 Oh yeah, you ready for this? It's another new day, we're just being unloaded here, right where we had ended off yesterday. Still getting unloaded. I wanna give a shout out right off the bat to someone here. Let's go on to my, I posted it on my Facebook page, facebook.com slash official Trucker Josh. And some guy made a video about me. It's called I Hate You Trucker Josh and Your Followers. I saw that, someone sent it to me. I was like, what is this? Who's this? And it turns out he's actually a really nice guy. He hates me, but he's a nice guy. He was just joking. I'm pretty sure, I don't know. I wanna send you over to his channel though, and you can see it for yourself. I'm gonna link it down below this video right now. I wanna share it because it got a good laugh out of me and it really got me going, cause when I read the title I was like, oh come on, what's this? Another hate video. It clicked and he got me, he got me. You gotta go watch it. You gotta go watch it, see what he says. See what he says. He never said that he didn't hate me. But you gotta go watch it anyways. It's called, this channel is called The Asian My Show. The Asian My Show, and it says The Asian My Hates You. I haven't gone through his whole channel yet, okay? So I can't completely endorse every single video that he's made, but I wanna share this one video with you anyways just because I thought it was pretty clever, pretty funny. And you can go check out the rest of his content and see if you like it yourself. If you do, subscribe to him. Why not? He sent all of his followers over to our channel here. He's helping us get to 100,000 subscribers and I really do appreciate that. He seems like a really good guy and puts a lot of effort into his videos. So I wanna send you guys over there. The link is down below in the description and into this video. So on the agenda for today, we're going to Chicago for me. We're in Hortonville, Wisconsin. Sort of like Tim Hortons, but just Hortonville, Wisconsin. We slept in New London actually, which is just down the road from here. So there's London, England. There's London, Ontario, Canada. And there's New London, Wisconsin. There's a lot of London's out there. Very popular place. It's everywhere. Yes. Oh, you just wanna come and dance around for me? Oh, it's nice. From here, we go to Chicago, which is about three and a half, four hours away. We've got to be there by three o'clock. It looks right now that we'll be there about 2.30. We don't have a lot of time to play with, but we're just gonna stop for one coffee and about to break on the way down and we're gonna book it. I think he's taking off. I think he's taking off the last clip right now. Okay. So I learned that I have come in here backwards. So now we have to back out. I was supposed to back up the hill into here. That was my first time here. So I cut Mrs. Slack. He said they had a sign somewhere, but it got knocked over in wintertime by the snow plows. Oh, it's possible, Karen. Anything is possible. Anything. I got a book that says anything's possible. My way backwards down here. I wish I had a whole camera crew to film me do stuff. So it'll make it so much easier. I could get so many better angles. I'm in such a rush all the time. It's just always go, go, go, go, go. Do what I can, guys. Do what I can. Let's go to Chicago, shall we? Are you guys excited? Diesel, are you excited? Chicago, man. Chicago. Never understand how these freeways can be at a standstill every single lane. One, two, three, four, five lanes across. It's a freeway. There's no stop signs, no stop lights, no intersections, no nothing to cause people to have to stop. All right, buddy, you're in my lane. It's your little utility trailer there. There's nothing ahead of these people. Nothing except open road. So how on earth is every single lane? I can understand maybe like the couple of right lanes because people are merging in and off the highway. What about the left lane, the far left lane and this left lane beside me? Why is that one not moving? Who are the morons at the front? At the very front, plugging up all five lanes of traffic every day. Ever wondered that? How does it happen? There's no reason to stop. There's nobody merging on and off from the left. It's just wide open highway. Yeah, people are, look at this, dead standstill. I wish I could go up in a helicopter and see what you guys see from up there when you're flying around to see who's at the front of this madness because it's somewhat different every day but they do the same stuff. And what causes this traffic? It's just so inefficient. That's big cities for you, right? It's everywhere you go. Every city is the same. In one kilometer, keep to the left on I-90 East I-94 East. This guy's been in front of me spoiling the view for you guys this whole time. And he's one of those creepers. He's one of those Billy Big Rigors that just creeps along in first gear. So like dozens and dozens of cars keep cutting in front of him because he leaves such a huge gap. So this lane doesn't move at all. Moves even less than the other lanes because he doesn't want to keep up with the vehicle in front of him. Oh, I hate cities. It just gets me so mad right away. Everybody just doesn't work together to make traffic flow properly. I want to get around this guy, but I can't because it's just nonstop traffic. Nonstop, both sides. Downtown Chicago. Once again, reminded why I live in the middle of nowhere. When a farmer down the road moves his cattle across the road, you know, that's a pretty big traffic jam. I'm gonna stop and wait for him all across. Man, you go into town sometimes Sunday morning, around noon, Sunday rush hour. That's pretty intense sometimes, but wow, this gives new meaning to the word traffic. This is just like Toronto. Except here, people like, I've seen two people use their signals so far. And I've been paying attention. I've been trying to, I've been trying to spot them, but I haven't been able to spot anybody who uses signals. Dragging his trailer into our lane again. But your trailer's a little wider than your truck. You got to realize that, right? I'm sure this isn't your first time pulling that thing through traffic. You got to keep her in the center, bud. Your trailer's about as wide as the lane, so you don't got much wiggle room. Downtown, downtown gets the blood pumping. Oh, on top of that, I got to go to the bathroom. Didn't have to when I came in. Turn right, man, turn right in 90 meters. Where am I gonna turn right, Karen? You're just trying to stress me out even more. I'm going straight. I'm gonna turn right, go up the ditch, then I go up the ramp. Where am I gonna take this truck? This weird building off to the right, though. That'd be like circular cylinder thing. I bought a new condo in the cylinder, downtown. That's a cylinder. Bring this trailer right close to our lane again. I wish I could just click a button and poof, be out of the city. Man, wouldn't that be great? I don't know how you, like so many people live in these big cities, obviously, because they're a big city. So many people live here in these kind of places. How do you do it? How do you do it? It takes a special kind of person, I think. There's just so many people everywhere. It's just like a concrete jungle. There's just something everywhere. And there's no reason for this traffic. Absolutely no reason, it's a freeway. There's nothing up ahead slowing down traffic. It's just people, just people being people. Oh, thank God we made it out of downtown. We're into Old Chicago here. And I've got to go a little ways around the corner here yet. Find my shipper. It's pretty smoky in this warehouse. They run these big diesel forklifts in here. But that's okay. So here's the load. See, they put the poly wrap down first. Then they wrap it up, staple it up there. Four big stacks there. So I've got to tie these all down. And then we have to tarp it. It's gonna be fun. This guy is just in front of me here. He's getting ready. See, they have the tarp machines over there where you just roll out your tarps. And then you drive underneath there and then it places the tarps down on. All right, so we just got the tarps rolled out. Now we're gonna drive underneath them there. Set them down on my trailer. It takes like a two-hour job, a 20-minute job. Oh good, so we have some time yet. Rape under. Way better, eh? That's awesome. I wish they had these machines everywhere. All I got to do is bungear down and we're good to go. I'm sure you heard the good e-log. I've got like six and a half hours left on my day today. There she is, all wrapped up. Had to use a bit of a rug underneath there to make sure it wouldn't cut up my tarps. Hopefully I used enough. I think we're ready to go. Just looks like crinkled over here. What's going on? Yeah, it's all good. It's all good. All right, let's go get our paperwork and go. This guy's got a dog too in his passenger seat. No idea why they wouldn't move their, like relocate their business. I know it would probably cost a lot of money to move that, it's a massive business. I'll just go around you then. Eat in the heart of this congested area of old Chicago, where trucks like mine shouldn't be. It's nuts though. What makes me feel better though is I'm eating a donut from QuickTrip. Have you ever gotten their glazed donuts? I think the QuickTrip travel store in like Wisconsin. Oh, they rival crispy cream. It's so good. All these big trucks coming down here though. These are streets that were built when they used horse and buggy. When they were first building Chicago. There's still like those long straight streets, everything's in like blocks. I kind of like that way of building better than what they do nowadays with all the curved roads and they want to make it look all fancy. And nowadays everybody's got cars, right? Whereas when they built these streets, everybody had horse and buggy or they walked. Or they had, what do you call those trolleys? Winnipeg had trolleys, trains. They rolled down the middle of the street like this. And that's how that was public transport. Winnipeg was one of the first cities to do that. Very similar to what San Francisco did. I think San Francisco still uses them, right? Sort of like a nostalgic type thing that they don't really need them, I don't think, but they use them. What do I know? I haven't been to San Francisco and I don't plan on going there any time soon, so. Well, if you want to go in front of me, I'll leave you a space there. Here you go. You're very welcome. That spot wasn't for you, but okay. Only one. You just sort of gotta let things go when you're driving a city like this. If you've got problems with the road rage, don't come to Chicago. Shit, this place is nuts. Have I told you that yet? I think I have, right? This place is nuts. I mean, people live in these congested old areas and that's probably all they know. So this is probably normal to them. To me, this is like, there's so many people. Such a neat neighborhood, though. Like back in the day when this neighborhood was first built, I bet you this was like the place to be. Parking ticket. I was driving the other way. I noticed that there was a lot of cars with boots, those little tire locks on them. I wonder how you get those off. I guess you gotta call the parking authority and then pay your ticket and wait for them to take it off. That's kind of inconvenient. But I guess otherwise people won't pay, right? Oh, we've got some action over here on the right. Nobody's standing around with their guns out. Oh, wait, someone's getting searched. I think that one guy had a vest on that said ice. Uh-oh, uh-oh, he got busted. But at least they have a McDonald's, right? Everything okay. But we gotta go back through downtown. It's my best bet to get out of Chicago. I don't know this city that well. I don't want to end up in a neighborhood I shouldn't be and I'm already kind of feeling like this is a bit of a sketchy neighborhood after the sun goes down. I don't know, but I don't know, right? So it might not be, but I don't want to risk it. So I'm just following the easiest way out. We're gonna go back to the 94 and just follow that out of the city. I don't want to end up at a low bridge either. The city has tons. It's known for low bridges. Like I said, it was built long before we had these big trucks. I don't want to get stuck at a low bridge. So I think we're in the right lane here. I'm gonna turn around. I'm gonna go to Wisconsin and follow Interstate 94 all the way up to North Dakota. And then take Interstate 29 back up home or it turns into Highway 75 at the border. Did they build some new skyscrapers here in downtown Chicago? It looks fuller than usual. Chains are left on, I-90 West, I-94 West. Yeah, you got it, I'm keeping left. So far it looks like traffic's not as bad this time yet but it's a quarter to six, 44 PM. So you know we're gonna hit it here soon. Rush Hour can't be over yet. Is Rush Hour ever over in Chicago? Do any of you live here? Of course some of you do. If I don't have any followers in Chicago, I must be doing something wrong because there's a whole bunch of you here. There's gotta be at least one of you from Chicago. And I'm sorry. It's a nice city. I'm sorry you're stuck with your Blackhawks though. I mean, man. Sorry to hear that you have to deal with those guys. Here's downtown. Look at that, look at that. Oh, and here's all the brake lights. Here they are. Oh, you almost disappointed me. Hey buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy, careful, careful. I got a heavy load behind me. Easy. Can't stop much faster than that without completely destroying my truck and my brakes. So let's get through downtown and let's get out of Chicago without hitting anything. Hopefully without anyone hitting me. I got my dash camera running. So if anybody tries anything sneaky up here, I got you on camera. Talking to you, talking to you right there on the right. I saw that. I saw you were gonna cut me off. I saw that, not today. What kind of car is this? Kia, that is an ugly go-kart. Personal opinion. I mean, I'm sorry if you own one of them, but see, he's still gonna cut in here. There he is, there you go. There you go, I knew you wanted to come in here. Now, nobody do anything dumb. I know it's a lot to ask. Nobody do anything, I don't wanna hit anybody. All trying to get somewhere. And we all wanna go home to our families or to our dogs or our cats or your parents or whatever you go home to. We all wanna go home. We're gonna take her nice and easy through here because I got a heavy load behind me. Hopefully everybody respects that fact, at least a little bit. Who am I kidding? 90% of the people on here have no idea. 100 meters, Kate to the left on, I-90 West, I-94 West. I was gonna say 90% of the people here have no idea how physics and gravity work in regards to a loaded semi on the highway. No idea, but that's okay. So I just gotta drive defensively and expect them to do something that could get them killed. And it's my job to make sure they don't get themselves killed. And I got my cameras running like I said. So if they do do something, gets me off the hook. It's raining a little bit here in Boston, Wisconsin. But that's okay. We're gonna find ourselves a parking spot here at the Quick Trip Exit 69, I-94, and we'll call it a day. It's been a long day. I have 40 minutes left till my 14 hour day is up. Just about time I get finished here to be a 13 and a half hour day. How many hours did you work today? Did you do more than me? Oh boy, it looks pretty full here. Oh no, I hope there's parking here somewhere. I didn't think it would be full. I think I filmed quite a bit today. I think today's vlog will turn out to be pretty long. I'll probably have to cut out a bunch in between there. I filmed quite a bit when we were in Chicago. But here we are in Boston, Wisconsin. Another day, another nickel. We have a new load behind us. This load's going up to Winnipeg in the capital of my home province. So I'm not sure if I'm going home after this yet. I will still have hours available if they want to send me out to either back down to Minnesota and back or Calgary and back. But most likely what'll happen is I'll probably end up just running home, get a quick reset, reset my log books so that I get another 70 hours and then, because I'll be home filming this on a Tuesday. Is it Tuesday today? Yes, Tuesday. So tomorrow will be Wednesday. We'll be delivering this Thursday. I'll probably deliver this Thursday, go home Thursday evening, stay home for Friday and then leave Saturday or Sunday on a new trip. And then I'll have a fresh log book and we'll see what they have for us then. Got to keep these wheels turning. They've been turning very well. Everything on the truck has been working immaculately. You knew it was coming, knock on wood. If I could get another three months like this, we'll be good and pretty much caught up, I think, from the other weekend. If I can get six months like this, it'll be even better, we'll be ahead. And if I can get another couple of years like this, woo! I'll be a happy trucker. But, you know, like I was saying, that was a bit of a speed bump that we had a couple of weekends ago. It was about a $10,000 a month, but I am prepared that there are bigger speed bumps ahead. Let's just hope that they are far, far, far in the distance, right? Cause eventually this engine's gonna need an overhaul. I'll get an inframary bill that could be up to $35,000. Eventually things are gonna start breaking on it. But it's still cheaper than buying a new one because you guys are making the truck so expensive. All these fancy gizmos and everything, that's a rant for a different vlog. Let's not even get into that. We don't got time for a rant today yet. But anyways, thanks for watching today. Click one of these links around my face here. It'll take you to yesterday's video and another video that my channel thinks you might like. Click on my face there, the little circle. It'll take you to the page where you can subscribe to my channel and you can join us. It sure would be a pleasure to have you here with us every day. And it's free. So, go for it. We'll see you there. We'll see you there. We'll see you right here, tomorrow.