Guy from Vancouver island calls and wants a job
hauling logs. He says he has experience hauling
logs in the mountains. Flys from Comax to
Grande Prairie takes bus from gp to High Level.
We send a guy to pick him up and see who we
get. Well he looks like .......nearly a street person.
So they set me up to train him. He can barely shift
gears at all. Wants to use the clutch....not gunna
happen here. When it's dark out he can't read the
2 way radio to change channels, puts on his
"cheaters". Has a noticeable hearing problem,
with the noise from the truck I nearly need to yell
at him...all day. He doesn't follow bush road
numbers too well. It's difficult to correlate other
truck locations. He's also a little bit scary driving
straight down the road. O ya he keeps saying -16
is cold. He's not big on splitting the top end gears
so ya trucks rocks like frickin boat. Ya I don't wear
my seat belt when training guys....especially with
this guy. So ya after a day and a half I quickly
graduate/ditch him. They give him a tri drive
Kenworth with a tridem pole trailer. The next
evening I meet him in the shop with a mechanic
fixing something...,I dont ask. The next morning
at 6am my new trainee and I leave the shop and
on the way out of town meet a loaded log truck
coming thru the industrial park. I mention I have
never seen that before.....because it's majorly
illegal on many many levels. One for example is
the 7 meter overhang from the back trailer axle.
Wonder how you can get back out of town without
wiping out a stop sign??? I try calling the slow
moving truck on the road channel ....no reply. I
assume he's broken down and for some reason
limping to the shop. Later I hear it's buddy and he
got lost on his way to the mill??!! He apparently
on the mill channel trying to get the mill guys to
give him directions out of town to the mill, they
decline. Some how he makes it to the mill (guess
its early enough no one called the cops) the mill
loader man catches a ride from the scale to the
crane/loader. He later tells me the guy grinds
every gear.
Next guy I get is 19 an never hauled anything,
only driven empty I guess. Drives like a dream
only minor tips and log haul experience needed.
Man am I releaved.
hauling logs. He says he has experience hauling
logs in the mountains. Flys from Comax to
Grande Prairie takes bus from gp to High Level.
We send a guy to pick him up and see who we
get. Well he looks like .......nearly a street person.
So they set me up to train him. He can barely shift
gears at all. Wants to use the clutch....not gunna
happen here. When it's dark out he can't read the
2 way radio to change channels, puts on his
"cheaters". Has a noticeable hearing problem,
with the noise from the truck I nearly need to yell
at him...all day. He doesn't follow bush road
numbers too well. It's difficult to correlate other
truck locations. He's also a little bit scary driving
straight down the road. O ya he keeps saying -16
is cold. He's not big on splitting the top end gears
so ya trucks rocks like frickin boat. Ya I don't wear
my seat belt when training guys....especially with
this guy. So ya after a day and a half I quickly
graduate/ditch him. They give him a tri drive
Kenworth with a tridem pole trailer. The next
evening I meet him in the shop with a mechanic
fixing something...,I dont ask. The next morning
at 6am my new trainee and I leave the shop and
on the way out of town meet a loaded log truck
coming thru the industrial park. I mention I have
never seen that before.....because it's majorly
illegal on many many levels. One for example is
the 7 meter overhang from the back trailer axle.
Wonder how you can get back out of town without
wiping out a stop sign??? I try calling the slow
moving truck on the road channel ....no reply. I
assume he's broken down and for some reason
limping to the shop. Later I hear it's buddy and he
got lost on his way to the mill??!! He apparently
on the mill channel trying to get the mill guys to
give him directions out of town to the mill, they
decline. Some how he makes it to the mill (guess
its early enough no one called the cops) the mill
loader man catches a ride from the scale to the
crane/loader. He later tells me the guy grinds
every gear.
Next guy I get is 19 an never hauled anything,
only driven empty I guess. Drives like a dream
only minor tips and log haul experience needed.
Man am I releaved.
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