Lyndon's other blog

This is my last post about Lyndon, i promise. He has been paying me to write about him. Until i get another 9 Cadbury Flake's OR 12 beers from Canada, the 8% kind... He is done!

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Good Day, Today's topic is trucking.
And pickled eggs.

Today's topic within the topic is.... Lyndon, I met up with him here in Portland and asked him a couple questions. He used to live in the U.K. and now he lives in Canada. It's not just Lyndon though. He is married and has a family. They ALL hopped on the plane and came over. Lyndon and his family has been in Canada about 8 months. If you have any interest in working in Canada his blog might be of help to you. Search the archives, there is a lot of info tucked away in there..
Lyndon's Blog

Topics within the topic's topics:

• Do you like pickled eggs?... (Lyndon) likes Pickled Eggs.
• How long have you been in Canada? Over 8 months
• Favorite towns? Kamloops, Golden, Raymond (British Columbia). Mention of Gremmie.
• Ron calls. Learn about PAR's! PARS = Pre-Arrival Review System
• Canada recruiting British truck drivers. PNP (Provincial Nomination Program) details.
• How long did it take? - the entire process.
• Truck driving over camera. (camera survives)
• Trucking in North America compared to driving in the U.K. Speed cameras, black boxes, recap, electronic monitoring.
  
• Lyndon talks about the final process. (Sell Everything and Take Off, eh!!!!)

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Subscribe via itunes? Im not sure that itunes subscription link works. Its rather new to me. I have a new phone now. Its not an iphone. Its better than that! Anyways, i am on a podcast - subscription - gathering - frenzy. Hopefully you will be able to watch this video on your ipod or phone. David Lynch i agree, you know. Watching a movie on a phone is lame. But I'm a recluse. Waiting 90 minutes to let a 10 minute video load.... I'm not bothered. i would rather stare at a inanimate object than interact with people. most of the time.

Cheers~

Random Links... If you haven't already, go check out GiGi! , she's a truck driver.
And Lyndon... JOIN the YouTube!!!!!! People are demanding it!

edit* I should mention there a a LOT of European drivers driving in Canada, And they have blogs. see Lyndon's blog roll.

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Blogshares ~ Truck Driver Blog

I noticed this website a while ago but i couldn't figure out how to navigate the site and claim my blog.

In the past 24 hours i have claimed my blog, sold stock, split the stock, tried to buy my own stock and. I have no idea what im doing.

I'm just trying to out preform the taxi drivers.
Please feel free to go buy my stock! If you have a blog it is probably listed on the site.
Any blogshare guru's out there, feel free to tell me when to sell/buy/split shares. I got no idea how it works.

Eat some links "Portland Hamburgers". This site inspires me.
And another "The 18 Wheeler". Good witting, lots of pictures. Trucking blog from someone just starting out.

That's it for now, got a video coming Monday.
Later Gator


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T.V. show looking for truck drivers.

All you drivers who left their email address and phone numbers for the ice road trucking post... here is a way to make some extra money with out ever leaving America. A production company contacted me, they are looking for candidates for a T.V. show - read on.
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Dear Truckers,

Do you have a passion for the open road, America and sharing your
travel stories with others? Could you see yourself hosting a travel
series from the driver's wheel of your truck?

Tapestry International Productions is an Emmy and Oscar winning
television production company that specializes in family-friendly
programming for channels like The Discovery Channel, TLC and TBS. We
are currently developing a travel series entitled: STORIES FROM THE
ROAD: THE TRUCKER'S GUIDE TO AMERICA and are look for a host (or
hosts) to take us along for the ride. We are looking for a sincere,
articulate trucker between the ages of 30 and 55 who loves America
and can take us to some of the country's most beautiful places. This
is a paid position.

If you are interested, please contact Karen Carlson. Include information about why you think you'd make a good travel guide as well as a photo of you AND your truck
(remember, your truck is a big part of the series). Please feel free
to ask questions. kcarlson@tapestry.tv

Thanks,
Karen
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This isn't some hokey poky scam. If you are interested give her a call. This would probably work best with an owner operator. I mentioned to her the fact that owner operators need to keep the wheels moving in order to survive and they do not always have time to stop check out the world around them. And i mentioned how truck payments are sometimes larger than mortgage payments. Her reply was... Surprising. Call her to discuss the details.
You do not have to be an owner operator, you can be a company driver too if your company approves.
Fee free to pass this along if you know a guy or lady who might "fit the bill".
Good luck!

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From the U.K. to Canada to Portland

Sometime last year i found another guy with a trucking blog. I took out a piece of chalk, made another mark on the chalk board and smiled.
Then i looked at the number of taxi drivers with blogs.
They still have us outnumbered.
We have got a ways to go.
The truck drivers are in some competition with the cab drivers? Yes-i-am-we-are! I never understood why taxi drivers have more blogs than truckers. It bugs me. My congressman has refused to address this issue so i have taken it upon myself to cheer the truck drivers on!

As i read more of the newly found blog it appeared that this guy wanted to pack up his family, retire from driving in the UK and move to Canada. After some phone calls , some plane rides, and some paperwork, he made the jump!
Im still flabbergasted at this move. Its no fun looking for a new company to work for. Imagine having to move yourself, wife, child and dog 4578 miles (7367 km)-over an ocean- to work for a new company, in a different country, where people drive on the "wrong" side of the road. And the new job requires drivers to enter into the U.S. In fact i think every load heads south into the States. (border crossing is NO fun for no matter what side of the divide you call home)

8 months ago, in August of 2007, he made his first run and he has been rolling up and down North American roads every since.

5 days ago i grabbed my camera and headed off to Jubitz truck stop. Guess who was in town! Its one thing to read a blog, its another to hear the story first hand. Two hours of questions later, and i was still wondering how he did it.

If you haven't already guessed, im talking about Lyndon.

Here, go see his site.

After i finish editing the 1.5 hours of video i took, im going to call Canada. And then im going to take off.
To The Great White North.
Because, its a beauty way to go.
Why take off? My best friend in the States is Canadian. He is always telling me how great the demand for truckies is up there. (that's why they are recruiting globally) And they pay you so well you will likely never ever run out of back bacon.. or beer.
Im surprised they haven't dipped down into the driver pool in this country. Yes i asked Lyndon about that. Its all in the video. Coming up. Soon.

P.S. there is a steady stream of UK drivers making the move to Canada. See Lyndon's links for more expat bloggers.

Lastly, Lyndon is was a pleasure to meet you and i want to thank you again for sitting through my interrogation i mean interview.

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Dont swim where you sleep.

Once upon a time there was a little blue truck.
The little blue truck didn't want to be a truck though, it wanted to be a ship.
The truck would pull his trailer down the hard unforgiving pavement and dream he was a steamship, churning his way across the deep blue Atlantic Ocean.

The End

What Where When Why, from " Meethellii"

I would say it got stuck at 4pm and my friend who owns a tow truck and I came back at 2:30 to 3am to get it out...
I have a Ford F-250SD with a 16k winch in front and his tow truck is a f350 and pulling on it still took 3 hours to get it out..
I camp there all the time, and see this with cars all the time.

The guy made the unfortunate decision to take his rig and spend the day at the beach. Unfortunately, being an out-of-towner he obviously did not realize that where he parked is hard compact (drivable) sand but when the tide starts coming in it turns soft really, really quick. Common mistake that happens way too often.
One of the mistakes he made, which we (the tow truck driver and myself) noticed when we were pulling it out at 3:00a.m. Was that he had pulled the center part of his valve stem out, obviously thinking that if he let some of the air out of his tires that it would help him get himself out. Unfortunately, it let out ALL the air out and so when he tried to drive off all it did was make the rubber part of the tire spin. Rims spinning, rubber part now loose...dumb move.
This video and photos were taken about two summers ago at Hugenot Park. It is a city run beach and camp sites in northern Duval County (Jacksonville Florida). One of the only beaches that the public is still allowed to drive on. I've seen some even dumber mistakes than this one. It's usually quite a show when they (the victims) realize that they've waited toooo long to move the vehicle. - From meethellii

See a slide show of the Little Blue Truck that couldn't swim here.

Thanks a bunch Meethellii. This video made my day for some odd deranged reason.


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Fiddlin' Trucker

They say home is where the heart is.
When you get off work you probably go home, cook dinner, watch some TV, milk the cows, mow the lawn, spy on the neighbors, yell at the neighbors, take a bath, listen to a little Ted Nugnet and go to bed.
When a trucker pulls the parking break, he/she is home. And then what? What is going on inside those trucks you pass in the rest area, the truck stop, along the side of the road?
We play the violin.
Well, she does. Her name is Christy. She lives in Millstone, New Jersey. This is her story... song.

And that is what some of us do when we are at home.
Thanks Christy!
http://www.youtube.com/user/kupplerski

Truck Driver Soap

P.S. The worst part about blogging is....

when you say you quit.

And then you come back. I'm not sure i said i "quit" but it appears that way.
Im back now.
Am i driving? Am i making Smokey and The Bandit Part Two? Am i homeless and blogging from my pickup truck? Am i making movies, some for pay some for trade.
YES!

Have you been driving for 8 weeks straight without taking even one shower? Are you tired of smelling like monkey butt? Would you like some soap? Well, I have a three years supply and its up for sale.
I traded soap-for-video for a local organic soap making business but i don't like being SO clean.
Send me an email and ill send you a bar. Wait... Send me a dollar and ill send you a bar. These things are heavy.
Act NOW while supplies last! If you live in another country just stuff a bunch of money in an envelope and we can call it even. I collect foreign money anyways.

this is what ive got fer sale.[Limited Supply]

Send $ to
Aaron
P.O Box 2131
Clackamas, Oregon
97015

Silkscreen Process from Aaron the Truck Driver on Vimeo..
The ending just sort of slides off the end of the table... I think there should of been some narration explaining the end of the process.
I know this aint got a whole lot to do with trucking, but there has to be some stinky trucker out there somewhere looking for organic soap.

Random Link: Do you remember STARCADE the TV show? I found this post on The Secret Fun Blog. After 4 hours im slowly coming back to reality. Man that was a nice ride back to the past. Im not going to repost his links but if your interested there is a link to the old STARCADE shows.

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It felt like this

A long time ago in a town far far away. Back when men were men, the women were strong and all the children were above average. Back when fuel was a buck something a gallon. Back before Art Bell retired for the 9th time. Back when i had just started driving. (Truck driving that is)

I felt it...

I was making my way back to the truck, zig zagging around the rows and rows of trailers when i herd this creaking sound coming from the trailer to left of me. I kept walking. Thinking - Those doors were closed, how could someone be in that trailer? But, that doesn't sound like a human. It sounded like a forklift driving around inside the trailer. Minus the sound of the forklift. I mean, when forklifts drive into the trailer, the trailer can make more noise than the forklift does - from the outside it creaks and pops and moans. I kept moving along slowly, with one eye on that trailer. As i walked out from between those two trailers, i looked across the lot and noticed that everyone's CB antennas were whipping around and dancing. Then i noticed the ground had had a lazy ripple effect to it. I looked down, i looked up, waved to a lady sitting in one of the trucks as it and all the other ones were riding the wave, and we both started laughing. I don't remember what the specs for that earthquake were, but Art Bell felt it way over in Pahrump, NV. I was in Fontana. It was cool listening to him talk about it live on the radio that night.

It was nothing like this, but i thought i would tell my one and only earthquake experience.

That was last week in Wells, Nevada . Where drivers pull into the fuel pumps in each direction....

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