 Good morning from the great state of Wisconsin everybody We're in Black River Falls And we're just about 20 minutes away from where we're gonna drop this lumber off That's weighing me down and I don't have a reload yet. I'm still waiting. So maybe by the time Our stepdeck is empty We'll have a direction to point our nose Actually woke up feeling really good this this morning Got up with lots of time went Clean the truck a bit Pick up the garbage Ungrab the coffee Was able to watch YouTube That's gonna be a good day. I think No more snow today. We'll put a little melt quickly It's kind of a brutal snowstorm yesterday Well, I have an empty stepdeck behind me right now try axle Nope, that wasn't what I thought it was And I'm waiting for freight Not often have I had to wait for freight in the past nine years But every once in a while, you know, I gotta wait a while. They've been very good at keeping me busy. It's one thing I Can be thankful for I've always always had something to do rarely ever sat more than like a few hours So I just parked We'll give it a few hours. We'll see what happens but with everything going on with the virus and stuff it concerns me a little bit that I would suddenly Not have freight Like that, maybe it's just a coincidence. I Don't know they'll find something. They'll find something. I don't find my own loads those of you who are newer to the channel There's an office back in Manitoba my home province where the load gods are and They find loads for me. They take care of all the headaches for me They chase after all the money for me. So I don't gotta be chasing people down while doing everything else that I do and then There's a split They take a little bit of a little bit off the top of the load so I'm contracted to them, which means that I Can only pull for them. I can't go and pull a load here for them pull load there I can't go and find my own loads according to the content. They will do all that for me They've got their own customers their own contracts to fulfill and they just send me where I'm needed and Take a little bit off the top of what the load pays I'm okay with that because then I don't got to deal with all the headaches. There's a lot of headaches in dealing with brokers and customers and money and Everything else that goes into it. I don't got to worry about any of that all I got to do is worry about Getting the load from point a to point B safely and making sure that nothing falls off my trailer in in the middle there somewhere So they'll find something they'll find something I hope I need to keep moving but We're all in the same boat aren't we even us essentials Have to slow down Because Everything is slowing down. It's in this world is crazy right now if you're watching this in the future sometime years down the road This is the COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the world and shut the world down Almost it's not it's not completely shut down every little ding I get Get excited for didn't shut the whole world down We're still trying to keep it moving as much as we can but it's definitely slowed down a lot millions are unemployed right now and I'm lucky enough to still have stuff to do but there's less to do obviously So we'll see how long I'm here for I'm gonna go on the back there and I think I'm gonna take a nap and Wait for one of my devices here to go put the thing thing you got something to do You've got something to do Let's hope that it's just a coincidence because you know, I've had to wait before this isn't on like it's uncommon But it's not unheard of that. I that I don't have anything to do like right after usually what would happen They're so good that usually what would happen is that before I even deliver one load I've got my next one lined up and the one after that lined up and maybe one more after that lined up And like my whole week is just planned out usually they're that good It's been great for like nine years Same thing on when I was on drive and now I'm on flatbed. They've been fantastic but Every once in a while, you know, it's a Monday, so they didn't have anything lined up for me last week Which is what they would usually do. So now they're starting from scratch Monday morning So they're looking they're there they're organizing something. So what they're probably gonna do is they're gonna find me I'll load from here and then that'll take me somewhere else obviously and they'll find a load from there and a load from there So they'll probably get one or two or three lined up and then they'll send them all through to me That's usually what happens. I think I'm just a little nervous because of how everything's slowing down I'm a little nervous that I'm gonna be parked more Which I can't really complain about because you're probably parked a lot too, aren't you and if you're not one of us, I guess essentials You might be completely Out of work or or on a standstill you're probably bored sitting at home. Thanks for choosing my video to watch I have a lot more to occupy your time while you're bored. Just go out of my channel There's like over 2,000 videos. Oh, you'll be you're set with stuff to watch until everything gets going again just Let's check out my channel there. I've been doing this for Almost nine eight years, I think eight years have been making videos every day almost every day So I'll still anyway, I'll check in with you again once I hear something hopefully soon Well according to our governments, we're supposed to start wearing masks when we go out masks are very hard to find So here we go. You better not hit me You better not hit me Watching you Of all the big open parking spots you pick this one right here of the whole parking lot You wanted to be right beside shark or Josh Anyway, the masks aren't to protect me. I mean particles can still get through here like Apparently right then get in here and stuff, but what the masks do is it stops me from speaking moistly on you As our Prime Minister would say it stops Say if I have a sudden cough hold this guy parked crooked Wow didn't even try If I were to suddenly like cough like suddenly in the store This just stops like water particles from my cough or my sneeze from Going off into the store it also stops me from directly touching my face Since there's something on my face like this. It makes you very conscious and Very aware of the fact that there's something on your face. It reminds you not to touch your face It's also very awkward wearing this in public still because it to me it still feels wrong to wear a mask in public because To me it feels like you're trying to hide something when you wear a mask You know robbers wear masks to conceal their identity now. I'm not trying to conceal my identity, but I'm trying to Be safer right so you go like this and it when you're I just sanitize my hands But in the store you're touching this you're touching that you don't know what has what on it, right? So you touch something and then you touch your face if you have something on your face It just it makes you constantly aware of where your hands are It does help. It does help a little bit. It's not gonna prevent much, but it helps you to be safer and You know it stops your Particles like true to what he says speaking moistly all the moisture and the vapor I know what he was trying to say. It was just funny the way he said it You can tell he regretted it the second he said it to but it stops those particles from flowing out so far and spreading out around the Store you're in as well. So When you're out in public, you should be wearing a mask A little bit of a Wisconsin winter wonderland here. I love Wisconsin. I love all the bush all the forest Reminds me of home a lot. We have a reload a partial reload a LTL load less than truckload 25 feet coming out of Monsonnie, Wisconsin. Is that he say Monsonnie Monsonnie Monsonnie? Wisconsin was central Wisconsin Mosey in our way over there and I'm gonna pick up our 25 feet and the load gods are currently Scrambling to find stuff to fill up the other space on my trailer. At least I would like to think that they're scrambling. Let's hope This load is going back to Winnipeg I'd like to go somewhere different once, you know, it's always the same thing, but I guess they're keeping me close to home. So I can't complain. I'll take anything. I'll just put some freight on me. I'll go Find the freight with the most nickels on it and throw it my way. I'll bring it there. I Just don't know if they think that I need to be Close to home I mean, I like it so I don't want to change it because as soon as you say like Oh, send me to Florida. All of a sudden you're in Florida non-stop and that's not a bad thing, but That's really far away from home So I kind of like the gig I got him get to be home a little more often But at the same time every now and then, you know, I'd like to see something new I'd love to go to like Nevada or Utah Arizona New Mexico Not California though, not interested in trucking into California. We'll go visit them in a personal vehicle I don't want to have too many laws down there crazy But you know, Washington State, Oregon, I'd like to go west our freight lanes don't take me that way But that's why sometimes I wish I could Schedule my own freight. It's just it's a lot of headaches to go through but you know a lot of people do it They can do it. I can do it Maybe one day I will maybe I won't I don't know we'll see what happens But then I can choose where I go more so right I can Look for freight going to certain areas We'll see what happens Don't plan on changing nothing especially in these times just trying to get through this pandemic I want to get through the other side. So I'm not gonna make any big moves Well, we saw what happened And here we sit So the load I'm supposed to pick up is 25 feet It's the first pickup the second pickup I got is gonna take up most of the rest of the trailer both going to Winnipeg Both needs to be tarped However, none of them or neither of them are ready to be picked up today. We're gonna pick them up tomorrow So 7 a.m. Tomorrow morning, we'll load up the first bit tarp it run down to our second pickup in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Load that up tarp that And then meander our way back to Winnipeg and hopefully they got something better for us heading out of Winnipeg going somewhere Must be pretty slow if they're piecing together a load for me like this out of bunch of LTL freight, but It is what it is. I am so tired. I am I'm okay with having a Excuse me I'm okay with having an early night here and Relaxing watching some TV or just reading my book and then headed headed to bed as you can tell I'm pretty tired I guess I didn't sleep as well as I thought last night I know I didn't sleep all the night before either. I had a little bit of heartburn or Acid reflux whatever you want to call it, but I'm fine. I'm fine. It was just it woke me up a couple of times So I'm gonna sleep really good tonight. I'm gonna have like a 14 hour sleep and it's gonna be great Probably actually gonna sleep too much and then I'll be tired tomorrow Well, that's a risk. I'm willing to take I'll see you tomorrow a little bit of a short vlog today Don't forget when you go in to close spaces into buildings in public and shippers and receivers should be wearing a mask just to prevent yourself from As Trudeau would say as I said before speaking moistly on others You don't want to even when you're just talking if you have the virus and you don't know it You have no symptoms just talking can spread it Sorry, my hair is all over the place right now. This is embarrassing But that's okay. I'm in bed. What do you expect? This is the world we live in now Trucker Josh is crazy hair now. It's just it's just what's what's going on This is what you can expect from now Okay Gonna relax now. We'll see you tomorrow for an exciting day We've got two pickups to do tomorrow, so it should be a lot to show you Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss a video and you can go back in On my channel and check out all my other stuff too. If you like if not, hey Thanks for stopping by anyway