I just crossed into Canada today at the Emerson,MB / Pembina,ND
crossing. After the customs agent finished with me he had a lady
in the both doing a survey. She Asked me if I knew that I would
be required to have a passport come January 1st?
I said that I wasn't going to get one and would no longer be coming down into the USA.
She asked if that was because of the new rules? I said Yes.
So I just want to see if any of you people are or aren't getting a passport?

 

I already have a passport, but I'm not going to Canada.( In a truck)

 

I've had a passport since the end of 2004. They kept telling us way back then that we'd need one on 1/2005. Personally, I don't see the big deal. They only cost $85 down here in the States. You can write it off as a business expense so what's the issue? Also, some companies will pay for them for you. Mine doesn't but I figure it will be good for traveling all over the world so $85 is a small price to pay for me.

I mean it's a pain in the ass to come back into the states anyway for us U.S. citizens. We have to pay $5 to get back into our own country. I don't think you Canadians have to do you? I understand there's some pass now like PrePass/EZ Pass that we can get so we don't have to pay the $5. However, since I returned to freight from hauling trucks I haven't been into Canada enough to justify asking the company for the pass.

I hauled trucks from 8/4 - 1/6 and didn't want to be turned back at the border. Most of my loads went to Canada [80 out of 100]. Therefore, I couldn't afford to be turned back at the border. I enjoyed going into a "foreign country". Although, I must say the only province that seemed like a foreign country to me was Quebec due to having to speak French. Which I do minimally.

So hey spring for the $85 and write it off.

 

It's not about the $85 bucks for me.
In the early eighties I helped fight the cold war against the Russians. A friend of mine used to have a funny saying, "STOP, Do you have your papers?"
And this is exactly what the USA has become. More like the Russians used to be like. So the heck with them, I ain't going to pay any more.

 

Cause everyone knows that its not fair to ask those who are dressed like civilians, operating in civilian areas who are planning to kill every one of us for papers.. Freedom is being used to line us up for our own destruction... and we deserve it when the end comes...

 

Not getting a passport. The way things are going in the USA these days, if I ever did get up to Kanukistan, I'd be about half tempted just to stay there. Their HOS rules are way less retarded, and at least they get three days of summer every other year.

Et je parle français aussi, eh?