Originally Posted by porter.family

Well hello all. After trawling through all these wages and driving hours posts. Me and Christine and our 2 teenage girls have decided that we are NOT going to take the plunge and move over. Fortunately for us we have only just started our immigration study and after reading these comments by you all we have decided not to continue. We where gutted to read the entire negative posts and quite frankly it has scared the living daylights out of us. On a positive note we feel that we have been spared the financial ruin that some have had on here. I have driven over most of Europe and covered millions of miles in the UK on wages in excess of 450/600 English pounds per week before stoppages.
I am in a job here in wigan greater Manchester where I am home every night now and still taking home 360 pounds after taxes and I only drive to Motherwell and back.
We could not take the plunge to Canada taking into account that I would be away so long and many hundred miles more on less money. The cons seem to outweigh to pros and the thought of Christine my good lady wife being left at home for sometimes weeks on end along with the children would worry me. Thank you to all who have posted on here to give there views has greatly help change our minds and stay put even though this backside of a country is going to hell in a hand cart and the country is becoming a dumping ground for illegal immigrants and the crime rate has soared out of control.
We wish you all well and wish everyone who are going or have made the move much success for your future with your new lives.

All the best
Keith and Christine porter family

Originally Posted by Lyndon001

Sorry Gremmie, cant do that, bad desisions have been made for the wrong reasons.

That thread was documenting (amongst other things) my first few months going thru the move and working with H&R. A lot of people read it and want to see what i do so they know what to expect and if it workd, sorry mate i am not going to let people down, the system is wrong, can one man make a difference, maybe not but he will be heared.

Originally Posted by porter.family

Well hello all. After trawling through all these wages and driving hours posts. Me and Christine and our 2 teenage girls have decided that we are NOT going to take the plunge and move over. Fortunately for us we have only just started our immigration study and after reading these comments by you all we have decided not to continue. We where gutted to read the entire negative posts and quite frankly it has scared the living daylights out of us. On a positive note we feel that we have been spared the financial ruin that some have had on here. I have driven over most of Europe and covered millions of miles in the UK on wages in excess of 450/600 English pounds per week before stoppages.
I am in a job here in wigan greater Manchester where I am home every night now and still taking home 360 pounds after taxes and I only drive to Motherwell and back.
We could not take the plunge to Canada taking into account that I would be away so long and many hundred miles more on less money. The cons seem to outweigh to pros and the thought of Christine my good lady wife being left at home for sometimes weeks on end along with the children would worry me. Thank you to all who have posted on here to give there views has greatly help change our minds and stay put even though this backside of a country is going to hell in a hand cart and the country is becoming a dumping ground for illegal immigrants and the crime rate has soared out of control.
We wish you all well and wish everyone who are going or have made the move much success for your future with your new lives.

All the best
Keith and Christine porter family

Originally Posted by dazygee

hi i moved to canada 2005 as a trucker and i went to a company called westcan in calgary the wages promised to us at the interview did not match up when we got here so i put in my extra hours to earn a wage. I used to clear around 1700 bucks a fortnight over a year around 40k clear i actually earned 61k but you have to pay towards health care, pension your taxes and we had a percentage taken each paycheck for our holiday pay so when we got too have our 2 weeks holiday that they give you each year you get some pay. you can get on with 1700 bucks but it dont go far in calgary but as for SK i know houses are cheaper out there but i have not lived there to comment. Is it a better life? yes people are great here and the country is stunning , a better lifestyle ? No not as a trucker you will spend as much as 18hours behind that wheel, sleep out in the truck more than you are at home and you get to drive in some of the worst driving conditions you can imagine (stay away from the mountains in the winter) what is wrong with trucking is they pay by the km and in the summer thats o.k in the winter it will slow you down some and you will be taking her steady down trans canada at 80k and then the mad truckers fly by at 120k and half an hour later you see them jack knifed in a ditch down the road

Originally Posted by dazygee

hi i moved to canada 2005 as a trucker and i went to a company called westcan in calgary the wages promised to us at the interview did not match up when we got here so i put in my extra hours to earn a wage. I used to clear around 1700 bucks a fortnight over a year around 40k clear i actually earned 61k but you have to pay towards health care, pension your taxes and we had a percentage taken each paycheck for our holiday pay so when we got too have our 2 weeks holiday that they give you each year you get some pay. you can get on with 1700 bucks but it dont go far in calgary but as for SK i know houses are cheaper out there but i have not lived there to comment. Is it a better life? yes people are great here and the country is stunning , a better lifestyle ? No not as a trucker you will spend as much as 18hours behind that wheel, sleep out in the truck more than you are at home and you get to drive in some of the worst driving conditions you can imagine (stay away from the mountains in the winter) what is wrong with trucking is they pay by the km and in the summer thats o.k in the winter it will slow you down some and you will be taking her steady down trans canada at 80k and then the mad truckers fly by at 120k and half an hour later you see them jack knifed in a ditch down the road

Originally Posted by andy_sheila

A good informative post Daygee, i can't really comment on the AB/SK/BC situation but yes, i am apprehensive about my first winter here. I don't look through posts and try to pick holes in them but i am intrigued by how you can spend 18 hours behind the wheel when legally you can only spend 13 (work 14 in a 16 hr window) This isn't mean't as criticism but did you run illegal? did westcan "force" you to run illegal? etc

Best wishes and drive safe

Andy

Originally Posted by marg-den

good point andy needs pointing out i can see where you are going with this and i hope dazygee does not take it the wrong way its just that every fact we get weather good or bad really help

but i think we are all guillty of over doing the facts in life to seam better or worse i am guillty of it my self from time to time am i right in thinking you mean every legal hour driving and the rest of the hrs as thats home (in the truck) for the journey if so i get the point cheers

Originally Posted by CHRISRICHES

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Originally Posted by exyanke

For all you UK drivers coming over to work for Yanke, Let me tell you that they are not all they seem to be, as I have worked for Yanke for two years.
They will take anybody that can walk, then when you get into Canada they treat you like shit I know I have been there, I have been in Canada for 4 years now I am landed and free of Yanke but let me tell you it was very hard 2 years. When the guys are on the road driving Yanke want's nothing to do with their familys that are waiting at home even in the winter when it drops down to -30 the familys get no help from Yanke The Yanke staff that went to the UK I know them all Chris is a good guy and has done the walk like myself but remember he is being paid to tell you what you want to hear, plus they won't take a brit that is not happy back to the UK to sell their company. Ask yourselves why Yanke are back in the UK hiring again, well it is because over half of the brits that came over with me have left due to being treated like shit. The other to memebers of the Yanke hiring staff don't know their head from there ass's. And trust me running team for 12 month's is not fun in the winter over here drivers have been put into hospital, plus should a driver have a crash and is hurt they will not contact the drivers family untill they know that there load is safe, so it could be 12 hours before the family knows anything, I have been there also with Yanke, they really are a bunch of shitbags. And I will tell you all that not even half of you drivers coming over will be here in a year from now. Out of my group I am the only one left in Canada there was 25 in my group. All I am saying is before you all sell up and come over here make sure you know what you are doing. I was lucky as I came over on my own I had no family to care for just myself which made it easy for me. They also pay shit wages which you will find out when you get here it will be diffrent from what they have told you. Also if they had wage slips to show you just how much you can earn as a driver with Yanke, I am telling now they would have been printed up to look that way as when I was there I saw them doing this but was told to keep my mouth shut or I would lose my job. Just be careful guys thats all. Also do you know that you don't get payed for 8 weeks from when you start working with them, you will get about $1100 at the end of your training and that is it for about 8 weeks.

Originally Posted by CHRISRICHES

In the words of wise old Gremmie:

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