 Hi, my name is Peter. I'm from Engaise, the Netherlands. My YouTube channel is called Encusion. You're watching Trucker Joe's Vlogs. Have fun! We're in Des Moines, Iowa. Let's get truckin'. Just delivered our freight here. I've got a run over to Davenport now and get there for 1 p.m. I have to get reloaded today. Meers, turn left on. 58th Avenue. So come with me. Let's see if we can figure out how to get out of town. So I'll give you about half a second to guess what kind of stuff we're picking up. Did you guess farm equipment? Why would you say that? I gotta wait our turn though. I gotta be patient. I'm early. My appointment is for 1 p.m. and it is now 12 38 p.m. I was hoping I could get in early. I really want to go home. I have to make it home. I have to get loaded today, right? They say in the notes here, oh, we're gonna try to load them by 1 p.m. If that doesn't work, they will load first thing Wednesday morning. That's not an option for me. That's not an option. They have to load me today because I have to be home tomorrow night. I don't know if I can make it in one day. It'll be very difficult. I'll have to run hard to get home in one day and I'll be home late tomorrow. We have our transfer on Thursday and I don't want to get like two hours of sleep before like one of the biggest days of our lives. This is like the culmination of the whole IVF journey and $20,000. It's all happening on Thursday. So I have to be home Wednesday at a decent time so I can at least decompress sleep and then be in Winnipeg pretending 30 or something in the morning on Thursday or something. I don't know. So whatever. It's a big day. I have to get loaded today. If they can't load me today, I'm calling into the load gods. I'm like, hey, I got an issue. They'll say, what's the issue? Let me tell you. I'm coming home. I'm coming home empty, I guess. We'll see what happens. I'm sure they'll get me loaded. That's why I'm here early. Anyways, that's life. Life isn't always fair. And if I complain for too much, you guys always let me know in the comments. Stop complaining, trucker Josh. And then I have like 50 comments complaining about my complaining. And then I have to make this video a few days later saying Now I have to complain about the complainers that are complaining in my comments about my complaining. And then explain to them that complaining is part of my vlog. That's what kind of makes it funny and relatable because everybody or most people have gone through something very similar and they're just sitting there smirking and shaking their head like, Yeah, I know. We've all been through that. So I shall beat you to the punch and complain before you can complain about me. Sometimes you just got to let me vent and complain. And just think to yourself, yeah, what's happened to me before? I understand. Relatable, right? That's the whole point of my vlog. I'm not a professional videographer. I'm not creating professional documentary series here for you. I'm just a regular everyday guy doing a regular job driving a truck and filming it along the way. I'm no different than you. I don't consider myself famous or celebrity status or anything like that. I'm not. I'm just I'm a regular truck driver. I was just trying to get by trying to take care of my family at home. Trying to take care of my truck. Very excited that I got the truck that I've always wanted. And I don't make some YouTube videos. And sometimes I just need to vent. And I just I know. I know I complain sometimes. I know. You know how I know? It's because I edit the videos. That's all me. I don't have someone who edits the videos for me. Some YouTubers may get other people to edit their content. And I don't understand that. I'm like, it's not your content. If you're not, you need to put your personality into the editing, right? But man, if I could afford it, maybe I'd pay someone to edit my videos too. That'd be kind of nice. It'd free up so much of my time. So much of my time. What would I have to pay them? Any of you want to edit my videos? What would you charge me per video? That'd be awesome. I'll just send you all the files and you put it together. Make sure it's and send it back to me as a finished product. That'd be awesome. Can you imagine how much more I could get done? Maybe I should do that. Maybe I should do that. I have to get someone who understands my personality though and can relate to me so that when they edit it, it still like reflects me. But I guess I'd still be the one on the camera. They'd have to edit all my jokes. But my point that I was saying here is I know that I complain sometimes. And thank you for listening. I know because I edit it and I release the video. I know what's in there. I know what's in there. It's like I kind of chuckle sometimes. Like I got to fix one of my fuel gauges, right? There's only one fuel gauge and it works. The other fuel gauge is sort of just there for show. I could hook it up to this one so that they're both matching. I got to do that yet, right? But this one just sort of points down. But that's my fuel gauge there. That's just filling a hole. So and I love it when I get the comments. And I'm not making fun of you, okay? If you're the one who left these comments, I just sort of get a chuckle out of it. When they're like, Hey Josh, Josh, have you noticed what are your fuel gauges just pointed down? It's not working. And I'm just sitting there like, Oh, no way. I'm going to start looking at my dash. I never noticed sitting right here in front of it for 12 hours a day. I noticed. Well, there's a misspelling on my door. We're changing it. The people who did my my decals inside of the misspelled ill to shame on the side of my door. And I keep getting these messages. Josh, did you know that there's a spelling error in the town name? I was the first to notice, buddy. Thanks. I was right there. I was the first one to go, uh, that ain't right. That's not right. So yeah, they're redoing it. We're getting it redone and smaller to the town name doesn't need to be so honking big, you know, a little smaller. I wanted like two inches on the door. I'm going to redo it myself, probably, huh, whatever. I haven't yapping long enough. I want to keep this conversation open between me and you because, uh, I'm just a regular person. And sometimes I make mistakes. Sometimes I do complain too much. I think we all do. And we all do sometimes. So it's life. It's got cut in front of me. I gotta wait. I guess you can't see that way. Can you see in the mirror over there? I have to show you when they're done. Getting loaded. Oh wait, I've been told I have to act more mature. Remember? Remember? Specifically, I saw the comment that says, Josh, stop acting like a 12 year old. I saw your comment and I want everyone to know I don't care. Sometimes you just gotta have fun. Why would you want to grow up? Obviously you want to grow up, have responsibilities, gotta run your business. Why wouldn't you want to have fun while you're doing it though, right? Have fun while you're doing it. Live your life. Have some fun. Don't be so serious all the time. Serious Gus over there. I'm acting like a 12 year old. I know I got a little excited when I put the mudflap hangers on my truck. A little excited. But I had fun. Oh well, oh well. Yeah, once I get loaded here, it looks like it's gonna be an easy load to tie down. I'm gonna tie it down real quick and book it that way. That way. That way's home. Someone in Saskatchewan wants these. It looks like I'm pulling front end loader assemblies for tractors. Big green ones with a hint of yellow here and there. Yellow trim. We got loaded. And we're on the way home. Very excited about that. I want to get at least three hours behind me yet. And I have five hours available to me on my e-log, so we're gonna make it. We're gonna make it. Old blue. You've been real good. Let's keep this up. I'm just putting my shoes on now guys, if you're wondering. I gotta put my outside shoes on to go outside. Okay, let's check on the truck here real quick. Check on the load and the truck. I'll show you what I'm dealing with here and how I tied it down. Then we'll continue down the road. Stop at a rest area to do a load check. Well, maybe I'm parked a little far back. Well, I won't be here long. So I've got these crates with some parts in there at the front. Corner protectors on everything. All the way up there. I want to make sure that my straps are protected. They get chewed up so easy. Put back there on this one a little bit up there. That's okay though. I'm gonna go around and give everything a little tighten. Let's see if we can tighten everything up a little much. Look at the tarps back here. This is all going into the sketch one. It's four drops. For me, I'm just taking it to our yard as far as I know. Maybe I'll be continuing with it. Probably not because I'm going home for like a double weekend. We'll see. No time to waste though. Gotta keep moving. It's into the 280, right? It shoots me back over to the I-35. Cedar Falls. Thanks Karen. I'm true here quite a bit. Oh, I have in the past. Reminds me a lot of Manitoba. All of Iowa reminds me a lot of southern Manitoba. It's like a giant southern Manitoba. Southern Manitoba is like a mini Iowa. Maybe that's the way it goes. I always feel at home in Iowa. It feels so much like where I come from. Cedar Falls, cedar rapids, cedar this, cedar that. They really like cedars in Iowa. Ah, they really like bright sunshine too. All of the beautiful Iowa bugs on my windshield. Still nothing compared to what I'd have after 10 minutes of driving across the sketch one. There we go. Oh, why didn't I think of that sooner? About 1,089 kilometers to get home. So I could get home in one day from here. But I still have another three hours available to me to drive. So I want to keep going. See if a day is possible so that I still have energy when I get home. So I can decompress when I get home and well blue and I have pulled over for the night already and I forgot to film an end of day for this video. And I'm already in my sleeping attire. So I can't show myself right now. I don't want to scare you away. I want you to come back tomorrow. Please do hit that subscribe button and hit that like button if you did like the video. It helps me a lot. If you want to help me for free, you can leave a comment down below in the description of my videos here or down below in the comment section there. If you want to know more about me, you can learn more about me in the description of all my videos. Just go down below and check it out. I've been making videos for a long time. I'd love to have you join our TJV crew here. I'll see you again tomorrow. Take care everyone.