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brit trucker
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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Location: united kingdom
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:22 am Post subject: British trucker |
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| hi, first timer, so here goes, i was wondereing if anyone knows of any trucking companies that recriut british men, as i am considering relocating with my wife to usa. |
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Uturn2001
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
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Location: East Central IL between the corn and the beans
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:51 am Post subject: |
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While I do not know of any companies that do this anymore I do know a few people from other countries who have immigrated to the USA and became truck drivers.
Each one of course had to be a legal immigrant, each one had to have the legal right to work in the USA, and they all had to attend truck driving school here in the States regardless of any commercial driving experience they may have had in their home country. |
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brit trucker
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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Location: united kingdom
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks uturn2001, the people you mention that had emmigrated were they also british or were they from somewhere else, and also do you know the names of the companies that used to recruit drivers from overseas |
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Driveline
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Posts: 39
Location: in your gearbox
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| Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| Don't really know anything about this website, but you might want to look it over http://www.truckersforusa.com/ |
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Gaz
Joined: 30 Jun 2006
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Location: East TN
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm an expat from Britain (Scotland). Just as Uturn said - had to be here legally, etc. Been driving for almost 2 years and now drive in the southeast region - home every weekend. Biggest problem for me was learning not to sink that clutch in the truck when changing gears (17yrs of manual transmissions will do that I guess). I also had a hanguva sore right arm from learning to change gears on that side. Cheers. |
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wot i life
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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Location: At the bottom of the garden, dancing merrily with the pixies
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| Gaz wrote: I'm an expat from Britain (Scotland). Just as Uturn said - had to be here legally, etc. Been driving for almost 2 years and now drive in the southeast region - home every weekend. Biggest problem for me was learning not to sink that clutch in the truck when changing gears (17yrs of manual transmissions will do that I guess). I also had a hanguva sore right arm from learning to change gears on that side. Cheers. Where in Scotland mate? I,m a Geordie living in Edinburgh..I love it up here :wink: |
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Gaz
Joined: 30 Jun 2006
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Location: East TN
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:06 am Post subject: |
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Hi - I used to work in Edinburgh before I emigrated. Standard Life in Lothian Road. Commuted through every day from Stirling. :?
I'm still pals with a Geordie who's in Livingstone. |
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ken_o
Joined: 06 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| why cant u just drive a truck in the country your from do you really have to come all the way here for that. is their something wrong with being a european trucker? |
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wot i life
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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Gaz wrote: Hi - I used to work in Edinburgh before I emigrated. Standard Life in Lothian Road. Commuted through every day from Stirling. :?
I'm still pals with a Geordie who's in Livingstone. Lothian Road? whey thats jus roon thi corna man! ah live in lauriston..... :lol: whey aye!!! |
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