So Monday I had that delivery in Montreal, QC as planned and things did no go well in any way. I started at 01.00am from home, down to Albany, hooked to the trailer which was only containing 28,000lbs of coconut oil and only half a load in a 7,000 gallon tank with no baffles means a rough ride. On collecting the trailer I found a note ‘Driver, please attatch a PARS sticker’ … ‘What the hell is a PARS sticker’ I think, I phone dispatch who tell me to go to a truckstop and they will fax one to me. An hour later at Wilton I am holding a small bar code on a sheet of full scap which I cut out and sellotaped to the document and get underway. At the border 4 hours later I meet the most unfriendly guard on earth, “Why is the PARS sticker taped on ?”
“Because thats how they faxed it to me, I had no idea what it was before now”
“Go in lane 1, park up, go inside and see your broker” says he.
I park and go into customs and stand there 15 minutes and some nasty ■■■■■ tells me to call my broker, who my broker is I have no ■■■■■■’ idea ? She thumbs through my documents and say’s “Call Livingstones, the number is on the wall”
I do so and a woman appears 10 minutes later, takes everything away and says she will be back in about 2 hours 
… Two hours pass ad true to her word she returns gives me my documents complete with new PARS sticker and sends me back to nasty woman to stamp, I am again on my way, however I am now 3 hours late and inform dispatch and am informed by verizon by text that in Canada I will be charged $2.95 per minute ! Phone is then turned off. 35 miles up the road I am stuck on a bridge for an hour, then after turning right as told by directions I travel 6 miles and turn left as told, thsi was a bad thing bacause Kraft was the other way, I do a U turn and head back, miss the gate and carry on to a one way system but halfway round I notice traffic has changed and is now facing me 
YES FOLKS I was facing the wrong way in a one way street 
Chapter 2.
I eventually get into Kraft and am told to go to the scales which it seems are 5 miles away and am given a very poorl drawn map, I get completely lost and find myself goin down a street I was told to return on, there’s no way to cross the divider so I go 3 miles to do a U turn, when I eventually get weighed and find Kraft again the bloke has vanished for an hour and time is ticking away on my Elog. I am out of there with 62 mins to get back to the scales again and get to the border, at the scales the gates are locked and nobody is around, I ring the bell but all I get is a French tarts message, I back out onto a dual carriageway in rush hour blind side and think stuff Kraft, I’m going home. Up the road from the scales I find the tunnel to autoroute 20 which I get on and arrive at the border with 3 minutes left at which point it changes back to US hours of service and I am an hour over the legal limit. INS and customs are very nice and let me through (after they steal $10.75 from me) and as I walk to me truck I find the are X raying it, I am released and go but notice the X ray has wiped everything in my peoplenet out including the log, it errased my emails, email addresses and all my assignments. I parked at the scabbiest truck stop on earth at exit 43 ate the worst meal ever the got up to find that only half a mile away were two better ones … You can stick Montreal for now guys
Oh dear!!! Sorry if it was my directions that got you lost. I didn’t think you could turn right off Notre-Dame onto Viau for anything except the port/container terminal! Theres no worse place I know of to get lost or miss your turn in to a factory gate than Montreal, I’ve had some very bad situations there my self many times.
As for the PARS fiasco, that was extremely poor planning on your companies part. I would have thought they’d have taken care of all that for you. I can only imagine what they thought when you turned up at the border with your PARS sticker taped to your invoice! lol.
Sorry Pat,but, ,for future reference call the broker for an entry # prior to crossing.Not like you to moan eh?
robinhood_1984:
Oh dear!!! Sorry if it was my directions that got you lost. I didn’t think you could turn right off Notre-Dame onto Viau for anything except the port/container terminal! Theres no worse place I know of to get lost or miss your turn in to a factory gate than Montreal, I’ve had some very bad situations there my self many times.As for the PARS fiasco, that was extremely poor planning on your companies part. I would have thought they’d have taken care of all that for you. I can only imagine what they thought when you turned up at the border with your PARS sticker taped to your invoice! lol.
It wasnt your directions my friend, it was my company directions on Peoplenet that they eventually sent me, they had me crossing Jaques-Cartier bridge on to 134 west then turn right on Sherbourn (or some similar name, then when I came to Viau turn left, it should have been turn right. The scales I went were on Notre Dame.
Not your faut in any way.
flat to the mat:
Sorry Pat,but,
I assumed the guy who had loaded the trailer had done as instructed and faxed everyting anyway.
I used to think INS on the US side were nasty but they are angels compared to the ignorant French gits, (same the world over then).
Pat Hasler:
flat to the mat:
Sorry Pat,but,I assumed the guy who had loaded the trailer had done as instructed and faxed everyting anyway.
I used to think INS on the US side were nasty but they are angels compared to the ignorant French gits, (same the world over then).
At least in France they used to be open to a little back hander 