Quick Update

Sorry for the lack of posts, but i have been so busy at work and home i just havn't had time. Everything went well with the house purchase, and we took possession on time. We had a few delays with the furniture deliveries so we didn't move in for 2 days. Next time i'm home i will try and remember to get some pics. Work wise, when my vacation finished i was given a San Diego CA. The shipper had made a cock up with bond docs and duplicated my bond and given it to another driver. So i couldn't cross the border until he went back to the border and fixed the problem. Luckily he had only driven 30 mins passed the the border, unluckily he needed a 10 hour break before he could return! I tipped the load right on the Mexican border then was given a reload in Yuma AZ, 21 pallets of lettuce (9500lbs), to go to Calgary. After i dropped that i picked one up for Lethbridge, ran back and reset at home. I'm back out on monday heading for Washington, a short one for a change. 

Back in town

Well thats me finished now for 8 days. We get the house on thursday, so we're going to be really busy shifting everything at the end of the week. Most of the furniture comes on saturday, so that'll be another busy day. I will try and get some photo's if i get time and post them.

Any closer and they nick your wheels!

Update at last

Where to begin. Last time i posted i was reseting in Calgary. So i finished the reset and headed for Laredo tx. As i had only been given 3 calander days to do the run, i had to push hard and get myself starting earlier each day, so i could run the last 700kms to the drop on monday morning. As soon as i dropped i got a preplan through to load in Mcallen that night, and be in Calgary friday morning. No chance, so i had to decline the load. Shame i would have loved to have gone down there. So i got a load the next day, and ran upto Casper wy. At Casper i had 1.5 hours left for 2 days, so i did another reset. From Casper i ran back into Lethbridge and had a night with Barbara. On sunday i ran to Calgary, dropped the trailer, picked up an m/t and went to Brooks. At Brooks i picked up a trailer for Monteal that was delivering the next day at 05.30! I guess someone forgot about it. From there i ran it to Winnipeg and did a switch with a team. The trailer i got off the team was for Edmonton. At Edmonton i dropped that and picked up the trailer that the team was supposed to get.Another Montreal with 2 days to get there. So i ran that to Saskatoon and dropped it in the yard. I've now got to pick up an m/t and take it to Brooks, then pick up a loaded trailer to deliver in Calgary tomorow night.  

WHY????

Why do people who say they dont like what i'm writing, visit this blog more than the ones that do like it. Perhaps these closet posters actualy like this blog, but dont want anybody to know.I wonder if these people ever picked up a copy of War and Peace, read the first 3 pages and decide what a load of bull, then go on to read the other 1222 pages, moaning about it all the time. Maybe someone will explain it to me in an anonamous comment, in between the slagging off of course.

What a day!!! One for the people who dont like to read this, but keep coming back

What a really bad day i've had, its been terrible.I ran from Saskatoon to Edmonton, that was hard. Then i had to drop my trailer in the yard at Edmonton, then pick another one up to go to Calgary, bummer. Then i had to drop it in Calgary, downer. Then to top it all they went and stitched me up by giving me a dam load to Laredo Texas!!! But seriosly now, i have experianced a really bad, down right appalling thing today, and it should'nt have to happen to anybody at H&R or any other company. Toilet rolls are a basic human need, sort it.

Negative Posts/Comments

Some people seem to be thinking that i'm deliberatly not publishing anything negative about H&R. For me, there has'nt been any negative incidents yet. I am not saying this is true for everybody, i think we all have different tolerances and expectations, a crisis for one driver is a minor hiccup to another.Yes, sometimes i've had to wait around to be loaded or tipped, but on every occasion thats been down to the shipper or reciever, not H&R. Only this week i had to wait overnight to be tipped, that was because the reciever had'nt been working for two days and his chiller was full. There was another driver ( from Michigan) who arrived about two hours after me, he was told he would be tipped at 5pm ( 7 hours after me) and he only had 4 pallets! Waiting about for someone else to get their act together is fairly common in this job wherever you are. So far i have only been parked up once due to lack of work and i was given layovers for it, without arguement.
           The reason i don't publish negative comments is because they are always anonamous, and to me an anonamous comment of this type dose'nt belong on here. Maybe it belongs on a forum, or create your own blog. Also i can't understand why someone who wants to be heard and goes to the trouble of writing a comment, won't put their name to it. To me that says i'm not happy at H&R, but i don't want them to know it. Why? Perhaps you should go in to the office and let them know how you feel. The only person to have ever put their name to a negative comment was Mick Flynn, and i deleted these comments because i didn't want to be associated with his campaign against H&R. I am a big believer in not biting the hand that feeds you, especially when you have so much to loose, as we did at the time. I have nothing against Mick, in fact we once spent an enjoyable evening together ( i think. the booze was flowing well), and would probably do it again if the opertunity arose. So to sum up, if or when something negative does happen, if it truly is worth writing about, then i will post it. The anon posters will get their moment if they put a name on it, after all you know my name and truck number, why can't i know yours.

Headingly

Well i made it to Headingly and i'm goosed. Tomorrow i'm going flat out again for Edmonton. If i make it, that will be 2180 miles in three days! I'm feeling really tired now just thinking about it so i'm off to bed.

Kapukasing

Nothing exciting to report today really. Picked my trailer up at 6.00am and cracked on. It started to snow really heavy just as it was starting to go dark, but i only had about 45 mins to do anyway. By the time i got into the flying j at Kapukasing, the road was completely covered. So i parked up, did my paperwork, got my gear together and went for a shower. When i came out my tire tracks had disappeared, and its still hammering down now.

5368 miles