 Good morning Welcome to the Trucker Josh vlog page where you can follow me and my best friend diesel day by day As we travel across all of Canada and the United States This is real reality TV coming at you on YouTube Hit that subscribe button and follow our journey It's a beautiful day in northern Minnesota Canada is like right over there Little ways that way Morning weasel. How you doing? Well, what? Oh You used all the steps today good boy Good boy. I paid for all of them. I like it when you use them all Most of the time he takes like two steps down onto the second step and just jumps down the rest of the way Almost frustrates me. I was like, what's the point of having steps if you're just gonna jump down anyways The steps are supposed to be there to save his back He's getting old He's gonna be eight years old In August and he's never had any health problems yet. He's been healthy as a horse. Is that the saying healthy as a horse? his whole life pretty much knock on wood but Since we had to take our other dog Frankie in for back surgery When he had his IVDD there Ever since then we've been Taking extra precautions to make sure that there's no extra strain on our other dog's backs right diesel We don't need any more surgeries Not only Am I worried about that? It's just I want him to live as long as possible It's my best bud. He's been with me for eight years now For about 99% of it right by my side pet area Well diesel, I think we're in the right spot There is our freight All of it That's it one generator All the way from Wisconsin Up to Ontario Fort Francis, Ontario is where we're going. Yes. It really is like a minivan Hood opens the same way. I Always joke around tell people I just drive an oversize minivan. So that's pretty much what the volvos are Check the oil real quick plenty I'd say Truck's been off all night. So I Trust that level the engines cold still Let's change that. Let's warm it up Come on, baby. Don't disappoint me Don't disappoint me There you are You might be a big oversize minivan, but I still love you. Thank you for waking up for me this morning We're coming up to the border here. This is international Falls Minnesota on the other side of the border is Fort Francis, Ontario. I Don't think I've ever crossed here before And all my years driving never crossed here. I have a couple of friends that I've crossed through here regularly and I remember them always telling me that they're crossing and I Never knew where that was Now I can picture in my head what they're talking about when they say that So apparently we're only like four kilometers away from my destination, which is in Canada and we're still in the US Here's the town. Okay I'm guessing there will be a bridge because there's a river between the countries here interesting I called ahead and made sure that my paperwork was cleared to cross So when I'm crossing at a new crossing that I'm not familiar with I want to make sure that there's no hangups and That I don't embarrass myself and show up at the wrong ports or something Looks like a pretty big city here actually. It's not just a little town. I think all of those All that industry you see in the background there Smoke stacks and stuff those chimneys. I think that's on the Canadian side Too short. Am I speeding? No, I'm going to speed up. Okay. Last thing I need is a speeding ticket. I haven't gotten a speeding ticket in Oh, it's like 15 years. I think 31 now Yes, but almost 15 years Wow Feels like just yesterday Younger, that's why I always tell you guys you young guys who want to be truck drivers The best advice I can give you is don't Speed where your seatbelts. These are all obvious things. I'm sure that you already know, but big one is no speeding tickets those stayed on my license for five years and I had to wait for them to Be scrubbed off my driver's abstract. I have a squeaky clean driver's abstract, but for a while there it didn't look so good 15 years ago So don't speed. Okay, it's tempting. I know I've been there. I Like going fast too, but you know by a snowmobile or by a sport quad. That's what I did 350 meters turn right on 3rd Street west that turn left when you're on public highways You just have to follow the rules as Boring as they make the drive. They are there for a reason Which way do I go? I don't know where I'm going. Why are you parked here? You're confusing me Don't turn here East. I have no idea No, those stacks I saw before on the US side here in Minnesota But off to the right there, you see Canadian industry. So we both got industry on the river here How do I how do I get to Canada? It says to Canada this way Bridge tolls There's a toll What only? Oh Great Shoot now I gotta find an ATM. I should have known they would be a toll There's always a toll to get across an international bridge Such a pain though cash only no credit cards. No debit cards. Nothing cash only I know you guys like me in America. It's okay. I like you too But why do you got to find me to leave you want to keep me that bad just second go Park over there shoot Okay, oh, yeah, this is my yeah, look at that. I gotta change my gauze pad. I put this on overnight My poison oak if you're wondering what that is. It's it's still gross still. This is nasty talk to you about it yesterday a little bit You still got time. We're still on time We'll be okay. I Can literally look across the river and see where I got to deliver this freight to but I can't get there Unless if I give them my money first Feel so wanted, you know I've never been What are you digging it me for what? Dingling to you too. What are you digging? It's a little train over there. Just dingling in his horn Freedom gas station has an ATM apparently All right, so I'm parked in a little parking lot. I gotta go to the gas station across the street real quick I guess that worked $16 to go across this little bridge It isn't even that impressive 16 bucks for this Hashtag not impressed 150 meters turn right on Church Street. I know I'm like 400 meters from my destination right now How do I this is so weird? I've been need to redo this one build it somewhere somewhere else. How do I get in here? interesting Okay, oh Here we are here. We are okay That is so interesting This is my first ever time in Fort Francis, Ontario That's amazing how close To the river and how close to the border everything is built here This is an old town. It's been here a long time It's off the beaten path. That's why I've never been here the only reason you'd be crossing here is if you're Coming from this region and I I don't have a lot of freight that goes to or from this region So it's neat for me to be able to see a new little Canadian town that I haven't seen before Doesn't happen all the time anymore. I've been to quite a few places Well, we're here at another lumberyard lots of trees everywhere smells great and There's our load Taking that to Indiana now. We're a little more relaxed, but we're still rushed Still gonna be quite the rush getting to Indian We're gonna Franklin Indiana, which is just south of Indianapolis by the looks of it And I quickly swing by home on the way past we're gonna cross into Pemba, North Dakota Gotta pick up a few things at home that I forgot there Canora is a beautiful beautiful little city right on the lake Apparently they have amazing Canada Day fireworks here I'll have to come check it out sometime They do them right on the water We'll swing by home real quick. That was nice It's home for about an hour and a half this lumber behind me has to be in Indiana on Thursday If possible afternoon because on Friday. I have a reload Over in Missouri. Oh, where I'm wearing Missouri again Joplin, Missouri. No, I Forget where in Missouri pet. Oh, it starts with a pee pee Vee something. I'll tell you later Hey little Herbie in front of me here. Oh old-fashioned Herbie got a collector plate on it. That's nice Nice shape Any of you know who Herbie is? It's an old Joe. Look it up So I've got a load from St. Not St. Olds in Missouri somewhere in Missouri and that's taking me up to Fort McMurray, Alberta for next week So I got quite a bit of work to do the next few days. Hopefully this poison oak sort of settles down It's a lot worse. I mean, it's I keep saying this wrong. I keep saying it's not as bad as it looks like Doesn't even itch. I think it's supposed to itch, right? I'm sure it'll be gone in a few days It's supposed to peak in about seven days tops and It could last up to two weeks max So if it lasts more than two weeks, then I'll go see a doctor about it other than that I'm not gonna waste their time or if I start to develop more serious symptoms like Serious symptoms You know what I mean for now. I feel fine. I feel great. So I'm just gonna let it work work itself out Let my body do its thing I bought my body was designed to heal itself like this. So let's let it do its thing If I had a weak immune system, I would be a little more concerned, but Now I'll be fine I'm a stubborn man. What do you want? I'm not going to the doctor even though it's free I'm still not going Not unless I have to This is highway 75 southbound headed towards the US border. This turns into interstate 29 when you get into the United States It's still quite a bit of water around here. I think it's gone down from the last time I saw it I hope it has I always feel bad for these towns around here. There's a very old historic French towns along the Red River here southern, Manitoba Not just French towns. There's a lot of historic towns that get flooded out every year So they had to build these big land dikes around their around their towns Probably caused a fortune Most of them built it during the flood of the century. I was in 1997. I still remember that That was a bad one Too bad we didn't have a carbon tax back then. Hey, we could have stopped the flood of the century Who knew all I had to do is throw my money into the air and it would fix everything, right? Good thing. We're smarter now No more floods of the century So few parking spots left there's two left on the other side of this guy who's backing in so as long as nobody else rushes in While I'm waiting for this guy We should have a parking spot tonight as long as I can get into the spot If you're worried about that well Have faith I'll get in there All right, bud. You're doing a good job there. Hey, you just back her on up back her on up there Give her give her bud. Oh No, oh, yep. Yep. You're good. You're good Go on Go on. There you go. Good boy All right, I'm just gonna squeak past you here skeusing me And there's a spot off to the left here by the car hauler There's two one on each side of this car hauler here on the left parking one of these guys. I Think I'm gonna go on the other side. This guy's blue trucks got a reefer No, thank you this other guy's got a reefer. Nope. All right, we're going in there You like a glove diesel. Hey, I Can't see you there You're impressed right tell me you're impressed very nice maneuver maneuvering their main very very nice Whatever you did there. I like it very nice. Can I have my treat now? Yes, you can absolutely Only the good stuff for my good boy only the good stuff just because you complimented me you flattered me Flattery gets you everywhere in life. I don't know if that's true or not, but flattery definitely does get you treats Thank you Go on you deserve it, buddy. You earned that. Thank you take it It's that easy. Yep. There you go. You see you give me compliments. You get treats the fair and just system So that's it for today guys. That's it That's it. That's all what are we gonna do now? I'm gonna edit some videos I'm gonna set up the table back there. I've got a bunch of stuff that I got to put away yet. I Pack everything into stuff there Put that all away. We'll fold up the table Bring it our computer from up there. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be fun I'm not gonna take you along for that part though because I don't think you'll like that very much You like this part better To be honest, so do I On a report though my my poison oak here is getting a lot better it is Pussing a lot less is pussing the right word to use oozing. Is that a better word? There's not really a word to describe it. That isn't disgusting so It's getting better and all the little pieces They're all going away all going away Everything so my side here isn't even really itchy anymore now and this has gotten a lot smaller just this evening and it's drying up so Thank the Lord we're in the process of being healed Finally Learned my lesson Am I gonna do it again? Absolutely. I'm not done transplanting trees Next time. I'm just going to take a different approach and be a little more careful I might get it again. 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