Good afternoon Gord ... please tell me you weren't actually wearing sandals when you were leaning on that W9 ... you were taught way better. A little input regarding NAFTA from someone who was there before it all started. Canada and United States had a very successful free trade agreement in place for many years prior to the introduction of NAFTA and it worked well. Free trade on its own is not a bad thing. The flaw in the NAFTA agreement was that 2 of the participants had very comparable standards of living while the 3rd participant had and still has a standard of living from a previous century and that won't work. The only winners were the big corporations exploiting the disparity and the politicians doing their bidding. On another note, sorry but I am not buying your wage issues in today's trucking industry. If you are a good truck driver working full time in the industry and you are not pulling down a minimum of $100,000.00 per year you need a new job or you need to change professions because you aren't good at trucking. Wages and working conditions have never been better than they are today. Trucks are more powerful, more comfortable, safer than any period in the last 50 years. Granted we need a little less government involvement, we need a lot more common sense on the part of the government AS WELL AS the industry itself. End of story.
I’m assuming this is MP; thank you for the thoughtful comments and criticism.
While you and your brothers are exceptional and fantastic operators, who run good equipment and pay your drivers well, you aren’t everyone in the business. You wouldn’t believe what some guys are getting away with paying in many areas and sectors of the industry here.
There are great paying jobs out there ... for now. If and when we can stop importing the third world to North America, and get the government to stop forcing waste cases to truck driving schools, the wage floor for everyone will go up, and those great paying jobs might pay even more.
I’m glad you agree with me that the government should go and fuck itself. I would think they should do so, permanently; they ruin everything they touch.
As for the flip flops .... you sit behind a motor working it’s ass off dragging three of em in 120 degree heat, where the a/c can’t possibly keep up with the sun. You’re lucky I was wearing any clothes at all in that photo. LOL
Hey, no worries, I know the feeling. It's a struggle to fit all this reading and writing around real work. It's another reason we're wrongly presumed to have nothing to say...
Good afternoon Gord ... please tell me you weren't actually wearing sandals when you were leaning on that W9 ... you were taught way better. A little input regarding NAFTA from someone who was there before it all started. Canada and United States had a very successful free trade agreement in place for many years prior to the introduction of NAFTA and it worked well. Free trade on its own is not a bad thing. The flaw in the NAFTA agreement was that 2 of the participants had very comparable standards of living while the 3rd participant had and still has a standard of living from a previous century and that won't work. The only winners were the big corporations exploiting the disparity and the politicians doing their bidding. On another note, sorry but I am not buying your wage issues in today's trucking industry. If you are a good truck driver working full time in the industry and you are not pulling down a minimum of $100,000.00 per year you need a new job or you need to change professions because you aren't good at trucking. Wages and working conditions have never been better than they are today. Trucks are more powerful, more comfortable, safer than any period in the last 50 years. Granted we need a little less government involvement, we need a lot more common sense on the part of the government AS WELL AS the industry itself. End of story.
I’m assuming this is MP; thank you for the thoughtful comments and criticism.
While you and your brothers are exceptional and fantastic operators, who run good equipment and pay your drivers well, you aren’t everyone in the business. You wouldn’t believe what some guys are getting away with paying in many areas and sectors of the industry here.
There are great paying jobs out there ... for now. If and when we can stop importing the third world to North America, and get the government to stop forcing waste cases to truck driving schools, the wage floor for everyone will go up, and those great paying jobs might pay even more.
I’m glad you agree with me that the government should go and fuck itself. I would think they should do so, permanently; they ruin everything they touch.
As for the flip flops .... you sit behind a motor working it’s ass off dragging three of em in 120 degree heat, where the a/c can’t possibly keep up with the sun. You’re lucky I was wearing any clothes at all in that photo. LOL
Superb article! I can't add anything just yet, you've covered it so well. We should print some copies, and pin them to law-makers' foreheads.
Thank you Graham, you are always kind and supportive.
I’m well behind on reading more of your stuff, life with kids and working. I promise I’ll get to some more soon
Hey, no worries, I know the feeling. It's a struggle to fit all this reading and writing around real work. It's another reason we're wrongly presumed to have nothing to say...