I could hack 5 days on, 3 off 
How long would it take to get PR?
Funny how there’s not much in the way of Canadian GOVERNMENT sponsorship - that is THEY pay for the costs of you relocating over there, and provide you with some affordable (peppercorn rent) accommodation for your family. I wonder if the “must have enough liquidation proceeds to buy a house cash” is because you’ll not make any money on top of the bills out of the wages being offered…?
Don’t get me wrong - I’d love to emigrate to Canada. I just want to be actually PAID to go there, and PAID to do the job and RETIRE with my mortgage paid off and a good pension.
I’m already working 15 hour shifts after all, so it’s not anything I can’t handle in advance work-wise. 
You want a Government to pay you to move to their country, then pay a significant part of your rent for you on top of that 
What a deal that is, I bet your phone don’t stop ringing 
foresttrucker:
I couldn’t quite understand what carryfast encountered with the $500k requirement thing.For Saskatchewan you get maximum points over $40,000, but still a point if you have at least $10,000.
Maybe it’s to do with the province?
The only encounter which I had with the place was being offered a job in the late 1980’s and then being told by the Canadian immigration authorities ( at that time ) that work permits for Brits ‘were’ totally off limits in the case of driving trucks just as was ( and still is ) the case in the US to date.With the ( very ) remote possibility that it might have been possible ‘if’ the employer could show that the job remained advertised for Canadian nationals in which case it would effectively have meant being sent home if ever a local wanted the job.The situation as it stands now,for Brits emigrating to Canada,to drive trucks,is the result of relatively recent changes since that time.
Oversea’s Job everywhere to find
COPY
Positions: Heavy Machinery operator and Class A truck driver.
. Good wages, meals, and housing provided
Start immediately,phone 620.353.8790
The Canadian hauliers should go advertise their so called shortages in Poland, problem will be solved overnight… 
I don’t think all this stuff about “having to be solvent” is being seen properly for what it is.
You might get max points for whatever amount of bank balance you have, which is an easy amount to come up with for most people with the liquidation of their perhaps paid-off property mortgage back here.
What Does NOT work however is that the kind of person who’s already paid their mortgage off is not going to be under 40 for a start. THEN it seems that the authorities in Canada expect you to be solvent enough to run your bill, which turns the entire process of emmigrating to Canada into one HUGE gamble that you really cannot afford to have “not work” for any reason.
There’s a need for investment on Canada’s side and a need to commitment from the emmigrating worker’s side. Their hoops already draw fourth enough of the latter, so my suggestion is merely that Canada should look to actually sponsoring “key workers” in this instance, offering them some kind of fast track paid-for relocation pacakage in exchange for sticking with the new job for a defined amount of time, and perhaps paying somewhat extra taxes for around about the same amount of time. Personally, I wouldn’t want to emmigrate on borrowed money. I’d want a grant, or it’s a no-go. I’m well aware that all the vacancies are in the crappy end of the industry - interstate trucking. UK trampers would rarely be expected to be away from home as much as the north american continent kind. Ie. the same situation exists for the prospects of emmigrating to the USA rather than Canada. 
Pimpdaddy:
The Canadian hauliers should go advertise their so called shortages in Poland, problem will be solved overnight…
They do and india
On the pnp i belueve there is some flexibility in funds if you are working on a twp already.
Sadly its only the uk that gives money to immigrants and benefit scroungers
kr79:
On the pnp i belueve there is some flexibility in funds if you are working on a twp already.
Sadly its only the uk that gives money to immigrants and benefit scroungers
This.
Many of my friends came out here with practically nothing and then for one reason or another remained that way and none had any problem whatsoever in getting PNP/PR with practically nothing in the bank, because having already been here for some years its obvious that they can and indeed are supporting themselves fine.
Dont think my mate had to do any of that just pass a medical and pass teo test when he was out there an air brake test and a driving test which he said wasnt too hard, then he fot himself a stetson and gelled on…
What did he use to move his family over, or wasn’t there one?
Winseer:
What did he use to move his family over, or wasn’t there one?
My overwhelming experience in the Maritimes has been that most people use all of what savings they do have to move across here and secure accommodation, either rent or a mortgage on a house and then find out they’ve been lied to about their potential wages by the company they’ve come to and thence proceed to live a hand to mouth existence, paycheck to paycheck and can’t actually afford to go back home to the UK. The sensible ones usually see the writing on the wall early and make a run for it while they still have the money to get back to the UK and the rest fall in to the trap. Some of them are so much worse off now that they cant afford to return to the UK, but equally they cant afford the fee’s required to apply for residence so are living in limbo with no options until one day they’ll have overstayed their temporary work permit allowance and will be asked to leave the country and if they dont do so, will be deported. This is the main reason I warn anyone with a family off coming to New Brunswick or the Maritimes in general.
robinhood_1984:
Winseer:
What did he use to move his family over, or wasn’t there one?My overwhelming experience in the Maritimes has been that most people use all of what savings they do have to move across here and secure accommodation, either rent or a mortgage on a house and then find out they’ve been lied to about their potential wages by the company they’ve come to and thence proceed to live a hand to mouth existence, paycheck to paycheck and can’t actually afford to go back home to the UK. The sensible ones usually see the writing on the wall early and make a run for it while they still have the money to get back to the UK and the rest fall in to the trap. Some of them are so much worse off now that they cant afford to return to the UK, but equally they cant afford the fee’s required to apply for residence so are living in limbo with no options until one day they’ll have overstayed their temporary work permit allowance and will be asked to leave the country and if they dont do so, will be deported. This is the main reason I warn anyone with a family off coming to New Brunswick or the Maritimes in general.
These are the ones who didn’t properly do their research or recce the company/area before moving over . Who in their right mind would jeopardize their families future by moving to another country fed only by the bs of their future employer ?
I don’t know about the Maritimes, but there are a lot that have moved here thinking it’s one big holiday, they blow their dough and then moan that it’s everyone’s fault but their own.
An LMO in Manitoba guarantees you a minimum wage of $3500pm, so you can budget accordingly and as you start to earn more when you get a better job you then start to throw a few quid about. It ain’t rocket science ffs, spend less than you earn & you will always have money in the bank…
flat to the mat:
These are the ones who didn’t properly do their research or recce the company/area before moving over . Who in their right mind would jeopardize their families future by moving to another country fed only by the bs of their future employer ?
Quite correct. Unfortuntely Canada, or at least NB seems to attract a lot of people who seem to stumble through life and never worry about tomorrow. I’ve witnessed numerous people come out here without the slightest bit of research, with a whole family in tow only for it all end in tears.
newmercman:
I don’t know about the Maritimes, but there are a lot that have moved here thinking it’s one big holiday, they blow their dough and then moan that it’s everyone’s fault but their own.An LMO in Manitoba guarantees you a minimum wage of $3500pm, so you can budget accordingly and as you start to earn more when you get a better job you then start to throw a few quid about. It ain’t rocket science ffs, spend less than you earn & you will always have money in the bank…
We have the same thing. Because the afore mentioned people didn’t research or at the very worst, wait to see what they’d be earning, they’d get a house, get a big 4x4, a quad, a swimming pool and whatever else. Then start working for some jonny quango Maritimes reefer company and get 2500km for 7 days away at 33cpm and then find themselves up ■■■ creek without a paddle rather quickly. I got PR 18 months after arriving in Canada, yet some of the guys who match my discription above who arrived at the same time or even a few months before me, still havent applied because they havent got the money for the fee’s and medicals etc and moan on and on about how they cant afford to stay but cant afford to leave. Yet they always seem to find the money for huge amounts of booze and ■■■■, quads, motorbikes and guns.
Yeap , I’ve met a few of them , but to be honest they were probably up ■■■■ creek before leaving Britain and thought Canada would be the bail out clause . I’m guilty for booze smokes and the toys but they’re all paid for , and the toys came when we’d settled , in fact I’d been here for over a year before I bought myself a vehicle .
There was just him no family maybe that makes it easier?
richmond:
There was just him no family maybe that makes it easier?
Its a whole different ball game. I came over here alone in 2009 at the age of 25. I was on the road in less than two weeks and earning cash. The company I came over with provided free accommodation at the yard. The whole downstairs under the office was a sort of walk out basement so that one side was built into the earth and the other side was open to the lawn. We had 4 bedrooms, a shower/bathroom, full kitchen and living room, laundry and a tv/internet room. A lot of the guys who came over at the time were single so would use the bedrooms until they got on the road, then would live in the truck afterwards to make way for the next arrivals and there was an excellent sense of camaraderie between the 10-12 drivers who all arrived within a few months of each other, mainly from England but with a few from Ireland too.
Doing it that way was basically an almost zero risk policy and why I said ‘what the hell’ and flew over to give it a shot. I came over with something like $500 in Canadian currency and I had my UK visa debit card that I could draw on if needs be, which I didn’t need to use in the end. In fact I’ve been going through my old document case yesterday and discovered something like $60 of that original money that I didn’t spend, still in pristine brand new bank notes from the currency exchange in the UK.
As I had no one to provide for other than myself and had all the amenities at the yard, I saved a shed load of money, even on poor mileage weeks and did very well for myself in the first 19 months that I spent living/working like that.
Guys who came across with families at the very same time have struggled an awful lot at times and quite a few have returned to the UK with nothing having poured all their savings and money from a UK house sale in to Canada.
Being honest, it was one thing to do what I did. I was alone and could have jumped on the plane using my return flight at the first sight of trouble. The guys with families are the ones taking the huge risk, probably more so than I can really comprehend.