 another hundred miles to go with this. An hour and a half. I picked this up in Ear Falls, Ontario yesterday. I'm down to Carlton, Minnesota right now. We're going to Asante, Minnesota. We'll see what reload we have after that. I don't have too much time right now. We want to get going. We slept across the street. Oh, you can't see it from here. It's a Carlton Travel Center. It looks like it's closed completely, but the parking lot is still open. We came across here to grab a coffee. Nothing going on at that store over there. Just came across the street to the quick trip. Any of you from Carlton, Minnesota? These quick trips are usually pretty busy places. Like one here. You're welcome. Got in our coffee, got in our breakfast, even got a sandwich or lunch, which I'm gonna put in the cooler back here. Yeah, yeah. That stays cool. Protein bar for the morning. Okay, ready to rock and roll. So I've started a new series on my channel, like I said I would, called the Silent Trucker, ASMR Trucking. It's the same story of my same day, but without me. I'm gonna keep this vlog going. Don't worry. This is the feature presentation. This is the main content of my channel. These vlogs will always stay labeled the same. They're gonna go into their own playlist yet. Gonna be the main main content. Some extra content I'm adding in there just for the few people who have requested it and who like that kind of thing. It's gonna be the story of my day through video and picture with no talking. Just silence. Just well not silence, but just the sound of the truck, sound of the highway. If I'm out on a walk, the sounds of nature around me. Just relaxing. Beautiful sounds of the highway. Maybe we'll call it sounds of the highway. Maybe we'll call it the Silent Trucker. My first one is up on my channel already. Episode one. I labeled it Silent Trucker. We'll see if you like it. If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it. You can just watch these. Totally get it. We're going down a sandy lane. You guessed it. This takes us to the town of a sandy. That's where we got to drop this lumber off. Five minutes down the road. We'll get this off my trailer. I don't know what my reload is yet. I thought I heard that it might be a load of shingles going back up to Winnipeg, but I haven't gotten confirmation on any of that. So as soon as I stop here, I'm gonna have to send a message up to the skies to the load gods and see if they respond to me. Usually they respond pretty quickly. So before we're even empty, I'm sure I'll have an answer of where I'm headed next. All day for trucking through the cornfields. Minnesota corn. Look at that. They're shipping in receiving office right over there and see where they want me. The world know that I am now on duty, not driving. Tagged it as unloading cargo. Oh, and I also have to send the message into the load gods to let them know I'm here. They can probably already see on their screens that I'm here if they're looking at the screens, but if they're not, this gives them a little ding. Hey, Josh is unloading. Send him a new load quick. Quick. Don't keep him waiting. Let's just send in here. Compose arrived. No, I'm not at the shipper arrived at destination. That just pops up on their screen. They're saying, Hey, pay attention to Josh. He's doing something. He's doing something. He's gonna have an empty trailer real soon. That's not good. We don't like empty trailers. We like loaded trailers. I get my shoes on my outdoor shoes, that is. There's driving shoes and there's outdoor shoes. And there's socks for in the sleeper rules. But I guess before I get out of my truck, I should put on my vest. I wouldn't want to get run over safety first truck. Safety first. One more thing. Gotta look good. You got to smell good. Sounds like recess is over. You guys got to make sure you smell good on the road. It's very important. Deodorant. Okay, I hate to be the one to tell you this. Deodorant is a couple of bucks at the store. Anti-perspirant. Gotta smell good. My strap roller. It got pushed all the way to the back. Gotta keep things neat and clean and organized. So you know where this in front of it and we won't be able to see it. There gonna have to clean up those two inch straps. I'm gonna be thinking about it all day now. They're not rolled up properly in there. My method of doing it. I bring them all onto one side. The front of the trailer here. Bring my strap roller right up here. Roll them all up here and then they go into my headache rack. This way I'm working at the front of the trailer while they're unloading on the trailer there and I stay out of their way. Usually it works out pretty good. I grabbed them by the hook. I pulled them through my left hand like this while I'm what I'm doing is I'm checking for any damages to the strap and also getting any rolls out of it so that it's easier to roll up. That way each time I check the strap before I roll it up so I know if it's good to be used again. Rolled up. They go in here. Longest ones go in the bottom. Medium ones and some long ones. Short ones are at the top here with all these wires. Need to figure out yet but organized. Organization is key. While I was taking the straps off there looks like our next load came through. What? Every time I turn the key off it does that. Okay we are oh no it's not shingles. We are going into Wisconsin. Okay. Going into Boston Wisconsin picking up a load that's going home. Picking up a load of utility trailers. Right on right on. I'm going to reply with a big yes. Hey, I will accept that. Okay. Now this I need to replace yet. I have the original one at the shop. This one's cracked. Where is it? At the top here. It's cracked. So it's a little loose. So when it's screwed on here goes rattles like that on the highway. So I just took it down. There you go. Whatever. Hardcore. Looks like we are 368 kilometers from our pickup. We're going to pick up tomorrow morning. That's fine because it's the afternoon already. Got drove pretty late last night. So I'm going to later start today. So this will get my my time is back on schedule. We can start early again tomorrow. Let's do some math here for my merkin buddies. 368 kilometers divided by 1.61 is 229 miles. Just take me four hours to get there. Yeah, so we'll have a lot of time today to relax and get ready to be up early tomorrow. I'll pick them up then. Looks like it's going to be two utility trailers. That's what the message says. Anyways, 23 foot and 27 foot. We'll get them tied down. Oh, and by the way, some news on my, you know, I've been talking about those spam comments pretending to be me. I applied with YouTube team YouTube to be verified on YouTube to get that little check mark beside my channel name and I got approved. So my channel will now be verified very soon. So you'll know it's me responding to you because it'll have the little check mark meaning that it's for sure me just like I have on Facebook that little blue check. So all I really got to do is I got to get the blue check on Twitter and Instagram yet. Twitter is not my biggest platform by a long shot. I don't like Twitter. I think it's a cesspool of just angry, mean people. Not everyone. I mean you guys who use it are nice but you know how Twitter is. It's a it's a cesspool of arguing and I don't like it that it's anonymous because people could say whatever they want with no consequences. So people can get really mean on there and get really crazy especially if you get into the political side of Twitter and there's no repercussions because no one knows who's tweeting, right? And it's just a bunch of crazies on there like I don't know. It's not all bad. It's just not my favorite platform but I would like to get verified on Twitter too. So you guys know that's me and Instagram. Well, I don't really use Instagram much. I just post my thumbnails there just to get more traffic to my channel. That's the only reason I have all of my social media channels. Facebook is my main social media platform. Well, you'll find me. You'll find me the most active there. Probably why I got verified there first. I think we have something like 53,000 followers there on Twitter. We have 10,000 Instagram. We have 11,000 but here on YouTube. We have 116,000. So it'll be nice to get that little check there then then you'll know it's me but I don't know how long it'll take because in the email YouTube creator support sent me said, thanks for your patience while we looked into your request. We have successfully verified your YouTube channel. Your channel will remain verified unless you change your channel name which I won't. If you change your channel's name the renamed channel won't be verified and you'll need to reapply. In the next few days you'll see a check mark next to your channel name. Currently the verified badge doesn't show everywhere like on mobile devices but we're working to fix that. Okay, so the check mark won't be everywhere. It should be in the next couple of days. So cool. If you see it first let me know because I haven't seen it yet. I'm waiting for the little check mark. It's been 11 years that I've been waiting for this thing. All right, we're empty. That's any more. Sit down there for a bit and that up in a bit. Let's get out of their way here out of their yard. We'll find a good truck stop. Probably going to stop by Roberts, Wisconsin at the Flying J. Have a shower. Let's see how far away are we from there. Duh-duh-duh. Doesn't say. Shoot. One second. Flying J Travel Center in Boston. Not in Boston. In Roberts. A little over an hour. Not over an hour. We'll go there. Stop there. Have a shower. A little break. A lot of being about to boom clean ourselves up. Get ready to pick up our utility trailers tomorrow. Boom. Let's go. Off I go for a shower. The pumps here in Roberts, Wisconsin have always been bad. This guy's just parked his truck here. He pulled in here, washed his windows, took him about 15 minutes doing that. The whole time I was fueling and just washing his windows. And then when I was done, I got in and I've been waiting for this guy who went to go walk his dog somewhere. And he's been gone for 20 minutes. And this guy has been inside the whole time. He just went inside and left his truck here. That guy's been here just as long. Oh, he's leaving now though. Good for him. This guy though. Not sure where he went but I can't leave until he leaves. Really, really bugs me. This guy here in this area really bugs me when people park in the pumps for a long period of time. I understand you're just running inside to grab a coffee or if there's nobody behind you, nobody behind you who cares, right? But this is, it's busy here. There's a lineup around the lot when I got here there was. So everybody here had to wait in line and now they're just making everybody behind them wait even more than they had to wait. Maybe they think that because they had to wait, everyone else should have to wait even longer too. I don't know but I would like to get moving here. I've been done pumping here for a while. Can't move till he decides he wants to go. No idea where he went. Like I said, if there's nobody behind you, not a big deal. Whatever. At a time like this, it's, you know, whatever you got to do inside, if you can't get it done in 10 minutes or less, it should be five minutes or less but at least 10 minutes or less. I mean, don't even bother. Go find a parking spot. Park your truck. Don't park in front of the pumps here. And if there's no parking for you, move it on down the line. There's another truck stop five minutes down the road. Go try that one. There's no room for you here. There's no room for you. There's nothing anybody can do about that. Keep on moving. Boston, Wisconsin. 300 meters. Take WI-82 Boston and then turn right in 300, 40 meters. I'm gonna spend the night at the quick trip here just down the street from our pickup. Looks straight to me. One of my favorite truck stops. I've stopped here many times in the past. Lots of parking. It's practically a little mini mall in there for truckers too. Quick trips are really nice places to stop. Really gorgeous night out there. But gorgeous Wisconsin night. Perfect temperature. Recently rained so it smells like rain but it's not raining. Wonderful. That's where we're gonna end today. Can't do much from here. Just down the road from here is where we're gonna pick up those utility trailers tomorrow. Like I said, there's supposed to be two of them. I don't know. The computer here says that there's three of them but the load gods themselves say there's two of them. One's 20 feet, one's 27 feet. So that unless if there's an 80 bitty one I mean I'm only going to be able to fit the two. That's about 47 feet of trailer space. A 53 foot trailer. That would give me enough space between them because sometimes they with these utility trailers sometimes they load them up as much as they can. Like three that just barely fit on the trailer and they have to line them up and load them so close to each other just so that they'll fit right and these utility trailers are very light. They get tossed around in the wind and by the bumps on the road. So you have to have these things tied down tight. They cannot move a quarter of an inch. Nothing. They cannot budge. Sometimes it's pretty hard because they don't build them with tied down like hooks or anything. They gotta be a little creative sometimes. I've never damaged one but I've seen them get damaged in the past before and on other trailers. There's one time in different company than ours. There's one time I was picking these trailers up and this guy who different company like I said was loading in front of me. I was watching him tie down, watching him tie down. I'm like oh wow he's got a ways to go yet. So I was getting comfortable waiting because I got to wait for him to finish before I get loaded and then all of a sudden I see him hop in his truck and take off. I'm like dude you're gonna tie those things down a little better? You can see them swaying back and forth like he's pulling forward and the trailers were moving like more than a couple of inches just him leaving the yard and I watched him just turn on to the road and just drive off onto the highway and off he was off into the sunset. Trailers with more than a couple of inches of play. Secure your loads people. This is a long time ago already. I was driving the Volvo then so it's been a while since I hold one of these loads but you know me I over secure it. I literally have people laughing at me sometimes because they think I'm crazy for putting so much securement on your load. Oh and super trucker. You laugh at me all you want call me all the names you want. I've never had anything go flying off my trailer. I'm not going to be I not going to have anything fly off my trailer and I'm going to try my best to make sure that I am never that guy. I don't want to end up on someone else's YouTube channel. Oh look at this crazy guy did. Oh look at this. You know all the sudden you'll have uh the uh the Asian my show with all the trucking news all those and I'll show up on his channel. Look what trucker Josh did. I don't want to be that guy. I almost feel like I'm under more scrutiny because I have a lot of people watching me every day. A lot of people and these uh videos end up on my boss's desk every day. And my my dispatchers and all my my friends my family a lot of people and who knows who else the who else watches these videos. I mean I've had emails from some pretty crazy places like I won't say it but I mean like there's some powerful people out there that for some reason watch my videos are half in the past they reached out to me and said hey I like what you're doing good job. So I feel like I'm under a little more scrutiny so I take that extra step to make sure I'm setting a good example at least I'm trying to. Anyways it's time to go I gotta film the comment review for yesterday's video I hope you tune into that. There's a whole bunch of new content on my channel so let's I'm trying to keep it all organized if you want to go into my playlist section I'm getting that all organized there as well within the next couple of weeks that'll all be finished and it'll be easy to follow whichever series you want to. If you don't like the silent trucker stuff no problem I get it some people do I'm making it for them you can this this stuff with me talking here yapping your ear off this'll this'll keep coming don't worry this isn't gonna change I'll see you right back here tomorrow I got some more stuff to talk about