Part 3

Loaded up and off back to Germany.




Leaving Vittel



Strawberry Fields





Border Luxemburg / France


Bridge for the wildlife to x the Motorway

filling station Border luxemburg / Germany ( Cheap Diesel)

Germany Again


Elb tunnel Hamburg

Lidl Wasbek

Red Red wine

I'm not quite sure what she means !!!

Part 2

Got woken up early this Morning,
2 nerks shouting at each other. still 1/2 asleep pulled the passenger side draps and saw this

Pulled the Drivers side drapes and

Now this company is the equivalant here to Swift in the states, They have there trucks limited to 80kmh (not to save fuel) and there drivers are trained by the company itself....

Ok so how he got in to the slot next to me without denting his and my paintwork is world wonder number 8 how his mate managed to park in front of me without his trailer snogging my radiator is ww nr 9. the next problem is how do I get out???

Alarm went of at 6 got up S.S.S. brekkies,stoked the 460 bhp and joined the fight to get past Frankfurt .

Frankfurt !
Skyline

Got past the main chaos then slipped on down to the border.

pulled in to the services to fuel up and met one of our drivers going North

Marcel. Border Germany/France On the dock

Cranberries nearly all gone.

reported in that I wus empty, and got a text from Paddy load in Vittel ( Sparkling Water) for Lidl. ( Near the Danish border again)

fired up and scooted over towards vittel.on the way over the pass (have a look at the video) stopped got some French bread, couldn't quite make it into Vittel tonight as the hours were full, so camped out in the woods made bacon and egg sandwiches and watched 633 squadron on the video.

job done more to follow:

My last Tour In Germany part 1

Hi
Here are a few pics of my last trip I'll post it in days as they came.

Monday
picked up a loaded trailer in the yard loaded with 5 liter tin kegs of beer, delivery Aldi near the Danish border.


Typical Germany on a Monday morning. A7 A27 and A1 junction


matey here was going to the same drop and decided to cut over the by roads. (he got there 30 mins after me)



Aldi !!!!


Tipped at that dump only took 4 hours! Then got a text from this

(Patrick our dispatcher)to load 30 euro pal Cranberries in Hamburg for the Lidl distri center in Andolsheim.Loaded up empty pallets and zipped back down the A7 to Hamburg and suprise suprise the load was ready................
Got loaded pretty quick and still had about 6 hours driving time left, so got on the blower to Hedgehog and arranged to meet him at the new truck stop in Karlsruhe.
Patrick then remembers I've still got a bit of room left on the trailer!! 'come to the yard and load 3 pallets to fill the trailer'shit!!got back on the blower and gave Hedgehog the news.
Arrived in Bremen loaded the 3 pallets, had a coffee and chin wag with patrick,turned the key and slipped on to the A1 towards France.Now as some of you may or may not know the A1 from from Bremen to Munster has a no overtaking for trucks restriction from 6am til 20pm daily, as I entered the slip road this Norwegen bod passed me doing about 160 kmh, bloody hell,40 kms later the nobs had him and were taking him apart.


managed to get as far as frankfurt and pulled the curtains here.

On the way to work in my little Red Rooster

Rollin

look at them overhead signs, No overtaking for trucks and 100 Km speed limit!
(for cars)

Crossing the Weser

LMO and Things

The LMOs for Harry and me turned up last week,(after a total cock up by Fed Ex).

Its all offical now, put my notice in and the flight tickets are being sorted in Winnipeg.
Up to now I have not posted were I am going, for which firm I am going to work for or how the move to Canada came about,I didn’t want to count my chickens before they hatched, (excuse the pun) so here goes.

Before I start a few thoughts...............
I can't complain about my life here,I earn average money, got a great family,good friends,(a few not so good friends too),although the ecomomy and the state of things here in Europe are not the best, you can live with it though, so why do I want to drive a truck in Canada ? Lots of reasons really, if I’m honest though the main one is, Because I want To.


To begin with, it was not a real option to go to Canada, there was at the time (and still is) a whack of coverage in the media, about people moving there,the ups and the downs etc, I didn’t at first really take any notice, but the seed had been sown so to say!! One evening I deceided to surf the net and being a nosey sort of bloke I discovered on the Arbeitsamt Homepage ( German Labour exchange), a job offer for long haul drivers, from a company called TransX in Winnipeg. Quick as a flash of went the CV as an Email attachment. Now all I had to do was wait until someone replys ‘just to see what happens’.
A couple of weeks later as I was on my way to work, my mate Harry the Hedgehog rings up on the mobile and starts whinging about the state of affairs here in jolly old Deutschland ,also that there is a job fair coming up in Essen,were companys from Canada, would be recruting people for various jobs.Now as Lisa (my Daughter) had to attend an athletic meeting in Duisburg on the same day, and I already had a day off work,it was a quick side step to arrange a combination of both events.
Big day comes !! of we toddle in the Red Fiesta, collect Harry on the way and zip down the autobahn to Essen.
After fighting our way past hordes (no Joke there were bloody hundreds) of people to gain entry into the job fair we managed to barge our way to Transx and interview their recruiting team.( I had already recieved a mail that they would be at the fair)
As Transx were not the only company recruiting in Essen we had to literaly barge our way through to the other trucking company stands to get any available info etc ,suprisingly It turns out that all off them were interested in us,and all could arrange LMOs, oops ahhh coffee? yup! and a think? Yup ! ok. fighting our way back through the mob again,we managed to grab the application papers from Transx and que up for coffee and a Wurst.
Now as I said Transx were not the only ones recruting there but they were in my opinion the best choice by far.
After gulping down our snacks we shot off down to Duisburg and watched the athletics,(she did very well) shot back again, trooped back to Transx and got down to the nitty gritty.Talked to Dennis, Martin, and ? (sorry forgot your name), did a road test in the early evening(they actually hired a truck and trailer),and then stoked up the little red Rooster car and slipped off home.
After about a week got all the paperwork they required together and posted it off to Winnipeg (thats were they are based), and then the waiting began.

Until Last week.!!!!

BBQ Down-Under 1st May

Much Later

Later

Little Later

Warming Up Ingo + Dean

The Famous Grill


Greetings
as the 1st May is also fathers day and as many of us are long suffering fathers
the need to celebrate this humungus occasion was decided,and I invited myself down-under to Ingos house.
Ingo is not just a very good friend he also suffers from the extreme Thirst/BBQ syndrome,and needed help getting rid of all his beer,schnapps, pork steaks, hamburgers and other things that go bang in the night.
it was a long night but we did it, next day the crate was empty,and I was full.

Thanks must be mentioned to Katrin who put a bucket and a bottle of water
next to my bed, the bucket wasn't needed,but the bottle was empty in the morning.
sorry about the dates on the pics,Its a new camera and I didn't have the date thingy sorted.

bye

Found this on the tube
original is frm Eddie Rabbit
but this is good!