 Hi, I'm Larry and I'm bad and this is Tucker and you're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on YouTube So this is that rock formation I was talking about last night that was too dark to show you then. I don't know what they're doing here, but they're moving this mountain apparently. I got woken up by them loading up all these rocks. I don't know where they went, but how's it going there, bud? I don't know if there's snakes here, buddy. Be careful in the long grass. We're screaming up interstate 15 northbound here in Montana. That's the one at the Canadian border here. Going to cross from Montana or Sweetgrass, Montana into Coots, Alberta. It's a red deer, going to park somewhere around there and tomorrow we've got to get back to work. We've got to unload this freight, go reload some new freight and head home. So we're reloading in Sundra, Alberta, a load of lumber. It does not need to be tarped. So it won't take too long to load it up and tie it down. It'll take longer to get this load unloaded. So we get out of there by the afternoon, tomorrow's Wednesday, right? Yeah, I'll be home Thursday, Thursday evening, and then I'll be home for a little while. Got to get a few things done. This truck's going into the shop again. Just like regular maintenance stuff, maintenance and stuff. And I'm also buying new drive tires. I am getting the retreads and there's lots of people who think I shouldn't. But I have virgin tires on here right now. But you know, retreads, I'm going to try them out. I'm not a fan of them either, but my bank account's more of a fan of them right now. So it is what it is, guys. I can't do anything about it. Can't afford virgin tires right now. So we're going with the recaps. They're not going to be the cheap Chinese recaps. Don't worry. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, while you're staring at the beautiful Montana countryside here, I'll explain to you what retreads are. It's a retreaded tire. It's exactly what it sounds like. So pretty much when I'm tired, it gets old. They take that tire and they take it to a very special factory. And they pretty much make sure that there's no holes or punctures in it. Take off the rest of the tread that was on there. And they put a new tread on that same tire, like on the same tire walls. And it's pretty much just as good as a new tire. It's got a higher chance of a blow out. And some people say they don't last as long. But you know, technology has come a long ways in the past while. And I'm told that they're just as reliable as virgin tires now. And a virgin tire is obviously a tire that's only, that's never been used before, brand spanking new. But retreads are actually better for the environment. So that makes all the hippies happy. And it's better for my pocketbook. So that makes all the conservatives happy. So really, I should be making everybody happy with this decision, I think. We'll see what happens. I'm going to try them out. And if I have a bad experience, well, then I can tell you all about it. And you can learn from my mistakes. I will be your guinea pig. And we'll see how the retreads do getting them installed on Monday. So we've crossed the border now into Canada. We're now in Alberta. This is what the Alberta landscape looks like, at least in the south, right near Montana. Fine. If it looks like the next town we're going to go through is Lethbridge and make our way past around Calgary up to Red Deer. And get as close to the customer as possible tonight. I might even just sleep down the road. So I can be there first thing in the morning. I want to get unloaded as quickly as possible. I already talked to the customer again today. They're expecting me there at eight o'clock. So I'd like to be there ready to go at seven thirty. Maybe I can have all my straps all rolled up by eight o'clock then. That'd be nice. Was this a derailment or what's going on here? It's a whole pile of train cars off to the right here. A bunch of cranes. It looks like the train jumped the tracks. Shoot. Yeah, that's what happened. Train derailment. I didn't even heard of this one. It looks like it was a train full of oil. You know, this would never happen if we had pipelines. Just saying. People keep blocking all the pipelines and instead we have to transport it like this. And this is what happens. So I'm still a little ways away from Calgary here. Scenery hasn't changed much, not much to show you. Karen took me up a road here in Alberta parallel to Highway 2, but just east of it. Seemed like a shortcut, but there's like no stores. So this is the first store we've run into. Petropas. I will take it. Turn left. Guessing diesel needs to go out too. I need to get a coffee in 200 meters. Make a sharp right turn on Highway 23. What? No, Mandy. I'm going to make a sharp right turn and go in the store. How about that? I think I got to go park around the back. I want to walk diesel. So I take them out back there somewhere. Oh, there's a campground back here too. On A&W too. Oh, don't tempt me with the good time. Yeah. A&W is one of my favorite fast food restaurants. I got some heart-stopping burgers. Tell you what, some great onion rings and classic root bear. Got an RV park. I guess I can park over here. I'm going to go flip myself around and, you know what actually? Yeah, I'm going to flip myself around and face this way. I like those other trucks there. I got to go out that way anyway. I got this steel here all the way from Tennessee. We're almost at our destination in Alberta. Four days later. Got another 270 kilometers. Big ol' U-turn here. That may be about 40 acres. Turn this thing around. I'm not going to park right beside this guy, but I'm going to park about a truck like the way. Or truck with the way. Right. Well, this guy's from the Steinbeck area. Greetings! Brethren, are you barking at diesel? Don't bark at people. Unless if they're threatening. Are they threatening us? I'll bark at them too. Should I bark at them? He's just standing there. People are allowed to stand there diesel. It's okay. I was beginning to think I wouldn't get another coffee. I was starting to get very sad. Oh, thank God we found it. I don't get that little mic out of your way. What do you guys want to look at that fluffy thing? It looks like a dog's chew toy, but it keeps all that. It gets really good audio as opposed to the camera itself. It's just it's like as big as the camera. It's bigger than the camera actually. Okay, so I'm going to run in here and get a coffee and we're going to meander our way down the road. My dad's actually right nearby us. He's in Calgary right now. Won't be able to meet up with him because I'm going around Calgary. I got to be in Red Deer tonight and I got to be there early enough that I can be up first thing in the morning tomorrow. Like I was saying before, I don't want to mess around. After I get reloaded with my next load, I'm going home. Unfortunately, I'm going home to spend a lot of money again. Last time I went home, I spent $20,000. Now I got to go and spend like another $3,000 at least. So I did the math. I called two different tire depots. We're going to get our tires at West End Tire in Winnipeg, I think. So West End Tire was offering me retreads for my drives. I need eight of them for $291 a tire. That's $2,328 plus 13% taxes because Mr. Fancy Sox wants some of my money too. $2,630.64. That's, I think it's 8% provincial tax and 5% federal tax. But I think our, no, no, our provincial tax was just lowered, wasn't it? It was. So that's 7 plus 5. I mean, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. It's 12%. Okay. So what did I say it was? 291 times 8 plus 12%. So $2,607, $2,600. I called KK Penner and Blumenor. They offered me the same retreads for $341 a tire. That's $50 more a tire. He times that by eight. That's $2,728 plus 12%. They're looking at $3,055. So ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner, West End Tire and Winnipeg gets my business. It's in Canadian dollars just to clarify. Not the same as American dollars. So spending what about $2,600? Did I say $2,600? Canadian, which is probably about, it's probably under $2,000 American. Let's ask Google. She has all the answers. Hey Google, how you doing? And I'll be even more happy once you tell me how I can help. Oh, I see. What is $2,600 Canadian in American dollars? Here is information from foreign currency exchange rates. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, Google. Let's try it this way. No, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? I don't know what she's doing. There's so much to do. I spend some of my time reading poetry. I can share some if you'd like. No, thanks. Okay, Google. $2,600 USD to CAD. No, I want to do it the other way around. I don't even know what I'm doing here. Okay, okay, Google. $2,600 CAD to USD. $2,600 United Arab Emirates Dear Homes. What? Okay, I'm just going to have to type it in because Google doesn't know what she's talking about. $2,600 CAD to USD. Okay, so that's $1,949.83 American. So $2,600 Canadian dollars is $1,950. That's how much I need to spend on my tires. Diesel, who's that? Somebody came and parked right beside us. How dare you? How dare they park right there? How dare he drive a much nicer truck than me? Right? Yeah, you tell him. You tell him how dare he. It's a nice Peterbill. You want to see it? How dare he drive a nicer truck? Roll for a part of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. You're in this cluster of buildings off to the left here. The northwest side of Red Deer. Somebody here needs some Tennessee steel. I just so happen to have some Tennessee steel. I'm going to bring it to them. $2,600 meters. Turn left on. $75,80. Alrighty, Karen. You got me all the way here. My trust for you has grown exponentially, Karen. Thank you. So I'm going to sleep on the road pretty much right at the customer. $300 meters. Turn left on. $75,80. $75, what? Oh, Avenue. But it says AVE, like for the shortened acronym of Avenue. So she's like, Abby, turn left on $75, Abby. This feels good to be arriving. I actually got some good time for, well, there's a card lock down there. Well, I might be able to park at the card lock and set them on the street. Well, either way, we're like right across the street from where we need to be. So first thing in the morning, get this Tennessee steel off my trailer and we'll put some Alberta wood on there and we'll take it to Manitoba. How's that sound? So I found my delivery point. You probably won't be able to see it because there's no light here. But right here in the field here, there's a whole bunch of steel that some other guys, I guess, have brought before me. So my load is going to go into the field here as well. Now you can't see it. It's too dark, but this is where we got to be first thing in the morning. So we'll go find a quiet place to park. I don't think I can park right exactly here. Plus, I don't want to be in the way of their equipment when they get here. So let's go find a place we can shut her down.