Wednesday, November 11, 2009

LAST CANADIAN TRUCKING DAYS

Forgive my tardiness, but my life has been topsy-turvy for the last month or so...

I have decided to end my Canadian trucking experience for good. I have had enough. It has been fun for the last (almost) five years, but it is fun no more. I did enjoy it very much while it was a new experience, and I'll never regret having done it. But as another winter approaches, I have to say that, since the last one, I have been looking forward to it with dread. Deep down I'm a European trucker. Snow once in a while, OK. But not all the time, please.
Last but not least, I miss my family in Spain, and the food...

I will be in Spain on time for Christmas, and I plan to keep on trucking.

Here are some recent pictures of my last trips.

As you can see, snow arrives early October.

But then it melts away...

And then it comes back.



Chiliwack, BC. Ahhh, the eternal springtime...

Eastbound from Vancouver, Chiliwack is just before the Rockies.



Back to real life... across the Rockies.

Busy snow plow, working on wet snow.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Beautiful Canadian fall.

Nothing better then trucking in the fall. The calm before the storm? You bet! Winter is on its way, so now I brace for the chill to come...
Pictures of the North Bay-Pembroke (Ontario) stretch.









Thursday, September 3, 2009

Take a rest from trucking!

Day trip into Quebec to get some work done, with the help of a friend.

I still love my Subaru, even if it is old and has high mileage (287.800 kms), but it does have to be babied sometimes...


Mmm... Nothing like a Subaru boxer engine, nice and flat. Easy to work on.

It needed a new ignition coil.

On the ferry, crossing the Ottawa river into Ontario.

Approaching sunset on the river.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Trucking on!

Montreal transport yard. Front seat view to the airport runway. I could stay there for hours...









Three cops in a row, awaiting in ambush. Hwy 401 Montral-Toronto.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

I've been everywhere...

A Renault 18 in North America... A very rare sight!

Sheridan, Wyoming. Took the wrong exit looking for the Wal-Mart.

Double rainbow, west of Denver CO, on I 70.

Awesome.

It came out of the sky...
(Near the Oklahoma-Kansas border, on I-35)

Friday, July 3, 2009

Where I've been lateley.

From Toronto to Edmonton, and then from Edmonton to Vancouver.

Sliding my tridems to the back, for a more comfortable ride. The fifth wheel also got slid to the back. At the scale house in Cochrane, Ontario

West of Edmonton, on the Yellowhead Highway. First time at Jasper National Park.


North of Kamloops, on HWY 5. Nice view in a lay by.

On the Coquihalla south of Kamloops, H&R trouble. Steep grade must be to blame.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Trucking in the USA

I didn't take many pictures, but i did film a whole lot. So keep your eyes open for my new videos coming up soon in YouTube (www.youtube.com/rogertrucker).

Driving through Denver. Enjoying the view!


Mexican transportation in New Mexico, USA



Now look at this crazy trucker: stops in the middle of a major railway crossing, and the train comes... blasting inches from his trailer! Like the train's gonna stop!

It wouldn't have been the first time in Exel Meats, in Friona, Texas...