Hi if i wanted to move to canada is it only long haul thats allowed until you become a citizen or could you drive gritters for example
There are no restrictions on what you can do but for the first couple of years you have to take what you can get. Which is long haul local work is snapped up by the locals.
It’s like anywhere else when you get over here you start at the bottom
Depending on the area, but the vast majority of work available with an LMO will be long haul. Sunbury here in NB employ foreign drivers on LMO’s to haul woodchips on 12 hour day/night shifts but I can’t think of any one else in this part of the country who employ LMO drivers on anything other than long haul work.
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Hi if i wanted to move to canada is it only long haul thats allowed until you become a citizen or could you drive gritters for example
In Western Canada long haul is the only option until Permanent Residency is obtained , the exception to the rule being Loblaws who were allowed to bend the rules slightly in return for building a humungous operating center in Regina .West Can Bulk drivers were caught out a while back when their log books were inspected showing too much time spent in their home Province . As I posted on another thread a few days ago the CIC seem to be a law unto themselves ,being government employees has given them unquestioned delusions of grandeur to almost FBI proportions . Tossers the lot of them ,imho 
Thanks guys.i ask as im a gritter driver in the uk with years of exp but would to try it across the pond.i know its diffrent type of weather but ive done gritters up in the north of scottlands back roads in winter snowed in
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Thanks guys.i ask as im a gritter driver in the uk with years of exp but would to try it across the pond.i know its diffrent type of weather but ive done gritters up in the north of scottlands back roads in winter snowed in
They don’t have gritters over here, especially in Saskatchewan, if the wind hasn’t blown it away they may plow it after a really big storm, but other than that it’s just left to Mother Nature to sort out 
In my area to get on with the province (Manitoba highways) its not what you know ,its who ya know…good union,wage,good pension,OT…not a hope in hell off getting in on a TWP.
Then there is the local RMs(rural Municipalities…think eg …dumfries council,lanark council ),look it up RM of Lorne.
they run the towns ,villages back roads etc.
wages not as good as province .
now snow ploughing,main routes done by Province ,you come to a town up goes the blade at town/village boundary back down when out o town.
Snow ploughs …usually ran wi side wing,no gritting as such only sand/gravel mix on corners,junctions. mind you out in the boonies where i am 50% truck plough 50% grader ie… think forestry comission roads.
Now as for starting yup long haul /interprovincial work work is the options you have unless you are coming over as a PR.but believe me your experience in snowploughing will be looked at as …really you have snow in Scotland ■■?..you will be treated as a newbie with less driving experience than a Canadian that has 6months driving experience !
no putting you off but thats the way it is …
jimmy .
No probs thanks guys