cliffystephens:
reckon we can all get this now canadian drivers dont move nothing in USA internal…USA drivers can carry stuff anywhere or even canada easy ■■?..
I would have thought it goes the same for them as us from Canada they can load and go back but not inter province
cliffystephens:
reckon we can all get this now canadian drivers dont move nothing in USA internal…USA drivers can carry stuff anywhere or even canada easy ■■?..
Cliff, Mark will put me right here if I am wrong, but I think the same would apply to American companies not being able to do internal loads in Canada. They want to protect their national (domestic) freight, unlike the U.K. / Europe which allow cabbotage.
Are you by any chance the Cliff Stephens who ran motors out of Bell’s in Newport, light blue/white.
the way i read this a toronto man could tip say miami reload at miami for say st louis (domestic load) tip st louis reload export load for canada cliffy stephens siver/black ERFs steelwoks at pontypool…
cliffystephens:
the way i read this a toronto man could tip say miami reload at miami for say st louis (domestic load) tip st louis reload export load for canada cliffy stephens siver/black ERFs steelwoks at pontypool…
Yes, I remember your trucks, a long time ago though. We ran a couple of ex HY-MAC yellow Volvo’s a F88 and F86, out of HY-MAC in Rhymney and Natural Gas Tubes in Tafarnaubach.
The purpose of this change in cabotage regs is to allow more efficent and ecconomical utilization of vehicles for both domestic and international transport … and god help me if i got this wrong…
cliffystephens:
The purpose of this change in cabotage regs is to allow more efficent and ecconomical utilization of vehicles for both domestic and international transport … and god help me if i got this wrong…
Yes, but if the European truck, was picking up your return load, to Newport, it was hurting your business, and the knock on effect for U.K. hauliers was to run at even lower rates, or just pack it in.
O well after being here scince 13:00 yesterday the shipper has made their mind up I can go and unload tomorrow morning. At last started to go gaga coz where not in own unit yet not gone out to buy tv dvd player etc
Paul John:
cliffystephens:
reckon we can all get this now canadian drivers dont move nothing in USA internal…USA drivers can carry stuff anywhere or even canada easy ■■?..Cliff, Mark will put me right here if I am wrong, but I think the same would apply to American companies not being able to do internal loads in Canada. They want to protect their national (domestic) freight, unlike the U.K. / Europe which allow cabbotage.
Are you by any chance the Cliff Stephens who ran motors out of Bell’s in Newport, light blue/white.
US carriers can do internal loads in Canada, so they can tip a load in, for instance, Alberta then load there and tip in Ontario to help them get home, we cannot do the same in the US, which is ■■■■■■■■ 
Unless…We load a load that is being exported from the USA, it doesn’t matter where it’s going, as long as it’s destination is outside the USA, so we could load anywhere in the USA and take it to a port (sea or inland). So effectivly we could load just across the border in Maine and take a load for Mexico to San Diego and it would be legal, but the same load witha final destination in san Diego would be classed as Interstating 
newmercman:
Paul John:
cliffystephens:
reckon we can all get this now canadian drivers dont move nothing in USA internal…USA drivers can carry stuff anywhere or even canada easy ■■?..Cliff, Mark will put me right here if I am wrong, but I think the same would apply to American companies not being able to do internal loads in Canada. They want to protect their national (domestic) freight, unlike the U.K. / Europe which allow cabbotage.
Are you by any chance the Cliff Stephens who ran motors out of Bell’s in Newport, light blue/white.
US carriers can do internal loads in Canada, so they can tip a load in, for instance, Alberta then load there and tip in Ontario to help them get home, we cannot do the same in the US, which is ■■■■■■■■
Unless…We load a load that is being exported from the USA, it doesn’t matter where it’s going, as long as it’s destination is outside the USA, so we could load anywhere in the USA and take it to a port (sea or inland). So effectivly we could load just across the border in Maine and take a load for Mexico to San Diego and it would be legal, but the same load witha final destination in san Diego would be classed as Interstating
Thanks Mark, that is a load of ■■■■■■■■.
Not wanting to make a fool of myself here, one week of morphine, and just finished pain pills which seem to be playing hell with me, but in retrospect every time you come into the U.S. your return load must be back to Canada.
Could you apply for or set up a U.S. company and get a DOT number and operating authority, which would allow you to get closer to home or to where your export load would be?
We all got DOT numbers only been here a month so might be wrong but gotta have em to run in the US anyway. How ever the fact the yanks can do as they wish is wrong and the Canadian DOT need to crack down on it should be same rules both sides of the borders
What has shocked me over here is the amount of female truck drivers there’s hell of a lot and I don’t mean just the big butch ones. Just got back in my cab and there was this lass pulled up in an old pete with an oversize load, no word of a lie the bar she was useing to check her load was bigger then her lol take my hat off to them
As I said before, it’s the nationality/working status of the driver that dictates where the truck can run. Canadian trucks are licensed to run Canada and the USA (depending on what you sign up) there’s nothing (apart from the driver) stopping them from doing internal loads in the USA
The US carriers can run in Canada, that’s not right, if we can’t run down there, they shouldn’t be able to run up here 
Mind you. I’m happy with the way it stands now, doing internals would mean I would never get home and instead of two/three days between loading and tipping I’d be doing short hops and wasting valuable driving time (paid by the mile remember) sitting around waiting for loads and on loading docks getting loaded/unloaded. If the law changes and we can do that and the firm I’m on expects it, I’ll be looking for another job, maybe even hanging up the keys for good. I would sooner gouge my eyes out with a red hot spoon than work for any firm that expected me to work like they do at a lot of the big US carriers 
Dam bank holidays customer is shut and neglected to tell the shipper another day doing nowt
taffytrucker:
Dam bank holidays customer is shut and neglected to tell the shipper another day doing nowt
Same goes the other way Taffy, It’s a US holiday (very rare) and I have to work because up there in Canuck land they want a load of coconut oil 
Pat Hasler:
taffytrucker:
Dam bank holidays customer is shut and neglected to tell the shipper another day doing nowtSame goes the other way Taffy, It’s a US holiday (very rare) and I have to work because up there in Canuck land they want a load of coconut oil
Wanna swap■■? Getting fed up of sitting around now 
Hey Taffy well done with this post very informative & interesting especially to those of us who have got interview in UK in a couple of weeks with HR, mines with Lyndon himself. Knowing what you know now is there anything you wish you had asked him or I should ask him about.
Also have you been paid yet your 1st wage with everything owed? What sort of stoppages and how much do they take. I understand if you don’t want to give your actual figures on here but if you could work out percentage of stoppages from gross pay to give me some idea of actual take home pay on a weekly or fortnightly payday on say 3500 miles per week.
If Lyndon is reading this post about your experience at HR he will be mad to screw you over as you must be his best job promotion tool he’s had for year’s, so if you all of a sudden get a brand new unit with all the bells and whistles on your cover has been blown.
Hope you get tipped tomorrow, cheers.
3500 miles a week is being a bit optimistic to be honest, you may get weeks like that, but to do that week in and week out is not possible, you have to have everything fall into place all the time and anyone who has been within a mile of a transport company will know, that just doesn’t happen 
An average month will work out to 12,000miles at the end of the year, so you’ll be looking at $65,000 a year, give or take, on top of that you can get anywhere between $2,000 to $10,000 back in a tax rebate, depending on the way you’re taxed each pay check. This is because you get a tax free allowance for three meals a day as you’re spending time away from home, it also covers things that you need to do the job, internet/satellite radio subscription, maps/sat nav, work clothes, tools, showers, hotel rooms etc. You don’t get one for one, but what it does is dramatically lower the amount you get taxed on, you already get a certain amount tax free, so if you pay high tax each pay check, you get a decent chunk of change back each year 
If you’re making plans, then base them on $3,000 going in the bank each month, it will be more than that, but planning for a worse case scenario should mean that it’s an easy ride
Good luck with the interview
when i did my first run it was angusville MB. -------L.A.
i was teamed with a US citizen with a Canadian work permit for donkeys years .
so we teamed down to LA.we doing the nights but when we unloaded our next load was for Houston .
I was not allowed by office to drive/load have anything to do with the load.
as that was interstating.
once at Houston lol…5pm friday i was heading north
did the same ish run with a native american.
jimmy
So that proves my theory then Jimmy
Thanks for reply so quick, this tax allowance has it got to be backed up with receipts for everything or automatic because of job title long haul truck driver? Are we working like a self employed driver and having to claim everything back because not got residency and this changes when or if we do become permanment.