I don't want to say the name of the company I work for, but they manufacture ag equipment. Hiring from countries like Jamaica and the Phillipines...
Usually the employer would apply through the appropriate government program.
There's so much grain on the Canadian prairies this year that they don't have enough railcars to haul it and the farmers have no place to store...
On the rare occasions I haul tires, they are either tractor tires that are six feet in diameter or implement tires on eight foot steel racks. They...
Get a map book with truck routes clearly marked and make a point of learning the city as well as you can. GPS seems pretty useless in the city....
Farm work is good experience. You learn a lot. The van companies may not recognize it though. One thing to remember though, those farm plates...
You strap things in your pick-up? It thought it was required that we just let things fall out to test the driving abilities of...
That makes perfect sense. Thanks.
Try to find a couple of local manufacturers who can supply enough steady work to at least pay the bills, then pick up other work for the gravy....
Okay, part of the reason I like flat-beds is because I find the physics cool. We hold massive weights down with relatively little force. Now I...
I don't know nearly enough about trucks to offer technical advice, Robert, but it seems to me that you are thinking right. You have done/are...
The "red stuff" is called Thinsulate and I recommend them for winter work. Strapping with numb fingers usually ends badly. I also keep leather...
I keep hearing that, but I'm always backing...often in some pretty tight spaces. I even have a couple of places I have to back into docks because...
Yeah, the private waste haulers make a good buck here too. I know one guy who hauls nothing but cardboard. Not sure what he gets paid, but...
I don't know, maybe I'm just hard on gloves. The straps and chains chew them up, the limestone that gravels the yards doesn't help much either....
I like the kind of mid-range gloves made out of pigskin. They cost about ten bucks a pair up here (they'll be cheaper in the US) and last 2 weeks...
I had an instructor that got mad and yelled. When he wasn't yelling at me, he was yelling at the other guy in the truck. When we stopped for...
I'm late to the party here, but definitely check outside of the trucking industry. Lots of manufacturers, distributors and warehouses have trucks...
I always wonder how the guys I see hauling local do it. I haul local, but it's a flatbed. Everything is too heavy to lift, so I load/unload...
Just use them. If it gets cold enough , the air gets dry and so do the straps. Actually, I just unroll them on my deck at night. We park in a...
