 Hey, you're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on TJV with Diesel. Enjoy the show! We're in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Got a little bit of a head start yesterday. You had one driver here off to the right, not this guy with the harvester. Whatever kind of harvester that is, that's interesting. It's a unique one. Rotary harvester. This guy on the right there, you see him? Goat away, he looks like he froze up overnight. Don't forget to put additives into your fuel when it gets down to close to minus 30 or below. Below minus 25. Below minus 20 to minus 25, anywhere below there. I add in the power service, the white jug, the big jug, half a jug in each tank. And since I've done that, I've never froze up once. Also, make sure you park at night with your fuel tanks completely full, if at all possible. Never park with low fuel. You freeze up easier that way. Your fuel will turn to gel, it'll plug up your fuel filter, your truck will shut off, and you'll freeze. Always make sure you park in places where there's 24-hour access to a warm shelter, like a truck stop or a rest area, so that if your truck does shut down, you have somewhere to keep warm. As always remember, I'm talking Celsius here, but when it gets really cold like that, down around minus 30, even in Fahrenheit, don't use the house. House fuel, fuel condition is only good down to minus 20. Up here, Western Canada and the north of the United States, it gets colder than minus 20. House will not be good enough. Power service is good down to minus 40. Always make sure you protect yourself from getting frozen up, because that's happened to me before. I got very lucky, but I wasn't expecting it and I had to learn the hard way. That was several years ago already. Minus 63 that night. Few places, fewer places that'll be open where you can go and warm up, and fewer people that can come and help you in the middle of the night and it's a lot colder. You'll freeze to death very quickly. If it's minus 50 outside, with the windchill even, and your truck shuts down, it won't take long and your whole cab will be freezing. I think it's time for Coffee Numero Dose. We're here in St. Cloud, Minnesota. We still have six hours of driving to do today at approximately, maybe I can do it in five and a half. It's 562 kilometers, so that's with 320 miles or so. I don't know, that's a rough guess. As soon as this guy decides that he wants to go for it, give her a bud. Come on. No, don't give her. Don't do it. Don't do it. Now, change my mind, the harder intersection to get across here. I'm just going to the pilot flying J here. Don't need to grab fuel, just coffee. I can get across here now. An intersection where lights would help a lot. Busy right now. Oh, it's rush hour. That's why everyone's going home. Oh, it's possible, Karen. I'm going to do a U-turn in the pilot parking lot. How about that? Just off on our right. Now, there's the pilot sign on the same sign as the McDonald's. I wonder if they own the McDonald's also? Because they're sharing a sign. I know there's truck parking there. Make a U-turn if possible. What's wrong? I just told you it's possible. We first have to go this way. This parking lot is always jam-packed. I don't like stopping here. It's just way too many people all trying to get fuel. The parking lot's pretty small. Parking lots are pretty tight. I wouldn't want to park here because I don't trust people not to back into me. I was really hoping that it wasn't going to be a big lineup. I just wanted to quickly park in front of the pumps. No, it's okay. Maybe a Milky Way bar because that's what they call Mars bars in the U.S. I learned that from you guys. A Mars bar is a Milky Way in the U.S. They're my favorite bars. Good park over here. No, I'd be in the way. I think I'm just going to park right here beside the scale temporary. I just want to run in and grab a coffee. You think this is a bad spot to park? Just for like two minutes? It won't even be five minutes. I'm going to park right here. This is like a coffee parking spot, right? Can't move forward anyway because that guy's jammed up there, so I can still get around me. Coffee time! All right, so it was six minutes, whatever. They're still all messed up over there anyway. Everything's blocked off so I couldn't get anywhere anyway. I got coffee and spits. I like the seasoned sunflower seeds the best, but for some reason in the U.S., you guys don't carry the seasoned flavor of that much, so cracked pepper is my next favorite. It keeps my hands busy, but I don't eat as much. I don't snack as much. All right, well, oh dude, you're not going to make it this way. What are you doing? What are you doing? I was just getting ready to roll forward and this guy has other plans. What are you doing? Okay, yeah, I didn't think you could get out that way. There's a snow bank there. That guy's backing up, that guy's backing up. What is going on here? Are they going to hit each other? Look at this. Where is he going? The pumps are over there. I see you are trying to come around this way. I'm going to have to move back for you. What are you doing? That's the entrance, my friend. Okay, all right, you want to go out the entrance? All right, let's see what's going on over here. What's with all this kerfluffle going on here? Oh dude, dude, you can't come this way. I am, I'm here. Yeah, you see, this is this way. What are you people doing? What on God's green earth is going on? What in termination? What in the Alice and Chains? What? Now, where are you going, bud? Why is everybody acting like they've never driven a truck before? What's going on? Okay, okay, you just keep rolling there, bud. You keep going towards the exit and I'll follow you. How about that? I don't get paid by the hour though, so don't take all day. Come on. Come on now. Don't be scared. I want a mess. This is what I mean. I don't like stopping here, but I wanted a coffee. It was a dilemma and the coffee won out. Got myself some spits while I was at it. Noxial, sunflower seeds. Oh, it's good that he's not ripping through the parking lot, you know? He's going a good pace. You don't want to go too fast because then I start calling him a NASCAR driver. Nobody wants to be a NASCAR driver when you're a truck driver. Not in the truck stop parking lot anyway, but at the same time, I mean, I don't want to get passed by a snail. I want to go to a turtle's pace here. You didn't stop. So you don't want to go very fast, but you also don't want to stop. I understand. I'm trying to get back on the highway here without ripping anyone's head off. It's on. It's getting dark fast, man. It's only 4.30 in the afternoon right now. Turn right on 43rd street, south and then turn left in 180 meters. Like yesterday, when I was getting ready, I finally got my truck going at this time yesterday, exactly 24 hours ago, right? So 4.30. I got out there. I got all excited. I started the truck. I came inside. I let the truck warm up for about a half hour. Five o'clock. I went outside, pitch black. Tis the time of year for darkness. That's why we light our house up with all those Christmas lights, right? Because it sort of eases the depression of being, you know, without the sun for so long. Oh, that guy's driving here with his high beams on. Oh dude, the guy's flashing you already. Turn your high beams off, man. That big blue light on your dashboard? Yeah, that means you're blinding everybody on the road. I'm glad you can see because no one else can. Oh, what a kerfluffle. What a mess. What a mess. This guy's coming out the small car exit. Line up for the pumps. Turn left on the Great River Road, CR7. It's the Great River Road, you don't say. I didn't even know there was a river here. Apparently it's great. It's the Great River. It's not just any Great River. Thanks, Karen. Learned me something. The pedal on the right, the right one. The go-go pedal. Why am I catching up to you? I'm pulling up behind you with like 45,000 pounds. Some guys, they sure do like to take their time. Like, I'm not advocating for you guys to rush or for anyone to rush. I know I'm not really talking about you guys anyway. You guys all know the drivers out there, the truck drivers that are just, you know, just feathering the pedal, trying to save every tiny little penny. Take the entrance to the right on I-94 East. And then, you know, they start breaking like five miles in advance. Man, you're a noisy woman. Come on, Karen. Let me talk. Who are you talking over me? I'll talk about how some drivers are just like, you know, never in a rush. Just slow. There's like safety and things to worry about. But sometimes they go so slow and start slowing down so far in advance that they're actually more of a hazard on the road. Because no one knows why they're slowing down. No one knows you're turning in five miles, right? I think I'm stretching, trying to find things to complain about today. Continue on this road for 73 kilometers. Dark already again. Between 4.30 and 5 o'clock, it just, it's like someone turns the light switch off. Boom, dark. We're not even to the shortest day of the year yet. The shortest day of the year is December 21st. That's the winch of Solstice. It's shortly. We will be getting longer daylight hours again. Minneapolis. We're on the I-494. We're on the south side already about to turn down I-35. Nice signal, buddy. Nice, perfectly executed. So glad you were able to move your finger that half inch to signal to everyone what you were doing. What's this guy doing here? Well, he can't turn into me. This guy right here is determined to get in front of me, but he's right beside me. Oh, no signal again. Okay, but this guy's using his signal, so I'm going to let him in. Good use of the Signular Devices. Oh, he used it too, but oh, that was a kerfluffle. Oh, boy. Oh, oh, he's still going for it. He's still pushing them over. You're going to hit them. Dude, all want to be in front of the semi-truck. That badly, eh? That guy went around from behind me, passed me in the merge line, and tried to get in front of me, but this car was coming in its way. All these guys, they want to be in front of me so badly, and I understand it. When I'm in my personal vehicle, I hate being behind a truck too, so I try to give them, cut them some slack because I'm the same way, but some people, they just take it a little too far. They take a little, make it a little too dangerous. I mean, sure, I know you want to be in front of me. I know. Just do it safely. That's all I ask. No need to cut me off. No need to wave all kinds of fingers at me. It's not my fault for existing in this place and time. Somebody in Iowa needs Canadian lumber. I'm just bringing it to them. And then somebody in Alberta needs some Missouri steel. That's my next load. I'm going to pick up steel in Missouri, bring it to Alberta. And then I don't know yet. I'll probably end up picking up lumber again in Alberta. And I'm trying to keep busy until the weekend before Christmas. I want to be home on the 20th, and then I'm home for, we're told, 27th. Let's see what happens. I've never missed a Christmas yet. That is the one time a year when I'm going to be home. I will raise a stink. If there's even a slight possibility that I might not be home for Christmas, that is not acceptable. I will be home for Christmas. I'll miss other holidays. I like to be home for Easter too. But Easter is like number two. Christmas is number one. And Thanksgiving, I like to be home for Thanksgiving too. So Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, that's, you know, with Christmas being the most important. I thought so three times a year when I want to be at home. There's only three times a year. Three times. I'll miss my own birthday. I've missed my wife's birthday, I think, every time since I usually celebrate with her on another day. I really want to be there for her birthday, actually. But I mean, if I had to choose my top three days to be home, it would be Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving. Those are days for family. Nothing more important than family. I suppose to turn here somewhere. I've got a colorful building over there on the left, eh? Fancy. Very fancy. I better close this gap a little bit so that people behind me don't get any funny ideas. Well, here comes somebody with all kinds of ideas already. You're going to cut in front of me, aren't you? Aren't you? No? That's surprising. I thought for sure they were going to cut in here. Look at that building all lit up. Wow. Always changing color too. Whoa. Very fancy. So this is an exit-only lane on the right. This is about the time when people start realizing, oh, this is not the lane I want to be in. Even though, you know, they've ignored the past five signs, they finally realize, oh, I need to get into this lane that is in a gridlock. Let's stop all traffic and demand someone let us in now, instead of getting, you know, at the back of the line. That's usually what happens, right? Guys driving with his light bar on in the city in traffic. Dude. Once again, I'm very happy that you can see where you're going down these city streets. The rest of us can't see. That hurt my eyes in my mirror. Wow. Not a purple spot. If you wanted to exit, why weren't you in the exit lane to begin with, my friend? Now you decide you want to exit. Good luck. Okay, after this one, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Oh, you waited too long. You're cutting them off now. Should have gone when I told you. You know, sometimes I wonder if they're just, like, you see it all the time. They'll cut into that. They know that lane's ending, right? But they'll leave this lane. They'll cut into the lane that they know is ending to try to get as far in front of all of these cars and this lane is possible and then cut back into this lane further down the line. You see it all the time. I see what you're doing there. I see what you're doing and I do not approve. Trucker Josh does not give you the stamp of approval. That is a very selfish, very... Man, it's so hard to talk about these things using good language. So I guess we just won't say anything at all. How about that? This is actually not bad. Not bad. Minneapolis has got pretty nice people, your nice drivers. I remember being down in Nashville, well, the last week, two weeks ago. I don't remember you guys getting a little aggressive down there. At least maybe I was just in an aggressive bunch of vehicles. But whoop! Man, those people, those people down there, they have a mission to get somewhere and you better not get in their way. They won't say thank you either. You know in Canada, when you let somebody in or when someone, you know, you always give the thank you wave? Either out the window, if you have tinted glass you wave your hand out the window so they can see you said thank you and you get offended when people don't say thank you? From what I've seen, no one says thank you. The thank you wave doesn't exist in the US. Not that I've seen it probably does, but I haven't seen it. No thank you waves, no. Not very nice. Okay buddy, you leave that kind of gap in front of you. People are going to take advantage of that. Let's go. See? See? I told you, people are going to start cutting you off. We made it to this gas station here. Where are we? Let me check Google's. Google, tell me where we are for in Iowa. Dows Junction. What's it called? Dows Junction. This is where I'll be spending tonight. Two hours to our destination. I couldn't make it there tonight yet, but I'm tired. That's my first full day on the road. I'm tired. Go to bed. We'll be out of here in 10 hours and 15 minutes, about 6.45 in the morning. Thanks for hanging out with me today, listening to me ramble. I make these videos pretty much every day. If you want to see more, go check out my channel. I've got well over 2,000 videos. I got a lot of videos on the internet and I plan on making a lot more. Yeah, so subscribe and don't miss the next one. We'll see you later. Subscribe, hit the subscribe button, hit the like button, hit the subscribe button.