 Hi guys, my name is Victor. I live in 50 kilometers of Paris in France And you're now watching Kroger Josh and his best friend is on YouTube Good morning, everybody. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. This guy has never seen a roundabout before. Okay He's kind of confused. You don't need to stop. There's no stop sign. If there's nobody here You just roll on around there, buddy Exy slammed on his brakes pretty hard there So we're in Balcony, Bologna, Saskatchewan I've already gone quite a ways. We slept in Saskatoon last night, so I've already come all the way down here and Just enjoying my morning until I realized hey, I haven't even said hi to you guys yet. So hello it's just a Tour across the prairies again today on our way home I'm gonna be home for quite a while after this trip about a week or so I think this truck has an appointment for a full service I've also got some oil I've got oil leaking out of my blow-by Which probably means that my Crankcase breather oil separator is a little gunked up. It's a little old and needs to be replaced That's a couple hundred dollar part and along with full service I'm already on it ever gonna get used to that So yeah, so this truck beats a couple of things looked at again I know it's been in the it's been in the shop a lot lately, but it's I haven't been spending a lot of money It's just been a lot of little things and this one could turn into a bigger thing I mean the only reason oil could be coming out of my blow-by is If the crankcase breather and oil separator Isn't working properly and it's instead of pushing oil back into the engine It's sort of gunked up and seized maybe and or almost seized or sometimes stops Filtering oil properly and then instead of putting the oil back into the engine It spits it out the blow-by to right on to the ground Canadian Thanksgiving, which will be next weekend or when you're watching this after you know, it's a little time after Get ready for some home time videos. I hope you guys still tune in lots of stuff going on at home We're in the left lane gang today We're going home That means we're Hammering down as hard as we can I'd like to get home before the Sun goes down But it's a race against time because the Sun goes down earlier and earlier days are getting shorter quickly You know, I'd like to sit inside one of those new volvos once You know, I've been harsh on Volvo said never Bible. I know speak out of frustration some days, but You know when the time comes I'm gonna hold on to this truck probably for at least at least another five years So I got a long time yet for Volvo to convince me that I should remain a Volvo driver You know these new trucks. They are actually really nice. I just wish that they'd have more of a classic model like they used to have the What was it called again the 880 Volvo 880, you know, I had the long hood. It's a really heavy truck though But they used to have more of a classic. Look, I don't know why they discontinued it. I guess they weren't making money or something. I Really wish they'd come out with a little bit more of a showy truck a little bit more of a classic truck Maybe they will in the next half decade But I know that these trucks are pretty amazing on the inside like mine's actually pretty small compared to some of these Volvos it's like driving a motel room or a hotel room around for the most part, so I don't know. I'll look into it when I Get a new truck, but I'm still shooting for the studio sleeper W900 Kenworth. That's the truck I want That is the truck I want. I want to get a used one I'm thinking in about five years. We'll see maybe a little more maybe a little less depends on How this truck performs, but I think I can get another five years easily out of this truck maybe more Maybe more I'm just over a million kilometers right now, so I do about 200,000 kilometers a year So you know in five years that's another million that'll be a two million kilometers And you know I can always rebuild the engine and this thing would be good for another two million kilometers after that as long as I maintain it you know Why buy a new truck and spend however many tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars when I have a truck that's working just fine, right? I mean, it's not the fanciest truck I got here It's a Volvo. I get it. I get on the first to admit. It's a giant minivan. It's nothing to show off, but it's mine It's working and only But another year and it's mine completely Maybe sooner trying to get it paid off sooner But I may just keep it see my truck is very much like this one on the right except mine is white Little bit of a shorter sleeper if you remember the last Volvo that we passed I had a much larger sleeper It was deeper longer and wider This is exactly like my truck They are good trucks. I mean and why do I want to buy a new truck, right? I'm on a crusade to pay off all of our debts like with most of the stuff we own a lot of stuff is all paid off already we got a couple of like my pickup and the the terrain and You know the house the stuff we got a couple of loans for paying off, but by the looks of it I mean we should be debt-free with on everything aside from the house in Five years Right, we just got the house. We could even have the house paid off in 10 years And once I buy a new semi truck then I've got that alone on top everything and then but you never know you never know like I Don't see debt as a bad thing I see it as a necessary thing, but it's something you have to be very careful with Whitewood's Saskatchewan At the co-op There's a petrol pass right across the street, but I think I'm gonna go to the co-op. I think I am cuz I'm already here Well, what's this over here electric charging stations no way check this out. We're gonna drive straight towards them Would you look at that Tesla charging stations? You can charge your electric vehicles here that's pretty cool So they're already putting in infrastructure out here on the prairies. Well, that's good That's good Because they got a lot of work to do like I've said in the past if they want us to use electric vehicles All right, cool I'm taking a closer look at those. I'm just gonna park the truck Fascinating Wonder how long it takes to charge So let's go check these things out. Hopefully my audio is not all messed up because sometimes when it gets windy now audio my audio gets a little messed up, but Check this out one two three four five six charging stations Tesla Look at that The prairies I wonder how long it takes operating temperatures Minus 30 to plus 40. Well, that's not good because it gets below minus 30 here So I guess in winter time on the coldest days too bad for you electric car owners. You can't charge your vehicles, but Fascinating that is brand new So what do you guys think about that? I'm glad that they're actually building infrastructure here on the prairies of Canada I thought this would be one of the last places that would see new electric Charging station infrastructure at a gas station. I guess it's an electric station now That is so interesting. My biggest question is how long does it take to charge your car? How long do you have to leave it out here because look I mean, you're gonna charge your car You're gonna back it in there, right and you're gonna charge it all you got is a tiny little convenience store here and Nothing else. So what are you gonna do? Just like surf Facebook on your phone while your car charges for eight hours or like you can't there's no Motels nearby you can go to no stores. No nothing I mean, there's a petro pass across the street there, but it's just it's just another convenience store, right? So my biggest question is how long does it take to charge if it takes less than 15 minutes? Hey, that's pretty cool As long as you can get about a 500 mile range out of that. That's good I mean, I'm all for the electric car thing. I just I have big Reserves about it because the electric car the batteries in the electric cars. They don't they're not as environmentally friendly as People say my phone making noises What in the world? That's someone was talking was a you diesel. That's almost talking to me They're not as environmentally friendly as they they make it sound because sure They're not putting emissions directly into the air out of the vehicle, right? But that power has to come from somewhere now. I don't know what Saskatchewan's main power source is I know in Manitoba. It's hydroelectric power. It's from big water dams up north. So that's pretty clean. It's pretty clean I mean like compared to coal or any other energy But if you spread this technology Worldwide and even across like the developed world a lot of that energy comes from coal Plants or other plants that produce a lot of emissions So really all you're doing is moving your emissions from coming out of your tailpipe to coming out of the stacks of the nearest Power plant where that electricity came from so really doesn't lower it at all and those batteries that they use in there They're lithium-ion batteries They only last a certain amount of time They don't last forever and then they become depleted and you can't use them anymore when they're depleted It's very hard to like you got to replace them Very expensive very expensive. So then you got to replace the battery the old battery It's very hard to dispose of it properly most times They just go into landfills on the other side of the world and sit there and they don't decompose they'll be there for tens of thousands of years just sitting there and less if we come up with a way of Reusing that material and who knows you know with seven billion people on the planet Maybe they'll come up with a way to reuse that and I hope they do because that's my main concern Is those batteries just go and sit in a landfill for the rest of eternity once they're depleted? And they don't even last that long they last what a few years and up here in the cold weather Especially in wintertime I can see problems with charging because it says it doesn't work below minus 30 It gets down well below minus 30 here quite often throughout the winter I don't know what we're gonna do then like what if that's your only source of transportation? Well too bad for you. You can't charge it here because you have to charge it somewhere else and There's there's several hurdles we have to get over but I think we can do it I mean and I think they could create an electric semi truck that doesn't look completely dumb and that actually looks pretty cool and Could be affordable maybe in the future like we got a lot of work to get there But I drive it I drive an electric truck as long as there was decent amounts of places for me to charge it that the charging Could be done efficiently and quickly Again with the problem with the batteries that they could last long you could have a long range like five to six hundred miles a day You know I'd buy an electric truck and if that's the direction the world's moving. Hey I'm okay with that I guess But there's a lot of infrastructure to be built and it seems like they've already started Here in Saskatchewan, and I'm I am genuinely surprised by that. I thought this would be like I said one of the last places To get something like this so I don't know how many Tesla owners are out here on the prairies But if there's at least six of you you can charge your cars all at the same time here at the co-op in Whitewood I Don't let me know your opinions on electric vehicles down below in the comment section What on earth is this? He's just giving her to Just giving her he can't see around that. He doesn't have mirrors. He doesn't know I'm coming What in the world that's a big scraper just a giving her So I posted that picture on Facebook just now those Tesla charge stations on a couple of you who own Teslas commented on there and The sounds of it those electric motors on these last about 1 million miles. This is about Brian Griffey that had told me this on Facebook Sorry if I pronounce your name wrong there Apparently those electric motors go up to 1 million miles and it's $6,000 to replace the battery pack That would be American I assume because he's in the US so probably about $8,000 Canadian He says you do lose some range in winter. He loses 5% of its stated range When it's cold outside, but I responded to myself. Well, what's cold to you because in the US? Cold to them is not always what we define as cold unless you live in like Montana, North Dakota And then you understand our level of cold And I'm wondering how will they even operate in negative 40 degree weather And he says his Tesla cost in 41,000 batteries are expected to last 300 to 500,000 miles so that's 500,000 to 800,000 kilometers that seems like a big stress because I was told that it wouldn't last that long when I looked into it Because I was looking into buying a Tesla a while ago, and they told me that they're expected to last five years Maybe that's wrong. Maybe that he owns one so what he should know more than me. I'll trust him I don't know. Maybe it's not as expensive to maintain a Tesla as I thought and you know, what if something breaks? Where do you go to fix it? Is there a Tesla dealership you got to go to and how much does that cost? Is it sort of like servicing a Ferrari? That's expensive So there's a lot of things that I got questions on it and maybe it's more affordable than I think But the simple fact is that they still don't produce a pickup truck that I like They do have some kind of truck in the works or something, but I think it looks ugly Looks like looks like a Jetson mobile or something. I Don't want it to look all futuristic. I just want to look like a nice square-body pickup truck. I Wanted a four-wheel drive good heating in the winter Guess we'll see what they come up with who knows if they're building these in Saskatchewan already Who knows maybe in a couple of decades. We'll all be driving electric vehicles. I Mean we're gonna have to really update our power grid for that and our electricity companies are really gonna Enjoy that, but hey, maybe with the increased volume of electricity that we're consuming Maybe electricity rates will go down That's a big maybe All right, heading way stopping at the flying J. We're gonna drive some fuel I like to park the truck with full tanks of fuel I fill up my DEF too because the last place we stopped at didn't have DEF It was just a car block in Lloydminster, so we did make it all the way to Winnipeg here I still have Karen Karen talking I have just below a half a tank, so we only use like just over a half tank to get here all the way from Lloydminster. That's About a thousand kilometers little over 620 to ten and 30 miles All right. Oh the first one is open for us today. I'm going to pump number one numero uno. Oh Yes, right front and center Yeah, fill us on up with some go-go juice and you on our merry little way. We'll be at home in a few hours And I wasn't lying here we are Just putting this video together and then I'm gonna get it on the internet for you to watch Thanks for watching today hit the like button if you liked it hit the thumbs down if you thought it was Terrible. Let me know how I can make it better in the comment section down below The lock going on this week is gonna be a lot of going to be a lot of home time footage in the next coming week So just bear with me. Hope you guys still do tune in while it's going on around here behind the scenes and You know get a little bit of a different look at the life of the trucker when he's not on the road Talk to you later Hi guys, my name is Victor. I live in 50 kilometers of Paris in France And you're now watching Trucker Josh and his best friend is on YouTube