Well we talked about it and talked about it for some time, and finally we made the decision to do something and as i was in transport ,driving a truck for a living over in Canada would be the best way in for us, and to get paid to see north America was a bonus.
Back in the early days i drove for a company out of Kettering Northants [ PATRICK INTERNATIONAL ] and that's where i cut my teeth tramping up and down to Italy, Spain and most of the rest at some point .
so i started to trawl the Internet for more information more and more information whenever i could, there were lots of company's looking for drivers at that time all over Canada fridge ,flat deck as they call em and a few bulk.
While all this had been going on the company i was working for had started to make noises about packing up there transport side of the bossiness, which was not good news for any of us but the contract they had been servicing still needed a haulier and we were told that we would be transferred over to them still on the same conditions,[tupe] so things didn't look to bad the company we were moving to was a much larger one with more trucks and employees and based in Abbingdon near Oxford [ Cannon transport] .
So the day came and we all got our new uniform some got new second hand trucks, some had to wait like me for these to come in from another contract but all of them were OK once they had been valeted,we all started on the 6th October 2008.
Everything was good just like the old job then on the 15th of November when i was waiting for my reload at the Baltic wharf near Rochester i was told to come home and then everything will become clear ,oh no and the jungle drums were beating well on that ride home.
By the time i got back i knew i had no job nor did any other person within the cannon group they had gone bust and not only that we whernt getting paid either .
Well Monday came and i got on the phone and onto an agency i still had bills to pay, i worked for ADR and worked at Morrison's in Corby and Burton Latimer.
In the meantime we had made the decision to find a job in Canada, we had already put the house on the market back in June 2008 and that in its self should have told me something major was happening to the economy the worst recession we had ever seen.
meanwhile back on the net i had come across a brummie giving an interview to a Dutch reporter he was talking and telling this guy how good it was to drive across north America in his big red truck, so i found his mail address and e mailed him to find out more.
Back in October i had been rear ended by a merc in Leicester and had a claim going through and this money i would be able to get two tickets to Canada sod it lets go out and do a recce and a holiday too, the brummie had also told me to fill in the application form for the company he worked for H & R TRANSPORT in Lethbridge Alberta, as they were looking for drivers so i did, he helped me to rearrange my resume to the Canadian spec and sort all the other bits and pieces i would need, they asked me when we would be out in Canada so i booked the flights and told them and a interview was arranged for April 10th 2009 at 11am.
My Police check had been sent off and that's all i was waiting for to come back,when it did my heart sank it was not clear ,it had a conviction on from nearly ten years ago surely this wont cause a problem will it?
I mailed the brummie and told him and as he had now moved from being a driver to the driver relations guy at H & R i was dealing directly now with him, he told me to e mail Eugenie at there agents and send the police check too which i did and the reply i got back from them was so nice and sweet and SHORT basically no interview no job for anybody now with a conviction. and yes there are drivers with convictions working for H & R but they had been given jobs with the previous driver liaison manager. brummie too seemed to me to be gutted to and i genuinely still believe this to be true.
Well where do we go from here two flights booked a hotel for the night in Calgary and all i cant change
Back in the early days i drove for a company out of Kettering Northants [ PATRICK INTERNATIONAL ] and that's where i cut my teeth tramping up and down to Italy, Spain and most of the rest at some point .
so i started to trawl the Internet for more information more and more information whenever i could, there were lots of company's looking for drivers at that time all over Canada fridge ,flat deck as they call em and a few bulk.
While all this had been going on the company i was working for had started to make noises about packing up there transport side of the bossiness, which was not good news for any of us but the contract they had been servicing still needed a haulier and we were told that we would be transferred over to them still on the same conditions,[tupe] so things didn't look to bad the company we were moving to was a much larger one with more trucks and employees and based in Abbingdon near Oxford [ Cannon transport] .
So the day came and we all got our new uniform some got new second hand trucks, some had to wait like me for these to come in from another contract but all of them were OK once they had been valeted,we all started on the 6th October 2008.
Everything was good just like the old job then on the 15th of November when i was waiting for my reload at the Baltic wharf near Rochester i was told to come home and then everything will become clear ,oh no and the jungle drums were beating well on that ride home.
By the time i got back i knew i had no job nor did any other person within the cannon group they had gone bust and not only that we whernt getting paid either .
Well Monday came and i got on the phone and onto an agency i still had bills to pay, i worked for ADR and worked at Morrison's in Corby and Burton Latimer.
In the meantime we had made the decision to find a job in Canada, we had already put the house on the market back in June 2008 and that in its self should have told me something major was happening to the economy the worst recession we had ever seen.
meanwhile back on the net i had come across a brummie giving an interview to a Dutch reporter he was talking and telling this guy how good it was to drive across north America in his big red truck, so i found his mail address and e mailed him to find out more.
Back in October i had been rear ended by a merc in Leicester and had a claim going through and this money i would be able to get two tickets to Canada sod it lets go out and do a recce and a holiday too, the brummie had also told me to fill in the application form for the company he worked for H & R TRANSPORT in Lethbridge Alberta, as they were looking for drivers so i did, he helped me to rearrange my resume to the Canadian spec and sort all the other bits and pieces i would need, they asked me when we would be out in Canada so i booked the flights and told them and a interview was arranged for April 10th 2009 at 11am.
My Police check had been sent off and that's all i was waiting for to come back,when it did my heart sank it was not clear ,it had a conviction on from nearly ten years ago surely this wont cause a problem will it?
I mailed the brummie and told him and as he had now moved from being a driver to the driver relations guy at H & R i was dealing directly now with him, he told me to e mail Eugenie at there agents and send the police check too which i did and the reply i got back from them was so nice and sweet and SHORT basically no interview no job for anybody now with a conviction. and yes there are drivers with convictions working for H & R but they had been given jobs with the previous driver liaison manager. brummie too seemed to me to be gutted to and i genuinely still believe this to be true.
Well where do we go from here two flights booked a hotel for the night in Calgary and all i cant change
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