 Hey everyone, this is Matthew from North Missouri, and you are watching Trucker Josh and Diesel on TJV Good morning Chevy Good morning world wherever you are. I hope you're having a good morning, and if it's not morning where you are well Why not? That's weird Good day. Good afternoon. Good evening. I'm you get it. Hope you're having a good day me and Chevy here just Grazing, you know a couple of cows that we are a Chevy Just mowing along for them because they really haven't really mowed along here We're in sock center, Minnesota We're on our way down to Wadsworth, Illinois. We're gonna get there tonight. I'm using it. Hopefully we need parking I slept a little longer than I wanted to this morning. We're still gonna make it We still have a lot of time to get there on time, but less time to stop like for showers and stuff Okay, I set my alarm for nine this morning What was it eight I said I set my alarm anyways for nine o'clock. Yeah, and Slept right through it. I mean I did drive really late, but I slept right through it and now I'm a little bit behind I Still think it didn't go off because I didn't I always wake up on my alarm and it didn't go off So something glitched. I got one of those wowie phones They're all right But mine has started to glitch a little bit after about a year of having it I think I've had it for close to a year I don't know the Samsung's they glitched to and I'm not much of an iPhone person So I'm not part of that crowd. So I can't really tell you much about those but Technology they make it to break on purpose or they make it to be outdated in a year on purpose because they want you to buy their new stuff So I'm not really surprised that I'm having problems with it Chevy You ready for this you ready for this Let's go to Illinois. I think you're done come come on buddy. Are you hungry? Go on some breakfast Give her a little tug test Trailers definitely not gonna fall off to be so less time for stopping today I'll have to shower at the end of my day instead of in the middle somewhere It's all right. Good thing. I work alone You get that we have a crane appointment for tomorrow morning to get this freight off of me tomorrow morning at 8 a.m So if I'm late They're gonna charge me for making the crane wait because the crane gets paid by the hour So I will be there at 7 30 paying for no crane So there's 796 kilometers It's around that up to 800 kilometers. That's 500 miles. We got to do today Shouldn't be too bad. The only city we're going through is Minneapolis. Oh and Milwaukee Shoot yeah in Milwaukee We'll have to hope and pray that there won't be any big traffic jams or anything blocking the highways I don't have too much time to play with now. I Think I had my phone on silent by accident Haven't done that in a long time glad the temperature outside was hot enough that It woke me up. I got uncomfortable because it's too warm. All right, here we go Lights here at this truck stop It's called the trucker's in always so very often It's so difficult to get back on to this road because this road going through here is so busy all the time We still got about four hours to go yet Just gonna pull into the flying J here and grab some fuel This has always been more of a common stop for me because this flying J is about one day's drive from home a full day's drive Usually I don't like to drive a full day on my first day unless if I have to because of time restraints and stuff Usually I'm tired. Well, I'm not tired But I'm you know just getting back into the swing of things after being at home My first day on the road. I sort of don't really want to be in the truck yet. I miss home but I still love my job and You know after a day second day on the road It's I just sort of get into work mode and I just go on to autopilot almost What I mean by that is like I Just It's almost like a routine, you know, I've been doing this a little while already Not too long. My dad's been doing this obviously a whole lot longer than me But I started driving in 2006 and I started doing this exact job like over the road In 2011 so it's sort of just routine already But it's a routine that I like and that's important you have to like what you do There was a two here. I don't know why She's this one because this one's got the DEF means I'm gonna have to Back up a little bit. Actually, you know, I don't need DEF today. We'll just give diesel You don't need to fuel your DEF tank up every time One tank of DEF. I believe is about 80 gallons US gallons and it lasts about 4,000 kilometers or that be Almost 3,000 miles 500 miles, you don't gotta fill it up every time So this tank here 4,000 US gallons I'm not sure what they're gonna put in it It might be a DEF tank because 4,000 gallons it seems like if it was like a diesel tank That would empty out pretty quickly at a loves. I Don't know this might be for something else to deliver quite a few of these tanks and This one on the front here is 850 gallons You guys like my new mudflaps? I got them for free when I got it serviced at TA last month. I turned this into my half-hour break here When inside grabbed a quick bite to eat and now we don't need to stop again till we get there Karen's telling me we're gonna get To our destination just after nine o'clock. I hope I'm gonna find a parking spot nearby there and Then we deliver at 8 a.m. In the morning, so it gives us plenty of time This flying J is like a unique one This one must have been a different truck stop at some time and then flying J bought it out Look at that dump truck. That'd be fun to drive around Those trailers like those low-boy trailers They must hit like a lot of railway crossings and stuff Let's wonder I guess you just got to hit it with a bit of a speed and just drag it over, right? I'll try to avoid them as much as possible but I Think that doesn't rub on the ground quite a bit Same thing with car haulers. They're always very low to the ground to right make me very nervous It'd be something to get used to well. Come on buddy. Hello You didn't even look in your mirror. Did you? Didn't even look in this mirror hasn't even looked at me yet All right Karen, I trust you she hasn't led me wrong yet guys me to where I need to go She needs an update. I mean, I'm sure she would have improved if I would have just hooked her up to the internet and updated her But Now I went for the newer slimmer model Plus this ran McNally. This thing's awesome. Literally. It's showing me where all the Walmart's are That is a GPS made just for trucker Josh I don't even got a search for where they are. They just show up They I could just click on one now and it'll bring me right to the nearest Walmart Fantastic Mandy couldn't do that We're on I-94 here, or is this the I-90? This is the Would be the 94 right goes towards Milwaukee Karen Karen I-94 yeah, it says right in the bottom there I-94 East still don't know how to Still don't know how she does all her things yet. I don't know how to Work all the buttons yet the I-94 Eastbound here. We're headed towards Milwaukee got to go around Milwaukee and head down there I don't know if you can sort of see it from my head cam down to the The map over there on the GPS But one thing I really like about this GPS is it actually shows me where the rest areas are whereas in Mandy I'd always have to like hit a few buttons on the GPS before it would Tell me where any of that was it tells me where the scales are where the rest areas are shows me where Walmart's are It's all very convenient and very nice. I'm really liking this new GPS. It's the Rand McNally 830 I think I don't know the exact model. It's a 8-inch screen. So it's pretty big The way I have it mounted here is the perfect spot doesn't block access to that mirror over there I can see that just fine and see that mirror and everything else just fine. So it works great right there and All the features that Karen has just puts Mandy to shame I don't miss her at all So it says we've got 121 kilometers. So that's what 70 miles or so 75 miles Hopefully hopefully hopefully there will be parking for us at the TA. I Believe the new loves where we're delivering these tanks to is right across the street from there Anyone who fuels up there. Hey, I delivered those I deliver those tanks at or at least some of them That hold the fuel at that gas station. Well, I guess we'll find out tomorrow morning or tonight exactly where it is I just hope I can find parking there because it's right between Milwaukee and Chicago So it's it's going to be busy and we're getting there around 9 30 now so It's kind of late to be pulling into a truck stop right between two big cities like that Guess we'll see see what happens So this trip is very similar to our last trip where we brought that lumber down to where was it Oak Creek Now we brought the lumber down somewhere else in Wisconsin But we picked up that load in Oak Creek that that boom truck, right? I was right around the same place that we're dropping off this freight this week So this week is almost like a mirror image of last week Tomorrow after I'm empty I head over to Evansville, Wisconsin. I've told you this already right and pick up a load That's going to Fort McMurray way up in northern Alberta It's a three-day drive I'll be picking it up Thursday, so I'll Friday Saturday Sunday to get there Including part of Thursday, so I'm kind of hoping that I can get sort of like almost a full day's drive into Moral Evansville is only an hour and a half or two hours away from where we are now depending on traffic I think it's a little I think about an hour and three-quarter And How many lanes are closed here? Slaying closed to just one. Okay That guy's in a hurry. Yes And About what was I saying? Yeah, it's only like an hour and 45 minutes two hours from here Then I got to tie down that load that's gonna take me a little while because I was gonna be careful tying down the steel Especially if there's a lot of like low-gauge steel on the top got to make sure I don't bend it with the straps and strap protectors on everything They don't want me to use chains, so I got to use strap protectors on every corner And that's a long drive and I believe they want me to pass by home They got some stuff for me to pick up at the office. I think So that adds an extra 60 miles onto my rope, but that's okay. Maybe I can go home for night then if I get a good Good amount done tomorrow On Thursday I Can probably get home like Friday some time and then go home for night Friday and then leave Saturday morning To continue on towards Fort McMurray Wow Yikes Up here, and I thought it was gonna be So 50 kilometers or 30 miles up here is where our destination is I Hope there's gonna be parking speed do a 930 still yet when we get there It's right at the state border with Illinois looks like everyone seems to be in a real big hurry here I Don't know Milwaukee that I don't know about everyone in a hurry to get out of town Russell Road Exit 1A So just barely into Illinois, okay, so there's a TA. Where is my Customer RA wanted that turn left and 270 meters. I thought it said that it's a loves travel stop that I'm delivering it to but I Don't know. Oh, there's a truck stop on the right here, too Okay, so this one of these is getting new fuel tanks in the ground and I have it on my trailer for them So one's that a flying J. I have to figure this out. I Know you guys can barely see anything right now There's another gas station off to our left here that's being built. That's where my delivery will be You can already see it's all dug up Okay, so it'll be right across the road from here. I'm not actually stopping at the TA I'm gonna go to this truck stop because I'm literally across the road then why it's a loves It's a loves travel plaza that's being built here So on the I-94 and Russell Road right at the border with Wisconsin in Illinois There's a loves coming up if you go and fuel there I Delivered those underground fuel tanks or one of them. Let's see where can we park? Oh, it looks full. It looks full Just like I thought I'd have to make a spot somewhere. I Should just go park in the job set across the road, but they might not like that I am delivering their first thing in the morning, but they might have an appointment before me And I don't want to be in their way. Oh Nope Bob tail Bob tail Bob tail you could park anywhere. Why don't you got to take up these spots? Okay, I'm just gonna do a U-turn here then And go this way. I'll probably have to go to TA Thought for a second they were gonna charge for parking Don't know about this. I think I parked here before I've been here before I'm hoping I can find parking. This is always the worst part of the day Especially when you arrive somewhere later than you wanted to this is why you always want to try to end your day early Start early and early, but I mean if everybody does this then we just have this problem just earlier I found a spot pretty much at the very back corner the last spot I wanted, but it was the only spot available I'd rather not park in that dark Back corner. I don't know this area very well. I don't know how safe it is seems like a good area Whatever we found a spot. It was the actual last spot in this whole parking lot And now I'm just running in to grab some milk and Maybe a little snack to have before bed That'll be that It's more morning. We deliver across the street Then we'll be back on our way back to Canada. Well once we pick up our load Look at that guy's trailer Looks like his trailer is too small for his truck Nice truck though Maybe it's supposed to be like that This is a truck wash or their Eagle truck wash. I wonder if they're cheaper than blue beacon There's a Chevy in here. There's a Chevy right there Good boy good boy All right, everybody. I'm gonna end the vlog here today We made it tomorrow's the big day. Whoo get to deliver our freight I'm excited and we get to go pick up more stuff and bring it somewhere else my favorite part of the job bringing stuff from One point to the next point satisfying Especially when you get the bill signed and a happy customer No problems along the way get unloaded on time you arrive on time even early Satisfying so I'll talk to you tomorrow everybody. Thanks for hanging out with me today Don't forget to like the video if you did like it if you share the video it goes a long way YouTube doesn't always recommend my videos to people anymore I don't know the algorithms on youtube. No one really understands how they work So if you think other people should watch my videos You can recommend them and share it on your social media if you'd like to I'll talk to you tomorrow Say goodbye shivvy say goodbye shivvy Say goodbye shivvy. Goodbye shivvy Hi, I'm pastor chuck from easterall, Pennsylvania, and you're watching trepper josh on tjv