I've been staring out the windshield navigating one of these highway beasts across our two countries (Canada and the U. S. A.) for the better part of thirty years. Few jobs around offer the freedom this one does and few ask as much from its people. In recent years the advent of the cell phone and satellite communication has brought family and dispatch a lot closer to us than in the past. Though nothing brings a driver closer to their family than the front door to their home. A dispatcher to us can be a good friend or one of our worst nightmares. They can help us earn our livelihood and see the ones we love or help us into bankruptcy and divorce court. Extremes you may think but truer than you know.
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I will say here and now that I only worked as a dispatcher for a matter of three months (so I was still very wet behind the ears when I left) and if I could have learned a little more a little faster I might still --- no I wouldn't still be doing it.

There are some people that can handel the preasure of dispatch and thrive, alas I am not one of them. [Read More!]

As you well know tax time is well upon us and fileing is a burden most of us pass off to an accounting firm who is supposed to know how to file to get you all the beneffits you deserve. Some of you have been following the challange to the food and loggings provision by Don Wilkinson as reported in Highway Stars Magazine article by Jim Park which may be viewed at the link below:

Highway Star article by Jim Park



If you wish to see what the Canadian Customs Revenue and Taxation department has to say the link below should take you there.

Canadian Customs Revenue and Taxation

I hope this sheds a little light and that you find it helpful.

As you have probably guessed JSLPS is an acronym and it stands for "Jimm's Small Lot Print Shoppe".

I started this little side business as a help to friends of mine who with their small buisnesses had no need to order large quantities of printed materials be it letterhead, buisness cards or item lists for their products. [Read More!]

For those of us who live, work or play on the internet it is seldom we get to meet in person the people we meet and admire on the internet. I am a long haul truck driver, I travel all over Canada and the U. S. A. and because of this travel recently I had the pleasure of meeting our (those of us at Quikonnex) very own Jim Gray. [Read More!]

Thinking of moving on - time to try working elsewhere - is the grass really greener somewhere else? Here are some of my observations over the time I've been in the trucking industry. An industry that I've had varying roles in, as a driver I have pulled many different types of comodities: dry van, reefer, flatdeck, dry bulker and tanker to name a few. As a dispatcher (in training) I've heard the comments from management about truckers and truckers about management. From both sides some warranted and some not.

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