 Hey there YouTube, my name is Craig. From along I-70 in Georgetown, Colorado Fall is in the air. You're watching TJV with Trucker Josh and Diesel. Enjoy! Of the real world We're in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Just clearing out my Trabometers here, my fuel data so that I know how much fuel I'm burning today and how many kilometers I'm driving Yeah, so we're gonna get going from here. We want to make it into Ohio We're bringing this load of lumber that I showed you yesterday I'm bringing this load of lumber from Canada down to Dundee, Ohio I'm excited because I haven't been in Ohio in so long, but I'm not really excited for their toll road So I'm kind of looking for ways of getting around most of it. I think we're gonna go down to Joliette Illinois and then head across there or maybe even down to I-80 and head across I-80 Skip a few of the tolls because right now it looks like I'm gonna be spending about 200 dollars in tolls just to get to Ohio $170 or so 160 to 170 American so with $200 Canadian and then I got to get back it if they send me back west That's like $400 just tolls One trip, so we're gonna try to get around as many of them as possible. That's like that really greedy Really? That's really greedy You know, I'm all four tolls to pay off the highway, but once the highway is paid off like You know, we need to get fuel. First things first. Let's make sure our trailers not gonna fall off and make sure our trailer brakes work How about that? Of course, as soon as I start rolling, that's when the phone starts dinging, right? Every time Good thing. I'm just rolling over to the pumps. I'm not going very far So I'm gonna kind of go around them backwards. Hopefully not cause a kerfluffle Because I don't want to go all the way on to the actual roadway and come back in so you'll see what I mean in a second here This is a truck stop that I stopped back quite often because it's pretty much exactly just under a date from home Client jays is my personal favorite Nothing wrong with Petros and TAs. I actually really like the Petros and TAs too. I just don't like their parking lots as much I like their truck stops sort of better because they got more options in there They got much better like service centers for trucks But flying J, I like their parking lots better. I don't know. Maybe I'm just weird We're no backwards through this driveway here. Good thing. We're not Meeting up with any buddy who wants to come through here the correct way I'm just doing this to show you what way not to go Through the parking lot. That's all I'm doing here. I'm displaying how not to exit the Black River Falls, Flying J The exits on the other side Cause a real mess up if there was a lot of trucks trying to get through there But you'll see what I'm doing in a minute See I'm gonna do a little loop to do up here under the pumps See what I did there see what I did there now you understand, right? Let's go into this one. There's this building off to the right here on the other side of the pumps I think they used to be the last that the old gas or fuel desk. They don't use it anymore It's just an abandoned building just sitting there doing nothing and it's cooling down quite quickly here I'm seeing that they got a whole bunch of giant fans Over there. I'm not sure if you guys are seeing them or not, but they got a whole field full of giant fans So I'm gonna tell them to turn the fans off. It's way too cold outside of Chicago. I'm sorry Chicago I'm just not a big fan of big mega cities Countryside of Illinois just beautiful lots of farmland lots of small towns Chicago is a beautiful city as well But like I just said, I'm just not a big fan of big urban center, so I just don't fit in there. I Stick out like a sore thumb. I just start talking to people. You're not from here. Are you? You must be in a hurry It's been a good day. It's late start So we're gonna be driving into the night which is kind of is what it is The good thing about driving in the United States is at least in this part of the United States There's not a whole lot of wildlife like not nothing like what we deal with up north so We don't got to worry too much about wildlife jumping out in front of you as much So when the Sun goes down you're not constantly scanning the ditches your eyes turning all red because they're strained from watching for moose You don't want to hit a moose. All right, you can hit a deer. You don't want to hit a moose I just nicked a moose once $15,000 damage. I just nicked him Just took out his butt just took some hair off his butt. He took my whole fender off I don't know how many of you remember that remember that you can go back to my video You can like Google or search in the search bar trucker Josh Stepped on a snake and hit a moose That's what that vlog is called. I show you the damage from the moose So it's called stepped on a snake and hit a moose because in the morning I took diesel for a walk and we were talking about snakes and Ironically, I almost stepped on a snake as I was talking about hitting the moose. Anyway, it was a long time ago I'm not very good with titles. Okay Look who's fancier. Look at them fans. Very very fancy centered Indiana. I believe this is still Interstate 80 Man, you avoid the entire city by going around Yeah You avoid the entire city by going around on I-39 to I-80 it is a little bit further But there's no traffic no stopping no nothing just straight shot through That might be my regular route from now on I mean it does cost me a little bit extra time, but saves me hundreds in tolls So we're gonna be avoiding the Ohio turnpike It's actually shorter to avoid the turnpike Believe it was what about 20 miles shorter But it'll take 10 minutes longer Not too sure exactly the route that we're taking I believe it'll be a state highway through Indiana south We'll be turning off here an exit 11 I-65 south, okay Towards Indianapolis. We go down to I can't tell what road that is yet and then Head east from there south of the turnpike This turnpike is very expensive going through Ohio Remember that one time I came down here Was it just once? I think I went through here once And then went back and then went through again to Ontario So I went through here three times I had over $500 in toll expenses that month from those three times going through here It's ridiculous So I'm always looking for ways to avoid the toll roads without costing me too much extra time. That's the It's the hard part These traffic isn't too bad. It's moving pretty good knock on wood Quarter to 9 p.m. Central time I believe we're about to cross into eastern time zone where it'll be a quarter to 10 So it's pretty late So if there's this many people out on the road now imagine how many people would be out here in Russia or Just going through Gary, Indiana right now This is a neighborhood that I wouldn't recommend stopping in overnight though hundreds and hundreds of truckers I might even say thousands do because there's massive truck stops here you can park at but from what I've heard crime is a little high here And just by staying I've seen here a couple of nights nothing's happened But there's a lot of security which always makes me a little nervous in the cave. There's extra extra security There's it's there for a reason right? Well, this dude came her past me tried to pass me on the right here now. There's a car there Why wouldn't you come pass me on the other side man? Take US 30 Maraldale and then turn left and 510 meters All right, so We're at exit 253 I 65 southbound and the road I was looking for before we're turning on to a US 30 eastbound I'm gonna be taking that across Towards Dundee, Ohio I don't know if it's gonna be a shortcut or not like remember the last time we tried to avoid the toll roads I was a failure not gonna do that again coming out of Chicago meters take US 30 Maraldale and then turn left in 510 meters So we're gonna see I mean according to the GPS it shouldn't take me much longer only like 10 minutes longer to go this way And it's actually Was it close to 30 miles Turn left on Yeah, I was actually quite a bit shorter in distance, but I Guess we'll see we'll we'll find out I Need to turn from this lane to my right Always turn from the outermost lane Three left-hand turn lanes here Wow It's a very populated area a lot of traffic at times I guess Now we'll see what the shortcut Entails we'll see what happens. Hopefully I won't be disappointed Well, it's not actually a shortcut. It's actually Well, yeah, technically it is shortcut because it's shorter physically shorter But I'm guessing there's gonna be towns and stuff we got to go through traffic lights and stuff Instead of just taking the turnpike, which is just an expressway freeway. No stops no intersections So technically it's shortcut, I don't know Won't know until I try right? I mean I could ask you guys you guys probably already know the answer You're probably already yelling at your smartphone that I'm going the wrong way and that's not gonna save me any time but if I ask you and I got to wait for the response and I Probably try it anyway So I'm one of those kinds of people you can you can tell me all you want about which way is better I've got to learn for myself. I'll try it anyway because I'm gonna try and prove you wrong, right? But who knows I'd probably just end up proving you right. I don't know So U.S. Highway 30 eastbound through Indiana into Ohio. Let's see what it does for us It's not gonna be all red lights all the way Gotta get out of town sooner or later, right so many people living around here. It's just crazy We shall see You know the city planners are part me out city planners the turnpike planners and other the people who plan these roads, right? They plan them on purpose So that the turnpike and that the toll roads are way shorter and way more convenient They don't want to give you any other options because then they don't get money out of you, right? They know us they know people they know we're looking for a deal So they're purposely going to make it So much better just to take the toll road that we'll just fork over our money, right? I'm not as easy to convince. So I got a I got a check for myself Hopefully once we get out of this town Whatever town we're in right now that the traffic lights will disappear a nice free moving u.s. Highway We're somewhere in Ohio. I see a truck stop here I'm not too sure what truck stop it is, but I sure hope they got parking because I have 24 minutes left on my clock looks like it's a pilot and something s Excuse me Well, there's two truck stops here. I really hope I can find a spot at one of them Late at night is probably not gonna happen It's not then there's a rest area just around the corner. I'm gonna go try See what they got Well Karen, I know you're upset you want to keep going The law says I got a stop. I'd like to keep going to myself But we got to find a parking spot and I'm not liking the looks of this truck stop. This is a really small Lot oh boy. Oh No, no, no, I don't think we're gonna find any any parking back here This is one of those really tight lots. This is a good lot to lose a front bumper and you know what I mean Nothing free Spot in there. No, there's a bomb tail in there taking up a whole spot Well, I told you guys to stop doing that Okay, well now In the park, I think I have no idea what's going on here Other spots. Oh, these are paid a park. I'm not gonna pay to park Greedy greedy pilot what we're gonna call you greedy pilot Okay, well, I'm not gonna waste any time then. Oh wait, is this a paid a park here? Yes, it is This is all paid a park You're not getting my money and go down the road to that rest area then That's a bummer. Okay. Well, I don't got any time to waste early I'll get going Just doing one quick pass through this little truck stop. It's a speedway. That's what it was a s stands for speedway Little pass through here in case there's a spot open, but of course, there's not of course there isn't Why would there be a spot open for trucker Josh? That would make sense All right, we now have 14 minutes left of drive time There was no room for us at either end This is our last Last resort. I'm hoping this is one of them big rest areas I'm thinking there'll be room for us here. Just looking at the the rest area across the road there And the fact that there's no trucks parked on the ramp here Oh, there'll be room for us here Good thing because I can't go any further. We're making room Trucks this way, right? awesome The only bad thing about staying at a rest area is that there's no coffee in the morning Continue on this road for 81 kilometers. Really? 81? How big is this rest area Karen? I'm gonna stop right in here Continue on this road for 81 kilometers Yep, this is a parking spot. I do believe so Wonderful wonderful Oh boy, oh boy, it's left the good people know we are here See all this paperwork used to take a long time to complete now It's just like boop-boop-boop-boop push a few buttons and it's done no more paperwork no more like Binders of just loose paper More log books. I actually you know, I kind of like that you log a lot of people who are very against it But it hasn't slowed me down at all It's something to get used to that's for sure, but I think I got used to it pretty quick though I was pretty used to technology already. I'm Technologically savvy that's what people have said to me before One more and boom Just like that all my paperwork for the day sent in Finished 30 have zero hours and 13 minutes of remaining drive time 13 minutes let's put ourselves into the sleeper birth. I'm gonna In a minute. I have 13 minutes to do my post trip I just got to walk around the truck yet and make sure everything is as it should be at the end of my day And I'll do my pre-trip in the morning. All right guys. Thanks for watching today Just a little update on this shortcut or whatever this a toll avoidance on us 30 It is a good option But only if you're going further south if you're going up to Cleveland It wouldn't work because Dundee, Ohio is south of Cleveland and so we went around Fort Wayne, Indiana and For our route for this trip the US 30 worked great So I saved myself like $200 and tolls probably or at least 150 I had to pay a couple of tolls I think I remember two tolls that I went through in Illinois Can't ditch them all or can't avoid them all but I think I think my toll bill will be like 30 bucks 20 30 bucks instead of 200 And it didn't cost me any time It was an extra 60 miles to go around here But I think that with all the time that I saved because I would have been going through Chicago during rush hour I don't think I lost too much time coming this way. So The experiment worked this time last time it didn't so we're One for two 50 success rate on avoiding tolls So I'm gonna deliver this freight tomorrow morning here in Dundee just down the road and then We'll see where we go from there if we're going back west Then we're gonna have to play games with these tolls again depending on where we Where we pick up but if we're going east I'm thinking they might send me into southern Ontario from here Well, then I can probably just go over the Ohio turnpike and take Other roads up to cross into Ontario through at Detroit or uh or port here on We'll see We'll talk about that tomorrow. Thanks for watching once again. Please don't forget to subscribe We make a new video every day. We'd love to have you part of this channel We're almost up there at 100,000. We've been making videos for Seven eight years seven years Pretty crazy Hit that subscribe button hit the bell button. Leave me a comment below and I'll talk to you tomorrow Say goodbye diesel say goodbye. Bye. Thank you Smart guy. You're a smart guy Hey there youtube. My name is craig from along eye 70 In georgetown, Colorado Fall is in the air you're watching tjv with trucker josh and diesel. Enjoy