 Jump on here. The time is 9 o'clock p.m. Central So how many you're still awake? I'm gonna go through some of my comments here on my Last couple of videos if I can bring them up. I just finished editing and stuff We've been seeing a surge in subscribers again. That is awesome. Welcome to all you new people It seems every wintertime is when my channel experiences the most growth and my views Go up as soon as the snow falls you guys really like to see me stranded in the snow. I've noticed every year so One good thing about winter hey guys, so I was gonna go through some comments here Why not so I just released a video a couple hours ago called home time hangout I was just me changing the tires on the wife's vehicle and us sitting in the living room there Sort of talking about the 20-week Pregnancy Take a look at some of the comments we have on this on this video here Let's see if I can respond to you. Hey guys, I see all your comments going up my screen here now How's it going? Richard says we're here for the baby. Awesome. So am I He looks like me or she she looks like me. We got the 20-week ultrasound picture I posted it on my Facebook today You've got my little chin underneath this beard. I got this little chin and I got this nose and it's like exactly my profile Looks like it's gonna be looks like it's gonna look like me. We'll see it's only halfway there So it's got some time to change yet So on the video that was released today Jade Says crazy. This is actually happening for you guys happy for you. Thanks Jade We need to come down and visit again sometime It's it's harder and harder to get away from home Nowadays I used to go traveling down to like California or wherever, Florida every year, right? back in the day Things have gotten different change they changed think life's gotten more expensive, but we're trying to get down there to visit Josh Bryant, thank you. I want to see you put a $5 Canadian in the dryer Okay, okay next time I'm at home. I'll get a $5 bill. That's courtesy of Josh Bryant hahaha Because in Canada we have this plastic money, right? I don't have any with me to show you right now I don't carry any cash in the truck But we have plastic money right and it's impossible to rip it's almost impossible to destroy it's very hard to copy You can't just print it because it's plastic, right? And apparently the only way to destroy it is by putting it in the dryer and it like shrivels up But I've never actually tried it but now thanks to Josh Bryant We're gonna we're gonna give that a shot next time Remind me next time I go home. That'll be fun Did I send the cold weather down to Alabama? I sent it everywhere in every direction anywhere, but here I just I said get out of here. I don't care which way it goes All right, so Here on the video from today Mason plot said congratulations on the baby progress I've had that same thing done to you'll have just an itchy throat. Don't worry. I'm getting an endoscopy They have to check out inside my stomach In a couple of weeks. I'm still trying to figure out what that lump feeling is in my back my lower back It feels like maybe in my related to my intestines Can't really figure it out. I Honestly, I feel like it's nothing and I'd sort of uh, I don't want to go through that with this procedure to be honest It freaks me out because I asked them. Well, what are the chances of something going wrong with this endoscopy? So they stick like a camera down your throat and look around in your stomach and stuff They're like, oh, there's only a one in two thousand chance that something goes wrong and we damaged something on on Inside there like one in two thousand I like there's there's 35 million people in canada. There's like 450 million people on this continent And there's six seven eight whatever billion people on this planet one in two thousand is pretty That's pretty common I mean, how many of these endoscopies do you think are done every day around the world? hundreds of thousands maybe Tens of thousands at least so one in two thousand that's a pretty high chance that they're gonna damage something freak me out Plus they got to put me on all kinds of drugs I'm gonna be loopy. We'll see if uh, maybe I'll break maybe I'll give brit the gopro and she can Get some vlog footage for me after I come out of there all She has to drive me home. I can't even drive home after is that should be funny Tune in for that in a couple of weeks I don't get to do drugs. So, uh I get tested all the time Just to keep my job. I have random drug tests. Sometimes you you know, sometimes it's every couple of years sometimes It's twice a month. Sometimes it's once twice a year You never know when it's you just show up to the office one day and they're like, hey You got to go do a drug test. So They're pretty much they're looking for thc. I think is the biggest thing because thc the weed is legal across all of canada It's just like alcohol But it's not legal in the u.s So in order to drive in the u.s. I have to follow u.s law And if I get into an accident or even if someone hits me In the u.s. Here First thing all the lawyers are gonna do is send me straight to the doctor straight to the clinic to get a drug test done And if they find out oh last weekend you went out and had a cup of shmicks Even though it was perfectly legal in canada nothing illegal about it I didn't break any laws even though I did that it was like a week or two ago That'll show up in my system And those lawyers are gonna eat me alive Not just me. They're gonna eat the company alive too. So it's uh It's uh, not a good thing. So I get drug tested all the time So I'm going in for this endoscopy in there. I don't know what they're gonna give me But apparently I need a driver to drive me home. So red's gonna drive me home I'll see how that turns out Hey more comments from the video from today that I released called home time hangout Dennis O'Brien says now I'm cancer free Well, that's good news. That's good news for us all to hear in the evening. Dennis is cancer free That's awesome, man. That's awesome Joel Balotin says hey, I've had it done a few times best part is the pre-procedure meds they give you I told him if I could get a gallon I would make a fortune on the street I was just talking about that Oh here Dennis goes into a little bit more, uh detail. He says Uh, he had to have that test because they found cancer in his stomach That's why he had the endoscopy and now he's cancer free. Okay. So that's that's a good That's a good thing. I'm glad you're cancer free Gord 235 Says so glad your pregnancy is going well. Thank you Timmy and angel tlc Congratulations on being 20 weeks miss brit. You look amazing. Josh. Please don't worry about the endoscopy. The risks are minimal My friend it needs to be done to keep you healthy and find answers to the problems you're having I pray they find any answers for you. So everybody's telling me not to worry about it and I just I don't like hospitals I don't like Well, I like doctors. I'm very glad we have doctors. I just I don't like hospitals I don't like procedures Like I'm a healthy guy as far as I know but they do need to check this to make sure And it's all covered by our healthcare, right? So it's not like I got to pay for it out of pocket Comes out of my taxes at the end of the year but uh Every canadian I don't I owe a thank you to you for chipping in a couple of cents for this because we all We all cover that and you know what? I am very thankful for our healthcare system though. It it needs some uh, it needs some help The er's and our doctors were so short on doctors. This is a topic for a different vlog, but You know, we're all gonna get old one day This is what I say we're all gonna get old one day every single one of us is gonna get old And we're all gonna end up in the hospital sooner or later for some reason or other It happens to absolutely every single person We're all gonna get old and I'm just glad that when we get old or if we get diagnosed with cancer or You know, we we suddenly need to go on some meds permanently if I have a heart attack or something You know, we don't need to break the bank and we don't need to file for bankruptcy Because of health reasons that's everybody chips in for that It's not perfect by a long shot, but it's something right it's something Chili dog. He said Josh. I just had an endoscopy done on august 14th the day before I had open heart surgery Oh my you've gone through a whole bunch here I was very nervous, but they gave me a shot that calms you And then the anesthesia piece of cake brother Hope your results come back good. Everybody's telling me not to worry about it. It's all gonna be good Everybody here rich peace that he's also had endoscopies in his life had no problems didn't feel a thing And he says that brit is right. The colonoscopy is the tough one Oh, that's uh We're gonna put that one off as long as the doctors will allow me to put that one off that is uh Uh Let's not think about that I mean that happens to everybody too, right? Okay, don mayer says as a nurse endoscopy is no biggie. You'll be napping and won't even remember it nothing to it cool I'm excited for what they're what kind of what kind of meds are they gonna give me? I wonder I'm gonna have to ask them how long I have to be off work. I'm pretty sure I can go back to work the next day But I'll have to I'll have to double check on that And I want to make sure I know what it is too because I'm gonna have to talk to work about it Make sure they know what's going on and then If it's anything I don't think it would be anything That would be an issue for me and get a doctor's note of why that would be in my system then, right? Is that there's a record of it so that they know I'm not just you know Popping pills in a back alley somewhere if I if something does happen I'd be very careful because something like that if you get a drug charge or uh Like like I said before if if you uh go to a pot shop in canada Or a pot cafe a weed cafe or something right and you you smoke on the weekend It's just like having a beer to canadians weed is just like beer. It's same thing Obviously, it's not but the idea of it is the same and the It's a social thing or some people do it But in the us because I drive in the us I have to obey their law and their law they they view it very differently It's like a class one drug or something like that on the same level as cocaine Just like what but anyway, it's they they view it differently, right? So I can't I can't partake in that and I get tested for that all the time and that's Because it's uh, it's very bad if you were to partake and then even like three weeks later Someone like let's say someone hits me. It's wintertime. Someone hits me. It wasn't even my fault They're gonna send me for that test and if I test positive for just thc from like A bowl that I smoked like three weeks ago in illegal Fashion in canada. It doesn't matter. I'm on us soil. I have to follow their law And if it's in my system and someone hits me, I'm at fault. I'm responsible for all costs Everything lawyers just go to town on me then So it's uh But so I'm gonna have to figure out what they actually give me and then Whether or not I need like a medical note with me or something like I'm sure I'm sure uh You guys know I'm sure it's probably nothing. It's probably just like a sedative, right? They just give me some meds and put me to sleep and it'll be fine I still have to be very careful. I mean like I don't want anything that's gonna get me in trouble Thomas wilson says why are you running closed ribbed tires on old blue? I don't know probably for fuel economy They were on it when I bought the truck a lot of you here said on the video today. You've all had the endoscopy And not to worry, but you guys are all sort of calming my nerves here I appreciate that in the comment section of today's video Can I turn my phone sideways? I can but my video is not gonna turn sideways See it still stays sideways like that So I'm on I'm on portrait here. I'm sorry if you're watching on like a bigger screen I'm sorry. I know there's black bars on both sides of my face. Uh I apologize for that I did that in this live because it's just easier to hold my phone this way But yeah, that's a couple of your comments. I guess I could go into the comments on this This video now Five-year viewer. Let me get a shot out Colton cabin. How's it going? I think he meant get a shout out Okay Oh your comments disappeared. Where'd they go? There they are When am I going to hug a palm tree next wonder bread says? Great question. I wish I could say it's tomorrow, but uh, no not tomorrow Dwayne says my grandma who's 90 has had it done twice in the last year She had it at st. B both times. Hey, I was born in st. B Good hospital She was in for 8 a.m. And I was picking her up by 10 a.m. She was a little drowsy both times Okay, so that's probably nothing to worry about nothing to worry about Am I avoiding the snow in the central u.s. No, I'm I'm in it. Uh, minnesota's got some pretty good snow here Hi from grunt thaw. No Oh Grunt thaw. I heard they're getting a zoo. They're building a fence around town I'm just kidding. I'm just getting old joke. You've heard it before old joke I got some friends in grunt thaw too Some of my family grew up there actually brits some brits family grew up in grunt thaw Yeah, when brit was a kid she spent a lot of time in grunt thaw Have I ever been to Ottawa? Oh, I sure have I sure have That is our nation's capital It's where all the decisions get made the good and the bad mostly bad Where do I live from? Well I think even where do I live? I live in steinbach, manitoba in canada Uh tanner says hey josh you might have already touched on this But besides just wanting a kenworth did anything else sway your decision on a kenworth over a peterbilt or any other truck Good question. I've always wanted a kenworth because I like the interiors better but It's a close race between peterbilt and kenworth I would have bought a if I found the right 389 or 379 I'd be driving a peterbilt right now, but I just I always preferred kenworth's just a little bit I think the interiors are nicer in in my opinion. I mean But both are great peterbilt and kenworth. I I like them both I mean every truck has their strength except volvo But I mean every truck has their strength even volvo. I said that wrong. Sorry But uh I didn't even keep a straight face Try to tell a joke. I can't even keep a straight face at least a volvo for a while I had a bad experience, but uh, there's a lot of people out there who really like them and swear by them. So To each their own Hey josh, I'm 21 started as a company driver in new brunswick, canada Two months ago putting in long days and having a blast Use your full clock the last few days. Awesome. Right on man Wonderbread, how long do you really think the double highway to ontario area will take? Oh, at least a decade at least 10 years It took them 10 years to build to extend the 59 I don't know if you're familiar with manitoba or not Like I used to drive up and down the 59 from like neverville to uh winnipeg every day to go to school And the 59 got twinned from the perimeter highway Or just like just past the the floodway It got twinned like 10 miles 10 miles Something like that, right took them 10 years on flat land Flat prairie land. It took them 10 years I know I was in high school at the time and we had a field trip to the legislature in winnipeg And we were talking to uh our mps And I was actually not the mla and I was actually talking to the mla from uh Rishat in that in that area there And they're like anybody have any questions and everybody was asking these lame questions because you know high school students We don't care about politics, but I I had a good question for I have mr. Mr. MLA. Why is this highway taking 10 years to finish? It's only 10 miles and it's flat land What's taking so long and he was like dump foundered. He's never he didn't expect a real question from a high school student And uh, he's he's looking at me and I'm looking at him and he waits a while. He's like well To be honest with you We ran out of money We went over budget And then obviously I asked him. Well, why did you start a project that you didn't have the money to finish? I never got my answer. He was like, oh, that's just the way it goes sometimes, you know, that's That's hard to get things done and things are expensive and uh But you go over budget on every single project that you start Why do you keep starting projects that you don't have the money to finish? Why do you keep going over budget on every single project? They shoot us along. I didn't get to talk too much longer, but yeah a real question Got asked I'll say what 16 Say 16 17 because I just started driving right now one of this highway done Took him over 10 years. So this highway from Ontario to canora Now At least 10 years I'm giving Ontario the benefit of the doubt because they have more money than manitoba. Ontario is a bigger population Maybe they can get it done in 10 years But I wouldn't be surprised if it went 15 20 years And I wouldn't be surprised if it stopped for several years in between Because they keep running out of money and going over budget because politicians always do that every single time But yeah, that's my answer to that question. It's gonna be well The best family channel on youtube. Thank you. I'm glad you see this as a family channel because that's what I try to make it It's uh Well, it's gonna have more family stuff coming up because we're having our baby But I try to keep it family friendly even though most of it is about trucking and you know Tying freight down and driving I don't swear in my videos. First of all youtube doesn't like that at all. Second of all, uh, it's it's not really It it really shrinks your audience Because people can't watch you with your kids in the with their kids in the background then if they want to like shelter them from from that kind of language and They don't need to learn these bad words from me. They'll learn them somewhere else, but they're not going to learn them from me Uh That's just the way I see it I won't people to be able to let their kids like some people let their kids have like tablet or something and watch youtube And I want them to be able to put my videos on the playlist And watch trucking videos without having to worry about what their kid is going to hear or learn from the zinternet guy So no dirty jokes Uh I don't know induendos. I No dirty jokes. No swearing on my channel. Uh, it's supposed to be supposed to be uh ready for anyone of any age of any Anyone you just track the you get to the biggest audience that way, right? And I think it's a little better just to have the kind of cleaned up a little bit I know there's some channels out there. It's just that's all they do I know we're truckers, right? So swearing doesn't offend me at all. I mean, I'm a trucker Probably need to wash my mouth out with soap a couple times a day But the camera's not rolling all the time. It's what we do At least on youtube here. Uh, yeah, you don't got to worry with that You can put my videos on playlist in it. It should be okay And every time sometimes I go a little too far with my jokes And I've been called out in the comments very quickly then and then I can go back and edit and then I just make sure I don't Go that far again, but I don't think that's ever happened Once or twice I think I remember once I got called out in the comments section. I felt bad I had to go and do a urine test and I was kind of making fun of the fact that you know, there's people out there whose whole jobs Uh revolver on collecting people's urine and I was kind of making fun of it I was kind of making some immature jokes about it And I was called out in the comments section saying hey, Josh, that's kind of immature, man like This is a respected field of work and they they had a point they they uh you know So I Took that down took that out and I didn't make those jokes again Gladstone Manitoba. I went through there, uh A couple a couple of weeks ago When I was delivering those big rolls into the field that was like last week, wasn't it before the snow What's your Gladstone there? I always remember Gladstone because it has that happy rock As you're driving past town. It's a Gladstone Colton Cavan Your little sister didn't hear your shadow. She didn't hear me. Okay. I'll give you one more shadow There's your shout out. Did you hear it? Jordan B says I got into trucking because of you. I'm so sorry seven years later. It was the best decision of my life Thanks, man. Awesome. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying it. I love it I love doing it. I don't know why but I love it I couldn't imagine doing anything else Uh, this is all I know really I grew up in a family of truckers And then I married a woman whose dad was also a trucker and now he's trucking here, too And we're all truckers and growing up because my dad was a trucker most of his friends were also truckers My best friend his dad was a trucker most of my friends. Their dads were truckers. It's just everybody everywhere I went it was just trucking trucking trucking trucking. That's all that's all there was Maybe it was because I focused on it so much because I've always loved trucks I always had like model trucks. I always had to line them up all straight on my little car mat had to be parked straight My cars Like my little toy cars, they were pristine. They were in perfect condition my whole life I always liked it and then like I got my bicycle and then I got my dad to build me a A hitch for my bicycle And then I'd like hook up like wagons and strollers and anything I could pull behind me And I'd pull them around the yard and I pull them down the street. Now. It's just this big dork my whole life Surprise I can get there's many people to watch me every day. I'm just a big dork I love trucking. That's uh One thing I love to do So I'm glad that I was able I'm able to find something that I can do Sort of for work. I mean it is work making videos every day But uh I can do the dream job that I've always had and also share it with you guys at the same That's sort of like living the living the dream all together. I've always been I've always liked cameras too me and my best friend growing up We we had this big camera like one of those first generation ones had the The the vhs tape that went in it and you like held it on your shoulder like some kind of like news reporter We had one of those big ones you look into the big eye hole and it's got like a black and white screen We would take that thing and we'd set it up on a tripod and we make all these goofy videos all the time I wonder where those are. I think I shouldn't bring this up because I think my mom is hiding them somewhere I think she has them They're probably humiliatingly embarrassing She's saving them for something Am I doing more otr? Marlertv says I'm doing regional right now, which is sort of like a thousand mile radius or so There's not like a set line where I don't go but for the most part. Yeah, it's about a thousand mile radius from home base Uh, you know, I go down as far as Iowa maybe Nebraska Montana Maybe Thunder Bay, Ontario up into northern manitoba in summertime not in wintertime again Uh west to like Calgary Edmonton That's sort of the area but really wherever they need me to go But uh, I'm usually home on the weekends Four or 42 moses which other youtube channels do you watch? That's a good question Good question. I'll watch uh a watch or I listen to a lot of podcasts. I listen to uh Tim pool a lot uh for like political stuff If I want to keep up with what's going on in the u.s. Especially I like keeping up with what's going on On that side of things though. I don't like going into it deep in my on my channel here My channel is not a political channel But his channel is so I get my fix there from him on uh tim cast irl. I like watching that Uh, who else will watch Joe Rogan? He's got a good podcast going on though. I don't watch every day uh I watch other stuff like uh videos about like aliens and stuff and ancient civilizations uh That stuff interests me a lot stuff about space interests me a lot like different planets and solar systems and like uh Astronomy has always uh been super cool in my mind So I like watching stuff like that. Uh That's another one that I watch all the time Oh, uh trucking with schmidt I like watching his channels. They're it's very much like mine Like my channel, but he has his own deem. He does his own thing So it's not like we do the exact same thing, but I like his channel because he's he's very relaxing He's uh really chill dude, and he's got a great attitude. He also keeps his videos clean and uh He drives a ken or w9 too though. That's not why I watch his videos, but it's uh, it's a little extra perk I like his truck a lot He's got his dog opi with him. I think he's doing a really good job telling his story over there and uh, I enjoy watching him uh Maybe I should go through my like subscriptions here. I have my my computer right here Maybe I should just go take a look when I go to my subscriptions feed. What pops up Let's go up to How do I even get to my subscription feed? I always just go to home, you know YouTube oh look, there's my live stream. I wonder if I could watch myself 235 people watching holy smokes. That's pretty good. It's pretty good for me. Oh, uh You guys ever heard of count dankula? He's a scottish guy. He got arrested for The way he got famous was he got arrested because he he taught his girlfriend's pug to do a like a nazi salute And uh Just as a joke to make her dog because she always thought her dog was the cutest dog in the whole world Right and he wanted to make it do something that was like the most repulsive thing ever And that's what he could think of was the most repulsive thing ever and he posted it online as a joke And the british police arrested him for that for making that joke and charged him for that So that's how he got famous and now he does like british political commentary and stuff and he's pretty funny uh One of the edgier guys that I that I watch online Most of all, I uh, just started watching. I don't want to talk about channels that I just started watching because I haven't developed an opinion on them yet Uh I think oh I watch No, that's not that's not what it was Sorry guys. I'm just looking through my subscriptions here. I'm looking for I can't think of the name right now There's this channel called when dover productions makes great Uh, but he's like the last one they made here was how aircraft carriers work and they explain how Like the whole aircraft carrier like, uh, can I flip this up? Okay So like it's not this here, right like aircraft carriers how aircraft carriers work, right? And here you got like tim cast over there and destination adventure You know marked ice guy over there Geographics, that's a fun one to watch. Uh, the talks about north korea's hotel of doom This mr. Forged one is just one that I subscribe to today So I don't have really an opinion on it yet, but it's kind of interesting content. It's directed towards men I don't know if I can recommend it yet or not because I'm the couple of videos. I did watch were very interesting talking about how, uh, Your most negative Instincts can be used for good And how everybody has these negative reactions in certain situations that we try to suppress But he was sort of talking about how they can be used for good and you can turn negative into good uh, so that was That was good I mean, uh, there's steven crowder there like watching him every now and then Uh, dw news sort of keep up with what's going on in ukraine there Uh, what else do we got? Yeah, those are a few of the few of the guys I watch Oh riddle that was the that was the one I was looking for here this one here That's it. I watched that them says like look at this one It's called if you detonated a nuclear bomb in the Marianas trench like just found he's like what would happen? And he talks about stuff like that. It's like, you know The deep questions that keep you up at night like if we've detonated the biggest nuclear bomb in the world in the Marianas trench What would happen? He goes like a deep dive into it So it's stuff like that that I mostly watch like unexplained mysteries There's sort of a theme going to the channels that I watch most often, right? It's sort of like the the sci-fi the What if what if right? What would happen if you drop a bomb in the ocean? I don't know. Let's find out like let's not actually go do it Let's let's talk about what might happen Anyways, let's cut some of the channels You're a fan from landmark barrett freezing Been watching the last year and a half but watched many more of your older videos senior truck around I've got to say it looks even better in person. Keep it up. Thanks, man This truck is very recognizable. I've found uh, I've never been recognized as much as I have now I haven't really shown the outside of my truck in the past before though. This is uh, this is a newer thing for me and uh It's uh, it's kind of cool But it definitely keeps you accountable, right? I was talking about people doing dumb things passing me on the snow Remember that it really keeps me accountable because if I'm impatient like first of all, I wouldn't do that But another reason added on top of all the other reasons of why I wouldn't do that now is people I pass might recognize my truck So I don't want to do anything stupid. So it keeps me on my toes Greetings from brazil Zero mental health. That's that's his username. How's it going down there in brazil? I heard things were kind of uh All over the place there a little while ago after your last election there you guys doing okay Soda pop is your dad how is your dad still driving? He's still driving. Yep Oh boy. I'm like way behind on your comments here It was a pleasure meeting you earlier this year at truck world. Yes, everyone. He's a really nice guy 442 mo. Thank you Appreciate that How is the new mattress that you bought philip ads? Great question It is heaven. It is sleeping on a cloud I'm gonna make a review video because they sent this mattress to me, right? They wanted me to try it out and they wanted me to give them their opinion because they're they're making mattresses specifically for trucks And they they're they're basing it off the the advice of truckers and what truckers have told them that they want It's the exact same kind of bed that you would find in your home Uh, I'm gonna make a video about it yet. Uh But I really do want to promote this company because I've never slept on a mattress like this in my life Uh, and it's not a and it's not a paid ad or anything. This is uh This is something that I want to do for them. They did send me the mattress to try out But uh, it's it's gonna be It's gonna be the next couple of days. I'm actually excited to share with you uh, what it's like because It's just I'd say it's just as good as the bed we have at home Mother trucker. Yes, that is one that I watched. Thanks. Oh my son. Uh Can't believe I can't believe I almost forgot Uh, what's the channel name called in crazy crazy asian my show, right? And he does like trucking news and stuff Yeah, he's a good friend of mine. Yeah, of course. I watch his videos. That's a given That's a given. He's a great guy. Really nice guy. I've talked to him on the phone Before uh, he helped me out when I had my channel hacked And uh, I talked to him after that. I wanted to thank him and we talked for a little while Nices dude, you'll ever meet Just he just wants to love on everybody around him and he wants to help everybody genuinely wants to help everyone around him and uh And really great guy. I really hope I get to meet him in person Dwayne's is watching from steinback. Oh my people You heard a neat voice leaving canadian tired the other day and I know that voice. Ah trucker josh's dad Hi, it's so funny. My dad gets recognized all over the play more often than I do Yeah Do I add any diesel conditioner for the winter months? I haven't in this truck yet The owner before me says he never has So before I do add anything to this truck or engine or fuel tanks I want to talk to the shop that I go to I go to pbx They've been working on this truck for A very long time. They know this truck inside and out Uh, so I want to talk to them about what they would recommend But if the previous driver didn't add anything The the important thing is in wintertime when it gets cold fuel your truck on the canadian side of the border It's Much better conditioned for cold weather than even like diesel number one in the states You can get a winter diesel in the states But if you want to get really good winter diesel like pure dinosaur bones You go to canada. We got the best winter fuel. Uh, so only fuel your truck in canada if possible Uh, and you shouldn't have a problem Gilling up always make sure you go to bed with full tanks of fuel never go to never go to bed with like less than half a tank of fuel Uh, always make sure it's as full as possible And if it gets down to like minus 30 to minus 50 leave your truck running overnight Now even if you have an automatic shutoff it should keep it running at that temperature You want to keep the fuel moving And that'll keep your fuel from gelling up because my tanks like if you put your hand on my fuel tanks Uh, don't do that, please because you're gonna put fingerprints on them. But if you were to Uh, you would feel that my tanks are actually hot like almost hot to the touch. They're warm Because the fuel returning from the engine warms it up So as long as the engine's running your fuel is going to stay warm in these temperatures now My truck's running right now because I got my computer on here. I just finished, uh, Editing my video. I'm going to upload it right now and post it onto patreon And then tomorrow I release it on youtube And uh, that's another thing I wanted to say. I don't like advertising it because I don't want it, uh It's always down below in my comment section The videos as soon as they get uploaded to youtube I post them on my patreon and those people who do want to help us out there can watch it Usually a day early or something. Uh, the links are down below in the description of all my videos But uh, I'll release it tomorrow on youtube tomorrow midday sometime And uh, this one was actually pretty good Today I went through some uh through a state park. I didn't know I was going through a state park till I was in the state park That was fun twisty windy narrow roads is great scenery. What was I talking about though? I'm just looking at this title here right now I've been seeing this title pop up more and more. They're saying mandatory masks again seriously Ontario and some places in Canada are thinking about bringing back those mandates Let's not talk about that. I put me in a bad mood. No Anyway Uh diesel conditioner. That's what I was talking about. Yeah, as long as you keep your engine running in the really cold temperatures Your fuel shouldn't gel but in temperatures like this like it's uh, zero degrees minus five Celsius right now Like right around the freezing point 25 Fahrenheit or so Uh, I shut the truck off for night All the way down to about minus 20 I'll shut the truck off for night and then I have an engine heater And I set it on a timer And uh two hours before I wake up the engine heater starts and it starts moving my fluid Around that my my coolant around the engine warming it up and that warms the engine up so that I can start it in the morning And I also have a wabasso bunk heater in my sleeper here that keeps me warm through the night So that's how I keep warm. I I shut the truck off for night But once it gets down to about minus 20 Celsius, I'll I'll probably Make a different decision then we'll see Maybe idle it for half the night But below minus 30. No the truck stays on truck stays on all night. That's you shut it off Then doesn't matter what you do. You're not going to get it started in the morning May I ask you something? Absolutely. Cody. I got your email Ontario is recommending it, but it's not mandatory. Yeah, I know I've been I've been following that Yeah, let's uh, hope that What motor is in old blue? That's a that's a great question. What motor is in old blue? It's a Cummins ISX 475 Hi from Finland first time. I've you've seen me live I don't go live that much anymore, but I figure why not. Let's go hang out A block heater a block heater works. I do have a block heater But you got to plug that in. That's what I think of when I hear the word block heater Uh, this is a block heater that I have now except it's like fuel but diesel fuel It's like it's just like the wabasso bunk heater except it heats up my engine instead So I can shut my truck off overnight and then warm my engine up takes about two hours Warm the engine up nicely and I can start it up in the cold. No problem Yeah, I've heard that there's a bad flu going around. I heard RSV is really bad and babies right now Britt and I are being very cautious Uh, especially once our baby is born. We're going to be a little A little bit strict with who holds them absolutely no kissing the baby I'm not even going to kiss the baby for the first two months because when baby's born baby doesn't even have an immune system yet It needs to develop that and it grew up inside Britt. So their immune systems are in tune But me being dad first time holding them. I won't even kiss baby until After two months at least and whoever holds our baby. We have to be very firm with them No kissing the baby. No smothering the baby putting your face to face nothing like that You keep your face in your mouth away from the baby RSV is pretty bad this year in In manitoba anyways, I heard it's across canada And that's a respiratory illness where babies suddenly have a hard time breathing. They could die They could literally die from it. They don't have an immune system like for the first four months even But definitely for the first two months very little immune system and even for that Like four or five six month period like we're gonna be pretty strict that nobody kisses the baby like at all You can hold them but you keep your mouth away from Your 10 month old has RSV right now shoot. I'm sorry. Yeah, I've been reading up about it I didn't even know what that was until recently when Britt brought it up to my brought it to my attention So, uh, we're gonna be taking that pretty seriously like I really Not gonna make people wear masks to hold my baby. I'm just gonna ask them. Please don't Put your mouth near them. That's all Have I ever been to Ohio? I've been through there many times. Yep. I got that fancy toll road Hello brad From northern finland. Have I ever met any finished truck drivers in canada or the us? We've quite the similar climate Uh, I don't know if I've met any actual finish drivers But there's a lot of people in our area that are That finish heritage, but they're now american or canadian Like I have german heritage, but i'm not german. I'm canadian We haven't i've never been to europe. I'm not european. I've never been to europe in my life That bugs me when people say oh, you're a european. No, i'm not. I was born here. I've never been to europe There's a lot of people from the nordic countries in our area They settled the area like north dakota was settled a lot was mostly settled by The nordic, you know swedish, uh, norwegian finnish people So there are a lot of people from there here down the lines generations down the line Do I have a big fan in my shop? No, I don't but I wish I I wish I did What's going on with me? I've been talking for too long. Well 10 months old. Yeah I would wait probably two three months before I kiss my baby. Yeah, but 10 months old they have an immune system built by then Now this is just common knowledge that uh, you know, you just before you touch a baby you always wash your hands And uh, you don't kiss newborns It's a big no-no You're out in north dakota This is your first time driving semi in winter any tips Go slow Take her slow Feel the truck beneath you and if you're feeling uncomfortable pull off to a safe safe spot Everyday videos been watching you for about 10 years or so ever since you lived in that trailer your winter peg with the Pontiac Yeah, that was a long time ago How cold is it? It's uh, minus five. Celsius here right now So it's uh, it's in minnesota About 25 Fahrenheit, I guess something like that I need to drink something Do I have water here somewhere? I'm not used to talking so much There's a lot of talking Ah, here we go. Hey That's what teeth are for Very careful not to spill that on my computer though. I have warranty if I spill water on my computer I get a new one I did get going today. Yep didn't get very far because the last night I got stuck in the snow storm last night again I've uh, never met Kurt before. Nope I would like to though if I ever had the opportunity. I wouldn't pass it up. He seems like a really good guy Do I use snow tires? Nope. It's just the same tires that I use year round I'm having really bad luck with snow storms. Yes, very bad luck. How far did I get today? About 275 kilometers Because last night I only uh shut down at 1 30 in the morning because I went through a snow storm again And then I couldn't get moving till what? 11 30 or something Did I get that right? Anyways, I got going late so I got unloaded late Uh, so I was only unloaded at like 1 30 2 o'clock No 1 30 I got unloaded and I drove off and I called my shipper of my next load which was only 250 kilometers away or whatever two and a half hours away But they shut down at 2 o'clock So I drove to my shipper I'm sitting right outside their gate right now ready to load in the morning But they left here 2 o'clock and I got here for So yeah kind of uh Waste of a day I could have gotten unloaded first thing in the morning been loaded here and been on my way home right now Hello from Nova Scotia. Howdy Due to internet safety. I don't give my exact location. I'm not trying to be rude I don't give my exact location where I'm at How's my bunk heater work works very well? Very well, I barely have to turn it on and it keeps me warm But I like it to be kind of cool at night. It can get it roasting in here like just cooking Have I put up Christmas lights yet? Nope. That is a project for this coming weekend. I plan to do that this weekend Have I ever been to Missouri? I sure have We used to well, we still do but I used to pick up steel in st. Joseph, Missouri all the time Your dodge charger has a block heater and you can plug your car in And uh, how long do I keep it plugged in? You only need to plug it in A couple of hours before you want to go. So if it's minus 30 minus 20 outside You only need to plug it in a couple hours before you want to go Uh, but sometimes you don't want to wake up two hours before you need to go You can get a timer plugged in a canadian tire has them And you plug it in and you set a timer and say you got to leave for work at seven in the morning You can set that timer to start like to turn on at five a.m So your block heater will turn on at five a.m. Then by the time you get up and want to leave Uh, your engine's warm enough to start Blade Runner the bed is doing great. Yeah, I'm gonna make a video on it soon Big den that's okay You don't need to wait for the story all the time. I'm on I'm live now Live now. I just I just on the internet, especially live. I don't give my exact location away I'm not trying to avoid that question. I'm not trying to be rude. I'm not ignoring you That's just something that I've always Kept private since the very beginning Uh Because all of you guys are great people. I'm not worried about you guys. It's the one Out there. It's just nuts. And I don't know who that is, right? There's always one It's crazy You never know, right? You never know just in case Do you get paid for all this time you spend just sitting? Sometimes like I got a layover when I was up north. I got stranded there. I got a layover for that But this time sitting here. No, I get a percentage of every load I pull Uh, and that percentage is also under contract. Uh, so I can't Go into that. I think we all make the same But we're still not supposed to talk about it Because it's between us and them But uh, they take a small percentage off of it and then I get the rest So the majority of the rate goes to me That'll pay for the maintenance of the truck that'll pay for the fuel that'll pay my wage And they shave a little bit off the top because they got to keep the lights on at the office as well And they are the ones doing the work and taking on all the headaches talking to the brokers and talking to the shippers receivers I don't have any headaches I'm contracted to them. So they take care of all those headaches. They take a little cut off the top And I'm fine with that because those headaches are New since when you got to deal with brokers yourself. I've never had to do that. But I've heard I think Kurt has his own running rights, right truck Englishman. I think that he uh, he runs his own truck And uh, has lines up his own loads. I think maybe he can correct me if I'm wrong But uh, that's He talks about it sometimes. It's a headache dealing with some Some brokers and stuff sometimes So they take care of all of that. All I do is there's a computer at the front of my truck over here And that uh right there It uh, ah it goes ding And my load pops up. It'll show me where to go to pick it up It'll show me where it's going when it needs to be there any other information that I need the trip number and Be a well number and pick up number all that stuff And I go pick it up And then I let them know hey, I got it and then I go and deliver it and I let them know Hey, I delivered it and then bing another load pops up in there and then uh Sometimes I don't even need to talk to them. I don't even talk to them I usually call in anyways is I like I like them our dispatchers are great And I like actually having that conversation with them Uh so that we don't get out of touch and I just I like talking to them So uh Usually they'll let me know over the phone what they got and if I don't want the load I don't have to take the load. There's no forced dispatch But for the most part, I don't turn down loads If I don't have to I don't want to be the guy that's hard to please They take good care of me Sometimes I got to take a cheap load, but it gets me to a place where I can pick up a good paying load Sometimes, you know, I get the short end of the stick other times, you know, I rake it in while someone else is getting this short stick so they uh They try try their best to make it as fair as possible because there's there's a whole bunch of us guys on regional crew here We have one of over a hundred trucks Uh in general and like the whole thing and I think there's I think there's got to be close like 25 of us regional guys Am I right? I don't know. There's a bunch of us, you know And uh when I talk to them they say, you know, they have two customers to please during the day They have the shipper receiver. They have the customer to please and they have the driver to please So they gotta balance us both because we got to be happy and customers got to be happy But I'm an owner operator, so That's contracted. So that means I own my truck. I own my business and they hire my business to pull their freight So I don't have to go searching for my own freight. They do that for me Buckman 840s. Do you have the option to pass on loads? Yes. Yeah, no forced dispatch here But like I just finished saying I I don't pass up many loads I want to be the I want to be the reliable guy that when they need something done Uh I'll get it done for them But at the same time I've made it clear to them in the past that I don't work for free And I don't want to work for cheap So, uh, they know that And I don't have to remind them of that. They they're really good. They've been treating me very well Uh, I have no complaints whatsoever They they take good care of me. So I whatever load they have I take it Though I did make a special note. I don't want to go back to northern manitoba till summertime. That's And I don't want to do ice roads. That's something I don't do our company. We do ice roads I'm not taking old blue up on the winter roads. That's I'm sorry. My truck's not going up there If you really need me to do it, I'll do it But they're gonna have to give me one of their trucks to do it in because they're very rough roads up there I don't I'm not taking old blue up there. Like I won't leave them hanging. I'm gonna help them out the best I can But I'm not taking I'm not taking my business somewhere. I just these things are expensive to fix Would you recommend buying your own truck if this is a job that you really love Then Then yes, but just take your time on it. Be careful Buy the truck that you want because every truck's gonna give you problems. Every truck's gonna be a headache There's not one perfect truck out there that's never gonna break down. They're all gonna have problems So make sure that it's a truck that when you do need to spend a lot of money into fixing it that you actually still like it When you get it back Is it when I had my Volvo I didn't like that truck And I was spending money and spending money and spending money engine light after engine light after engine light after engine light after engine light after engine light And it just kept going Sensor after sensor after sensor and I was spending thousands and thousands of dollars into a truck. I didn't even like to drive I hated it So it's very discouraging so now that i'm in old blue It's a little bit different. It's a lot different. Not only is it uh Kenworth 700 right off the bat It's it's the truck. I've always wanted and uh, I really I really like this truck I I like the interior. I like the exterior. I like the way it looks. I like the way it runs when it breaks down I'll fix it because I love it So yeah, make make sure it's a truck that you like that you actually want to drive Don't just buy any truck Don't just go and buy the one you can afford or the cheapest one Obviously you have to be able to afford it. But you know what? I mean don't just buy the cheapest one that pops up right away Wait till it's like the one that that Because they're all gonna be a headache, you know, my Volvo was a big headache This truck as much as I knock on wood It'll have problems. It's going to have problems eventually and uh It's not always easy but uh Find out what kind of truck you want like I I preferred the older trucks myself This is a 2008. I was kind of looking for a 2007 actually But uh, this one came up and uh, it was absolutely everything that I wanted The previous owner was Like a five star driver. He took care of absolutely everything on the truck. He maintained it kept it mint He had all the records on it. He showed me all the records on it all the maintenance records everything He was honest about absolutely everything sometimes you worry about buying a used vehicle you Very often you're just buying someone else's headache. That's what you're doing But this truck was an honest an honest sale I I was very happy. I'm very happy with it and very happy to find out the guy was an honest man And uh, he just wanted to get into something a little different And uh, I got very lucky Jamie O says you now have a hood. Yes Yes, and I have to pay the hood tax Which is about a mile per gallon In fuel economy. That's okay. It's because I chose it It's not being forced on me Uh, rg supreme has just watched a video today from eight years ago in my sentry and you said you wanted a brand new Volvo. I know. Yeah. Yeah, I did I used to want one and then I got one changes I also always wanted when I wanted a kenward w 900. I always wanted a studio sleeper Talking about trucking with schmidt again. A curtain has a studio sleeper Uh, it's a big sleeper bed folds into a couch, right and it's got like the the higher ceiling Uh, that was the truck that I always wanted and that sort of changed in me too because once, uh, I met my wife I got married. We're having a baby soon. I don't want to be going too far out there over the road all the time I want to stay closer to home a regional position became available if I could get a truck and I found this truck and uh This sleeper works well for regional. It's just just me in here I mean, it's nice little bed. It's cozy. I like it. It's uh It works just perfect for me Do you run heated led lights? They are led Dims, I still have the incandescent high beams. I have to change them to led yet The led low beams are not heated. No, but my new ones whenever I do replace them. They will be heated What will be my second favorite truck Peterbilt 379 or 389 doesn't matter either one I love those trucks Pitt Patterson says I'm watching your channel for for practice my to practice my English Thank you for your videos Well, I may not speak perfect, uh, the perfect king's English But I speak manitoba English. Oh boy. My hand is getting sore here Am I gonna put giant stacks on my truck? I'm gonna put bigger ones on. Yeah Bigger ones. I don't like these little uh, these little stubbies. I call them Uh, they're a little short. They they serve a good purpose though. It keeps the truck very low I can get under lower bridges and stuff But eventually, uh, I believe they're eight inch extensions I I want to get eight inch extensions that are just a little bit longer than this and either flat top Or uh, those little they call them like the little donkey ears Like what do they call them like not rabbit ears because rabbit ears go up and then like whoop this way Right. I want the ones that go like whoop and then just a little at the top just a little not the big ones Maybe I've got a big visor coming for the truck too. So it all depends on what'll look best with the visor It's a drop center visor. So that'll look pretty cool once that's on Have I ever driven on the ice roads? I have driven on ice roads. Yep. I did last winter Chris says he loves my headcan view That's that is my favorite view as well Anthony says you and Kurt will be great friends Both goofy. I think so too. You know, he seems like he would be a good friend He drives a motorcycle too. He's got a nicer one than me a bigger one Uh, I watched his videos when he went to Sturgis this past year. I was kind of jealous. It would have been cool to go there I've just got a little v-star 650. So it's Does the trick but it's uh Could be upgraded could be upgraded, but it's something it gets me riding I think I like it. It's in very good shape and it's loud. That makes me happy Uh, Seth, Seth Hen, Seth Hen says that old blue cab is huge compared to what we have in Europe. Yeah, I know Yeah, I don't know how you guys live in those tiny little trucks. This is a tiny truck to me. Oh To us here in North America As a nurse Don says I can promise you won't even remember the endoscopy. Stay healthy for the Awesome. I saw your comment on my last video as well. Uh Uh, I appreciate you easing my anxiety a little bit on that Endoscopy I got coming up there RG sprinters I ran a new Cascadia at air motor all 10 speed manual there beats an auto shift though Ouch, it does beat an auto shift, but 10 speed. That's tough in the hills That's tough in the hills I always wanted at least 13 speed if i'm going into the into the big hills, but Hey, I'll take it Do I still talk to jade and john? Well Uh None of my business really to disclose it because they're private people, but they're not together anymore. They've been divorced for quite a while and uh remarried So it's been a long time But yeah, I do keep in contact with them. I do Shout out from alberta. We love alberta I wish all of canada could be like alberta. Just the whole country. Wouldn't that be awesome Man, would we be we'd be just doing great Does canada require chain-up laws in winter like here in the states? Yes in british columbia. You have to carry chains Uh, I think from october to april Something like that. I don't go to bc much though, but I do have chains on me just in case Big dance as I notice you're using the jake brakes in the snow while driving Uh, just when i'm fully loaded. Yeah a little bit. I do. Yeah Not when i'm empty though You have to be careful with that too. I get what you're saying though. I get I get why you asked the question I remember when you and alie night were the biggest trucking youtubers back in the day Yeah, a long time ago I came in here and started making vlogs, uh Shortly after some other people have I mean like pale writer tv. He's been making videos longer than me Uh, there was there was people making videos on trucking before me But uh, I started doing every day I think I was the first one to start doing daily vlogs driving. I think And it took off. It really did You know, we got a couple of articles in overdrive magazine on what I was doing and a couple of other articles We got on global tv in canada here in winnipeg Uh, cbc did an article on me. Uh, I think today's trucking did What other magazine? Oh, what's that magazine? That's free. That's in every truck stop We've gotten that one a few times And that's helped sort of snowball, uh, the channel got it rolling and yeah, I've got 117 How many subscribers do we got now? Now this number doesn't really mean anything because not everybody watches Uh 117,000 subscribers. I think I'm at 117,800 or something like that. We're gonna hit 118 in the next couple of days And it looks like a big number Those are all organic subscribers. I've never ever paid for subscribers or anything ridiculous like that That is 118,000 people that have clicked a button that said yes, I want you follow this weird dork sharker josh vlogs We got our channel verified here on youtube recently. You got that little check mark there um But not everybody watches so over the years. I've gathered people that have clicked that button But we're averaging In summertime it gets slow. I've noticed this doing this like 10 11 years summertime is slow season on youtube Averaging maybe like eight to 10,000 views per video Approximately, but as soon as the snow falls you guys love to watch me in misery Because as soon as the snow falls we're getting An average of almost 20,000 like 15,000 maybe Let's look at our videos here what the last couple of views have been on the videos They're through the roof every winter this happens every winter as soon as there's a snowfall That's why almost every title I have on my channel is like something about the snow, right? And this year's been great for views because I keep getting stuck in snow storms I don't even have to talk much about it. I just have to show you what's going on And people are like, oh look at that and they all want to watch So it started When I was stranded up north Or out to sea in remote deliveries when I went up north that I knew would catch quite a few eyes Because that's something different that's going on a ferry on the water I knew that that would get a couple more views than normal We got 13,000 on the first one when we left 18,000 on the The one where it's called out to sea here. I can show you this This is what I'm looking at here right now. Let's get my water out of the way so I don't spill it on myself Well, we got like out to sea had 18,000 views the next one stranded up north was a really good one 50,000 on that one That's awesome. I wish everybody could get that much that is awesome The next one there finally free brit helped me pick that thumbnail I that's my favorite thumbnail of all time That I've ever put on here Love that picture. It got 27,000. It's pretty good And then the next vlog was kind of a little more boring because it wasn't like being stranded or like on on a boat or anything I always had a wide load to my knot and what does that say 16 14 14? And then we go up here to the next one. Yeah, there wasn't anything really big happening in this day Showing you how was it unloaded you got 12 Up with the old I was getting a new mattress 15 Rolling that off. I tried to make that interesting So I try to make my thumbnails of the most interesting part of my day something that I think Will be unique like not everybody unloads those rolls like that So I thought that would be a good thumbnail here. I was parked in the middle of a field I thought that would be kind of cool off-road delivery Wasn't didn't catch as many eyeballs as I thought it might but that's okay That one was fun because that's where I had to like make them roll off the back. That was that was a fun one You know and then bob tailing and then as soon as this the snow is here Then you guys are all interested again, right? 19,000 snowed in again, 19,000 right away So Doing this long enough I can sort of figure what's going to catch the most eyeballs But like you saw like you saw that I'd won that was 50,000 and the rest in the last week Or so have been averaging between 10 to 15,000 or so and that's with almost 118,000 subscribers So just because you see that big number on a channel that subscription number doesn't really mean anything It it it matters It does matter especially to like advertisers who would see that I guess That's how many eyes will get reached So when I release a video and my thumbnail gets pushed out to everybody's subscription feeds 118,000 subscription feeds are going to have my thumbnail in there now It's up to me to figure out a way to get 118,000 people To click that thumbnail knocking on my door. I thought I heard a knock Yes, it's up to me to try to figure out how to get 118,000 people to click a video And most of these people have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of videos to go through So what what's going to be a thumbnail? It's going to grab their eye What's going to be a title that's going to grab their eye? What's going to pique their interest? And not everything not not not every day is an exciting day I I'm a normal guy and normal. I don't try to like It's not an act. I don't try to find action to film if it comes along that's great But if not some days are just boring days and I got to try to figure out a way like Okay, this day had nothing big going on in it What kind of thumbnail can I make and what kind of title can I put on there that'll make As many people as possible want to click it and want to watch it So, yeah, there's 117 118,000 subscribers, but they don't they don't all watch But they do all get my video sent to them. So I'm chasing after all you guys not watching my videos. I know you're seeing my thumbnails What do I got to do to get you to click on them? Tell me what do you want? What do I got to do put a squirrel on the thumbnail? I could try that. I mean I've tried pretty much everything else What are uh don mires is what most views uh, so which video got the most views On my channel. I think I have this like I have this info for you Most popular video. Oh, where would this be? I forget how to find this on my page now. We're uh We're on my page here Uh, see we're live. It shows me that I'm live here right now. I wonder what would happen if I'd click on that I get an ad Crazy youtubers in your ads. Hey someone said put a squirrel on your screen That's weird That's weird. We get an ad about squirrels right after you told me to put a squirrel on the screen Another ad are you kidding me? These youtubers and I can't even skip it blame I gotta watch an ad to watch my own video Cool, okay, so let's see. Can I see myself? It's supposed to be loading up this live stream right now. Oh, look I can see your comments coming in over here now That's pretty cool Maybe my internet's not the best here. I can't uh, I can't load up my live stream. Anyways, I'm not gonna waste time on this Uh, I thought that would have been funny Weird though, right that you said put a squirrel on the screen and a squirrel shows up right away. That is weird Okay, now for my most viewed video. How do I find that out my videos videos live store about? Hey, I have a store if you guys want to buy a trucker josh shirt There's a just in time for Christmas Hey, hey, hey, hey Where would I go to find that? I'll have to get back to you on that. I I think it's like 400,000 views on a video but uh I don't have those regularly So that would be pretty cool Oh, he's super cool. Welcome to my life. People are telling me to look for welcome to my life Is that on my channel? Okay about Videos What is my most pop? Oh popular. Here we go found it found it. There it is You guys are right So I went to popular welcome to my life is my most popular one Uh, it's got 582,000 views. I made it eight years ago This is the overnight one that I made uh last year in the snow again One of the big first snowfalls we had you guys love to watch me suffer So we got 393,000 on that and then This was a 2013 peter build. I was driving. It was brand new at the time I was nine years ago See this nine years. It's going to show me an ad What was that you see diesel there? Look at this I forgot about that Look at that. Look at all that hair It moved to my face That was diesel nine years ago Hey diesel, that's enough for introductions. Yeah, it's like me get this ad out of here stupid We can see each other Josh we can see that's a fridge Yeah We've had terrible selection of food I had you can tell I wasn't married yet And there's a little freezer part up there yet Really nice having that there if that's not enough space, which it isn't I had my cooler down here as well You look at that. Have a cool. What's in there more junk? Look at that Power sockets for like everywhere absolutely everywhere. It's fantastic. So this anyways, you guys go watch this video If you want to come to my channel back there. Yeah, look at me now. Don't I look different? Uh, yeah, that was uh, nine years ago Oh, yeah, good times good times People like watching that one Cool, look up the Hensley show if you like drama. I'll have to look that up I see your I see your comment there If you like drama You love the map with the mileage. Yeah, that's a little app that I found It takes me a little while to put that together because I actually have to I have to make the little car follow the road And like put little make it follow. Otherwise it just goes on like a straight like airplane line to the next town That takes some extra time, but I I think it's worth it. I really like it. It gives you a real uh A real good view of where I'm at where I'm driving Mark Vars says I just watched the one where he blew the steer tire on that truck way back in the day I remember that I remember that that was uh That was also that same peter belt 2013 peter belt, I believe and my steer tire blew out Yep How do you like pulling van trailers? Would you ever make the switch to van? I don't think I would now not with this truck that I have now this truck is not built for vans I could barely get over four miles per gallon Uh pulling a van trailer because it's like a big parachute behind my truck And I'm not putting one of those goofy scoops on top of my truck just to make it aerodynamic This truck is a deck truck. It's it's built for pulling flatbeds Uh, and I enjoy pulling flatbeds as well too. So I've done it against van. I really like how easy it is and how you just swing the doors and that's it and you go Uh, I did that for six years here That was a lot of fun So I wouldn't say I wouldn't ever do it again. I just with this truck I'd have to do something about my fuel economy because I I'd have a hard time making any money because it's uh Like I can average between six and seven miles per gallon in this truck pulling my flatbeds Pulling an empty van behind me. I'm getting four miles per gallon. Just an empty van And you put freight in it yet it's uh I don't want a big scoop on top of my truck. I think that would look goofy but uh It was nice Pulling vans was nice Josh, where did brit get her backpack purse from the skeleton one? Uh, we got that off amazon. I believe it's a disney one a disney uh mini backpack We were actually hoping to uh Uh go to disney world this year Uh before we knew for sure that she had gotten pregnant and now she's pregnant. We didn't want to take the risk of traveling And we also didn't have the money now to go to disney world very expensive very expensive And uh, we have we have to leave our dogs somewhere too, right and every disney resort That is pet friendly. They advertise it right like oh pet friendly bring your pets with you Yeah, they have to be like dogs under 15 pounds You're like, that's not a dog. What kind of dog is under 15 pounds? I'll show you a dog I got a dog. You tell me you're dog friendly. I'm gonna bring shabby Okay, no because we can't bring our dogs. We've got to find a place to bring our dogs this Or leave them or something. Can we still send you intros? Yes I would love to receive more intros from you guys. Uh, you can send them to at uh My gmail trucker josh vlogs at gmail.com You can send me your intros you make it personal Whatever you want to say, uh, just just launch off the vlog for me to say something like hey This is who I am. This is Where I'm from whatever whatever you want to say if you have a youtube channel that you want to promote Go ahead as long as it's family friendly Uh, that's it's all I would ask But yeah, I love including those intros. I ran out of intros to use. I've been reusing some of them now and then Uh But uh, oh, was that an intro right there already? I thought someone sent me one already. I'm wow you guys are quick Did I miss a super chat here? I'm seeing that I got one, but I didn't see it come in It must be on the way down. Maybe it's further down What that's what happens If I'm not always paying attention I will find you. I wonder if I can go like Ah, there we go. I can just go to super chats. There we go Wait, what? Live chat super chat member and super chat messages. I don't know what's going on Sorry, sorry. I got distracted there. You sent your intro twice I'm sorry Shoot. I haven't I haven't not aired one Purposely that would have been an honest mistake. I'm sorry. Uh I don't even know it's probably in my file here with all the other intros Would you mind sending it a third time? I'm sorry to ask that you shouldn't have to do that Did I respond? Because if I get it, I will definitely say thank you. I got it something just let you know I got it, but if I don't respond I didn't get it But if I got it and I said to you that I got it and I still didn't air it I am sorry. I didn't I messed up somewhere then But yeah, if you guys want to send intros I got a whole bunch of them here Like look at this This is my file with all your intros. This is your old intros. These are all intros from you guys I sort of rotate through them And then intros from this year 2022. I started uh separating them. These are the ones these that got sent to me this year 2022 So do you see yours in there anywhere? Those are all the intros I got oh tn ballistics. Hey, Josh cool getting to chat with you live twice in one day Thank you very much for that Absolutely Sorry, I'm pointing you the wrong way. I'm there you go. Thanks. See my face Thank you very much for that Uh I'd like to do more live streams. I like doing live streams. Uh, did you ever know alley knight? Uh, yeah. Yeah, we were friends Oh, the long time ago Long long time ago I don't know where she is or what she's doing now. I haven't talked to her in 10 years something like that But I wish her all the best For the lost contact Is it bad that I enjoy your videos in the snow the most? No, it's not bad at all It's actually very good for me because I'm in a lot of snow right now So that means that you'll want to watch them Other than so at least at least something good comes out of me having to deal with all this snow all the time At least you guys like to watch the videos a little bit more Have I been yes, I've been to rose town. I actually uh, that's since the sketch one, right? I got one of my drive tires fixed there a couple of months ago At their tire shop You never answer but I'll send it again. Okay, if I didn't answer I'm talking to odaf wolf here for your intro If I didn't answer I didn't get it If I get it before I aired I'll I will definitely say thank you or say that I got it just so that you verify Uh, so that you're verified that you know that I got it Let's go to trucker josh vlogs at gmail.com. That's my email address If the file is too big to send through email you can't send very big files for email Uh, you can use a file sharing app like dropbox or I think iphone has their own file sharing app as well There's a bunch of different ones where you can just send a link and then I can go there and grab the video downloaded from there That works too. I personally use dropbox a lot. So, uh If you upload it to dropbox you can get a link and you just email me the link and then I can get it that way It's a little bit of a roundabout way, but I don't know any better way of sending large files through email I should make a discord channel. I've heard of those before. What are those? Is that like a chat room? Hannah says her dad's truck just got backed into in georgia Brand new truck his passenger mirror and got tick off Oh man So he just got a new truck and he stopped on a flying jay in georgia someone backed into his truck That terrifies me, you know because The deductible alone on my truck is $5,000 So someone backs into my truck And like busts off my hood or my fender is probably about a 10 15 thousand dollar repair right there The first $5,000 is mine unless if I can prove who did it That's why I have my dash camera and then we go chasing after them with lawyers so that they pay that $5,000 That's why we have dash cameras all around the trucks because if you don't have that and you can't prove who hit you That's your deductible and it's not like on a car where your deductible is like what 200 500 bucks or whatever No, it's a $5,000 deductible And it's very it's a very serious thing when you back into somebody. It's not just a fender bender It is it's a big incident and uh big money right a ways So uh There's that get a dash camera always have a dash camera running all the time if anybody touches your truck You need to be able to prove who it was who was that? Because you're gonna send your lawyers after them if they touch it if they if they touch it too hard If they break anything and that's why I'm scared to park in truck stop parking lots I try to avoid them. I'm lucky because in my region It's the prairies and the open like midwest of the u.s. So usually there's tons of parking But parking in tight parking lots. I'll avoid it. I I just I got a big hood in front of me I don't want anybody ripping that off and then taking off running and Risking like not getting the right information off my dash camera or something like what if I I didn't get their unit number or something Then that's my deductible not only is it a $5,000 deductible I'm also losing like what hundreds of dollars a day just having this truck sit because now It's got to go and wait for parts to get fixed. It could take months to get the truck back on the road and you're losing Tens of thousands of dollars then just because someone had a fender bender at a truck stop Tens of thousands of dollars right away. Am I making more money now as an owner operator? Yes, I am Hensley so would love to interview on my channel someday. I'm not family friendly, but I'm a trucker and trucker friendly That's okay Non family friendly stuff doesn't bother me at all. That's just my channel here that I've decided to do But I'm a trucker just like you too. I need to wash my mouth out with soap every day Yeah, maybe the interview would be fun What dash camera do I recommend? People ask me that all the time. I don't really know I have like a no-name brand one seems to work um I have this I know it's backwards because it's inverted, but r25 kaiser boss Let me guess it's probably made in china. I don't know where oh Made in china, of course it is Made in china. What's not made in china? uh, yeah, but find a good dash camera when you do get a dash camera get a good one that uh Has good low light quality that records good high definition video at night That's the most important thing a lot of good brands out there. Can we get another? Oh, I caught you off-card with that one, didn't I? Ha rest in peace earphones. I should have warned you Hopefully you're not wearing headphones Yeah, almost everything's made in china Well, our world has kind of got itself addicted to getting china to make everything for us A lot of these things we could make ourselves, but it would cost more money You know and uh, we sort of abolished all of that free labor For good reason, but the same evil people have instead just taken advantage of Super cheap and free labor in other countries instead, which is I think disgusting and that's A topic for a whole another day. You know these big corporations You know, it's too much money to make because you got to pay your workers here in north america You got to pay them. We don't want to pay our workers No, we'll have it made in china by like some kind of you know, he's 10 cent an hour Children they'll make our stuff for us. Yes. We'll ship our manufacturing over there Yeah, we don't have to pay our workers there these evil corporate People It's not something I'm gonna fix, but I can definitely See what's going on there But anyways, uh, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna log off here with the time Yeah, I gotta go to bed gotta be up in the morning So thanks for hanging out with me all this time an hour and a half Wow Wow Good night, everybody. Uh, thanks for all your questions. I'm sorry if I didn't get to all your comments I'll talk to you, uh again real soon. My video will be released Tomorrow midday sometime probably around like noon or something Central time so keep your eyes open and your feet turn your notifications on And uh, it's a pretty good scenery going through the state park in minnesota. I'll see you then