 Hi, I'm Russ, and I'm Meg, and this is Coco, and we're from County Wexford, Ireland, and you're watching Trucker Josh on YouTube. Is it from over here? It must be from here. I hope so. I might as well stop. Palm tree right here. Palm tree. Oh, that's exciting. That's the first hole I got close to that one. Do you guys see that? I knew I was going to see a palm tree this trip. Where's the driveway? For real here. Here we go. Park on the street here, and I'll check into them. They got me unloaded in less than an hour. That's pretty good. Really nice guys here. It's all going to be a love's travel plaza. It's amazing the amount of work and effort that goes into building these places for us truckers. You know, those tanks I had on my trailer, the fuel, no, the water oil separators. Same thing that I delivered to that new loves in Illinois. Or was it Wisconsin? Illinois and Wisconsin there? What these tanks are for is they go under the ground, underneath the fuel pumps, and all the water that drains at those drains at the fuel pump. Sometimes oil gets in there, right? And, well, loves doesn't want that oil to go back into the ground. You know, that might be a law you probably should be. You don't want that oil to go back in the ground, so they have to separate the oil from the water. And that's what those tanks are that I delivered here. It separates the oil from the water. And just for that, just to keep the ground clean and not pollute the earth, it costs loves tens of thousands of dollars for us to bring down these tanks and this whole system for them. Just to keep the place clean, right? That's how much they care about the environment. I thought that was pretty cool. Tens of thousands of dollars just so that the oil doesn't go into the ground. I'm not going to tell you all the exact numbers, but, you know, it definitely wasn't cheap for me to bring this down for them. And that's just my wage. Oh, sorry, buddy. Didn't see you around the corner there. Not bad. 100 meters. Turn right on. US 280. And you know every travel plaza and every gas station has these same things in the ground. So it's not cheap to be environmentally friendly, but I'm glad they do it. Otherwise, you know, you'd have all those trucks that are leaking oil at the pumps. All of that would just go right into the ground, right into the ground water. That wouldn't be good. All right, so we're empty. Head up to Tennessee. In Georgia. In bacon and making. Making bacon. Bacon making. I can't stop thinking about bacon driving through making. I need to find myself some kind of like portable grill or something for the truck that can cook bacon. So that I can have bacon and making next time I'm here. I bet you everybody watching from making Georgia right now just rolling their eyes. Oh, we haven't heard those ones before. Like, come on, you must hear that every day. Everybody who comes through here has got to say making bacon. How can you drive through making and not say making bacon? I don't think it's possible. How can you even drive through making without thinking about bacon? There's something wrong with you. If you don't think about bacon going through making, I'll stop. So if you haven't put two and two together yet, we're driving through making... I almost said making bacon. Driving through making Georgia right now. On our way up, we are empty. We have an empty flat bed behind us. They got me unloaded so quick there. I didn't even have time to grab the camera and show you them taking it off. They used a big excavator to unload the tanks with some tow straps or some chains. I got all my straps off pretty quickly and they just had to get their equipment ready. That's why it took a little longer. But by the time... Once they got to my trailer, it was done in like 10 minutes. I was there on time. And now we've got to go pick up some steel in Jackson, Tennessee. And that steel is going to Saskatchewan, Canada. I've got to deliver it there on Monday. And today when I'm filming this, it's Thursday. And I want to swing by home on the way so that I can go to my aunt's wedding on Saturday. I'm hoping I can at least make it for the reception. No, it's on Sunday. I keep thinking it's on Saturday. So if I get home Saturday night, I can wake up. We have a family gathering in the morning. We want to take some family pictures. Then in the afternoon, we go to the reception. Right after the reception, I'll have to jump in the truck and head out to Saskatchewan to unload in the morning. We'll see if it'll work out. I don't know if it will. I don't know. But I really want to be there for it. And we'll see what happens. I'm doing my best. All right, we want to go on Interstate 75 North here. We're on the north side of Atlanta. We just went around the city. It was pretty uneventful, which is good. Oh, you want to come in here, don't you? No? Okay. If you want to get in my lane, put your signal on. 200 meters. Keep to the left on by 75 northern end. Keep to the left in 1.4 kilometers. All right, here we go. 75 north. What a spider web of highways here. I can sort of remember from, what, two years ago when we went this way through here? Head up this way, and I think... Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay. Okay, everyone's getting a little scared. Okay. All right, find your safe space. Find your safe, okay, all right. We're merging with more traffic. Keep to the left on by 75. I've actually been pretty impressed with this ride through Atlanta today. Everyone has been, like, pretty respectful. Everyone's been, like, patient. The traffic was moving pretty smoothly, so I guess that wasn't really any chance for impatience. But no one was really... I was cut off once by one guy. He was super cool driving his grandma's Nissan. With, uh, super black tinted windows, so... You know he's extra cool. He cut me off and then... Brake checked me once, I think. It felt like it, maybe he wasn't. I don't know, I couldn't tell, because he had no windows. They were just black pieces of glass. I don't know what he was doing, but... Making life a little difficult for me for about three minutes, and then he was gone. Speeders, keep to the left on by 75. A lot of empty flatbeds around here. Look at this. No loads for us in Atlanta, apparently. 300 meters, keep to the left on by 75. And we can't just take any load, either. Like, for me, I'm going a full day's drive to go pick up this steel in, uh... In Tennessee. Luckily both these loads are really good paying loads, so it doesn't hurt me that much. But it still hurts, yeah. A whole day driving empty isn't what I'd like to do, but, you know, we can't just take any load. The load has to be going directly back to Canada. I can't pick up a load in the United States and then drop it off inside the United States. That's illegal. They call it interstating. You have to be an American citizen to do that, otherwise, you know, obviously I'd be stealing one of these fine people's jobs. Like this guy here or that guy over there. That would be a load for them to take. They're Americans. You know? For me, being a Canadian citizen, I... Continue on this road for 14 kilometers. That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about, Karen, but thanks for trying. I have to go straight back to Canada. So I dropped off my freight that I picked up in Canada. I went straight to my destination, dropped it off. Now I gotta go to my reload and go straight back to Canada. I mean, I don't think they're too picky if I take a scenic route here and there or to avoid traffic or a detour. But, you know, I'm picking up a load in Tennessee. They're gonna ask some serious questions for me if I were to, like, get pulled over in California or Utah. What are you doing here? Supposed to take the direct route back to Canada. So that's why we gotta go all the way to Tennessee. That's where our... Well, we have a contract there, I guess. And we need someone there to pick up the load because you gotta take care of your people, right? And that's one of our people. So we'll pick it up tomorrow. Hopefully I don't gotta tarp anything. They said if there's any cardboard boxes on the bed, I gotta tarp it. Now, if you're crying out loud, don't put cardboard on the bed then. Like, don't, don't... Put it in a wooden crate. Right? We've been over this. Put it in a crate. Not a box. It's very hard to tie boxes down onto the deck because they crumple. Right? It doesn't really protect whatever's inside there. And then they get all wet in the rain. That's why they want you to tarp it. Why don't you just put it in a wooden crate and, like, seal it or something, like a... I don't know. I'm needy. I'm a needy guy. But I have good ideas. I know a lot of these guys who load these trucks, you know, they don't drive the truck. So they don't care. Maybe if they heard it from someone who actually drives the truck, they'll do it differently, which makes it easier on all of us. Right? At least easier on me. I don't know. How many lanes we got here? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven lanes in each direction. This guy on my right is having trouble staying in this lane. You know I'm here, right, bud? Oh, he's got subwoofers in there, too. Can you hear that? Just pounding the G-unit in there. Holy... Gangsta, gangsta. All right. Oh, now he wants to come in here. He put his signal on. Well, I'm right beside you, buddy. I want as fast as I can. You can either speed up and go in front of me or slow down and go behind me. But I'm occupying this lane. Should have thought of that before you ended up at this exit. Damn. Well, don't take off my back bumper. I actually cut in so close behind me. I almost tucked my bumper off. I guess it would have taken his bumper off. My trailer probably would have been fine. I'm always coming past this on the left now. Here comes G-unit. Is G-unit still a thing? Probably not. That's dating me. It was the thing when I was in high school. I don't know what the biggest rappers are of today. I've moved past those days more into country myself. Country music is my favorite music. I've gotten more into classic rock now since I married Britt too. She loves classic rock. Like Motley Crue and Def Leppard. Never used to listen to them before, but now I should listen to them. Like Five Finger Death Punch and stuff like that. Never now. My favorite is country music. Back in the day, I tell you, when I was cool, subwoofers in my car and everything, you'd hear me coming them all away. You're rattling the windows when I pulled up. Oh, I was that kid. I know. I know. I'll never live it down. Do you want to be in here because you look like you want to be in here, Mr. Civic? Turn your signal on. Don't just try to drive aggressively and get in front of me. Turn your signal on, and I'll help you. You don't put your signal on. I'm not making way for you. You can't read your mind. Chat nougan. Look at that traffic backed up on that side of the road. It's already been like that for like five miles. This is the second backup, too. Once they get through this mess, they got another backup just like this down in Georgia. It never ceases to amaze me how whenever I start talking, you have to talk too, Karen. And then we'll sit here in silence for like five hours. And suddenly I start talking, and you have so much to say. Is it like my voice? Is it my voice that triggers you? Okay, there was an accident up on the other side of Chat nougan, on the other side. Now, look at this traffic. It's still lined up on that side. Still lined up. I feel so bad for little drivers because they have no idea. Half an hour down the road, they're going to have to go through another one just like this. No one cares what you have to say, Karen, just saying. Why don't you go find a manager to complain to? Still backed up. I know you guys haven't seen my face much. Karen! I'm starting to get frustrated. I just want to talk to my friends. What was I saying? I don't remember. I know you guys haven't seen much of my face today, or yesterday, but I figured you'd rather look at the road anyway. Look at the sights. No use torturing you with my face too much. You know what I mean? It's still backed up. Yikes at nouga. Yikes, your bridge connections are worse than Manitoba. Yikes. Still backed up. Wow. Let's see how far this goes. All the way around the corner here. This has gone through the entire city already. The accident was like outside the city, but just outside the city on the south side. Just going to be all the way around up the hill because I know we go here. Been around to the right. Yup. Backed all the way up here all the way up around the hill. That's got to be close to 10 miles already. Glad we're not going that way. I don't know if you'll be able to see it, but you can see that string of lights all the way to the right. You can see that string of lights all the way along the base of that hill there. Or I guess they would call that a mountain probably. I call it a hill. The camera's going to pick that up. Just have to trust me if you can't see it. Now it's one of the longest backups I've seen in a while. Then again, I've been spending most of my time out on the prairies and in western Canada and stuff. North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois. There's not quite as much traffic as down here on the interstates. There you can see it, right? I hope nobody has to go to the bathroom over there. That's always the worst part of getting stuck in traffic. And traffic, that's like creeping too. Not traffic that's stopped and you can get out and go in the ditch or whatever and whatever you want to do, go behind the bush. Traffic, that's just creeping forward. So you have to keep moving, right? But you've got to go to the bathroom so bad. It's the worst thing in the world. One final scene for you guys we're coming into. Wow. Wow. I was not planning that. Karen just does that. I hadn't heard from you in like three hours, Karen. What I was saying is we're in Jackson, Tennessee. Excuse me. And we're going to the pilot here to see if there's room. The pilot is pretty much just down the road from where we got to pick up our steel tomorrow. And it's only nine o'clock but I'm kind of thinking it's going to be full. Let's hope we're lucky. I'm going to fuel up tonight if I find an open spot I'm just going to snag it. Fuel tomorrow. Eggs at 85 coming up here. On Christmasville Road. I like it. So I've realized that today and most of yesterday it was all just dash footage. What do you guys think of that? I don't know if you like to see my face more often. I didn't take you on our walk today either. I forgot my camera. I meant to do that. I'm sorry guys but I'll mess it up. But yeah, most days if you're new here most days you see a lot more of me not just the road. I do. I try to do a lot different things. I try to do different things every day. I mean making a video every day sometimes get into a rut into a routine but I always snap out of it and we always come back. Well I have my doubts. I really do have my doubts that there's going to be parking here. Well there's a speedway over here. Maybe they'll have parking. I'll check the pilot first but this part of the country at nine o'clock at night anywhere else maybe. How do I get in here? See there's already people parking along the driveway over here on the right. Practically blocking the driveway. This is the exit apparently. Well I remember this pilot now. I've been here many times before. Okay back in the day back in the days back in the days of the van trailers. Can you see it? Can you see it? I'm back into a spot perfect spot. It was all packed when I got here so I decided to go and fuel today instead. And now I got a parking spot. Someone pulled out just as I was fueling. Good thing I fueled today because remember I said I was going to fuel tomorrow? Oh by the way hi. Here's my face. I do exist behind the camera. So yeah someone pulled out as I was fueling. What luck and it's just perfect right right out the the aisle way there. Wasn't hard to back into because this parking lot is really tight. I did not want to stay here. I trust myself. I can get into any parking spot. That's not the problem. The problem is if people leave during the night and then someone knew backs in beside me. I don't trust them. I don't want my truck all dinged up because like sure yeah maybe we can I got my dash cam over here. I will record whoever hits me and we'll come for the money and get them to fix it but still then my truck is down like if they damage my truck bad then I'm without a truck and without a job until it gets fixed and until we chase them down for the money or where I have to put the bill first and then they pay me back and it's just it's a big mess. It's a lot of paperwork a lot of headaches I just rather avoid it so I don't even park in parking spots where I think someone might back into me. I wish that they would build truck stops a little differently more with like more diagonal pull through parking because I know that we can all get into these spots it's not a matter of can we back in like you and I can we get into the spot we know we can but can the Swift driver among us sorry sorry Swift drivers throwing you under the bus there a little bit I apologize but you get the joke right so hope you guys have a good night anyways sorry it was mostly just road footage today I was just giving her this guy's idling his truck beside me and it's a perfect night perfect night not to idle it why would you waste your fuel oh maybe he's got you guys have told me before maybe they have a sleep apnea machine in there or something that they need to keep the batteries charged that could be I shouldn't judge at least he doesn't have a super loud engine fan the engine fan just kicked on now and that's not too bad I can deal with that I can always go spin around and nose in I used to always nose into these spots right but ever since my batteries died after I nosed in I don't do that anymore because if I'm nosed in here and my batteries die and I call someone a tow truck or whatever to come boost me they can't even reach me because my batteries are all the way on my truck at the back of the spot and there's people beside me so they can't even reach me to give me a boost so I learnt my lesson always back in just in case and what if the truck doesn't start or something right you need them to be able to access the front of the truck I'm tired I'm gonna go to bed tomorrow we pick up our load just around the corner and we start heading home we have 2,000 kilometers or about 1,250 I'm gonna say 1,300 miles to go and we gotta do that in 2 days we're gonna have to hope for no traffic and it's gonna be tight but we can do it we can do it I'm glad I got you here with me because I'm gonna need some company it's gonna be some long hours in the next couple of days good night