 Hello everyone, my name is Matthew Gratland. I'm from Tacoma, Washington, and I love watching Trucker Josh Vlogs. Enjoy! Good morning everybody from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Western Canada. We're here unloading our load of steel. I'm gonna get this off the trailer, and I think I may be headed back empty. I'm just waiting to hear if they found a load for me to get back. But either way, I've got to get back because my Kenworth is gonna be ready to jump into very soon. We're just waiting on those plates to come in. So while they unload me, I roll up my straps so that when they're finished, hopefully I'm finished as well. And then I can get out of here. There's probably another truck coming in a little bit for their next appointment. Don't want to be in the way. Let's try to get my stuff done as they're getting their stuff done. This Volvo's actually very nice, okay? I know that I hope fun at them. Well, maybe I shouldn't. I know a lot of you drive Volvos, and like I was saying last night. If you're going for comfort on the highway. This truck is your ticket to the luxury lifestyle on the highway. It's not my style of trucking, but there's nothing wrong with them if you want to drive Volvos. Just so you know, I'm not against you. I'm on your side still. I just prefer Peterbilt Kenworths. That's just me. But these are very nice trucks. The engineers did a very good job. I wasn't trying to take anything away from them. I'm still on the highway. Go ahead and eat these. Don't be nervous. Are you only like eating when people are watching me? Sorry guys. Can't watch me make some nervous. They've just taken off the last few pieces right now, and we'll be done. From what I've heard, I might be headed to Weibern from here, Saskatchewan, but not sure yet. They're working on finding me a reload to get me back home. Haven't heard anything on the status of my plates. Everything's good to go there. We just got to wait for the physical plates to come. And also the decals. But I mean, the decals aren't the biggest. We can put temporary ones on for now, if we have to. I just, I didn't want to do that. I mean, I put them on and then the actual real ones come in. Then you got to take the fake ones. Well, not the fake ones. The temporary ones off, but the real ones off. I just want to put the real ones on right away. But nothing in life happens like that. At least none of the good stuff does. All the good stuff takes time. That's that's why it's good stuff. Makes you appreciate it more when you have to wait for it and work for it. My lane ending. I think that lane is closed. My lane is good to go. I'm trying to get out of Saskatoon here. We have a reload in Weibern, Saskatchewan. A load of reels going back to Winnipeg. This is a chaotic section of the city here, especially when there's construction. These loads are always very kind of sketchy is what I'd say. They settle very easily and your straps come loose and they roll around. And you got to make sure that little pieces of wood from the center don't come out. And personally, I would have put a little bit more securement on there. I don't want to criticize the guy, but to each their own, especially up front here. Oh, no, there's chains on there. Never mind. He's got it. He's got chains on the bottom there that I didn't see it first. OK, never mind. It always makes me nervous, especially if those bands break, because a lot of that load is relying on those metal bands that are holding them together. And if those snap. Oh, the whole load's toast. It's all over the road. Yeah, Weibern is about four hours away, a little less. Well, three and three quarter hour away. We'll load up those reels and deliver them into Winnipeg tomorrow. Then go home and get my truck. I heard the plates have come in. One of the more scenic areas of Saskatchewan. Oh, just in case you didn't see all the cones. Throw those on the ground. Just going through this valley a little north of Regina. So Weibern is Pastor John in the south in the southeast corner of Saskatchewan. I'm going to pick up our reels there. We're going to have to chain them down, I'm pretty sure. And they'll be delivered in the morning. I called in again or I emailed in anyways before to the office. And it looks like my plates should be there when I get back. I'll be able to pick them up and go put them on the truck right away. We're just waiting for decals. Not sure how long that's going to take yet. I also have to get the the satellite system installed in my truck. So that will be done later this week yet. I really hope they're careful because I know they've got to pull apart the interior a little bit, I think, to get the wiring in. And I just I hope they're careful. Those dash panels, they break so easy, but I'm sure they know that. The big operation they got going on here. Yikes. What are they doing? Look at this, eh? Do you guys ever get nervous driving over a bridge that's currently being worked on? It doesn't bother me for some reason. I don't know. I trust these guys that they know what they're doing. I don't know if that's a mistake on my part, but. Yeah, I'm just like to think that everybody out there just kind of has a has an idea and a slight clue what they're doing. Well, that everything is green again. Just makes you so much happier. A lot of people, well, everybody really struggles with depression in the winter time. It's cold. It's dark. Hmm. The sun doesn't show itself as much. Everything's dead. Frozen. When springtime comes around, man, people really get out and about. Really lifts everyone's spirits quite a bit. You really learn to appreciate the warm months when you have to live through the cold ones. I'm kind of surprised with the fuel economy on this Volvo. I'm empty. I mean, I'll say I'm in a pretty strong wind. Give let's remember that. But average 32 liters per 100 kilometers. That's worse than the Kenworth that I bought. And he had all the records of all of his fuel economy. And I could see it on the dash, too. Of how much fuel that truck burns. This truck is worse on fuel. I guess that we'll have to test that out once we get into it. Way burns the sketch on diesel. You remember this place? This is on route to the U.S. If you're coming from from out west, you go through portal into portal North Dakota here. There is some freight here waiting for us. It's got to go to Winnipeg. I've picked up here before. I just don't quite remember if there's a shorter way to get there, but I don't follow that route. Because I don't know if there's all if it's all truck routes that way. So here's my next look. This is going to Winnipeg. Either way, we get these chains through here. See how I hooked the chain onto that? Goes through the other side. Same thing as this. Get this one ready for the other side. See? Very handy. Now chain right through here. I put two chains on here, two chains on the back ones and these center ones you can use either chains or straps. The first one and the last one has to be done with the chains. So this one we're going to pull through the other side. Same thing we did on this side. Grab this here. See, I'm going to get this ready here. The last one first, all my chains done with first. This one's not going to be long enough. Oh, no, I'm going to have to get a different different chain. OK, that chain is not going to be long enough. Shoot, this one will be. Sometimes the chains are just too short. Too short, you say? Too short. It's always a problem. No one likes a shorty. Everyone likes it big. OK, shoot, got caught on the other side. Got caught in the middle. That's going to be tough to get out of there. We're going to have to get creative here. It's getting a little windy, too. It's a sketch, long roll. So it's good to see some things never change. Consistency, it's always good to see. We're just about at the border with Manitoba. I think this might be it right here. Oh, yes, the road changes. Manitoba Highway 2. Thank you, Karen, and instantly smoother roads. It's good to be home. So, sketch on what's going on? Let's see what's going on. You got more people than us. How come you guys got such bad roads? Hey, it lights the flame under there, under their feeder. Get them to move along a little bit, right? So, sketch one's got a lot of highways, though. They have a lot of paved highways. It's better than gravel. You just got to make sure you tie your loads down really tight. Rolling into Headingley just outside of Winnipeg. And like we needed any more rain in Manitoba, it's been pouring all the way from Brandon. From Brandon. All right, Diesel? And a strong wind coming out of the north. Probably going to cool things off again. For Sovereign of the Flying Jay for night, I'm going to deliver into the city, like I said, first thing in the morning. I really hope there's going to be parking available. It's a Monday night, so I would think so. But it is, like, midnight. It's just right over here to our right. They finally got a new sign to match the new Flying Jay logos. Oh, it's looking a little full. Not too full. There's still spots there. 300 meters. Turn right on. Can't man to road then. Approaching destination on the right side. 240 meters. I see it, Karen. It's right there. Diesel, can you get down please? I'm going to need my mirrors. Thank you. Good boy. That's all I got to say. And he hits the deck. Great diesel. Good boy. Approaching destination on the mirrors. On the right side. Can't get this window to unfog. Got the defrost blowing straight at it. You have arrived at your destination. On the right side. Flying Jay Travel Plaza number 788. Here we are. Hey, where can we park? I haven't had to look for a park. And spot like this in a while, eh? Oh, I think there's one right up front here. No way. No way. What are the chances? Ho, ho, ho! Front row. I'm going to go in this way so that I'm opposite of these guys' reefers as well. What are the chances of this, eh? How do I turn the lights on in here? Huh? Well, Diesel, what do you think? Not bad, eh? Not bad. I'll take out the garbage now, though. Holy. All right, let's do our end of day here and everything and we'll talk to you guys in a little bit, shall we? I'm tired. Diesel, what a day. What a day, we're back at it, eh? First full day on the road, man. Woke up in the truck. Now we're going to bed in the truck. How does it feel? Feels wonderful. Wonderful. We can't go back. Wonderful. Wonderful. Thank you. Thanks for asking. This is what I was born for. I do miss my mom, though. Yeah, I miss her, too, but... But, uh, we're having fun. Missed this. It was fun. Uh, you may have noticed there was no video released on Monday. That was not on purpose. It's been frustrating today. Okay, so first of all, first of all, start from the beginning. This truck doesn't have an inverter that I can find in it. It looks like there's one, but I don't know how to turn it on. Looks like it's connected to the batteries. I don't know what's going on, so I couldn't get power to my laptop. Good thing I'm a professional YouTuber. I always come with everything I need for my electronics. My chargers, my computer, my cords, even my own portable inverter. So, uh, this is a 400 watt inverter that just plugs into here. I had to fix it today because half the day I was wondering why it wasn't working, took it apart, turns out one of the wires had come off inside there in the plug over here. So I wasted half a day worrying about that. So once I got that fixed, got that plugged in now, she's working great. Look at that. She's working great. And I got my laptop up here and I got my video done, edited. I was like, yeah, we're getting the video and the vlog from yesterday uploaded today. I'm like, oh, I got no Wi-Fi. I haven't renewed my subscription to flying Pilot Flying J Wi-Fi yet, right? I got no Wi-Fi and I'm traveling down the road. I don't got Wi-Fi 111. I'm like, I'm a professional YouTuber. I'll tether my phone. I will do this. I've been doing this for over 10 years. I know how to get a video on the internet. My phone, for some reason, has the slowest upload speeds. I used to be able to upload a video off my if I tether my phone to my computer through a mobile hotspot I could upload a video in like 10 minutes. It was super fast. Now, I've been trying all day all day and I've had to restart it now because it wasn't uploading and I'm not touching my phone now. We're at 13% now. But I'm on 5G on my phone and I'm trying to get this video uploaded vlog 2545. It was yesterday's video for you. After I get yesterday's video uploaded, I still have to put together this video and upload it. But this one I'm going to upload from home because I'm definitely going to be home tomorrow and be able to do that there. But this one, I really wanted to have this vlog up for you because it was my first trip back on regional and you know, God has a sense of humor. My Kenworth wasn't ready so I got stuck in a Volvo and that's fine. That's fine. I know I keep bugging Volvo. It's nothing wrong with Volvo. Great trucks. They really like their engine lights. But other than that, I mean it's a very comfortable ride. Very spacious in here. Me and the Weasel have tons of room. That's something that we won't have in the Kenworth. But hey that's fine. This truck also gets, I was saying before it didn't get as good fuel economy I did the math. It probably does get a little bit better fuel economy but that's okay. I bought a Kenworth W900. No one buys a W900 for fuel economy. You buy it knowing that you're going to have to pay what I call the hood tax. It's just exactly what it sounds like. It's the hood tax. You have to pay a tax for having a nice beautiful long classic hood so your fuel economy is a little bit lower than these trucks and I'm okay with that. I knew that and I bought it anyways because I wanted it. So I went and got it. It was my dream and I went for it and I got it. I keep telling you guys, shoot for your dreams. Figure out a way of getting your dreams out of Dreamworld and pull them into reality while you still can, while you still have time. I'm 34 now. I got a lot of career ahead of me but I also have a lot of career behind me. I have a lot of experience behind me. I know what I'm doing. I don't want to sound arrogant or anything when I say that. I have the experience. I'm like midlife sort of sort of getting close to that and now is a good time to invest into the truck and let's see where this takes us. I'm excited. I'm excited but this video looks like it's uploading finally. I'm at 15%. So I'm finishing this video now. This is Monday. Usually Monday's video would be released Tuesday morning. You're probably going to get this Tuesday afternoon and you're going to get Monday's video Tuesday morning because I couldn't find Wi-Fi. And that's something we're going to run into while I'm on the road. So just a heads up. I'm going to be doing these vlogs and getting them O2 as fast as I can but sometimes I'm just not going to have Wi-Fi to upload them. I'll figure out a way of getting power. I always carry, I have two of these actually I told you I'm a professional. I take YouTube very seriously. I will always have everything I need to put the video together but Wi-Fi is sometimes out of my control and sometimes I can't get the video onto the internet so if there's no video up, don't panic. Don't panic. I'm probably, probably not dead. Probably just couldn't find Wi-Fi. Alright, go check up on me on my Facebook. That's where I'm most active. You can check up on me on Twitter, TikTok, all that stuff. 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