Uh no, not equal at all. As long as you get the right papers traveling to Canada is safe as far as personal harm or good roads go. As I said before Canada is a much more equal trade as far as their drivers coming here and ours going there.
Yep equal, a foreign country is still a foreign country. No matter, do you take loads to Mexico or expect the loads to travel on their own?
I take loads to Canada and if I lived in say Laredo, I would most likely do the same thing. I know a few who do this down there, Yuma and in Eagle Pass and they tell me it isn't as bad as many make it out as - and they ain't a dark skinned short guys either.
The same thing applies to the situation with Canada, they can take loads from here back there. So what's the difference, the work is being taken away regardless, right?
If, if, if, if. The fact is it is not as safe as the US or Canada will will not be for many years to come. Kind of like saying if pigs could fly.
Do you think there isn't crime in Canada?
I mean hijacking occurs there, and so does shootings. I see people sitting in their trucks in places near the bridge in Detroit that I'm nervous going through but they seem to survive. I warned a couple in the past, one was bright enough to claim there isn't crime in Detroit because he didn't see it.
What does that have to di with lost jobs?
I don't know, ask Cheri, she brought up language not me. To me learning a language is something many of us don't think we need to do, like the idiot Swift driver who I met in the broker's officer yelling about his need to figure out what KM means and getting stuck in Quebec without being able to figure out what
EST meant.
It makes no difference if it is a bigger or smaller problem. A job is a job. Your saying it's ok because it is not as many jobs affected? If you do not think it will be a problem you obviously have not made much money taking things to and from our southern border. Maybe what your really saying is it will not affect you very much.
Not at all, jobs are important to me but the quality of those jobs are very important to me. I want to see rates rise but there is a underlying cause for this, some has to do with the union and some has to do with the large companies. We fail as an industry to look at things objectively and have some knee jerk reaction to changes. Many scream murder when it comes to their "rights" to operate and more when something appears to be a change as in letting others into the country to work but stay silent when it comes to fight real issues. I don't see the sweeping changes being made after the fact, I don't see the job losses as predicted because we have a two fold problem that people seem not to fight against, poor drivers who go through the mill and carriers who use them to make money which combined is one of the biggest threats to rates and the industry. The Mexican trucker doesn't work for nothing, they work for wage slightly lower than ours, pretty much what a lot of van drivers get, and that isn't enough to make the industry falter. Coupled with the high cost of fuel, the administration cost involved and the very fact that the company over there has to provide benefits to them regardless, I can't see how the operation of trucks on this side of the border is any more of a threat than the crap driver who turns into a truck stop and takes out his trailer while earning 35 cents a mile.
As for effecting me, it does in a lot more ways than many of you. I have a reason to be upset but this business change is constant and without it we would not be here.
