New to Canada, new to trucking

Bumpty · Sep 2, 2019

bonder45 said: ↑

I am ...hahahah

Also the company I contract to. When I started here awhile also I was getting 35/hour +OT after 8. I was working my 40 hours within the first 3.5 days and making bank after that.

That job gave me the ability to buy 1 truck, then another and another, etc. Now I’m the boss making $185/ hour on every truck.
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Yep..... Everyone's getting rich.

beastr123 · Sep 7, 2019

Northerntanker said: ↑

So, I've pretty much been in exactly the position your in right now, although I was a trucker in England for 10 years before moving to Saskatchewan.
I moved here 7 years ago and had to do the test/airbrake from scratch......I got lucky though, I got on with a company that paid for it and over the following couple of years got valuable experience pulling Super B hoppers, eventually moving onto to tankers.
I currently do OTR pulling a dry van but that's a different story lol.
The first couple of winters here were a VERTICAL learning curve....frozen brakes, valves, fingers lol. Coming from England, nothing prepares you for -40 on the Prairies!
There are many factors to consider....are you alone or do you have family/kids?.....if so, I would say forget OTR, unless you don't like your wife lol. It puts a huge strain on relationships and you make many sacrifices.
You must love driving and your own company, that goes without saying.
Then there's all the the other BS to deal with that is out of your control....dispatchers/shippers/receivers/DOT/safety.
Having said all that....I still enjoy driving most days and have built up alot of experience to handle most situations out here. It is definitely not for the faint hearted. Just look at all the options available and make an informed decision from there.
Good luck.
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just a wave from the guy who was medically retired in 2017 from the Company in your picture

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