 Hey everyone, this is me to have you to laugh from Kevlar Afghanistan, and you're watching trucker Josh or key JV on YouTube Good morning. It's cold a little bit nip lay out there pretty Celsius. It's probably in the 40s Fahrenheit Gaby already done our pre-trip check the brakes our trailers attached I'm just gonna double check by doing a little tug test here. Yeah, it's because it makes me feel better I'm gonna drive forward a couple of feet and yank the brakes on the trailer trailers attached Brakes work roll forward again brakes release Let's get out of here. So we're in Rothsay, Minnesota Let's go at 7 30 7 45 in the morning right now Stopped here for precisely 10 hours and two minutes Then did our 15 minute pre-trip and now we are ready to rock and roll There we go. Yeah, I've actually had to have to turn the heat on in the cap tonight You know, I don't mind the the cold of winter really, you know, you can dress for it You can keep yourself warm It's the blizzards that I don't like the snow on the highways But what can you do? I live in the north except it and move for eastbound Got a couple of hours and we'll be in Minneapolis. We're gonna head straight south from there New people welcome, don't forget to subscribe do it right away before you forget don't subscribe Make new videos every day. We're on the road here. I am based in canada barely I'm just over the border into manitoba just north of minnesota northwest of minnesota and Eastern north dakota So i'm up in the cold section of the country We're hauling a load of lumber today We're taking it down to waterloo, ios. I want to get it unloaded today yet And it's still about seven hours away Should be arriving there around 2 30 or three o'clock this afternoon. You can't get the temperature right in here And then i'm freezing so i turn it a little warmer than i'm sweating so i turn it a little colder than i'm freezing It's right in that temperature where I can't find the right So I just called my customer. I'm a pretty happy trucker right now Uh people who are receiving this lumber Do you remember last week or was it the week before we were delivering to a customer who Went home at like 1 30 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon. They wouldn't take any loads after 2 o'clock I think and we were talking about like wow must be nice to go home right after lunch, right? Everybody else has to stay a normal business day, but they get to go home early bothers me when receivers don't Have regular business hours like that because it really puts a kink in our side of things But maybe i'm just being selfish. I don't know But anyways, I called the place where we're bringing this two down in waterloo, iowa And I asked them what their uh hours of receiving were and they're open to receive until 10 p.m A new favorite customer till 10 p.m Like they just blew the other guys out of the water like They said oh, no, we're not gonna just be open normal business hours. We'll raise you till 10 p.m Okay, so i'm not in that big of a rush now then because I was just gonna go as fast as I could to get there because I was Going to arrive there around like three o'clock Maybe three thirty I was hoping that they would be open till four right so i was in a bit of a hurry I guess I don't have to be going this fast then Save some fuel You know what? Yeah, I'm gonna slow down Go back behind this guy. I was just passing. He's gonna be wondering what is he doing I'm about to pass this guy. You know, I'm gonna slow down and save some fuel There's no big rush today Down to 60 miles an hour. There we go much better because we're going against wind right now So i'm just sucking the fuel Just in the last hour that I've hour and a half that i've been on the road I've been averaging 55 liters per 100 kilometers. That's about double What I would usually burn Pay too much to pull the lumber Which is fine because we pulled these lumber loads down here because there's good high paying loads going back So it balances out Otherwise that'd be coming down here empty That's my only other option So I have something on the trailer, but this way at least I'll slow down save some fuel Breathe a little bit let my blood pressure go down. We're not late I'm gonna get there with plenty of time And we'll get to Chicago. Well, I'm not gonna sleep in Chicago tonight. Let's be clear But I'll be uh nearby Maybe I'll go to like, uh, what's that town called? straight south down I-39 south of rockford Rochelle is that what is Rochelle, Illinois? There's a big ta and big truck stops there. Maybe that's where I'll go for the night And then in the morning we'll make our way into Chicago because I don't want to sleep in Chicago overnight No way pay me to sleep in Chicago overnight Well If you want to pay me to sleep in Chicago, let's talk numbers. I mean, I want to see a couple of zeros at least Three or more zeros I'm putting my life on the line You know slowing down to 60 hasn't even really helped that much this wind is so strong and we're driving directly into it right now Right into it I may as well just strap a big parachute to the back of my trailer and be pulling that down the interstate Time to check on the load Make sure nothing fell off The rain has slowed down a little bit now. So may as well get this done now before it starts raining again We've driven 185 kilometers today so far. That's a little over a hundred miles Continue on this road for 10 kilometers Dude, why are you parked? Are you are you gonna move? Or are you gonna stay right in the drive because I need that to get into my parking spot Okay, you're just gonna park right in the way. Okay Well, I'm just gonna come really close past you here And probably freaky out a little bit because I need this space to get into my parking spot Dude, there's so many parking spots available here, right? People people people rather just park there instead of just coming into a nice parking spot like this I don't understand it, you know There's a lot of good drivers out here. Most drivers are really good people They're trying to put food on the table for their family, you know And then there's the lazy guys, you know Who you can tell haven't really gotten out of their truck and walked more than 50 feet in about 10 years Yeah, I know I'm being a little mean what Sometimes people need a rude awakening like wake up. All right. Let's check this stuff out diesel Since we have a little bit extra time or more time than we thought figured we'd stop by this Truck stop here near sock center in minnesota and enjoy their Big dog park Nice big fenced in area diesel Busy sniffing man. Busy sniffing. There's been some really good looking dogs over here, man There's some chicks been here, man Diesel hey Stop sniffing for the girls. Come here. Say hi to everybody diesel Come here, buddy. Come say hi to everybody I'm busy Because you see leaving my sense for all the ladies Yeah, they'll smell you they'll know you were here, man And they'll go watch youtube and they'll see you on the youtube Such a good boy It's a nice dog park, huh? Maybe you should do some running and less sniffing. Hey less sniffing more running Hmm Come on There you go now you got it There you go Oh, you want me to run? That's a different story You'd be a great NASCAR driver. All you do is make left turns Oh, you're gonna prove me wrong. Okay, maybe an indie car driver Why don't you run man run more than 10 feet? Why don't you run more yin yang feet? Good point to say Okay, well, we've been Trying to run around here for a little while unsuccessfully I guess we don't want to waste too much time. We don't have all the time in the world It's just a little more time than we thought Time to get back truck of it So we're here in waterloo And I gotta go over the river here and then back over the river over there to our right Or do I turn? I don't think I can make a turn there though Or wait No, can I turn right here? Here right Karen? On main street. Well, I had to back into this place here through there across a busy street But now we're empty so Now I can pull on back out of here and we're on our way to Chicago. I'm gonna avoid all the tolls One great thing about my GPS Karen here I can just tell her hey I don't want any tolls today and she'll tell me how much the tolls are If I do want to take the toll roll So that's pretty cool. Mandy never told me how much I'd have to pay in tolls Here we go. So I'm not gonna go all the way to Chicago. We're picking up like close to downtown Chicago like in my mind It's close to downtown Chicago people who live there would probably be like no no no That's five neighborhoods over. I know I get it but to me that's really close to the heart of A city that I don't want to spend the night in So we're gonna find a different place to spend the night in Which way do I want to go? Where do I want to go? Do I want to go left? Which way is north? I gotta back up a little bit here Cars are coming past. I gotta figure out which direction I want to go I think it's telling me to go right Better correct me if I'm wrong. Talk to me woman. Talk to me. Did I make you angry? Why won't you talk to me? What's wrong Karen? Are we okay? Karen what's going on here? Why aren't you talking to me? Why are you angry at me? She's not picking up the gps signal for some reason That's just Exit out of it go back into it. That's what I do all the time if she's not doing what I want her to do I just press reset. It's a very handy button to have proceeded to the highlighted route There we go. Okay. Your route incurs toll costs, but I told you not to Compare routes. Okay Let's see So I told you not to take tolls. Okay. So if I go on the toll routes I'll be spending between $11 20 cents and $14 and 40 cents But I can also press no toll Proceeds to the highlighted route 30 miles further but $20 less Makes you wonder 30 miles is 50 kilometers if I'm burning because I'm empty I'd probably be burning about 25 liters per 100 kilometers So I'd be what? Why can't I think right now 12 and a half 12 50 $12 and 50 cents it would cost me to drive 12 and a half liters it would cost me My brain's hurting Okay, 50 kilometers at 25 liters per 100 kilometers. I would burn 12 and a half liters. Okay. So down here in the us diesel fuel right now Is that about a dollar a liter? I'm talking canadian money So about a dollar a liter Why am I using my calculator for this $12 and 50 cents? Okay So it would cost me $12 and 50 cents to go the extra 30 miles or 50 kilometers, but it would cost me up to $14 and 40 cents To go through the toll route, which is shorter. So really by taking the not toll route, which is longer. I'm saving myself $2 See that and you thought truckers didn't have to do any math You hear that kids pay attention in math class. You're gonna need it Especially consumer math. I don't know what they call it where you're from But uh around here when I was in school anyways back in the day when I was in high school They called it consumer math the most uh, why are you guys not straight? There you go the most uh Beneficial math class you can take to be a truck driver I would also recommend you take a lot more than I did because uh, I didn't take like pre-calculus or uh, what's the other fancy one the other fancy math so, uh When I wanted to go back to university They required me to go back to high school or at least go back to like an adult School where I would redo those classes Just so that I can have those classes under my belt because I wanted to be a police officer I was gonna go through uh criminology. I actually got accepted into the university of winnipeg and university of manitoba uh to go through criminology but uh Well, here we are life choices were made and here I am running my own truck Making more money than I would have as a cop So I think that's good. I'm not home often I know I know cops are home pretty much every night, right? Unless they're working at double They also have a lot more danger to deal with because you know, they people shoot at them and stuff And that's that's not very nice Nobody really shoots at me But I'm not home as often but I make a lot more money than cops So I don't know. I'm happy with my life decision, but that's Why I'm here. That's why I'm here. I could have gone to university could have been a cop Became a trucker instead and I'm happy with my choice So we were going the wrong way had to turn around Thanks, Karen Where were you I needed you? Made me sad. You didn't want to talk to me She apparently wasn't connecting to the satellites or the GPS or whatever Had to reset her Good thing you got that reset button I got an alert on my cell phone a couple of minutes ago Almost like an amber alert except it said that there's flash flood warnings for this area It said to avoid flooded areas and I was like well, duh I don't really uh Usually drive into floods, but thanks for the heads up Hopefully we don't run into any flooding Like it's been like this for a good portion of the day all the way down from Like on the other side of minneapolis in minnesota Pots and lots of rain. This is definitely the most rainfall that I've driven through this year Kind of windy too I forget what highway we're on. We're on a us highway between Dubuque and Rockford or something like that. We're headed south. We just left Dubuque, Iowa So I'm not sure if you guys from around here remember this rainfall from last week I'm driving through it right now It is crazy pretty strong wind Coming out of the west to our right Pushing us over to our left. I don't got any weight on the trailer right now But I didn't just get new drive tires. So that that's good. That'll help in a rainfall, I guess But I just sort of want to get out of here Seriously, it's just not letting up Yeah, it's a strong wind coming from over there You know, if I just keep Moseying along I'm doing about 45 miles an hour right now I'll slow it down to 40 That's uh, about six 70 kilometers an hour Speed limit 65 or 105 here, but It's moseying along and eventually, you know, if I keep driving I've got to Get to the other side of the system, right and Sneak out the other side and even see my trailer behind me Check Diesel's hiding in the sleeper Oh, it's getting a little better now Okay, it's slowing down now It might just be a little pocket and we'll probably get worse again. Those clouds don't look too friendly in front of us As long as it doesn't start hailing, you know Yeah, it's starting to get heavy again. Oh, there we go. Yeah, it was just a little pocket insane I wish I was sitting inside watching Netflix right now That'd be nice Not out on the highway It's not bad enough yet for me to pull over. I got this Careful on the downhill here Gravity is doing its thing We'll be fine. We'll be fine. We'll get out of this eventually It's only 7 30 in the evening The sun hasn't even gone down yet. It's just this dark from the storm It's worse that way And that that direction is Chicago so See We'll see how far we make it Clinton, Iowa This is where we're spending the night right off to the right here. There's a Quick star or a quick trip, whatever they call it See if there's any parking spots here for us We're not on a major interstate so I would assume there'd be something here for trucker josh I've arrived at your destination on the left side quick star number 348 Thanks, Karen. I wish she'd respond back You're welcome boss Have a good night boss Anytime see if there's any Parking in here. How are you guys crooked? What's with all these cars taking up full truck spots back here? Oh, wait. No, those are not full truck stop truck spots, okay Okay, so yeah, there's still some spots here. Well, there's that one there You know what? I'm gonna take that one Or maybe I should park back here. Is that a spot there? Is that a spot? No, there's a bob tail in there Bob tails I just passed the bob tail section. Why aren't the bob tails in the bob tail section? I'm okay. I'm okay