We have been waiting for this day to come for such along time, and our entire future could depend on this interview.
The meeting would be at their main terminal in Saskatoon at 2pm ,we had already checked the location out so all we had to do is turn up and walk in.
As Saskatoon is the largest city in Saskatchewan it also has a number of transportation company's that have there head office or at least a large terminal, here are some of which you may have heard of,
The Yanke group
The Siemens group have there head office in Saskatoon
which include
Edge transportation
HWT
Quill transport
Kindersley transport
and also
Westcan bulk transport
Titan transport
The day started as usual with breakfast and coffee, and as Louise didn't drink much coffee before we came to Canada she sure has got in to the Canadian way and whilst another top up we got talking to our waitress Heather who told us all about the town she lived in [ Warman ] Which is located just outside the city to the north east of Saskatoon she also said she would get us a list of Brits living in Warman ,which she did before we left ,including phone numbers.
The rest of the morning was spent looking round Saskatoon anything that would take my mind off the interview there are some great shopping malls .
But the best shop we went in was wholesale sports ,they had everything you could want for the outdoor life camping, shooting, fishing, and i mean everything.
We jumped back in the Dodge and headed up the road for our meeting, pulling into the car park we sat there thinking about what was about to happen, probably the most important interview we would ever have ,we had come all this way to convince them that they wanted to hire me as a long haul truck driver !
lets do it
At 2pm we went in and found the office, as they were undergoing a major refit of all the offices the person we wanted was out in the yard in a porta cabin, once in we were made very welcome and just had to wait for the terminal manager to finish what he was doing then we went up to his office overlooking the yard and workshops.
Two and a half hours later we came out, wow that was some interview , we were told that we had to go home to the UK and collate all the required documents for the Saskatchewan immigrant nominee program [SINP] as they like to make sure all the documents can be found as its a lot easier to get some while you are still in the UK and as long as we can then we would be OK.
I then had the opportunity to take a truck out on a road test with the safety manager just to make sure i could drive, so after doing a quick pre trip type check over i jumped in and we set off out the yard and on to the highway for a few miles and back as i had driven a Eaton twin splitter before i soon got the hang of this fuller 18 speed without losing too mean teeth from the gearbox as most Canadian and American trucks still have a crash box.
I pulled back in the yard and parked up ,walking back to the porta cabin with a grin a mile wide once in finding the girls looking at houses to rent in nearby Warman and Martensville, a thumbs up from the safety guy we said our good buys and left.
Well looks like we could be heading for Canada fairly soon we said as we sat in the Dodge but lets go and have a look round Warman before we head off to our next hotel.
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