 Hey everyone, this is me to have you to love from Kevlar Afghanistan and you're watching trucker Josh or key JV on YouTube Good Saturday morning family friends and colleagues Saturday morning and where we're at work It's not that bad. I have two loads from thief river to pick up today. It's gonna take all day It'll be about a 12-hour day probably the six hours each one. We'll see But let's get it done First thing this morning. I got to work. We're getting a little bit of a late start because I had a slight exhaust leak by slight I mean straight pipes Under the truck. There's a flex pipe. I'll show you Let me just stretch you guys out here for a second so I can show you all right Hold on now. I'm gonna stick you underneath there that flex pipe was no longer flexible And it's broke right off and I just had a straight pipe hang in there Sounded awesome But it wasn't legal so we had to fix it problems problems problems, but life is not about the problems It's about the solution to the problems Good thing we got mechanics on site here that we're able to lickety-split get that fixed wasn't That hard by the looks of it, but he was under there tinkering and saying things about the truck Peace and junk peace and junk. Come on But I think that's just standard when you're fixing something because I say the same thing when I'm trying to fix something I'm always yelling at whatever. I'm trying to fix until it's fixed and then I'm happy Welcome to America The United States right there. There's my proof. Welcome to Minnesota My next proof is the speed limit sign. It's in miles an hour instead of kilometers an hour It doesn't specify that So if you didn't know that America was miles an hour you'd get here And you think the speed limit was 60 kilometers an hour all the way down this highway, which is like 38 miles an hour Good thing we know better 60 mile an hour is about a hundred kilometers an hour Good thing. That's where my truck is limited at so I just give her pedal of the metal hit the cruise off to the races I'm not even able to speed because there's not enough of a downhill anywhere on this road to even push me over the speed limit The only places I have the capability of speeding is through the towns and we don't do that They don't like that. I'm a guest here. I don't want to start any trouble It's like going to visit your brother's house, but your brother has very strict rules You do not sit in his chair. You do not touch his remote You stay in your lane You do not take food out of the refrigerator you don't bring your own food into his house either There's a lot of rules at our brother's house, but They're our family. So we love them. We have the same rules when they come visit our house Look at the green grass and thief over Falls, Minnesota. Look at this literally 200 kilometers south of where I live Green grass. They probably cut the grass already That means it's coming soon next week will probably be green up at up in Manitoba as well Hope so anyway Coming down here really makes me want to go trucking across the US again every time and I got to keep reminding myself It'll come We're gonna get back in a truck yet. I'm not gonna buy the one I went to go look at last week I Wasn't the right fit yet. I'm looking for a specific Specific truck to me. It's got to be the right one for me. I'll know it when I find it When I find it there will be nothing That will stand in my way. I will move heaven and earth to get that truck Just don't tell the seller that okay It's got to be the right truck The price is also got to be right, but Most importantly, it's got to be the exact one I'm looking for Maybe it'll happen this year. Maybe it'll happen next year. Maybe it'll be in a couple of years We're still building a house soon And still got this IVF we're going through right now. We've got a couple of more updates on that Maybe we can update you at home when I'm with Britt But you know me. I'm a dreamer and I'm an impatient dreamer. I Don't like leaving dreams in dreamland. They don't belong there They belong here in reality land of opportunity and I want to take that opportunity to chase those dreams. I'll get it there I'll get there Right, I also got other things to think of I got a family and I got to make sure that everything is taken care of and that you know The important things are taken care of. Oh and start building the dream truck So like I said might be this year might be next year. Maybe I'll surprise you Maybe it's already happened. I don't know We're in Minnesota here about to cross over into North Dakota We gotta cross over the Red River and look how high the river is This is not so this is not river yet. We're not at the river yet a little moist around here a Little wet This is still not the river All of this water is headed up through Manitoba to Lake Winnipeg and then into the Hudson's Bay That's not the river yet. We're still not at the river. The river is that way. Look at these farmers here. They had to Sandbag it looks like Oh man It's like they built a dike around their home or just on the side of the road there you want to go fishing Just got to figure out who which farmer owns this field See if we can get Get some fishing in today on this field the river is coming up here up north in Canada Just right over there in Manitoba the road is actually closed up there. I'm gonna have to take a detour They actually blocked off the road in the town of Morris. They built the dike right over the road So the town is just isolated right now Look at these guys. They can't get to their house. They parked their vehicles here. Their farm is way out there Their one garage is underwater. Oh Yikes You live right on the Red River Here it is. This is the river. No, this isn't the river yet. It's coming Past these trees. That's where the river is That's the river river banks are right there where the trees are This is not river Well, it is now this whole town Is protected by that dike that you saw there and there's another dike here Around this farm here. You see this big hill here. That's the dike keeping the water out of the town Otherwise the town would be flooded right now A bit crazy, eh? There's the interstate right there going up to Canada. We're just a mile A mile from the border. This is duty-free here. People in this town must be a little nervous Yikes Well, all the towns up along the Red River right now find them grind them I won't tell if you don't pull this water. It's like we're going out to sea I'm guessing the right lane must be closed up here So those bushes over there On the other side of those trees, that's where the river is and spilled out all the way over here all the way way out there That's why they call it the Red River flood bays This guy's really not going to step on it easy. I could have gotten in front of him But I find that to be kind of rude cutting in front of someone right before the border I really wish he'd step on it though. I got another load to do today yet Hurryers there to keep the water off the highway. The water started going down What what's this say all trucks commercial vehicles next right closed? Is the border closed? I've never seen it closed before. Maybe it's just those lanes are closed I'm just following this guy. They wouldn't close commercial traffic I've got to put you guys down here though. I got to talk to the good people here and I'll uh Let you know what happened on the other side when I get there I might need to take a boat or a ferry. I don't know lanes. They're closed off I guess they were underwater before So that's that must be a good sign then then it's not underwater anymore. So they'll probably reopen them soon We're here on the canadian side We just turned east onto highway 201 Just on the canadian side of the border run parallel to the border head east I've got to take this detour because highway 75 is closed And look how close the water is coming up here to the road already, yeah This is the red river up here that the bridge is going over On the canadian side So it's pretty high It's really you gotta even oh no, this is the moray river. Pardon me The red river is still coming So this must be like another little river that leads that like drains into the red river Red river's up there pardon me. I don't take this road very often the way I can get back right now With a loaded semi as far as I know This was the road I was told to take so this is the road I take US border is about four or five miles This way right there And we just crossed over the red river there right now We're going to cross over the red river again on canadian side water is flowing this way. It's all going north To the Hudson's bay or lake winnipeg and then drains into the Hudson's bay The truck is pulling hard the red river I believe this next bridge we're coming up to here Usually we don't flood like this in spring, but every now and then Like I said all the other day the water all the way from the rockies out west And all the way from the u.s. It all drains up through here 70 kilometers an hour. This is a First nation rosa river reserve First nation reserve or aboriginal reserve indian reserve indigenous reserve whichever Description you like to use In police service right there. There's the bingo hall. That's a staple of the reserves Am I right? They love their bingo and their Casinos and that's it now we're back in the franklin municipality res Look at all this water here man They must have a dike around the res there because the res wasn't flooded, but look at all this water is all around them Thanks some good fishing out there round two coming up got a Empty step behind me. It's four o'clock. We're headed back down our quarter after four So I'll probably be back here around 10 o'clock tonight Which is unfortunate Because it's a beautiful saturday. I'd love to be on the motorcycle, but you know what I'd rather be doing than motorcycling Trucking I have a problem. I have a problem. I'm addicted I love trucking next weekend though next weekend. We're getting the motorcycle out I got to bring it over to the shop. We're gonna take down that whole uh Thing in our yard this we are this summer get that moved us. So we got some work to do Two degrees Celsius. It is cooking It's beautiful. Look at the green grass. We are getting green grass. That's new that just came in today Nice What's up horse Need a man feet for the falls. I'm gonna stop at subway in st. Pierre though. I need a sandwich. I'm hungry Behold green grass is sprouting, but it's still super soggy. It's been a wet spring but That's what it is. So that's some saturday work in there and uh, there won't be a video coming on monday There'll be a video Tuesday Wednesday thursday friday So thanks for watching everybody. I will see you on tuesday