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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby robinhood_1984 » Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:45 pm

Just like everywhere else in Canada, in New Brunswick there are an abundance of incredibly crap jobs that are so far beyond the pale of acceptability to British norms that they would break many peoples will to stick it out and many do return.
I've had a truly horrendous job here (to get PR), then a few average jobs that where fine while single but wouldn't support a family or if they would, I'd never be with that family and now for the past four years I've been at an exceptionally good company, but the only reason they are exceptionally good is because they're not primarily a transport company, they're a greenhousing company that has 14 or 15 of their own trucks to deliver their own product during the various growing seasons and we do general freight in between.

I'm home 99% of weekends for the full weekend, and compared to all the bottom feeder companies in the area, I'm on very good pay and conditions and I've had 3 or 4 pay rises since I've worked here, something general transport companies almost never give unless half their fleet is empty and they're desperate for meat in the seat.
As I say, I generally work five days a week, Monday to Friday and last year I grossed $62k, some of our guys who large it and choose to max out are in excess of $70k but I'm not here to work like that, I want a family life as I now have a wife and a toddler and this is as good as its going to get without moving back to England.
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby ChrisArbon » Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:33 pm

newmercman wrote:Trust me, compared to some of the other expats, the locals are fine! Brits in Steinbach would make a brilliant soap opera lol.

The points system didn't apply as MB nominated us for PR to fill a skills shortage, we had been here working and were settled, both at work and home, with kids in school etc.

Things may be different now though. The Trudeau regime is supposed to be overhauling the system.

There is an alternative now too, all you have to do is walk across the fields near the border at Emerson MB, apply for asylum and you'll get housed, go on benefits etc etc etc. Apparently rural Manitoba is becoming the new Sangatte!


You are right about Emerson becoming the new Sangatte. I came through the border this week and there were two camera crews and their vans hanging around looking for people to film. Although I didn't see any increased activity on the US side; probably not trying to stop people leaving.

Brits in Steinbach ?? Top ten in the ratings every week.
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby Kiowan » Sun Feb 26, 2017 7:37 am

If you're going over as a truck driver then points assessment is only for your Provincial Nominee application, not PR. You will of course be working in order to apply for that, after 6 months, and your ongoing job offer will give you so many points towards it that not an awful lot else matters like age, language abilities, education etc in the PNP you are largely competing against people outside the country who are applying based on having a relative there and no actual job, just looking for the chance to come over and find a job, they will have far less points than you.

AS you are working so PNP is relatively fast at about 6 months or so after application but PR will take you between 1-2yrs, this is for MB. I believe SK is virtually identical, AB is just a pain due to requiring employer application but also the impossibility of finding a job able to employ you in the first place.
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby newmercman » Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:59 pm

In MB the points system is redundant as the province puts you through for filling a skills gap, which is why you go on an LMIA first. The LMIA proves you're needed to fill a job and allows you to bypass the rest of the requirements. You do need to meet the 2yrs experience and the financial and criminal record requirements though.
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby hkloss1 » Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:46 pm

You might actually be right chaps, as I didn't see any points system a truck driver would need to complete in any other province (Saskatchewan, Alberta) so, I could have gotten a little confused and got all these programs confused when looking at various MB programs.
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby robinhood_1984 » Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:33 am

I remember there being a points aspect to the NB PNP application in 2009 which I only just scraped past. My lack of experience (I was only 25 at the time) and the fact I had not done an exploratory visit to Canada first lost me points but I managed to scrape enough together one way or another. This wasn't anything federal but merely a NB provincial requirement. No idea if its still the same.
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby flat to the mat » Wed Mar 08, 2017 12:53 am

Good day for comparisons if anyone's unlucky enough to be out in this crap throughout SK/MB . not pretty .
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby newmercman » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:00 am

I'm marooned in Regina and my other motor is stuck on the side of #1 east of Virden. 24hrs and counting....
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby newmercman » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:01 am

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The view from highway 1.
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby flat to the mat » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:10 am

Go for a beer , you're not moving for a while . Shut Eastbound from Regina now also :roll:
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby ChrisArbon » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:42 am

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No better south of the border. I got hit by fast moving shed during a tornado last week.
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby flat to the mat » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:50 am

Great pics of life out here , sort or makes "storm Doris" look a bit naff in the grand scheme .
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby russjp » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:27 am

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Pleased I wasn't in one of these when the storm took them over


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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby JIMBO47 » Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:31 am

"three year atlantic immigration pilot programs" has skill level c ie. truck drivers ..new way in check it out (AIPP). someone might put the cic page etc as my computer skills are a bit ..... jimmy
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby Big Truck » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:56 pm

flat to the mat wrote:Great pics of life out here , sort or makes "storm Doris" look a bit naff in the grand scheme .

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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby flat to the mat » Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:11 am

Big Truck wrote:
flat to the mat wrote:Great pics of life out here , sort or makes "storm Doris" look a bit naff in the grand scheme .

Fill your boots!!!!!!!

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:D All part of the challenge Seamus , good feeling when you come out the other side and the sun shines again . Life would be boring if it rained all the time :roll:
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby newmercman » Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:52 am

I don't know what all the fuss was about, I left Regina today and the roads were fine all the way home
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Re: Compare the UK trucking to Canadian..

Postby Big Truck » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:44 am

flat to the mat wrote:
Big Truck wrote:
flat to the mat wrote:Great pics of life out here , sort or makes "storm Doris" look a bit naff in the grand scheme .

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