taffytrucker:
chunk:
I’m going on the 26th, from Manchester. See you there mate.From Caephilly is it not easier to go to Gatwick? From what I remember that flight is something like 7am take off
Jump on various north bound trains Cardiff Central, change at Crewe straight into Manchester airport. I don’t bother renting a car anymore .
Let the train take the strain.
Paul
Ill pick up a couple stickers before I leave so you can’t miss me or ill have a name plate somewhere you can’t mistake that lol.
Ahhhh I see chunk look me up when you get there go out grab a couple of jars then
robinhood_1984:
Paul John:
Canadian workers rights are better than those here in the U.S.Thats not saying much for the US!!!
Maybe not but it’s true ! … workers in the USA have terrible rights if any. In the driving industry if your face doesnt fit you pull in the yard one day and are clearing you kit out 5 minutes later with a van full of kit and no way to get it home. Go sick … loose your job, loose your job, loose your home etc etc etc … the list goes on.
No national health here mate, get sick loose everything.
Pat Hasler:
robinhood_1984:
Paul John:
Canadian workers rights are better than those here in the U.S.Thats not saying much for the US!!!
Maybe not but it’s true ! … workers in the USA have terrible rights if any. In the driving industry if your face doesnt fit you pull in the yard one day and are clearing you kit out 5 minutes later with a van full of kit and no way to get it home. Go sick … loose your job, loose your job, loose your home etc etc etc … the list goes on.
No national health here mate, get sick loose everything.
Don’t get sick then Pat lol only joking mate. Have heard pretty much the same as what you have just said plus the chance you will be away for months on end to boot
taffytrucker:
Don’t get sick then Pat lol only joking mate. Have heard pretty much the same as what you have just said plus the chance you will be away for months on end to boot
I will say that, American drivers seem to be made to stay out for longer than Canadian ones. Perhaps thats because a lot of work for Canadian trucks is to the US and once there we have to load back to Canada again, no tramping around like a US truck can in its own country. So the likely hood of getting home is much greater for a Canadian truck in general. Though its no unusual for Canadians to be away a month or so at a time either.
Also, Canadian companies dont seem quite so quick to actually fire drivers for the slightest little thing because they have such a hard time getting drivers in the first place. Driver turn over is so great that you can get away with a heck of a lot over here without even so much as a warning.
The things that are the same between the two countries are the actual working conditions. Milleage pay, unpaid waiting times and all that stuff which on reefer work will be all the worse.
robinhood_1984:
taffytrucker:
Don’t get sick then Pat lol only joking mate. Have heard pretty much the same as what you have just said plus the chance you will be away for months on end to bootI will say that, American drivers seem to be made to stay out for longer than Canadian ones. Perhaps thats because a lot of work for Canadian trucks is to the US and once there we have to load back to Canada again, no tramping around like a US truck can in its own country. So the likely hood of getting home is much greater for a Canadian truck in general. Though its no unusual for Canadians to be away a month or so at a time either.
Also, Canadian companies dont seem quite so quick to actually fire drivers for the slightest little thing because they have such a hard time getting drivers in the first place. Driver turn over is so great that you can get away with a heck of a lot over here without even so much as a warning.
The things that are the same between the two countries are the actual working conditions. Milleage pay, unpaid waiting times and all that stuff which on reefer work will be all the worse.
Pretty much like everywhere there’s plenty of decent jobs in the US. It’s the gobby idiots that aren’t good enough to get on them that are the loudest and most heard 
^^lol^^
Before I joined my company I did a stint self employed and would be out for 3 weeks and home for a day if I was lucky. The first month of it I loaded US mail on the day after Thanksgiving 2005 and ran back and forth between Milford MA and Tampa or Miami FL I got home at 06.00 christmas eve, my Dad died in Northampton General hospital that boxing day and I had to run to Maine that night, then down to Georgia and back over a week before I flew to his funeral. On return to the US I was at my house for 12 hours then flew to Georgia to get the truck back.
Thank God for Foodliner, thiey saved my life and my marriage. 