Who's hiring and where?

I know the feeling, i applied for EI for first time in my life i'm 50 yo.
I've been pulling mostly automotive parts here Southern Ontario to USA . They all closed around March 15th , i parked my truck and applied for EI, not for Cerb, but somehow they combined both and i received 3500$ so far. Yesterday morning i received an email from carrier to prepare for restart next week, but after watching Doug Ford speech and US news ,i doubt will be next week.

 

(oilfield tanker) we took a cut in the way our OT is paid...rates the charges took a big cut, but we're still working...guys are whining aboot making $8k for 3wks instead of the $10++

im like dude, we have it good comparitively

i dont have any bills, so its just the 'pride' thing of working for less than im used to...most others got payments out the ### and are screwed

 

You're a Mechanic, you can get a US Visa, just header to Montana.

 

Why not set up your own shop?
You are young and smart enough.
Have a licence for class 8 truck so testdrives and that are no problem.

 

I thought grain and fertilizer hauling would of gotten hit harder with all the oil patch trucks available.
That was certainly the case in 2015. But this time I think most of them just gave up. I've seen a couple of them but not many.
We've been hauling pretty hard this month. Worked six days this week. Going back holiday Monday, even have loads today, Sunday. But I'm out of hours.

 

Not sure about grain and fertilizer, but when I was hauling fuel (mostly for farming/co-ops), in the spring and fall there was no such thing as too much capacity... different story the rest of the year.