Anybody know much about them and how to get a job driving them ( experience etc )
Anythhing ■■
alza1988:
Anybody know much about them and how to get a job driving them ( experience etc )
Anythhing ■■
No joy with Pollocks, Nicols or JBT then?
Why go there when you can get the same kind of experience driving for euro companies that go to the north of Sweden, Finland or Norway. It’s just as bloody cold & as big a pain.
One of my old colleagues emailed carlile transport in alaska about 5 years ago regarding a driving job, he received a rather terse reply stating they only employ US or Canadian nationals only, europeans need not apply. !
damoq:
alza1988:
Anybody know much about them and how to get a job driving them ( experience etc )
Anythhing ■■No joy with Pollocks, Nicols or JBT then?
Nothing from them yet mate .Hopefully something soon .I got 7 hrs CPC done on Thursday though .
roadrunner:
One of my old colleagues emailed carlile transport in alaska about 5 years ago regarding a driving job, he received a rather terse reply stating they only employ US or Canadian nationals only, europeans need not apply. !
He should have married Lisa Kelly.
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damoq:
alza1988:
Anybody know much about them and how to get a job driving them ( experience etc )
Anythhing ■■
No joy with Pollocks, Nicols or JBT then?
you need 2 years experience on tarmac in canada before they’ll consider anyone for work on the ice roads.
limeyphil:
you need 2 years experience on tarmac in canada before they’ll consider anyone for work on the ice roads.
And you know this how exactly 
I know a bloke who did three seasons on the ice, he was driving for Spar in the UK, went to Canada and his first winter was spent up north on the ice 
The bloke I did my Canadian class one with hadn’t had a night out in 15yrs before coming to Canada, he passed his test in June and went up on the winter roads that year
A lot of companies have old trucks that are used only on the winter roads, the regular drivers are often doing their regular jobs, so they get construction workers or farmhands to drive on the ice, they can’t dig holes or plant anything because the ground is frozen solid, so they work where they can, on the winter roads is one such place
There is not one bit of glory in the job, the weather can kill you in ten minutes, the roads will beat the ■■■■ out of you and the truck, falling off the road is almost a daily occurence (they’re not really roads, just iced over swamps) when that happens you have to dig your way out and hope that someone comes along to help drag you out with a machine, because of all the construction workers and farmhands, the money isn’t as good as it could be and if you behaved like that ■■■■ Hugh Rowland you would be sacked the minute you got back from the first trip, that’s if the truck made it back in the first place
But, if you still want to do it, you need to find a company that takes part in the Provincial Nominee Programme, then you get sponsored to become a resident of Canada, or a company that has LMO’s (Labour Market Opinions) then you can get a work permit, this entitles you to get a learner’s permit so you can take a Canadian class one test, you also get NHS type healthcare and a Social Insurance Number so you can pay taxes on the money you earn. All in all you’ll need about 10 grand from the time you leave your front door and step into a truck to go and do a day’s work, it’s not easy, but it can be done
For my hotel and my training etc it cost me bout $5 maybe a bit less but not even my company will take someone on and send em up north straight away they like you to run up in the summer to get used to the roads etc but we not do much on the ice itself if any we run upto Carlises yard and places like that and let the other mugs take it up give me a Texas or Cali any day lol o you not have any joy with US companies coz of the whole green card issue
newmercman:
limeyphil:
you need 2 years experience on tarmac in canada before they’ll consider anyone for work on the ice roads.And you know this how exactly
i rang a few of them up, and they all said the same thing.
how else do you expect me to know?
Well get yourself over here, get your class one and I’ll sort you out a job on the winter roads for 25% of your wages 