 Good morning YouTube. Thank you for watching this episode of the Trucker Josh Vlogs. I am Zachary Hill from Hills on the Road of Life and today on this Road of Life I'm riding through a rut. Confused. I slept at the customer, right? And that's because I wanted to be loaded first thing in the morning. I'm telling a story. I wanted to be loaded first thing in the morning, right? So I made sure I was here first thing in the morning. I went and read their sign and it said gate opens at 7 a.m. No entry before then. Okay cool 7 a.m. sounds good to me. So I woke up at 6 30 and I looked over to the gate. I'm like okay there it is it's still closed and then I look over beside me and one of the trucks that was parked beside me for the night is gone. Where'd he go? He was empty so suddenly he was loaded in life. He had to get loaded first. Where'd he go? Right diesel? We were both confused so I'll walk diesel, get myself ready. And then all of a sudden I see across the yard over there. He's inside the gate already. What? How'd he get in there? So I scramble get all my stuff ready get you know get get the truck ready to go finish up with diesel and then I quickly go to the gate and I push the button and sure enough gate opens but it was exactly 7 a.m. so I'm like all right cool well I'm right on time I don't know how that guy got in but I'm right on time. There's just one guy in front of me somehow. Okay I go around the yard and I get to the place where we line up to get loaded. There's three trucks in here already. Three of them. How did they get in here before 7 a.m.? Obviously the sign is wrong. Sign says no entry before 7 a.m. and I got to the gate actually at 6.59. Three people are in here before me. Three trucks. That means it's gonna take a lot longer for me to get loaded because there's only two bays to tarp so they'll load the first two and those two will go into the tarping bays, tarp their loads and me and this guy in front of me here at the third guy on the fourth. We're gonna have to wait for them to finish tarping before we can go in their tarp. We're only allowed to tarp in the tarping bay. I showed you it's really fancy. How did they get in here? Apparently the sign is flexible. No entry before 7 a.m. but sometimes entry before 7 a.m. They haven't started loading the guys in front of me yet. So obviously they only start loading after 7 a.m. but you can get into the yard before 7 a.m. Interesting. Good to know. Good to know. Next time I guess I'll be at the gate at 6.30. Well then I think that guy was in here before 6.30. Well I'm number four. Number four. So we're probably not going to get delivered today yet. I'll probably deliver tomorrow morning. We're going down to Brainerd, Minnesota. By the time I'm out of here it'll probably be too late to deliver today. Huh. Oh well. Now we know. About the same as our last one. I tried to get the crease there to line it better with the top of the load this time. I got it straight but I was in a little bit of a rush. There was a guy that pulled in right behind me just as I was tarping the load and he needed the tarp bay to tarp his load. So I was in his way so I wanted to hurry up and you know be polite and not take forever. So I quickly rushed a little bit and I'm happy with it but you know I'm only going 300 miles with it. I don't want to spend half a day tarping this thing and getting it just perfect just to go like down the road into Minnesota and take it all off anyway. I'm getting unloaded today yet. The back here you'll see this is what bothered me the most but I did get the crease proper on the top there. We're not on this side and this side wraps around a little further than that side. Like I said the other day we are always our biggest critics. We are our own biggest critics. That's okay. It's doing the job right? We actually the driver who was behind me was I guess in a bit of a hurry and he came to help me with my tarps and that's why this is uneven here. I appreciate the help so I'm not complaining but he wasn't as focused as I was on getting it exactly lined up. I don't want to pass off the blame but sometimes it's just the honest truth. He didn't line this back one up straight for me when he was started tacking it down here but that's okay. Not a big deal. I appreciate that it came to help and it's all wrapped up on this is playing little peekaboo here again. What are you doing to me? That's okay. It's always good to help your fellow driver. These tarps don't have to be perfect. They don't have to look perfect. It doesn't matter. This is good. All it's supposed to do is cover the load just in case I run through some rain. It doesn't really need to be tarped. To be perfectly honest with you this load does not need to be tarped. It's a beautiful sunny day and it's just going 300 miles down the road on a sunny day. It doesn't need to be tarped but they want it tarped. So customer wants customer gets. Their load gets tarped. This would be more so for winter time when there's a lot of salt and debris on the road. You wouldn't want your your lumber arriving all full of road salt and road grime and stuff right? That's okay. I don't mind tarping and especially there they have those fancy tarp machines that I showed you on Monday. It takes very easy. There's nothing to complain about. That's the load though. Nice little Christmas present on its way down to Brainerd, Minnesota from Canora, Ontario. We talked here real quick to get a video uploaded and I just wanted to get that going back there. I have a mobile Wi-Fi so everywhere I go I have pretty good Wi-Fi. Either Canada or the States. It works on both sides of the border. That helps a lot with what I do here on YouTube. And I had to make sure I had my passport ready and old documentation and everything else ready because I'm gonna get to the border right away. I'm just outside of Fort Francis Ontario on the Canadian side. We're about to cross on to the US side so I am now ready. Prepare diesel. You ready? You got your passport? Let's pay for towel here. That's not a passport man. They're not gonna accept that. You can't just write Lord of all Weasels on a napkin. It's okay. We all got alerts sometimes. You're 11 years old now. You got to show them your own passport, okay? When you're crossing the border with pets, in all seriousness, jokes aside, you need to have proof with you of their vaccinations. Radies and whatnot. The way you get that is you go to your vet and you get them to print off a record of the vaccinations and they have to be up to date and current. I've never been asked for these records at the border before but if they do request them you do have to have them on hand to give over to them just to say, hey, he's up to date on his shots. Just like me, right? Nosey people, right? Nosey people. Order my dog's medical records to you, right Diesel? You're always up to date. Okay, anyways, let's go to America. Straps off of here as we can and we'll pull inside, take our straps off. Diesel, you're gonna do that part right? Gotta make yourself useful. You're not just here for a free ride, are you? I thought you worked for Kibble. It's pretty hot. Look, I still got this fan. I usually use this for night. I clipped it onto my dashboard here to dry me off. I was just soaked in sweat and then in the back there, I don't know if you can see it underneath, back there, that's a built-in Kenworth fan that I have in the truck. I have it pointed down at Diesel, blowing air on him, keeping him cool. Can't have the truck idling inside here, obviously. I'm done all my work. I've got my straps taken off, my tarps taken off, straps taken off, all my equipment put away, tarps rolled up, tied down. He's just taking the lifts off now, so we should be out of here in about 10 minutes or so. Then I'm heading down to Hutchinson, Minnesota. I have a load there to pick up in the morning and it's going back to Manitoba, to a town near the border on 75 called LaTallier. I'm not sure what kind of freight this would be, it doesn't say on here. I rarely know. I only figure out what I'm hauling once I get there. Hopefully it's not too complicated. Whatever. We'll get it done, we'll tie her down tomorrow and we'll head on back home. Should be back tomorrow. Might even get unloaded tomorrow, who knows. Clean. Finally got a shower. Between Canora and Brainerd there are no showers that I have an account for. There may be showers at some truck stops that I'm not aware of. I don't do that right often enough to know where all the little ones are. There's no pile of flying jays and that's where I always take a shower. So we're here in St. Cloud, Minnesota right now on the way down to Hutchinson and I was able to park over at the McDonald's in a temporary parking spot. We're allowed to park here just not overnight. I checked. So I parked here for about an hour, ran into a pilot and grabbed a shower, cleaned myself up. It felt so good. Now we're gonna get out of here. I'm gonna go to the customer at Hutchinson said I'm ready for the first thing in the morning tomorrow. Let's get out of here. There's the pilot right there. So he was just across the street. There's never any parking in this pilot. So if you're going to St. Cloud, Minnesota, you can stop in here and just grab fuel. Sometimes right now it's just jam packed with guys parked in the pumps. You see one guy backing out already because there's a guy in front of him that's probably been parked in front of the pumps for an hour. It's risky. I don't fuel here because it's too congested. It's a very small lot and very often you get jammed up with people parking wherever they want. So I usually go to the pilot at exit 100 on I-94 in Minnesota. That's in Alexandria. That exit's a little funny though. You got to make sure you take the right exit to get on and off the freeway. You'll see what I mean when you go there. Or you can look at it on a map. But that parking lot's a lot more usable. It's a big lot and the pumps don't usually get as congested. That's where I usually go. I very rarely stop here. I only stopped here because this is right on my way to Hutchinson and I was kind of desperate for a shower. I almost didn't find parking but you know, lucky for me worked out this time, right Diesel? This is I-94. We're gonna get on I-94 Westbound just for a few miles. About five miles, seven kilometers on Minnesota 15 southbound down into Hutchinson. Not too sure what kind of stuff I'm picking up. By the looks of it, I looked it up on Google. It looks like it's gonna be some kind of steel parts, steel building materials by the looks of it. We'll find out in the morning. Whatever it is, I'll take it. I found myself a quiet street parked down. Can't really see it. Not much light is being picked up but there's about two businesses on this street and that's a dead end that way. All of this is obviously commercial land that's probably for sale. Those lights right there, that's where I'm loading in the morning. The yard is practically a quarter mile that way. They told me I wasn't allowed to park in the gate or on their driveway there. They're like, no, no, you're not allowed to park on our property or in our driveway. We're sorry. They actually suggested I went and parked at Wal-Mart, like, way across town, way over there. I looked at the map and I saw this road going through here and I figured, well, it looks like a pretty quiet road. We'll check it out. Sure enough, yeah, it's a business road. It's like an industrial road. Parking along the sides here. I've seen cars on Google Maps parking along the sides here. Sure enough, there's no signs here saying no parking. Very quiet street. Street lights. So I got a park right underneath the street light, which is important to me when you're on these quiet roads. I don't want to park in the pitch black if you don't have to. I was finding a nice light to park under. And big open grass fields for the weasel to run around in. Speaking of, he's in here somewhere. There he is. You see him? Hey, Deezu. What are you doing there? All right, let's... One good thing about these steps on these Ken ones is it's a nice, pretty low step. So I don't always have to use his fancy steps. One sec here, Deezu. One second. Let me get all my... This shouldn't be here. Okay, I trust you, buddy. Okay. Good boy. Yep, that pulls yours right there. No, it's going to be our friend. It's going to light us up all night. You go and mark it if you want to. It's going to be a good night. It was a good day, that's for sure. I started in Kenora today. I used up my full 14 hours on my American cycle. Started in Kenora this morning. We got loaded, tarped, got down to Brainerd, got un-tarped, got unloaded, and made it down to our customer where we're going to load first thing tomorrow morning. So it was a very productive day. Very happy with it. We drove about 750 kilometers, I think, which is under 500 miles. And then tomorrow we should be able to make it back into Manitoba. La Talle is just into Manitoba. I'm thinking, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get there before end of business day. I'm going to try. But if not, I'll just sleep right in La Talle. They have a little parking lot there. Sleep right there, deliver first thing Friday morning. And then I guess I'll call and see if they've got something short to do. But I think I'll be going home then because we have a wedding to go to on Saturday. One of my wife's friends is getting married. And I'm her plus one. Excuse to dress up, eh? Careful if you're going on the road there, weasel, okay? I know it's a quiet road. And that's a dead end. There's not going to be any traffic coming from there. But I did see, because that's a dead end, it's got like a big turnaround spot over there, right? I did see a whole bunch of black marks on the pavement, which means the local kids obviously know about this quiet road and they like to come here and do burnouts. Can you blame them? I'd love to do burnouts too. But it's not a weekend, so I don't think they'll be here today. It's a Wednesday. They should be at home. Hasn't school started? They should be in school. Or college or university. Or trade school. That's where they should be. Trade school. That makes the most sense. Alright everybody, thanks for hanging out with me today. Didn't do a lot of filming, but we got a whole vlog out of it. We'll see you tomorrow. We'll put some freight on this trailer. We'll head back on up to Canadian. I hope you join us. If you haven't already, hit that subscribe button. Go down below into the description below my videos. A whole bunch of links and stuff there where you can find me on social media. There's links where you can support us if you want to as well. If you do support us on Patreon, we release the videos early there for everybody to see. Other than that, I'll see you right here on YouTube tomorrow morning. Take care.