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In many areas the natives did enforce the "your not welcome to our lands". But the immigrants had better technology and weapons and forced their way in. So the natives lost the wars. If the natives had stopped fighting each other and banded together early on during the invasion, they could...

Well here in Ontario the gov't allows truck drivers to go 55hrs before overtime is paid. I know a driver who filed a complaint with the labour board and the company fought it. He figured that if the warehouse got overtime after 48 hours so should he. The gov't rules were 55 hours for drivers...

I just filed another GST return. Am getting $1600 area. Now thay let you claim the GST for you truck. I filed that one last year. Got back thousands. Rob Fis

All these mishaps with forklifts reminds of a few back when I worked in a warehouse. First one was an older fella named Garvin, he was ordered to unload a truck. However the lead hand beat bhim to it and signed off so the driver hopped in his rig and started to go. Only problem was garvin had...

Anyone driving a load into Ontario and you go past Toronto, the highway 401 at the west end of Oshawa will be closed from 1201 Sunday morning to 0800 Sunday morning. They are building a new interchange there for Stevenson road which will make deliveries to the GM plants a lot faster. Closure...

Many years ago working with a cousin in airconditioning, he got this job at a brewery to clean the return air ducts over the sterilizer. Ok the air system was turned off and we had to duct crawl and hand chip the stuff off the duct walls. The ducts were 18" above the sterilizer and it wasn't...

2 weeks ago I ran a load for a C unit in a B. Had to do two runs to do it as there was too many pieces. I actually told dispatch to call a heavier truck but they said "it's slow, heavy trucks are all loaded (in the area) so take load or sit". I took the load. Wasn't going far but was going...

Yeah Brian right in the area. I use that Sunoco all the time. See several boys sitting there on the other side of the fence. Rob Fis

Interesting as guys at my last company are all getting out of the Int'ls due to the problems and going to FLs. The biggest complaint from both though is the cost of the shop labour ($112/hr) and the shops not fixing the problems on the first visit (both brands). Many have left the dealers for...

On Yahoo there is a spinter forum (sprintervan) that has 1000's of members. There are several members who have used similar. Search their archives as they even had some give instructions. Several long haul van drivers north of the border use the aluminum covered bubble insulation. Double it...

It's times like this we realize that we are turing into our parents. Didn't we all declare we were never going to do that with our kids?? or something like that?? Rob Fis

nice Greg. Had one that the lady at the builders gave me an envelope (9x12) for the city hall in another town, did the delivery and then dispatch made me go back to the builders office and do it again. The lady was in such a hurry she gave the labelled envelope, no contents, she forgot to...

Jim and col you guys only picked up caskets?? I did the oposite, I got the bodies and no caskets (body bags). Had to deliver first thing next morning. ALso had customer who used to deal in body parts (for research), we had a driver slam his brakes on and the cooler slamed into the dog house...

Several years back I discussed this with a Penn State Trooper and a NY state fella. Both stated that if your going to sleep in your van the bed had to be permanent attached to the truck. If a wall was being used to separate the cargo area from the sleeper, then the wall had to be of a type to...

What has been one of your strangest or odd deliveries you've done? Just reading some post and getting a laugh today, but was curious about others strange calls. I had one last fall where the unit was supposed to fit through the front door (I was at the back door). Unfortunately some one made...

Last I have which is this week, is that passports are required at border crossings as of January 1 2008 (this law has been passed). There is a bill in the works in congress to delay 17 or 18 months for this requirement due to the backlog of applications for passports (both countries are having...

Let's see... since 1990 (been driving longer) I've had two tickets, once doing a run in new truck (it went goooood, compared to buggy it replaced), second after dropping on way to truckstop, they changed the speed limit for 1/4 mile stretch of road 2 weeks earlier and were enforcing it. Late...

RE: Trucker dies in accident - safety reminder (ag On my way back from Quebec today I saw two (2) Midland Transport T/T's rolled over. One on the right shoulder and one in the center median. This means that the MTO in Ontario will be at the Midland Terminal doing a saftey insp. Just strange...

There are just not enough runs through most load boards for vans. Many single or double skid loads have some quirk that makes them a problem for a van (too high, too long, too heavy, etc). So most vans run through a dispatch or signed on with a company where dispatch asks the various questions...

Thanks Greg... I beleive the bosses are, awhile back they gave me a bonus! Not for any particular run or anything just for being out there and going the extra. It was certainly a surprise. I find I'm doing more DH here than some other places I've been, but I also get some jobs that pay...