 Hey everyone, this is me to have you to laugh from Kevlar Afghanistan, and you're watching trucker Josh or key JV on YouTube North to me because I live I'm the weather stripping. I live right against the warmth of the United States Down by the border So this is North to me, but we've got to meet our customer at Walmart Walmart is gonna guide me into where we're delivering this steel that we picked up in Jackson, Tennessee Five days ago now took us four days to drive up here today. It would be day number five. It's delivery day Soon as I'm empty here, I head north of town to pick up some lumber And I take that back down to the great state of Iowa New condos or apartments that came up here recently. I can still remember when none of these were here This is what they would classifies downtown Fort McMurray. I believe Believe that's why there would be the big buildings. This isn't a very big city There's only like, I don't know. I'm gonna guess like what 50,000 people here Something like that Here's some history and heritage off to the right Fort McMurray heritage shipyard That in summertime sometime when it's open Think the next left The hospital street there's a Walmart there and my guy I have a guy My guy is waiting there for me or at least he's gonna meet me there My guy is gonna lead me into the secret destination. I don't think it's a secret I just think they want to guide me in so that I don't get lost or stuck You don't want to mess around downtown even in a small city like this So this is Walmart here. That was the first one On the right here. This is the second one right where those pickups are coming on that pickup there and an SUV That's the third one. That's where they want me to go in. Okay Walmart is the meeting place. I got my signal on there, buddy I'll want to go in there This you want to go this way and others traffic. Okay, we'll all wait now. There's a kerfluffle should have gone I had my signal on I guess they didn't Realize oh Okay, that's my guy right there following him big pickup truck That's a nice pickup. Look at that thing Nothing says Alberta more than that is the heartbeat of Alberta right there So I got to follow this guy wherever he's taking me I have a feeling we're going to that building over there. That's being built We're off to the left. It's got a bluish. It's a hospital, right? No, no, there's another building being built on the radio. There's a whole bunch of stuff being built Oh good good guys keep building stuff so that I can deliver stuff to you keep building This is a really messy day 63 This is one of those, you know Four jugs of washer fluid type of day the big bypass here Bypassing Fort McMurray on the way back. So the steel took all morning to get unloaded and I got to Got to my reload half hour 45 minutes there to get reloaded. I guess technically it'd be central Canada I keep forgetting we got a whole lot more land up north yet This is still southern Canada to me. It's north Anything north of Winnipeg is north to me Actually, you know what I'd stretch that up to Saskatoon and Edmonton anything north of Saskatoon and Edmonton That's northern Canada to me What do they say 95% of us Canadians live within a hundred miles of the US border? So we call ourselves the weather stripping right against America keeping ourselves warm It's a lot of dings and stuff going on in here again. I think I'm stopping right away There's a flying day just down around the corner here. See what's going on with my phone. It's just exploding here Someone must have told it that I wanted to talk to you guys and Figured it would make a lot of noise and try to interrupt me I don't make sure you got lots of washer fluid today. That's good though. That means it's warm All snows melting Also means your truck is filthy all the time My truck out looks like it's brown right now and it doesn't even look white anymore. It looks brown fish lay rolling on our way home We're 1569 kilometers away from home There's got a head south First now to the Yellowhead Highway, which is our other trans-Canada That's a few hours down to get there yet And then was like the Yellowhead Highway all the way home won't be getting home today or tomorrow yet I might be able to make it home tomorrow, but if I do make it home tomorrow, it's gonna be super late So I think I'm just gonna sleep in the truck and head home the next day This truck is now getting a safety next Monday instead of February is getting done This next week so I've got to have it at the shop on the weekend so it's ready Monday morning Because I'm hoping that it's not gonna take more than a day to do the safety because in the evening I want to head out with this low towards Iowa yet Hopefully they don't find anything that's gonna take a while to fix. I don't think they will I mean this truck's in good work in order. I take care, but I maintain it Should all be good Safety is here in Canada's that they do a yearly inspection every year and it's a pretty intense one They take the wheels break drums apart and they take check everything about 500 bucks just to get it done plus whatever they need to fix forming in my windshield as well From one of the lovely Drivers who threw a rock at me So this windshield is gonna need to get replaced. That's another 400 and some dollars So just the windshield and getting the safety done is about a thousand dollars Then if they find anything that needs to be fixed yet It's on top of that Life is fun, isn't it? Back on the two lane highway the rest of today. I'm pretty sure Gotta ways before we get to the yellow head I gotta stop somewhere and clean my lights off. I guarantee you they're just covered in dirt Clean them off before it gets actual before it actually gets dark and I actually need them See I'm gonna find a place to pull over though There's a small town here, but I don't think there's anywhere for me to pull in here We are so heavy I've got about 44 44 45 thousand pounds of wood on my trailer It was so nice pulling that 16,000 pounds of light steel up here But what's weird is I'm getting better fuel economy now with this heavy load than I was with that Well, that's how much that load caught the air and this one sort of just slips right through it, right? And very often the momentum of my truck with all the weight just pushed me through the air Better now with all weight strange I've noticed that in the past before How far am I gonna have to go? I got to the bathroom too I can't just pull over because there's no shoulder and there's people behind me This could be a dilemma Who's your good boy ate all his treats? Oh, he missed one You got to eat all your vitamins before you get your treats, man. There you go. Eat it. Eat that Have your vitamins you're good coasting me man. It's good for your joints Who's your good boy who gets not only one treat but Two treats Oh, he put this one right here for later. Yeah right there Oh man, they'll smell so good. I want one He gets his treats after he takes his vitamins in the morning Good boy. We're gonna keep these joints nice and lubricated nice and oil So you don't turn into a rusty old tin man. Good boy Yeah, we made it to this little town here. Um There this is where we made it to a little different scenery than was in Tennessee, huh? But I didn't want to go too far yesterday. We stopped here. We had a really good night. I read two chapters of my book yesterday two chapters and now You have 13 hours and zero minutes of remaining drive time All right, so we have a new day ahead of us here. We're gonna start that in tomorrow's vlog Let's figure out where we are here first to give you a little bit of a Little bit of an idea where we're at Let me ask the googles Google Where are we? I'm just gonna yell at her elk point. We're an elk point Alberta gas station here What's this gas station called? I'm zooming in. I just don't feel like walking over there to figure it out Google we're at husky truck stop I don't see any signs for husky anywhere This is not husky. Yes. There's on those tanks over there. It says king's energy And there's no husky signs anywhere That's where we are. So thanks for joining us today. We have a new load behind us I'll just go out and give you a quick peek at it because I don't think I gave you a peek at it Unloaded that steel that we picked up in Tennessee. It was a four-day drive up here uneventful Which is which is a good thing. You don't want an eventful ride 4 000 kilometers. I guess that's uh About 3 000 miles or so. I don't know Four days of driving now We have this Lovely lovely stuff weighing us down. This is going down to Iowa It's both three days drive from where I picked it up Two days to home and then one day down to Iowa. I'm gonna take it down there next week when they need it there This stuff is heavy heavy with 45 000 pounds of wood right here Sitting at about 79 300 pounds altogether So uh, stay out of my way. I can't stop very fast. I'll do my best to leave space but You also got to remember not to cut into that space. That's the space I need to stop Do you hear that you heard that didn't you? Well, it's the trucker's mating call Yes, thanks for joining us. I'm excited to start tomorrow's video. I hope you tune in You can click one of the links around here to see my video from yesterday or another video of mine There's probably close to like 3 000 on the internet already and uh Yeah Leave me a comment down below. Let me know you're there and breathing Give me a thumbs up if you did like the video helps me out a lot and I'll see you tomorrow