 good morning friends it's Tuesday is it Tuesday or Tuesday I think it's Tuesday Tuesday it's not C-H-U-E-S it's T-U-E-S Tuesday I would say it wrong I think so it looks like what little chrome I have on my truck is still shining as as much as it can that's good I like shiny things for a thing in the morning so I have a topic to talk about today from Transportation Nation Network again if you want to find them at transportationnation.com it's about a state crackdown that I believe is over already but I wanted to get your opinion on these state crackdowns let me pull her up here for you so there's a 72-hour traffic enforcement crackdown set to begin this is they released this before it actually happened and my question for you is when they do these crackdowns like either for commercial vehicles or personal vehicles or both and they announce it to everybody do you think that's do you think it would be better if they just didn't announce it and just covertly just started doing the crackdown like isn't that what they're supposed to be doing in the first place is enforcing these laws or are you like me and do you think that they announce these things to get everybody in line to slow down because I mean think what law enforcement that's their job law enforcement that's what they do every day why do they have to tell us that they're gonna be enforcing the law right so this article was released a little while ago and this enforcement happened around on the 10th and it involved the states of an Indiana Kentucky Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia I don't know why it's only those states maybe they're in some kind of union or alliance or something that maybe they're like best friends and they just do everything together I don't know why but they decided to to do the crack down there and it says here in the article I won't read the whole article because again I'd like you to go to their site there and read it for yourself if you can give them your traffic every stop we make is a chance for our troopers to educate motorists on safe driving habits we are committed to reducing unsafe driving behaviors on all roadways including the more than 225 miles that make up interstate 70 more than 4,700 crashes including 27 which resulted in at least one fatality have been reported on I 70 just in Ohio since 2020 that's a lot of crashes I'm filming this in October of 2021 so what a year and a half there's been 4,700 crashes on one highway one stretch of highway okay maybe it's about time they start cracking down there then that seems like a lot to me we have to remember the population in the US especially out east on those in those areas is way more than the population of where I'm from okay we live in the middle of nowhere compared to where these people commute every day so there's a lot of traffic that just seems like a lot of accidents to me though maybe that's normal I hope not because I would hope that that that's too high of a number but either way my question for you is on these crackdowns when DOT announces you know hey we're going to be doing a crackdown on brake inspections for commercial vehicles at this specific time this specific the month be ready see what I find is then the drivers who don't want to deal with that they just take the week off and they just don't drive for that week I don't know when he drivers actually personally that do that I've never done that no one I know has but I've heard of people I'm on the internet a lot and I hear I hear people doing that all the time like well you know if you wouldn't have warned them you might have you know prevented something so I've always wondered that way why do they warn them you know I want them to just do a blitz and actually catch the guys who are running unsafe equipment or running or driving unsafely just catch them instead of warning them but what do you think let me know in the comments down below how you feel about these like DOT blitzes that happen from time to time because they happen up here in Canada as well we're usually connected to them through ifta and other things usually there's a blitz in the States it's usually in Canada as well and sometimes it's also in Mexico as well all at the same time so I don't know my opinion is don't warn the guys just do the blitz but I understand that by warning them you're getting everybody to check their equipment and make sure they don't get a ticket and preventing unsafe equipment from being on the road before they get caught right I don't know let's get to trucking I'll be in the comments down below to see what you guys think of this stuff Sun's starting to come up the truck is warmed up ready to go can you see that I can see my breath this morning it's pretty chilly now the Thanksgiving is over it's probably gonna start getting colder and colder now as we move towards that season going through my comments here just a little bit and there's a great question that was asked by Sumo Selly hope I pronounced that name right he said it was good to see weasel with me today that was last week when diesel came with me on Saturday he has to ask if the channel is sponsored by Keystone Western or not no this channel is not officially sponsored by Keystone they don't pay me to advertise for them this is what I've chosen to do on my own they didn't even ask me to do this I just believe they're a great company they've treated me very well I've asked permission if I can and they agreed to it but it was my idea and they do not pay me to advertise for them I do that out of my own free will because I want to hope that answers your question so you'll see their logos their names on here no they don't they don't pay for that that's just me it was me doing that me telling you that I'm very happy and they've treated me very well over the last 10 years so I wanted to help them out in return that's how that works so this channel isn't sponsored by anybody other than Google I guess because Google puts the ads in I don't even decide what ads you see there's algorithms that will show you whatever ads the algorithm thinks apply to you the most so for instance last year during the US election a lot of you in the US were seeing political ads for either either candidate and you're commenting on oh you're this person's advertising on your channel I have no idea I had no idea I never saw one US political ad because I'm a Canadian and why would they target me I can't vote in the US so why would they target me right so it targets you your algorithm according to what they see you like here on YouTube YouTube is also owned by Google so they'll take your Google searches anything that's tied to Google and they'll create sort of a profile on you and they'll target you with ads that they think you're gonna like to see or that would apply to you so if you're a truck driver you may see ads for trucking companies trucking products or trucking manufacturers or other things like that if you research a lot of dog stuff like I do and Google all kinds of different dogs and dog beds and dog things and you're buying dog beds on Amazon and stuff you end up seeing a lot of ads related to dogs and dog care you may say so those ads are controlled by Google I don't have any any control over those they they are personalized to you from them not me so no my channel is not sponsored by anyone but me but I do choose to promote businesses and companies that I believe in that's how you know if I promote something to you it's something that I know works something that I use myself and something that I recommend to you because it worked for me if I ever do a sponsorship deal that I get paid for legally I have to disclose that to you so you'll always know there'll always be like a hashtag ad somewhere in the description or I have to disclose that to you if I'm getting paid to promote something to you but the things that I've been promoting whether it be Keystone or Bolstot I am not receiving any money to promote to promote them I just want to so I just wanted to clear that up it was a great question you know maybe I should have addressed that before it sort of may look like oh suddenly it's all sponsored no I chose to do that that was me that's part of my my thing my my what I want to show you okay alright so I'm hooked up to a roll type or I'm hooking up this trailer was a little bit high now it's got some tags on it there I went and talked to the shop already about it and I can remove those it was a little bit of a fiasco this morning because there's a red tag on the front of this trailer and that usually means that I can't take it out that means it needs to go into the shop so I read the tag and I looked at it and it said that the wheels on this roll type were seized or that they weren't working properly it wasn't rolling properly well that's nothing nothing really to note on these roll types because they always do that that's why every time I have one of these I grease it all up so that when the highway driver hooks on to it and takes it wherever it's going that it can easily roll back and forth I'm the guy that always greases them up so I went and talked to the shop about it and I told them what the issue was and I told them that I can I can be the solution I can fix it myself I'll get it all greased up and rolling properly again that's what I do anyways every time I have one of these trailers and there was one bar on the inside that had popped out of place I went and looked at it and you just pop it back in so I popped it back in and I went and let the shop know and they were thankful I saved them some work but other now I'm gonna pull this thing on out to too long we have to load up some freight there I'm not too sure I forget where the freight's going to the US somewhere I'm pretty sure but I'm gonna hook up do my pre-trip get it all cleaned up I noticed that the inside was left in a little bit of a mess there's some straps that are left on the deck in there I'm pretty sure there's a there's no box on this side I'm pretty sure there's probably going to be a box on this side yes there and all the straps should be in here unless if these things are seized again because sometimes these things these too and I got to lubricate these as well whenever I have a trailer here since I'm in the yard all the time and I'm working with these pretty often I usually go around the trailer make sure everything's working properly so that when the highway guy hooks on to it you know he's he's got a trailer that's all in working order and if something's out of place or something's not working then I can bring it up with the shop and let them know so it's fixed before it goes out that's what I try to do anyways I try to do my best on that but we're gonna I'm not quite hooked up because the trailer was dropped a little bit higher than my fifth wheel so I got to roll that down a little bit yet I quite a bit of time to get to Tugolon they only want me there at noon and it's like nine o'clock now and it's only an hour drive so I'm gonna get this trailer all ready I'm gonna get it on the road and we're probably gonna show up there a couple of hours early and see if they'll load us early the other nap there's nothing more for me to do here this morning so I'm gonna I'll see they load me early great if not then you know this was my assignment for today anyways so they got nothing more for me to do around here another beautiful day for truckin this guy gonna get a give her butter while there's a guy behind me who wants to give her pass me so bad but he's scared that's okay rather than be scared and not pass then have no fear and pass when they shouldn't playing out of those people around run our way back down Tugolon grab some more freight the freight I got him on my trailer right now is going to Colorado four drops so from there I'm not too sure where the reloads would take the drivers I guess it depends on on the trip but this freight is specific on this trailer is going down to Colorado Colorado is probably I'm guessing two day to two and a half day drive from here I've never actually driven to there I've never delivered I would actually like to deliver this freight I've never driven into Colorado or have I no way to have that's right because I took a load once from like Alberta or British Columbia or something down down through the US that I went through Idaho went to Colorado and forget which trip it was but it's probably vlogged probably on my channel somewhere the day started off very chilly but like a typical Manitoba day starts off cold the sun pops up and eats everything up it's all warm again don't even really need a sweater Manitoba doesn't really know what it wants you know half the half the time it's freezing cold half the time it's way too hot but it's home that's why we love it it's unpredictable makes it fun side road access from the perimeter because they're gonna make this perimeter around what a bag they're gonna make this highway into a freeway out here too from what I've heard on the news some people don't want the truth is that there's a lot of accidents caused on those intersections because they're uncontrolled and this highway flies through here at like 65 mile an hour make it safer but I can't judge my truck's dirty too sometimes my truck right now what can be clean is clean I've been trying to keep up with it you keep up with it every day it's not too hard instruction season is almost over then we can look forward to blizzards there comes another nice tanker anchor this pickup in front of me is really bothering me he slowed down again oh now he's speeding up cuz somebody's passing him every time I pulled up to pass him he speeds up and pulls away and then I go back in behind him and he slows down let's try again okay I bet you it does yeah I can see it right there on your steering wheel for your convenience ma'am excuse me ma'am it's ma'am right my her thumb on the steering wheel see a section of this highway should be all right now let's just love it though when you just can't get past someone that's the one thing we're having a speed limiter on your truck sure it saves fuel but it makes it hard to get past people sometimes some people are very conformed they have no idea what's going on oblivious that's the word oblivious events look like Ferraris you know that they got the mid-engine they got the motor behind the driver's seat keep thinking they're Ferraris what do you call a hippie's wife a Mississippi I hate Russian dolls they're so full of themselves a man takes his sick Chihuahua to the vet and immediately they're taken in to a room where they can be seen by the vet a few minutes later a Labrador walks in sniffs the Chihuahua and stares at him for 10 minutes and then leaves and finally the doctor comes in prescribes some medicine and hands the guy a $250 bill guy looks at the doctor and says there must be some mistake $250 I've only been here 20 minutes and the doctor looked at him and said well it's $100 for the lab test $100 for the CAT scan and $50 for the medicine and the doctor said well it's $100 for the lab test $100 for the CAT scan and $50 for the medicine oh no the kangaroo says the forecast calls for rain what's the problem with that is rabbit friend said kangaroo looks at him and says well that means my kids gonna have to play inside all day these are so bad so I don't know if I need to include a laugh track on these or not but these are these are pretty bad I've already been told to keep my day job don't worry don't worry I'm not going anywhere I'm gonna be a truck driver here but some of these jokes I hope they brighten your day just a little bit just a little bit I know they're pretty bad well people used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian no one's laughing now see I was a pretty short day just too long and back I had a little bit of an issue with that trailer when I got back here a little with the suspension I think this is the adjust or the valve adjuster that controls how high the suspension is must have been malfunctioning a little bit because the suspension was sitting a little lower than it should and it didn't want to go back up and usually there's a little valve on there that when the when the trailer sits lower the valve will push up because it's connected to the axle it'll push up and it'll turn the valve on to push more air into the bags that the trailer stays at the same height I'm pretty sure that something was wrong with that valve because the trailer didn't want to return to full height so I wrote it up with the shop here and they're gonna take a look at it I'm gonna grab my stuff though I didn't need my jacket today after all scared me a little bit this morning I thought that I was gonna need it it's pretty cold but no it's just manitoba it's just messing with me you know maybe what I should do is start taking jokes from you guys cuz you're probably a lot more funny than me why don't you send me your best jokes DM me on Facebook like send me a personal message on Facebook to the trucker Josh page you'll notice my page because I don't know if you notice or not I got a fancy little blue check mark by trucker Josh on Facebook Silicon Valley has accepted me my whole life dreams have been fulfilled not really no but on Facebook I have got my account verified now so you know with my actual account so go to the trucker Josh account with the blue check that's me send me a private message there of your your best jokes or you could tweet them to me on Twitter or anywhere where it's not public because I don't want to spoil the joke for everyone else right if you comment down below and tell me your best joke well everyone will have read it already but if you want to do that you can do that too if you don't have any other way of contacting me that's fine not everybody goes through the comments so let's see what you got send me your best jokes you could also email them to TJV at email calm not Gmail email all my links to all my social media that I'm talking about right now are down below every single one of my videos if you got a really good joke that you'd like me to take a crack at online here so you can get a good laugh send it to me let's see how it does you'll probably do better than the jokes I've been finding and coming up with ah yes let's go home go home where our where my dogs always think I'm funny every joke I tell them is the best joke ever that's why they're dogs aren't dogs awesome though I mean creatures of pure unconditional love doesn't matter what you do to them how you talk to them you know what they love you anyway they love you anyway that's why it was always nice to have diesel with me on the road like a real nice companion to have with and I missed that from time to time having that but he does he does still come with me from time to time but he's getting a little old now so he really enjoys his time at home with his family and sometimes I mean if he's gonna be at home with bread all day and his brothers running around I think it's sometimes unfair to make him sit in a truck all day with me but some days Brit has to work most of the day anyway so they they just lay around and sleep when we're not home so on those days and he can come along with me because then it would be more fun than the alternative I don't know that's the way I see it