 Hi Josh! It's Josh from Lakefell, Minnesota, and you all are watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on YouTube. It's raining. This is what I woke up to. Just getting my bearings straight here. We just gotta go around the corner to pick up my load. That's not the problem. The problem is that I've got to tie it down and I've got to tarp it in the rain. I'll do it. I'll get her done. It's better than tarping in minus 50. I'll tell you that much, but still not as good as tarping on a nice clear day. We're gonna get wet today. Hopefully it won't take too long. I don't know what kind of steel this all is that I'm picking up, but 60,000 pounds of steel that I'm picking up. It's a big one. It's a big one. All the way to Brandon, Manitoba. Well thank you, Mandy. I appreciate you letting me know what I already know. That's not Mandy. You're Mandy. Who are you? I haven't given my new talking E-log here a name yet. I'll have to ask Britt to name her. She's good with that kind of thing. I'll just call it E-log for now. Okay let's go pick this load up. I've been procrastinating long enough. We need to get there. Get this loaded up and we need to start heading home toward Brandon. I don't live in Brandon, but I live near Brandon, so I've headed home that way. Towards home, past home, to Brandon and then back home. Gotta be there. Not day after tomorrow. Wait, what is today? Today's Tuesday, isn't it? Yeah. So we're picking this up on a Tuesday. We gotta be there on a Friday. Today, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. We've got three days to get there. What's that noise? Hi. Calm down. Okay, let me get myself woke up here. I got my coffee already. Just a little one, because I'm just going around the corner. I'll talk to you guys in a bit. Hopefully they have an indoor tarping station. That would be great. Following this big forklift here, he's gonna leave me to where he wants me to be. I'm really hoping he's gonna lead me to a garage door that's going to take me into a building. Lots of buildings around here. I'd like to be inside one if I could. Alright, he wants me to go to the right. Okay. Okay. Alongside the right here. Okay. Okay. This isn't a building. Oh well. Well, I had hoped. I'm gonna load it outside. Right here. Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming. There we go. Yep. This is gonna be fun. Starting to rain harder now, and I, they tried to see if I would be able to fit in the door to do it inside, but I can't. It's very hard because the freight's supposed to be tarped, right? But they don't have any indoor space to tarp their loads. I don't understand places like that. They do all of their loading outside, but none of their freight can get wet or not supposed to get too wet, right? But it rains from time to time, and in winter time it snows. So what do you do when it's raining? Do you just not work? Work's got to keep going, right? So we've just got to get these, they're like steel coils or steel rolls or something. And they made the decision to load me. I'm just gonna get them covered up as quickly as possible and take pictures and say that it was their decision. But they don't have any indoor facilities here at all to load this stuff, which is strange because usually when I load up steel they have a big indoor facility. You pull in everything's inside. Hopefully everything's all right with that. While I'm gonna maneuver around on the lot here and I'm gonna put my trailer into their door, because I told them we can't load this out here in the rain like this. Oh, there's a truck coming right now. Of course, right when I need to do some tight maneuvering, there's gonna be lots of trucks in here, right? But yeah, I told them we can't load out here in the pouring rain. I mean, these these steel coils are gonna get soaked because first of all, we have to put them all on the trailer. We got to make sure all the weights are distributed properly. And then I got to tie each one down individually, chain it down, which takes a little bit longer. I've got to torque it after that. And so they'll be out in the rain for at least probably 20-30 minutes if I hurry. Maybe more than that. That's just not good. The customer where I'm delivering to is going to know. They're going to see that steel is going to start rusting or they're gonna be check, they're gonna be able to tell there was water on that they got soaked. So, I got to do some tight maneuvering around here, get my trailer inside, walk their door. I talked them into it. I want my customer to be happy when I deliver these things. They're all indoors. So, I was facing this way before. I turned around and backed in here now. We're inside. So, I got work to do now. I got to be as quickly as I can because I told them I'd be fast, but I want to do it inside. Not because I want to keep myself dry. Well, partly because I want to keep myself dry, let's be honest, but mostly because I want to keep my freight dry for the customer. Let's do it. So, this is the load. So, I've got them chained down. I'm going to put the tarps over it now and then I'm going to put straps over them on top of the tarp yet. That'll hold the tarp in place and it will also provide extra securement kit. Each one of these rolls is about 12,000 pounds, just 11,000, just over 11,000 pounds. Each one of these chains can hold 6,600 pounds of pressure. So, I've got two chains on each one. 13,200 pounds. Two chains are good for. So, two chains are good for each bundle. I've got one smaller bundle here. That's about 3,000 pounds, I think. All together, we're looking at 22, 33, 44, 55, about 60,000 pounds of steel here. I've got the tri-axle in the back and I think we've got this loaded in a way that it should be good. Should be. Sorry, I'm all sweaty right now. I've still got to tarp this thing. I always pay attention to the air pressure gauges on my trailer and on my truck and they're exactly balanced out at 50 psi. That'll change a little bit once I get on the highway and get out of here. I wiggle it back and forth a little bit just to let it settle and it's still sitting around about 50 to 55 on the trailer and 50 to 55 on the truck. So, about even. So, it should be a decent ride and I shouldn't be overweight. I really hope I'm not overweight because then I've got to come back, untarp it, unchain it, move it, re-chain it, re-tarp it, go weight again, and hopefully not have to do it all. That'd be a mess. Let's just hope that our scientific brains are correct. I was soaked and I didn't even have to tarp it outside. It wasn't from the rain, it was from sweat. So, it looks like we have 2,400 kilometers or so to go. That's for you Americans. I will do you the math for you. Do you do the math for you? 2,400 kilometers divided by 1.61. We're looking at 1,490 miles. That's about 1,500 miles or so. Got everything tarped. I just went back here to Petropaths just to sort of screw my head back on after all that work. Grab a little bite to eat and something to drink. And now we're off to the races. I'm going to go to Antrim Truck Stop in Arnpryer, Ontario, west of Ottawa, and scale it. I'm hoping I'm not going to be too heavy on the back. I told them to put the weight a little further back. I didn't want too much weight on my my drives because I only have two axles on my drives, but I have three axles on my trailer. I can have more weight on my trailer. So, I wanted it further back so that it was legal. And according to my gauges, I'm at 43 psi on my truck and I'm at 40 psi on my trailer, but that doesn't make sense because I have almost 60,000 pounds of steel on my trailer. The psi in my air system should be higher than that, I think. So, I don't know what. According to my air gauges, we're nowhere near being overweight, but 60,000 pounds, I should be a little closer, I think. So, we're going to go to the CAT scale there and for peace of mind, just scale it out so that I don't have to worry about getting a big ticket on the way to Brandon. That would ruin my day. For some reason, this whole area here is just busy, busy, busy. You got construction here, you got the Petra pass over there. I couldn't even fit in there because when I pulled in, it was all full of trucks, now they're all gone already. But there's like a bird food store over there, like that green building. It says bird feed or something. Bird supplies and it's just busy, busy, busy. Ottawa, you guys have an obsession with birds or something? Is there something I need to know? You guys like your birds that much? Just constant traffic coming into the bird store. So, we're going to go out here and I'm going to show you the load. That guy came pretty close to me. Man, all right. So, this is all under construction here. Here's the load. Now, the 60,000, well, 58,000 pounds under this tarp. 58,000 pounds. And I have to try, Axel, like I was telling you. I'm just wondering, did I put it too far to the back? Huh, it's hard to tell. According to my gauge, it's like, here, I'll show you. You guys don't believe me? I sort of don't believe it myself. I want to check it myself. So, this is where we have our air pressure gauge. This tells us how much air pressure is in our suspension. It sort of gives you an idea of how much weight is in there. And look at that. 40 PSI. Yeah, right. Really? This whole load, only 40 PSI? I expected it to be closer to 60, especially with the way I positioned it on the deck. So, I don't know. I don't know. Look at all that. It's way back there. Nothing up here. What do you guys think? I'll show you my pressure gauge in here too. My suspension is fully charged. I'm gonna have to get my power steering going here. There we go. So that you can see in there. Now, check this out. Hold on a second. Gages, 39 PSI now. 39 PSI and 40 on the trailer. Yeah, right. So, when in doubt, scale it. Well, thank you. I haven't gone into my drive time yet today, though I have used up pretty much all of my spare time because it took all of my spare time just to get this thing loaded. Yep. Okay. Let's go to Arnpryer. See how far we can get tonight yet. It's already pretty late because it took longer than I wanted to. So hopefully we'll get up to campus casing tonight or something. I'm gonna take that route because I'm heavy and there's less hills, a little easier on my truck. The old girl will give her a little bit of a break and won't force her to climb the hills on 17. All ready to go. Got her in gear. Trusty automatic minivan. Let's go. Catch a break in traffic here. It feels heavier than what it's telling me it is. Kind of anxious to scale it. If it's overweight, I gotta come all the way back here and get them to reload it, which means I'd probably have to do that tomorrow, which means I wasted a whole day and didn't get paid a penny. Which way do you want me to go? Right? Okay, I'm just swinging this pretty wide then. Nice and wide. Get my heavy trailer around that corner and we're moving. Get onto Highway 417 West. This is the 417 east, this exit here. Towards Montréal. We want to go west. Yeah, that's what I just told the Mandi. Aren't you listening? She never listens. All talk, no ears. You know? All mouth, no ears. Is that the saying? Talk, talk, talks. Talks my ear off, but when I want to say something, doesn't listen to anything I say. I'm going to go west. Oh, towards Ottawa, it says on that sign there. I thought we were already in Ottawa. I guess downtown Ottawa. Our Prime Minister Fancy Sock sits over there somewhere. Tour left. We're going to do a little loop-to-doop here and we'll be on the way. We are at the Antrim Truck Stop in Arnpryer, Ontario. Scales right dead ahead too. What a good spot for them. What's this Dodge guy doing? Dodge, what are you doing? Don't do it. Don't do it. I knew you were going to try to go right through here. I just could just tell him by looking at your truck. Okay, let's see how fat we are. I always shut my truck off at peace. It's not thinking, hear you better. Got to wait for them. First way or re-wait? First way? That one's a kilo. Kilos? Tractor number? Here he'll tell us to come inside when he's got our weight. Like I said, I think he's gonna... Okay, we got it. Thank you. Then we go inside and grab our scale ticket and let's see. Let's see how heavy we are. So I got our weight in kilograms this time. I'll explain why in just a second. There's a nice trailer there. I like that decal package. It's got a Canadian and American flag on there. It does have an American flag on the skirts on the bottom there. Proud to support our troops, lest we forget. Okay, so we got a parking spot here. 12 hours and four minutes of remaining drive time. Thank you for interrupting me. Don't make a habit of that like Mandy. Tell you what. So I got the weight in kilograms this time. Usually I get it in pounds because usually I'm going to the US and everything there is in pounds. Everything in Canada officially is in kilograms, but really we all use pounds. Like I don't know how many kilograms I weigh, but I know how many pounds I weigh. We use pounds. I don't know why we have kilograms, but the reason I asked for my weight in kilograms this time is because we're going through Canada and I want to make sure that I have accurate weights because the limits here are in kilograms, right? I can have 17,000 kilograms on my drives behind my truck and I can have 23,000 kilograms on my tri-axle. Are you licking the bed back there? You look pretty guilty, man. You cleaning it for me? Thank you. That's kind of weird though. You need a treat or something. So let's go see what the results are. Like I said, the steer tires I'm not worried about, they'll be fine. We're looking for our drives behind our truck right here. We're looking for that to be under 17,000 kilograms and our trailer under 23,000 kilograms. I'm a little nervous. I won't lie. Let's go check it out. I'll be right back. And it looks like we're good. We're good on our steer axle. We're good on our drive axle. And we're good on our trailer axles. We could have moved those a little further forward though because my drive axle here can go up to 17,000. These, like I said, can only go up to 23, right? So we're still legal, but just barely. So we could have probably put one of those rolls further to the front added more onto this. This was closer to 17 and this wasn't so close to 23, but either way, we're legal. 41,280 kilograms. That's approximately 90,000 pounds gross. Too heavy for the US. Much too heavy for the US, but just fine for Canada. All right. Well, I've wasted too much time here already. We need to get going. We got plenty of time to get to Brandon. Well, it looks like we'd been sitting here long enough to eat into my drive fam already now. Oh, goodie. Oh, goodie. All right. Okay, let's go. I need my shades. That sun is bright. See how far we can get tonight yet. Like I said, I'd love to get to Capis casing to the Flying J there, but we'll see. This is Mattawa, Ontario, close to North Bay. They got a little pull out here for trucks because there's a Tim Hortons right there. But just roll down my window here and there's just bush out in front of me. I know it's all dark, there's bush out there. Listen to that wildlife. Listen to those, what is that? Crickets, birds, whatever that is. Isn't that wild? Don't you feel like you're in the jungle or something that night? Back here in North Bay. I think this is where I'm going to spend the night. It's already getting pretty late and I think it's time to call it a night, get going early in the morning tomorrow. Well, that's it everybody. Thanks for hanging out today. Thanks for coming with us. It was a long day. We didn't get as far as we could have, but we got a lot done. Tying this load down took quite a while. I'm tarping it. So we have two full days ahead of us to get to Brandon. My wife is messaging me probably to say good night already. Yep. So I better go to bed too. I'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that like button. It does a lot with the algorithm. Leave a comment down below if you'd like to.