In 2003, things started to turn around for this single dad. My job was going well, I got the car of my dreams and even better ... the gal of my dreams came into my life!
I was making just a few bucks more at work, the car was a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP ... 2 door, silver gray, supercharged engine, leather interior, and the gal is beautiful, amazing, sexy and allowed me to wrap myself around her little finger where I safely reside to this day. Jo-Anne and I met in July 2003 and were married 7 months later in February 2004.
The job is long gone, the car is kinda feeble now but the gal!! She's more beautiful and loving than ever. We now are together 24/7 as our careers have melded together. I went back to driving a truck and Jo went to truck driving school, acheived her class A status and we are now team partners with Challenger Motor Freight out of Cambridge, Ontario.
We have been on the road for quite a few adventures including hauling the Mobil 1 display for the Canadian Grand Prix to Circuit Gilles Villenueve in Montreal, Quebec. We even got to do a "hot lap" in our big truck around the track and parked and slept in pit lane for the night. We also hauled Madonna's stage set from BC Place in Vancouver to Oakland, California. While at BC Place, we got to park our big rig right inside the stadium, had backstage passes and enjoyed the show. Our latest adventure had us running LTL (less than truck load) freight from Delta, BC to Watson Lake and Whitehorse in the Yukon.
While Delta is just above the 49th parallel and Whitehorse is just above the 60th parallel ... hence the name of this blog ... 11 degrees ... well, do the math then. We will be doing this dedicated run for the next 9 months or so and will probably renew then. Our first run took us through temperatures as low as -47 celcius in Watson Lake where the reefer trailer conked out and I spent about an hour outside trying to get it started again. We had perishable plants on board and I fear that they suffered greatly until we got them unloaded in Whitehorse where it was a balmy -41C!
Despite
all that we witnessed incredible scenery and wildlife. Did you know that there are wild buffalo herds up there and they like to hang out by the highway? Next run I'm going to try feeding the moose that are on the road the celery sticks that Jo tries to make me eat!
I was making just a few bucks more at work, the car was a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP ... 2 door, silver gray, supercharged engine, leather interior, and the gal is beautiful, amazing, sexy and allowed me to wrap myself around her little finger where I safely reside to this day. Jo-Anne and I met in July 2003 and were married 7 months later in February 2004.
The job is long gone, the car is kinda feeble now but the gal!! She's more beautiful and loving than ever. We now are together 24/7 as our careers have melded together. I went back to driving a truck and Jo went to truck driving school, acheived her class A status and we are now team partners with Challenger Motor Freight out of Cambridge, Ontario.
We have been on the road for quite a few adventures including hauling the Mobil 1 display for the Canadian Grand Prix to Circuit Gilles Villenueve in Montreal, Quebec. We even got to do a "hot lap" in our big truck around the track and parked and slept in pit lane for the night. We also hauled Madonna's stage set from BC Place in Vancouver to Oakland, California. While at BC Place, we got to park our big rig right inside the stadium, had backstage passes and enjoyed the show. Our latest adventure had us running LTL (less than truck load) freight from Delta, BC to Watson Lake and Whitehorse in the Yukon.
While Delta is just above the 49th parallel and Whitehorse is just above the 60th parallel ... hence the name of this blog ... 11 degrees ... well, do the math then. We will be doing this dedicated run for the next 9 months or so and will probably renew then. Our first run took us through temperatures as low as -47 celcius in Watson Lake where the reefer trailer conked out and I spent about an hour outside trying to get it started again. We had perishable plants on board and I fear that they suffered greatly until we got them unloaded in Whitehorse where it was a balmy -41C!
Despite
all that we witnessed incredible scenery and wildlife. Did you know that there are wild buffalo herds up there and they like to hang out by the highway? Next run I'm going to try feeding the moose that are on the road the celery sticks that Jo tries to make me eat!
