kr79:
Loaded today at the salt plant in unity sk. Have to hand the keys in like the uk. This is after chocking the trailer and one of them locking things on the back bumper.
You are inside so no super cold temperatures but there is a waiting room if you want.
Have they still got the xmas tree lights around the dock so you can see where you’re going ?
Didn’t notice tell the truth lol
■■■■■■■■ , if you were at Sifto you were backing into the black hole 
sorry to ■■■■■ about H&S again but. FFS…since i now have 2k hrs + on redi mix ,and same on train )tipper) with company me an my running buddy have now to go to college for a 2day course on how to do the job safely and be H&S complient.
this is so we can haul product for other companies! if work is slack .
omg i thought i had left this c, behind in uk.
jimmy.
JIMBO47:
sorry to ■■■■■ about H&S again but. FFS…since i now have 2k hrs + on redi mix ,and same on train )tipper) with company me an my running buddy have now to go to college for a 2day course on how to do the job safely and be H&S complient.
this is so we can haul product for other companies! if work is slack .
omg i thought i had left this c, behind in uk.
jimmy.
It seems to me that North America is hell bent on taking all of the very worst bits of European transportation and implementing them here at any cost.
flat to the mat:
[zb] , if you were at Sifto you were backing into the black hole
That’s the place. Was a joke had to deliver a load of cheap pallets and reload for Canadian tire stores thought result tip and reload that evening and down to swift current ready for first drop.
Says we can take pallets off but can’t reload you until tomorrow. When I was in the reception waiting there was a notice about the wheel chock bumper lock keys routine. Saying in the uk known as lock down or some crap. I did wonder if it was a uk owned company.
It’s strange when I was in England we heard about the American suing culture etc I thought it would be a nightmare H&S wise but its not on the whole it’s only places were hard hats and high viz such as roadworks might be useful where you see it. Is creeping in though especially in Canada.
I know it’s still a British dominion but could they just not keep the good bits
My opinion is that as soon as Brit drivers get management jobs they come up with great ideas, which are simply the stuff that everyone in the uk hated, and they get their bosses to implement this ‘forward thinking’ c r a p.
Hit the nail on the head there Jimmy 
Some expat ■■■■■■ at Walmart has put the kybosh on glider kits in Canada because he was trying to be clever with that supercube drom box monstrosity that Mick posted the link to on here, all pats on the back as they shouted from the rooftops how clever they are, then the tree hugging dept in Ottawa got wind of it, now you can’t build a glider with a pre emission engine, unless it’s a genuine glider to replace a smashed up chassis that you already own and run
It’s the same with all the firms back home, all the fiddles and little tickles disappeared when they started promoting from within, the ones that got promoted were quite often the biggest ■■■■ takers on the factory floor or the driving staff, they get in the orifice and put a stop to all the benefits and stuff, because they’re a BOCs who think they’re something special
Funny enough, I’ve been to the potash mines at Esterhazy loads of times and only once have I been questioned about a safety hat, and you guessed it, it was by an expat.
sats72:
Funny enough, I’ve been to the potash mines at Esterhazy loads of times and only once have I been questioned about a safety hat, and you guessed it, it was by an expat.
Unfortunetely the British seem to be an easily institutionalised people who once converted to the cause will become the biggest jobsworths of all time. You see this in the UK with the way that a good majority of truck drivers not only accept all these rules, regulations and H&S but actively embrace it to the extent of telling tales on their colleages as they think they’ve adopted some sort of public order/enforcer status. Nothing annoys me more than a British expat assuming the role of corporate clone and behaving in the same narrow minded and petty way he probably did back home to satisfy his power fetish over his equals, or if we’re being honest, his betters.
My father has a theory on H&S nazis. He recons all the people who would have become militant union officials hi jacked health and safety after the unions were smashed.
Been a busy body and grass a d having a cant do attitude seems to have become a British trait in recent times. You only have to look at some of the crap spouted on the main forum here.
kr79:
My father has a theory on H&S nazis. He recons all the people who would have become militant union officials hi jacked health and safety after the unions were smashed.
Been a busy body and grass a d having a cant do attitude seems to have become a British trait in recent times. You only have to look at some of the crap spouted on the main forum here.
Well said that man. Why is it so prevelant in the UK though? When it comes to truck driving the British and probably the French are renown for a ‘cant do’ attitude and always refer back to the rule book each and every time they dont want to do the smallest of things. Yet other nationalities, the Dutch for example just get on with the job, sometimes to an extreme extent but at the same time it does seem odd as they’re better known as a laid back natioinality. Yet you wont see Dutch drivers poncing about in a vis vest unless forced to wear it, you wont see a Dutch driver sitting on a bay at Tesco’s for 5 hours and then pulling on to the road outside and having a 45 minute break and you definetely will never see or hear a Dutch driver takling about things like ‘other work’ ‘poa’ ‘wtd 18 week average’ or ‘I’ve gone 3 minute over my time, will I lose my job?’ etc etc etc. What has made the UK in to the work shy country that it is so that an ever increasing percentage of workers, drivers in this case, can’t function without adopting all this H&S and regulation mentality mindset to function at work?
Like you say, we only have to look at the main UK forum and its blatently apparent that if the majority had their wish, we’d all be limited to 40mph, work 8 hours a day, a 1 hour break every 2 hours, 4 days a week, home every night and be wrapped in cotton wool for any period of work and then be paid £80pa for out totally worthless contribution to the economy. Now I’m not saying we should work 24/7 and accept anything thrown our way in the form of pay and conditions but there is a lot to be said for just cracking on with the job for the benefit of all. In my opinion at least.
Prime example currently on the “pro drivers forum (■■?)” under the Bad Year thread .Aren’t you so glad to be here having a good time whilst " the likes of " wallow in their miserable sense of entitlement ? 
I’m perfectly happy driving in either country, I just find it easier in Canada to get on with things without being harassed by all sides so its more enjoyable. The rules, the H&S and the jobsworth really do spoil the job in the UK.
robinhood_1984:
kr79:
I was talking about Canada.^^This^^ Which is why every walmart on any main road coming from Canada is usually packed with Canadian trucks doing their shopping.
I once had a meal at Denny’s in the Flying J in New Milford, PA and it cost ten dollars something, less than 11 dollars. Later that same week I had the very same thing in Denny’s in the Flying J at Napanee, Ontario and it cost 18 dollars something. I only live 10 miles from the US border at Houlton, Maine so even when I’m at home, I try and make the most of that. A month ago I needed a new starter motor for my Jeep. It cost just under $200 in Woodstock, NB and $130 in Houlton, ME.
I have had a different experience… the Flying J just off highway 40 south of Montreal I had a 3 course British style breakfast with bottomless coffee and a glass of orange juice for $8.50. I was impressed with how cheap it was.
This Ex-Pat forum is great…a total change of subject can happen mid sentence… a new change of subject…
Choice of Truck…?
I can have a 1 year old International Lonestar (15 Litre 500hp) or a brand new International Prostar +Plus (15 Litre 500hp engine with extended bonnet)
I think the Lonestar is longer wheelbase… but other than that the specs are about the same… which one do you think should i choose?
I told them they can surprise me. 
contractdriver:
This Ex-Pat forum is great…a total change of subject can happen mid sentence… a new change of subject…Choice of Truck…?
I can have a 1 year old International Lonestar (15 Litre 500hp) or a brand new International Prostar +Plus (15 Litre 500hp engine with extended bonnet)
I think the Lonestar is longer wheelbase… but other than that the specs are about the same… which one do you think should i choose?
I told them they can surprise me.
I’d take the older one, but would expect it to be clean, the Canadian drivers are notoriously mucky buggers.
The last thing you want is an International with the Maxxforce engine, unless you have a fetish for tow trucks 
Prostar are a nice enough looking truck, lots of room inside too, but you can’t get one without all the emission crap on them and you’ll be breaking down all the time, even with the ■■■■■■■ ISX, they’re junk
You want to earn money out here, you need a pre emission truck 
What ever you get will be ok sleeper and space wise but to drive think 1980s ERF or foden
My advice 
Take the one with the shortest wheelbase and shortest hood, the more manouverable the better.