 in Wisconsin, a little west of Milwaukee on I-94. Now we gotta go through Milwaukee down to Racine, I almost called it Washington again, Racine, Wisconsin. Unload our freight, go down to Illinois, I believe. I still haven't gotten confirmation on that next load. I was told I'll be going down to Illinois, grabbing a load going to Ontario, but that hasn't been confirmed yet. It's empty and we're gonna have to clean it out before we get to our next customer. We gotta go all the way down to Arthur, Illinois and that's about four and a half hours away, so we'll stop on the way. I gotta get a coffee anyways, we'll clean this out on the way. You can never leave your trailer like this though, just saying, okay? Before you unhook and leave it somewhere, make sure it's swept out and clean, everything put away. So we're not gonna leave it like this, okay? Just for a bit, we gotta get out of this parking lot here. Gotta get out of everyone else's way here. I'm not in the way right now, but they're gonna be finished soon and then I will be in the way, so I don't have the time to sweep it out and stuff here. Not a big deal. As long as you always remember, clean it out. Sweep it out, always. Even if it doesn't look like it needs sweeping, just give it a quick sweep, do something. Always remember, try to leave everything better than you found it. And if you found it super clean, return it super clean. Okay. Moral of the story. Okay, we're going to Arthur, Illinois now. I need to find a coffee somewhere and breakfast. I haven't eaten yet. Let's get going. We're all walked in. This way, I do believe. So I just got my, oh, I'm still in driving. Pulled over here because I had gotten a message just as I pulled out and I wanted some water. So I figured it was best to just stop here and figure out what they wanted. So I have a new load coming out of Arthur, Illinois into Ontario, just like I said. I'll take you off my head so we can talk face to face. I have a big mark here now, don't I? From the camera, that's why I wear this. Now you know. So when Arthur, Illinois, we have eight drops. It starts in London, Ontario and ends off in Dorval, Quebec, which I think is around Ottawa. I go through Ottawa and end off in Dorval, Quebec. So it should be good to get paid for each of those drops. So these loads usually paid pretty well. I get paid for the miles to go there, plus each drop. Turns out to be quite a fair, quite a fair payment, I think. I like it anyways, I'm happy with it. So let's go pick up our load and start meandering our way towards the Canadian border. We're gonna be crossing from Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario. Okay, just real quickly here. I wanna find out how far away... So many Londons. London, Ontario, how far away is it from Arthur, Illinois? Arthur makes me think of that cartoon of that little moose guy. You guys remember that, Arthur? What's this theme song again? I used to always have it in my head. I better not think of it or it'll be in my head again. Oh, it's only 871 kilometers. That's not even that far. Let's do the math for my American friends. You wonderful people in your weird systems of measurement divided by 1.61, 540.9, 541 miles. That's just the Dave driving. Cool, so we got time, we got time. Look at this beautiful picture. Look at this, look, I gotta show this to you, look at this. That beautiful picture on my background. That gives me motivation to get home. Okay, let's get out of here. Diesel, you good? All right, cool. And then that way, and then back over that way. Where'd you come from, buddy? Always look twice, guys. Look twice, look twice. Snuck up on me. So this is Racine, Wisconsin. I know at least one of you live here because I read your comments saying that this is your hometown. It's very nice. It's not even fall here yet. Look at these trees, they're all perfectly green, except for those ones. They're dead. I wonder if I'm passing by your place. Diesel, what do you think? Very nice town, eh? We could have stayed here for night, but I didn't know, right? I didn't know. All I knew is it was between Milwaukee and Kenosha, so I don't know what neighborhoods to avoid. All I know is that at night, sometimes, sometimes you just don't wanna be there. Things get a little too peaceful for me. What do you think, Diesel? Karen's telling me to go this way. You okay with that? You're the navigator, man. I have a tight corner here. Nice. Gonna hit the curb. Like a boss. Like a boss. And I gotta turn left right away so I'm gonna stay in the left lane. Judge me. I don't care. Oh, you smoke a row in his man. There's a dog over there. There's a dog. A real one, man. I saw him, Diesel. He's not on a leash either. He's a very good boy. I know, right? Risky. At a truck stop, at the fuel pumps, with trucks moving all around here. A very busy truck stop. Doesn't have his dog on a leash. Diesel, I love you. But it's because I love you that I would never let that happen with you. When there's moving trucks all around here, he is on the leash. It's for his own safety and my peace of mind. Yeah, I was just letting his dog run around all the trucks here. Trucks are backing up, driving all over the place, parking, fueling. But nothing happened. So, like Diesel said, he's a very good boy. Good thing. Time to go clean out the trailer. We gotta get this done before we drop it. You hear this? He brings his line and got some leaks. First thing you do, maybe don't whack it. Just tap it even on there. That doesn't sound like it's working. I can still hear it leaking. Okay, so what you do next after that, don't hit that thing too hard. Just tap it, just try to get these two circles, the seals. I was just trying to get them lined up properly, right? Don't go, I was just joking. Don't go and whack it, all right? Your shop is gonna get very mad at you. Don't do that. All right, so what you do then, pull that out so that it's not charged anymore. Okay, and you go back out here. Can you see? Maybe I should move you over a little bit. How about that? That's better, right? All right, take it off. You check the seals. You can see here what the problem was. You see that seal in there? That seal is not gonna seal if it's sucked in there. Not good, okay. Now it's on there. Check the glad hand. Oh, this one's doing the same thing. You see that? Pull that out of there. Come on now. That's hard to do with one hand. All right, pull that out of there. There you go, see? That should seal a lot better. Now sometimes it still doesn't seal properly, even though you fixed the rings. Sometimes you still can't get a seal. I'll tell you a little trick. It works best when something doesn't work as good in really cold weather, but you can give it a shot. It always works for me. If you still can't get a proper seal, and this is just a little bit old, you don't have a replacement one on you, put a little spit on it, okay? This probably sounded like much better advice before the sickness, but it works. It'll spit on it, and wipe it around on it, make it wet, okay? You don't want to use spit, maybe you can use some water. I've never tried water, but spits always work. All right, if it doesn't work after you whack it with a hammer, spit on it. Trucker Josh, a wealth of knowledge. Good, you spread that around, and it actually seals it better. It's worked every time for me, but we're not gonna do that now. Let's see if this fixes the problem just by fixing the seal. All right, let's see, let's see. Gotta make sure it's properly lined up, okay? We're gonna recharge the brakes again. That did it, okay? So all we had to do was realign those seals. That worked. No spit necessary today. No more leaks. All good. So let's do the rest of our preach up here in the trailer. Make sure that all the lights work and that the tires are filled with air and have no holes in them. You can see the signal here, and marker light working. Fantastico, kick the tires just to make sure that they have air in them that they're not deflated or flat, as some might say. Marker light here is on, ABS light is off. Fantastic. All right, signals work. Wait for the truck to put on the brake lights. There they are, brake lights. The other side is good too. So last time I showed you this, some of you asked how do I get the brake lights to come on like that? It's actually a feature on these Peterbilts that we have. You push a little button on the dashboard and it circulates or cycles through the lights all around the truck and trailer. It shows you if the high beams are working, low beams, signals, marker lights, brake lights. It does all that for you. So as you walk around, all you gotta do is just look at all the lights. You don't have to, you know, pin the breakdown or anything. It does it for you. It's a nice feature on these new trucks. You see, it does it with the high beams here that turns off the high beams as well and the signals makes it a lot easier for us. All right, boys and girls, we're ready to rock. Let's just do our quick little tug test here. Spike the brakes. Trailer is attached and it's not going to fall off. Okay, here we go. We're all sealed up. Jumping another trailer. We're headed towards Windsor, Ontario and Detroit. Won't make it there tonight. We only got another three hours and seven minutes available to us. See how far we get. Perfect temperature to go trucking. A lot of Amish people around this area. I'm gonna let you know. They can be cool to spend like a week on an Amish farm, Amish farm, Amish, Amish. They can be fun. What an interesting lifestyle, right? Horses diesel. You see that? All of the stores here in town also have Amish parking for their horses. I'm not sure if you'll be able to see it here or not. They all have this, what do you call it again? That little post, like here, on the right there. You see it over there? There's a horse tied up right there in front of Dollar General. That's awesome. I'm serious. I think the Amish sort of are on to something, you know? I think they're on to something. There's more over here. A simple lifestyle. And you know, when everything goes up in smoke, the Amish aren't even gonna really notice. They'll be just fine. Totally self-sufficient. They don't use electricity. They don't use fossil fuels for the most part. Most of them don't. They ride around a horse and buggy. I mean, when the oil runs out, the Amish are gonna be laughing because we're all gonna be running to them for help. Pretty cool and pretty neat communities. They're actually cousins of ours. My longtime viewers know that. I have Mennonite heritage. The Amish are sort of distant cousins of ours. We branch off from the same people's way back when. They're sort of like our extremists, you know? Here's some more coming up on the right here. I like to just slowly glide past them so I don't spook the horses, but I think these horses are pretty much impossible to spook at this point, you know? They're so used to it. Oh, is that diesel? Isn't that cool? I know, we need to get one of those. There's actually a new pretty large Amish colony that has been set up not too far away from us, just south of Steinbeck. They came from Southern Ontario. I guess their colonies there were branching out and a whole bunch of them moved out to Manitoba. I left on. I are 133. So they have a big colony around Vita. And you can always tell if it's an Amish farm because there's no electric lines leading to the houses or buildings. They don't use electricity, like I was saying. It's interesting lifestyle. Yeah, we've got a whole bunch of them in our region now and they're very good, very hardworking people. Well, Diesel, that's it for today. I guess it's time to hang the hat up and not put the hat back on. It's it for today. We went about another hour down the road to a town called Champagne, I believe. Let me just double check for you. Where am I? Hey! Hey! Somebody tell me where I am. Champagne, yep. Champagne, Illinois. We're at a little truck stop here called, it's a road ranger. It's at Exit, what is this? Exit 240 on I-57. I'm gonna spend the night here tonight and continue tomorrow. So if you did like the video, the best way you can help me if you feel like it is like the video. Leave a comment down below, engage with the video. That way YouTube recommends it to more new people. If you are new, subscribe to the channel so that you don't miss the next video. We make a video every day. Tomorrow will be another one as we head towards Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Anything else you wanna add, Diesel? Here's your dog, bang. I think it's a dog, it might be a rat. I'm not sure. I don't know, maybe it's a cat, maybe it's a rat. He's really weird. This guy got out of his truck here and he had two, what looked like, piglets. Diesel thinks they're rats or cats. They did look like rats, sort of, but I think that they were piglets. I think he had two piglets. He was walking around right out in front of the truck here. I couldn't tell what they were. Oh, he wasn't that far away either. There he is, the guy just running, and they followed him everywhere. Like a bunch of ducklings. He was the funniest thing ever. And he tossed him onto the ground like a cat, like from waist level. He was carrying him and he just tossed him on the ground and landed on their feet and just... I have no idea what that was, Diesel. Diesel was very, very concerned. He said, I am not gonna sleep now, man. I need to know what that was. You see the sweat? It could be a threat, Diesel. I don't know. You'll have to figure that out yourself. That's your job, right? That's what they pay you the big bucks for. Yes, it was big, big bucks, yes. Man, we spoil you, man. We get you the high quality food. We get you daily supplements, salmon oil. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. You're a spoiled pup. You do a good job, man. So let's call it a night here. This video is probably getting pretty long already. You guys have had a smudge on you this whole time. There's a fingerprint right there. Nice. Don't mind me, I'm just gonna wash you off there like your mother would. You filthy, filthy. There you go. Nice and clean. Okay, don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you tomorrow.