Holy Sunday

This service only runs on sunday,if the crossing is good enough for JC then its good enough for The Canadian Pasific Railway

things are cooling down

You'll be glad to know that things are cooling down, today was a bit cloudy, im getting fed up with all this sun,had to turn down the a/c,its now in the lower 80s during the day, last week in vegas it was 120 and 85 over night.
Comming up from vegas the truck started to back fire and blow out black smoke, i was told to continue, let it develop they said.made it to the yard and changed trucks to continue to edmonton.dropped the trailer there.I was told off by a pipsqueek manager winging that i didnt have load bars holding the load up in the trailer,ye right at 50 bucks each and u normaly you have 3, at your own expence.i said i was a pro driver and i didnt need them,the git took my name and reported me,what a T-----ser. anyway got sent to load at calgary, destination bettendorf iowa, not a clue either, but its about 1500 miles away, so here i am sat in shelby tstop sat tea timewriting a blog. I thought i would have an easy day, and set off early tmrw morning as the sunrises are spectacular, see you in bettendorf. i know iknow, more pictures, im working on it.

Still trucking on

Again appologies for the long delayed update,the truck stops (flying j) i use for tinternet is updating its service so its more difficult to find sites, any how this one is free at a TS called DADs in Idahi Falls,so here we go.
Loaded out of Toronto For calgary a trip across the trans canadian 1,1days driving 13 hrs to get across ontario.I drove only during the day because of all the warnings about moose wandering on the road at night,they are like cart horses and weigh about a ton,if you hit one, at best you come out second.Again the countryside was beautiful.2000 miles later i found myself in calgary.
From here i loaded for Los Angeles,down thru Great falls, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas to LA.Arriving sat night.Because the load was not tipping untill mon i spent the day in the TStop with me ole mate martin and a canadian driver and caught up with old times, which reminds me i had some bad new a couple of weeks ago.My mate died, came to canada to retire, a good o'l boy,heart attack, well he was over 25 stone, driven in reverse further than some forward,forgotten more than most know, so i went to his funeral as he was a loner.Trouble is i could'nt find the church, then got held up in roadworks and when finally arrived everybody had gone, there were just the two workmen with shovels standing there.So i thought id better go and see.I stood by them and said a few kind and sympathetic words and told a few old stories of what he was like and the fun we had, choked me up a bit so i decided to leave. As i was about to get in the car one workman said to the other,that was the most moving and sentimental speach ive heard in 20 years of putting in septic tanks.
See you later

Down to New York

Im starting to find out where all the good stops are now, so life is becomming a lot easier. Im making alot of friends here now, real genuine people that only want to help as they have all been in my situation as a newby.
loaded out of canada for new york this week, the bronx of all places, a bit of a rush job, it dos'nt matter when the suppliers load you, you must still deliver on time, this really sucks as there is a lot of pressure on the driver to deliver.any how being a true proffesional i was still late, no not really i got ther early by being a bit creative with the log book,24 hours driving in 34 hours,1600 miles, thats like going from soton to aberdean and back.wont do that again in a hurry,on the plus side i got some brownie points.
Didnt get to see much of ny as i was watching where i going, i drove over geo washington bridge, 40 dollars toll, to get to the bronx, its as bad as the tv shows i was glad to get out with all my wheels attached.It was stange looking down the hudson river and seeing all the tall skyscrapers on manhatton island. As a point the new yorkers are a bit upset as they are going to build a mosque on the site of the twin towers, how insensitive is that.
I got my next job to run 595 mt up to toronto this is about 10 hrs driving, then load for calgary,i didnt realise new york was a state, and what a beautiflul one too.its mountainous with a lot ski resorts in the winter and it heavily forrested.Everyone seems to have camper vans or caravans, there are even people with campers the size of coaches towing 4x4 cars, amazing.The weather is really hot still, mostly in the 90s, and when it rains it becomes very humid.
nice too see my followers are increasing( hi josh an amy)im glad that im not forgotten yet