Oh Canada!

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  1. May 30, 2011 #1
    Tapeworm

    Tapeworm Medium Load Member

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    I have made quite a few trips to Canada. If any fellow Swift drivers have questions about traveling to Canada I will be happy to help ya out. I do not claim to know everything, but I know enough to be of assistance to others.
     
    Tapeworm, May 30, 2011
    Tapeworm, May 30, 2011
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  3. May 30, 2011 #2
    WitchingHour

    WitchingHour Road Train Member

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    Do they really say "aboot" instead of "about"?
     
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  4. May 30, 2011 #3
    AZS

    AZS Honk if anything falls off

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    You been there in a big truck though?
     
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  5. May 30, 2011 #4
    Tapeworm

    Tapeworm Medium Load Member

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    Yeah, eh?!
    Yes I have.
     
    Tapeworm, May 30, 2011
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  7. May 30, 2011 #5
    blsqueak

    blsqueak Road Train Member

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    So glad that with mny truck at 68, will not be seeing the country anytime soon again.
     
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  8. May 30, 2011 #6
    WitchingHour

    WitchingHour Road Train Member

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    Never bothered me to run Canada when I was with Swift. Hell, Ontario was usually the best part of the trip when I had to carry bus chassis up from Fort Valley, GA to Brantford, ON. Up 75, through Atlanta, then up 75 some more, to Knoxville (and all the road construction they had going on at the time), then up the loop at 45 MPH to continue up 75, through the rolling hills of Kentucky with a castrated 12.7 Detroit, and all the idiot home basers. Then you had Cincinnatti, then 200 miles or so of 55 MPH Ohio, then Michigan, then Detroit, then getting across the bridge. (Not so) Fun times.
     
    WitchingHour, May 30, 2011
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  9. May 30, 2011 #7
    canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    whats the matter--you guys cant handle driveing for 13 hours in a day?
     
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  10. May 30, 2011 #8
    WitchingHour

    WitchingHour Road Train Member

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    13 hours? Talk about 20 hours of mixed driving between sites and sitework labor, then we got ourselves a conversation.
     
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  11. May 30, 2011 #9
    canuck in da truck

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    just 20?
    thats just part of day moving oil rigs and camps
     
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  12. May 30, 2011 #10
    WitchingHour

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    They wouldn't let me drive past 20. I'd work it, but they wouldn't let anyone who did it behind the wheel from that point on.
     
    WitchingHour, May 30, 2011
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