Sunday 28 September 2008

Hi Everybody,
Sorry ist been a while since I posted again,but here I am and heres the latest updates.
Training is finished and both Harry and I have been given a brand new truck here she is 85442



As the most of you know Harry and I are driving team,this has been explained in many other Blogs,but I will explain the basics.

1.The truck doesn't stop except for fuel and load / unloads. thats it

the trip this time was, Windypeg, Edmonton, trailer swop, then 6 wally mart drops over night, ending in lyndon land, over to brooks ,trailer swop again after having the one washed then off to Waterloo in Iowa with beef.Meat inspection in sweetgrass,(fighting off the red horde) then down thru montana,wyoming and South dakota.
dropped the trailer picked up an empty and then off to the Trans x yard in minneapolis.Picked up empty skids there and shot off to st cloud in minnesota to load dead chickens for Canadur.after finding the hole were the chickens were culled its back onto the interstate, crossing at Sarnia and dropping in the company yard in Mississauga.
there are times when you have a layover and 85442 can cool down !!one of them was here were we got a 10 hour break.Then picked up a reefer and headed with an ltl load back to the peg along route 17 which is were i tried the video thung again and posted on the preivios post.
The trip was a good one and got good miles,although we ran hard as they say ; we did off course stop for showers everyday as well as lifes little things,like cawfee and the iron skillet brekkies buffet.
here are a few pics again


Harry (used to be a hedgehog) SmiliesFTW.com





this is in Alberta somewere near Lyndonville (High River)
Rockies in the background
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Pretty Cool Dude !!!SmiliesFTW.com



Harry driving !!! me checking teh camera on the bunk




Talking to the Travel Agent



The Red Horde (hit and run dudes) SmiliesFTW.com

Meat Inspection Sweetgrass Montana (no Lyndon though; he was either sleeping, cutting his grass !! )




Montana





Mack Control room SmiliesFTW.com





Minneapolis





Teh Chicken farm were we had to load cold chickens for Canadur
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getting to the poxy chicken farm dump.




Tri Pack for air/heat/and telly microwave stuff


The mircrowave
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Pizza a'la micro on the road
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Teh Telly
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Harrys got a stack off photos so when he gets his act together and gets them to me i'll post them

Later !!!

Sunday 21 September 2008

Ontario videos from the last trip

Historically, the province has used two major east-west routes, both starting from Montreal in the neighbouring province of Quebec. The northerly route (Highway 11), which was pioneered by early French-speaking fur traders, travels northwest from Montreal along the Ottawa River, then continues westward towards Manitoba. Major cities on or near the route include Ottawa, North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, and Thunder Bay. The much more heavily travelled southerly route (Highway 17), which was driven by growth in predominantly English-speaking settlements originated by the United Empire Loyalists and later other European immigrants, travels southwest from Montreal along the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie before entering the United States in Michigan. Major cities on or near the route include Kingston, Oshawa, Toronto, Mississauga, Kitchener/Waterloo, London, Sarnia, and Windsor. Most of Ontario's major transportation infrastructure is oriented east-west and roughly follows one of these two original routes.

Highway 17 by day



and At night