Originally Posted by burton bunch

But you are in raymond arent you Lyndon ??

Originally Posted by Lyndon001

erm, er, well yes sort of i think.

...........and Raymond is actually in Warner County not Lethbridge County.

Hmmm I think you may have caught me out there.

Unless

Raymond is actually classed as a Bedroom community of Lethbridge and we get our utilities from there, we share a common water supply.

And of course my company is based on 2nd Ave North and i am able to use that as apostal address.

Awww please let me in

Originally Posted by Lyndon001

Ok i'll get the ball rolling

We are the Lomanovskis family, the name origionates in Latvia. There are 4 of us moving to Lethbridge at the end of July.

My name is Lyndon, thats me in the avatar and i am going to be driving OTR (Over The Road) for H & R Transport based in Lethbridge, there is also my wife Janice, my son Luke (13) and our dog Gizmo who is a black Spangador (Spaniel/Labrador cross).

The reason i have introdced the whole family is because when i answer questions, it is usually in relation to our circumstancies, for example if you want to know how much it costs to ship a dog over and i tell you its about £1300 then you know its for our big black bundle of dogginess who weighs in at 27 kilos, if you have a little rat on alead then it wont cost you so much. By the way no offence to owners of liitle dogs, they are lovely, couldnt eat a whole one though !!

We hail from Swindon in Wiltshire and i presently work for Wincanton Chilled in Gloucester, I work nights and the monies pretty good, i say that because i am taking a pay drop (if you think in ££££) so we are not doing it for the money.

We have been planning this since January 2007 when i overheared 2 colleagues talking about it in the Transport Office and thought "Oooo that sounds nice", i came home, we discussed it as a family then decided to do it.

Since then i have spent countless hours trawling the 'net finding answers, made countless phone calls and sent countless emails to countless people in Canada about countless things, to be quite honest it became quite an obsession, but we think its paid off. We managed to get an interview in UK for a Canadian job which was successful and we have also completed all the paperwork for the temp workers permit and put together our immigration folder so we are set to go.

The only thing holding us back was the sale of the house, we are now ready to exchange contracts over the next couple of days and the new people want to be in here on 20th July so i wold say that is about done.

We came over to Alberta in May for a 2 week recce and got most of our new lives sorted out, these included:

Bank Accounts
Schooling
A place to live
Cell phone
Met the new Boss
Home utilities
Food shopping
Furniture shopping
Car shopping

We also visited Calgary and Edmonton as H & R also have depots there and when you join the company you do have the choice which depot you want to work from, we also took around 650 photos of just about everything.

We are no experts and i dont work for the company yet but we do have a "goldmine" of info to share.

My weblog "Trucking Life" logs how the immigration has affected our lives since the middle of Feb.

Originally Posted by sans

Only just read your post Can i just say its great to read a post like this again, dont seem to get many on here anymore, that encourage people to join in

Originally Posted by citicat

just found these rates for H&R TRANSPORT.

New Rates

Jan 27/07


Pay Package Information



H&R Transport offers one of the best pay packages in the country. Our Drivers are our most valuable assets and we think they need to be treated fairly and with the utmost respect which is why we offer TOP dollar pay packages.


Company Drivers - Singles

Earn $.42 per mile on ALL International Miles*

~~PLUS~~

- Paid Weekly

- 30.00 for all pick ups and drops

- 30.00 USDA Meat Inspections

- 350.00 Quarterly Safety bonus

...AND MUCH MORE!!!

H&R Transport offers new equipment, competitive hourly rates, Rider Program, layover pay, paid lumpers, slip seat positions are available for western based drivers.

Originally Posted by Lyndon001

Hi Iain

Gizmo didnt like the journey at all and he is just starting to settle down now. We had lamb for Sunday lunch and as usual he got the bones, hes been out in the yard with them all afternoon and hes took a liking to the leather suite.

oh well must dash i got highway codes to read and pre trips to practice, all good fun i s'pose.

Originally Posted by loafy

Great glad to hear it.. We didnt have Sunday lunch today and they were well put out with normal dog stuff, mind you they still ate it all. They normally have a sunday lunch left overs that we have which is normally lamb for us too.
yeah i think i will have to open them books up and get some learning done.
All the best
LOAFY...

Originally Posted by Lyndon001

Actually Iain i am starting to worry about you, look at the evidence.



and



and even



i think theres a pattern forming..................

Originally Posted by loafy

Shhhhhhh i wont get in if they know i'm a bird oiling, sheep sh---ing, goat herding yeti from the hills and valleys of south wales. LOL

Originally Posted by Lorna_D

Why not, they're taking Mal

Originally Posted by Lyndon001

Of course, it would be lamb woudnt it

Seriously, get your nose in them books now, i wish i had done, i spent 2 hours today and im just not in the mood