KGB:
BTW he got banned for copying an pasting (another one of his favourite pastimes ) from other websites basically just to cause reaction.
i think we both know that was a handy excuse, he got banned because he rubbed a few regulars including you, up the wrong way, not to mention making a certain recruiter from pei look very silly.
Because these expats sites have lost all credibility in my book , I only read them now for a good laugh !
you turned the oven on and now your complaining the kitchens to hot! you can’t have it all ways.
KGB/KB33,
please have the decency to admit that you landed on your feet with your “dayjob” number at the Westcan Calgary terminal compared to other ex-UK drivers at the other terminals who are working 14/15/16 hour days and away from home 5/6/7 nights at a time.
(Don’t you remember telling me that drivers don’t work 15 hour days for Westcan until I showed you that they do according to Westcans OWN website )
BTD,
I’m still waiting on the proof that I’ve posted nothing but lies on the ex-pat forums
Can you also point me out the poster that said BFS are “scumbags”
The truth is you guy’s can’t face the TRUTH
Company OTR driver:
Log 70 hours,work 90 hours,get paid for 50 hours per week
First of all anyone can get the same job I’m doing gremmie proved that (and backs up my point that the move works for some and not for others ). And plenty of UK drivers doing the same job . I now work longer hours because I choose to. I’ve changed my shift pattern to 4 on 4 off so need to maximise my time at work and so far no complaints .And I sleep in the truck most nights .
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you turned the oven on and now your complaining the kitchens to hot! you can’t have it all ways
I didn’t turn the oven on at all , But I think we have gone past the stage of having a sensible discussion on the subject , Lets face it the threads are now becoming very predictable
And yes he did rub me up the wrong way , That’s because he was telling lies . And he just cant seem to realise that it will suit some people and not others , He just talks from his own perspective all the time , If I was in his position I probably wouldn’t contemplate the move , But I wouldn’t go around belittling other peoples plans . Each to thier own …
And all this talk of non paid work , Well how many jobs around the world ,supervisor’s, manger’s etc etc are working extra for no extra money , It comes as part of the territory. you either accept it or not . Look at the bigger picture for Christ’s sake … PR status in one of the best countries in the world to live
So having had your arguments destroyed again, and they are all the same as before, you start on me in a different vein. You stated that I lose 10% of the miles, wrong. You state that I work lots of hours for nothing, wrong. You make bold statements about me.
hi guys i will have a say on one thing that has been posted on here by one person that drivers were in the yard xmas day and nowhere near home for xmas dinner with family .Then if that CO was here in Australia it would not have many drivers working for it and definitly not me.I have worked for some of the worst Co in OZ and not one would have pulled that one of having me held over in the depot for xmas cos it would of not happened.Xmas this year gone was a Tuesday if a Co cannot get drivers home b4 monday it is ■■■■■■ Co as far as i’m concerned most Co usually have some break around Xmas it sounds shoddy to me.
While agreeing with your sentiments Sheepdog, the auto censor could not agree with your guile. D
That someone, sheepdog, was my wife. What she may not have mentioned was that these drivers were the ones whose families are still in the UK and are in the process of moving over here, or are single men with no family here or on the way. They all had loads they could have left with but elected to come to us instead.
The company have a policy that if you want to be home, you can, and that has always been the case as far as I know. But these guys, 3 of whom are single, did not want or need to return to the UK for Christmas so we fed them and we had some beer, etc, then we went clay shooting. They had somewhere to go after all.
If it’s any consolation BTD my man on BFS reckons your ok, that therefore means that your detractors must be…
What’s all the moaning about anyway, surely they expect to work when they get there, driving a lorry no matter where you go aint never going to be a holiday
From what i gather you get a fairly decent bit of plant, you get wages that allow a better way of life than back in the UK, better education for your kids, better roads, better facilities to stop in, hardly any traffic congestion out of the big cities & you get to see a bit of the world that you’d never see any other way
Yeah, the job has it’s challenges, sheeting up in the snow aint exactly fun, but I find it hard to believe that even the most stupid among us would not anticipate that, the BFS advert states that trips are 10/14 days & then they moan about being away from home at the weekends
Licence Holders have problems, Drivers have challenges…
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