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Remembrance Day has been observed by the Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I, to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. Once again at 11am on September 11th Canadians will pause for 2 minutes to remember those who have fallen.

As Canadians we also remember the soldiers who have returned home. Some have physical injuries that can be seen and treated but many have invisible wounds. These soldiers are still fighting battles in their minds and, if they

do not get the help and support from our government that they so desperately need, even more lives will be lost.

American actor/comedian George Carlin (1937–2008) was noted for his highly controversial political routines in which often criticised American society as he expounded on sensitive issues with his unique insight and powerful delivery. One of his routines focussed on the government’s dumbing down of what is now called PTSD. This message is of concern for Americans and Canadians alike, yet it seems to fall on deaf ears in our national capitols.

George Carlin: “I don’t like words that hide the truth. I don’t like words that conceal reality. I don’t like euphemism’s - and the American language is filled with them because Americans have trouble dealing with reality. Americans have difficulty facing the truth so they invent a kind of soft language to protect themselves from it. And it get worse with every generation.

I’ll give you an example of that; there is a condition in combat - most people know about it. It is when a fighting person’s nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak – can’t take any more input. The nervous system has either snapped – or is about to snap.

“In the 1st World War this condition was called, “Shell Shock.” It was to the point. Two syllables, Shell Shock.

During the 2nd World War it was called, “Battle Fatigue.” Four syllables –takes longer to say – doesn’t seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than Shock.

“After Korea the same condition was called, “Operational Exhaustion.” Eight syllables. The Humanity was completely squeezed out of the phrase. It’s totally sterile now. Operational Exhaustion. Sounds like something that might happen to your car.

Then came Vietnam and the same condition was now called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Still eight syllables, but we have added a hyphen, and the pain is completely buried in jargon.

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The only thing that bothers me about some truck drivers though is the use of non-designated truck routes in the city limits. These routes are generally in place for a reason but some truck drivers, not all, could care less and use these routes anyway.

I live in Abbotsford and the designated truck routes are Highway 11 and McLure Road. I live on Downes Road which is not a truck route and is posted as such but a lot of truck drivers use this route as a shortcut from Highway 11 to Highway 1. There are plenty of signs advising of the designated truck routes but they use this route anyway. This is a residential neighbourhood and there is nothing

industrial on it. I realize time is money but Downes Road is not a truck route for safety reasons.

The road is two lanes with bike lanes and no sidewalks for pedestrians. There are also two elementary schools on the route between Highway 11 and Mount Lehman. The route is also heavily used by police and ambulance services. This road between Gladwin and Clearbrook has two large hills and I have seen trucks going as slow as 5 mph up these hills. There is no way a police car or Ambulance could get past a truck if they needed to as you can’t see oncoming traffic. There is no place for a truck to pull off the road either. On the flip side, they drive at excessive speed going down the hills. The road is posted 50 kmh but 60-70 kmh is the norm.

McLure Road on the other hand is four lanes, no bike lanes, sidewalks for pedestrians, and no elementary schools. This is why it is the designated truck route.

The city of Abbotsford and the police department do not regularly patrol this route, nor should they, so the truckers seem to think it is okay to use this road. We as residents do not.

I would ask all your readers to obey designated truck routes during their travels as they are in place for a reason and not just to make life difficult for drivers.Best Regards,Brian GodfroidAbbotsford, BC



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Editor’s note: Thank you for recognizing the good job the vast majority of drivers do. As I have said many times, every profession and trade, be it drivers, lawyers, police, yes, even politicians, (believe it or not) have a small percentage of people as members who make the rest look bad. The only time a truck should be off a truck route is when they are making an delivery or if there is a detour. At that time the general rule of thumb is to take the shortest route to their destination and back to the truck route again.

I do not however agree with your statement that, “The city of Abbotsford and the police department do not regularly patrol this route, nor should they…” What is the use of having laws if no one believes it is their responsibility to enforce them?

At one time Abbotsford had a Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division, which I believe was operated through their by-law division, but for some reason it was shut down. Just hope that the city of Abbotsford does not go the route of the Provincial Government who, instead of putting police on the highway to enforce speed limits, took the cheap route and just increased them. No laws being broken - problem solved.

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In a grassroots attempt to alleviate (in real time) recurrence of this unfortunate reality, I took it upon myself to found an organization called Guard Rail Angels. Our mission statement is very clear and concise. “When Move-Over Laws fail to protect us, it’s time we protect each other.” Our mission at GRA is to popularize the act of “running blocker” for each other out on the road. Meaning….If you’re a police officer, and see another officer on a traffic stop, take 10 minutes to pull off behind them and give him or her lights. If you’re a tow truck operator, and see a fellow operator hooking up a car along a busy highway, do the same. Etc etc. A law is just a piece of paper if it isn’t enforced, and a piece of paper isn’t going to stop an out of control motorist from slamming into us while we’re working….but another vehicle guarding us, just might.

In addition to this, we’ve also started an online campaign called “Operation #MoveOver Bomb.” The goal with this is to spread awareness of the Move-Over Law via Facebook’s “Trending Stories” algorithm. To essentially “bombard” Facebook with a lifesaving message. The idea is to gather as many dedicated individuals as we can, to all simultaneously hashtag #MoveOver in our status updates on the same day, at the same time. Doing this will likely push the phrase “MOVEOVER” into literally millions of

Facebook user’s newsfeed as a “trending story.” With any luck they’ll get curious, click it, and see thousands of posts about the Move Over Law (of which they probably know nothing about.)

The event date for Operation: #MoveOver Bomb is set for November 17th (US Thanksgiving Day) at 4:00PM-8:00PM CDT. The link to the event page is https://www.facebook.com/events/1491197451148196/

I urge you to join us, and invite all you know to do the same. Kind Regards,Layke Lane

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Climbing back in I placed my helmet and gloves on the doghouse. From my front pocket I pulled out two M-67 fragmentation grenades and rolled them on the dash. Rolling the window down I slid my automatic rifle out the window and laid the barrel in the crook of the mirror, placing the butt-stock in my lap. The passenger side door swung open and Tommy jumped up in the swampers seat. He fumbled a bit to get his medium machine gun out the window. He looked back at me as he threw his helmet on the dash and smiled the biggest grin he’d shown in the last three weeks of deliveries.

“Lets go wreck some stuff,” he said. And with that our aid convoy headed out the front gates of the Sarajevo Aerodrome. We had been delivering humanitarian aid

to the locals for three weeks now on a daily basis. The thunder seemed to be rolling in closer now as clods of dirt and trees exploded near our convoy. Thousands of rounds of artillery shells were fired into the city daily, and even though we were part of the United Nations mission we were not excluded from becoming targets.

Our rounder took two hours of blazing gunfire, dodging manmade obstacles, landmines and of course snipers. This was the first of six trips we would make into the city today. The battle raged and we were soon cut off from our security detail. More or less lost in the city with no armour protection I drove like a man possessed, swerving to avoid nasty tire shredding obstacles and praying not to hit a dead end. Bullets were slamming into the side of our truck and the windshield shattered just above my head. I could see my fuel gauge was dropping and the truck was now leaning from the left steering tire being shot. With a stroke of luck we met back up with the remainder of our convoy which had all scattered. We limped into our drop point and quickly unloaded. Tommy and I checked out the damage and looked at each other and shrugged. We had to make it home yet - it’s not like we could call a service truck out to help us. Within half an hour the four aid trucks were empty and we drove back towards the airfield for our second trip. It would prove to be the longest day.

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We stopped twice to tighten the loads that day and added a couple tarp straps to keep the tarps tight and then pulled into Coeur d’Alene and fueled up at the Flying Hook. After we had our showers I met him in the restaurant and gave him the ‘Logbook 101’ course over dinner. After that I was off to my sleeper while he decided to adjust the trailer brakes on his rig. I asked if he needed any help but he said that he could manage and I crawled in the bunk and got a well-deserved rest.

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First thing I did was check the trailer brakes on Alex’s rig and guess what - he had made the rookie mistake of backing them all off instead of tightening them. Thankfully no brake had over cammed and I was able to properly adjust everything. I slipped under the truck and made sure his tractor brakes were good and then went and reset mine just to be sure. I had just finished when the scale operator pulled in and stopped by to make sure everything was kosher. After I assured him we were fine he mentioned that before I left I might as well change my broken tail light lenses and suggested it might be a good idea to wipe the paint off my friends Moose bars and

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Bruce “Crazy Horse” HardyAug 8, 1947 - Oct. 10, 2014

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he worked right up to the end. When the end was near he had to be carried out of his west coast amusements truck. He passed away two days later. Russell says that Bruce never worked for the money. The only things that ever really meant anything to him was his job, his family and his friends. Russell went on to say that there were two people that bruce especially loved and respected, and would have done anything for, they are Dave Boyce, who he first started towing for, and Jamie Davis, who he ended his towing career with.



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I have always been fascinated by trucks and by the time I was 5 years old I could tell the difference between a Pete, Freightliner, Kenworth, Mack or International. That fasci-nation with trucks carried over into my teenage years and I always said I would get my class 1 just as soon as I was old enough. But as everyone knows things don’t always work out as planned and my hopes and dreams of being a truck driver were almost completely erased when I was 18 years old .

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My Pops has been a driver for over 40 years – the last 36 of those with the same company. When I was a kid I would go with my Dad every chance I got which was mostly dur-ing my summer holidays from school. At that time he did a run for Domtar between Toronto and Montreal hauling

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I got my first driving job back in 1997 working for Bestway Cartage running the USA in a brand new 98 Sterling with 42 inch bunk. It was an awesome company and awesome people but after about 14 months of running the highway I decided to find local work. I hated being away from home and our 1st child, Brittney, was on the way.

My 2nd job which was with Arnold Bros., where I was hired to do a Rochester, NY run hauling huge rolls of Kodak film. Before starting the job they flew me to Winnipeg for a one week orientation seminar on hauling camera film. There were a number of very strict rules that we had to be aware of, like not opening the doors and not being able to go through the x-ray lane at the border. Both of which would immediately expose and ruin the film. We were given an exemption letter that we had to carry with us saying that we could not open the doors or go through the x-ray machines.

As luck would have it the week that I spent in Winnipeg for the orientation just happened to be the coldest week of the whole year - it was -40 for the full week. When I got back to Mississauga I was handed keys to a 99 Pete. I hooked up to a trailer that was packed with 5 huge rolls of film and then headed for Rochester.

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After 6 months, 17000km, and $600 a month for gas for my car, I got a call from Choice Reefer Systems CRS out of Belleville. I am now a local driver there driving excel-lent equipment. The people here are all like family. I drive a 2012 Volvo 670 D13 I shift. I look after this truck like it’s my own.

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One of the most unusual loads that I have hauled was shortly after I started working for CRS. It was a load of loose grain loaded from floor to ceiling in a refriger-ated trailer which in itself isn’t all that unusual but they unloaded by hand! I had never seen anything like it. The customer used shovels and a winch with an old board. This whole production took almost 4 hours.

I have been really lucky in that most of the people I have worked with and for have been pretty fair and straightforward. Do your job to the best of your ability and everyone is happy. I know that some drivers have not always had it so good. A dispatcher I knew from another company was constantly working at a high stress level and it showed in that he took all his frustrations out on his drivers. I witnessed him yelling at just about every driver that worked there and nothing they could say or do would make this guy happy. I don’t know why they took it but they did.

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I’m still at CRS and I’m very happy here. The pay is very good, they keep their fleet in top notch condition, and they are all great people. The owner is the nicest gentleman you will ever meet and the dispatcher always works with you when he can. If you need to be home or need some time off he does his very best to make it happen. There are many great drivers there as well although I haven’t met them all yet as some run out west and only come home once a week.

In September, my truck, the one you see on the cover, was sold along with all the rest of the 2012”s. CRS is currently working on changing their whole fleet over to Cascadias and Kenworths something they hope to have completed by June 2015. I’m currently driving a rental until my new truck comes in which should be in December or January. It was sad to see my old truck go as I put a lot of my own time into it making sure it was always polished and in truck show condition. I don’t like change but it is what it is. I guess I’m kind of old school like my dad. I

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The speaker said there’s a certain type of person who can handle the big things he faces, but then trips over the little cracks in the sidewalk of life. His exact words were; “Put this person in a room with an enraged rhinoceros and he or she will be calm and serene. What will bring them to their knees are the ants crawling on the floor.”

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I also have some small difficulties with my body from time-to-time. For example, I am unable to eat hot soup in a restaurant without being asked to leave. It seems that all eight of my sinus cavities decide to unplug the moment a bowl of soup is placed anywhere near them. These are the same sinus’ that are cemented shut every winter, usually from 6 pm Labor Day until sometime in the afternoon on July 1st. It’s hard to be discreet when you’re blowing your nose on a napkin that’s been folded to resemble a poinsettia, especially when your salad fork gets caught in it and clangs into the soup bowl sending the noodles into sub-orbital flight.

Lineups are also rapidly shortening my life and the only consolation I have is an unshaken belief that there will be a lineup in front of the pearly gates on Judgement Day, and by the time I shuffle up to St. Peter, he might be tired and overlook some of my more major transgressions in his rush to get home for supper.

It doesn’t matter how many people are ahead of me when I hit the post office, I end up waiting for hours. By the time I’m at the front of the line, the postal clerks have all gone into the backroom (where they normally sleep, play cards, and take strike votes) and pick up their pay-checks that were just delivered by Purolator. (They don’t send them by mail anymore. Seems they were always late and/or lost.) If they don’t all disappear, the customer at the only open wicket is trying to establish the second class rate for mailing live Llamas to Lillooet on a Sunday with guaranteed delivery and four receipts, which the clerk doesn’t have in stock, but will run downtown to get, thank you.

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The people who design packaging can also ruin my day. I bought a bag of cookies for dessert the other night and by the time I disposed of the cardboard that padded the insides, it was time for breakfast. Chocolate bars are the same thing. Sure, they look big, but when you finally tear through the layers of wrapping they look more like an After Eight mint that was wrapped before six in the morning.

But I’ve got to quit worrying about these little things that make life a big frustration. Maybe I should be more like an old cat-skinner I once drank with. He said he only worried about the big things and let his wife worry about the little ones. “I handle the Middle East, the Federal government, nuclear disarmament and the disappearance of the dinosaurs.” He explained.” My wife worries about the little issues, like feeding the kids, paying the rent and getting a job!” r



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It was a typical November 11th, the ambient temperature dipping just below zero centigrade, the last of the leaves were falling from the trees, silently drifting to the damp, newly frosted ground. Birds flitted about, as though oblivious of the ceremony below, chirping as they flew from limb to limb of the large maples that enveloped the park. In the centre of the park, near the band shell, was a stone cenotaph adorned with the names of the fallen from past wars. Surrounding the epitaph were rows of military personnel in full dress uniform, lined up smartly. The bleachers were filled to capacity with onlookers, and many more could be seen shifting side to side to stave off the chilly morning air. All were in attendance to pay their respects and remember the sacrifices made during times of war. Standing in the crowd, albeit to one side, was Walt Thompson, a professor from the local university. Professor Thompson, as he was known about town, had not missed a Remembrance Day service since his years as a young boy, with his first attendance starting in 1946. Glancing at his watch the professor noted it was time for the memorial to begin and as though he had urged them along, the ceremony began with a welcoming by the Padre. The crowd, including Walt, sang the hymn Abide with Me. With a sound that only well tuned bagpipes can produce, the Lone Piper played Amazing Grace adding to the somber mood of the hour as it sent chills through most. As every year would have it, the Master of Ceremonies asked the crowd to remove their head




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dress. Walt removed his hat and placed it over his heart close to his woolen great coat as the crowd observed the moment of silence. His grey hair, now slightly messed, dangled over the arms of his bifocal glasses. The moment of silence was broken by the ear rattling sonic discharge from five Canadian CF-18 Hornets flying in the Missing Man formation. From his vantage point, Walt could see the fighter jets as they tore off out of sight. He stood in the same spot every year, a comfort of sorts for him. The crowd was always different, but as long as he was in the same location it made him feel closer to the fallen, as if they would know he was there. It was a closeness that he created and embraced, for Walt attended the service alone.

Many years earlier, inside the stone walls of the university, he had fallen victim to an excommunication by his fellow faculty members following a heated intellectual conversation while speaking his opinion. In that moment of enjoying freedom of speech, his life, was altered forever more. Aside from his time in class, Professor Thompson spent his days alone, and the time following the service today would be no different. Because he had become an introvert it was rumoured that he had gone mad, days spent mulling about in a now self induced disconnect, and unless he was in class he never uttered a word in conversation thus adding to the stigma. The truth of the matter, he was suffering, as anyone does

from loneliness. One by one participant’s laid wreaths at the base of

the stone edifice. At the end of the service Walt stepped to the cenotaph and placed his poppy on the memorial, paused for a brief moment, turned silently and departed in the direction of home. A moment later he disappeared in the crowd, only to emerge on the other side, hat on and in his usual condemned gait.

The concrete sidewalk initially felt cold, but it was soon forgotten as the searing pain tore through Walt Thompson’s chest. His eyes now shocked wide open, stared at the grey sky unable to speak or cry for help, his hands clutched to his chest. The street was empty, the only movement, and the last few laboured breaths of Professor Walt Thompson, PhD.

No one noticed his pain, but then again, had they ever. A few short seconds and he laid dead of a heart attack

on a deserted side street, very much alone.

Within moments of his passing, a gentle breeze blew in from the direction of the cenotaph, and eight unseen soldiers stood on either side of where he laid, four on each side. In perfect unison they knelt and together they raised him from the ground. The professor had spent his last years alone, but here today, these soldiers recognized his years of thanks for their service. He was no longer alone, and today upon their shoulders, they carried Walt Thompson home. r




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Dave Madill was Pro-Trucker

Magazine’s Rig of the Month in June of 2001 and he has been entertaining us with his poetry ever since. Dave

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Dave Madill

Silent Guns

Their guns have fallen silent, sit there in the rack,

The shooters have gone onward, never to come back.

They passed the torch to others to hold their banner high,

Yet they will be watching from their range up in the sky.

To their sons and daughters and others like you and me,

They pass on the burden to keep our nation free.

Take their guns off the rack. Feel the heritage they hold,

Liberty and freedom which can not be bought or sold.

Someday we too will join them as they gather around the throne,

Remember them and honor them, let them not stand alone.




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