 Hi, this is Jeff from Virginia, and I'm enjoying Trucker Josh Walsh. I hope that was a nightmare to tie down. I'm glad I'm getting rid of you today. What a beautiful day. It's gonna be a good day. Just getting going here and just trying to get my bearings. Woke up, figured out where I am. We're up here in Alberta, north of Edmonton. I'm gonna get rid of that today. And put some other stuff on it. There's a reload already waiting for me in a town called Edson, Alberta. So as soon as I get this unloaded, I gotta race over there. I gotta call them first though. But I call them first. I gotta know what to special note on this. Just call them and make a loading appointment. Before 3 p.m. But they'll load me till 7. So I should get reloaded today yet, unless if something goes wrong. Knock on wood. Should get loaded today, and we'll be headed back. The load I'm picking up looks like it's headed to Iowa. I'll have to check to see if I'm gonna take it right through or not. I'm guessing it probably has got to be there on Monday. I wouldn't be able to be there on Monday, because I'm going home for the weekend. We have the open house on Saturday. I won't make it for the Friday, but I'm gonna be there on Saturday. And then Sunday is Father's Day, and we have a family get together, and then I'm ready to go Monday morning. So I'd be able to be in Iowa Tuesday. As long as I find out. Good morning to you. Good morning. I'm glad you're here. Hit that subscribe button if you haven't already. You know all the YouTubers tell you to do the same thing. I'm no different. All kinds of buttons in the description for you to click. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok. I don't use Snapchat, and I don't use TikTok that much. I don't make much on TikTok. I watch a lot of TikTok. Diesel. How is that bunch of grass smelling right there? That looked like a good one. Look at your good one. Oh, that, that, that is a good one. That is a good one. That's a good bunch of grass right there. That smells good. I see why you like it. There she was. Sitting there looking all pretty. That load took four hours to tie down. It was a big pain in the butt. It's got a lot of little tin pieces on it, and they bend easily, so you got to be very careful not to bend it. And like I was saying, this little back part here, they want it tarped. Which is fine. It's fine. It tarped it. And the rest of it, it's just very light. I explained this yesterday, right? Very light tin, so you want to tie it down. Not too tight, because you don't want to bend it or damage it. But you want to tie it down tight enough so that it doesn't go flying off your trailer into traffic behind you. It's like this fine line. You got to find it. And I found it. I didn't lose anything, and I didn't bend anything as far as I know. Under this tarp here is very sharp steel, and I'm very glad that the seller who sold me old blue He also gave me a whole bunch of corners and corner protectors and stuff that I could use under my tarps here to make sure that the tarps don't get ripped by the by the steel. That came in very handy on this trip. Now look at this, eh? Just a mess, but we got it here. I got just a little ways to go yet. I took a long time. It was fun though. This is what I do, right? I can't complain about tying it down. This is what I do. I'm a professional driver. This is my profession. I always say I'm not a doctor. I'm not a scientist. No, I'm a truck driver. This is what I do. Some people perform open heart surgery. I do that, and I get it across the country. Just going to quickly walk over to this side, see if I can get myself a nice screenshot. All right, how about right about here? I'm thinking. I'm thinking right about here one second. I mean, let me get you turned around. Okay. Diesel, you want to be in my screenshot? How about it? You know, take this off of you. One second. I was like, you don't need this. No trucks around here. Is there? No. Okay, Diesel. Here's what I need you to do. Can you come right over here and turn around and face me? Okay. Can you sit? Okay. Give me your best face. Okay. We're going to get a thumbnail for the video. Just stay. Okay. Look very happy. Look very, look, or look tough. Do something right here. Right there. That is a beautiful thumbnail. I'll leave room at the top there so I can put some text up there. Hey, Diesel. Diesel, look this way. Cows. No. That usually gets us years to perk up. You a good boy? Should we go reload today and then go home? You hungry? All of his favorite words. He's just like, I am yawing. Yeah. I want to keep yawing. I'm yawing. Well, somewhere in there is going to be a nice screenshot for you. And that'll be the thumbnail. Good boy, Diesel. Good boy, man. That used to be a lot harder. You used to fight me a lot more. Oh, he wants to go trucking. He wants to go trucking. Put a step away first. Truck got so dirty on this trip. Look at this. Look at this here. It's shine. I got you on my head. Can't have my hat and you otherwise that's your view. There we go. Now you see what I see. Oh, let's slow her down. Oh, one lane bridge. Oh, that's fun. That's fun. Nobody coming, but we got to wait for the red light. That looks like a temporary bridge. Or is it always just one lane? It looks like it was built as a one lane. This has been a really long red light. Oh, finally green. All you had to do is complain about it a little bit. And there you go. See, that's why I complain so much because things get done then. Okay, it is a two lane bridge. It's just narrow and they're fixing half of it. Camper guy's very nervous. He doesn't know how wide his vehicle is. Oh, quiet, Karen. I sure haven't seen views like this in a while. Okay, there, Mr. Tourist. You can give her now. Been following him for a while. He's going to give her now because there's a passing lane, but as soon as there's a two lane highway again and there's no passing lane, he's going to slow right down. He's one of those fast, you know. Plus, I never like to make my truck pull as like 100%. Unless I absolutely have to, but every now and then, yeah, it's good for a diesel engine to pull. That's what they're designed to do. You want them to pull hard every now and then, but just not 24 seven, you know, not all the time. You know, some might say that it's better for an engine to be pulling hard up a hill than to be idling in a parking lot. That's why I say our hearts are always like a diesel engine. Diesel engines aren't meant to idle and neither are our hearts. That's why we got to exercise, right? Same thing with a diesel motor. You got to exercise it or it gets all gunked up, starts having issues, doesn't last as long. The prairie is like nothing happened. Well, the first delivery is done. Can you tell? Just laying in the grass over there is just one piece. I'm just going to quickly make sure all my straps are tight. We've just got to go about 45 minutes down the road and then fill over the rest of this. And then I have to rush down to Edson, probably get loaded tomorrow morning because I don't think I'm going to make it there today yet. Really nice guy here came out and met me. We just hand bombed it off. What's on? Dead I can get around the back here. Yeah, lots of room. Lots of room. Nice side-by-side over there, right? I'd love to have one of those nice cab and everything on it. Wow. Britt and I were thinking of getting a side-by-side one day, probably when we move and when we build our house. Western star right here, right? I was looking at a couple Western stars when I was looking for trucks. Actually pretty good trucks. They have a little bit of a rougher ride though in my experience. I don't know if they're all like that, but the ones I've driven have a sort of ride like a tank. They're kind of all designed for heavy duty work. But maybe that was just the trucks I was driving to, you know. In 200 meters, turn right onto Alberta 740 South. That's the plan. Got my GPS here hooked up to the radio. What do you think, Diesel? The guy here had a dog. We didn't have time to let you play with him, but that was a young pup. Looks like a nine-month-old, I think he said. Nine-month-old, something like a German Shepherd Cross or something. Beautiful piece of land here though. This is pretty far up north. I wish Northern Manitoba was more like this. Northern Alberta is nice. I'd live here. There's a lot of the same culture groups that settled this area, that settled my area, the German and Dutch, the Mennonites. They settled Southeastern and Southern Manitoba, Southwestern Saskatchewan, and Northeastern, Northwestern Alberta. So I recognize a lot of the last names out here. Everyone here sort of has the same background as me. Maybe that's why I like it so much. Feel at home here. They load. They only ship or they only load until 7 p.m. and I don't think I can make it there by 7. See what I can do. I'll probably end up loading at like 7 a.m. to more morning. I was really kind of hoping to get a head start today so I could maybe even get there for some of that open house tomorrow at work. But either way, at least I'll be there for the open house on Saturday. I hope you guys saw my post on social media already. I'm not going to be there at the open house tomorrow. But I will be there on Saturday. We've seen the mirror. Almost finished unloading. There was a lot, as you saw, to take off this trailer and they got to take it off one little bundle at a time to make sure they don't damage it. So far, I think everything's been good. They haven't come to talk to me about anything, which means everything should have arrived. I was kind of funny just as I was saying that oh they haven't come to talk to me. I guess everything's all good. Right as I said that, he came up to the window and asked me to move. I just had to move up. They're trying to get off really long pieces right now and set them on the ground so they lift them off the trailer. I drive forward then they set them down and then the next one they want in a different area of the yard. So I had to come around over here, park over here by these bins over here. Almost done. Almost done. And off we go. Empty flat bed behind us. We're going to put some lumber on it tomorrow morning. Oh boy, I can just feel it immediately. Before I could sort of tell something was behind me weighing me down. Now, it feels like I'm bob-telling. Lots of nice equipment here though. This is a really well off farm by the looks of it. Very nice. Nice yard, well taken care of. I like these people. Okay, so we're going to go and try to find a parking spot at the Petropas in Edson, Alberta. There's only about 10 spots there so we'll see. We'll see what happens when we get there. I'm going to stop for fuel on the way as well. That'll probably be at a flying J. It's probably in Whitecourt is what I'm thinking. I'm going to go to Europe and see how the farms there operate. You know, all the farmers here, they came from there originally, but the farms here from what I've heard are way bigger, way bigger out here in North America. And I sort of grew up in the farming community in Southeast Manitoba and on the prairies. There's a lot of farmers here. It's the bread basket of Canada. Love to see how the old world does it. Like, how do they manage with their farms and how do they get their farm equipment around like with all the narrow roads and stuff? They can't have that big of equipment. Very interesting to see. Getting close to the border with British Columbia. Not right next door but closer to it. The Rocky Mountains are a little ways over there. We might be able to see them tomorrow if it's a clear day. This is a one-way street going this way. The other direction is just a block over that way. Petro Pass that we're going to is all the way on the other end of town. As you can see on the GPS there on the right. This guy on my left here is, he doesn't want to pass me. I think he's a little embarrassed. He turned onto the road like this and royally cut me off. And then he quickly, quickly got into the left lane there so that I could get past him. But royally cut me off now. I don't think he wants to come up beside me because he's a little ashamed of his behavior maybe. Oh, I probably doesn't care. What am I? Who am I kidding? Nobody cares. But he did cut me off really bad. I almost hit a moose before too. The moose cut me off. Seriously, I saw him running into the ditch, got onto my lane and just sat there. Oh, there you go. There he goes. See, can't stay behind me forever, bud. And that is not how you tie down rolls. Oh my, you just put straps over the top? That's not the way I would do it, but Petro Pass. Where are you? Petro Pass, Petro Pass. Oh, this is a very long town. It's a very long town. I haven't been here in so long. My shipper that I'm picking up at at 7am tomorrow morning is just down the road there. Anyway, it's going to be lumber, wood, some sorts of wood. I don't even, I don't know if I need to tarp it or not, but I know that it's going to Iowa. Osekela Iowa? I don't think I'm taking it all the way through. I might, but the load's taking me home for now. Okay, what do you guys think? Is there going to be a spot there for me? I've never paid attention to this as I've driven past here in the past. I don't even know if there was truck parking here. Well, yeah, just ahead, I don't know what the fish eye lens you probably can't see. There's a Ford dealership there. No, I just ignore that in a Ford dealer. After that, there's a red sign. That's Petro Pass. And we need to see if there's going to be parking there for us, or if it will be full. Oh, I guess I can always park down there on the street if I have to. Looks like some other guys are parking down there. Okay, that's the backup down there. You see there's another guy parked over there. Okay, let's see. What? No way. Look at it. It's almost empty. Why? That's suspicious. Are we not allowed to park here overnight? Why would it be almost empty? Most guys are parking down there on the street. I might go park down there because if nobody's parked up here, that is suspicious. You haven't arrived at your destination, 6330 4 Avenue. That says parking, right? Pay to park or doesn't say pay to park. Why has nobody parked here then? Parking, this guy's parked here. I'm going to turn around and go back into that spot right there. So weird that no one comes to park here. Wouldn't you be suspicious of that? Nice, beautiful parking like this. And nobody's taking advantage of it. How am I going to turn around? I don't want to jackknife it that hard. Maybe he'll park on this side. Is this guy idling? No, he's got his truck shirt off. Maybe he'll park on... No, no, can't park there. You know that guy parked in there. Okay, well, I'm going to figure this out. I'm making this way too complicated on myself. We're going to go around again. Worked here. Could just nose in, I guess, but I don't really want to nose in. I'm going to back in there, but there's not enough room for me to turn around here anywhere. You think this is enough room here? I think I can do it. I'm going to give it a shot. I mean, I think I can do it. Why is that smithing there? That's what's messing with me, you know? I'm going to try. Give me 40 acres and I'll turn this rig around, unless if it's a small petrol pass lot, then I'll crank it hard and I'll turn around on a dime. It's a lot easy. I'm making it pretty hard. I don't want the trailer to hit my side faring there. There we go. Okay. I'm going to bag him inside this guy and then figure out why no one's parked here. Because I don't want to knock on my door first thing in the morning. Excuse me, you're not supposed to park here. Have you paid your fare? Have you paid to park here? No. What do I look like? Do I look like someone who will pay for parking? No. I don't pay to park. Not that there's anything wrong with paying to park. You know what? I want to go against those smith barriers over there. That way I can let diesel out to walk and I can use his steps right there, you know what I mean? I'll leave space for one more truck to park in here if they want to. Hopefully nobody does. All right, diesel. I'm going to go and inspect my parking job. Okay. You wait here. This is serious, serious business. You can't park for night without being straight. And if it's on pavement in the lines and out of everyone else's way, there's no lines here. So let's just make sure we're out of everyone else's way and taking up as little space as possible. Oh, yeah, another trailer could fit in there, right? Why am I not straight compared to that guy? All right, well, there's like no parking here. I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to park here. If you don't want me parking here, maybe you shouldn't put up a big giant sign that says parking here in sleep. Look at all the space I have back here though. I'm going to move back a little bit further. I don't know why I've got so much space back here. Let's see, look at this. You can see how his nose is further away than his trailer. He's crooked. It's not me. I'm straight. I'm a straight parker. Straight, straight, straight. Straight as can be. Parked it straight. Is it straight enough?