Canada - How easy is it to get a driving job there?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS EX-PAT BRITISH TRUCKERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Hello,

I will get Class 2 very soon and am curious if anyone can point me in the right direction to driving in Canada?

Thank you for any assistance :slight_smile:

aposhark

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Aposhark,

I havn’t time to go imto things for you but I will sugest you have a look through this ‘Ex Pats’ section to see how the question has been answered lots of times before :exclamation:
Good luck :laughing:

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Well, the easiest way to get into any foreign country is to marry a native. Which is what I may well do… :smiley:
Canada is easier than the US, but many Canadian companies are looking for people with at least 3 years of UK class 1 experience. I know, I asked, and i have a UK class 2 as well. Seems that 6 months of US experience driving at up to 50t gross doesn’t count for much with some people.
Tick box recruitment… gotta love it :unamused:

Though do trust me on this fact: If you can drive a truck well in the UK, you can do it ANYWHERE. Most of the midwest is so empty you’ll wonder where everyone is. Get out east or west tho, and it’s like being back home.

Best advice: Get plenty of experience, and then look for ways to get into trucking in another company. I have 18 months of class 2, and 5 years of light haulage experience, and it’s not been easy yet. I know getting class 1 back home is damnably expensive, but it’s a big help in getting into Canada.

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Alli,

I am sure that this site is the same as most and is monitored by INS etc, probably with some user name, so informing all that you intend to marry a citizen just for a green card will go down very well :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

It isn’t just walls that have ears these days :laughing:

This was not intended to annoy you, just some very good advice :slight_smile:

Enjoy :wink:

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Pat Hasler:
Alli,

It isn’t just walls that have ears these days :laughing:

Enjoy :wink:

Hey Pat,

I thought that Walls had sausages :wink:

Jim

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I’m not marrying any septic for no green card. Besides, certain technicalities that I won’t air in public would likely prevent that working for me in the US.
It’s the socialist republic of Canuckstan I’m going for. Much better. They have Tea! And Chocolate! And they can spell! :laughing:
Trust me, Canada is better. Been here only a few days, and it’s so much nicer. Less BS and far more easy going. And a marriage has to have something more than just emmigration as an end result, or A: it’s not worth it, and B: it’s gonna get you in trouble sooner or later. I’m not being quite that dumb. I checked the rules you know :smiley:

And I thought walls had ice-cream :laughing:

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I was only jesting Alli :laughing:

Anyway it’s not ‘Walls’ here, it’s called 'Good Humor" :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Good luck in Canada, have you found some work yet :question:

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Got a driving assesment later this week with Loadrunner in Winnipeg later this week. And here comes over an inch of snow… :unamused:

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You mean 2.5 cm of snow, don’t you?? Seriously, if 1" of snow bugs you, trust me, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!!!

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I think this weather is marvelous :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: It are two days to Thanksgiving and still warm and sunny :open_mouth: we are usually under snow long before now :exclamation:

I hope it never snow again :laughing:

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I’m not too worried by an inch of the white stuff. I was just hoping to get my driving assesment out of the way before it hit…
Had 2 inches back home last year, and I got a night trunk that night, in a merc actros with 'telligent (EPS Mk2) and I’d never met that box before. Had a few twitchy moments, but I didn’t break anything…
Besides, I’ll get used to it, there will be another couple feet of it in the next few months…
Oh, and Pat? The snow we just got, is headed your way. Probably just a wet ■■■■ by the time it gets to you though…

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G,day Allikat
Did you get your class A in the states ■■?
Skippy

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im sure this question has been asked a thousand times and going through the archives gets a bit mind numding but if i got into canada would i have to sit a full training course as iv got 9 years class1 experience or some sort of refresher .what kind of wage could i expect doing day work in ontario :laughing:

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Skippy: Didn’t get the class A, but can still quote semi-experience.
Carl: Yes, you’d need to get a new licence mate. If you can drive a crash box on the wrong side of the road at 75, then you’ll sail it mate :wink:

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Carl i had 8 hours air brake class by law and just 6 hours on the road with test, didnot even leave the ind est.

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Is it cold in Calgary mate? It’s down to -35 here tonight. And another 10 or 11 of windchill… (in C)
I’ll be on the roads in January, watch out for me. UK style Allikat plate in the window :smiley:

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No it isn’t cold here Alli, 4c Christmas Day, it started snowing at 5pm.
I was in Saskatchewan on Wednesday and it was cold!

What status did you get on visa? Was it work or landed? My company is starting to think about bringing over Brits.

Have you sorted out the tea yet? You can get Tetley teabags in the Canadian Superstore, i think their known as a different name in your place, all the shops seem to have a green roof and it’s part of Westfair Foods. You can also get cream crackers, McVitie’s biscuits, branston pickle, ribena and Marmite. And in the English shops in Calgary you can get Bisto gravy granuals and Sage and onion stuffing.

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You can also get cream crackers, McVitie’s biscuits, branston pickle, ribena and Marmite. And in the English shops in Calgary you can get Bisto gravy granuals and Sage and onion stuffing.

You can get Branston Pickle■■?

There is a major problem over here since a fire in the factory.

Christmas was ruined :open_mouth:

Cliff Warby has some Tetley Tea Bags on his truck. He said so on “Where are you going this week” :stuck_out_tongue:

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My status will be a work permit, 2 years down the line I believe, I can go for landed status.
There is tea, got that sorted, I even found an acceptable Canadian brand too. The choccy is good, and I’m off to raid the Boxing Day Sales in Winnipeg in a while, and will probably spend a stack on nice stuff :smiley:

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Kate came back from the local supermarket with Branston Pickle, Nutella and Pickled onions on Friday :slight_smile: