 Hi, this is Debbie from So Can. You're watching Trucker Josh with his friend Diesel. Enjoy the show! How are you other people who aren't so fine? You too. Hi. It's a new day. We're here in Camrose, Alberta. I just delivered that steel. And now I've got to run over to Edmonton, which is about an hour and a half or so from here, an hour and a little bit. And I already got my coffee, so we're ready to rock and roll as they say. What? She's staring at me. So it's time to get going. Empty flatbed behind me. I've got a load of lumber that's going to Minnesota. I'm delivering it on Monday. So today is Tuesday, so I'm gonna be home tomorrow on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday I'm leaving so I can deliver Monday morning in Minneapolis and hopefully hopefully get another load in or get loaded on Monday because Monday is the 30th, last day of the month. So I'm hoping I can get another load behind me before end of month. Beautiful, beautiful Alberta. Yeah, I've never seen a place as beautiful as Alberta. I'm not even from here. A few cousins and aunts and uncles that live out here somewhere. So Camrose is just sort of southeast of Edmonton. So we just got to meander our way north a little ways further. Shouldn't take too long. I don't have to tarp this new lumber load. All I got to do is they'll load me up. They're always really quick at this place. Throw some straps over it. Book it home. I can't quite make it home today though because we're just over one day's drive and I've also got to use some of my time today to drive from here to there. So we'll see how far we make it. We'll see. It'll be nice. I've got another fertility appointment on Thursday. Huh? Here? No, not here yet. No, I'd go here. This is a truck road. Karen, why are you telling me to go with the next right? I'm turning here. I know better than you. I'm the boss. The boss of this truck anyway. So what was I saying? Yeah, on Thursday I've got an appointment with the specialist, the fertility thing. Me and my wife, if you're new to the vlog, me and my wife were trying to have our first child. It has taken a little while longer than it should and so we've been going through one of the fertility doctor. 500 meters, turn left on, Camrose Drive, Highway 13A. Now you want me to go back? Turn left on, Camrose Drive, Highway 13A. Okay, Karen, you've lost it. Now she's telling me to go back exactly where I came from. But why'd you tell me to come this way if you wanted me to go the other way? Make up your mind, Karen. Seriously, she's telling me to go back exactly where I came from. I should have double checked your work. I thought I'm like, it's only like 60 miles away. What's the worst that could happen? She couldn't mess that up. All right, Karen, you're a strike one for today. Every day is a new day. You get a clean slate every day, but you're a strike one. You get three strikes, I throw you out the window. That's what happened to Mandy. He's telling me to go right back into town. I just left town. Now they want me to go through town the other way. Karen, the one time I don't double check your work, Karen, trusted you. 200 meters, turn left on, Highway 13. You better not make me just go through to the other side of town and tell me to come back and just go through town. That's what you're doing, probably. You're trying to get me to see how many times I'll go back and forth through town, right? Ridiculous. Come on, woman. You're a strong, independent woman. I expect big things from you. Don't waste my time, Karen. Continue along this road for 12 kilometers. I'll fire you. I'm not afraid to fire a woman. What was I saying before? Yeah, my wife and I, I've got to go in for some tests myself. And so far, everything's all good. Nature just hasn't smiled on us yet, but we're doing all we can just to make sure that there's nothing preventing us from having kids. So, Britt's gone in for several tests already and several treatments. Well, I don't know if we'd call them treatments, tests and appointments. And it's my turn to go in for one on Thursday, so yay me. All the way home, the ride out here, driving completely right into the headwind for two days. Man, did we go through fuel twice as much as we usually would. Terrible. I'm lucky I had a good load behind me. Going against that kind of wind with a lumber load wouldn't really make it worth it. So the wind is going to help me on the way back is what I'm saying. They're in oil country right now. Is that a new skyscraper in Edmonton? Did you guys get a new really tall skyscraper? That tallest one there, it's like towering above all the rest. I don't remember that being there. When did that happen? Man, those buildings come up so fast. It's crazy, Calgary's the same way. You know, when I was a kid, we'd come to visit Calgary. Skyline looks completely different. Alberta just grows so fast. Like Winnipeg, we get like one new big building every generation. Like we've got one new building with that hydro building. We got the Manitoba Hydro Building. That's it. And that's not even that big of a building. I think it's what, like 20 some stories tall. Our tallest building is 33 stories. Not enough going on in Manitoba. Like I always say, I'm okay with that. I'll be the little guy corner. I'm in the northeast corner of Edmonton right now. I got to get over to the northwest corner. This is an exit lane that does not serve my purpose very well. We'll go in this lane. We'll try this one. And we'll be headed in the other direction with our load. I told you to be quick. They all of a sudden like drained, I guess. Drained the person. So we're on Highway 16 eastbound again. Headed back towards Winnipeg. We have eight hours and 49 minutes available to us to drive. We've got 1,303 kilometers to go. So we're not going to make it there today. But we'll get home tomorrow. And then I'll be home for a few days. Got to get a few things done. You guys remember this lot? When Britt was along with me, we almost got stuck here. Just off to our left door there. It was just mud. You know, why don't we go drive over it right now just to say that we conquered it. Yeah, we just about sunk in over here right where we're driving. And you know what? It tried to win. It tried to take me. But look at this. I'm not afraid of you, mud. Right about here is where we got all stuck in the mud. You can't scare a trucker, Josh. But anyways, yeah, we're here at the Petro Pass. Sort of between Lloyd Minster and Edmonton. Josh, go to grab a coffee. Take a little break. We're loaded. I'll show you the freight that we got on behind us as well. I haven't shown you yet. Because I just sort of rushed out of there. I'm kind of in a hurry because you know, going home, I've got to be careful how loud I say that. Every time I say that, diesel starts getting very excited. Oh, oh, oh bumps. Oh, I just bought these new tires. I'm going to lose them in these potholes. Oh, boy. Oh, that guy's moving. All right, there we go. Oh, buddy, you're sort of sticking out into my lane there a little bit. Once you're Lloyd Minster right now, we're on the Saskatchewan side of the border. And we got this beautiful find a little, find a little drizzle, this little misting that's just, just enough to annoy you to keep the wipers on. But not quite enough to actually, you know, be rain. It's creating a nice little rainbow up there though. At least we know the whole world's not going to flood, right? So I still have, what, seven hours available to me. Oh, it's going to be, it's going to be that kind of day. Yep, across the prairies. Lots of scenery ahead today. A scale open here coming into Saskatchewan. They have this scale open. They're doing inspections. Let's see what they're up to. What do you want? There's a guy on the scale right now that's stopped there. It looks like there's a bit of a lineup, trucks behind him. Maybe they'll be busy with him. Maybe he didn't like secure his load properly and they'll pull him in and they'll be too busy to look at me. Not that I got anything to hide, but still. I'd rather not spend my evening here with them doing inspections, just to prove to them that I have nothing to show them. I'd rather just go home. I think they should go home too. Maybe we can all just go home and have a big happy barbecue. How about that? I don't know what they call them. Oh, calm down, Karen. We got to go talk to the trucker cops. No? No. We got to talk to the trucker cops here first. Well, hopefully we don't have to talk to them. We got to wave it. No, I'm not going to wave. Nope. Trans Canada Highway, Highway 16. Okie dokie then. Let's see what they want. See how long it's taken here? It's just a scratch on it. It looks like they're just checking weights today, but usually if they're open, they're open. Like open, open, like inspections open. It looks like they were busy talking to that guy just like I thought. Oh boy, we're pretty close. That's pretty heavy. It looks like they're busy talking to this guy off to the right. That's the guy I was talking about before that was sitting on the scale. Karen. Karen, I know you really want to be a part of the blog, but you don't have to interrupt me every single time. Yeah, I guess he was, uh, he did something wrong. So they're busy talking to him and I got to sneak through. I have to double or weigh this again at our yard tomorrow. I'm nowhere near illegal for Canada. Well, what else am I going to do, Karen? Mandy, Karen, can't Karen, Mandy? Whatever your name is. Just going to smack me yet. I got to go and scale this at our yard just to make double sure that I'm not, uh, overweight for the U.S. in the back. I don't think so. They look kind of close there, but I'm definitely not even close to being overweight here in Canada, so I got nothing to worry about. And if I am, then I have, uh, the yard staff there that can... Excuse me. The yard staff can help me rearrange it. I got, like, a scratchy throat today. What's going on? There she is. It's windy out today, but that's the load. Minneapolis area, sort of. They're familiar stomping grounds. Saskatchewan, where there's high beams on. It's amazing. Today's been specifically bad with drivers in cars and semis, you know, driving with their high beams on in traffic. Now, it's like the more I talk about it, the worse it gets. The more I tell people to stop doing it, the more they do it. What I don't understand is when, like, you know, truck drivers are running through traffic with their high beams on. I mean, I've forgotten them on before, too, so I try to cut people some slack, but... Man, it's just a pet peeve of mine. So I think we're going to go up to Davidson's Saskatchewan. I'm getting kind of tired already. I want to go a little further than Saskatoon here, but not too much further. We'll see how I feel once I get there. I'm going to need to grab fuel there, anyway. And I'll probably just end up sleeping there. I need to go to bed. I've got a headache. I'm getting a headache, a little pressure on my head. I'd like to go around Mr. Bison here, because he's getting paid by the hour. And here we go. Change lanes. Oh, it's not actually Mr. Bison. It's the tanker in front of him. It's cool. That makes more sense, because these guys... I don't know if they get paid by the hour or not. I think these guys might. Made by the load. Whatever. It's cool. That's all good. I got around them. It's 600 meters. Kate to the left on. Highway 16 East. Absolutely, Karen. Thank you. I'm glad you're concerned about my ability to get home safely and on the correct route. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Dude. Within inches of my truck. Within inches. Come on. 200 meters. Kate to the left on. Highway 16 East. Tell you the things we got to deal with out here. A bunch of crazies. I don't trust any of these people. None of them. It's like, what's this guy going to do? Are you going to cut into my lane? Are you going to cut into my lane? Yeah, you're going to try to cut into my lane, aren't you? How about you turn your signal on, and I'll make room for you. No, you're just going to tailgate that pickup there? Okay. All right, you can come into my lane if you want. Don't get people. And out of the darkness comes a flying J. Yeah, we're in Davidson. I'm going to bed here. I am finished for the day. Veneto. Find a place to park here, and it'll be up in the morning. I'm going to fuel in the morning too. If it was like minus 30 outside, I would never go to bed without full tanks of fuel. But no, I'm just kaput for today. I'm going to park beside the other trucks I see there. And I'll talk to you a little bit. Can you see it or does the camera not pick it up? There's a truck parked right here in front of us, and I'm going to back in right beside them. Right beside this guy hauling the grader. I know my camera's not really picking up a lot at night, and YouTube for some reason always darkens it yet, even more. It was really hard to get good night shots. Diesel. Hey, what's this? Crazy boy, you're supposed to leave the fluff inside the toys. Fuck the bed first. Look at me. Vacuuming. I have a vacuum. Take the bed down. A bed fit for a king, fit for a trucker, Josh, and a weasel. So thanks for watching today, everybody. My day's over. I'm really tired. Had a bit of a stressful day, but I'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. 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