Left Montreal with a relatively easy run back across to Edmonton. Nearly every day now it has rained in Ontario; and I mean proper rain not a bit of drizzle. Only a day or to into the trip a preplan was received which is pretty unusual as I normally receive them the day 'after' a trip. It came as quite a surprise as Montreal was mentioned and some pretty tight delivery dates were involved. Once again it looked as if Paul and I had to endure Hwy 11 and 17 once more. A few suggestions were made such as dropping the trailer we had in Calgary as that would save us a lot of time since the next trailer was coming out of High River but they were quickly revoked so we had to rely on a trailer being made available for us to run with from Edmonton to Calgary then Calgary to High River. The trailer swaps went pretty smoothly and even the paperwork was ready in the meat plant so after hitching up, weighing off and getting sealed we set off back East. Initially I had calculated that unless Paul and I ran team (one sleeps while the other drives) we couldn’t make the delivery on time. I am not a fan of running team and have no interest in doing so My main reason is that I have had to quit really good jobs in the UK as I just couldn’t get into the hang of working nights so for me its a safety issue especially when you are tying yourself to deadlines.
This was mentioned to Dispatch who said that they would have us switch along the route so after pushing pretty hard for the last 2 days in order to give the new driver(s) a fighting chance of getting the load there Paul and I find that we are to deliver the load ourselves!!!
So tonight we will be in Hearst Ontario then Wednesday morning delivering in Anjou Quebec at 02.00am which is not too awesome.
That’s about all for now, there will be a post coming pretty soon regarding pay cuts within the company, some of them pretty substantial as well and I bet you don’t need 3 guesses as to which employees are on the receiving end !!.
4 comments:
hi Phil
glad to hear you are still getting the miles in, just a couple of things, if you are still with Paul does that mean they dont have a truc for him or you just havn't been back to Lethbridge to drop him off yet ? and secondly these wage cuts are they on top of the ones allready emailed and posted on other sites? ie. cent per mile and layover pay and tip pickup pay
take care and stay safe
Brian
That's some mentor trip Phil.
Drive safe.
Hi Brian, the wage cuts came into effect the other day and are the same ones as mentioned on other blogs and forums. At least I hope that they are the latest ones and there arnt some that I havnt heard about. Hahaha
Hi Mick, just over3 weeks long now and still got a few miles to go as been preplanned to load Montreal to Burnaby BC. This would work out well for Paul as it would take in his mountain training and he also has family who live in Burnaby so he could get chance to visitthem.
Take care the both of you !!
Phil
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