 Hi, my name is Andrew Snow from Halifax, Nova Scotia. You're watching Trapper Josh and Diesel on TJV. Morning. It is a good morning. The sun's shining. The earth is still spinning. The sun is still burning. It's doing its thing up there. It's great. We haven't fallen into the sun and we haven't gotten further away. We're still in proper orbit. It means it's a good day. It's a great day. I've got another load behind me working. Can you see it over there in the mirror? No. Tarped load. We're going to take this on down to Rainer, Minnesota. We're going to unload it there and come back on up for another one. It's going to be fun. Looking at just over 300 miles for morning and rush back here to reload. I believe that's Mr. Hofer. The truck identical to that. If that's not him, maybe I got it wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was him. Beautiful day for trucking again. Look at this. Beautiful. Fort Francis is just around the corner. Just on a little pull out. I want to check the load. Make sure everything... Karen, no. We're stopping. I got to check the load. This load was a little bit more odd shaped than they usually are coming from there, but it's still covered. It's good. I put little protectors in the corner up here because I didn't want it to rip through my tarps. Glad I did that. Otherwise, I have a big hole in my tarp there right now. Everything looks good. It's looking good. Everything is as it should be covered. Wonderful. Wonderful. Okay. Well, there we go. Got the sun going down over there already. Little bit of a later start today because we got back there late last night. At least it's warmer though. It's a beautiful day. I'll allow it. You can drive in front of me for a little bit. International Falls, Minnesota. You guys recognize it? Nice little town right at the very northern tip of Minnesota. Having a regular going through here. People are going to start recognizing me, maybe start waving at me. So my reload tomorrow, I thought it was back in Canora. I thought I was going to race back there tomorrow and try to get there before 2pm. And I was thinking to myself, it's going to be tight. I'm going to have to get unloaded like first thing in the morning and just book it back to get back before 2pm. So that I can get loaded, right? Turns out, no, no, no. We're not going back to Canora to load. I've got a reload in Pillager, Minnesota, which is right next door to Brainerd. Literally like 20 minutes away. Way better. And that load has actually taken me home. So I'll get home sooner. And I don't think I have to tarp that one either. So we're going to drop this load off in the morning in Brainerd. We're going to go down the road to Pillager, load up another load, and then take that load home. That has to be delivered in Winnipeg in a few days. I think I'm going home first in between, depending on when they want it there. So that was great news. I just had the message come through here. I'm like, oh, there's my new load offer. When looked at it, I was like, okay, Canora. Oh, it's not Canora. I actually let out a little bit of whoo. That's so much better of an option. We're just going to make my Friday go a lot better. I'm not going to be so rushed. Are you going to cross on the crosswalk? Or are you walking past the crosswalk? Walking past the crosswalk? Okay. I was ready to stop for you, but I was, oh, now he is going to go. Well, I was ready to stop for you, but didn't look like he was going to cross. So we have exactly 300 kilometers to our destination, 200 miles. We'll pound those miles off tonight yet. And we'll get there at a pretty decent time tonight, thinking some will be down for sure. Already sun's already down, but it'll be a good day. It's going to be a good day. It's already a good day. It's been a good day. It's going to continue being a good day. Can you imagine doing that roof? Are you a roofer? Can you imagine doing that? Those are shingles. Thanks. I'm not a roofer. I don't know why I thought of that, but that's me just throwing out random thoughts into the world. And you almost made me get angry. Now I got to start back up from slow. I'm going to get in this right lane. There you guys go. Come on, pass here, guys. Get past me. I'm slow. I'm fat. Don't line up behind me. I'm sorry. Is that my fault? I'm sorry. There you guys go. Everybody get past me. Everybody get past me. The only thing I ask is that you don't slow down once you get in front of me. Okay? If you want to get past me, that's fine. Go faster than me then. Don't cut in front of me and go slower. That bugs me. That's just not right. It's not nice. Happens all the time. All the time. No one wants to be behind the semi, right? I understand. Neither do I. When I'm in my pickup truck, I try to get in front of the big trucks too. But the difference is that when I get in front of the big trucks, I make sure that I set my cruise faster than what the big truck was going. And if the big truck is going faster than I want to go, then I let him stay in front of me. Revolutionary thinking. I know. I know. I thought of it myself. Thank you. That's why I'm on YouTube. You can call me OY's one. Full of these tips. I come from a school of common sense. But you know, common sense isn't very common anymore, so it's more like a school of uncommon sense. Season Pillager, Minnesota. I wanted a nice safe place to park overnight. We came here. So I'm going to drive back to Brainerd. It's about 15 minutes past Brainerd. Actually my reload is just around the corner here. I wish I could just go and get that right away. But first I have to deliver the freight that's on my trailer. We'll 15 minutes back that way. And then we come back here and we'll reload and go home. But that'll be on tomorrow's video. For today, let's just go get rid of this freight. I know my vlogs this week have sort of been all over the place. Sort of like cramming a couple of days together into one vlog. And that happens sometimes, you know. When you vlog every day, sometimes you run out of things to say. Believe it or not, even me. Shall we? We shall. Thank you, Karen. Thank you for your undying support in giving me directions. We'll fill her all up with air. Give it a second. Turn all her lights on so people can see us. Just in case the sun's not bright enough. Just in case. And we're going to make sure the trailer is coming with us. Looks like it is. I'm going to spike the brakes. Oh, it is attached. And the brakes work. Fantastic. That's a good day. And they release too. Nice. Let's go. Let's get this package off my trailer and go put a different package on there and go home. I could have stayed in Brainerd, I guess. I just, I'm unsure of where to park there overnight. Someone's told me that they don't want us to park at the customer. Some people have said that they don't mind. Some people have told me to go park at the mall, but you know, I'm nervous parking at the mall because very often the owners of the mall will send the police out to clear the trucks out that are parked in their lots overnight, right? And I don't know this, if that's ever happened there or not. I just don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night. So I just played safe and I come park at the truck stop here in Pillager. It's a little ways out of my way, but at least then I know I'll have a nice uninterrupted sleep. I'm where I'm allowed to be. So much easier on the truck. Those really cold days are so hard on equipment. In mid-February, in 2023, if you're watching this down the road, I think our coldest days are probably behind us. Like I don't want to jinx it or anything, but I think we can start looking forward to spring now. I like how McDonald's has the American flag flying out front. McDonald's, America! McDonald's and McDonald's loves me a little too much. Little too much. So this here's the Mississippi River. It comes all the way up here, or does it go all the way back down? Which way does it flow? Does it flow south or north? Looks like it's flowing south. Oh, okay. I think most rivers do flow south. The Red River that goes through Winnipeg is one of the few rivers in North America that actually flow north. This year is going to be an expensive year because I've got to get new steers and I've got to get new drives. I'm going to try to wait as long as I can and buy them probably for the first snowfall later this late 2023. I have an empty step deck now and a dirty truck. So let's go fix that. Let's put some stuff on the trailer and we'll see if I have time for a truck wash on the way home. I really want to get home so I may just wash it myself this evening at the shop, save some money, see what the weather is going to be like. If it's too cold, there's no use in me doing it myself because everything just freezes. So I gotta wash it and rinse it off outside, right? And it's very hard to get it clean anyway. And Bluebeak and they are the professionals, so it doesn't have to be a Bluebeak either. It can be any other truck wash. I mean, PBX and Blumenort has a great truck wash too. I haven't tried them yet, but my dad's gone there a few times. He really likes it and they do a good job. Maybe I can bring it there. Decent price. Forget what the price is. There are somewhere around like 70 bucks, 77 bucks for a full truck wash and they'll wash it for you. That's the big thing, right? It takes a long time if you just do it yourself. We'll see. Thanks for joining me today, guys. It's been a kind of a crazy vlog all over the place. In tomorrow's vlog, we're going to pick up this lumber out of Pillager, tie it down and go home. We've got deliver it in a few days. I'm not going straight to the customer they want it in a few days after that yet. So we'll see what happens with that. I'm going to go home first anyway.