Ok, here's the story... I just got home from a run that took me from Woodstock, NB, to Houston, then across to Sugar Land, then London ON, then home. While in Texas, over the course of two or three days I started hearing comments on the CB about "those ******* Canuck drivers", accused of everything from messing up "their" roads to taking "their" jobs. An entire conversation was definitely directed at me, since they called my company name and unit number, saying lovely things like "French-speaking, maple syrup eating Canuck (questionable parentage)". Some of the things that I heard were definitely of a threatening nature... maybe it was just radio rage, but I was not hanging around to find out. I do speak French, but it is my second language. I go out of my way to be courteous on the roads.
I have no idea what some Canadian driver must have done to provoke all these radio Rambos, but it was NOT good. A day or two later, up in Michigan, I saw a Challenger Motor truck based out of Winnipeg, that had the words "Canuck Go Home" spray painted in HUGE red letters on both sides of his trailer. The driver was visibly shaken, having just gotten out of the bunk to do his pretrip. I went with him into the truck stop to talk to the manager and report the vandalism, who said, "Yeah, well you guys shouldn't be down here in the first place."
He and I ran together back up to London, watching each other's backs until we were back in Canada. At the Windsor border crossing, the officer asked him about his new paint job, and commented that he has heard about more and more of this type of thing over the last year.
I could not possibly be more shocked. I have never heard any Canadian drivers screaming "Yankee Go Home" on the CB, nor have I ever heard any American driver threatened with violence just for being up here.
I've been running Can-US for two years now, and I had NEVER heard anything even CLOSE to this before. I only hope and pray that I will not hear it again.
Anti-Canadian sentiment in Texas??
Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by Captain Canuck, Aug 25, 2008.
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I'm pretty much speechless reading this! One of my friends is a Canadian driver (out of Toronto) who spent most of his career running US-Canada. After having a truck totalled in a black-ice accident in NY a few years ago, he chose to take a regional job which now keeps him inside the Canadian borders.
In all the years I've known this man, he never once said anything about encountering this type of reaction here in the States. He has, however, said he doesn't miss the increasingly frustrating amount of b/s at customs. He complained about THAT a LOT!
Can anyone give any reasons why there would be this type of sentiment against Canadian drivers running the States? I understand the concerns about Mexican drivers, but Canadians? I'm just lost here. -
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I've heard about it, but not in person, some feel that any from outside should be kept out, Canadians included.
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Speaking as a Texan I offer you an apology. Most Texans I know have no problem at all with Canucks. Matter of fact most of us wish we were doing well enough to afford to live up there in the summer and miss out on the 107' days here. I imagine you just heard the same mental midgets on the CB that you hear in every state. These guys are losers and are mad at everyone for their own failures. I have heard almost every race and nationality insulted and rarely even turn the radio on any more. Just ignore the jerk offs and enjoy the ride. In my younger days I used to love to get out and meet them face to face. They were just like all bullies. Tough guys when on the radio or in a pack. Bunch of pansies when they had to look you in the eye and repeat their threats.
Now days you will wind up in jail or in court so my days of handing out "knowledge bumps" are behind me unless attacked. Just know that you are the bigger man and let them wallow in their own self pity.Roadmedic, Cybergal, Weatherbug and 17 others Thank this. -
I appreciate that, Duker. I realize that a lot of this stuff is just Radio Rambo, but it really made me think... especially after I saw the grafitti on the Challenger truck, and heard the truck stop manager's response. What if one, just ONE, of these so-called professional drivers was carrying a gun, and psychotic enough to use it? I shudder to think of the possible outcome.
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I don't hate canucks. Y'all are welcome in my neighborhood!
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I am from the houston area and I have learned to turn my cb off between baytown and katy and between texas city and conroe. All you hear is trash and filth so much racism and just plain trash.
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Further, many people equate french speaking Canadians with the French themselves. Even Congress dissed the French as well as many other public entities changing names of french fries to American fries - well I'm sure you heard all about that. Personally, I don't hate entire people groups, but my encounters with these people definitely soured my view of it. There were TOO many of them acting the same way.goin2fast10 Thanks this.
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