Getting a job offer before you can apply for a work permit.

Be warned, you will not get past CBSA at the airport if you try to come on a visitor visa and tell them you are planning on taking a CDL course while here. This is not the correct procedure, you will be refused entry, detained, and sent home on the next available flight. And be flagged in the system for the future. And if you don't tell them that is what you are planning and they find out, (they have ways) you could be barred from any future re-entry to Canada.

The foreign worker program for Canada has a terrible reputation in Canada, and it's getting worse by the day. Created to allow big companies to attract foreign workers because companies won't pay enough to attract local people, it is rife with kick-backs, employee abuse, failure to pay workers, the list is endless..

Just don't try what you planned, it is a sure-fire way into a financial and legal mess you will long regret...

 

We don't need these kind of racist postings, this forum gets repeated warnings from the moderators, any more reports will probably get it shut down, and rightly so. Canadians are supposed to be better than that. The OP was asking for advice, I'm sure he isn't asking for or appreciating a comment like that..

 

You're trying to reinvent the wheel, and you're not really reading the advice you're getting ( except for the parts that fit your agenda ).

Just do what the thousands before you did and you'll save yourself a lot of money and problems. It has been explained to you what the authorities here will permit you to do on a visitor Visa and you want to argue?

I can understand your dream, it was mine too, but you seriously need to wind your neck in and try to learn from those who are trying to help you.

 

Don't let anyone tell you you can't do something unless it's the conclusion that you came to yourself.

When bureaucracy is involved everything is a long, drawn out, painful process.
That's the way it is, it's designed that way so people are more likely to give up than see it through.

Don't know if these links will help any, maybe you can find some helpful info to speed up the process or reduce the headaches.

Manitoba Work Experience Pathway | Canadim

NEW Updated Guidelines for Employers and Long Haul Truck Drivers | Manitoba Immigration and Economic Opportunities

 

You're getting there, contacting a prospective employer is your first step. Canada is different to UK, if you email you'll likely hear nothing so ALWAYS phone first and speak to whoever is in charge of recruiting. That person will tell you straight away if they're interested and what they want from you.

You're idea of passing your test on your own dime wont fly. Not just because its outside your visitor Visa to study but because you also have to change your licence over to Canadian to get your learners permit needing address etc, so put it out of your mind. Its dim in my memory, but a little while back there was a lot of MB asians getting their license ( not really taking their test wink wink) at a center using their own language in ON, then changing to mb. The provincial authorities got wind of it and changed the rules on out of province new passes, you wont need that ag.

Your list of companies seems to be all the big outfits, you may well do better with smaller firms. You will find plenty of opinion on here on those you list, but I'm not from MB so have no knowledge of my own only what I've read. Met a bloke from Payne once who was very happy and one from big freight too actually.

The licencing rules between each province are very different . So is the geography and type of work, in fact everything really so like I said ages back first choose your province, then what work you want to do, then as you focus down you can get away from your shotgun approach and target a real strategy. For instance, I wanted to go long haul so MB wouldn't really have suited me whereas the left and right coast would . BC wouldn't work as I only speak english so maritimes it was. If I were wanting to be home more regularly then my choices may have been more open.

The ainp is an option but the lmia route is still used by some companies in the maritimes.

I know it seems incredible, it did to me too, but a lot of these outfits here really do need you more than you need them and will help you get over so keep your money in your pocket, you're going to need it.