 Hey everyone, this is me here for the love from Kevlar Afghanistan and you are watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on YouTube Good morning everybody How you doing? How you doing? Diesel we're going home today How does that make you feel? I know me too. That's his excited face if you're wondering Hard to tell the difference, but I know my boy Just turn this off. Let's get everything ready to go here And then we will be off to the races get my hat on which give you some fresh water We should give you some fresh water though All right, we're gonna stop in Balgoni try and get some of these bugs off the windshield just got a message saying that my Load has been cleared right on right on release the brakes let's just break and Start moving. Let's start giving you something to look at lights are on Gonna give the trailer a little tug test just to make sure it's not gonna fall off. I Know you don't gotta do this every morning, but I would recommend it. Hey Go back there make sure your fifth wheel is locked first of all and then just give a little tug just before you Never know there's been some really weird things that have happened in the past to some people never happened to me yet But don't want your trailer falling off. It doesn't matter how many times you double-check it The more the better We can grab us go-go juice here in Balgoni, Saskatchewan Balgoni baloney Fueler on up. I'm just above quarter tank left. So I'll fuel up here and the next fuel up will be in the states on Monday Little better price down there Breaks are a little wet little squeaky today Keep my ears open for that and see if that gets any worse Manitoba sign up here looks like we got a new one. Oh No, what did they do Manitoba welcome bienvenue. Where's my welcoming stampede? Here comes the first one Hey Frank. Hey Frank. Okay. He's on the way back Quick hello Little guys fast Hello Diesel Wow I Got a cow So we got home not quite enough time to mow the lawn today, so I'll have to do it next weekend Britt took care of the front yard here already So don't need to worry about that And the bonfire side over here. Did I lock this? Yes, we're locked out can't get back in good Yeah, and we moved our bonfire pit. Let me show you guys already over here all nicely mowed Somebody wants to have a bonfire But What you got there okay care from you you want a piece of okay, it was so slimy you you can have it Good to be home again Just for a short while we just have that that family reunion and And Monday I'm back on the road. I've got to have that load in Wisconsin Tuesday, so I'll drive all day Monday deliver that Tuesday morning, hopefully and Tuesday or Wednesday, I have a real I think it's Wednesday. Oh Really, I have two pickups. I got a pickup one kind of like a boom truck in Thought I heard a door opening Creepy a boom truck in Wisconsin around Milwaukee, Wisconsin Then I have another pickup in West St. Paul of like a Some kind of little utility trailer of some kind it's like a security camera or security trailers go lights and cameras on it I think it things like a mobile security. I Don't know what it is. We'll see what it is on Wednesday And then we come back up here for Thursday, and then I'll be back home for the weekend next weekend So that's our next week planned out just going dipping down into Wisconsin and back I kind of miss the the trips. I keep saying that I miss the trips further south We just we don't have any routes on flatbeds going down there our van divisions down there in Georgia And down the south up the East Coast from New England and everything all the time Kind of miss those routes sometimes, you know But it was always guaranteed if I went down to Georgia and went like up on a route up to Newfoundland or something Up the East Coast to probably do that twice Guaranteed I'd be gone for three or four weeks Which was great when I was single right didn't really make a difference No one to come home to And we'll stay out there and make money right but now that We've established a homestead here. I'm married. That's the biggest thing. I'm married now have a family at home and We're trying to grow our family It doesn't make much sense for me to be gone three weeks at a time It's a little bit long. So since I've gotten on to flatbeds. I've changed divisions It's I did this Basically to be home more because on flatbeds like you've probably noticed over the last couple of years I'm home every Three to four to ten days usually I'm rarely gone for two weeks at a time a week is Even a long time but about average I guess and it's been working out really well for me, you know Actually make more money with flatbeds too than I do on drive-in so that works out too and I kind of like it more You know another drive-ins. I would always say that I have so much respect for the drivers who were out there on On flatbeds because I don't think a lot of the people in the cars driving down the road realize that all those tarped loads All those chains all those strides. That's all the driver that does it It's a lot of extra responsibility on the driver on flatbeds. It's a lot of extra Stress, you know, you got to make sure nothing falls off your trailer and a drive-in you just close the doors You're good to go if it falls over that's too bad You know clean it up later, but on a flatbed If something goes wrong and your load isn't secured properly and it falls off the trailer and into traffic you could kill somebody Nobody wants that to happen. So it's a It's a little bit more of a challenge and I like the challenge. I welcome the challenge I like to always challenge myself and you know, it's kind of neat, you know kind of a sense of pride rolling down the road with a you know Expensive complicated load behind you. That was hard to tie down and showing it off going down the highway. That's my load back there There's that and like I said the the biggest plus about it is being home more often and Getting paid more now. I'm not saying it's like that with every company. Okay. Don't don't take what I say and Apply it to anywhere else because it could be different. Every company's different It's just the way ours works and the way my routes have worked and maybe I just got lucky. I don't know But I'm enjoying it. This is the next morning. You can tell I'm just waking up. I haven't had my coffee yet I made the coffee. I haven't had the coffee yet. What's wrong with me? Let's go get our coffee out here Why am I sitting on the porch without a coffee? So boys, so we're gonna end this vlog though. Okay The end of log to start tomorrow's right not gonna be much to film tomorrow. So we're gonna have to make use of everything we can Thanks for watching today everybody. I'm gonna end the vlog here and we'll get my coffee and start tomorrow's day So tune in tomorrow. Like I said, we have a family reunion. I'm not gonna be vlogging there or anything I just want to enjoy my time there and Not shove a camera in everybody's face. I just want Everybody I'll tell you about it. We have family coming from all over the world sort of so it's big deal I'll talk to you tomorrow or the next day. Take care. We'll be back on the road soon Hi Josh, it's Josh from Lakeville, Minnesota And you all are watching trucker Josh blogs on YouTube