Anti-Canadian sentiment in Texas??

I'm pretty sure that if you pick up a load in the US, it has to be going to Canada. No point to point loads are allowed within the US.

 

I went to Canada once during training, and just like NY, I will not go there anymore. It is no one's business but my own how many guns I own, which was THE question asked of me at the crossing, rudely I might add....but in reference to "vandalism", to quote jeff foxworthy, even tho' he's from Georgia, "we have a law in Texas, he needed shootin' judge".

 

I just recently got back from a trip to the states. I was stuck in stop and go traffic in Colorado because of stupid 4 wheelers not slowing down on ice..but that's a different story.

I heard on the radio "hey canadian truck with the pipe on the back, you got a left rear tire ready to blow. There's a big bulge on it" I thanked the guy as he drove past me and took the next exit and had to drive a ways until I found a suitable spot to stop and when I got out of the truck there was nothing wrong! There were no buldges, no tread separation....absolutely nothing wrong.

He just said that to waste my time and get me off the highway. Ate up 45 minutes of my time that day. I'm fairly new to this truck and didn't realize there's no way he could've even seen my tires with how large of mudflaps I have on the trailer.

In addition, while Driving through Houston this past week I got pushed into the shoulder from another truck not waiting to clear me before changing lanes and a bunch of them had a chuckle about it on the radio. Ya, its pretty funny. I bet it wouldn't be funny if it was one of your precious fellow Texans!

 

I have no problems at all with Canadians, but those people from Qubec.....

lol

 

That's a rotten trick to pull on a fellow trucker. As far as Houston don''t feel so special or hated. Everyone gets run off the road down there. More bad drivers than any other city I have ever been in. At least in TX. Too many ex-cons and criminal illegals driving down there. Everyone else in way to big a hurry to get killed.

 

Wish I'd stumbled on this thread earlier.
Firstly, I'm a US citizen. Secondly, in the only 2 years I've been driving, 18 months or so were spent crossing the border. On all three trucks I've had, I had the US and Canada flags displayed. Half my family came from Nova Scotia. But, that wasn't the reason I did that. You see, I've equal respect for both countries.
I always and still do felt more at home in Ontario than many places in my own country. And even Quebec was never that bad. You just had to adopt to the quasieuropean methods.
At one shipper in Carthage Mo, Sealy mattres I think it was, myself and a real Canadian driver from Bisson, were intentionaly delayed by them due to the fact that, "You #### Canucks aren't welcomed down here" in an accent both of us had trouble understanding. Yep, and I live in Michigan.
I just can't understand the animousity in the US being directed in any way towards our Canadian neighbours. And yes, that's how I've spelled all my life.
I know there's sheer ignorance on both side of the border, but comeon people, we are all NORTH AMERICANS. We share the same values, work just as hard, eat the same food, and speak the same language for the most part. Quebec the exception, LOL. It irrates me equally when I hear either US or Canadian drivers going at each other, as well as racist or sexest barbs flying around.
Geez, and to think I'm going to be in a JB truck after the first of the year, but I'll still have BOTH flags displayed.
I could go on and on about the ignorant s$*# I've heard in the last few years, but I STILL like driving, and will continue to put up with the stupidity of some. No wonder so many others think that we're all stick stupid, simply astounding.

 

Ok yes you are 100% correct on your first point I've been trucking in the US for 20 years and NEVER did this

As for your second point you couldn't be more uninformed. I haul into KY every week from Canada.

1. I'm hired by a Canadian company to do this and you say I'm "stealing" it from you

2. I'm hauling goods back to Canada that they bought from You!

3. So if this Canadian company stops buying from you what happens? ummm I guess jobs may be lost. Your jobs. 50% of their business is with Canada

4. How do you figure what I'm doing is "yours" Canadian company buys it Canadian company picks up the Canadian goods end of story.

And no this freight isn't mine either its who ever's freight that the company choses to hire Canadian or American So your implying that all the Canadian freight should be brought to the border cross docked onto a Canadian truck to be brought into Canada via a Canadian truck or vice versa? How ridicoulous is this?
handle the freight four times as opposed to 2 times the regular way. So two trucking companies to pay and another Warehouse company to cross dock it or store it. How efficient is this? Trucking is hard enough these days why make it more complicated. So you should know how this will turn out, two trucking companies will make less and the middleman gets rich!!
Trucking today is "just in time" freight not whenever it gets there.

 

as a Proud Canadian I can say even we don't count Quebec'ers as they are always going on about seperating

 

I was down in the US not long ago and someone is going on on the radio about how Canadians are wimps because we are not involved in the Iraq war. Meanwhile, Canadians like my brother are fighting and dying over in Afganistan, they don't need to be there, they are only there to support our American neighbours. Everyone seems to forget about that.

Don't get me wrong, I like Americans very much and know many good people in the USA, I know this is not the majority, but when I hear stuff like this it really makes me angry.