First Trip

My Trainer and mentor for the Training Phase is Don a canadian that has been with Trans X for nearly 20 years.Don is now a so called Owner Operator that has a dedicated route: Winnipeg to Wichita in Kansas,trailer swop then to Trans X in Toronto,Trailer swop again then back to Winnipeg.however due to unforseen things we ended up doing a trip Winnipeg to Vancover,then to Fort McMurray,Edminton,Calgary,Winnipeg.After this episode we then went on to his dedicated route.Here a few Pics.


Dons 'Rig'



Big Don






B.C.






Alberta





On the Way to Kansas








Border Crossing US Canadur Port Huron /Samia









Northern Ontario

Trans X

Just a few snap shots of the yard,just so a few of you can see the size of things here in Canadur !!!







Inkster Blvd



Drivers Entrance



Wash Bay entrance



Loaded trailer parking



New 4 Axle mack



Empty trailers, !!! all along the back fence



loading bays



Turnpike 'Pete'



Trip arrivals




Tractor park

All Summer Long

Every radio station is playing this.





Ohhh to be Young again

Managed it at long last

Hi Everybody,
sorry ist been a while since I posted as you may be aware I have been rather busy lately.
I’ve been here 4 weeks now and a lot has happened good and bad, The driving licence
Took a little time and anybody who thinks they can come here,do a weeks driving and then be ready for there test is mistaken.
The test itself works as follows written test,Class 1, 24 questions 4 mistakes allowed, then Airbrake, 20 questions 3 mistakes allowed. These are no great problem and if anyone needs a few tips let me know.
Then you are allowed to drive as a learner. There are a lot of rules here that are wierd to a driver who has been plodding around Europe for 20 yeas or so and these along with pre-trip,airbrake practical,backing take time to achieve.
Lots of people are not aware that whilst in this training phase there are things to be done like getting the car licence changed,medical card,social number,sorting out a place to live getting it furnished, bank accounts etc etc. As all this is happening the money reserves you have are being rapidly reduced...........

At this point I would like to mention Trans X , Everything they promised in Essen has happened, in the short time I have been here Trans X has proved to be a very good company,
Special thanks to Trish,who does the immigration, and to Steve who gave me a thousand tips.




Training wagon at the G and T yard, doing a back up !



Freightshaker dash with Eaton / Fuller Enemy

A day off

Lake Winnipeg is a very large (24,514 km² (9,465 sq mi)) lake in central North America, in the province of Manitoba, Canada, about 55 kilometres (34 mi) north of the city of Winnipeg. It is the largest lake within the borders of southern Canada, and it is part of the most undeveloped and pristine large watershed of southern Canada.

It is the fifth-largest freshwater lake in Canada,[1] but it is relatively shallow (mean depth of 12 m (39 ft)[2] excluding a narrow 36 m (118 ft) deep channel between the northern and southern basins. It is the eleventh-largest freshwater lake on Earth. The east side of the lake has pristine boreal forests and rivers that are being promoted as a potential United Nations World Heritage Park. The lake is elongated in shape, and is 416 kilometres (258 mi) km from north to south, with remote sandy beaches, large limestone cliffs, and many bat caves in some areas. Manitoba Hydro uses the lake as one of the largest reservoirs in the world. There are many islands in the lake, and most of them are undeveloped and pristine.

The lake's watershed measures about 984,200 square kilometres (380,001.7 sq mi), and covers much of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, northwestern Ontario, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Some of its tributaries include:

the Saskatchewan River (through Cedar Lake),
the Red River (draining the Assiniboine River),
the Winnipeg River (draining Lake of the Woods, Rainy River and Rainy Lake); and
Lake Manitoba (draining Lake Winnipegosis),
Bloodvein River (on the East side, draining from the Canadian Shield)
Poplar River
Manigatogan River
Lake Winnipeg drains northward into the Nelson River at an average annual rate of 2,066 cubic metres per second (72,960 cu ft/s), and forms part of the Hudson Bay watershed, which is one of the largest in the world. This watershed area was historically known as Rupert's Land when the Hudson's Bay Company formed in 1670.

Lakes Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Winnipegosis are found at the floor of the prehistoric Glacial Lake Agassiz. The area between Lake Winnipeg and Lakes Winnipegosis and Manitoba is called the Interlake Region, and the whole region is called the Manitoba Lowlands.

here a few Pics

Natives !!



Luise( LuLi Grahams girlfriend))






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me on a jetski





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