 When I'm not working I'm watching trucker Josh on YouTube with diesel weasel Hi, I'm Vince from Phoenix, Arizona like and subscribe and comment if you want Take care. Bye. Good morning, you beautiful weasel How you feeling? I need to go outside. You what? Do you say you need to go? outside Are you gonna bring the camera with me because that always makes it awkward You bet I am you bet here. Let's clean that gunk out of your eye there. Oh Yeah, there you go clean weasel Clean weasel ready for the dude. Look at this handsome guy. They're not handsome guy. I See your little buddy back there That's my little Scottish bear. I got for my friends in Scotland He's out there waving at everybody that I pass which isn't very many people because I'm slow Right diesel most people pass me. Oh at first Breath of Chris morning air. Oh That is wonderful. That is wonderful Whoever invented oxygen is awesome So we're here in Floyd, Iowa, and we're going home tonight. We'll be there in about 12 hours or so It's gonna be fun It's minus 30 at home right now without the wind show. So I sort of want to stay here It's only about minus 12 here about to get real cold Diesel you stud muffin you come on Bring your glorious self down here. Oh, no, you got all tangled up. Oh boy. Oh boy. We better fix that diesel You haven't got yourself tangled up like this in a while lift up lift your foot lift your foot. There you go. You're crazy beast This is the load we're dealing with It's the those metal pieces that hold trusses together a whole load full of them going to a heart rate colony That's gonna make a lot of trusses wonderful Minneapolis traffic here On this road for seven kilometers See if I can get on the road first there Karen We just arrived at the south end of Minneapolis. We turned on to the 494 which goes around the west side of the city And take us up north to the I-94 That's gonna take us further west towards North Dakota Once we get there we take the interstate 29 north up to Canada and back home somebody up there needs to build some trusses and They need all the stuff I have to do it Trusses I'm gonna build themselves put in the yard already waiting for me That's going down. There's two drops. There's one in Indiana. There's one in Kentucky. I'm gonna leave with that either Monday Today is Saturday. I'm gonna leave that the day after tomorrow or Tuesday morning We two-day drive down there and then I have a reload in Jackson, Tennessee And I'm not too sure where that one's going yet, but my best guess would be Alberta. So that's my next Week or so planned out January is gonna be a good month Tell you what it's usually pretty slow in January, but we're just giving her lots to do Lots always always building some people are always building stuff Whenever I see stuff being built. I'm happy because that means they need truckers like me to bring them the stuff so they can keep building it Other truckers carry stuff like produce and food. So when they see a full supermarket That means a trucker had to bring it to them. That's good. It gives us something to do. Let's put on our table Everything came on a truck at one point You think about it Even the phone that you're holding right now that you're watching me on That was once on a semi it probably came from somewhere overseas Let's be honest, but it was on a boat. It was probably made in a factory put on a truck Brought to a port put on a boat brought over here taken off the boat put on to another truck brought to a warehouse and Then wherever you bought it from ordered it and another trucker brought it from the warehouse to the store Where you bought it and now you have it There's at least three truckers involved with that and one boat one ship So just by buying the phone you're holding you've helped contribute to three jobs In trucking plus many more along the way even the chair you're sitting on all that stuff was once on a train Isn't that crazy to think of that? I know you hear this all the time. It's sort of like God All right, it's people roll their eyes already when they hear trucker say everything good that you have came on a truck It's such an annoying thing that people say already, but if you really sit down and think about it Left on I-494 it really is interesting What would we do if we didn't have trucks to bring us everything? I'm not trying to make it sound like I'm all that important, but It's nice to know that I have a job That has an impact that you know people you make you feel like you're needed, you know Will need me like these trusses that they're building in Manitoba with this stuff. I'm bringing them all those trusses They're gonna sell them to a building company And they're gonna build a building with them and they're gonna put a roof over someone's head So I'm literally actually helping to put a roof over someone's head to keep them out of the snow and rain On days when I feel like you know Work is just meaningless. I try to think like that. You know what? No Keep to the left on I-494. Well, what other way am I gonna go Karen? Am I gonna exit? Did you tell me do I need to exit? No, I don't I want to stay on for night. Why wouldn't you just say? Tell me when I need to turn tell me when I need to leave the 494 It's like driving this road for 29 kilometers Didn't you say that before already how many more times are you gonna tell me? Yeah, keep going keep going yep Don't turn don't turn keep going You only need to tell me when I need to turn Karen. I can do the rest The economy is such an interconnected web that we're all a part of right? Like if I wouldn't have picked up this load to bring to these trust builders sure Yes, someone wouldn't have a roof on their head. Maybe they would have bought it off someone else And if we wouldn't and if they wouldn't have bought this material I wouldn't have had a job And I wouldn't have been able to put food on the table And also the shipper where I picked this up from they wouldn't have sold this stuff And they wouldn't have made the money out of it. They wouldn't have been able to put food on the table And I'm sure they got to buy their steel and their material from someone and that person is also connected to it Then they wouldn't have had to buy that from them I'm burning diesel fuel bringing this up to Canada All the truck drivers and all the people working in the refineries and the oil fields that contribute to Getting the diesel fuel to the pump so I could put it in my tank They're all connected to it too We'll have food on the table all we're all connected Whenever you think your job isn't important remember it's important every single one is important Gotta keep the roll the wheels rolling On my truck and on the economy we got to keep growing we got to keep making things better making things faster Making money making money Look at this guy. I wonder what he's on. He's got a reefer trailer. I bet he's hauling some produce or something Somebody's gonna have food in their fridge because of this guy And there's some workers on some field somewhere That picked all that fruit And they got money today because this somebody bought the produce and this guy came to pick it up You guys get the point, right? I can go on forever and ever how we're all connected you and I we're connected Somewhere down the line Our paths cross everybody's paths cross and we're all important to each other Rising tide lifts all boats. That's what they say, right? So when you're doing better, I'm doing better when I'm doing better you're doing better We've made it to Alexandria, Minnesota Just a coffee break I'm gonna make this my half hour break to actually so I'm gonna find a parking spot I'm gonna fuel once I get into Canada because I want something Canadian fuel in my tanks It's supposed to get down Really really cold tonight. So I Want to make sure I got some good northern fuel in there I thought I'd have more space to get into these parking spots here Looks like there's still some available Weasel to pay for us to be welcomed home back into Canada and with a closed scale You bet Karen you bet we're gonna continue on this road 15 kilometers because we don't have to stop at the scale That's a beautiful thing. I love not seeing those lights flashing there I love seeing the lights off at the scale over there. It looks beautiful All closed up It look even better if you put boards over the windows But hey, I'll take it Good to be home