American vs. Canadian Drivers

A shipper I frequent in Edison hates the Canadians that come in. He tells us they park wherever they want in front of the docks and there are no parking signs. So it slows down his productivity as it takes all but five minutes to load a trailer once in.

Now he has to wait for the Canadian to come in, sign in, figure out why he's there, take a leak and then maybe move from the front of the docks.

Granted this is only one place, and I've had some relatively good experiences with Canadian drivers myself.

 

Being from Canada, it would be easy to flip this around. There are poor drivers, and lots of them in both countries. All the american drivers I work with every night are awesome. One even offered to let me and the wife stay at his place when we came through on vacation. The make up of drivers in both countries has changed dramatically... I'll leave it at that.

 

$10.50/ hr in Canada
$7.25/hr in USA.
Minimum wage.

Keep going north and wages go up but so do living expenses.

Average usa driver gets to keep more of their money.

Cb chatter is better in Canada.

I love Canada.

I don't like how they have like 4
32nd st roads in the same town like Calgary or whatever. I mean wtf man.... XD

 

You may be some what correct about the parking thing. I'm Canadian and I've commented a few years back how U.S. Drivers seem to park between the lines and Canadian tend to park hap hazard. My brother-in-law said its because down south you'd be afraid to get shot. Up here, what cha gonna do about it, eh?

 

A loader said Canada drivers were always picky about where to place the load and make him move it, while us American didn't care and always run with it. Not sure how much of that is true

 

Factor in $1 usd = $1.30 cdn or so. Our cost of living is not really dependant on the exchange rate. So when you convert our money into usd, Americans likely make more, on the average at least.

 

Should also make a differentiation for "new Canadians""

 

Tell that to my glasses I paid for at the Marlborough mall in Calgary!
Freaking $500 for one pair american.

.....maaaannnn the lady assistants were so freaking hot....

That was back a few years ago when the can $ was worth more.
Freaking bunk heater melted my lenses.

Don't leave plastic bags or glasses near your vents with the bunk heater on my friends. Smh....screw me....