 What's going on you guys? It's your boy Dylan from the Big D Trucker show coming at you from California. You're watching TJV Now. Whatcha doing there Diesel? Whatcha doing? I'm having my breakfast. Give me a while. Breakfast is down there though. That was a treat. Now we should go to breakfast. So good morning you fine human being you and all you dogs watching too for Diesel. I'm sure there's a cat or two out there. How's it going? We're in Iowa. We're in Chester, Iowa. And if you don't believe me, there's their water tower. Water towers never lie. We have this little lumber behind us still. And we're going down the road to Cresco, Iowa to unload. And then it looks like we'll be headed home empty from here. Which is, it was my idea to do that. It's not like they had nothing for me, but I need to get home for Christmas. Christmas does not wait. So I can't be late for Christmas. So they're trying to get everybody home. And like I was telling you guys yesterday, everybody everywhere is trying to get home for Christmas. So all of the freight going back to our region. Turn right in 60 meters. How does that happen? I'm not even moving. She still wants to interrupt me. So everybody, all the freight everywhere is taken up and gobbled up already because everybody's already, the big company is going to take it to get all their drivers home, right? Or that's what I'm guessing. What do I know? It's gone anyways. It's gone. It's really slow. So we're probably just going to be home empty. But for now, let's get to our customers. Let's deliver this freight. Let's make them happy. And we'll worry about that after. You have seven hours and 40 minutes of remaining drive time. All right. Yes, you get us there. Let's reset all our gauges again. Make sure we know how far we went. Make sure we know how much fuel we burned. All right. Here we go. Ready, Diesel? All aboard. I'm just going to check my trailer. I'm sure no one's messing around with it. I checked it with my eyes before, but I like to do a tug test anyway. It makes me feel good. It's going to be very embarrassing if I lost my trailer. How would I tell YouTube that? That would get a lot of views though. That'd be probably one of my most viewed videos. Turner Josh lost his trailer. What? Everyone would want to see that. The whole internet would be buzzing about that. People would be making fun of me. People would be calling me all kinds of names. People would be laughing at me. So really not much different than it is right now. Let's turn right here. We want to turn right. This guy's in my way. How dare you? Look at this house here. It's a pink house. Why? Why? Thank God my wife would never ask me to paint our house pink. This road for 16 kilometers. If she wanted to paint the house pink, I'd have to put my foot down. And then I'd be sleeping in the garage. It'd be awful. 30 kilometers away, 20 miles from our customer. I'm told to just go there and unload and wait a little bit. They're probably going to see if they have anything pop up throughout this afternoon. And if nothing pops up, I've got to be home tomorrow night. So I don't have time to run around and pick up freight tomorrow. Not too much time. Unless it's like early in the morning. But if nothing pops up, well, we're going home. Well, we've arrived. These guys in front of me, I believe are the ones who will be unloading me. They haven't come to talk to me yet, so I'm just sort of sitting here awkwardly staring at them, twiddling my thumbs. I want to wait till they're finished with that guy because I'm blocking the driveway right now. So once they're done with that guy, that guy will move and then I'll move into his spot there in the center somewhere. And then we'll figure out where they want me. It looks like they're probably going to want my lumber on the other side of this pile. There you see those right there? That's the same lumber that I have on my trailer. So I'm guessing that's where they're going to want to put my stuff. So probably unload me over there and then bring it over there once they're done with that guy. That's what I'm guessing. Well, we've got some good news. We have a reload. We're picking up freight in Milwaukee. We deliver this to Saskatchewan and British Columbia after Christmas. That'll work out perfect. So I don't know if I'll be home tomorrow night. It might be late tomorrow night. If not, I'll be home Saturday morning. So we're heading over to the Milwaukee area right now to find a parking spot somewhere and wait till the morning and wait for... Really? I just started moving. Details to come through. I don't know what I'm picking up. I don't know where I'm picking it up. All I know is I'm picking it up. They offered it to me and I said, I'll take it. I'll take it. Send me the details. I'll head that way. A little bit more money in the bank before Christmas. Nothing wrong with that. I'm just waiting for something... Something to go off. My phone, Karen, my e-log. Something's going to make a noise real soon because I want to start talking to you guys. Every time I want to start talking to you guys, something makes a noise to interrupt me. It's like they don't want me to vlog, but I'm going to vlog anyways because they can't stop me. I'm the boss. What is this? This is Kresko. See, even Kresko has a water tower. You know what I'm saying? I guess back in the day you had to have one. Nowadays they've got all the fancy pumping facilities and everything. But anyway, it sounds like we've got some peace and quiet here. We can chat for a bit. Welcome to Kresko. So Milwaukee is about three and a half hours away. We'll get there tonight, around like 4.30. I'll probably stop for a break and I'll probably get there around 5. Early enough to find a decent parking spot nearby where we've got to be. Hopefully by that time, by that time we will know exactly where we're picking up and what we're picking up. A whole load of sailboat fuel going home. I could have picked up that load of motorcycle doors, but this will be better. That whole building's solar power. Look at that. Kresko Bank. Of course it's a bank because they got the money for it. Solar is not cheap. We already talked about that once. Nope. Before I go, I considered it. You know, I have an open mind. I considered this whole solar thing, this electric thing. They've got a long way to go to convince me yet. I'll think about it. I'll keep my eye on it, but now I'm pretty sure my next pick up is going to be a diesel. Might get another gas, but I'm not convinced that that stuff will work in the wintertime and expecting a message through here because they've got to confirm everything. They've got to get all the paperwork themselves. Once all the paperwork's ready, they send it to me, right? For this load. I thought I'd have it by now, but it'll come through. Give it a bit. Milwaukee is about 1300 kilometers away from home. Like I said, I don't think I'm going to make it tomorrow. Our first, well, our second Christmas, our family gathering with Brits Mom's side is Saturday, and I'm pretty sure it's Saturday for like supper. So I shouldn't have a problem getting home for that. Even if I got to meet them, I can have a shower on the way there just before getting there. And I got clothes along with me I can wear. Or Brit can bring my clothes with me that she wants me to wear there. You know how it goes. After Christmas, I don't got to worry about getting a load out. I've already got a load that I'm sitting under. All I got to do is just take it on down to Saskatchewan, B.C. That's a good load too. So I'm guessing I'll probably unload Saskatchewan. I'm only going to be leaving on a Friday. We'll see. Let's just focus on Christmas for now. Let's get this load delivered or let's get this load picked up and let's just get home for Christmas. We'll worry about everything else after. I don't know if you guys can see it up to the right there. It's a nice paved walking path along this highway in the middle of nowhere. That'd be so nice if they do that around our area. That's sort of what I want to do eventually on our property. I'm building all these trails. I'm expanding them every summer a little bit more, a little bit more. Next year I'll be expanding it through that section I showed you. If you follow my videos religiously, you'll know what I'm talking about. If not, you've got to go sift through them. I'll show you again in spring. I'm expanding them a bit. I'm going to lay some limestone or something. Some nice walking stones down eventually on the pathway just to make it a nice walking path. I would love to pave it with asphalt but that probably won't happen. I'll pave my driveway before I pave my walking path. It grapples a lot easier to fix too. I mean asphalt cracks, it buckles. I mean gravel, all you've got to do is drag it and then it's smooth again. That's probably what we'll do. In future Christmas seasons, we want to string Christmas lights along our trails through the bush so that we can turn them on and go for a nice evening stroll. Evening Christmas stroll. If it's not too cold. I think the kids will really like that. Once we have kids, we want to make Christmas like a magical time of year for them. I really both enjoy Christmas so I'm thinking our kids, well they don't really got a choice. Christmas is going to be awesome. Nice little scenic area. What is it? Effigy Mountains? Effigy Mountains? Iowa. What a scenic little section of highway we're going through here. Right along this big river off to our left. Just want to snake in our way through these hills. You know if you thought Iowa was all flat, you would be incorrect. There's actually some various scenic roads through here. We're about to cross over this river off to our left. It's a historical marker in half a mile. What could it be? I bet you had something to do with this railway right beside us. It's right there. I bet it was when they laid the last rail here or something. It was probably quite an engineering feat when they got it through here, you know? Just looking up in Canada when they got the railway through the Rocky Mountains. That's a huge deal. We connected the east coast to the west coast, uniting Canada coast to coast with a rail system. That was a big deal. That's the historical marker. What is it? A little ghost town? That's cool. People live there. It's so fascinating to learn about how each area you go through was formed and settled in, built, turned into something beautiful. I hope that never gets lost. I'm always fascinated by lost ancient civilizations and stuff and pre-history before people or before history was all lost. Can you imagine, let's say, can you imagine a day when Karen doesn't interrupt me when I'm telling a story? Can you imagine another day let's say a thousand or two thousand years in the future, maybe five, ten thousand years in the future? Wait! Down the road, it's going to happen, right? You can't stop time. It's going to happen. It's going to come. Can you imagine if all of western history was lost or some kind of cataclysmic event like let's say another asteroid hits the earth or some kind of big apocalypse that could wipe us all or almost all out and then we slowly regain our numbers again a thousand years down the road we're back at pretty big numbers population-wise and then we're rediscovering old lost civilizations like America or Canada or Europe, Australia all these beautiful civilizations that they're going to be rediscovering man, I wonder what they're going to think about us I wonder what they're going to think we were like this big massive bridge we're about to go over can you see it there? we're off to the left, we're about to go over that bridge like imagine not likely, but imagine that bridge to still be standing after being abandoned or whatever for ten thousand years and then someone discovers it and they'd be like, how did they build that, right? what do I want to do? I want to turn the left here? okay, left it is that was a stop sign that's why we stopped Marquette this town is called Marquette I want to go over the big bridge over the big bridge this way this way look at all those new Chevy Silverados they're growing on me they're really growing on me I hated them, you guys know this I gave Chevy a hard time I still think that they kind of messed up the design when it comes to the hood I don't like that they took three inches off the hood I like it that they added it to the interior there's three inches more space in the interior but you didn't have to take that away from the hood just make the truck longer I would have been okay with that what a cool little town over there look at that people living their lives doing their thing I never even knew they existed but here they are never been here before they probably don't even know I exist this little trucker guy from southeast Manitoba visiting their town passing through they have no idea who I am no idea, they'll never know so many people in this world so what river is this is it going to tell me? usually there's a sign it says you're passing over this and this river I think we're going into the next state Karen are we crossing the border into any of the state? Karen? crossing border, entering Wisconsin oh my Wisconsin turn right on south main street USA team okay so welcome to Wisconsin everybody land of roundabouts oh here it says Wisconsin Crawford County okay Sturgeon's slow hiking trail that'll be fun never stop for a hike nah, nah, I gotta get to Milwaukee I don't think they want trucks in there anyway that's one sort of downer about driving a big truck all these cool little neat things that you want to go see you can't because they don't want trucks in there that's why I want to have a a rack built onto my new truck I've been looking around already but I'm thinking about maybe in 5 to 10 years at least 5 years to buy my W900 280 inch wheelbase, that's the maximum I'm allowed to have in Canada without a permit 283 inches is the max, 7.2 meters wheelbase 283 inch wheelbase Kenworth W9 studio sleeper and then I want to build a custom headache rack right? I want to build a custom headache rack that is the most headache rack for all my chains and stuff but in front of that between that and the truck I want to have a little compartment where I can park a motorcycle and have ramps that are built in that slide in underneath and I can use you know because I want to be able to take my motorcycle with me and go and explore these places I mean that's my favorite part about this job that's a yield sign just so you know yield favorite part of this job is seeing all of these but you know learning about their history you know I'm weird that way a lot of people don't care about history that's not important to them that's something that interests me so I like learning about the town that I'm in and then going around and exploring it and seeing it for myself that's that's why I say my channel is not all about trucking because in my brain it's not all about trucking it's not all I don't want to just focus on trucking because there's so much more so much more to this world than just driving a truck this is just what I use it's sort of like a paid vacation I enjoy trucking a lot I love my job but I love that it takes me places that I haven't been before how many people can say that about their job I've never been to this town before I don't know what this place is but I bet it's filled with nice people oh thank god I think we've finally found this is an interstate no it's a US highway but it's a freeway no more roundabouts oh we've gone through so many roundabouts or it's just begun in Wisconsin oh, as Isaac Butterfield would say someone needs to give the creator roundabouts an award immediately what a waste of time at least they don't have those roundabouts on the freeway can you imagine I like how one of you in one of my comments I shared something about roundabouts on Facebook and TikTok and one of your responses was oh, roundabouts I thought those were just speed bumps and from Europe and Australia and New Zealand you guys are more used to these roundabouts so to you guys you guys laugh at us and our inability to navigate them and it's just because we're not common here at all at all at all and we don't like them we really don't like them we want to be different roundabouts everywhere I don't know who came up with the idea I understand the purpose of them but whoever designed it needs to get an award immediately well here we are Johnson's Creek Wisconsin I almost forgot where we were why did I almost say Michigan well because I was thinking of Battle Creek we're going to end our day did a lot of talking today I think we talked enough so I'll keep this short don't forget to subscribe we're going to make another video tomorrow where we go pick up our freight and make our way home for Christmas see you then