A young frenchy in Canada

You will have to sign on with the bigger companies like Schneider, JB Hunt, CR ENgland to name a few. Those are US based companies that will give you the training you need before finding a respectable company to work for. There may be a canadian company that hires newbies i just do not know any canadian outfits in general.

I say respectable company because these larger fleets are gonna take you for all your worth. Cheap pay, no miles, layovers, garbage loads, the whole 9 yards. You basically give up a year of your life to get the experience you need to work for a smaller outfit. The reason you have to do this is the big companies are self insured where the respectable small companies are not and 0 insurance companies will touch you.

 

try Werner in Omaha, NE that would be my first choice

 

The same thing is happening in Canada. Tens of thousands of Temporary Foreign Workers are being brought into Canada to replace Canadian truck drivers to reduce truck drivers pay. There are 600,000 Canadian truck drivers no longer working as truck drivers. Many of the Temporary Foreign Workers replacing Canadian truck drivers are from the same eastern European countries that are supplying workers that are replacing truck drivers in France. You cannot escape the globalization of truck drivers pay.

Working as a low-wage slave for a "Sweatshop On Wheels" US trucking company is ridiculous. It's an insult and it's disgraceful. Don't support a sleazy system that is causing poverty and despair.

 

In Canada we dupe British truck drivers into working for sleazy trucking Canadian companies and we also bring plenty of drivers from the former Soviet Republics, Poland and so on, to work as indentured slaves under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. There are also plenty of non-drivers from places like Punjab who are new family-class Canadian citizens who are "trained" (using the term loosely) to drive trucks for Punjabi-speaking Canadian trucking company owners who treat the new immigrants as slaves (and pay accordingly). Compared to France, there is very little regulation of trucking in Canada. In the next few months the average turnover of truck drivers in North America will exceed the average turnover of McDonalds employees.

 

I knew a work-visa driver from france; he really hated being trapped, and spoke of how much better off trucking was in europe (he left for very firm personal reasons). You display a fine bravery and spirit- don t enslave yourself to a work visa- you certainly have a greater future than spending it in the cab of a truck- a space smaller than a legal prison cell. never sell liberty