'm always so tired. Like, I get tired easily or not sleeping well. And I think a lot of that would be fixed with just some regular exercise routines. Because as much as you hate getting going on exercising, once you're going in a routine and after you exercise yourself, you always feel so much better, right? Look at me. I shouldn't be out of breath from doing that. I didn't sleep as well last night either again. So, here's that. I'll just go to bed earlier tonight, right? Catch up tonight. I've actually been debating joining my gym again. I think I'm gonna do it. Just got to find a time that works because I'm so busy usually. But I don't have a lot of extra time, even if, like, I wanted to go to the gym every day. Just for an hour even. It's hard to find an hour in the day. But it's necessary, right? If I could find an hour every day to go, I'll probably get to live years longer at the end of my life. Also feel better. I'll get better sleep. And it also keeps away depression and anxiety when you exercise. Another load loaded. This one's going to Iowa. Well, I'm bringing it to our yard. But we're gonna have one of our drivers. Bring it there. It's a little wet here, but that's okay. I had to back up so we could use this dry area here to get some of this freight on. Oh boy. Oh, and we're stuck. Okay. Fun times. I'm gonna need two hands for this. Hold on. I'll just put you, like, over here. It's just not my days. Back to the other side. It should make it easier. Once you get one side in, the other side usually follows pretty quick. It's just that we're on a little bit of a slant here, I guess. The top is further away than the bottom. It gets stuck and I gotta move forward just a couple of inches. Which means I've got to give it a little love tap. It's right in the water too. These trailers are needy. These are waterproof shoes, so it should be good. See, this is too far back here. Gotta just move it forward just a bit like that. Now the front will come in just fine. I'm really glad I bought these waterproof shoes. They were kind of expensive, but they sure come in handy. Working with these Roll-Tites is, it's an adventure. Especially the older ones. I can't forget I've got a fuel today. I'm gonna fuel here in Toulon. Careful, Pipes. The most important part of a truck I might add, other than the engine itself, you know, you got to be able to hear the engine. So that's part of the engine, you know. The most important part of the truck is the engine and the pipes are attached to that, you know. So it's all important. You won't be able to hear it. You can't hear the engine. Is it really there? Who knows? You always got to pop the hood and check just to make sure the engine's there because you can't hear it. I don't like that. The S-O here. It's at the next one. Petropas. Hopefully there's not someone there fueling already because there's only one one little fuel island. Nope, we're good. Awesome. I could have gone this way. They were turning. I was gonna give them time to pass. Oh well. Gambled and lost. Make sure you don't drag your trailers through that steep ditch. I had the pumps. This is clear diesel. That's marked diesel. I can't put marked diesel in this truck or I'll get in trouble if I get copped. I don't think my fuel card works with marked diesel anyway. Marked diesel, also known as like purple gas or purple diesel, it just has a dye in it. So when DOT or whoever a place or whatever opens your fuel cap and if the fuel inside is purple, that means that it's for off-road use only for farmers. There's less taxes on it and it's cheaper. That's why people want to sneak it into their highway vehicle sometimes, right? But don't do it. I'm pretty sure the fines are pretty big. There's all that money you saved on taxes. By putting farm fuel in your highway truck, you're gonna have to pay 10 times as much in the fine, so not a good idea. We bought about 600 liters of fuel. And diesel fuel is just below two dollars a liter right now, so that probably cost about a thousand bucks. Which reminds me I was gonna reset my tripometer. Ah, I forgot. Oh well. It'll be close. I'm trying to figure out how with the fuel economy of this truck is. I keep forgetting to reset my tripometer. Suicide corner. Here we come. It is 145 on a Wednesday, so we shouldn't have very many problems. We will have problems, but we shouldn't have too many problems. All right, you guys tell me when I should go, okay? I'll wait. I can't go yet. No. No, no. You guys, you didn't see that car coming. You told me to go. I would have cut that guy off. Okay, let's try again. It's got to be clear this way. After this pickup, it's clear. Not clear that way though. Oh, but after that pickup, it's clear that way. No, there's one more car. After that black car, it's clear that way. Okay. Oh, now there's a car coming from there. Okay, so now it's not clear that way. Okay, so it's clear that way now. Now we got to wait for a gap in this traffic to match a gap in that traffic. We got to go. We got to go, go, go, go. Okay, after this white car, I'm going to send it. Okay? Get ready, guys. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Send it. I punished myself and forced myself to go there every day. I don't- I've got a letter. Somebody found my snail mail address that's down below every video. Scroll down there in the description long and I've passed all my whole life story and everything down there, passed all my social media. There's a snail mail address. Someone sent me something. I think it's another picture. I think it's something that's going to go up in the shop. Oh, oh. It's from- I should say who it's from. Ethan Bordrow in New Brunswick. This is awesome. Oh, here it is. Here it is. Nice. Check it out. More artwork for my shop. This is going to go right by Joel's picture. Now I got two. If you guys want to- if you guys out there want to draw me a picture or color me one like this, I'll hang them up in my shop. Thank you. Thanks, Ethan. Canada sticker on there too. And he wrote me a letter here. It says, hi, my name is Ethan Bordrow. Hi, Ethan. I'm graduating high school this year. I'm so excited. I love following your YouTube channel. I've been following your channel for a very long time. You're my favorite. Uh, you posted- and my favorite- oh, his favorite video that he posted is my wedding video. Thank you. That was my favorite video too. That really- that was my favorite day. I even started my own YouTube channel called Performances by Ethan Bordrow. We should go check that out. We should go check that out. PS, you could read this in one of your videos. Awesome. Thank you. I read it already. But if you would have told me not to, I would have just cut it out and then- but since you say it's okay, we'll leave it in the video for everybody to hear too. It says, look at the back. Okay. Oh, okay. There's some contact information here. That part I'm not going to share on YouTube. Don't worry, Ethan. We would love to hear from you if you have the time. That's awesome. And if you guys want to see, there it is. Here, one second. One second. I'm going to make sure I know what I'm showing you. This is the letter. He's got a puppy there. That is awesome. So thanks, Ethan. You know what I got to start doing? I got to start a thing where I write back. Or if you write me a letter, I can write one back. I'm just- I'm hesitant promising that for everybody because I feel like if I promise that, that I'm going to get an influx, like a big amount of letters, and I'm going to feel so bad if I get so many letters that I can't respond to all of them. But Ethan, I hope you have a great graduation. I love your puppy. That's awesome. Thank you so much for the letter and for the picture. That's going up in the shop for sure. Right there. Thank you very much. I can feel it in my feet. She's dirty. She got dirty in there over the winter. I got to clean her up. Look at this. She missed me, though. You can tell. I'm going to take her to the shop and clean her up or at least put her away. Just fueled her up. Perfect. She's still all dirty, but I will clean her off another day. My dad's around here somewhere and he's going to give me a ride home right away, so I rode the bike here and I'll polish it off one of these days after work. At least then it's here and then whenever I get home, you know, get the truck shined up, get it washed and go for a quick, quick boot on the bike. Yeah, we're going to have to give her the old bullsnot treatment. I noticed on here, on the pipes, got a little bit of, a little bit of scrubbing to do because the place where I had it parked, the roof came in that carport. It broke in in the winter time and a whole bunch of snow fell on the bike and it was minus 50 outside and I couldn't wash it off properly because everything was just frozen. I'm going to all fix it up. That's what I do. You take stuff that needs shining up, you make it look new again.