 Hi everyone, this is Chris from Coconut Creek, Florida, and you're watching Trucker Josh on TJV. Morning everybody! How's my beard? I gotta shave this thing. This thing is getting a little wild, isn't it? It's okay. I'm able to do it today. We'll see. See if I can find me a chainsaw somewhere. Anyways, we're here in Red Deer. We're about to make our delivery that we picked up in Jackson, Tennessee. We picked it up on Friday. It's now Wednesday. It's been a nice relaxing drive up here. About 3,500 kilometers or about, I'd say, 2,000 some miles. We stretched it out into like a nice four or four and a half day drive. But they want me here in 20 minutes just around the corner. So I'm going to go there now and hopefully I can at least start unstrapping so that we can actually start the unloading process at 8 a.m. when they wanted me here. So I had my granola bar. I had my bottle of water. Let's go get this stuff off the trailer. So like I was saying, I just parked around the corner. So I don't got very far to go. I drove past and walked past where I'm going to be delivering right now last night so I knew which direction to come from and how I'm going to get in there. I've got to go this way around to the right and I've got to drop the steel off down there. And then I've got to figure out why my phone is blown up right now. Isn't that interesting how that happens? As soon as you put it in gear and start rolling, that's when everyone wants to talk to you. Oh, well, at least I'm not going far. It doesn't feel good to get this Tennessee steel off my trailer. So as soon as I'm empty, I rush over to Sundra, Alberta, about an hour and 45-2 hours from here. I'll stop for a coffee. It's probably 2 hours. Load up some lumber, tie it down. Don't have to tarp it. Know nothing. Nice easy load and start ripping it home. We'll be home tomorrow. I can't make it home tonight. We're about 15-16 hours from home and I can only drive 13 hours today depending on how much, how long this takes here yet, right? Because I only got a 16-hour day starting from the point where my wheels started turning there. All right, so I'm just driving it onto the field here that we scoured it out yesterday. The guys are already here, so that's awesome. Should be out of here in no time. I like arriving about 20, 15 minutes, 20 minutes early. That way we know I can get everything set up and we can get out of here as quickly as possible. So here's the rest of the steel that someone else delivered. It's an interesting brand of boom truck that they're going to be unloading me with here. How's that? Panoramic. Interesting. We got empty. We just got here to our reload. Got an empty trailer behind us. The Tennessee steel is gone. We're all dressed up about to replace that steel with Alberta lumber. Lumber that's going to Wisconsin, USA. I'm only taking it to Manitoba, though another driver's going to take over from there. I'm all checked in and I've got my directions. Currently I've got to go up aisle two, or up number two, and come back and face west in number one. Asshoo! Oh, excuse me. So I don't need to go over the scale. I've been here before. That always makes it a lot quicker. You don't have to explain everything to me five times. So I always got to pay very close attention when you go to a new shipper. Pay very close attention so that the next time you go there, they don't have to re-explain everything to you. Usually when you go to a new place, you've got to sit down through an orientation video or lesson or something and pass a little test before they'll let you into their yard. That's why you get all these stickers on your hard hat. When you pass the test, they'll give you a sticker to put on your hard hat with an expiration date. That's good for X amount of time. Usually a couple of years or so. So these guys are facing this way. I'm going to go back around and face the other way in the next aisle over. Back at this guy. Apparently the loaders are on break right now. I think it's lunch time or something. He said they'll be back soon. Look at all this Alberta wood. There's always a lot of rules and regulations you got to follow in these yards. Make sure you show up and know all the rules and have all the proper equipment. They're not going to let you in if you don't. You're going to get very upset and maybe not let you in again. If you don't listen, give you a spanking. That'd be embarrassing. Got a spanking at the shipper. Probably spank you harder than your mama. Where's this guy going? I'm supposed to stop right around here somewhere. He waved but he didn't say that I should stop here. I need to be further forward. They'll tell me. Beautiful lumber. It actually looks like kind of cheap lumber. I don't judge. You're paying me to pull it. I don't make very much money off pulling lumber, but it gets me to places where I do get paid a little more for hauling other stuff. So we can take what we can get. Lots of lumber always coming out of western Canada. Tons of lumber. Lumber, lumber, lumber. Everybody needs lumber. You all got to keep building stuff, right? Always building stuff. You know, I was talking a couple of weeks ago how I really hope we don't develop our north. I do hope we don't develop it. But I'm in a dilemma, you know? I'll say, you know, we sort of need to coast. At least for our housing prices and stuff. Our housing prices sort of stay the same. You don't want to go down and lose money, and people could just be okay and content with what we have and be happy with what we have and just sort of coast for a while. It would be good. But, you know, that's never going to happen. People always want more and more and more, right? And I'm in a bit of a dilemma with that too, because I mean, I sort of depend on things growing and always, you know, new buildings coming up so I can haul them of steel there to build the building and new houses and, you know, decks and corches and whatever else people build with this lumber I'm pulling. I sort of depend on them needing me for that. So that's a dilemma I face, you know? I guess nothing I can really do. I'm just another cog in the machine. We just got to keep the machine going. Got to keep all of our heads above water. We just got to keep treading water. Right, Diesel? Just got to keep treading water, man. Do you eat all your food? Oh, good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Yeah, we'll stop soon, buddy. You see anywhere to stop? You see anywhere to stop out here, man? This is southeast Alberta. We're almost in Saskatchewan. This is all we're going to be looking at for the next, like, 12 hours. At least. With a little break when we hit Regina, you know, get a little bit of scenery for a little bit. Not really. Beautiful day. Sure is windy out here, though. Here's our lumber. See what I mean? It's not a very fancy lumber. Definitely doesn't need a tarp or anything. But... Economy lumber. That's what they call it. Economy lumbering, you know? The cheap stuff. The wind messing with the mic. I don't know if it is or not. So this lumber is going down to Hortonville, Wisconsin, USA. Somebody down there needs some Canadian wood. I'm not the guy to bring it down to him, actually. Now I'm going to be bringing this to the yard, like I said. And someone else is going to continue on from there because I'm getting new drive tires. But I've been looking at my drive tires recently. I think I might only be getting four new drive tires this month. And I'm going to wait another two months until December or something, a couple of months, and then get the next four. Because I still have four tires on here that aren't too bad. They're actually doing pretty good. So I think I want to get a little longer out of them. I don't want to get a few more miles out of them. So I might just get four. I also got to get my interior fan replaced. See, they're getting pretty low. I have a measuring device that measures the tread depth. And they're still good, but they're close, you know? It's time to replace them. And I think I might just keep my four best ones. Like I got some of them here. We'll roll underneath here. I'm going to make a look at this here. Like this one definitely needs to be replaced right away. It's getting replaced on Monday. But this one isn't too bad yet. I could probably get away with another couple of months on these tires. I'll take my worst four and replace them. But I mean, I'll ask the tire guys when I get there. They're the experts. And either way, they're going to get the money out of me. It's just either they get it all out of me now or they tell me I can wait to buy half of them in December. I'm going to stretch it out a little bit. I don't have to buy eight ones all at once. And, you know, I paid for them at one point. I'd like to get as much of them as I possibly can. So we'll see what happens. I'll get them to take a look at it. And if they figure that I have to replace them all at once, well, then we'll do that. But for now, let's just focus on getting home. And then we're going to worry about these tires on Monday. We're in Swift Current, Saskatchewan right now. I just stopped in here for a late night coffee. And I want to go a little further down the road yet. I still have four hours and one minute available to me to drive today. And I want to make tomorrow as easy of a day as possible so I've got energy when I get home yet. So, applying to school as far as we can tonight. And I'll probably sleep a little later tomorrow, but I'll have less distance to go. So I might only start at like 10 in the morning or 9 in the morning, but I'll be home in like five hours instead of having to drive a full day. Get what I mean or am I not making any sense? It's okay, be honest with me. I don't make sense all the time. I just go with it already. I just run with it. Just accept it. We're in Swift Current. I'm thinking we could make it to Balcony. I think we might be able to make it to Balcony, but at least to Moose Jaw. At least to Moose Jaw. I have no idea. See, Karen, you got the right idea. You know, one step at a time. I always try to live too far in the future. One step at a time. I mean, just got to get back on the highway for now and worry about where we get to later. Got a little sign say over there. Karen, Port, Saskatchewan. I never actually stayed the night here. It's a husky. I've actually never even noticed there is a truck stop here. The first for everything. All right, so I guess I got to find the place to park here. Call it a night. I don't even know where the parking lot is. It's so dark. I don't want to shine my light in these guys' cabs. But at the same time, I need to see where I'm going. Huh. So right in front of me here, like right beside the truck stop, is Briar Crest Bible College. I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with that place, but I had a friend of mine from high school that went here. I've never actually been in this town. I've driven past it all the time and you see there, like their big college sort of looks like a little bit of a cathedral almost. They have it all nicely lit up and everything. It's behind the trees and around the corner right now. But maybe we'll see it in the morning. A little bit tired right now. Yeah, I've never actually been here before. I was looking on my GPS here. Karen was telling me that there was a travel plaza here. And I was like, no Karen, there's no travel plaza there. We got to keep going to Moose Jaw. Moose Jaw is another 20 kilometers up the road. Apparently, I was driving past here. I was like, well, let's go check it out anyway. She says there's a travel plaza here. Let's go see. It's not really a travel plaza. It's more of just like a gravel parking lot with a convenience store next to it that closes at night. It's only open during the day. So it's not a 24-hour travel plaza or anything, but it's kind of like an old school Western Canadian truck stop. I like it. So I parked at the back all by myself. I'm going to put my screens in my windows. Temperature is perfect. It's 14 degrees Celsius out right now. One second. Okay. Okay, Google. What is 14 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit? 14 degrees Celsius is equal to 57.2 degrees Fahrenheit. And that is the perfect temperature for me to fall asleep in. If I was in like a tent right now, it'd just be the perfect... I like it nice and cool and chilly to fall asleep in. So I'm going to put the screens in the windows and open up the vents. It's cold enough that there's no mosquitoes and no bugs, but it's warm enough that you're not going to freeze your nipples off. So it's going to be a good night. I can feel it already. So we stopped here at about 10.30 p.m. Now we're in mountain time right now. So that's 11.30 p.m. Central time back home. In eight hours from now, I can get moving again. See if I get up in eight hours or not. I kind of really want to go home, so it probably will. That would be what, 10.30, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... 6.30 mountain time or 7.30 home time. And we got 700 kilometers left to go. Okay, Google. What is 700 kilometers in miles? 700 kilometers is equal to 434.96 miles. There you go. That's what we got to do tomorrow yet. So thanks for watching. If you like my videos, please do me a favor. Hit that subscribe button. It does a lot more than you think. Hit the share button. That does more than anything. Hit the like button if you like the video. Like I said, if you hated it, hit the down vote. 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