Thanks! I'll certainly need it in this economic climate! Connections, connections, connections!
Castaic! Spent many hours parked there at the bar getting drunk! "Country Girl" or whatever it was called...
Takes practice, but everything is visual on a B-Train trailer... I worked at Yellow for a few years, and the A-trains can be tough... Problem...
The tools required to do this properly would not be a part of a company drivers truck. Liability, pay to the driver, etc, just prohibits having...
You could re-stack 45,000 pounds of peanut butter to the Mormons in Utah, on their own "special" grocery wooden skids... I've done it. Once, but...
Cash money in your account will be a requirement to own, or a high Visa credit... The money? Not as much as you'd expect! The plus side?...
The best part is, is that if you have a problem with me, I'll forward it to the boss... LOLZA!
I used to do a daily run that almost always required tarping. It was crap! Eventually the forklift operator just knew to lift me and the tarps...
W900 is nothing for me to handle... I've run mixers with twin steers for a while, and THOSE suckers don't turn very well. W900 is easy, if...
I do different work than a lot of you guys here. I've done highway for a couple of years, but didn't like it after the novelty wore off. Local...
NSC test: passed. My name on the door: passed. Insurance, business registry, business licence, and all the other crap: PASSED! I seriously...
Too late! [IMG]
I can add my $0.02 OP, but I'm from a different Province, so my advice may not apply to Ontario. Nonetheless, first off people must understand...
Yellow has spec'd some of their trucks without passenger seats for decades! Ask me how I know! Nothing but a metal box of sorts...
You can still purchase them. Why a company would, is beyond me. In Europe, I can understand their total vehicle length laws. North America...
Brower used to be Teamsters. They probably still are. Horton's I do not know...
Making 70 to 80 grand/year as a highway driver might be pushing it... It's possible, but not likely. You'll run your balls off. That kind of...
LA is bad for rig parking. I was happy when I could get to Castaic, park, and get drunk at the Cowboy Lady, or whatever it was called. I wonder...
If you need a job, take it! I worked at Yellow twice, actually... Once when it was Yellow (before all the cuts), and after they became YRC they...
In California, they'll remind you when to chain (even if it's wet). Up here? They do not, generally. When you lose traction, time for the...