 good morning everybody just waking myself up got old blue ready to go we're gonna go load our freight and head on down to minnesota we're in ontario right now northwestern ontario way on the edge close to manitoba where i'm from in a town called canora canora in a town in a town called canora town called canora wow okay i eat my coffee let's take care of that and then let's get this day going falls minnesota from fort francis will continue down the 71 on the other side of the border same highway highway six right and then six all the way down fort brainer i'm legal like i'm not overweight but i've got more weight on my trailer than on my drives probably about a thousand more pounds means when the truck goes over a bump it's nice and smooth but then the trailer hits the bump and it clink donkey kicks they're completely dismantling the canadian side under construction i'm not too sure what they're uh what they're doing exactly across here before it might be a little confusing there's a truckload that when i go by i'm in the middle of nowhere deer river is up the road here but it feels like it's the middle of nowhere right i shut her down in deer river i'm tired i want to get an early start tomorrow get my schedule on the right track going to bed early getting up early i know that goes against my natural way of living because usually i like to work late and sleep a little later wake up after the sun's up already right but that's not exactly how business hours work no no no caron caron don't get ahead of yourself we're gonna turn right you're wrong wrong i'm gonna turn right and pull into the truck stop there and hope that uh there's a parking spot there for me they only have like five spots here in town i've always found parking there so far but just a short day today just a short little jog down to deer river for four hours got another hour and a half to do tomorrow morning we'll get going bright and early and we'll be at the gate when they open up get this off my trailer and find out what we got going on next maybe we'll go back up for another one maybe we'll go to diluth maybe we'll go to minneapolis i don't know the options are endless i'm gonna get a good night's sleep tonight it's not that cold it's minus 11 celsius so we'll be able to shuttle blue down and not worry about having to start it in the cold in the morning it should be pretty good we're on the downhill now towards spring it should be easy going until then easy going until then well let's hope let's knock on wood but the whole loading process took way longer than i expected it to i don't know where'd you come from buddy i'm turning right down this little road here trailer through the ditch fantastic i've never done that again knock on wood but you see it on youtube all the time right and i'm on youtube all the time but i don't want to be on that youtube you know don't want to end up on one of those videos look what trucker josh did he put his trailer in the ditch there's no one here again okay said you can see the lines get right straight between them great there we go not too far forward not too far back you did good old blue you did good i'm just gonna let the government know that i'm done i'm going to bed now they got to know when i'm sleeping i'm gonna make sure i don't stay up past my bedtime they're very strict getting big trouble if i stay up past my bedtime i'll also get in big trouble if i wake up too early and start working too early they're very snoopy very nosy both governments canada and the us they want to know what i'm doing 24 hours a day even when i'm at home there has to be a log sheet or in here it's online there has to be a log page for every single day of my life when i'm at home it's just one straight line across off duty off duty midnight to midnight but i still have to show a record of that day every day of my life the government is right in there just sniffing around you know like a hound so one more thing we have to talk about today yet and i'm going to bring it up a couple more times as the time gets closer as we get closer and closer to the birth of our baby i have to remind you that i'm going to be taking about six weeks off my wife is having a c-section so she's going to need a lot of help after delivery at home she can't lift anything up she can't pick anything she can't even pick up the baby herself until you know it heals so i've got to be there i've sort of got to do everything for her and i'm happy to do that and i'm excited to do that it's going to be a great bonding experience uh for all of us all three of us just to have us together at home for both six weeks and we'll see how her recovery goes hopefully she's a quick healer if not hey we uh we'll just take whatever we time we need to take until i'm ready she's ready for me to head off to work again we also might have some family members that come stay with us so that i can get back to work because you know i can't stop working forever i wish i could but uh i'll have to go back eventually and if she's uh still not healed up probably i got some family members that'll come stay with us and and help out so we've got that all covered but the point i'm talking about now is there's going to be a lot of home time content coming i did a poll on on facebook and a poll on twitter asking all of you guys what you would rather me do i know a lot of you or some of you anyway subscribe to my channel strictly for the trucking content you know i'm trucker josh you want to see trucking stuff but there's a lot more to me and this channel has never been in my mind a trucking specific channel it's not a trucking channel i just happen to drive a truck all the time is like my big passion in life it's what i love to do but there's a lot more to my life a lot more to what makes me trucker josh that includes my family and stuff outside the truck as well for those of you who don't drive truck and who are thinking of driving truck in the future i think it provides a great insight into what the lifestyle is like not just on the road but also when you go home and how you balance the two so i like to include it all in one storyline but seeing as there's uh i'm going to be off the road for several weeks i asked you guys in the poll if you would rather me uh do all of my the the baby vlog baby content family content on another channel i have another channel called the silent trucker i haven't posted on there in a little while i plan to in the future i really like the idea of just having like me not talking just the sights and scenery and sounds of the truck i like that idea we also have a vlog channel called next chapter that was sort of our family family i own several youtube channel this is my main one though all the other ones are very small like under uh under a couple of thousand subscribers right because i don't talk about them much and i don't send you guys over there very much because i have everything on this channel trucker josh vlogs so my question was should i do all of my family content on a separate channel and then when i get home sort of tell this blog be like all right i'm going to be home come find me over on this channel for all the hometown content or should i keep it all together on this channel and continue the story of trucker josh all on this channel then what i can do is i what i what i've been doing already if you go into my onto my main channel page you'll click my username go to my channel go to my playlists i have all of my videos in a whole bunch of playlists by year if you want to go see what i was doing in 2014 there's a whole playlist of all my videos from 2014 same thing with you know 2015 16 17 18 9 20 all the way up till now for 10 years we're in season 10 right now of vlogging every day and there's videos from before that too so i have like 11 years at least 11 12 years of content here on this channel so what i could do is all the family content and upload it onto this channel because it's part of my story it's what makes me trucker josh it's not just me as my family too and then i'll just be sure to organize it into the home time playlist that way if it gets uploaded and you don't want to watch my home time videos you can just scroll past it and you know just wait for the trucking videos i just encourage you please stay subscribed because i will be back in the truck in may in the future so if you don't like the home time stuff please don't unsubscribe just because there's a bunch of home time stuff coming uh the the trucking stuff will return but i do encourage you to stick around and hang out with us as we hang out at home as we welcome this new life and new miracle into the world i'm beyond excited it's our first baby we're learning locks we're pretty much prepared right now we have everything in place i just have to set up the crib and stuff but we don't need the crib for the first month or two anyways i think i'm just excited to hold the baby for the first time and just like all the emotions that'll flood through me i can just imagine i've heard it from other dads already too and just thinking like the miracle of life like a new human has entered the world like how how did how like we know how it happened it was an IVF baby i was i was involved it was just that a doctor helped okay i was there i was there okay it's got my genetics it's already got my little chin that's why i have a beard because i have a very tiny chin looks it looks funny makes me look like a 14 year old the from our ultrasounds looks like baby has my little chin so it'll be a little mini me i guess yeah i don't know what to expect but i am going to be vlogging i don't know if it'll be every day when i'm at home i'm gonna try i want to tell you that i want to post every day while i'm at home i don't know if i'm gonna be able to but there will definitely be regular updates of what's happening and of course there will be the meet and greet live stream where you guys get to meet baby for the first time we're gonna reveal all the gifts that you guys have sent us in that live stream as well we've already been getting getting a few we have everything we need for baby we're doing fine we're in a good spot we don't need anything but there's just no stopping some of you so we really do appreciate all that thank you very much we're gonna give you all a big shout out and thank you in that live stream other net just uh well we're happy with you just tagging along watching being a part of our lives that's all i asked for also gotta remind you guys of the warning these scammers keep commenting in my comment section doesn't matter how many of my block they just keep popping up they'll reply to you and say hey come find me on whatsapp or come find me on telegram or hey i've got a surprise for you that's not me okay they they're stealing my profile picture and uh trying to lure you into a trap of some don't don't do that i try to block them as soon as i see them but uh the internet's a wild place so be internet smart be smart look at the username make sure it's my username it's got the little check mark beside it click on the username it should take you to my youtube channel while you're there explore all my playlists i got lots of videos for you to watch i'd love to keep you right here in this channel i'm not going to send you away to a different page that does not make sense i'm not going to take you from my page and say go over to that page you're already on my page i want to keep you here right here on my youtube page all right right here you stick around here as long as you want you're welcome to stay here 24 hours if you want just just keep watching videos i've got thousands of videos for you to watch playlists have them all nicely organized you got no reason to leave stick around right here on tjv i got days of entertainment for you your board sitting at home days probably weeks maybe a year of just straight tjv watching in the background you know what just put put the playlist on with automatic play so that it'll just play video after video after video after video while you're you know making supper or something or just hanging out around the house or maybe you're in the shop yeah just put trucker josh on put on one of the playlists that'll just go through all the all the videos for you see that's the only thing i asked for i only asked for you guys to stick around here on my page watch my videos and give me some feedback you know i like hearing from you guys and i always take what you guys say to heart and it influences me of how i go forward with future videos thanks for watching this today everybody i appreciate it there will be a lot of home time blogs coming in the future giving you a proper heads up so those of you who like that stuff you're getting excited those of you don't like that stuff you know to just hang tight until may when we're back on the road i'll see you guys all later thanks for hanging 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