After 4 weeks of Dump Trucking :D

Well guys, its been 4 weeks now since I quit Freight/LTL forever.

Dump has been amazing, I know not all dump jobs are great, but this residential excavation/backfilling/stockpiling job is great!

So far I've gone to a concrete recycling plant for 25mm crush, I've been to Site One for Washed 1/2 crush road gravel, I've hauled fill out of basement excavations, to backfills or the fill piles. Fill piles being loaded by big front end loaders, to backfills and pads. I also got to go to a big dig site, with 30-40 excavators working, and 80-100 truck and pups in line getting loaded.

Stress Free, Paper DVIR's and no logs, basic time sheet, no ELD's, no Camera's, No ########, No Safety Department, Don't drive like an idiot, Don't dump without an operator directing you, everything will be fine and no one will have a problem. On site 7:30 until 4:00/4:30 latest. Absolutely no weekends, off early Friday of long weekends, Tuesday after long weekends the wind up is slower paced to get everyone back in the grove (Trucking the Tuesday after a long weekend was literally HELL). Fuel on the way back to the yard, at a cardlock just up the way. Washing is on you, but they have fleet wash bay cards for the local wand wash (I'm 100% fine with this, beats having some idiot mobile guy come out and make a mess).

Glad I made the switch when I did, should have done it sooner, but maybe I had to do it now for it to work out.

They say they're gonna build a Million Home's in Calgary, in the next 20 years, so I think this will be a retirement job for me. I might try and get a turn on this fancy new CAT 320 Excavator sometime, just for the heck of it.

 

See that's a story I hear all to often, guys selling used trucks and a JOB to go with it (for a fee). I'm only a company driver, for a small company that is expanding. We are not doing plow or snow work at all, this is year round residential work for LARGE General contractors. What makes this job work for me and for the company, is these large contractors have standards, esp when doing City of Calgary work. The "New Canadians" Super Power of doing #### for free, as long as you don't mind scrap metal equipment, driven by idiots doesn't work here. They also have so much work, which they control the flow of, that they're not afraid to tell idiots to get lost and never come back. In 4 weeks, I've already seen a dozen "New Canadians" get themselves and their trucks fired 1-2 days in. Refreshing to say the least, after battling it out for 8 years, with the lowest of the low bottom feeders (XXX/A1, Rig Logistics, Deva Jatt, Syndicate, FastFreight, Transource Freightways, Kingsway, etc etc etc).

 

They keep rolling! Calgary has Mild Winters, so they keep digging and stockpiling. No Loam obviously, lots of flood mitigation work also. They also tarp in underground parking jobs, and keep everything warm, with trucks coming and going.

 

Thanks dude, you pretty much nailed it, body is healing (esp my knee's), getting quality sleep, no dreading Fridays/Mondays or the Fallout from long weekends. Zero stress, cause no ELD's and dirt doesn't have BOL's lol. We don't even have to sign in or out anymore, once you're on an approved contractor list, the operators just tag when they told you the days over on this APP, and as long as it lines up with your submitted invoice, no issue!

Just a side note, road building/paving is ####. This is pretty much what everyone told me, and we're staying as far away from that as possible. @classicxl just confirmed in his post above.