 G'day, I'm Steve from Melbourne Australia and you're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on YouTube They're not so fine people there's gotta be at least one of you in there. It's fine. It's cool. I'm ready to go here in I don't we get nothing. We are setting ready to rock It is cold. It's only minus 16 Celsius, but it feels a lot colder because it's windy again We cannot get away from the wind with empty fuel tanks. It's not a good idea our service Take the freeway entrance on US to 18 North IA Get a couple of weeks ago talking about how I don't run with a CB radio. I read all your responses I hear you I hear you and I Still have a CB radio in my truck. It's just not turned on And I actually don't have CB antennas on my truck either I took them off because I didn't use them enough and one of them Was broken so I just took them both off because I didn't want my truck not to be symmetrical I didn't want just one antenna and it has to be balanced. Otherwise I go nuts and I didn't want to spend the money into a new antenna because I don't use it. Hey Hey, it's through a snowball. I mean Did he crack my windshield? Okay, it's a good idea to run with a CB in your truck You know, there are some shippers and receivers that communicate with the drivers through them. It is good to have it on Some drivers will be nice and warn you about, you know, wildlife up ahead on the road Other drivers will just be bullies bully you or they'll just get mad and try to start fights Or they'll just tell dirty jokes on there or there's a lot of garbage That's that's the reason I told you that's why I don't run with CB on but it it is good You know when I get my new truck, I'm thinking I'm hoping for about five years when I can pick up my Kenworth W900 I'm hoping for a brand-new one for full warranty We'll see I want to pay the majority of it out in cash So I've got to save up for several years And I've also got a bunch of other debt to pay off as well. I'm not a bunch. I got a little bit We'll be pretty much debt-free aside from our house in a year or two Probably go two years and we'll just have our house left but Yeah, I'm trying to make sure that I don't get myself in over my head Trying to make sure that I get the truck that I want Because I want to buy a truck that's going to be mine for the majority of my career my my working life I'd like to have it for a good 15 years Maybe buy one more truck before I retire Maybe I can even keep it rolling for 20 years. Ah You take care of it maintain it way get fresh warranty on it that way Yeah, and once but anyway once I get this truck that I want my dream truck I don't want to be driving this minivan forever. I want an actual truck Kenworth W900 studio sleeper, you know Truck that I love to look at Once again, I'll have a CD radio in there I'll have the antennas on there too because I'm gonna want that truck to look good I'm gonna want to look symmetrical and I think it looks good with the antennas on there if they're the right kind and Of course, I'll have a CD radio in that truck then. I'll probably hook mine up in here Sometimes soon too. I mean I read all your comments and I hear your arguments about the CD radio It is a good thing to have you should have one. I should have mine on as well I have to buy two CB antennas and stuff to Get it hooked up It's just in Canada Especially out in Western Canada Never really use it, you know a lot of the drivers in Canada don't even speak English So I can't communicate with them They they use a different channel, but they all speak French there can't communicate with them there either So the only time you can really use it and where it's used properly is in the United States That being said though, it would be nice to have one so I communicate like this guy with this guy going past here if I needed to So I know I was a little harsh on the CB there I was trying to get a discussion going in the comments and boy, did it ever work I'll hook mine up I'm still dreaming of my truck But I want to buy I'm saving up for it. Like I said, I want to pay a good chunk of it I'd love to buy it out in cash. That'd be awesome. No payments, but We'll see if I can ever pull that one out of dreamland into reality, well, we'll see five or six years, maybe six years Possibly seven less than ten years though. I want this truck to keep running until then Because I'm gonna put as much money away as I can Pay off all my other stuff first put away money for the truck buy the truck Hopefully have no payments on it after that with full warranty. Wouldn't that be awesome? This is my my financial my my plan for the future Plans never go as planned. You should remember that But we'll see like I said when I buy a new truck with W9 I Want to have it with everything that I need on it that I want on it I wanted to have an APU that keeps the truck warm in winter time keeps it cool in the summertime without the engine idling I want it to keep the engine warm throughout the night and the batteries charged so that on a cold night I don't have to idle my truck But the APU will just Keep me good to go in the morning so I can start it up and go I Want to have a beautiful enclosed headache rack polished chrome behind my truck if there is space on On my frame between my truck and trailer if there's space I would like to have an enclosed compartment For a narrow motorcycle like my motorcycle So it's going to be a custom custom piece of it on the back. That's what I'm hoping for I can't put that on I am going to have that beautiful polished chrome enclosed headache rack so all my chains and equipment stay dry and clean I also want to have a proper storage compartments for my tarps on top of that So slowly as I go through my life as I drive day to day look at other guys trucks I decide exactly what I want I want exactly what I want on my truck and then I'm going to make that truck run For 15 maybe 20 years at least 15 years Happens right So that's enough bouncing around in the world of josh's dreamland. Let's get back to reality here. It's called We're in Iowa still Headed north and it was funny talking to people at the truck stop last night. It was like minus 16 Celsius, which isn't that cold It's probably right around zero Fahrenheit. I don't know somewhere in there And they were talking like they were at the top of the world Like who would live north of here? This is the top of the world You're only in isla, man You got half of the united states above this yet And then you got a whole country bigger than the us above that yet That's where I'm from. Oh, you're from Canada. How do you live up there? You bundle up We're into minnesota here and we're taking a little bit of a detour Looks like there was an accident on the interstate and traffic was backed up and not moving so I took the exit Took a look at the good old googles And realized that I I could just take this road and it goes right around the accident It's not even that far out of the way. All I did was go about a quarter mile West of the interstate And this road runs parallel to the interstate just off there to our right Takes you right around the accident A lot of people were just sitting on the highway I'm going around this is sheer ice here though. We got to be careful Yikes, yeah, they need to salt this This is gonna be this is gonna be a pretty busy road as more and more people realize that They can go around the traffic jam I can see the accident off to the right. I know it's out of view of the camera. It looks like there's a semi that's jackknife across the road Oh lovely They are letting traffic squeak by one car at a time very slowly by the looks of it But it's still a lot quicker just to go this way I don't know why more people hadn't realized this. It's like people don't realize all the technology They have at their fingertips, right? They they don't make use of it properly I have all of these gizmos and gadgets in here They pull over real quick for two seconds and tell you exactly where to go how to get around it Where the traffic jam starts where it ends How much time you're gonna have to wait approximately if you stay on the highway or how much time you'll save By taking a detour around if it's a truck route or not There's any little bridges like all this stuff less than five seconds. I knew this route was here Some people I guess would just rather Do it old school, you know Sit there and wait and waste time Pull out the old paper map The old atlas remember those I remember those when I was when I was a kid driving when my dad was driving Wow, this is icy though gotta be careful here This is a skating rink you can play hockey on this road Still faster in the highway surprised they haven't salted this yet Is this ice is from yesterday already they had ice rain yesterday And it's already 4 30 any afternoon the next day. They still haven't salted this there's people that live down here If this was in canada, I would be furious or no one's salted salt trucks are usually pretty quick to come out usually Alrighty Karen you don't want to touch the brakes if you don't have to on ice like this Everything you can keep a slow steady hand on the wheel no sudden movements You don't want to give your tires any excuse to start slipping 300 meters take the entrance to the left on I 35 north Back to the highway You sure beat a lot of that traffic I can see them still way down there Good feels good when you take a shortcut that actually was a shortcut Actually saved time so often you try to take a shortcut it ends up being longer risky Getting off the highway sometimes Hopefully they had the interstate a little better salted and they do their us highways parallel to it or their on ramp here This is all sheer ice still Hear that no traction Easy does it nobody's moving real quick pretty slow road looks just wet though Oh, yeah, the road's fine. We have this salted nicely Continue on this road for 133 kilometers I bet you anything though all these people saw that truck jackknife back there and are now scared out of their minds to drive Many happy lists where everybody's so happy all the time Minna happiness This is a big city, you know Look, I was telling you before I was talking to those people in Iowa Yesterday, they were talking like they were at the top of the world and asking questions like how can anybody live north of here? Minneapolis is a massive city massive city You gotta wonder Why so many people decided to settle here in minnesota when they have the legal right to live in Florida or texas Or anywhere warmers See I don't have that I could move to the lower mainland of bc if I was a millionaire and buy a small little condo there for a 10 million dollars Or I could move to Toronto or you know southern ontario If I was rich also Cost of housing is so expensive in those places though because those are the only places in canada where the weather is kind of decent all year Legal right to live around palm trees. I mean I wouldn't be living in minneapolis I mean I understand all these people got jobs here and lives and stuff man. I'm sure there's jobs in texas too This is now fargo north dakota The truck is acting as expected in cold weather the temperature here right now is minus 19 Celsius The wind chill as I'm flying through the air has got to be like minus 60 So far the truck's still running We're gonna be stopping here at the flying jave. There's a parking spot Somewhere nearby I'm gonna go Go to the shop in the morning and buy a spare fuel filter Just in case if this fuel that I bought in Iowa and a little further south that uh if it starts to Crystallize on me or anything It starts plugging up my filter that I can just quickly swap out the filter and throw some 911 in there to keep this truck running I've learned my lessons So uh It should shouldn't be a problem though because it's getting warmer. This is gonna be the coldest night all week It's supposed to go down to a low of minus 21 yet. Celsius But oh my white bus. I know it's cold. I know I don't like it either Get you fixed soon. Don't worry Gotta get in here So we're gonna go see what we find a parking spot I'm gonna fill my tanks up with fuel first just to make sure I go to bed with full tanks of fuel Less chance that anything will crystallize or gel up then Catch up in the morning again Just pulled onto i29 southbound now and i'm really giving it some gas giving us some fuel Sorry, this thing doesn't run on gas really giving it some diesel Just to make sure my fuel filter is still completely clear 600 meters tank xz62 30 second out in the south and then turn right in 510 meters If my fuel filter was plugging up from gelled fuel for my being so cold when I really stepped on it like that I wouldn't have full power because it the the engine is pretty much starving itself at that point, right? So you can you can tell if your fuel filter is starting to plug up then and I'd rather test that here and now where I'm close Close to shelter and warmth But it looks like we're all good And we'll do the post trip and check it all out Uh and in the morning the 400 meters turn right on i might even second out of south and then approaching destination on the right side in 160 meters I was thinking of just throwing a new filter on there tomorrow anyway, but Is there any parking spots here for me? If it looks pretty full It looks full. I'm goodie Oh, this is sheer ice here too. Whoa Look at that those lights glaring off that ice Whoa Take your easy trucker Josh. Take your easy all sudden movements It's slow fluid movements approaching destination 100 meters on the right side Fill up our tanks and see if we can find a place to park Thanks On the right side find j travel plus a number 685 Whoa Even slower josh even slower. You almost kissed the snow bank there Easy easy Surfaces are as slippery as they appear Well, we've got ourselves tucked away in a tight little spot here another guy right here, but It's pretty easy to get out from here. So I shouldn't have any problems He shouldn't have any problems getting out the guy beside me there shouldn't have any problems getting out Should I'll be one big happy family in the morning, right? So that's that diesel. What did you think of today? It was cold, man cold colder than your witches a witches A witch is something What I forget the joke man. I forget the joke here. Just forget it. It was cold You got to work on your delivery of your jokes diesel You got to remember those punch lines. That's that's part. That's funny. I know man Do you mind if we just take a quick bathroom break like two seconds? Yeah, it's gonna be about two seconds. Okay You do your business as quickly as you can So we can get back in here to the warmth go back there and go to bed. Okay Yeah, you got it man. You won't go fight me on that one Hey, do you miss mom? Do you miss chevy and Frankie And wiener you miss them all I miss you all me all of you So thanks for joining me on this journey I haven't found a parking spot. I'm really happy about it. Really happy like I'm pumped I thought for sure is gonna be packed you but there's actually a couple more parking spots available yet This was just the easiest one to get into and it was the one that I figured was the safest As long as this guy doesn't we does have a big rear end on him Because if this guy here tries to swing out to the left really quickly or really hard He might take off my front bumper Hmm, let's hope not He's got like uh, he's got his axles set pretty far forward on his trailer, right? So when he makes a left turn out of here like This guy here the driveway is this way to the left, right? So he's gonna want to make a sharp turn this way I don't even see it or not, but his axles are pretty far forward on this trailer there Means his rear end is gonna swing out and take my mirror off So we're going to uh, take a good look at his company name there His unit number And we're gonna trust our handy dandy 24-hour surveillance system right here and if anything happens I got you on video buddy It all touched my truck to the rest of you. Have a good night and I'll see you tomorrow