 Hey everybody, this is trucking van life. I mean my boy Arlen or trucking across the United States We're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs with Josh, Brittney, Diesel, Chevy, Frankie, Peter And now we're going to watch Baker, Diesel, Diesel On this vlog today, the Lord himself has joined us this week on the road And how does it make you feel Diesel? It makes me feel fantastic. It makes me feel important. It makes me feel loved It makes me feel very happy. Look at my tail. Anything else? It also makes me miss mom. I'm a little sad for Josh Mostly happy. It's going to be a good day, man. Good morning everybody. You guys remember that throne I had built for Diesel When we were doing city work and that Peter built the little daycap Well, I kept that little platform that I made. It was a little bit of junky It was sort of made of junk wood and I sort of just threw it together But it worked. Right? It worked good. And it continues to work for us Look at this. Diesel, go check it out. First of all, wait, wait, wait, Diesel This is like that soft blanket I bought. A little while ago, super soft Underneath there, there's two more blankets. So it's like super soft. It's fit for a king Fit for a lord. Diesel, you want to go show them your bed? Come on. Up up. Come on. Come here. Come here, buddy I was just comfy, man. I just got comfy, thank you, mom Want to go in your seat in the front? Go in your seat Go in your seat in the front. Go show them what it's like It's comfy up there. It's okay. I know there's not a lot of room in here Go on, buddy. Go to your seat Wow. Look at that throne, man Isn't it nice? It's very nice. My dad built it for me with his own two hands He's a wizard. So now you can either lay like this And gaze at me like you like to And creep me out I just like staring at you. You're a good guy to look at, man Easy on your eyes Well, I'm a lot to look at. I'll tell you that I'll agree with that one So now he can lay out this way You know before he used to always have his front paws on the ground And the seat was just way too small for him to sit on Now he can lay straight across here I noticed on the way down here, we're here in Carmen again There's a line up of trucks That's my uncle Rudy There's Mike over there And I can't tell who's back there yet There's a bunch of trucks there But on the way down here anyways He would lay down just across the bed here and he'd just rest his chin On that ledge down there, right? And look out the window He's very tired though. I woke him up and he was I know you were all comfy back there buddy But I wanted you to show him your bed This week we're doing more of these pipes More of a... See him right there beside Uncle Rudy's truck Some over here We're going to Buxton, North Dakota Which is just south of Grand Forks It's not as long of a drive It's gonna be a bit of a shorter day today But that's okay. I can enjoy some time with the weasel here then And we'll be back here I'm thinking tonight Once again I gotta wait for confirmation until this afternoon But we're still gonna be busy with this pipe yet until the ground freezes We've had a couple of frosts come in So I don't know how much longer We'll be running here but we'll be running our tails off until then At one of my Thanksgiving gatherings this past weekend It was Canadian Thanksgiving so we had a gathering On Saturday, on Sunday and on Monday Lots of food, I ate so much It was all so delicious But all right, Mary on Britside Reminded me that last year at Thanksgiving We had like a foot of snow on the ground Look at it now, right? Much better this year You still got some green in that grass there See that? Little bit of green, there's some trees Still have some trees over there Still have some green leaves So all in all this year has been a lot better than last year I forgot that we had snow that early We had a lot of snow last year And then some flooding in spring because of all of it So we don't need so much snow this year I'd settle for a white Christmas Just get it all on the ground A couple of feet of snow right before Christmas Let's all enjoy the Christmas holidays And then, you know, it could be gone by New Year's And I wouldn't care My trailer looks much like this right behind me I have exactly the same thing 53 foot step deck Same thing you've been seeing in my videos For the past little while These are my favorite kind of trailers to pull You see, Mike over there has another one just like mine And I believe Pedro's a little bit behind today I think he had something to get done this morning But he's gonna be here soon from what I heard It might be out of here by then It doesn't take too long to get us loaded It's gonna be bam bam bam And we'll be on the road All loaded up with our rolls Diesel, you ready to do some trucking? We're all loaded up I'm gonna feed you some breakfast first though You hungry? You hungry? Oh, you look hungry, man I know I'm hungry I'm gonna feed you first, okay? Those down here You got some water in there still That's good That's good Pull this out of here There we go Oh, you excited? Yeah Breakfast time, man Breakfast of champions Yeah, grab me a good old scoop out of there You bet It's gonna be good, man It's gonna be good Let me finish it, okay? I always make it into a little soup for him It's easier on his old gums and teeth that way Should I throw that in there? So we just Put a little bit of water in there Soften it up a bit for him Throw that out Over here We always give our dogs salmon oil With every meal How many squirts am I supposed to give? 16 year... Three pumps Three of them Holy smokes There you go He loves that stuff And then Where is it? Where did I put it? Dude, here it is A little bit of seasoning On top He likes his meals to be seasoned with liver Yeah, man, you wanna try some of that? Is that the good stuff? Yeah Man, you've gotten old That's not a problem though You've just gotten so much more calm than you used to It's a good kind of old It's a mature, distinguished, gentlemanly old He's a good boy I just sprinkle some of this on here There we go And then I won't move the truck until he's done eating Otherwise it sloshes around on him So in the meantime I'm gonna grab my phone Make sure I'm on off duty I think I've changed my duty status Of course I did There we go All right, Diesel It's all yours, man Go for it Go for it, bud The truck's a little bit small, but we make it work There you go Oh, yes Yes, look at that tail wag And that's the good stuff, right? That's the good stuff Mom made sure I packed all the good stuff Which reminds me I forgot to add something in there We also give them glucosamine supplements every morning Yeah, I got these too I almost forgot, man Six of them One, two, three One, five, six There you go Add those in there Yeah Helps with his joints That's the good stuff All right And then while he eats I just surf through YouTube or TikTok If I can remember where I put my phone I just got it off sitting on it There we go So it is a little tight in here He doesn't come with me on every trip now Some trips he stays home with his family But I figured it's a short week this week We got Tuesday to Friday here He hasn't been with me in a couple of weeks Eh, just felt right All right As soon as he's done his breakfast down there We'll get him up on his throne And we'll make our way down to Buxton We got a lot of time today It's a two and a half hour drive down there And a two and a half hour drive back Y'all done there? Got it all? You ate everything Oh, mom is going to be so happy to hear that Good boy Go ahead, boy Can you drink some water there And we'll be on our way, okay? You guys ready for this? I'm ready to do some truckin' I had three days off And as much as I enjoyed the time off I really enjoyed seeing family on both sides It was... I always love family gatherings I love the holidays The next big one is Christmas, obviously But first we have Remembrance Day So it's not too carried away But I'm very excited about Christmas Ah, a lot of good food A lot of good food But it's always good to get back on the truck And get the wheels rolling again Feels good Feels right You liking your throne, Diesel? I made it just for you That is a throne for a weasel Only But you might have to share it with Chevy For one trip, maybe Maybe, probably not But maybe, is that okay? I guess so It's the only time you're moising him You know That's good We have to learn to share, right? We have to remember to share It'll always be your throne Chevy doesn't like the truck anyways If you're new, Chevy's are big He's like a golden shepherd He's half golden retriever, half German shepherd He's a big boy And he's Britt's Britt's protector at home He protects her pretty fiercely He's a big teddy bear But... He's very protective of Britt And he doesn't like the truck as much He didn't grow up on the road Diesel here grew up on the road with me As all of you know And he loves going on the truck As long as he's got a nice comfortable spot to lay like this But I'd like to take Chevy sometime too Maybe for my own selfish desires But I'd like to spend some time with him too Maybe he's gotten over his Dislike of highway You don't know unless you take him on a short one Alright, so one of these days I'll take Chevy on a short one See how he likes it now It's not that he hated it I can just tell he'd rather be at home Stretched out on his bed But now we've got a bed in here, right Diesel? Got a big bed here Got another bed here This one's just for you Okay Alright Alright Just gonna plug this bad boy in here Oops Gotta make sure that I have an auxiliary cable here That plugs into my stereo This truck's a little older It doesn't have bluetooth And if it does, I haven't figured it out I want to get a new deck in here yet That has bluetooth capabilities We'll hold off on that a little bit I want to get a nice one that comes out A little bit But it might block that Maybe... I don't know We'll figure it out I don't want to put a sound system in here yet A couple of subwoofers in the back I don't want to be that guy who pulls up To the stoplight rattling in your license plate Not that But a couple of subwoofers Just for a nice full sound This auxiliary cord is getting old already That's why I want that bluetooth So bad, but... I want a nice full body sound I want a good stereo in here Okay My paperwork's actually cleared at the border already So we're ready to rock and roll His hose likes to settle On the flatbed So we'll go about 15 minutes down the road I'll stop and pull over there And make sure it's all good to go We'll probably be back here before the sun goes down Unless I stop in Grand Forks to Hang out Maybe we'll go for a walk There is a turn approaching Izzy Street here Wow We haven't been watching my video for the past A little while This is Karman It's where we started our days recently Small town in south-central Manitoba Straight south here Is eastern North Dakota Give you a little bit of a sense of where I am We're gonna go down interstate 29 Look at this, they're doing something here They've got a big old crane Diesel, what do you think that is, man? What are they doing out there? Looking at that diesel? About one, two, three, four, five Including the guy at the window in front of me The line-up's not too bad today It's about average Maybe a little shorter an average, actually I've only been here for three minutes And it's moving pretty steady Weasel You ready to go visit America? America Right, Diesel? The United States Of America You ready? I was born ready, man I was born for this Super excited I'm gonna ride an eagle, man I'm gonna catch one and I'm gonna ride him You do that, bud I trust you You have fun I'm gonna tell them all about my pet goose What? You have a pet goose? Yeah, man Every Canadian does, don't they? They have a pet goose Oh, we're kicking I don't know what you're talking about, Diesel We're not going very far I've only got 160 kilometers left to go That's about Exactly 100 miles We'll go 100 miles into the US And then turn around and come back It is a bit of a short trip But I know the questions are coming in In my comments section already And yes, it is worth it for us It is worth it It's actually a It's a nice trip to have I'll see you guys on the other side There it is, Diesel, how's it feel? Hoped and dreamed it would be You haven't been to the US in a while How is it? It's wonderful, man North Dakota, be legendary They're talking to you, Diesel I know you don't gotta try very hard But you gotta remember In North Dakota, you gotta be legendary I say that every time I am below we do I only know how to do that I only do legendary Only Maybe I should have been in North Dakota You're pretty close You're a Manitoban Which is almost the same thing Very little Just a little difference over there I told you guys in a video last week This is Pembina, North Dakota It's the border town Up here in the northern part of the country This is the oldest settlement In North Dakota Settled in 17 something Used to be like a trading post On the Red River They actually came down from What is now Canada And settled this here As a trade route going north They didn't want to go Much further south in here Cause there was a hostile tribes The Sioux South of here Okay Mr. Grainholler I might pass you But you keep fluctuating He's going slower than faster Slower than faster I know that as soon as I pull out to pass him He's gonna want to go faster So I'm just waiting if you'll See if he'll do it on his own There's a bus Some space to move in here anyway I bet you this bus is gonna go fast They usually want to go fast So I'm gonna slow down I'm gonna go in behind him And I bet you anything He's gonna take off on us To drive on these highways long enough You start to understand The speed limit Or the speeds that most types of Vehicles drive Those buses they'll go as fast As they can They have one goal in mind And that's time Trucks like me If they got Canadian plates They're usually not going faster In 65 mile an hour Because to drive in Ontario And Quebec in eastern Canada You have to be limited You have to have a limiter on your truck At 105 kilometers an hour Which is 65 mile an hour So if you've come up behind a truck Who's going slower And you want them to And you see a Canadian plate You know that they're most likely Most likely speed limited Whether they're American or Canadian Often stay between 60 and 65 mile an hour For fuel economy That's why I go 62 And we're doing 62.7 Right now I believe And that's We're going straight into the wind here That's just to save a little bit of fuel So they have a nice wide open passing lane here Anybody who wants to do the speed limit Which is 75 mile an hour Or 120 kilometers an hour Left lanes wide open for you Hammer down Do what you gotta do I'm gonna save a couple of bucks I don't go slower than 62 though That's my slowest speed Some guys they do 55 miles an hour Like 90 kilometers an hour It saves even more fuel at that point But it also costs a lot of time Time is money You gotta find the right balance How much time you want to spend to save money And how much money can you save Before you're just wasting time And losing money Here we are I believe they're gonna want to Unmold me over there And of course my engine fan Kicks on as soon as I'm on the Dusty gravel lot again right Engine fan doesn't kick on All the way down here Or anywhere else if I'm on a paved lot Engine fan kicks on And dust goes everywhere And trucks filthy right away again Oh, there's Mike Getting unloaded Figured I wasn't too far behind him That was Mike just passing by We're at the Grand Forks Flying J Took the weasel for his walk His mighty, mighty very lordly walk It was magnificent I looked amazing Everyone was looking I knew it I saw them They were like who's that Who's that guy Who's that guy Who's that guy I am So I just grabbed a little snack here A hot dog I'm not gonna eat too much Cause we're going home Got this empty trailer here I'm just gonna head home for the night I should be at the house By around six o'clock It's a short enough day That I can make it home yet And be back there in the morning It's not too far out of the way No little ways but I was just thinking to myself I was gonna go sleep Right at the customer again Be the first thing in the morning But I was really thinking to myself Jake another guy I work with Was saying he was going home He lives around the same area And is dying back And that area is me as well I was like oh Maybe I should go home too I was thinking to myself You know what If I have the opportunity To go home Why am I not going home Most of the time We're way out on the road Somewhere it's just It's not even an option To go home for the night In the middle of a trip right In the middle of a week But if I have the opportunity And it works out with my hours And everything Well why not Right why not I'm gonna Park the truck and trailer Head home Have an evening Have supper at home Maybe watch a movie Relax a little bit And we'll leave from there Tomorrow morning What do you think of that Diesel I think it's wonderful Got you some trucking Now we go back home Don't tell me you're tired Don't leave in one day I'm old now Let's not waste another minute Nice Pete I like the color It stands out It's not for me I like the blue That I have a little better It's more of a darker blue Whatever color that is Is it teal Is that the color of that Doesn't look bad on that truck Looks good Calm down Karen We're gonna stop the red light I don't know what I would have done I could have gone to the customer Stayed there Edited my videos Enjoyed my evening there By myself But why not go home Back there by 7.30 Tomorrow morning again So I'll have to get up Around 5 a.m. That's worth it They have the yield I have the green arrow I love these American interstates They just make sense These wonderful on-ramps It's like I wish we could catch on to that One thing Please be careful My hot dog's there It's my hot dog Hey Get your own hot dog Hold on buddy I put my hot dog on his seat there We had a very strong wind Coming out of the west That was trying to push me On to the shoulder All the way north So I went up to Morris In Manitoba And I took highway 23 Eastbound So the wind is pushing me Along here now I'm going to take highway 59 north Highway 59 is a little bit more sheltered Than highway 75 I'm hoping I can Have less wind to deal with For a shorter amount of time Straight first try every try