An Englishman, Welshman & A German go to New Jersey.

Tuesday 8th February, I get a call to take a load of fries to a regular customer in Linden/Elizabeth, New Jersey.  I had been talking to my buddy Ian Newman (englishman) that day and he was also going to the same place and as it happens another one of our buddies Klaus (the German) was also going there as well. So we all meet at Cavendish Farms who produce potatoe products which are shipped all over the world.  So next time you tuck into your fries at Burger King or Wendy's you may be eating PEI spuds!  After a lot of mucking about trying to find our trailers we were ready for the off. Its about a 16 hour drive door to door.

Klaus had the first delivery appointment of 11.30 eastern time on Thursday night, Ian was booked for 6am the following morning and my appointment was for 9am.  We decided to all get there together and see if they would take it early. We decided to stop at Dysarts Truckstop in Bangor Maine for the night, then off to Walmart in Newport, Maine the following morning to stock up with groceries, we drove through to Milford City in Connecticut for Fuel and the final 2 hour push through New York and a very quiet Cross Bronx Expressway, on to the New Jersey Turnpike and eventually to Preferred Freezers at Linden NJ.

We arrived about 7.30pm and after parking the trucks we wandered to the receiving office gave them our bills and cell numbers and they said they would call when they wanted us and would TRY! to get us unloaded early. Well that turned out to be a dream as Klaus was kept to his appointment time as was Ian and so was I, gutted as these people at Preffered are not the quickest. I got on a door at 9am and pulled off at 1300!

Railroad runs through the middle of the delivery site.

After the delivery's, Klaus gets a reload out of Tropicana in Jersey City, 10 mins away, Ian gets a load of melons from Vineland NJ and I get a load of plums from The Port Of Wilmington in Delaware. All loads bound for the Greater Toronto Area. Ian's load is booked for midnight and mine for 1am, only one small problem, its about 8.5 hours drive to Toronto and we did ot finish loading until 7pm!!!!

So Ian and I arranged to meet at the Allentown Plaza north of Philidelphia and stayed there the night.  We set off about 06.30 the next morning and headed north, roads were quiet dry and empty.
We arrived at the border and I get a message to take my load to our terminal in Brampton as the customer does not want it until the following day - sweet, Ian however has to deliver his and gets messed about for over 3 hours. 

Well I stay in Brampton for 16 hours until Ian knocks on the door, "check your messages I just got a load", sure enough, BEEP, and there is a LTL to PEI, trailers ready and so is Ians,  We both have to call in to the Dieppe NB terminal and leave our trailers there and the following day we arrive drop trailers and are allocated an empty trailer each to take back to Cavendish Farms on PEI.

Build up of snow on one of the trailers at the Dieppe Terminal after the storm the day before.

Me on left & Ian's on the right after hooking on to empty trailers at our Brentwood Yard in Moncton, bound for PEI.

So after dropping our empty trailers at Cavendish Farms I headed the 11km home and Ian the slightly longer trek to Charlottetown.  2559 miles and 5.5days and a lot of needless wasted time, had things gone to plan would have been home after 4.5 days. Never mind eh?