Better Let You Know Who I Work For Know

Its been a long time coming and i wanted to keep it quite who i was going to work for for my own personal reasons, and also until i had made up my own mind about Westcan and spoken to the terminal manager about this blogg and got there approval for it, i just used the term

THE COMPANY

But i have and it is

Its taken a long time to get this far and a bloody LONG ROAD has been traveled, and if you have read this from the start then you will know all about it.

I started my follow trip week with one of the oldest Mack Trucks we have in Saskatoon
but it had been cleaned and after spending the summer parked in the back field it was a seasonal truck now and needed it.

so after a pre trip and some air in the tires [i have 32 ]we set off to load salt [salt is a by product from the Saskatchewan potash mines] for Rocky mountain house in Alberta in the foot hills of the Rocky's.

Once loaded we set off and was nice not to turn left in Qyen for Brooks AB

We tipped next morning and headed to Edmonton to load salt again for rocky mountain house my next load was for Nordegg about a 100km past RMH and my instructions were, when you turn off the paved road put your inter Axel lock in you will need it as you will be in 2nd gear going up the gravel road hill oh and your on your own i will meet you there

I was met at the bottom by an escort and off we went up the hill and no i didn't make it all the way up i just couldn't change down quick enough and had to start in bull low but after that no problems i was on my second hopper when my trainer turned up.

Why they had to put a salt shed so far off the hi way i will never know!!!!

back to Edmonton for a quick one to Leduc before loading fert back to our own warehouse in Saskatoon.

while we were waiting for our hoppers to dry in the sun after having them washed, i got a can com message to swap trucks [ bloody hell not even a week in the same truck] i was happy with the old girl then i saw the number and it was a fairly new truck only 18 months old so reluctantly i moved my gear over lol.

apparently i had to change because the old truck had a Jack shaft[PTO] and was needed for anhydrous ammonia going up to peace river

So quite, the gear change nice and precise, and i could hear the Mack fitted satellite radio and that's just going out of Westcans Edmonton terminal,

a couple of hours later we were on our way back to Saskatoon arriving later that night, i parked up and went home for the night, then on Friday i unloaded the fertiliser into our own large warehouse whilst being watched by our safety guy just to make sure i did things the right way, i did and i was signed off good to go

so i am a North American trucker with a T

I could get used to this but don't hold you breath mark it cant be assigned to me for too long but i will enjoy it while i can

This trucks got a 495 Volvo engine most of the older Macks have a 460hp mack engines [Renault] we have some automatics but most of the others have 18 speed Eaton Fuller boxes standard in most American trucks